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Meeting Sunday 2nd Feb 2003
by Alistair Macgregor 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

As a new member to the group and a new Linux user I would have loved to go to the meeting, unfortunatly my boss has other ideas. Would it be possible to have a list of date for future meetings. Many thanks Alistair

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Meeting Sunday (2-Feb) UEA - Nelson Court or Union House?
by Keith Watson 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Usual 2pm start? Keith ____________ Everything is but what we think it. - Marcus Aurelius

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Fwd: Open Source in Education Conference
by Paul Tansom 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Caught this on another LUG list and thought it was worth forwarding the ALUG list (suitably snipped of course). ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: James Spedding To: schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net Sent: 1/30/03 3:31 PM Subject: [school-discuss] Open Source in Education Conference As an introduction to the list my name is James Spedding and I work for Anglia Polytechnic University in the UK. Amongst other things we support schools using open source software and develop solutions to school requirements. We have organised a National Conference running on 4th April 2003 to explore the use of Open Source software in UK Primary and Secondary Education Institutions. Representatives from BECTA, E-Envoy's office, DfES, and LEA's will be attending as well as a broad range of ICT teachers and managers from Primary and Secondary Schools. The speakers include Prof. Stephen Heppell of Ultralab, Diana Laurillard of DfES, Malcolm Herbert of RedHat and Roger Whittaker of SuSE along with ICT teaching professionals who are already using Open Source. The website address for the conference is: http://www.mpowernet.anglia.ac.uk/conference/ It is open to all, though places are limited. The price for the day is ?79+VAT. Please contact me on (01245) 226930 or visit the website if you are interested. Sorry for the pitch, but I'm sure it will be an important day for bringing together the users of OS with the decision-makers and those who are considering using Open Source. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/

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Dlink 520+
by raph＠panache.demon.co.uk 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Which driver do I need for a Dlink DWL-520+ wirless NIC? 2.4.x kernel. -- A liberal is a person whose principles are not at stake at the moment. - Willis Player Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------

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Debian upgrade but only a few packages =)
by NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

I just want to upgrade autoconf and automake, ive got autoconf 1.4 and need 1.6. I dont want to break the packageing system so id like to upgrade via apt(well dselect but same backend) but i only want these packages and any that they require i dont want to complety upgrade everything though. I also want to upgrade to kde3.1 any1 know if its stable or what line i should add to /etc/apt/sources.list and where? Above all others or below them. Sorry for all the questions and thankx for any help i get =) Dennis Dryden -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Draft: Call For Talks
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

MJRay wrote: >We have an offer for a speaker about IPv6/IPNG, the replacement for the >1.2.3.4 style of network addresses, and how to support it with GNU/Linux. >I'm assuming that it would be a technical talk -- is there interest? Very much so, although now my partner has gone back to work we both work full time and I'm struggling to do anything other than housework at weekends :-( Jenny.

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Announce digest, Vol 2 #1 - 3 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '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: [lugmaster] Free Software and education (markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk) 2. Fwd: New stand.org.uk ID Card Campaign Launched (markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk) 3. Fwd: [RNIB Campaign for Good Web Design] Campaign update 28/01/03 (mjr(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 12:31:07 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [lugmaster] Free Software and education From: Richard Smedley <richard.smedley(a)futurenet.co.uk> Subject: [lugmaster] Free Software and education Reply-To: lugmaster(a)mailman.lug.org.uk Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:32:14 +0000 Hello everyone, I'd be grateful if you'd forward this to your LUGs - I'd also be interested to hear of any experiences (negative or positive) that anyone has had in talking to schools about using Free Software. - Richard richard(a)sc.lug.org.uk http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2003q1/000048.html : FSF Europe welcomes the TUX&GNU@school column January, 7th 2003 Hamburg/Essen/Valais The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Europe officially welcomes Mario Fux' TUX&GNU@school <mailto:GNU@school> column whose future editions will be published under the umbrella of the FSF Europe. Each edition of the column contains a presentation of a Free educational software program, valuable tips to web sites that deal with Free Software and education, user testimonies as well as suggestions for new small programs for pupils and teachers. All editions will be published in German and English first. The FSF Europe provides infrastructure and an organizational framework, such as web space and mailing lists for lectors and translators. With this support, Mario Fux continues to write his column. The column is free documentation and the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL) and will be developed in an open manner. In consequence, any interested person can work on the project as a lector or translator. TUX&GNU@school <mailto:GNU@school> is a logical step to extend the promotion of Free Software in the educational sector. Mario Fux emphasizes: "GNU/Linux and Free Software in schools have become at least as viable as proprietary software in the meantime" and continues: "I'm again and again surprised how big the choice of Free educational programs is", contradicting critics of Free Software who often claim a lack of applications for the GNU platform. Also the didactic and social aspects of the use of Free Software in schools are of special importance: "In the past, computer science education has concentrated too much teaching products instead of comprehension", says Georg C.F. Greve, President of the FSF Europe. Greve continues: "Free Software enables the interactive understanding of outer and inner workings of a computer and furthermore ensures an equality of chances for all pupils". The FSF Europe thanks Mario Fux for his hitherto efforts and looks forward to his future editions, which are available at http://www.fsfeurope.org/education/tgs/ . About the Free Software Foundation Europe The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable non-governmental organization dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSF Europe, which was founded in 2001 as the European sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States. http://www.fsfeurope.org Contact FSF Europe: Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org <mailto:greve@fsfeurope.org>> phone: +49-40-23809080 fax: +49-40-23809081 TUX&GNU@school column: Mario Fux <foxman(a)lugo.ch <mailto:foxman@lugo.ch>> ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses. _______________________________________________ lugmaster mailing list lugmaster(a)mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lugmaster --__--__-- Message: 2 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:50:31 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: New stand.org.uk ID Card Campaign Launched Probably of interest to many subscribers. MJR Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:31:38 +0000 From: James Cronin <james(a)stand.org.uk> Subject: New stand.org.uk ID Card Campaign Launched [...] Quick summary: the Home Office opened a public consultation on their ID card proposals. They were very pleased to get 1500 responses after nearly six months, and said the majority were in favour. We've rustled up nearly a 1000 responses in one day - and they're almost entirely dead set against. And that's before we told you about it. Some of the story follows. There's more info, links and a chance for you to have your say at: http://www.stand.org.uk/ [...] We're worried that those who disagree with an ID card may be being under-represented. Dan Blanchard described what happened when he mailed the HO saying that he didn't think ID cards were necessary. Back came the reply from the Home Office: "Thank you for your e-mail of 13th December in support of the introduction of an entitlement/identity card scheme." [...] HOW TO DO IT You can either use our simple check-box front-end at http://www.stand.org.uk/ or write directly to the Entitlement Cards Unit (full info at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dob/ecu.htm ). You might want to use the latter route if you're broadly in support [snip!] --__--__-- Message: 3 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:02:00 +0000 From: <mjr(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [RNIB Campaign for Good Web Design] Campaign update 28/01/03 These events are in/near the ALUG area and may be of interest to anyone around there. More details via http://www.rnib.org.uk/ and click on "See It Right" logo near the foot. From: julie.howell(a)rnib.org.uk Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:16:54 -0000 Subject: [RNIB Campaign for Good Web Design] Campaign update 28/01/03 [...] 5. Forthcoming campaign events: London/Essex/Wales Julie Howell will make presentations on the subject of web accessibility at the following locations in February 2003. The hosts in each case (all universities) have kindly agreed to permit entry to those not studying at each of the venues at no charge, but it is vital that places are booked with the relevant contact person in each case. 4 February 2003, 6pm, Birkbeck College, London If you wish to attend please contact Sarah Riley at sarah(a)dcs.bbk.ac.uk 10 February 2003, 1pm, University of Essex, Colchester If you wish to attend please contact Dilly Meyer at dilly(a)essex.ac.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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VH Speed hard disk for cache
by tom potts 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Anyone know of very high speed HD suitable for cache <4 ms access perhaps? 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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Invitation to FOSDEM 2003
by Damien Sandras 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi, The purpose of this e-mail is to invite you to attend to the 3rd edition of FOSDEM. This edition will take place on the 8th and 9th of February 2003 in Brussels (see http://www.fosdem.org for more info). The previous editions encountered a huge success. More than 1600 people attended to presentations given by well-known speakers such as Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, DJ Adams, Philip Hazel in 2002, and FOSDEM 2003 will try to be even more successful thanks to numerous presentations done by programmers of leading Open Source and Free Software projects. This year, will be present (in alphabetical order): Ann Harrison - Firebird : an Open Source database based on the InterBase(r) Brian King - Mozilla Bruce Momjian - PostgreSQL Core Developer Bruno Coudoin - Author of GCompris Clif Flynt - Tcl/Tk Damien Sandras - GnomeMeeting author David Axmark - MySQL developer David Faure - KDE Core Developer Guenter Bartsch - Author of xine Harald Welte - Member of the Netfilter Core Team Havoc Pennington - GNOME Foundation, Free Standards Hilaire Fernandes - Author of DrGenius Jakub Steiner - Author of many of the GTK 2.x stock icons, Gimp tutorial Jon 'Maddog' Hall - Executive Director of Linux International Julian Smart - Author of wxWindows Michael Meeks - GNOME Core developer Owen Taylor - Maintainer of GTK+ Raphael Hertzog - Author of Debian-Edu Richard M Stallman - Leader of the FSF Solar Designer - Author of Openwall GNU/*/Linux Thomas Vander Stichele - GStreamer Developer Yoann Vandoorselaere & Laurent Oudot - Prelude-IDS authors And many others, ... Several Free or Open Source Software projects have decided to hold a meeting during FOSDEM. It is a great occasion to meet core developers from GNOME, GNUstep, KDE, Mozilla, embedded software and PostgreSQL. Moreover, the Free Software Award will be handed out during the FOSDEM 2003 by Richard Stallman and other members from the Free Software Foundation. FOSDEM's goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities the opportunity to learn and discuss the latest developments in the Free and Open Source arena and to promote the development of Free and Open Source solutions. The speakers mainly talk about technologies and make technical speeches. The event is totally free, but we encourage you to support FOSDEM if you appreciate the event and want it to continue in the same spirit. More information about the FOSDEM support operation at: http://www.fosdem.org/index/support/ We hope to see you there. -- FOSDEM 2003 Damien Sandras Community Contact

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cross-over connection and nfs install
by Glen Tyler 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Although I have no networking experience I'm trying to connect two pc's using an RJ45 cable and two 10baseT cards (one Com3, one SMC). This is so that I can effect an NFS install on the one box which doesn't have a CDROM drive. I'm installing slackware 8.1, and although both NIC's appear to function OK, and I can ping the local box from either, I can get no communication between them. Neither box can ping the other and attempts to set up the nfs install always result in the 'rpc.portmap - unable to recieve' error on the client. I can mount the CDROM as /mnt/nfs on the server. Part of the problem may be that I am using a home-made crossover cable - from a standard A-B cable. I found some instructions for doing this in a HOW-TO where pins 1A is switched to 3B, 2A to 6B and the return similar. However the colour codes on my wire did not match the How-to description, and I'm not sure which is 1 and which is pin8. Colours on mine are brown,blue,yellow,green,red,black,orange,grey - and I've assumed brown is no. 1. Any pointers would be useful . thanks Glen

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