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Re: [Alug] Alug library, Was: Todays meeting - report available.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Mark J Ray wrote: >Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com wrote: >> I'll whisk up a database if it would be useful,though. Let me know. > >Offlsit. Or if you keep bothering me, I'll install the koha library >software here and you can admin it ;-) > >MJR "offlsit"? Oh flip, find less severe interests todo? oh, fabulous, friendly literature stores increase totalitarians? koha looks good, would be easier since it is there already, but is it a bit over the top for the twenty-odd books alug has? Adminning needs to be done by whoever is most regularly at meetings, unless it is done by post, which is a bit daft as books are heavy. Adam has offered to admin, but supposing he doesn't go to a meeting for whatever reason and he has all the books, and someone wants to borrow/return one and he isn't there? I'm sure we went round all this last year and it kind of fizzled out in the end. Jenny

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FW: tux - the linux pengiun
by Martyn Drake 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

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Re: [Alug] Alug library, Was: Todays meeting - report available.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Adam Bower wrote: >On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:57:45AM +0000, Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com wrote: >> >> Re. the library - I have the ALUG copy of "Cathedral and Bazaar" still. >> Wat does the librarian job involve? > >wearing glasses and going "Sssshhhhhhh!" lots > >:) > >actually it means going to lots of meetings and taking books and making sure >who says they have a book has it, and tracking them down etc. Bit like running >a library really but more distributed. I don't mind being librarian now, as I >will actually be coming to meetings again, (i promise not to move outside East >Anglia again for at least a month or two ;)) unless you want to do it. > >Adam I thought about a very simple database up on the website with a catalogue of books in one table and the ins and outs by different people in another, but this requires a server with postgres enabled. (I've got one, as it happens, but it would end up being a separate entity from the main alug site). Also my attendance at meetings has been low recently due mostly to house renovation, so I wouldn't be so good at the being there behind the book counter hissing when you speak and frowning. And I don't wear glasses. I'll whisk up a database if it would be useful,though. Let me know. Jenny.

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need help about setpcaps
by atit_ldce 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

with setpcaps i am doing as below.. [root@linux139 root]# setpcaps "cap_net_admin+iep cap_chown+iep cap_net_raw+p" <process ID> now i want to revoke cap_net_raw (present) and cap_chown (effective) from process what will be syantax for that.... thanks _____________________________________________________________________ Get your internet connection from the fastest growing digital network. ICENET visit our site www.icenet.net

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Re: [Alug] Todays meeting - report available.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

BJ wrote: >A good, if a bit small meeting today. Thanks to all those attending. I'm sorry not to have made it - it's a short story involving not one but two flat tyres. (If i'd known Adam was going I'd have blagged a lift, - thought he was house-hunting. Didn't discover the flats till just after 1 pm though.)(If I'd known Jon was bringing home made biscuits, I'd have cycled :-)) Did you get your samba problems sorted, John? Re. the library - I have the ALUG copy of "Cathedral and Bazaar" still. Wat does the librarian job involve? Jenny

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Re: wireless WANS
by jenny 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Michael Sage wrote: >I would like to make an appeal to all of you without broadband in the area, >how would you feel about setting up a wireless wan (they are doing it all >over the country and in other regions (Suffolk, Cambridge)). Hi Michael, a company called Invisible Networks are setting up the wireless broadband around Cambridgeshire, I'm trying to get it in Burwell at the moment. The CA are supplying grants if you apply in the correct manner to bring down the installation fee. Perhaps IN will come to Norfolk if there is enough interest? Jen.

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Re: wireless WANS
by tom potts 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Sorry if I'm repeating other comments but I've had some major spam and lost a lot of mail but: Have a look at www.consume.net Have a look at http://www.digitaldales.co.uk/edenfaster/ and think whether you might like to buy a 2meg connection in and share it out.... There is a £300 wireless router somewhere... If you wait for the current providers to do it they'l have everyone by the short and curlies and be charging us a lot for a little. 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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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '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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Todays meeting - report available.
by John Woodard 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

A good, if a bit small meeting today. Thanks to all those attending. I have written a short report and stuck it up on the wiki. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?here Cheers, BJ

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Re: main digest, Vol 2 #51 - 9 msgs
by David Cartwright 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

>From: "Ben Norcutt" <ben(a)plextech.co.uk> >To: "alug" <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> >Subject: Re: [Alug] Wireless WANS (i.e. Norfolk) >Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:22:48 -0000 > >I have just started playing with wireless stuff at work and it's great to be >able to wander around with a laptop my boss loves it. I work at Framingham >Earl High School As the Network Mangler and would love to help out if I can. >We have a 2mbit DSL connection going unused during the evening. This would >be fine for general web surfing but there are a number of restrictions that >you need to be made aware of. > >If anyone wants to experiment let me know. Maybe we should have a wireless >antennae building session etc... I have a couple of waps and pcmcia cards at >work. Errrrrmmmm ... I hate to be picky, but wouldn't the education authority or whoever is paying for all this stuff have some kind of problem with you inviting all and sundry to use their network (which presumably contains sensitive information)? If I was the headmaster, the "number of restrictions you need to be made aware of" would include "Connect anyone to this thing without my express permission and you're fired". In last year's UK Networking Industry Awards, of which I'm one of the judges, one of the entries was an educational establishment that was very proud of its new wireless LAN installation. Sadly, at no point did the entry blurb (which was many pages long) include terms like "security" or "encryption" - in fact the implementors were proud that you could surf outside the school buildings on your laptop. They didn't win. By way of a footnote, it's interesting to see how many companies don't turn on security by default. At the Networks Telecom Show at the NEC last June, a friend of mine who runs a super little security product dealership/consultancy was showing me his new toy - a wireless LAN analyser from Vernier Networks. We stood in the middle of the NEC identifying literally dozens of insecure servers on this thing, because the vast majority of exhibitors didn't have security turned on in their wireless installations. Not a problem at a trade show, you'd think, but you must remember that many stands have phone/ISDN links back to the main office, thus giving any old muppet with (in our case) an iPaq and a few hundred quid's worth of software a really nice route into their corporate networks. D.

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