[Dorset] Xenon Death Flash Freezes Raspberry Pi 2.

Hi, Sam Davis pointed this out on #dorset IRC. A Xenon camera flash near a Raspberry Pi 2 causes it to freeze. The thread covers the tracking down of the problem, and was interesting to me from the electronics PoV. http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28t=99042 Trying not to give

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

Hi Clive, It's the DVD text menu showing Mint 17.1 and Memcheck, so booted from DVD. Select Mint and that's when it goes to blank screen and nothing more happens. OK, there's probably a means of using that menu to edit the command line that boots Mint. Look for splash and quiet. Remove

Re: [Dorset] Full Root Partition

Hi Clive, David wrote: How did you remove the backup? If it was via the GUI then I suspect it has gone in to the trash folder. ( ~/.local/share/Trash) That would be my guess. Open a terminal from the Live boot, find and remove the file from that. Useful commands are cd dir -- change

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

Hi Clive, So the DVD is a good one so why does it not work on the laptop, which it the same drive it was burned on? Only thing I can think of, given the DVD starts OK and you get the menu offering Mint to boot, is to edit its kernel command line and remove `splash' and `quiet' as I said

Re: [Dorset] Opening ports - confused

Hi Tim, iptables -A INPUT -p ALL --dport 3977 -j ACCEPT I suspect it is because you have the protocol as ALL, There are more protocols than TCP and UDP. I think David's right; --dport is only valid for some protocols, e.g. `tcp', so giving `-p all', the default, rules out its use.

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi and 24 monitor

Hi Graeme, I'm thinking of getting one and sharing my 24 monitor with it via a KDM switch because once I've got it set up I will only need occasional video access. The only thing I can think of is it may not see the HDMI monitor when it's powered up, depending on the KVM, and not output a

[Dorset] Job Ad: Web/Mobile Software Engineers, Rails/Postgres/ArchLinux.

Hi, This linuxjobs job posting seems local enough to echo as Altaire are at Eastleigh, just off M27 J5, but working from home is acceptable with occasional visits. Cheers, Ralph. http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/linuxjobs/2015-January/001149.html My employer is looking to fill some

Re: [Dorset] Domain Redirection

Hi Terry, You might have sorted this by now... Our IP Address: - Web address 1 - Top level content - Web address 2 - /sub-directory- Sub-domain 1 etc. Stephen's pointed you in what's probably the best direction, Apache configuration and virtual hosts, but

[Dorset] Links from 2015-01-06's Pub Meeting.

Hi, CPK Smithies recommends MuseScore for creating sheet music. He had some Satie on display and was right, it was _Trois Gnossiennes_ I was trying to recall. http://musescore.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnossiennes#Trois_Gnossiennes Paul was playing with PsychoSynth and in skilled hands

Re: [Dorset] Domain Redirection

Hi Terry, Should the parent company URL that is the root content served by the webserver have access to the child-company subdirectories? Or are they just an artifact. Google's not too keen on identical content being repeated so you might want to remove it from the parent. There's no

[Dorset] Group for Ruby Programmers in Dorset.

Hi, I've heard of a fledgling Dorset group for those interested in the Ruby programming language. http://ruby.dorset.io/ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-04-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread:

Re: [Dorset] File type question

Hi Clive, I have 2 files which only have a number similar to 149C6000 with no extension (that I can see), files are not recognised but info is they are a 'OLE2 compound document storage'. Tried adding a known extension but nothing is shown that makes sense. The only info shown when

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

Hi Tim, Andrew wrote: Tim wrote: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1021MB 1021MB primary boot You can avoid those awkward units, by getting it in bytes, with sudo parted /dev/sdd unit B print That then gives

Re: [Dorset] How do I find out the file system type?

Hi Tim, After attempting to mount it, have a look at the end of dmesg(1)'s output for any information from the kernel filesystem modules about what they did or didn't like. Strangely my system does not have a dmesg log file, I had a good search (looked in the normal /var/log/ ) but there

Re: [Dorset] Multiple commands in bash

Hi Tim, I'd like to run multiple commands in Bash: patch -m patchfile hg diff cd dir make -s but for audit purposes I'd like each command in the list to be echoed as run, even better I'd like the Bash prompt to appear too in front of each line. $ cat tim id date false

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-03-03.

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] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

Hi Terry, I fixed my problem by completely removing xrdp from the Pi (including a purge) and re-installing it. That seems to match http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1314336 and the bugs it links to. Something about whether xrdp pulls in vnc4server, bad, or tightvncserver, good. There

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

Hi Terry, No matter; I'm satisfied that it works well enough to try things out and I can use SCP and plain ol' network browsing to exchange files if need be. Did you see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/vnc/ ? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday,

Re: [Dorset] USB on Boot problem

Hi Tim, The PCI USB card works 99% of the time, the 1% it does not is during the grub boot up where I get to select the bios, OS or Kernel etc. Wehn USB first arrived, BIOSes often did not support it, or would only support it if enabled in the BIOS. Could it be your BIOS is that old and the

[Dorset] Job Ads on the List.

Hi, The list got a polite email from a Bournemouth recruiter that fills Linux positions. I'm guessing the list doesn't particuarly want job ads here? (If you're interested in UK Linux jobs then https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs is one place to subscribe; that's where I'm

Re: [Dorset] DLUG Website - Media File Uploads

Hi Terry, On Thursday 04 Jun 2015 10:36:45 TimA wrote: I think this is a long-standing problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/dorset%40mailman.lug.org.uk/msg02597.html I guess I'll have to wait until Ralph has time to upload them. I think they're still there, 2001 and 2002's, looking at

Re: [Dorset] DLUG Website - Media File Uploads

Hi Terry, Before doing the sifting, perhaps we should consider the options given the broken wiki that shows no signs of being fixed. I've raised the issue with the lug.org.uk admins who happen to be talking about upgrades to various things at the moment anyway, so something might happen

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

Hi Tim, $ readelf -d /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc Dynamic section at offset 0xb20a4 contains 26 entries: TagType Name/Value 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6] 0x0001 (NEEDED)

Re: [Dorset] DDOS Attack

Hi Terry, Any other ideas? Why are you calling them DoS? Are they impairing your Internet access? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-07-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK

Re: [Dorset] DDOS Attack

Hi Terry, Simon Avery wrote: Simon Avery, again, wrote: I don't think these are DDOS attacks. I tend to agree. Netgear's firewall is paranoid to the point of uselessness. That these are coming from known CDN providers reinforces that - it's not even background noise chatter of

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

Hi Peter, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: You could always try https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer instead. That's what I use, and quite a few others I know. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-06-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

Hi Terry, The BBC quite often change things meaning an up-to-date script is required. The -u option will update the script and plugins with later versions if they're available. Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: I installed the script as described here:

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

Hi Terry, That Web GUI makes it all a lot easier. I've never used it, but IIRC the release notes make it clear it lags the command line and doesn't keep up with the latest BBC hoops that needs jumping through for all functionality. So if something doesn't work, try the command line. Most of

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 585, Issue 1

Hi Graeme, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: It should just be a case of setting share.gemmill.name as a CNAME to ggemmill.ddns.net. There may be an advanced DNS editor in 1 1 that allows this. Note that in DNS terms the . on the end of the target is important, although their web editor

Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

Hi Peter, ERROR: get_iplayer was installed using the 'apt' package manager. Please refer to the package manager documentation. Perhaps you only removed the get-iplayer package, failing to purge it, and thus its configuration file remains and that's telling the new get_iplayer that it was

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

Hi Terry, Halfway through I realised that Clonezilla can do a direct partition to partition copy, which is what I ended up doing. Yep, saves a second lot of copying. Anyone know whether I can mount the disc read/write from a live disc? I've only been able to mount it read-only so far, but

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

Hi Terry, 1. I plugged both discs into the Optiplex and booted from the old disc. This worked perfectly. OK. 2. I used KDE Partition Manager to format the 1TB disc into two partitions; both bigger than the corresponding / and /home partitions on the old one, plus a swap partition to suit

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

Hi Terry, It's SATA with a separate power connector. ... I've found some slimline SATA DVD drives online for around £15, but the blurb on them is not very forthcoming on the physical interfaces and all the pictures I've found a front view only. If you were looking at something like the

Re: [Dorset] Can't get Replies working right

Hi Terry, I've tried Ralph's suggestion and filtered on the list ID (this message will prove if it works or not). I'm replying just to the list and not to your d-lug address. I normally do this. Others might not, sending to both. You've told Mailman to `Avoid duplicate copies of messages?'

Re: [Dorset] Can't get Replies working right

Hi Terry, I'm guessing KMail doesn't recognise d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk as `you', thinks this email is from terry.j.coles, which it knows *is* you, and that you've got a blind copy somehow¹. So it makes sense that to reply you'd be sending to d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk and no one else.

Re: [Dorset] Can't get Replies working right

Hi Terry, You replied off list, don't know if that was intentional. :-) So, to prove that, I need a message from someone else writing direct to my d-lug address. That worked. Thanks. ... It's now 3948080.kSRSUfdOZp@jubilee.optiplex. Assuming the machine is optiplex, I meant more

Re: [Dorset] Ink Cartridge recycling

Hi Peter, Does anyone know of an organisation that takes used ink-jet and laser cartridges for recycling. Have you tried contacting Dorchester's library to see what they do, perhaps as part of the large council office they're in. That might give a contact. Alternatively,

Re: [Dorset] New in the area

Hi Rob, Welcome to the list. Let me know your projects. Erm, trying to keep up with all the new things. :-) As Terry said, last night was our monthly meeting. That was in Bournemouth. There are various other tech. groups around Dorset if you've particular interests, e.g. PHP, or located

Re: [Dorset] RFI: Using 2.5 SSD Drives in a 3.5 enclosure

Hi Terry, John Horne wrote: I set the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab for the SSD partition(s) There's also the half-way house of `relatime'; see mount(8). Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] Expanding directory tree structure

Hi Peter, Does the 'tree' utility do what you want? Thanks Tim, It does exactly what I want. I just need to output it to a file and remove all the files, leaving the naked tree structure. Skim its man page as -d shows just directories and it has lots of other options too. Cheers, Ralph.

[Dorset] For Sale: Used Dell PowerEdge Servers.

Hi, Our little #dorset IRC channel heard about 13 used Dell PowerEdge servers for sale. It mentions shipping, but they are in the Bournemouth/Poole area for picking up instead. Details in cell A1!

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

Hi again Terry, Have you another drive to swap in, or another machine to put this drive into? You've already tried other disks, I assume? (Andrew's suggestion on #dorset.) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

Hi Terry, Any chance cables to the DVD drive were knocked? I tried removing and reseating them. No change. In any case, I'd have thought that the machine wouldn't see the drive at all without good integrity on the connectivity. My TV sat there with standby lit just fine, but would

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

Hi Terry, I then shut down so that I could swap the SATA and power cables from the SSD to the 320GB disc. Any chance cables to the DVD drive were knocked? sudo mount -t auto /dev/sro /media/terry I get 'mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0'. Try `dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=2048' and

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

Hi Terry, Here is what I'd like to end up with on the new drive: sda1/ ext440GB sda2/home ext4250GB sda3swapswap8GB ... I then tried booting into Kubuntu Live and copying each disc partition as files (I'm not sure it will work for the / partition, but

Re: [Dorset] Hello from a new member in Bournemouth

Hello Just a quick email to introduce myself. Currently running SUSE. Stephen Bell Stephen was at the last meeting, up the end of the table with Tim, Natalie and me, for those of you that were down the other end. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-08-04

Re: [Dorset] Copying directories between discs

Hi Clive, sudo rsync -r -a sda3/home sdb4/home Since source and destination are on the same machine, and you're not trying to update an old copy to match an original that's since changed, you may as well use cp(1). Probably, sudo cp -a --preserve=all --sparse=always /home /mnt/sdb4/home

Re: [Dorset] Firefox error

Hi Clive, > XUL RUNNER > ERROR PLATFORM > VERSION 41.0.2 > is not compatible with > MIN VERSION >= 41-0-1 > MAX VERSION < 41.0.1 > > I have no idea what this means This may help. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up#XULRunner_error_after_an_update Cheers, Ralph. -- Next

[Dorset] OT: HoustonTracker 2 for the TI-82.

Hi, This isn't Linux... http://irrlichtproject.de/houston/ is using the Texas Instruments TI-82 calculator to produce 1-bit sound, i.e. it's big-banging using one-bit of an output port connected to a speaker, with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker user interface. The Youtube video

Re: [Dorset] VMWare Player: XP installed but it's counting down from 30 days!

Hi Terry, > > I see by this old message that Terry and some others like VMWare so > > I thought that I would go for that. > > vSphere is the professional system that costs megabucks, VMware are evil. http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20151029-vmware_gpl/ ;-) I've not used either, but

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-11-03.

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. Terry's won't be there, so don't look for him, or his stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub

Re: [Dorset] CUPS same printer multiple drivers

Hi Tim, > Setting up a raw queue overcomes this. Another option I've seen is uncommenting "application/octet-stream" in CUPS's mime.types and mime.convs. This apparently lets the raw data from Windows through to the printer? > So the question is, can I have a raw and a non-raw version of the

[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi, I'd never heard of this, but Terry was passing through at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Aberdeen_typhoid_outbreak Haven't seen this, but might be interesting. Marcus du Sautoy spends an hour looking at algorithms for the layman. 60 minutes. Available for about another three

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

Hi Peter Tim wrote: > Take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync libs. It's possible to > exclude specific directories (--exclude or --exclude-globbing-filelist). > If you call it from a daily cronjob you can back up multiple directory > trees by running it sequentially on those. The most

Re: [Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi Peter, > > > Haven't seen this, but might be interesting. Marcus du Sautoy > > > spends an hour looking at algorithms for the layman. 60 minutes. > > > Available for about another three weeks, but get_iplayer could > > > always just save it to disk until you've spare time. > > >

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

, or just do the > incremental backup on it? > > The script looks like this: > > # Program to backup /Home/peterm to USB store using rdiff-backup > # as suggested by Ralph Corderoy > # October 12 2015. > # Intention is to do one full backup per year and then monthly &g

Re: [Dorset] Problems with /home when doing a clean install of Kubuntu 15.10 beta

Hi Terry, > > > Here is the contents of /home/terry, as read from 14.04. > > > > Do you mean 15.10? > > Both actually, but in 14.04, I can mount the partition that I > designated for /home in 15.10, so that's what I did. Ah, got it. > NAME DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO NAME

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-10-06.

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] Problems with /home when doing a clean install of Kubuntu 15.10 beta

Hi Terry, > Here is the contents of /home/terry, as read from 14.04. Do you mean 15.10? > The UUID in the prompt is the correct partition for /home that I > designated during installation: > > terry@Optiplex:/media/terry/27d4a9df-0b5a-4ced-af21-9ebdd332e87b/terry$ ls -la > total 28 >

Re: [Dorset] Problems with /home when doing a clean install of Kubuntu 15.10 beta

For those playing along at home, here's Terry's output without it being wrapped by his email client. > This is what df O/Ps: > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on > udev 4008084 0 4008084 0% /dev > tmpfs 8052369388

Re: [Dorset] Meeting yesterday

Hi Terry, (think 'I, Robot', Azimov's three laws and the dangers of robots that can think for themselves). Did you see the _Financial Times_ employment correspondent tweeted about the VW worker in Germany that was killed recently after entering the robot's cage?

Re: [Dorset] Meeting yesterday

Hi Natalie, This was my first meeting in almost a year and I realise I ended up not talking to most people as I got into a deep conversation at my end of the table, so apologies. I seem to lack the social skills to mingle. :-) The new guy at the end of the table was Nick, for those that

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-07-07.

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

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-09-01.

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] Cannot Run Sonic Pi as an Ordinary User

Hi Terry, > > LC_ALL=C strace -fe execve ./rp-app-bin > > I ran that and got the result at: > > http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/strace_output.txt These look odd. [pid 8184] execve(0x1e43b50, [0x1e43aa0], [/* 0 vars */]) = 0 [pid 8183] +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ [pid 8170]

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Run Sonic Pi as an Ordinary User

Hi Terry, > It's an ELF binary: > > terry@Optiplex:/usr/src/sonic-pi-master/app/gui/qt$ ls -la sonic-pi > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3151986 Sep 7 14:47 sonic-pi I Googled for that error message and arrived at https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/blob/master/app/gui/qt/mainwindow.cpp#L652 Combine

Re: [Dorset] Password security

Hi Natalie, > Personally, I don't trust passwords "managers" - what happens if they > are hacked too? True. I use gpg(1) with a passphrase, but I realise that's not for everyone. :-) Something else I do when setting passwords for others that need to be relayed is to pick from a limited set

Re: [Dorset] Password security

Hi Tim, > Just had a wander through those links and downloaded the GCHQ pdf as > well, wading through mud with both feet tied together and blindfolded > seem to springs to mind. More! _Choosing Secure Passwords_ by Bruce Schneier.

Re: [Dorset] Password security

Hi Tim, > Has anybody used this software http://enpass.io/ Seems likely. ;-) > Been thinking about some form of password security for a while but > don't know what software is right to use The FLOSS http://keepass.info/ for Windows has been around for a long time. And

Re: [Dorset] Cannot print to network lpd: after CUPS upgrade

Hi Tim, > Yes I could but as I've found a work-around I think I need to move on > to some of the other new CUPS problems this release has thrown up. I found mention of kernel TCP changes causing problems with Edimax Ethernet/Centronics interfaces, amongst other makes. The workaround was to set

Re: [Dorset] RFI: Using 2.5" SSD Drives in a 3.5" enclosure

Hi Terry, > http://blog.neutrino.es/2013/howto-properly-activate-trim-for-your-ssd-on-linux-fstrim-lvm-and-dmcrypt/ > > both suggest that using discard leads to sluggardly behaviour and a > script invoking fstrim in cron.daily will keep the disc spry. I think that article explains it well.

Re: [Dorset] Cannot print to network lpd: after CUPS upgrade

Hi Tim, > After the upgrade, print spooling to an old HP Laserjet 6P through an > Edimax ethernet-Centronics print server stalls (lpd://printer:lpt1). That a Pi still on CUPS 1.5.3 is odd, as if it isn't the Jessie upgrade that's broken things. LPD is an old and simple protocol IIRC. Have you

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

Hi Terry, > > B 700MHz 1-core ARM1176JZF-S512MiB > > Pi 2 900MHz 4-core ARM Cortex-A7 1024MiB > > Zero 1000MHz 1-core ARM1176JZF-S512MiB > > Yes. I was aware of the specs, but I must say that I was very > surprised at the difference. There is a new graphical

Re: [Dorset] VM, W10, and chkdsk

Hi Peter, > Windows has made corrections to the file system. ... > E:\.Trash-1000\files> > I was still told that I had to use manual methods to empty the trash, > so I downloaded trash-cli, changed to the USB drive and ran > trash-empty. Trash looks empty. > > But still getting this message:

Re: [Dorset] AMD Graphics Cards

Hi Terry, > This machine came with a Radeon HD 6350 graphics card ... > The truth is that the performance of the Radeon Card is dire At any thing in particular? You're a recent Kubuntu. Have you read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver? It seems to think your Cedar-chipset HD 6350

Re: [Dorset] AMD Graphics Cards

Hi Terry, > > At any thing in particular? You're a recent Kubuntu. Have you read > > Hmm, I don't quite parse that. Assuming that you meant that I'm a > recent Kubuntu user, then that is not true, I've been using it since > approximately 2001!. I meant "You've", thus the Ubuntu help

Re: [Dorset] VM, W10, and chkdsk

Hi Peter, I'm probably replying too late to be useful, ... > > Google suggests a KDE can leave file ~/.local/share/Trash/metadata > > saying a lot of space is used when it isn't. If that's the case > > here, you can either edit it and change size=123... to size=0, or > > delete the file. Then

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-12-01.

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. Or perhaps a Pi Zero. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2015-12-01.

Hi Clive, Replying to the list as you probably meant it to go there given I don't know about Windows! > Will be there with a small laptop/tablet which I'd like some help with > please. > It's an Acer Aspire Switch 10 with M%8.1 but the old couple cann't get > on with it. I have an external DVD

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

Hi Terry, Andrew wrote: > However for around £10 you can get a GPS receiver module which can be > connected to the RPi's 3.3v serial pins, which would provide an > accurate time if it were needed. If you need all the Zeroes to be in sync, but find they drift apart after all being turned on at

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

Hi Tim, > Two or three years back I designed a UPS to work with a Pi for a > backup server, communicating over IIC, only to discover that the Pi > IIC didn't implement pulse stretching. That's interesting. I found http://www.advamation.com/knowhow/raspberrypi/rpi-i2c-bug.html detailing the І²C

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

Hi Terry, > we would like to use a Pi Zero to turn lights inside houses on and off > at intervals and also to dim and brighten the main lights at 'dusk' > and 'dawn'. Do dusk and dawn occur repeatedly through the day, or is there any need to tie in with wall clock time, only there's no real-time

Re: [Dorset] Ex-Plessey and on Facebook, and watching here?

Hi Peter, > Dorsetforyou have posted a picture of Plessey c 1970. Link? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-07-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting

Re: [Dorset] ScriptSafe

Hi Terry, > 2. Not running the tool and almost definitely being compromised if > they happen to stray onto a rogue site. Ignoring privacy issues, what's ScriptSafe offering? Is it just block unwanted content (MVPS HOSTS, hpHOSTS (ad / tracking servers only), Peter Lowe's HOSTS

Re: [Dorset] Printing of extra blank page for PDF's

Hi Tim, > From memory it's associated with the way Evince mishandles duplexing > (ie it treats a non-duplex printer like Laserjet 6P as a duplex > printer). Try printing a pdf with an even number of pages to confirm - > you shouldn't get the blank page. Perhaps this is what I was remembering; I

Re: [Dorset] Printing of extra blank page for PDF's

Hi Clive, > > > Tonight I tried changing the default reader from Evince to Ocular > > > and no extra page was printed! To confirm I printed the same file > > > again with Evince - blank page printed! Ah, I didn't realise you printed a PDF from a PDF viewer. I thought it would be from some GUI

Re: [Dorset] Talk Talk

Hi, Peter wrote: > FYI, Talktalk is down - the whole site - no mail, nothing. Tues 17:00 Status can be followed at https://twitter.com/TalkTalkCare Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-07-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New

Re: [Dorset] ScriptSafe

Hi Terry, > > BTW, someone else has done what I suggested; you may want to > > subscribe if you've an account. > > https://github.com/andryou/scriptsafe/issues/6 > > I don't have a github account. It's got a few updates now, including from the extensions author, and links to a related Chrome

Re: [Dorset] ScriptSafe

Hi Terry, > It can now: > > • Read and change all your data on the websites that you visit > • Change your privacy-related settings That extension looks to be abandoned? All I could find was an explanation for one of those from other similar projects.

Re: [Dorset] ScriptSafe

Hi Terry, > It's KMail. Good. Someone else's problem then. :-) > - *moved project to Github and updated the links within ScriptSafe > accordingly* Ah, did you see any links? Or does that need you to approve running it first. :-) I found https://github.com/andryou/scriptsafe/commits/master

Re: [Dorset] ScriptSafe

Hi Terry, > > That extension looks to be abandoned? > > I don't think so. The Chrome Store at > > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/ > oiigbmnaadbkfbmpbfijlflahbdbdgdf?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog Is that KMail breaking long links, or Mailman? Here it is

Re: [Dorset] ScriptSafe

Hi Terry, > That, of course, has always been the case. It's just that these > permissions seem to give away much more than they used to. Perhaps open an issue on that Github project quoting the exact wording of the privileges, for those that come Googling, and asking for an explanation to be

Re: [Dorset] Video doorbell project

Hi Graeme, > I'm prepared to use a Raspberry Pi if that would be useful Googling for "video doorbell raspberry pi" turns up a few things. Even if they're not directly suitable, they should give leads like using gstreamer. Quite a few cover unlocking the door! But that can be skipped.

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

Hi Terry, > 'Dusk' and 'dawn' are fixed values around 3 to 5 minutes apart so that > the visitors can see the layout operating at 'night' as well as during > the 'day'. There is no need to know the real time. Is there one Pi Zero doing all the lights, or will there be several, coordinating? >

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

Hi Terry, > > I was thinking your program would need *no* required code to support > > execution, i.e. a statically linked executable, and no programs to > > have run before hand to set anything up, e.g. networking, the date, > > hostname, logging, etc., and thus could be init, and never kick off

Re: [Dorset] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

Hi Terry, > I haven't found any examples or documentation that supports the > hardware PWM capability built in to the Broadcom device yet. Try Google with "Raspberry Pi Hardware PWM". It turns up things like http://www.hertaville.com/rpipwm.html for me. Basically, you map the addresses

[Dorset] Lists of Packages. (Was: Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.)

Hi Terry, > ...re-installation of all the original packages using a script > containing their identities. ... > Is there another way to create a list of packages that can be passed > to apt-get, to re-install everything? dpkg-query(1) is the normal low-level way to list packages and their

Re: [Dorset] Using USB HID Device that isn't accessible

Hi Terry, > > The creator of the scope seems quite open about its workings ... > > creating a symbolic link to have COM1 access the USB scope in WINE; > > that's probably an older version of the scope that may have > > presented a different, serial-port, interface. > > Having spent a bit of time

Re: [Dorset] Using USB HID Device that isn't accessible

Hi Terry, > Yes it does, but I'm not sure how that helps in this instance. I agree, just helps those that come Googling afterwards. :-) > That's the information needed for someone who wants to write the code > to communicate with the scope; it still needs the underlying HID > functionality

Re: [Dorset] Using USB HID Device that isn't accessible

Hi Terry, > http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Add-on-Modules/PCB-scope/ Looking at the Resources' tab's PDFs, I think that it's made by http://www.pdamusician.com/dpscope/ > Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04d8:f891 Microchip Technology, Inc. That's the microcontroller that does all the work and also

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