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Crying Wolf
by John Seago 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Please ignore last plea for help, I ran the install disk in rescue mode, and while I have no idea what I was doing I managed to get it to work again. This is either very good luck, or very good work on the part of the original programmers. I would be grateful however if someone can hazard a guess at why the programmes on my first hard drive seem to be either self destructing or slowly dieing, a bit at a time? John

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Further developments/failures
by John Seago 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Matters seem to go from bad to worse, having restarted I find that the linux, (Mandrake 8), on disk one has now lost its < file:/usr/share/applink-mdk/XXXXXXXX > the effect is that all thelaunch icons on the panel are now inactive, while those on the desktop still work. Can I as someone who has yet to be able to work the command line mend it, or would it be easier to re-install? john Seago

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Re: [Alug] diald
by MJ Ray 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Danny Thorp <danny(a)thorp.fsworld.co.uk> writes: > Any ideas? Have you tried pppconfig, like the good book says? You might also find pppd's persist option some use. I don't think there's any reason for diald any more.

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Re Screen resolution problems
by John Seago 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

On Turning on my computer I found that the resolution problem had solved itself, (albeit not very satisfactorily ). Both sets of Linux are now displaying perfectly, as are their start-up processes. Windows however has dissapeared, it's partition is still there but it is empty! I would very much like to know what I did, in order to avoid doing it again. In case you're wondering why two lots of the same thing, I knew how to get Mandrake 8 to install, and not being sure how to install on my second disk I started with Mandrake 8, I have Red Hat, Progeny, Debian and Slackware as more interesting/exciting projects to install. (They also appear to be wellbeyond my level of competence!). John Seago

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diald
by Danny Thorp 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

hello all: I have finally got round to trying debian on an old p120 for evaluation. Results so far are v.good with the exception of diald, which refuses to connect. Accounts are configured as on my Suse machine so settings should be correct. using other methods is no good either, Gppp will not establish session pppd "dies unexpectedly" Wvdial will not allow me access to the modem, permissions are set to 'no auth' and I believe that anyone should be able to initiate a tcp/ppp connection. but no. Any ideas? Ta Danny

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Re: [Alug] Multi-Media Publishing - Print and HTML
by MJ Ray 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

Alexis Lee <alexis(a)turton.com> writes: > Well heck yes, but the Grail is not to tweak less, but not to tweak at > all. What are stylesheets but tweaking on a larger scale. I'm sure you could write tex4ht stylesheets and not have to tweak at all. > 80/20 is well known to me. I would say I did maybe three loops of that, > when I could have done it in one loop with Word (space-greedy tables > were what I needed, and apparently the one area LaTeX lacks). That might be because greedy tables are bad. Anyway, I'm sure that they can be done, as I've seen them done. > And I read manuals _extremely_ well... how else am I gonna learn anything > at uni? I'll maintain a respectful silence on that point, I think. [FOP] > Woops. It sounded new, when I looked at the website, and having never > heard of it... Hrm. I don't think it can be that new, as I'm sure we were creating PDFs from XML some time ago. My memory is suspect, so I wouldn't like to hazard a guess as to when exactly and I'm not going fishing the log book for it. Definitely early this year, though.

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Re: [Alug] Announce ALUG 2001.5
by MJ Ray 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

"D.I. Redhouse" <dir21(a)cus.cam.ac.uk> writes: > > Announce ALUG 2001.5 > If nobody's got any objections I was planning to bimble along to > this. [...] !!! Of course we have no objections! The more the merrier, especially if they bring biscuits. We'll let you off in light of the great service you're offering: > [...] So it seems only polite to say that since I have a nice fast > connection and more CD burners than you can shake a stick at: if > anybody wants CDs of ISOs that they can't get down a modem or > whatever, I'll make them up and bring them along if you let me know > what exactly you want (within reason, like). Given the meeting topic, Debian CDs (probably only Binary-1-NONUS) would be great. I guess you want people to pre-order? I'm sure Adam will attack the FAQ as soon as he gets back ;-)

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Re: [Alug] Multi-Media Publishing - Print and HTML
by MJ Ray 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

LxS <Alexis.Lee(a)uea.ac.uk> writes: > Which, IMHO, means they're not really going to help you any more than > your existing word processor. You'll probably still need to mess with > the HTML output to get it looking nice. Maybe you will still need to tweak it, but it'll be a lot less than disentangling word processor HTML output. > Besides, it took me a day and a half to get a letter which looked even > half decent using LaTeX, and I missed off a lot of the complicated bits. > It is old, at least, and hence stable. Depends on what you claim as "half-decent" and how well you read manuals. (You're a computing student, aren't you? ;-) ) You have to remember the 80/20 rule and ask whether the 20 is worth it. > MJR or anyone: is the Apache FOP any good? Can't be bothered to learn > all about FOs if there isn't even a working processor yet... I'll let Andrew say about how well it works, as I've not used it for some time. I believe it still works, though. > ps. and the stupid way they write tex/latex REALLY gets on my nerves. Define it as a macro ;-)

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Announce ALUG 2001.5
by John Woodard 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

Announce ALUG 2001.5 The next meeting of ALUG (Anglian Linux User Group) will be on Sunday 16th September 2:00 - 6:00pm at Syleham and Wingfield Village Hall (Mid Suffolk venue). Venue details at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html I will of as ever volunteer to organise this meeting and any future Mid Suffolk meets. If enough people want it I might be able to get the bar opened for the afternoon so make your requests now. The promotion of the meeting via Usenet can be left to me I will do it ASAP so if there are any news groups you think would be an appropriate place to advertise let me know in the past I have announced meets to: uk.comp.os.linux alt.local.east-anglia comp.os.linux.announce (local:) and the pcplus.linux news groups are there any I have missed? If you are coming mail me with what kit you are bringing and any requests for help and we will get it put up on the web site as before. Cheers, BJ

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Cooking Trees
by David Freeman 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

All, Hello, I am writing this email from Belgium. I am sat in a field typeing this mail via a 802.11 based microwave link 0.95 miles to the nearest ISDN line. I spent a lot of time this weekend climbing a telegraph pole to fix a 14dB antennae to the top. But it works, much to the amazement of those watching. And the irony of wearing a "will work for bandwidth" T-shirt and working for a telecoms company! I will try to get to IRC tonight. Thanks D - From the linux beer wanderung -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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