[Dorset] So what about a Blandford Meeting

2010-04-25 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Given that the Weymouth contingent that used to attend Dorchester pub meets now work away, the Dorchester attendance has dropped. I was wondering if May's pub meet, the one after next week's Bournmouth one mentioned above, should be held somewhere

Re: [Dorset] So what about a Blandford Meeting

2010-04-25 Thread C A Wills
Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Given that the Weymouth contingent that used to attend Dorchester pub meets now work away, the Dorchester attendance has dropped. I was wondering if May's pub meet, the one after next week's Bournmouth one mentioned above,

[Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-25 Thread Clive A Wills
Information and guidance sort on character encoding in Thunderbird and Ubuntu 9.10. (may not just apply on e-mail programs). For some reason I've started getting strange characters appearing in some e-mails, a black diamond with a ? mark in the centre. Now my encoding was set to Unicode UTF-8.

Re: [Dorset] So what about a Blandford Meeting

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 08:27 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Given that the Weymouth contingent that used to attend Dorchester pub meets now work away, the Dorchester attendance has dropped. I was wondering if May's pub meet, the one after next week's

Re: [Dorset] So what about a Blandford Meeting

2010-04-25 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 25/04/10 11:54, C A Wills wrote: Terry Coles wrote: Can I suggest that we vote on it? Please only vote positively if you intend to go to the venue preferred, other wise we could end up with no-one turning up! However, if someone wants to vote along the lines of 'I don't mind; I'll

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-25 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 25/04/10 12:09, Clive A Wills wrote: Information and guidance sort on character encoding in Thunderbird and Ubuntu 9.10. (may not just apply on e-mail programs). For some reason I've started getting strange characters appearing in some e-mails, a black diamond with a ? mark in the centre.

Re: [Dorset] So what about a Blandford Meeting

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 14:03 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday 25 Apr 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Don't know what to make of it. I'm now in Fordingbridge; Blandford would be on what, the A36? Had to do the A31 commute and it gives me the shivers, but now I might make it. Probably I'll

[Dorset] Microphone worries.

2010-04-25 Thread Simon O'Riordan
9.10 and Skype will detect USB mics; if you want to set a jack mic to work(after going into ALSA and activating everything first), just be sure your hardware selection is the right type, such as 'Analog 5.1 and Digital Stereo Input'. This will sort it. My new webcam cost £9, is generic and