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Promotional Artwork Page
by Keith Watson 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Feedback please on the revised promotional artwork page at <http://www.kpwatson.ukfsn.org/alug/promoart/promoart.html>. If everyone's happy with it then I'll ask Mark to link it into the ALUG site. Keith

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Fenland coordinator?
by MJ Ray 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Now that the Ely meetings seem to have got going, who should I list on the web site as the contact for fenland? Suggestions? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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More X4.3.0 keyboard troubles
by MJ Ray 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

As you may remember, I'm trying to modify my keyboard to produce the ccircumflex and other characters used by esperanto. I'd like to do this with Xkb rather than xmodmap if possible. I've made a file "eo" in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols which contains the key (re)definitions. After finding a bug that breaks XkbSymbols options and similar in XF86-Config, I edited the gb keymap instead. In /System/Settings/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86, I now have: xkb_keymap "gb" { xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86" }; xkb_types { include "default" }; xkb_compatibility { include "default" }; xkb_symbols { include "en_US(pc105)+gb+eo" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc102)" }; }; ...and XF86Config points to that layout, I think. It seems not to work, though. I get german double s on AltGr s instead of scircumflex. Running the command: setxkbmap -symbols 'en_US(pc105)+gb+eo' ...makes it work, so I'm sure that's the right symbols string. What mistake am I making? If anyone wants to test this, I'll send the eo file to them on request. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Announce digest, Vol 2 #22 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Mini Cambridge-Meet next weekend (Daniel Silverstone) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers(a)digital-scurf.org> To: ALUG Announcements <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk>, ALUG Main List <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Organization: Digital-Scurf Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:22:48 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce]Mini Cambridge-Meet next weekend Hi, Debian-UK often have mini debian-meets in the Cambridgeshire area. The meets tend to be informal geekery centered around pubs and bookshops (and sometimes coffee). There is a plan to have a mini-meet in Cambridge on Saturday the 8th. The plan (as ever) is to meet at 12:00 in the Regal (wetherspoon pub under the arts cinema) and then dither for several hours. If you're interested in Debian, or just fancy a chat with a bunch of geeks (although conversation does tend to be centered around Debian) then feel free to come along and introduce yourselves. See you there. D. -- Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers(a)digital-scurf.org> Digital-Scurf --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Mini Cambridge-Meet next weekend
by Daniel Silverstone 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

Hi, Debian-UK often have mini debian-meets in the Cambridgeshire area. The meets tend to be informal geekery centered around pubs and bookshops (and sometimes coffee). There is a plan to have a mini-meet in Cambridge on Saturday the 8th. The plan (as ever) is to meet at 12:00 in the Regal (wetherspoon pub under the arts cinema) and then dither for several hours. If you're interested in Debian, or just fancy a chat with a bunch of geeks (although conversation does tend to be centered around Debian) then feel free to come along and introduce yourselves. See you there. D. -- Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers(a)digital-scurf.org> Digital-Scurf

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Paging Console Output During Startup
by Keith Watson 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

When Mark gave his excellent talk at the Billy Blueboy about system start-up, it was mentioned that there are some Ctrl+ key combinations that allow you to page back and forth through the start up messages. Can anyone remind me what that are? Keith

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Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)
by Tarquin Mills 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

[Posted and mailed] *** Press release about a local event *** The first major Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Sam Coupé Computer Show (ORSAM 2003) in 5 years in the UK, is taking place next Saturday, 1st November, in Norwich. The venue will be at the Alec Bussey Scout Centre off Rowington Road, near Grove Road and the Norwich Bus Station. Open from 10am to 4pm. Entry free. Refreshments available. Free car parking. There is a map available (under 'travel') on the show website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/speccyverse/orsam.htm A variety of traders will be present. Visitors from as far away as Germany and Cornwall have said they will be attending. The show will opened by Councillor Steve Land, of the Green Party. There will be a raffle, and a bring and buy stall. While ORSAM 2003 officially only supports the Spectrum and SAM range, Z88 and ZX81 will be there unofficially. If next show happens, it may widen to officially include all Sinclair (and related) 8-bit formats. QL users will be able to get taste of what the March Norwich Quanta Workshop will be like. -- Tarquin Mills ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer Users Society) http://www.planet14.sonow4u.co.uk/comp/accus/

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New member Martin
by Martin Collins 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Hi everyone and thanks for the Norwich area meeting info Syd - appreciate it. I first stumbled onto Linux with a SuSE 7.2 box set from a book shop a couple of years ago. Installed it on my 300MHz Celeron IBM Thinkpad 240 laptop but a buggy version of XFree (so I found out later) and my inexperience resulted in me giving up on Linux for another 6 months. Since then I've experimented a lot, installing various distros including MDK8.2, 9.0, RH8.0, Lycoris, Slackware & a partial Debian install (I gave up half way as I became confused & bored with all the questions). After dual booting on my self-built 1.4GHz Athlon desktop for a while with Windows, I became fed up with MS OS problems, freeze ups, crashes, expensive software, etc. and so finally settled and went 100% over to Linux with SuSE 8.2 Pro - no probs since. SuSE is still on my desktop now but last night couldn't help myself but to install MDK9.2 on my laptop - just to have a look. Mmm its OK'ish on first glance. Noticed a couple of glitches but never have got on very well with MDK on that laptop. But I will carry on with it for a while. My Wife, who isn't particularly good or interested in computers, made the switch from Windows to Linux with only about 15 mins training from me, and happily e-mails, surfs and writes letters with no problems. I also became fed up of fixing my Mother's MS Windows problems and she now also runs SuSE 8.2 (Personal) and I hardly ever get called out to fix problems anymore - thank goodness. I've always wanted to program and Linux sure does give me the freedom to learn and play in this respect. I am currently learning C++ together with QT. I am a deck officer (navigator) in the merchant navy so my first and current project is a navigation/passage planning program. Haven't actually seen any similar software for Linux but if anyone knows of any links please let me know. Also reading (but not coding yet) books on PHP & MYSQL/Postgre. Anyway that's all the guff about me out of the way. Will try and contribute something more interesting in future but am enjoying the mailing list digest very much indeed. Thanks all. Martin

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Multiple monitors
by Louise J M Worthington 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

It's a long shot, but does anyone know if its possible when using two monitors to have X running on only one of them a console on the other? Thanks Louise

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