Re: [Hampshire] Correction - was:Re: [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey
On 09/09/2012 23:22, Alan Pope wrote: On 09/09/12 19:50, Benjie Gillam wrote: I didn't think it was appropriate to promote SoutHACKton on the HantsLUG mailing list previously for fear of being spammy - it is a Linux User Group and not a hardware hacker group after all :) There's a very significant crossover between Linux nerds and hacking nerds (in my opinion). I wish there were more notifications about related groups on this (and other LUG lists). I agree - at one surrey/hants bring a box meet there were (IIRC) four or so repraps attending which got more LUG members interested in building their own! I hadn't heard of Southackton until Mark Tony mentioned it and we talked about it on the podcast. Same here! I know there is an massive overhead in starting and running a hackspace but perhaps there is a way to get the members of both groups to fund a common space somewhere - or is the area (travelling distances) just too big/wide? One thing suggested and dropped as unfeasable was the idea of a mobile hackspace. Too limited, no three phase, insurance, problems with long term parking, high cost of fuel, who drives it etc. Personally I think the idea is seriously cool even if unfeasable outside the scottish highlands. Jacqui p.s. I already have my own personal hackspace(s) - in my garden :-) -- 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] [JOB] Support Developer (Jobsite, Havant)
On 01/09/2012 17:21, Imran Chaudhry wrote: Come and join an online giant in the arena of digital recruitment! It would help if you provided an estimated salary range. The offices are situated in Langstone Technology Park in Havant (about 5 miles east of Portsmouth). The facilities are excellent with a huge car park, on-site gym, coffee shop, resteraunt serving breakfast and lunch, free wi-fi, rest-area and even a table-tennis table. There is a large Tesco superstore nearby and Havant town centre has all the usual amenities. It's easily commutable by car being just off the M27/A27. Havant rail station is about 15 minutes walk. It is close to the coast and beautiful woodlands and there are ample lunchtime walks available. The company also allows working from home on occasion and we have a VPN access to workstations. Stil at the same place! I spent some time on site some years ago and I can say that the jobsite locale, people and work environ is a good'un :-) Jacqui -- 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] Spinning rust
On 20/07/2012 11:28, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: In my experience, and I have bought a lot from them over the years, Novatech does not leave people out in the cold. I would be interested to know what had happened to get your acquaintance into this situation. Ditto I buy ALL my camera/phone cards from NT because they are one ofthe few places where they will remove the card from packaging and let you try it out before buying it. On my first purchase of a new camera card they pulled out thier local camera bod who knew the foibles of my old Fuji from memory! But he still went off to dcreview to double check his own memory! All other bricks and mortar's try on that old wheeze of if you open the packaging and it dont work, dont come back here... Also when I bought a barebones as an upgrade for a firewall I also bought a new PSU for another box with a dying PSU. They asked me why I wanted the PSU and exlicity told me the BB bundle come with a similar PSU. My local store is Reading - and apart from the Windows branding :-) they are simply brill. -- 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] My 2p on the GUI 'Wars'
On 02/07/2012 15:18, Ian wrote: Windowmaker. Has stayed the same for many blue moons. No frills, faffing or fiddling. tvtwm? -- 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] The Cookie Law
On 27/05/2012 12:01, john lewis wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012 11:38:49 +0100 hants...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2012 09:27:29 Brad Rogers wrote: FF, in common with all the browsers I've ever used, allow you to view the cookies via their settings pages. How? In opera it is Tools Preferences Advanced Cookies Manage Cookies I imagine FF does something similar. Yuo Tools- Page info then security to view cookeis. or select the Permissions tab to modify the cookie acceptance permissions for the site. I wonder if you could use jscript to popup the page info panel as OnCLick event for a Configure cookies link :-) -- 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: [Surrey] TV RepRap User Group - Next Meeting 29th May
FYI: I know a few hants luggers were curious about the tvrrug project. Note that for the first build, there was very little physical meeting up required and one of the members now lives in Bristol, so hants is not that really that far for the odd meetup. :-) Also, I attended the surrey hants makerspace inaugural meetup yesterday evening. It was HOT at 6:30pm and the meeting went well. Original Message Subject: [Surrey] TV RepRap User Group - Next Meeting 29th May Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:38:07 +0100 From: Ian Bowden ian.bow...@albany.uklinux.net Reply-To: General Linux/Unix community List sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk To: Surrey LUG List sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk Some SLUG list members are watching the progress of the TVRRUG -so here's the information for the next meeting. Tuesday 29th May 8:00 PM onwards Downstairs at the Copa Bar 76-78 Kings Road READING, RG1 3BJ On-street parking available in the locality. Members from the first build group will be there, some with their machines -working. There's been an invitation put out for anyone who has built any different variety of a RepRap to be there with their machine, compare and contrast. There will be talk of starting of the second build group -costs will be announced, names can be put down (though you don't have to attend to sign up). It should be a busy and interesting session, and all will be welcome. TVRRUG background information at http://tvrrug.org.uk/ ___ Surrey mailing list sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/surrey http://www.surrey.lug.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] [Surrey] Aldershot Hackspace?
On 11/05/2012 16:57, Bob Dunlop wrote: In case you miss it in there: I am nowhere near Aldershot but once you've got a location, if you need a web presence then BitFolk will be happy to provide you with a VPS for free, as we already do for: - London Hackspace - HAC:Manchester - fizzPOP (Birmingham) - Reading Hackspace ^ Just starting up and begining to grow. Just 20 miles from Aldershot. http://readinghackspace.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page Never been there, just work with Ryan, one of the founders. Workshops/space/machine tools cost serious money so I'm sure no hackspace will be free now the universitys have stopped? supporting them. One prominent member of reading maker space (RHS) put something like 20K in (upfront)! Starting a hackspace is not easy or cheap! And some of the tools at Reading are seriously impressive! Another item is that RHS hodl an open eveing on weds and offer a pay as you use option - IIRC correctly you pay a fiver for each (non member) visit - but dont take my word on that as I am not a member. Jacqui -- 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] Aldershot Hackspace?
On 11/05/2012 16:31, Michael Pavling wrote: On 11 May 2012 16:16, Dominic Rodriguezshym...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'd like to come but the idea of a price scares me away... I mean freedom guys! Are you willing to provide a meeting space to the group for free? (power? equipment storage? insurance?) That would probably bring the cost right down... Apart from insurance - yes, I am considering it! GU15 4DP First though I need to rebuild the workshop! Its currently 32x8ft but could be 44(+)x20 - if you ignore space needed to park our van and folding caravan. Jacqui -- 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] [ot] Armdroid
FYI - please contact ian directly and Cc me please. I have offered to hold amything he wants until he gets back from Bristol :-) A bit of background, Ian has been a core contributor to the tvrrug.org.uk user group, helping quite a few of us newbies get going, so please check that dusty cupboard for him :-) Jacqui Original Message Subject:Armdroid Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:04:48 +0100 From: Ian Stratford ginja...@gmail.com To: jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com, candta...@gmail.com Hi Jacqui/Alan If you could put the word out amongst the local LUGs that I'm after an Armdroid (or any other defunct/spare/pensioned off robotic arms or similar), which may be lurking in the backs of cupboards in schools, that would be great. I'd like one personally, but happy if we can get one donated to the hackspace. The Armdroid is a 6-axis robot arm from 1981, often used in schools to teach kids about robotics, usually coupled to a BBC Micro. I remember seeing one, but was never allowed to play with it! I can also remember poring over magazines of the time, trying to work out if I could ever afford something similar. As a 6-axis robot, it could work with Al's electronics, with 3x Dual Stepper Modules. Regards Ian -- 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] [ot] Armdroid
FYI - please contact ian directly and Cc me please. I have offered to hold amything he wants until he gets back from Bristol :-) A bit of background, Ian has been a core contributor to the tvrrug.org.uk user group, helping quite a few of us newbies get going, so please check that dusty cupboard for him :-) Jacqui Original Message Subject:Armdroid Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:04:48 +0100 From: Ian Stratford ginja...@gmail.com Hi Jacqui/Alan If you could put the word out amongst the local LUGs that I'm after an Armdroid (or any other defunct/spare/pensioned off robotic arms or similar), which may be lurking in the backs of cupboards in schools, that would be great. I'd like one personally, but happy if we can get one donated to the hackspace. The Armdroid is a 6-axis robot arm from 1981, often used in schools to teach kids about robotics, usually coupled to a BBC Micro. I remember seeing one, but was never allowed to play with it! I can also remember poring over magazines of the time, trying to work out if I could ever afford something similar. As a 6-axis robot, it could work with Al's electronics, with 3x Dual Stepper Modules. Regards Ian -- 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] Engineering / Hacking for Humanity
On 06/04/2012 23:01, Gorissen D. wrote: Hi Guys, I work at the University of Southampton and have been a long time linux user and a lurker on this mailinglist for some time. I am exploring setting up some kind of group/network at the UoS about bringing Hackers Engineers together to help solve humanitarian problems, in similar spirit to RHOK.org, ewb-uk.org, etc. Full explanation: http://elazungu.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/engineering-and-hacking-for-humanity-at-uos/ You may want to contact the hackspace folks as well - quite a few are very interested in causes :-) An example is the some of the reading hackspace folks doing some disability projects and the napiers who (with others) instigated tvrrug.org.uk. Jacqui -- 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
On 13/02/2012 11:20, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 13 February 2012 11:14, Anton Piatekan...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I didn't think you had direct access to sectors. I thought the controller rotated data to spread writes across the the storage. Yes, there is that, but if you write to the whole disk once, and then write to the whole disk a second time, you will be 100% sure that you have hit each actual flash sector at least twice, even if wear leveling is used. FWICR - there is usually more blocks than used. If you wrote data to a block and it was taken out, you could not be confident in wiping that block anymore. Your (possibly corrupted) data is held forever? I thought flash had limits on the amount of times an individual flash sector can be written to. That was my understanding - or when error detect trips in it retires the block. I suspect many server flash drives will have an unpublished way to access all flash blocks - if only for tests - and I suspect forensics labs could use this to grab all data. -- 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] Vodafone - the hard sell
On 07/02/2012 20:15, Jack Knight wrote: So, despite having a file about 1 foot thick on a certain providers mis-sales and cockups with me and my family, they have seen fit to prolong their agony of keeping me despite my request to migrate elsewhere. What they offered, and I recorded them offering, now differs from what they claim I agreed to. My comment: See you in court, along with my file from two years ago when Otelo told you to STOP being unreasonable! So, bring it on Yes - record the calls! Sounds tin foil hatish but a verbal contract is worth only the paper it is written on. :-) Remember to get them to name the company, the date/time, thier name and that they are authorised to offer the deal they present to you. Its not been unheard of for a company to script deals then turn around and say the script was incorrect/out of date/should not have been used etc and try and force you into a lesser contract a month later via a short text. Jacqui -- 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] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
On 13/01/2012 09:23, Vic wrote: The older laptop now has cracked hinges If you can work out the manufacturer / model number, you can usually get hold of replacement hinges. And there are a bunch of us on here and on SurreyLUG who are part of http://tvrrug.org.uk/ Who would be prepared to print platic parts that are no longer available :-) Jacqui -- 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] VDSL equipment
On 01/01/2012 16:15, Stephen Davies wrote: I wouldn't try connecting the RJ45 output from the Modem to a PC. You are not going to have any firewall or routing. I thought the usual linux PPPOA/E drivers did all of this for you? My dumb virgin cablemodem is plugged direct into a network card and is drived by a ONE line PPP config file. Likewise we have even dumber devices at work connecting to BT/ZEN DSL's and there have very simple configs required. The other advantage of such a config is you free up another IP from your block as the modem does not need/grab an IP itself. One extra free IP out of 8 is well worth the time. ANotehr advantage is that the PC (in my case a server) can drive the DSL line more reliably than a sub 400UKP modem). In the original works line case the server even outperformed a 450UKP modem! The linux firewall side of things does not have to be complex and is well worth the effort - especially if you have more than one internet connection. You will have t oconfigure your PC to do the signon/auth as well. I wouldn't bother. FWICR The virgin DOCSIS3 DSL modems download config from virgin and I doubt they would work with another service provider without you hacking them... The pppoe/a login for the account (via a configured/working modem) should be noddy if you have the correct drivers. I have had problems with zen as some versions of linux (server stuff) have problems with applying MTU limitations for PPPOA/E but this is well documented and again noddy once you find the right workaround/fix. If someone wants to try and get a linux box to talk pppoe/a I would be happy to help. Jacqui -- 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 Answers
On 27/12/2011 10:55, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: On 26 December 2011 18:24, Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com mailto:jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote: Many many decades ago when I studied physics and computer science I had a hard time Can't be THAT many decades, as I recall some of the early discussions OK perhaps one too many's there :-) I did a joint sciences degree some 30ish years ago - coursework initially submitted as hand and machine punched cards but this only lasted a year and was replaced with terminals on a Harris S-6 running vulcan - the very first system I hacked :-) I still rememeber the ma.e exploit. Jacqui -- 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] Big storage
On 27/12/2011 16:35, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all I'm wondering if I'm missing a trick here - perhaps someone can help... I have a pretty big (already 2TB and likely to be nearer 4TB+ by the time I've finished) media library (all mpgs) - how should I be making this available over my network? Does anyone know of a device that will allow (for example) 6 USB devices (all HDDs) to be connected and shared as if they were one? Googling reveals something called a Belkin network usb hub but the reviews are awful. I know I could contemplate the cloud here to keep this lot for me - but this is: a) going to cost a lot and Hard disk space is insanely expensive right now. My 2TB egogreen's were ~50UKP each but I have been quoted something like 250UKP each for a pack of six and there is a waiting list. I can't be the only one with a huge DVD and video library but the majority of drives I've seen on the high street are 2-3TB. Dunno if it is me but manyTB for home use no longer sounds overkill. The one thing I would recommend is to use software raid - hardware raid is good and fast but recovery can be a real PITA when a no longe rin production or under warrantly raid card goes belly up and trashes your array. -- 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 Answers
On 22/12/2011 22:28, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote: Right or wrong, justified or not, that's reality. Speaking personally, that jars considerably less than modern teenager-speak for contact lenses. Many many decades ago when I studied physics and computer science I had a hard time getting used to the different disciplines using the same TLA's (or worse the same greek letters) for different purposes. Made my head spin - it was like learning half a dozen different languages at once. Compared to that time flies like a banana is simples - only two realms :-) Jacqui -- 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] Database design for an address book
On 19/12/2011 20:39, Andy Smith wrote: It will still be the most complex set of relationships in the application as it stands (there are some three way joins in other parts), but I guess that is human beings for you; always complicate matters. :) DO not forget many clients will ask for features they want but do not actually need. Its all about cost-benefit. My question is are you cetrain they really want this set of features and understand the costs? FYI: I did something like this a year or three back - in the end I rolled some pg functions and triggers that re-used things such as addresses. I did not apply flexible rules requiring specific details for specific contacts as this was not a requirement however using any one of the many forms engines this should not be difficult to implement front-end and you could keep mandatory/optional field details for each contact type. I dont have any free time right now but I will see if $boss is OK with publishing the address dedupe code that was so usefull in this app. Rolling the pg API inclduing the contact type stuff was relatively noddy. I assume you have a decent database design/CM tool? -- 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] Database design for an address book
On 20/12/2011 12:56, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 20 December 2011 11:15, Jacqui Carenjacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote: I dont have any free time right now but I will see if $boss is OK with publishing the address dedupe code that was so usefull in this app. I bet that dedupe code turned out to be not quite as simple as you thought. Actually it was reasonably simple. I did not bother normalising address details but left that to more complex batch jobs. The code kept ref counts and deleted records as the ref count went to zero. The find_address function would take address details, see if an existing entry matched and return its id. If no entry matched it would create an entry and return the new id. The batch code would clean up address entries using country specific normalisers and then check to see if we had any dupes. It would then merge the two entries into one by doing an update ... set addr_id = ? where addr_id = ?. As I said noddy stuff - apart from the address lexers, validators which were and still are a real PITB. Jacqui -- 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] PPTP VPN from Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS to recent Win-SBS?
On 17/11/2011 14:35, Jan Henkins wrote: Just to be clear, under no circumstances can I recommend that you use PPTP, it is simply too insecure. Yes, PPP does have some form of encryption that can be switched on, and while it's one step up from sending stuff in clear-text (I exaggerate, but PPTP is bad), you don't want to have to rely on that. +1 OpenVPN is OK - I use it myself. Jacqui -- 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 Please tell me how this is not a scam.
On 17/10/2011 15:06, Philip Stubbs wrote: Can anybody tell me how this works:- http://www.bluecarbon.com/how-it-works.html When I was studying for an OND (cough decades ago!) I sort of remember *some* of the calcs used to balance 3ph systems. One trick was to add capacitive loads to inductive loads to balance the phases. If a factory uses a single phase for some heavy inductive loads and also uses 3ph loads adding balancer to the hardware on the 1ph can reduce costs as 3ph motors do not run as well as they should when the timing is out :-) How this would help a 1ph household supply is beyond me as you and your meter dont give a poo about the other two phases. Sounds seriously iffy for a houshold and for a commercial mid/heavy industrial plant you could (in my days as a trainee/student) be able to get someone to check balance with a phase meter for peanuts. Jacqui IIRC It was more sensible to spread the inductive 1ph loads across the phases - but only in a large installation. I expect some of the DC folks know more about this than me :-) -- 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 Please tell me how this is not a scam.
On 18/10/2011 11:48, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2011 11:01:47 Victor Churchill wrote: if I bought snake oil I would feel sheepish about letting the rest of the world know , unless of course I really believed it did keep the snakes away. You bought snake oil. There are no adders in your kitchen. What more proof do you want?? There are adders in the garden/woods though :-( Re the messagelabs spam I complained about a while back. I was (quite rightly) pissed with both ML and the spammer. I contacted the MS bod who was quoted as saying these guys are good. He had never heard of them and was miffed he was quoted as recommending them. Jacqui -- 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] Thermaltake Tsunami Tower Case
On 29/09/2011 18:16, Rob Malpass wrote: As ever, it's a case of not wanting to spend good money after bad. All fans seem to be working and I've never had a problem in any case I've built a PC in before so I'm just wondering if this case is flawed somehow. Nothing crops up on Google but it is a bit old now so that's not surprising. Any ideas anyone? Is the PSU AOK? Is the CPU paste gone? Is the heatsink well seated? Is the heatsink clean - I stick a pencil into the fan and blow the heatsick clean with an air line. Even then the muck eventually builds up in the bottom of the h/sink and it ends up being replaced at least once in a machines life. Have you checked for blown caps? When the machine dies, unplug and open the case - look and smell - if it is a blown cap in the PSU or mobo you *will* be able to smell it. Is there anything in the logs? Do you have anything running monitoring the CPU temp etc? Jacqui p.s. not relevant, but funny :-) At cray we had a machine crash overnight every weeknight. We installed a ping that overwrote a logfile with the current timestamp ever thirty seconds complete with system stats. We eventually found out it was a security guard who was slamming office doors during his nightly rounds. The machine in question was on a desk next to the door snd the slam was enough to know the disk out of alignment and cause a kpanic. It was a sun3 so disks were slower and far more delicate in those days. -- 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
On 27/09/2011 09:41, Victor Churchill wrote: Got a Logitech Marble this year when I doubled up the systems on my desktop (and no I don't want a KVM switch ;-) mainly because of its Question - does anyone know of a dual head KVM that is not silly money. -- 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
On 27/09/2011 09:41, Victor Churchill wrote: Got a Logitech Marble this year when I doubled up the systems on my desktop (and no I don't want a KVM switch ;-) mainly because of its Question - does anyone know of a dual head KVM that is not silly money. -- 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] Old Dell dying
On 02/09/2011 11:55, Lisi wrote: On Friday 02 September 2011 09:43:34 Roger Munford wrote: I wonder how many usable PCs get abandoned when this happens Not as many, I would think, as get abandoned because viruses have slowed them down. :-( ++ I had a friend over this week - her windows vista laptop (high end job for its day) took well over 20 minutes to boot to the vista login screen. Got rid of some crap but a complete re-install was the only sensible solution. FYI: She was going to replace a relatively new high end machine with a ~700UKP lappie. Jacqui -- 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] Old Dell dying
On 02/09/2011 16:25, Vic wrote: This list is fully archived; if the world at large finds out that replacing crap Windows installations puts life back into old hardware, my source of cheap computing will entirely dry up... Given my friends intransigence in getting rid of some rather obvious to me adware and spyware I was so, so tempted to let her think her laptop was donefor and found a new home for it at one of the dog rescues but I would not have been able to sleep at nights. I really should have hunted out my linux live disks and shown her just how much faster linux was but again I would have not gotten much sleep as she is the sort of person who would be calling me at 2AM asking how to do something :-( Jacqui -- 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
On 29/08/2011 19:08, Jack Knight wrote: Oh yes, I couldn't agree more. Last month I had my HTC Desire stolen at Heathrow. It's only then one realises how device and Internet dependent we've become. Did you have prey or similar installed? Jacqui -- 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] beware of printer updates....
On 13/07/2011 19:35, alan c wrote: Incompatible behaviour But there is now one exception to my rule: printer updates. http://elpatech.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/beware-of-printer-updates Regarding ink I now have a CISS on an epson pro printer. the company I bought from is quite simply brilliant! Now my only expense is finding A3 photo quality paper for less than a quid a sheet :-( Drivers are (with many A3 epson business printers) windows only. The one B1100 print driver I oculd find did not work in A3 modes. -- 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] Network Query
On 11/07/2011 21:36, Leo wrote: On my network when I copy data from one computer to another slowly, it seems to slow down other connections, anyone know why this might be? The details are: Computer A is connected to switch 1 Computer B is connected to switch 1 via a powerline connection. switch 1 is connected to switch 2 Device C is connected to switch 2 Everything is 100Mb/s apart from the powerline. The problem is that when I copy from A to B (at about 1.7 MB/s over the powerline) the connection from A to C slows to a crawl. This doesn't make sense to me as I thought the ethernet should be able to run at about 8 MB/s. Can anyone shed any light on this? Smells like sw1 is the problem. replace it with a larger device? And more expensive does not mean better :-) data in at 100 data out at 10 and if the switch ends up buffering Some switches will downgrade all 100 ports to 10 if all else fails which owuld explain your symptoms. Another problem is lots of small packets such as some smb transfers. I had this problem some time ago and replaced a network card that kept dropping to 10 from 100 with an *identical* white box card - problem dissapeared. Jacqui -- 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] Computer-Related Charitable Work
On 23/06/2011 11:54, Chris Dennis wrote: On 23/06/11 09:26, Peter Andrijeczko wrote: Does anyone on the list get involved with any charity work related to computers? Yes. I do work for some dog rescues when I have some free time. I have a few hours a week I could spare, want to do something rewarding, and since computers are my skill, was looking at doing something where those skills are useful - for example, PC recycling for computers sent to Africa, or getting old people online and giving them some basic tuition. A lot of the smaller rescues get ripped off by IT/WSP providers who see them as easy marks. A lot of dog rescues still have static web sites but could really use a simple to use CMS. Another friend who is non technical is getting involved in re-branding rescue web sites in order to build up a portfolio of design work. Even somethign as simple as configuring email and doing a bit of smartphone shortcut training/config can help so much. Jacqui -- 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] Networking for Dummies
On 07/05/2011 09:59, Vic wrote: What I want is to keep him isolated That's always a good plan with relatives :-) Do you have a server running? That makes life very easy. If you want WiFi on that network, set up another WiFi router and connect one of its LAN ports to you untrusted interface. Don't connect the ADSL connection at all - it will bleat, but that doesn't matter. Make sure you turn off the DHCP server on that router if you're already running one on your server box. Yes - I use shorewall cos I am lazy :-) Its a very easy to use iptables config tool. With shorewall you define zones and interfaces then rules limiting traffic between the zones. Masqerade on the internet connection(s) and you are sorted. If you need an example shorewall config give me a shout :-) Final suggestions * configure a seperate bind server with many of the flakey ad/spam/infection servers mastered. (for instance .ru is mastered here) * provide your dads machine with a fixed IP via dhcpd map his mac address to a fixed IP. * ensure dhcpd tells dads box to use the above DNS server! * block outbound smtp from the untrusted network * add quotas/rate limits to the untrusted network Jacqui -- 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] More OggCamp tickets available
On 28/04/2011 09:28, Tony Whitmore wrote: I’m pleased to say that we’ve been able to make another 100 tickets available! You can get them now (and I do recommend that you act fast!) from http://oggcamp11.eventbrite.com/. Down to 60 already! Jacqui -- 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] OggCamp 11 - it's (nearly) in Hampshire this year!
On 12/04/2011 15:29, Paul Tansom wrote: Yay, close enough to attend this year. Just signed up, and count me in if the camping idea goes ahead - so long as the ground is firm enough for my VW camper van :) There is a brill (cheap) camp site about 20-miles north of farnham at mychett canal centre. No mains but lovely clean field and facilities and right next to canal! Anyway farnham is close enough that we dont need to camp but I like the idea of going camping anyway :-) -- 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] DVI to HDMI for PC
On 01/04/2011 13:03, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all Has anyone had any problems with DVI to HDMI connection for PCs? I'm considering getting myself a new huge monitor. Some have standard VGA, some don't - and I certainly don't want to pay extra for VGA. All have HDMI. My graphics card has a DVI output so really all I need is a £5 DVI to HDMI adapter or cable and job done. Whats huge? - my work funded monitor is 28inch and has both VGa and hdmi as well as soem other inputs for audio etc. I *think* this is the same. its a HANNS-G HD281D under the novatech skin. http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/monitors/26inchplusmonitors/novatech/nov-lcd28f.html Mine was purchased by the boss from ebuyer for slightly less than the novatech price is is simply brill. I wish I could have bought the very cheapo 34in monitor they were doing for ~300UKP but that is no longer there and had a few bad net reviews. Personally given my lack of trust in net cash and our loss of roughly 30% of post (dont ask) it is far more preferable to go to novatech and pick up than go the ebuyer route and it arrive at the wrong no33. And yes the pikey g*ts who live in the other 33 do sign for our parcels (using my name) :-( Jacqui -- 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] Lunar anomaly
On 19/03/2011 03:07, Hugo Mills wrote: You may have guessed from this sentence that I started that email assuming that the CST were going to be deeply, horribly wrong. As it turned out, they were right, but in an uninteresting and uninformative way. :) IMHO any day you learn something new is never a complete waste :-) and the link to linux? - FWICR NASA is teaming with rocket scientist cum linux hackers. Jacqui p.s. Was Patrick Moore a giant rabbit on the goodies? -- 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] simple description of open source etc.
On 22/03/2011 21:38, Keith Edmunds wrote: Me: What happens if you telnet external-mail-server-IP 25? Them: This is Exchange. Exchange doesn't use Telnet. Did they have the Cisco bug/feature? :-) Cisco routers and integration with exchange are two of the most common queries on the postfix-users list. Jacqui -- 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] Mobile Technology
On 04/03/2011 10:03, Mike Austin wrote: In the mornings I am able to watch the BBC News and UK TV on my mobile, from a Slingbox in my UK home. I can also use the SKY1 app to view Sky TV schedules and send a signal to my Sky receiver to record programmes I wish to watch on my return. I have ssh, vpn and vnc clients but up till now only have used the ssh client In anger. I have a very cheapo ZTE Racer but was thinking of a cheapo droid tablet. Jacqui -- 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] Mobile Technology
On 04/03/2011 15:59, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: I have ssh, vpn and vnc clients but up till now only have used the ssh client In anger. I have a very cheapo ZTE Racer but was thinking of a cheapo droid tablet. Just reserved a Orange SF from argos - not the cheapest place, but cheaper than the orange shop and I can pick up at 9am tomorrow :-) -- 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] GuruPlug no longer boots.
On 10/02/2011 23:03, Clive Woodfine wrote: aptitude update which also did not work at first but after about a minute resolv.conf or routing issues? -- 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] Due Diligence of Service Providers
Imran Chaudhry wrote: Hello all, I think I'm getting old, since I read this thread with a growing sense of horror. If you outsource the total gamut of your IT infrastructure in a SaaS sense (fancy name for cloud-space), are you really saving in the long run? Hi Jan, As with anything, there are caveats and SaaS isn't appropriate for all scenario's - but for a business of a certain type and size then I think it makes a whole load of sense. For a number of businesses IT is not business critical, so reducing the admin and hardware spend can make a lot of sense. As a dev business working with customers that tend to have business critical IT requirements I would be wary of cloud sourcing unless the risks were clear and understood. Jacqui -- 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] Small biz lunch or coffee
Hants Lug wrote: Hi, dropping this idea, some aspects of it made a few people uncomfortable and it wouldn't be kind to say who. FSB and others do organise this sort of event - I live way too far away to be able to make it but the boss lives in fittleworth - much closer to you. I still think it a good idea to organise this sort of informal event and will discuss the idea with him - there are some *really* nice places to have lunch around his neck of the woods! :-) Jacqui -- 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 and GNU
Sean Gibbins wrote: On 15/11/10 07:47, Keith Edmunds wrote: For the record, I wasn't serious about the change of LUG name. And my reply was largely influenced by alcohol and the fact that I really do like the word glug! Yup - glug is the name the london perl mongers should use - almost half of the post on that list discuss food, beer how to cook squirrels etc. Glug just *sounds* hedonistic :-) Jacqui Also I thin the greater london unix group[*] may already have title - assuming they still exist? [*] The last time I went to a meeting was at least 20 years ago... -- 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] [Surrey] [Meeting] Bring-a-Box: Saturday at Red Hat, Farnborough
Dominic Cleal wrote: I almost forgot... On 09/11/10 21:02, Dominic Cleal wrote: = Things going on = Lots of things offered this month, hopefully we can enjoy a few of them. * Freaky Clown's running his epic Surrey LUG quiz * Richard Crossley on his Guruplug server * (hopefully) Jacqui Caren on OpenVZ virtualisation * Desmond Armstrong on PiTiVi video editing One more: * Chris Roberts on the OpenSimulator Second Life server We might need to do some voting on the day :) As I have not seen Simon for years (and want to catch up) and have not had the tuits to prepare properly I will commit to next months (surrey) talk instead - and will aim for slides and a demo! Jacqui -- 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] Due Diligence of Service Providers
Wayne Lee wrote: If this is simply backup data - and particularly if you store it in an encrypted filesystem - then the backup process may not qualify as a transfer under the Act. But this is the sort of thing you need to check. How much data are you talking about? It might be a lot easier to host in Europe... If it's large amount of data I would host in the UK only and only then if they can get a harddrive to me quickly as it could take too long to download over DSL. Blazevault do this. How much data (churn). My plan for work systems (as well as firesafe backups etc) is to keep a nightly rsync'd backup on a work system kept at home. Then if work goes up in flames or gets hit by a plane, the company can continue one we get suitable hardware. Jacqui -- 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] Lift to Saturday's meeting at Red Hat
Lisi wrote: Please excuse the cross-posting - but it seemed silly to post on one list, wait a few days, then post on the other list, when Saturday is so soon. Would anyone be able to give me a lift from a train station to Red Hat? Any Railway Station - unless, of course, it would mean setting out on Friday. ;-) If you can put up with the van again :-) Jacqui email me if you need my phone number. -- 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] Recommended dual-boot Ubuntu set-up
Chris Smith wrote: So, since the way I do things is clearly not working, is there a better way? if you are not too worried abut being 32 or 64bit locked you could use openvz and create instances for the other operating systems. Not perfect but works for me. In the past I have installed each OS on a seperate hard drive. Very old school but it does work. -- 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] UK ISP TalkTalk Monitoring its Customers Online Activity Without Consent
Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:56:54 +0100, m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk said: I am wondering if the only way to stop it is to use a blocklist program? Assuming the story is true, you'd rather continue to give your money to such a company and try to cover your steps than change ISPs? It is rumored that BT/Phorm monitor traffic over its IPstream - including that of any reseller ISP's so quite a few of the smaller ISP's that promise to not snoop have to use backhaul and you end up being snooped upon anyway. I would have thought that BT/Phorm sniffing *my* packets when they have no contractual relationship with me would be very very suspect. But BT have been issued with a get out of jail free card before :-) IMHO BT are the next BP - and going by their support and customer service, they seem to *want* to fail as badly. Jacqui -- 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] Virgin media: good and bad
Jan Henkins wrote: Wow, those are good figures! I don't come even close, but then again I spend about 1 hour per year twiddling with spamassassin. With that amount of effort you cannot expect much! :-) Still, I get a 90% + rejection, which I think is great under the circumstances (great result versus effort ratio, you gotta love FLOSS!). Jan, have a look at assp - very lightweight easy to configure - after a good RTFM session. Work gets maybe 30K emails with only ~20 emails in that lot that should be let through. At work we let assp whitelist anyone we mail out to and block almost everyone else (apart from known mailing lists etc). One word of warning - DO NOT use clamd. clamd's features are nice in principle but far too many MSP's seem to have only PFY's who simply switch everything on and hope for the best. My postfix mailserver has a 4 day timeout and a number of US and UK MSP's are hitting this limit due to greylisting. Rant over. Jacqui -- 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] Virgin media: good and bad
Vic wrote: Now virgin are insisting on a password being entered every time I check my email once every couple of minutes for 3 accounts - super irritating. This despite me ticking the remember password box. Now before anyone shouts that this is an outlook problem, if I change my default gateway to virgin - the problem goes away. The reason is that virgin's mail settings became a bit stricter a few weeks back. No - that *is* an Outlook problem. If it's got the password it should be able to authenticate to any service that requires that password. But this wouldn't be the first time I've seen a Windows app caching the wrong password (Explorer does it with incredible frequency). This email is sent via virgin - using the *old* connection details and the supposedly secure new ones do not yet work (for me). It *is* virgins fault for selling out to the incompetent gmail service which supposedly requires s-xxx-auth ports but was not implemented last time I tried. When I say not implemented I mean no service (tried to connect using various tools then tried nmap and a couple of other netsecurity tools). These changes are related to the launch of a new service, Virgin Media Mail, based on Google technology, which is now available to anyone who has a virgin.net, ntlworld.com, blueyonder.co.uk or virginmedia.com email address. Take a look on our website for more information. My guess is that this is not your fault - its another brigin/gmail f-uk :-( I dont use outlook so cannot help there - but I do use a gateway box as router and this could have route add -net default gw . eth0 (DSL line) route add -host smtp.ntlworld.com gw . eth1 (virgin gateway) but this only helps me if BT could be bothered to get the business DSL line working. Jacqui -- 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] Virgin media: good and bad
Vic wrote: Now virgin are insisting on a password being entered every time I check my email once every couple of minutes for 3 accounts - super irritating. This despite me ticking the remember password box. Now before anyone shouts that this is an outlook problem, if I change my default gateway to virgin - the problem goes away. The reason is that virgin's mail settings became a bit stricter a few weeks back. No - that *is* an Outlook problem. If it's got the password it should be able to authenticate to any service that requires that password. But this wouldn't be the first time I've seen a Windows app caching the wrong password (Explorer does it with incredible frequency). However if anyone does know a decent workaround - I'd love to hear There are a few things you can do. Firstly, run Wireshark against the connection to see what Outlook is actually doing. You'll undoubtedly see the challenges, and the wrong password being supplied. Fixing that will require some investigation - your Wireshark trace will guide that. Next up, try removing Outlook. I generally use Thunderbird for Windows users. You should also try running fetchmail against your Virgin account into your local MTA - that will give you much better mail availabilty. Spoke too soon - the pop server has just gone off line :-( I cannot connect to the spop service - FWICS gmail's SSL is somewhat wonky. I know email is there but the sods will not let me get it :-) Of course, I *would* subscribe to this list via this email address... Jacqui SORTED! change ntlworld.com to virgin.com and you can login! -- 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] Virgin media: good and bad
Jacqui Caren-home wrote: No - that *is* an Outlook problem. If it's got the password it should be able to authenticate to any service that requires that password. But this wouldn't be the first time I've seen a Windows app caching the wrong password (Explorer does it with incredible frequency). This email is sent via virgin - using the *old* connection details and the supposedly secure new ones do not yet work (for me). OK sorted the problem my username (via the docs is jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com but you can OLNY get email if you use jacqui.ca...@virgin.com! Yes - they report a backend failure and trash the ssl connection if you use a non virgin.com domain :-) Let me know if this helps. Jacqui -- 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] Virgin media: good and bad
Vic wrote: rant and the thing which really ticks me off about the new Virgin email system is that I cannot switch off their spam filter We are into the governance of market forces. Also google are now reading/archiving/analysing your email - expect very highly targetted span real soon now. Jacqui -- 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] Letter to investors
John Cooper wrote: Damian, Do you watch Dragon Den? If not I suggest you do. You are asking for investment in a project but offer no idea of the potential profits or benefits of backing this. Adding links is not enough to grab any companies attention, it has to be written in the first contact. I would do some research in to what type of marketing actually works and then revisit this. I agree with this - also there are folks on this list who would probably help out with putting together business plans both profit and non profit. Having been involved in both types of business, I know some of the advantages and unanticipated downsides to both. I do hope you find what you are looking for. Jacqui -- 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] Letter to investors
Damian Brasher wrote: Vic wrote: I'm afraid I've fallen at the first hurdle; I've done some reading on DIASER, but I've yet to understand what it offers me over and above something like MooseFS and losetup -e... If that is the case and others agree then I will cease coding DIASER. The reason I dont do what you are doing is I follow Believe in yourself but dont bet your house in it. A good few years ago I came up with a what is stil the best by far way to render dynamic web content. It *still* whomps most available systems by far but it never took off because although the backend systems took some time to design and implement the front end to manage it is a far more complex beast and you are trying to express things graphically to web developers. Probably one of the most complex MMI/HCI jobs out there. Jacqui -- 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] Letter to investors
John Cooper wrote: If it was so easy we would all be a millionaires by now. Getting the business model right is still difficult for FLOSS projects, but some are making good money and are attracting investors. Has anyone here heard of Perl's DBI? It's initial development was funded by my employer and it was developed by our then tech director. My boss would not say this himself but my gut feel is that FLOSSing this code base ended up costing the company maybe a half mill or so. The insane volume of infected spam *still* hitting Tim's old email address (now used as a spamtrap) is sometimes still visible. Other costs included having to deal with the Y2K panic and legal threats. Quite simply there is a cost involved when you give software away - and some of that cost is often unplanned. Jacqui p.s. I developed a web template engine many many years ago and it still whomps tha ass off the competition - the problem is that the user interface is seriously expensive to design and develop so it sits there in the software libs slowly dying. It would probably make an ideal FLOSS project but given the hidden costs involved with DBI, *I* (not my boss) am reticent upon falling into that trap again. -- 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 RAM usages
Chris Dennis wrote: On 13/07/10 20:22, Sean Gibbins wrote: Did anyone else initially read the subject as 'Linux RAM sausages'? *sigh* No. You must be hungry. But now you mention it - Hmm sausage and bacon sarnies. Must stop for brekkies now. Jacqui -- 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] lvm nightmare
Hugo Mills wrote: It's looking for /var/log/lvm, which may or may not be present. There is apparently an --ignorelockingfailure option (see man 8 lvm), which may help? docs say you can run the various commands under the lvm command but the commands I wanted to use do not accept the --ignroelockingfailure option :-( Tonight I am doing a complete drive copy to a new drive, pvextending the /dev/sda2 PV on the new bigger drive so that it is bigger than the LV extents then trying a boot and poss a linux rescue boot to see how far I get... Thanks agaian everyone. -- 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] lvm nightmare
OK I freely admit I did not RTFM. I have a redhat (well centos5) box with a 500GB disk in I use to play with openvz store pictures on etc. centos mounts / from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Anyway I bought a couple of 2TB disks and using the LVM GUI added one of these as a PV to the LV. When I tried to recover from this mistake I ended up removing the PV but leaning the LV thinking it still have the resources. Anyway on reboot the machine hangs as fsync on the above fails saying that the superblock says 179994624 blocks but the physical size is 121102336 blocks. It suggests I run fsync mnaually but this does not sound right so I droped into a shell but of course because / is mounted ro I cannot use any of the lv/pv commands to corrcet my mistake. I tried a couple of rescue CD's but non of these could see the PV data as non of these have the LVM installed. So the question is 1) is there a way to recover from my stupidity without wiping the PV/LV 2) if not can I mount the Lv within a live rescue disk so that I can pull off my data before re-installing? Jacqui p.s. because the darn thing will not boot I am stuck with manually copying off the console - and typos are nasty! -- 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] lvm nightmare
Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:08:24AM +0100, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: OK I freely admit I did not RTFM. Anyway on reboot the machine hangs as fsync on the above fails saying that the superblock says 179994624 blocks but the physical size is 121102336 blocks. I hope you mean fsck, not fsync. Yes - its been a *really* long day :-( I tried a couple of rescue CD's but non of these could see the PV data as non of these have the LVM installed. You could use a Debian/Ubuntu install CD, both of which have fairly full-featured rescue environments. So the question is 1) is there a way to recover from my stupidity without wiping the PV/LV If you didn't expand the filesystem into the enlarged LV, then you should be able to recover the original state without data loss by restoring from one of the backups, which are normally in /etc/lvm/backup or /etc/lvm/archive. The tool to do the restore is vgcfgrestore (do RTFM first ;) ). RTFM'd and tried this but get locking problems. IIRC the message is Locking type -1 initialisation failed... I assume this is because the / fs is read only... Even if you did expand the filesystem into the enlarged LV, you'll need to fsck the filesystem, but you'll only lose the data that was written to the (now-missing) extra disk, which is presumably a small part of the total. Thanks! 2) if not can I mount the Lv within a live rescue disk so that I can pull off my data before re-installing? You need to make the LVM config sane first. This is generally through recovering the old config. makes sense. Hugo. -- 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?] This is odd...
Hugo Mills wrote: I'm guessing UPnP in an embedded device of some kind. If the box is not running the services you had previously, I would suspect the machine has been hacked - if you have webmail ssh or ftp open there has been/still is some heavy targetted brute force attacks ongoing. We lost a vserver last week and luckily we had a backup so just shut down the zv instance replaced it withe the backup image and hit restart (ish). The dog rescue I discussed in a different thread is being hit by many such infected servers that seem to be being used to brute force web/ftp/ssh passwords. Jacqui -- 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?] This is odd...
Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:48:37PM +0100, Vic wrote: Either something very odd is going on with this hardware, or $ISP is lying to me about which subscriber is attached to this IP address. Either one of those is plausible, although the latter is more likely, IMO. Its not ovh.net is it - thier network seems to be infected to hell abd back. Jacqui -- 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] LACNIC, ARIN, APNIC hackers hitting a relevant to uk only web site
A dog rescue forum has had a number of password hack attempts in the past few weeks and given threats by another dog rescue and an ex admin, they are very very nervous. They have logged the IP addresses and all of them I have so fars seen appear to originate from outside of europe - FWICS there is a spate of brute force hack attacks doing the rounds of web servers at the mo :-( As the dog rescue is purely UK/ireland/greece based there is no reason for anyone outside or RIPENCC needing access so I was considering suggesting IP blocking the IP ranges for LACNIC,ARIN and APNIC (where almost all of the hack attempts originate). My one worry is that some of the UK ISPs may rely upon http proxies over there but I suspect this would cause a stink regarding iplayer etc so no longer done? The big question is - is there a definitive list of IP ranges I can give to the site admin to block? I have already added 218/8 and 219/8 :-) Jacqui -- 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] LACNIC, ARIN, APNIC hackers hitting a relevant to uk only web site
Keith Edmunds wrote: Jacqui, why not implement something like fail2ban (there are others) and firewall out addresses after x number of failed logins? Ah zetaboards is an app service provider - they dont even own the hardware they use! Installing software is a serious no-no. Heck even getting a backup of forum post data is a no-no! From thier supprot forums, if someone hits the web server too hard they end up with an IP permaban that the zetaboard owners evidently have no control over :-) Not what I would call the brightest bunch on the planet but then if you are only paying a few hundred USD a year... I am trying to help them move to a more reasonable (and secure) forum package but cost is critical - I am happy to provide as-needed free tech support but every punds spent on the server/forum is one less spent on rehoming the dogs and I *know* money is tight. So if any of you happen to work for someone who can offer a cheapo package feel free to contact off list. I know biggsd folks would only be too happy to help advertise your generosity. Jacqui -- 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] LACNIC, ARIN, APNIC hackers hitting a relevant to uk only web site
Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:54:19PM +0100, Dee Earley wrote: On 29/06/2010 20:49, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: So if any of you happen to work for someone who can offer a cheapo package feel free to contact off list. I know biggsd folks would only be too happy to help advertise your generosity. I recommend a Bitfolk VPS and any of the numerous free forum packages around with LAMP. Ta! If you do go down this route, I would take a close look at the security implications of the software you choose. The most obvious forum app, phpBB, had a truly terrible security record when I looked at it a while ago. I found another one called MyBB, which seems to have developers with a rather better security outlook. I am on FD and phpBB is a common visitor there - not a good sign. Saying this, not sure if that is because it is so old, so commonly used or just plain bad. The one I like is called fudforum but I have yet to run serius security tests on it. I do have some fuzzers etc and can set up vz's at home so can snapshot the vserver then run attacks against a datum etc. Just not had the free time yet. -- 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] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?
Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: Many people still believe that free (as in beer) stuff can't be any good. Arguments like who are you going to sue? etc. Like you are going to sue Microsoft for a bug in Word, or Outlook. The sue bit is very very important to many corporates. My employer funded a relatively critical perl module and we had numerous large corporates and multi's sending threatening emails, phone calls and faxes during the Y2K panic. Roughly half the UK banks, a number of other car makers as well as a number of US banks and other businesses were sending us threatening letters directly or via thier solicitors - probably at great cost. We also recieved a large number of compliance forms to fill in. Our response was always to ask to which consultancy, development or support contract were they referring? Only one major car manufacturer responded - with threats. Some of the compliance forms were well over 20 pages long - it would have taken days to fill each one in - and they were all heavily biased towards liability. Jacqui .nhs.uk and .gov.uk use floss as a way to get MS discounts - hey have no intention of cutting costs as this would entail cutting budgets. Which department head wants to take an effective pay cut? Also MS (tier1 resellers) offer free/subsidised training courses/jollies which are seen as perks of the very lowly paid euc sector IT job. FLOSS cannot compete in this arena unless the cost of such jollies are factored into the cost of provision. -- 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] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?
Sean Gibbins wrote: Also of interest to corporates is support. If you have a financial application that has the potential to cost you a small fortune in fines on account of late payment, or even your license to trade as a result of multiple outages, you need to know that there is an expert on hand day and night should you hit an issue you cannot fix. Oddly business critical describes most of our customer base and many are large telcos etc. We use quite a bit of floss software and provide first line support for all of it. They have no problem with this. -- 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] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?
John Cooper wrote: On 28/05/10 12:45, Damian Brasher wrote: Hopefully the scrapping of the quango BECTA will help schools make their own minds up. What are quangos anyway? Do they have pink legs, green feathers and live in muddy, dried up lakes :-? -- Damian non-departmental public body I think the most accurate/true description is unelected, useless, freeloading and jobs for the boys organisation. quasi autonomous non gov org AKA a bunch of freeloaders getting kickbacks from the gov pork barrel for favours to MP's pension funds :-) -- 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] skype headsets
NOte sure if skype can use a bluetooth heandfree indended for a mobile but if so then all you need is a bluetooth dongle such as this http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/Networking-Wired/Bluetooth/Novatech/M688.html -- 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] skype headsets
Jacqui Caren-home wrote: NOte sure if skype can use a bluetooth heandfree indended for a mobile but if so then all you need is a bluetooth dongle such as this http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/Networking-Wired/Bluetooth/Novatech/M688.html Soory I was emailing two messages at once and this one was supposed to go to helen... not Hamps... Not watching completion properly! Jacqui dunce cap Caren -- 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] firewall boxen
We are looking to replace a couple of PC based DSL/firewall boxes with diskless (CF card) units. The DSL lines are driven using a couple of Draktek Vigo 110's http://www.best4ip.co.uk/catalog/ip-system-phones-and-ip-pbx-equipment/routers-or-lan-network-equipment/draytek-vigor-110-adsl-ethernet-modem So the box needs only run some pppd's and a firewall (NAT). There are currently two DSL lines active so a min of three net ports are required. $work has already looked at a range of devices but rather that buy and try I thought it would be a good idea to pick peoples brains as I know there is some expertise here. :-) The plan is to have two of these things so that if one dies we can switch over by switching/booting the second device. What am I after is experience with these as firewall/nat devices? The DSL lines both have serious loads and are only 2Mbit or so but we do run VPN software and it would be nice to install the VPN software on board if capable but this is not critical. Feel free to reply direct or post a reply. I will summarise any private replies if I get any. TIA Jacqui -- 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] opencl under gentoo
Does anyone here have any experience with opencl? Someone I work with is trying to get opencl integrated into an existing daemon/server app but is being stymied by the need to access the display. I suggested asking here... Info here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-826697.html Jacqui -- 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] Hmmm.....
Imran Chaudhry wrote: Is it now time to give up on Linux and 'ask Bill'? Hi Ben, sorry to hear of the problems you've been having with your Linux distro. Ben consider bringing the box along and some kind folks will probably help sort your problems out. Re the hardware issue I did have a problem with a machine that only crashed when running a certain big SQL query - The boss ended up replacing defective memory. If Ooo is the biggest app running this *may* (wild guess) be an issue. Jacqui -- 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] Hmmm.....
Is it now time to give up on Linux and 'ask Bill'? Hi Ben, sorry to hear of the problems you've been having with your Linux distro. Oops forgot to add - a couple of the of surrey luggers are always trying to find homes for old hardware - if you do find you have a mem fault and need esoteric memory post up here and on surrey lug to see if anyone has what you are after. Jacqui -- 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] get i player gone!
Stephen Rowles wrote: I've got 2.67, which is a bit better than 2.42. I'd also like to get hold of 2.72 if anyone has it. If not I'd be happy to supply 2.67 Simon Reap wrote: The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has retired his program which is a shame. The latest one I have is 2.42, but 2.72 seems to have been available. Does anyone have a copy of it? It seems to be quite hard to find, belying the old internet adage that once it's out there, it stays out there! http://strawp.net/files/get_iplayer/get_iplayer.tar.gz is 2.76 -- 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] get i player gone!
jack wrote: how about this...somebody has forked it: http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer I agree the original code is a mess (given the change history thsi is to be expected) but a rewrite is a major job - espy against an actively hostile moving target. Jacqui -- 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] Hmmm.....
Martin A. Brooks wrote: Open Office is awful. It's roughly where MS Office was a decade ago. I disagree - Ooo has book building modes only (hi-end DTP) tools such as framemaker have. For creation of formal documents such specifications Ooo beats MSOffice hands down - for my needs at least! For some things it even beats Frame! And if you thought MS licenecing was bad you shoudl see the hoops Frame makes you jump through. -- 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] Content might offend Penguins
Dee Earley wrote: MS can normally supply media packs but may charge you for them. It's worth checking anyway. See if employer has MSDN membership - they may have free download access or a great big set of DVD/CDs on a shelf soemwhere. (Or torrents, not that I condone them for illegal purposes!) Not only illegal but often very very dicey - and very very difficult to detect. I worked with someone who downloads for day$job - some really nasty stuff out there. Even worse are the Asus laptop windows installs that come preloaded with an (passed as clean by commercial AV) backdoor. Nasty. -- 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]Datebase questions
Martin A. Brooks wrote: For values of remote that mean proper NAS/SAN hardware one hop away via a gige or better switches. Yup - for one hop read dedicated full network cards linked only to a dedicated SAN network. And bonded GBe interfaces are also common on small systems :-) Jacqui -- 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] recommendation for durable linux laptop
Tim Brocklehurst wrote: E-Buyer had some interesting deals on laptops with no operating system installed for about £350 before christmas. You might also think about buying under-budget and adding an SSD and/or more ram seperately. Novatech are very windows centric (web wise) but still sell machines without the windows tax. However they no longer mention linux - much. Recently bought one of thier AMD x86_64 2core barebones and my only regret was not waiting a week for the quad core box (more memory etc) that was on offer for 40KP more :-( Also unlike any other computer shop I have visited yet (female, blond) the sales suit checked I really wanted to buy an extra PSU with the barebones system explaining it already has one the same size installed - PSU was for my Pauls desktop. Nice - most other computer shops seem to try and sell you any extra they can. Jacqui -- 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] Jacqui's Hardware Problem
Sean Gibbins wrote: Jacqui Caren-home wrote: BTW: I did my back in this morning and am teleworking OK but have to stop far more often than normal. Why is back pain so distracting? Well, simply put, pretty much all of the information from the top of you neck down is sent and received via your spinal chord - put a kink in that and and you start to get dodgy packets flowing back and forth, which coupled with the pain and muscle spasms can be pretty distracting. Ah a DOS attack, now I understand :-) -- 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] Recurrent Hardware Problem
Paul Tansom wrote: Believe it or not this was as recent as 2000!! In the early days of my current employer we had dial-up support connections to most of our customers systems. This involved a dial back password protected modem at thier end and a phone line we had to call to get enabled first. The fun bit was we conncted the audio of the sun box to the dial up/down scripts so that various sounds were played when a support line changed status. The best one was cow bells for a jersey telecoms link :-) Things have moved on but I found the modem the most reliable and probably secure system - today we need entire machines dedicated to connecting to an individual client :-( Jacqui -- 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] Recurrent Hardware Problem
Lisi wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 14:25:54 Lisi wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:59:21 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: I've been ill for a while. I'm so sorry to hear that Chris. I hope that you are soon back to your usual outgoing appearance of health. (I hate to accuse anyone of our age of actually _being_ healthy!) Lisi Sorry, all. That was meant to go to Chris. :-( Thats OK - hope Chris is better soon. I was in a discussion with someone on a spam list about the definition of old school and I suggested that anyone who remembers a time before SMTP was de-facto should not be called old school but old gits and yes that includes me :-) BTW: I did my back in this morning and am teleworking OK but have to stop far more often than normal. Why is back pain so distracting? -- 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] Basic CAD software?
Hugo Mills wrote: You can do this with The Gimp and a calculator. Or you could use the measure distances and angles tool :-) -- 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] LAMP performance
Just been asked by a client to measure his customers system peformance limits by load testing his server. They customer wants real world measurements and the budget is nigh on zero. So I suggested using the log files to build a site profile and then use some tool to hit the server with requests of a similar composition to the profile gleaned from the logs. Not perfect by any means but I could not find anything that would mimic real user behaviour, provide reporting and would scale to say 600 concurrent users without hammering the box used to do the testing. The only tool I am familiar with is apache 'ab' or a bunch of perl based systems that are too resource intensive for this job. The problem with ab is that it only takes one URL at a time and from the source code it is not possible to modify it to handle more than one URL at once. So any suggestions for a tool that could be given data about a set of URL (requests) and hit counts and using a set cuncurreny limit process the URLS and provide raw results I could examine? My current plan of setting off a number of concurrent 'ab's (one per URL) is not ideal. Jacqui -- 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] Basic CAD software?
john lewis wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:35:23 + Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: I'd hardly describe OpenOffice Draw as high-end. Like almost everything else in OpenOffice.org, it's a poor copy of MS Office, mebbe so but it is free and 'good enough' for most users. OOo Write has opened all word/excell docs sent to me to date. ALso it has managed to disinfect a number of documents sent by clients. Ooo also has a number of features missing in Office. A fried is writing a book and has created one word doc for each chapter. SHe wants to print out the book correctly numbers and styled in various layouts and formats. Ooo's book builder does all of this out of the box. Framemaker and other high end DTP packages can do this but Word does not have this facility. As an avid frame user I have to say I like OOo's book facility. It lets me build a report, reqspec or most formal documents using lego elements such as doc covers, doc versioning pages, and other standard company templates with ease. It also is a lot easier to do some jobs suich as determining the total number of pages a *lot* simpler than the messy hacks required for Frame. So Ooo has faults but some features are worth thier weight in gold. -- 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] UPS wanted
Brian Chivers wrote: I've had about 10 from Jamie's and just changed the batteries away they go :-) Where do you get the batts from - last time I looked for UPS batts it was only slightly more expensive to buy a new USP than replace the batts. Jacqui -- 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] voice distorters
Lisi wrote: I would also like to be able to ring her up. But that doesn't have to be in ten days time. Lisi have you considered looking at options for a VOIP phone? It is probably far easier to Munge voice data on this than a phone. Also not recommending but this came up from my very first search. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=220042 The pitch bit with some decent headphones and you relative may have a usefull hearing aid when you leave... Jacqui p.s. I have a spare magnetic pickup mic for a phone if that helps. Last used by a friend to record some very abusive calls to prove to the police that they were bad enough that they needed to stop trying to tell her she was wasting their time. :-( -- 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] Allegations made by LinuxLearner (Was: Re: stuart biggs added you as a business connection on Plaxo)
Andy Smith wrote: Hello, In general I have no interest in responding to LinuxLearner's trolling, but he has made some accusations which I feel I need to set straight for the record. This is a publicly archived mailing list and his unfortunate post may be stumbled upon by anyone. Andy I have been researching possible VPS providers for a dog rescue site I am a member of. You would not believe how many VPS provider sites I have had to read in the last few weeks - yours is a breath of fresh air - no content free marketing crap. I may just be contacting you (offlist) about the rescue's migration plans. Jacqui p.s. nice response! :-) -- 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] stuart biggs added you as a business connection on Plaxo
Andy Smith wrote: Sigh. And this is why LL gets himself moderated. I am on the surrey lug list as well and the same thing is happening there right now. Same person as well :-( -- 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] Packaging help needed
Sean Gibbins wrote: Stephen Pelc wrote: You can only improve something by acknowledging what's wrong with it. When dealing with free, open source software coded largely by volunteers you can take it a stage further - you can get involved and fix it. Sorry but this is where it gets flame warish. He has a binary release product and has a number of targets to release to and is sick of the amount of manual work involved. Stephen, I have been involved in release managemnet for longer than I care to admit. Although I am by no way a packaging expert I would be happy to discuss how I would approach automating the release process as I will probably be responsible for doing something similar in the near future. Jacqui -- 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] Open Source vendor software question
Damian Brasher wrote: John Cooper wrote: Assuming you don't want to use something like Zencart, PayPal explains how to do this on their site https://www.paypal-business.co.uk/website-payments-standard.asp and takes you through the process of adding a button to your webpage. The PayPal receipt could have a link to download the ebook. For simplicity and investment of time this has to be the most efficient option, by default I'll be keeping a record of downloads and the corresponding IP numbers. Then better to use the time saved to concentrate on the front page and sourcing publicity channels. Inevitably I will lose sales to illegal copies but this is not easily resolved, even an encrypted document can have screen-shots made of it. Better to explain why and how the sales will assist in sustaining an Open Source system development to encourage payment. general plug BTW: It's an eBook about small scale OSS collaborative development designed to assist, save time/money and enlighten interested readers. About 60 pages for under the 5 dollar mark, One *possible* solution I have seen publishers of low change, high cost documents use... 1) have a publically availible version with contributions required on every age. 2) when someone puchases a copy generate a PDF that replaces the contrib plug with this licenced belongs to ... and is non transferrable. If you would like the to purchase your own or get the freely available copy to go... And make 1) *much* bigger than 2) This does not stop the PDF hackers out there but you cannot have everything. Finally, provide a sftp username/password to extra materiel and links in the PDF. When people use the password from all over the world it at least can ring alarms bells on your systems. -- 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] This weeks microMart
Stephen Davies wrote: Has an interesting article asking the question Should the UK have its own Linux Distro. Not a bad read but then the go and mention the dreaded word 'Government'. Given the history of UK Plc has with it projects, my take would be Nah - I can see parts of .gov.uk insisting on trapdoors/hooks to be included probably as binary 'drivers' - which has been suggested is a feature of a certain COTS O/S we know and love... Or they use this as an excuse to mandate use of DRM (another way to install trapdoors) - i.e. it becomes illegal to use open linux. And FWICR this has been suggested (leaked) before. Jacqui -- 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] Bad Karma
Mat Grove wrote: list of annoyingizations of the language :) IMHO if you use 'zation' you are now an american :-) -- 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] Webcams
Philip Stubbs wrote: 2009/10/19 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk: Philip Stubbs wrote: Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for years. Works fine. I suppose I was thinking that it would get in the way of the lawn mower and things, although I guess it could be buried. Leo When I was running a power cable to my shed, I took the opportunity to bury some small drain pipe. I then was able to pull my Ethernet cable and a telephone wire down at a later time. It is a run of about 25 meters or so. I hope it lasts for some time yet because I have now built a conservatory and a concrete patio over one end of the pipe :-) If you cannot pull a new cable through a small parachute and a compressor can blow a new cable run through a clear pipe. A small household 5CFM jobbie should do the trick. Jacqui p.s. You can buy a roll of outside water pipe from somewhere like wickes which is perfect for this sort of thing. -- 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] Webcams
Leo wrote: I was expecting to have to pay a couple of 100 pounds but hadn't had much luck finding something appropriate. It's actually for watching for wildlife rather than security, but, yes, it still needs to be reasonable quality. I will see what I can find about Axis. Aldi were doing a CCTV camera in a bird box jobbie - no idea of quality but it was supposed to have IR lit night vision. problem is that it is TV based and we no longer have a TV or TV card! Jacqui -- 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] LaTeX on a samba share
Philip Stubbs wrote: Has anybody else seen this? This problem has only occurred since upgrading to Karmic. My Google foo is weak today. Even suggestions of where to look for answers would be appreciated. Sorry, brain is still asleep from a 4am burst of coding but I remember somethign similar relating to LF/CRLF translation via samba shares. There was a flag to control LF-CRLF translation for samba shares. Perhaps this has been enabled and is corrupting the files. Try copying a clean Latex file onto the share and then doing a wc on share file and the original - if the share file is bigger then diff em... Jacqui -- 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] IBM Hursley
Lisi wrote: But with a multi-LUG event, the chance of having more - I think the term is differently abled - people will obviously go up. Whem I first read this, I assumed you meant levels of understanding (ala Geeks vs newbies) - how sad is that! :-) FYI you are not the only one. Having had a recurring niggly ear infection (both ears) over the past few years (now sorted thankfully) I found some of the more noisy events I have been to (not LUG meets!) like trying to listen to someone muttering in a busy swimming pool :-( We then have a straight choice - come, but either bring a book or expect to be bored. Or stay away. I thought that I was coming to a BaB meeting. Others might think so too. Bab === Bring a book :-) Jacqui -- 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] Laptop display borked.
Sean Gibbins wrote: I know it sounds a bit desperate, but it got me a new laptop under /very/ similar circumstances. It does work - a long long time ago Yamaha had the 250LC that blew alternators about one year on. Yam decided this was NOT a warranty issue - so the letter detailing the three bikers clubs and upcoming MCN article covering this issue awaiting thier response. He had a new alternator and an apology in less than a week. The trick is to make the bad press cost them more that the repair. Jacqui -- 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 --
