The link did not come through in the original posting. Here it is.
http://technewsletters-whitepapers.tradepub.com/free/w_opeb01/prgm.cgi
Peter
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:19 +0100, David Wilkinson wrote:
On 18/08/10 18:14, Peter Merchant wrote:
I wondered if anyone would be interested
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 21:45 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Bring your thoughts to life with an Oxford Notebook.
Is that supposed to be the British answer to the iPad?
Simono
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On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:30 +0100, kimd...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Hi folks,
Can any of you using Kubuntu Lucid Lynx let me me how it is on
reliability?
Like Terry, I use Kubuntu.(32 bit). I upgraded from the previous release
- over my Wireless link. I have very few problems, but I have seen
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:07 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Clive,
Have checked my version of OOo (on laptop) and it's 3.2 with an Oracle
logo, that's a standard upgrade by Ubuntu.
On the PC it's listed as 3.2.1 Oracle so don't know why the desktop is
a .1 higher than the laptop as
Technology section had some articles on Computing, one on Operating
systems by Hunter Skipworth said that Linux was available, but not good
for the un-techy user. I couldn't find the article online, so can't use
his exact words.
Then along comes their techy page giving assistance (Rick Maybury),
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 18:50 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
You could see if the versions of the openoffice.org-common available
and chosen to be installed differ between the two machines.
$ apt-cache policy openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-common:
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:40 +, Nicky Scopes wrote:
hi all, whilst on my travels i came across a new linux magazine in whsmith,
its
called Linux Open Source Genius Guide Volume 1.
and its massive with over 200 pages, it has tutorials aswell as the usuall
stuff
that a computer mag
I have been wondering why I am having trouble setting up an HP Parallel
printer, and every time I try and install anything, like cups, It
terminates with an error due to acpi control.
My grub file ends with a statement that I added a couple of months ago:
# added 22-6-10 to enable temperature
I wondered if there was a linux equivalent to Laplink, and Amazon offers
one called PCsync that mentions linux under the OS's available. Reviews
are dead against it, and it seems to be USB based. And US of A only.
While looking it up I came across the comment that 2 windows XP/2000
PC's can be
Is anyone else having problems with ACPI control. I notice that it is an
open bug to do with LSB bits.
I have just done a set of upgrades that ended with an error message
about ACPI, but they have installed successfully.
Peter
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:33 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
I have
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:43 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
I have been wondering why I am having trouble setting up an HP
Parallel printer, and every time I try and install anything, like
cups, It terminates with an error due to acpi control.
That's a bit vague. :-)
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 01:18 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
Stalwart Colin Watson has a brief article explaining the problem with
Grub 2 on a dual-boot Windows/Linux system. It seems some Windows'
applications assume they can use the first bit of the disk for their
protection schemes,
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:08 +0100, Peter Jill Harris wrote:
Hi all,
My Evolution alarm notification has stopped working if the computer is
not switched on at the time set for the alarm to go off. It used to go
off when I booted up. I think the problem started at about the time I
upgraded
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 07:27 +0100, Tim wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:09:39 Natalie Hooper wrote:
On 31 August 2010 22:42, Dan Dart dand...@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder: in twenty years' time, will people look back and say, I
can't believe people used to pay for that kind of
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 08:31 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Friday 03 Sep 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
The next release will be 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, to be released on
October 10, 2010 (10/10/10). This is a departure from the traditional
schedule releasing at the end of October to get the
I only start Evolution when I want to use it but this is often straight
after boot up. I'll try waiting after boot up and see what happens.
Thanks for advice.
Cheers,
Peter.
Hi Peter, I was just wondering if the problem was sorted out yet.
Peter M
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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 22:34 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
There is a method to my madness; I'm hoping to conquer .NET interop on
Linux, using Mono C# and Shared Libraries.
It will mean I can run my imaging applications with a nice Gtk GUI made
on the Stetic IDE plugin.
True Microsoft
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:57 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
But I've finally got off my butt and written it.
Linux Security Camera is the name of the ftp directory I keep my linux
version of the Vision Master security webcam suite in.
The design is simple and it is easy to download and configure
Just want to record how I did it.
In Access, export the table to an Excel Spreadsheet.
Using Openoffice, open the Spreadsheet, but save as an Openoffice (.ods)
spreadsheet. ( Note - According to the Base help files, if you import
an Excel Spreadsheet, it is read-only)
Open BAse and Create a
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:36 +0100, jr wrote:
hi Sean,
If you can help, or if you know of somewhere I can buy or lease a good
used device I'd be very grateful.
there is a specialist shop in Ferndown, in the shopping centre (sorry,
don't know name or details), another in Bournemouth
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I saw mention of Wimborne Chess Club the other day, they meet in the
function room of a pub/restaurant, The Olive Branch.
http://www.wimbornechessclub.org.uk/
http://www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk/pubs/pubsearch/pub/?id=141
(Hall and Woodhouse is who runs the Crown at Blandford.)
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 21:51 +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:53:04 +0100, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
wrote:
I presume that this is something to do with DHCP; I'm
certainly not getting an IP address.
Sounds like this could be the problem.
I can't comment
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 19:31 +0100, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Is it Yellow Buses or Wilts Dorset buses?
It is Wilts and Dorset.
http://www.carlberry.co.uk/rfnlistr.asp?L1=WIM001L2=BOU005OP=B
Gives a link to the service. Bus no. 13.
Is there no prospect of car pooling, even if just for the
The Kings Arms at Wallisdown has two of those three (almost as bad as the
public transport).
OK, Lets agree that Wimborne is out.
- Kings Arms Wallisdown is 2/3 acceptable. And we all know where it is.
- Some time ago I suggested the Grasshopper in (eastern) PArkstone, but
until someone
Won't make it tonight. Have been on Grand-daughter duty since 5:45 and
badly need a rest.
Cheers all,
P
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 11:56 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
New venue for tonight's pub meet; The Broadway. Go in the main
entrance, head to the pool tables, look to the left.
If
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 20:20 +0100, Mark Elkins wrote:
Victor
It's ok I know where it is - will be with you in next 20 minutes I estimate.
Cheers
Mark
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From: Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com
Subject:
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 17:44 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Natalie, Ralph and all,
On 7 October 2010 17:19, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote:
I agree re: the pub - snug area was nice and location was practical to both
drivers and public transport users, but karaoke
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:41 +0100, Tim wrote:
Can anybody tell me if HP use standard SoDimm memory (Laptop type) or a
propriatory format for there printers??
Tim
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On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 12:16 +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:43:04 +0100, Bryn Jones bryn.jon...@gmail.com
wrote:
Are you saying BUNIX is willing to help out with my own harebrained
scheme or with an install day?.
On a specific note - the install day.
I will
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:14 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I thought as much, but life is too short, what are you going to do? I
just wanted to check it works, and it does.
Besides, tomorrow is upgrade day, so what's the risk? If my own software
doesn't have the rights of other people's on my
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:57 -0400, Richard Johnston wrote:
Just a suggestion from the West Indies. I'm running LinuxMint, latest
edition and am well pleased with it. Its based on Ubuntu and is sympathetic
to ignoramuses like me.
Richard
On 9 October 2010 08:59, John Carlyle-Clarke
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 22:31 +0100, Bryn Jones wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 22:22 +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
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
Been very quiet here for a few days, so I thought I'd put this link up
www.langpop.com Does anyone use 'D'?
Peter
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On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 18:57 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Just installed the full kit on both 10.04 computers.
The clamgtk interface works fine on the netbook; collapses on the
desktop.
Anybody any clues?
Simono
Simono, I was just wondering. Has it caught any intrusions yet?
Peter
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On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:48 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 19/10/10 16:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
The 'Alarm Clock' utility is now ready for download. Read the Readme,
choose your type, and if you want, give me feedback so I can improve it.
Simono
I think the gold standard is that
I picked up on this news item when I saw the name of C4L, where some of
us visited a few months ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/dorset/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9107000/9107191.stm
Perhaps you also want to hit the 'race to infinity' button and help push
BT to fibre to my/your area area.
Evolution 2.30.3 in Kubuntu 10.10
The send/receive Icon seems to have disappeared, and also the 'X' to
delete emails is gone, replaced by an X that does a different task -
cancels previous operation or something like that.
Anybody seeing similar anomalies?
Peter
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Sent: 29 October 2010 15:00
To: Peter Merchant
Subject: The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 22:05 +0100, jr wrote:
On 29 October 2010 17:20, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide is an excellent guide for anyone
wishing to get started on kernel module programming.
if it's free and good, then why should one
For the help and guidance last night.
I managed to get rid of this slow shrinking of applications on screen
when minimized and also the small Desktop window by going to settings,
Workspace appearance, and disabling Desktop effects. I did not need to
load the proprietary drivers. (I Couldn't find
When last I was allowed out without a minder on Tuesday night, I left an
advertising newsletter from LinuxIT with Paul. Today when I went to work
there was another. This time there is a competition to win an Android
tablet. Let me know if you win.
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:35 +, Peter Merchant wrote:
When last I was allowed out without a minder on Tuesday night, I left an
advertising newsletter from LinuxIT with Paul. Today when I went to work
there was another. This time there is a competition to win an Android
tablet. Let me know
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 15:25 +, Charles B. Upton wrote:
I purchased Linux Device Drivers when writing a driver in the last
contract. Although I have far too many books, I need some bookshelf
space so I must let this one go.
It is a must if you want to investigate drivers.
I would love to
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 17:53 +, jr wrote:
On 7 November 2010 17:49, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:
The only reason for me holding onto XP on this computer is because there
are no drivers for my ancient scanner in Sane. Would this book give
some/any assistance in me
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 10:40 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
Mark Elkins wrote:
Although I still think Bournemouth or Poole would be better for a meet
this side of Dorset.
Is Bournemouth University well-served by frequent busses late into the
evening? Is there the option of getting a
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:49 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Victor,
Ralph, you're slipping ;-)
Yes, been too busy. Hence its sparse lateness and the mailing list sig.
being out of date. :-)
Cheers,
Ralph.
Don't blame Ralph. It broke down into two groups, so we don't really
know
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:04 +, Brian Masterman wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know what anyone has said up to now about network analysis, but
I have only just discovered 'etherape' and just needed to rave about it.
I used to write network analysis tools for X25 when I worked for Plessey
and
I'll ask when I am next there on thursday.
Peter
I asked at the Student Union today, and anyone can go and use the
student union pub. There are two rooms - Dylans and a small offshoot
called the Loft. If you want to book the room for a private meeting, it
costs, but then you have exclusive
After reading this article in the telegraph today
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8126181/UK-will-run-out-of-web-addresses-by-2012.html
About Vint Cerf saying that the Uk will run out of IP (V4) addresses by
2012, I wondered if my Router would support IPV6 on the Internet Side.
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
m...@computer:~#/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 mv blah
blah.
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 have one way to do it.
I am lazy. From
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:34 +, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 09:45 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
On 24 November 2010 07:54, Natalie Hooper
nataliehoo...@virginmedia.comwrote:
Has a date been decided for the next Bournemouth meet? Is the plan still
to
meet at
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 07:54 +, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Has a date been decided for the next Bournemouth meet? Is the plan still to
meet at The Broadway on a non-karaoke night?
You asked the question, and a few suggestions have been made. Please
take an executive decision and tell us where
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:53 +, C A Wills wrote:
On 01/12/10 21:28, StarLion wrote:
They have now dropped that option and given:- Excel, OS X or PDF.
I downloaded both the summary and the Detailed bill.
The summary came as an .xls, the detailed breakdown came down without a
file
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:31 +, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:05 +, C A Wills wrote:
Any ideas how I can sort this out please.
Up until 2 months ago Talktalk bills had an option to export in CSV
which was great - no problems getting it into OOo spreadsheet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/supportservices/8174715/No-more-mega-IT-contracts-Government-tells-suppliers.html
The days of the mega IT contracts are over, we will need you to
rethink the way you approach projects, making them smaller, off the
shelf and open source where
I know that some of you are looking for work, and came across this in my
Hotmail account. I think I got on their list by registering for
'FixmyRoad'. Here it is:
Thanks to the immense efforts of my colleague Louise Crow,
FixMyTransport is approaching the point where we need some people with
http://xkcd.com/838/
Peter
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This afternoon, In Tesco Tower park, a Hitachi 1TB external hard drive
for £34.97. They had a few.
Tesco Online shows a 250MB one for that price
If I hadn't paid £47 for a 500MB one for my Christmas present, I would
have been tempted.
Peter
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I made the video and I can confirm that there is a video feed in the file as
well. I can download it and play it locally on my PC with KMPlayer or play it
through the web broswer (not quite sure what chrome uses). When I try through
the chrome browser on the wifes PC I get missing
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 18:52 +, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
The next meeting is less than one week away (I forgot to post last night).
We're at the Crown Hotel in Blandford Forum from 8pm.
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub
Damn, Due to the threat of closure to
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 20:55 +, Tim wrote:
My daughter Macbook seem to have given up the ghost, while we can it to boot
to
the desktop 1 in 3 attempts, it is very slow. It is not helped by the fact
that
the optical drive is also dead (died back end of November). Can anybody
suggest
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 20:55 +, Tim wrote:
My daughter Macbook seem to have given up the ghost, while we can it to boot
to
the desktop 1 in 3 attempts, it is very slow. It is not helped by the fact
that
the optical drive is also dead (died back end of November). Can anybody
suggest
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 14:35 +, chris.b.c...@ntlworld.com wrote:
hi
This was forwarded by my son the other day.
Best Wishes
Chris
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Wifi Broadband...
coming to corfe mullen/broadstone in March
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 20:46 +, Peter Washington wrote:
Hi Folks,
On 30 January 2011 20:38, Bryn Jones bryn.jon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 20:29 +, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 14:35 +, chris.b.c...@ntlworld.com wrote:
hi
This was forwarded
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 23:56 +, Dan Jones wrote:
Not even then. On the other hand, it seems to have been a wonderful
idea to cause complete chaos by overhauling the roads with a new
layout that doesn't even make sense - and what's more, we're not just
being told conflicting stories over
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:19 +, Tim Allen wrote:
Hi Victor
On 01/02/11 09:08, Victor Churchill wrote:
Darn it - didn't he realise that it's the LUG meetup tonoght!?
Thanks for the info Tim - keep us posted please!
Just heard back, it is on and you can just turn up. The webinar
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:05 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
Following on from Natalie's email, some more notes and links from the
other night.
FixMyStreet is a Gov.-sponsored site that funnels your complaints to the
appropriate bit of council by email. (I've had success getting severe
I would appreciate it if any Facebook users would go to the facebook
group
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-20-Dorset-Libraries/178754428832259
And 'like' it. Funny enough a few seem to have dropped off since
yesterday.
Thanks,
Peter.
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Hi, I installed Fedora 13 that Tim gave me at the meeting on my big old
Dell Precision Workstation 650 this morning and it all went extremely
smoothly. It took less than an hour, and is all there, even the wireless
USB stick is setup. All I had to add was the WAP code.
Didn't take that long to
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:26 +, C A Wills wrote:
Hi Terry
Sorry duff info, it was in the Tools/Add-ons/Plug-ins. Firefox, yes. I
highlighted the Flash pug-in and checked the update, it's now showing
updated from 9x to 10x.
That was no the laptop, same thing on desktop but that's
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 17:42 +, Tim Allen wrote:
Hi Peter
On 19/02/11 18:09, Peter Merchant wrote:
My ZYxel wireless USB stick has been working at 16% signal strength, and
my neighbour suggested that I try a Belkin one as he had a good signal
(albeit on W7).
I borrowed a Belkin
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the
answer may interest some there too.
I tried this on my laptop and got this result :-
$ lspci -n | grep 14e4
00:0a.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:18 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter (Merchant),
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the
answer may interest some there too.
Not quite sure what
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 13:48 +, John Cooper wrote:
On 20/02/11 11:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the
answer may interest some there too.
I tried this on my laptop and got this result :-
$ lspci -n | grep
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 21:28 +, Tim wrote:
I have the following items for sale.
3 Zyxel G-202 USB wireless adapters, I can't remember the chip set of hand
but
they worked out the box with xbuntu 9.04
The chipset is the ZD1211. They have worked out of the box since about
ubuntu 8. -
I recently bought off ebay a Belkin Wireless USB stick, as I had
borrowed one and tried it and it worked beautifully.
This one is a F5D7050 v4003 which has the same chipset (ZD1211) as my
ZyXEL wireless USB stick. However when I plug in the Belkin, DMESG gets
stuffed with the message
“unable
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 14:20 +, Andrew Morgan wrote:
I believe keyboards mice are all USB 1.1. I have some USB 1.1 devices
working on Ubuntu.
If it is a 54mbit (or faster) USB device then I would expect it to be
USB 2, otherwise it is limited to 11 Mb/s or thereabouts.
'lsusb -v'
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 17:13 +, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 14:20 +, Andrew Morgan wrote:
I believe keyboards mice are all USB 1.1. I have some USB 1.1 devices
working on Ubuntu.
If it is a 54mbit (or faster) USB device then I would expect it to be
USB 2
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 13:39 +, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:05:39 -, C A Wills infocawi...@talktalk.net
wrote:
No, the core fonts are installed; it's the latest new fonts in Win 7
Office which cause a problem, to do with spacing again, they throw out
the
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 00:05 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
John Cooper wrote:
If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are
free to distribute and use as many copies as you like as long as it
contains everything in the release. A very rare case for M$ and they
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 18:46 +0100, Brian Masterman wrote:
I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for
recording purposes.
All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc.
What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow
thing under XP again today when I reboot.
Peter
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 08:35 +, Peter Merchant wrote:
I recently bought off ebay a Belkin Wireless USB stick, as I had
borrowed one and tried it and it worked beautifully.
This one is a F5D7050 v4003 which has the same chipset (ZD1211) as my
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 22:49 +0100, Tim wrote:
Thought you might like this
http://test-ipv6.com/
Tim
Your IPv4 address on the public internet appears to be 78.147.176.105
No IPv6 address detected [more info]
World IPv6 day is June 8th, 2011. No problems are anticipated for you
with this
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 22:28 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote:
Thought you might like this
http://test-ipv6.com/
Can anyone recommend any books on IPv6?
I've found this webpage to be useful, although a lot of it is from a
Windows point of view:
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 12:27 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
Can anyone tell me how I can upgrade the system from a CD, using
command line instructions?
You can do it from an alternative CD.
I need some advice on how to do this without cocking it up. When I built
the new system from scratch, I let it put home in the same partition as
root.
I found instructions for moving it to a new partition:
http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/
that seem to be
Thanks to John Cooper for his excellent instructions. I have now got
back all my home stuff.
I haven't been able to get back the last couple of days emails, because
I like evolution the way it was before the upgrade and don't want to
restore all settings and data.
editing fstab - because it is
Came across this review of Libreoffice today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/businesstechnology/8445516/Review-LibreOffice-3.3-is-a-viable-alternative-to-Microsoft-Word.html
Peter M
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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:54 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi,
my wife is running a workshop (for Dorset Association of Counsellors
and Psychotherapists) in Wimborne on Friday evening and has a laptop
and a projector but no screen. The venue does not have a screen
available and does not
I have a little problem, and I am not getting anywhere.
In kubuntu 11 using Dolphin, I selected a partition drive called TV and
unmounted it. Since then I have not been able to see it or get it back.
TV was the label for partition sdb5.
Here are the steps that I have taken:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique
identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# file system mount point
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 23:23 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 12/05/11 21:19, Peter Merchant wrote:
I have a little problem, and I am not getting anywhere.
In kubuntu 11 using Dolphin, I selected a partition drive called TV and
unmounted it. Since then I have not been able to see
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 08:24 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 23:23 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 12/05/11 21:19, Peter Merchant wrote:
I have a little problem, and I am not getting anywhere.
peterm@kubuntu-pm:~$
I have not tried
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On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 21:19 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
I have a little problem, and I am not getting anywhere.
In kubuntu 11 using Dolphin, I selected a partition drive called TV and
unmounted it. Since then I have not been able to see it or get it back.
TV was the label for partition
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:22 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
here is fstab:
UUID=21FC-A114 /media/TV vfatdefaults0 0
/dev/sdb5 on /media/TV type vfat (rw)
Oh, it's vfat. The penny didn't drop initially. vfat has no concept of
users and groups so by
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 19:26 +, Ron Mahony wrote:
Could anyone say whether it's possible to use text recognition (OCR) with
Linux (Ubuntu)@ I'm led to believe that they are too limited for OCR. Ron
(ronmah...@hotmail.com). Thanks
Funny, I was just wondering about that the other day. In
Our discussion at our end of the table about ADSL wireless routers got
me thinking about upgrading my 3COM for Christmas. I found a Belkin N300
at £40 on the Tesco website, with ADSL, 802.11n, Firewall, 4 Ethernet
ports that looks like sufficient for my needs, but I was wondering if
this was the
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