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[newsforge daily] January 06, 2003 : Microsoft Belgium's GPL attack refuted in detail
by Keith Watson 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

<http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/1023218> leonbrooks writes "Recently, images from a presentation by Microsoft Belgium were published on the web. The presentation made some startling (for Microsoft) concessions to Open Source, then set about FUDding the GPL into the ground. I whacked together a point-by-point answer to the anti-GPL FUD and here it is." <http://cyberknights.com.au/articles/areas-for-concern.phtml> Keith

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[XPOST] Newsforge: Linux myths that never die
by Keith Watson 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

"- by John Fitzgibbon - As a long-time Microsoft Windows user who recently switched almost exclusively to Linux, I'd like to share a few observations on the transition... " <http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1221251> Keith

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '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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RF and isdn
by tom potts 05 Jan '03

05 Jan '03

theres a 'dedicated' group www.consume.net and their mailing list will give you more sugestions than you can cope with. isdn - try typing 'isdn4linux' in the saerch box on http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/ but it almost seems to be old technology already! 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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wireless PCI cards
by simon 05 Jan '03

05 Jan '03

Hi I'm looking to add a wireless PCI card to my network. Can anyone suggest a good product to buy that will work with SUSE 8.0. Thanks Simon

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RH8 - ISDN
by James Kirkham 04 Jan '03

04 Jan '03

Hello, I am using an ISDN terminal from BT that they provided when I signed up gor their home highway service. It is connected to my pc via USB. I have discovered that this ISDN terminal is based on the ST-5481 chipset, wich when I was using Suse 8.1 was easy enough to configure as I just had to select the generic ST-5481 driver. I have only just started using RH8 and am unable to work out how to get my ISDN working. Obviously I would like to stick with RH8 but with no net connection its going to be hard. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks

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Re: [Alug] Rs-232 and terminal servers
by Ricardo Campos 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

First off: thanks for the replies! Wow! ALUG'ers do it again! :) Second: I'm investigating this problem for a uni project (for my MSc), so I guess the ALUG archives are going into my bibliography! ;) so, umm... these units are *fictional* lol, sorry! :) Third: I kinda thought on scrapping the RS-232 thing, since I'm fairly comfortable with ethernet and TCP/IP, but since these units have rs-232 (and they were duly mentioned by my tutors) I thought "maybe there's a reason ppl still linger with it". My first idea was to have two ipcop (www.ipcop.org) servers(firewalls) at either end of the connection to sort out a vpn over the POTS. Luckily we are dealing with temperature ranges of 5-30, so there's no real safety issue that can't wait the time it takes to dial up! Fourth: 'tis my job to write the programs to handle this, so that's all cool. Well... of to do some planning and decide whether SSH tunnels or a VPN would be better in this case. Thanks! Ricardo

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Rs-232 and terminal servers
by N3tw0rkAng31B0y 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

I'm investigating a solution. Basically I have a unit that must be remotely monitored. The unit itself has an rs-232 connection and ethernet too. However, for the tiny amount of data transfer needed (it sends temperatures), the rs-232 should suffice. I was thinking that I could attach this device to some sort of terminal server and then attach the server to the internet via a free dial-up, or perhaps a 64k leased line (it needs to be constantly monitored). Has anyone done such a thing? If so, any tips as to what to use as a terminal server? I realise this might be old hat to the rest of you, but I have no experience of this! TIA Ricardo

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test drive
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

This may be of interest to some of you: http://testdrive.hp.com/ Jenny. Just back from South Africa :-)

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New member
by celldee＠tiscali.co.uk 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Hi, I've just joined the mailing list. I've worked in the I.T. industry for a number of years as a programmer, designer etc. I'm currently using IBM's Websphere MQ with Java and am very interested in the concept of open source ( why give money to Bill Gates et al if you don't have to ? ) As Linux is the most popular open source OS, I thought it was about time that I learnt something about it. I look forward to participating in the group.

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