Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 04 Mar 2012 15:53:01 madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: I'll get to try.For my Birthday I got a chocolate cake and a confirmation of an order of a raspberry pi for me. All I need now is a USB keyboard/mouse, and an HDMI to svga converter, and probably a few other bits! Keep us

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:47 +, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday 04 Mar 2012 15:53:01 madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: I'll get to try.For my Birthday I got a chocolate cake and a confirmation of an order of a raspberry pi for me. All I need now is a USB keyboard/mouse, and an HDMI to svga

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 05 Mar 2012 17:10:06 Peter Merchant wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:47 +, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday 04 Mar 2012 15:53:01 madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: BTW. Your post had me totally bamboozled for a while. You put your response beneath the two 'hyphens' that denote the

Re: [Dorset] Email Sig. (Was: Raspberry Pi)

2012-03-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Absolutely, when men were men and all mail clients obeyed the RFCs, those two hyphens delineated the end of the message and the beginning of the Sig. There should be a single space after the `--' too before the end-of-line. I've set up the list's signature to have that but a bug in

[Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows

2012-03-05 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, My niece has just bought herself an external USB drive so she can backup her files. She doesn't know much about it, apart from that she needs to take backups (a huge step forward I think). She's asked me for a good backup program. I used to use a good one on my daughter's computer, but

Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 05/03/12 21:40, Terry Coles wrote: So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky

Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows

2012-03-05 Thread Dominic Lonsdale
I am using Backup , running on Ubuntu, to a Verbatim drive plugged into a USB socket. It is clever enough to delay if the drive is not plugged in and then to do the backup (automatically) when the drive is eventually plugged in at some later time. Regards, Nic On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:40

Re: [Dorset] Email Sig. (Was: Raspberry Pi)

2012-03-05 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:11:26 -, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: On Monday 05 Mar 2012 17:51:36 Ralph Corderoy wrote: There should be a single space after the `--' too before the end-of-line. I've set up the list's signature to have that but a bug in the old version of Mailman

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2012-03-06.

2012-03-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It's Tuesday! All day. Bournemouth pub meet tonight at The Broadway at 8pm. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub For those that haven't been before look out for Terry's tiny Tux spreadeagled on the table. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles

Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows

2012-03-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
I use an online service called backblaZe $50 a year . Works well just sits in the background .. Free email restore for a smaller restotes and then its a USB or hd delivery if u need more Others are uk based and I'd suggest this over a local drive which can also die on u On Monday, 5 March 2012,