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Announce digest, Vol 1 #12 - 2 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** oMMMoMo Mo MMMMMMMoMo " "o"o"o"o oMMMoMoM oMMMMMM"MMM" " " " " " "o"o "oMMMoMMM " oMo"M"oo MM" " MoMoMMMMMMM oM " " "oMMM " " MoMMMMMoMoMoooo Mo MMM MoMoMMMMMoMMMMM o" MoM " MoMM "MMo"oMoMMMoM"" MM " MMMMo MMMMMoMMMMMM" oM " MoMMM MMMoMMMo"MM Mo" "MMoMo ooMMMMMMMoMo" oMo oMoMMM " "oMoMMMoMoMo MoM oMoMMM MMMMMMMMMoMMM "oM oMoMMM "M"M"MMoMMMo" " o "oo " MMMM" MMMMMoMoM o" " "oM " " " "o MMMoMMMo"o M " oM " " MMMMMMMoMo o" "oMoMoooMo" " o " " MMoMMMoMoMo " "o"o MM"""""""oM oM " "MMo oMMMMMoMMMoMo " """ """ " o"MMMMoMMMoMMMo"MMo"o" o o o oo MMMMMMoMMMoMMMoMoMo MMMMM MMMo oMMM MMMo MMoMMM oMoMMMoMMMoMMMoMMMo"o oMMMMM MMMo oMMM "MMo MMM "MM MMMMMMMoMMMMMMMoMMMM" " " MMo"MMo MMMo oMM" MMMo oMM" """ " MoMMMoMMMoMMMo" " " MMMoMMMo MMMo oMM" MMMo oMM"oMoMo " "MMoMMMoMMM " " MMMMMMMo MMMo oMM" MMMo oMM" "MM oMMMoMoMoMMMoMMMoMo" " oMM" "oMM" "MMMMM" "MMMMM" MMMoMM" ooMMMMMMMoMMMMMMMoMMMoMo "M" " " " " " """ """ "oM """oMM" " " "MMoMMMoMMMoMM" " " " " " " " alug-announce : The Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group Today's Topics: 1. Reduced hosted server prices for LUGs (MJ Ray) 2. ALUG 2002.2 (markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:30:52 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] Reduced hosted server prices for LUGs ------- Forwarded Message Reply-To: "Rob Davy, Hub Web Services" <rob.davy(a)hubwebservices.com> Subject: Offer Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:05:52 -0000 Dear LUG Owner, We would like to offer a few offers to all your LUG members. These are not any buy 10 get one free, or order now and get a free pin-badge, just permanent price reductions on web services. Quite a few Linux users have found the Hosted Servers quite a useful product. All the offers are at http://www.hubwebservices.com/lug If you would be so kind as to forward this to your mailing lists, it would be much appreciated, if you feel it appropriate of course. Thanks in advance Rob Davy rob.davy(a)hubwebservices.com 07751 528982 ================ Hub Web Services http://www.hubwebservices.com sales(a)hubwebservices.com 0870 751 2205 ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR --__--__-- Message: 2 From: markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:44:15 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] ALUG 2002.2 ------- Forwarded Message From: John Billings <john(a)paston.co.uk> Reply-To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:04:29 +0000 Hi all, The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. Directions to the uea are available from www.uea.ac.uk, and there are mapboards on the campus near the main car park that should get you to the common room easily enough. Post meeting drinks will happen in the Union bar, 5pm - 6pm, altho this is not a hard limit, and may well go on longer.. Rumour is that some beer in the Union is current £1 a pint... not that that should effect whether you turn up or not... ;-) Label your kit, if you're bringing it along, and post here to let us know what to look forward too... I will almost certainally be there, hangover from saturday permitting, and will be bringing my Pico Laptop, running debian unstable, and possibly my other Linux machine, if i've failed to get adsl going on it by then. It'll be my first meeting, and hey, this is my first meeting announcment... firsts all around.. Hope to see you there... J. PS.. please post this to other relevent places, if you can think of any. ------- End of Forwarded Message --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Re: [Alug] ADV: Job vacancy in North West London
by MJ Ray 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Martyn: > I wouldn't normally post something like this, but this might be of > interest to some of you. Generally, send this sort of thing to announce@... where people can get at most one daily burst of edited spam, instead of everyone spamming main@. Time to go update the FAQ... -- MJR

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ADV: Job vacancy in North West London
by Martyn Drake 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Hi folks, I wouldn't normally post something like this, but this might be of interest to some of you. There is a systems administrator's position at a North West London ISP (who also provide specialist and hard-to-find PC and Mac components as well as fully built PCs - see http://www.webcoin.co.uk, http://www.pc500.net and http://www.spot5.com for details). Roles will include the installation, maintenance and monitoring of Linux servers (based around a mixture of Red Hat 7.2, Slackware 8.0, and Debian) as well as Sun Solaris 8 on Ultra-SPARC IIe's, some FreeBSD boxes (mainly workstations, though) and a wireless private network powered by Debian proxy servers/gateways. Other duties include supporting the development team with whatever requests they have for installing applications on the servers (such as Postgres and MySQL installations, Apache configuration, Exim and Sendmail configuration, etc). You will also be supporting clients by email and telephone and resolving any problems they may have with their web site or email. There will also be the occasion to visit Redbus for maintenance of the server hardware, or to install new kit. If you're interested, please email me directly off the list for more information. Regards, Martyn -- ----------------| http://www.drake.org.uk |-------------- Linux 2.4.17 #1 Fri Feb 15 13:32:44 GMT 2002 i686 unknown ---------------| http://martyn.drake.me.uk |-------------

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Kernel crashes?
by Ricardo Campos 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Hmmm.... continuing problems since my last recompile (of 2.4.17). (i.e. these didn't used to happen...) 1) If I need to do anything that is intensive disk-wise (writing large files to disk), I am unable to do anything else, otherwise the system locks up. A symptom of this, for example, is that xmms loops about a second of the MP3 I'm playing. X does not respond to ctrl-alt-backspace, the system doesn't respond to ctrl+alt+del. 2) Although I have not changed my etc/fstab file, on booting, the system refuses to mount a vfat partition ("wrong fs type, bad superblock or wrong option"). If I mount it manually as root, I can access the partition (but only as root). I DID compile in vfat, DOS and UMSDOS support. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to view anything but the X server logs in /var/logs , as it says that the file is not viewable. How could I view these log files? Which one should I look at? Any parameters I can pass on at boot to enable more verbose logging? I'm VERY close to reinstalling / and chmod'ing my /home partition! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Long-range wireless LAN
by Dryden 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

>A friend of mine, much knowledgeable, tells me that >with directional antennae a line-of sight range of >10-15 miles should be attainable for wireless LAN. >But it's equally a question of finding hospitality >at the far end. Well this sounds like a very good idea i dont live anywhere nere ely but I agree that Norfolk would be a very nice place to try wirless networks. Well what options are there? ive been told about wirless but dont fully understand what hardware is needed. Maybe some1 could give a talk about it at the next meeting? I live 15 miles from kings lynn and 10 miles from swafam. No chance of geting any connection better then isdn atm :( so a wirless lan would be nice ;) I know this thred is abit old but i was away on work exp. so i missed it. Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Long-range wireless LAN
by Ricardo Campos 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

> Well what options are there? ive been told about >wirless but dont fully understand what hardware is >needed. Maybe some1 could give a talk about it at >the next meeting? Hi there, best that you register your interest- someone else might be thinking the same as you, and someone else, and so on... (There are now 3 nodes- all from this list, in the Norwich area...but...not...quite...close...enough!) http://www.consume.net/nodes Is the place to add your interest. For general info: http://www.consume.net/consume.html But also check http://www.freenetworks.org/ http://www.seattlewireless.net/ and also, one of my favourite links, http://www.redbricks.org.uk It's a bit off topic, but it's a nice example of community connection sharing. Consume has some mailing lists, I'm sub'd to one, but I'm a little lost in all the antennae and electronics and stuff. (Not my thing really). Hope this helps... I'm no expert myself. It appears to involve pringles cans and oscilloscopes. Kinda cyberpunk and cool though! ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: Re: [Alug] NVIDIA/ X
by Dryden 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

>Things are looking bleaker with the recent loss of >Loki, who were the only >truly original masters of Linux gaming, IMHO. They >churned out some >seriously good products. >Regards, > Martyn What about id software they make there games linux native and open source(GPL i think :-). but Ive found that quake 1 at least is a bit of an ass to install for x11 with no opengl support... oh well. Any one know of a nice single package for quake or doom? I dont mind a little compiling but i dont want to edit makefiles ;-) Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Boot problems
by Paul 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Hi Folks Installed RH7.2 on a clean 3.2Gig drive this morning and promptly went about compiling a new kernel for a 586 CPU - Plugged the drive in to a P166 box when I got home, and now the thing hangs at the "Freeing memory" stage. Attempting to boot the old kernel just results in an instant reset, so I can't use that option.... Short of wiping the disk and doing a fresh install, does anyone have some suggestions ? A boot floppy is out as there is no floppy on this machine and the RH CD doesn't appear to have a rescue system on it. Regards, Paul.

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JDK 1.2
by David Fairey 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Hi there, I've just installed some processing software under debian which requires a "JDK 1.2" to run. It seems to just need a java executable to run no graphics or anything. So, can anyone suggest a debian package for woody that would provide me with an equivalent to the JDK 1.2? I have seen the various jdk1.1 and kcaffe packages on the woody CDs and on www.debian.org, but I can't seen anything that would provide anything suitable. Hope someone can help. Cheers. David.

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #11 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

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