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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '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.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" 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] Bit of fun: Your first Linux distro
by willem koopman 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

I'm only a young whippersnapper(17), and learnt how to use a computer with a 386 dx 44(Which is still around somewhere with Doom2 yeah!).and Win 3.1 when I was 11. As my dad has been in the computer world for 25+ years he had been using Linux since 0.9X (with a smug smile as well) He always used to tell me that MS was really a load of poopoo. I upgraded computer and os to MS win 95. Then I dicovered the joys of Linux. The one thing that attracted me to linux was The Gimp. My first linux distro was Redhat 6.2 Ahhh the memories; trying desperatly to compile some game or other and wondering what the hell this make and make install buisness was about. one other thing that stick out in my mind is my dad showing me this thing called the world wide web, This must have been when I was about nine/ten. Ahh the halowed sounds of a 14.4k modem :) PS Who is the youngest person on this list?

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Re: [Alug] Contributions
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

Ricardo: > I thought I'd add some reviews of that kind, cos newbies tend to want to know > that they can do in Linux the same things they used to do on the Mac/Windows > - at least it was a major consideration for me when switching over. [...] Of course, the more long-time GNU/Linux users among us have trouble remembering what seemed particularly important to be able to do on the Mac/Windows systems we may have used before. How about opening this out into a challenge: Q - Got a task you don't know how to do under GNU/Linux? A - Ask ALUG! Oh wait, that'll be this mailing list then ;-) -- MJR

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Contributions
by Ricardo Campos 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

I've just added reviews for Downloader for X and Audiogalaxy Satellite in the Software Directory for the ALUG website (!!HINT!!) I thought I'd add some reviews of that kind, cos newbies tend to want to know that they can do in Linux the same things they used to do on the Mac/Windows- at least it was a major consideration for me when switching over. I also browsed the site before I joined ALUG/installed Linux after following a link from Linux Format... It's be nice to see other reviews on the site, I'm sure veterans and newbies alike could contribute something (hell, I'm a newbie)... (hinthint). It's dead easy, ya know! ;-) Ricardo ------------------------------------------- "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] OT Small html question
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

BJ asked: > How can I get the alt property within an <img src=...> to be pre formatted > or at least can I get line breaks in it? If the browser doesn't wrap the alt contents, then it's a bug in the browser interface, IMO. You can either try using literal breaks or just hope the browser wraps intelligently, but I know of browsers which do neither. Sorry I can't answer the SGML one off the top of my head, but surely the web contains the answer for the particular DTD you're using? I can't think of any way of inlining images, at least. Here's a related question to both of them: when sending an xhtml attachment to an email, and attaching referenced images, how do you refer to them from the xhtml part? Just curious. It's not something I make a habit of trying to do, but it would be nice to know how to do it from GNU/Linux. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] input /output error on smbmounted directory
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Steve Fosdick wrote: >So what has happenned here is that Linux thinks the remote windows >filesystem is still mounted and therefore it doesn't flush the names on >that filesystem from internal caches, hence why some names on that >filesystem look to be still there - when you try to open one of the files >or get more information on it though Linux tries to re-connect to the >windows machine and finds it doesn't respond. >So, to stop the errors you either need to tell Linux you don't need access >to that filesystem any more by umounting it, or startup the windows box >again so Linux can see it. Thanks, Steve....that makes sense. However I can't unmount as it thinks the share is busy, and I did restart the windows - is there any way i can manually flush the names on the internal cache? Thanks, Jenny.

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input /output error on smbmounted directory
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

[Thinks, what am I doing in at work on a lovely saturday....] Can anyone help me on this?......I mounted a shared directory on my windows machine onto a directory called /jenshare on my linuxbox using smbmount. Then i went home, switched off the windows machine and forgot all about it. Now I have an error coming up right left and centre "File 'jenshare' exists but can not be stat-ed: Input/output error" Doing a ls-l / doesn't show the directory jenshare (I/O error again), however ls -a / does show it. I'm a bit stuffed here....can anyone offer assistance? Thanks. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Bit of fun: Your first Linux distro
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

My first installation was RdHat6.2 on a laptop, I then built a computer from old cast-off bits from work and put RedHat6.2 on that. That was in autumn 2000. Late 2001 saw me installing debian on another old unwanted box at work, I then installed it on the box at home, and then the laptop. As I type I am installing a more recent version of debian onto a brand new box fresh in from the shop. When I installed on the box I built myself with old cronky hardware, it took me months to get anything going. This install here it is all "just working". Still, it is good to learn the hard way. I'm also running experiments on a hacked-about kernel running on an ipaq http://www.toby-churchill.org Jen.

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Kernel compile/W00t! was RE:NVIDIA/X
by Ricardo Campos 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou! Just compiled my first kernel from source (2.4.17), and- wow! That was scarily easy! THEN I compiled the NVIDIA kernel& GLX from source. Weeeeeeeeeeee! Hurrah for openGL! Any other newbies out there- follow the instructions in the HOWTO's and voila (helps if you use LILO as most docs are on that)! Anyways, only two probs: 1 module won't load, I'll see to that when it becomes a problem. The second one, though, is that it won't automatically mount hda8 (I can do it from BASH), because it says I have too many filesystems. Checking /etc/fstab I appear to have 2 swap files (oops, I mean *partitions*) mounted??????? Eh??? I didn't put that there! Any idea how it might have got there? I'm removing it, so only the correct one is present. Just bugs me how it got there. Ricardo _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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SFPack & Soundfonts in Linux
by Edenyard 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

Here's a tricky one! I've managed to get ALSA and Timidity working quite nicely on my Linux box, despite its being only an ex-skip P166. Now I want to load a particular set of sound fonts. I've already got the usual GUS and Midia sets and now I've downloaded two sets that I particularly want. They're both packed in some format called SFPack, which seems to be a windoze type of format. I've searched around on Google but I haven't located anything that seems to come remotely close to SFPack that runs on Linux. Since I don't have windoze, I'm stuck. This is highly frustrating. Please does anyone have any ideas? Gerald.

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