egally they might have to do this anyway; my son's copy was only licensed to
him, so we should have bought another student licence for my daughter).
5. Arghhh
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y MS Office 2007
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML). Office 2003 also uses an XML
format, but it isn't the same (or compatible) with OOXML.
So why are they using .docx?
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inology problem here? Conventionally:
OO.o is OpenOffice.org and uses Open Document Format (ODF, ISO 26300:2006).
Office 2007 uses OOXML (.docx, ISO 29500:2008)
Office 2003 uses WordProcessingML or WordML (.xml, not standardised)
Wikipedia has pages on each of these formats.
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You could also summarise this as that MS provided a technically accurate and
totally useless solution. (From this you might work out where *I* stand in
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at to type. Since I
don't have access to a EEE ATM, this seemed to be a good way to replicate what
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On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/10/21 Terry Coles :
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to run the Asus EEE 701 version of
> > Xandros inside a VM? I got the ISO from
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/eeecommunity/files/ and tried to install
f it might do the trick. I'll give it a go and report back
(probably tomorrow).
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worth a trip up there, just to
get it going.
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On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
> > I am currently trying the guide at
> > http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=221727 . If I have any success
> > I will post back. Thought I'd point you this way just
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> Terry Coles wrote:
> > - I can 'see' an xorg.conf if I do ls X* in /mnt-system/etc
>
> Capital vs. lowercase X? If you really are doing this then I suspect it
> is listing the contents of /mnt-system/etc/X11/ whi
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> I've now realised that this is because ls doesn't support | less or | more,
> so those directories were scrolling off the screen.
OK. So now I'm editing xorg.conf using vi under ash.
Anyone know how to cut and paste into a vi
oon as the Startup screen finishes, it goes straight to the Shutdown
screen.
;-(
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On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:06 +0100, Terry Coles
> > Tried that; there was no find command (or locate).
>
> use -iname (ignores case).
> As for not being able to use find. Have you checked your $PATH etc. Also
> have you ma
remove irrelevant bits), as you
did. If I have a large block of text or non ASCII things to include, I
usually put them up in a corner of my website for people to download.
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, then please consider
signing.
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the Internet
wouldn't work (at least as we know it) and I doubt that Linux would have been
able to gain a foothold.
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or such a company, or your opinion would not be so rigid.
I don't want to start a flame war, so I'll shut up about this; I've said
everything that needs to be said.
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through again.
Open Standards are critical to reliable communications; all the way from
TCP/IP right up to the most complex formatting specifications.
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Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak
I'm hoping to be there, but I may be in Europe all week.
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On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Terry wrote:
> > I'm hoping to be there, but I may be in Europe all week.
>
> Quite right. We're not Europe.
I meant the *real* Europe.
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still some good things that
KDE 3 did that 4 doesn't, but these have now been overtaken by the things that
4 does and 3 didn't, in my eyes anyway.
Hope this helps someone. Now I'm going to upgrade all the other machines in
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I'll get round to doing that eventually.
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e internet including this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275. These all talk about
menu.lst being replaced by /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The trouble is that I don't
seem to have this file.
Does anyone know what I should do?
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hrough the process that you mentioned.
I'm getting old you know ;-)
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the icon changes to a wireless mast.
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e a charm. Thanks.
The only problem is that this package has loads of Gnome dependencies.
Presumably, most of these would already have been installed if I'd been using
Ubuntu, instead of Kubuntu.
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uses that.
This machine was upgraded, the Mesh was a clean install.
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s of new features, some of
which are worth having, but remove something else that makes it harder for the
new user.
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large group all in one place, like we do at Dorchester and
Wallisdown. Can someone comment on this; I've never been there.
There was talk of other Wetherspoons pubs some time ago and someone was going
to check them out. What happened to that?
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e has a say and in any case, this is a
conversation that has been going on for some time now. You've just picked up
on the end of the thread.
Well almost the end; we still have to decide where to go. Any advances on the
Goat?
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y attention span is getting worse than a goldfish; I can't remember that
far back (ie this morning when I first read it).
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e has come up with anything better than the
> Kings Arms.
I would like to think it could be.
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or standing. It meant you got to speak to more people.
Now does this tell us that the Dorchester venue lends itself to this or that
we need more nights when people bring novel kit along?
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and kill all
instances of Skype that way. It may be that you have these running from some
point in the past and when you shut down, they are marked for restart the next
time you log in.
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During a clean installation, I choose to reformat only the / partition and I
tell the installer to use the old /home partition again. (K)Ubuntu at least
automatically uses any user folders that it finds when I add a user of the
for Excel.
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plicate the Excel stuff myself, but haven't got far yet.
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On Thursday 19 Nov 2009, Peter Merchant wrote:
> 1. When is it due?
Tomorrow afternoon (typical) :-)
> 2. Can You send the Excel instructions?
Done.
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once, whereas OOo only allows the functions to be
calculated piecemeal. It isn't a problem, but being a teenager, she'd rather
the tools did the work for her :-)
Thanks everyone for trying to help.
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On Thursday 19 Nov 2009, John Cooper wrote:
> On 19/11/09 20:43, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Hmmm. The docs specifically say that TTEST is supported, but when I
> > opened that suite of macros, I couldn't find it.
>
> Terry, I downloaded OOoStat_0.4.zip at
>
>
On Friday 20 Nov 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Thursday 19 Nov 2009, John Cooper wrote:
> > Once opened click "INSTALL" and it will confirm installed ok.
>
> Nope. No response.
OK. I've worked it out now by re-reading your instructions. The problem is
that yo
y to that available in
Excel and quite a bit more.
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rience of doing this
with a Winblows box.
I have a nasty feeling that I'll have problems getting it re-activated and
even if I do, XP 64 was never very good on the driver front.
Anyone else got any thoughts?
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The next meeting is in Bournemouth next Wednesday night; that's 8pm on
December 2nd.
See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms.
I expect to be there with one or two others.
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On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> The next meeting is in Bournemouth next Wednesday night; that's 8pm on
> December 2nd.
>
> See:
> http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms.
I just remembered. Won't we going to try somewhere
re meaty machine into the bargain. The trouble is,
these kind of machines start at around £600-£700 and we end up with a disc
drive, graphics card, memory, etc that we don't need in the old broken box.
Decisions, decisions!
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y, I always get caught anyway :-)
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hat is going to be at the meet next week
> guaranteed to be at the meet in Dorchester in January? I have
> freecycled some stuff, and a guy in Bridport wants it, but I need to get
> it over there.
Normally I'd say me, but this coming meeting will be the first that I haven't
b
working? I've seen some stuff on the Internet about
this, but nothing much that gives me confidence that it isn't going to be a
real pain.
She has an Asus EEE 900.
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ssuming all the
> hardware works on both, there shouldn't be much difference in the
> Skype procedure.
>
> I'll give it a shot tonight (that would be very late for you...) and
> let you know tomorrow morning!
Hello Marti; good to hear from you again. How's the weather ov
On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
> Just grab Skype from their website. The new beta works nicely with
> pulse audio too.
I'd just like to know that this works *before* I trash her current
installation.
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mean that it won't work on her EEE, but there is clearly
something not quite robust enough yet.
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On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
> > Just grab Skype from their website. The new beta works nicely with
> > pulse audio too.
>
> I'd just like to know that this works *before* I trash her current
> installation.
sume that you used the beta for Ubuntu 8.10?
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than when they've matured for a few months. 9.10 is only just over a
month old now.
> Oh hibernate and suspend also crash Ubuntu on my laptop, I have gressed
> that this is a Wubi issue, any ideas?
Again. Dunno.
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he trick with no fuss.
Both packages are in the Ubuntu Repositories.
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Just for a laugh, have a look at this:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/ilinguals-virtual-phrasebook-app-
brings-us-closer-to-the-babel-fish/
Apparently it's a free download too.
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certainly is; that what I used:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
It's in the Ubuntu 9.10 Repository.
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nk twice about offering this.
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ults) are suddenly accomplices to murder when they are used illegally.
Taken to extremes, that's the logic. And it's no more logical than ISPs being
made liable if there network is used to download illegal content, but that
will soon be the law here in the UK.
As I said; no-one in the
took to it like a lamb and both the camera and the mic are
made available in the drop lists when you set up video and audio.
So if you need a webcam, this is well worth considering.
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Pro (20MB)
Linux RPM (36MB)
Pen Source Code (tar.gz - 55MB)
Windows Home Server (50MB)
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (50MB '
He's looking for a fanless, low power NAS that he can run one of those on.
Anyone done this or something similar?
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nd connections, without a fair trial."
>
> 27,950 signatures so far.
> +1
It's now up to 28,140, including mine.
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Tux sweatshirt and I'll also
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he's talking about
Wake on LAN, but maybe there's another way.
I don't know much about Wake on LAN, but it looks as if he would have to find
a way to get the Squeezebox to send the magic packet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
Presumably the server would
ets go of MS Office. It's
happening in the educational sector and it's happening in the government
sector, but it will probably need a younger generation of IT staff for it to
happen across the enterprise.
Never under-estimate the resistance to change!
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n XML so it starts from a
completely different standpoint. Unless the world abandons the format,
interoperability should get better over the years, not worse.
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an earlier version and upgraded
as opposed to a clean installation.
We discussed this some weeks ago, I'll see if I can find the relevant post.
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and you may
> have noticed that I have not quoted any text so I can't be accused of
> top- or bottom- posting. Aren't I good? :)
>
> ps. My work laptop shuts down/reboots in about 3-4 seconds! I was
> amased. But then it isn't much more than a default install + mpd.
e in Mozilla and guess what got
reported.
Like him, I don't trust any search provider, but I think I trust Google more
than I trust Microsoft. I have no evidence for this, other than three decades
of abuse from the latter and one decade of 'we do no evil' from the f
ogle' sounds so much more top drawer than the verb 'to
bing' :-)
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The next pub meeting is in Dorchester, next Tuesday.
Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00
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I'll see you there.
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On Thursday 31 Dec 2009, Tim wrote:
> Happy New Year to everybody on the list and thanks for your help over the
> past 12 months
Hear, Hear !
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;s easier the other way. Who's planning on going to the
> Dorchester pub tonight?
I was bringing two people, but have already told them that I'm crying off.
I think that Ralph and Simon's suggestion of postponing for one week is the
best idea.
Anyone else can make it next
On Tuesday 05 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> OK, that's "official" then. :-) Tonight's meet at Dorchester pub is
> CANCELLED. New date TBD. I'll change the wiki page.
I think we should definitely go for next week.
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we get it so rarely we
end up with major problems, simply because their isn't enough salt and drivers
have to relearn how to drive in adverse conditions.
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nt at leapfrogging versions.
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he forecast changes.
We have light rain and now snow (either on the ground or forecast) in
Wimborne.
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On Tuesday 12 Jan 2010, Terry Coles wrote:
> We have light rain and now snow (either on the ground or forecast) in
That should be *no* snow.
Duh!
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e data and there is no snow. Those two
forecasts are totally different!
Is there anyone in Dorchester who can confirm the current weather? Just to
give some confidence in the forecasting.
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moving east
I'll decide in about half an hour or so, when I've seen the forecast on South
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> > normal wet evening here in Dorchester at the moment. Unless it
> > suddenly gets a lot colder, I don't see there being snow.
We've decided to risk it, so I'll be there with Paul and Steve.
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sed by the media servers to create
the stream (the PS3 does play .avi files), I suspect that this is why the
movies won't play.
Can anyone suggest how we might get this to work?
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On Saturday 16 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > MPEG1/2 does not support 2997/100 fps
>
> Try adding
>
> -ofps 3/1001
>
> to the command line.
Well that's converting, but I've 17 minutes to wait to see if it's worked!
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On Saturday 16 Jan 2010, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Saturday 16 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > MPEG1/2 does not support 2997/100 fps
> >
> > Try adding
> >
> > -ofps 3/1001
> >
> > to the command line.
>
> Well that's conver
x
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ut I simply used the defaults to convert AVI to MP4, put it
on a USB stick, put the stick into the PS3 and it worked!
Even if it won't stream, we can still copy files to the PS3 manually and watch
them that way.
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On Monday 18 Jan 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:14:46 -0000, Terry Coles
> wrote:
> > Even if it won't stream, we can still copy files to the PS3 manually and
> > watch them that way.
>
> If the PS3 can play it then it can stream it - I'
he
list of videos for streaming in MediaTomb. Is there a way to do this in the
shell instead of through a browser so I can see the error codes?
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om mencoder onwards but the last.
I got that far and the script worked fine. I just couldn't stream the O/P.
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On Wednesday 20 Jan 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:04:17 -0000, Terry Coles
> wrote:
> > It's not that the file wouldn't play on the PS3; I couldn't even add it
> > to
> > the list of videos for streaming in MediaTomb. Is there a way
used cp -rp source destination.
See. Not really Off Topic.
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On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, C A Wills wrote:
> Terry Coles wrote:
> > Before I kick it off again can someone confirm that I'm using the right
> > incantation? I used cp -rp source destination.
Thanks to all who offered advice; I was able to backup her data using cp.
I then rem
ev/sda
which all seemed to work fine, but made no difference to the boot menu.
This is a hybrid GRUB2 installation, because it was upgraded from a version of
Kubuntu that uses old GRUB.
Any ideas before I reinstall a clean version of 9.10?
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is PC either. both were
upgraded, not clean installs. The upgrade worked on this machine but not on
the other.
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On Sunday 24 Jan 2010, Dean Ramsden wrote:
> Terry Coles wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 Jan 2010, Dan Dart wrote:
> >> Look in /boot/grub/grub.conf (I think)
> >
> > I don't seem to have grub.conf anywhere.
> >
> >> Change the file to reflect the new ke
The next meeting will be held at 8pm in The King's Arms Wallisdown on
Wednesday 3rd Feb see:
http://www.dorset.lug.org.uk/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms.
I hope to be there, but have a few trips coming up. I will be if I'm in
Dorset.
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vast majority of users, but it bothers me.
Please consider signing.
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This may well interest a few people:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2010/01/linux-market-
needs-more-talent
I might even do them myself, even though I do little actual development these
days.
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64 bit computing with Kubuntu
ke this could leave more members of the FSF looking like
> screaming FOSS fanboys and damage the whole argument.
That is always the danger. However to the rest of the software fanboys in the
world, FOSS users will always be thought of in that way.
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