Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2013-01-02 Thread Andrew R Paterson
jobs recognised and trapped his user base into limiting the spread of malware very successfully. Google with its Play Store is commendably attempting the same thing. Regards Andy On Wednesday 02 January 2013 18:36:58 Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jan 2013 19:29:51 Andrew R Paterson wrote

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2013-01-01 Thread Andrew R Paterson
I strongly believe (feel free to correct me please!) that most (if not all) the AV software you get for Linux (and android?) is just using the same signature databases as the main windows versions and thus all you are doing is ensuring you don't download any windows viruses. As I say, please

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2012-12-31 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi Clive, I have a Nexus 7 and have absolutely filled it with (mostly free) downloads and except for accidentally unrooting it after initially rooting it - I have (as expected) NOT been hit by any Viruses. You should have asked the assistant if that meant that all the Android based

Re: [Dorset] New member

2012-07-04 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 10:01:42 p.lane wrote: On 04/07/2012 09:45, Tim wrote: On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the

Re: [Dorset] off topic Cable TV ITV1 subtitles service

2011-01-18 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 18 January 2011, chris.b.c...@ntlworld.com wrote: hi i am sure that some of you are Virgin media customers. My prob is that there is no subtitles on ITV1 at present and has been for best part of 24 hrs or so in Poole. All the other channels are ok, including ITV1+1. Can you

Re: [Dorset] nepomukserver

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Brian Masterman wrote: I have just been struggling to kill off a set of processes that were gobbling up all my CPU time. nepomukserver checking on the web revealed that lots of people were having the same problem. I uninstall all reference to it which

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 360, Issue 5

2010-11-26 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 26 November 2010, Andrew R Paterson wrote: On Friday 26 November 2010, Brian R Masterman wrote: I would appreciate any advise and help on networking. (they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing). I have been running etherape and it shows that my Linux system is sending

Re: [Dorset] cd question

2010-11-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 22 November 2010, Peter Merchant wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 19:30 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 22/11/10 18:05, Tim wrote: I am a cli dunce so please bear with me. Lets say I am working in the terminal screen in the following folder

Re: [Dorset] cd question

2010-11-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Peter Merchant wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:51 +, Victor Churchill wrote: On 22 November 2010 20:56, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: And my wife complains that under MS Windows there are so many ways to do things and why couldn't they just

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 358, Issue 8

2010-11-13 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 13 November 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Brian, (glad to know that Andy Paterson is in your group, we used to work together) I used to work with Andy too. Including you there's at least four of us that used to work at that site on the list. Cheers, Ralph. --

Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-02 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Natalie Hooper wrote: @Sean - I've been using Linux since 2005, though I didn't use it at all in 2008/early 2009. As stated before, these things don't stop ME from using Linux/Ubuntu/whatever app I use, but from my experience, they stop new users from using

Re: [Dorset] Which language is most popular.

2010-10-15 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 15 October 2010, Simon P Smith wrote: On 15/10/2010 09:31, Justin Stringfellow wrote: On 15/10/2010 09:24, Peter Merchant wrote: Been very quiet here for a few days, so I thought I'd put this link up www.langpop.com Does anyone use 'D'? If you're referring to the language

[Dorset] xloadimage

2010-10-10 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi Ralph, thanks for that, convert/composite works fine - but gee! it's noticeably slow! Despite ImageMagick being around for many years, I never thought of it being much more than display(1) :) I'll have a look at netpbm/pnmcomp. -- Andy Paterson -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel,

[Dorset] AR.Drone

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi has anyone (with money to burn!) got one of these yet? http://ardrone.parrot.com It appears to be a fully fledged UAV (running embedded Linux) with current pilot support for the iPhone, but support for linux based phones in the pipline. I think this is stunning - amazing! There is an article

[Dorset] xloadimage - transparent images

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi all, Is there anyone familiar with the use of xloadimage/xsetbg who can give me a hint as to why I can't load a small image with a transparent background image onto an existing background image. In the following bash shell function, virgin.jpg is intended to cover the whole

Re: [Dorset] xloadimage - transparent images

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 09 October 2010, you wrote: hi Andrew, TIA for any assistance/suggestions don't have 'xloadimage' on my machine, however, if you have the ImageMagick(1) software installed, 'composite' will combine images. Hi jr, thanks for that, but I dont think I can get display (the

Re: [Dorset] Updating Software on Linux without rebooting

2010-09-06 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 06 September 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:24:42 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: That's as I understand it, but there is apparently a company out there somewhere that can patch a running kernel for Enterprise customers. Well, actually, anyone can do that

Re: [Dorset] Audio Cassettes.

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 28 August 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andy, I still have my old bbc micro and its digital (audio more like it!) casette recorder. using this python script I could do my backups to the cassette recorder - neat! Nice idea. I think they do C120s now for even more storage.

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-07 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Tim wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2010 13:02:14 Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:09:51 +0100, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: Thanks, Terry, but it is this last stage that gives the grief. k3b collects all the files and folders

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-07 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:14:14 +0100, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said: I have been running for years without backups - using the relatively simple notion that raid mirroring is arguably as good as backups NO! It might work for you, which is

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-07 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Andrew R Paterson wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:14:14 +0100, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said: I have been running for years without backups - using the relatively simple notion that raid mirroring is arguably