[HLUG] Gee its quiet here these days !!

[Julian Robbins]

Peter Linnell wrote:
> 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?.
Hi Pete

Happy new Year ! and well done ! I live in Leominster so may be able to 
help.

I think I also owe you an Ubuntu Edgy CD if you still wanted it, (sorry 
I forget to send you one before ..)

Mark. Are we still having this meeting on Thursday at the Centre?

Cheers


Julian

>
> 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
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:06:12 +0000
>> Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Happy new Year to all Herefordshire LUG Members
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 ...
>>>
>>> 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 
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 .
>>>
>>> I haven't looked thru this yet, but hope it'll work.
>>>
>>> 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 ..
>>>
>>> Scary....
>>>
>>> So if buying a new monitor - check if it has real buttons first! I 
>>> am happy with mine anyway, and was aware of this ....
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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