[HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean

Dusty dusty at smashthestack.org
Sun Apr 13 00:59:50 BST 2008


Hey guys,

If no one wants the magazine i'll have them, i'm always looking for good
reading material to absorb and am an avid subscriber of linux format mag
=] I'm in belmont area if you want me to have them? 

Kind Regards,

Dusty.
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:41 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
> george at dicenews dot com wrote:
> > ps if wednesdays meeting is here at HR6 0SD
> > then you could carry on all night
> > with a few beers and sleepover
> > and tootle off thursday morning...
> Thanks George for your offer. Unfortunately, I'll be back at work on the 
> Thursday, but I think it would be a nice idea to have the meeting at 
> your place for a change.
> 
> I can give anyone a lift to or from Leominster as I'll be passing 
> through ....
> 
> Julian
> 
> >
> >                   [george]
> >
> > ~                      [g]                         ~
> > ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
> > ~               07970 378 572            ~
> > ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
> > ~                     (c)2008                  ~
> > ~                                                   ~
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "george at dicenews dot com" 
> > <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
> > To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:55 AM
> > Subject: Re: [HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean
> >
> >
> >> 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!
> >>
> >> [g]
> >>
> >>
> >>                   [george]
> >>
> >> ~                      [g]                         ~
> >> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
> >> ~               07970 378 572            ~
> >> ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
> >> ~                     (c)2008                  ~
> >> ~                                                   ~
> >>
> >> ----- 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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> >>
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> >
> 
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