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Seasonal mail
by Ten 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

I'll post this here, since it could be considered spam of the highest order on main :) Since there's a (slim) offchance that luggers will be offline tomorrow, I just thought I'd wish everyone a Merry Christmas in advance. I feel I should apologise for this in advance... I feel I may burst into horrific kitch Christmas silliness at any moment... ..argh, here it comes... 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a peripheral was stirring - not even a mouse. The sockets were probing in the darkness with care for mails about family and regaining one's hair (and ruder mails too, but we don't mention sex - and spam that won't hurt those who shun activeX) The luggers were nestled all snug in their beds - while Eric S Raymond danced in their heads.. (Now you might consider gadgets more fitting, or sheep, still, that's what cheap sherry will do for your sleep.) Quinophex by the fireplace, The worse for the booze had put up his gnomish feet eshoeing his schews iDunno in his Debian hat and peterO in his SuSE every GPL-user settled down for a SnooSE When down in the study, there arose such a clatter I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Shelling into the router that had raised such a fuss I discovered a defacement from St Nicholas It said: "Chimneys are so yesterday, and the squeeze a bit tight, so Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night." ~ Happy Christmas, folks, health and happiness to you all and your families :D -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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Exciting Norwich Event
by Karamoon 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Nothing to do with Linux/OSS but certainly technology related and possibly of interest to ALUG'ers, hence on Social list and not Main: The Norwich ID Card Forum will be held on Saturday, 5th November, 10-5pm, in rooms at The United Reform Church(NR3 1AZ). There will be talks and workshops on various aspects of ID cards such as biometrics, RFID, network infrastructure security, governemnt legislation, companies which will profit from ID cards, social issues etc. etc. Speakers will be from No2ID, Liberty, Norwich City Council and various local groups. The event is free and refreshements will be provided. If you feel you may be able to attend, please email: NorwichIDForum(a)gmail.com just so we have a rough idea of numbers. Please pass this email on to anyone who may be interested. Matthew __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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Double glazing recommendations?
by Jonathan McDowell 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

I'd hoped I'd never have to ask this, but can anyone recommend any double glazing people in or around Norwich? I'd really rather use someone on a recommendation than have to risk getting a heavy sales pitch directed at me. (There's a Linux link here; my sensible brain cell has kicked into action and said I can't have a new laptop until I finally get the windows sorted out. A Toshiba Portégé R200 is calling me I think.) J. -- Revd. Jonathan McDowell, ULC | Death is a nonmaskable interrupt.

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Opposite of good: BT
by MJ Ray 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Just to balance the last company recommendation, a company warning. BT don't even do the little they say they will. Last September, I finally escaped from BT's shoddy telephone service to a 12-month contract with 'it' http://www.itplc.com/ - they're OK, but probably not the best or cheapest that you can find now. I wrote and told BT exactly why they lost my account (basically, bad customer service habits, combined with only offering "bundled calls" packages so other calls providers are less attractive). I got an amazingly stupid typed reply explaining why BT's brilliant. Not a good answer. Like I'm going to read a sales pitch and thing "yeah, I imagined all those problems moving house, getting my business number, and so on." In April, I had a letter from BT inviting me back with the first headline being "Enjoy low prices on all BT Together call options" - "Together" being the package that I was moved to and quit. I called the number on the sheet, asked to be removed from the "come back" mailing list and was assured it would be done. Today, another letter from BT, now offering a "Special Offer" if I take one of their bundled calls packages. Amazing. The absolute clincher is that the letter finishes with an advert for "BT Privacy"! Not privacy from BT sales letters, I guess. Could these people organise a brewery event? Again called, again assured, and this time asked them to send confirmation in writing. Is it worth taking this further? I'm not sure. In my opinion, anyone staying with BT should have a really good motive. There are many other line renters nationwide now, including phonecoop. Hope your telephone behaves better, -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/

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Re: [alug social] Opposite of good: BT
by John Seago 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 22:49, Brett Parker <iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk> wrote: > ...Shall we bring up the constitution of AFFS here, too... after all, > weren't you the one that basically managed to get that in to the state > it is now... No that was me, amongst others. > i.e. very hard to amend and very broken... Oh, but wait, you've already > said that that constitution is 'fine', apparently you have a very odd > definition of 'fine'. However, as you say, that is a matter for discussion on another list. -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Re: [alug social] Opposite of good: BT
by John Seago 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 06:26, David Reynolds wrote: > Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the social list was for organising > social events rather than random babbling about the company you happen > to be annoyed with this week? You must be new to the ALUG lists, in addition to being mistaken. If you read them regularly you'll find that Mark makes useful contributions to this and other organisations. I say above that you must be new, as most of those subscribed to the various ALUG lists, conform to the norm by trimming their quotes, see: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html http://tinyurl.com/b4wfc It is also quite unusual for those subscribed to this list to use pejorative phrases when replying to posts to the lists. -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Opposite of good: BT, (correction)
by John Seago 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Having tested the TinyURL If ound it didn't work, here is one that does. http://tinyurl.com/ufr -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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BBQ on the 28th
by Martijn Koster 25 May '05

25 May '05

You're all invited to a BBQ in Wymondham on the 28th (Saturday after next), from 15:00 onwards. If you're planning on coming, please let me know by the 25th (Wednesday after next). Star attractions: we're hoping to see Bea, and it appears that iDunno may interrupt his UK'05 tour and make a brief appearance. For more details see http://www.greenhills.co.uk/mak/alug/20050528-bbq.html Can someone with privileges add a suitable link from http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings? -- Martijn

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Norwich "Second Thursday" Social Meeting - The Reindeer - 20:00 Thursday 12 May
by Brett Parker 07 May '05

07 May '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, Just a quick reminder that this coming Thursday (12 May) is the regular Norwich "Second Thursday" alug social meeting. Generally meetings start around 8pm and go on till either we all have to go home or we get kicked out of the pub. The meeting will be held in The Reindeer pub, which is just across the road from the City Gate where we used to hold meetings. Directions to The Reindeer can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html I should warn anyone that's come before that I'm, erm, very much less hairy, so might not stick out quite as well as previously. I *imagine* that there will be at least myself and Noodles present, quinophex is hoping to come but he's not been well recently, neither has wildduck, so he may not be there. I'm not quite sure if paul_c will even be back in the country by then, I don't think he will... Anyways - hope to see lots of you there, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCfSagEh8oWxevnjQRAnfsAJ9ovJq5Z6nVVl326SS+h3P9jS3EtwCgrFkn GJRptcF1HEhdILJd65Yja6w= =w2Ll -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Open Guide to Norwich
by Jonathan McDowell 05 May '05

05 May '05

I don't know how many of you are familiar with OpenGuides (http://openguides.org/) but I've set one up for Norwich at: http://www.earth.li/norwichguide/ Still in the early stages though - more content appreciated! J. -- 101 things you can't have too much of : 29 - T-shirts.

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