Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering
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, Stephen Davies stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk wrote: There were a lot of posts on the Interwebs about the fact that most people are not using the mandatory [redacted] filters at the ISP's. Some of the commenters complained that the likes of Talk-Talk were blocking their wordpress blogs for no good reason other than the fact that they were running Wordpress. I checked my blog via https://www.blocked.org.uk and found that Sky were blocking it. I have requested that the block is removed or at least they explain why it is blocked. If they decline to unblock it then I'll have good really ammo to fire at them the next time someone tries to get me to sign up for Sky. If you have a wordpress blog then you might like to check that it is not being blocked by an ISP. Regards, Stephen D PS, just updated the MacMini that runs the blog to CentOS 7. I'm really glad that I don't install a GUI on this box. Long live Gnome 2! -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering
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 k...@midnighthax.com wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:42:19 +0100, stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk said: most people are not using the mandatory [redacted] filters at the ISP's. I like AA's approach. When you sign up for an account with them, you're asked (as you must be now) whether you want a filtered connection. If you answer yes, they refuse to take you as a customer. AA don't filter. -- Blog: http://goo.gl/iOwv1w You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OFF TOPIC] Electrician recommendation
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 this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 5 Jul 2014 19:22, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 18:35:13 +0100 Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel, competent person who will check your work before s/he signs off on it all. That's not entirely accurate. Building regulations Part-P requires that all domestic electrical work be audited and approved by a qualified Part-P Except for the term Part-P (head went blank, so I wrote competent person), that's what I said. Note: s/he signs of on it all. In practice, and as far as I'm aware, this isn't actually an issue until you come to sell the property - all work carried out on the True. Also, given the level of understanding (i.e. almost nil) 90% of the general population have of the legislation, the door is still wide open for the cowboys. If anything, it opened wider because the responsible electricians doing all the Part P installation, testing and so on, are going to have to charge more because their costs have gone up. Poor buggers. :-( OTOH, they do pick up a few testing jobs from sparkies like me who aren't Part P registered. Plus, of course, certain jobs are exempt. Although that's not applicable in the case of Stephen's barn job, of course. premises must have a valid Part-P certification paper for the legal side of changing ownership. As for properties that have had nothing done since the instigation of Part P in 2005 (I had to check - head blank again); they won't have certificates. What happens then? No need to answer, the question is (mostly) rhetorical. Note also, I'm not sure whether a Barn wired to a domestic premises is That will depend on what it's being used for. Local Planning Dept. will, or at least should, know even if the home owner doesn't. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent Buy some love at the five and dime You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart - Eurythmics -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] OT: Does anyone have an A1 printer?
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 hampshire@mail-box.me.uk wrote: On 2 July 2014 15:46, Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote: Hi All. I'm trying to get a small number of A1 sheets printed. Does anyone have access to a printer that could do this? I'm not looking for a freebie, just a realistic price :-) So Make It have a A0 printer iirc, I'm a member but haven't been down there for a good while due to work commitments. But someone there might be able to help you out, details here: www.somakeit.org.uk Rgds Peter. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Top posting
It certainly seems to be easy enough to start a flame war On 28 May 2014 10:20, Tony Wood tonywoo...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 27/05/14 15:19, Owain Clarke wrote: On 27/05/14 12:44, Joseph Bennie wrote: or you know... you could just get on with life and not worry about 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 about our list is the paucity of flaming. (Does this count as top or bottom posting?) -- Anton Piatek 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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Top posting
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, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 28 May 2014 17:09, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 May 2014 16:21, Freaky Clown freakycl...@gmail.com wrote: Surprised this hasn't turned into well your mail client is shit - use pine/elm/outlook/lotus rage already. well now that you mention it... in other news, I'm learning vim today. I quite like. -- Daniel Llewellyn -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Top posting
On 27 May 2014 12:51, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 May 2014 12:37, Freaky Clown freakycl...@gmail.com wrote: or you know... you could just get on with life and not worry about the little things :) many more fields of issues in the world that need more time and attention brought to them yup... and if I wasn't spending so much effort trying to reverse-read upside-down conversations to try to work out what part of a reply might be in relation to a previous comment, I would have more time to devote to those other issues. In all seriousness... when posting to a mailing list of many hundreds (or more) people, it strikes me as presumptuous (if not a little rude) to assume that the as the writer the minute extra of my time it would take me to compose well a reply is more important to save than the accumulated hundreds of minutes of effort the readership have to expend :-/ Your presumption however assumes that it is that much harder to read? If it really were, then all mail clients would make top-posting hard. The fact that most of the corporate mail clients don't speaks volumes 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) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Top posting
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 21 May 2014 19:03, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014 22:41, Samuel Penn s...@glendale.org.uk wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 13:27:50 Anton Piatek wrote: Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Really? Click the Respond inline button and it switches to inline quoting, and even adds a proper On X, Y wrote line to the start of the quoted text. You can then start adding text anywhere in the quoted mail. At least it does on my phone. Thanks Samuel, my reasons were same as Anton but I've just responded to this using your method. Bear in mind that more of us use a mobile device more these days so convenience sometimes trumps ettiqutte. -- Be seeing you,Games: http://www.glendale.org.uk/ Sam. Posts: http://www.google.com/+SamuelPenn -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Top posting
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 b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 12:48:38 +0100 Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I plough on interleaving. I rarely get complaints. Same here. Somebody even asked me what software I used that could do that. I explained it was wetware (i.e. my brain) that did most of the work. They didn't seem keen on that. :-) remaining life too short. If people want me to read their stuff, they must make it easier! And yes, I am a grumpy old . Supply your own noun. ;-) Curmudgeon? :-D I'm the same BTW. With very few exceptions, any HTML email simply gets deleted. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent You only see me for the clothes that I wear Public Image - Public Image Ltd -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Fwd: Top posting
On 20 May 2014 21:24, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014, at 13:27, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk 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 apps. The nice thing, however, is that Gmail provides SMTP and IMAP capabilities for you to use with your favourite offline MUA (Mail User Agent - e.g. Thunderbird) which is more likely to provide the capability to bottom post easily. Except that the Gmail app uses push notifications and that means it is incredibly more battery efficient. Also, having started using the more powerful sorting features of Gmail, it is really hard to consider IMAP a suitable protocol for working with this amount of email any more. To reference Dr Trickett’s email: Sadly almost all non-technical business email is top-posted and it is difficult to read, often incoherent and a great source of confusion in business. This is perpetuated by every(?) closed-source MUA such as Outlook (look out!), Apple Mail and the aforementioned Gmail clients per their default settings which most folk don’t realise there’s any need to change nor even know they can do so. Some clients don’t even provide the option to switch to the saner variety (bottom-posting) at all! I often fall into the same trap that most folk do where I’ll hit reply, start typing my message and hit send before then remembering that my client top-posts by default but now my message is already sent. There is a bug/ticket somewhere for the Gmail app to support bottom posting, but I just don't think Google care. Google and Gmail also means I don't care much either, as it collapses already seen parts of the message so it only shows the reply, meaning that if you top or bottom post it makes little difference to me. For some mails I do find a pc and reply inline, but for the most part it isn't worth the extra effort unless the pc is in front of me already (like now) Anton -- Anton Piatek 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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?
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 ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anton, which remote app do you recommend? I did a quick search on Google Play and see a few of them. Thank On 23 April 2014 10:16, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: 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, Peter Collins hampshire@mail-box.me.uk wrote: Hi Imran On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: I'm after decent hardware to run XBMC on, I've already tried OpenElec/Raspberry Pi but was not satisfied with it. I've bought a WD Live Media Player which I am similarly not 100% happy with. My requirements are: * must have power on/off via remote * must be small footprint * menu click sounds * quick response with no lag between button press and on-screen menu * able to play hi-def including 1080p via HDMI * remote that is easy to configure * at least one USB port * optical digital audio out nice but not essential I have also been looking for such a device which would fit nicely in the family lounge but wont cost a fortune and have just come across this device: http://cubox-i.com/table/ According to the manufacturer the CuBox-i4Pro is ideal and comes with the IR transmitter and receiver. It also includes Optical S/PDIFAudio Out If you plunge in and try one I would be interested to hear your feedback. Rgds Peter. @tripleclones -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Key fingerprint = EF78 310C C517 9564 9ECA 82F6 68FA E621 17E1 5D16 http://about.me/imranchaudhry -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?
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, Peter Collins hampshire@mail-box.me.uk wrote: Hi Imran On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: I'm after decent hardware to run XBMC on, I've already tried OpenElec/Raspberry Pi but was not satisfied with it. I've bought a WD Live Media Player which I am similarly not 100% happy with. My requirements are: * must have power on/off via remote * must be small footprint * menu click sounds * quick response with no lag between button press and on-screen menu * able to play hi-def including 1080p via HDMI * remote that is easy to configure * at least one USB port * optical digital audio out nice but not essential I have also been looking for such a device which would fit nicely in the family lounge but wont cost a fortune and have just come across this device: http://cubox-i.com/table/ According to the manufacturer the CuBox-i4Pro is ideal and comes with the IR transmitter and receiver. It also includes Optical S/PDIFAudio Out If you plunge in and try one I would be interested to hear your feedback. Rgds Peter. @tripleclones -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU
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 were terribly inconvenienced. On 14 Apr 2014 13:31, Ally Biggs bluechr...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Yeah it's gotta be the thermal paste I have worked on alot of kit over the years where the original supplier has used cheap cement type paste with has a habit of drying up completely over the years leaving you with a toaster. Also is a common occurrence with laptops again lost count of the amount of machines I have repaired due to fans clogging up with crap and rubbish thermal paste. I usually get Arctic Silver and have used Arctic Cooling freezers for the all my builds. Got one rocking a Intel Ivybridge 3.5Ghz has no issues. Your should be able to pick up a older version for your socket type on ebay. I usually fire up a live cd (falcon4) afterwards and run Speedfan and torture test builds with prime95 Are there any good Linux benchmark tools? Would be handy to add to my arsenal :) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:31:36 +0100 From: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU Hmm, I suspect I may be getting a similar problem with my box (2 x Opteron 2GHz dual core processors); if I work it too hard (processor loading up to 90ish% on all four cores) it just shuts down. I suspect it will be an interesting task to take off the Zalman coolers, re-paste and refit... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- On 13/04/14 23:49, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, you wrote: My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it? Yes. I seem to get about 3 years from modern stuff; at 7, your machine is long overdue for a re-pasting. Make sure you clean off all the old crud with acetone or similar, then replace with fresh stuff. I'm unconvinced that any one brand is better than another - I use a large tube of Servisol. It seems everyone is of the same opinion. Something to do over Easter... -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU
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 inconvenienced. On 13 Apr 2014 20:11, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, My 7 year old DNUK home server is prone to overheating. It has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor which is okay at 1GHz but when it gets up to 3.2GHz the temperature quickly rises, it starts to beep and if left long enough it shuts down. If I left it at 100% CPU load for hours it use to happen, now it will happen after less than 1 hour, it can take as little as 30 minutes under full load. I now run it with the CPU governor, mostly set to on-demand and it spends around 98% of it's life at 1Gz and is fine for what I use it. However it I do need the CPU grunt, it shoots up to 3.2GHz and then over heats. My current compromise is to lock the CPU at 1Gz and it's fine but it should be fine to run at the maximum clock speed for a while at least if I need it (e.g. running virtual machines). Having checked the mechanicals out this afternoon, the PSU, case and CPU fan are all running fine. I know the parts are getting old and were all generic jobs in the first place. My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it? And if so what is the best replacement alternative for a basic home server? Is there anything else I could consider? -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Fwd: Fw: Winchester meetup for Open Rights Group
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.com pgp: [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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
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 ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: I've been getting these mails once daily for the last week - is my USB HDD on the way out? I have not seen any difference from a user point of view. It is a WD Element 1TB model, can't be more than 2 years old I think. It is also a media server HDD and is on all the time, spinning up and down when needed. The host is Debian 7.2 === This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: foo DNS domain: bar.net NIS domain: (none) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG. You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. The original email about this issue was sent at Wed Nov 6 09:53:32 2013 GMT Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists. === I don't see any errors logged though: # smartctl -i /dev/sdc smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-4-686-pae] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0 Serial Number:WD-WCAV5N483757 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2057ae091 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 User Capacity:1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is:Fri Nov 15 18:08:31 2013 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled # smartctl -l error /dev/sdc smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-4-686-pae] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged -- Key fingerprint = EF78 310C C517 9564 9ECA 82F6 68FA E621 17E1 5D16 http://about.me/imranchaudhry -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Embedded Java on the Raspberry Pi - Oracle running on-line training course
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, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 October 2013 14:16, Jerry Webb jerry.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oracle are considering running an on-line course for teaching how to use embedded Java on the Raspberry Pi and are gauging whether the public take-up would justify the effort involved. Would you be interested? If so, there’s a Survey Monkey survey from them running (see below) as a poll that you should respond to? Cheers, Jerry I thought python is the language of choice for the raspberry pi. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box
On 4 Oct 2013 17:37, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: ... However I'm more likely to delete something by accident than have a drive failure. I've only ever had one drive go bad at home in 15 years, even then SMART let me know and I was able to buy a new drive 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. 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] So Make It crowdfunding
Hi all, Sorry to crosspost so blatantly but as the meetings are often in Southampton I though this quite a relevant topic. I also hope to host some HantsLug meetings at our new space sometime. So Make It [1], the Southampton Makerspace, is a volunteer-run non-profit community space for people of all walks of life who like to make things, be they physical, digital or otherwise. Having only existed since March 2013, the Makerspace already has many tools available to use such as a 3D printer, lathe, various drills and saws, angle grinder, welder, soldering irons, printers, guillotines and much more. Besides it’s twice weekly meetups it has also organised a number of events including a soldering workshop, programming course and quadcopter hack day; and hosts a number of groups including electronics (Southackton), 3D printing (So RepRap) and .NET Gadgeteer (Gadgeteer South Coast). The agreement we have for our space in Southampton is coming to an end in the middle of October, at which point we need to pay for 12 months rent up front. We are asking for donations via a crowd-funding campaign [2] to cover our basic costs for the next year. This will enable us to grow, have more tools and equipment, longer opening hours and more space for more members, more events and more workshops. We will even have our own locked doors and are aiming for 24 hour, seven days a week access for all members! Please donate [3] to our campaign [2] to keep So Make It around. With your help we can 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](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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot
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 cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: On 18/06/13 19:01, Tim wrote: I use this on my WP site, http://picklewagon.com/**wordpress/new-user-approve/http://picklewagon.com/wordpress/new-user-approve/ Basically new users have to be approved, a pain in the rear yes but it stopped all the Polish mobile O2 spammers that were getting on my site. It sends an email to let you know somebody is requesting a registration you simply approve or ignore, your choice, works for me Tim Thanks for that, Tim. I've added that to the HantsLUG site, so we'll see how it goes. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 27 Apr 2013 17:51, Chris Malton chr...@cmalton.me.uk wrote: Hi Chris, I can take a look at this with you next weekend - I've been running Apache in a memory constrained environment for quite some time now (256MB RAM), and it seems to be OK running Wordpress + a couple of other fairly high traffic sites. Regards, Chris On 27/04/13 17:32, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks As HantsLUG hostmaster, I'm looking after our server which, among other things, runs the hantslug.org.uk website. It works fine, until people actually start trying to access the site! At which point it tends to grind to a halt. It may be that it doesn't have enough RAM (300MB) for Apache to run WordPress properly. Or perhaps I just haven't configured things right. So I'd be grateful for some expert opinions. Please add general ideas here, or else contact me off-list if you want more information and possibly SSH access to the server so that you can have a look. cheers Chris -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility
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 i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi all I thought I'd try picking brains about the compatibility of a motherboard I'm thinking of using with Linux Mint. The MB is the Asus Rampage IV Extreme [1], which brags about its compatibility with Windows 8. I don't want to commit to pretty substantial expense in building a PC based on this MB, only to find that it gives me all sorts of grief when I try to install Linux, because of UEFI. Can anyone advise on whether it's sensible to go ahead with building a PC based on this MB, or indeed whether I would be better advised to avoid it in favour of another one? [1] http://www.asus.com/**Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_**EXTREME/http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_EXTREME/ Thanks in advance for any help. Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?
lol On 24 April 2013 19:31, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com [2013-04-24 19:23]: On 24/04/13 17:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 24/04/13 15:12, Chris Dennis wrote: Yes, the old wiki still requires manual intervention (by me) to create accounts for editing pages. I'm more than happy to do that for people who ask. Consider yourself asked. Done! User name: AlanPope Password: mie8ahWe ** end quote [Chris Dennis] Which I would change very promptly!! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Please 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://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer
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://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 15 Apr 2013 10:10, Benjie Gillam ben...@jemjie.com wrote: Does anyone here use tmux (as opposed to screen) for terminal multiplexing? I've been using it for a few months and it's awesome - especially v1.8 which was released just a couple of weeks back. I no longer use tabs/multiple terminals - everything on my system goes through one single terminal window via tmux sessions, windows and panes; even when I'm working locally only. I'm aware that screen can do some things that tmux can't - I'd love to hear from anyone who uses these screen features so I can learn what I'm missing out on! If anyone would be interested in hearing about how I use tmux then I'd be happy to write something up? Cheers, Benjie. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer
For me it is the fact I can split the view into a grid and tmux remembers
after disconnecting, screen doesn't...
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On 15 Apr 2013 21:34, Benjie Gillam ben...@jemjie.com wrote:
Imran: nice. I prefer using Ctrl-s as prefix - I never use XOFF/XON
deliberately, so I don't lose a binding. Ctrl-a is very useful I find -
increment number in vim normal mode; jump to beginning of line in
bash/emacs; and other uses I forget - so I don't like overriding it. Others
I know use Ctrl-space but I use this globally in my desktop environment.
I like your 'r' binding to reload!
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Victor, Andy and anyone else interested in tmux vs screen:
tmux splits both ways without a patch (screen may do this too now; I'm not
up to date with it) and has handy tools for rearranging the splits
('panes').
Multiple tmux clients can connect to the same tmux server; so two people
can share the same tmux instance but they can both view the same 'window'
or different windows. tmux will automatically resize a shared window to the
smallest of the connected screens, but will resize it back up again when
no-one else is viewing the current window. This is great for pair
programming (though I've not tried it for this); but I've used it for
setting up a Raspberry Pi server at So Make It easily with a friend - he
was configuring some things whilst I others; but we could each quickly
switch to each others windows to either work together, glean information,
or just to see what the other was doing. I've also seen people use this for
guiding newbies in the setting up of Linux/Linux software on a fresh
machine.
It's easy to move panes between windows, and even move windows between
sessions. It's easy to switch sessions. It's highly configurable. You can
give it vi-like bindings if desired.
Panes/windows can be shared across multiple sessions.
Tmux seems faster and lighter than screen to me; but this may just be my
perception.
Cheers,
Benjie.
On 15 April 2013 18:30, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote:
Hi Benjie,
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:09:58AM +0100, Benjie Gillam wrote:
If anyone would be interested in hearing about how I use tmux then I'd
be happy to write something up?
I am more interested in why you choose tmux over screen. I use
screen and am pretty happy with it, but have never tried tmux, so I
wonder what I am missing.
Cheers,
Andy
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Re: [Hampshire] Legacy ide
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 li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all ** ** Another question demonstrating how out of date my knowledge is… ** ** Just bought a new mobo but forgot that the case into which I’m putting it has a perfectly working DVD-ROM ide drive. The mobo has no such legacy connector. To be honest, I don’t particularly need the dvd drive and have installed the os from a pen drive but to get the DVD back up again - what’s the best approach here? 1) Get a sata dvd drive – slightly defeating the object! 2) Get an IDE controller card. If so, anyone know how easily these things integrate with Linux? Being so low level I’d assume it would work “out of the box” but you never know. 3) I’ve seen IDE to SATA adapters for about 7UKP but as this is parallel to serial (isn’t it?) would there not be driver issues here? 4) Get an IDE to USB adapter – but I can’t see a usb socket on my new mobo so presumably the data cable would have to come outside the case to connect to a usb socket wouldn’t it? ** ** Sorry this is all a bit old hat for most of you – but I’m loathe to chuck away perfectly working hardware. ** ** Cheers Rob ** ** -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Free: Linksys pls300 powerline adapter
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:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings
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 t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Hi guys, Just thought I'd give you an update on the next two meetings. Next month we are at the University again (Bldg 59). We start at 1pm (Saturday 2nd March). Please post about any talks you want etc. In April, we are privilidged to be hosted at IBM Hursley. For those who haven't been before it's a great opportunity. The plan is to hold the Easter debate at this meeting, but we need some speakers. The topic is (broadly) The Future of Linux; The exact topics covered are at the discretion of the speakers, but there's plenty to go at, from mobile-space to server-space, SystemD to the Desktop. Could anybody who is interested in speaking at the debate let me know. We'll need a minimum of two people. Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting, Tim B. -- Hampshire Linux User Group Chairman -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings
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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] HD activity
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 ben...@jemjie.com wrote: iotop is great for diagnosing disk I/O :) On 3 Feb 2013, at 19:28, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all ** ** For some reason, the external drive that my media centre has all its stuff on has just started working really hard. I’m not sure whether I should be worried but my **ix is very much basic so could someone help me zero in on what might be causing this. ** ** The server currently has no windows open Uptime reveals 0.35, 0.47 and 0.25 Finger reveals only two users logged in (me from ssh on another box and me on console) ** ** Normally at this stage, I’d do a netstat –a and or a ps aux to find out what’s using the CPU and network but having done both, I see a lot of stuff I can’t interpret (for example CPU processes enclosed in square brackets) and besides which, as I’m in gnome on the desktop, I’d assume these are all required processes. ** ** What other checks should I be doing? ** ** …and while on the subject, I need to tie down this machine’s firewall a bit better. Using ufw, I want a rule which allows any sort of access from my subnet (and obviously nothing beyond) – can anyone give me the syntax?* *** ** ** Cheers Rob -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website
I never set a mailman password, and think that the effort of sharing passwords is unlikely to be worth the effort. I'm not sure how to simplify WordPress logins, maybe only giving draft and comments access by default? OpenID helps as you can then just use a Google address or similar. 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 18:00, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: Hello HantsLUGgers Here's an idea... Since membership of the LUG is defined as being subscribed to this mailing list, it would make sense to link the list with WordPress's users. In other words, subscribers to this mailing list should be able to log in to the WordPress site in order to add and edit content. Does that make sense? A quick search hasn't revealed any obvious ways of doing it, although there is some discussion at http://mail.python.org/** pipermail/mailman-users/2011-**June/071787.htmlhttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071787.htmlThere is also a 'MailMan Widget' for WordPress that does the reverse: maybe that's the way to go. Perhaps it would need a regular job to extract the current list of subscribers from MailMan and use that to update the WordPress user list. The first problem would be that MailMan just needs an email address, whereas WordPress works in terms of usernames. And the other problem would be to find a way to share passwords between the two systems securely. If anyone thinks that this is a) a good idea, and b) feasible, please let me know. (But I'll be away until Thursday, so don't expect any immediate replies from me.) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Little job needed for TV video company - SUSE RAID.
I wondered about btrfs too, but I'm not sure it is really ready... Anton On 3 Feb 2013 15:45, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 February 2013 20:02, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Hi Guys, Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2 including backing up existing data) to help out a local company between Andover and Stockbridge. If anyone is able to help, let me know and I'll put you in touch. I have given the enquirer some basic details on RAID, and advised that he doesn't move to a windows server, as per last part of thier e-mail. Cheers, Tim B. Original Message below: To: chair...@hantslug.org.uk Hi Tim I wonder if you could help us. Do you know anyone who could configure a Suse RAID 5 Array on a fairly old machine so that we can increase the disk sizes? We are a small video company between Andover and Stockbridge Details are - We have a Tyan 2892 mb in a 16 X HD server chassis. We only use it as a place to keep our very large video file back ups. It connects by gigabit ethernet to our Win 7 work stations. (We have to have Windows to run Adobe production software) It has 16 HD including a sys drive, some office data (which we can put anywhere else) and 12 X 750 Gig of video files in a RAID 5 array We want to change 6 HDs initially with 2TB HDs. At present most the data is already copied off. We had thought our one year old version of Suse and our RAID controller (unknown to us at present) would enable us to upgrade one disk at a time. Failing that we would configure two arrays, one to hold the new disks and one to use the rest of the existing ones. The Suse and server have run faultlessly for several years.We have had 2 or 3 single failed HDs that get replaced and re-stripe/restore RAID 5 data with no problems. We cannot find a local Linux person to call on for occasional support so were thinking we should move to Windows - but we don`t really want to although we are ourselves reasonably proficient with Windows (started before XP now on Win 7 - 6 work station PCs. I would be curious what people recommend as the solution. btrfs might be good here, because it allows expansion easily James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking
I have done a basic intro to the Linux and the command line at work and will be repeating it. Maybe I should do it for the lug? I assumed it would be a bit basic... Anton On 27 Jan 2013 17:59, Ally Biggs bluechr...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Just a idea but to attract more newcomers to meets. You should hold Talks on stuff like the basics of Linux Administration covering areas such as basic samba (getting windows and Linux to play nicely). There is probably Alot of people out there coming from a windows world who are making the transition to Linux. Who are not necessarily gurus and do not want to sit to talks and lectures on advanced topics. With raspberry pi being released this would also be a perfect opportunity To grab new users attention. I'm quite New to Linux myself I wouldn't want to Attend a meeting and sit through a talk 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 Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jan 2013, at 17:52, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: 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 alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: Hullo, It struck me today that the LUG doesn't have any kind of active presence on social networks (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+). I have seen other LUGs promote their meetings (and not much else) via these networks and it struck me as a good way to reach a wider audience than the website and mailing list currently do. I wondered if it might be worth setting up a presence on each of the above networks and have some people responsible for posting when the LUG has a meeting. To be clear, this isn't to replace the mailing list or website, and isn't targeting _you_ because you are already on the list. It's to target potential new people. Opinions / flames... Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Dropbox alternative
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 the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 19 Dec 2012 21:35, Richard Mace richard.m...@gmail.com wrote: Try SpiderOak.com 100% secure and works great! Richard On 19 December 2012 21:28, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.netwrote: ** Hi, A friend is looking for something like Dropbox but it can't be Dropbox as it's apparently banned in China. He basically need to sync data on a server in the UK and one in China so people can easily read and write to their local server and have it synced with the other one, and ideally access it on the move - web access. Clients are mostly Windows but the servers could be Linux. He is willing to pay but free is also good! Any suggestions? -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking. -- anon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Reprap
On 17 December 2012 13:38, Petyr B pet...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice and links. Expect to see me in the new year after the expensive season at reprap meet. Reprap + pi = interesting :-) Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote: ... [1] http://tvrrug.org.uk/home [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...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] For sale / free: various pc parts
I have a bunch of PC parts that I want to get rid of. Prices are quick checks from eBay, I will accept lower offers as I'd prefer not to throw it away if someone can make use of it. Ideally collection from Eastleigh, or Hursley (during business hours) or will bring along to a meetup. £30: Thermaltake Tenor silver home theatre pc case (desktop style) Excellent media PC or desktop case, great construction £50: mobo+cpu+2g ram (would prefer not to split) MSI K9VGM-V Motherboard Amd X2 3800+ (inc stock cooler+fan) 2x 1024mb DDR2 800mhz xms2-6400 (4-4-4-12) ram £10 - ATI HD5450 PCI-E 1gb DDR3 graphics card £30: mobo+cpu+1g ram (would prefer not to split) MSI K8MM3 v2 Motherboard (builtin vga) AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.66ghz) (inc stock cooler+fan) 1Gb Ram (2x 512 DDR 400 cl3) God low-power base system £10: NorthQ 400W PSU - NQ-4775-400 Great PSU, quiet, fine for anything but a hardcore gaming rig £10: Linksys WAG200G 4 port wifi (g) adsl modem £15: BT infinity FTTC modem (huawei echolife HG612) £10: BT Infinity home hub v2 (v2.0 tybe B(i)) Free: IDE slot loading dvd drive Free: 2 port ps/2 vga kvm Free: 5 1/4 IDE hard drive caddy Free: 3x sata cable 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](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program
Not sure if I got the url right via mobile phone but there's a post from an ex-canonical emoyee about this: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z132szwbruiozdntp22iiziggr24tzlwg04?cbp=104mhlwf5d4ysspath=/app/basic/109365858706205035322/postssparm=cbp%3Dix7bz3mtvnnl%26force%3D1%26partnerid%3Dt1force=1partnerid=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, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2012 17:40:25 Gordon Scott wrote: When I first read that I thought it was just Richard Stallman going off on one of his software must be free or die rants, but I followed some of the links and there seems to be a number of people who are convinced it's true. Of course one has to be cautious of things one reads in the media and especially on the 'Net. I had already heard about it, and I am pretty sure that it is true. Some people feel that Canonical is justified. And I don't like Ubuntu anyway! Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture
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 terribly inconvenienced. On 9 Dec 2012 23:43, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: ** On Sunday 09 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote: The first ever HantsLUG Christmas Lecture was held on Saturday 1 December in the Zepler Building at Southampton University. The speaker was Mike Bond (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mkb23/), of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he has been researching security in the banking system for 10 or more years. He gave us a talk on Hacking bank cards: 10 years of tools. – a subject that sounded distinctly illegal to me. In fact the work on computer security done at Cambridge has been an important tool for improving the complex security measures that banks need to use. Although publicly criticising any attempts to break their systems, the banks do in fact cooperate with this type of research because it helps them to develop better ones. Congratulations on getting a good speaker on an interesting topic, I'm only sorry I was not able to attend. I look forward to the next year! -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I don't think it would be useful for customers to put a section on our website to explain how the fare system works. -- Richard Gibson, Head of Communications, CrossCountry Trains -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] CoderDojo Southampton?
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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 9 Dec 2012 15:44, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've recently become aware of this CoderDojo thing from an article in the Guardian [0] It got me thinking on how great it would be if Southampton had one of these. I have been reading the website and Getting started guide [1] and it all looks doable. For me, I'm thinking I have too many family and personal commitments to give this a go as a mentor... but I thought I'd put it out there just in case anyone is interested? It's something I am still thinking about so who knows. One challenge is lack of weekly venue perhaps, something the Southampton Hackspace people seem to be having too [2]. Anyhow, just a thought! [0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/05/coderdojo-programming-kids [1] http://coderdojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/StartingaDojoCoderDojo1.pdf [2] http://southackton.org.uk/ -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F http://about.me/imranchaudhry -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture
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 were terribly inconvenienced. On 19 Nov 2012 14:02, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 14/11/12 19:04, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: This is a reminder that the Christmas Lecture will be held on the 1st December at Southampton University. We will be next-door to our usual location (in Zepler/Mountbatten building). There will be signs in prominant positions. Are many LUG people planning to attend this? I'd like to, but if it's just me, Ed and Tim I'm inclined not to (no disrespect meant to Tim Ed) because I'd quite like to socialise with a few members of the LUG I haven't seen for a while. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners
I don't think you need quad core. My dual core Asus at3 ion mobo with cpu does hd playback (no idea of the codec) but it also has a nvidia gpu builtin with hardware acceleration. I would always recommend hardware accelerated decoding over more cpy power (not sure if extra cores really help 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 adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: ** On Friday 09 Nov 2012, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, Every now and then I think I may get a DVB tuner for my computer. Now that Hannington has been upgraded to HD I could even watch/record stuff in HD (in theory) on my computer - our TV is still ye olde CRT. The Hauppauge PCTV Systems DVB-T2 290e nanoStick HD is apparently supported in Linux on 3.0 Kernel and above. It's also not so expensive on Amazon and other online retailers. Replying to my self here... Thanks to everyone for their comments. My current PC is getting antiquated I'll probably get a new quad-core box in the new year, so I wasn't expecting to watch much HD until I had a new PC anyway. I'm mostly relieved to hear that they do work - assuming you have good basic reception. Thanks for the offers of loans but I'll probably just buy one anyway, they aren't much on Amazon. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK To send one out of office message may be considered unfortunate, but to send two looks like cluelessness. -- Simon Cozens -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Fujitsu 1008AT 8 port LCD kvm for sale
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 were terribly inconvenienced. On 7 Nov 2012 21:25, Tim t...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: I have a Fujitsu 1008AT 1u rack mount (complete with rails) 8 port foldaway LCD screen kvm complete with 5 kvm cables for sale. If anybody is interested then let me know off list. Tim -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] upnp
I have been playing with upnp lately and by using media tomb on my linux box I can make all audio, video and pictures available on my phone and tablet, which is cool. Unfortunately (unsurprisingly?) Microsoft buggered up the upnp protocol on the xbox so it can't find media. My phone also has a upnp server, so I can share files from there too. It also appears that upnp allows ayback to another device, which sounds cool. This brings me to my question. Is there any linux software that cab be a upnp playback target or renderer so that I can use my phone to browse media (stored on my 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 were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] upnp
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 were terribly inconvenienced. On Oct 24, 2012 6:28 PM, Benjie Gillam ben...@jemjie.com wrote: You might want to look at DLNA too (it's built on top of UPnP) - thats where renderer/server/controller/etc are defined and often helps solve these issues I've found. Cheers, Benjie -- Sent from my iPhone, so please forgive spelling/brevity. www.BenjieGillam.com Founder: FitFu.com, GymFu.com Brain Bakery Ltd. and GymFu Ltd have registered address: 7 Duck Island Lane BH24 3AA. Registered in England and Wales, Company Numbers: 5849251 and 7022440 respectively On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:32, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I have been playing with upnp lately and by using media tomb on my linux box I can make all audio, video and pictures available on my phone and tablet, which is cool. Unfortunately (unsurprisingly?) Microsoft buggered up the upnp protocol on the xbox so it can't find media. My phone also has a upnp server, so I can share files from there too. It also appears that upnp allows ayback to another device, which sounds cool. This brings me to my question. Is there any linux software that cab be a upnp playback target or renderer so that I can use my phone to browse media (stored on my 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 were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] upnp
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 number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Oct 24, 2012 6:48 PM, Mike Dwerryhouse mike...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 10/24/2012 06:35 PM, Anton Piatek wrote: Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, sadly my tv isn't networked. Anton I tried DLNA with my TV once. I installed a package called serviio, to make the PC into a media server. I don't remember the setup details, but I don't think it was difficult. It all worked fairly smoothly. The only drawback was that the GUI on the TV was fairly primitive. I now use a media PC connected directly to the TV via HDMI. MikeD -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]
Christmas Lecture: (subject line [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]) This is meant to be something a bit special for the December meeting. The plan is to hold a formal lecture (open to the public) with a guest speaker; followed by a formal dinner for HantsLUG members. I am trying to get this sorted out as fast as I can, and I'll let you know what's happening as soon as possible. What sort of topics did you have in mind? I have persuaded Andy Standford-Clark[1] to talk at our meetups before. I'm not sure people would want to listen to him again, 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...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier
Can picasa store RAW photos? I have about 120G of RAW files to backup. Flickr is great for displaying photos but is no way to store originals. I have a similar problem for videos, though I have less of those right now. I currently use a raided array at my house, and the same at my parent's 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 this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Aug 25, 2012 10:45 AM, Samuel Penn s...@glendale.org.uk wrote: On Friday 24 August 2012 20:29:01 Tim Brocklehurst wrote: On Friday 24 Aug 2012 18:12:02 Benjie Gillam wrote: My current plan is to just do a few big tar files of various subjects (Documents/Photos/Development/etc), encrypt and upload once a month. In between times could use tar's incremental features, though I have no experience with them. I do a system backup like this once a week with S3. Documents (such as PDFs/eBooks I've downloaded, which I don't care about encrypting) get S3 rsync'd every few hours. I did a talk on this early last year at Surrey LUG, so it's a bit out of date now: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbZoSnTywR59ZGdxNDdmeDhfOWNxeHozeGYy TAR and encryption sound like a good plan. For incremental backups you might want to keep a list (or database, or whatever) of files and md5sums, then write a script to compare and backup the ones that have changed (perhaps checking on timestamps too to make things quicker). I have no experience with Glacier, but whether it's preferable to do lots of small uploads will depend on how robust your connection is and how thier pricing works. The problem with Glacier is there's a really big delay before getting access to the files again. I may not want to download data often, but when I do, I'd like to be able to do a restore right now. Currently S3 is costing me a few dollars a month for system backups (it could be a lot less, if I could be bothered to tidy up old backups), and Google is costing $20/year for 80GB of photo backups in Picasa. That's well within what I'm happy to pay, so I don't feel a need to switch to Glacier, except for use as possibly a secondary backup of music, video and photos. -- Be seeing you,Games: http://www.glendale.org.uk/ Sam. Posts: http://www.google.com/profiles/samuel.penn -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier
Interesting. Actually displaying is pointless as I run a load of conversion filters on it to get a jpeg (I uses AfterShot Pro, which used to be Bibble). Is it easy to bulk upload/download the raws from picasa? I suspect that maintaining my folder structure might be a lot of effort in picasa. If I get an automated glacier backup sorted then that should be easier. I have only recovered once from backup and that was for a failed disk. I don't mind the delay involved in glacier. I am actually migrating my raid array from my parent's pc to a new disk as one failed, so the topic is quite 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 Aug 26, 2012 11:00 AM, Samuel Penn s...@glendale.org.uk wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2012 10:25:56 Anton Piatek wrote: Can picasa store RAW photos? I have about 120G of RAW files to backup. According to this: http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=15625 Yes. I just did a test with my Canon, and it seems to upload the RAW file and display it just fine: https://picasaweb.google.com/106447163250994392861/August262012?authuser=0authkey=Gv1sRgCKi1_aCA_qT45wEfeat=directlink -- Be seeing you,Games: http://www.glendale.org.uk/ Sam. Posts: http://www.google.com/profiles/samuel.penn -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier
Has anyone had a good look at Glacier? http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ At $0.011 per GB/month to store data, and quite low transfer fees, it looks like a great way to backup large volumes such as all my raw digital photos. What I am not clear on is whether it is geared to backing up 15k files, or if I need to work out some form of archive of them. If I need to build up a small number of large archives, is there good software available to help me track what has already been archived and uploaded, and what is new/changed and therefore needs to be built into a new archive. Given the pricing, 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, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Mar 29, 2012 3:37 PM, Dominic Rodriguez shym...@gmail.com wrote: Vic I have used FlightGear successfully before and have experinced no problems. The joystick was a Cyborg V1 which was working okay. If you require help, I would be delighted to help you. Cheers Dominic On Mar 29, 2012 2:59 PM, Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote: Hi All. I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and FlightGear seems to have the necessary models for my needs. Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it was completely unusable. I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy... Thanks! Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Humble bundle: games!
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 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Black Hole detection
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 in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Mar 20, 2012 11:43 AM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sometimes, a network will have black holes in the sense that say, packet sizes up to 0-1400 get through, 1400-1404 fail, and 1405-1500 get through. You can find these holes using ping with DF bit set and various sized pings. If you find problems, you then fix them so all sizes get through. Does anyone know of a tool that will automatically scan all packet sizes and report the result? Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Looking for a Perl IDE
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Mar 8, 2012 5:44 PM, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: Bit confused from your title as to whether you are wanting an IDE or an interactive debugger. For a debugger that is a bit more acceddible than 'perl -d', have you looked at Devel::ptkdb ? ( https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::ptkdb ) It is a while since I used it but I seem to recall it did the particular thing you mention of letting you inspect variables while the code runs. I don't know what Padre offers in the area of run time support ( I believe it's more of an Eclipse-y IDE tool for coding rather than debugging) but it's getting quite good press these days. -- best regards, Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Replacing home server with a Linux NAS device?
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 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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Mar 7, 2012 11:35 AM, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote: Hi, I might have to replace my home server due to a hardware failure. It's a Tranquil PC unit which I chose because it has accessible disk bays and runs pretty quietly. I have been looking at a few options online but most microservers are sold on their size rather than noise. However, NAS devices look like a good option but I'm not sure which of them either run Linux or can be easily hacked to do so. The requirements are: 1) Low power. As low as possible, ideally 20-30W. 2) Quiet. Ideally fanless. 3) SSH access for remote rsync backups. 4) 3TB storage. Ideally I would be able to reuse the 4 existing data 1TB disks I have in a software RAID5 configuration. 5) Can run Ubuntu or Debian. Would be nice: 6) Small. 7) USB connection for printer. I've looked at Synology and ReadyNAS products but any recommendations would be gratefully received. Thanks, Tony -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Feb 24, 2012 9:34 PM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 February 2012 12:38, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: Another vote for rsnapshot here. As Leo says it works over rsync and you can just feed rsnapshot the rsync options you are already using. It supports daily, weekly, monthly out the box so it's just a matter of commenting out the relevant lines in the config. My approach would be to set-up rsnapshot to do an immediate backup of something small so the directory structure is correct, then copy your backup data into the relevant place, then perform a dry run to confirm that only the diffs are transferred. The only snag would be that the backups are not encrypted, in which case duplicity might be your best bet. However it comes at the cost of complexity and I found that restoring backups becomes non-trivial. Another HantsLUG member wrote a good guide to duplicity a while back on his personal wiki. On 14 February 2012 19:36, Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote: Have you seen rsnapshot? That might be able to do what you want and works on rsync, so you might be able to avoid copying everything again. Leo I have looked at rsnapshot. It uses hardlinks, so if I need to copy the backup data itself, I will have to find a special copy program that preserves hard links. I am sure they exist, but not found an answer on google yet. I know how to handle copy softlnks, just not hardlinks yet. I have also looked further at duplicity, and found that I can convert my current backup into a duplicity one without having to copy everything across the WAN/Internet again. The final requirement I have is to be able to select a file, and see the dates when it changed. I don't think duplicity or rsnapshot has this feature but I am still looking. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] What dynamic DNS ?
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 this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Feb 20, 2012 4:51 PM, Jon Wilks jonnyx1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for ddns and domain registration. I have built a home email and web server for the family and I have looked at the web pages of dyn.com and frostbyte. Any other recommendations anyone? -- Jon Wilks -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system
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 sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Feb 15, 2012 9:19 AM, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 16:25 +, Anton Piatek wrote: The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and swap disk. My own first question would be how comfortable I was having my data stored on only one machine, raid or not. Personally I don't like my data in only one building. Gordon. -- Gordon Scottwww.gscott.co.uk 01256-476547 0794-1958207 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system
I currently backup my entire desktop to a sever sitting downstairs. I work on (mostly photos) locally on the desktop and then back them up to the downstairs machine which has raided disks (as I don't trust disks, I have had too many fail). This means I need 3 disks to store data on. The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and swap disk. How fast a network do I need to make this work sensible? Is gigabit network enough? Photo processing is quite data intensive, especially when batching 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system
I On Feb 14, 2012 5:44 PM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2012 16:25, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk 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 up to the downstairs machine which has raided disks (as I don't trust disks, I have had too many fail). This means I need 3 disks to store data on. The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and swap disk. How fast a network do I need to make this work sensible? Is gigabit network enough? Photo processing is quite data intensive, especially when batching conversion on my 6 core desktop, currently I think the disk I/O is my limit to go faster. Quick test should tell you. Set up nfsd on the server, and access your pictures/files over the nfs share. If they are fast enough for displaying on the desktop, you could move to a minimal setup. I did try that in my last house with 100mbit network,and that obviously wasn't. I currently have ethernet over power, so would need to invest considerable effort in getting 1000mbit network wired in. So testing isn't really possible without moving pcs around. It is really the rate of replacing disks in my desktop and server that is bugging me - I'd rather have more disks under raid than spread out in separate machines. (I have just restored my desktop from the backup copy on raid, as the desktop disk started giving read errors) 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system
On Feb 14, 2012 6:05 PM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2012 17:49, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Quick test should tell you. Set up nfsd on the server, and access your pictures/files over the nfs share. If they are fast enough for displaying on the desktop, you could move to a minimal setup. I did try that in my last house with 100mbit network,and that obviously wasn't. I currently have ethernet over power, so would need to invest considerable effort in getting 1000mbit network wired in. So testing isn't really possible without moving pcs around. It is really the rate of replacing disks in my desktop and server that is bugging me - I'd rather have more disks under raid than spread out in separate machines. (I have just restored my desktop from the backup copy on raid, as the desktop disk started giving read errors) Disks should not fail that often. If they do, at least you should be getting them replaced for free. As a report I saw a long time ago, I think it was done by google, HDs are most likely to fail in the first 6 months, but generally, if they get past 6 months, they tend to last quite a long time. But at least if a HD fails in the first 6 months, you get a replacement under guarantee. I have one server in my house, and a separate one in another building, and backup between them. I a HD fails in my house, I take a new disk to the other building, clone the HD, and then bring it back to my house and off I go again. I don't bother backing up the OS, just the data, pictures etc. I have probably replaced 12 disks under warranty in my time, and probably had a similar number fail out of warranty. The last two were getting older and out of warranty. I don't have that much data to store, I think I have a 1TB mirrored raid setup on my server at the moment which is adequete, but having just replaced the disk in my desktop disks are not cheap at the moment, so I was wondering if the effort of wiring cat5e/6 would be a better long-term investment. (I am actually paranoid enough about disk failure to mirror my ~200G of raw photos across to a machine at my parent's house, which has even older disks which are constantly being replaced as they really are getting end-of-life) 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Feb 14, 2012 7:36 PM, Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote: Have you seen rsnapshot? That might be able to do what you want and works on rsync, so you might be able to avoid copying everything again. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] SSD specs
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] (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 Feb 13, 2012 10:59 AM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have looked at OCZ and Kingston datasheets, they mention things like IOPS and read and write speeds, but there is no mention of Max writes per sector. I thought that bit of info was useful because it helps you decide if your application will wear the SSD out of not. Is the reason why it is not in the datasheets because it is not a problem anymore, or are the manufacturers intending to mislead? I would also like the drive to fail gracefully. I.e. It reaches its max writes per sector, the drive turns into a Read-only device, but does not loose all data and make the drive unreadable. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Dying HDDs
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...@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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Feb 6, 2012 7:11 PM, Isaac Close a...@etho.org wrote: On 06/02/2012 18:09, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all ** ** As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD died. Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems ranging from install failing to complete with another HDD error to the BIOS not detecting the drive at all. ** ** I have literally just tried a new SATA data cable and all (so far touch wood!) seems well. The thing is - if the problem persists - what part should I look at replacing next? The PSU? The mobo? Could this be some sort of mains AC problem and would a new surge protector be more the order of the day? I should add I have several other boxes on the same ring main that appear to be working fine. ** ** Are these new (yada yada I know I'm not exactly Mr Current Affairs) SATA data cables any better or worse for bad connections than other types of BUS e.g. usb or even pata ide? These days, it is PSU's that seem to go bandy more frequently than anything else and it is usually intermittent. I use a PSU testing tool (a half decent one with an LCD display costs around 40 GBP), its proved a great investment. And, I have dealt with a few thousand machines in the past couple of years or so and my findings appear consistent. Hope that helps, Isaac. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] ntpd vs. ptpd
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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Jan 25, 2012 3:39 PM, Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote: I thought that only worked when transmitted over a serial link, i.e. ATM or DVB. You thought wrong. It is not so effective on packet based links such as Ethernet. All headend distribution systems these days are Ethernet-based. It is incredibly effective. I have never heard of those timestamps being used to synchronize multiple endpoints. I'm sure there are many thing in the Universe of which you have not heard. This does not mean they do not exist. I have only ever seen them used to do synchronization within each device in the chain. This leaves us with one of two possible situations :- - Timestamps aren't used in this way - You are not omniscient. Given that I've worked on these systems for quite a few years, I know which one I believe to be true. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.
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 the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Dec 17, 2011 4:08 PM, Freaky Clown freakycl...@gmail.com wrote: I hate all printers - they are the only piece of technology that has not gotten significantly better in 5 years - however I recently HAD to buy a printer and was shocked at how easy the Kodak ESP 7250 was to get workign in linux - it literally was 30 seconds - I was gobsmacked. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Linux power monitoring tools.
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: [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 Dec 14, 2011 2:46 PM, Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 14 at 10:33, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have an aim to monitor as precisely as possible the power usages of a number of servers. Like: # ioline-summary Data Out power: Bus Voltage 13.38 V Data Out power: Current 0.256 A Data Out power: Power 3.43 W External power outlet 0:Bus Voltage 12.87 V External power outlet 0:Current 0.002 A External power outlet 0:Power 0.02 W External power outlet 1:Bus Voltage 12.86 V External power outlet 1:Current -0.001 A External power outlet 1:Power -0.02 W Port A power: Bus Voltage 12.86 V Port A power: Current -0.069 A Port A power: Power -0.89 W Port C power: Bus Voltage 12.84 V Port C power: Current 0.001 A Port C power: Power 0.02 W Sensor power: Bus Voltage 12.87 V Sensor power: Current -0.001 A Sensor power: Power -0.02 W Sorry to tease, that's on a piece of non-PC equipment and uber expensive. Oh and Kelly wrote the interface so users can get graphs against time and other parameters such as temperature. Standard PC hardware doesn't normally allow you to monitor the current drawn from a supply, only the voltage, hence no way to determine the power consumption. Voltage was easy to measure so was thrown in to keep customers amused, but current would have cost a few pennies so wasn't. A few specialist suppliers and high end manufacturers do include current monitoring hardware. Look for ESA compatible power supplies for example. I cannot seem to find any tools that monitor things like: 1) Total power consumbed as a monotonic kWh value. Unless you've got one of those expensive monitorable power supplies your best bet is going to be a CurrentCost appliance monitor or similar. 2) Power broken down by device within the system. Without the sensors to measure it software is only going to be able to give you the broadest stroke estimate. Again per device current sensors is rather specialist. 3) Power broken down by process within the system. Even with hardware sensors ascribing power consumption to individual processes would be difficult. I guess you could look at a processes I/O stats then do something like 10% of disk I/O equals 10% of disk hardware power consumption. I think a lot of the monitoring software out there is smoke and mirrors on top of guesswork. -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] External USB HDD spindown.
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, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Dec 17, 2011 5:07 PM, Clive Woodfine clivewoodf...@gmail.com wrote: Having just read about PC power monitoring reminded about this question. Is there a way of saving power on an external hard drive by spinning down the disk after a certain period of non use? I have one in an external USB attached caddy. Do you need a special disk or caddy? -- Clive -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] DVD-Rom Long Shot
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 sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Oct 30, 2011 10:46 AM, e-mail phillip.chandler phillip.chand...@ntlworld.com wrote: A bit of a long shot. Ive got a Dell Inspiron 1200 with a DVD-Rom which doubles as a cd-rom and dvd writer, which has now started to not read any disc. Would any of you have a standard dvd-rom that you were thinking of chucking out ? If so, could you chuck it my way for a few pound notes ? Im in Newbury, so if your local to north hants Id pick up. Thanks Phillip No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] CLI XML diff (and patch?) tools?
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] (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 Oct 28, 2011 5:36 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any reason you don't want to use the regular diff and patch apps? Does it have to be something that is XML aware if you like? -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs
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 electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Oct 9, 2011 7:51 PM, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:39:10 +0100 Damian L Brasher l...@interlinux.org.uk wrote: Thank you for some fun, a few years ago, playing with a Mac Mini for a few months until it found a more appreciative home. It seems I am going to be given a Mac Mini soon, apparently it can't be upgraded enough to run the latest version of OS/X. Not sure what is in it but the owner has had it for several years and I benefited by getting the Mac G3 it replaced at the time. I didn't keep that for long but provided the Mac Mini is an Intel based box I think the it could make a nice (Debian based) Geneweb server to replace the ageing Celeron 1100 MHz box I use now, it will at least be somewhat quieter. -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones
If you are thinking of a HTC desire (I have one) I would say that the internal storage is rubbish, however the good news is that rooting and installing cyanogen mod 7 is really easy and with e2sd you can move your dalvik cache (android Java bit cache) to an ext partition and that frees up a huge 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 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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Sep 28, 2011 8:57 PM, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:52:15 Anton Piatek wrote: Has anyone suggested a keyboard ? I know it is not a mouse, but learning keyboard shortcuts can help a lot with rsi... And just when you know keyboard shortcuts for everything that is important to you, for just that reason, the gremlins grin at each other and pull the rug from under your feet. :-( (I.e. the powers that be abandon KDE 3.) Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Btrfs
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:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] 4 by 3 Thinkpad conclusion
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, 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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Sep 23, 2011 9:45 PM, Martin N marti...@bluebottle.com wrote: Lo, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemNextitem=120774227498autorefresh=true So i picked this one up pretty cheap it seems to me. ATI gfx rather than the Nvidia that has been mentioned to fail and the screen res of 1400x1050 on a 15 screen. Thoughts when it finally turns up in 5 working days which seems a bit long to turn it around. Martin N Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Free: slot loading IDE DVD drive
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] NPM: Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites
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:// 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 Sep 21, 2011 10:27 AM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/ Guess we will have to wait for firefox to support TLS 1.1 or 1.2. Currently it only supports TLS 1.0. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image
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 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 Sep 20, 2011 8:18 AM, Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote: Hi, A bit of an oddball query but I thought someone here might know where to look. A friend at work wants to project the X11 console image onto a curved (in 2 directions) surface. He'd like to pre-distort the X11 image to counteract at least some of the distortion introduced by the curve. Anyone know where we might find an application to do this? In the good old days we'd slap some magnets around the back of the CRT to curve the beams, but this is a modern micro-mirror based projector so the pixels are fixed. -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image
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 adjustment tool. Not sure if it does curves well though... Anton -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Refurbished Lenovo laptop 4 by 3 screen
A colleague at work (I work for IBM) decided his work supplied Lenovo thinkpad had too low a resolution. He bought a new screen online and said it was very easy to replace it himself. Not sure if that option appeals to your or not... T60s also had much higher resolutions, but they were not the 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 terribly inconvenienced. On Sep 16, 2011 5:17 PM, Martin N marti...@bluebottle.com wrote: Hello, I am struggling to find a Lenovo laptop second hand on-line which has a decent screen height. I originally looked for only 4 by 3 but the maximum resolution seem low at 1024x800 on a 15 which was present of the T60. I have started looking for a t61 which are unfortunately widescreen but look like they have some 16:10 screens. The resolution is 1680x1050 on a 15 screen. Does anyone have a source for a laptop which has a high vertical length. I have to use one at college for an ECDL Office 2010 course and they have these titchy widescreen laptops that I am struggling with. There are no other laptops or screens available for me to used- i asked! Thanks for any help on sources or alternatives models Martin N Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Loss of computer or Smartphone
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:// 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 Sep 5, 2011 3:33 AM, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote: Hi Mike, On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Mike Austin wrote: Those of you concerned about loss of a computer or Smartphone should visit http://preyproject.com/download I've been thinking about this, but the difficulty is that I kind of want to continue using full disk encryption. Expecting a thief to know how to log in to Linux is already a bit unlikely, before you even add the encryption. I'm thinking it's more likely that they would know how to wipe the SSD and install Windows, or just sell it as-is down the pub. What do people do to ensure that Prey can be run even while using full disk encryption? I was thinking it would be nice if dm-crypt would have a password timeout so that e.g. after 30 seconds it boots into something else. Even then, the trouble is I'd have to install a minimal Linux environment on the alternate boot just to be confident that it gets online, webcam works, etc. This sounds like a lot of work. I don't really want to start only encrypting certain directories (e.g. /home); I don't trust *myself* to never put sensitive info outside these directories, so if I was in charge of desktop support at a larger company I would certainly never trust employees to do the right thing in this regard. Maybe it comes down to how paranoid you are. It's just that dm-crypt works really nicely these days so it's hard to justify not using it on mobile devices. It would be interesting if the BIOS could do all the stuff that Prey does! Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux
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: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [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 Aug 29, 2011 5:14 PM, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: On 08/29/2011 04:56 PM, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:49:32 +0100, cgden...@btinternet.com said: Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Would have thought any DAViCal server would be fine. That looks promising -- thanks. Which client side calendar program (sorry, app) are you using? Up to now I've been using the calendar thingy on my Clie, syncing JPilot on Linux. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux
There is a big difference between publically posting private details and movements to that of allowing someone else to host your contacts, calendar or email. I assume you encrypt every email you send, only accept encrypted mail and only use websites with ssl. Otherwise you are probably sharing 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 this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Aug 29, 2011 7:25 PM, e-mail phillip.chandler phillip.chand...@ntlworld.com wrote: One *massive* bonus of Android was getting the replacement, and all my contacts and appointments (via google) were resynced with the greatest of ease. Im more concerned about security on cloud computing. you have no idea who is managing the computers with your information. You have no idea where they are. What protections may or may not be in place to make sure your information is not stolen or disclosed or that it does not accidentally disappear. Or what if the computer is in a country that doesn't recognize our data protection laws, goes bankrupt and sells the servers to another country with different data protection laws to us, and the country that sold the server ? And do I really want to have all my personal stuff advertised on Facebook for the world to see ? People are too eager to advertise Im getting in the bath, im getting out of the bath, im getting dried, im having a fart, im walking out the door, im getting the bus, im half way to the pub, im walking into the pub, wheres my drink ? Call me old fashioned, but Id rather keep all my personal stuff backed up on a usb stick. And that the biggest threat to any anti-anything you can buy, is the end user. Just my pounds worth on a lovely bank holiday. Hope you all had a good one. Phill -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] ls -l
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 destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Aug 24, 2011 7:39 PM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2011 19:15, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: That and, subsequently, screen. Screen is something which I heard like 3 years back but never tried it , now I absolutely love , can't live without GNU Screen ! One cool thing which screen allows is to log on irc forever ! Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?
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:// 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 Jul 24, 2011 7:08 PM, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all I need some sort of decent method of backing up 2TB besides just buying an external HDD - which is what I already have. Having looked around - online storage is out (way too pricey) and Blu Ray is too small. Tape looks the best bet but SDLT (which seems to be an affordable medium) might be getting a bit old... Does anyone use SDLT? If so, what do you think of it? Any ideas how long it takes to restore a backup of 600Gb (which seems to be the tape's max capacity)? Cheers Rob -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Broadband?!
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: [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 Jul 14, 2011 2:37 PM, Peter Andrijeczko peter.andrijec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris Keeping it honest, I have BT Fusion with the Home Hub 2 and it's very reliable - I have the unlimited option at £25 a month but as a home worker my company pays for it anyway - so price is secondary to me. I had huge instability problems when I first got BT Broadband about 4 years ago, eventually the causes were found to be internal home cabling and the totally crap BT Home Hub 1 - the Home Hub 2 is much better, it still has a couple of firmware quirks but I don't think my service has been down more than one in the past 18 months, and I am a heavy user of broadband. As for FON, I'm opted into it, I'm in a semi-rural area so I don't think there are that many people that use my hotspot so I've not noticed any slowdown because of it - and the benefits of good coverage outweigh the opt in. BT are ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE for support or whenever you need to change any of your services - but I've always found the services themselves to be fairly good. Regards Peter On 14 July 2011 14:14, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 14/07/11 12:19, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks I find myself being tempted away from the reliable plainness of UKFSN/Entanet broadband towards the glossy excitement of BT broadband. For these reasons: * I need a new wifi router anyway, and I'll get a free one with BT. * It will probably be cheaper once the free UK landline calls and other goodies are factored in. * They offer lots of free wifi hotspots via BT Fon and BT Openzone, which will be of interest to me if I get a smartphone or tabletty thing. Has anyone used BT Fon? Is it any good? I have experience of wrestling with BT Broadband customer support on behalf of customers -- it's often not fun. But on the other hand, for a lot of people BT Broadband is very reliable. What does the team think? Would moving to BT be a mistake? I use BeThere isp, good if they have equipment in your area. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Screen
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/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Free: Various PC bits and pieces
I am clearing out old PC bits, so have the following available to go to a good home: To be collected from Eastleigh or Hursley Barebones Computer (motherboard, cpu, cpu heatsink+fan, ram) Athlon XP1733 Motherboard A7N8X 2x SATA 2x IDE Nvidia NForce 2 5x PCI 3x ram slots Ethernet (100mb?) Surround Audio + digital (coax) 512Mb PC3200 DDR400 CL3 Ram Barebones Computer (motherboard, cpu, cpu heatsink+fan, ram) 1.6GHz CPU? (maybe overclocked?) Motherboard Asus A7V266E AGP 5x PCI (no Ethernet) 2x IDE 512mb PC2700 DDR333 ram PCI cards: 3x pci ethernet cards (10/100) PCI Sound Blaster Live! CT4760 BT928 ISA video in card 250W ATX PSU IDE Hard disk drives: 10GB IDE Quantum fireball plus 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax, has some bad sectors but seems stable 160GB Samsung SpinPoint, ATA 133 7200rpm (SP1604N) Computer cases case1 - extra fan, fold out motherbboard tray case2 - quick access side panels (one screw at top, then lift out either side) Case photos: Case 1 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case1.1.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case1.2.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case1.3.jpg Case 2 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case2.1.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case2.2.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case3.3.jpg -- 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Free: Various PC bits and pieces
Reserved - Anton Piatek 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, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 17 May 2011 21:22, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: On 17/05/11 20:17, Anton Piatek wrote: I am clearing out old PC bits, so have the following available to go to a good home: To be collected from Eastleigh or Hursley Barebones Computer (motherboard, cpu, cpu heatsink+fan, ram) Athlon XP1733 Motherboard A7N8X 2x SATA 2x IDE Nvidia NForce 2 5x PCI 3x ram slots Ethernet (100mb?) Surround Audio + digital (coax) 512Mb PC3200 DDR400 CL3 Ram Barebones Computer (motherboard, cpu, cpu heatsink+fan, ram) 1.6GHz CPU? (maybe overclocked?) Motherboard Asus A7V266E AGP 5x PCI (no Ethernet) 2x IDE 512mb PC2700 DDR333 ram PCI cards: 3x pci ethernet cards (10/100) PCI Sound Blaster Live! CT4760 BT928 ISA video in card 250W ATX PSU IDE Hard disk drives: 10GB IDE Quantum fireball plus 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax, has some bad sectors but seems stable 160GB Samsung SpinPoint, ATA 133 7200rpm (SP1604N) Computer cases case1 - extra fan, fold out motherbboard tray case2 - quick access side panels (one screw at top, then lift out either side) Case photos: Case 1 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case1.1.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case1.2.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case1.3.jpg Case 2 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case2.1.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case2.2.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case3.3.jpg Can I claim the Athlon XP1733 please?? Tim -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting, Saturday 7 May, Southampton
On 29 April 2011 09:01, Hants LUG Chairman adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, Royal/Republican/Apathetic greetings to fellow LUGers. As planned the May meeting will take place at Southampton University on Saturday 7 May between 10:00 and 16:30. Chris will arrange wired network and the LUG will bring it's own wifi access point. As last month, if you want to connect please provide Chris with your MAC address: http://hantslug.cmalton.me.uk/dhcp.php Baring any more unfortunate domestic incidents I plan to give a short talk on PC connectors, anyone else wishing to give a talk there is plenty of time to plan one and lots of free slots to give it in! I just checked the hantslug website and it says to register your name so you are on the security register before the day, but no email address is given. Chris - Is it too late to get my name on the security register? 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] LaTeX Training course
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net Date: 15 Mar 2011 12:42 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] LaTeX Training course To: l...@dcglug.org.uk, British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com, dfey general discussion dfey-general-disc...@nongnu.org Hi I have pasted in the following: * I am pleased to announce that UK-TUG has arranged to run the 'LaTeX for Beginners' training course in April. Please help spread the word by forwarding the following announcement on to anyone who you feel would be interested. Regards, Joseph Wright UK-TUG Secretary --- The UK TeX Users' Group (UK-TUG) periodically runs training courses in using LaTeX. We are very pleased to announce a presentation of our beginners course, loosely entitled ‘Using LaTeX to write a thesis’. The course will cover topics such as: * Setting up LaTeX on a computer * Creating basic documents * Logic structure in LaTeX documents * Including graphical material * Bibliographies * LaTeX QA The course will be taking place on Friday April 15th in central Cambridge, and will run from approximately 10 a.m. to around 4:30 pm. The course will be aimed at new LaTeX users, with an emphasis on hands-on experience. We will be using a computer lab equipped with Windows PCs, but there will the opportunity to set up your system to use LaTeX. More details about the full programme for the day will be circulated to participants nearer to the course date. Places are strictly limited by the size of the venue. To book a provisional place, please e-mail joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk with your details. The non-refundable course fee (£10) and the a copy of the attached membership form should then be sent to Joseph Wright, UK-TUG Secretary. (The course fee includes membership of UK-TUG for 2011.) Payment should be sent within two weeks of making a provisional booking, otherwise the space may be released. We will also hold a ‘reserve’ list of names if the course reaches capacity: experience suggests that the course will book up very rapidly. The course material is intended as a general introduction to using LaTeX. However, it is useful to have some idea about the interests of those attending, as this enables us to prepare for at least some of the potential questions. A brief outline of your background is therefore encouraged along with your booking. It is also useful to know what operating system you usually use, as this is useful when preparing instructions on how to set up LaTeX for your own systems. ** May be worth thinking about, if there is enough interest perhaps we can get a course in the south west. Paul -- Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day -- ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] EXIM
On 12 December 2010 22:04, Adam John Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, If you have an exposed server running Exim it's worth checking for updates after a recent security flaw is being exploited in the wild. See Steve's blog for the links and comments. http://blog.steve.org.uk/the_remote_root_hole_in_exim4_is_painful.html Debian security advisory: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2131 Ubuntu security advisory: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1032-1 It looks like a pretty serious exploit, so if you run Exim, do upgrade ASAP. 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Cron script problem
On 11 October 2010 23:45, Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote: After adding the folder that holds the file to $PATH and then changing crontab to run from /folder/file.sh it would not run But when I changed it to /folder/file it ran? Yes - exactly, The name of your script was day1, IIRC. That's its name - calling it day1.sh doesn't work, because that's the name of a completely different file (that doesn't exist). You *also* need to tell the OS where to find your script - either by giving it an explicit pathname, or letting it find it by searching along $PATH - but that's entirely secondary to the problem of needing to use the right name in the first place. I understood the part about the file did not exist, my problem was finding out why it thought it did not exist Simply because it didn't exist. Your script was called day1. day1.sh is not the same file. I think perhaps an explanation that the file extension in linux generally does not affect what the OS will do with the file. In gui window managers, the extension is sometimes used to work out which application to open it with, but when it comes to command line usage, in particular executable scripts, the extension is purely a hint for users. If a file has the executable bit, then the OS will try and run it when asked. If it is a text file, then it looks a the first line. If the first line is #!/bin/bash (usually referred to as she-bang /bin/bash) then when you run ./script the OS will ask /bin/bash to run the contents of the file, even if the file has an extension that might suggest something else 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki, book reviews and AGM
Has OpenID been suggested for the Wiki? I'm not familiar with moin moin but am happy to help try implement it. Anton On 18 Sep 2010 15:32, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote: Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, I hope everyone has had a good summer! I have a few important things to say. 1) The wiki is getting hammered with SPAM again. I do my best to keep on top of it but it's getting tedious. The wiki is also suffering from lack of attention, only a small number of people contribute and the content is a little out of date and disorganised. The constitution and committee pages seem to have disappeared entirely! Not great when we're heading for an AGM... Are they lurking somewhere and can be restored? Tony -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki, book reviews and AGM
I think OpenID is a good compromise for registering (and doesn't require a new password) Thoughts? Anton On 18 Sep 2010 18:31, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: On Saturday 18 Sep 2010, Anton Piatek wrote: Has OpenID been suggested for the Wiki? I'm not familiar with moin moin but am happy to help try implement it. I didn't put MoinMoin in place and I've no axe to grind as to how we protect it - I'm open to any sensible suggestion. I think the consensus was, most people didn't mind having to register to use it, we don't have to keep it as an open free for all. We just need to do something. Anton On 18 Sep 2010 15:32, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote: Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, I hope everyone has had a good summer! I have a few important things to say. 1) The wiki is getting hammered with SPAM again. I do my best to keep on top of it but it's getting tedious. The wiki is also suffering from lack of attention, only a small number of people contribute and the content is a little out of date and disorganised. The constitution and committee pages seem to have disappeared entirely! Not great when we're heading for an AGM... Are they lurking somewhere and can be restored? Tony -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it -- Agatha Christie -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki, book reviews and AGM
On 18 September 2010 18:59, Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Anton Piatek wrote: I think OpenID is a good compromise for registering (and doesn't require a new password) Thoughts? If MoinMoin can easily be configured to use OpenID that sounds like a good option to me. IIRC last time this was discussed on the list nobody voiced any strong complaints about the idea of having to register to update the wiki as long as you didn't have to fill out a form in triplicate and submit it in person to the registration office in Ursa Minor before having access to the site. http://moinmo.in/HelpOnAuthentication suggest OpenID is supported in v1.7 - What version is the wiki running? 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] eReaders
After all that, the short question is, does anybody use an ereader and if so, who have you got on using it with Linux? FBReader on my HTC android phone, like Jan. If you read on android, try aldiko - its an ePub reader and has an interface into a huge number of free and public domain books (most of Guttenberg by the look of it) in ePub format 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meet - 11th Sept - Hursley
Thanks to all that came today, and a special thanks to all those that presented. If I could ask those who presenter to add a link to their slides on the wiki page as several people who couldn't make it have already asked about the talks http://www.hantslug.org.uk/wiki/11September2010 Anton Piatek -- 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Oops, I did it again
Matt picked it up. What is the easiest way to get it to you? Anton On 11 Sep 2010 21:08, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: I left my laptop power supply plugged in to the floor outlet of the room we were in at Hursley ;-( It was in the corner to the immediate left as you go in the room. It's a Panasonic unit, has a three-lead clover leaf feed (not the more usual 'shotgun' two-core lead), and has a couple of Ubuntu stickers on it so should be quite recognisable. I wonder if one of the kind IBMers could get hold of it for me? I don't know if anybody from there lives close to Bournemouth; whatever, I'll sort out something about collection. thanks victor -- regards, Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia
On 3 July 2010 17:17, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: One [1] suggests that USB hardware can be used as a Trojan horse to steal your data. It's possible. Though there are probably easier ways to steal data. I was wondering about this - but what device would it have to identify as in order to have a driver load that reads data from the OS? Surely the security flaw here is purely with any drivers that allow a USB device to read system activity. I would hope any device that has such drivers would need to be explicitly configured after plugging in... If you wanted to hack something by plugging in a USB device, then surely nobody will notice an extra USB dongle hanging out the back of their PC (A colleague at work certainly didn't notice the extra mouse going to the next desk, which allowed weeks of fun as you tweak his computer usage by occasionally moving his mouse around or scrolling unexpectedly) 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops
On 23 June 2010 07:50, Chris Liddell c...@spamcop.net wrote: Hi, I've used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads exclusively for about 7 years now - because I *hate* touch pads, I can use the track points, and the Thinkpads are now the only laptops I can find that use track points. Anyway, I've had a total of eight, of various vintages from a TP 530, up to the recently introduced X100e, and they have all run Linux (various flavours: currently Ubuntu, but also Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Slackware). The only one I've had a slight problem with is the X100e which, being a very new model, the Linux Thinkpad support hasn't quite caught up yet - but even it mostly works, certainly well enough for me to use it for work. They are relatively expensive, but I believe the build quality is second only to the aluminium unibody MacBooks. Oh, they are generally fairly easy to dismantle (in laptop terms), with plenty of web pages showing how, and no self destructive plastic clips or the like. I love 'em! Chris On 23/06/2010 02:41, Paul Stimpson wrote: Hi, I've installed a mixture of Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 on a number of older Lenovo machines (T42, X31) and they all worked first time. Cheers, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk Sender: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:54:20 To: Hampshire LUG Discussion Listhampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Reply-To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops At 22:29 22/06/2010, you wrote: I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo ThinkPad SL510. General googling indicates linux should work ok with it. However; I was wondering if anyone had any good or bad experience with Lenovo laptops and linux? Lenovo thinkpads usually work well with Linux hence a Linux Thinkpad list. linux-think...@matrix.de Ubunutu runs great on my W500. Have you looked at http://thinkwiki.org ? 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 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
