Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2024-02-27 Thread Andrew via dorset
On 27/02/2024 10:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Peter emailed the list saying it looked like last month's meeting didn't happen. Andrew told me privately that he turned up, no one else did, so he left. When I popped in later, Clive, Hamish, and Hugh were present. Yes, I was there. I was told

Re: [Dorset] Is "dd" adequate for cloning a disk?

2023-10-30 Thread Andrew
clone. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-11-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] USB connected 3.5 floppy drives

2022-08-24 Thread Andrew
f you need to read non-IBM disks there are other USB devices you can use, but they are more complicated. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-09-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, do

Re: [Dorset] Electricity power usage

2022-07-09 Thread Andrew
, penguins, coal or whatever you use to heat the house. It always amused me how many people replaced the light bulbs inside their house with the energy savering ones but would completely ignore the lights outside where all the heat was wasted. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi

Re: [Dorset] Links from Jitsi meeting 6/7/2022

2022-07-06 Thread Andrew
On 06/07/2022 11:24, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR. Andrew, what was the command you used to get the JPG files? I might update this wikipedia page with that information unless you want to. I found out that mpv could "play" the file as a

Re: [Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-28 Thread Andrew
On 28/11/2021 13:30, Terry Coles wrote: pi@minster-music:~ $ sudo mount/dev/sda1 /media/usb/ -o uid=pi,gid=pi Is it because the uid and gid options don't apply to EXT2? -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-12-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing

Re: [Dorset] USB floppy drive controller

2021-11-05 Thread Andrew
nding on what I'm doing. Fluexngine for reading, Greaseweazle for everything else. 'gw clean' is useful. It moves the head back and forwards a few times. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-12-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ...

Re: [Dorset] USB floppy drive controller

2021-11-05 Thread Andrew
came from or what's on it!) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-12-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-14 Thread Andrew
A fuse, so you can plug something else in to the socket as well? -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Microsoft on Raspberry Pi

2021-02-06 Thread Andrew
Possibly not. I haven't upgraded as the one program I use on that machine doesn't have a package for Raspbian Buster. Looks like there might be an Ubuntu PPA for it though, so I'll have to give that a go at some point. Ubuntu Server 64-bit will run perfectly with 1 GB RAM, right? -- Andrew

Re: [Dorset] Router Wifi configs

2021-02-06 Thread Andrew
. I've also got a few WAPs set up with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz using both WPA2 and WPA3, all on the same SSID and key. That seems to work fine too. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http

Re: [Dorset] Microsoft on Raspberry Pi

2021-02-06 Thread Andrew
. The problem doesn't seem to exist on Raspbian Stretch, at least not yet. Microsoft bought GitHub. Or "Microsoft GitHub" as it should be called now. I don't think they can buy Git its self as it is open-source software. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-0

Re: [Dorset] Loss of OS during upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread Andrew
/ /to/ -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-09-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-15 Thread Andrew
booting. The same goes for UEFI system bootloaders - they understand partition tables and filesystems. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-07-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack

Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread Andrew
can use U+00D8 or U+00F8. (You don't need to type the leading zeros.) -- Andrew. On 23/05/2020 17:11, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: Hi can anyone advise how I get foreign (Norwegian) variants of letters in UK linux? I need the o with two dots and the o with a line through it.  Of course

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-31 Thread Andrew
useful science. I can see the Resource Share in the GUI BOINC Manager per project, but I haven't figured out how to change it yet... -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] OpenWRT

2019-02-10 Thread Andrew
any non-OpenWRT routers are better. BT routers for example have the wireless key stored in plain text on a sticker on the router. Then there's those routers where the default SSID and key are based on the MAC address... which it broadcasts! -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth

Re: [Dorset] Linksys WRT1900ACS

2018-12-03 Thread Andrew
I don't have one, but apparently it's supported by OpenWRT. https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1900acs_v1 -- Andrew. -- Next meeting at *new* venue: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-12-04 20:00 Check if you're replying to the list or the author Meetings, mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Andrew
where you can chose which profile to use and create a new one. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-09-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well

Re: [Dorset] Centering Text Using CSS

2018-07-12 Thread Andrew
://validator.w3.org/ https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hadrian-way.co.uk%2FWMT_Webserver%2FWMT%2F -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-07-17 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK

Re: [Dorset] Centering Text Using CSS

2018-07-12 Thread Andrew
What's the tag? I've not heard of that before. What you want is probably: margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-07-17 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 732, Issue 1

2018-06-05 Thread Andrew
On 05/06/18 17:32, Ron wrote: Where is the Broadway pub? https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.75447=-1.85693#map=17/50.75447/-1.85693 -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-06-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread

Re: [Dorset] Problems in installing dmx4linux

2018-01-29 Thread Andrew
plugged in. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Andrew
together! I believe it's possible to specify the subdevice with another comma, if needed. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Andrew
h/to/audio Or if I want the USB device: mpg123 -o alsa -a hw:2,0 /path/to/audio If I wanted the internal card that would be hw:0,0, but there's nothing plugged in to it right now... :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn,

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Andrew
DEV=0". From the man page:    -l, --list-devices   List all soundcards and digital audio devices    -L, --list-pcms   List all PCMs defined    -D, --device=NAME   Select PCM by name -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 2

Re: [Dorset] UEFI help

2017-08-20 Thread Andrew
Mint has that. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-09-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] A New Wimborne Model Town Project Query - Sensing Water Levels and Flow

2017-05-03 Thread Andrew
a computer so aren't perhaps technical enough for this list. :) Also, I wrote my last e-mail before I had looked at the Wimbourne Model Village web site. I imagined it would be indoors and a lot smaller than it is! -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-06-06 20:00 Meet

Re: [Dorset] A New Wimborne Model Town Project Query - Sensing Water Levels and Flow

2017-05-02 Thread Andrew
then be pumped up to the header tank until it is full. For extra complexity, get the water level of the real rivers from wherever the above web site gets its data and adjust the levels of the model rivers accordingly... -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-05-02 20:00

Re: [Dorset] New Kiosk Project

2017-04-28 Thread Andrew
for many years) then you might want to use an SSD rather than a hard disk, just because hard disks have a tendency to suffer mechanical failure. I suspect Porteus doesn't write to the disk at all after it's booted, but I haven't actually checked that yet. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.10 -> 17.04 Update/Upgrade Issue

2017-04-19 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Looks like you added a ppa once for kokoto-java and that ppa no longer exists, or at least doesn't have any packages/release information for Ubuntu Yakkety. You can figure out what you installed from that PPA via the Ubuntu Software Centre:

Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu 16.04 no wifi

2017-03-08 Thread Andrew
On 06/03/17 10:33, Peter wrote: On 05/03/17 19:56, Andrew wrote: Hard blocked means you need to press a button. -- Andrew. Thanks Andrew rfkill list gives acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Yes. I tried rfkill unblock acer-wireless: Wireless LAN and unblock acer:wireless. In each case I get

Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu 16.04 no wifi

2017-03-05 Thread Andrew
Have you tried the 'rfkill' command? rfkill list Will list the status for all interfaces. If one of your adapters is soft blocked then you can unblock it with for example: rfkill unblock 0 Hard blocked means you need to press a button. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] How can I discover why my RPi freezes after it has frozen?

2017-01-04 Thread Andrew
for a third of a Pi 3 for the cost of one of those leads:-) If you have more than one Raspberry Pi then you can connect their serial UARTs together with three wires. Gnd to Gnd, RX to TX, TX to RX. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Ending Playback in mpg321 from Within Python

2016-11-06 Thread Andrew
On 06/11/16 16:54, Terry Coles wrote: Andrew, The list doesn't accept attachments, can you send it to my address instead of the list? Ok, have done. It was based on a few lines from the video player example which was linked to on the Ubuntu Wiki page: https://bazaar.launchpad.net

Re: [Dorset] Ending Playback in mpg321 from Within Python

2016-11-06 Thread Andrew
://wiki.ubuntu.com/Novacut/GStreamer1.0 -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST

Re: [Dorset] OT: No Signal from Graphics Card on Newly Built PC

2016-07-13 Thread Andrew
that even if there's no working video, then at least you can see if the machine works. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-08-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE

2016-04-27 Thread Andrew
On 27/04/16 20:38, Peter Merchant wrote: Now to fix my wife's XP box that has quit browsing. More difficult. P. I believe that can also be fixed by installing Kubuntu 16.04 from the DVD. ;) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Microsoft: Better Linux support for Skype

2016-04-26 Thread Andrew
Wouldn't it be better to put effort into something more open and surveillance-free? https://tox.chat/ While all of the Tox clients are classed as 'alpha' and there's still work to do, it is quite usable right now. -- Andrew. On 26/04/16 17:38, CPK Smithies wrote: I just signed

Re: [Dorset] Making a Python File Available for Download

2016-03-08 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
I'd grep your webserver config files for any mentions of ".py" and comment out the offending (and related) lines. I imagine that for some reason it's configured to serve .py files as cgi scripts, rather than serving them as text/plain. On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 at 17:44 Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

2016-01-31 Thread Andrew
If it's of any help, on my system the 'Rubbish Bin' is located here: ~/.local/share/Trash/ -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

2016-01-12 Thread Andrew
ired to connect a computer to an Arduino is a USB cable. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] Garmin Sat Nav Registration & Up-dates

2015-10-15 Thread Andrew
mall country to test it on, Andorra is only 11MB uncompressed. France is 1.1GB compressed. You're probably limited to 4GB per (uncompressed) file due to FAT32. -- Andrew. On 15/10/15 17:41, C Wills wrote: Hi All Just bought a Garmin Sat Nav and found I can't Register or Update it using

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-12 Thread Andrew
/move the partitions. Clonezilla won't work where the target drive is smaller than the source, which is a problem I've had with SSDs. http://www.clonezilla.org/ http://gparted.org/ -- Andrew. On 12/08/2015 13:13, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, As you may have gathered from yesterday's error, I

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

2015-07-01 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Not an answer to your question, but I'm curious, is there a reason you need the 32bit version? Why not just use the 64-bit one they link from that very page? https://launchpad.net/~terry.guo/+archive/ubuntu/gcc-arm-embedded On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 12:15 TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

2015-05-26 Thread Andrew
On 26/05/15 22:14, Peter Merchant wrote: peterm@peterm-34204H:~/Software$ ./get_iplayer -u peterm@peterm-34204H:~/Software$ sh ./get_iplayer first time it tells me it is there, and repeat says not found. Hmm. I don't think you want to run it with 'sh'. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

2015-05-26 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Possibly you might need to delete the ~/.get_iplayer folder it creates. The one created by the previous apt installed version might be causing issues? On Wed, 27 May 2015 01:32 Andrew zil...@ziltro.com wrote: On 26/05/15 22:14, Peter Merchant wrote: peterm@peterm-34204H:~/Software

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

2015-05-25 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Version 2.86 in the Ubuntu repository is out of date, the version on github is 2.92 so there might have been new changes to fix the issues you're seeing On Mon, 25 May 2015 at 09:33 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 21:39:40 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Andrew

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

2015-05-25 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
the following: ./get_iplayer 838 --get Began downloading the episode On Mon, 25 May 2015 at 09:59 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: On Monday 25 May 2015 08:39:43 Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: Version 2.86 in the Ubuntu repository is out of date, the version on github is 2.92 so

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

2015-05-24 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Get what to work? Is this something built in to iPlayer? It's probably using Adobe Air/Flash or some other proprietary thing that doesn't work under Linux. You could always try https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer instead. On Sun, 24 May 2015 at 20:37 Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net

Re: [Dorset] Dealing with dynamic IP addresses

2015-05-21 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Off the top of my head, I think what you can do is something like this: 1) Set up your own nameserver or use one of the various nameserver services out there like pointhq.com that have an API for remotely managing and updating your DNS records. 2) Set up your DNS records yourself on this new

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

2015-03-12 Thread Andrew
for RDP for quite a while now. At some point, something changed and now I find I have to set Security to RDP, rather than Negotiate in order for it to work. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-04-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Multiple commands in bash

2015-03-12 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Not sure if this is what you want, but something like the following might work. It doesn't do the bash prompt since there is not way of getting the current prompt output reliably, but if you just want a fake one for display purposes, you could hard code it into the script. Also, it doesn't check

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

2014-09-30 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
based or otherwise)? Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu - Chrome - Flash and NO sound

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew
it manually. (And if you have your browser set to delete cookies on shutdown you have to enable it every time you visit the site after opening a new browser session.) https://www.youtube.com/html5 -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Coax 10Base-2

2014-08-02 Thread Andrew
If it is 50Ω coax with BNC connectors then is is still useful for amateur (and other) radio purposes. However I won't be at the meeting... -- Andrew. On 02/08/14 21:00, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I was looking for a bit of LAN cable today and found some coax that I doubt that I will ever

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Andrew
. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Has something changed with Debian Desktops?

2014-07-14 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
You could try and use the MATE desktop, which is a fork of the old Gnome2 desktop http://mate-desktop.org On 14 Jul 2014 16:14, TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi Victor On 14/07/14 15:48, Victor Churchill wrote: I recently did a Debian istalll onto a machine which had previously been

Re: [Dorset] OT Disk drive recovery

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew
this you'll probably get most data back though. A lot more than with no working PCB. -- Andrew. On 01/06/14 19:23, Victor Churchill wrote: I can't offer to do the forensic job myself but I did see somebody blog once that if it is the PCB that has failed, and if you can get hold of an identical

Re: [Dorset] UEFI and Linux

2014-05-23 Thread Andrew
not be enabled by default. Unless perhaps there are (U)EFI only firmwares out there now... -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-06-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How

Re: [Dorset] Two Raspberry Pi puzzles

2014-03-31 Thread Andrew
! I looked at /etc/sudoers and found that it contains the standard entry: %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL and that the new user is in group sudo. So why couldn't the new user sudo? At a guess, the new user isn't in the 'sudo' group. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01

Re: [Dorset] pdf editor

2014-02-25 Thread Andrew
There is PDFedit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ And apparently LibreOffice Draw can open PDF files. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-03-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset

Re: [Dorset] Linux defragmentation

2013-12-20 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-01-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn

Re: [Dorset] NVidia graphics help please

2013-12-06 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-01-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list

Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

2013-11-01 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell

Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

2013-11-01 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-25 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
or care. Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: Most browsers just fail if you use any language other than javascript. There's a version of Chromium that supports Dart natively AIUI. For other browsers, you load some Javascript that can handle the Dart. https://www.dartlang.org/docs/tutorials

Re: [Dorset] Can I use hostnames with ssh without editing /etc/hosts

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew
-5000.local? -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Samba and Windows Access to Drives.

2013-06-21 Thread Andrew
. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-07-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Using the host file

2013-05-24 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 23/05/2013 17:16, Tim wrote: So I edited the /etc/host file as follows Do you mean '/etc/hosts'? It seems from a later post that your ping looked up the correct IP address, so presumably you did edit the correct file, but I thought it would be worth checking. -- Andrew. -- Next

Re: [Dorset] [OT] Video Slide show with digital photographs

2013-05-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
output for HD TVs and a composite video output for SD TVs. It seems common for TVs to have ethernet ports and USB, I wonder if SD cards or USB sticks can be used on most TVs these days? -- Andrew. On 19/05/13 12:02, Tim wrote: Sorry for being slightly OT, but a quick question if may. I am

Re: [Dorset] [OT] Anyone in the north of Dorset?

2013-03-31 Thread Andrew Drapper
Humm, Missed Dan Jones email address. Dan are you still after someone on north dorset? I am in Stockwood just south of Yeovil. Not very good at ubuntu, but I do have a pair of eyes. and...@drapper.com On 31 March 2013 14:48, Charles B. Upton char...@childokeford.plus.comwrote: On 29/03/13

Re: [Dorset] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 29/01/2013 20:27, Peter Merchant wrote: Well, Perhaps that will bring down the prices of HDMI monitors. I couldn't find one under £103 P. There are cheaper ones with DVI, and/or sold as TVs. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Drapper
Any chance of getting a Raspberry Pi form Google for a home schooling family? LOL Andrew Drapper www.Bible-Matters.com *The million dollar question: * Will you go to heaven when you die? Here's a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God's name in vain? Jesus said

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2013-01-02 Thread Andrew R Paterson
jobs recognised and trapped his user base into limiting the spread of malware very successfully. Google with its Play Store is commendably attempting the same thing. Regards Andy On Wednesday 02 January 2013 18:36:58 Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jan 2013 19:29:51 Andrew R Paterson wrote

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2013-01-01 Thread Andrew R Paterson
I strongly believe (feel free to correct me please!) that most (if not all) the AV software you get for Linux (and android?) is just using the same signature databases as the main windows versions and thus all you are doing is ensuring you don't download any windows viruses. As I say, please

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2012-12-31 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi Clive, I have a Nexus 7 and have absolutely filled it with (mostly free) downloads and except for accidentally unrooting it after initially rooting it - I have (as expected) NOT been hit by any Viruses. You should have asked the assistant if that meant that all the Android based

Re: [Dorset] Hi, new member. Local paid support

2012-12-07 Thread Andrew Morgan
USB stick or bootable CD/DVD. - when scrolling up in console mode terminal, how to stop the scrolling from interrupting what I'm reading (wondered about this for years) I use Scroll Lock. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Replacement for Gimp

2012-11-17 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
...@mailman.lug.org.**ukdorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth

Re: [Dorset] Supply of a Church Video System

2012-11-15 Thread Andrew Drapper
all over the UK. You can see a little at www.evangelismtraining.co.uk God bless. Andrew Drapper www.Bible-Matters.com *The million dollar question: * Will you go to heaven when you die? Here's a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God's name in vain? Jesus said

Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

2012-09-24 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread Andrew Drapper
it... I must remember that for my children But you know... Andrew Drapper On 15 September 2012 13:22, cawi...@talktalk.net wrote: Hi All My 12 year old grandson has asked 'Which is the best Programming Language to learn?' - over to you all!! Please remember he is 12 years old and has just

Re: [Dorset] New member

2012-07-04 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 10:01:42 p.lane wrote: On 04/07/2012 09:45, Tim wrote: On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the

Re: [Dorset] New DVD writing error

2012-06-14 Thread Andrew Morgan
using 'wodim'. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Media Center/server.

2012-04-08 Thread Andrew Drapper
or VLC or others MediaTomb Can anyone cut through the ?#@@* for me!!! Andrew Drapper www.Bible-Matters.com On 7 April 2012 22:02, Tim t...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: On 07/04/12 21:04, Andrew Drapper wrote: Thanks Ralph, I believe that this is the distro, (where did the 'w' come form

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi --- necessary accessories

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Morgan
batteries. They'll keep running for ages, but it thinks they are low because of the lower voltage. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Morgan
to do it. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Copying DVD's to USB sticks

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Morgan
. * I have also travelled outside of the UK to places where copying a DVD for personal use is not illegal. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset

Re: [Dorset] rsync with compression

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew Morgan
, which makes more sense when you are using rsync over the internet, perhaps via SSH. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: TBD, ???day 2011-07-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew Morgan
only then no, it won't be more complicated. If the site is IPv6 only then it is via Teredo or nothing. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready?

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Morgan
don't have it connected to ADSL though. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
server doesn't support IPv6. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 20/04/11 00:07, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, With Miredo I got 10/10 and 9/10 because my ISP's DNS server doesn't support IPv6. Do you get that elusive last point if you switch to 8.8.4.4 and/or 8.8.8.8? No, still 9/10. According to the info on the test which fails: *Confirmation

Re: [Dorset] Setting up hostname in Linux

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Monday, April 04, 2011 11:37:19 PM Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, Maybe my memory is faulty, but my recollection of doing this on earlier Unix systems, (like Solaris), is that the hostname went into the file called hostname (or similar) and that did it (after a reboot).

Re: [Dorset] USB 1-2 problem

2011-03-14 Thread Andrew Morgan
you the USB version in use by a particular device. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-10 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:17:20 pm John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 10/03/11 18:59, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Chris Dennis wrote: dnsmasq[1] is relatively simple to work with, and is probably available in your favourite distro. [1]

Re: [Dorset] [OT] DNS port number

2011-02-25 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 25, 2011 05:25:29 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, Once a connection is made (an incoming connect request to an allowed port) accept(2) will grab another port so that the original port is free for further connect requests. For the benefit of others, since I know

Re: [Dorset] [OT] DNS port number

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:11:59 pm jr wrote: On 23 February 2011 23:03, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: Any thoughts? I'd look into setting up a DMZ box (if you've a spare machine), separating the internal network from the Virgin/BT/whatever supplied h/ware. extreme, admittedly, but

Re: [Dorset] Slight OT: Regular Expressions in Winblows

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Monday, February 21, 2011 09:38:24 pm Keith Edmunds wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:21:14 +, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said: In vi :1,$s/_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/found/g In case it isn't clear, Vim is available on Windows as well. I know Vim isn't everyone's cup of tea (for some

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