[Dorset] [OT] Network testing tool

2014-06-19 Thread Tim
Afternoon all I am hoping the collective knowledge of the two lugs can help me. About a year ago I had a network issue at work and an engineer came out to remedy the situation. One of the tools he used would be very useful for a job I have coming up, it was some sort of port testing tool

[Dorset] [OT] Network testing tool

2014-06-19 Thread Tim
Afternoon all I am hoping the collective knowledge of the two lugs can help me. About a year ago I had a network issue at work and an engineer came out to remedy the situation. One of the tools he used would be very useful for a job I have coming up, it was some sort of port testing tool

[Dorset] Help needed

2014-06-19 Thread David Sumbler
I wonder if there is somebody in your group who could help an elderly friend of mine - she lives in Swanage. She has as Asus laptop running Ubuntu 10.04. The other day she updated something from Update Manager. She rebooted the machine, and ever since then, although her desktop shows up and the

[Dorset] Old Servers

2014-06-19 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
As promised, here's the list of land-fill... Dell Poweredge SC1425 [4WRLH1J] - marked as Failed Supermicro server, based on Supermicro p4dp8-g2 - no RAM. Dell Poweredge 850 [45SR02J] - marked as Failed Dell Poweredge 1850 [3YMQ32J] - marked as OK Dell Poweredge SC1425 [44NQM1J] - marked as Failed

Re: [Dorset] Help needed

2014-06-19 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2014 09:43:22 David Sumbler wrote: I wonder if there is somebody in your group who could help an elderly friend of mine - she lives in Swanage. Well. That isn't exactly close to me here (I'm about 20 miles by road and 16 miles if I take the ferry). However, as it happens, I