[HLUG] Gee its quiet here these days !!

[Peter Linnell]

Hi Gang,

Anyone remember the discussion about a group project from the autumn, 
and my rants about the libraries/council from last year ?

Well two things; I made contact with the manager (?) at Leominster 
library, who agreed in principle to allow us to set up a display about 
Linux/FOSS. She was very wary when I mentioned allowing the public to 
take DVD's away and copy them, but promissed to have a look at GPL etc. 
Obviously I would expect to explain in detail to the higher up decision 
makers in due course, but it's all good  for spreading the word.

So, I was on the phone to the DVD compiler at Linux Format magazine, and 
asked him if it was OK for us to copy his DVD's and give them out. 
Whilst the material on the discs is OS and GPLled, the disc itself is 
itellectual Property of the publishers. Anyway, the man was quite happy 
for us to do straight copies of the magazine discs ! Again I will have 
to follow this up in writing to show the library people and make sure my 
back is covered.

I believe we have the basis for a plan of action here, anyone else 
interested in taking part?.

Pete

Graham Cole wrote:

>Very quiet! If you want a meeting at Canal Rd on WED 17th it will be ok but the room is booked by others and we have to use the main hall, which seems good enough. I'll be away on a long trip so won't be coming myself. Melodie Winch would be pleased to have confirmation of HLUG coming: style.winch at virgin.net
>Graham
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>On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:06:12 +0000
>Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>Happy new Year to all Herefordshire LUG Members
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>>Since its been quiet recently, I thought I'd post a few Linux good and 
>>bad issues I've been having in case this will help others or myself.
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>>I bought a little Freecom USB Freeview digital receiver - amazing it 
>>works being so small! Unfortunately, even when running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 
>>and supposedly being supported, it wasn't quite. Actually, this is where 
>>the fun began. Me thinking well Edgy is only two months old, why doesn't 
>>it work, when the drivers from linuxtv.org say it should ? In the end, I 
>>found that there were newer drivers than Edgy and compiling new driver 
>>modules, was actually really easy - a 10 minute process and very 
>>straightforward.
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>>So I can now watch Freeview on my PC, all I have to do is get MythTV 
>>setup properly, and get a decent aerial feed to it, as the reception is 
>>fairly poor in Leominster for DTV (it works, but you need a high 
>>position or a medium /high gain well sited antenna).
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>>Next. My birthday was today ;-) and I got a nice LG1900R Ring LCD 
>>Monitor to replace my ageing 17" Iiyama CRT monitor which had provided 
>>me with many many years of good service, but was just looking a little 
>>tired.
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>>I'm pleased with the new screen, but one problem :- Like a few new TFT 
>>monitors, it doesn't actually have physical buttons to change 
>>brightness, contrast etc. You have to install a Windows app it do this. 
>>Great but what about Linux? Well I tried installing the Windows 
>>ForteManager software with Wine ( which worked), and ran the program - 
>>and as expected didn't get any further ...
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>>Little on the web about this, apart from a Brazilian Forum post on same 
>>issue with same monitor. 
>>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.forumpcs.com.br/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D194597%26start%3D0&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfortemanager%2Blinux%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2006-45,GGGL:en
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>>Basically after being lambasted for buying a TFT, someone mentioned to 
>>him that there is a linux app that will work with these protocols to 
>>control the screen characteristics, i.e. SoftMCCS .
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>>I haven't looked thru this yet, but hope it'll work.
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>>Anyone who can offer any advice on this -please email. Interestingly, 
>>the Windows software also allows you to control the screen via SNMP and 
>>other network means, which in theory could allow a virus to control your 
>>monitor, ie turn contrast up or down or turn it off I guess ..
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>>Scary....
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>>So if buying a new monitor - check if it has real buttons first! I am 
>>happy with mine anyway, and was aware of this ....
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>>Cheers
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>>Julian
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