Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

Hi Andrew, I'm not convinced they provide anything that allows someone to add in support for other languages that is useful in anyway beyond simple toys. They would be as useful as Javascript, I imagine. I'm wondering as to _why_ you even want to run scripts in another language

Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

Hi David, Ken wrote: It might also be worth considering sqlite. It doesn't have the graphical interface you are looking for but sql is quite easy to learn. That would be my suggestion too since you talk of select and update queries. The diagrams mentioned are railroad diagrams showing the

Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

Hi Paul, these databases have been simple table of information that need to be stored, updated and printed. It would almost work as a table in a word processed document bar the fact that you can't sort properly there. Before databases were common on Unix, this would be the province of its

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2013-11-05.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a clutch of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin; not to be burned atop a bonfire. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub

[Dorset] Clive's LibreOffice Printing Window in Mint 14. (Was: Last Nights meeting)

Hi Clive, Ralph helped me out with two problems on my new laptop, one of which we did not find the answer too but he gave me a work-around. I'll leave Ralph to explain the details as it was Printing window box displaying above all other windows, which the 'system' said was not there! I've

[Dorset] PHP Dorset Group.

Hi, A new group, PHP Dorset, might be of interest to some on this list. They popped up on the dotDorset list. Their email's below. Cheers, Ralph. --- Forwarded Message Subject: [dotdorset] PHP Dorset From: David Baker da...@fullybaked.co.uk To: dotdor...@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 6 Nov

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

Hi Paul, I assume it is The Broadway as stated on the webpage and not The Kings Arms as implied by the link which was posted? Quite right. It's The Broadway. I normally go by the table at the top. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting:

Re: [Dorset] Is my Motherboard dying

Hi Peter, When I switch it on, sometimes it doesn't even sample the peripheral hardware but just locks up immediately ... If the motherboard is getting on a bit then it may be a case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_caps. I've had this on two now, over the years, and the symptoms were more

Re: [Dorset] Lamp installed - where is part 2

Hi Tim, http://xendistar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screenshot-221213-170920.png ... How can it show root as owner when I look at the permissions as me yet www-data when I look at it as root? Don't know. Ignore the GUI. :-) Just to reiterate, I want to be a member of the group

Re: [Dorset] Lamp installed - where is part 2

Hi Tim, mit@romulus:~$ sudo ls -ld /{,var{,/www{,/mantisbt{,/admin [sudo] password for mit: drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 3 20:42 / drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Sep 6 18:11 /var drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Dec 16 01:23 /var/www drwxrw 16 www-data

Re: [Dorset] Lamp installed - where is part 2

Hi Tim, mit@romulus:~$ sudo ls -ld /{,var{,/www{,/mantisbt{,/admin [sudo] password for mit: drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 3 20:42 / drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Sep 6 18:11 /var drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Dec 16 01:23 /var/www drwxrw 16

Re: [Dorset] android tablets

Hi Nicky, can anyone tell me why so many different tablets on sale are using android, an operating system that's essentially Linux underneath. It's only the Linux kernel underneath. The userspace is all completely different AIUI. why don't these companies create their own modified version

Re: [Dorset] android tablets

Hi Peter, I have a kodak photoframe that is dying, but it has a USB socket for USB memory sticks. Has anybody ever tried to connect to them and see what is inside software-wise? Your best bet is to Google for something like hack kodak photoframe and include the model number if you can find

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-01-07.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a clutch of laptops or Terry's hungover stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the

Re: [Dorset] Consolidating files

Hi Peter, Tim wrote: I have a problem. My backup USB drive is full. It has full copies of all my data and in some cases my whole home directory from every time that I have backed up. What I would like to do is consolidate by adding all files that are in the old 2013-upstairs-August

Re: [Dorset] Bizarre networking problem

Hi Graeme, Wireless router is connected to: PLA 1 (powerline adaptor HP500), which connects to PLA2 (powerline adaptor HP500) and PLA3 (powerline adaptor HP200), which are geographically separated. PLA2 connects to Netgear

Re: [Dorset] [OT] BT Line Quality

Hi, VSpike wrote: Ken Adams wrote: Long time ago in the days of Fidonet, I had to ask BT to change a particular setting on my line to improve connections on the modem. I find I am in the same situation again. Could it be http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/interleaving.htm perhaps? Or step

Re: [Dorset] Strange passwd change loop

Hi Sam, When starting up my Arch system and trying to login with my username, sam, I'm apparently entering the wrong password.  I have to login to the root account and 'passwd sam' to be able to continue. So you set sam's password to `foo' and then you can log out of root and log in as

Re: [Dorset] Slightly OT: Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing

Hi Terry, I visited Bletchley Park around 18 months ago and I also saw Tony Sale in Weymouth, together with Ralph and others. For me Colossus was the highlight of my visit. The rest is rather boring. I think you'll find

Re: [Dorset] pdf editor

Hi Peter, Can anyone suggest a good pdf editor? There is a pdf editor extension to OpenOffcie, but I can't find one for LibreOffice that I use. There is a note on the Internet about how to use Gimp for editing pdf documents, but not really full blown editing. There's the pdfedit package

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go

Hi Terry, I'll be there with Paul and probably Chris. Another miss from me; still tied up with house moving. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-03-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list:

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go

Hi Terry, Another miss from me; still tied up with house moving. Long move. You taking it brick by brick? :-) Conveyancing seems designed to encourage Chinese Whispers, with the delays that incurs. As a matter of interest, are you going far? No, same Post Code District. BTW, they,

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go

Hi Peter, I do like that. IS a similar sort of thing available for other counties? Depends. That's from a local council IIRC. Others may do similar. Some of the data is available further afield but you may have to pan the map to it as the location may not be known in the text-entry search

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go

Hi, Terry wrote: It may be worth pointing out the error so that they can fix it. They've fixed things I've pointed out in the past. Either in their own data, e.g. library location, or passed the error report upstream and then had the fix flow back down. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting:

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-03-04.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a clutch of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first

Re: [Dorset] RPi Power Saving

Hi Sam, As this will happen every, say, two hours I'd like the Pi to shutdown or hibernate between program executions. Currently I'm thinking about using a RTC with rtcwake(8). The Pi doesn't have a real-time clock chip and battery, i.e. something that keeps track of time passing when power

Re: [Dorset] RPi Power Saving

Hi Peter, There's an RTC module at ModMyPi.co.uk for £10. https://www.modmypi.com/rasclock-raspberry-pi-real-time-clock-module?filter_name=clock Right, that means the Pi can learn the date and time when it's powered on instead of having to fetch it over the network. So it probably provides

Re: [Dorset] RPi Power Saving

Hi Sam, I had intended to use the RTC that Peter suggested without realising the Pi could not hibernate/sleep! Don't take my word for it. :-) Just giving you possible problems to research. BTW, these RTC chips normally have outputs that signal a condition, like a desired time being reached.

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

Hi Tim, Thanks for bringing debian-goodies to our attention - one or two gems buried away in there (checkrestart, debmany, dpigs). Regarding dpigs(1), I use deborphan -a | sed 's/.* //' | xargs dpkg-query -f '${package} ${Installed-Size}\n' -W when I want to find packages that

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

Hi, Keith wrote: Of course, if you reboot, all the old library files will no longer be referenced, and the disk space will be marked as free. To clarify, the library files stop being referenced as the processes die on a requested shutdown, and the filesystem frees the storage for a now

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

Hi Terry, That link says that the only reason that Windows has to reboot is that it holds locks on files that are in use so it cannot update them. Linux doesn't do this so it can replace files, but they won't get used until after the next reboot. As has already been covered, the new

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

Hi Terry, As has already been covered, the new libraries will be used by new processes without a reboot. There's another method of having a daemon replace itself with an updated version... So in fact, it is possible to replace libraries in a running Linux system without a reboot. So

Re: [Dorset] Xubuntu not booting to black screen

Hi Tim, Any suggestions? Does your machine have Nvidia graphics hardware? :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week to Go

Hi Natalie, so seems like I won't be able to attend a meeting until July :-( I should be making May's, the move will be over by then. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on

Re: [Dorset] Meeting Tonight

Hi Terry, Well, I only remembered to send the reminder 5 mins before I set out; so I guess it was my fault. I was without Internet for about a week so didn't send my normal reminder in the morning; yes, house move. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-06-03

Re: [Dorset] Google Chrome + Java = No workie

Hi Tim, Anybody seen anything about Chrome no longer supporting Java? It does not, as John said; see last year's post. http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html (I heard there was much rejoicing in some quarters. ;-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting:

Re: [Dorset] Programming jobs

Hi Peter, There's lots of work here as far as I can tell. Most employers won't know about employing a Canadian though, so that might put them off unless he has the work-visa side of things sorted out. https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

Re: [Dorset] BIOS bleep codes?

Hi Clive, My brother's laptop (Dell Inspiron) fails to boot and gives 7 bleeps, can anyone explain what these bleeps mean please. Seems a very common fault on that Dell model, especially when it's just out of warranty.

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

Hi Terry, Does anyone know how I can use tools available in Linux to convert a PDF file to MS Word .doc or .docx format (or even to LibreOffice .odt)? Sounds like you've done what you wanted, but another option is to edit the PDF down to a mark-up form you're happy with. PDFs tend to be

Re: [Dorset] Hot Backup Mode

Hi Terry, Can anyone explain hot backup mode in the context of file server as opposed to a database? Can it be done? You mean you'd like to snapshot a filesystem so its own internal data is in a consitent state for backing up? Although the files' data might be partially complete, e.g. tar

Re: [Dorset] Hot Backup Mode

Hi Terry, Can anyone explain hot backup mode in the context of file server as opposed to a database? Can it be done? You mean you'd like to snapshot a filesystem so its own internal data is in a consitent state for backing up? No, you mean like a hot spare for failover when the

[Dorset] Arduino Mozzi workshop @ Makers Inc (Westbourne) this Thursday 24th July 2014

Hi, Late notice, but this may be of interest to some here. Cheers, Ralph. --- Forwarded Message Subject: [dotdorset] Arduino Mozzi workshop @ Makers Inc (Westbourne) this Thursday 24th July 2014 From: Mark Benson markbenso...@gmail.com To: dotdor...@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014

Re: [Dorset] Alternatives to DCOM or NetDDE on Linux

Hi Terry, http://opengroup.org/comsource/ It seems that the developer licence is about $7k for five seats and the binary licence is free. We can live with those kind of costs. I thought it was $35,000 to ship binaries outside the company. $7K gets sources and objects on five company

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

Hi Tim, Chad wrote: I have a old usb one you can borrow. If you have non-DOS-format floppies then USB probably won't be any good. In their wisdom, they made the USB interface only support normal DOS formats; no 1024-byte sectors, 10 sectors per track of ADFS, for example. Cheers, Ralph. --

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

Hi Tim, If you have non-DOS-format floppies then USB probably won't be any good. In their wisdom, they made the USB interface only support normal DOS formats; no 1024-byte sectors, 10 sectors per track of ADFS, for example. One of them is labelled 'Minix' so might be ext or

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

Hi, Natalie wrote: The next Meeting is exactly one week tonight; 8 pm at The Broadway on Tuesday 2014-08-05. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! For the first time in a year, I'm hoping I can attend! Not 100% sure yet, but it's

Re: [Dorset] Coax 10Base-2

Hi James, two pieces of a special kind that plugged into a linear 4 contact slot in the wall (so old that Google cannot find a picture of it). Last bit you said sounds like an MAU for token ring rather than 10BASET? It does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.5 has a picture of

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-08-05.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a clutch of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first

Re: [Dorset] C-MOTIF

Hi Terry, Has anyone ever heard of a programming language called C-MOTIF? It has come up in a requirement and Google doesn't throw up any useful hits. I'm sure there's no such thing. I'm wondering if they really mean 'Programming in C for the MOTIF Window Manager'. I had

Re: [Dorset] Lost Memory Device.

If it's yours, let me know and I'll post it to you. Claimant has stepped forward. Might even be the owner. ;-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list:

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on 14.10, but I haven't seen any updates today (yet). /var/log/apt/history.log should say what packages have been upgraded recently? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets,

[Dorset] Links from 2014-08-05's Pub Meeting.

Hi, This sometimes feels like hearing the answers to a pub quiz where we couldn't quite get the points at the time... The other language from Google that started with `A' and came along about the same time as https://www.dartlang.org/ is https://angularjs.org/ There were some fans of the Go

Re: [Dorset] Kernel boot error

Hi Sam, I've finally got round to putting Linux (Arch custom linux-c720 kernel based on 3.16) on my C720 Chromebook. Upon boot I get the (error?) message: usb 2-4: string descriptor 0 malformed (err = -61), defaulting to 0x0409 This seems to have no effect on usage...but it has me

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2014-08-05's Pub Meeting.

Hi Peter, https://twitter.com/RalphCorderoy/dorset-lug/members Anybody who gets the Daily Dilbert by Twitter can't be bad. But I have yet to be given valid reasons why I should become a twit/twitterer. Perhaps just to consume. The mainstream media can be largely ignored;

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, 4. Send network bandwidth approx 27 kBytes per second, which is about what the Internet bandwidth tools tell me I have available on this connection today. It seems to me that the new version takes every ounce of bandwidth it can get, with no cognizance taken of the bandwidth

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup

Hi, TimA wrote: dd does a low level copy so it should copy the partition table and any recoverable data. By only reading from the potentially damaged disk once you may avoid further data loss. Or ddrescue. Method of use is similar to dd but specifically designed to recover failing

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup

Hi, Tim wrote: I was thinking about removing the hard disk and putting it in a USB disk reader and hopefully recovering some or all of my data Be sure to mount any partitions presented as read only. Even if you think you're not modifying the files there's still filesystem meta-data, e.g.

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup - Q2 - DVDs

Hi Peter, At how old should I be 'refreshing' or duplicating my DVD backups? Format shift quite often, I would think. That said, I've some 5¼ floppies to access one day. Rob Pike recently wrote about the topic and the value of real photos tucked away in a shoebox for your descendants.

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup - Q1

Hi John, Have you got a link to a source of them at a reasonable price? If so, I want to snap one up right away! Perhaps the £129.99 inc VAT http://www.ebuyer.com/616877-hp-proliant-microserver-g7-n54l-1p-4gb-u-non-hot-plug-sata-150w-ps-744900-421 They look nice, I agree, but I've an eye on

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup - Q1

Hi Tim, They look nice, I agree, but I've an eye on power consumption. Some low-powered CPU with an SSD sitting as a buffer in front of hard disks that occasionally spin up? HP Microserver consumes 29W with disk spinning. I'm paying 12.39p/kWh at the moment, which I think is quite good,

Re: [Dorset] NFS pointers

^$USER: /etc/passwd ralph:x:1000:1000:Ralph Corderoy,,,:/home/ralph:/bin/bash $ $ awk -F: /^$USER:/ '{print $3}' /etc/passwd 1000 $ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New

Re: [Dorset] How can I reproduce the properties of Windows Shared Documents directory in Linux?

Hi John, I've created /home/shared and made it usable by all but, of course, items put in there retain their owners permissions. Yes, moving a file to /home/shared won't change it from 0600, say, to 0666. I guess that setting umask to an extreme value (is that 000 or 777?) would do it but

Re: [Dorset] How can I reproduce the properties of Windows Shared Documents directory in Linux

Hi John, Firstly, do I have to edit /etc/passwd to change users' primary group? Yes, it's the third field; see passwd(5). $ grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd ralph:x:1000:1000:Ralph Corderoy,,,:/home/ralph:/bin/bash $ There's vipw(8) for editing that file. Or see usermod(8)'s -g option

Re: [Dorset] How can I reproduce the properties of Windows Shared Documents directory in Linux

Hi Neil, To be honest, once the 'old' files are in place, and the above criteria are met, you can just; find /home/shared -exec chgrp users {} \; as root and you shoulnd't need any cron jobs... If the primary group isn't changed then files created outside of the g+s hierarchy will be

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-09-02.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-09-02.

I thought the penguin was MIA after the last meet? Ah, no, that was Peter's. Victor's now. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.uk.dorset/5923 Terry's doesn't leave his sight. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] How can I reproduce the properties of Windows Shared Documents directory in Linux

Hi John, I got several permissions shown as (big) S. According to one website this means setgid (s) but WITHOUT searching (x). That's correct. It's terrible GNU deprecate man pages for crufty old info(1), but ls(1posix) from package manpages-posix, `man 1posix ls', does say S

Re: [Dorset] Rolling Back Skype

Hi Terry, I remember the last time Skype broke, someone told me how to roll-back, but I've had a hard disc failure since then and some of my archived messages got lost. ;-( The list archive doesn't seem to allow searching. :-( ;-( There's other archives apart from the official (crude)

Re: [Dorset] Rolling Back Skype

Hi Terry, Anyway, I found the reference from April last year and guess what? It was you who told me what to do Ralph :-) Ah, was it? I forget a lot of non-technical stuff, sorry. :-) I then noticed that the download for skype is 15.7 kB, whereas skype-bin is 16.2 MB, so I ran Skype and

[Dorset] Links from 2014-09-02's Pub Meeting.

Hi, To round off what's probably the longest piece of magic Tim's ever conjured up, I can confirm the text said it was the 3♣ when I got home. The newish email client with encryption a consideration from the start is https://www.mailpile.is/ Terry, a long time ago it seems it was possible to

Re: [Dorset] Keyboard problem with Ubuntu 14.04

Hi Peter, I have just upgraded from Ubuntu12.04 to 14.04 by downloading the ISO file and creating a boot disc. Since the upgrade my keyboard has a number of characters swapped over , eg is @ . Can anyone tell me how to get back to UK keyboard please?

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu - Chrome - Flash and NO sound

Hi Peter, The instructions were to copy the libflashplayer.so into a directory, and the USR folder into a usr folder, and restart Chrome. But https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/108086?hl=en-GB says Adobe Flash Player is directly integrated with Google Chrome and enabled by

Re: [Dorset] Rogue browser overwriting my desktop

Hi Victor, A popup is generated, but when it goes away the underlying window content is not restored - or rather, something is restored to the temporarily overwritten area but it seems to be being written to the X desktop itself. Is there compositing being used, perhaps just for the popups?

Re: [Dorset] BASH security vulnerability

Hi Terry, There must be millions of similar devices out there, eg TVs, routers, network storage, fridges even. Whose going to sort them out? The machine has to be running bash; lots of smaller devices run a lighter shell, e.g. dash, or Busybox. And to be vulnerable, there has to be a means

Re: [Dorset] change of email

Hi Richard, would you please change my registered email address to: rrt...@gmail.com. I've unsubscribed you. Visit https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset to subscribe your new address. Might be a good time to remind subscribers that the headers of every email from the list

Re: [Dorset] List Behaviour - Reply / Reply to All

Hi Terry, David wrote: Maybe the list logic has changed recently I think the behaviour of the list has changed. Looking at older emails the reply-to header used to be the list email address It has indeed changed, as announced last month. :-)

Re: [Dorset] List Behaviour - Reply / Reply to All

Hi Terry, The thing is that my mail client (KMail) has mailing list support, so a simple 'Reply' works. However, if the user clicks 'Reply-to-All', then presumably two messages get sent; one to the list and one direct to the originator of the list. Yep. On heavily loaded and so slow lists,

Re: [Dorset] How to use rsync for backups

Hi John, I've set up an initial use of rsync for making a mirror-type backup and I'd like some advice to improve it, please. 1. Does rsync verify the copies it makes? Well, it does have -c, AKA --checksum, though it's actually MD4 or MD5. This changes how the list of files that need

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

Hi Terry, (Any chance you could alter your From address to the list to include your name? Not change the email address, just add a real name. I search for emails from Terry. :-) That's part of the problem; they're not really sure. I think it might function as a newsletter in some

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

Hi Terry, Agreed, which is another reason that we are only considering a blog / forum. Take a look at http://www.discourse.org/ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

Hi Terry, Agreed, which is another reason that we are only considering a blog / forum. Take a look at http://www.discourse.org/ That looks v. good Ralph... might just try it myself (for a client) One more thing; consider how easy it will be to move your data on in a couple of years

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-10-07.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web

Re: [Dorset] Linux Sysadmin roles

Hi Peter, Peter Merchant wrote: Cloud SysAd roles going (Linux) let me know if anyone's interested Your student might want to tell the http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs mailing list. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] Swap page usage

Hi Tim, a more specific program for looking at the swap file. Try grep VmSwap /proc/*/status | sort -k2n and see if it gives a clue what processes are using a lot. You might want to run it when you don't think there's a problem to get some idea what normally uses swap. There's also

Re: [Dorset] Kontact (KMail) Mail Directory

Hi Terry, $ grep -r ~ 'Svarowski Crystal' Victor means grep -r 'Svarowski Crystal' ~ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-11-04.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web

Re: [Dorset] USB Printer on Router

Hi Peter, Select Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network, type http://192.168.1.1:631/printers/DX4850; ... From Kubuntu using the printer wizard, I seem to have been able to install my HP Deskjet D1660 using Cups and gutenberg printing, But when I try it hangs at

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

Hi Terry, I still can't get the audio to another piece of software on the computer, other than Skype. Don't know if https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1325282 is relevant and any help. Google just shows me lots of people having trouble getting the microphone to work

Re: [Dorset] Added disk and graphx card to new machine, not seen :(

Hi Victor, The PC also has several expansion slots, PCI Express 164-pin and one legacy PCI 120 pin. I dropped the dual-VGA card from my old PC into that slot. ... I still don't see the VGA card though, although while I was in the BIOS I could confirm that it sees two VGA compatible devices

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-12-02.

Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web

Re: [Dorset] Added disk and graphx card to new machine, not seen :(

Hi Victor, [ 23.371847] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU installed in this system is [ 23.371848] NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 173.14.xx Legacy drivers. Please [ 23.371849] NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more [ 23.371850] NVRM: information.

Re: [Dorset] i-Nex: it runs, but does it work?

Hi John, I ordered a 4.3GHz overclock onto a 3.5GHz Core i5. The BIOS still calls this 3.5G and Chillblast tried to convince me that it was just an uninformative BIOS. They suggested using CPU-Z under Windows, which they always use. The current alternative for Linux, as far as I could

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working with Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-( Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you yesterday. It includes this feature from October:

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you yesterday. It includes this feature from October: http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/ ... In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will support the

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, Well it doesn't and I've now worked out that I probably need an uplink speed of at least 1 Mbps to use Skype with the low-res camera and 4 Mbps to use it with the hi-res one. I have about 480 kbps. Is that based on non-compression of the video stream?

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/ In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will support the 'Hello' feature with video conferencing. The link in the page that you cited is to the beta download.

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, I assume that the extra 850 kbps is the resends. I think $ netstat -s | grep segments retransmited 27 segments retransmited will show you those. You can keep an eye on it over time, untested. l= while :; do sr=`netstat -s | sed -n 's/ segments

Re: [Dorset] Skype

Hi Terry, I've found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683830 which suggests you need to enable it in 34! I tried, but it isn't in the list of Add-ons. Maybe it is because Kubuntu's V34.0 is different to the raw one? I've worked it out. Good. The Mozilla crew didn't enable

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 14.10 not seeing USB device properly

Hi Terry, Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.524114] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ohci-pci Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702208] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001 Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702221] usb 5-2: New USB device

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 14.10 not seeing USB device properly

Hi Terry, As suggested I searched for the Vendor and Product IDs on Google and found a few things. That will only turn up the FTDI chip, used by many products. I was thinking more the efergy product name. http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-25488.html That's trying to get

<    2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >