Happy April Fool's day.
On 01/04/12 08:28, Terry Coles wrote:
This is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
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On 06/03/12 23:17, C A Wills wrote:
A well attended meeting with approx 13/14 persons present.
One topic came up where I sat, about manipulating PDF's:-
PDF-Shuffler 0.5.1 is one I used last week to combine 2 A5 pdf's into
one. Has GUI front end, simple, can delete pages, Import export.
On 20/11/11 09:39, Peter Merchant wrote:
First, As android is based on linux, can I ask a question about it here?
My Android wireless tablet (Archos 70 @£99) seems to be doing UDP floods
on to my router. Has anyone experienced similar?
Second, I want to know if it really is the tablet, so am
On 13/10/11 18:21, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 13/10/11 17:05, Terry Coles wrote:
I have nothing specific against Steve Jobs, but I would assert that
Dennis,
along with Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan contributed far more to
the world
of software and computers than Steve ever did.
But he didn't
On 12/10/11 16:37, Terry Coles wrote:
Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a
Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do
this, so I said I'd ask on the list.
Any ideas?
I have used minicom to connect to my Sun E250 server's
On 07/05/11 10:25, Peter Merchant wrote:
I need some advice on how to do this without cocking it up. When I built
the new system from scratch, I let it put home in the same partition as
root.
I found instructions for moving it to a new partition:
On 07/05/11 15:06, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
John Cooper wrote:
Export you current emails to any folder under /
Best to avoid /tmp just in case you re-boot for some reason and the
machine is set up to clear /tmp on boot. Been there, done that...
Cheers,
Ralph.
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On 07/05/11 20:54, Peter Merchant wrote:
Thanks to John Cooper for his excellent instructions. I have now got
back all my home stuff.
I haven't been able to get back the last couple of days emails, because
I like evolution the way it was before the upgrade and don't want to
restore all settings
On 17/04/11 17:52, Mark Elkins wrote:
John
In excellent condition, 80GB SATA, 1GB RAM, onboard video
PowerEdge SC420 - SATA - Celeron 326, 2.53GHz/256K, 533FSB~PowerEdge
SC420 - SATA - Celeron 326, 2.53GHz/256K, 533FSB
Definitely take it off you if still have.
Cheers
Mark Elkins
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On 08/04/11 14:12, Brian R Masterman wrote:
Thanks for the advise.
The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old
style DIMMs.
I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings
and saving as mp3.
Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to
On 08/04/11 14:12, Brian R Masterman wrote:
Thanks for the advise.
The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old
style DIMMs.
I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings
and saving as mp3.
Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to
On 30/03/11 18:46, Brian Masterman wrote:
I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for
recording purposes.
All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc.
What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow usb
transfer
On 19/03/11 22:48, C A Wills wrote:
Noted Tims reply but that's using M$ fonts which are copyrighted, to
keep on the 'right side' you have to have 'M$ Word' installed, see above
site.
C A Wills
If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are
free to distribute and
On 20/02/11 11:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the
answer may interest some there too.
I tried this on my laptop and got this result :-
$ lspci -n | grep 14e4
00:0a.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)
00:0c.0 0200: 14e4:169c (rev
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
On 08/02/11 20:29, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I installed Fedora 13 that Tim gave me at the meeting on my big old
Dell Precision Workstation 650 this morning and it all went extremely
smoothly. It took less than an hour, and is all there, even the wireless
USB stick is setup. All I had to add was
Well, this one is one of the great religious debates and I dare say it
could go on forever. Just seems to me alot of people see closing F/OSS
code as stealing, something I strongly disagree with.
Well if it is GPL'd, it is effectively stealing and illegal. I don't see
a problem with this, if
On 06/02/11 12:13, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
well license it like Apache and it is then lost in IIS!
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org//httpd/
Can you please tell me what part of the Apache/HTTPD has been lost?
Please point me at the parts of code that are missing and I will
On 09/01/11 10:14, Peter Merchant wrote:
On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in
perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think
they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks
to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the
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
m...@computer:~#/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 mv blah blah.
Now I want to go back to work in folder2, what the easy command to get me
On 18/11/10 15:05, Peter Jill Harris wrote:
Thanks for responses. I'm sure it was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples. I
restored /etc, /home and /usr/local in that order using Simple Backup,
the backups were on a separate hard disk. Thanks for offer to assist if
I lived in the Poole area John but
On 17/11/10 18:49, Peter Jill Harris wrote:
Hi All,
I seem to have really screwed things up! I was trying to get rid of
some unwanted data from a Shotwell database and now all my folders are
empty and all icons have gone from the desktop.
The command I put in was rm -rf ~/
On 13/11/10 14:39, David Wilkinson wrote:
On 13/11/2010 14:29, John Cooper wrote:
I suspect if ipv6 was about to be rolled out, all routers will have FW
updates to support it.
John.
IPv6 is been rolled out on quite a few networks, I think the main
problem is end user ISP's not rolling out
On 13/11/10 14:10, Peter Merchant wrote:
After reading this article in the telegraph today
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8126181/UK-will-run-out-of-web-addresses-by-2012.html
About Vint Cerf saying that the Uk will run out of IP (V4) addresses by
2012, I wondered if my Router
On 03/11/10 15:22, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
sounds like you need the automounter, then!
I dunno if it's the same on linux, but on solaris, the default automount
configuration allows you to browse any other nfs server on your network
via /net/hostname/nfs_share without prior configuration.
On 02/11/10 17:26, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I think some of you are really misunderstanding my purpose here. My purpose
isn't to diss Linux, or to complain about it, but to constructively throw
ideas as to how to improve its user-friendliness.
I didn't think it was. All valid questions but some
My icybox died recently and I've just replaced it with a Netgear
readynas duo 2110 1GB disc* . It runs Debian Sarge. I am really pleased
with it. Very easy to configure through the web interface, but it also
has a Linux application on the CD.
I tried to change the NFS mount from v3 to v4 but
On 19/10/10 09:27, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
John,
Ran chkrootkit - had a lot of warnings about one application in
particular - Eclipse. Otherwise clean.
I guess eclipse is just a messy programme.
Simono
Yes, you will get some hidden directory warnings like Eclipse, it
doesn't know about but if
On 18/10/10 12:37, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
The new programme stubbornly refuses to work outside the debugger on
10.04.
May be an ALSA version problem.
Simono
What do they say about bad workmen? Something about blaming their tools?
What would I know, I don't produce OSS, I just support it :-)
On 18/10/10 18:06, Tim wrote:
On Monday 18 October 2010 15:30:49 John Cooper wrote:
On 13/10/10 11:08, John Cooper wrote:
On 13/10/10 09:38, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:26:30 +0100, John Cooper
l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote:
A very secure internal network can still
On 13/10/10 09:38, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:26:30 +0100, John Cooper
l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote:
A very secure internal network can still be snooped by a very secure
network employee and find your passwords! It really is bad practice/lazy.
Depending on the size
On 12/10/10 17:16, Terry Coles wrote:
What we have decided to do is to install cygwin on a little used server on the
internal network and use terminal services to get to it via VPN. The server
isn't running a firewall and everything will be inside our secure netork, so
we think it will work.
On 01/10/10 23:19, Natalie Hooper wrote:
On 1 October 2010 16:09, Peter Merchantmadsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
Other considerations:
I live in Wimborne, Terry in Corfe Mullen, is it Simono in Fordingbridge
or Verwood(?). A few live in Winton/Charminster/Bournemouth?
Anyone likely to come
On 02/10/10 00:21, Andrew Morgan wrote:
On 01/10/10 14:00, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Thanks for the link.
Looking at the timetable, the evening service is pretty bad. There's a
bus
(back to Bournemouth) at 20.15 then at 22.15 (
http://www.wdbus.co.uk/uploads/13may10.pdf). And that's it. Not a bus
On 02/10/10 19:13, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Natalie, were you talking about the Grasshoper pub on Bournemouth Road? The
M1 and M2 run every 30 minutes each, eg. 21:22, 21:37, 21:52, 22:07, 22:37
approx (Upper Parkstone Co-oop less 7 minutes for St. Osmunds bus stop to
Bournemouth).
No, these
On 27/09/10 08:01, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 26/09/10 23:57, Adrian Howard wrote:
On 22 Sep 2010, at 16:25, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 22/09/10 15:18, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Sean,
My wife has worked at So'ton Uni in the past, and said immediately
that you or he should approach the Centre for
On 27/09/10 20:53, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi All,
I'm on my travels again; this time on a walking break in North
Yorkshire. My digs provides free Wi-Fi so on the first evening, I
successfully connected using the WEP key supplied by the landlord. The
following morning, Wi-Fi connected as expected,
On 16/09/10 21:45, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
My HP2133 now has full soundcard support; some bright guy on the fora
published instructions and a script to completely rebuild ALSA on the
2133.
How about sharing the instructions?
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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
If anyone wants a Linux EEE PC SSD I also have an unused one + quality
case :-
Asus EEE PC 900A Netbook Laptop, Atom 1.6GHz, 16GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 8.9
TFT, Linux
£200 incl VAT.
John.
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On 09/09/10 18:34, Tim wrote:
I have a script that lives in a folder called /backup I start from the cli by
changing to the backup folder and then typing
./day4
I want to automate this but the schedule program does allow me to quote a start
up folder so when I type
/backup/day4
or
On 22/08/10 22:10, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
That was my point. It seems anyone could plug a computer to which they
have root access (eg a notebook brought in from home) into a network
and with knowledge of UID's and GID's with NFS shares on a server they
have full access to those.
If
On 07/08/10 12:45, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
We did have a discussion about other venues, and I suggested teh
grasshopper. Any thoughts on it? Anyone know it?
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/12/12158/Grasshopper/Parkstone
Looks to have ample parking and bus stops in both
On 07/08/10 21:32, 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 fine;
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 29/05/10 13:09, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
Sounds like a workman blaming his tools ;-) I'm been
On 29/05/10 21:46, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I didn't make it swallow 20% of a 250 GB drive just for the root
partition; I didn't make the sound fail totally; I didn't make it file a
kernel crash report on every, single boot up.
So long as the Linubs think it acceptable to produce unreliable,
On 03/05/10 19:39, Clive A Wills wrote:
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and can now up-grade via Update Manager to 10.04
but need to confirm:-
I have 3 separate partitions for Ubuntu, Linux swap and /Home.
When upgrading the system am I correct that I can just upgrade Ubuntu
system (sda3), then
On 02/04/10 22:09, Juan Reyes wrote:
Hello all,
I'm a novice user of Linux, and I'm thinking to do a course with the Open
University called T155. Reading the course content I believe it would give me
a good foundation about Linux. Although I have few doubts about this course;
Is this a good
On 23/02/10 14:47, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
The user admin is listed as the account for installing software and he gets a
csh to use. I'm fairly unfamiliar with the csh, so I've had to feel my way
around using our reference machine (which is still running SunOS 5.7) to
remind
On 05/02/10 10:56, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Who can swear that Google or Amazon might not have a similar
catastrophe as the years go by?
I don't see a problem with web apps as long as the user's aware that
they need their own copy of the data in a usable format, and that the
On 18/01/10 16:15, Peter Harris wrote:
Thanks for your help John. 9.10 is up and running - problem solved.
Thanks also to all who offered to assist.
Glad to hear that. Always a good idea to have the latest Ubuntu CD
available as a rescue CD even if upgrading via the internet.
John.
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See You in February. There is no Printed manual for Ubuntu. Ask Your
questions here, if you can't find them in the Forums or the Ubuntu Wiki
Documentation.
The Official Ubuntu Book (Prentice Hall) is ok for newbies.
eg. In Kubuntu 9.10, I used to have a printer, Laserjet 5M, but it now
On 17/12/09 22:15, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset.
Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is
optimised to be an 'un-netbook' netbook?
Simono
I had the same problem on my HP 2133 so I think it is the
On 15/12/09 17:31, Terry Coles wrote:
On Monday 14 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Not sure of the source, but apparently the boss of Mozilla has advised
people to switch from Google to Bing over Google Privacy policies. I ran a
test; Haar-classifiers are much more accurately found on Bing,
On 10/12/09 09:32, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:50 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009, Peter Merchant wrote:
From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of
obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I
edit
On 03/12/09 22:06, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
My new 9.10 netbook just gets better.
Wireless connection is automatic after the first time.
Printer? Just plug it in and it is ready to use.
Networking? Sees every linux or windows computer straight away, and mixes
wired/unwired networks
On 19/11/09 19:20, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
My daughter has to do an assignment at Uni using a T-Test. Although the Uni
says that work can be submitted in Either MS or Open Office, they've only
told
her how to do it in Excel and she only has OpenOffice.
Is there anyone out there who
On 11/11/09 20:27, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
Peter Merchant wrote:
News item today on BBC, runs Linux Mint
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8353465.stm
I am tempted to put it on my Mother-in-law's Dell to stop the questions
about 'How do I do this?, It worked yesterday'
Peter M
Peter Washington wrote:
Hi Folks,
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/67387.html
Discuss.
Get the link right first and express you own view for discussion! (I
dislike this form of posting)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Is-Linux-Suffering-From-Mono-67387.html
Mono is open source
Archie Ferrier wrote:
Hi Everyone
I hope someone can help me with a problem that has just reared its ugly
head. When I booted up my Linux box, running Fedora 10, the other day it
just displayed the word GRUB over and over. I have booted it with the
Fedora 10 disc and I can run grub
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