On Friday, February 18, 2011 07:52:30 am Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:59:22 +, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said:
Then Nokia puts a spoke in the works and effectively indicates that
continuing learning QT will be a waste of t!me
I think you're extrapolating considerably
On Friday, February 18, 2011 08:43:43 am Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andrew,
After spending days(!) fscking and trying to decode all kinds of stuff
I stepped back and saw the light - I MUST have a duff disk.
`smartctl -a /dev/sda' can be useful to get the drive's own stats on how
On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:39:37 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andrew,
What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern
hard-drive then?
Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed
this very old 20GB PATA drive.
$ foo() { date +%S.%N
On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:39:37 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andrew,
What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern
hard-drive then?
Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed
this very old 20GB PATA drive.
$ foo() { date +%S.%N
On Friday, February 18, 2011 02:27:43 pm jr wrote:
On 18 February 2011 14:09, Andrew Reid Paterson
andy.pater...@ntlworld.com wrote:
So, I will now wait see what haappens.
those settings (probably) won't survive a reboot, you might want to
add a small script to your system start.
Funny
Hi all,
I have a pernennial problem with a raid array (which contains a 400GB
filesystem 72% full.
Since its raid 1 I am bemused that I keep getting file-system errors every 2 or
threee days on reboot (requiring a manual fsck).
The kernel log shows (e.g):
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In big rush, but here is a copy of a chat that solved my screen res problem
I hope it helps.
Andrew Drapper
[13:53:14] Joel Drapper: cic?
[13:53:40] White Boy: Sure. Just getting headset
[13:53:45] Joel Drapper: ok
[13:54:38] Joel Drapper: By the way, do you know how to force a screen
resolution
On Tuesday 18 January 2011, chris.b.c...@ntlworld.com wrote:
hi
i am sure that some of you are Virgin media customers. My prob is that
there is no subtitles on ITV1 at present and has been for best part
of 24 hrs or so in Poole.
All the other channels are ok, including ITV1+1. Can you
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Brian Masterman wrote:
I have just been struggling to kill off a set of processes that were
gobbling up all my CPU time.
nepomukserver
checking on the web revealed that lots of people were having the same
problem.
I uninstall all reference to it which
in the background.
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On Friday 26 November 2010, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
On Friday 26 November 2010, Brian R Masterman wrote:
I would appreciate any advise and help on networking. (they say a little
knowledge is a dangerous thing).
I have been running etherape and it shows that my Linux system is
sending
On Monday 22 November 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 19:30 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 22/11/10 18:05, Tim wrote:
I am a cli dunce so please bear with me.
Lets say I am working in the terminal screen in the following folder
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:51 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
On 22 November 2010 20:56, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
And my wife complains that under MS Windows there are so many ways to
do things and why couldn't they just
networking setup, and somehow Windows managed to get a
real routable IPv6 address! I'm not sure how it did that as there's no
IPv6 on my network at all. Or was it kvm? I'd love to know how that
happened. I then re-booted the VM and since that Windows networking
hasn't worked. At all.
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On Saturday 13 November 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Brian,
(glad to know that Andy Paterson is in your group, we used to work
together)
I used to work with Andy too. Including you there's at least four of us
that used to work at that site on the list.
Cheers,
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On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Natalie Hooper wrote:
@Sean - I've been using Linux since 2005, though I didn't use it at all in
2008/early 2009. As stated before, these things don't stop ME from using
Linux/Ubuntu/whatever app I use, but from my experience, they stop new
users from using
On Friday 15 October 2010, Simon P Smith wrote:
On 15/10/2010 09:31, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
On 15/10/2010 09:24, Peter Merchant wrote:
Been very quiet here for a few days, so I thought I'd put this link up
www.langpop.com Does anyone use 'D'?
If you're referring to the language
On 11/10/10 22:10, Bryn Jones wrote:
The resolution is fine
Just the window running off screen
In Ubuntu/Gnome there are some useful mouse + keyboard combinations: Alt
+ left button to move a window, Alt + middle button to resize a window.
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Hi Ralph,
thanks for that, convert/composite works fine - but gee! it's
noticeably
slow!
Despite ImageMagick being around for many years, I never thought of it being
much more than display(1) :)
I'll have a look at netpbm/pnmcomp.
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Hi
has anyone (with money to burn!) got one of these yet?
http://ardrone.parrot.com
It appears to be a fully fledged UAV (running embedded Linux) with current
pilot support for the iPhone, but support for linux based phones in the
pipline.
I think this is stunning - amazing!
There is an article
Hi all,
Is there anyone familiar with the use of xloadimage/xsetbg who
can
give me a hint as to why I can't load a small image with a transparent
background image onto an existing background image.
In the following bash shell function, virgin.jpg is intended to cover the
whole
On Saturday 09 October 2010, you wrote:
hi Andrew,
TIA for any assistance/suggestions
don't have 'xloadimage' on my machine, however, if you have the
ImageMagick(1) software installed, 'composite' will combine images.
Hi jr,
thanks for that, but I dont think I can get display
, and
definitely away from any surveillance.
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I never use the packages for eclipse and instead download the latest tarball
and run it from my homedir. Most ide packages suck whatever distro I've
found.
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
technology and start treating each
other like humans.
(Also a company has had this idea already, they're called (or, were
bought by) RedSpeed. Their devices are little better than two or three
web cams and a computer running DOS.)
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directory in the script itself.
Assuming it's a bash script:
cd `dirname $0`
should switch to the directory when inserted at the top of the script, in
which case you can just call the script file by it's full path.
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On Monday 06 September 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:24:42 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
That's as I understand it, but there is apparently a company out there
somewhere that can patch a running kernel for Enterprise customers.
Well, actually, anyone can do that
On Saturday 28 August 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andy,
I still have my old bbc micro and its digital (audio more like it!)
casette recorder. using this python script I could do my backups to
the cassette recorder - neat!
Nice idea. I think they do C120s now for even more storage.
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Tim wrote:
On Saturday 07 August 2010 13:02:14 Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:09:51 +0100, Peter Merchant
madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
Thanks, Terry, but it is this last stage that gives the grief. k3b
collects all the files and folders
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:14:14 +0100, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said:
I have been running for years without backups - using the relatively
simple notion that raid mirroring is arguably as good as backups
NO!
It might work for you, which is
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:14:14 +0100, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said:
I have been running for years without backups - using the relatively
simple notion that raid mirroring is arguably
The stuff I downloaded wasn't copyprotected but I agree its an arse to find.
In fact, the whole rhythmic integration and download process is awfully
flaky. I had to manually download each file from my ubuntu one share because
the syncing was awful.
On 11 Jul 2010 18:30, Simon Oapos;Riordan
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On 12 June 2010 11:33, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Andrew,
John Cooper wrote:
You should be able to go to System
Hi Ralph,
sudo ddcprobe is not giving me any success. I have a VGA cable I think it is
called. the standard blue rectangular plug.
Thanks andrew
On 11 June 2010 08:57, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Any tips appreciated. my monitor is not recognised my Ubuntu
Ralph
Re sudo ddcprobe
Sorry I did attach a screen shot, terminal returned 'command not found.'
Andrew Drapper
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On 11 June 2010 12:20, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Andrew,
It's a matter of software configuration.
I am sure you are right
:
edidfail
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1280x1024 is on the list. but how do I get to use it?
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On 11 June 2010 12:42, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Re
are intergrated on a MSI G31TM-P35 and I have a Videoseven monitor.
Many thanks
Andrew Drapper
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Thanks Robert,
It looks like all my old disks are ghost CD's
I have re-built me PC, the only thing original is the case and the CD/DVD
drive. So I feel ok to call myself a hardware constructor.
So OME would be fine.
Thanks again.
Andrew Drapper
On 1 June 2010 13:38, Bronsdon reash
)
with Windows installed it should work just fine.
The short answer then is: not yet.
The full answer has yet to be written.
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On 1 June 2010 17:21, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote:
On 01/06/10 16:52, Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2010
code points. Let's hope your font can
display that. :)
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Thats essentially what DRM is. As it's already been proven, it is entirely
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files correctly, or 'cp -av source destination' to be verbose
about it.
Well no, I'd actually use 'rsync -av source destination'. If I stopped
and started the copy again I'd add -u (update only) and possibly -c
(skip files based on checksum rather than datetime).
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the original encoding worked fine on the
Linux
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Have you looked at HandBrake ( http://handbrake.fr )? I believe it has an
encoding preset specifically for the PS3.
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Hi everyone,
My new employer is selling off a lot of servers and I thought people might
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C A Wills wrote:
(Lost the pound sign and seem to have a USA keyboard!!)
Press CTRL+Shift+U, then press A, 3, Enter. Does that produce a pound sign?
I haven't seen any snow yet by the way.
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Hi,
I am looking forward to the arival of my CPU and getting my PC up on Ununtu
9.10 64bit.
I am now wanting to attach a Firewire PCI card for video capture.
Any comments on compatibility etc.
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connectors work at the same time, too.
I say USB to ATA rather than IDE because IDE is the wrong terminology
and always has been. :)
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Terry Coles wrote:
- I can 'see' an xorg.conf if I do ls X* in /mnt-system/etc
Capital vs. lowercase X? If you really are doing this then I suspect it
is listing the contents of /mnt-system/etc/X11/ which happens to only
contain xorg.conf?
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Hi,
What do people on LUG think of Maemo and the Nokia N900 that will use it as
it OS. How well will it stand up to the iPhone or Google Androude phones?
Thanks
Andrew
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I think you might be a bit buggered here as the test is a flash file and I'm
not sure there is a way to tell it's loaded, start it and then tell it's
finished in an automated way, short of writing a program to screenshot the
screen periodically and then look for a segment in the image to indicate
I've used a GUI program called 'fslint' to do this in the past, it works
quite well.
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I knocked this up which may be of use (it symlinks dups to the originals,
but it's easy enough to mod). It recognises symlinks as being different from
files too.
On Jul 23, 2009 6:50 PM, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Peter,
My thoughts were to do an 'Ls -something' piped into
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Assistance_Markup_Language
Double-clicking on them doesn't open them in any kind of MAML viewer, so
that doesn't seem to be much of an improvement over CHM or HLP files.
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, if they support MacOS
then they have written drivers for CUPS and they will work on Linux?
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