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[Alug]Still here! :o)
by Keith Watson 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Just been lurking for a while as we have been mega busy at work coping with the aftershocks from a major product release. However I have been following the discussions :o) Just a quick note to say that I haven't forgotten a whole list of things I put my name to, e.g. - T-Shirts/Sweatshirts - Contacting someone at The Forum about use of exhibition/demo spaces - Taking ownership of the graphics web page - Distro survey page - Name badges I'm off on my hols for the next couple of weeks but I will start addressing these once I get back.. promise... honest! Will definitely be there on the 28th in the audience only, sorry my knowledge is far too scanty to try and BS anyone else on this list! As I live round the corner it's not likely that I can offer any lifts but I'm happy to ferry people back and forth from the train station or bus stops. Just e-mail me off list if I can help in any way. And following on from the discussion about meetings, my general view is that I will try and get along to any meeting I can where my time isn't preempted by other commitments. So the point about what's a reasonable distance really breaks down into how long it takes to travel there and back. My gut feel is that anything over an hour is probably too long. But then if it's something like a Debian install and config. workshop.... Hasta Lavista! Keith

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[Alug]SchoolTools
by Vasko Tomanov 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hi all, If the development of the school tools in not started yet.. Please take a look on http://www.avalonschools.com/servlet/avaloncalc This is a fully featured student course calculator and management system written in full from me... the current version have: -- public part ---------- 1. Student course calculator( with all needed visual elements) 2. Student allaying online form with automatically database insertion in MySQL and possibilities to connect with MSSQL 3. Automatic invoice generation 4. Automatic e-mail notification to the student ( agent if it have) and the school staff --private part --- (accusable only from the intranet) 1. Login/authorization page 2. Automatic generation and printing of the Registration letters (Enrolment, Welcome, Receipt/for the payments made/, ..... etc) If the group who plane to develop the school tools is happy to base the new stuff on this system I can arrange to make the current available modules full open source The technologies used for this system are : Apache, Tomcat (or JServ), MySQL, IBM JDK (or any other jdk), (and jtds if you need connection to MSSQL) - the system is fully build in java servlets The system is tested for around 6 month in the real situation and any bugs are fixed. Cheers Vasko Tomanov

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[Alug]Announce digest, Vol 2 #15 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '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. Schooltool development underway (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:08:12 +0100 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> To: fsfe-uk(a)gnu.org, lugmaster(a)lug.org.uk, announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Organization: My own Subject: [Alug Announce]Schooltool development underway Schooltool is a project to develop a school management system and release it under a free software licence. The UK is one of the initial targets. The core server is being developed in python. You can read Mark Shuttleworth's announcement of the start of programming at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3065015&forum_id=328… Please forward this message as appropriate to interested people, but remember that this is only just starting. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. 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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Re[2]: [Alug]ADSL and security
by Edenyard 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Barry Samuels wrote: > >> UKFSN is 27.50 per month, according to the leaflet I have here, so >> just beyond your price. > > Not necessarily. I don't have a fixed boundary but as I'm retired on a pension I > have > to watch the pennies a bit. I'll have a look at them. I think someone else may > have > mentioned them. > Sorry if I'm speaking out of turn, but I've an idea that someone here mentioned Metronet a long time ago. I think the point of that was that they offer a rebate for low usage - possibly it came down to £10 a month if you didn't want gigabytes of transfer per week. I'm fairly sure I looked at Metronet when it was mentioned, but as Martlesham doesn't seem to be on the map so far as all this whizbang technology goes, I lost interest quite quickly. Don't know whether this helps or not.... Gerald.

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[Alug]Ely: Let's do it again
by MJ Ray 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

This is very late, but at least it's here now. On 21 August, a small and hardy band of ALUGgers started a new chapter in the group's history with the first meeting in Ely. Daniel, Rob, MJR, Kirsty, Adam and Steven (or, if you prefer, Kinnison, rjek(?), slef, wildduck, quinophex and, erm, Steven) met up at the Cutter on Ely's waterside, chatted, scoped out the place, ate, drank and were merry, then walked up the hill to the Fountain, chatted, drank and were merry (who needs food?). Then I had to run back for a train so I'd be up in time for work the following morning (and maybe someone can tell me if I missed anything worth posting). I enjoyed it and (as predicted) preferred the Fountain to the Cutter for bber. So, I suggest we meet up again and maybe gather more adherants. When's good for others? Evening of the 17th or afternoon of the 20th? Can someone else try their luck at getting info on the old dispensory as a meeting venue for late-ish October, please? I'm told that it's in the hands of City of Ely Council http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/partners/parish/ely/elyhome.htm or, failing that, any other suitable venue nearby? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. 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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[Alug]Re: "From Boot to Halt" talk, Norwich sunday 28th September.
by Tim Sanders 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

I would certainly have come if I had not been already booked somewhere else. I hope it will happen again one day Tim

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[Alug]Chkrootkit says Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 600)
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

This has happened only since I changed inetd for xinetd and lsof -i :600 gives me: xinetd 16112 root 6u IPv4 318948149 UDP *:600 which I understand means that xinetd is using port 600. So why should chkrootkit think the port's infected? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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RE: [Alug]ADSL and security
by Jonathan Dye 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Nick Heppleston wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:34, Barry Samuels wrote: >> My local telephone exchange is becoming broadband enabled at the end >> of September and I am working on the assumption that I will be able >> to use it (BT's site says I MAY). > > I would give BT's broadband sales number a ring just to confirm that > your phone number can receive ADSL before you get excited. I > was in the > same position after I moved to my new house only to find that > I was more > than 5.5Km from the Norwich West exchange and therefore couldn't get > ADSL. I received the same answer from their 'online checker' - you > 'may' be able to receive it... I had the same situation and was told I couldn't recieve it but I've now got connected with the Extended Reach trial that BT are doing. Basically if you are just too far for ADSL then you may be able to get connected with the Extended Reach trial (using normal ADSL equipment). For ISPs that are participating in the trial have a look at http://www.adslguide.org/newsarchive.asp?item=1175 JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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Re: [Alug]Browsing files on CD [lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk]
by Steve Fosdick 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

On 2003.09.03 13:21, Edenyard wrote: > I can start up Opera/Mozilla and open the front page without any > difficulty, but all links are unreachable. When I move the cursor > over a link, I find that its address is shown as (for example) > 'file:///fred/somepage.htm', whereas I would have expected it to be > '/mnt/cdrom/fred/somepage.htm'.... AFAIK, in windows there is a separate root directory for each disk so when windows tries to resolve a path which refers back to the root directory but doesn't specify a drive letter it will assume the current drive. So, for example, if your CD drive was E: /fred/somepage.htm would resolve to E:/fred/somepage.htm Of course, Unix-like OSes are different and have a single root directory so this doesn't work. You could work round this by creating symbolic links in the real root directory for each top-level directory on the CD. You could so this automatically like: cd /mnt/cdrom ls -l | grep ^d | awk '{print "ln -s /mnt/cdrom/" $8 " /" $8;}' | sh When you've finished browsing the CD you can remove the links: cd /mnt/cdrom ls -l | grep ^d | awk '{print "rm -f /" $8;}' | sh This is a little ugly but it's all I can think of ATM. HTH, Steve.

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RE: [Alug]External modem on laptop
by Jenny Hopkins 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Chris Glover wrote: >Doesn't the laptop have a PS/2 port for the rodent? I'll check this out at home - or I could get a USB mouse as there is one USB port. Daniel Silverstone wrote: > If you're *extremely lucky* you won't have fried your modem > or your parallel port. > > *very different power levels and pinouts there* > > If you need to use this serial modem, get a USB<->serial doobry Er, oops :-) I have very little luck with modems (ongoing sagas) so it may be fried. I did only have the one brief attempt. I'll try either a USB or PS2 mouse then to free the serial port, or see if I can easily get the usb-serial doobry. (Then I'll go and get another unfried modem......) Thanks all, Jen

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