Re: [Scottish] Jotismland

2011-12-07 Thread Kyle Gordon
Not only is this off-topic, but... dude, you're 16! Go research girls, alcohol, and music! On 07/12/11 12:23, m...@johnthomson.me.uk wrote: Hi, I'm just wanting to mention a project I'm working on at the moment. Basically I'm working on an economic/political theory (based on communism/Marxism)

Re: [Scottish] 19" rack, free to whoever wants to pick it up

2011-08-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
- Aidan ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish If it's still available, can I collect on Saturday? Cheers Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: k...@lodge

[Scottish] Open Data in Scotland

2010-06-22 Thread Kyle Gordon
Just discovered this handy website http://openlylocal.com/councils/open?country=Scotland So, where and how do we go about persuading councils to change their ways? Kyle ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/m

[Scottish] GPS Antenna

2010-04-05 Thread Kyle Gordon
Morning all, I'm about to permanently install a GPS receiver into my Landie, and am seeking recommendations for a good GPS antenna. It has to be USB terminated and suitable for mounting on the external bodywork. I'm _was_ looking at marine grade kit, like Evermore, Raymarine, Garmin, Lowrance, et

Re: [Scottish] wiki

2009-12-24 Thread Kyle Gordon
Hi Andrew, I see pickle has already given you access. Wiki edit permissions are granted manually due to spam, and I see Chris has also written up http://www.scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Wiki_edit_permissions Hope this helps. Kyle On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:19 +, Andrew Johnston wrote: > Just a quick

Re: [Scottish] Scotlug Website/Planning

2009-10-01 Thread Kyle Gordon
Evening all, Default write access for new users of the wiki was turned off due to spam and misuse. It can be enabled on request. Jim, whit's yer username? :-) Kyle Jim wrote: > > Sounds like a good idea. It would be very helpful if someone with write > access to the website could post info abou

[Scottish] Tonights meeting

2009-09-24 Thread Kyle Gordon
Is there a talk this evening? ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] welcome & tibetan linux

2009-08-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
p...@robaczki.net wrote: > Hello! > Welcome! I'm enthusiast & like open source software and try to use it as > much as you do. I’m not in Scotland now but I used to lived in Edinburgh > and was a online member of Edlug. I probably have to move to Glasgow in > three months time so I feel like a mem

Re: [Scottish] Meeting tonight?

2009-07-30 Thread Kyle Gordon
Callum Noble wrote: > I've not been along for a few months so not sure whats happening at > the moment... > > Is there a talk tonight or are people just going to meeting at pub? > > ~ Callum > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk >

[Scottish] This month

2009-07-29 Thread Kyle Gordon
Is there a talk this month? ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] This Thursday's Meeting

2009-06-24 Thread Kyle Gordon
Hi Phil, That sounds fab, many thanks for volunteering. There's no other talk lined up, so you get center stage :-) See you there Kyle Philip Nelson wrote: > As discussed on the forum, I will be coming along and if no one else has > any better ideas I can give the talk I gave recently at a d

Re: [Scottish] May talk

2009-06-03 Thread Kyle Gordon
Of course... the list strips attachments. Here's an inline copy instead. Original Message Subject:[Scottish] May 2009 talk schedule Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:53:41 +0100 From: Kyle Gordon Reply-To: SLUG-list To: SLUG-list Afternoon all, The tal

[Scottish] May talk

2009-06-03 Thread Kyle Gordon
Just a reminder that Mays talk will be tomorrow in the usual place. Same time, same place, different date. I've attached the original email for reference. Cheers Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: k...@lodge.glasgowne

[Scottish] May 2009 talk schedule

2009-04-23 Thread Kyle Gordon
notice, so there's no excuse :-) What you all choose to do on 28th May is up for discussion. Chat? Q&A? Pub? Cheers Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: k...@lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mai

[Scottish] April Meeting

2009-04-18 Thread Kyle Gordon
If there's any takers to do a talk this month, then it would be greatly appreciated. Gavin Henry told me ages ago that he couldn't really do April, and I failed to update things and let everyone know. If not, then I guess it's straight to the pub (which you can do any day of the week...) Kyle

[Scottish] [JOBS] [Fwd: RE: linux edinburgh]

2009-04-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
This may be of interest to some people. Salary is £35k and just outside Edinburgh. Original Message Subject:RE: linux edinburgh Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:34:28 +0100 From: Freddie Kydd To: Kyle Gordon References: <43a07a19725130428605b1679728054801

Re: [Scottish] Listadmin job available

2009-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
You win. I won't argue about priorities :-) Thomas Greer wrote: > Heh, > > I dont think i'll make the talks ... gotta go do some weapons > training.. But i'll definitely be at CH. > > 2009/2/26 Kyle Gordon : > >> I will be. Hope others do t

Re: [Scottish] Listadmin job available

2009-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
I will be. Hope others do too :-) Kyle Thomas Greer wrote: > Gee thanks :) :P > > Going tonight? > > 2009/2/26 Kyle Gordon : > >> Kyle Gordon wrote: >> >>> From the end of this month onwards, I am unwilling to maintain the >>> mailing

Re: [Scottish] Listadmin job available

2009-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
Kyle Gordon wrote: > From the end of this month onwards, I am unwilling to maintain the > mailing list. Could a volunteer please come forward and assume the > position... > > The job involves minor amounts of spam purging, and the occasional > passing of a post from membe

[Scottish] Listadmin job available

2009-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: k...@lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] February talk

2009-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
ost likely head back to the Counting House Sorry for the rather late posting of this update. I hope someone else can do it more effectively in future. Regards Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: k...@lodge.glas

[Scottish] Upcoming meetings

2009-01-28 Thread Kyle Gordon
Just so you've all had some prior notice... February 26th - Arkadiusz Turlewicz will be doing a talk on Nagios Monitoring. Some of you may remember this talk from EdLUG. March 27th - Speed talks, also stolen from the EdLUG format. 5 minutes apeice on your favourite website, software, gadget, etc

Re: [Scottish] Scotlug Meeting on Thursday Jan 29th?

2009-01-27 Thread Kyle Gordon
Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:31 +, jb_1...@ntlworld.com wrote: > >> Does anyone know what's happening at the meeting on Thursday - is it a >> pub night, or is there a speaker? The web site just says there's a >> meeting, no more details given. >> > > We're

Re: [Scottish] November meet

2008-11-24 Thread Kyle Gordon
before you do it though. Got a few folks I'd like to get out of there first :-) Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] November meet

2008-11-24 Thread Kyle Gordon
Is there a talk this month, or any form of meet? Also, what's happening for December? Last Thursday of the month is Christmas Day. Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sco

Re: [Scottish] Talk

2008-07-29 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 13:31, William Anderson wrote: > Kyle Gordon wrote: > > Is there one this month? > > You mean you're not doing one? :) > > -n > Correct. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https

[Scottish] Talk

2008-07-29 Thread Kyle Gordon
Is there one this month? ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Is my computer now a spam bot?!! (Help!)

2008-07-20 Thread Kyle Gordon
t; > - Paul B. > > Check the headers. It's quite possible you've just been joe-jobbed, where spam is sent out with your address as the return address. It's also possible the spammer is just a clown that sets the return address to be the sam

Re: [Scottish] Fraudulent Internet use of my debit card

2008-07-17 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Thursday 17 July 2008 10:23, William Anderson wrote: > John Gordon Ollason wrote: > > I suppose it's inevitable, but my bank statement came back this month > > and somebody had spent £3000 of my money purchasing stuff on my debit > > card using the Internet. > > > > In the last 6 months the only

[Scottish] June 2008 Meeting

2008-06-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
Another month has passed, and it's time for the June meeting. As some of you may know, due to some car problems on the night, Rob was unable to give the talk on Cobbler last month. He has kindly offered to do the talk this month, so here's a copy and paste from the last email... This month Rob

Re: [Scottish] Hard Disk Storage Array going abegging...

2008-06-10 Thread Kyle Gordon
... > ___ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] Sale: SCSI Cards

2008-06-03 Thread Kyle Gordon
Righto, rather than hanging onto them and watching them gather dust, I thought some folks might be interested. One of each... Adaptec 19160 32bit SCSI card - £15 Adaptec 29160 64bit SCSI card - £35 Both are fully functioning, and come with cables. They were both powering some drives up until a

Re: [Scottish] Openmoko FreeRunner

2008-05-29 Thread Kyle Gordon
Well, Mr Kenny I don't see your name on the Groupsales page. Tut tut :-) Kyle On Thursday 29 May 2008 16:38, Kenny Duffus wrote: > i'm definitly going to get one > > Kenny > > - Original Message - > From: "Sean Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "SLUG-list" > Sent: Thursday, May 29,

Re: [Scottish] May Meeting[Scanned]

2008-05-29 Thread Kyle Gordon
gt; > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Causey > > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:33 PM > > To: SLUG-list > > Subject: Re: [Scottish] May Meeting[Scanned] > > > > Hello, I am new to the area, and would like to visit the meet

[Scottish] May Meeting

2008-05-28 Thread Kyle Gordon
It's that time of the month again, and the meeting is almost upon us. This month Rob Lazzurs is doing "A tutorial on Cobbler and related tools" Regular place, Livingston Tower, at the regular time, 1930. More details are available at http://www.scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Meetings Regards Kyle __

[Scottish] Freebies

2008-05-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
Free to a good home... First reply first served. 1 HP4000N printer. After many years of sterling service, the fuser has decided to wear out. Still usable, but not for business printouts. Comes with 3 spare (new) pickup rollers. 1 Dell GX240. Last seen working, with HD and CD. Keyboard and mou

Re: [Scottish] Openmoko FreeRunner

2008-05-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
babaguy wrote: Hi All - Because I'm not a full-on Linux-wallah (to say the least) I just would like to know, is the Free Runner a phone/mobile internet device ? (I know that may be a REALLY dumb question, but still...) - and ALSO if it IS a phone, does its FLOSSy interior mean it won't n

Re: [Scottish] Freebies

2008-05-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
Yep, all yours. Kyle Kenny Coyle wrote: Hi, Is the GX240 Still available? Thanks, Kenny. (forgot it was my old address I had registered on the mailing list, oops) 2008/5/26 Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Free to a good home... First reply first served. 1 HP4000N printer.

[Scottish] Openmoko FreeRunner

2008-05-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
As some may have noticed, the FreeRunner is due to be released very soon. Apparently it's currently in the manufacturing stage and will cost $399 (http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-April/015080.html) Group purchases are possible, if anyone is interested then please let's get t

Re: [Scottish] {Announcement} Safesquid Version 4.2.2.RC8.2 released

2008-05-18 Thread Kyle Gordon
shinde wrote: Hello friends, SafeSquid, Linux based Content Filtering Internet Proxy, Version 4.2.2.RC8.2 has been released. Bugger I meant to discard this message during moderation! I chose the option to discard all from this sender in future, but clearly screwed up the action for the cu

Re: [Scottish] Two talks with demonstrations, EdLUG 5th June

2008-05-10 Thread Kyle Gordon
Dan Shearer wrote: Alastair Bennett: Open Source Hardware -- Over the last decade the Open Source concept has been paralleled in hardware. Not as much and not as fast, but with visible success. Skipping the boring definitions, I will briefly run through three

Re: [Scottish] IMAP Server

2008-05-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
Andrew Barber wrote: Hey guys,I am just looking for a couple of suggestions on good IMAP Server software. We was looking over DOVECOT recently, but just wondered what you guys thought of that and others that are out there. Thanks :) Dovecot rocks. It's been surprisingly stable (even before v

Re: [Scottish] new ScotLUG website

2008-04-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
Claudio Calvelli wrote: I wrote: How do you I that? It lets me register, but not log in. Kyle Gordon: I put some documentation together for this task over here... http://lodge.glasgownet.com/~bagpuss/join_team.png Most useless, thank you. That just tells me to log in, but

Re: [Scottish] new ScotLUG website

2008-04-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
Claudio Calvelli wrote: Following on from last night's discussions, I'm keen to push things forward before the enthusiasm dims... I've created a Launchpad team (and project) at https://launchpad.net/~scotlug If you're interested in the project at all, then please join the team. How do y

Re: [Scottish] hope somebody finds me

2008-04-22 Thread Kyle Gordon
Ferdinand Francino wrote: Hi guys I'd like to attend the next meeting but I'm new to Glasgow, wouldn't know how to find the right Strathclyde entrance but I do know where the pub is so I hope somebody will be kind enough to pick me up at the bar somewhere between 5 & 5.30. I'll be wearing my 'No

Re: [Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

2008-04-12 Thread Kyle Gordon
tldr John Seago wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 12:15:07 Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Top posting worked just fine in that context due to the reply not addressing any part of the post in particular. To criticise the volume of the original post, (as posted in the digest

Re: [Scottish] Re: Scottish Digest, Vol 209, Issue 3

2008-04-11 Thread Kyle Gordon
ril 08 > > _______ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

2008-04-11 Thread Kyle Gordon
John Seago wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 Andrew Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The voluminous monolithic blocks of text approach I find a bit overbearing! As criticism it lost some of its impact when you top-posted the above, over a quote of the whole of the post to which it refer

Re: [Scottish] Photo from one month ago...

2008-03-30 Thread Kyle Gordon
William Anderson wrote: Claudio Calvelli wrote: I was reminded at the meeting last night that I never posted anywhere a dodgy photo I've taken at the 10th anniversary meeting, so here it is... http://www.intercal.ukfsn.org/scotlug.jpg People who were there have already seen it on my camera's L

[Scottish] Linux consultancy quote-o-matics at the ready

2008-03-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
d all running Bacula to some LTO3 units. All this is based in central Glasgow. If you can provide quotes, SLAs, etc to myself that would be greatly appreciated. Repeated calls to 'catch up' on the status of the quotes lose brownie-points. Cheers Kyle Kyle Gordon Network Administrator NH

Re: [Scottish] free hub

2008-02-27 Thread Kyle Gordon
GIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Morning all, > > > > I have a lovely EN104 10Meg Netgear hub and PSU going free to a good > > home. First come first serve, and I'll bring it along on Thursday. No > > takers by then, and it gets binned.

[Scottish] free hub

2008-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morning all, I have a lovely EN104 10Meg Netgear hub and PSU going free to a good home. First come first serve, and I'll bring it along on Thursday. No takers by then, and it gets binned. Ta Kyle - -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Scottish] Drupal and the society.......

2008-02-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
i've always made a point of inviting people from this > > list to, then i apologise. > > You're more than welcome to continue to send announcements to the > Scotlug list. > > thanks > > Kevin > > In fact, please do keep sending items to the list. It's

Re: [Scottish] Drupal and the society.......

2008-02-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:52, Willie Fleming wrote: > Do we draw the line north or south of Berwick? > > --- > Best Regards > Willie Fleming > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sunday 24 February 2008 13:59:03 Kevin McDermott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > I think this has gone to the wrong list. Sorry to

Re: [Scottish] OpenStreetMap Meetup

2008-02-19 Thread Kyle Gordon
tails on Wiki: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Scotland Count me in Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] USB Audio

2008-01-18 Thread Kyle Gordon
as it will work with minimal faffing. Cheers muchly Kyle -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] several linux problems

2007-12-18 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 14:22:23 Richard Wright wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a few problems I was wondering if anyone could help with? > > The hardware is a toshiba laptop from 2000 with 1.2ghz, 512m ram, 20gb hdd, > a dial up pci card and a lan card. OS is slackware 11. The ctrl key doesn't > wor

[Scottish] Cheap camera

2007-11-01 Thread Kyle Gordon
For a small project of mine... Is anyone able to recommend a sub £100 pocket digital camera? Must be fairly easy to use, and moderately robust. Ta muchly Kyle ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/li

[Scottish] [Fwd: [ScotLUG Info] Wanted: Free Software resources for all families and schools]

2007-08-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
Original Message Subject: [ScotLUG Info] Wanted: Free Software resources for all families and schools Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:23:44 +0200 From: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Point of contact address for ScotLUG <[EMA

[Scottish] Icecream CDs

2007-07-14 Thread Kyle Gordon
We have some leftover CDs that we burnt for aKademy. They are Kubuntu Feisty CDs modified to include the icecc daemon and not boot up a desktop. The desktop can be started with /etc/init.d/kdm start and the install process should then be the same as any other Feisty CD. There are 52 CDs in tot

[Scottish] June Meeting

2007-06-18 Thread Kyle Gordon
attend, from the merely interested in Free Software, to the new dabbler right up to the expert so don't be shy and come along. Look for Tux and you're sure to spot us! -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com __

Re: [Scottish] [Fwd: [ScotLUG Info] Request for national info.]

2007-06-03 Thread Kyle Gordon
Kyle Gordon wrote: Some questions from Denmark, if anyone is able to provide a an answer or three... Kyle In the absence of mailmans ability to cope with concepts such as text-only attachments... Dear ScotLUG (Linux User Group from Scotland) We request a pease of national information from

Re: [Scottish] [Fwd: [ScotLUG Info] Request for national info.]

2007-06-03 Thread Kyle Gordon
William Anderson wrote: Kyle Gordon wrote: Some questions from Denmark, if anyone is able to provide a an answer or three... Kyle Do we have to guess what the questions are? Do we have to guess why mailman is such

[Scottish] [Fwd: [ScotLUG Info] Request for national info.]

2007-06-02 Thread Kyle Gordon
Some questions from Denmark, if anyone is able to provide a an answer or three... Kyle ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] [JOBS] Edinburgh PHP Developer

2007-05-23 Thread Kyle Gordon
Original Message Subject:RE: Jobs contact Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:52:38 +0100 From: Westendarp, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am currently recruiting for a PHP web developer with experience in MySQL for a 3 month

[Scottish] April Talk

2007-04-20 Thread Kyle Gordon
be a few quick demonstrations of a sample site dynamic site written in Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby. Other things covered will be lighttpd and Postgres / SQLite as alternatives to MySQL. For more information, check out the website at http://www.scotlug.org.

Re: [Scottish] April Scotlug

2007-04-01 Thread Kyle Gordon
... what about having the April Scotlug over with Howard Chu, chief > architect of OpenLDAP? We already have Scott coming up from London that month to do a talk on the AMP in LAMP. Depends on what the consensus is on IRC really, which will probably be determined tomorrow. Kyle --

[Scottish] It's a girl!

2007-04-01 Thread Kyle Gordon
Congratulations to Heather and Ben (aka mrben) on the birth of their baby girl Mira Hope Thorp, who was born today at 19:23. Photos will be online soon apparently :-) Kyle -- Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish

Re: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Kyle Gordon
Have you removed winbindd from nsswitch.conf? Kyle Phillip Bennett wrote: Colin, As much as it appears I'm an idiot, yes I have logged in on the console successfully. I also changed the root password more than once to make sure it was not 'forgotten'. Thanks so far, Phil. PS: here is the su

[Scottish] March Meeting

2007-03-28 Thread Kyle Gordon
Counting House for pre-meeting drinks and eats. This month will be a talk by James Eaton-Lee, titled "VPNs - Network Security's Magic Bullet" For more information, check out the website at http://www.scotlug.org.uk Kyle Gordon ___ Scotti

Re: [Scottish] X mouse cursor disappears

2007-03-21 Thread Kyle Gordon
Could be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412789 What if you log out and then don't press any keys? Does the cursor appear, but stay in the middle of the screen? The cursor is usually blanked when you press a key, hence why I think it could be that bug... Ta, Kyle Giles Inno

Re: [Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?

2007-03-12 Thread Kyle Gordon
Sound advice, but one thing concerns me... this is Kubuntu. There should be a menu at the bottom left, doing its best to imitate the Windows start button. Paul: Is there such a menu? If so, what is in it? There should be items such as Internet, Multimedia, Office and others. Are they there? Kyle

Re: [Scottish] New Thread: I apologise.....

2007-03-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
babaguy wrote: Dear William, I *do* appreciate your time in relaising what's been "munging" my e-mails - I *think* the problem will be best addressed by me simply switching to the Plain Text Format. Better - ? Again - many thanks! - Paul B. Beautiful, far better :-)

Re: [Scottish] rpmdb: DB.LOCK

2007-03-08 Thread Kyle Gordon
during the install. Has the hard drive been checked out and working OK? Kyle -- Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] FAO

2007-03-06 Thread Kyle Gordon
Alan Pope wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:53:14AM +0000, Kyle Gordon wrote: > >> William Anderson wrote: >> >>> babaguy wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Thanks J.R. ! I *think* the system has updated itself to Edgy >>>&g

Re: [Scottish] FAO

2007-03-06 Thread Kyle Gordon
William Anderson wrote: > babaguy wrote: > >> Thanks J.R. ! I *think* the system has updated itself to Edgy >> [snip] >> > > It could only have done that if you'd commanded it to do so, after > changing the repository settings in the update manager, synaptic or > /etc/apt/sources.list - i

Re: [Scottish] Linux stuff...

2007-03-01 Thread Kyle Gordon
William Anderson wrote: J.R. Seago wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:15, "babaguy"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Further to to my previous reply, should you decide to re-install a different distribution, as I suggested, have a try with one that most of the people on the lists you're using u

Re: [Scottish] time spent on Linux stuff...

2007-03-01 Thread Kyle Gordon
Hi Paul, babaguy wrote: Dear Mr. Ben and all, I think my problems have just been a series of unfortunate events...When I've tried to use the key to complete a file name in order to find/install it, the computer simply beeps at me - this may be a key mapping issue, I realise... It w

Re: Do Re Me: [Scottish] time spent on Linux stuff...

2007-02-28 Thread Kyle Gordon
/www.ualberta.ca/~pletendr/list-net.html In short - do not mangle subject lines. Start a fresh new email when beginning a new thread, reply to threads correctly and concisely. Kyle -- Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Linux stuff...

2007-02-25 Thread Kyle Gordon
William Anderson wrote: Colin McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:37, babaguy wrote: I don't know if my last e-mail got through or not, It got here. If I could be bothered reading the headers I'd work out when - let me know if its a big problem. lazy get ;) R

[Scottish] Fwd: [macinfo] How YOU can help make the BBC Mac-friendly, again

2007-02-20 Thread Kyle Gordon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also valid for linux users of interest Ian >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: PeterSCOTT Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:11:42 + >X-Mailer:

Re: [Scottish] February Meeting

2007-02-20 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:23:10 Chris Nicolson wrote: > February's meeting will take place tomorrow night (Thursday 25th January), I've missed my flight! You barsteward! Kyle ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lu

Re: [Scottish] Windows Vista Business value thingy

2007-02-19 Thread Kyle Gordon
Andrew Back wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, ed wrote: Send back the media and license agreement and see if you can get a cash refund :o) Indeed. Dell seem to be acting nice about it... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6144782.stm Just make sure you document it properly. :-) Kyle Andre

Re: [Scottish] aKademy2007

2007-02-15 Thread Kyle Gordon
I should have said. The target price is £20 per head or under. Regards Kyle Kyle Gordon wrote: > Evening all, > > Thought I would take this opportunity to ask a few questions to the > ScotLUG community. > > aKademy2007 is coming up at the end of June, and we're in the m

[Scottish] aKademy2007

2007-02-15 Thread Kyle Gordon
Evening all, Thought I would take this opportunity to ask a few questions to the ScotLUG community. aKademy2007 is coming up at the end of June, and we're in the middle of preparations for it. We are currently seeking suggestions on where to hold a formal dinner for approximately 200 people prefe

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
J.R. Seago¹ wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 12:15, William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't understand this argument. A 1:4 Welsh:English speaking ratio surely deserves more attention than a 1:86 Scots Gaelic:English ratio? At a per-head rate, the WLB gets ~ £19, given the figu

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
J.R. Seago wrote: Well that was interesting, and between us we managed to increase the traffic on the list to the point where it sent out a digest on one subject. I seem to have been led along gently by the rest of you to the point where I have arrived at this: http://www.intco.biz/open-sourc

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-12 Thread Kyle Gordon
J.R. Seago¹ wrote: > Two points to consider here, have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3e55b2 > why is the Gaelic spell checker only available to operate on Microsoft > office? (If it can be made to work on Free Software please let me know > before I get cross for the wrong reason). > I'd h

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-12 Thread Kyle Gordon
Subhi S Hashwa wrote: > Monday, February 12, 2007, 8:15:51 PM, J.R. Seago¹ wrote: > > >> Two points to consider here, have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3e55b2 >> why is the Gaelic spell checker only available to operate on Microsoft >> office? (If it can be made to work on Free Software plea

Re: [Scottish] Virtualisation comparisons

2007-02-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
Kyle Gordon wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:25:15PM +, Ben Thorp wrote: >> >> >>> Don't suppose anyone would be interested in doing something in one of the >>> meetings about virtualisation? It's qui

Re: [Scottish] Virtualisation comparisons

2007-02-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
Dan Shearer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:25:15PM +, Ben Thorp wrote: > >> Don't suppose anyone would be interested in doing something in one of the >> meetings about virtualisation? It's quite a hot topic at the moment and >> I'm sure folks would be interested. >> > > Never hav

[Scottish] Petitions

2007-01-22 Thread Kyle Gordon
I thought some of you may be interested in the following petitions currently on the go at pm.gov.uk... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Open-IT-projects/ Worth a read and possibly even a signature. Kyle ___ Scott

[Scottish] Job offer

2007-01-22 Thread Kyle Gordon
For those of you not on IRC... the following was mentioned by Mark (darkskiez). http://www.fish4.co.uk/iad/jobs/advert?adId=13941800 Kyle ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: even moRe:[Scottish] Broadband Question...

2007-01-15 Thread Kyle Gordon
Rand, Dollah or Pound? Kyle Alex Walker wrote: He was also the first African in space. Isn't he a *billionaire*? On 15 Jan 2007, at 12:54, Kyle Gordon wrote: Network cards are ten a penny now. If you ask nicely I (and others) may be able to bring some along to the meet for nowt ;-) U

Re: even moRe:[Scottish] Broadband Question...

2007-01-15 Thread Kyle Gordon
And yes, as Kenny points out. Canonical provides commercial support for Ubuntu. So big business can run it and have assurances that if something goes wrong, they can point the Finger of Blame at someone and get it fixed. Kyle Kyle Gordon wrote: Network cards are ten a penny now. If you ask

Re: even moRe:[Scottish] Broadband Question...

2007-01-15 Thread Kyle Gordon
Network cards are ten a penny now. If you ask nicely I (and others) may be able to bring some along to the meet for nowt ;-) Ubuntu is nice and shiny because the very nice man called Mark Shuttleworth is behind it. He's a millionaire or something like that, and likes to spend his money on bein

Re: moRe: [Scottish] Broadband Question...

2007-01-14 Thread Kyle Gordon
babaguy wrote: > Thanks Kyle, for the link and the heads-up! > There was so much information on the page that I haven't tried to follow what > it suggests - > > I think it requires that I download the firmware for the Speed Touch and burn > it to a CD and then run that CD on the Ubuntu box in or

Re: moRe: [Scottish] Broadband Question...

2007-01-14 Thread Kyle Gordon
Hey Paul, Did you go through the document that I linked to? If so, where did it fail? What error messages did you encounter? It would be great if Ubuntu could provide the documentation that you're after, but we're often lucky if the device works at all. If manufacturers consistently fail to provi

Re: moRe: [Scottish] Broadband Question...

2007-01-14 Thread Kyle Gordon
buntu to recognise the modem? ? > > I can't find any pages about this in Firefox or Gnome..(nor > do I see the initials "RTFM" (and what do they mean, anyway?) I would have > thought that "RTFM" would be a topic or a term in the glossary, but so far

[Scottish] mod_rewrite help

2007-01-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
Evening all, I'm having a minor disagreement with mod_rewrite... I have my website at http://lodge.glasgownet.com/ which has a blog at http://lodge.glasgownet.com/blog/. I'd like to transparently redirect all requests to / to /blog/, but keep other subdirectories in the root useable. At the mome

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