[Dorset] Regex problem - autodependencies

2011-03-15 Thread Tim Allen
the /\ but no lucl so far it getting this right. Do any of you regex gurus have any clues!? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Regex problem - autodependencies

2011-03-15 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 15/03/11 14:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, My proper reply to the list is held up because of a misconfiguration on this new machine that replying brought to light. The brief answer is sed '\,^[^/]*\.o *:,s,^,./,; s,^.*/\([^/]*\.o\) *:,$(dir $2)\1 $3: ,' It first turns

[Dorset] Strange FTP problem

2011-03-11 Thread Tim
ftp users to go). Any suggestions Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Strange FTP problem

2011-03-11 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Tim On 11/03/11 16:56, Tim wrote: I have a Ubuntu10.04 server with vsftp server installed (server is located on a private network not public facing at work). I have set vsftp to allow access to the web server root folder and set-up two users login that require usernames and password to gain

Re: [Dorset] [OT]For Sale

2011-03-09 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 08:37:41 Peter Merchant wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 21:28 +, Tim wrote: I have the following items for sale. 3 Zyxel G-202 USB wireless adapters, I can't remember the chip set of hand but they worked out the box with xbuntu 9.04 The chipset is the ZD1211

[Dorset] [OT]For Sale

2011-03-08 Thread Tim
from Kinson area of Bournemouth Please reply off list Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze

2011-02-26 Thread Tim Allen
a good idea. At least with that you reduce the chance of having dozens of things all broke at once after a dist upgrade. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively

Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze

2011-02-25 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 25/02/11 01:19, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, I've upgraded a machine with ATI Rage128 from Lenny to Squeeze. The machine hangs (totally) on bringing up X, /var/log/X.0.log showing R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9, start -9, idle -9, Idle timed out, resetting engine for ever, so

[Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Allen
a new xorg.conf with Xorg -configure (no improvement). Driver is r128. Any advice much appreciated. Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] [OT] DNS port number

2011-02-23 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 23 February 2011 23:22:14 Andrew Reid Paterson wrote: On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:11:59 pm jr wrote: On 23 February 2011 23:03, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: Any thoughts? I'd look into setting up a DMZ box (if you've a spare machine), separating the internal network

Re: [Dorset] FTP problem

2011-02-08 Thread Tim
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 10:27:19 Victor Churchill wrote: On 8 February 2011 10:04, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: I am running ubuntu 10.04LTS and have VSFTP installed, I can ftp to the local users home folder without a problem but I need to be able to ftp to the web servers  /var/www

Re: [Dorset] FTP problem

2011-02-08 Thread Tim
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 12:40:04 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 08/02/11 12:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Thanks Victor, one stage closer but not quite there, I can now transfer a file by ftp to /var/www/myfolder but the permisson on that folder is -rw--- (600) rather than

[Dorset] Monitor longevity

2011-02-02 Thread Tim Allen
Well, end of an era - I've just disconnected a 1989 NEC Multisync 3D - 22 years of continuous use and into it's fourth decade of existence! Must be a record. Only reason I've pensioned it off is because it's 110 Volt only and I could do with freeing up the autotransformer it runs on. Tim

[Dorset] Turing Lecture by Donald Knuth

2011-02-01 Thread Tim Allen
website - I've dropped the organiser an email). Starts at 5.30pm. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Turing Lecture by Donald Knuth

2011-02-01 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Victor On 01/02/11 09:08, Victor Churchill wrote: Darn it - didn't he realise that it's the LUG meetup tonoght!? Thanks for the info Tim - keep us posted please! Just heard back, it is on and you can just turn up. The webinar is in the Coyne Lecture Theatre at BU (signposted from main

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

2011-01-18 Thread Tim
, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue ITV subtitle on Virgin working here in Kinson Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs

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

2011-01-18 Thread Tim
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 20:54:18 chris cave wrote: hell Tim, when i read your email and immediately went downstairs to check ITV1 and indeed the subtitles service has resumed on Virgin cable tv. One wonders, if anyone at virgin scan customers emails with references to any

Re: [Dorset] Use of cat to concatenate .gz files

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Allen
. wget -qO- http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol1/man1.bun | sed -n '/^-\.TH CAT/,/GO\.SYSIN DD/s/-//p' | nroff -man I never even knew that catenate was a word ;-) It means the same as concatenate :) Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting; Tuesday?

2011-01-12 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 12/01/11 09:05, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Tim Waugh pointed out on #dorset that http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub says TimeTownVenue Tuesday 2011-02-02 20:00Bournemouth The Broadway but 2011-02-02

Re: [Dorset] Sending Email through talktalk from Abroad.

2011-01-12 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 12/01/11 11:49, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Even if if supports authentication, I'd doubt very much that they'd allow access through a non-talktalk line - that's pretty standard practice to prevent use as a spam relay. Ah, is it? I thought auth., or at least secure auth

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-30 Thread Tim
Tim, don't have it. I suspect the problem is down to Debian not shipping a binary that can cope with the format, presumably because of freeness issues. Perhaps there's a Medibuntu for Debian, e.g. http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ Cheers, Ralph. OK Progress of sorts I can

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-30 Thread Tim
On Thursday 30 December 2010 18:36:01 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Trying to use Mplayer on its own I only get audio How does the output of yours compare with ours that work, e.g. when it decides on a video codec? Cheers, Ralph. Well that was interesting, I assumed you meant

[Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Tim
://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages I am guessing I am missing a plugin or a maybe file permission somewhere, any suggestions? Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 18:11:54 Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:09:31 -, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: I installed Debian squeeze and the xfce desktop, thankfully most thing worked out the box, the one that does not is playing .wmv video. I am using the VLC

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Tim
to mplayer, I removed the file (which also removed mplayer) but it made no difference, still can't play the video Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http

[Dorset] screensaver crashing user session

2010-12-22 Thread Tim
I have a new install of xubuntu 10.10, when you try set the screen saver or when the screensaver kicks in it crashes the user session back to the gui login The PC is sporting a gigabyte motherboard with an onboard ATI Savage video card. Can anybody suggest anything? Tim -- Next meeting

[Dorset] EXIM Security flaw

2010-12-13 Thread Tim
Ubuntu security advisory: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1032-1 Tim -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

[Dorset] On the scrounge

2010-12-11 Thread Tim
mobile modem new unused (no simm card) or a USB wireless stick (Zyxel) Can anybody help?? Tim -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] On the scrounge

2010-12-11 Thread Tim
On Saturday 11 December 2010 13:36:47 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Can anybody help?? Noel on 01 811 8055? :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs

Re: [Dorset] Interesting article

2010-12-05 Thread Tim
. Wikileak.org redirects to a wikileak blog Tim -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Interesting article

2010-12-04 Thread Tim
On Saturday 04 December 2010 09:02:04 Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 03 Dec 2010, Tim wrote: Came across this article earlier, though some might be interested in reading http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuc le ar-ambitions/ Quite frightening really

Re: [Dorset] Next Bournemouth meet?

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 08:55 +, Natalie Hooper wrote: So my suggestion would be Tuesday 14th December at the Broadway. What does everyone think about that? Works for me. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet

Re: [Dorset] network problems

2010-11-26 Thread Tim
culprit processes. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue gdomap details http://linux.die.net/man/8/gdomap Tim -- Next meeting: Somewhere

Re: [Dorset] network problems

2010-11-26 Thread Tim
gives a full list all these program, can somebody confirm I am right Tim -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] cd question

2010-11-25 Thread Tim Allen
searches back through history for matches - can then hit enter, or modify the found command and then hit enter. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively

[Dorset] cd question

2010-11-22 Thread Tim
a lot of files (1 and 2) between a lot of folders and retyping the full path everytime is wearing my keyboard out!! Tim -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http

Re: [Dorset] cd question

2010-11-22 Thread Tim
On Monday 22 November 2010 20:56:34 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 m...@computer

Re: [Dorset] Remote connections to Linux systems (and LUG)

2010-11-05 Thread Tim Allen
(and other UNIX) systems. e.g. Xnest -query otherhost :1 I've used Xephyr, which is a similar beast. Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

[Dorset] gcc linker question - segments

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Allen
in a Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N error. Does anyone on the list have specific knowledge of specifying segments for the linker? In particular, once I take the PHDRS route, do I need to tie in every single debug section? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford

Re: [Dorset] gcc linker question - segments

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Allen
On 04/11/10 10:41, Tim Allen wrote: Hi I'm using gcc for compiling m68k code and the linker is combining two sections into a single segment and padding the gap with zeros - that happens to be bad news for me. I believe the way around this is by specifying my own segments with PHDRS{} but so

Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory

2010-10-09 Thread Tim
On Saturday 09 October 2010 11:29:51 jr wrote: hi Tim, Can anybody tell me if HP use standard SoDimm memory (Laptop type) or a propriatory format for there printers?? what model? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet#Upgrading_memory_of_older_models It is a P2015, looking

Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory

2010-10-09 Thread Tim
On Saturday 09 October 2010 16:49:16 jr wrote: hi Tim, It is a P2015, looking at the links on the bottom of the wiki they seem mainly older HP lasers google reveals: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=encc=us taskId=120prodSeriesId=1845551prodTypeId

[Dorset] Crown at Blandford

2010-10-08 Thread Tim Allen
In the Echo: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8437289.Dorset_s_Pilot_and_Crown_up_for_top_pubs/ -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

[Dorset] Google code university

2010-10-08 Thread Tim
Not seen this mentioned http://code.google.com/edu/ Looks interesting Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Change of topic for a few moments:

2010-10-07 Thread Tim Allen
think it's worked since lug.org.uk moved Dorset's hosting to their SM environment. Whatever's that?! I've also never been able to upload to the Wiki. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00.

2010-10-06 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 14:38 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: It would be nice to hear from some that *are* going. :-) I'm hoping to get there tonight too. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-10-06

Re: [Dorset] Has TBD for next meeting been D'd

2010-10-01 Thread Tim Allen
=Wimborne,+Dorset,+United+Kingdomll=50.799629,-1.990199spn=0.00198,0.004141t=hz=18 Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa

[Dorset] Cross development [was Re: Which distro would you install?]

2010-09-24 Thread Tim Allen
in figuring out how to avoid Newlib's I/O and reentrancy overhead, for very memory-constrained targets, but the initial build sequence wasn't straightforward either. How would I do this with Gentoo? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list

Re: [Dorset] Cross development

2010-09-24 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Bob On 24/09/10 12:45, Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, On Fri, Sep 24 at 09:22, Tim Allen wrote: ... That's interesting. I'm now at the end of week two setting up a gcc/Newlib toolchain for m68k (on Debian). Most of the pain has been in figuring out how to avoid Newlib's I/O and reentrancy overhead

Re: [Dorset] Cross development

2010-09-24 Thread Tim Allen
On 24/09/10 14:49, Tim Allen wrote: Hi Bob On 24/09/10 12:45, Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, On Fri, Sep 24 at 09:22, Tim Allen wrote: ... That's interesting. I'm now at the end of week two setting up a gcc/Newlib toolchain for m68k (on Debian). Most of the pain has been in figuring out how to avoid

Re: [Dorset] Cross development

2010-09-24 Thread Tim Allen
but nothing on m68k so I guess no ones maintaining that part. At this point I'd fall back to compiling the stanges by hand which sound like what you've done already. OK - thanks for taking a look anyway. Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] A 1987 Start-up For CNC Turning.

2010-09-20 Thread Tim Allen
of chamfer and blend radius - it was used well into the 1990's. We wrote the CNC programs on a Teletype, all stored on punched tape. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs

[Dorset] Automate script

2010-09-09 Thread Tim
, What do I need to do to make it run from the schedule program?? Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa

Re: [Dorset] gcc cross compiling to m68k

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Allen
attempts. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa

Re: [Dorset] gcc cross compiling to m68k

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Allen
for embedded systems without any OS, which I what I have here. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] gcc cross compiling to m68k

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Allen
effort before I actually get something running on a target as still need to link. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa

Re: [Dorset] Just Saying Is All.....

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:09:39 Natalie Hooper wrote: On 31 August 2010 22:42, Dan Dart dand...@googlemail.com wrote: I wonder: in twenty years' time, will people look back and say, I can't believe people used to pay for that kind of software? Or will they say, I can't believe it

Re: [Dorset] Just Saying Is All.....

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
On Thursday 02 September 2010 07:58:44 Sean Gibbins wrote: On 02/09/10 07:27, Tim wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:09:39 Natalie Hooper wrote: On 31 August 2010 22:42, Dan Dartdand...@googlemail.com wrote: I wonder: in twenty years' time, will people look back and say, I can't

Re: [Dorset] Audio Cassettes.

2010-08-27 Thread Tim Allen
an assembler it was all hand coded into machine code hex. It was only a couple of years ago that I threw it out. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-26 Thread Tim Allen
parport30988 4 plip,ppdev,parport_pc,lp Ready and waiting! And of course there was also SLIP for the serial port. Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively

Re: [Dorset] Introduction

2010-08-25 Thread Tim Waugh
came across an old Red Hat document on Linux's software interfaces that also explained the hardware background, written by one Tim Waugh, so thanks for that. :-) You're welcome. :-) About your sector-dumping project: surely there must be a better way than using the parallel port? ;-) Tim

Re: [Dorset] Introduction

2010-08-25 Thread Tim Waugh
either. It hasn't ever really been a high priority. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http

[Dorset] Introduction

2010-08-24 Thread Tim Waugh
to be able to make it to any that are further afield. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] SMB or NFS

2010-08-22 Thread Tim Allen
with _local_ root access can simply: #su - user then gain access to that user's files on a server (assume UID's and GID's match) - and root_squash does not help at all. See: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/security.html section 6.2 Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09

Re: [Dorset] SMB or NFS

2010-08-22 Thread Tim Allen
is required. Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset

[Dorset] BBC and Open standards

2010-08-14 Thread Tim
Anybody seen this http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/08/html5_open_standards_and_the_b.html Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-09 Thread Tim Waugh
you when a disk needs replacing. == I use backintime *and* RAID1 together, and occasionally store an encrypted hard disk's worth of backups off-site. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http

[Dorset] Sheevaplugs

2010-08-09 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph mentioned these in relation to backups. Has anyone on the list tried them, or others (like Guruplug). I agree, it would make a great backup server, or DNS, print server etc... Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-08 Thread Tim Allen
power, so something like an old laptop with the usual broken lid hinges or clapped out display is ideal. It can be headless and doesn't need X installed, just minimal installation which includes rdiff-backup and SSH. Cheers Tim Thanks, Peter -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-07 Thread Tim
original question he has had a very good varied response Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-06 Thread Tim
://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset I also use Lucky Backup http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/ Tim -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] BAckup software

2010-08-06 Thread Tim
On Friday 06 August 2010 22:47:19 jr wrote: question to Sean, Dominic, Tim: Lucky Backup, Backup Manager .. the best product on the market! why do you require a 'product' when *nix systems come with s/ware which fulfills the requirements (I want to backup selected files/directories from

[Dorset] Hard disk problem

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
and manually unmounted each partition (sda1 /home, sda2 /, sda3 swap). If I press the ctrl D the laptop bootups and there does not seem to be any problems. Can anybody assist?? Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-08-04 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups

Re: [Dorset] Hard disk problem

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
superblock e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda Which is the same error as before I have tried using the -p option I forgot to add that this is a brand fresh install of Mepis 8 (Debian Lenny) using the ext3 file system Tim On Thursday 22 July 2010 20:32:42 Tim wrote: When I boot up my laptop the boot process

Re: [Dorset] Hard disk problem

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
but it is refusing to launch any programs). I have a spare hard disk somewhere so I will dig that out and put it in the laptop and see what happens. Thanks for the help Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-08-04 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid

Re: [Dorset] 2010-07-06 Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum.

2010-07-09 Thread Tim Allen
on 8 floppy, if anyone's (remotely) interested! Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-08-04 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https

[Dorset] Small C and Forth [was Re: 2010-07-06 Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum.]

2010-07-09 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 09/07/10 13:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C I still have Cain's Small C on 8 floppy, if anyone's (remotely) interested! I was interested in the original article by Cain from the point of view of a single-pass compiler but have failed

[Dorset] dc

2010-07-07 Thread Tim Allen
Thank you Ralph for mentioning dc at the pub meet last night - really useful little application. There's also rpncalc in the Debian repos (HP28 emulator) which has the trig functions missing in dc and handles hex a bit more elegantly. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010

Re: [Dorset] [Fwd: Can Anyone help - conky and possibly sed]

2010-06-29 Thread Tim Allen
. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset

[Dorset] Make and dependency generation

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Allen
, and it doesn't work (I think it should be two, and that does work) - am I missing something here or is this a typo? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] Make and dependency generation

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 23/06/10 12:56, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, # $(call make-depend,source-file,object-file,depend-file) define make-depend $(MAKEDEPEND) -f- $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) $1 | \ $(SED) 's,^.*/\([^/]*\.o\) *:,$(dir $2)\1 $3: ,' $3.tmp $(SED) -e 's

Re: [Dorset] Monitor resolution

2010-06-12 Thread Tim
Yes but what did he do (for future reference)?? Tim On Saturday 12 June 2010 11:44:53 Andrew Drapper wrote: Hi all, Don't you just hat teenagers!!! My son and his friend fixed in about ten minuets what I could not do in three days and with the help of you at dorset lug, and #ubuntu

[Dorset] External hard drive problem

2010-06-09 Thread Tim
that I can set some of the mounting parameters. Anybody got any suggestions? Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset

Re: [Dorset] pam_mount cifs shares

2010-06-06 Thread Tim Allen
Hi jr On 05/06/10 23:32, jr wrote: hi Tim, V0.44 on Debian Lenny, home page at http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/ went to have a look, they're on 1.36 now. Now up to 2.3. The usual Debian tradeoff of living with yesterday's (hopefully better identified) bugs rather than today's

[Dorset] pam_mount cifs shares

2010-06-04 Thread Tim Allen
of a turn-off. Would be interested to know whether there's a way around this, as if not I'll probably abandon the idea. This is my first toe-dip into pam. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid

[Dorset] Virtual Box upgade and VPN

2010-06-03 Thread Tim
(XP Pro). Secondly, should I be able to set up a VPN in the XP guest and make it connect? Currently it fails saying it can't connect (internet access works ok) Tim -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid

Re: [Dorset] That's that.

2010-05-29 Thread Tim
Mepis 8.5 then check out thse two links http://www.mepislovers.org/index.php http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Main_Page If you really want Gnome then check out http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Replacing_KDM_with_GDM Tim -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19

Re: [Dorset] That's that.

2010-05-29 Thread Tim
Glad you are enjoying Mepis. Tim On Saturday 29 May 2010 16:37:14 Simon O'Riordan wrote: Thanks Tim. I am now in possession of a fully operational Death Star, sorry, Mepis Installation. Can't get it to see my Ubuntus yet, but they can see it very easily and when I make a change

Re: [Dorset] That's that.

2010-05-29 Thread Tim
on with our lifes. We don't want to spend hours trying to get something to work when we know that under different circumstances it works perfectly. Tim On Saturday 29 May 2010 21:30:02 Keith Edmunds wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:25:02 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said: As a workman

Re: [Dorset] networking problem - can anyone help ?

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Allen
address, DHCP server off. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] texlive problem

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Allen
and files. Can anyone help please? $apt-file show texlive-math-extra lists /usr/bin/amstex - does that help? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

[Dorset] Preventing autodetection of IDE device

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Allen
into history with 2.6. I can live without the drive, so would be grateful for advice on how I can prevent the kernel autodetecting the drive. Thanks Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http

Re: [Dorset] Preventing autodetection of IDE device

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Rob On 10/03/10 09:12, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:35:31 -, Tim Allen t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I can live without the drive, so would be grateful for adviceon how I can prevent the kernel autodetecting the drive. To walk into the obvious door. Why can't

Re: [Dorset] Preventing autodetection of IDE device

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 10/03/10 10:38, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, One that's arisen is that I have an IDE tape drive in the machine (at /dev/hdd), and the new kernel 2.6.26 hangs at boot (ide-tape). I was going to try ide-scsi, but I've learned that that passed into history with 2.6. I can live

Re: [Dorset] USB wireless keys.

2010-02-19 Thread Tim Allen
stick my notes up on the Wiki. Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo

[Dorset] Make question

2010-02-18 Thread Tim Allen
into this (just in case there's ever a depend file around)? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https

Re: [Dorset] Make question

2010-02-18 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Ralph On 18/02/10 14:33, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, .PHONY : dependold dependold : makedepend -Y ${C_FILES} I need to change to the following to expand prerequisites (using VPATH): depend : ${C_FILES} makedepend -Y $^ How do I fold .PHONY back into this (just in case

[Dorset] Git et al

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Allen
(Bazaar, Monotone, Darcs etc) much appreciated. Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] [OT] Line speeds

2010-02-04 Thread Tim
I am trying to understand line speed but I sinking into a hole full of kbps, kbs and mbs If I have a 2mb dedicated line, what is the maximum kbps that I would need to reach before I reached the maximum capacity of the line? I hope that is clear Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010

Re: [Dorset] iPad Petition by 'Defective by Design'

2010-01-29 Thread Tim
_ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk I was given an iPod shuffle once, never again, a good idea badly implmented Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat

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