Re: [Scottish] Time flies - January's meeting and other stories
OK - looks like we have a discussion topic for tonight :-) I read Kennys reply and agreed with it all wholeheartedly. Then I read Mrben's reply -- and agreed with all that too :-) Maybe - just maybe - we try this as a one-off at say £3 per skull. Bagsy me having nothing to do with the money though Yup. And let's be honest - at a typical pub only meeting a hell of a lot more than three quid a head gets spent. Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Open Source Business
Peter George wrote: [snip] I was primarily curious to hear about others who are actively involved in creating open source software, running Sourceforge projects etc. I expect that there are absolutely loads of companies using it, but who's creating it in Scotland? Well, off the top of my head, jriddell is Mister Kubuntu, I am still very much a part of SmoothWall and I'm helping out with the nessus GPL fork OpenVAS, and I'm sure there are others out there ... lurking silently in the dark :) I am working on a couple of DSSI plugins, based on xsynth-dssi. There are a couple of very good soft synths for Linux, but more are always welcome... Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! !
Problems: I can't get the machine to recognise or link up to the external modem I bought.so I can't get online. But you said that was a USB modem. They are even more of a pain in the arse than internal winmodems! Get an external modem that connects to a serial port, or better yet, get a cable modem or ADSL (with an ADSL router that connects to an ethernet port) Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help! SuSe installation
Apart from the trackball buttons working in a strange way, no access to the floppy drive, no network connection to the other machine (the one with I'm not sure how much you know about it, but you do know that removable media needs to be mounted? Sometimes this is taken care of for you, with something like automount. At a command prompt, type ls /mnt - this should give you a list of mount points. You should see floppy in there somewhere. type mount - you should see a list of devices and mount points. If you type mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy as root, it should mount the floppy as /mnt/floppy - now anything that you put into that directory will end up on the floppy drive. Unix doesn't really have a concept of drive letters like the CP/M-derived OSes have. Once you're done - and this is *VERY IMPORTANT* - you must type umount /mnt/floppy to unmount the disk. Notice that it is umount not unmount - I'm sure someone out there knows why. If you get an error like Device is busy, that's because you're still in /mnt/floppy, or something is holding a file on the floppy open. A good old favourite for that is going into /mnt/floppy, trying to copy something to the floppy, realising you're not root and using su to go root, then changing directory back out of the floppy, because your original user is still in there. If you're stuck, log out and log back in again. Hope this helps, and doesn't confuse you too much. I'm sure someone will be able to demonstrate on Thursday. Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] 2 way pagers
Hi Guys, A pal of mine in Glasgow is looking at getting a two way pager, more for personal use than IT usage, but that's by the by! Who are the providers over there and what sort of costs are involved? Any stores / websites you could point me toward? -- Regards, Daragh Mc Grath http://www.daraghmcg.org Pagers have been pretty much superseded by SMS now. I think the only people still using them do so for very specialised legacy reasons - certainly all the engineers at work use mobile phone/PDA combinations. I haven't even seen pagers for sale for *years*. Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Linux distro for mum?
Hi My mum recently expressed an interest in getting a computer for dvds/email/web/etc at home. I've got my Mum using LindowsOS (pre-Linspire). She seems to get on OK with it. When I go to reinstall her PC I'll probably put Slackware on it so I don't have to arse about with Debian's mad-ass packages to get the scanner working. Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Wireless range
How feasible is a wireless network connection over a range of around 250-300m, with almost a line of site. Looking at a house or two being in the way. Will one of those omni things go that sort of distance through/around houses (sandstone/slate/brick)? Can the gear be boosted/directed and is it legal? Houses will probably completely block the signal. If it really is only 250m or so, you *might* get away with it if you have extremely good aerials. If the answer is yes or probably, how much would I expect to pay for the kit required to get that sort of range? Ideally it'd be reliable and not How long is a piece of string? Buy lowloss cable, and a couple of APs that you can seal into a weatherproof enclosure on the aerial mast. Losses down the RF feed will kill any chance of getting this working. require pringles tubes mounted to rooftops. I'd only need a speed of ~ 600kbps[1]. Pringles tubes suck. They really do. Apparently the Tadiran link units used by Atlantic Telecom work well - I haven't really played yet. Homebrew aerials using bean tins (or better still, sugar cane tins - same diameter but longer, which gives a narrower beam) seem to work really well. Ideally you'll need to get up high. If you can actually see both ends of the link, you may not even need external aerials. HTH, Gordon ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
