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Re: [alug social] jen's friday limerick
by Ricardo Campos 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

There once was a lass named Jen Who practised a faith they call Zen She read the OS X debate Without getting irate Saying "The Gnu is mightier than the pen" (guin) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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jen's friday limerick
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

There once was a nerd called Ricardo Who programmed a wicked new hairdo When the routers went down Our Ric had left town To create a new program in OO

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Re: [alug social] RE: [Alug] Administrivia: contrib and main list
by Ricardo Campos 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

> any more of this thread and we'll all be dancing around in blue aprons at > the install day. SNAFU OK, OK, I'll promise not to allude to any more 60s esoterica. But can we dance around in blue aprons anyway? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [alug social] RE: [Alug] Administrivia: contrib and main list
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

>> just SO sneaky no-one ever noticed. But seeing as I'm busy right now, I'm >> abdicating in favour of another member of the Linux Illuminati. > >Bah, you can't be illuminati. You haven't even got line wrap working. > >Has someone been adding hallucinogenics to the RFC-2822 headers in ALUG list >mails or something? any more of this thread and we'll all be dancing around in blue aprons at the install day.

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Re: [alug social] RE: [Alug] Administrivia: contrib and main list
by MJ Ray 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Ricardo: > just SO sneaky no-one ever noticed. But seeing as I'm busy right now, I'm > abdicating in favour of another member of the Linux Illuminati. Bah, you can't be illuminati. You haven't even got line wrap working. Has someone been adding hallucinogenics to the RFC-2822 headers in ALUG list mails or something? -- MJR

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Re: [alug social] RE: [Alug] Administrivia: contrib and main list
by Ricardo Campos 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

> Anyone want to take >a turn? All you have to do is spend at least 20 >hours a week plotting and >interfering with other LUG groups and cripple their >effectiveness so that >the group from the Anglian lands can take over the >WORRRRRRRLD bwahahahahah Actually, I have been doing this since I joined ALUG in September. I was just SO sneaky no-one ever noticed. But seeing as I'm busy right now, I'm abdicating in favour of another member of the Linux Illuminati. The Linux Illuminati predate Linux as we know it; they are responsible for vi, USB support (or lack of), the switch from one version of rpm making it incompatable with another, and Debian Testing (also known as Debian Confusing). I was personally responsible for the bug in supermount which locked directories irrecoverably. I'm quite proud of that one. My other favourite is the NVIDIA drivers, but I cannot claim sole responsibility for that - it took a *real* evil genius to come up with that one. (Let us just say that that person is on the list.....) <evil cackle> Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: [Alug] Administrivia: contrib and main list
by John Woodard 24 Apr '02

24 Apr '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk > [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of MJ Ray > Sent: 23 April 2002 23:16 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [Alug] Administrivia: contrib and main list > > > John Woodard <mail(a)johnwoodard.co.uk> wrote: > > After dire warnings from CamLUG it's offical MJR has become a > despot! :-) > > Right. John, I'm booting you off the list! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For the hard of thinking, that's a joke.... I'll just go take over his > garden by merging it with mine instead ;-) > > MJR Oh you tyrant you! :-)

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Re: [alug social] few probs with mandrake 8.1
by Ricardo Campos 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

> OpenGL is extremly slow(I have a Geforce2 pro card), You will need to d/l the NVIDIA drivers from www.nvidia.com, since they won't release them as GPL. If you do a search on the archives of the main list for NVIDIA, you will see numerous posts on this! My main tip is to make sure you d/l the correct kernel drivers, and also to read the install instructions VERY carefully. Also, if you look for the how-to for Nvidia cards at www.linuxnewbie.org you should find this helpful. I got the drivers to work really well (after 2 or 3 attempts) with Mandrake 8.1, but it totally f*cked my Redhat box, and since I don't really play games, I haven't bothered to try again. > On Gnome-stones, 'New game' doesn't do anything, I'm not sure, you may wish to find the website for Gnome Stones and upgrade the package- it may be a bug (or report the bug to them) > DrakeLogo doesn't run. Not sure what that program is/does, you could try to run it from a terminal and see what it says. On another note, technical questions should be sent to the the 'Main' list, rather than social-you'll get more responses! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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few probs with mandrake 8.1
by Dougie/Mum 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Hi, I'm a Linux newbie and I have Mandrake 8.1 installed. I've got these things bugging me: OpenGL is extremly slow(I have a Geforce2 pro card), On Gnome-stones, 'New game' doesn't do anything, DrakeLogo doesn't run. Can someone help? DougT(dougie(a)retallackthompson.freeserve.co.uk)

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another bad limerick
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

There once was a lassie from alug Who thought pgp was a teabag Her fellows said "hark, "She be 'avin' a lark; "We all know it's for recycling slag" (Don't worry, I'm going home now....) Jen.

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