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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '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]Broken NTL WEB Cache??
by Ian Douglas 06 Jul '03

06 Jul '03

Hi Folks, My wife enjoys buying bits from eBay now and again but she has been unable to log on since Wednesday. If you are familiar with the login process she completes the login page successfully but when she tries to go to her "My eBay" page (or in fact any page), or do a search, after this she gets a "Page Not Found" DNS error. This error only occurs when accessing eBay using NTL and everything behaves normally if she accesses it using a dial-up ISP. We have no problems with accessing any other sites using NTL; this problem is specific to eBay's site. Yesterday I logged on to eBay using my Dial-Up, done a few "ping"s to suss out the IP Addresses of the relevant eBay servers and manually entered them into my hosts table. This did not resolve the problem so I contacted eBay technical support who suggested that the "DNS Error" we are getting may be a red herring and the problem may be with NTL's WEB Page Cache. I am starting to think eBay's suspicion of a broken NTL WEB Cache is correct. I suppose I could trying ringing NTLs Support helpline but, from past experience, they offer very little useful advice apart from telling me to reformat my hard disk and reinstall Windows (bit of a waste of time as I am not using Windows). I was therefore wondering if anyone else had come across this problem and knows how to get round it. In particular I would firstly like to know if there is a way I can discover conclusively if the problem is indeed with NTL's WEB Cache or not, and secondly, if it is, if there is a way I can bypass this and access the real eBay pages directly. Just in case it is relevant I have tried using Microsoft Explorer 6 on my Windows partition and Mozilla and Opera on my Linux partition. Thanks, Ian.

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[Alug]Bios system time
by Wayne Stallwood 03 Jul '03

03 Jul '03

I have a small problem with my home machine. The Bios time does not seem to be getting updated with the system time. If I set the time correctly all is fine until I reboot at which point the system time reverts to whatever the bios says it is. Naturally I could go into the bios and reset the time manually but I am interested to find out why it's not getting set by the OS. Does anyone know how the Bios time is updated as the date -s command only seems to affect the system time. Regards Wayne

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[Alug]A. N. Other-Newbie
by David Bishop 03 Jul '03

03 Jul '03

Hello all Just a note to thank you all for providing a welcome to your ship! The appeal of Linux to me? Camaraderie, freedom from spyware, keeping more of the horsepower I paid for, helping he underdog (in market share terms, if not core funtionality) and being sick of "..of course, sir, and the price will be.)" David

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[Alug]Norwich evening meet -Thursday July 10th
by Syd Hancock 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Due to the change from third thursday to second thursday of the month, as previously sent to the list, the next meeting is rushing upon us. Thursday next week in fact, the 10th July. The date is firm but the venue is not yet settled as I would like to sample a few of the altenatives before settling on a long-term venue. More info later. Syd

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[Alug]Calling 'Colin'
by Syd Hancock 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Apologies for noise Could Colin who was at the first Norwich evening meet at the Forum please email me off list? TIA Syd

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[Alug]file permissions and /usr
by Syd Hancock 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

I created as root a directory in /usr and used chmod to set permissions. After a reboot the permissions had reverted to what they were before the chmod command. This is probably some basic bit of info that I lack but is this usual? I was very surprised when it happened. Using Mandrake 9.1, mkdir and chmod run from the command line. TIA Syd

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '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]Linux at City College
by Tarquin Mills 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Derek wrote: > Hi Tarquin [snip] > On another issue: > > Can you give me a *very short* explaination as to why City College should > switch to open source IT? We have a funding crisis at work and need to save > money, so I've suggested we do this to the principle, but I really don't > know much about it. > > If you could point me at something not too tecky, I'd appreciate it. [snip] Someone sent the above to me could you supply me something to give them. Thanks in advance. -- Tarquin Mills Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign) http://www.planet14.sonow4u.co.uk/comp/reboot/

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[Alug]New member - Hi all!
by Ian Higgins 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Hi everyone! Just thought, as I am new to this list, that I would introduce myself and say why I am interested in Linux. My name is Ian Higgins, I am 30 years old and I come from East Dereham in Norfolk. I have been using Windows XP for just over a year now. Basically I got sick of the lack of speed that XP "produces." I have a P4 2.5ghz - Radeon 9700 Pro - 512mb ram - 120 gb HD - and XP is so slow on it - I feel that a modern OS should be much faster than this. Especially given the speed of modern hardware. I also got tired of the constant maintenance that Windows requires to keep it running at anything like a "decent" speed - defragging the hard drive, cleaning out the registry, disabling unused services etc. I feel you shouldn`t have to do this anymore - it is so antiquated. I used an Amiga for 9 years previously and I never had to do any maintenance on that. :-) I decided to give Linux a go - RedHat9 to be precise - a little while ago and haven`t looked back. Once I can get Linux online then XP will be ditched for good - had a few problems with my adsl modem. Linux is such a responsive and beautifully written OS - it reminds me alot of Workbench on my old A1200. Unlike Windows it lets you work the way that you want to - plus it looks so much better to boot. Anyway, that`s all for now. Hope to hear from you all soon. Kind regards, Ian Higgins.

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