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UPS - confused
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 20 Nov '01

20 Nov '01

Hi All, Can anyone explain to me what the difference is between using apcd and powerd? I'm trying to set up a smart UPS 700 . Seems that you have to run them in dumb mode, so I guess I can only get the box to shut down rather than reboot? Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Distributions
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Owen: > can't get it to work properly) I hate debian's way of building kernels, why > not the same as everyone else? I think you'll find other distributions do different things if you want to build it as a package. Some are more painful. Debian's is OK once you've done it a few times and you keep your revisions and flavours apart. > and is fakeroot a security hole ?? Hard to see how it could be, as it's designed to fool the system into thinking it's root when it's not, rather than the other way round. No elevated privleges required. -- MJR

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Dave Crease - Biographical notes!
by David Crease 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I have no serious or professional use for Linux, I just like the idea of a free operating system and software that is in the hands of the users. As this may indicate I am an old hippy who graduated in Chemistry in the 1960s, taught at various levels for many years and at the age of 59 have ended up as the Brewing Manager at Woodforde's Brewery. I've been using computers since the 1960's starting with a Stantec Zebra but my knowledge of them is very fragmented. I have Redhat7 on a AMD Athlon, tucked away in a partition so that my wife can use the Windows stuff. I have no special interests in using Linux. I am just intrigued by the whole thing. When and where is the next meeting, please? Dave Crease

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RE: Distributions
by Peter Delf 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Okay, Here goes. I use Debian 2.2r4 (from linux123.co.uk, don't think i'll use them again, my 2.2r2 cheeplinux.com CDs are much prettier) on both my desktop and laptop computers. I've upgraded both to a 2.4.X kernel to provide better support for things like CD writers and USB. The desktop is a custom built AMD K6 2-400 w/128mb RAM and the rest. The laptop is a Toshiba Satelite 4070CDT. Very proud of getting all the hardware in my laptop working, including the Lucent winmodem and USB ports! Pete Pete www.crawl-space.org.uk p.delf(a)uea.ac.uk

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IRC #alug uk.openprojects.net:8001 8pm onwards
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I don't see the meeting announcement today, but I'll be a little late returning to IRC. It'd be great to see some people now when I finally remember to be there ;-) If you've not been there before, try http://lists.alug.org.uk/pipermail/main/2001-November/000685.html -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Distributions
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

> There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of > different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be > kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see > who uses what? Debian wherever I go. Recently (last few months), about 7 Intel installs and 1 Sparc. My home machine in Debian Intel. Only the Palm isn't. Anyone want to set up a distribution poll page where we can all try to honestly log out distribution distributions? -- MJR

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Re: Re: [Alug] UEA Meeting - who's going
by Dryden 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

> I'll definitely be there, seeing as I live in Nelson Court anyway! > > There's a computer fair on in Norwich that day as well, so I'll no doubt > turn up with a freshly beefed up PC and a freshly lightened wallet ;-) > > Ta ta, > > Andrew WHere is the computer fair going to be? At the show ground (like always)? ********************************************************************** 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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UEA Meeting - who's going
by Ashley 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I just released there is an ALUG meeting planned for next weekend at UEA. Is this still going ahead? Who's planning to attend? -- Ashley T. Howes PhD www.ashleyhowes.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:37:37 +0100 (BST) From: willaby(a)pgen.net To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] UEA Meeting booked. As per request. A room is booked at the UEA for 25th November, 2 - 6. Nelson Court B Common Room. Bye :) _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Alug] UEA Meeting - who's going
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Pete: > Can some-one please give me directions on how to get to the meeting. http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/uea.html has details on UEA, but the update on http://www.alug.org.uk/ with details of this weekend's meeting won't appear until tonight, at best. -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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Re: [Alug] Apache mod_perl - Does it have the perl interpreter build into mod_perl or does it load it from elsewhere
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Steve: > I have checked the docs that seem to come with the mod_perl > source but can find no instructions for the building of perl > itself, only the mod_perl module and apache. > Do you have a reference? Off the top of my head, I think it comes from the Apache guide to tuning mod_perl on their web site, but it was a long time ago. I hope that helps, but let us know how you get on. -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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