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About Me
by DanI 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Hi my name is Daniel Simpleman and I'm a Linux Newbie. I've recently became interested in Linux after speaking to Dennis Dryden who is also a member of this mailing list. I love to try out new stuff and linux is really nice for me and Im learning new things everyday.... ...Daniel Simpleman (Dani) __________________________________________________ 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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Meetings! next one Elmswell Sunday 21st April
by Adam Bower 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Hi all, I just realised that we have a meeting next weekend at Elmswell, can somebody either email me the venue info as i can't find it or edit the Wiki so that the info is there? Also does somebody want to spam^Hinform other linux groups in the area and do the newsgroup thang? Also is the UEA meeting confirmed yet for June? If so should we start trying to publicise it this week, I guess most print magazines will be past the submissions date for this (linux format etc.) but we can concentrate on the papers and local Radio etc. etc.... Thanks 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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Looking for a low-end Linux server
by Chris Allen 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I'm looking for a low-end linux box - preferably rack-mount to act as a secondary disk mirror for a large web site. Spec should be: - 512MB RAM - 750MHZ - 1GHz - processor not too important - at least 400-500GB hard disk space Does anybody have any idea where I can buy such a beast? I'm happy to do the linux install myself, as long as the box is linux-capable. Many thanks...

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Re: [Alug] Looking for a low-end Linux server
by Chris Allen 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Ashley wrote: > > - 512MB RAM > > - 750MHZ - 1GHz - processor not too important > > - at least 400-500GB hard disk space > > Wow, if that spec is low end (especially HD space), I am curious as to what > you define as high end. > I would consider a multiprocessor Sun Enterprise Server with disk space in the TB and several GB of RAM to be high end - at least for a single web server. Even this would struggle with the traffic that most large sites get today - particularly if the site application designers don't understand how web servers work, which seems to be too often the case.

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Re: [Alug] Looking for a low-end Linux server
by Ricardo Campos 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

> - 512MB RAM > - 750MHZ - 1GHz - processor not too important > - at least 400-500GB hard disk space You can buy Dell servers with Dead Rat pre-installed, so I guess they're linux compatable! Their maximum storage (internal) is only 365GB of U160 SCSI (10k rpm). But the cost- for that kinda spec you're talking 4K minimum. http://www.euro.dell.com/countries/uk/enu/pad/products/series_appli_servers… I'd be interested in where you *could* get such a beast too! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] M$ to release db based filesystem
by Paul 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

On Saturday 13 April 2002 10:30, Ashley wrote: > Customer: Wow, free, what's the catch? The cost of ownership is now with you. > Customer: Where can I get new applications? You write your own, subcontract to a third party, or download from the internet. > Customer: How do I get support?

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To do list for ALUG's Linux Install Days 2002
by Ashley 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

I have added a new section to the Wiki on ALUG's website to help coordinate effort in planning for ALUG's participation in Linux Install Day 2002. The to do list can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LinuxInstallDay2002 Please assist ALUG by reviewing the list and helping in any way you can. This is for a good cause and should help both Linux and ALUG to grow. -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "when all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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A KDE2 mystery
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

After upgrading Debian Potato/KDE1 to Debian Testing/KDE2 an icon on the KDE desktop which should run Word Perfect now doesn't. I have seen in the .xsession-errors file a line which says: cannot find path to /usr/local/WordPerfect/wpbin/xwp This used to work under KDE1 but the mystery is that if I copy the command line from the icon properties and paste it into a shell window Word Perfect runs without problems. If I enable the icon property 'Run in terminal' then it will run. Can anyone explain this please? Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] Introduction
by Matt Parker 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

On Friday 12 April 2002 07:17, you wrote: > Keith Watson wrote: > > Just a quick hello from someone who's just joined. > > Welcome to ALUG, Keith... > > [SNIP] > > > Reason for joining: After many years of saying "This year I'm going to > > install an Intel version of Unix on my PC" I finally got round to putting > > Mandrake 7.0 on early last year. I immediately started to try and > > customise it to suit my hardware and ran into all sorts of problems. I'm > > now in the midst of trying to install my own flavour of Linux from the > > Linux From Scratch project <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org> and having > > moderate success. I hope to learn enough from this to have a bit more > > success tailoring Linux for my own use. It would be nice to link up with > > other Linux afficianados in the area and swap war stories, experiences > > etc. and perhaps be able to help others out where possible. > > Although I understand that Mandrake is the easiect to install, I > doubt it will suit someone with real knowledge, with results you've > seen. I've found that, as my knowledge has increased, I have become > more and more frustrated with packaged Linux systems. My personal > favourite, and which remains so for the desktop, is SuSE. I'm quite > happy to allow them to cosset me in the land of sound, X, and such > stuff. However, servers are another matter entirely. [SNIP] I run Mandrake on my machine. I let it set up all my X server, gadgets, games etc. and installed all the server stuff from source. Since I sometimes play about with stuff at home for work I find that Mandrake's default installation locations are pants, not to mention the fact that it installs Apache with *everything* turned on. In fact I hardly ever install from packages. I don't find that Mandrake complains at all. If I need to install something from the CDs then I use the source RPM and build it from there. That way I don't have to worry about missing dependencies etc. All in all, a great distro - and this comes from a "hardcore" Unix user who plays with Solaris at work. Matt

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Re: [Alug] Looking for a low-end Linux server
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

Chris Allen wrote: >Does anybody have any idea where I can buy such a beast? Try cambridge computer supplies; I got an excellent box there without an OS installed, all the hardware was supported (SIS stuff mostly). http://www.cambridge-computers.com/ http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm Jen

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