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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '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]Re: Update on story of Microsoft charging schools too much.
by Ben Norcutt 17 Aug '03

17 Aug '03

The bit that worries me about this story actually working in IT in a School is that it doesn't say that the Government will bulk buy licences it says the Government will bulk buy computer equipment with the licences to save Schools the licence costs. The Government bulk buying IT equipment is a joke. I also fail to see where they get this £70 from ours is £36.63 and even if we added the couple of titles not on our agreement this certainly wouldn't more than double the price. Cheers, Ben Norcutt

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[Alug]apologies (perhaps)
by BenE 17 Aug '03

17 Aug '03

I made the mistake last night of looking in my sent mail folder which automatically sorts any mail according to my filters, so all my mail I've sent here gets put in my 'alug' folder. Today, I accidently managed to send all the outgoing mail that has been frozen by exim in the past. So...I can't tell whether the deluge of mail from me in my alug folder is because of my messing up last night or today. If the rest of you have received a lot of old mail from me today then I apologise and I hope it won't happen again since I'm installing debian tmrw (well, morphix) and that should be better configured (hopefully). If you have no idea what I'm talking about then...ermm....apologies for this bit of spam... *bows* BenE --------------------------------- Love is all I bring, in me crass t-shirt 'n' ting

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[Alug]PsiLinux (Psion)
by MJ Ray 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

I think this was also mentioned yesterday: "PsiLinux is a project to port the unix-like operating system Linux to a group of palmtops produced by Psion, and related machines such as the Geofox One. At present, working linux systems can be installed." http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/ Anyone using it? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: Edwin A Abbott wrote about trouble with Windows in 1884

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[Alug]Revolution OS at Elmswell on the 17th
by abower＠thebowery.co.uk 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hi people, Can I ask that if you are going to come to this meeting (or are just thinking about it) can you let me know so we have an idea of numbers? Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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[Alug]Announce digest, Vol 2 #12 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '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. Fwd: Linux jobs (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:41:39 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Alug Announce]Fwd: Linux jobs linuxjobs(a)lists.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs Any job-related enquiries sent to lug.org.uk enquiry addresses will get forwarded there and not sent to lugmasters. The first post is a message received the other day from a recruitment agent looking for 6 people to fill positions for linux gurus & trainers. http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/linuxjobs/2003-August/000000.html --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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]Disk imaging
by Paul Tansom 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Anyone got any experiences with disk imaging software? I've used Norton Ghost in the past (didn't like it at all, but that was quite a long time ago and to be honest I can't really remember why - may have been the fact that you had to license a copy for every machine you used it on, so to clone 9 machines from a master required 10 licenses - as I said, it's a while ago now). Currently I'm using Drive Image from Powerquest, but as that doesn't support (spit) XP I'm going to have to upgrade. I've been looking at Norton Ghost (v8), Powerquest Drive Image (v7) and Active Disk Image. So far the last one is favourite as it is compact enough to fit on a floppy and doesn't mess around with GUIs and Windows installs. I'm also a little confused as to the suitability of the other two which talk about automated backups from Windows etc.. In particular Drive Copy looks to be the appropriate product from Powerquest, but Drive Image is the one that supports XP. I've just remembered the PartImage software for Linux, so I'll have to dig the URL out and take a look, but thought I'd ask for practical experiences since I have a brief respite before laying out any dosh. -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/

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[Alug]Fwd: HiTec C Compiler
by Ian Bell 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Just sent this to FSF ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: HiTec C Compiler Date: Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 5:16 pm From: Ian Bell <ian(a)redtommo.com> To: gnu(a)gnu.org The follwing url refers to HiTec 'new components' they have developed to allow the GNU compiler to compile code for the C166 microcontroller. Can you confirm this complies with the GPL? <quote> 2. SORTING OUT THE CONFUSION ABOUT GNU-C COMPILER LICENSING FOR C166 AND TRICORE How does GNU licensing really work? http://www.hitex.co.uk/newsletter <\quote>any Thanks Ian M -------------------------------------------------------

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[Alug]Suggestion: 3 month plan
by MJ Ray 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

It seems that to get some publicity (magazines, some what's on guides) for a formal meeting, we need to agree date and venue three months in advance. Can we do this? Who can keep track of this? Should we do this? I think it's totally impractical to do for the social meetings, though. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at

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[Alug]Distro Survey
by Keith Watson 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Finally got organised enough to collate the replies to date. So far I've got 12 here on my UKFSN account (there are a couple more that were sent to my work email a/c and I'll add them in later). So it seems that 8 of the responders used a single distro, 2 of you had 2 distros installed, one had 3 distros installed and one brave soul has 5 distros (counting Knoppix, etc). Most of the responders had at least 2 machines with GNU/Linux running on them, 3 of you had 5 boxen set up and one had 7. Only me and one other person had a single system to play with. Debian seemed to be the most popular distro with the respondents. In all 8 of you said it was your distro of choice. 2 of you preferred Red Hat, one LFS, one Slackware and one Mandrake. Other distros you also use for various reasons are; Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, Gentoo, OpenZaurus (is this a distro?), Smoothwall, Knoppix and Morphix. 9 respondents have dual boot set-ups with Windows and there were 3 hard core purists who win the RMS award! :o) So in summary based on the limited sample; Debian is the most commonly installed distro, mostly on at least 2 machines and usually dual boot with Windows. Maybe we should have a web page with these figures displayed in some sort of tabular form and also a standing invite for people to email me with their own setups. I could collate them from time to time and update the page. Keith ------------------------- But still, it moves! - Galileo

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