On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:56 +, Mark Elkins wrote:
By far the easiest and laziest way is to create a partition using the tools
that come with Vista and then install the Linux Distro.
However if your pc or laptop has no Operating System why bother with Vista?
Surely just install Linux.
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:00 +, Hugh Frater wrote:
FWIW - I've always used EnvyNG to configure ati and nvidia graphics
cards - it's the only way I've managed to get them to work properly!
Hugh
2009/3/19 John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net:
Terry Coles wrote:
I decided that a new
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:52 +0100, Hugh Frater wrote:
Have you installed the nvidia-settings package? I use that to control
my graphics resolution...
2009/4/7 Dean Ramsden d...@deanramsden.demon.co.uk:
Any thoughts on how to get back to 1280x960?
Peter M.
I don't have the full
I saw an ad for this today. its £199. Reckon it's any good?
Peter M
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On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 18:35 +0100, Simon P Smith wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:05:22 +0100, Peter Merchant mercha...@onetel.com
wrote:
Microsoft Office 2007
Despite having 10 licenses here, I still use OO or Office03 - could not
be arsed to learn where everything has been moved
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 14:20 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
I had a small problem with my BT Vision service and while I was
troubleshooting, I noticed that the details for my box 'BEIGE' were marked
'Inactive' in the list of devices, but there was an active box with my IP
address marked
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 22:24 +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 02 Jun 2009, Victor Churchill wrote:
I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less
favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a
problem.
Two things
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:18 +0100, Peter Washington wrote:
Hi Folks,
2009/6/12 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk:
Hi, an advert passed to UK Lugmasters for sending on. Thought it may be
of interest. Cheers, Ralph.
--- Forwarded Message
Are you tired of the rising costs
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:28 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Hugh,
Should I try and tackle what seems like a steep learning curve and use
XML DocBook...? This seems to offer what I need but it does seem to be
a little less polished than LaTeX.
Is DocBook to CHM straighforward these
this
problem. Any idea why, or how I unblock them?
Thank,
peter Merchant
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Hi guys, I have this thing that I want to get rid of duplicate files on
my hard drive. I have just had a massive cleanup of a directory called
'tech' and put stuff into all sorts of other relevant directories I
hope, But am sure that it has left me with duplicate files.
I don't want to have to
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:45 +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
I've used a GUI program called 'fslint' to do this in the past, it works
quite well.
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Andrew.
Andrew, this is exactly it. No point re-inventing the wheel. shows me I
have 200 MB of wasted space.
Thanks to all for your
which do you use?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895
Peter M.
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Does anybody have anything like the Spacelab DF-200 Signal strength
meter from Maplin (item no. A55JB) that I could borrow to sort out my
DVB-T signal?
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On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:59 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
A timely reminder, it's the Dorset LUG pub meet tonight at 8pm in Bournemouth
at The King's Arms, Wallisdown.
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms
Cheers,
Ralph.
P.S.
Hi, I am wondering if anyone can give me advice on how to set up
scripting to access the web.
What I am trying to accomplish is to run a speedtest at a specific time
every day. The data that I have collected over many months has been at
random times whenever I felt like it. Can I automate this?
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 11:45 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
I am using http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ , running the test
three times, and downloading a csv file from the history tab, which
I incorporate into my Excel file on speedtest results.
Do you find the three
in $dtime seconds, a rate of $rate
bytes/second
rm -f $file
[joh...@liberator ~]$ ./download.sh
428035 bytes downloaded in 14.78 seconds, a rate of 28960 bytes/second
Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I am wondering if anyone can give me advice on how to set up
scripting to access the web
Help. I want to transfer all my old Video tapes - only two- into digital
format. I got my borrowed TV card working with xawtv. But in the end I
used the Hauppauge program under XP as it seemed to give a better
picture. The Video that I have recorded is 32 minutes long and about
12Gb, so not easy
. My windows
computers are exclusively Kaspersky.
However, configuring an exception in ZA is quite easy. You just have to
know the ip address (local) of your Samba computer.
Simon
Chris Dennis wrote:
Peter Merchant wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:52 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote
-
From: Peter Merchant mercha...@onetel.com
To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Dorset] Samba Help
Well, it is not a linux Problem. I booted the kubuntu box over into the
other well known XP-erimental OS
Night
storage heater wiring and replace it with Ethernet. But it doesn't pull.
- Original Message -
From: Peter Merchant mercha...@onetel.com
To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 7:13 PM
--- some clipping here ---
Subject: Re: [Dorset
After all that - Problem sorted. Bloody ZoneAlarm.
Now this computer is back in the trusted Zone.
Thanks for all help and advice.
Peter M.
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 21:35 +, Peter Merchant wrote:
Oh Yes, There is a rset button, but I didn't dare use it until I found
the ADSL login
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:10 +, mercha...@onetel.com wrote:
I also did the Upgrade over the air/Internet on Friday. Now I don't have any
wireless. I can't find a way of starting the wireless (Yet) and I
notice on the
ubuntuforums that it seems to be a problem. Otherwise, as Terry says, It
News item today on BBC, runs Linux Mint
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8353465.stm
I am tempted to put it on my Mother-in-law's Dell to stop the questions
about 'How do I do this?, It worked yesterday'
Peter M
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On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 20:30 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
Another one I couldn't resist:
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=7,617,530.PN.OS=PN/7,617,530RS=PN/7,617,530
There's a lot of discussion about
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:07 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
Peter Merchant wrote:
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ ps xauww | grep -i skype
peterm1514 6.2 3.0 117308 47452 ?Sl 08:23
0:05 /usr/bin/skype -session
101b61b510c13d00012577133560014520019_1257882867_669862
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 11:56 +, C A Wills wrote:
C A Wills wrote:
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Sean,
It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
stick in question.
Whilst you can appear to have
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 16:09 +, Walter wrote:
Upgrade or buy secondhand (Andrew Drapper)
Andrew, search and join 'Freecycle' in your area. These come up frequently
at no cost, just collect.
I have a 600Mhz AMD which you could have. Might improve with some more
memory. Runs Xubuntu
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 19:20 +, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
My daughter has to do an assignment at Uni using a T-Test. Although the Uni
says that work can be submitted in Either MS or Open Office, they've only
told
her how to do it in Excel and she only has OpenOffice.
Is there anyone
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 19:20 +, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
My daughter has to do an assignment at Uni using a T-Test. Although the Uni
says that work can be submitted in Either MS or Open Office, they've only
told
her how to do it in Excel and she only has OpenOffice.
Is there anyone
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for-using.html
Peter M.
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On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:25 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Terry,
as long as you have the original XP disc(s) and you haven't installed on
more than three motherboards, you should be able to do a transfer. However,
you will probably not be able
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 17:36 +, Andrew Morgan wrote:
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Thanks Andrew.
My HP Mini detects extra drives at boot up and offers options by pressing
F9.
I would love to buy an external Optical Drive, but I'm doing this on a
strict budget until I get a job!
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:03 +, Andrew Morgan wrote:
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive.
How do you put 9.04 onto it?
I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive.
Usually one connected via a
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 20:21 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
The 9.10 Ubuntu comes with OO 3.1 as standard.
This can now handle all microsoft Office file types without switching
between compatibilities. For example, DOCX is now a standard file type.
From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of
obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
In Kubuntu 9.1 it looks like the file is grub.lst and the first line is
- You must not edit this file
Dare I?
Peter M.
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On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:50 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009, Peter Merchant wrote:
From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of
obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:57 +, John Cooper wrote:
On 10/12/09 09:32, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:50 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009, Peter Merchant wrote:
From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of
obsolete versions
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 10:25 +, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
This is a good Grub2 source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
Simono
I found this helped me:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD
But I like yours.
Peter
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On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:59 -0500, Martin Settle wrote:
I won't be there, but I am laughing at your predicament... We've had
almost non-stop snowfall since New Years' Eve
http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/traffic/FrameSet.htm
Marti!
As a Canadian been living here in Dorset for 32 years, I know
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 23:21 +, C A Wills wrote:
Peter Merchant wrote:
clip
As a Canadian been living here in Dorset for 32 years, I know that We
are not ready. I don't even HAVE snow tyres! They don't sell them. (or
Chains).
I still have my logging boots in case I have
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 00:18 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
I think we should definitely go for next week.
Sounds fine to me. That would be Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00.
OK, that's the new date and time; just a few days away. I think
everywhere's updated. A couple of the
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 21:19 +, John Cooper wrote:
See You in February. There is no Printed manual for Ubuntu. Ask Your
questions here, if you can't find them in the Forums or the Ubuntu Wiki
Documentation.
The Official Ubuntu Book (Prentice Hall) is ok for newbies.
eg. In
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 13:17 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
2010/1/9 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk:
As for an Ubuntu handbook, I don't have a particular recommendation. I
know there are various ones in print. And perhaps some are also
available to download. Alex Bebb found
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 14:44 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
In Kubuntu 9.10, I used to have a printer, Laserjet 5M, but it now
doesn't work, I have removed it and re-installed it, and checked all
the connections, and get There was an error during the CUPS
operation:
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 20:54 +, Tim wrote:
On Sunday 24 January 2010 20:40:39 Dean Ramsden wrote:
Terry Coles wrote:
On Sunday 24 Jan 2010, Dan Dart wrote:
Look in /boot/grub/grub.conf (I think)
I don't seem to have grub.conf anywhere.
Change the file to reflect the new
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 18:24 +, Terry Coles wrote:
The pressure group is raising a petition:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad, because the new iPad is full of DRM
which basically stops users from doing anything with it except things that
are
'approved' by Apple.
Personally, I
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:49 +, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
When my mother had her account switched to BT, they sent an engineer.
He set up the BT Home Hub Router.
For weeks she was unable to use Skype or make an intelligible Voip call.
Looking at my own BT Home Hub ( bought on e-bay for £25
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:21 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Monday 01 Feb 2010, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
I'm not especially clever on RF stuff and I know a few people on the
list are. Can anyone advise? Has anyone set something similar up?
.
This latter problem may not manifest
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 20:46 +, Ron Mahony wrote:
Whereabouts in the Wallisdown rd is the King's Arms? Which is the nearest
side-road?(I hope to get there (from Pokesdown) on a number 6 bus
Near the junction of Wallisdown road with Kinson Road/Alder Road. It's
beside the ALDI.
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 19:15 +, Ron Mahony wrote:
Last Wednesday I travelled by bus to the King's Arms,Wallisdown road,
arriving at 1845. None of the staff knew of the Linux meeting or of any
computer meeting. I found a 'Functions room', which was locked. Rather than
risk having to wait
Is anyone else having problems with Kubuntu since the latest set of
updates?
I now have the problem that as soon as I boot up and log in, it tells me
that it has disabled my sound card and replaced it with one that doesn't
work, and the wireless connection will not come up. When I select my
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 17:51 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 11 Feb 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
Is anyone else having problems with Kubuntu since the latest set of
updates?
I now have the problem that as soon as I boot up and log in, it tells me
that it has disabled my sound card
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 19:58 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Mar 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
The lecture hall seats 300+.
Yes. But the event page says that booking is required. There is a form.
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On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 18:21 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 25 Mar 2010, Terry Coles wrote:
Whatever the truth, here is what Annette Brooke (LibDem for Mid Dorset and
Poole North) said to me in response to my letter through the 38 Degrees
site:
Thank you for your message calling
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 08:27 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Given that the Weymouth contingent that used to attend Dorchester pub
meets now work away, the Dorchester attendance has dropped. I was
wondering if May's pub meet, the one after next week's
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 14:03 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Sunday 25 Apr 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Don't know what to make of it.
I'm now in Fordingbridge; Blandford would be on what, the A36?
Had to do the A31 commute and it gives me the shivers, but now I might
make it. Probably I'll
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 18:47 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 28 Apr 2010, Charles B. Upton wrote:
Although I joined Dorset LUG some time ago, I have never been able to
get to a meeting. However Blandford being only 10 mins away means I can
definitely get there. So I say go for it.
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 13:51 +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28 at 08:38, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I am going to be 'playing' with some Cisco routers over the next few
weeks, and it is some years since I tried to use a terminal package from
a *nix environment. A forum comment from
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:51 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:30 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
1)Takes longer to boot up
2)Boot up sequence looks like a chinese-made plastic toy. Crap.
3)Uninstalls opencv, cannot reinstall. My vision demos no longer work.
4)Breaks
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 21:21 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004#Working%20around%
20bugs%20in%20the%20new%20kernel%20video%20architecture
This workaround alters the startup parameters of the video
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 17:53 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I bit the bullet and did it.
Aside from losing the Evolution link from the desktop, it has all
worked. I even still have my dvb-t working in Kaffeine, which has been
the bugbear in every previous update.
Of course, as I am only a simple
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 07:50 +0100, Peter wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
I have a Draytec router connected to my ISP : ip range 192.168.1.x
Attached internally ie Lan, is a Linksys Wireless router - which reports that
its IP address is 192.168.1.10
When I connect
This all started out as a desire to control the fan speed on this
computer. In XP I use Speedfan.
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky.
Problem 1: I cannot figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have
got the acpi temperature showing.
Problem 2: Every time I start an
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:31 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky. Problem 1: I cannot
figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have got the acpi
temperature showing.
I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1)
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
dpkg -l '*sens*'
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ dpkg -l '*sens*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:31 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky. Problem 1: I cannot
figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have got the acpi
temperature showing.
I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1)
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 09:57 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
hey Peter, maybe you could find a manufacturer's BIOS upgrade for the
box? I mean short of wirecutters. Or perhaps a good clean would take
some of the load off the fan because temperatures in the core would be
lower/fan would meet
While I had the machine stopped a moment ago, I did give the fans and
heatsink a dusting out, but no noticeable effect.
including the PSU fan ?
Think I'll live with it. Can't justify replacing the PSU with one from
QuietPC at the moment.
I can understand that, they're not
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:31 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky. Problem 1: I cannot
figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have got the acpi
temperature showing
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 09:19 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:31 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky. Problem 1: I cannot
figure out how to display
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:34 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
et...@peterm-desktop:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +41.0°C (crit = +70.0°C)
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$
So I don't seem to have all the controllable devices
I am having a sort out of one of my cupboards and have discovered that I
have 5 - YES -FIVE - Laptop PSU's. All identical 15 v 3 A. and I only
ever had one laptop and it has died. Anyone want one, or two?
Peter M
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On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
# Generated by sensors-detect on Fri Jun 4 09:09:42 2010
# Chip drivers
it87
That's what this 8.04 machine uses too, so it looks like mine will stop
working when I upgrade.
When I run the box in XP mode, speedfan
I sent it to the wrong place first...
Hi, I am having trouble trying to get the following line to display
correctly in conky:
Core 1 Temp: ${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'temp2' | cut -c14-18 | sed
'/^$/d'} C $alignr Core 2 Temp: ${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'temp3' |
cut -c14-18 | sed
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 15:15 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
My old mum is brilliant, but she just can't seem to use a mouse. Her
favourite habit is to keep the button pressed while moving, followed
closely my jerking the mouse all over the place while trying to click.
Bless her, she just
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 23:58 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
Core 1 Temp: ${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'temp2' | cut -c14-18 | sed
'/^$/d'} C $alignr Core 2 Temp: ${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'temp3'
| cut -c14-18 | sed '/^$/d'} C
What it does is display like:
Core 1
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 03:56 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
temp2: +36.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +70.0°C) sensor =
thermistor
Core 1 Temp: ${execi 8 sensors | sed -n '/^temp2: */{s///; s/
.*//p;}'}
Well, I don't understand the last dozen or so
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 11:42 +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:40:15 +0100, Peter Merchant
madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
OK, I thought that he had gone in the last round of cost cuttings.
Yeah he went. Shame, he was a good lecturer. Sadly not someone many wanted
Hi, I bought a USB CCTV Camera Video Audio AV TV Capture Adapter DVR
from ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-CCTV-Camera-Video-Audio-AV-TV-Capture-Adapter-DVR-/280531172984?cmd=ViewItempt=UK_CCTVhash=item4150f5fe78
This is a USB device with four video connections.
I bought it because I have a
the hardware looks like:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/bfs/1847871785.html
Camera is connected by coax to cards.
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:07 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I bought a USB CCTV Camera Video Audio AV TV Capture Adapter DVR
from ebay.
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On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:44 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I need the intermediate hardware because the cameras just have a video
out.
This gives an idea of what the hardware looks like:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/bfs/1847871785.html
Camera is connected by coax to cards.
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:26 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd
For this kind of thing I Google for the USB ID, the `05e1:0408'. That's
what other people will report when they're
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:26 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd
For this kind of thing I Google for the USB ID, the `05e1:0408'. That's
what other people will report when they're
Yesterday I came into this room and smelled something electrical
burning. I discovered that the smell was coming from my wireless USB
stick. This is permanently attached to my computer, and still 'alive'
even when the computer is powered down (not swithced off). As you are
aware, there are parts
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:52 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi, This may be of interest to some here. Cheers, Ralph.
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From: Jonathan Tripathy jon...@abpni.co.uk
To: fsfe...@gnu.org
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] DMCA Victory
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:13:05 +0100
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On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 23:26 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi David,
On 27/07/10 17:18, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I'm unclear what spamhaus mean on that above page when they state
212.227.17.0/32 is listed. /32?
That is odd as a /32 subnet is just the 1 IP, which means 212.227.17.8
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 11:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
Except that .0 is the network address and .1 is the broadcast
address, leaving no addresses free for 'hosts'.
True, it normally is, and then there's normally also another address
used for the gateway out of
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:26 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd
For this kind of thing I Google for the USB ID, the `05e1:0408'. That's
what other people will report when they're
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 14:01 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Make sure you all have a pint for me :-)
I think we all switched to coffees after the first round. Things
started OK but then some very loud music started so we moved to the
corner furthest from the speakers. This
What does anyone recommend. I want to backup selected files/directories
from my data disk. Been meaning to do this for months.
K3B fails with a msioft(?) module error that is apparently well known
when doing data files,
One of the forums recommended brasero, which takes forever (4 hours)
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:45 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Friday 06 Aug 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 20:43 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
What does anyone recommend. I want to backup selected files/directories
from my data disk. Been meaning to do this for months
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 16:59 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
True. Although I was thinking the Sheevaplug, or something similar,
may be useful for other tasks over time. Despite the Stora running
Linux, I didn't see much community effort at getting something on
there that
is this the ex- Mountbatten Arms?
P.
How about Miller Carter - http://www.millerandcarter.co.uk/
Its a bit further along the same road as the kings and there is a bus
stop near by, not sure if its the same buses stop there as they do at
the kings but since its on the same road I would
Well, I guess I'll chuck in my two-bits worth.
The Tivoli in Wimborne Hosts groups sometimes, worth looking at
http://www.tivoliwimborne.co.uk/
And Welcome.
Peter
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 10:19 +0100, Natalie Hooper wrote:
That looks like a really cool festival indeed! Too late for this year
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 10:19 +0100, Natalie Hooper wrote:
That looks like a really cool festival indeed! Too late for this year (we
have other plans that week-end) but maybe another year... I'm not keen on
big festivals - had too many experiences going to a festival wanting to see
a band only
Be careful, be very very careful with this program. I installed the GUI
version of it. I think I assumed that it would err on the side of
caution in operating, but it played havoc with my system. It blew away
Openoffice for a start. I have finally got that re-installed, but it
looks like a
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 15:54 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
I don't know what I did, but Amarok suddenly doesn't have a GUI any more. It
is working and I can see it running if I run top or ps to list processes.
It
is currently playing music from my playlist (which happens to be the dynamic
I wondered if anyone would be interested.
Securing Optimizing Linux: The Hacking Solution (v.3.0) is intended
for a technical audience and system administrators who manage Linux
servers, but it also includes material for home users and others.
It discusses how to install and setup a Linux
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