Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 05/11/10 21:53, StarLion wrote: Since then, I've gone through two laptops and three tower PCs, using Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Wolvix, and then finally my current favoured distro Arch. I'm an Arch user too :) I've broken systems more than once with my incessant experimenting

Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread Natalie Hooper
but so far only my younger brother (A recent Ubuntu to Arch convert) and my mother (Who uses Vinux - Ubuntu for the Visually Impaired) have adopted the system. I think converting two people is quite an achievement ;-) If you don't mind, can you tell me a little bit more about Vinux? How

Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread StarLion
On 6 November 2010 10:03, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote: If you don't mind, can you tell me a little bit more about Vinux? How quickly/easily or not your mother adapted to it? Can she maintain her computer herself or is it helpful to her to have you on hand (basically, is

[Dorset] Possible Bournemouth Meeting place

2010-11-06 Thread C A Wills
The other week mention was made of looking for a new meeting location for the Bournemouth area, I think Peter mentioned Colehill Cricket Club near Wimborne. Today I called in to ask if a room was possible - Yes. Details are: Location:- top of Rowlands Hill, Wimborne. Bus route No 13 from

Re: [Dorset] gcc linker question - segments

2010-11-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, Found a solution to this by adding additional MEMORY clauses. Possibly not the most elegant solution but does work. Glad to hear you've a solution. I'd have guessed SUBALIGN may help but I've never tried it. http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.20/ld/Forced-Input-Alignment.html

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

2010-11-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, jr wrote: 2. Clearer organisation for data and settings saved by apps would be great. Whenever I look for data or settings saved by an app, I need to google to find out which folder that app saves its data and settings to. yes, things used to be easier before the

Re: [Dorset] Possible Bournemouth Meeting place

2010-11-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, The other week mention was made of looking for a new meeting location for the Bournemouth area, I think Peter mentioned Colehill Cricket Club near Wimborne. Today I called in to ask if a room was possible - Yes. Is this it? http://www.wimbornecricketclub.co.uk/ground/ Any