Re: [Dorset] New member
On Saturday 07 Jul 2012 01:27:09 Gemma wrote: @Ralph; I don't live that far from Litton Cheney, the other side of Bridport in fact. Perhaps a Dorch mtg every few months, as I gather most attendees are from the Bournemouth area and relatively few from the 'far' west. (its 20 miles to Dorch for me and the extra 30 into Bournemouth is sufficient to cause me an enthusiasm failure) We may be getting close to a Quorum :-) Graeme, Gemma (hi again Gemma) and Ralph live reasonably close to Dorchester, I live in Corfe Mullen, where it is almost as easy to get to Dorchester as The Broadway, and Paul, who lives close to me and has been known to attend Dorchester Meetings before. Of course Peter is working away these days, but he's otherwise in Weymouth. I recall that there were a few more who came from reasonably close to Dorchester, but I can't put names to places. I reckon we might be getting to the point where it's worth a vote :-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 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] New member
You can add me to the list for Dorchester, that will bring up the numbers Terry. *Clive Wills* /Powered by Linux Open Source Software/ On 07/07/12 08:13, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday 07 Jul 2012 01:27:09 Gemma wrote: @Ralph; I don't live that far from Litton Cheney, the other side of Bridport in fact. Perhaps a Dorch mtg every few months, as I gather most attendees are from the Bournemouth area and relatively few from the 'far' west. (its 20 miles to Dorch for me and the extra 30 into Bournemouth is sufficient to cause me an enthusiasm failure) We may be getting close to a Quorum :-) Graeme, Gemma (hi again Gemma) and Ralph live reasonably close to Dorchester, I live in Corfe Mullen, where it is almost as easy to get to Dorchester as The Broadway, and Paul, who lives close to me and has been known to attend Dorchester Meetings before. Of course Peter is working away these days, but he's otherwise in Weymouth. I recall that there were a few more who came from reasonably close to Dorchester, but I can't put names to places. I reckon we might be getting to the point where it's worth a vote :-) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 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] New member
Terry, please also add me to the list for a Dorchester meeting as I am in Wareham and Dorchester is a little closer for me too. Thanks Charles Miller -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 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] New member
Hello and welcome I don't post on this group very often, so most don't know me especially as I only ever attended one mtg at Dorch (2006/7 ish), soon after joining the mailing list. However, I have a FreeNas based Raid 5 file store (4x500Gb discs) that I've had running for a few years now (it's where I back up everything(!) mostly Uni files, photos and music). It's not the latest (it's 0.69) and its quite slow, even with a quad Opteron, FreeNas is actually on a 1GB flash drive and R5 doesn't help, but I'm working on the axiom 'if it aint broke etc'. However if I can be of any help regarding implementing a NAS, I'll gladly discuss what I've done. It works just fine from my Windoze and Linux boxes. I also have a couple of single disc Ethernet LANdisks (bought as enclosures from Maplin LANdisc review http://icablog.org/2007/01/landisk-network-drives/), which I don't use any more as they only work with IE. @Ralph; I don't live that far from Litton Cheney, the other side of Bridport in fact. Perhaps a Dorch mtg every few months, as I gather most attendees are from the Bournemouth area and relatively few from the 'far' west. (its 20 miles to Dorch for me and the extra 30 into Bournemouth is sufficient to cause me an enthusiasm failure) :-) Gemma On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group. Living in Litton Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be asking for advice/recommendations, but I am interested in implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs. Regards Graeme -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 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] New member
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 10:01:42 p.lane wrote: On 04/07/2012 09:45, Tim wrote: On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group. Living in Litton Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be asking for advice/recommendations, but I am interested in implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs. Regards Graeme Hi Graema, Welcome to Dlug A lot will depend on the type of NAS you are after, I have a single Disk NAS from Lacie which has a linux based OS but is aimed really at the windows market. I have not tried or even know if it is possible to hack the OS. I can mount it on my linux box and it works and have mounted it on windows boxes so other in the family can access it. I normally back this up on a monthly basis via rsync, it was backed up more regularly at one stage but the data is not added to, changed or deleted that frequently at the moment so there no need for more regular backups. If you are looking at a multi disk nas, then you could try building one to suit, I looked at doing similar a while ago and kept this link as the basis of how I would go about it http://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=968 I have no idea if it is any good in real life Hope it helps Tim Hi. I'm a new member myself. Linksys, Buffalo DNS all sell good, reasonably priced Linux comapatible NAS devices. It all comes down to how much you need to store, whether you want to mirror 2 or 4 or 8 drives what yuo know about RAID how much you can afford. Don't consider DROBO.nice but slow is a type of X-RAID so a proprietary format even tho they say LINUX compatible, I know they are not LINUX friendly. BTW all, being a sys admin and having worked with a number of large scale RAID detups - EMC Netapps etc Sun DiskSuite, if anyone is interested, I'll post a RAID fyi. Phil. Hi Graeme, welcome to Dlug. I have to ask why you think you need a ready built NAS as opposed to a File Server. You can add lots a disks to an existing linux system, have fun configuring linux raid and even use the file server for other things (a normal desktop perhaps) and then export the raid filesystems to your LAN with Samba and NFS and you wouldnt know the difference. I bought a cheap NAS once and thanks to its complete lack of expansion prospects ended up chucking it away and adding raid to my linux file server which now has some multi-terabyte shared file-systems. Regards Andy -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-07-03 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] New member
On Tuesday 03 Jul 2012 20:45:27 Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group. Living in Litton Welcome to DLUG Graeme. Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be asking for Hmm. Although the website lists Dorchester as a venue, we haven't actually met there for a while, due to lack of members near enough to constitute a quorum! Perhaps it's time for another poll to see who might attend? advice/recommendations, but I am interested in implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs. I have a Netgear Stora: http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/storage/consumer/default.aspx which is cheap and cheerful. It is adequate for my needs, but (as the yanks would say), your mileage may vary. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 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] New member
Welcome to DorsetLUG On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group. Living in Litton Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be asking for advice/recommendations, but I am interested in implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs. Regards Graeme -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-07-03 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] New member
I have just joined the mailing group and would like to introduce myself. My name is Peter Harris and I started using Ubuntu last year. I am a retired BT engineer (probably too old at 70 to change operating systems) and live in Swanage. I have been having problems with internet access since upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 and am having to boot to Windows for email and internet. If anybody fancies helping me solve the problem I would be pleased to hear from them. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00 *New date* 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] New member
On Monday 11 Jan 2010, Peter Harris wrote: I have just joined the mailing group and would like to introduce myself. My name is Peter Harris and I started using Ubuntu last year. I am a retired BT engineer (probably too old at 70 to change operating systems) and live in Swanage. Welcome Peter. I have been having problems with internet access since upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 and am having to boot to Windows for email and internet. If anybody fancies helping me solve the problem I would be pleased to hear from them. Did you mean 8.04 and 8.10? The latest version is 9.10. There were issues with network connections a year or two ago, so it may simply be that you need to upgrade to the latest version. However, if you really have 8.10 at the moment, a clean install of 9.10 might also be wise, since these distros are not brilliant at leapfrogging versions. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00 ** New date ** 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] New member
Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, Did you mean 8.04 and 8.10? I'm on 8.04, long story, it was the LTS release so it is possible. However, if you really have 8.10 at the moment, a clean install of 9.10 might also be wise, since these distros are not brilliant at leapfrogging versions. Just to clarify, you can't leapfrog. You have to go 8.04 - 8.10 - 9.04 - 9.10, which is probably what you meant, and I also understand there's the chance for various hiccoughs along the way. (I'm planning on copying my root partition and then trying the incremental upgrade route. If that gets too difficult then I'll go for a clean 9.10 and re-do all my changes using the 8.04 copy as a reference.) Cheers, Ralph. Hi All Welcome Peter to the list. As the others will testify I've had troubles since going to Ubuntu, all because I've either pushed the wrong button or not knowing enough. The Group are very helpful and I'd agree with doing a clean install of 9.10. In fact I'm flat on my back at the moment and have completed a new install, wiping Vista completely and putting Ubuntu OS, Linux swap and /Home on separate partitions. All work fine now, even printing over the network wirelessly. Copied my old /home to a separate HD before wiping everything. Sorry won't be at pub meet tomorrow because of my back. Happy new year all!!! Clive -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00 ** New date ** 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
