[Dorset] Problems with Email

Clive is back from his travels, but thinks that due to his email supplier having upgraded their servers, he cannot access his emails from Thunderbird.  I don't think he can get them via webmail either. Has anyone heard of this problem or can suggest a solution, short of deleting his account

Re: [Dorset] Problems with Email

I printed it off, but never got  it to Clive before the meeting.   It's now being recycled through the printer. Peter On 08/06/2023 10:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Hugh, 2. Clive's provider has not updated the MX record for his domain to point to the new server, so the mail still goes to the

Re: [Dorset] Brother printer on Mint 21.1

I have a Brother HL-1210 Laser printer connected via Wifi and it has worked reliably for a good few years now. I also use the brother iprint app on my tablet to print to it.  I seem to remember having to update the driver from the Brother website when I first installed it. Peter On

[Dorset] Does anyone have? to lend

I am looking for a device to program my 3D printer controller called a 'USBASP AVR Programmer and Adapter ' and

Re: [Dorset] Brother printer info

On 20/06/2023 13:54, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Just a check email to Clive to see if he gets it. Clive, or anyone else, can also get Mailman to email them by sending an email to dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk with ‘help’ in the subject and an empty body. If set up, and it's probably

Re: [Dorset] Brother printer info

Just a check email to Clive to see if he gets it. Peter On 20/06/2023 09:59, CA Wills wrote: Thanks to those who replied to my request for info. Unfortunately neither my email or your replies got through to me! For some reason my 'listing' has been removed and it was only by sending a

Re: [Dorset] Window positioning and Android permanently Awake. (Was: Next Meeting - One Week Tonight)

On 03/05/2023 17:40, Peter Merchant wrote: On 03/05/2023 17:15, Tim wrote: In regards to gkrellm look in your home folder from .gkrellm2. open this folder and look for user-config file, there is a setting in there called "save_position" (about line 16), remove the numerical val

Re: [Dorset] Window positioning and Android permanently Awake. (Was: Next Meeting - One Week Tonight)

On 03/05/2023 17:15, Tim wrote: In regards to gkrellm look in your home folder from .gkrellm2. open this folder and look for user-config file, there is a setting in there called "save_position" (about line 16), remove the numerical value, reboot or log out the desktop, move Gkrellm to the

Re: [Dorset] VAriations on a theme - USB Charging.

On 04/05/2023 11:30, Peter Merchant wrote: Looking at  changing mains sockets for ones that include USB charging. None say that they support QC3.  apparently the IET has an article on it that I haven't found yet. Any thoughts?   MK sockets apparently shut down USB when  not in use, so

Re: [Dorset] Window positioning and Android permanently Awake. (Was: Next Meeting - One Week Tonight)

I didn't make last night.  My problem is the Android phone which I use for Jitsi now stays permanently ‘Awake’, burning through 100% of battery in about four hours.  The battery chart's detail has ‘Media’ as one of the top two users, but the percentage of all those that are listed is well under

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8pm

Looks like it's not happening.  I'll see you next month. Cheers all. On 05/12/2023 13:08, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 p.m. using Jitsi. The meeting can be joined using a web browser to open https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi,

[Dorset] Low voltage power supply barrel connectors

My son has a Facebook Portal and his kids have mangled the barrel connector that connects power to it. Does anyone know of a chart that gives part numbers or anything similar for barrel connectors. We have determined that it is 5.5mm O.D, and we have an unlabelled drill bit that just fits the

Re: [Dorset] TP-Link routers

On 18/11/2023 14:25, Peter Merchant wrote: Does anybody have any experience with TP-Link routers?  I see the C50 and C64 are not badly priced and I really want to improve the response of my  wireless connection from this PC. I am currently using the Talktalk Sagemcom super-router and speed

Re: [Dorset] Low voltage power supply barrel connectors

On 28/12/2023 19:20, Peter Merchant wrote: My son has a Facebook Portal and his kids have mangled the barrel connector that connects power to it. Does anyone know of a chart that gives part numbers or anything similar for barrel connectors. We have determined that it is 5.5mm O.D, and we have

Re: [Dorset] Low voltage power supply barrel connectors

Now to find one. https://thepihut.com/products/in-line-power-switch-for-2-1mm-barrel-jack. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-01-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack:

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8pm

Not going to make it, running way behind on jobs.   Two questions I was going to ask about: 1] anybody heard of this company 'Strong'? https://www.currys.co.uk/products/strong-atria-mesh-kit-1200-uk-whole-home-wifi-system-triple-pack-10247033.html 2] Smart meters. I always keep refusing them

Re: [Dorset] Strong company and smart meters.

On 06/12/2023 09:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, 1] anybody heard of this company 'Strong'? https://www.currys.co.uk/products/strong-atria-mesh-kit-1200-uk-whole-home-wifi-system-triple-pack-10247033.html No, but I found https://strong-eu.com/about-strong/ and

Re: [Dorset] My Kubuntu Config is completely trashed

On 15/11/2023 07:03, Terry Coles wrote: On 14/11/2023 12:05, Ralph Corderoy wrote: I'm surprised a Linux machine is configured to shutdown on persistent high CPU or memory load.  Rather, the kernel's out-of-memory killer will kick in and guess a process to kill to free memory.  It sometimes

Re: [Dorset] TP-Link routers

On 18/11/2023 14:49, Terry Coles wrote: On 18/11/2023 14:25, Peter Merchant wrote: Does anybody have any experience with TP-Link routers?  I see the C50 and C64 are not badly priced and I really want to improve the response of my  wireless connection from this PC. I am currently using

[Dorset] TP-Link routers

Does anybody have any experience with TP-Link routers?  I see the C50 and C64 are not badly priced and I really want to improve the response of my  wireless connection from this PC. I am currently using the Talktalk Sagemcom super-router and speed on a speed test is pretty dire. I also think

Re: [Dorset] Church website problem - Firefox - Solved

We have to all agree, Ralph is Brilliant. Peter On 17/11/2023 16:19, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive,  Thanks Again Ralph! 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts' has done the trick! Buttons now do not have the text over written! I thought I had checked doth PC/laptop settings to be

Re: [Dorset] My Kubuntu Config is completely trashed - was High CPU Usage When a News Pages Opened in Chromium

On 14/11/2023 07:55, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I was attempting capture the outputs from htop and dstat -tcdngmy after Chromium started eating CPU and RAM as detailed in the previous thread.  However, before I could complete that, the system shut itself down.  Normally, I have found that

[Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

My brothers and I have been saving our family photos on a Nextcloud server maintained by my nephew.  Thethought is that they wouldn't mean anything to anybody in the 22nd century unless I left some notes in each folder. I don't intend to say what each photo was, but more the occasion of the

Re: [Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

My Brother agrees: Plain Text, and addressing people by position in row. Though my other brother says that XnView is simple to add numbers on people, which I remember from when I used microsoft. Peter Thanks for your thoughts. On 22/04/2024 12:47, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, The

Re: [Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

suspects: have a folder of cropped images of individuals (again from copies) each named appropriately, so whoever comes after has a clear visual reference of who is who. Alex On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:57:41 +0100 Peter Merchant wrote: My Brother agrees: Plain Text, and addressing people

[Dorset] Tues evening

Nice to be there if only for a few minutes. My family history program can show locations using either OpenStreetMap or Google maps. It needs OsmGpsMap to be present.  Interesting about how Andrew combined two hard disks into one virtual one. What program did you use to search for duplicates

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

On 11/03/2024 18:09, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: Hi all, At the last online meeting, several of us expressed interest in doing in-person meetings again, probably at the Broadway in Bournemouth where we used to do them. We were thinking of doing them on a different day so they

[Dorset] Snap, Flatpack, or traditional install?

Hi, Can anybody point me to a discussion of the relative merits and cons of these different software formats? It seems that Snap files get installed in a folder/Directory(?) called Snap, Flatpacks can go anywhere, and Trad forms get installed  in hidden user files  or root. This is just for

[Dorset] Telegraph article about Linux

Bit negative..   [ sorry about the narrow columns] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/08/data-centres-nearly-seized-by-hackers-nobody-noticed/ Our data centres were nearly seized by hackers – and nobody noticed The utopian, high-trust nature of open source is no longer safe in an

[Dorset] Kubuntu Audio settings jumping around.

I have a CMI8738 Audio card in my PC, and when I look at the Audio settings the options for different 'devices' are jumping all over the place and changing. I can't hit one long enough to disable it. Any ideas how I resolve this? PeterM -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-03-05

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Audio settings jumping around.

On 01/03/2024 21:50, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I have a CMI8738 Audio card in my PC, and when I look at the Audio settings the options for different 'devices' are jumping all over the place and changing. I can't hit one long enough to disable it. Any ideas how I resolve this? What's

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Audio settings jumping around.

Done it. I HAVE MY SOUND BACK. I was following https://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/ and it worked. Not sure about the mic yet. Peter On 04/03/2024 21:41, Peter Merchant wrote: Still having problems with this. I have probably stuffed it completely now. In settings GUI

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Audio settings jumping around.

Still having problems with this. I have probably stuffed it completely now. In settings GUI there is no item for Audio. inxi gives me a lot: peterm@peterm-kubuntu:~$ inxi -SMA System: Host:peterm-kubuntu Kernel:6.5.0-21-generic x86_64 bits:64 Desktop:KDE Plasma 5.24.7 Distro:Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Re: [Dorset] Pi 5's PCIe connector for NVMe SSDs.

I saw this the other day, and was wondering about it. Peter https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/add-on-board-lets-you-use-four-nvme-ssds-at-once-with-raspberry-pi-5 On 22/05/2024 11:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Bob, You might want to look at the PIMORONI site, single and dual NVMe

[Dorset] Updating technology NvMe memory

I see that Elf is selling for £12 and It makes me wonder if my system will support these as the manual for my P8Z77-v Motherboard is dated 2012.

[Dorset] OT- Double mains sockets containing Wifi extenders

We are in the middle of a kitchen refit, and I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this sort of socket. Or should I stick with my Netgear Wn3000. Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-06-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ...

[Dorset] Electromagnetic Field

Anybody going to emfcamp.org? My son-in-law wanted me to join him there, but I have to strip the kitchen ready for a new one being done from Monday. Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-06-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ...

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

At a previous discussion the Kings Arms at 252 Wallisdown Road * Dorset BH12 5BT * was mentioned as we used to meet there many years ago.  It is fairly central. Peter On 28/05/2024 17:18, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: Hi all, So it looks like every third Wednesday is the best

Re: [Dorset] Moving POP3 Suppliers with Thunderbird.

If you never hear from him again, it didn't work.  If successful, he could move the emails back from the holding folder to the inbox (Copy, not move!) Copy or move? Is there some reason he'd prefer those few emails to reside on the new server rather than sit on his own Localhost machine with

Re: [Dorset] Brother Laser Printers on (K)Ubuntu

On 29/03/2022 10:30, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I currently have an excellent HP A3 Inkjet printer which does scan, copy and print very well, but costs an arm and a leg for ink. Not only does it appear to drink the stuff, a full set of cartridges are currently well over £100. My Birthday is

Re: [Dorset] Debugging dnsmasq and dhcpd

On 29/03/2022 15:14, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, The system that I've been talking about for a few days seems to have a problem with WiFi. It generally works OK the first time a user connects, but after that the message 'Obtaining IP Address' is displayed for ever. What I can't work out is how to

Re: [Dorset] Brother Laser Printers on (K)Ubuntu

On 05/04/2022 17:57, Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday, 29 March 2022 10:30:48 BST Terry Coles wrote: At Which? there are three best buy colour Lasers; the HP Color LaserJet Pro M255dw at £799, another HP printer that only does manual double-sided and the Brother HL-L3230CDW, which does everything

Re: [Dorset] Electricity power usage

One device not on standby is my router (TalkTalk) which consumes 6 watts, so costs about $15/yr in electricity P. On 09/07/2022 09:53, Peter Merchant wrote: I borrowed an electricity power meter  for a few days and went around the house measuring everything. A couple of interesting

Re: [Dorset] Wimborne Model Town Routing Problem

 Not sure about this, but from the 'bottom' network, you are trying to access a webserver that gets it's IP address from itself as you have Hostapd and dnsmasq running on the machine.  So does the VPN server not know the address of the Webserver as this address has been obtained by DHCP? But

Re: [Dorset] OT: Keeping costs down

noring the ineffeciency of turning gas into electricity and transmitting it around the country in the first place. On 29/08/2022 09:33, Peter Merchant wrote: I was curious, so I took the water from the kettle and put it in a pot on the stove. It was very close to 500ml. Watching the gas meter while it

Re: [Dorset] OT: Keeping costs down

My 1965 'Basic Tables in Electrical Engineering' gives the Heat of Vaporization of Water as 972 Btu/Lb   so there is quite a bit of conversion required! P. On 29/08/2022 12:28, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: I had considered that, but it's so long ago in my ancient past that I studied

Re: [Dorset] OT: Keeping costs down

and latent heat aspects of the question.) On 29/08/2022 12:28, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: I had considered that, but it's so long ago in my ancient past that I studied thermodynamics, I didn't look into calculating it. My concern about it is the cost of raising the temperature to 100 deg

Re: [Dorset] OT: Keeping costs down

/ microwave. Thanks John for that link. Peter On 29/08/2022 09:51, Terry Coles wrote: On 29/08/2022 09:33, Peter Merchant wrote: I was curious, so I took the water from the kettle and put it in a pot on the stove. It was very close to 500ml. Watching the gas meter while it boiled it used 0.014 m

Re: [Dorset] Migrating from KMail to Thunderbird

Just wondering if you ever overcame the Aliases problem. Peter On 30/07/2022 12:01, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I've stuck with KMail through thick and thin ever since I first used KDE in the early noughties.  The main reason for this is that I make considerable use of forwarded addresses to the

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird duplicating messages in sent folder

Have fixed it in T'bird settings. Untick button to save a copy. P. On 07/09/2022 21:40, Peter Merchant wrote: I have three accounts using Thunderbird, and it is only the Hotmail one that has this problem. The yahoo and Netscape  accounts are OK. Peter On 07/09/2022 19:29, Hamish McIntyre

Re: [Dorset] Mailing List Support in Thunderbird

I have a tab on emails to the LUG that says 'Reply List'  It is not present on  non-lug emails. I don't know how it got set up. I have another group that I also filter off, and it's emails are also 'Reply List' At the top of the email it has tabs: Reply/reply List/Forward/Archive/Junk/Delete/

Re: [Dorset] Dark Side

Will this new laptop work with Linux. Eventually i'll find out. What make is it? *17" Laptop - Now Only £199 + Vat !!! *Be Quick - Only 9 Available *HP 17-cn0041na Pentium Gold 7505* *17.3"* Full HD 1920 x 1080, 4GB Ram, 128GB SSD, USB-C, WiFi, HD Webcam, Win 11S HP Renew, As New, 1 Year

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

Yup, forgot to mention that the Model Town was on South Today news last night celebrating 70 years. And they had a scale model of the model town there too, 3D printed. P. On 02/08/2022 12:52, Terry Coles wrote: All, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. Simply click on

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

I am not going to be able to participate either tonight.  I'm dead tired. My main challenge in computing at the moment is updating the firmware on my 3D printer, which I need a couple of hours straight on, and I never get, or am too tired to concentrate on in the evening. Have fun, cheers,

Re: [Dorset] New laptop

On 20/09/2022 17:26, Peter Merchant wrote: A friend of mine is wanting a new laptop and asked if I would post his request here - Yes he uses Linux. Does anybody know of a good source for him? I've looked at Linux built laptops including Dell and all seem to be overpriced compared to popular

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

On 14/12/2022 12:28, Peter Merchant wrote: I seem to remember a discussion some time ago about changing screen firmware from NVidia to Nouveau. Is it possible that doing this would fix my problem? Peter( this time using his correct email address!) On 13/12/2022 21:50, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote

Re: [Dorset] Does anyone have an old PC with PCI and/or ISA slots in need of a new home?

I have three in the garage, two of which can go to a good home. None ISA, and I don't know offhand how many PCI slots.  I just nicked a CD drive from one of them, and noticed in my collection a couple of old CD drives (Non-SATA). I live in Colehill, not far from the famous hamburger

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2022-12-06's Pub Meet.

Thanks for this. The Segger J-Link EDU and EDU Mini are cheaper versions of the J-Link BASE JTAG-and-SWD debug probe aimed at the hobbyist for non-commercial use. https://www.segger.com/products/debug-probes/j-link/models/j-link-edu/

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

occur at all yesterday, and has happened a few times today. Peter On 11/12/2022 12:55, Peter Merchant wrote: If I leave my  Kubuntu 20.04 for awhile, I have usually left Thunderbird and Vivaldi up, and when I come back and try and do something the computer goes off into never-never  land

Re: [Dorset] New laptop

Sorry about the double posting. The first one was sent from an email address that I don't use for the LUG, and I didn't expect it to get through. And T-bird lets you send emails from any of the address accounts that you have. I didn't check before posting. peter M -- Next meeting: Online,

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: On 03/02/2023 09:39, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 09:26, Peter Merchant wrote: I recently installed a program to my Kubuntu 20.04 system called Microblocks. It is a scratch-like program for things like an ESP-32. The problem

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

On 03/02/2023 09:39, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 09:26, Peter Merchant wrote: I recently installed a program to my Kubuntu 20.04 system called Microblocks. It is a scratch-like program for things like an ESP-32. The problem is that it doesn't appear anywhere in my application launcher

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