Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > Don't bother scheduling a meeting. For testing, just head to the > > meeting room with the above URL whenever you like and see if anyone > > else is there or shows up, or ping someone privately to help with a > > test. > > https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug > > OK. Did you set that up

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim H, > Can I ask what we are trying to achieve here? To muddle through to something to attempt one night with a chance of success, I think. :-) > Is it to have a full blown video conferencing setup with multiple > rooms for various conversation or just somewhere on the web where can > all

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > On the other hand, I do not enjoy video conferences/calls in general. > I think it must be something to do with not being able to tell who > else might be listening in or watching, just out of frame I don't have a camera, but I know some that do turn it off just because they prefer

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 30/03/2020 15:59, Tim Waugh wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:51, Patrick Wigmore wrote: I thought I'd told it to abort the current tasks before shutting it down, but I've since found they sitll show as "In progress" on my Rosetta account. I'm sitting on some work units for Rosetta@home as

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 18:00:07 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Free to help test this evening. When is the meet happening again? Tomorrow week 2020-04-07. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 30/03/2020 17:58, Terry Coles wrote: > On Monday, 30 March 2020 17:43:33 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: >> Can I ask what we are trying to achieve here? Is it to have a full blown >> video conferencing setup with multiple rooms for various conversation or >> just somewhere on the web where ca

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 17:43:33 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: > Can I ask what we are trying to achieve here? Is it to have a full blown > video conferencing setup with multiple rooms for various conversation or > just somewhere on the web where can all join up and chat on a monthly > basis a

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread zircon
On 2020-03-29 19:01, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: Are people interested in getting this going? I could make us a poll to sort out how we're doing it. I like the idea of subgroups - I think it'd be difficult otherwise cos we often have subgroups having mini-conversations. That way we could also

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:51, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > I thought I'd told it to abort the current tasks before shutting it > down, but I've since found they sitll show as "In progress" on my > Rosetta account. I'm sitting on some work units for Rosetta@home as well, mostly because I'm waiting f

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:11:44 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > The open-source issue is why I mentioned Jitsi. I like the sound of Jitsi for that reason. On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:48:37 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: > I would guess that quite a few of us have a tablet or smartphone > with Skype

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 15:16:57 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Don't bother scheduling a meeting. For testing, just head to the > meeting room with the above URL whenever you like and see if anyone else > is there or shows up, or ping someone privately to help with a test. https://meet.jit.si/dors

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > For example, https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug ... > > It's best within Chrome or Chrome-wrapped-up-in-Electron if the > > Chrome browser isn't available. Up to date Firefox's fair better > > than older ones. > > I've just installed in Chromium. The only problem is that the person > t

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 14:56:55 BST Terry Coles wrote: > One problem with Skype is that I have no idea how a Conference is set up; > does everyone simply call the convener? Looking at my Skype client, it would seem that a Meeting can be convened in the same way as Jitsi and the participants don

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 14:48:37 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: > I would guess that quite a few of us have a tablet or smartphone with Skype > installed too - that's what I tend to use rather than running it under > Linux as it's pretty universal and is just expected to work (which it does >

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:51:20 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > Nice article here, folding@home the main focus, which mentions > back-offs when requesting new work Back-offs were what I was seeing on my machine with the Core 2 Duo T7250. It was assigned work to do, but in 24 hours it was never able to do

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread tda
Hi Terry On 30/03/2020 13:20, Terry Coles wrote: The discussion about Zoom recently shows how iffy it is to get it going. I've used Skype on Linux to keep in touch with family for years, but some people are reluctant to use it because of the fact that it isn't Open Source (neither is Zoom).

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 14:11:44 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > True. And it also needs volunteers to do bit of a trial in the days > leading up to it so solutions can be communicated on the list in > advance, e.g. turning off your video feed if upstream bandwidth is an > issue. Well. I've listed

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > There are lots of different tools out there but without a poll > we won't know who can run what. True. And it also needs volunteers to do bit of a trial in the days leading up to it so solutions can be communicated on the list in advance, e.g. turning off your video feed if upstream

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:50:49 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: > Count me in. Just need a decision on what to use. That's the rub. There are lots of different tools out there but without a poll we won't know who can run what. The discussion about Zoom recently shows how iffy it is to get

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 30/03/2020 10:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Hamish, > >>> https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/cpu_list.php >> For a really slow CPU, look up the AMD E1-1200 APU in that list :) >> That's the CPU in my old laptop. It's basically the bottom of the pile! > I trump that. My daily PC is a ‘Atom(TM)

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hamish, > > https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/cpu_list.php > > For a really slow CPU, look up the AMD E1-1200 APU in that list :) > That's the CPU in my old laptop. It's basically the bottom of the pile! I trump that. My daily PC is a ‘Atom(TM) CPU D525’. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meet

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 30/03/2020 09:51, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 10:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > >>> Unfortunately, that machine seems to be stuck waiting for the >>> server(s) to let it download anything. I presume they are prioritising >>> higher-specification machines. >> Maybe. One snippet of #d

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 March 2020 09:51:20 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > The Folding@home project definitely seems better at publicity. :-) BOINC has a Twitter feed. I don't have a Twitter Account, so I only paid a quick visit, but I did notice that data computed for COVID-19 was used to develop recent treatme

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-30 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 10:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Unfortunately, that machine seems to be stuck waiting for the > > server(s) to let it download anything. I presume they are prioritising > > higher-specification machines. > > Maybe. One snippet of #dorset says > > > folding@home ran ou