Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-29 Thread Terry Coles
UI front-end to duplicity, would presumably gain that too. Yes I know, but Deja-Dup has very few settings and incremental isn't one of them. I want something that doesn't rely on me remembering long shell commands (in other words a GUI) :-) -- Terry Coles --

[Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-29 Thread Terry Coles
storage. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST

Re: [Dorset] Maplin Closing down sale

2018-04-26 Thread Terry Coles
ite a bit of time in that shop during the 6 months or so that I lived in Ranelagh Road. I recall that the shop was on a corner quite close by; possibly Walpole Street. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, L

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2018-03-31 Thread Terry Coles
ou a lift Terry? If >anyone >else nearby to Wimborne / Cole Hill is going I can give you a lift as >well if you like. > >Hamish > > >On 27/03/18 16:55, Terry Coles wrote: >> All, >> >> The next meeting is one week tonight at The Broadway, Bournemouth on

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2018-03-27 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is one week tonight at The Broadway, Bournemouth on Tuesday, 2018-04-03 at 20:00. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway Paul, Ian, Are you going? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-22 Thread Terry Coles
It's now working. Thanks for all help provided. On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:59:20 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > The wires were terminated at each end using Ethernet cable receptacles (the > wall pattress type). These have the wire colours on a label on the rear of > the connector and all

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
and plug a laptop in. If we can see the web pages and ping the Pi at a sensible rate, then we'll have moved forward a bit at least. If that doesn't work then we'll know that the problem isn't the Antenna installation. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
00 each that would cost more than the whole of my budget for the Webserver, the Bells system *and* the Lighting we did two years ago ;-( -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New th

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
so Cat 6, > but running at 100MHz. Are the switches commercial grade or consumer grade? See my response to Ralph. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: m

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
speed 10 duplex full > > Also "ethtool $DEVICE" will show you the current line settings. > > $DEVICE is probably eth0 or net0 BTW. If all else fails, we'll give this a try. I still think that this might be the limited line voltage that we have available. --

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
k tomorrow what the cable spec is. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 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 bugs well: http:/

Re: [Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
half-way down the cable run? BTW. The fall-back is to move the server to the same location as the Antenna (this is a TP-Link TL-WA7210N Customer Premises Equipment). We will have to mount the server into an IP65 case, but we do have main available. -- Terry Coles -- Ne

[Dorset] Range of a Cat 5 Ethernet Signal

2018-03-21 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, We've just re-connected our WMT Webserver with the antenna in its new location at the far end of the site.  The server is currently in the old location so there is about 70 m of armoured Cat 5 cable between the two.  The Question is; do we need something a bit more powerful at each end to

[Dorset] Re: Education

2018-03-20 Thread Terry Coles
rls might be interested in such a thing, so gradually the stereotyping swapped over. I think the modern trend with Code Clubs and Raspberry Jams, etc is beginning to make a difference, but it will take time. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20

[Dorset] Fwd: Re: Education

2018-03-20 Thread Terry Coles
Should have gone to the LUG. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:33:46 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > No all I have to do is work out why the bells won't play to the USB device, > but will play to the bcm device. I think I can use omxplayer for the bells, which works perfectly. It's only the mp3 files that I need to loop contin

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
labels do work, but I have to use hw:label,device with mpg321. aplay seemed OK with just the label, which is what threw me. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ N

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:19:19 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > On Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:08:41 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > hw:label,device. Are you only using the Pi for these trials, or OK. Just spotted it. I wasn't using the device number with the label, so I was getting

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
hw card 0 device 0 } pcm.CHANCEL { type hw card 1 device 0 } ctl.CHANCEL { type hw card 1 device 0 } I've also tried naming the Cards instead of using numbers. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Me

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
't see what is wrong with the format of the files and they work if I send them to the bcm audio channel. I'm still investigating this. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New t

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
ing error from syslog whn I plug an adaptor in: error opening ATTR{/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.0/ usb2/2-1/2-1.7/2-1.7:1.0/sound/card1/pcmC1D0p/id} for writing: Permission denied So maybe udev has changed (again) and yet another technique is required. -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
happens the hw: numbers never seem to bear any relation to the ID's that i created in the udev rules. See my other post. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread:

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 9 March 2018 14:36:25 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > The light at the end of the tunnel is rapidly vanishing. Having worked > consistently for many reboots, I just got a couple of occasions when Card 0 > came up as the bcm audio and the TOWER device got moved to Card 2. I may have

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 9 March 2018 13:37:10 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > The light at the end of the tunnel just got smaller. The two USB Audio > devices now seem to come up consistently on channels hw:0,0 and hw:0,1, but The light at the end of the tunnel is rapidly vanishing. Having worked consis

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 9 March 2018 13:09:37 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > More testing needed, but I may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel > (everything crossed). The light at the end of the tunnel just got smaller. The two USB Audio devices now seem to come up consistently on channels hw:0,0

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 9 March 2018 10:57:36 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > https://github.com/dh1tw/remoteAudio/wiki/Persistent-USB-Mapping-of-Audio-de > vices-%28Linux%29 > > So I tried this, but hit another snag because although it worked, it solved > the wrong problem. I found that it works

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-03-09 Thread Terry Coles
Any suggestions of another solution (or a player that supports alsa labels and looping through a playlist)? Or YAS (Yet Another Solution)? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-03-05 Thread Terry Coles
arted/ for all the options. Have > WMT really *no* non-contractor access to the site, e.g. to update some > page's data in a CMS? If they can upload files then the Manual Mode > described on that page might be useful. Or you could do that for > hadrian-way.co.uk. See above. --

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-03-05 Thread Terry Coles
t; As Chrome is about to label all http sites insecure - maybe the person > looking after the site will have to sort out a certificate - so will > have one you could use on the local network? See above. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-03-04 Thread Terry Coles
e-modeltown.com) and no-one answered them. I was hoping to avoid having to ask for the wimborne-modeltown.com website to be updated by the contractor. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-03-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 1 March 2018 07:01:28 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > I don't suppose it would work if we got a Certificate for wimborne- > modeltown.com and added that to the DNS on the internal server, then simply > told them to go to WMT.com which would also be available on that server?

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-28 Thread Terry Coles
all the QR Code Reader App at the door, but decided that Aunty Mabel, Grandpa Fred or the door staff are unlikely to know how to do that. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.or

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-28 Thread Terry Coles
we probably do, but it would be nice if we didn't so that we can get away with paying for hosting. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk /

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

2018-02-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 26 February 2018 18:00:53 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > The next meeting is one week tonight at The Broadway, Bournemouth on > Tuesday, 2018-03-06 at 20:00. See: I just realised that I sent this a day early ! Fot the avoidance of doubt, the meeting is one week from yesterday, not

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week to go

2018-02-26 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is one week tonight at The Broadway, Bournemouth on Tuesday, 2018-03-06 at 20:00. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway Paul, Ian, Are you going? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-25 Thread Terry Coles
sn't work with Android, as predicted. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs well:

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-25 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:04:49 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > > You can trying listening on TCP port 443 and seeing if Android 7 will > > play along with your self-signed certificates. Perhaps it will as far > > as thinking it's got to the Internet, but that Java source I r

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-25 Thread Terry Coles
t. I have a backup of the old configuration, so it's easy to revert. I'll talk it through with 'Management' when I go in to WMT on Tuesday. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
Thanks Hamish, However, see my other post; Lloyd at Foxdog has confirmed that both http and https is used. I also need to get this sorted, so we can put the antenna back up before the WMT re-opens in about four weeks time :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth,

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
comments trail at https://foxdogstudios.com/making-phones-believe-the-wifi-has-internet#comment-3772704492 I'm going to try setting the Pi up as an https server with a Self Signed Certificate tomorrow and see what happens. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:32:52 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > On Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:02:38 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > And other Apple domains. I assume both devices have Apple software, > > e.g. iTunes? BTW. I forgot to mention, I added this and other domains

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
d the guy at Foxdog if they are supporting https on their server, but he hasn't responded. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.or

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
k in April last year, when we deployed it, but I thought some of the devices worked. Thinking about what I've done to get this far, I think that it's unlikely though, because I had no DNS Server configured back then. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tu

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 08:15:39 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > I then went back to the suggestion made by Ralph a few days ago and captured > the packets on the network when the WiFi connection was made. In the > event, I didn't use tcpdump because I also wanted to see what the

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 08:15:39 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > HTTP/1.1 204 No Content > Server: nginx/1.6.2 > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:05:31 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > > The only difference with the successful connection was the DTG. I just realised that that

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 23 February 2018 17:07:34 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > I've just had another thought as to what I might be doing wrong and have > just written to Foxdog to get clarification of their solution. > > I have put the 'android walled garden hack' code into a file located in > /

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 23 February 2018 16:39:34 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Still looking for inspiration I've just had another thought as to what I might be doing wrong and have just written to Foxdog to get clarification of their solution. I have put the 'android walled garden hack' code into a f

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 23 February 2018 12:25:29 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Any ideas as to what I've missed? I think maybe I've got something wrong in the Foxdog configuration after all. When the system is running, I get allocated an IP Address of 192.168.0.119 for WLN0 on my phone. I can ping WMT.

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 19 February 2018 12:04:51 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > I'm hoping to try the new config tomorrow, when I go to the WMT. The config provided by Foxdog Studios didn't work for me, so I removed the Pi and the AP from the WMT and set the whole thing up at home. I'm still having probl

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-19 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 18 February 2018 12:19:22 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > At the time I was using the information at: > > https://foxdogstudios.com/making-phones-believe-the-wifi-has-internet > > to do this and had some success. The chap at Foxdog Studios emailed me last night to tell me

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
al system back from the WMT, since we've got to move the antenna anyway). The first thing that I'll try is enabling https and then, if that doesn't work, I'll try tcpdump and / or wireshark. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
ce is, `ip a' might help. Thanks Ralph. I'll give it a try. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 Re

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
tart of the URL's path is the Android version. Of course it is :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPL

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
e also had problems, so I'd like to sus it out in the next few weeks. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

[Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
test sites are for Android Phones (or has a link to a list), then I would appreciate it. iPhones seem to be alright. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
s -1v 22GiB/40minutes hour/TB > reciprocal conversion > 1 / (22GiB/40minutes) = 28.221896 hour/TB > $ Yeah, see my other post relating to my arithmetic ;-( -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list,

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
I don't have enough space anywhere else. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs well: h

[Dorset] Fwd: Re: Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
This should have gone to the list. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs well: http

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
rocess. However, there is a USB interface in the way and I think that is slowing the process down by a factor of 4 to 5. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 18 February 2018 07:59:30 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > It seems to be pretty quick having reached 22 GB done in around 40 minutes. Of course, if I was any good at basic arithmetic, I would have known that this is no quicker than shred. It just passed 100 GB after about an hour; 1000

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
urandom of=/dev/sdc, see my post to Hamish. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs w

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
=/dev/sdc. It seems to be pretty quick having reached 22 GB done in around 40 minutes. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.u

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Terry Coles
w about hammers :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Terry Coles
chance of data recovery. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-03-06 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue

[Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Terry Coles
PC is in the bedroom, so I'd rather not run it overnight. I suspect that part of the problem is that I'm putting the drive into an external USB adaptor, but my PC has no spare slots for other drives. Any suggestions? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2018-02-06.

2018-02-06 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:27:37 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Delayed by a week, it's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. Not actually delayed this month :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list,

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2018-01-30 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is one week tonight at The Broadway, Bournemouth on Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway Paul, Ian, Are you going? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 22 January 2018 13:21:42 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Thinking about what you said about this usage: > > `const char *p' means p is a pointer to a char that's const. Rereading your original post, I think I've now caught on. > What does that actually mean in terms of wh

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-22 Thread Terry Coles
incremented and the pointer is containing a memory address, so what is char in this case? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK I

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-22 Thread Terry Coles
The pointer and char can be const or not, giving four variations. > Thus the `p++' should be fine; it's moving the pointer onto the next > const char. Right thanks. I did say my knowledge of C / C++ is 'Janet and John', but I suspect that I never even made that grade ! --

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-22 Thread Terry Coles
in the device name, (i.e. pcmC0D1). int GetDValue(const char *k) { char *p = strrchr((char *)k, 'D'); if (!p) { return -1; } p++; int d = strtol(p, NULL, 0); if (d < 0 || d > 32) return 0; return d; } -- Terry Coles -- Next meetin

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-21 Thread Terry Coles
hing like the Perl example at the beginning of that page? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 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 Repor

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-21 Thread Terry Coles
You could also try using the -fpermissive > flag by the looks of it. I did and it didn't help. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-21 Thread Terry Coles
hat compiler are you using by the way? Unless Kubuntu points at something different the GNU C++ compiler; that's what's installed. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.l

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-21 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 21 January 2018 12:35:16 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > I'm starting to get my head round this and think that I have a fighting > chance of sorting it out. However, I have a couple of queries (so far), > both coming from the C++ code in your second link. I'm having problems compil

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-21 Thread Terry Coles
onal preference or is there some benefit in this case? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 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 b

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-17 Thread Terry Coles
d be used to identify which interface carried the Audio device for the Bells and which for the music. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-02-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.l

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-17 Thread Terry Coles
u're sending plain text instead. If > that can't be done, put the text in a file and paste the output of > `base64 <file'. It was simply copied straight out of Konsole. In future, I'll paste it into Kate and copy it from there. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:03:56 GMT you wrote: > I'll post it on the Raspberry Pi Forum later; have to go to dinner now. Done. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:02:40 GMT you wrote: > On Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:57:26 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Some stuff: > > This is weird, I think something is cutting off the information that I have > been putting at the end of the message. One more time: I'll post it on t

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:57:26 GMT Terry Coles wrote: Some stuff: This is weird, I think something is cutting off the information that I have been putting at the end of the message. One more time: *terry@OptiPlex*:*~*$ aplay -l -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:51:51 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > On Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:40:14 GMT Andrew wrote: > > The IDs in lsusb won't help, they are the vendor ID and device ID for > > that type of card, not that instance in your machine. > > They would if I could

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 and here is what I got just now, with the same adaptors plugged into the same USB ports: *terry@OptiPlex*:*~*$ aplay -l That's my problem. -

Re: [Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
course, if I knew the name of the device that was connected to the channel that I wanted, then aplay -D might be useful. :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New t

[Dorset] Using Two USB Audio Adaptors and Selecting the Right One Programatically

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Coles
.) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
latest security patches and bug fixes. So no; I don't think many of us have thought about building our own distro for very long :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2017-11-28 Thread Terry Coles
. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-12-05 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 bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] General collection of problems on Ubuntu

2017-11-18 Thread Terry Coles
lso missing an anti-virus, any recommendations? I can't help on Ubuntu Tweaks, but I generally use ClamAV for antivirus. Of course there are few Linux viruses as yet, but it does help to avoid passing on viruses to Windows users :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, T

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2017-10-31 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, The next meeting is just one week away at the Broadway, Bournemouth at 20:00 on Tuesday evening, 2017-11-07. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway Paul, Are you still going? Your turn to drive as discussed. -- Terry Coles -- Next

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2017-09-26 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, The next meeting is just one week away at the Broadway, Bournemouth at 20:00 on Tuesday evening, 2017-10-03. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway Paul, Are you going? Your turn to drive I think. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-18 Thread Terry Coles
. I'm still grateful for any help given and I'll try not to be so dumb in the future ;-( -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk /

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-17 Thread Terry Coles
t to somewhere else while it is being booted? Finally, I also realised last night that all the examples of echo that I had seen were written as echo foo, whereas I have written echo "foo". Could this have any bearing? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tu

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-17 Thread Terry Coles
man page), the command allows you to wrap the arguments of the target command so that the underlying code receives them correctly. My rdate command includes one switch and one argument, so how come it works without the exec prefix? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemo

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 19:09:27 BST Bob Dunlop wrote: > exec rdate -v 192.168.0.2 Thanks. I copied some code from somewhere else ;-( Anyone know how to get the message to delay? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Me

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-16 Thread Terry Coles
m to execute. It does if I just put it in without testing for the result. Is it possible to do this with this command? BTW. Thanks for your help (again). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:05:27 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Out of curiousity, what rebooted? Both devices. They both derive their power from the same 19 V PSU. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list,

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-16 Thread Terry Coles
netd[1](8)' and is on port 37 by default. Do I need to enable that port or is it slightly more complicated than that? -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.huge-man-linux.net/man8/inetd.html -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-10-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-11 Thread Terry Coles
he slave is simpler at boot time. I > don't know if Raspbian provides a server for the `time' port, but it's a > trivial thing. That looks like a good way to go and a lot less 'messy' than running an NTP server. I'll have a look into it. Thanks for your help again. -- Ter

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 12:32:49 BST Terry Coles wrote: > I've been reading the man page for hwclock to see what --hctosys and --systz > do and have been struggling to see how relevant this might be and I note > the reference to NTP. Bearing in mind that the NTP server i

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-10 Thread Terry Coles
fake hwclock which picks up from where it left off, which is useful, but confusing in these circumstances. Probably more relevant to normal ops is knowing that the Butts pump cut out at the right time; when the butts were nearly full. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemo

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