Re: [57north-discuss] Fwd: Replacement PSU's

2014-03-12 Thread Tony Travis
On 12/03/14 13:40, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: Posted to the wrong list. [...] Hi, Iain. Oops! Thanks for redirecting it, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 15 Highfield Avenue, Banchory, AB31 4FB Scotland (UK) tel.

[57north-discuss] 2U servers

2014-04-09 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, I've decided that I'll leave all my S3970 motherboards in their ATX pedestal cases because after attempting to install one in a 2U server case last night I realise it's not really practical to re-box them. It pains me to scrap all the CPU's and RAM from the 2U servers, so I had a look on

Re: [57north-discuss] Servers up for grabs until Friday

2014-04-09 Thread Tony Travis
On 09/04/14 18:55, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: [...] I'd like it to be remotely power-on/off-able using some of Carl's technologies. Hi, Iain. These systems have IPMI, and can be powered on/off remotely anyway. Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No.

Re: [57north-discuss] Serious Tuesday

2014-04-22 Thread Tony Travis
On 22/04/14 09:48, Tom Jones wrote: [...] Other than the meeting members coming into the space with a plan should email the list and let everyone else know. This gives other members a chance to hear about what is going on in the space. Hi, I've been away at a conference then moved to a new

Re: [57north-discuss] Scrap servers

2014-04-24 Thread Tony Travis
On 24/04/14 13:36, Kit Wright wrote: Do you know where Petrotechnics is? Pavilion 5, Craigshaw business park. Hi, Kit. I don't know Petrotechnics, but I do know where Specialist Cars VW are. When would be a good time for me to come and collect the scrap servers? I've still got some of my old

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday Again

2014-04-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/04/14 09:19, Tom Jones wrote: Hell All, Once again it is Tuesday, 57North Hacklab's weekly open night. Each week the space is opened up to anyone that wants to come a long and see the space. As usual members that are coming a long with a plan should reply to this on -discuss and

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday Again

2014-04-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/04/14 10:21, Rowan Evenstar wrote: No word from Kit yet about the servers, but I'll try to get in touch and collect them today if possible. Hope that people will volunteer to help me carry them up the stairs! Kit is at Info Sec in London this week. Hi, Rowan. OK,

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday Again

2014-04-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/04/14 10:03, Tony Travis wrote: On 29/04/14 09:19, Tom Jones wrote: Hell All, Once again it is Tuesday, 57North Hacklab's weekly open night. Each week the space is opened up to anyone that wants to come a long and see the space. As usual members that are coming a long with a plan

Re: [57north-discuss] It's Tuesday

2014-05-06 Thread Tony Travis
On 06/05/14 10:55, Robert McWilliam wrote: Tuesday has again rolled around, so time to head to the space, drink, chat and possibly do something productive (or otherwise interesting). [...] What're other people's plans? Hi, Robert. I'm going to try and contact Kit about the servers he's

[57north-discuss] The Web We Want

2014-05-08 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Just read this: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240220266/Tim-Berners-Lee-world-wide-web-Magna-Carta-by-2015?asrc=EM_EDA_29006483utm_medium=EMutm_source=EDAutm_campaign=20140508_Tim%20Berners-Lee:%20Worldwide%20web%20Magna%20Carta%20by%202015_ We have a lot to thank TBL for! Bye,

[57north-discuss] Fwd: Re: [57north-announce] Directors meeting notes

2014-05-19 Thread Tony Travis
Original Message Subject: Re: [57north-announce] Directors meeting notes Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:08:19 +0100 From: Tony Travis tony.tra...@minke-informatics.co.uk Organisation: Minke Informatics Limited To: 57north-annou...@lists.57north.co On 16/05/14 20:46, Edward Watson

Re: [57north-discuss] Equal Hackers

2014-05-19 Thread Tony Travis
On 19/05/14 11:48, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: [...] I wouldn't say that the space has any problems with regard to attempting to be as inclusive as possible but I can imagine that there are some that might think we would be hostile if they came to visit us for the fact that we are primarily a

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday Time (also AGM)

2014-05-20 Thread Tony Travis
On 20/05/14 10:34, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: [...] This meeting will likely be over very quickly, due to the very short agenda, so if you plan to do some hacking tonight, let everyone know what you'll be up to on -discuss. Hi, Iain. I'm going to contact Kit Wright again today to see if I can

Re: [57north-discuss] Sunny Tuesday

2014-06-03 Thread Tony Travis
On 03/06/14 09:06, Tom Jones wrote: Hello All, Tuesday night again, 57North's weekly open night. If you want to come and visit the space head down and catch up with what is going on. If you are aiming to work on something cool, tell the list. Hi, Tom. Once again, I'm hoping to get the

[57north-discuss] Parallella

2014-06-05 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, I've got a confirmed shipping date of Jun 13th for my Parallella kit! Now, I need to 3D print a fan-base for it: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:283432 Any 57North volunteers willing to help me make one? Thanks, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday

2014-06-17 Thread Tony Travis
On 17/06/14 10:14, Tom Jones wrote: Once again it is Tuesday. The space is open for anyone that wants to come along and find out what we get up to. Drinking seems to be a common theme. If you are coming in with a plan, please tell the list what you might be getting up to. Tonight I will

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday

2014-06-17 Thread Tony Travis
On 17/06/14 10:56, Tom Jones wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: I'm hoping to get the rest of the scrap servers from Kit Wright and then we will see what we have before deciding what to do with them. Cool, I am also on the look out for rackable machine. If we

Re: [57north-discuss] Using git for the hackerspace

2014-06-18 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/14 21:44, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: Hi, The tutorial seems to be quite successful. People do seem to make some mistakes initially as it is a new procedure that most people won't have encountered before. As such, the tutorial has been

Re: [57north-discuss] Parallella

2014-06-18 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/14 16:18, Dave Hibberd wrote: I can't wait to see this, I might take a break from sipping Gin on the other side of the room to investigate! Hi, Dave. I'm wondering what to do about the PSU's - I'd need 4@US/UK mains adapters to use the

Re: [57north-discuss] Introducing hackr

2014-07-08 Thread Tony Travis
On 08/07/14 10:21, Tom Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:58:39AM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: [...] Do you and Tom still want these 2U 'Rackable' servers from me? I certainly do, I still want to build a cluster. Hi, Tom. In the Space, or at UoA? I'm on holiday just now, but back on Tue

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Space Corps Directive 15: Tuesday Shall Be Open

2014-07-15 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/07/14 09:47, Tom Jones wrote: Hi All, Once again it is Tuesday our weekly open night. Anyone that wants to come in and see the space is welcome to see what we get up to. Members with plans should reply on discuss. Hi, Tom. I remembered

[57north-discuss] Parallella

2014-07-16 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Thanks to Tom lending me a USB-serial cable I've managed to debug and boot one of my Parallella cards with a HDMI display. The problem was that no FPGA or kernel files were supplied in the /BOOT partition on the pre-formatted uSD card, just a READ_ME saying where to download them from, but

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-07-22 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/07/14 09:47, Tom Jones wrote: Once again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come to the space and see what we get up to and to share a drink. Any members coming in with a plan should reply to this on -discuss

[57north-discuss] Is this hackable or what?

2014-07-27 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Well, I think I underwhelmed everyone with my Parallella last Tue, but I still think it's very interesting! In particular, the Zync 7010 and I've just discovered this book about it (free PDF download): http://www.zynqbook.com/ [The Zync is the SoC that hosts the Epiphany parallel

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/07/14 13:46, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: [...] Having written mass survey tools where lots of connections get constructed and torn down, I can say that C is *vastly* more efficient than Python and other interpreted languages. Hi, Iain. I think

Re: [57north-discuss] Servers

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/07/14 22:53, Calum Enterobsidian wrote: Just thought I'd send out a quick message to see if anyone wants one of the older servers, otherwise I'll take them away to be disposed of. Hi, Calum. I'm happy for you to do whatever you like with them. Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics

Re: [57north-discuss] Servers

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/07/14 22:56, Carl Anderson wrote: THey use too much power and we wont use them. feel free to take them. Hi, Carl. Just measured power consumption of my Parallella microBeowulf = 54W :-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday

2014-08-12 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/14 09:42, Tom Jones wrote: Once again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come a long and see what we get up to in the space. If you are a member and planning on coming in you should reply to this on

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] CryptoTuesday

2014-08-19 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/08/14 10:13, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, One again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone that wants to come a long and see what we get up to in the space is more than welcome. People will be hacking on personal project,

Re: [57north-discuss] Linux MicroPC / SBC thoughts?

2014-08-24 Thread Tony Travis
On 24/08/14 16:43, Andy Gaskell wrote: [...] I'd use a Pi, but it needs a bit more Oomph than that as it runs animations and other multimedia. Hi, Andy Have you considered using Parallella? http://www.parallella.org/ Did you see me demo my Parallella cluster at the space recently? Bye,

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday

2014-08-26 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/08/14 10:42, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come a long and see what we get up to in the hackerspace. Normally folks will be working on personal projects, talking

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-09-16 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/09/14 09:04, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. The space is open to anyone that wants to come a long and see what we get up to. You can expect members to be casually working on projects,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-09-16 Thread Tony Travis
On 16/09/14 16:57, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014, at 04:23 PM, Tom Jones wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Ed Watson wrote: What he said. If anyone has a Mac Air/Retina VGA/HDMI adapter - do bring along pls. The project only takes vga and composite There is

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Super Tuesday

2014-09-23 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/09/14 10:16, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday, consulting the historic log 57North hold an open night on this fortuitous day. Every Tuesday anyone is welcome to come a long to the space and see what we get up to.

[57north-discuss] Hackspace security

2014-09-30 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Just found out about this Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/havenlock/haven-the-stronger-smarter-home-lock A doorbot on steroids ;-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-10-21 Thread Tony Travis
On 21/10/14 10:02, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday 57North's weekly open night. Any one is welcome to come a long and see what we get up to in the space. Most Tuesday's see members working on projects, chewing the fat and drinking beer.

[57north-discuss] Fake CR2032 batteries

2014-10-23 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Every single one of the CR2032 batteries Iain bought from Pound-Land for the 2U Rackable Opteron 200 servers that I donated to the Space went flat shortly after I fitted them :-( That might explain why the motherboards failed to POST... As you know, I bought ten new 12x13 server

Re: [57north-discuss] Fake CR2032 batteries

2014-10-23 Thread Tony Travis
On 23/10/14 14:15, Andrea Faulds wrote: So, as usual, it was Ian? Hi, Andrea. Yes, of course, but I had no idea about fake CR2032 batteries either! I must admit that the Pound-Land batteries seemed to good to be true at the time and now we know why ;-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics

Re: [57north-discuss] Fake CR2032 batteries

2014-10-23 Thread Tony Travis
On 23/10/14 13:53, Robert McWilliam wrote: [...] RS are usually not the cheapest but for things where authenticity matters paying a bit more can be worth it for them to worry about the sourcing. Hi, Robert. I took you advice and ordered 25 from RS. Thanks, Tony. -- Minke Informatics

Re: [57north-discuss] Fake CR2032 batteries

2014-10-27 Thread Tony Travis
On 26/10/14 09:44, p...@myflat.org.uk wrote: Excuse the slow response; I've been in hospital and I'mk just catching up. They're not fake, they're just old. A CR2032 will die after just over 5 years whether it's in a motherboard or on the shelf. The pricing reflects how long it is since

Re: [57north-discuss] Fake CR2032 batteries.

2014-10-27 Thread Tony Travis
On 27/10/14 13:02, Peet42 wrote: Tony, your linked article talks about the difficulty in finding the mysterious Chinese factories churning out the real looking batteries. The reason they look real is because they *are* real, and the Chinese distributors are just buying them at various

Re: [57north-discuss] Fake CR2032 batteries.

2014-10-28 Thread Tony Travis
On 27/10/14 19:38, Peet42 wrote: [...] OK, I've been building computers for the past 35 years :-) Only two years longer than me, then. (I was building Acorn Atoms from kits in late 1981) I was only *paid* to do it (on and off) for twenty years. :-P Hi, Peet. [Monty Python voice] You

Re: [57north-discuss] Library Rules Wednesday

2014-10-29 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/10/14 11:46, Dave Hibberd wrote: [...] Come play with your toys in a quiet, productive environment! Drink Tea! Make your brain work! Don't let me be on my own with my thoughts! Hi, Hx. How about a new project to make perfect

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-11-04 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/14 10:45, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it it Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night where anyone can come to the space and see what we get up to. Normally there is some project work, chatting and pondering on the purpose of

Re: [57north-discuss] Spare ATX PSU

2014-11-17 Thread Tony Travis
On 17/11/14 13:39, Richard Scott wrote: hi guys, im just seeing if anybody at all has a spare PSU, my last just popped :( at the moment i will accept anything of any form, of course higher wattage the better, but like i said, anything will currently do. Hi, Rich. Do you really want ATX

[57north-discuss] Friday evening

2014-11-21 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Is anyone else going into the Space this evening? I'll be there about 9pm if I can work out how to get in... @Rich - Did you get the PSU? Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford AB33 8QJ,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Open Tuesday

2014-12-02 Thread Tony Travis
On 02/12/14 10:01, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come along and see what we get up to, normally there is some amount of hacking, drinking of tea and wondering how bats evolved to hang upside down. If you are coming

Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home

2015-01-26 Thread Tony Travis
On 26/01/15 12:29, Andrea Faulds wrote: [...] I might be interested if I learned a bit of its capabilities. This is a workstation from 10 years ago: what can it do today? How well do some applications run? Hi, Andrea. I think it has dual 2-core Opteron 200 series processors, which are quite

Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home

2015-01-26 Thread Tony Travis
On 26/01/15 14:09, Tom Jones wrote: [...] One has FreeBSD and the other had GNU/debian/linux/openbsd/mit/... Hi, Tom. Drat, now my ignorance is exposed! I didn't know there was a difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD :-) Mutter, mutter... Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered

Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home

2015-01-26 Thread Tony Travis
On 26/01/15 13:57, Tom Jones wrote: [...] No idea how OpenBSD would run, I could try if you want. Sorry, Tom. Thought you were running BSD on them ;-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford,

Re: [57north-discuss] Beer money

2015-02-03 Thread Tony Travis
On 03/02/15 19:53, Tom Jones wrote: Hi, Carl claims there is about 70GBP in the beer money jar. Does anyone object to me buying a case of club mate for the space? These would be sold at a slight profit so we can keep the addiction going. 24 Bottles is around 35GBP with shipping. Hi, What

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-02-03 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/15 08:29, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come along, see the space and what we get up to. Normally there is hacking on projects, drinking of tea and

[57north-discuss] Biohackers

2015-01-18 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Just came across this about the legacy DNA programming language: http://www.oreilly.com/biocoder/ Might be interesting to discuss :-) Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-01-27 Thread Tony Travis
On 27/01/15 10:47, Tom Jones wrote: [...] If you are planning on coming in let everyone else know by relying to this email on -discuss. Hi, I'm bringing my Parallella in again in case Callum C. has managed to make some 'short' UTP patch cables for me - Going to bring my RJ45 crimping tool in

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-01-27 Thread Tony Travis
On 27/01/15 12:05, Tony Travis wrote: [...] Hi, I'm bringing my Parallella in again in case Callum C. has managed to [...] Hi, I mean Calum Craig - sorry, forgot you are both are Calum C.'s! Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental

Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home

2015-01-25 Thread Tony Travis
On 25/01/15 15:24, Calum Chisholm wrote: Hi all, As I'll soon be skipping the country, I'm having a bit of a clear-out. Needing a good home is my trusty IBM workstation. It's a few years old now (mid-2006 according to the sticker), but it was used until quite recently for crunching

[57north-discuss] p2pDB audit about Cryptography

2015-02-10 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, My friend Luca Clivio from the Mario Negri Institute in Milan (where I took all those computers in my car) wants to visit us at the 57North Hackspace on Tue 3 Mar 2015 to give a talk about his 'HEAVyBASE' p2pDB and ask our advice about auditing the security model he is using:

Re: [57north-discuss] p2pDB audit about Cryptography

2015-02-10 Thread Tony Travis
On 10/02/15 20:34, Tony Travis wrote: Hi, My friend Luca Clivio from the Mario Negri Institute in Milan (where I took all those computers in my car) wants to visit us at the 57North Hackspace on Tue 3 Mar 2015 to give a talk about his 'HEAVyBASE' p2pDB and ask our advice about auditing

Re: [57north-discuss] New Semantic MediaWiki for 57North

2015-01-08 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/15 14:12, Robert McWilliam wrote: [...] More people in a position to control it is better than one person but still a long way off what I see as the right model of ownership for space infrastructure: the space should own it (or rent it in

Re: [57north-discuss] 57North OpenStack private cloud

2015-03-22 Thread Tony Travis
On 22/03/15 18:29, Edward Watson wrote: On 22 Mar 2015 18:24, Tony Travis tony.tra...@minke-informatics.co.uk mailto:tony.tra...@minke-informatics.co.uk wrote: Now I want to learn how to import/create OpenStack VM images... Awesome - we use openstack at work but I've only seeb the in use VPS

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Libre Tuesday

2015-03-17 Thread Tony Travis
On 17/03/15 09:55, Tom Jones wrote: [...] If you are planning on coming in you should reply to this email on -discuss. This lets everyone gauge how many people will be in and gives you a chance to talk about what you are doing. Hi, Tom. I'm going to try and understand a bit more about

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tubesday

2015-03-24 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/15 07:41, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come to the space and see what we get up to. Normally there is some hacking on projects, drinking of tea and mail carriage

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-03-31 Thread Tony Travis
On 31/03/15 10:05, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday 57North's weekly open night, any one is welcome to come a long and see what we get up to. Normally there is some hacking on projects, drinking of tea and wondering when summer will show up. If you are heading in

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-04-14 Thread Tony Travis
On 14/04/15 09:50, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Today is Tuesday, 57North Hacklab's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come a long see the space and what we get up to. Normally there is some hacking on projects, drinking of beer and wondering. If you are heading in, send an

Re: [57north-discuss] Fwd: [hacklab-discuss] Aberdeen - tender for operation of MAKE Lab

2015-04-30 Thread Tony Travis
On 30/04/15 14:42, Yan Huang wrote: Well this is certainly interesting, thanks! I've punted this over to the folks who set up the digital innovation hub here at UoA, given that they just built a centre to provide 3D printing facilities for startups and innovators. It might be more relevant

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Open Tuesday

2015-05-05 Thread Tony Travis
On 05/05/15 12:27, Andy Gaskell wrote: [...] On a totally unrelated note, Aberdeen PHP User group has it's monthly meeting tomorrow, 6.30pm at Ma Cameron's, in the snug room. This is the second one, and should be a nice relaxed gig. Although it is a PHP User group, there is quite a lot of

[57north-discuss] Dodgy routers

2015-05-07 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Just read this: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500245827/City-of-London-Police-crack-counterfeit-Cisco-ring Hope 57North's are the genuine article ;-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Open Tuesday

2015-05-12 Thread tony . travis
Hi, Tom. At a conference in London just now, so won't make it this evening. Bye, Tony. - Reply message - From: Tom Jones jo...@sdf.org To: 57north-annou...@lists.57north.co Subject: [57north-announce] Open Tuesday Date: Tue, May 5, 2015 10:34 Hello Hackers, Again it is Tuesday,

Re: [57north-discuss] Naming scheme

2015-05-15 Thread Tony Travis
On 15/05/15 15:25, Tony Travis wrote: On 15/05/15 14:55, Dave Hibberd wrote: [...] We currently only have one named server: garioch. Was there a naming scheme in mind when that was selected? Local(ish) place names with spelling and pronunciation somewhat divorced from one another

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-08-18 Thread Tony Travis
On 18/08/15 11:03, Robert McWilliam wrote: We've rolled around into another week and Tuesday has again arrived, so this evening the space will be open to any and all who want to come along. If you're planning to come in reply to -discuss to let folks know that you'll be there and what plans

Re: [57north-discuss] Stuff for sale

2015-08-18 Thread Tony Travis
On 18/08/15 14:22, dere...@sector5d.org wrote: [...] - Logitech Z213 2.1 speaker set Small but decent speaker set. The subwoofer has a perfect height for putting your monitor on top. Hi, Derecho. I'm interested in your speaker set: How much do you want for them? [not

Re: [57north-discuss] Stuff for sale

2015-08-18 Thread Tony Travis
On 18/08/15 14:46, dere...@sector5d.org wrote: [...] Looks like they're a little over twenty pounds new, so, how does a tenner sound? Hi, Derecho. OK, it's a deal :-) [email me off-list and I'll send you the money by PayPal] Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Whose Day?

2015-07-28 Thread Tony Travis
On 28/07/15 15:07, Carl Anderson wrote: I'll be down this evening; I need to make a power cable. Hi, Carl. Won't make it in this evening, but let me know at work if you want a quick demo of how to connect an Ubuntu mobile phone to Eduroam. Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Chip Tuesday

2015-07-21 Thread Tony Travis
On 21/07/15 11:53, Andy Gaskell wrote: [...] Tony; I'd love to see the Ubuntu phone, was wondering what they'd be like, a real linux phone. Sadly can't make it down this eve, as the mrs is on call all week. Will be down next week though. It's been way too long. Hi, Andy. OK, see you

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Chip Tuesday

2015-07-21 Thread Tony Travis
On 21/07/15 09:59, Tom Jones wrote: [...] If you could to reply this email and let others know that you are coming in to the space and what you are doing, that would be excellent. Hi, Tom. I'll be coming along to make a second attempt at interesting people in my shiny new Meizu MX4 Ubuntu

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Chip Tuesday

2015-07-21 Thread Tony Travis
On 21/07/15 12:34, Andy Gaskell wrote: Thanks Tony, next week sounds good / ...Quite similar to hacking the Parallella ;-) / does that mean the cables wont work and it'll maybe need a respin ;) Hi, Andy. Ha, ha! :-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland -

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-10-27 Thread Tony Travis
On 27/10/15 12:26, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > It is Tuesday and all is well, > head to the space and please do tell, > what you intend to build and fracture, > and through the act we will all be master. Hi, Doc. I'll be in trying to get my friend's Windows 10 working again!

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Tony Travis
On 17/11/15 12:54, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > It is Tuesday, you hear that, Tuesday, > > You Know what to do. Hi, Doc. I'll be in having a look at Carl's Banana Pi, which I've now got running Ubuntu and looking at the spec. of the Banana Pi router! Bye, Tony. -- Minke

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday Gladness

2015-11-10 Thread Tony Travis
On 10/11/15 13:43, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone > > It is Tuesday, Open Day at the space from 7/7.30. > > What's up? What's down? What's coming around? Hi, Doc. I'll be in to give Carl his Banana-Pi back, which I've not really had time to play with yet, and examine the serial numbers of

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday open evening

2015-11-03 Thread Tony Travis
On 03/11/15 12:45, Robert McWilliam wrote: > I am reliably informed that today is Tuesday. That means that we have > an open evening this evening. > > All are welcome to come and hack at stuff (or just drink their > beverage of choice and have a chat). We're usually open by 19:00, the > space

[57north-discuss] Cheap 8TB disk for sale?

2015-11-06 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Someone has stolen a brand-new 8TB Seagate SATA disk from my office in the Cruickshank building... If anyone offers you a suspiciously cheap Seagate 8TB ST8000AS0002 please nail their feet to the floor and call the police. Thanks, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-10-20 Thread Tony Travis
On 20/10/15 10:13, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone it's Tuesday, > > I'll be around working on an OpenWRT build I have managed to do, for a > board. > > What is Everyone else up to? Hi, Doc. I'll be in, compiling the RozoFS sources from the correct branch!

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday the what.

2015-10-13 Thread Tony Travis
On 13/10/15 10:34, Doc Ocassi wrote: > > What's up Everyone, > > > It is Tuesday, and our Open Day, I'll be there, probably early, and > working on doorbot again, not sure what other will be doing, lots of > doing, maybe some talking. > > > Inform us and spread the Love. Hi, Doc. I'll be in

[57north-discuss] TechMeetUp pics

2015-08-30 Thread Tony Travis
Hi, Andy. If you got any pics of me talking about Parallella at the TechMeetUp will you post them on the TechMeetUp FaceBuck page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aberdeen-TechMeetup/220140384757836 Thanks, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] It is Tuesday!

2015-09-08 Thread Tony Travis
On 08/09/15 11:36, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello All. > > It is Tuesday again! I'll be in doing more on doorbot, and deciding what > to show on Thursday. > > So, what is everyone else up to for this coming winter of discontent? Hi, Doc. I'll be taking my Parallella cluster to bits and asking Ed. to

Re: [57north-discuss] Open Tuesday

2015-09-01 Thread Tony Travis
On 01/09/15 14:41, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Hackers, > > Hack as the hackidy hack hack, hack hacking hack hack Hackers hacks > hack, HACK TUESDAY. > > I will be in, hopefully setting up doorbot code in github and working on > that. > > What are will you all be hackidy hacking? Hi, Doc. I'll

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday.

2015-09-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/09/15 10:31, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > It is Tuesday and it is the open day. Ill be there, will you? Hi, Doc. Won't be there tonight, because I'm in Milan building a Beowulf cluster with Luca Clivio using the 25U 19" rack that Iain gave us :-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Hackday Tuesday

2016-01-12 Thread Tony Travis
On 12/01/16 11:22, Hibberd, Dave wrote: > Good Tuesday Hackers! > > You know the drill for tonight - It's open Tuesday. Bring your self and > optionally bring a friend or colleague*. > > If you're coming in, reply with a suggestion of what you will be doing. Hi, Hibby. I'll be in, trawling eBay

Re: [57north-discuss] Thursday hacklab!

2016-06-02 Thread Tony Travis
On 02/06/16 10:17, Hibberd, Dave wrote: > Morning! > > I'm gonna be in space tonight doing a bit of fiddling about with Debian > stuff as an excellent way of avoiding tidying my flat for a little longer. > > I'll also be stock-checking the tuckshop and saying Praise Be to Freddos > on a regular

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday, Openday

2016-05-31 Thread Tony Travis
On 31/05/16 09:32, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > Today is the Openday, so come one come all and open up to the possibilities. > > > So what is everyone up to? Hi, Doc. I won't be in - Back to building/testing servers for my Milan project. Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Open Tuesday

2016-06-21 Thread Tony Travis
On 14/06/16 09:09, Hibberd, Dave wrote: > Gd Morning all! > > It's a Tuesday in June. Get Excited, it's open day at the hacklab! > > All are free to come and say hi and explore what we do. We'll start at > 7ish and finish when we get bored. > Don't forget a computer

Re: [57north-discuss] BG electricity monitor available

2016-02-07 Thread Tony Travis
On 06/02/16 16:43, Neil Pilgrim wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a British Gas electricity monitor here, and may have another > going spare too, which I am no using and certainly won't be after I move. > > Anyone interested in using it or tinkering with it for a home-grown > monitoring system? Hi,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday Open Day 7:00

2016-01-19 Thread Tony Travis
On 19/01/16 11:03, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > Tuesday is our open day so everyone who can come down to the space and > have a hacky old time. Hi, Doc. I'll be in, probably... > An Alternative Script: > > > *The Boo*: - What has pissed you off this week? People booing! > The

Re: [57north-discuss] Clear out - part 3

2016-02-15 Thread Tony Travis
On 15/02/16 16:25, Carl Anderson wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have 2 surplus network switches: > > HP Procurve 2824 > 20 port gigabit + 4 dual-personality ports > 48Gbps backplane, up to 35.7 mpps > Spanning tree, VLANs etc > > TP-Link RL-SG1024D > 24 port gigabit unmanaged switch > Supplied with

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2016-03-22 Thread Tony Travis
On 22/03/16 12:31, Alex Beston wrote: > > rapid rate of knots > > You've transmuted into something sea faring since I last saw you? How is > it possible? By the bye, if any one wants some seed potatoes, I can > bring some over as I will have a few spare; 2nd earlies and main crop > that is. Hi,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] It's Tuesday

2016-03-01 Thread Tony Travis
On 01/03/16 11:40, Edward Watson wrote: > Hello Hackers > > Today is Tuesday, which means you get to visit the hacklab and review > the week's annoyances with your hacker buds. You've clearly been looking > forward to it. > > If you are working on any super secret projects this eve that probably

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday Openday

2016-04-26 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/04/16 14:13, Edward William Watson wrote: > On Apr 26 11:30, Doc Ocassi wrote: >> I will not be along today, but hope many of you will, please >> give a shout out, and have a hacky hackday. 7.00 at the space. > > I will not be in either sadly.

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2016-05-17 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/05/16 15:01, Robert McWilliam wrote: > Another Tuesday has rolled around and we are again staring down > the barrel of an open evening. > > Come along and have a chat. Build something. Take something apart. > Or whatever else you fancy. Hi,

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Open Day, TOODAY!

2016-05-10 Thread Tony Travis
On 10/05/16 09:09, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone > > It is Tuesday and it is the open day, Come by at 7. > So come one and all. > [...] Hi, Doc. Not coming in (again) because I'm just too busy... FYI, I've just found out about "Research Software Engineers": >

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] It's Tuesday, you all know what that means.

2016-07-12 Thread Tony Travis
On 12/07/16 12:23, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > I am not back yet, so if people will be in today for the open day at 7 > give a shout out. > > I am back tomorrow, but probably in Glasgow next week and the week after. > > Hope you are enjoying the fine weather we have been having, and

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