Re: [Dorset] Using the host file
On 23/05/2013 17:16, Tim wrote: So I edited the /etc/host file as follows Do you mean '/etc/hosts'? It seems from a later post that your ping looked up the correct IP address, so presumably you did edit the correct file, but I thought it would be worth checking. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-06-04 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] [OT] Video Slide show with digital photographs
It depends what you're doing. If you want to distribute this as a DVD then you want to select PAL DVD. The 1080 options are all high-definition and I rather doubt any DVD players could play this. Blu-ray players could, but are they common yet? I recently saw a Blu-ray writer drive for around £60. If this is for a slide-show that you are going to be controlling then you might want to consider creating a 1080 movie, preferably 1080p not 1080i (i means interlaced, and AFAIK there are about zero HD TVs where this is needed), and then putting it on to a Raspberry Pi. This has an HDMI output for HD TVs and a composite video output for SD TVs. It seems common for TVs to have ethernet ports and USB, I wonder if SD cards or USB sticks can be used on most TVs these days? -- Andrew. On 19/05/13 12:02, Tim wrote: Sorry for being slightly OT, but a quick question if may. I am going to make a video slide show using digital photographs (300+ images). I have two questions, I get various options as to what Profile I want the video to be in, DV\DVD Pal, HD 1080i (with various frame speeds), HDV 1080 25i 1920 x 1080 etc.. etc.. What is the best to use. I would like to have the eventual video playable on a normal DVD\TV combination if at all possible. Secondly and probably related to the above, all the photograph are in various resolution, what would be the best resolution to change them in to?? Thanks in advance Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-06-04 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] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools
On 29/01/2013 20:27, Peter Merchant wrote: Well, Perhaps that will bring down the prices of HDMI monitors. I couldn't find one under £103 P. There are cheaper ones with DVI, and/or sold as TVs. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 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] Hi, new member. Local paid support
On 06/12/2012 12:27, Jago Pearce wrote: - update a bios that doesn't always boot; need to add an .img option to grub2 to get DOS, which is required for the flash Flashrom might help, if it supports your motherboard (chipset) and flash chip. http://www.flashrom.org/ That or write a FreeDOS USB stick or bootable CD/DVD. - when scrolling up in console mode terminal, how to stop the scrolling from interrupting what I'm reading (wondered about this for years) I use Scroll Lock. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 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] New DVD writing error
On 14/06/2012 20:36, Peter Merchant wrote: Devices --- TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222BB SB00 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [TAO, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] [%7] TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222BB SB00 (/dev/sr1, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] [%7] Is there any reason /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 show different results here? Do they have the same (and latest) firmware? I tend to check using 'dmesg' and searching the output for 'sr0', the line above the first instance of 'sr0' tends to be the correct one with drive info, eg. mine here says: [1.865700] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROMTSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L SB03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Which is firmware SB03. I have just checked 5 drives and they all have the firmware version in the same place, so I am assuming it will be there. I would be tempted to try one drive at a time, and writing an ISO (UDF, etc.) image, possibly using 'wodim'. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 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] Raspberry Pi --- necessary accessories
The ideal thing would be a USB keyboard with a built-in hub, Mac style. The USB wireless keyboard/mice are fine, the computer sees it as a USB HID device with a battery level monitor. Unfortunatly it will keep bugging you about low battery within days of changing them if you use rechargable batteries. They'll keep running for ages, but it thinks they are low because of the lower voltage. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 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
Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows
On 05/03/12 21:40, Terry Coles wrote: So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. Any ideas? Cygwin + rdiff-backup? Can be run on demand from a shortcut or on a schedule. IIRC, the syntax to create a backup is pretty much 'rdiff-backup $source $destination'. In case you haven't used rdiff-backup before, you'll end up with a copy of the files which can be recovered easily using regular file-system tools (the sync method you said you didn't want ;) ) but as well as that you can recover to any point at which you created a backup, as it stores diffs or similar. Of course as it never deletes anything automatically the disk might run out of space if there are lots of changes, but it is possible to remove older backups somehow. I don't know how as I haven't run out of space on my rdiff-backup target yet so I haven't needed to look up how to do it. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 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] Copying DVD's to USB sticks
I haven't used a GUI to do this, but I have done it for a lot of DVDs*. Whatever method you use you will need to install libdvdcss2 on your machine, so it can decrypt the DVD. In Ubuntu, which is what I tend to use, this isn't simply a package. Installation instructions are here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs It appears there are only two steps required to install it. What I would do is: Install 'libdvdcss2'. Install 'vobcopy'. Open a terminal and type: cd /path/to/USB/stick/ vobcopy -m This will create an unencrypted copy of the DVD in whichever directory you changed to. This does no transcoding or anything, it simply creates a VIDEO_TS structure. It will be the same size as the original, and dual layer DVDs can I believe be up to around 8.7 GB. I don't know of any GUI way to do it, but I don't think those commands are too difficult. :) 'vobcopy -m' will create a directory named the same as the name of the DVD, which sounds great except that a lot of DVDs aren't named very well at all. “DVDVolume” is quite common. I've even got a couple of TV series' where three of the four discs are named with a common format, and one isn't. * I have also travelled outside of the UK to places where copying a DVD for personal use is not illegal. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 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] rsync with compression
On 26/06/11 17:40, Tim wrote: I have a single disk nas which I back up to a external hard disk using rsync, the total amount of data I backup from the nas is about 235gb. At the moment I use rsync to copy it from the nas to the external hard disk, but I am thinking about using the -z option to add compression but have a couple of questions 1) what would happen if I just add the -z option to my existing command? From the man page: -z, --compress compress file data during the transfer The resulting files would be the same, the compression is only for the data transfer, which makes more sense when you are using rsync over the internet, perhaps via SSH. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: TBD, ???day 2011-07-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready
On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote: I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs test-ipv6.com, and he says: \ Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider disabling teredo and miredo. You're intentionally prefering complex setups that can take your packets through further routes, and through locations you have nobody to complain to when they break. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457011.aspx Is that true? Do teredo/miredo make connections more complicated for IPv4 addresses? If your only IPv6 connection is via Teredo, and if the site you are trying to reach supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and if your software prefers IPv6 over IPv4 then yes, it will send the connection via Teredo rather than directly by IPv4. If the site is IPv4 only then no, it won't be more complicated. If the site is IPv6 only then it is via Teredo or nothing. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready?
On 20/04/11 12:42, Chris Dennis wrote: Can anyone recommend a suitable wifi-enabled ADSL router for IPV6? The only one I've used was a 2Wire router, a long time ago. I think BT were doing an IPv6 test and I was surprised to find I got a real IPv6 address on it. Your best bet might be something which you can run OpenWRT on. Only trouble is their list of supported hardware doesn't seem to include anything which does ADSL, so you would have to get an ethernet (or 'cable') router and an ethernet ADSL modem. I've got a D-Link DIR-825 running OpenWRT and it was fairly easy to install. I don't have it connected to ADSL though. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Well, my ISP and router don't support IPv6 but I discovered Miredo (Teredo) a while ago. It doesn't seem to work if both ends are using Teredo behind IPv4 NAT, but other than that it does allow you to connect to the IPv6 internet. In Ubuntu (and presumably Debian?) IPv6 support is as easy as 'apt-get install miredo'. It seems to be made of magic as it sets its self up automatically in seconds. I've done this on all of my Linux machines now. With Miredo I got 10/10 and 9/10 because my ISP's DNS server doesn't support IPv6. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready
On 20/04/11 00:07, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, With Miredo I got 10/10 and 9/10 because my ISP's DNS server doesn't support IPv6. Do you get that elusive last point if you switch to 8.8.4.4 and/or 8.8.8.8? No, still 9/10. According to the info on the test which fails: *Confirmation:* |dig .v6ns.test-ipv6.com| should return back an record without errors. This returns SERVFAIL when using 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 as DNS servers. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] USB 1-2 problem
I believe keyboards mice are all USB 1.1. I have some USB 1.1 devices working on Ubuntu. If it is a 54mbit (or faster) USB device then I would expect it to be USB 2, otherwise it is limited to 11 Mb/s or thereabouts. 'lsusb -v' will show you a lot of information. The 'bcdUSB' lines show you the USB version in use by a particular device. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Music CD's to Disk
Hi, The simple answer is FLAC. A more complex answer is that audio CDs don't actually contain files or a regular filesystem at all. Some O/Ses allow you to view the CD as if it contained files, but they aren't files in the normal sense. OGG, assuming this means OGG/Vorbis, is a lossy format. I don't know .cda. WAV is a lossless and uncompressed Microsoft format. FLAC is free format which is losslessly compressed. I would rip all CDs as FLAC then you have the original data. You can then compress this to OGG/Vorbis or MP3 later, which should be fairly easy and can be batch processed for all tracked ripped from all CDs. If you're ripping lots of CDs then I've used a program called 'abcde' which might be useful. It can be configured to output FLAC and get the track names from the internet. It does some parallel processing too, compressing the original data to FLAC in the background. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPV6 article in Daily Telegraph
On 13/11/10 14:10, Peter Merchant wrote: After reading this article in the telegraph today http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8126181/UK-will-run-out-of-web-addresses-by-2012.html About Vint Cerf saying that the Uk will run out of IP (V4) addresses by 2012, I wondered if my Router would support IPV6 on the Internet Side. Will yours? I use a 3Com Wireless router. I have a D-Link DIR-825 running OpenWRT which does IPv6. All devices which you can run OpenWRT on should have IPv6. But I'm not using it as a router and my ISP doesn't do IPv6 yet. This isn't an ADSL router though, I'd need another device to actually use it as an internet router. My ADSL router is a Netgear DG834Gv3 which, good as it is, doesn't support IPv6 and OpenWRT hasn't been ported to it. I used a 2wire router a few years ago which was on some BT internet connection (they have so many names for their internet services it's hard to keep track!) and not only did the router support IPv6 but my laptop got an IPv6 address, which worked! I'm not sure if that was a testing phase at BT or what though. The other day I installed Windows 7 in a kvm virtual machine, using kvm's default networking setup, and somehow Windows managed to get a real routable IPv6 address! I'm not sure how it did that as there's no IPv6 on my network at all. Or was it kvm? I'd love to know how that happened. I then re-booted the VM and since that Windows networking hasn't worked. At all. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Evolution mail settings....
On 11/10/10 22:10, Bryn Jones wrote: The resolution is fine Just the window running off screen In Ubuntu/Gnome there are some useful mouse + keyboard combinations: Alt + left button to move a window, Alt + middle button to resize a window. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Has TBD for next meeting been D'd
On 01/10/10 14:00, Natalie Hooper wrote: Thanks for the link. Looking at the timetable, the evening service is pretty bad. There's a bus (back to Bournemouth) at 20.15 then at 22.15 ( http://www.wdbus.co.uk/uploads/13may10.pdf). And that's it. Not a bus service you can rely on (I don't call having to wait 2 hours for a bus a reliable service). As a public transport user, this makes it a non-goer for me unfortunately. I don't think there's much point worrying about if buses and trains go where you want when you want, from what I've seen they never have and never will. But for anyone who has to rely on public transport don't forget there are plenty of taxis out there and their drivers work all night, and they'll take you from wherever you want to wherever you want without any faffing about between. As far as pubs go I would prefer one out of the towns and cities, and definitely away from any surveillance. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] It's been a year in the pipeline.
On 11/09/10 16:38, Peter Merchant wrote: After reading this, and thinking about the cars speeding up our road, I wondered how hard it would be to write a speed camera program for a webcam. I believe there is a phrase about asking can I do this before asking should I do this. Sounds like this would be something similar to the 'community speed watch' scams. If so the results will be: · Most people aren't speeding. · The ones who are are your neighbors. · You'll get bored of it quickly when you realise that you can't actually /do/ anything. Now lets get rid of all this spying technology and start treating each other like humans. (Also a company has had this idea already, they're called (or, were bought by) RedSpeed. Their devices are little better than two or three web cams and a computer running DOS.) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format
On 25/04/10 12:09, Clive A Wills wrote: Information and guidance sort on character encoding in Thunderbird and Ubuntu 9.10. (may not just apply on e-mail programs). For some reason I've started getting strange characters appearing in some e-mails, a black diamond with a ? mark in the centre. Now my encoding was set to Unicode UTF-8. Ive now changed it to Western (ISO 8859-1) which appears to fix the problem. :-) But what is the difference between Unicode, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15 etc? Which is the best to use and why? I know someone out there will know but please keep it simple and basic. This is the sort of question 'new users' may have and that is where the LUG is good at - experience. Everything in a computer is a number. Binary. So what you see as text is a stream of binary numbers. The computer needs to know what those numbers mean. They could simply be numbers, or in this case they are text. So what you need is a 'lookup table' of sorts to know which number represents each character. You'll probably know ASCII, which is an older 7 bit encoding, allowing encoding of all the characters which Americans need. Note that ASCII has no pound sign. If you use £ you're using something else. Many, many, many other character sets have been created (there seems to be good info on them on Wikipedia). When it comes to displaying e-mails other people have sent the answer is that your e-mail program has to be using the same encoding as the sender, otherwise it won't look right. For example in ISO8859-1 1010 0110 (0xA6) means ¦ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/%C2%A6 but in ISO8859-15 it is Š https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/%C5%A0. This is of course the same with any text document, HTML page, etc. E-mails (and HTTP) have a header to tell the client what the encoding is. Your last e-mail said: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Strangely that is not ISO8859-1 as you suggested you were now using. Maybe the mailing list changed it in which case my message will get broken. Or maybe something detected that your message didn't use anything outside of ASCII so used that because it fits? If an e-mail is sent without this header then the receiving e-mail client has to guess which encoding to use, or use your default. That's where problems happen. What we really need is a standard, and that would be Unicode. It has all the characters from all other common character sets available plus thousands more you never knew you needed. However this has a slight problem, in most character sets all characters can be encoded using 8 or 16 bits. With the number of chars available in Unicode, 16 bits isn't enough to encode them all, but 32 bits would be quite excessive to encode most common characters. So there's a few different ways to store Unicode values. UTF-8 is one, and it is good for English (Latin) text, especially as the first 128 chars are exactlly the same as ASCII. Because of the way it works, some reasonably common UTF-8 chars can end up being 3 or 4 bytes long, so if you have a lot of them (think Chinese) then UCS-2 can be better. That's always 2 bytes per character. Actually, in Unicode they aren't called characters, they are called code points. The reason being that you can use multiple code points to create one character. It isn't that complicated, for example code points U+0045 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E) and U+0301 (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) make this: É. And if you want you can go a bit silly and make something like this: E̮̽͜F, which is made up of 5 code points. Let's hope your font can display that. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Unknown http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] OT: (Almost) Copying a humungous amount of data between NTFS Partitions
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. What you have there should be fine for anything on NTFS. I would go for 'cp -a source destination' which sets -rp and other options to copy special files correctly, or 'cp -av source destination' to be verbose about it. Well no, I'd actually use 'rsync -av source destination'. If I stopped and started the copy again I'd add -u (update only) and possibly -c (skip files based on checksum rather than datetime). -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-05 20:00.
C A Wills wrote: (Lost the pound sign and seem to have a USA keyboard!!) Press CTRL+Shift+U, then press A, 3, Enter. Does that produce a pound sign? I haven't seen any snow yet by the way. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 CANCELLED -- snow Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest
Dominic Lonsdale wrote: Is this not getting a bit over complicated ? I just made a bootable USB thumb drive (or flash drive or whatever they are called now) and plugged it in. The CD USB process used to be complicated, also it requires that you have a spare USB flash drive which is large enough. I suspect that it is a good method for a lot of people. I have created the boot CD already, and I have spare CD drives lying around. So for me that's the easiest way to do it. I also suspect that all laptops/netbooks made these days with USB but no optical drive will come with BIOSes which can boot from USB optical drives. And yes, the USB to ATA adapters are available in many places. I have one which looks suspiciously similar to this: http://cpc.farnell.com/_/psg02625/usb-2-0-to-sata-ide-combo-adaptor/dp/CS15616 Comes with a power adapter which isn't pictured. SATA and PATA connectors work at the same time, too. I say USB to ATA rather than IDE because IDE is the wrong terminology and always has been. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine
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/ which happens to only contain xorg.conf? -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] help in sorting files for duplicates
I've used a GUI program called 'fslint' to do this in the past, it works quite well. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Slightly O/T: Technical authoring decisions...
Hugh Frater wrote: I know that microsoft now want to eol CHM support and move to something else (I can't remember what exactly though) and this replacement might be easier? In vista, looking in %WINDIR%\Help there are quite a few files ending in .h1s. These appear to be MAML format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Assistance_Markup_Language Double-clicking on them doesn't open them in any kind of MAML viewer, so that doesn't seem to be much of an improvement over CHM or HLP files. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-07-07 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] printers
Simon P Smith wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:08:51 -0700 (PDT), greg oconnell greg.oconn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does anybody know which printer manufacturers support Linux (Ubuntu specifically). I know HP does - any others? Irrespective of the manufactures support you will find a vast number of printers are supported on Linux. I am constantly amazed the number of printers I attached on USB or network ports and my Ubuntu server just works with them. Occasionally need to google and find a ppd file for a rarer printer Am I right in thinking that, in general at least, if they support MacOS then they have written drivers for CUPS and they will work on Linux? -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, 2009-06-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
