Hi Nathan,
Another handy feature is that the Active Directory server can add the
hostname of a computer that joins the domain to a DNS server, so
anybody using that DNS server can reference the box by name. So, in
our office, nbaum.c4l.local resolves to my Windows VM's address,
whilst it's
Hi Terry,
What I don't understand is why my ISPs mail filters thought those five
messages were s##m. I couldn't see anything naughty in any of them.
It varies, but some spam spotters add extra headers to the email that
describe what tests they tried and what `scores' those tests obtained.
If
Hi Tim,
The problem I have is that for some reason I can't make the symlink
m...@titan:~$ ln -s /Pictures/digikam3.db /media/openshare/Pictures
ln: creating symbolic link `/media/openshare/Pictures/digikam3.db':
Operation not supported.
Is this likely to be a problem with the nas or a
Hi,
Replying to myself:
$ ln -s a b
ln: creating symbolic link `b': Operation not permitted
$
Not sure why you get Operation not supported instead.
The local VFAT filesystem I did the above on returns EPERM, and the SMB
network protocol appears to do the same, but CIFS returns
Hi Terry,
When I came to run it, I got no response other than a temporary
hourglass from the desktop. When I tried running it from a terminal,
I got:
te...@beige:~$ sudo imagewriter
[sudo] password for terry:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
Hi, Thought this, from the lugmaster list, would be of interest.
Cheers, Ralph.
--- Forwarded Message
From: dick_turpin dick_tur...@archlinux.us
Date: 2009/6/1
Subject: [Wolves] BBC Radio4 'open source' computer software
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group wol...@mailman.lug.org.uk
Hi All
Hi,
Fifteen people showed up at the pub meet last night. I think that's
easily the highest for a long time, and that's without the draw of Terry
Coles! Only problem is, I've no idea who some of them were and never
got to talk to everyone. :)
The BUnix chaps mentioned they've a meeting next
Hi Dean,
The installation was going swimmingly until I tried to partition the
HD to my liking. All I wanted to do was format the existing FC's /
partition but ran into the following cfdisk error:
'FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partiton ends in the final
partial cylinder'.
Hi Victor,
Seems like others have had the same issue (80 minutes!?) as there is
a Readers' Digest Condensed version (more just someone's selected
highlights, actually) at [1]. Although TBH I don't know how useful the
video snippets would be on their own if you hadn't already seen the
full
Hi, Just seen this on the dotDorset list. I guess it's the 13th in a
couple of days' time. Sorry for the short notice. Cheers, Ralph.
--- Forwarded Message
From: Didi riba...@gmail.com
Date: 2009/6/8
Subject: [BUNIX] Hackathon
To: bu...@googlegroups.com, snip
Hey
As some of you may
Hi, an advert passed to UK Lugmasters for sending on. Thought it may be
of interest. Cheers, Ralph.
--- Forwarded Message
From: nore...@linuxjournal.com
Subject: Exclusive savings for our International readers
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:52:40 -0700 (PDT)
Are you tired of the rising costs
Hi Peter,
For a limited time all international subscriptions to the print
edition of Linux Journal will be reduced to the low price of
$49.50 for 1 year (a savings of over 30% off the regular price)
AND upgraded to include a free digital subscription.
That's £30. ish But is the
Hi Andrew,
John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
GTK+ is available for Windows AFAIK.
Yes, that's right. But I thought the overhead of wrapping it for CIL
might be an obstacle.
I've certainly run GTK apps on Windows (Dia, Gimp) which involves
installing GTK libraries for Windows. Â I'm wondering
Hi Terry,
I'm 'Up North' again at the moment, and I expect to be next week too,
but for those who can, the next Meeting is in Dorchester at 8pm on
Tuesday 7th July.
If you're away, and I know another regular will be too thanks to a new
job, then given last month's Bournemouth meet was very
Hi,
Marti wrote:
I was also planning to come to Dorchester, but as my partner is
teaching in weymouth until 8:30, Bournemouth would be a challenge.
Either way, this will be my last chance for a very long while, as I am
moving back to Canada at the end of July!
OK, what with you, Simon,
Hi Pete,
Terry's stuffed penguin won't be there so, unless someone's got
something else, e.g. an O'Reilly book, to bring along, if you
haven't been before look out for a group of varying age and dress.
Or try and spot me,
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#ralph_corderoy
Hi, something from UKUUG. Cheers, Ralph.
--- Forwarded Message
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:53:48 +0100
From: Niall Mansfield nmm-lu...@uit.co.uk
To: lugmas...@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [lugmaster] UKUUG Summer Technical Conference; shameless bribery
LUG contacts,
If you could circulate
Hi Terry,
I just successfully added the Medibuntu repository
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) to the repository list
on this machine and ended up with a blocked update (according to
KPackageKit).
Medibuntu's good.
I remember that this came up before and someone posted a way
Hi Terry,
The problem is that K3b sees the disc OK, successfully retrieves track
info from CDDB, but fails when trying to access the disc with lame.
Does lame give any diagnostics when k3b calls it?
I also get disc access failures with other tools, such as KsCD, so I
think the problem is
Hi Terry,
I wrote:
I've tried sudo dpkg --configure -a, apt-get update and apt-get
install without success.
Ralph wrote:
I don't recall, but
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
is one command you've missed off that list.
It was the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade that worked, but I'd
Hi Peter,
My thoughts were to do an 'Ls -something' piped into a file, then
perhaps if I could do a sort on that from the end of each line, I
would end up with duplicates adjacent, which I could then investigate
and clean up as required.
What do you mean by `duplicate'? If you mean you
Hi Peter,
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895
It's odd they mention rsync but not one of the programs that kind of sit
above it, e.g. http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html
which do you use?
GNU tar. I figure it's a simple file format I can interpret almost
anywhere I'm
Hi Tim,
I've also used afio for a number of years (to tape). It's advantage
over tar is that compression takes place on a per-file basis, so less
likely to end up with a totally useless backup in the event of local
corruption.
Yeah, I've wondered about that, but bzip2recover(1) lets me get
Hi Terry,
On Thursday 23 Jul 2009, Dan Jones wrote:
I only just got this
Me too :-) Dan was being uniquely persecuted and victimised by
Mailman. Fortunately, he's used to it and doesn't mind. This time,
Mailman was holding up all his posts until one of us moderators vetted
and
Hi Tim,
My wife runs a program on my PC remotely from her windows XP PC, this
in the most part works very well. The only problem is that when she
makes a mistake the computer will let out a bleep but the bleep comes
out of my PC and at times scare the wotsit out of me as I am not
expecting
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. Cross-posted, please check where you're replying to.
--
Next meeting:
Hi Robert,
Then after a short while (maybe another cronjob 5 mins later wget to
download http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/export.php?type=csv from
the same IP address FF is running from to get your data.
Ah, I assumed that it was the cookies Firefox was storing that would
identify whose
Hi Peter,
Do you find the three runs, one after the other, vary much? If you
automate it, it may be better to spread these through the day.
Last time the download speeds were 1798, 1732, and 1742 kbps at about
10 seconds separation.
$ python
from stats import *
Hi,
Saw this as as result of reading Slashdot comments. The six minute
Youtube video at the bottom of the page is well worth a look, even if
you don't think you're interested in 2D physics.
http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home
I particularly liked when the friction of the blocks is adjusted,
Hi Peter,
The first command that I tried:
crontab -1 cronfile
returned the Unrecognized Command error message.
That's probably meant to be an ell for list rather than a digit one.
Cheers,
Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00
Dorset LUG:
Hi pwl,
I will be there - look out for me I will have my brown laptop case and
will carry an O'Reilly Python book.
I will probably grab something to eat and be on the back veranda until
close to 20:00
I'll almost definitely be there too. Here's some pictures.
Hi Terry,
Hmmm. I can't see anything sound related since Saturday night, when
PulseAudio was updated.
http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Console.txt suggests it wasn't
updated, but selected when it had been previously deselected. IOW,
chosen to be installed, e.g.
Selecting previously
Hi Terry,
It looks likely therefore (but not certain), that the KDE 4.3 upgrade
is the problem. When I installed it, I was aware that there were
risks in doing so, and was quite prepared to trash everything and
start again with a clean install of Jaunty. However, it worked fine
for
Hi Terry,
Actually, instead of removing KDE 4.3, I logged back in to see if
anything worked. It does! Installing the XUbuntu desktop obviously
updated the right things, so in theory at least, I can just leave it
as it is.
Good.
Just a couple more questions. When Synaptic installed the
Hi,
Last time we met at the Dorchester pub we found the free wifi was still
free but only after you registered on the initial web page with an email
address. (Think it's with The Cloud.) This would seem tedious so if
anyone can be prepared next time to register with some trash email
address,
Hi,
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
Might I suggest some extra publicity via http://fossevents.org/ They
have a calendar that a number of LUGs are adding their events to.
it's building quite nicely.
Thanks. BTW, we're already using Yahoo Upcoming, which a few of the
local
Hi Terry,
- xorg.conf isn't in /usr/X11 as the reference says it should be. (The X11
directory doesn't exist.)
You could try
find / -name xorg.conf
with a sudo up the front if you're not already root. That'll print
the path of each one it finds.
- I can 'see' an xorg.conf if I do
Hi Shane,
00520 0 -0.40204212 1 14.030303 2 -8.96428585 3 11.00729942
4 11.04379559 5 1020.18719482 6 4.13605452 7 85.36842346
8 -21.0 9 0.0
00530 0 -0.40204212 1 14.02272701 2 -8.82857132 3 11.00729942
4 11.04379559 5 1020.18719482 6 4.13605452 7
Terry wrote:
The next pub meeting is in Dorchester, next Tuesday.
Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak
Not that it'll make a blind bit of difference to turn-out, of course,
but Wetherspoons seem to have a real ale festival on
Hi Simon,
Python client may be the way to go with this one.
Yeah, I agree, and Nathan Baum suggested it on IRC #dorset too. It's
very easy to knock up a simple standalone web server in Python. This
bash script was just for fun and usable as a last resort if it does
what's required.
Cheers,
Hi,
Tonight's the night of the pub meet at The Royal Oak, Dorchester,
Europe. Kick-off 8pm. (The real ale festival is still on.) I think
there's a contigent of BUNIX folks travelling over from Bournemouth.
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak
If you're
Hi Peter,
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
/home aside, do you wish to keep the contents of sda6 (Ubuntu
9.04)? Only it's very large, more than 50% of the disc so if, as
you said at the pub, you'd like to have that at the beginning of
the drive we're a bit stuck as I don't think gparted
Hi Peter,
I have to admit that I can't remember the precise details of the
movements now, but I DO remember that st least one of them involved
moving a 100 GB Partition about 100 MB to the left, so definitely
overlapping.
Ah, good, so it is possible then. That will make things easier for
Hi Terry,
I suggested the Goat because its parking is pretty ideal (two cheap
car parks within a 5 minute walk - one is literally across the road)
and the pub is quiet enough to get conversation going. The
consideration about having access to the University is not one I had
considered.
Hi,
Mark Elkins wrote:
I would have thought that if the location of the Bournemouth meeting
was too move then it should be to somewhere with wireless. Although
that said the pre sence of wireless may interfere too much with face
to face discussion, which is the purpose of physical meetings I
Hi Terry,
On Monday 09 Nov 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
That reminds me of a point I've made before. One of the things I'd
liked about the Dorchester meeting when John Cooper brought his
suitcase of toys along was how they remained static and the people
moved around, sitting or standing
Hi Peter,
Of course Top doesn't show anything, I've killed two of them by the
time I try it! Could be one of the 'sleeping' ones I suppose.
I find top's overused. Return to ps(1) with something like
ps xauww | grep -i skype
Try it whilst you think there's three running, and then again
Hi Clive,
Ralph suggested the following but I'm having problem:
On laptop:
cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
Not working - reports :- tar: home: cannot open. Is a directory.
tar: Error is not recoverable.
Did I suggest that? Sorry,
Hi Clive,
That's better it worked but finished with a error so i reduced the
pictures folder considerably and tried again, still an error:-
tar: /media/disk/home.tar: wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
tar: error is not recoverable.
Is that the same error as the first time? Doesn't matter if
Hi,
Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:38:08 -, Terry Coles
d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
I just remembered. Won't we going to try somewhere different? Did
we get a consensus?
I don't think one was ever reached.
No. As someone else predicted I think. :-) It isn't
Hi Peter,
When I create an email in evolution, it wraps after 65 characters
as it has done here. That is about half-way across the screen.
Sure it's not 72?
Bear in mind that unless you and your recipients agree that the
paragraphs can be reflowed to fit the various widths the
Hi Tim,
I have downloaded the aforementioned package (including plptool-kde)
but I am not having a lot of luck getting them to run, I can get
plpftp working in konsole but that is it, I can't find any menu item
for plptools-kde or any command that will run it. The included readmes
are of no
Hi Clive,
Ubuntu 9.10 installed on new PC and Laptop up-dated, majority is
fine but problem with Xsane and my scanner. It worked OK under
9.04 but not on 9.10, any ideas please?
Sounds like
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/485551
Try without xsane. Run
Hi Clive,
SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 scanimage lide50.pnm 2lide50.log
Tried the 'sane_debug' line; results: lide50.pnm = 0bytes:
lide50.log = 'Error: Invalid argument', no other info listed.
And that's with the case exactly as given? E.g. SANE_DEBUG_... Odd.
To me that means some
Terry Coles wrote:
Like him, I don't trust any search provider, but I think I trust
Google more than I trust Microsoft. I have no evidence for this,
other than three decades of abuse from the latter and one decade of
'we do no evil' from the former :-)
Does Bing use criteria like who's
Hi,
The normal reminder that it's the Dorchester DLUG pub meeting tonight.
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak
However, bear in mind the forecast is heavy snow for tonight and
tomorrow in Dorchester. See 18:00 onwards in the weather map before the
Hi again,
So, anyone think tonight should be postponed? I'm hesitant to cancel
others fun, especially as I can't make it myself anyway. :-(
Clive and Peter have both said they can't make it on Terry's earlier
thread. And
Hi Dorset LUG,
OK, so various people are saying to put it off tonight's meeting due to
possible snow. Terry Coles is the only regular we haven't heard from?
So far, it isn't clear there's anyone who *is* going tonight. :-)
Cheers,
Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05
Hi Terry!
I was bringing two people, but have already told them that I'm crying
off. I think that Ralph and Simon's suggestion of postponing for one
week is the best idea.
OK, that's official then. :-) Tonight's meet at Dorchester pub is
CANCELLED. New date TBD. I'll change the wiki
Hi Marti,
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
I went to Dorchester's Waitrose tonight, like normal. No bread. Not
even those small horrible ones that look and
Hi Terry,
On Tuesday 05 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
OK, that's official then. :-) Tonight's meet at Dorchester pub
is CANCELLED. New date TBD. I'll change the wiki page.
I think we should definitely go for next week.
Sounds fine to me. That would be Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00
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: 'client-error-document-format-not-supported'. when I try
to do a self
Hi,
It's the Dorchester pub meeting tonight, a week later than normal.
Next meeting at Dorchester: Tuesday 2010-01-12
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
According to the BBC both Dorchester and Weymouth will have heavy snow
Hi Peter,
Wrong, I did get the above one Ralph. You got it with your spam
suggestion. I don't know what it was that you said that Mr Google
thought was dodgy, but there you were among the other business-,
life- and prowess-enhancing opportunities ;-)
Strangely enough I've had at
Hi Terry,
So will I if I can get some accurate data and there is no snow. Those
two forecasts are totally different!
Is there anyone in Dorchester who can confirm the current weather?
Just to give some confidence in the forecasting.
I've just driven from Weymouth to Dorchester. For some
Hi Hugh,
The severe weather warning says, for dorset:
'A band of heavy rain will turn to sleet or snow, especially on hills
and away from southern coastal districts of Dorset'
So I guess that means that if the pub meet was in Shaftesbury, it'd be
snowing, but Dorchester should be okay?
Hi Terry,
MPEG1/2 does not support 2997/100 fps
Try adding
-ofps 3/1001
to the command line.
Cheers,
Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00 ** New date **
Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
Chat:
Hi Terry,
Robert Bronsdon wrote:
#!/bin/sh
mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -channels 6 -of mpeg -mpegopts
format=dvd:tsaf -vf softskip,scale=720:-2,hqdn3d,harddup -srate 48000 -af
lavcresample=48000:volnorm=2 -ofps 25 -lavcopts
Hi Terry,
Before I kick it off again can someone confirm that I'm using the
right incantation? I used cp -rp source destination.
I'd guess that would be fine. `cp -a' is what I use but that's just
adding the -d option; see cp(1). That says to copy symbolic links
better but I don't
Hi,
Sean Gibbins wrote:
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article890196.ece
It makes perfect sense to me, but no doubt the MS carrot/stick
department have already been scrambled...
I thought this Slashdot comment by fuzzyfuzzyfungus a succinct argument.
Hi,
I forget that some folks here don't read Slashdot so won't have seen a
recent story detailing the EFF's measurement of how unique your browser
signature is. IOW, even without cookies or your IP address, can they
spot enough things to narrow down who you may be out of previous
visitors.
Hi Victor,
Interesting! I did not realise that that much information was passed.
From the 'Browser plugin details' figure for my test ( 1 in 159736.33)
I infer that there are three users out of ~48 who have the same
set of plugins as me ;-)
I just did it from this Firefox again but
Hi David,
David da...@noroutetohost.net wrote:
is there an easy way to spot the meeting in the Kings Arms lounge bar
area?
The standard answer is to look out for Terry Coles.
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles
But work commitments have got in the way of his
Hi Shane,
I am trying to image a Western Digital 40gb hard-disk, to be added
into the Autopsy tool as evidence on a case i have manufactured.
The drive is connected via USB as an external drive and being imaged
to the internal hard-disk of a ubuntu server.
I have tried using:-
dd
Hi again Shane,
Can you create different image files? And then run cmp(1) on them to
see where they differ?
And check the number of bytes in each of them is the same to start with
an matches what dd, etc., would have told you.
Also, does plain dd give same result each time, and it's only
Hi Terry,
Who can swear that Google or Amazon might not have a similar
catastrophe as the years go by?
I don't see a problem with web apps as long as the user's aware that
they need their own copy of the data in a usable format, and that the
site may fold tomorrow with no notice. For
Hi,
Justin Stringfellow wrote:
I'm pretty impressed with _my_ sheevaplug. I've not done a huge amount
with it yet, but I'd say it's worth the £100 overall, especially
bearing in mind that it runs on fumes :o)
Given it's got USB, does that mean it could, in theory, support a
DisplayPort
Hi Justin,
Given it's got USB, does that mean it could, in theory, support a
DisplayPort display given that Linux has support for DP now,
although without video compression?
I'm not sure I understand DisplayPort well enough to answer this.
What's the relationship between USB and
Hi Clive,
Details referred to in LXF March 2010 page 50/52:-
Sven Killig added DisplayLink monitor + small USB K'board to wireless
router, Asus WL-500g Premium, which has 2 USB ports. Sven runs Open
WRT on router with open source Linux based firmware. On top he runs
modified SlugTerm
Hi Terry,
We asked them to list the contents of the directory that contains the
binary, and they got: Â
merlin:admin:ls -la
total 42
drwxrwxrwx  2 admin   mats        512 Feb 16 09:24 ./
drwxrwxrwx 13 root    root       1024 Feb 23 07:05 ../
-rwxrwxrwx Â
Hi Terry,
4. In a csh, should appropos work? I can do man apropos, but
foobar anything simply lists the paths that it has searched and
failed to find man pages.
Sounds like your path is not set up.
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/man_pages.html#4
I assumed that
Hi again Terry,
They build ./run with
cc -o run run.c
and then do
./run
It's taking the place of csh kicking off startloopstop. If it fails
then it'll print out execl(3)'s return value, i, which will be -1
(failure), the numeric value of errno, and what is the normal text
Hi,
It's the Dorchester pub meet tonight, Tuesday, at 8pm. Location, photo,
directions, etc.,
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak
No snow is forecast.
Cheers,
Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
Hi Peter,
Tim Allen wrote:
On 11/03/10 18:52, Peter Harris wrote:
I have just used the synaptic package manager to download and
install texlive-math-extra. It does not appear in the applications
menu and I can't find a way of starting it. There is a folder in
/etc called texmf
Hi John,
On Saturday 20 March 2010 08:42:27 Terry Coles wrote:
has any one ever found an innovative software patent?
Wasn't Lempel-Ziv innovative, in its time ?
Was it? It's basically the bytes from here on are the same as the N
bytes from M bytes ago, followed by this new bit: `...'.
Hi David,
What might this line of html/php coding in a webpage do?
script src=http://maveric££kmonkey.com/££widgets/.ht££access.php
/script
Presumably this runs a script held on the `Maverick Monkey' website
but how can I find out what it does?
It's currently an empty file, at
Hi,
Robert Bronsdon wrote:
If 'your friend' has both of these things they are able to setup the
code on a new server somewhere and they will be able to change their
DNS to point at the new server.
David, one way to think of it is the Domain Name System, DNS, is like
the phone book. That's
Hi Terry,
On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Hugh Frater wrote:
My gmail account showed about ten-fifteen messages, each with about
six recipients. I'm pretty sure it went to the lug as well as the
xwax mailing list.
It's possible that the list software recognised a threat and it's
being held
Hi
Terry wrote:
The next meeting will be held at 8pm in The King's Arms Wallisdown on
Wednesday 7th April see:
http://www.dorset.lug.org.uk/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms.
Given that the Weymouth contingent that used to attend Dorchester pub
meets now work away, the Dorchester
Hi,
The pub meet is in Bournemouth tonight, at its usual location of The
King's Arms. Directions, etc.,
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms
Cheers,
Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
Hi Keith,
Point out to her that this is still (allegedly) a democracy, and her
job is to represent her constituents' views in Parliament rather than
to represent her party's views to you. In other words, if she has
three letters against the DEB and one in favour, her job is to vote
against
Hi,
I know there's some on the list with a professional interest in
telephonists...
http://ossg.bcs.org/2010/03/22/open-source-in-telecommunications-london-220410/
Cheers,
Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
Hi Terry,
How does Blandford Forum sound? It looks centralish to
Dorchester, Yeovil, Salisbury, and Bournemouth. Anyone know a
suitable pub? Quiet enough to hear yourself talk, wi-fi a plus.
Any better location suggestions?
Well last night's Meeting wasn't well attended either;
Hi Terry,
On Friday 09 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Do we think that a move to Blandford will improve the western
meets? I didn't get any response to this.
I don't suppose it will. For the odd new attendee there'll be those
that don't make the trip out.
Unless we get a lot
Hi John,
Out of interest, would one of the rural pubs in the immediate area
around Blandford be possibilities too, or would people generally
prefer a pub in a town?
I'd guess rural would be OK if it was only a few minutes from Bladford,
i.e. not hard to find if you don't know the area, it's
Hi David,
Ralph would you pass the message on to the the bunix members regarding
this as you said some of them might be also interested in such an
event?
Done. And dotDorset too. I added on the background you gave.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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Hi Terry,
Bob Dunlop wrote:
Can anyone answer a few queries about coding for a real-time Linux
kernel?
Perhaps you should define real-time for a start. Are you looking to
achieve timing constraints in the tens of millisecond range,
microseconds or nanoseconds ?
...and beat me to lots
Hi Simon,
way to go on putting that ffmpeg tutorial straight.
That had me puzzled. :-) Google led me to
HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoding
in FFmpeg
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1117283
I was wondering if you could advise: I've done
Hi,
John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
I like the idea of a Blandford meeting very much, but it looks likely
that I'll be in Saudi on the date in question so I'll probably have to
abstain from voting.
And Terry's away in California, so his accomplaces will also be missing.
And the BUnix lot are tied
Hi Bob,
Please no! NOT minicom!
It's what I've used on Linux in the past.
It's possibly the worst VT100 emulator I have even encountered and has
the crankiest confiuration system. Why can only root change and save
parameters, why can't you set parameters on the command line ?
True,
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