On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:42:08AM +0000, Ian Porter wrote:

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Just wondering who else is going ?

I am.

Me too.

I am planing on turning up. This will be my first LUG meet. I have been following the mailing list for a while, but I have yet to attend a LUG meet.

On 11 March 2010 11:16, Steve steve@offend.me.uk wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:42:08AM +0000, Ian Porter wrote:

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Just wondering who else is going ?

I am.

Me too.

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On 11/03/2010, Steve steve@offend.me.uk wrote:

If past meetings are anything to go by, we'll probably be on a table at the back of the pub somewhere. Geeks aren't usually too hard to spot ;)

If all else fails, I'll wear my Slackware t-shirt. :P

Srdjan

Srdjan Todorovic wrote:

If all else fails, I'll wear my Slackware t-shirt. :P

Slackware ! We won't let you sit near us then :)

Anthony Anson wrote:

Anyone coming from beyond the Styx and going near the Attleborough - Long Stratton median?

Yup pretty much right past it as I can go either up the A11 or the A140 it makes little difference from where I am.

Give me a shout next month...before the meeting this time if you can :)

Richard Lewis wrote:

At Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:11:21 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:

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Bah! Done it again! Thunderguts sent to OP - will i *NEVER* unforget to change the destination?

Sorry Steve.

Why bother trying to remember yourself? Why not get your mail client to do it for you? I'm sure Thunderbird can manage something like this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455 might work?

That's only for v. 3, I think.

On this Eee is v. 2, and:

Whenever I've tried to 'adjust' things, my wrist is slapped by Xandros, who tells me 'you don't have permission'.

Upgrading programs (Firefox, T-bird, etc) won't execute.

Xan-dross came pre-loaded on the (brand new) Eee, and AFAICR, no root passworm was provided.

Recently bought the Acer Aspire 5000 I mentioned in another fairly recent thread - someone looking for a laptop - and as it was still in the shop a fortnight later, I snapped it up. Tatty cosmetically, but replacement screen and battery, and what was most important, delightfully inexpensive.

ATM it has a new installation of XP and SP3 on it, but I intend easing it off. (Practically every time it fires up - at length - it 'finds new hardware'. It finds the *SAME* new hardware every time, including the box's own internal CD/DVD drive, mouse, and the internet dongle. For me, XP just doesn't cut the mustard innit.)

By 'easing it off' I mean I shall create an EXT3 partition and install Lenny. Then install Virtual Box in it to pretend to be Win 2000 or XP so I can run Irfanview. (Never found a Linux prog to anywhere near match it.)

Then, when everything's working under Lenny, I expect to format the XP bit to EXT3 and wave XP and all its works goodbye.

/Executes a little jig and waves happy flag/

I shall have access as root when I want it...

*THEN* I can put a proper Linux distro on the Eee

Slackware? (DARFC!)

Paul Tansom wrote:

** Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk [2010-03-15 13:37]:

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Richard Lewis wrote:

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At Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:11:21 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:

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Bah! Done it again! Thunderguts sent to OP - will i *NEVER* unforget to change the destination?

Sorry Steve.

Why bother trying to remember yourself? Why not get your mail client to do it for you? I'm sure Thunderbird can manage something like this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455 might work?

That's only for v. 3, I think.

On this Eee is v. 2, and:

I think you'll find that it is for version 2 and above. The latest, version 3, now has support for 'reply to list' built in. [1]

<snip> ** end quote [Anthony Anson]

[1] http://www.news.software.coop/thunderbird-3-introduces-reply-to-list/851/

Yes - but this in not T/bird 3, and until I've dug down and exposed root, I can't upgrade it - if I wanted to.

Leetkey doesn't wor (or didn't) in T/bird 3...