Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 16:14:09 Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 15:28:11 C A Wills wrote: > > May take a 'Live Disk' to Novatech and try it out on their laptops. Have > > a trip up the Tower while there? > > That is probably a pretty good plan. It

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 16 Aug 2013 08:19:29 Terry Coles wrote: > I almost forgot. This is quite a good resource: > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Hmmm. Having looked at the offerings on that site, there doesn't seem to be any thing posted more recently that a couple of years ago (on a five

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
e a licence from Microsoft, but it is possible. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@ma

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-19 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 16:14:09 Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 15:28:11 C A Wills wrote: > > It would be nice to know if it runs Linux and if the wireless card works > > without a lot of fiddling, remembering the problems I had with this > > laptop. > >

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-08-27 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting which is on Tuesday 2013-09-03 at The Broadway, Bournemouth. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. I'll be going; see you there. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next me

Re: [Dorset] Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Terry Coles
suggestion. Can you give an example of the command to do it? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-09-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing

[Dorset] Fwd: Re: OT: Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Terry Coles
Just realised that Justin's earlier post was sent to me and only copied to the LUG; when I replied of course it only went to him. My other post won't make sense without this one. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: B

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Re: OT: Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 02 Sep 2013 17:35:13 Terry Coles wrote: > Just realised that Justin's earlier post was sent to me and only copied > to the LUG; when I replied of course it only went to him. > > My other post won't make sense without this one. Hmm. When I forwarded my earlier pos

[Dorset] OT: Android V4.4 will be called KitKat

2013-09-04 Thread Terry Coles
See here: http://www.kitkat.com/ -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2013-09-03's Pub Meeting.

2013-09-04 Thread Terry Coles
ned last night there are no print drivers for it. Instead you have to print through Google's Cloud Printer: http://www.google.co.uk/cloudprint/learn/ Can be a pain, but it works. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bourne

Re: [Dorset] Hola

2013-09-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 21 Sep 2013 21:49:09 Neil Stone wrote: > me new, greets me old, greets back :-) Anything more you can tell us? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list,

Re: [Dorset] Hola

2013-09-22 Thread Terry Coles
them. > > I will be working in Portsmouth, but living in Poole. Welcome to the LUG Neil. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dors

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-09-24 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, The usual reminder; it's just one week until the next Meeting in Bournemouth on Tuesday, 2013-10-01 at 20:00. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu

Re: [Dorset] OT: Networking through VMs

2013-10-02 Thread Terry Coles
ngs improved for a while, although we never got Guests 1 and 2 to talk together. We could get a similar effect by disabling the network connection temporarily. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesda

Re: [Dorset] OT: Networking through VMs

2013-10-03 Thread Terry Coles
al? Steer clear of free gifts from Microsoft, because they will probably not work properly. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.l

Re: [Dorset] Date of Next Meeting; Avoid Guy Fawkes Night?

2013-10-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 02 Oct 2013 11:17:35 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > First Tuesday in November is the 5th. Some of us might be busy burning > parliament. Shall we slip a week to the 12th? I won't be able to do the 12th. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Ku

Re: [Dorset] Linux problems with SSD drives

2013-10-07 Thread Terry Coles
6.28. More recently (V 3.9) the kernel has been provided with code to allow SSDs to be used as a cache for other storage devices, so I think you should be OK. I think maybe your problem is due to something else or maybe you really have a faulty SSD rather than SSDs in general being the problem. -

Re: [Dorset] Good news on Windows 8/UEFI?

2013-10-11 Thread Terry Coles
ting because the Bournemouth ites can catch the bus there! If there's enough interest in the Dorchester venue, I'm sure we could have a Meeting there again. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05

[Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-24 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, Can anyone settle a short discussion that came up at work today? None of us write web pages for a living, but someone realised that we didn't really know how a browser knows what script language executable to run when an embedded script encountered. I said that the script tag include

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 24 Oct 2013 17:31:59 Adrian Howard wrote: > It's basically javascript, unless you say otherwise. "type" was a > required attribute until HTML 4. In HTML 5 it's option, and defaults > to "text/javascript". Thanks. -- Terry Cole

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-25 Thread Terry Coles
On 24/10/13 17:22, Terry Coles wrote: So here's the question. Are there numerous ways to do this and if so, does every browser have its own way? OK, so we discussed this further at work and homed in on the real question: I understand that all browsers speak Javascript, so a page containin

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-25 Thread Terry Coles
On 25/10/13 14:03, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: Most browsers just fail if you use any language other than javascript. In theory you can install plugins that will register a script interpreter against a given mime-type, but in practice I know of no plugins which actually provide this and I'm

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-25 Thread Terry Coles
Thanks Andrew and Ralph, I'll report back to my colleagues on Wednesday (I'm out Mon / Tues next week) and see what the consensus is. Stand by for the next thrilling instalment :-) For your information, I'm more of a go-between here, but my colleagues want to be able to create documentation

[Dorset] Next Meeting - Is it One Week Away Tonight?

2013-10-29 Thread Terry Coles
one posted.) (I posted a bug report to the KDE list, but inadvertently enraged the Kontact maintainer and he deleted the bug. Now he won't speak to me, so I'm now using Evolution. That's another story.) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - It is One Week Away Tonight.

2013-10-29 Thread Terry Coles
ng: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 > > Most were happy with the 5th, Clive couldn't make it and would have > preferred the 12th but that knocked you out, so the fairest seemed to be > to stick to the default. So don't forget: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
The next meeting is in Bournemouth next Tuesday night; that's 8pm on December 3rd. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_a rms. I expect to be there with one or two others. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-11-27 Thread Terry Coles
t into the email. It must have been old that I thought. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-12-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailin

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2013-12-03.

2013-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
tonight. I'll be there with Paul and Chris. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-12-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dor

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2013-12-03.

2013-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 03 December 2013 17:07:48 Peter Merchant wrote: > > See you tonight. I'll be there with Paul and Chris. > > Is that you and your elves? Well, considering my height, I probably should be one of the elves :-) -- Terry Coles 64 b

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2013-12-03.

2013-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 03 December 2013 18:37:41 Chad Cumberland wrote: > My name is Chad. I have been watching the message board for a few months > and would like to come to the meeting tonight. Is that ok? Chad, Everyone is welcome. We look forward to seeing you. -- Terry

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2013-12-03's Pub Meeting.

2013-12-04 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 18:09:35 Tim Waugh wrote: > Whether or not the iPhone 5 is "64-bit" (I didn't hear how the story > ended) I think that the consensus was that it is. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-12-31 Thread Terry Coles
All, It is just one week until the next Meeting, which will be held as usual at The Broadway Pub in Bournemouth. It will start at 8 pm on Tuesday, 2014-01-07. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles

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

2014-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
I've no doubt many donations to Bletchley Park were aimed at the Colossus exhibition, at least in part. -- 'Disgusted' of Corfe Mullen. (Terry Coles) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-02-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
be on the M25 car park like the last time I went to Stevenage). Chris, Paul is going and will drive. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-02-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list

[Dorset] OT: Government Guidance Changed - No more Microsoft Office

2014-01-29 Thread Terry Coles
See http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/government-moving-to-use-open-source-software-137573 -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-02-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list

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

2014-01-30 Thread Terry Coles
, regardless of the rights and wrongs of the situation? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-02-04 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

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

2014-02-26 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, It's the pub meeting next week at The Broadway. Kick-off is at 8 pm on 4th March. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway I'll be there with Paul and probably Chris. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tue

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

2014-02-27 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 27 Feb 2014 12:44:23 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Another miss from me; still tied up with house moving. Long move. You taking it brick by brick? :-) As a matter of interest, are you going far? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014

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

2014-02-28 Thread Terry Coles
o far. Hats off to the team who've produced it. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-03-04 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

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

2014-03-03 Thread Terry Coles
r). I wrote to give my appreciation and mention using the tool on a phone and got a reply today. (Apparently they haven't optimised it for mobile devices yet, but it worked (with a bit of fiddling) on my Nexus 5.) It may be worth pointing out the error so that they can fix it. --

Re: [Dorset] Mega Help Needed - Can't Boot into Kubuntu 13.10

2014-03-06 Thread Terry Coles
my kubuntu box again. -- Terry Coles -- 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Mega Help Needed - Can't Boot into Kubuntu 13.10

2014-03-07 Thread Terry Coles
then clicked on the amber 'Restart' button that had appeared in the tray after the kernel update, but it ignored me and did nothing. After I've sent this message I'm going to do a manual restart, so if I go quiet -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting:

[Dorset] The Muon Updater is Dog-poo

2014-03-07 Thread Terry Coles
OK so I renamed it. On Friday 07 Mar 2014 13:50:49 Terry Coles wrote: > I actually think that the Muon Update manager is the biggest pile of dog-poo > that comes with Kubuntu. Yesterday I explicitly checked that it was set up > to notify updates, (it already was) but today, when I

Re: [Dorset] DLUG Mtg and my network problem.

2014-03-08 Thread Terry Coles
data and get online to send/receive emails until I got back to base. One thing. It is best to use the machine as little as possible until you have recovered your files, to avoid them being overwritten. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01

[Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

2014-03-12 Thread Terry Coles
ly remember reading something somewhere about Linux being able to flush the libraries on a running system after the new ones have been loaded, but I can't find anything now. Any help? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

2014-03-12 Thread Terry Coles
an work. That's news to me. I've never thought that an update has not delivered the new functionality until after a reboot. So what's the reality? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

2014-03-13 Thread Terry Coles
nines' availability. How do they do that without reboots? I'm aware that there is a company out there that can patch the running kernel (at a price), but can they do that for all the Libraries? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

2014-03-13 Thread Terry Coles
eware servers will typically have the same > back-end data store which is typically configured in a high-availability > pair, you patch one system while the other provides service, then you > switch and patch the other. Thanks James. -- Terry Coles -- Next me

Re: [Dorset] Rebooting after software installation or upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Terry Coles
If he's convinced that 'it can't be done' then I guess it can't (by Windows). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-04-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list

Re: [Dorset] Xubuntu not booting to black screen

2014-03-16 Thread Terry Coles
mal boot. It's been fine since then. -- Terry Coles -- 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 Report Bugs Eff

[Dorset] Meeting Tonight

2014-05-06 Thread Terry Coles
This month's meeting is tonight at 8 pm in The Broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-05-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:d

Re: [Dorset] Meeting Tonight

2014-05-07 Thread Terry Coles
nd I was at School Meeting and couldn't make it, Clive is in CH. > > Was Terry on his own? Nope. There were four of us. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-05-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.u

[Dorset] HP Spending Megabucks on OpenStack

2014-05-07 Thread Terry Coles
Open Source was when IBM funded Linux development and they said that they got their money back within a year or so. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-05-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread

Re: [Dorset] Can I re-install Ubuntu (with a new version) without disturbing any existing files

2014-05-27 Thread Terry Coles
lean installation to a re-formatted / partition is better than an upgrade, although I've done upgrades successfully for some versions. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-06-03 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-05-27 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting is exactly one week tonight; 8 pm at The Broadway. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-06-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Equivalent to Belarc Advisor

2014-06-12 Thread Terry Coles
C. Here is one I just did: http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/hardinfo_report.html :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-07-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mail

Re: [Dorset] Help needed

2014-06-19 Thread Terry Coles
can see a way to fix it as- is. Also, would you be contactable by phone or email while I'm there? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-07-01 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-06-24 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting is exactly one week tonight; 8 pm at The Broadway on Tuesday 2014-07-01. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-07-01 20:00 Meets

Re: [Dorset] BIOS bleep codes?

2014-07-12 Thread Terry Coles
t all of the chips have been removed, because they may not withstand the temperature, particularly at 345 C. Having said all that, it may be worth a try if the service repairman tries to sell you a new motherboard. Don't forget though that the fault might actually be a chip rather than poor

[Dorset] New Version of the Raspberry Pi Launched

2014-07-14 Thread Terry Coles
It looks to be quite a step forward: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28295608 -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset

[Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Terry Coles
save three out of five documents and they were not very good. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Terry Coles
et/ > [2]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html That was incredibly fast :-) Unfortunately, for some reason the conversion inserted lots of unprintable chars; eg : PRÉAMBULE pdftotext did a better job of accurately converting the text, but lost all the formatting :-( --

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 18 Jul 2014 15:35:58 Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday 18 Jul 2014 15:02:50 Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: > > You can try pdftohtml[1] to get it into HTML format, from there it should > > be easier to convert into a document format you want using something like > > p

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Terry Coles
for a > Spanish (etc) text and the final layout adjusts itself to fit. > If the target language is right-to-left or ideographic it's harder but > still within the scope of TeX. Yes. As mentioned in my earlier post, I was able to get pdftohtml to do an excellent job. --

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Terry Coles
s that these are specifications, so we can't afford any ambiguities hence the intention to use a professional translation service. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.

Re: [Dorset] Hot Backup Mode

2014-07-22 Thread Terry Coles
in step. Anyone seen anything like this? We are trying to find how the current system does it. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Hot Backup Mode

2014-07-24 Thread Terry Coles
do. See above. However, there is uncertainty whether the new requirement is more onerous than the existing one. We hope to find out more by Monday. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http:

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

2014-07-25 Thread Terry Coles
iple.php > http://www.proview.se/v3/index.php/about-proview-leftmenu-27 Thanks. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

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

2014-07-25 Thread Terry Coles
> I thought it was $35,000 to ship binaries outside the company. $7K gets > sources and objects on five company CPUs, e.g. for development or > internal-use only. Could be wrong. No you're not wrong; I just read it too quickly. Even so, we might consider it. -- Ter

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-07-29 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, 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! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets

Re: [Dorset] C-MOTIF

2014-08-04 Thread Terry Coles
gt; Google is NOT the choice for historical s/ware searches So what do you use? I spent a lot of the afternoon looking for 'C-MOTIF' and discussed this with my colleagues and none of us came up with a reference. If no-one has any direct references or experience of using 'C-MOTI

Re: [Dorset] C-MOTIF

2014-08-05 Thread Terry Coles
l it down. > If you're going to the meet up tonight I can bring you a book (a proper > paper thing, bound and everything) to have a look at called Using Motif. Coo. I haven't seen one of those 'paper things' for years :-) I'll be there tonight. --

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-08-07 Thread Terry Coles
rking here on 14.10, but I haven't seen any updates today (yet). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.o

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-08-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 07 Aug 2014 16:58:10 Terry Coles wrote: > On Wednesday 06 Aug 2014 17:23:22 PeterMerchant wrote: > > Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu 14.10, > > which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It won't > > recognize

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-08-08 Thread Terry Coles
is 2014-08-02 08:03:05. Maybe they decided to withdraw that update. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.u

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-08-08 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 13:28:32 Terry Coles wrote: > Maybe they decided to withdraw that update. Answering myself. I thought it odd that I hadn't seen any updates for nearly a week so I launched the updater manually. Sure enough, there were a whole raft of updates to be applied, i

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-08-10 Thread Terry Coles
rate used by Skype? My webcam is a Logitech S 7500 USB QuickCam (1.3 Mp). Of course it could be coincidence; and my bandwidth is just rubbish today... -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-08-10 Thread Terry Coles
ing that has changed is the Skype version. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 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 Report Bugs Effe

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-08-26 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting is one week tonight; same time same place: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway I'll see you there. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin

[Dorset] Rolling Back Skype

2014-09-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 10 Aug 2014 16:01:38 Terry Coles wrote: > I just tried to use V 4.3.0 for the first time (Kubuntu 14.04; delivered by > update) and it is just about unusable when the video is on. I found a link to a forum on the Skype site which confirms this problem: http://community.skype.

Re: [Dorset] Rolling Back Skype

2014-09-05 Thread Terry Coles
#x27;t seem to > > allow searching. :-( ;-( > > There's other archives apart from the official (crude) Mailman one, e.g. > http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.user-groups.linux.uk.dorset&q > uery=terry+coles+skype That's quite a neat search tool :-)

Re: [Dorset] Rolling Back Skype

2014-09-05 Thread Terry Coles
ng in the first place. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

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

2014-09-07 Thread Terry Coles
n, albeit with the old version. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

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

2014-09-22 Thread Terry Coles
Restricted Extras Version 60 works OK for me. AFAICT, there is no explicit Flash installation. What package is installed to give you Version 15.0.0.152? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Li

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

2014-09-22 Thread Terry Coles
; Flash from Adobe separately? I'm still not sure whether you are running Chrome or Chromium. If the former; any particular reason why? If the latter; why not just take the defaults? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 2

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

2014-09-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 22 Sep 2014 19:09:08 Peter Merchant wrote: Terry:- It's Chrome. So why the horribly buggy Adobe Flash, instead of Pepper Flash which Google uses by default in Chrome. They removed the Adobe Flash Plugin for a reason you know :-) -- Terry Coles --

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

2014-09-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 22 Sep 2014 19:54:24 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 22/09/14 19:16, Terry Coles wrote: > > So why the horribly buggy Adobe Flash, instead of Pepper Flash which > > Google > > uses by default in Chrome. > > > > They removed the Adobe Flash Plugin for a

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

2014-09-23 Thread Terry Coles
all a PDF viewer. Both Flash (YouTube) and PDF files work fine. I think maybe that review is a bit out of date. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] BASH security vulnerability

2014-09-25 Thread Terry Coles
hem. For example, I very much doubt that my Netgear Stora NAS box will get updated. Netgear haven't issued any updates for years and they don't sell them any more. There must be millions of similar devices out there, eg TVs, routers, network storage, fridges even. Whose going to s

Re: [Dorset] BASH security vulnerability

2014-09-25 Thread Terry Coles
of stuff that the Axentra web interface didn't, but I see that the domain has expired so maybe I'll have to wing it a bit. I still have the instructions for getting in using SSH, so at least I can see if bash is installed. -- Terry Coles -- Ne

[Dorset] List Behaviour - Reply / Reply to All

2014-09-28 Thread Terry Coles
essages that don't go via the list remain in my Inbox. So is this a misunderstanding on the part of some users or has the list behaviour changed? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Link

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

2014-09-28 Thread Terry Coles
ist-bot. So what happens if someone who hasn't got mailing list support clicks 'Reply'? Does the message only go to the originator? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... ht

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

2014-09-28 Thread Terry Coles
gt; angle brackets.) I'll see if that changes anything. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Ho

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-09-30 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting is one week tonight; same time same place: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway I'll see you there. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

2014-10-01 Thread Terry Coles
ted participants; not folks that leave at 5pm, not > thinking of work until 9am the next morning. Agreed, which is another reason that we are only considering a blog / forum. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

2014-10-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2014 17:36:17 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 01/10/14 17:07, Terry Coles wrote: > > Agreed, which is another reason that we are only considering a blog / > > forum. > > We are all interested in hearing the outcome. You have had plenty of > food for thought.

Re: [Dorset] Windows 10 pre-release

2014-10-08 Thread Terry Coles
ccording to this chap (http://www.straight.com/blogra/743521/homeless-vancouver-windows-10-swimming-linux-features), it has so many features ripped off from Linux and Mac, that it hardly brigs much to the party (other than the Start menu that is; but that was ripped off from Windows) :-) --

[Dorset] Kubuntu 14.10 - Strange Goings On with Activities

2014-10-27 Thread Terry Coles
he way it was Sunday morning; I have my activities back, but new apps appear in all of them Any ideas, before I do a clean installation and start all over again? It used to be only Windows that needed a clean installation every year or so ;-( -- Terry Coles -- Next m

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-10-28 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting is one week tonight; same time same place: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway I'll see you there. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin

[Dorset] Kontact (KMail) Mail Directory

2014-11-01 Thread Terry Coles
hat I should be searching for? If anyone else uses Kontact, I'd appreciate an insight into the location of the folders. Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list:

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