Re: [Dorset] Crontab issue

2022-06-28 Thread Adrian Warman
ith the image being displayed on screen at the > scheduled time from crontab > > regards > > > Tim H > > On 26/06/2022 22:03, Adrian Warman via dorset wrote: >> The reason is that there is no screen on which to display any windows. >> >> A crontab 'job' is r

[Dorset] Crontab issue

2022-06-27 Thread Adrian Warman via dorset
The reason is that there is no screen on which to display any windows. A crontab 'job' is running in its own little login. It's a command line -only session, hence nowhere to send graphical display output. The 'no MTA' message is a different thing. The crontab task failed (nowhere to display

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

2014-09-30 Thread Adrian Warman
Atlassian Confuence https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence? You can get a 'starter' licence for between $10 and $30, that will support up to 10 users. Sufficient to try out its capabilities. Adrian On 30 September 2014 14:40, Stephen Wolff step...@maxgatedigital.com wrote: Hi Terry,

Re: [Dorset] Linux defragmentation

2013-12-20 Thread Adrian Warman
Yes, they do. There's an excellent article here: http://www.howtogeek.com/115229/htg-explains-why-linux-doesnt-need-defragmenting/ .. which talks all about it. The article also links to a description of various Linux disk utilities - this is well-worth reading for more details. HTH, Adrian On

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-09-30 Thread Adrian Warman
Without knowing a bit more about the number of users, numbers of files, platforms, etc., it's hard to make specific suggestions. However... Might you consider a combination of git plus one of the many git GUI interfaces for the basic storage versioning and control? Out of the box, git supports

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-14 Thread Adrian Warman
Just a thought - but might a Chromebook suffice? The Acer C7 is £199, has the basic hardware spec you indicate, and can be configured to boot into Linux (proper) as well... On 12 August 2013 08:54, Clive Wills ecwi...@talktalk.net wrote: Hi All Last night my laptop cover/screen broke again

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread Adrian Warman
I think Leo's recommendation is Python. In any event, I would also recommend it. It's platform-agnostic, it's used by big companies (Google, anyone?), it can be run in a simple, interpreter-like way (single line Basic, anyone?), it supports object-oriented programming, there's lots of

Re: [Dorset] Kwallet problem

2012-05-11 Thread Adrian Warman
As far as I know, Thunderbird has no awareness of KDE in general. It is desktop-platform agnostic. Certainly, using Thunderbird does not result in any entries in Kwallet. So, most likely when you started Kmail for the first time, that action initiated the task of putting some data into Kwallet. I