Re: [Dorset] Tag AM2133: Intel Core i7-2600 3.4GHz 8MB Cache

2015-08-11 Thread Terry Coles
n (foolishly) replied to it, when it arrived in my D-LUG folder. That is set up to reply to the list . ;-( -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: ma

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

2015-08-12 Thread Terry Coles
ad-only and I'm concerned that is I copy as root, I'll end up with files that are all owned by root in my home partition. So to 'clone' these partitions, what is the best approach? (I'll need to do this all over again when the SSD Drive turns up :-) ) --

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

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
s where things went wrong for me. Obviously (I hope) the cloned fstab will still be expecting to find my /home and swap partitions at the UUIDs of those locations on the old disc. Can you suggest an easy way to resolve this? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bo

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

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
into a shell be safe? I'm off shopping now for a few hours and I'd like to have another go at this after lunch. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New threa

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

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
Tesco! Going off-line now to have another go. Wish me luck! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'

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

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
#x27;ll shortly have to do it all again with my / partition on the SSD drive (when it arrives) and my /home partition on a separate conventional 2.5" drive (the Optiplex SFF will only take one 3.5" drive or two 2.5" ones). Hopefully, with all the practice, it will be a bit

[Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
. When I type: sudo mount -t auto /dev/sro /media/terry I get 'mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0'. It looks to be a goner to me, but are there any other tests worth trying before I buy a new one? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
an't you use an > old small USB flash stick to boot off? That thought had crossed my mind and I guess that this ould get me round the current crisis. However, I still buy audio CDs and rip them to Ogg Vorbis, so it would be inconvenient. -- Terry Coles -- Ne

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
#x27;t got one with the right connectivity unless I rip one of my laptops apart. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CH

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
d-x86-4.5.0.iso to a 1GB stick. I'll be back if that doesn't work :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 13:56:20 Terry Coles wrote: > I'm currently writing systemrescuecd-x86-4.5.0.iso to a 1GB stick. > > I'll be back if that doesn't work :-) Well it did, but not without one or two hiccups: 1. Booting into SystemRescueCD was very flaky; it only

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 20:43:23 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 15/08/15 13:38, Terry Coles wrote: > > I haven't got one with the right connectivity unless I rip one of my > > laptops apart. > > If it is an IDE connection, then I have a USB to IDE adapter for > connectin

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
ounting tray. Clive, Can you describe the interface? Does it look like this: http://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/DVD_Drive_2.jpg[1] That's the back of my drive. -- Terry Coles [1] http://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/DVD_Drive_2.jpg -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesd

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 16 Aug 2015 13:17:10 C A Wills wrote: > Hi Terry > > Yes it does, about 30mm x 5mm, it's a bare drive, multi DVD model GT90N > from Novatech. > > We're in this afternoon if you'd like to call by. I'll be with you shortly. Thanks. --

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-21 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 21 Aug 2015 17:38:13 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 16/08/15 15:43, Terry Coles wrote: > > On Sunday 16 Aug 2015 13:17:10 C A Wills wrote: > >> Yes it does, about 30mm x 5mm, it's a bare drive, multi DVD model GT90N > >> from Novatech. > >> > >

[Dorset] Can't get Replies working right

2015-08-21 Thread Terry Coles
AG220O-004PcB for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:21:40 +0200 Received: from optiplex.localnet ([146.198.13.239]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MgZE7-1Z4p76415z-00NyhA for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:21:40 +0200 From: Terry Coles To: d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk Subject: Test 10 Dat

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

2015-08-22 Thread Terry Coles
uld be nice to have Message-ID have a domain name after the > at-sign, that means the bit before it only has to be unique within the > scope of that machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message-ID I've added a custom suffix to this message. Is this what you had in mind? --

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

2015-08-22 Thread Terry Coles
o.uk> is fine, yes. OK. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 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.g

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2015-08-25 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is just one week away; at 8 pm on the 1st September. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! Chris; are you going? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets

[Dorset] Using GitHub

2015-09-07 Thread Terry Coles
I can do what I want on the web page, but I'd like to know how to do it through the console.) (I have also spotted that I can download the whole thing as a zip file and this is currently ongoing, but I'd still like to know how to do it the console way.) -- Terry Coles

[Dorset] Cannot Run Sonic Pi as an Ordinary User

2015-09-07 Thread Terry Coles
103747470 FAILURE IN SERVER /n_free Node 84 not found saving: workspace_zero.spi saving: workspace_zero.spi saving: workspace_zero.spi saving: workspace_one.spi saving: workspace_two.spi saving: workspace_three.spi saving: workspace_four.spi saving: workspace_five.spi saving: workspace_six.spi saving: workspa

Re: [Dorset] Using GitHub

2015-09-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 07 Sep 2015 17:29:42 Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 14:25 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > > A visit to the web page at https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/ > > implies that I need to sign up to access the code, so how do I do > > that from the command line? &g

Re: [Dorset] Using GitHub

2015-09-07 Thread Terry Coles
m Aaron's documentation) puts the code into /usr/src. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE R

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

2015-09-08 Thread Terry Coles
pplication to work, even as root. I'm not sure what that does in this context, but I assume that it's something to do with the editor. BTW2. I've also experimented with adding myself to some groups (audio, pulse, pulse-access), but that had no effect. Any other ideas? --

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

2015-09-08 Thread Terry Coles
errors to be misreported; it could be anything going > wrong and, instead of letting that filter up to you, it's being caught > and turned into a "Ruby could not be started". Yes, I was rapidly coming to that conclusion. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting

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

2015-09-08 Thread Terry Coles
s up immediately after the Sonic Pi banner. There is a splash screen and then when this is dismissed, the error pops up. -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/strace_output.txt -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-10-06 20:00 Mee

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

2015-09-08 Thread Terry Coles
75 stat(0x1d191b0, 8761 <... epoll_wait resumed> {?} 0x7fff7c2a8530, 64, -1) = 1 8775 <... stat resumed> {...}) = 0 8761 recvmsg(9, 8775 futex(0x7f087475e0d0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647 BTW, strace never comes back and it simply keeps appending lines at the

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

2015-09-27 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 11 Aug 2015 10:59:51 John Horne wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 09:05 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:> > > > I'm thinking about upgrading my root drive to SSD and relegating my > > curren drive to the /home partition only. Can anyone who has done it > > co

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2015-09-29 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is just one week away; at 8 pm on the 6th October. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! Chris; are you going? It's my turn to drive. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tu

[Dorset] Benign Linux Virus 'Attacking' Routers

2015-10-03 Thread Terry Coles
oved, just waiting to be compromised. Any thoughts? -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/linux-wifatch-routers-hacked-by-white-hat-virus-that-makes-them-more-secure-against-malware-1522214 -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-10-06 20:00 Meet

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

2015-10-03 Thread Terry Coles
`-d once' option > that looks useful, with matching fstab(5) option. I toyed with the idea of swapping to the SSD, but decided that there would be little to gain with 8GB of RAM in the machine (it rarely swaps anyway) and plenty to lose if that didn't prove to be the case a

Re: [Dorset] Powerline adapters

2015-10-04 Thread Terry Coles
x27;ll bring them along on Tuesday or you can collect if you wish. I don't want anything for them. -- Terry Coles [1] http://bt.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get/1794455/1281104013/redirect/1/session/L 2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNDQzOTQyNjU2L3NpZC9KeTcxaTR5bQ==/filen

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

2015-10-07 Thread Terry Coles
such as the BBC Micro and Amiga, plus the use of some fairly ancient languages. We discussed SSD Drives and the use of noatime, relatime, discard and fstrim. You may recall that I raised this originally on this list some time ago under the tread 'Using 2.5" SSD Drives in a 3.5&

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

2015-10-09 Thread Terry Coles
allation and get the same result. Can anyone suggest what is going on here? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHEC

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

2015-10-09 Thread Terry Coles
the 14.04 partitions, so that I wouldn't get confused. /home for 15.10 is sdb3 (27d4a9df) and seems to agree with what I'm seeing. However, I'm not sure what it all means! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets,

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

2015-10-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 09 Oct 2015 13:53:27 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > For those playing along at home, here's Terry's output without it being > wrapped by his email client. :-) Believe it or not, Kmail allows me to set the wrapping, as long as the number is less than 78! --

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

2015-10-10 Thread Terry Coles
ed what was broken in 15.04! I'm currently downloading updates. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU&#

Re: [Dorset] Garmin Sat Nav Registration & Up-dates

2015-10-16 Thread Terry Coles
monitor, I never got it to work. If you do decide to try it, remember to install winetricks and to use winecfg to emulate the right Windows version. You may also need to explicitely install .NET under wine to get any life out of the Garmin updater. Good luck and we'll see you in

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2015-10-27 Thread Terry Coles
good evening and I'll see you in December. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 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 Repo

[Dorset] Uptime Funk

2015-11-07 Thread Terry Coles
ou may not want to watch it all if you appreciate real music :-) -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/70255-how-to-make-live-patching-linux-really-cool -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing

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

2015-11-15 Thread Terry Coles
of RAM? vSphere is the professional system that costs megabucks, but is very effective (my old company used it). What you want is http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/player/playerpro-evaluation[1] -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/player

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

2015-11-15 Thread Terry Coles
Windows program (Memory Map) runs very well under wine (certainly much better than it runs in a VM). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mai

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

2015-11-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 15 November 2015 14:46:51 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 15/11/15 13:16, Terry Coles wrote: > > 3. I used to use VMWare at work and so it was a simple switch. For me it > > 'just works'; the installation script does everything necessary, > > including prompt

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2015-11-24 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is just one week away; at 8 pm on the 1st December. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

[Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
going all out for world domination :-) -- Terry Coles [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mai

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 26 November 2015 09:28:25 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 26/11/15 08:40, Terry Coles wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hot off the press today is the launch of the latest Raspberry Pi Model. > > However, this isn't another hardware refresh with a bit more RAM, a few

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 26 November 2015 09:36:10 Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday 26 November 2015 09:28:25 Peter Merchant wrote: > > Hi Terry, Is December MagPi mag out yet? > > According to one of the comments in the original article, it's been seen in > a Tesco store. Tesco Mannin

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-11-27 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 26 November 2015 09:36:10 Terry Coles wrote: > I was expecting my copy today, (I'm a subscriber), but it wasn't with this > morning's post. Got the December MagPi today and it came with two cable adapters; one mini-HDMI to standard HDMI and one mini-USB to

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-11-27 Thread Terry Coles
/news/archive/2015-11/27/raspberry-pi-zero-sold-out[1] -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-11/27/raspberry-pi-zero-sold-out -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorse

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

2015-12-01 Thread Terry Coles
that in place, I'd still need a monitor and that seems to be a bit too much hardware to lug around. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dor

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

2015-12-01 Thread Terry Coles
hub to connect more than one device to the Pi Zero though. Also, even if we get 'our' room, I'm not sure that the pub would be too pleased about us hi-jacking their Telly! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, M

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 27 November 2015 13:24:21 Terry Coles wrote: > Initially, I couldn't get any life out of mine, but it worked fine once I > downloaded the latest version of NOOBS from > https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/. That statement wasn't entirely accurate; when I wro

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-12-04 Thread Terry Coles
ter in practice than the earlier models, but a package search on the zero hadn't come back after around a minute of waiting and each click on a Category in the left-hand pane triggers an agony of waiting just to see what is listed. No problems using IDLE or the file manager though. --

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero

2015-12-04 Thread Terry Coles
efore. Still quite slow though, but at least my searches came back BTW node-red (http://nodered.org/[1] ) is included on this version of Raspbian and looks very interesting. It includes a set of nodes specific to the RPi GPIO and other interfaces and devices such as LED Displa

Re: [Dorset] Take Control of Your PC with UEFI Secure Boot

2015-12-08 Thread Terry Coles
hink that there was something fundamental with the basic UEFI settings with respect to accessing attached drives at boot-up. We were never able to 'see' the DVD drive or USB stick until Windows had booted. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tu

Re: [Dorset] linux noob from bourenmouth

2015-12-16 Thread Terry Coles
th some really powerful native packages, such as KMail, Amarok and k3b for Email, music and burning CD/DVDs respectively. 3. It is a respin of Ubuntu, so a lot of the Ubuntu functionality is readily available. There is a least one member of the group who likes Mint and more than a few wh

Re: [Dorset] VM, W10, and chkdsk

2015-12-27 Thread Terry Coles
o you mean an external USB Drive or an internal HDD? If the latter, I have a spare 250 GB WD2500KS (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ round,review-1451-17.html) which you can 'swap' at the meeting, if you want. (When I say 'swap' I can't think what I may want in return so y

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2015-12-29 Thread Terry Coles
o drive I think. Are you going? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-01-05 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:

[Dorset] AMD Graphics Cards

2016-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
stuttering. I get a fair bit in GL-117, although Foobillard isn't too bad. -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspiron-Optiplex-replacement-graphics-Computers/dp/B003P3Q9UE/ ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1451657684&sr=1-3&k

Re: [Dorset] AMD Graphics Cards

2016-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
good. When I run the 'Unigine_Heaven' (https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/heaven/) [1]tool the detail is brilliant but the frame rate is very poor (~3fps). -- Terry Coles [1] https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/heaven/ -- N

Re: [Dorset] AMD Graphics Cards

2016-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
ms to work now (not brilliant, but acceptable). I might still get a faster graphics card at some point, but I don't think it has to be anytime soon. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-01-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ..

Re: [Dorset] Debian Loss

2016-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
time. A real shame. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-01-05 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:

Re: [Dorset] Tonight's meeting

2016-01-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 05 January 2016 11:55:03 C Wills wrote: > If it helps I could collect from Terry tonight and drop it off to Peter > Wednesday morning. OK by me. > Terry - See you at the pub. Yep. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-01

[Dorset] Meeting Tonight

2016-01-05 Thread Terry Coles
-- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-01-05 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

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

2016-01-11 Thread Terry Coles
t the end of the day, the manager would then be able to turn off the supply without any risk to the SD Card. Can anyone see any problems with this approach or suggest a better way? -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.wimborne-modeltown.com/the-model-tow

Re: [Dorset] {Spam?} Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

2016-01-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 11 January 2016 12:35:40 Simon P Smith wrote: > On 11/01/16 12:19, Terry Coles wrote: > > We have a physical solution and the code is fairly trivial, but my main > > concern is the fact that once implemented, the Pi would have to run > > unattended for most of the ti

Re: [Dorset] {Spam?} Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

2016-01-11 Thread Terry Coles
ll have a backup (or two or three), just in case. > For headless operation it is advisable to use a fixed IP address in case > you want to ssh into it, but on the basis of information given, it > sounds like it is standalone and not networked. There is no accessible network on sit

Re: [Dorset] {Spam?} Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

2016-01-11 Thread Terry Coles
transfer so much easier (especially with the rising generation who are now using them in schools :-) ) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@m

Re: [Dorset] {Spam?} Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

2016-01-12 Thread Terry Coles
he system could recreate it when the need to upgrade the system or replace something arises. I suspect we'll keep both methods in our armoury. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... htt

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

2016-01-12 Thread Terry Coles
the idea of making the program 'init'. Are you saying that we would have a custom init that launches only the minimum code required to support execution and then finally our program? I had wondered about doing something like that, eg boot into a shell and then launch the code, but t

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

2016-01-12 Thread Terry Coles
live Tiny Core instance would do. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 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] Using a Raspberry Pi 'Headless' and Unattended

2016-01-16 Thread Terry Coles
python has open once it's up and running, > ld.so having finished.) So if I wanted to use Python, then I would have to ensure that those files are available in the running system? > No particular reason for making it init except that you can't get much > simpler if nothing el

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

2016-01-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 16 January 2016 08:12:37 Terry Coles wrote: I see that the mailer munged my sequence and made it a bit incomprehensible. Here it is again with each step separated out: Code will be written in Python or C and will implement the following functions in the sequence: 1 Brightening

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

2016-01-17 Thread Terry Coles
lation of Python would have done > that for you. The main reason that I picked on Tiny Core is because I've never created any kind of Distro other than that. We did a project at work which involved creating a distro that would boot at switch on and use hwinfo to read all the physical

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

2016-01-17 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 16 January 2016 21:08:18 Tim Allen wrote: > On 16/01/16 08:12, Terry Coles wrote: > > So you are saying that the above sequence would simply be a script at the > > end of init? > > > > I'm not sure if that could be done in bash, because I'm th

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

2016-01-17 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 17 January 2016 09:25:58 Terry Coles wrote: > I've been playing around with software PWM in Python, using RPi.GPIO and > there is a another library called RPIO, which does a kind of hybrid > hardware/software PWM using something like the DMA you mention to reduce > the

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

2016-01-17 Thread Terry Coles
ked volatile, e.g. the > thread running a PWM keeps checking p->running to know when to stop, and > another thread sets it false in pwm_stop(). Similarly, changing the > duty cycle, etc., all twiddle with multiple numbers in the struct whilst > they're being used by the PWM thr

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

2016-01-19 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 11 January 2016 12:19:24 Terry Coles wrote: > your comments. The plan is to create a Live Tiny Core ( > http://tinycorelinux.net/ports.html[2] ) distro containing the packages > needed and the code to be run. We would install this on the SD Card and > then make it Read

[Dorset] Next Meeting: One Week Tonight

2016-01-26 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next meeting is just one week away; at 8 pm on the 2th February. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting: One Week Tonight

2016-01-26 Thread Terry Coles
one of the bedrooms, whereas the Router is downstairs through at least one wall and a floor. Both work fine on my phone and Chromebook. > Any suggestions please? Only to do the testing suggested before spending your money. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting

[Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
to the front of the MagPi magazine. I thought at the time that this was asking for trouble, but maybe I was just unlucky and got a bad 'un. Anyway, if someone has one that they've finished playing with, I'd appreciate a loan so that I can evaluate it running TinyPi and the PWM p

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
vinced it's the Zero, but trying what I have been doing on another one would confirm it. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.u

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
ho was adamant that you can't just pull the plug. > > In summary, I'm fairly convinced it's the Zero, but trying what I have > > been doing on another one would confirm it. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Zero Memory cards

2016-01-29 Thread Terry Coles
need one and an SD to USB adaptor to write the image to the card.) I went for No Rush delivery (free but 4-8 days) and they arrived yesterday having ordered them on Monday. -- Terry Coles [1] https://mobymemory.com/uk/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&am

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-29 Thread Terry Coles
The first thing I did when I got my Zero was to put it in a bag (after I had picked off the glue). I also use a static mat and wristband when doing anything more than just connecting it up or inserting the SD card. > Shall I drop it on Clive? I gather Clive has communicated to you separa

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-29 Thread Terry Coles
f that issue ;-0 Too late for me maybe and the 20,000 others who bought the first batch. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk /

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Terry Coles
keyboard (and mouse when I've got it to boot full Raspbian) seem to work (at first, at least). They rely on the USB connector to work. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://d

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Terry Coles
hat it can reveal much, because once it has corrupted, it takes some time to get back to the starting point. Then we go round again. I'm seeing Clive tomorrow at the Model Town, so I may have been able to try Peter's Zero before Tuesday evening. -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Terry Coles
by default, although it does load Midnight Commander and SSH by default. My installation also includes Python and RPI.GPIO but it boots into a shell and starts running the Lighting software (on the Pi 2) in about 15 s. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: B

Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files. - Kubuntu users

2016-02-01 Thread Terry Coles
;m not convinced I could give you as comprehensive an overview anyway, but I should be able to help with any files that are left. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.o

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-02-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 31 January 2016 21:10:47 Terry Coles wrote: > If Peter's Zero runs PiCore OK tomorrow, I'll try it on my own Zero. PiCore > runs very little by default, although it does load Midnight Commander and > SSH by default. My installation also includes Python and RPI.GPIO

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-02-01 Thread Terry Coles
h), so I'd rather not mess with your Pi. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 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 bu

Re: [Dorset] Linux Tablet OS

2016-02-01 Thread Terry Coles
eem big enough. I don't own a Tablet so I cannot comment further. It may be that there is no usable on-screen keyboard. -- Terry Coles [1] https://www.kde.org/workspaces/plasmanetbook/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meet

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2016-02-02.

2016-02-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 02 February 2016 11:38:38 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that > haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops or Terry's stuffed > penguin. Yep. I'll be there, along with Paul, Chris and said Tux

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
fixing customer returns and compensating for the inconvenience. This is why I was a bit shocked (excuse the pun) when I saw my very own Pi Zero stuck on the front of the MagPi magazine. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets,

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
I would hope that it was all done by machine. I would guess that > mine wasn't in the first batch. > > By the way, did you check the impedance of the blob of glue? :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, M

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

2016-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
the next to compensate. > http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/code/ci/default/tree/source/s > oft_pwm.c#l173 Thanks. -- Terry Coles [1] http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Add-on-Modules/PCB-scope/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 20

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

2016-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
ound Mint 15 or so? Is there another way to create a list of packages that can be passed to apt-get, to re-install everything? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-03-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

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

2016-02-04 Thread Terry Coles
me that is the device that the scope software should be using. I have tried plugging the device into other USB sockets, but the only thing that changes seems to be the device ID in lsusb. Any ideas on how I can get this to work under Linux to avoid having to mug my son? -- Terr

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

2016-02-04 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 04 February 2016 11:26:25 Terry Coles wrote: > I've put the VMWare solution on the back-burner > for now. Replying to myself; I've just got that working. I was trying to install the program when the scope was plugged in. > Any ideas on how I can get this to

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