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From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:57:54 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [Alug] meeting this Sunday @ the Fat Cat pub Norwich 2pm onwards
Meeting this weekend at the Fat Cat pub in Norwich from 2pm onwards. See
here for more on the Fat Cat http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/norfaca.htm
Not sure who will be there, but there will be some there and MJR will bring
a penguin. Someone add this to the wiki, please?
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1. Wanted: Your Linux software and hardware reviews for cash! (Keith Watson)
2. Fwd: Nominations Request for The 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software (MJ Ray)
3. Fwd: [ian(a)fipr.org: FIPR-Bulletin: Conference announcement: A Fair Deal on Copyright?] (MJ Ray)
4. Unix Backups Made Easy (Keith Watson)
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From: "Keith Watson" <keith.watson(a)kewill.com>
To: "ALUG Announce \(E-mail\)" <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:21:14 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Wanted: Your Linux software and hardware reviews for cash!
xpost from newsforge;
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/01/1636239
- By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - Linux.com is eager to publish
reader-written reviews of Linux software, new or updated Linux
distributions, and hardware you have used with Linux. We will pay a
small honorarium for each original review, so when you write a review
for Linux.com you will not only be helping fellow Linux users but
putting a little money in your pocket.
Keith
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Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:31:26 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: Nominations Request for The 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn(a)fsf.org>
Subject: Nominations Request for The 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:13:56 -0400
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The FSF and the GNU project request nominations for the 2002 FSF Award for
the Advancement of Free Software. We want to give this award to a person
who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free
Software (free as in freedom; see
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activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom.
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activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the
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Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already
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Please send your nominations to <award-nominations(a)gnu.org>, on or before
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From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 19:18:34 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [ian(a)fipr.org: FIPR-Bulletin: Conference announcement: A Fair Deal on Copyright?]
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:41:42 +0100
From: Ian Brown <ian(a)fipr.org>
Subject: FIPR-Bulletin: Conference announcement: A Fair Deal on Copyright?
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A Fair Deal on Copyright?
http://www.fipr.org/events.html
WHAT: A mini-conference organised by
The Foundation for Information Policy Research
WHEN: 5.30pm-7pm, Wednesday 25 September 2002
WHERE: The Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House,
LSE, The Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE.
Hosted by the Department of Information Systems,
London School of Economics
Admission: free.
Space is limited, so please RSVP to fairdeal02(a)fipr.org if you
would like to attend.
PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS FLYER UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
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The Internet has presented a dramatic challenge to the existing copyright
regime. Rights holders such as the music and film industry claim that their
businesses are losing many millions of dollars each year to file-swapping
networks such as Napster and its successors. One of their main responses has
been to lobby for changes in copyright legislation to restrict the ability
of consumers to extract and exchange content on-line.
The UK government is now holding a consultation on legislation to update UK
law in this area, based on the European Union's recent Copyright Directive.
This would criminalise certain copyright infringements and circumvention of
technology that controls access to media such as DVDs.
Would the draft legislation properly balance the incentives given to content
creators through copyright, with the benefits to society of the free
exchange of information? What effect will criminalising "circumvention
technologies" have on computer and Internet security? Will authors,
musicians and film-makers needing to sample previous works become criminals?
At this conference you can debate the issues with speakers from the Patent
Office and open source and library communities, and hear how well similar US
legislation has worked in practice.
Speakers:
The Patent Office: Intro and Q&A on the copyright consultation
Julian Midgley, FIPR: Problems with the draft legislation
Toby Bainton, Society of College, National and University Libraries: The
effect on the UK's libraries
Barbara Simons, Association for Computing Machinery: Where the United States
went wrong on copyright
Background:
The Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) - UK Implementation, The Patent Office:
http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm
Critique of the Proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive,
Julian Midgley:
http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/eucd/ukimpl/critique_uk_impl.html
ACM briefings on the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act:
http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/#copyright
Media contacts:
Ian Brown, Director, FIPR: ian(a)fipr.org / 07970 164 526
Ross Anderson, Chair, FIPR: rja(a)fipr.org / 01223 33 47 33
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From: "Keith Watson" <keith.watson(a)kewill.com>
To: "ALUG Announce \(E-mail\)" <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:50:15 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Unix Backups Made Easy
Remember I posted an item on the Main list on backup strategies a while
back?
Here's an interesting article from slashdot on the same topic;
Linux Backups Made Easy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1630234
mfago writes "A colleague of mine has written a great [0] tutorial on
how to use rsync to create automatic [1]"snapshot-style" backups.
Nothing is required except for a simple script, although it is thus not
necessarily suitable for data-center applications. Please try to be
gentle on his server: it is the $80 computer that he mentions in the
tutorial. Perhaps try the [2]Google cache." An excellent article
answering a frequently asked question.
Links
0. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
1. http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapmirror.html
2.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ysk5qyhZDzcC:www.mikerubel.org/computer
s/rsync_snapshots/+%22mike+rubel%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Regards,
Keith Watson
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At home here I have a notebook and desktop PC and I can connect between them via a hub and everything works but when I try a crossover cable instead I get one way transmission, from the desktop to the notebook.
Thinking it could be a cable fault I connected the cable the other way found (so the pairs in use were the opposite way round) but still the notebook could see packets coming from the desktop and not the other way round.
Does anyone have any tips?
The desktop is running kernel 2.4.29 and the following is from 'dmesg' for when the crossover cable is in use:
natsemi.c:v1.07 1/9/2001 Written by Donald Becker <becker(a)scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
(unofficial 2.4.x kernel port, version 1.07+LK1.0.14, Nov 27, 2001 Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder)
AMD756: dev 100b:0020, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xf0929000, 00:a0:cc:7b:33:e6, IRQ 11.
eth0: link up.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
eth0: Autonegotiation advertising 0x5e1 partner 0x00.
Reverting back to the hub, I get, again from the desktop:
eth0: link up.
eth0: Link wake-up event 0x40020b
eth0: Autonegotiation advertising 0x5e1 partner 0x21.
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
Since there is a steady increase in networking problems ;) But a bit off here
and it is windows trouble ;)
At the moment, I have 3 boxes (and a fourth one coming soon) hooked up onto
a hub.
Router = Linux
Workstation = Linux
Workstation2 = Windows 98
Now I have set Windows 98 networking to the correct IP, gateway address and
DNS. But it doesn't see Workstation + the Router! No ping replies, heck the
internet isn't there!
I cannot ping it from my workstation/router to workstation2 at all. First
thought is the cable connection.. Nothing there. Checked IP etc.. seems fine.
Don't suggest 'Linux' on Workstation2 since various people in this household
wants to use it ;)
Just a thought if anyone actually know a fix to this stupid problem... Or I
could start teaching Linux to those people ;)
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I cant sorry im moving to cambrige over the weekend... yes finaly a place i can spell the name of, Weasenham(or somthing like that ;-) isnt fun for me. Cambrige is much simpler.
more to the point whats CamLug like? There site isnt as good as ours and theres no wiki! ;)
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Hi all,
Is there any interest in having a meeting this weekend at the Fat Cat
pub in Norwich from 2pm onwards? see here for more on the Fat Cat
http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/norfaca.htm
If there is some interest then I will get this sent to to the announce
list etc. although I may not be able to make it there myself now due to
various circumstances.
Thanks
Adam
"Linux Expo UK 2002 Registration
Sorry, we regret that we cannot accommodate Students or Under 18's"
Why is this? and what do they mean?
Is there no chance of free tickets? dose it mean i only get a free ticket if i work somewhere? ggggrrrrrr
There are 10 types of people in this world...
Those that know binary and those that dont ;)
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