http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47314
Seems like the german government will vote against software patents
next week.
Good news, for a change. Let's hope the luxembourgish government
will also come to see the light.
Greets Eric
This Friday (14th of May) we organize a demonstration in front of the
Ministére de l'Économie (Boulvard Royal) in Luxembourg City.
It is very important that everyone comes at least for half an hour.
There is no good excuse not to come.
If Free Software, Open Source and Linux is not reason enough think of your jobs.
In the US most of the SMEs involved in software development export their
work to countries that do not have software patents just because they are
scared of being sued. Do we want that in Europe ?
WE are a power that is able to change things before this happens here.
WE where able to get the parliament to vote for limiting amendments
that will make pure software not patentable.
With the council text there will be no OpenOffice, no Samba, no mplayer
and no Linux any more.
WE have to tell our government to support those amendments and to not
let the council decide. This is a democracy and they have to be remembered
of that.
YOU can make it change by just spending a few hours to help.
Add your name to:
http://www.linux.lu/wiki/index.php/Demo14MayLuxembourg
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Thierry Coutelier
No Patents on Software: http://www.linux.lu/epatent
Hi,
I normally access the Net via the cable.
Sometimes, when I boot my computer, I don't have an IP address. This is
usually because for one reason or the other I've unplugged my
cable-modem. So I plug the modem back in and... nada... still no IP
(even if I wait).
So I usually have to reboot :(
My question : is there a way to force the system to recognize that the
network (cable-modem) plugged to eth0 is back up and that it should
request an IP address (via DHCP)?
Would something like
~ # ifconfig eth0 down
~ # ifconfig eth0 up
work?
Do I have to specify anything to let it know it should use DHCP to get
the IP adress or will it find that info in one of the config files?
(which one for my education?)
Will ipchains or other firewall be affected? Since there was no net on
that card at boot time, were the rules concerning this card enabled?
I may try this before I get an answer, but I'd like to know if there may
be some unforeseen side-effects.
thanks
Serge
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Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
Hi,
Sorry for beeing a little late with this mail.
Today, 29.04.04 will be a presentation of a (linux compatible ;-)
) multimedia cableing system called "Homeway" (http://www.homeway.
de). Presentation will be held by people from Homeway Germany assisted
by Mme Masson from Siemens Luxembourg.
Where: Maison Collart, 17, rue de Hobscheid, Steinfort (same building
as the "Jugendhaus" but 2 floor)
When: 29.04.04 19.30h
I would really enjoy to see some of you there
greetins
Jang Lemmer
MCCL Asbl
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greetings,
i installed my printer (hp laserjet 1200 on a router with print server)
with yast ( "Geraete-URI: Gefilterte Weiterleitungswarteschlange nach HP
auf LPD-Server 192.168.0.1) and printed a test page using text and a
picture, and it worked perfectly. also printing from openoffice works
like a charm. but when i try to print a .ps file, instead of the
document, i get a printed error message: "the postscript interpreter in
your printer is 2014.116. this printout requires at least version 2015
or greater." it goes on recommending to change the output to basic level
2. does anyone know this error message, or how to configure the printing
system to use level 2?
best regards,
kymon
Hi guys,
I'm currently preparing a course (for tomorrow, it's almost done).
In this course, I explain the classic UNIX filesystem (stuff like
inodes etc.).
Now, I'd like to show the students "live" what the directory entries
look like - they are files containing a table with the relation inode
number to filename.
IIRC it used to be that you could simply open such a file and look
at the raw contents (hexdump or whatever) - this though doesn't work
any more, if I try to open a directory directly with vi, cat, less,
hexdump, xxd, od, it doesn't work.
Does someone have an idea how I could get a close look at such a
directory entry? Maybe how to directly access an inode, without
going through the filename? [inode numbers can be had by using
ls -i, I'd have liked to directly look at the directory entry
itself].
I asked around the office, the usual suspects have as little ideas
as I do...
Greets & thanks in advance,
Eric
Hi All, I have just bought a shiny new TFT monitor for my home PC. It is one
of the SAMSUNG monitors that can rotate 90 degrees so that the display is in
portrait instead of landscape mode. Although this isn't the reason that I
bought it, it would be a nice feature to use when writing papers.
Does anyone know how I can change the orientation (rotate 90 degrees) of
either X or KDE to take advantage of this pivot screen? I haven't been able
to dig anything up on Google, but I have found that there is an option in the
KDE control center to rotate the screen. Unfortunately, all options except
for "normal" are inactive :(
Mike