Archive for the 'LUG UK' Category

New-look lug.org.uk launched: some thoughts for its future

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

After a tremendous effort by a few of the other admins and volunteers, the new-look lug.org.uk has been launched.

I’m not going to go into massive detail as plenty of other blog posts have been written about this already, and I wasn’t one of the admins doing much work on it. However I […]

If you can find them, you can call the A-Team

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Andrew, if you still haven’t had a reply (and in general if anyone is getting nowhere with a technical problem related to lug.org.uk services) then drop a line to admin AT lug.org.uk and we lug.org.uk admins will look into it.

Make an ASS out of U and .. no, just U.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Clarity is the key…except when not bothering to do any research for a LUGRadio feature.

HantsLUG EGM

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I’m at the Hampshire Linux User Group Extraordinary General Meeting in Southampton today. It’s an EGM because the “proper” annual general meeting a month or two ago didn’t get enough people to be quorate.
I don’t usually physically attend Hants LUG meetings given they take place (naturally) in Hampshire and I live in Feltham, near […]

lug.org.uk is dead (again)

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Hi,
You may be looking at this because you have a web site or mailing list hosted by lug.org.uk and you are wondering where it went.
At just after 01:00 GMT today, Sunday 25th June, the server suffered some form of hardware hiccup. The following was seen on its console:

hda: lost interrupt
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == […]

“e107 website system” — please die in a chemical fire

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Earlier today I noticed something odd in the Exim mainlog on a lug.org.uk machine, so went hunting. I found a user’s website that uses something called the “e107 website system.”
This appears to have a feature whereby an existing news item on the site can be emailed to an arbitrary email address with arbitrary extra […]

The operating systems that spam you

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Someone recently asked on the Sussex LUG list about whether most spam comes from malware-infected Windows machines or misconfigured Linux/unix mail servers.
The question as posed is difficult to answer, but as it happens I have for the last 10 days or so been running p0f against all port 25 connections to mail-in-01.lug.org.uk, the mail server […]

lug.org.uk progress

Monday, March 6th, 2006

I’m very pleased to finally be able to report some progress has been made recently on improving lug.org.uk’s services.
For a very long time, all of lug.org.uk was running from a machine kindly hosted in Leeds by Energis Squared. We (well, Alasdair) had made an attempt to install Xen on it but there was something […]