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Domain Name Hosting
by tom potts 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Ian, www.ukreg.com are pretty good - less that £10 py for .com, 50 e-mail redirects etc and moderately fast e-mail help. Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Recommendations for Domain Name hosting?
by Ian Douglas 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hi Folks, I am currently toying with the idea of registering a domain name. It is something I have never done before so would appreciate advice from more experienced ALUGers on which hosting company to choose. I do not currently have a webpage/website so, although I would like to choose a company which would allow this so as to keep my options open for the future, my main purpose for registering a domain name is to be able to quote it to people to use for sending me email. I would preferably like the hosting company to allow me an infinite number of username mailboxes for incoming emails for my domain name (i.e so I can use ian(a)mydomainname.com, usefullmail(a)mydomainname.com, unwantedspam(a)mydomainname.com, deleteonreciept(a)mydomainname.com etc). I am not bothered whether I need to collect incoming emails from the hosting company myself via POP or whether they simply automatically redirect my incoming emails to my existing email account with my existing ISP. Are there any particular domain name hosting companies more experienced ALUGers could recommend? Or, alternatively, any horror stories about experiences with other companies that people would like to share with me to warn me about them (though these negative comments may be best sent privately to me rather than posted on the public ALUG list)? I live in Ipswich. If I find any small, local, domain name hosting companies would ALUGers recommend I use them or should I choose one of the big companies based in America? Finally, a practical question about actually registering my domain name: I have noticed that some companies entries in the WHOIS database include their address and telephone number as well as a contact name. Obviously, as a private individual, I am not too keen on the entire world knowing my address and telephone number as I have enough problems with email spam and don't want this nuisance expanded with loads of unsolicited paper mail and telephone calls as well. Is the publication of address and telephone number information compulsory or is it possible to just register a contact name when registering a domain name? Thanks in advance for your patience in answering my dumb questions! Ian.

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Recommendations for MP3 editor
by Keith Watson 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

I'm looking for a Debian package that provides a simple audio editor for some MP3's I have. Scanning the Debian site I've seen sweep, ecawave and audacity. Has anyone used any of these and, if so, what are your thoughts about them? Keith ____________ When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good.

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Re: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS
by Tristan 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

anyone else interested? me and one of my friends (also in cantley) are interested, that makes 3 that i know of! Tristan Scott Computer Engineer PC-Seller PLC 355 Alysham road, opposite boundary pub Norwich NR3 2RX Tel: 01603 442233 Fax: 01603 404410 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sage" <lists(a)theangel.net> To: "Tristan" <trs(a)scott998.freeserve.co.uk> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: RE: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS > I have no idea how many people are interested at the moment its still a plan > forming, and with an exam tomorrow (MCP Win 2k) and a baby. I hope to start > doing some work on it soon thou. > > Not sure about costs yet, dont think they will be as high as satelitte > installs thou! ;o) > > Would probably just have to have a high gain arial for each village, then > some form of inipendant wireless network for that area. > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tristan [mailto:trs@scott998.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: 06 March 2003 08:56 > To: Michael Sage > Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS > > > they'll be raid 5 probably, so very unlikely i have that issues (yes i know > that cuts me down to 360Gb). hmm dunno about install, but FTP is probably > easiest. if i can be borthered, ill put gentoo on it, boot from floppy, > mount RAID, scp distribution, and orf we go (maybe). > how many other people have you got not interested in paying? > do you know how much the wireless stuff will be, and will a standard card > with a big ariel do it? methinks you'd have to boost transmissions somehow, > maybe a powered amp/arial? > > Tristan Scott > Computer Engineer > PC-Seller PLC > 355 Alysham road, opposite boundary pub > Norwich > NR3 2RX > Tel: 01603 442233 > Fax: 01603 404410 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Sage" <lists(a)theangel.net> > To: "Tristan" <trs(a)scott998.freeserve.co.uk> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 7:48 PM > Subject: RE: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS > > > > Hmmm, OK, but no back up or CD Rom, good luck with the FTP or network > > install! ;o) The better option (if not slightly more expensive) is to go > for > > SCSI (you could just use it for the CD ROM I suppose and possibly a tape > > drive), any way good luck and I will let you know. > > > > I am gonna get to work on the pipe scheme, got someone coming to talk to > me > > at work about it on Friday so I will let you know. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tristan [mailto:trs@scott998.freeserve.co.uk] > > Sent: 03 March 2003 09:11 > > To: Michael Sage > > Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS > > > > > > > BTW, you will be lucky if you can find a Celeron board that will take a > TB > > > of storage!!! > > > > 4 ide channels, 4 120gb drives, raid or LVM to get one big one, 480 GB.... > > > > Tristan Scott > > Computer Engineer > > PC-Seller PLC > > 355 Alysham road, opposite boundary pub > > Norwich > > NR3 2RX > > Tel: 01603 442233 > > Fax: 01603 404410 > > > > > > <snippage> > > --- > > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/2003 > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/2003 > > > > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 25/02/2003 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 25/02/2003 > >

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RE: [Alug] filesystem problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

>Sounds like there was a hitch on startup and your fsck'ed filesystems weren't remounted as read-write. > >1st stupid question (from me that is :o) ), have you tried rebooting again? Keith: Obviously wasn't so stupid! Thanks Jen :-)

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filesystem problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hi, My box had a problem with usb and hung. When I rebooted, it hung for ages on "cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20030319.log. Read-only file system" then continued booting but brought up similar messages about not being able to create various files. Looking at 20030319.log, the permissions are 644 and it was created at the time of the reboot. It consists of lines such as 20030319 111648 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- usb0 safemode=1 20030319 111648 probe ended over and over. Commands such as "cp" and "rm" will no longer work, nor will vi, as I appear to be running a "read-only" file system. Flavour is debian, kernel 2.4.19. Can anybody help? I'm not too hot on file-system types. Many thanks, Jenny.

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filesystem problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

I wrote: >My box had a problem with usb and hung. When I rebooted, it hung for ages >on "cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20030319.log. Read-only file system" >then continued booting but brought up similar messages about not being able >to create various files. >Looking at 20030319.log, the permissions are 644 and it was created at the >time of the reboot. It consists of lines such as >20030319 111648 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- usb0 safemode=1 >20030319 111648 probe ended >over and over. >Commands such as "cp" and "rm" will no longer work, nor will vi, as I >appear to be running a "read-only" file system. >Flavour is debian, kernel 2.4.19. >Can anybody help? I'm not too hot on file-system types. >Many thanks, >Jenny. Problem seems sorted - I did a clean shutdown and reboot, and it ran fsck telling me hadn't shut down cleanly. I suppose that means it hadn't run on the previous boot even though it said it had. It seems okay now. My box has only crashed twice in the space of a year and both times has been a usb problem. Ta. Jen.

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FW: "Unix Text Processing"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Folks, A broadcast message (apologies to all who thereby receive cross-postings) to let you know that the excellent book "Unix Text Processing", originally by Dale Dougherty and Tim Reilly and published in 1987 by O'Reilly and Associates (increasingly famous for the outstanding series of "O'Reillys" on all sorts of aspects of Unix and Linux):-- -- having been released into the public domain by O'Reilly has been re-created as groff source code by a team of volunteers coordinated by Larry Kollar, and reformatted into PostScript and PDF. The result, now at "beta 2.1a", is available from http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/ and is essentially complete. For those of you who may wonder what it's really about: -- it covers the use of Unix troff and friends, and the use of many of the general Unix utilities (vi, ex, sed, awk etc) in the coordinated way that Unix (and of course Linux) so readily permits, to produce high quality and sophisticated documents and books of almost arbitrary complexity, with the writer having control over the finest detail of layout and typesetting. Future planned developments will bring the book up to date with respect to the more recent devopments embodied in GNU groff, James Clark's re-creation of the Unix troff suite of programs. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 14-Mar-03 Time: 19:28:28 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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I was at the meeting venue today, where was everyone else?
by Ashley 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

I was at UEA today, in Union House, in the correct room, at 2:20pm. However, no-one else was around. In fact, there was no indication that the ALUG meeting was ever going to happen, i.e. no signs, no notices in the room, etc. What happened? I waited a few minutes, assumed the meeting had been cancelled and went back home. Is this the start of the Cambridge CLUG experience, i.e. the meeting is at this specific venue, but you have to 'use the force' to find the other members! -- Ashley T. Howes PhD http://www.ashleyhowes.com "when all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '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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