On 27/09/10 17:02, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 27/09/10 16:52, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Seems like ArchLinux is great for old hardware but not really
suitable for
my spanking new hardware ;-)
I run it on old and new hardware, and it works well on both ;)
Having said that, I'm also looking
On 09/10/10 14:57, Richard Johnston wrote:
Just a suggestion from the West Indies. I'm running LinuxMint, latest
edition and am well pleased with it. Its based on Ubuntu and is sympathetic
to ignoramuses like me.
Richard
I was looking at Mint's website because we were talking on #dorset
On 01/10/10 17:55, Terry Coles wrote:
A few weeks ago, my wife bought herself an MSI Laptop
[...] I installed Kubuntu 10.04 as a dual boot [...]
Since then networking has broken and it's pretty useless for anything much.
I've tried wired and wireless connections, but it's more fundamental than
On 01/10/10 19:40, jr wrote:
On 1 October 2010 16:09, Peter Merchantmadsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
- Some time ago I suggested the Grasshopper in (eastern) PArkstone, but
until someone evaluates it, we don't know.
the Grasshopper would be perfect, but, alas, no WiFi.
No one has a MiFi? Or
On 23/09/10 18:30, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I'm getting a new computer built and for work reasons, I will have Windows 7
on it but of course, I want to install a dual boot system.
Currently, I have Ubuntu on my desktop and my netbook. My netbook came with
Ubuntu installed and as I share my
On 27/09/10 16:52, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Seems like ArchLinux is great for old hardware but not really suitable for
my spanking new hardware ;-)
I run it on old and new hardware, and it works well on both ;)
Having said that, I'm also looking to change my Linux distro on my Dell
netbook -
On 16/09/10 08:24, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
My mother wants me to replace her Asus EEE700 because it's wearing out, the
battery is shot and she'd like a bigger display with higher resolution.
I had planned to buy her an X10 from Novatech. I'm very pleased with mine,
but the mic is very quiet
On 16/09/10 11:10, Dan Dart wrote:
There's also http://www.system76.com/ who have a good reputation.
Oh? I heard they were US-only.
Shame, looks like you're right. We only ship within the United States
and Canada. Strange, because most US companies I've dealt with seem
happy to ship
On 19/08/10 17:58, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Lucid? Worked straight out of the box; all sound systems(except VIA
microphone), all graphics, works with £6 wireless dongles from
Amazon(not just £25 'approved' ones), can handle any combination of
sound(5.1+Skype+MoviePlayer+Rhythmbox)all at the same
On 12/08/10 08:13, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Hello everybody,
My name's Natalie and I've been using Linux on and off since 2005. I now
live in Bournemouth, having moved down from London a couple of months ago.
I first used Debian between 2005 and 2007 then I switched back to Windows
due to new
On 10/06/10 23:54, Andrew Drapper wrote:
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 my monitor is 1280 x 1024 but Ubuntu is only
letting me have 1024 x 768. How do I change this in 10.04. I believe it is
not as easy as it used to be. no config file to change, or some such.
Any tips appreciated. my monitor is
On 01/06/10 16:52, Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2010, Andrew Drapper wrote:
But I think I am going to have to be a little unfaithful again. I need to
use a programme that I do not believe will work in wine, (logos 4), so I am
thinking of runing a virtual XP install using Sun
On 26/05/10 08:37, David Wilkinson wrote:
Could everyone who is going let me know by Tuesday so that I can make
sure you are on the list and wont be refused entry.
Just as a reminder the tour is on Wednesday 2010-06-02 at 19:00
Hi David-
Please count me in!
Name: John Carlyle-Clarke
On 10/05/10 00:43, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
Dean wrote:
David Wilkinson wrote:
What's the recommend partition layout for a desktop linux system?
At the moment I use the default on ubuntu of putting everything in
/ I don't think this wouldn't be ideal in case of needing to
On 29/04/10 13:51, Bob Dunlop wrote:
Please no! NOT minicom!
It's possibly the worst VT100 emulator I have even encountered and has
the crankiest confiuration system. Why can only root change and save
parameters, why can't you set parameters on the command line ?
I've only ever used it
On 28/04/10 20:43, Dan Wentworth wrote:
On 28/04/2010 20:38, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I am going to be 'playing' with some Cisco routers over the next few
weeks, and it is some years since I tried to use a terminal package from
a *nix environment. A forum comment from Ubuntu 7.1 suggests
On 27/04/10 18:45, Terry Coles wrote:
I wouldn't mind that and I could probably bring at least one other. However,
the object of the exercise was to tempt some people from North Dorset, not
cater for my International Itinerary. Is there anyone else out there ? :-)
We should post on
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
Hi folks-
I have an iptables question. I've tried a few things, but since this is
my gateway/router I usually seem to end up killing internet access (or
more strangely, slowing it right down for a time) when I try to work it
out myself.
Here is the setup. What I need to do is to open an
On 22/04/10 13:29, John Horne wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 12:48 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables --table nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables --table nat -A PREROUTING -i wlan0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
On 19/04/10 22:57, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Does anyone have experience of doing Windows Guest to 9.10 Host
networking?(It goes without saying, internet is fine).
Hi Simon-
I have this working. I'm using the Virtualbox binary (closed) edition,
and I have it working with both shared folders
On 09/04/10 14:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
On Friday 09 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Do we think that a move to Blandford will improve the western
meets? I didn't get any response to this.
I don't suppose it will. For the odd new attendee there'll be those
On 03/02/10 21:21, Dan Jones wrote:
On 3 February 2010 17:22, Terry Colesd-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require
publicly-funded bodies, in light of the Government's newly
published Open Source policy, to fully explore free
Dear list-
Since I can't get any ADSL in my new house, I need to try and share my
parents' ADSL. They live about 800m away, within line of sight.
Ideally I want to do this with a point-to-point wireless bridge.
I believe that a couple of Linksys WRT54G units with OpenWRT are the
best bet
On 02/01/10 16:34, Tim wrote:
I am trying to start kmail via cron but I can't get kmail to start, here is
what
cron looks like
Well here is a list of my cron jobs
m...@titan:~$ crontab -l
# Delete old thumbnails
0 1 * * 1 $find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +10 -exec rm {} \;
# spam
On 04/01/10 20:05, Tim wrote:
On Monday 04 January 2010 14:16:50 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 02/01/10 16:34, Tim wrote:
I am trying to start kmail via cron but I can't get kmail to start [...]
Thanks for the interest, I was offered a slightly simpler solution to my
problem
Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
I get a lot of Word documents at work, both .doc and .docx. Lots of
Word users can't open Docx either (they don't have or can't get the
compatibility pack) so I think it's a totally pointless format. At
least Doc
Peter Merchant wrote:
I had the interesting experience of editing a (word) document under OO,
and being able to edit a table in it (the TOC), But when I pushed it
down to the XP machine, Word reformatted it and changed the number of
pages, and I could not edit that table! I ended up doing it
Andrew Drapper wrote:
Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for creating a
revisions backup of my documents?
Have a look at rdiff-backup too. Plenty of info on Google.
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Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
Just grab Skype from their website. The new beta works nicely with
pulse audio too.
I'd just like to know that this works *before* I trash her current
installation.
I'm using Skype Beta on Ubuntu 9.10 (standard, not
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Simon O'Riordan wrote:
If anybody wants to get really angry, I've got some news about Starbucks; if
you do an image search for Starbucks, you find that any conversion to bitmap
is protected from binary read at the stream buffer level. It is only
Starbucks images, and it is obvious that
- Original Message -
From: Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Dorset] Another Petition - Please Consider Signing
On Sunday 25 Oct 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
The
Peter Merchant wrote:
Help. I want to transfer all my old Video tapes - only two- into digital
format. I got my borrowed TV card working with xawtv. But in the end I
used the Hauppauge program under XP as it seemed to give a better
picture. The Video that I have recorded is 32 minutes long
Victor Churchill wrote:
I tried to pre-empt problems by switching User Agent from Firefox to
IE, but still get
an ugly flash form which after I have entered data complains:
*You must accept the terms conditions
*Please answer all of the marketing questions
*Please enter a valid Address
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Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 10 Sep 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Last time we met at the Dorchester pub we found the free wifi was still
free but only after you registered on the initial web page with an email
address. (Think it's with The Cloud.) This would seem tedious so if
anyone
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
That matches what I've heard. Mono may exist but writing cross-platform
GUIs with it without reverting to (the non-MS) Gtk+ or similar isn't
practical given its level of support for Windows' APIs on Linux. So if
folks are effectively writing Linux-only apps then
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Banshee is a buggy resource hog.(Compared to Rhythmbox).
This is definitely a case of ymmv. I tested with a library of 18,000
tracks and found:-
Banshee: 205MB
Exaile 164MB
RhythmBox 93MB
Whenever I run Rhythmbox, it crashes after a while though! Evidently
Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:58:42 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
is there a GUI interface which supports WPA?
wicd recommended (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/). There is a Debian package
for it, but you need to add the right lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
Tim wrote:
Anybody using the above distro, I installed it on my laptop to check out the
latest version of Digkam and Amarok (KDE4 versions). OK so its Beta software
but it is as stable as jelly at the moment, the main problem I have is it
will
just suddenly freeze requiring a cold reboot,
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