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Fw: Eurolinux UK patent consultation alert
by Ricardo Campos 07 Jun '02

07 Jun '02

Apologies if this has already been forwarded to announce, but people may be interested to check this out. ----- Original Message ----- From: FFII/Eurolinux: Holger Blasum <blasum(a)ffii.org> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 00:43:46 GMT To: corez23(a)linuxmail.org Subject: Eurolinux UK patent consultation alert Hello Ricardo Campos Recently you signed the European petition against software patents (http://petition.eurolinux.org/). Thanks for your support! We would like to remind you that the UK Patent Office is asking for public comments on the European Commissions proposal for a directive on the "patentability of computer-implementable inventions". You can find some more background information at http://www.linux.org.uk/ http://swpat.ffii.org/players/uk/ The specific questions that the UKPO asks are at http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/notices/misc/softpat.htm However, in addition to these questions you may also wish to comment on whether you agree to the UKPO's interpretation of the first consultation round, whether you think the admission of patents on "software with a technical effect" will be useful etc. Another hint: Only the last 3 pages of the 22-page Commission document at http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/com02-92en.pdf are the actual proposal, for a more detailed critique see http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ You may want to state whether you allow, encourage or forbid the UKPO from publishing your statement on their website. You can send an additional copy to petition(a)eurolinux.org so as to have your statement published on the petition page. Moreover you can send your drafts to petition(a)eurolinux.org to ask for our comments. The official deadline is today (07 June 2002, though if you send sth on the weekend it will also arrive by the next working day on Monday), nonetheless maybe keep it short and simple (e.g. citing examples where your company is affected). I apologize this comes very short-termed; if you want to support Eurolinux to do these things (maybe from an UK viewpoint) more long-term in future you are welcome to write to petition(a)eurolinux.org or to me. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or to join the European software patents mailing list (http://www.aful.org/mailman/listinfo/patents/) Also pls do not hesitate to send any critique or comments to petition(a)eurolinux.org (there will be a confirmation message which hopefully won't deter you). If you like surveys ;-), please tick [ ] I have already written to the UKPO [ ] I will write to the UKPO [ ] I will not write to the UKPO this time [ ] I don't like being "alerted", don't spam me again Kind regards, Holger Blasum, FFII (a Eurolinux member organisation) (Alan Cox and Hartmut Pilch also had endorsed a draft version of this letter.) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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My Short Description
by Paul Coulsey 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Hi ALUG, Thank you for welcoming me. My short description on why I have chosen LINUX is:- Microsoft's Monopoly Linux being virtually 100% crash proof Designed to be a server at no outrageous cost If you don't like the way a program runs you can add your "two pennith" to it It has followers like your good selves who help Linux virgins like me and helps Linux to overtake Microsoft I am sure there are many other good reasons on why Linux is the way forward and I look forward in finding them. Kind Regards Paul Coulsey.

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alt key not working/euro?
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

OK, hopefully one last thing in my X saga. (now where are those tt fonts I had from my M$ days?...). My alt key isn't working. I'm sure there's a real simple way to add it in XF86Config-4 - anyone know? And has anyone figured out how to do a euro sign? I can't seem to find any fonts that support it. Thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] My Short Description
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

> It has followers like your good selves who help Linux virgins like me and > helps Linux to overtake Microsoft I thought our "hidden agenda" was to take over Solaris! Well, linux users aren't necessarily anti-microsoft, although Microsoft is definitely anti-linux. > I am sure there are many other good reasons on why Linux is the way forward Oh yeah there are...... (thinks for a minute) Yes, definitely. There are. Welcome to ALUG! Ricardo (Who is in a funny mood) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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ALSA/OSS/ESD/Arts
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

OK. So I'm building my debian system, how to say... *minimally* :). I have X up and running, but I need to get sound working. I have a Soundblaster Live Platinum card, (EMU10K). I'll be compiling in support for that with my my new kernel. However, I'm a little confuzed as to which set of sound drivers to use. I have a MIDI keyboard, and would like to take advantage of this. I also use XMMS, Ogle, and all the normal desktop stuff. Anyone have any ideas could elucidate for me? (Mr.Casal?) It seems from their webpages that there are several projects doing much-the-same-thing. TIA Ricardo PS. Debian rocks big time. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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X server: connection refused
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

If I su to root in a terminal, and try to edit a file using emacs, I get the following error: Xlib: connection to "X0.0" refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server emacs: cannot connect to Xserver :0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use '-d' It's OK is I log in as root, or as a user, it only has the problem when I su. (This error occurs with any program that uses X). Obviously this is a real pain as I am having to log in as root... which is less than desirable! Any ideas? Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

1st off: Adam:- for some bizarre reason, my box booted into 2.4.18 this morning, even though 3 reboots still took it to 2.2.19 last night. I simply have no idea why. One question: why do people seem to dislike initrd.img's? I'm gonna have to compile a kernel anyway cos I got all sorts of unresolved symbols, and some of the modules I'd prefer to have compiled in anyway. For some reason, lilo won't let me boot to my second disk. I have a second HD, with a copy of lilo on it (from previous installation). I would like the lilo on hda1 to boot onto hdb1, but for some reason it won't let me do this this morning (it just ignores me-no errors!) my lilo.conf line for it is: other=/dev/hdb1 label=Redhat alias=2 -General Weirdness Section- Last night, running on my old kernel, I copied the kernel source from a CD to my HD. While it did this my Xserver hung up until it had finished. The same happened when I un-bzipped it. grrr. Adam suggested it might be a h/w problem, so I booted into RH (which can't do *now*, grrr), and quite happily copied 4gigs from one directory to another, whilst mucking about with xmms, no lock up. Copied the kernel source from CD to ~/ and that was fine, unpacked it, fine. Anyone else experience this? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Partition dilemma!
by Ricardo Campos 04 Jun '02

04 Jun '02

> > cp -a > > .... > > looks deceptively easy! :-/ > > well, it appears it *is* that easy. I ended up changing the locations of /home and /usr and the swap, and now I have loadsa space.I will have to have 12 gigs of data in /usr before I run out of space again! Thanks to all who helped! -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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software for install day
by Adam Bower 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Hi people, Something just struck me, do you guys have all the software you want for install day? I don't know if i am going to make it and I am sure you will have lots of lovely bandwidth at UEA etc. but are there any special requests? If so i can get downloading now and stick things on CD and post them to someone who will be there... Adam -- Adam Bower "a funny thing about regret is, that it's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done"

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X server oddity - NVidia drivers installed
by Alexis Lee 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Hi, Ever since I installed the NVidia binary drivers, the X server has flickered for about 10 seconds when it starts up. It looks like it's having to try more than once. (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device 0. These are the only warnings I get. I tried to catch /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but although I'd estimate the server only restarts every second or so, the amount of time the XF*log is complete is a tiny fraction of a second, so that isn't too useful. Any ideas? Alexis -- "You got what everyone gets. A lifetime." - Death (Sandman by Neil Gaiman) Why isn't there an information line to ask when your lucky day is scheduled? "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education" - Wilson Mizner

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