Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

2014-07-23 Thread Anton Piatek
Nice Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 23 Jul 2014 18:45, "Keith Edmunds" wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:42:19 +0100

Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

2014-07-23 Thread Anton Piatek
I checked my self hosted WordPress blog and it was fine, is WordPress really the reason? Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 23 Jul 2014 17:41

Re: [Hampshire] [OFF TOPIC] Electrician recommendation

2014-07-05 Thread Anton Piatek
And how does one know when buying a house if electrical work was done after 2005? I'd say it is rather hard to enforce, unless of course you are wiring an extension and it is obviously new wiring. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of

Re: [Hampshire] OT: Does anyone have an A1 printer?

2014-07-03 Thread Anton Piatek
We do, but I think it still needs some ink spills cleaned internally Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Jul 2014 18:56, "Peter Collins&qu

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-28 Thread Anton Piatek
Excellent! In my line of work everyone should know at least vi, as it is the only editor on Unix and z/OS you can expect to find. I've never had time to learn emacs... Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, howev

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-28 Thread Anton Piatek
t;>>> the little things :) >>>> many more fields of issues in the world that need more time and >>>> attention brought to them! >>> >>> +1 >> >> So I completely failed to start a vicious flame war :( > > One of the things I like best

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-27 Thread Anton Piatek
for how the rest of the world thinks email should work. Personally I'd rather see secure email solved rather than top/bottom posting Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) N

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-21 Thread Anton Piatek
If I didn't want a footer then bottom posting would be easier in Gmail (reply in line and it still sticks it at the top) Maybe I should ditch a footer, but I've grown used to having one for the last 20 years Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destro

Re: [Hampshire] Fwd: Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
On 20 May 2014 21:24, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > On 20 May 2014, at 13:27, Anton Piatek wrote: > >> Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post > > Gmail’s interfaces are all geared up for top-posting both on mobile and > desktop browsers and native

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 20 May 2014 13:21, "Brad Rogers" wr

Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

2014-04-24 Thread Anton Piatek
One of them should be the official one Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 24 Apr 2014 19:32, "Imran Chaudhry" wrote: > Hi Anton, whi

Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

2014-04-23 Thread Anton Piatek
Fwiw I use an Intel atom ion board with xbmc and the xbmc remote app on my phone to control it Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 23 Apr 2014 10:00

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-14 Thread Anton Piatek
A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering will stress the gpu more though. No idea of specific workload tools though Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I would always replace the thermal paste in a case like this. Worth paying the premium for a good one, still not expensive though Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly

[Hampshire] Fwd: Fw: Winchester meetup for Open Rights Group

2014-04-07 Thread Anton Piatek
The Open Rights Group is starting a chapter for Hampshire if anyone is interested *http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Hampshire/events/173967952/ <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Hampshire/events/173967952/>* -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.c

Re: [Hampshire] "Currently unreadable (pending) sectors"

2013-11-18 Thread Anton Piatek
I have the same issue in the same drive. I replaced mine. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 15 Nov 2013 18:11, "Imran Chaudhry" wrot

Re: [Hampshire] Embedded Java on the Raspberry Pi - Oracle running on-line training course

2013-10-21 Thread Anton Piatek
Depends who is choosing, mine is still perl though node.js is interesting me recently. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 21 Oct 2013 15:38, "

Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

2013-10-12 Thread Anton Piatek
and rebuild the mirror > without any down time, but I've deleted stuff I didn't want to many times. ... I have just bought a new drive as mine is giving me SMART errors and is one month out of warranty. I don't trust hard drives as it seems most of mine die sooner or later. Anto

[Hampshire] "So Make It" crowdfunding

2013-09-18 Thread Anton Piatek
grow bigger and better! [1] http://www.somakeit.org.uk/ [2] http://blog.somakeit.org.uk/2013/09/10/crowdfunding/ [3] https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/fundraiser-for-so-make-it Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37

Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot

2013-06-27 Thread Anton Piatek
I assume akismet is not an option? Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 24 Jun 2013 12:59, "Chris Dennis" wrote: > On 18/06/13 19:

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Anton Piatek
I can't recall details from memory, but there is something like /server-status which can be enabled. It can tell you a but about how busy apache is. Worth looking at as it should tell you about thread and memory usage. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroy

Re: [Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility

2013-04-25 Thread Anton Piatek
http://fr.asus.com/websites/global/aboutasus/OS/Linux.pdf Suggests it works Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 25 Apr 2013 21:46, "Ian Park&qu

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?

2013-04-24 Thread Anton Piatek
lease post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -- -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http:

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

2013-04-15 Thread Anton Piatek
For me it is the fact I can split the view into a grid and tmux remembers after disconnecting, screen doesn't... Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenience

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

2013-04-15 Thread Anton Piatek
I love the layout manager and that it remembers layout after disconnecting and reconnecting! I have a shell script for starting a load of windows and commands easily, it actually runs at boot to start some things I want to run and be able to check stdout of Anton -- Anton Piatek http

Re: [Hampshire] Legacy ide

2013-04-07 Thread Anton Piatek
I've had no problems with a sata to ide adapter on my box. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 7 Apr 2013 12:17, "Rob Malpass" w

[Hampshire] Free: Linksys pls300 powerline adapter

2013-03-02 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a 4 port powerline ethernet adapter here. The other end died so it is no use to me. Yours for the cost of postage (or collection from Eastleigh or the next meetup) See photos at http://ubuntuone.com/album/0HFtl27BW0KekkoRXnG3JR -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Piatek
On 11 Feb 2013 19:32, an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: > > I'm always up for a debate :-) That said, I am also happy to be the host for the debate if nobody else wants to. We should have several microphones in the auditorium if that would suit the event, otherwise there are more informal rooms available.

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Piatek
I'm always up for a debate :-) Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 11 Feb 2013 18:58, "Tim Brocklehurst" wrote: > Hi guys, &g

Re: [Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website

2013-02-04 Thread Anton Piatek
hanks, Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Feb 2013 18:00, "Chris Dennis" wrote: > Hello HantsLUGgers > > Here's an idea... >

Re: [Hampshire] HD activity

2013-02-04 Thread Anton Piatek
Also worth looking at atop which is good for disk activity. Thanks, Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Feb 2013 20:34, "Benjie Gillam&qu

Re: [Hampshire] Little job needed for TV video company - SUSE & RAID.

2013-02-03 Thread Anton Piatek
I wondered about btrfs too, but I'm not sure it is really ready... Anton On 3 Feb 2013 15:45, "James Courtier-Dutton" wrote: > On 1 February 2013 20:02, Tim Brocklehurst > wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2 including backing up > > existing data) to he

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
alk > On something I'm either not interested in or am technically not at that > level. It would put me off attending further meetings. A beginners setting > up a Linux server workshop would be very > Popular with myself and a lot of other > People out there. Just some thoughts > >

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
In general I think it is a good idea. Facebook has a good process for multiple admins of a page, but I've not seen a good solution for twitter other than relying on one person. Anyone know of anything. Anton On 27 Jan 2013 17:48, "Alan Pope" wrote: > Hullo, > > It struck me today that the LUG d

Re: [Hampshire] Box on last legs

2013-01-26 Thread Anton Piatek
I think you need to rule out the kvm first. It could be overheating, but modern cpus should be stable to at least 60 or 70 deg c as measured on silicon, maybe higher. The psu seem less likely to me, but I've never had one fail, other than completely, but have had every other thing fail over the y

Re: [Hampshire] Dropbox alternative

2012-12-19 Thread Anton Piatek
I use ubuntu one, I sync to my Android devices using "folder sync". I looked at sparkle share as an OSS implementation, but it was a long way off at the time. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in t

Re: [Hampshire] Reprap

2012-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
; [2] http://readinghackspace.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page > [3] http://sh-hackspace.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > [4] http://sh-hackspace.org.uk/wiki/index.php/RepRap > http://southackton.org.uk also has several reprap builders depending on where you are located. -- Anton Piatek email: an

[Hampshire] For sale / free: various pc parts

2012-12-15 Thread Anton Piatek
able Free: 2x high speed IDE ribbon cable Free: IDE ribbon cable Free: Floppy ribbon cable Free: Vga cable Free: Hard drives: 60G Seagate barracuda 120G ED Caviar 250G WD Caviar Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37

Re: [Hampshire] Reprap

2012-12-14 Thread Anton Piatek
You might want to talk to people on the southackton Google group, some of them have repraps. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were

Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

2012-12-14 Thread Anton Piatek
Funnily enough, this is exactly the way SSL work iirc, and is the point of it... Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-14 Thread Anton Piatek
On 14 December 2012 08:33, Tony Whitmore wrote: > On 2012-12-14 08:26, Gordon Scott wrote: > >> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 07:27 +, Anton Piatek wrote: >> >>> I notice you use Gmail. Are you not more worried about what google >>> does with that massive we

Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

2012-12-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I find it more amusing that they think this will solve anything. Even Facebook is moving to ssl default connections... Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I notice you use Gmail. Are you not more worried about what google does with that massive wealth of personal data (all your mail)? If you have an android phone then the whole shopping lens thing is tiny compared to what googe tracks from your phone... Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-12 Thread Anton Piatek
pen, properly free (libre) operating system then you should be looking at Debian as it is the only linux I know of that has a goal of free software and is serious about it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines I really admire Debian for it's goals of completely free software, and if I were

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-11 Thread Anton Piatek
1%26partnerid%3Dt1&force=1&partnerid=t1 Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 11 Dec 2012 17:53,

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

2012-12-10 Thread Anton Piatek
I am also sorely disappointed I couldn't make it. The topic sounded excellent! Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were ter

Re: [Hampshire] CoderDojo Southampton?

2012-12-09 Thread Anton Piatek
Southackton has discussed many similar ideas, not necessarily a dojo. Any event like this would be good to make sure both are aware of. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

2012-11-19 Thread Anton Piatek
Really gutted i can't make either due to a wedding. The topic looks incredibly exciting! Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Anton Piatek
here) Ymmv. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 10 Nov 2012 14:21, "Dr A. J. Trickett" wrot

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Fujitsu 1008AT 8 port LCD kvm for sale

2012-11-08 Thread Anton Piatek
You might want to clarify usb or ps2, dvi or vga. Not that I have a use for an 8 port kvm myself. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

Re: [Hampshire] upnp

2012-10-24 Thread Anton Piatek
Interesting, and but my tv doesn't do dlna so would want a dlna client? app to actually render for me. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant numb

Re: [Hampshire] upnp

2012-10-24 Thread Anton Piatek
Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, sadly my tv isn't networked. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

[Hampshire] upnp

2012-10-24 Thread Anton Piatek
phone, tablet or pc) and have the playback happen on my linux pc which is connected to my tv and hifi? Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

[Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-HACK]

2012-10-18 Thread Anton Piatek
xisting and a lack of time to make both. We could perhaps try and combine any of the meetups where there are overlaps - Southackton recently had a hack day and there would have been space for people to turn up and talk about linux hacking rather than just robotics and 3d printers. [1] http:/

[Hampshire] [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]

2012-10-18 Thread Anton Piatek
, but I am sure there are some other people in IBM whom I could persuade to come and give a talk. Perhaps someone like Dale Lane talking about IBM's Watson (the Jeopardy-beating machine) Anton [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Stanford-Clark -- Anton Piatek email: an...@

Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

2012-08-26 Thread Anton Piatek
ite timely for me. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Au

Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

2012-08-26 Thread Anton Piatek
house as a backup strategy, but a new disk every few years is looking very expensive compared to glacier... Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of

[Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

2012-08-24 Thread Anton Piatek
, actual diffs probably arent that worthwhile so long as I can get it all back again in the end. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

2012-03-29 Thread Anton Piatek
I actually have a saitek cyborg joystick I was going to put on eBay if anyone wants it. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] SQLite3

2012-03-22 Thread Anton Piatek
You could setup a build env in a chroot. Trivial on Debian and must be as easy on fedora and centos. Zip it up when done and store for next time. Pbuilder is worth using for this sort of thing. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog

Re: [Hampshire] Black Hole detection

2012-03-20 Thread Anton Piatek
How or why does this problem occur? I can't think of an explanation. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed i

[Hampshire] Humble bundle: games!

2012-03-20 Thread Anton Piatek
In case you haven't seen it, the latest Humble Bundle is out, and features games for linux and android (and other OSs). It is worth noting that Linux users are the most generous when it comes to choosing how much to pay. See http://www.humblebundle.com/ for more Anton - Anton Piatek emai

Re: [Hampshire] Looking for a Perl IDE

2012-03-08 Thread Anton Piatek
EPIC for eclipse can do the perl debugger, however I have never done much with it. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] Replacing home server with a Linux NAS device?

2012-03-07 Thread Anton Piatek
I love my Asus at3ion deluxe mini itx board. Fanless, though I have a big silent fan for the disks. Only problem is not spending a fortune finding the right case :p Probably better options now though. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk

Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

2012-02-24 Thread Anton Piatek
afraid.org is good because you can use your own domains for free with them. Few others do. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] What dynamic DNS ?

2012-02-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Afraid.org do really good free service (it is donation based) Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-15 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a copy at my parent's house as well, so have 2 copies Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sendi

Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
I just use cp with hardlinks to make a copy every month. Similar to rsnapshot in many ways. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
On Feb 14, 2012 6:05 PM, "James Courtier-Dutton" wrote: > > On 14 February 2012 17:49, Anton Piatek wrote: > >> > >> Quick test should tell you. > >> Set up nfsd on the server, and access your pictures/files over the nfs > >> share. > >&g

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
I On Feb 14, 2012 5:44 PM, "James Courtier-Dutton" wrote: > > On 14 February 2012 16:25, Anton Piatek wrote: > > I currently backup my entire desktop to a "sever" sitting downstairs. > > I work on (mostly photos) locally on the desktop and then back them

[Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
hing conversion on my 6 core desktop, currently I think the disk I/O is my limit to go faster. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965  A358

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] SSD specs

2012-02-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I didn't think you had direct access to sectors. I thought the controller rotated data to spread writes across the the storage. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]

Re: [Hampshire] Dying HDDs

2012-02-06 Thread Anton Piatek
I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap end. Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are normally pretty obvious. Loose cables are a common enough problem. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an

Re: [Hampshire] ntpd vs. ptpd

2012-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
Could you be any more blunt about this? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however

Re: [Hampshire] External USB HDD spindown.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
Hdparm can set it on the drive with a timeout iirc Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message

Re: [Hampshire] Linux power monitoring tools.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
I agree with Bob. This generally isn't possible with normal pc hardware. Also, unloading a module doesn't necessarily stop the hardware using power. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp:

Re: [Hampshire] Debian 3.0 kernel help

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
If you are building a kernel for debian I recommend the debian kernel source and building the debian way. Its been a long time since I've done it, but Google should help. You could even grab the source package for the wheezy kernel and just build that. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my

Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
I have an oldish Samsung bw laser, but it was trivial to make work in linux. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in

Re: [Hampshire] DVD-Rom Long Shot

2011-10-30 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a slot loading ide DVD rom drive I was going to bin. Interested? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the

Re: [Hampshire] CLI XML diff (and patch?) tools?

2011-10-28 Thread Anton Piatek
Xmlstarlet offers several tools but I don't think diff. I suspect you could get it to format the XML better for diff to use though. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs

2011-10-09 Thread Anton Piatek
Even the PowerPC ones apparently run Debian quite nicely. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
amount of space. I wrote a blog post on how to do it http://www.strangeparty.com/2011/06/23/cyanogenmod-on-htc/ I do reccomend rooting (it is even easier before you have data to back up) it as you really run out of space quickly otherwise. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-28 Thread Anton Piatek
I believe there's a very active KDE3 backports (or is it forward? ) community. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroy

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-28 Thread Anton Piatek
Has anyone suggested a keyboard ? I know it is not a mouse, but learning keyboard shortcuts can help a lot with rsi... Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the

[Hampshire] Btrfs

2011-09-25 Thread Anton Piatek
Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks of varying sizes really appeals. I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really promising. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] NPM: Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

2011-09-24 Thread Anton Piatek
A good write up of the issue and possible solutions, from a friend of mine in Google if anyone is interested: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/23/chromeandbeast.html Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http

[Hampshire] Free: slot loading IDE DVD drive

2011-09-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a slot loading IDE DVD drive, free to the first person to reply to me (off-list please) Preferably collect from Eastleigh. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] 4 by 3 Thinkpad conclusion

2011-09-24 Thread Anton Piatek
Try reading about video drivers now. I think the ATI card in the T60s is the unloved one that had no good opensource driver and ATI dropped support for them in the RadeonHD drivers. They do work, but you might have to fiddle a bit. Try thinkwiki.org Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone

Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image

2011-09-20 Thread Anton Piatek
> > The option you are looking for is "keystone" iirc > > I think Bob's after a bit more than keystone correction; mapping onto a > 2-D curved surface isn't yer run-of-the-mill operation... Quite possibly, though from memory the nvidia driver did allow rather arbitary adjustments with some grid ad

Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image

2011-09-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Does the graphics card offer anything to help? I know NVidia cards have a nvidia util which lets you adjust this sort of thing, but I have no idea about other cards. The option you are looking for is "keystone" iirc, maybe a search on that will help? Anton - Anton Piatek

Re: [Hampshire] Refurbished Lenovo laptop 4 by 3 screen

2011-09-16 Thread Anton Piatek
base models (and many may have been widescreen) Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were

Re: [Hampshire] Loss of computer or Smartphone

2011-09-06 Thread Anton Piatek
I think you raise a good point. Most stolen devices will be wiped so they appear good to sell. These tools wont help much there... Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] FW: More basic commands - was RE: ls -l

2011-08-29 Thread Anton Piatek
Isn't the filesysyem in hackers the big GUI towers? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of

Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Anton Piatek
just ad much as I am allowing google to store my email and calendar. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of

Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Anton Piatek
One of the draws of android, for me, was that I wouldn't need to connect it to a computer. I prefer it syncing to some form of cloud,(or multiple other online systems) Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I quite like tmux as an alternative to screen, it has better layout control than screen. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?

2011-07-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I find spare disks the cheapest option. I have them in an old PC at my parents house and on the net. Rsync does weekly backup updates. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Broadband?!

2011-07-14 Thread Anton Piatek
I have been loving BT infinity, but might replace my router ad the older home hub is basic. Can't comment on much else, have not used BTFon really. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B

Re: [Hampshire] Screen

2011-06-19 Thread Anton Piatek
That looks exactly like what I want! Any way of splitting the screen session into windows so when I attach I can see all 3 at once by default? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37

[Hampshire] Screen

2011-06-19 Thread Anton Piatek
I feel like a n00b for not knowing this, but does anyone know if/how I can script a screen session to launch multiple apps? Ideally laying each out in its own window in the same screen session. Anton -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/

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