Re: [Scottish] networking bits and pieces

2002-11-13 Thread willie fleming
> one in Glasgow, i'll use that.. Try Tait Components http://www.tait-components.com or theres Anixter out in Bellshill (think theyre still on the go, while since I used them) -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mail

[Scottish] just a test --- please ignore

2002-11-13 Thread willie fleming
JUst seeing how slow this really is... sent from here at 10:11 -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Reinstalling Grub Loader

2002-11-20 Thread willie fleming
grub loader? = Is this SuSE? If so. Boot from your SuSE install CDs or floppy and choose "boot installed system", point it at yourr boot partition and then do a "add/remove software packages" and choose grub. RedHat is broadly similar and I expect most distros will b

Re: [Scottish] [OT]: Linux SA Job.

2002-11-21 Thread willie fleming
itment > 'company'. Me neither, however the agency is Computer Futures, who are not the worst amongst a mediocre bunch. The job is in South Edinburgh, a 15 min bus ride from Waverley so it would be a complete PITA for us Glasgow based punters. Those closer to Edinburgh may have dif

Re: [Scottish] RPM sizes

2002-12-05 Thread willie fleming
s item and we'll pester Kenny to put it in the right place :-) -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] This Mailing List

2002-12-05 Thread willie fleming
ttish Theres a link there to the archives too. Remember you can join us on IRC at eu.freenode.net on channel #scotlug All SLUG people welcome! -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://m

[Scottish] OT --new version of the 417 scam

2002-12-10 Thread willie fleming
OK this is seriously OT but might be worth a giggle... makes a change from the dozen or so normal 417s I discard every week on your behalf Dear Sir, My name is Haja I am a 23 years old and a British citizen who was taken to Brunei by my father at the young age of 12. He deceived me that

Re: [Scottish] OT --new version of the 419 scam -- just decrement it twice

2002-12-11 Thread willie fleming
ategoryID=5 I'm a XXXL, thanks. Have a Kool Yule, y'all Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] [SLUG-announce] Xmas Meeting(s)

2002-12-12 Thread willie fleming
cratic cabalism. Occaisionally we talk computer stuff too. Stand by for updates if we can get a speaker organised for a session in the Livi Tower before the pub. Remember the LUG that glugs together, stays together Have a Kool Yule y'all Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] [SLUG-announce] Xmas Meeting(s)

2002-12-12 Thread willie fleming
the > furry penguin. _somebody_ please bring a penguin this month :-) > > This decision was arrived at entirely undemocratically by a small cabal on > IRC. Join us on eu.freenode.net #scotlug to take part in this > undemocratic cabalism. Occaisionally we talk computer stuff t

[Scottish] SLOX SuSE Linux Open eXchange

2002-12-18 Thread willie fleming
browser based so you don't need to install anything. Please don't subscribe to any mailing lists, websites etc from the SLOX email addy though, we dont want him swamped with spam. Stuart Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Best Reg

[Scottish] Fwd: [edlug] Security Enhanced Linux - interest?

2003-01-01 Thread willie fleming
tp://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html --- -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] If you had a choice between...

2003-01-15 Thread willie fleming
bian's ease of install (once I'd got my SCSI CD to boot) and package management. However in a straight choice between SuSE and Redhat, its got to be SuSE. I had that Redhat in the back of my HDD once smelly bugger, messed the place up, had to throw him out -- Best Regards Willie

Re: [Scottish] Going spare

2003-01-22 Thread willie fleming
sing and moving > but the furniture is being left. If anyone wants a desk or > chair let me know and I'll see if the offer extends to > non-staff. I could use an office chair if there's any spare. Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

[Scottish] January 2003 Meeting -- 30/01/2003

2003-01-26 Thread willie fleming
/browse.cgi?X=259250&Y=665500&width=700&height=400&client=public&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&scale=5000&advanced=&multimap.x=279&multimap.y=274 enter by t

Re: [Scottish] MoBo

2003-01-28 Thread willie fleming
The SuSE support database has a wheen of info on whats compatible and whats not http://hardwaredb.suse.de/?LANG=en_UK -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] last nights meeting - apologies and a link

2003-01-31 Thread willie fleming
-consultancy.com/forum/default.asp?v=1501 See you next month for Martys talk on regexes. --- Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] modems

2003-01-31 Thread willie fleming
Ive got a PCMCIA 28.8 Sportster X-Jack you can have for a couple of pints. Not too fast but it does the job for mail. -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman

[Scottish] Pin drop

2003-02-11 Thread willie fleming
either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] This months meeting ** with new added tea & coffee ** ** including mystery celebrity guest **

2003-02-24 Thread willie fleming
279&multimap.y=274 enter by the George Sq door and look for the geeks with the fluffy penguin. PS Can someone remember to bring a fluffy penguin this month? PPS Don't forget your autograph books!!! -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-03-05 Thread willie fleming
pam from this most days and approve/disapprove msgs from non-subscribed addresses but its <5 mins work per day so its no big deal either way. As always, your thoughts, suggestions and offers of drink are most welcome -- Best Regards Willie Fleming Mailing List admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

[Scottish] allowing excessively slender metallic cylinders to convert potential energy to kinetic within a uniform 1G gravitational field

2003-03-19 Thread willie fleming
barely audible plink -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread willie fleming
to be up in the next couple of days. Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread willie fleming
l. Again if anyone knows different, tell me ASAP -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Re: Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-02 Thread willie fleming
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 09:53, Will Partain wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Should we arrange with the list manager (Willie Fleming) > > to stop our archival posts? ... > We will continue with the existing archive arrangements via lug.org.uk Unless there is HUGE demand to

Re: [Scottish] An Open Source Spam-Basher

2003-04-05 Thread willie fleming
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 19:55, Harry Sigerson wrote: > Folks, > Though I lurk on ScotLUG I am still not a Linuxer. > Does anyone know of a good open source spam-basher? try http://spamassassin.org/ -- Willie Fleming [EMAIL

Re: [Scottish] Down IRC

2003-07-13 Thread willie fleming
/me suspects the list will get busier for the next few days till this problem gets sorted On Sunday 13 Jul 2003 18:10, Lawrence Sweeney wrote: > On 2003.07.13 18:01 Stuart M Anderson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it just me or is there something wrong with the IRC servers? I > > keep getting > > >

[Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
Many users now have >512Mb RAM. Do we really need to allocate 2x RAM for swap? Discuss Willie ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Poisoned Spam

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 21:31, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Is it just me? _Possibly_ not > > I've been responsible for the care and feeding of a lot of mailboxes. I've > seen SMTP queues stalled, and lots of messages bounced due to bad > formatting. But until this week I never had trouble getting mail

Re: [Scottish] Authentication methods

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 11:54, Kyle Gordon wrote: > hey all > > In a futile attempt to learn something worthwhile, I've decided to have a > shot at an alternative authentication system. > > Now, I know there's NIS and LDAP, but which one is best and in what > scenarios should they be used? Which i

[Scottish] test

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
its really very boring ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] The yellow peril?

2003-07-25 Thread Willie Fleming
Al Queada. This implied criticism of the Chinese people and their perfectly legitimate attempts to protect their culture is totally unwarranted. -- Best Regards Willie Fleming --The East is Red-- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Scottish] (OT) Request for part

2004-10-12 Thread Willie Fleming
On Monday 11 Oct 2004 20:56, Charles McCrimmon wrote: > Lo all, > > I know this aint really the place to post this, but im kinda pissed with > tryin to win auctions on ebay atm > > Im looking for a Dual Head Matrox PCI card, any type as long as its got > at least 2Mb gfx mem i dont care anyone

Re: [Scottish] (OT) Request for part

2004-10-12 Thread Willie Fleming
On Monday 11 Oct 2004 20:56, Charles McCrimmon wrote: > Lo all, > > I know this aint really the place to post this, but im kinda pissed with > tryin to win auctions on ebay atm Its perfectly acceptable as far as Im concerned. Post away - we need all the traffic we can get on the list :-) > Im look

Re: [Scottish] xbox linux (again)

2004-10-15 Thread Willie Fleming
Yes I'd be into this Willie ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] Fwd: Your Machines

2004-10-15 Thread Willie Fleming
Forwarded from Peter - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Your Machines Date: Friday 15 October 2004 21:29 From: "Peter George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You've probably seen me banging on about these FLOSS events at the CCA Sauchie

[Scottish] Surplus books

2004-10-22 Thread Willie Fleming
ot;076458020" "Groupwise 4 Administrators Guide","Rogers","IDG Books","1568847327" "Exchange 5 Study Guide","Easlick","Sybex","0782119670" "Using the Windows 95 Re

Re: [Scottish] Hi from Down Under

2004-11-04 Thread Willie Fleming
expect a different turn-out from our usual meetings but that might not be entirely a bad thing. We'd need to be on our best behaviour which would take some of the fun out of it - thinker and me couldn't trade our usual insults etc but then again it might bring us new members with a d

[Scottish] Fwd: Motion in the Scottish Parliament

2004-11-09 Thread Willie Fleming
live at http://www.scottishparliamentlive.com/"; ** ----------- -- Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Router and network question

2004-11-15 Thread Willie Fleming
up. > > Oh, and it's a network of PCs and MACs if that should be at all relevant > (but I guess not). > > thanks and regards, > > magnus > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PR

[Scottish] Patrik Harvie's Open Source motioon in Holyrood

2004-11-15 Thread Willie Fleming
Thing. -- Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Patrik Harvie's Open Source motioon in Holyrood

2004-11-16 Thread Willie Fleming
sh.parliament.uk/msp/index.htm scroll down a wee bit and enter your postcode. On reflection I should have put that in my original post, sorry. - Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Clear out - update

2004-11-18 Thread Willie Fleming
the world most common spam tag, and just do what most > other mailing lists do and prefix it with [FS] or something similar. I'd go along with that :-) Its been a minor hassle, thats 'all. One I'd rather not have repeated and possibly I could look at the spam filters in gr

Re: [Scottish] Clear out - update

2004-11-18 Thread Willie Fleming
Oh and another thing. Craig's original message said >Having a wee clear out of some stuff, if anyone wants any of the below, >mail me off list, all free to uplift (well up to the end of free stuff ^^^ so there! -- Willie Fleming [EMAI

Re: [Scottish] November Meeting

2004-11-20 Thread Willie Fleming
pe > If so how do I do that? just subscribe to the mailing list. > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish or join us on IRC at irc.scotlug.org.uk then /join #scotlug Look forw

Re: [Scottish] OT: Desperately seeking Claris

2004-11-23 Thread Willie Fleming
ing running right now with a FDD so they are totally untested. You also get a free copy of FileMaker Pro (on 3 discs) as well. Will you be at the meeting on Thursday? Or should I give them to Lawrence? -- Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Training for Work Placements

2005-04-05 Thread willie fleming
The attachments referred to by Karen McSporran can be found at http://lodge.glasgownet.com/~willie/PUIT/ in both MS Word and OpenOffice formats. -- Regards Willie Fleming ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http

Re: [Scottish] Free Stuff.

2005-11-17 Thread Willie Fleming
on the Oki if no-one else has bagged it first :-) > 13. An OKI ol830 led page printer + spare toner cartridge, prints streaky > for the first few pages then runs ok. A few other problems, ask me. I > don't really want to get rid of this but it's giving me grief.

Re: [Scottish] Re: [edlug] KDE's Akademy in Scotland

2006-01-13 Thread Willie Fleming
On Friday 23 December 2005 14:30, Catriona & Anand wrote: Well this just arrived in my Inbox this afternoon - anybody else just receiving this now or is it old news? What's the dates and likely venues before I commit myself? > Aye > > Anand > > On Thursday 22 December 2005 01:05, Jonathan Ridd

Re: [Scottish] Time flies - January's meeting and other stories

2006-01-26 Thread Willie Fleming
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 t

Re: [Scottish] Time flies - January's meeting and other stories

2006-01-26 Thread Willie Fleming
On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 t

Re: [Scottish] Small Time IT support required

2007-10-24 Thread Willie Fleming
Im interested - tell me more :-) --- Best Regards Willie Fleming 0141 637 6443 07799 67 88 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:05:46 Philip Ward wrote: > Anyone interested in a little extra pocket money? > I'm having to give up providing IT support for a couple of clie

Re: [Scottish] Cheap camera

2007-11-01 Thread Willie Fleming
Check tonights free-share for a one-off solution Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday 01 November 2007 18:11:14 Kyle Gordon wrote: > For a small project of mine... > > Is anyone able to recommend a sub £100 pocket digital camera? Must be > fairly easy

Re: [Scottish] chris fleming - openstreetmap talk

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Fleming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday 12 November 2007 14:35:21 Alastair Broom wrote: > We've got a castle, you know. ;-) We've got five AND we use both sides of our main streets ;-) Willie ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.l

[Scottish] ScotLUG on tour? Possible trip to Dundee to meet the AberTay team?

2007-11-16 Thread Willie Fleming
Just a thought... see http://www.scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Current_events --- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] Linux mags

2007-11-27 Thread Willie Fleming
Forwarded on behalf of Alan Hi, I have a big pile of Linux mags that I'm getting rid of, mainly comprising of a couple of years worth of subscriptions to Linux Journal. If your interested, you will have to come round and pick them up I live in East Kilbride. Email me if your interested and i

Re: [Scottish] Linux mags

2007-11-29 Thread Willie Fleming
l have to come round and > > pick them up I live > in East Kilbride.> Email me if your interested and > > i will provide you with my address.> Thanks,> Alan> > -- > Alan > > Rutherford> Glasgow, Scotland> > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: >

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

2008-02-23 Thread Willie Fleming
nd if we get a whole load more traffic but at these levels, what's the beef? --- Best Regards Willie Fleming ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

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

2008-02-24 Thread Willie Fleming
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 be a prick (it's my > > default state these days it

Re: [Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

2008-04-12 Thread Willie Fleming
ey might perhaps be considered as examples of 'good practice' as > > editing quoted material does prevent successive posts getting longer and > > longer when the entirety of each previous post is quoted, would you not > > agree? > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- --- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

2008-04-12 Thread Willie Fleming
On Saturday 12 April 2008 17:05:36 Arron M Finnon wrote: > It seems some where a long the line i lost to whole concept of what's > going on in this thread. I'm not sure if I've offended, pissed off, or > replied to people to their satisfaction. YOu haven't offended me, nor I suspect 99% of the mem

Re: [Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

2008-04-12 Thread Willie Fleming
On Saturday 12 April 2008 22:56:48 Andrew Calverley wrote: > I believe that there is already moves afoot to have an umbrella > organisation called ScotLUG. > > A whois lookup already shows that some folks are moving in that direction. > > http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=scotlug&tld=org > > My

Re: [Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

2008-04-13 Thread Willie Fleming
On Sunday 13 April 2008 12:04:01 Kevin McDermott wrote: > Hi Willie, > > I take exception to the completely bit :-) > > This has nothing to do with Linux or ScotLUG, feel free to bore > someone senseless at the next ScotLUG meeting if you can find a > volunteer, but unlike Arron's emails, this i

Re: [Scottish] new ScotLUG website

2008-04-25 Thread Willie Fleming
On Friday 25 April 2008 21:28:46 Kyle Gordon wrote: > 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 > >