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Re: [Alug] FSF Award
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

John Seago wrote: >Please send your nominations to <award-nominations(a)gnu.org>, on or before >15 October 2002. Please submit nominations in the following format: > > * Put the name of the person you are nominating in the email > message subject line. > > * Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation > (40 lines or less) of the work the person has done and why you > think it is especially important to software freedom. > > * Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the > software which your nomination is based on. Good plan, John. Do you want to submit the nomination? There's also the ALUG support onlist and at meetings Mark has given over the years that have furthered the cause and use of free software. Jenny.

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IRC meeting tonight (monday 9th) moved... stuff broken/changed....
by Adam Bower 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Hi all, ummm, uranium which is where irc.alug.org.uk points is down or not part of oftc anymore (or something) anyhow if you want to get on tonight try /server europa.oftc.net which is what i am using now Thanks Adam -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

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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RE: [Alug] CUPS and epson stylus
by Ricardo Campos 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

> Are the jobs appearing in the CUPS printer queue? Yes, and it says they have been completed. > Actually I did a re-install of the latest ghostscript, then gimp-print and > then CUPS. well, these things are easy with apt-get, so I shall try this. > I think it was something to do with the xxx to ps filtering setup. We'll see..... ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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GNU/Linux User Groups
by John Seago 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

I blundered across this: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html#GHlist last night. It made me think a little. Perhaps such `purity' would be dificult to achieve for ALUG, but a smaller subset of ALUG, or Joint Group might be possible. Athough the population density of our area, and the attendance at meetings, might make any such project impractical -- John Seago

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CUPS and epson stylus
by Ricardo Campos 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

I have had my Epson Stylus 680 (usb) set up on this computer before (redhat and mandrake). Having set up a device node as per the USB-printer howto, and set the printer up in CUPS as per the CUPS howto, I send printjobs... but nothing comes out. I'm using the same .upp driver, usb-printer support is compiled into the kernel (2.4.18)... I can't think of what to check. *highly frustrated at USB* Any thoughts? TIA Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Yellow Dog
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

Adam Bower wrote: > I don't know which is worse though, owning a Mac or >running Redhat.. ;) Well, Macs are useful for if it rains ;-) Next Q: Has anyone tried x2vnc yet? It allows linux to take over your windows keyboard and monitor. It sounds like hours of fun are to be had by all here. And the question after that will be: has anyone compiled a kernel to include FreeS/WAN support ? Jen

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kde3 to rh7.2
by Glen Tyler 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

I want to upgrade kde2.2 which came with my rh7.2 installation to kde3.0 using a cd of rpms from linuxformat. The README states that this works with 7.2, but following the commandline in the README results in a massive list of failed dependencies. I think that this might be because the original rpms were not installed with the default RedHat installation. At least there are not any in the RPMS folder, and rpm -q returns that none are installed. As I need to remove the kde2.2 rpms to install kde3.0 I'm a bit stuck, hopefully I've just missed something (as usual :-)). Can anyone tell me what that something is? thanks, looking forward to 'faster, slicker, better than ever' Glen

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Re: [Alug] CUPS and epson stylus
by Ricardo Campos 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

> I had a similar problem getting my adsl working, there is no indication of > which driver will work except by trying them both, and both of them may appear > to work..... My cardreader works... the cd-writer *was* working...(but it decided to break itself somehow, altho it does work in winblows). hmmm hmmph *scratches chin* -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Webcams
by Ricardo Campos 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

Loaded the cpia module, made the video devices... says no such device /dev/video0 (altho it IS there). Anyone else got a Creative Webcam (USB) to work? :( I wanted to use gnomemeeting to talk to my sis in Canada... looks like I'll have to boot into Winblows to use it.. *boohoo* Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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