Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00.
Peter Strange comment and link. Would you care to elaborate? Mark --- On Wed, 6/10/10, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: From: Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net Subject: Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00. To: mark_elk...@bcs.org, Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Date: Wednesday, 6 October, 2010, 20:33 On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 20:20 +0100, Mark Elkins wrote: Victor It's ok I know where it is - will be with you in next 20 minutes I estimate. Cheers Mark --- On Wed, 6/10/10, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: From: Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00. To: mark_elk...@bcs.org, Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Date: Wednesday, 6 October, 2010, 18:08 On 6 October 2010 17:01, Mark Elkins markelkins...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'll try and drag myself away from writing up my PhD thesis and attend as the Broadway not too far away from me on the Boscombe/Springbourne border. Obviously not 6 1/2 years into it yet then. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1366 Peter -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Input text without a keyboard
Hi Keith, On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:21:20 +0100, dand...@googlemail.com said: If in doubt use a vkeybd I thought vkeybd was for MIDI (ie, a piano keyboard) - or am I mistaken? Ah, I looked up vkeybd and wondered why MIDI was relevant to the conversation. I've just spotted Dan's a. He means any virtual keyboard, not *the* vkeybd. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Change of topic for a few moments:
Hi Ralph On 07/10/10 10:59, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Simon, What's with the picture up-loader on the wiki member's page? I seem to remember there is a trick to getting wiki photos to display, but I've forgotten it. Does it depend on the uploaded picture being filtered or approved? I don't think it's worked since lug.org.uk moved Dorset's hosting to their SM environment. Whatever's that?! I've also never been able to upload to the Wiki. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Change of topic for a few moments:
Hi, Ralph, it's the same as the index page picture on www.simonoriordan.com Cheers, Simono On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 10:59 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Simon, What's with the picture up-loader on the wiki member's page? I seem to remember there is a trick to getting wiki photos to display, but I've forgotten it. Does it depend on the uploaded picture being filtered or approved? I don't think it's worked since lug.org.uk moved Dorset's hosting to their SM environment. Give me a link to the picture, even FTP, and I can put it in the wiki's media files through ssh. Same goes for anyone else adding/editing their entry. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Change of topic for a few moments:
Hi Simon, it's the same as the index page picture on www.simonoriordan.com Done. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#simon_o_riordan Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Change of topic for a few moments:
On 07/10/10 12:57, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Upload not working may be an SM-wide issue or a Dorset-specific one, I don't know. We had the same issue with our dokuwiki, I cant remember how I fixed it now, I think it might have been a permission issue. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] 2010-10-06 The Broadway, Bournemouth.
Very comprehensive summary of the evening and loads of interesting links, excellent to follow up on the conversations we had (I was about to google Vala tonight but you've cut out the search for me, especially as I wasn't too sure how it was spelt ;-) ). I agree re: the pub - snug area was nice and location was practical to both drivers and public transport users, but karaoke was too loud so we'd be better off meeting on another night of the week. I think that the problem wasn't so much with the speakers in the snug area but that we actually could hear directly from the speakers in the karaoke area. At least, this is how it sounded to me. I could actually see the karaoke if I looked towards the bar, so there was a direct way for the music to get through, from the karaoke, over the bar, to us. Thanks for the IRC plug, I hadn't realised it was active. I have to admit I haven't used IRC in years, this will bring me back to the 90s lol -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] 2010-10-06 The Broadway, Bournemouth.
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 17:44 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: Hi Natalie, Ralph and all, On 7 October 2010 17:19, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote: I agree re: the pub - snug area was nice and location was practical to both drivers and public transport users, but karaoke was too loud so we'd be better off meeting on another night of the week. I think that the problem wasn't so much with the speakers in the snug area but that we actually could hear directly from the speakers in the karaoke area. At least, this is how it sounded to me. I could actually see the karaoke if I looked towards the bar, so there was a direct way for the music to get through, from the karaoke, over the bar, to us. And quoth Ralph: There is a column of controls behind the bar, one of which is labelled Snug, so it may be they can control the volume of their normal music on non-karaoke nights. The intention is to move Bournemouth meets from a Wednesday. Action: Victor to do further research at the pub, IATJBSGTDI, to find out if they've a Sh! Domino players are thinking night of the week. Also, could you find out if that is a control to mute the snug's speaker? Indeed. I was fortunate to be rather more shielded but still struggled against the overflow of sound from the main pub area. However, if there is a quieter evening then the pub is likely to put muzak of some sort over the room speakers so having the power to have those down too would be good. ( Sadly, I don't expect the pub music player would respond to a TV_Be-Gone, be interesting to give it a go if anyone has one ;-) -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue At the end of the day, having looked back through the emails for Terry's 3 key needs, reasonably close parking, a decent Wi-Fi connection and reasonable seating. I guess this pub meets those, and if we add being able to hear each other, then it's OK? Peter M. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] 2010-10-06 The Broadway, Bournemouth.
On Thursday 07 Oct 2010, Peter Merchant wrote: At the end of the day, having looked back through the emails for Terry's 3 key needs, reasonably close parking, a decent Wi-Fi connection and reasonable seating. I guess this pub meets those, and if we add being able to hear each other, then it's OK? It seems that I'm now the standards setter :-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] 2010-10-06 The Broadway, Bournemouth.
Hi Ralph,On 7 October 2010 22:37, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: Hi Peter, a decent Wi-Fi connection Strictly speaking, I'm not aware that any of the eight of us attempted to use it. So that seems to suggest it's at least good enough to use again, noise permitting. I got conflicting information. When I 'phoned and inquired, I was told Oh, we have free wi-fi! When I visited I found a WEP-protected AP called Lab05. I asked and the bar staff knew nothing about it. jr looked on Weds night and found the same. So either a) 'we' try to find out more (guess who ;-) b) someone decides to try one of the widely avaiable WEP cracking techniques (?) c) we decide we don't need wifi that much. -- regards, Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] 2010-10-06 The Broadway, Bournemouth.
Hi David, c) The Kings didnt have wifi, not sure how long the LUG has been meeting up there. Donkey's. Good point. Since pre-wifi possibly. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
