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meeting
by Syd Hancock 03 Feb '01

03 Feb '01

Sorry I won'r be there (wrong country) but hopefully another time. Have fun Syd

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Transport North
by MJ Ray 02 Feb '01

02 Feb '01

It looks like I'm going to Syleham from King's Lynn via Norwich (because of the inclement weather) and will have at least one free space in my car. Anyone wanting to occupy it, please email quick. -- MJR

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Transport
by David Freeman 02 Feb '01

02 Feb '01

Is there anyone going on sunday from the ipswich area? I would like to come but I can't drive. Can anyone give me a lift please? Thanks D PS I currently live in Kesgrave. __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Meeting - Unable to come
by Steve Fosdick 02 Feb '01

02 Feb '01

Sorry Guys, Having said that I would come to the meeting this weekend and bring some equipment along I find that I can't because I will be in Derbyshire. I hope the meeting goes well and that wel will get a chance to meet in March before Linux day is upon us. Steve.

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Re: [Alug] Linux is not for desktops?
by MJ Ray 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > Dare I mention lynx. I use this for most of my web surfing at home and > it does everything I need, and being that you don't get all the look > and feel c**p, its very very fast. Like lynx. Love w3m. > I'm get get laughed at for this but I use vi with html to generate my > documents. I am also trying to get to grips with Latex. The reason for > using Vi and HTML is HTML is pretty standard for use at > home/college/work. You have two routes to go from there that I can see. One, which will probably get you polished documents with less hacking for now is LaTeX. The other is some sort of XML markup and formatting tools, but they're Not All There Yet. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Re: alug digest, Vol 1 #139 - 10 msgs
by MJ Ray 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

jo(a)yee-ha.demon.co.uk writes: > I can see it on here: > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/ > There are two listings for the next meeting. The second one says 2000. > Also in here, on the page itself: > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/meeting5.html No, there's a page for a meeting from Feb 2000, then a gap where we need to fill in some missing meetings, then the upcoming meeting. If anyone wants to fill in the missing meetings, please get in touch. I'll probably move past meetings to an "old meetings" page RSN. -- MJR

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Linux (on MY desktop)
by Nico Morgan 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

First things first: I'm just outside Newmarket in a village called Wickhambrook (for the record I'm a very new subscriber to alug) I have just started a new job where, like Adam (nice web server by the way!), we can pretty much choose between W2k (spit) and something GNU. I installed Mandrake 7.2 ans then a raft of upgrades and it now works beautifully... I work out my desktop tasks as follows:- Browsing: Exclusively Mozilla (0.7 at present) except when Konqueror gets used by some legacy K application (like K-mail - anyone know how to stop this?) I don't find Moz too slow at all but it's lack of a Quicktime plug-in is a pain... Email: K-mail is good and getting even better (IMHO). Handles HTML when I want it too, gives me th power to add MIME headers to things when I have to send HTML and has a simple but effective filtering system. Usenet news: Got a bit clever with this (you can tell I'm still a Linux newbie) and setup Leafnode via crontab to collect my news at certain fixed times when the bandwidth is available and then Knode or Pan to read it. Office Apps: Star Office 5.2. Yes it's slow to start up (I'm sure that's 'cause I installed the lot - it's great having 90Gb of storage!!) but does the job. Try to use Gnome or K Office stuff if I can for speed. The other rather nice thing is that my box gets the usual worm/script virii in my mailbox and laughs at it, unlike some of my colleagues who are still suffering!! he he regards all Nico -- _________________________________________________________________________ Nico Morgan : (home) http://www.nicomorgan.com Clickstream Technologies PLC : nico(a)nicomorgan.com The Old Granary : (work) http://www.clickstream.net Westwick : nico.morgan(a)clickstream.net Cambridge CB4 5AR : ICQ: 103427004

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Re: alug digest, Vol 1 #139 - 10 msgs
by jo＠yee-ha.demon.co.uk 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

> From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> > Date: 31 Jan 2001 20:58:27 +0000 > > "Simon Parkes" <simon.parkes(a)ukonline.co.uk> writes: > > > Don't mean to be picky here, but on the alug website it says that the next > > meeting in in the year 2000 ?? I know it was a leap year but.... > > What page does it say that on, please? Both > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/meeting6.html and > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/ say 2001 and I can't find it > with grep.... > I can see it on here: http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/ There are two listings for the next meeting. The second one says 2000. Also in here, on the page itself: http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/meeting5.html jo -- <>-- jo mitchell ------- http://futurshox.net --------<> http://deskdemon.com | http://www.yee-ha.demon.co.uk Linux-powered! | mobile: +44 7974 219809 <>---------------------- icq#104771112 ---------------<>

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Re: [Alug] Linux is not for desktops?
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

"Simon Parkes" <simon.parkes(a)ukonline.co.uk> writes: > You rcould try the Koffice suite, I've just downloaded the Kword and Ksheet > had a quick look and they look pretty good. The beauty is that they both > read M$ format docs.. Oh, I forgot this. I usually read Word docs through antiword and Excel via xls2csv, although having the apps around which can read/edit them better is also handy sometimes. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Linux is not for desktops?
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Thom May <thom(a)clearairturbulence.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > Evolution (does HTML), Mutt(does HTML - in a way :) ), > Gnus(dunno bout html), Balsa, etc Gnus passes html to w3 for rendering (the Emacs HTML engine), or does it mutty-style, passing it to an external program. -- MJR

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