Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 11/02/11 13:45, Terry Coles wrote: How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the boat on Smartphones, because they stayed with Symbian, but they had a chance to catch up with MeeGo. Now they've

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement - MeeGo gets relegated to a project as opposed to the de-facto platform for their smartphones

2011-02-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the boat on Smartphones, because they stayed with Symbian, but they had a chance to catch up with MeeGo. Even the

[Dorset] Medieval Help Desk

2011-02-11 Thread David Stanton
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[Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-11 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
Hi all, I have a pernennial problem with a raid array (which contains a 400GB filesystem 72% full. Since its raid 1 I am bemused that I keep getting file-system errors every 2 or threee days on reboot (requiring a manual fsck). The kernel log shows (e.g): ___

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Natalie Hooper
On 11 February 2011 13:59, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote: I saw a comment somewhere along the lines of two turkeys don't make an eagle. Yes, Vic Gundotra (VP of Engineering at Google and known for giving the Keynote speech at Google I/O 2010) tweeted that on Wednesday. He used

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: c.f http://blog.cocoia.com/2011/hp-webos-event-roundup/ Another competitor enters the ring (potentially, at least) and their offering looks pretty good. WebOS is based on the Linux kernel, but the rest is closed source as far as I know. HP

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Bryn Jones
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 18:01 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 11/02/11 14:02, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the boat on

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-11 Thread Keith Edmunds
Given that you are getting (apparently) some kind of disk corruption, and given that disk buffers are stored in memory prior to be flushed to disk, I'd start by running (ideally overnight) Memtest86+ and see if that, er, flushes out any errors. Keith -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 371, Issue 6

2011-02-11 Thread B.R.Masterman
Let me remove the word usually. Maybe I should refrain from using the safely remove at the moment, its working. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Send dorset mailing list submissions to

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread John Cooper
On 11/02/11 20:27, Natalie Hooper wrote: Yes, WebOS is interesting and of course, MeeGo isn't entirely dead but it is a major blow to its future on smartphones (that doesn't mean it won't succeed elsewhere though, notably on netbooks). As for Nokia's decision, it is going to have a major impact

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 371, Issue 6

2011-02-11 Thread Victor Churchill
On 11 February 2011 15:34, B.R.Masterman b...@seahues.net wrote: Let me remove the word usually. Maybe I should refrain from using the safely remove at the moment, its working. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Can you set the brevity dial on your