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[Alug]Time to give something back
by Karl Foley 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

I've been a long time reader of the ALUG list and a very, very occasional poster. Too much work in the day don't you know! Been into networking for the last 10 years and electronics before that. Mainly train support staff but also do the odd bit of consultancy. Someone, I believe it was Keith (we met up at Norfolk police HQ that day remember?) was kind enough to give me a small SCSI disk to replace one I had in a small external Sun disk case because the original has failed. Due to a clear out I now find I've got nowhere to store my Sun kit so would like to donate it to a loving home. I have had a flavour of Linux (Debian?) running on it but most of the time it's been running good old Solaris. Details of what I have are: Sparc 5 Base Station Scsi Cdrom Floppy 128MB RAM 2 Internal SCA Scsi drives Sparc 5 Base Station Scsi Cdrom Floppy (I think) 64MB RAM (I think) 1 Internal SCA Scsi drive External Disk Unit 2GB SCSI Drive (Thanks Keith!) Cable to connect it to Sparc 5 External Backup DDS2 DAT NO cable (Worked in a Netware box though!) 2 * Large Sun Monitors 19/21" Dunno - Big and heavy! 2 * Type 5c Sun Keyboards and 3 Button Mice This was all working when last powered up (a few months ago now). I have no media to hand but it's easy enough to get - I could possibly dig around at the weekend for some Solaris media. I'm based in Felixstowe but will drive a little way to drop the stuff off. Please drop me an eMail if you're interested: Karl(a)thefoleyhouse.co.uk P.S. Did I say it was all free! ;-) --- ATB, Karl.

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[Alug]IBM TV ad for Linux
by Ben Francis 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

what do people think of IBM's Linux advert? http://www-5.ibm.com/e-business/uk/linux/ -- Ben "tola" Francis

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[Alug]Announce digest, Vol 2 #18 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '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. RMS talks; London + Sheffield; [this weekend!] (fwd) (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:11:19 +0100 From: MJ Ray <mjr(a)dsl.pipex.com> To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk, peterboro(a)mailman.lug.org.uk Organization: Very poor Subject: [Alug Announce]RMS talks; London + Sheffield; [this weekend!] (fwd) Original text by Paul Sladen <lugmaster(a)paul.sladen.org>, but edited. 2003 October 25th (Saturday) 12:00 noon. Richard Stallman will give a lecture about Software Patents in the Stoddart Building at Sheffield Hallam University. http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html 2003 October 26th (Sunday) 14:30 pm. Richard Stallman will be speaking about the dangers of Software Patents at the University of Westminster, London. Meeting held by AFFS and FFII-UK. http://www.affs.org.uk/diary -- 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/ --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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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[Alug]Reminder: Norwich evening meet tonight
by Syd Hancock 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Meeting tonight at the Forum coffee bar, 8.00 pm onwards, thursday 16th October. Apart from us there are usually very few people there so we should not be difficult to spot - there is usually a penguin or two on the table. It's possible that I may not be able to be there tonight - if not, hope lots of people make it and have fun. Syd

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[Alug]Blip - OK - I'm *JUST ABOUT* alive again.
by Brett Parker 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Hi all, Right, first a quick apology, haven't read my Alug mail box for a while, so whilst doing it, there's probably a couple of replies that are well out of date. Sorry about that, must remember to check the list more often. Otherwise, right, I'm back, sortof, so I might actually be able to do something useful at some point... hell... I might even remember to read my e-mail every now and again ;) Cheers, Brett.

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[Alug]Alug problrms with Freeserve?
by Nick Daniels 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Freeserve seem to be trashing a lot of my mail as Bulk? i.e. BBC daily email. Can anybody tell me how many Alug main email's have been sent out this week, I have received 7 since last 21/9.( i have removed all filters etc) Could somebody answer me directly in case i do not receive it!!! Regards Nick Daniels

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[Alug]Adrian Kiddle rejoining ALUG
by Adrian Kiddle 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Hello ALUG, It's been about 3 years since I last took a close look at Linux. I have been very busy for some time with the installation of a new I.T. system at work (Windows based), but have now reached a point where the pressure is starting to ease off a bit, and I have some time available for looking at other things again. In the meantime I understand there has been a lot of progress with Linux, and the way that Microsoft has been going has made me even less of a fan of theirs than I was before. I have recently installed Mandrake 9.0, and yesterday I was wondering whether I could get any remote desktop client software for Linux to access Terminal Services on our Windows 2000 server. This started off a train of thought, and prompted me to re-subscribe to the ALUG list. Best Regards Adrian Kiddle

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[Alug]Fax Server?
by nickheppleston＠gmx.co.uk 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

I'm looking for suggestions for a fax server. At my last compay, we used RightFax - a Win NT4 application - that allowed users to 'print' to a fax spooler which would then be sent via a dial-up modem. Is there anything similar out there in the open-source world? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Heppleston nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk | 07989 581766 +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '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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[Alug]Shockwave for Linux: All you have to do is ask
by Keith Watson 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/15/215232 Keith ____________ The best use of your mind is to distrust it. François Fénelon

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