[HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean

[george at dicenews dot com]

i need a linux book,
how uptodate are they and relevant to ubuntu?

I dont know how to install drivers,
or to do system/hardware devices etc

we/you could have the meeting here,
Hatfield Court HR6 0SD,
I have broadband and a router
but the last bus from leominster is at 3.30pm!

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                   [george]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Jones" <ralphkj at gmail.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:23 AM
Subject: [HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean


> Hello all, 
> 
> Would I be correct in assuming that the next meeting is on the 16th of
> April? At the last meeting at the Canal Road Day Centre, one of the
> ladies mentioned that our regular room/meeting space was booked by
> another group (Green Party/FoE? - I forget). Are we
> rescheduling/relocating?
> 
> I (still) have, and would love dearly to find a new home for, the
> following which might be of use/interest to somebody:
> 
> 1) A removals box ful of general computing and Linux magazines that I
> scrounged off Julian about two, posibly three, years ago, with the
> intent off going through them and absorbing whatever was of interest.
> unfortunately, that never happened! Still, is there someone there who
> would like to have a look at them. Otherwise I'll hand them over to the
> toilet paper manufacturers.
> 
> 
> 2) An HP NetServer LC3 PII/350. It was working when replaced two years
> ago by my old boss for a newer unit, and is complete apart from the
> three removable SCSI drives (I had to return those for destruction,
> sensitive company data etc, even though I promised to zero-fill them for
> him.)
> 
> I grabbed it because it seemed like a nice big housing for a workstation
> with multiple drives, but time prevents me from dedicating myself to
> this project.
> 
> 3) I still have three Linux books, hardly used.
> 
> - Linux in a Nutshell - A Desktop Quick Reference, 4th Edition; publ. by
> O'Reilly
> 
> - Running Linux - The Essential Guide to Linux, 4th Edition; publ. by
> O'Reilly
> 
> - RUTE - Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, by Paul Sheer, complete
> with CD which has the whole boook on it in elec. format.
> 
> They'd be of more use to sysadmins and people who would like to study
> Linux a bit more seriously than I have the time for. Ideal for anybody
> who spends a lot of time working on Linux offline. The only thing I
> actually remember using them for was to get a better understanding of
> PATH/CLASSPATH, back in the day when I had problems getting Java to
> work.
> 
> The mags and the server are FOC, but I'd like a fiver each for the
> books, tenner for the whole lot, made out to St. Michaels Hospice or
> A.N. Other charity. Otherwise I'll have to eBay them at 0.99 starting
> price. They're too good to skip.
> 
> I look forward to receiving a torrent of emails!!!
> 
> Regards
> Ralph
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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