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/ >

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

2010-11-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Natalie, > I never said "automated GUIs". CLI options can be presented in a GUI > with documentation available when you click the "?" button for > example. There is no need to dumb anything down, just to be a bit more > graphical in the way an app interact with the user (who may choose to > us

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

2010-11-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > (1) Create a way to share files between machines on a LAN really > easily that doesn't hang the system if the network goes away. SAMBA > is too complex. sshfs can hang a whole machine if a network goes > down. I'd like to see Plan9's approach of everything being a filesystem. This

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 'Windoze

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.h

Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu failed update....

2010-11-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Here's my ouptput from that command :- > > $ sudo grep 'plugin.*StartUpgrade' */main.log main.log > 20101005-2042/main.log:2009-07-11 11:56:26,187 DEBUG plugins for condition > 'jauntyStartUpgrade' are '[]' > 20101005-2042/main.log:2009-07-11 11:56:26,187 DEBUG plugins for condition

[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 B'mou

Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread StarLion
On 6 November 2010 10:03, Natalie Hooper 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 > there a lot of maintenance

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 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 (lik