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Really off topic!
by John Woodard 18 May '02

18 May '02

I know this is really off topic but please pander to my whim. Does anybody know of a good free (preferably open source or gpl'd) secure email client for Windows 2k/xp? I'm sick to death of the various flavours of Outlook/OE etc. It would be nice to be able to download mail when I *have* to use Windows without always worring about the gaping holes in security. -- Cheers, BJ

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Linux Installaiton Day 9 June
by David Robinson 18 May '02

18 May '02

I'd like to come along to this. I've been trying to install Debian onto my laptop. I've partioned the disk ok and can dual-boot it and got Linux installed as far as the basics, but can't get X to install. So I need help. Do you need to know anything else from me in the meantime? David Robinson

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Re: [Alug] Really off topic!
by MJ Ray 18 May '02

18 May '02

John Woodard: > Is this a fist? :-) Paging Dr Freud. > I have to run some bespoke software (Open University) sometimes, Not Wine-able yet? > and my Mrs. is locked into the MS Office thingy due to work and its too > complicated and too much agro to get her or her employer to change, > although I'm trying to wean her off it and onto OpenOffice.org 1.0. Heh, good man. -- MJR

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Disassembler
by Ian Thompson-Bell 17 May '02

17 May '02

Does anyone know of a good X86 disassembler that recognises DOS .exe file formats? I need to look at a DOS TSR to try to get sound working on my Linux box. TIA Ian

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RE: [Alug] Re: What the postman brought
by alasdair.i.macleod＠bt.com 17 May '02

17 May '02

Maybe you SuSE vets could cast some light here ... I can't get SuSE to install using ReiserFS partitions. Everytime, at some point during the package copying process the install hangs - I've seen other people report the problem but haven't seen any fixes/explanations. Anyone know anything? -----Original Message----- From: Craig [mailto:craigo@wizball.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:36 AM To: ALUG Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: What the postman brought On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:03:58AM +0100, Laurie Brown said: > I've been using SuSE since 5.3, but all my servers are going Gentoo now. > I'm glad they pushed me into it really, because the bloat in SuSE (and RH, > Mandrake et al) is getting ludicrous. Gentoo takes some getting used to, > but I like it so far. Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious... -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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What the postman brought
by Andrew Savory 17 May '02

17 May '02

Hi, Just received 2 oreilly posters and "oreilly direct" catalogues for ALUG. I'll bring them along to the next ALUG (or pass them on so they get there). Andrew. -- All views are my own .... who else would want them?

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RE: [Alug] RE: SuSe on ReiserFS
by alasdair.i.macleod＠bt.com 17 May '02

17 May '02

Thanks for this. I wasn't sure what state ext3 was in but it does sound like an easy way forward. My logic in asking the question on this thread:

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Help with search & replace
by Paul 17 May '02

17 May '02

Hi Folks I am in need of some help - I have a large number of small text files that need to be scanned and one specific phrase replaced at each occurrence excluding the first line (which may or may not contain the offending words). I suspect that something like perl may be the most suitable tool for the task in hand. But I know nothing about it.... Just to add to the problem, the files are scattered across multiple directories and the key phrase may span two lines. Regards, Paul.

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Re: [Alug] TFT monitor doesn't
by Alexis Lee 17 May '02

17 May '02

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:25, Chris Walker wrote: > My Iiyama CRT dies a week or two back and I replaced it with a TFT Iiyama but > now my dual-boot PC doesn't seem to know that there is a new monitor > attached. The result is that despite trying to enter the interactive hardware > setup when the machine boots - Mandrake 7 - it keeps going and continues into > the desktop with the result that the monitor can't cope with what's being > thrown at it and reverts to my other machine - not a Windows/Linux box. > > Any ideas how I can fix this? I have all the Mandrake CD btw but very little > understanding of Linux so far. I'm going to assume that you're running X 4.0.? since this is presumably fairly new kit. I understand that TFT monitors have a fixed resolution - say 1024x768 - and can't scale to anything else. What's probably happening is that X is trying to start with a different res so your monitor ignores it. The solution is to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (same file without -4 is for X < 4.0.0) and make the 'Display' things in the 'Screen' section look like this: SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection You should probably leave in the other depths, but depth 24 is the one you're most likely using. At the moment, you probably have some other res' on the 'Modes' lines - remove all but the one your monitor supports. Bingo! The blind leads the way. Alexis

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"Compiled HTML file" (.chm) ???
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 17 May '02

17 May '02

A certain Windows application has a "Help" resource which, when opened in Windows, shows up as an indexed series of help pages. Its "properties" describe is a "Compiled HTML file", and it has extension ".CHM" When examined, it contains a series of blocks of text interspersed with binary codes. QUESTION: Does anyone know of any Linux resource which can read this? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 16-May-02 Time: 12:38:13 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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