From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Sat Jan 19 11:32:12 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:17 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT - GLLUG meeting - Saturday 2nd February. Message-ID: So that you can put it in your diaries. Time, 12 noon to 5pm. Details about talks soon. The meeting will be at a new venue, for most of you. Westminster University in New Cavendish Street, just a few minutes walk from CFC, so its near Tottenham Court Road, London, W1. -- (This is a rushed, cat out of the bag presentation by (:-) )) Colin Murphy SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk A man for all seasons, 'specially pepper. From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Mon Jan 28 09:43:57 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:17 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] ANNOUNCE: GLLUG (Greater London LUG) meeting 2nd February 2002. Message-ID: The next meeting of GLLUG - the Greater London Linux User Group is on Saturday 2nd February in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, near Tottenham Court Road in central London, you can see a map at - it's in the shadow of the BT Tower. The planned time is 12noon to 5pm. The talks planned for this meeting are as follows :- *********** Steve Cobrin: The Intrusion Detection talk followed by the usual Heckle Steve Session *********** Bruce Richardson: Overview of Openldap configuration. This will be a demonstration of how to create and look up a simple LDAP addressbook. *********** Steven Lau: User-Mode Linux is a safe and secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup. User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. Disk storage for the virtual machine is entirely contained inside a single file on your physical machine. You can assign your virtual machine only the hardware access you want it to have. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer, or its software. From the network and user point of view there is no way to distinguish that it is a UML machine and transparently looks like another physical machine. The talk will cover: What UML is. Where it can be used. How to set it up and install it. Installing Linux to a UML machine. How to run the UML server and access it. ***************************************** At the University we have access to plenty of machines to do installations on, as well as space for people to bring there own machines, should they have any unusual hardware. The equipment you bring will need to be registered with security when you arrive - to help with this, please make a note of the serial numbers on your equipment before hand. For further info and to get chatting to other GLLUGers see, http://gllug.linux.co.uk/ -- Colin Murphy SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk A man for all seasons, 'specially pepper. From stephen_crook at btinternet.com Sat Apr 27 18:59:43 2002 From: stephen_crook at btinternet.com (Stephen Crook) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:17 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Sound Cards Message-ID: <3CCAE70F.5F73A6DC@btinternet.com> Hi, I'm new to Linux having just installed SuSE Linux 7.2 on my home system. I'm having difficulty finding a sound card that I can use. The Creative CT4740 that I have is recognised as an Ensoniq card and doesn't work therefore I'm thinking about buying another one. The problem is that the SuSE hardware database lists cards that are either fairly old (in which case they're not stocked in shops) or made by small time manufacturers (in which case they're also not stocked in shops). Can anyone suggest a fairly mainstream sound card that I could buy in, say, PCWorld (yes, I know they're thick as...) that would actually work. Cheers, Steve From air_1_bass at yahoo.fr Mon Apr 29 13:11:42 2002 From: air_1_bass at yahoo.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?Erwan=20Begoc?=) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:17 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Sound Cards In-Reply-To: <3CCAE70F.5F73A6DC@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <20020429101142.62824.qmail@web20605.mail.yahoo.com> hi, i had the same problem a year ago, took me a while to fix it! the best thing to do is to obtain a cheap compatible card, a soundblaster PCI128(driver ensoniq1371) works ok for what i need!!! then recompile your kernel with support for that specific driver (select it in the audio menu) and it should work fine. the default suse kernel sort of supports it, but i really think you ought to recompile your own to get a decent sound quality!! have fun erwan --- Stephen Crook a ?crit?: > Hi, > > I'm new to Linux having just installed SuSE Linux > 7.2 on my home > system. I'm having difficulty finding a sound card > that I can use. The > Creative CT4740 that I have is recognised as an > Ensoniq card and doesn't > work therefore I'm thinking about buying another > one. The problem is > that the SuSE hardware database lists cards that are > either fairly old > (in which case they're not stocked in shops) or made > by small time > manufacturers (in which case they're also not > stocked in shops). Can > anyone suggest a fairly mainstream sound card that I > could buy in, say, > PCWorld (yes, I know they're thick as...) that > would actually work. > > Cheers, > > Steve > > -- > Gllug-announce mailing list - > Gllug-announce@linux.co.uk > http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug-announce ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran?ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Tue Apr 30 10:46:29 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:17 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] [Gllug] UK Linux Developers' Conference, Bristol, 4-7 July 2002 Message-ID: The conference programme is now up on the website: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/ and we've started taking bookings! Alasdair -- agk@ukuug.org Once again, a wide cross-section of the Linux development community will gather at the start of July for the UKUUG's summer technical conference. The conference moves about the UK from year to year: in 2002 we're visiting Bristol; in 2003, Edinburgh. Speakers from nine countries will present their work, forming our largest programme to-date. We begin on Thursday 4th July with tutorials on Shared Libraries, given by Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer; and the Linux Terminal Server Project, given by the project's founder, Jim McQuillan. [Places for these tutorials are limited: please book ASAP] After a Linux printing workshop on Friday morning (CUPS/KDEPrint), the conference proper begins at lunchtime and runs through to Sunday lunchtime. Highlights of the programme include: * The Linux Kernel (Marcelo Tosatti, 2.4 maintainer) * The Hurd (Marcus Brinkmann) * Linux on AMD's Hammer architecture (Bo Thorsen) * Linux-ABI (Christoph Hellwig) * Dynamic Binary Translation (Mark Probst) * FreeDCE (Luke Leighton) * Emdebsys (Wookey) * Gnome 2.0 (Michael Meeks) * DotGNU (David Sugar) * Exim 4 (Phil Hazel) * glibc2.3 (Ulrich Drepper) * Valgrind (Julian Seward) * Zope 3.0 (Stephan Richter) * MySQL (David Axmark) * Free Telephony (David Sugar) * Bugzilla (Gerv Markham) * RT (Simon Myers) * Subversion (Sandar Striker) * MathMap (Mark Probst) * SourceForge (Alistair Riddoch) * Lego programming (Stephen Coast) And also: Securing Linux Servers; Wireless Networking; Grid Computing; LTSP; PHP; Linux in Undergraduate Teaching; Reliability, Availability & Serviceability And, if you're lucky, a chance to try out Sony's PlayStation 2 Linux and maybe even IBM's Linux Wristwatch! Sponsors: IBM and AMD Media Sponsors: OSDN, Linux Magazine Exhibitors: IBM, O'Reilly, SuSE, Debian More sponsors & exibitors needed: please contact me ASAP if you're interested. From ginga at rainbowcyber.co.uk Sat May 4 11:17:59 2002 From: ginga at rainbowcyber.co.uk (Dave Holden) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Sound Cards References: <3CCAE70F.5F73A6DC@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <3CD3B557.22B8449E@quasar.rainbowcyber.co.uk> Hi Stephen, SuSE runs the Alsa Sound System, which it installs by default. You should be able to configure your 7.2 for use with the sound card through Yast 2. If you get the config wrong and you cannot here anything when you run the test sound (in the extendeded config). Delete the whole thing and try again. Many of the sound programs under SuSE are configured to run with the Arts synth run under KDE. If you use a differnt desktop you may have to modify the config routines. Gnome is pointed to esound for its sound routines. Info about the sound can be somewhat hard to find but try LinuxDoc and the Alsa site and also ibiblio for more details. You should be able to check your sound config through looking at /proc/asound. If you are trying to play midis, Check out the application Timidity which is a midi to wav convertor amoungst other things. You may also find that you need to use the utility aconnect to find your input and output ports. If all else fails you can remove all the alsasound stuff and revert back to OSS from 4front. Good Luck. - The sound is somewhat confusing under 7.2 Stephen Crook wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to Linux having just installed SuSE Linux 7.2 on my home > system. I'm having difficulty finding a sound card that I can use. The > Creative CT4740 that I have is recognised as an Ensoniq card and doesn't > work therefore I'm thinking about buying another one. The problem is > that the SuSE hardware database lists cards that are either fairly old > (in which case they're not stocked in shops) or made by small time > manufacturers (in which case they're also not stocked in shops). Can > anyone suggest a fairly mainstream sound card that I could buy in, say, > PCWorld (yes, I know they're thick as...) that would actually work. > > Cheers, > > Steve > > -- > Gllug-announce mailing list - Gllug-announce@linux.co.uk > http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug-announce -- Dave Holden, Technical Director -------------------------------- Rainbow Cyber Services Limited - 5 Kings Place, London W4 4HT Tel: 020 8994 0053 Fax: 020 8995 8772 www.rainbowcyber.com From stephen_crook at btinternet.com Thu May 16 11:39:04 2002 From: stephen_crook at btinternet.com (Stephen Crook) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] CDROM Mount problem Message-ID: <3CE38C48.17C56B7C@btinternet.com> I'm using SuSE Linux 7.2. I have a ATAPI/EIDE compliant CDROM/Writer as the slave of the 2nd IDE controller. When I try to mount it with mount -v -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom the process hangs. I open up another shell (as root) to kill the process and it won't let me. When I shutdown the system it gets stuck unmounting the swap partition. Any ideas? Are there any diagnostics tools I can use to solve the problem? Cheers, Steve From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Thu Aug 8 17:25:38 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Next GLLUG Meeting - 14th September 2002 Message-ID: <200208081725.38189.SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk> That is right, your eyes do not deceive you, The Greater London Linux User Group is, at long last, going to have another meeting. The date for your diaries is Saturday 14th September 2002, 12noon until 5pm. Doubtless to say, there will also be a session in some pub afterwards, should you not be able to make it during the day. We will be meeting in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, this is in the shadow of the BT Tower, nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at [ http://www.wmin.ac.uk/static/maps.asp ] For this meeting, and all the future meetings, we have the use of the Universities 'large' lecture theatre, the network lab and the Multimedia lab. The large lecture theatre - Hopefully you will appreciate the use of this larger lecture theatre. For those that went last time, your comments and criticisms were justified about the smaller theatre being too small. We are still finalising the details of the talks, so these will be posted soon. The network lab - We will use the network lab, this month, for rolling demo installations. The multimedia room - This will be used as a chat area, away from the lectures. There are monitors, desks and power, so people are welcome to set up their own equipment here if they want. Hopefully we will have some BoaF groups form here. ******************************************** The GLLUG website, you remember - it's at http://gllug.linux.co.uk, has had a revamp. Do make sure you have a look, pass on your comments. ******************************************** The meeting after the next meet is booked for the 19th October 2002 -- Colin Murphy -SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Fri Aug 9 09:52:22 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Conway at Conway Hall (no relation) Message-ID: <200208090852.22197.SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:34:18 +0100 Reply-To: london.pm@london.pm.org To: london.pm-announce@london.pm.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Conway at Conway Hall (no relation) Damian Conway will be coming to London in August, and thanks to his offer to talk to us, the efforts of a group of people who have made donations to book a venue, and Richard Clamp who has gone to the venue to book it, we now have a firm date and place for the meeting. Where: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530658&Y=181772&A=Y&Z=1 http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/ Start: 6.30 on the dot (venue opens at 6) Talks: Tuesday 27th: Life, the Universe and Everything http://www.yetanother.org/damian/seminars/Life.html Thursday 29th: Perl 6 Prospective http://www.yetanother.org/damian/seminars/Perl6.html If you're in contact with other user groups who may be interested in seeing one of the more renowned speakers in the Perl world, please forward this mail to them. Full details of the meeting are on the London.pm web pages: http://london.pm.org/meetings/ http://london.pm.org/meetings/damian.html Thanks, -- :: paul mison ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Colin Murphy -SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Tue Sep 10 20:16:59 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] 2nd posting - GLLUG meeting - 14th September - This Saturday. Message-ID: <200209101916.59160.SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk> Next GLLUG meeting The date that has been in your diaries for over a month now is Saturday 14th September, the meeting will run from 12noon until 5pm. We will be meeting in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, this is in the shadow of the BT Tower, nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at [ http://www.wmin.ac.uk/static/maps.asp ] We have three talks planned for this meeting. These will be in the large lecture theatre:- * Around 1pm Frank Pohlmann will tell us about the current state of Unicode/UTF-8 and how it is implemented on Linux. * Kim Hawtin is going to give us a short introduction to Wireless networking and the implications it will have, followed by a question and answer section. Sometime about 2pm. * Around 3pm, Paul Nasrat: Will tell us about his involvement with ELKS - The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (http://elks.sf.net) The the ELKS project is building a small kernel subset of linux to run on the 8086 and 286 machines. The talks will cover the ELKS projects current status, how it differs from Linux, what uses there are for ELKS, why develop for it and future roadmaps. * To round the meeting off, starting at about 4pm, Steve Cobrin will chair an open forum discussion. The topic is open, but some topics to get you thinking could be 'Why should I buy a commercial distribution?', 'KDE vs Gnome vs Blackbox, etc.' and maybe even 'The future for GLLUG'. Do please be aware that we can't guarantee that the talks will happen at the times stated, but we will do our best to make sure they are. ***** Away from the formal lectures, we have two rooms set aside. The network lab, as it is known, will be used for some rolling demos of Linux being installed and configured. We also have the Multimedia room. This will be used for people to set is up their own machines, using the monitors if needed. You can do this if you have something to show off, or you are looking for a solution to some problems. If your are bringing in your own machine, make sure you sign it in when you come, otherwise security won't let you take it when you go! Best to write your name on any lead and stuff before hand. This is also the place you can go to should be looking for sanctuary away from the formal talks. ***** For the latter part of the afternoon, after 3pm, Josette Garcia from O'Reilly will be with us, so if you are looking to buy some O'Reilly books, now's your chance. And yes - we do get 25% off the cover price. ***** After the meeting, for those that want, the group will move off to 'The Green Man' public house, very close to Great Portland Street. We should be there from 6.30pm, the downstairs bar is reserved for us. Even if you were unable to make the daytime meeting, please feel free to come to the pub do. To help you find the pub have a look at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=528893&Y=182174&A=Y&Z=1 ***** The meeting after that has been set, Saturday 19th October 2002 ***** The GLLUG website, you remember - it's at http://gllug.linux.co.uk, has had a revamp. Do make sure you have a look. -- Colin Murphy -SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk From SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk Wed Sep 11 07:40:02 2002 From: SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk (Colin Murphy) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Futher details of Frank Pohlmanns talk (Was -Re: [Gllug] 2nd posting - GLLUG meeting - 14th September - This Saturday.) In-Reply-To: <200209101916.59160.SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <200209101916.59160.SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk> Message-ID: <200209110640.02255.SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 7:16 pm, Colin Murphy wrote: > Next GLLUG meeting > > > * Around 1pm Frank Pohlmann will tell us about the current state of > Unicode/UTF-8 and how it is implemented on Linux. > *Frank Pohlmann is a Open Source writer and advocate as well as a Linux system administrator, whose itinerant life across Asia, America and Europe has convinced him that Unicode is not only a relevant to students of obscure glibc APIs, but also to those of us who want to read documentation in character sets other than ISO 8859-1. *He will talk about the forest of acronyms growing in this space, starting with ISO 10646, and Unicode 3.2, while gently making fellow LUG members aware of the pitfalls of using POSIX locales. *The talk will be somewhat theoretical, (but I will talk about Pango 1.0 as well) since many of the (mis)understandings of what Unicode and UTF-8 actually represent have to be cleared away first. Then we might be able to delve into the secrets of developing fonts and keyboard drivers for scripts as Tengwar and Mongolian. After studying P'ags'Pha script, first, of course. *As we all know, Linux started with a Finnish keyboard...and that's where the story of Linux internationalisation, Unicode and i18n standards really begins.... -- Colin Murphy SpudULike@blueyonder.co.uk A man for all seasons, 'specially pepper. From john at sinoda.demon.co.uk Tue Oct 1 23:25:06 2002 From: john at sinoda.demon.co.uk (John Southern) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Next GLLUG Meeting - 12th October 2002 Message-ID: <200210012225.06609.john@sinoda.demon.co.uk> The Greater London Linux User Group is going to have another meeting. The date for your diaries is Saturday 12th October 2002, 12noon until 5pm. There will also be the usual session in some pub afterwards, should you not be able to make it during the day. We will be meeting in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, this is in the shadow of the BT Tower, nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/static/maps.asp We have use of the lecture theatre again and so far we have one fixed talk:- Jason Clifford has kindly volunteered to explain all about the various aspects of setting up and running an ISP. Also we have the UK branch of the iPAQ Developer Weekend - more info at http://www.handhelds.org/events/devweekend.html - all are welcome to join in. We would like short talks on your favourite distribution (max 20 mins each). Any volunteers? Also a session at the end where everyone can say what their favourite program/tool/utility/drug/patch/app/website etc., that others should try for an easy life. The GLLUG website, you remember - it's at http://gllug.linux.co.uk, has had a revamp. Do make sure you have a look, pass on your comments. The meeting is NOT 19/10/02 as previously stated. It is on the 12/10/02! From choudhuryr at bhfshops.org.uk Fri Oct 4 16:52:36 2002 From: choudhuryr at bhfshops.org.uk (Rawnak Choudhury) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] IT Job Message-ID: <3D9DAB34.6030808@bhfshops.org.uk> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Job Description Job Title : Computer Support Assistant Responsible to : IT Manager Responsible for : n/a Main duties and responsibilities : Support computer hardware and software systems Controls to measure performance : Minimal down time; projects carried out to specification and on schedule Duties Assist the IT manager in the following areas Resolve day to day user IT queries Carry out routine software update of Work Stations Assist with major system upgrades as and when required Monitor the daily systems and data backups and monitor server usage and efficiency Development of in-house system using VB and Access Assist the Systems Accountant in the following areas Management of the EPOS tills and back office software, including overnight Sales collection, Product Updating, Table & Branch Updates etc. Dealing with Branch Till and EPOS queries and problems. Support and develop EPOS software Development and Documentation of the EPOS System. Report Development using Access and SQL Logging of Faults. Plus assistance with other project work including EDI and Disaster Recovery Any other duties as determined by IT Manager/Systems Accountant Technical skills required Advance knowledge of all versions of Windows OS Familiarity with UNIX, specifically Linux and UnixWare Knowledge of PC hardware Familiarity with COMPAQ hardware would be advantageous Knowledge of MS Access VBA and VB 6. Additional training will be provided to fill in gaps. Familiarity RDBMS Server, including MS SQL and Informix, additional training will be provided where required. Person Specification This position would ideally suit a University leaver with a HND/BSc in an IT related subject. He / She must be keen to learn and must be able to communicate with non-technical people in a clear manner. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// If any one on this list is intesrted in the above job please send CV and contact details to me Salary will be c20K Rawnak Choudhury British Heart Foundation Tell 020 8339 5216 From zjstruhs at btinternet.com Wed Oct 16 15:20:35 2002 From: zjstruhs at btinternet.com (Zachary Struhs) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Linux Install Fest - 2nd November Message-ID: <200210141306.12782.zjstruhs@btinternet.com> Date: 2nd November Time: 12 noon - 5pm Place: Westminster University We will be meeting in the Cavendish Campus of Westminster University, 115 New Cavendish Street. This is east of the BT Tower. The nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street and Goodge Street. map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529135&y=181852&z=0&sv=w1m+8js&st=2&tl=Postcode+w1m+8js&pc=w1m+8js&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&sq=3 Bring your boxes. Having problems with installing Linux, or just wanting to try another distribution. Please register at the reception desk. If you decide to bring a pc, please have the serial number written down ahead of time. We will also take a picture of you and your pc as proof of ownership. Volunteers are still needed: 1. Quick demonstrations of the latest releases: Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, etc. 2. A few laptops for the demonstrations. I plan on donating mine for mandrake. Cheers and lets have fun, Zachary Struhs From zjstruhs at btinternet.com Thu Oct 24 12:17:42 2002 From: zjstruhs at btinternet.com (Zachary Struhs) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Linux Install Fest - 2nd November (update #1) Message-ID: <200210141306.12782.zjstruhs@btinternet.com> Date: 2nd November Time: 12 noon - 5pm Place: Westminster University - New Cavendish Street The following distribution iso's will be made available at the university for burning: Debian 2.2rev6(3 cds), 3.0rev0(7cds) FreeBSD 4.6, 4.7(4 cds) KNOPPIX 3.1(current release)(1 cd) Mandrake 8.2(3 cds), 9.0(3 cds) Redhat 7.2(2 cds), 7.3(3 cds), 8.0 (5 cds) Slackware 8.1(1 cd) I can burn cd sets in advance. Please email me directly with your request. The cost should only be a few GBP per cd set. Cut off for requests will be 29 October. Immediately afterwards we will meet up at The Green Man approximately 5:30 pm. Our reservation is on the ground floor. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2mapi?x=528867&y=182192&title=StreetMap+-+Euston+Road,+NW1&back=~&url=~&arrow=Y&nolocal=N&bimage=~&zoom=0&largeuk=N&adkey=~,GRIDCONVERT&searchType=1&value=383+euston+rd Cheers, Zachary Struhs zjstruhs@btinternet.com From gllugadmin at linux.co.uk Mon Nov 18 15:07:47 2002 From: gllugadmin at linux.co.uk (GLLUG Organiser) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Next GLLUG Meeting - 7th December 2002 Message-ID: <200211181507.47798.gllugadmin@linux.co.uk> Meeting: 7th December 2002 That's right, there is a GLLUG meeting on Saturday 7th December, between 12noon and 5pm. We will be meeting in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. This is in the shadow of the BT Tower, the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street and Goodge Street. You will find a links to maps at http://www.gllug.org.uk/meeting-20021207.html NOTE: you will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. There are building works at the moment but we'll post signs if the entrance has moved. [Note: This announcement message will be repeated weekly, until the meeting, with any details updated as necessary] Talks We have three talks planned for the December meeting. These will be in the large lecture theatre on the second floor:- 12:00 - 12:30 Welcome and Introduction. also opportunity to try and debug overhead projectors :-) 12:30 - 13:30 Professor Peter Kacsuk - Cluster and Grid talk. This will be an introductory talk along the lines of: what is a cluster, what is the grid, what problems can be solved using clusters and the grid. He has lots of material and can change the talk depending on what people want on the day. 14:00 - 15:00 Michael Meeks - Gnome 2: Desktop of the future "This talk will showcase the Gnome project, and show how we are developing our vision of "Free software on every desktop". With extensive demos of Evolution (our Outlook replacement), and the range of desktop applications. "New features in the recent 2.0 release will gleam at onlookers, plus how our strategic direction and long term vision matches business needs. Accessibility support for impaired users, vital for government deployment, and US software sales will also be demonstrated." 15:30 - 16:30 Alasdair G Kergon - Logical Volume Management - LVM/LVM2 Technical, sysadmin-oriented. [more details of talk when available] To round the meeting off: Steve Cobrin will chair an open forum discussion. The topic is open, but some topics to get you thinking could be: KDE vs Gnome vs others. (handy since Michael will be here) *Do please be aware that we can't guarantee that the talks will happen at the times stated, but we will do our best to make sure they do. Other activities Away from the formal lectures, we have two rooms set aside, both on the second floor, same level as main lecture room. The network lab, as it is known, can be used for some rolling demos of Linux being installed and configured. We also have the Multimedia room. This will be used for people to set is up their own machines. You can do this if you have something to show off, or you are looking for a solution to some problems. If your are bringing in your own machine, make sure you sign it in when you arrive, otherwise security won't let you take it when you go! We'll have monitors, keyboards, mice, and powerleads available. [So no need to lug all that stuff]. We will have access to the some of the latest iso images and some CD-Burners. Please register at the reception desk. If you decide to bring a PC, please have the serial number written down ahead of time. We may also take a picture of you and your PC as proof of ownership. These are the places you can go to, should you be looking for sanctuary away from the formal talks. After After the meeting, for those that want, the group will move off to 'The Green Man' public house, very close to Great Portland Street. We have it booked from 5:30pm, part of the ground floor area of the bar is reserved for us. Even if you were unable to make the daytime meeting, please feel free to join us at the pub. To help you find the pub have check the web-site. Next meeting The date for the next meeting has not yet been set, but should be a Saturday sometime in January or early February; keep watching these pages for further announcements. Contact us If you have any ideas for future events, you can either discuss them on the main mailing list, or get our direct attention by mailing to gllugadmin@linux.co.uk -- Steve Cobrin From gllugadmin at linux.co.uk Fri Nov 29 07:21:12 2002 From: gllugadmin at linux.co.uk (GLLUG Organiser) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:28:18 2003 Subject: [Gllug-announce] [Reminder] Next GLLUG Meeting - 7th December 2002 Message-ID: <200211290721.13042.gllugadmin@linux.co.uk> [Just 8 days to go!] Meeting: 7th December 2002 The Greater London Linux User Group is set to have another meeting. That's right, there is a GLLUG meeting on Saturday 7th December, between 12noon and 5pm. We will be meeting in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. This is in the shadow of the BT Tower, the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at [http://www.wmin.ac.uk/static/maps.asp] or via the html version of this message at the GLLUG web site. NOTE: you will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. There are building works at the moment but we'll post signs if the entrance has moved. Talks We have three talks planned for the December meeting. These will be in the large lecture theatre on the second floor:- 12:00 - 12:30 Welcome and Introduction. also opportunity to try and debug overhead projectors :-) 12:30 - 13:30 Professor Peter Kacsuk - Cluster and Grid talk. This will be an introductory talk along the lines of: what is a cluster, what is the grid, what problems can be solved using clusters and the grid. He has lots of material and can change the talk depending on what people want on the day. 14:00 - 15:00 Michael Meeks - Gnome 2: Desktop of the future This talk will showcase the Gnome project, and show how we are developing our vision of "Free software on every desktop". With extensive demos of Evolution (our Outlook replacement), and the range of desktop applications. New features in the recent 2.0 release will gleam at onlookers, plus how our strategic direction and long term vision matches business needs. Accessibility support for impaired users, vital for government deployment, and US software sales will also be demonstrated. 15:30 - 16:30 Alasdair G Kergon - Logical Volume Management - LVM/LVM2 LVM is the established standard for on-line disk storage management under Linux. It is included in the 2.4 kernel series. LVM2 is the new implementation of LVM available from ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/ which uses a lightweight kernel driver known as the 'device-mapper' that provides generic support for volume management. The device-mapper is included in the 2.5 kernel series and is available as a patch for 2.4. LVM2 introduces a new metadata format designed to improve efficiency and to offer more options for recovery in the event of problems. The aims of this talk are: 1. To introduce LVM concepts and tools under Linux; 2. To explain the architecture we chose for LVM2 and the device-mapper, and to demonstrate some of the new features provided. To round the meeting off: Steve Cobrin will chair an open forum discussion. The topic is open, but some topics to get you thinking could be: 'KDE vs Gnome vs others. (handy since Michael will be here)' Do please be aware that we can't guarantee that the talks will happen at the times stated, but we will do our best to make sure they do. Other activities Away from the formal lectures, we have two rooms set aside, both on the second floor, same level as main lecture room. The network lab, as it is known, can be used for rolling demos of Linux being installations and to experiment with configuration. We also have the Multimedia room. This will be used for people to set is up their own machines. You can do this if you have something to show off, or you are looking for a solution to some problems. If your are bringing in your own machine, make sure you sign it in when you arrive, otherwise security won't let you take it when you go! We'll have monitors, keyboards, mice, and powerleads available. [So no need to lug all that stuff]. We will have access to some of the latest iso images and a CD-Burner. If you decide to bring a PC, please have the serial number written down ahead of time, in case it needs to be registered at the ground floor Reception. We may also take a picture of you and your PC as proof of ownership. The network lab and the multimedia room are the places you can go to, should you be looking for sanctuary away from the formal talks. If we're lucky the Refectory on the ground floor will have its food and drinks machines restocked. After After the meeting, for those that want, the group will move off to 'The Green Man' public house, very close to Great Portland Street. We have it booked from 5:30pm, part of the ground floor area of the bar is reserved for us. Even if you were unable to make the daytime meeting, please feel free to join us at the pub. To help you find the pub have a look at this external streetmap link. Next meeting The date for the next meeting has not yet been set, but should be a Saturday sometime in January or early February; keep watching these pages for further announcements. Contact us If you have any ideas for future events, you can either discuss them on the main mailing list, or get our direct attention by mailing to gllugadmin@linux.co.uk -- Steve Cobrin