[Blackpool] Hi!

Wed Jan 26 21:42:51 UTC 2011

Thanks for the welcome, Tony and Rick :)

I've had a gander at the Linode documentation in the past few weeks. Some of
it is useful and easy to follow. One site that's been recommended to me is
vpsbible.com.

I think my problem is that I can get a bit impatient with reading and just
want to dive in and get things working - doesn't always work out that way,
though!

As for Android... I've got an HTC Desire that I'm generally quite happy
with. Rooting it makes it far more flexible than the standard network ROM.

Regards,

James

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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:04:21 +0000
> From: James Page <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Blackpool] Hi!
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Hi everyone... Just thought I'd introduce myself and say hello.
>
> I'm fairly new to Linux and am undergoing a baptism of fire at the moment,
> trying to run a VPS with CentOS 5.5 and Webmin. It's a bit of a learning
> curve, coming from a shared hosting environment where everything is done
> for
> you.
>
> I thought it might be handy to get to know other Linux users in the area,
> so
> here I am!
>
>
> James
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:13:53 +0000
> From: Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Blackpool] Fwd: Re:  Hi!
> To: "blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk" <blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Fwd to the list.
> Les
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Les Pounder" <lespounder at gmail.com>
> Date: 26 Jan 2011 19:12
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Hi!
> To: "James Page" <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com>
>
> Hi James, welcome to the group.
>
> CentOS is a great OS, building on the stability of Red Hat, but with none
> of
> the cost.
> VPS' are strange beasts compared to hosting, but webmin will.steer you
> well.
> Are you using the VPS for a website?
>
> Please feel free to.pop down and meet us on Saturday, we meet at pc
> recycler
> at 29/35 Ripon Rd
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=29-35+Ripon+Rd+Blackpool+FY1+4DY,+UK
>
> We meet at 10am every Saturday, any closures are announced in advance on
> this list.
>
> Hope to see you soon.
>
> Les
> On 26 Jan 2011 18:04, "James Page" <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone... Just thought I'd introduce myself and say hello.
> >
> > I'm fairly new to Linux and am undergoing a baptism of fire at the
> moment,
> > trying to run a VPS with CentOS 5.5 and Webmin. It's a bit of a learning
> > curve, coming from a shared hosting environment where everything is done
> for
> > you.
> >
> > I thought it might be handy to get to know other Linux users in the area,
> so
> > here I am!
> >
> >
> > James
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blackpool mailing list
> > Blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/blackpool
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:29:33 +0000
> From: James Page <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Hi!
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
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>
> Thanks for the welcome, Les :)
>
> Yes, I'm using the VPS for web (a couple of Wordpress sites, a forum and
> hopefully a Drupal multi-site installation), alongside a few mail accounts
> and DNS. Because I'm on a shoestring budget, I decided to forego cPanel and
> went with Webmin/ Virtualmin to manage the system. There's still a bit of a
> learning curve involved, but not as much as there would be had I tried to
> do
> everything from the command line. What I particularly like about Webmin is
> the ability to import accounts from cPanel, which has made things a bit
> easier. Fortunately, my VPS provider is incredibly helpful and at a fiver
> per month, a bit of a bargain, too.
>
> I'll try to pop down one Saturday - 10am's usually a little on the early
> side for me! :P
>
>
> James
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi James, welcome to the group.
> >
> > CentOS is a great OS, building on the stability of Red Hat, but with none
> > of the cost.
> > VPS' are strange beasts compared to hosting, but webmin will.steer you
> > well. Are you using the VPS for a website?
> >
> > Please feel free to.pop down and meet us on Saturday, we meet at pc
> > recycler at 29/35 Ripon Rd
> >
> > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=29-35+Ripon+Rd+Blackpool+FY1+4DY,+UK
> >
> > We meet at 10am every Saturday, any closures are announced in advance on
> > this list.
> >
> > Hope to see you soon.
> >
> > Les
> > On 26 Jan 2011 18:04, "James Page" <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone... Just thought I'd introduce myself and say hello.
> > >
> > > I'm fairly new to Linux and am undergoing a baptism of fire at the
> > moment,
> > > trying to run a VPS with CentOS 5.5 and Webmin. It's a bit of a
> learning
> > > curve, coming from a shared hosting environment where everything is
> done
> > for
> > > you.
> > >
> > > I thought it might be handy to get to know other Linux users in the
> area,
> > so
> > > here I am!
> > >
> > >
> > > James
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Blackpool mailing list
> > > Blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/blackpool
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:08:55 +0000
> From: Rick Vause <rvause at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Hi!
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Hi James,
>
> Webmin/Virtualmin are really cool and handy but I found them incredibly
> cumbersome. I administer quite a number of servers 7 of which are VPS
> servers hosted by Linode. I'd suggest that if you can get to grips with a
> good text editor like VIM, between that and getting to know bash a little
> you will be far more productive on the command line. It is also likely that
> you will earn a deeper understanding of what you are doing.
>
> I name dropped Linode, not as a recommendation but because they have a
> great
> base of how-to articles here: http://library.linode.com/ When I am doing
> something new, I always start there as the articles don't overload you with
> information and define clear steps and recommendations to get stuff done. A
> lot of their articles are presented multiple times for a number of distros
> including Cent OS.
>
> I don't get to the meetings because of my weird working schedule but I
> follow the mailing list.
>
> ~Rick
>
> On 26 January 2011 19:29, James Page <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the welcome, Les :)
> >
> > Yes, I'm using the VPS for web (a couple of Wordpress sites, a forum and
> > hopefully a Drupal multi-site installation), alongside a few mail
> accounts
> > and DNS. Because I'm on a shoestring budget, I decided to forego cPanel
> and
> > went with Webmin/ Virtualmin to manage the system. There's still a bit of
> a
> > learning curve involved, but not as much as there would be had I tried to
> > do
> > everything from the command line. What I particularly like about Webmin
> is
> > the ability to import accounts from cPanel, which has made things a bit
> > easier. Fortunately, my VPS provider is incredibly helpful and at a fiver
> > per month, a bit of a bargain, too.
> >
> > I'll try to pop down one Saturday - 10am's usually a little on the early
> > side for me! :P
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi James, welcome to the group.
> > >
> > > CentOS is a great OS, building on the stability of Red Hat, but with
> none
> > > of the cost.
> > > VPS' are strange beasts compared to hosting, but webmin will.steer you
> > > well. Are you using the VPS for a website?
> > >
> > > Please feel free to.pop down and meet us on Saturday, we meet at pc
> > > recycler at 29/35 Ripon Rd
> > >
> > > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=29-35+Ripon+Rd+Blackpool+FY1+4DY,+UK
> > >
> > > We meet at 10am every Saturday, any closures are announced in advance
> on
> > > this list.
> > >
> > > Hope to see you soon.
> > >
> > > Les
> > > On 26 Jan 2011 18:04, "James Page" <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone... Just thought I'd introduce myself and say hello.
> > > >
> > > > I'm fairly new to Linux and am undergoing a baptism of fire at the
> > > moment,
> > > > trying to run a VPS with CentOS 5.5 and Webmin. It's a bit of a
> > learning
> > > > curve, coming from a shared hosting environment where everything is
> > done
> > > for
> > > > you.
> > > >
> > > > I thought it might be handy to get to know other Linux users in the
> > area,
> > > so
> > > > here I am!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > James
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Blackpool mailing list
> > > > Blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/blackpool
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>
>
>
> --
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> http://twitter.com/rvause
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:36:54 +0000
> From: Tony Hughes <tonyhughes1212 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Hi!
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <4D4085E6.8080207 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> Hi James
>
> Welcome to the mad house that is Blackpool LUG, we're a diverse bunch
> some with professional IT backgrounds and others like me that started
> with PC's running that other OS and have seen the wisdom in the open
> source movement, and have made the transition in part or wholeheartedly
> to Linux.
>
> Most of us for whatever reason still have to use windows either for work
> and as in my case for the odd bit of software that will not run in Linux
> and (since auntie Beeb changed the I Player radio codecs) its the only
> way to listen again to any radio shows I've missed on the BBC.
>
> My current desk top OS is Mint 9 and I experiment on a number of
> netbooks and laptops with other distro's as the mood takes me. But with
> the exceptions explained above I'm fully Linux including my New (to me)
> HTC Android smart phone.
>
> I'll not be at this weeks meeting as I'm working but hope to catch up
> with you some time.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Hughes
>
> On 26/01/11 18:04, James Page wrote:
> > Hi everyone... Just thought I'd introduce myself and say hello.
> >
> > I'm fairly new to Linux and am undergoing a baptism of fire at the
> moment,
> > trying to run a VPS with CentOS 5.5 and Webmin. It's a bit of a learning
> > curve, coming from a shared hosting environment where everything is done
> for
> > you.
> >
> > I thought it might be handy to get to know other Linux users in the area,
> so
> > here I am!
> >
> >
> > James
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blackpool mailing list
> > Blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/blackpool
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:49:40 +0000
> From: Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Blackpool] Fwd: [Fsuk-manchester] Richard Stallman
>        (rms/FSF/GNU) tour of GB at beginning of March.
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID:
>        <AANLkTi=TJGOXaQXziJ=6TqN-vYWJV+rVD3hRXNK2Un3r at mail.gmail.com<6TqN-vYWJV%2BrVD3hRXNK2Un3r at mail.gmail.com>
> >
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>
> All
>
> Richard Stallman is doing a talk in Preston on the 2nd of March, more
> details can be found here
>
> http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/northwest/lancs-cumbria/freedigitalsocietyMarch2011.cfm
>
> <
> http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/northwest/lancs-cumbria/freedigitalsocietyMarch2011.cfm
> >
> Les
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Dorrington <michael.dorrington at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM
> Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Richard Stallman (rms/FSF/GNU) tour of GB at
> beginning of March.
> To: Manchester Free Software <fsuk-manchester at nongnu.org>
>
>
>
> Richard Stallman, aka rms, founder of the Free Software Foundation
> (FSF), GNU's Not Unix (GNU) and the Free Software Movement is doing a
> speaking tour of Great Britain? at the beginning of March. The ones
> closest to Manchester are:
>
> Wednesday, 2nd March: Preston
> Saturday, 5th March: Sheffield
>
> The Preston talk is at University of Lancaster. I don't have any more
> details at the moment but you can see it listed as "A free digital
> society" on:
> http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/northwest/lancs-cumbria/index.cfm
>
> The Sheffield talk is open for registration now.
> http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/yorks/south/11-03-stallman-lecture.cfm
> And I've been told that the venue is the: "Pennine Lecture Theatre at
> Sheffield Hallam Uni ... which should make it easy enough to travel from
> Manchester by train (only a few hundred yards from Sheffield train
> station)."
>
> You can see a video of Richard Stallman talking in Manchester in 2008 at:
> http://www.archive.org/details/Richard.Stallman.Manchester.2008
>
> I recommend attending.
>
> The other GB venues are listed under March 2011 at:
> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Event:Richard_Stallman
>
> Regards,
> Mike.
> MFS Chair.
>
> ? Not UK as Northern Ireland is missing from the tour! :(
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:58:43 +0000
> From: B McLellan <bob.mclellan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Blackpool] Good news everyone
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> There seems to have been a sudden burst of activity for the LUG.
> Perhaps a sign that 2011 will be the year of the Linux desktop! ;)
>
> Tony mentioned at the last meeting that he had managed to get an HP
> printer working without to much fuss recently so I decided to try and
> get my laserjet working again. Last time I tried I spent about half an
> hour fiddling with CUPs before I got bored and gave up. This time it
> took about 5 seconds. I just plugged it in and Ubuntu 10.04 identified
> it and downloaded the driver automatically. Cool!
>
> Might try to ride my my luck and revive my MythTV box now.
>
> Won't be at the meeting this week. See you all in Feb.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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