Re: [Dorset] [Dorset ] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2017-10-03.
On 03/10/17 11:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops, or stuffed Terry's penguin. Sorry, can't make it tonight. Maybe next time... Cheers Chris . -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
[Dorset] Linux support in Verwood
Hello Dorset Luggers Until recently I've been providing ad hoc support for a company in Verwood, looking after a Linux server running Samba for file sharing with various Windows PCs. I'm winding down that side of my business now, and the client has asked me if I know anyone who could take over. The next thing that needs doing is upgrading the server to Debian 9. Is anyone here interested? Please contact me off list if so. Cheers Chris . -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] Skype
I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype alternative? https://appear.in/ It uses WebRTC, and claims to be secure. Cheers Chris -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-01-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go
On 28/02/14 11:40, Peter Merchant wrote: I do like that. IS a similar sort of thing available for other counties? P. No, same Post Code District. BTW, they, along with lots of other interesting layers, are available for Dorset. http://explorer.geowessex.com/?search=BH8%209TGlayers=7006,41basemap=26x=410177.42y=94998.12epsg=27700zoom=14 Cheers, Ralph. A very interesting resource -- but I wonder how accurate it is. Where do they get the data from? According to their flood susceptibility layer, there's an area of open sea south of Barton-on-Sea that's liable to flood! cheers Chris -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-03-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 469, Issue 1
On 15/01/13 17:44, Sean Gibbins wrote: Doubtless true Graeme, but did it run Linux? They can have Windows and other proprietary operating systems to wage war and kill more efficiently, but can they not leave Linux alone? Sean Would you rather that the machineries of war run on a stable, secure operating system, or on the other one? Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Options for a 'new' machine
On 02/04/12 21:19, Victor Churchill wrote: 2. Have any other disenchanted Ubuntu users settled on an alternative system that suits them? On computers that I've set up for other people, I've started using XFCE (i.e. Xubuntu), rather than a Unity or Gnome-based system. I haven't tried Mint yet. And for my own everyday machine, I've taken the more radical step of switching to Arch Linux (with XFCE). Arch is like Gentoo but without all the compiling: it's very cutting edge (currently using a 3.2.11 kernel) but on the other hand I've found it to be very stable, with the latest versions of everything. Compared with Ubuntu, you have to do a lot of configuring yourself, but the wiki is full of excellent documentation. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] HUD
On 24/01/12 22:20, Victor Churchill wrote: On 24 January 2012 20:27, Terry Colesd-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 19:35:51 Victor Churchill wrote: Be afraid, be very afraid ... I feel a GOM moment coming on ;-( All right, I'll bite; what is GOM? (Grumpy Old Man? Not you Victor.) 'fraid so, Terry. OK, I may not seem Grumpy at the Broadway, but that's a pub :-) I have been finding for the last couple of Ubuntu releases that it's getting more shiny and phone/tablet friendly, and less friendly to my vintage of hardware(*). The developers' idea of what the system should be like seems to be diverging from mine. I have even started wondering about moving to Mint but inertia has prevented me so far. Me too. For clients whom I've persuaded to try Linux, I've started using Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu -- i.e. XFCE4 instead of those new-fangled 'Unity' and 'Gnome3' things. And on my own desktop, I've taken the radical step of moving from Ubuntu to ArchLinux (again with XFCE4). It gives back the feeling of being in control of the machine. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] A few links following last night meeting
TeamViewer is free for all non-commercial users! Looks interesting. I've used reverse VNC connections in the past to access a remote machine, avoiding talking the remote user through opening up an incoming port. Traffic is in the clear though. http://library.gnome.org/users/vinagre/stable/reverse-connections.html.en TeamViewer looks easier. I've used TeamViewer between Linux/Windows and Linux/Mac and it works really well both directions. Sometimes, the connection does drop after a little while (maybe half an hour?) but generally, it's pretty good. TeamViewer seems to work well. Although it's free as in beer, it does rely on all the traffic going through TeamViewer's server: you have to trust them. To avoid using a third party, I've found Gitso[1] to be a good way of providing remote support for either Windows or Linux. It's open source, but doesn't seem to have been updated for a couple of years. [1] http://code.google.com/p/gitso/ cheers Chris -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, second Tuesday 2012-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] laptop battery suppliers
On 10/23/2011 01:29 PM, John Palmer wrote: There are several companies offering to sell laptop batteries on the net but most are shy about stating their postal address which makes me hesitant to deal with them. Can people name some sellers that they think are reliable, or alternatively some they've had trouble with ? Many thanks, John Here's a statistically insignificant sample. I bought a generic battery for a Dell Inspiron 6000 from www.laptopbatteryshop.co.uk recently -- it failed after a week, but they refunded my money (minus the cost of return postage). So instead I bought an even cheaper New Trent brand one from Amazon, and it's been fine (at least the client hasn't complained). cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Locking down physical console access
On 10/03/2011 05:01 PM, David Wilkinson wrote: Hi Does anyone know if there is a way to stop logins from the physical console so that a server can only be logged in via ssh? I did some searching but only seem to find ones for Red hat like systems or really old Ubuntu versions and the files they suggest changing don't exist any more. I am using Ubuntu server 11.04 x64. The modern Ubuntu way of doing that may be to change the contents of /etc/init/tty[1-6].conf. I've changed tty1.conf on my MythTV front-end so that a user automatically logs in, but you could also prevent logins completely. On the other hand, I'm not an expert on this stuff, so you should confirm these ideas elsewhere. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-10-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10
On 23/04/11 09:16, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:09:56 +0100, archi...@tiscali.co.uk said: Has anyone had any success getting MythTV installed and working without resorting to Mythbuntu? Yes, lots of people have. I am having problems getting it to connect to the database despite being able to access it myself in a terminal. How is your master backend defined in the Myth UI? On your backend system, do you have MySQL listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) only, or is it listening on your LAN interface? (If you don't know how to find the answers to those questions, let me know). think the problem is with it trying to call kdesu instead of kdesudo when opening the database. Is there some way to redirect this? There should be no need to use any kind of sudo command to open the database. ...assuming you've set up MythTV to run as a user who has full access to the mythconverg database. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10
On 23/04/11 17:21, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:14:19 +0100, cgden...@btinternet.com said: ...assuming you've set up MythTV to run as a user who has full access to the mythconverg database. Sorry, it has nothing to do with the user under which MythTV is running. The database connection parameters are specified in the UI: you can connect as whatever user you want. You're right, of course. -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Can anyone recommend any books on IPv6? I've found this webpage to be useful, although a lot of it is from a Windows point of view: http://yorickdowne.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/ipv6-at-home-or-office-part-4-0-tunnelbroker-net-ipv6-routers/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready
On 22/04/11 01:30, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote: I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs test-ipv6.com, and he says: \ Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider disabling teredo and miredo. You're intentionally prefering complex setups that can take your packets through further routes, and through locations you have nobody to complain to when they break. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457011.aspx Is that true? Do teredo/miredo make connections more complicated for IPv4 addresses? If your only IPv6 connection is via Teredo, and if the site you are trying to reach supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and if your software prefers IPv6 over IPv4 then yes, it will send the connection via Teredo rather than directly by IPv4. If the site is IPv4 only then no, it won't be more complicated. If the site is IPv6 only then it is via Teredo or nothing. Right, that makes sense. Thank you. -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready
On 19/04/11 23:47, Andrew Morgan wrote: In Ubuntu (and presumably Debian?) IPv6 support is as easy as 'apt-get install miredo'. It seems to be made of magic as it sets its self up automatically in seconds. I've done this on all of my Linux machines now. As IPv6 doesn't do NAT, miredo gives you an IPv6 address which is visible to the whole world, and therefore needs fire-walling. I know there's plain ip6tables, but can people recommend an easy-to-use system for maintaining firewalls? I've been using firehol, but the 'latest news' on its web-page was in 2008, and it doesn't do IPv6. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0
On 16/03/11 09:33, C A Wills wrote: Hi Peter I've changed to LibreOffice and have had no problems I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I thought I'd try LibreOffice, so I added this to my sources.list: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main and installed the full LO suite last week. It automatically removed OO. But I had a few problems: * printing to my Brother HL-5250DN was fine for the first copy of a one-page letter, but subsequent copies were garbled -- the layout was correct, but the characters were random. That's a problem I had a couple of years ago with OO; I don't know what the exact cure was, but the problem went away. * I had printing DL envelopes set up nicely on OO, but printing the same document with LO made a complete mess of it, with the address falling off the top-right corner. So I've reverted to OO for now. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] USB 1-2 problem
On 14/03/11 17:13, Peter Merchant wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 14:20 +, Andrew Morgan wrote: I believe keyboards mice are all USB 1.1. I have some USB 1.1 devices working on Ubuntu. If it is a 54mbit (or faster) USB device then I would expect it to be USB 2, otherwise it is limited to 11 Mb/s or thereabouts. 'lsusb -v' will show you a lot of information. The 'bcdUSB' lines show you the USB version in use by a particular device. Interesting: peterm@peterm-desktop:~$ lsusb -v lsusb -v needs to be run as root to show all the information. (but maybe you knew that :) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network
On 11/03/11 13:39, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Terry Coles wrote: We have a system at work that uses a Linux box (Live boot) running some data gathering tools. This information is written to a web page and served up to a Windows box connected 1:1, (eg no other devices) for analysis. So far so good. At present the Windows box provides DHCP and the Linux box advertises it's hostname. What we would really like to do is get the current Linux box to provide DHCP and DNS. Can anyone point me at a suitable tutorial or guidance to explain how to set up and configure such a system? Having the Windows box do DHCP and DNS is OK, but is likely to cause us problems downstream, hence the query. Replying to myself. Thanks for the suggestions to date (the overwhelming support for dnsmasq). However, when I related this to my colleage at work he said he couldnt see why this (or bind) was needed because when he enabled udhcpd, he found that it maintains a list of all hosts on the network so why couldn't that be used? I didn't get a chance to look at it this morning, so I couldn't answer him, but I could bear to know if what he's suggesting is possible. Any takers? If it's really just two computers talking to each other, you could just give each one a fixed IP address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, and they can talk to each other without requiring DHCP or DNS. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network
On 10/03/11 17:23, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, We have a system at work that uses a Linux box (Live boot) running some data gathering tools. This information is written to a web page and served up to a Windows box connected 1:1, (eg no other devices) for analysis. So far so good. At present the Windows box provides DHCP and the Linux box advertises it's hostname. What we would really like to do is get the current Linux box to provide DHCP and DNS. Can anyone point me at a suitable tutorial or guidance to explain how to set up and configure such a system? dnsmasq[1] is relatively simple to work with, and is probably available in your favourite distro. [1] http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Lost booting on PC
On 13/12/10 18:16, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 13/12/10 18:00, C A Wills wrote: Done a silly thing and deleted several partitions on an old PC of my brother, now no boot sequence! PC used to dual boot WP/Ubuntu but they have not used Linux and WP has no elbow room so I removed the Linux partitions, expanded WP twice as large and used the remainder for their user data. All went fine until I rebooted; post OK then Error 22, I then realised why - I'd removed Grub with the Linux partition. Am looking back through past LXF mags as I remember something similar asked about, no luck so far. Hope to be at meeting tomorrow so will ask then, but any info would be useful so I can send it on to my brother. Don't know what file to look for in Windos for the boot programme. Hi Clive, Based on an understanding that Linux is no longer present or required, and that you are trying to recover a Windows instance, you could try booting with a DOS boot disc and running the command 'fdisk /mbr'. Or, if it's Windows XP, you could do a 'repair install' to revive it. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] cd question
On 22/11/10 18:05, Tim wrote: I am a cli dunce so please bear with me. Lets say I am working in the terminal screen in the following folder m...@computer:~#/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 mv blah blah. Now I want to go back to work in folder2, what the easy command to get me back there?? I have to move a lot of files (1 and 2) between a lot of folders and retyping the full path everytime is wearing my keyboard out!! I use MidnightCommander (aka mc) for that sort of thing. See http://www.midnight-commander.org/ Install with aptitude install mc or equivalent. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 359, Issue 4
On 18/11/10 17:02, Brian R Masterman wrote: On 18/11/10 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: The command I put in was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples You are not alone, we had a UNIX administrator do a; chown -R .* username Only to discover that it had changed all the above directories and then down. I did that once. The fact that .* matches .. as well as everything else is definitely a Trap For Young Players, and might even be considered a design flaw. Running a command on everything in parent directories -- especially when it's doing things recursively -- as well as sub-directories is rarely what you'd expect or want. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Winjoke - stuck in the dark ages!
On 22/08/10 14:27, Simon O'Riordan wrote: XP; no built in DVD writing. Deep-something-or-other comes highly recommended as a free writer. It's CRAP, totally non functional. It may be too late now, but CDBurnerXP [1] is very good. Despite the name, it will also burn DVDs and run on Vista and W7. [1] http://cdburnerxp.se/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] New book.
On 18/08/10 21:13, Peter Merchant wrote: The link did not come through in the original posting. Here it is. http://technewsletters-whitepapers.tradepub.com/free/w_opeb01/prgm.cgi Peter It's probably got lots of useful stuff in it, but it's looking a bit dated. It has a section on optimising IDE hard drives, but no mention of SATA. And in the introduction it speculates about what a wonderful server Linux will be in 2003. And you have to sign your life away to get the download in the first place. Thanks for the link though. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] texlive problem
Peter Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:13 +, Chris Dennis wrote:
Peter Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:26 +, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:54 -, Peter Harris
peter.harr...@virgin.net wrote:
It does not appear in the applications menu and I
can't find a way of starting it.
You don't 'start' any of the Tex packages per-se. You invoke them into
your Tex source.
Like you don't 'run' certain development packages but compilation scripts
and your own code can include them.
Without knowing exactly what you want to achieve it is impossible to help.
So why did you install texlive-math-extra and what math functions does it
provide that you want to use?
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Hi Robert,
I want to present mathematical formulas in a proper format. At the
moment I can't properly show things like Square root of A divided by b.
Does this help?
My standard installation of Lyx allows maths via the Insert / Math menu,
e.g.
$\sqrt{\frac{a}{b}}$
cheers
Chris
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Hi Chris,
Thanks, Lyx seems to be what I want. Can I run it from Open Office?
Lyx is a GUI frontend to Tex/Latex.
Tex/Latex can by used within OpenOffice with the help of this:
http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/
which will let you use equations and related stuff.
cheers
Chris
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Re: [Dorset] texlive problem
Peter Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:26 +, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:54 -, Peter Harris
peter.harr...@virgin.net wrote:
It does not appear in the applications menu and I
can't find a way of starting it.
You don't 'start' any of the Tex packages per-se. You invoke them into
your Tex source.
Like you don't 'run' certain development packages but compilation scripts
and your own code can include them.
Without knowing exactly what you want to achieve it is impossible to help.
So why did you install texlive-math-extra and what math functions does it
provide that you want to use?
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Hi Robert,
I want to present mathematical formulas in a proper format. At the
moment I can't properly show things like Square root of A divided by b.
Does this help?
My standard installation of Lyx allows maths via the Insert / Math menu,
e.g.
$\sqrt{\frac{a}{b}}$
cheers
Chris
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Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: Re 28 day/30 day window: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse From reading that, my interpretation is that an abusive update is an update containing the same IP address. Dozens of these are allowed before an account is blocked, to allow for things like setting up new clients, etc. An update of the same IP address is allowed every 28 days in order to avoid the 30 day inactivity timeout. However, if your address changes more frequently than every 30 days you will not have any problems. Thank you Tim and John. For some reason my little brain had got it all wrong: I was confusing ddclient's IP-checking frequency (typically every few minutes) with its DynDNS-updating frequency, which obviously only happens rarely, when the IP address changes. My DynDNS account hasn't expired and I don't think that the IP address has changed. Does that mean that ddclient is clever enough to automatically contact DynDNS every 28 days even if the IP address is the same? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
