[Nottingham] Linux System Administrator job at University of Leicester

[martin lowther]

I would be very interested in the position at Leicester University,
currently working for Sun Microsystems in Northampton and hoping to relocate
to Nottingham or Midlands area, I have applied through the site and have
lots of Sun and Debian experience. Keeping my fingers crossed......

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> 1. Re: [Talk] *TODAY* TUESDAY 20/09/2005 Guest Speaker: WiFi
> Across Nottingham (Martin)
> 2. Linux System Administrator job at University of Leicester
> (Davis, N.)
> 3. Flame-free Desktop War (Joshua Lock)
> 4. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Martin)
> 5. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Michael Erskine)
> 6. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Joshua Lock)
> 7. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Michael Leuty)
> 8. Re: Flame-free Desktop War (Joshua Lock)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:54:20 +0100
> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] [Talk] *TODAY* TUESDAY 20/09/2005 Guest
> Speaker: WiFi Across Nottingham
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Martin wrote:
> [---]
> >>> We are very honoured to have a guest speaker to present various
> >>> adventures and fun for how a WiFi ISP is quickly spreading across
> >>> Nottingham and throughout the UK.
> >>>
> >>> See: http://ineedbroadband.co.uk/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> WiFi Across Nottingham and Beyond
> >>>
> >>> Adrian Robinson
> >>> ADR Communications
>
> And a very good fun interesting talk too, all built on Linux systems.
>
> Also a reasonable turnout considering our change of day.
>
>
> A few comments from there that I thought were rather apt (paraphrased):
>
> "You don't run Microsoft when it costs [hundreds] of pounds to get to
> the box to hit reset."
>
> "Urgent installations in less than four hours and no need for wires or
> wooden poles."
>
> "But you need wires for broadband don't ya?"
>
> "Just give'em a rubber duck & mag-mount. The boaties love it!"
>
> "We do a lot of fixing-up for people from (certain other telco's)
> cock-ups"
>
> "Who's this naan net?"
>
>
> One thought from all that lot was how important good GRAPHICAL
> interfaces are for monitoring and controlling any medium to large
> system, even for the most ardent of commandline warriors.
>
>
> Many thanks to Adrian for the talk and online live demonstrations.
>
> All so interesting that we nearly missed the pub! Thanks to Alex for
> keeping the venue open late.
>
> Cheers all,
> Martin
>
> --
> ----------------
> Martin Lomas
> martin at ml1.co.uk
> ----------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:37:05 +0100
> From: "Davis, N." <nd51 at leicester.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Nottingham] Linux System Administrator job at University of
> Leicester
> To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Message-ID:
> <872562B97D471D4AB39FF78E9C921F64013924E5 at Saffron.cfs.le.ac.uk>
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>
> Hello everyone,
> I have made it down to the group only once so far and have only met a
> handful of you, but haven't been back in the E Midlands long.
>
> In the interests of helping find someone good to work here, and to
> help find a fellow Linux person a good sys admin job, am posting this
> link.
>
> http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/c2014p.html
>
> Though it is described as Unix, we are mostly switching away from the
> old Suns to Linux.
>
> It is quite a demanding job, but should be very interesting and fun for
> someone enthusiastic.
>
> I get the train from Beeston everyday, which works out 50 mins door to
> door for me. (11 mins either end walk, 20-25 mins train journey, 5 mins
> leeway). The trains are not perfect but not too bad either. Its do-able.
>
> DISCLAIMER - This is a PERSONAL posting and not part of any official job
> advertising by the University. Any opinions are my own and not the
> University's.
>
> Please feel free to email me with questions.
>
> :-)
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> ---------------------------
>
> Nick Davis
> Web Application Developer
> Computer Centre
> University Of Leicester
> 0116 252 2812
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:07:51 +0100
> From: Joshua Lock <incandescant at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <43326657.5050503 at gmail.com>
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>
> Good morning list,
>
> I'd first like to note that this is a purely technical post with no need
> for flames ;)
>
> I'm personally trying to evaluate KDE vs GNOME and to that end would
> like to run the two desktops independanlty for a while but because of
> the freedesktop menu specifications I can't work out how to do this on
> the same install...
>
> I hope this makes sense?
>
> Any ideas? I'd rather not use live CD's.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:27:00 +0100
> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Joshua Lock wrote:
> [---]
> > I'm personally trying to evaluate KDE vs GNOME and to that end would
> > like to run the two desktops independanlty for a while but because of
>
> Run two users?
>
> (To ensure different home dir dot files for the test users.)
>
> Let us know how they compare.
>
> Good luck,
> Martin
>
> --
> ----------------
> Martin Lomas
> martin at ml1.co.uk
> ----------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:35:43 +0100
> From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <200509220935.43629.msemtd at yahoo.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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> On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:07, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > I'd first like to note that this is a purely technical post with no need
> > for flames ;)
>
> <angry>
> What did you say? I'll teach you to suppress my right - MY DUTY - to flame
> all
> posts ;)
> </angry>
>
>
> --
> Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents'
> shortcomings.
> -- Laurence J. Peter, "Peter's Principles"
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:09:19 +0100
> From: Joshua Lock <incandescant at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Hi Martin,
>
> Martin wrote:
> > Joshua Lock wrote:
> > [---]
> >> I'm personally trying to evaluate KDE vs GNOME and to that end would
> >> like to run the two desktops independanlty for a while but because of
> >
> > Run two users?
>
> That's an idea but afaik that will still leave the two opposing desktops
> app's in the menu's. I assume if I delete menu items they are deleted
> for all users?
>
> I'm planning on using Ubuntu for this trial if that helps?
>
> Cheers
>
> Josh
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:34:23 +0100
> From: Michael Leuty <mike at leuty.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <200509221034.23226.mike at leuty.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Thursday 22 September 2005 10:09, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > That's an idea but afaik that will still leave the two opposing
> > desktops app's in the menu's. I assume if I delete menu items they are
> > deleted for all users?
>
> You mean you want to set up GNOME with only GNOME apps and KDE with only
> KDE apps?
>
> With most distros, adding an app puts entries in both GNOME and KDE menus,
> but as far as I know you can remove entries in one menu without affecting
> the other.
>
> Editing the GNOME menu has not been easy until the latest version (2.12).
> You will want the upcoming Ubuntu release, Breezy Badger (currently
> available as a preview) which has a GNOME menu editor.
>
> --
> Michael Leuty
> Nottingham, UK
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:01:23 +0100
> From: Joshua Lock <incandescant at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Flame-free Desktop War
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <433280F3.1060004 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Michael Leuty wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 September 2005 10:09, Joshua Lock wrote:
> >> That's an idea but afaik that will still leave the two opposing
> >> desktops app's in the menu's. I assume if I delete menu items they are
> >> deleted for all users?
> >
> > You mean you want to set up GNOME with only GNOME apps and KDE with only
> > KDE apps?
> >
>
> The very same :)
>
> >
> > Editing the GNOME menu has not been easy until the latest version (2.12
> ).
> > You will want the upcoming Ubuntu release, Breezy Badger (currently
> > available as a preview) which has a GNOME menu editor.
> >
>
> Excellent, I'll get downloading a Breezy ISO then.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Josh
>
>
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