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New Member
by John Seago 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

I understand that an introduction is usual. I would seem to be somewhat out of the usual run of your membership, in that that my only experience of computers is that of using one to write papers for publication, letters and articles, (and their associated filing) and the maintenance of records of my finances. I only came to the use of a computer as some of the periodicals I wrote for stated requesting their copy on floppy disk or by Email, I have had experience of Email which is best counted in days rather than weeks. It is my experience of Email and the propensity for windows to shut down when dialling in that has caused me to seek to install and learn to use Linux which is reputed to be more stable. My level of expertise extends to being able to work the keyboard and the various on/off switches, but I am prepared to learn. It appears to me that I would make an ideal test-bed for the use of the various forms of Linux as if you can get me to be able to use it with some facility then it should be suitable for more general use. I have already managed to convince my prospective son-in-law of its value and he has it installed on his computer, we look forward to learning together. John Seago

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Printer trouble still
by David Freeman 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

HELP, Fozzy and adam got my printer working at the weekend but now it wont work properly. Fozzy what did you do to get it to work? It gives the same error it gave before "Connection refused: jobs queued, Can't start Daemon" Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Hello im new =)
by NuTTeR =) 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Well the subject says it all realy :) im new to linux started with a slackware distrib a few mounths ago(kernal 1.12) but recently got a copy of an new'ish redhat 5.1... well not that new but at least itll compile nmap and allegro so im happy. Well im just a computing student at kings lynn with an interest in linux and computing in genral(i do have a *life* out side of computing as well...). oh i also have bad spelling due to the fact im sydlxeci ;) ill have to try your irc room some time. Dennis -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Hello im new =)
by MJ Ray 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > > student at kings lynn with an interest in linux and computing in > > genral(i do have a *life* out side of computing as well...). [...] > I'm sure that if you give someone your address they can send you a > Debian CD. Actually, King's Lynn, so I can drop one through the door in a few days (less than a week, surely) if you send me the address off-list. -- MJR

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BBC computer looking for home...
by Neil Sedger 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

I was going to trash it, but with this talk about a BBC web browser... free to whoever can be bothered to pick it up (Norwich Golden Triangle). BBC Master, one of them cubular 14" monitors, disk drive... Neil

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Hello im new =)
by NuTTeR =) 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Well the subject says it all realy :) im new to linux started with a slackware distrib a few mounths ago(kernal 1.12) but recently got a copy of an new'ish redhat 5.1... well not that new but at least itll compile nmap and allegro so im happy. Well im just a computing student at kings lynn with an interest in linux and computing in genral(i do have a *life* out side of computing as well...). oh i also have bad spelling due to the fact im sydlxeci ;) ill have to try your irc room some time. Dennis -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Re: FW: [Alug] BBC computer looking for home...
by Shevek 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

I'd love it, but I can't pick it up. :-( Norwich as in the city? *gets a map* S. On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > -----FW: <3B2FE7F0.4050003(a)bigfoot.com>----- > > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:01:52 +0100 > Sender: alug-admin(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > From: Neil Sedger <n.sedger(a)bigfoot.com> > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > Subject: [Alug] BBC computer looking for home... > > I was going to trash it, but with this talk about a BBC web browser... > > free to whoever can be bothered to pick it up (Norwich Golden Triangle). > > BBC Master, one of them cubular 14" monitors, disk drive... > > > Neil > > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ > http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! > > --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- > > -- Shevek I am the Borg. sub AUTOLOAD{my$i=$AUTOLOAD;my$x=shift;$i=~s/^.*://;print"$x\n";eval qq{*$AUTOLOAD=sub{my\$x=shift;return unless \$x%$i;&{$x}(\$x);};};} foreach my $i (3..65535) { &{'2'}($i); }

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Linux and Pentium 4's
by Martyn Drake 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

Hi, Has (or does) anybody here run Linux on a Pentium 4 machine? The reason for asking is that I've heard there were some potential problems with some kernels with this processor and before I attempt to install Linux on such a beast, I just wanted to hear anybody's advice on doing so. Regards, Martyn

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Usage Stats for anglian.lug.org.uk
by Martyn Drake 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

Hi, If anybody's curious to see what sort of figures we're pulling in for the web site, you can simply visit http://usage.alug.org.uk for all the info. Regards, Martyn

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PostgreSQL
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Fozzy - what was the name of the command that brings up the pg_database tables again? (I can't read my own writing.) Thanks, Jenny.

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