[Sussex] [WRU] So which hearing was I in ?

[Nik Butler]

That subject line explained at the end of this little discourse. [1] 

Meanwhile on other notes, my gawd have we all been quiet ? okay maybe I
havent, maybe its been the week before Lug meet. when we begin to store
our anecdotes, pithy commentary and increasingly large desires for beer.

So someone complained that maybe the list was quiet, okay maybe not such
the complaint but I need too suggest where Ive been today.

See last week, saturday, I got the electrics sorted out at me house.
This mostly included a new electric fuse box replacing the previous
black box which im sure said Here be dragons on it!  

So payment for that job was me old Sony Vaio as a little bit of batering
for the product. A Worthwhile value as I considered I would be able to
pick up a suitable replacement in time! Wrong... So here I am on a
Zentih DatSystems Z-Note 1000, running the latest Debian and using the
POWER of X Forwarding to forward my Xsession from upstairs ( 1.2Ghz,
256Mb, 80GB sickpuppy ) to my Laptop ( 75Mhz, 32Mb, 1.2Gb ). and I dont
really notice the difference in not working upstairs. Now someone tell
me how I would have done this in a simple Win2k world. I mean simple
Win2k ......

anyway on with the story......

Steve Williams continued the theme on Joining and introductions by
covering a little ground and information about being involved in the
list. Which as this mail tends to show is not always about contributing
as the next Linux Jedi !
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002159.html


Debian [ use Debian , not gentoo ]  got some more mail air time  when
Dominic was tempted away from the darkside to investigate the benefits
of the world of apt-get. Which in the true style of all things SLug lead
to many incorrect and innapropriate peices of advices.  Although in the
end our skills were put to shame by Grand Master Dobson.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002148.html
http://www.apt-get.org
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002160.html



The Advertising Standards authority was mentioned briefly as I became
extremley confused about the concept of being the first person to use
Video Phone technology. Im sure it would be better to be the first to
recive a video phone call. Besides isnt this technology going to be
better if I can conference it and arrange a PPV[2] system !
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002154.html


Geoff [ Human Cloning using Python ] Teale chipped in with a request to
aid in his plans to help with world domination. Apparently Geoff spends
much time looking at Python scripts and how to replicate his DNA.
Personally I think hes a little confused, he started mirroring his DNS
and then his finger slipped as he was typing [3] so we were wondering
when Perl would raise its head having been subsumed to Python.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002161.html
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002169.html


Speaking mirroring, Andrew Guard dropped in with news that the sattelite
connection at his location was a little on the fritz. However a little
careful thought on his posistion allowed him to improvise
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002162.html

Speaking of improvisation. Dell managed to finally gather the
communication between left and right hand. The beast was due for
delivery and this time it was to arrive with the appropriate technology.
Im still unsure why Geoff was unable to recombinate his DNA to
encorporate a larger lap for his new laptop. Just kidding geoff.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002165.html
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002170.html
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002195.html


Andrew [ The Real Life RSS/RDF implementation ] posted a update on SETIS
latest news regarding its search for extraterritrial intelligence.
Frankly Id start looking for signs of intelligence somewhere in a SLUG
meet..
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002172.html


Steve [ Slashdot, the only source for news ] Dobson, dropped in to let
us know what Ive always suspected. That CIOs might need to start
understanding the benefits of Open Source as it applies to their
business. Those in the know without a understanding of the implications
of Open Source are shortly going to be those not in the know.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002173.html
http://www.cio.com/archive/031503/opensource_content.html?printversion=yes


Geof Teale[4], wrote to let us know about the release of the slightly
more liberated Suse Open Exchange Trial Edition. Whilst im all for
Groupware products I do tend to feel that many businesses are fitting
their businesses to the needs of their software than their software to
their business[5]
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002175.html
http://www.suse.com/openexchange/slox_eval_form.html

Speaking of Cloning ,Geoff continues his own Social domination as he
moves more people towards the Gentoo ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Knopixx generation.
Which does lead me to wonder what people like me are supposed to do .. I
mean who the hell in my office can I convert to open source.... no wait,
an evil though conspires.. I shall convert Jon Faultey to Win XP !
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002179.html

Speaking of dumb operating systems, Andrew chipped in with the
continuing saga of MS dumb moves...
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002181.html

So , when we follow up on [5] , see that will make you scroll wont it!
we return to the age old saga of where shall all the Linux Desktops be
installed. Now I was going to respond to that particular thread and then
I thought, nah Balauex , bottom line is Linux is really not ready for
the desktop until we standardise the server [6]
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002183.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3064


Geoff [4[7]] pointed to the very interesting and supremely terrifying
local securtity whole in the Ptrace alert. Now that particular threat
was patched, as per Open Source, with alacrity. MS are actually very
good at posting fixes and patches. The thing is I have a choice about
the security holes I install !
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002190.html

Speaking of what you install, David Chapman gave Xandros a little whirl
and discovered that it werent to happy about his local hardware. Seems
the SCSI is the thing.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002192.html

Again Geoff [7[[5[7]]] dropped in with more Python { he dont do Perl }
concerning his other world dominiation plans as he talks Gentoo [ use
Debian ]. 
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002194.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3051

John [please somebody use Slackware, please for the love of gawd just
use it, cmon. Old Gills gotta keep the dogs from the door, just use it!]
Crowhurst wrote and let us know about Slackware being released. Im
betting it supports a certain persons SCSI card.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002197.html


Further to that news Geoff[7[7[[5[7]]]] began to wonder where the heck
www.tuxedo.org had disappeared to.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002206.html


Mark [My Homes so automated, my door bell emails you a vaction note]
Harrison wrote to keep us upto date of his geek code, and I would say if
you aint sigged it, then do it.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002211.html
http://www.geekcode.com


And Finally John [ hey where did every one go ?] wrote to ask where all
the discussion went. So in a way I feel the need to end as I started
with comments about the activity for this week.....
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/2003-March/002212.html


So thats it really I managed not to cover or comment on the following
topics and of this I am really pleased [8].


1. The Iraq incident, well its a war when the other side actually starts
it.
2. Plan 9, cause Geoff likes it when we mention it.
3. My Employment Tribunal Award [ Copies available on request] which
points to the Admission  that the payment was Due, and
that extra admission that in making the payment the company would have
been in financial difficulties. now I challenge anyone to look up the
defintion of Insolvent. 


So lets all focus on the really important question of this week.. where
the hell do we want to meet.



[1] I got the Award from the Employment tribunal, which stated a
Unanimous descision to award me 10,592 uk pounds.... heheheheh and
someone thought it could be dimissed


[2] PPV , Pay Per View, or Porn Per View .....

[3] Okay a little Clue, the difference between DNS and DNA is one key
position left, on a QWERTY keyboard.

[4] The original , and not the clone. Well so I belive

[5] There, that will start a little flame war

[6] okay see 5

[7] but im not convinced


[8] arse !
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nik at wired4life.org	http://www.wired4life.org/	Wired4Life, an Answer.


From: Michael Wolf
You know what seems odd to me? Numbers that aren't divisible by two."