[Glastonbury] hello people

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:37:19PM +0100, root wrote:
> hi to the world (tim i know)
I hope you're not running as root here :)  Try to get out of the habit
if you are running as root and connecting to the internet - indeed try
and get out of the habit of running as root at all unless really 
necessary :)
> just testing my new internet connection - redhat 7.1 (from the Linux Bible in 
> Street library)
It may be a good idea to upgrade to a later version of Linux if you are
able to. RH7.1 has had a fair few holes discovered in it since release.
You might get rooted every which way - but the chances are you won't 
notice.

Good general advice is to try to keep as up to date as you can in your
distribution and _absolutely_ up to date in the security patches for 
that release. I'm sure someone in the GLUG can supply e.g. RH 9.0 
download edition if you ask. 
> 
> in the words of some band in the late eighties -
> 
> 	" i'm free, to do what i want, any old time"
> 
> that's linux as far as i'm concerened. Suse and Redhat may not be free if you 
> want to buy a box with a printed manual, they're free if you want to download 
> them (or get them from the local library)
But not free if you want to distribute them.  SuSE won't give out CD's 
for download - you can install everything from ftp though.  They also 
retain copyright on YaST which is not open source and not free software.
Red Hat require that you remove all mention of RH, logos and so on - 
hence the spread of "Pink Tie" and so on i.e. rebadged RH and a slew
of "based on RH" distros.

> 
> can anyone help with two problems?
> 
> 1) MIDI sequencing:
> 
> I've tried Rosegarden, Brahms, Audacity to name but three. I'm using Mandrake 
> 9 from LXF.
timidity perhaps?  I'm no MIDI guru so not the best.
> 
> This is the one thing (aside from CorelDraw - but i can live without that) 
> that keeps me hooked on Microsoft. 

GIMP and Imagemagick may help wean you off Corel Draw - also look at 
Scribus :)
> 
> 2) Mail:
> 
> I dial in to Freeserve. what i'd like to do is when i collect my mail, stuff 
> addressed to GRAHAM@oxley1165.freeserve.co.uk goes to my machine, and stuff 
> addressed to JOE@oxl..... goes to my sons' machine. Is this difficult to do? 
> If anyone can save me from reading all about fetchmail etc. with a couple of 
> gems of wisdom????
> 
> Finally, when does Glastolug meet ? I've rebuilt my server/gateway so many 
> times and lost all my addresses and old mail....
> But if anyone wants to ask me about PPP :)
Wednesdays once a month?  See much discussion in the mailing list 
archives.
> 
> ttfn
Have fun,

Andy