I would be very interested in the position at Leicester University,
currently working for Sun Microsystems in Northampton and hoping to
relocate to Nottingham or Midlands area, I have applied through the
site and have lots of Sun and Debian experience. Keeping my fingers
crossed......<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:nottingham-request@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham-request@mailman.lug.org.uk</a></b> <<a href="mailto:nottingham-request@mailman.lug.org.uk">
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<br>than "Re: Contents of Nottingham digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: [Talk] *TODAY* TUESDAY 20/09/2005 Guest Speaker: WiFi<br> Across Nottingham (Martin)<br> 2. Linux System Administrator job at University of Leicester
<br> (Davis, N.)<br> 3. Flame-free Desktop War (Joshua Lock)<br> 4. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Martin)<br> 5. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Michael Erskine)<br> 6. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Joshua Lock)<br> 7. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Michael Leuty)
<br> 8. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Joshua Lock)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:54:20 +0100<br>From: Martin <<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">
martin@ml1.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] [Talk] *TODAY* TUESDAY 20/09/2005 Guest<br> Speaker: WiFi Across Nottingham<br>To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk
</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:433157FC.70200@ml1.co.uk">433157FC.70200@ml1.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Martin wrote:<br>[---]<br>>>> We are very honoured to have a guest speaker to present various
<br>>>> adventures and fun for how a WiFi ISP is quickly spreading across<br>>>> Nottingham and throughout the UK.<br>>>><br>>>> See: <a href="http://ineedbroadband.co.uk/">http://ineedbroadband.co.uk/
</a><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> WiFi Across Nottingham and Beyond<br>>>><br>>>> Adrian Robinson<br>>>> ADR Communications<br><br>And a very good fun interesting talk too, all built on Linux systems.
<br><br>Also a reasonable turnout considering our change of day.<br><br><br>A few comments from there that I thought were rather apt (paraphrased):<br><br>"You don't run Microsoft when it costs [hundreds] of pounds to get to
<br>the box to hit reset."<br><br>"Urgent installations in less than four hours and no need for wires or<br>wooden poles."<br><br>"But you need wires for broadband don't ya?"<br><br>"Just give'em a rubber duck & mag-mount. The boaties love it!"
<br><br>"We do a lot of fixing-up for people from (certain other telco's) cock-ups"<br><br>"Who's this naan net?"<br><br><br>One thought from all that lot was how important good GRAPHICAL<br>interfaces are for monitoring and controlling any medium to large
<br>system, even for the most ardent of commandline warriors.<br><br><br>Many thanks to Adrian for the talk and online live demonstrations.<br><br>All so interesting that we nearly missed the pub! Thanks to Alex for<br>keeping the venue open late.
<br><br>Cheers all,<br>Martin<br><br>--<br>----------------<br>Martin Lomas<br><a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a><br>----------------<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:37:05 +0100<br>From: "Davis, N." <<a href="mailto:nd51@leicester.ac.uk">nd51@leicester.ac.uk</a>><br>Subject: [Nottingham] Linux System Administrator job at University of<br> Leicester
<br>To: <<a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:872562B97D471D4AB39FF78E9C921F64013924E5@Saffron.cfs.le.ac.uk">872562B97D471D4AB39FF78E9C921F64013924E5@Saffron.cfs.le.ac.uk
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Hello everyone,<br> I have made it down to the group only once so far and have only met a<br>handful of you, but haven't been back in the E Midlands long.
<br><br> In the interests of helping find someone good to work here, and to<br>help find a fellow Linux person a good sys admin job, am posting this<br>link.<br><br><a href="http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/c2014p.html">
http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/c2014p.html</a><br><br>Though it is described as Unix, we are mostly switching away from the<br>old Suns to Linux.<br><br>It is quite a demanding job, but should be very interesting and fun for
<br>someone enthusiastic.<br><br>I get the train from Beeston everyday, which works out 50 mins door to<br>door for me. (11 mins either end walk, 20-25 mins train journey, 5 mins<br>leeway). The trains are not perfect but not too bad either. Its do-able.
<br><br>DISCLAIMER - This is a PERSONAL posting and not part of any official job<br>advertising by the University. Any opinions are my own and not the<br>University's.<br><br>Please feel free to email me with questions.<br>
<br>:-)<br><br>Nick<br><br><br><br>---------------------------<br><br>Nick Davis<br>Web Application Developer<br>Computer Centre<br>University Of Leicester<br>0116 252 2812<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br>
<br>Message: 3<br>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:07:51 +0100<br>From: Joshua Lock <<a href="mailto:incandescant@gmail.com">incandescant@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War<br>To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">
nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:43326657.5050503@gmail.com">43326657.5050503@gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Good morning list,<br>
<br>I'd first like to note that this is a purely technical post with no need<br>for flames ;)<br><br>I'm personally trying to evaluate KDE vs GNOME and to that end would<br>like to run the two desktops independanlty for a while but because of
<br>the freedesktop menu specifications I can't work out how to do this on<br>the same install...<br><br>I hope this makes sense?<br><br>Any ideas? I'd rather not use live CD's.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Josh<br><br><br><br><br>
------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:27:00 +0100<br>From: Martin <<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War<br>
To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:43326AD4.3000301@ml1.co.uk">43326AD4.3000301@ml1.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
<br><br>Joshua Lock wrote:<br>[---]<br>> I'm personally trying to evaluate KDE vs GNOME and to that end would<br>> like to run the two desktops independanlty for a while but because of<br><br>Run two users?<br><br>(To ensure different home dir dot files for the test users.)
<br><br>Let us know how they compare.<br><br>Good luck,<br>Martin<br><br>--<br>----------------<br>Martin Lomas<br><a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a><br>----------------<br><br><br><br>------------------------------
<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:35:43 +0100<br>From: Michael Erskine <<a href="mailto:msemtd@yahoo.co.uk">msemtd@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War<br>To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">
nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200509220935.43629.msemtd@yahoo.co.uk">200509220935.43629.msemtd@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>
On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:07, Joshua Lock wrote:<br>> I'd first like to note that this is a purely technical post with no need<br>> for flames ;)<br><br><angry><br>What did you say? I'll teach you to suppress my right - MY DUTY - to flame all
<br>posts ;)<br></angry><br><br><br>--<br>Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents'<br>shortcomings.<br> -- Laurence J. Peter, "Peter's Principles"<br><br><br>___________________________________________________________
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Message: 6<br>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:09:19 +0100<br>From: Joshua Lock <<a href="mailto:incandescant@gmail.com">incandescant@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War<br>To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">
nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:433274BF.1080904@gmail.com">433274BF.1080904@gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Hi Martin,<br><br>Martin wrote:
<br>> Joshua Lock wrote:<br>> [---]<br>>> I'm personally trying to evaluate KDE vs GNOME and to that end would<br>>> like to run the two desktops independanlty for a while but because of<br>><br>> Run two users?
<br><br>That's an idea but afaik that will still leave the two opposing desktops<br>app's in the menu's. I assume if I delete menu items they are deleted<br>for all users?<br><br>I'm planning on using Ubuntu for this trial if that helps?
<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Josh<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:34:23 +0100<br>From: Michael Leuty <<a href="mailto:mike@leuty.net">mike@leuty.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War<br>To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200509221034.23226.mike@leuty.net">200509221034.23226.mike@leuty.net
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>On Thursday 22 September 2005 10:09, Joshua Lock wrote:<br>> That's an idea but afaik that will still leave the two opposing<br>> desktops app's in the menu's. I assume if I delete menu items they are
<br>> deleted for all users?<br><br>You mean you want to set up GNOME with only GNOME apps and KDE with only<br>KDE apps?<br><br>With most distros, adding an app puts entries in both GNOME and KDE menus,<br>but as far as I know you can remove entries in one menu without affecting
<br>the other.<br><br>Editing the GNOME menu has not been easy until the latest version (2.12).<br>You will want the upcoming Ubuntu release, Breezy Badger (currently<br>available as a preview) which has a GNOME menu editor.
<br><br>--<br>Michael Leuty<br>Nottingham, UK<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:01:23 +0100<br>From: Joshua Lock <<a href="mailto:incandescant@gmail.com">incandescant@gmail.com
</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War<br>To: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:433280F3.1060004@gmail.com">433280F3.1060004@gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Michael Leuty wrote:<br>> On Thursday 22 September 2005 10:09, Joshua Lock wrote:<br>>> That's an idea but afaik that will still leave the two opposing
<br>>> desktops app's in the menu's. I assume if I delete menu items they are<br>>> deleted for all users?<br>><br>> You mean you want to set up GNOME with only GNOME apps and KDE with only<br>> KDE apps?
<br>><br><br>The very same :)<br><br>><br>> Editing the GNOME menu has not been easy until the latest version (2.12).<br>> You will want the upcoming Ubuntu release, Breezy Badger (currently<br>> available as a preview) which has a GNOME menu editor.
<br>><br><br>Excellent, I'll get downloading a Breezy ISO then.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Josh<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list
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