[Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.

2019-07-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, We sat on the ‘pub garden’ benches all evening and enjoyed the sun for a long time as the playing fields meant no buildings cast an early shadow. The Raspberry Pi 4 got several mentions. https://blog.hackster.io/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-9b4698c284 is a good review of the

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.

2019-07-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 09:07, PeterMerchant via dorset < dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > There was some discussion about 'CEPH?' and similar things. > Yes, thinking around the problem of wanting to seamlessly use more storage than is available locally on e.g. a laptop, backed by network

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.

2019-07-03 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
There was some discussion about 'CEPH?' and similar things. We got on to 'R' because we were discussing programming languages. Here's a summary of current popular ones: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-programming-languages-developers-used-most-in-the-past-year/ And a bit of fun using

Re: [Dorset] Very slow Desktop startup problem

2019-07-03 Thread C Wills
Thanks Ralph. Will try those commands when I've got the time to work on the desktop machine wiyh no interruptions.  Painting the porch while we have the good weather!  Lily is not worried as much now as she's got used to switching on and doing something else before going back; only gets

[Dorset] NAS box follow-up

2019-07-03 Thread Hamish MB
Hi, I did manage to get the setup script to run on boot in the end - there were some scripts on the HDDs used to set up phpMyAdmin that I could modify. Thanks for all your help Ralph :) Hamish -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

[Dorset] Sponsored walk to support AIM Community and High Mead Farm

2019-07-03 Thread Hamish MB
Hi everyone. I meant to mention this at the meetup yesterday, but I forgot. On Friday I am taking part in a sponsored walk to raise money for charity, and I was wondering if any of you would like to donate? You can go to https://www.give.net/dusktildawn2019 to support AIM Arts Academy and High

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.

2019-07-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > And a bit of fun using terminal on an android tablet to ssh into a > Raspberry Pi and then editing with nano. The damned up/down arrows and > CTRL/ALT  kept disappearing. This is why it's useful to know a bit of ed(1). It doesn't need much to be working on the keyboard. :-) I use

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.

2019-07-03 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:50:44 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > Yes, thinking around the problem of wanting to seamlessly use more > storage than is available locally on e.g. a laptop, backed by > network storage (perhaps a local file server, perhaps as a cache > for cloud storage). Tim's problem reminded

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.

2019-07-03 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 03/07/2019 12:37, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, And a bit of fun using terminal on an android tablet to ssh into a Raspberry Pi and then editing with nano. The damned up/down arrows and CTRL/ALT  kept disappearing. This is why it's useful to know a bit of ed(1). It doesn't need much to