[Dorset] Changing the Graphics Card

the rest later? If not, how much do I need to change? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Changing the Graphics Card

enabled me to wizard the stub into a usable file. I'm sorry I can't be more specific about the utility, but this was about a year ago now. Try doing a google for xconfig. This is 8.10 with the KDE 4.2 install from the Kubuntu KDE Service. -- Terry Coles 64 bit

Re: [Dorset] Changing the Graphics Card

. I've found a link to the Ubuntu support page for the ATI cards (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver), so when I have more time I'm going to see if I can get the Open Source driver to work. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Dorset

Re: [Dorset] Funny message from my ISP

many of a particular medication one might take. Methinks they need to redo their criteria! -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] Next Meeting - 1 week tommorrow evening.

. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

[Dorset] Google Wave

think of it. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

On Friday 29 May 2009, Terry Coles wrote: The good news is that most of the code is going to be Open Sourced and the protocols are open too. Google have already been collaborating with two other organisations who have produced their own clients for this. They say that they gained so much

[Dorset] Totally OT, but Important: Firefox vulnerability on Windows Installed by MS Update

, if you use Firefox on Windows it's worth checking for this. Better still, consider keeping Windows for gaming and use Linux for your 'proper' computing needs :-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, 2009-06-03 20:00

[Dorset] Host/Network name

returns BEIGE and the hostname file contains BEIGE. I've looked at all the likely looking files in /etc and can find nowhere that defines a network name of anything, let alone 'ubuntu'. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Slightly O/T: Technical authoring decisions...

in the next few days. If you are still interested I'll ask the developers and let you know. I have been dong some research into what I should use to author this help system/manual and have a few queries: If you use html, then you have lots of alternatives -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] [OT] Internet Explorer on Windows 7

On Friday 10 Jul 2009, Nathan Baum wrote: On 10/07/09 14:40, Terry Coles wrote: Presumably, the developers of W7 have managed to separate the browser from the OS, so that MS can 'offer' this. Whether or not the dangerous parts will really be removed, and not just the entry in the Programs

[Dorset] Kubuntu - Blocked Updates (Again)

-get, but I can't remember the fix and I can't seem to find the original message in my archives. Can anyone remind me? I've tried sudo dpkg --configure -a, apt-get update and apt-get install without success. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux

[Dorset] Can't read CD to rip.

to be stymied. Either the tool doesn't support MP3 encoding (eg, the newer versions of iTunes the Cowan Jet Audio tool on Windows) or doesn't read the CDDB (eg, Windows Media Player (spit) or VLc on either platform. Any ideas, apart from writing the track info by hand? -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Can't read CD to rip.

it calls), uses it's own routine. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Can't read CD to rip.

should be able to install that now. To be honest, I'd put that onto the back burner until I was sure that there was no other solution. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http

Re: [Dorset] blocked updates

-upgrade that worked, but I'd also run the others, so you might have to do them all. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

of a disaster is to try to mug up on *how* to get their files back. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

and doesn't contain any work. If I used it for work, I think I'd use a server solution to ensure that the backups are on a completely separate machine in case this one really crashed and burned. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next

[Dorset] KDE 4.3 Released

, plus there are new versions of quite a few of the standard KDE Apps. I'll let you know how I get on over the coming days. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http

[Dorset] OT: FSF Campaign Against Amazon

is a liability rather than an asset, so it's time that the eBook industry followed, their (very overdue) lead. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat

Re: [Dorset] OT: FSF Campaign Against Amazon

. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 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

Re: [Dorset] OT: FSF Campaign Against Amazon

interpreted it to mean that they could remove illegal content that you (the user) had installed. Certainly not illegal content that they (the supplier) had provided. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00

Re: [Dorset] OT: MS can't sell Word in the US

On Wednesday 12 Aug 2009, Terry Coles wrote: Although the first reaction is to say that this 'couldn't happen to a nicer company' :-), the reality is much more serious. Both of these patents could affect ODF and since XML is the vehicle for both claims, even wider than that. If anyone needs

[Dorset] OT: Youtube Video of TED Lecture on Delayed Gratification

See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0yhHKWUa0g Don't worry about the Subject, just watch the subjects in this video. Be warned, you might need a tissue handy to dry up the tears of laughter. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next

Re: [Dorset] My Son has turned Japanese!

http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/snapshot1.png.zip. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset

[Dorset] Nexte Meeting - Less than a week away

I've only just back from Chester, so I'm a bit late with this reminder. The next pub meeting is in Dorchester, next Tuesday. Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak I'll see you there. -- Terry Coles

[Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

looking? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 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

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

/Misc/Console.txt in case anyone can see anything else in there. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

if you leave your machine switched on overnight, e.g. `last reboot'. I shut down this PC every night (it's in our bedroom), so it would have been rebooted the next time I switched on on Sunday morning. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

when it happened. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK. - Update

On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Terry Coles wrote: Since yesterday evening, I've had no sound when browsing the web, (Firefox or Konquerer) or when playing games. Playback of music and videos seems to work OK though when I use Amarok or Dragon Player. I'm assuming this was a broken update, but what

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK. - Update

question. What is PPA? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK. - Update

to use either gdm or kdm rather than coming up with yet another one. I must have misread the message. I get a different login screen now, but presumably I can change it back somewhere. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Wifi at Dorchester Pub.

to register with some trash email address, e.g. Gmail, so that we can make the username/password well-known amongst ourselves it would save repeated effort. Do you think the system will allow multiple logins to the same account? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/9/30 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk: The next meeting is in Bournemouth next Wednesday night; that's 8pm on October 7th. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms. Might I suggest some extra

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

to be a way to enter repetitive events (other than individually), so I've just done next week's meeting for the moment. It hasn't shown up yet, so I assume that the script that transfers the request to the page runs on beer :-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing

Re: [Dorset] Info please on print servers.

of ink, paper or stalled etc, and I never got a message back to say the job was completed. Maybe you knew this already and this is not much use, but if not, then at least you might have an idea of the limitations and features to look for in these devices. -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009, Terry Coles wrote: The next meeting is in Bournemouth next Wednesday night; that's 8pm on October 7th. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms. I expect to be there with one or two others. In fact it looks very unlikely

Re: [Dorset] OLPC XO finally deployed

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML). Office 2003 also uses an XML format, but it isn't the same (or compatible) with OOXML. So why are they using .docx? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009

Re: [Dorset] OLPC XO finally deployed

this as that MS provided a technically accurate and totally useless solution. (From this you might work out where *I* stand in the debate). -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http

Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine

the trick. I'll give it a go and report back (probably tomorrow). -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine

a trip up there, just to get it going. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine

On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Robert Bronsdon wrote: I am currently trying the guide at http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=221727 . If I have any success I will post back. Thought I'd point you this way just in case you wanted to give

Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine

On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Morgan wrote: Terry Coles wrote: - I can 'see' an xorg.conf if I do ls X* in /mnt-system/etc Capital vs. lowercase X? If you really are doing this then I suspect it is listing the contents of /mnt-system/etc/X11/ which happens to only contain xorg.conf? I

Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine

On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Terry Coles wrote: I've now realised that this is because ls doesn't support | less or | more, so those directories were scrolling off the screen. OK. So now I'm editing xorg.conf using vi under ash. Anyone know how to cut and paste into a vi session running

Re: [Dorset] Running EEE Xandros in a Virtual Machine

to the Shutdown screen. ;-( -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Another Petition - Please Consider Signing

about this; I've said everything that needs to be said. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Another Petition - Please Consider Signing

communications; all the way from TCP/IP right up to the most complex formatting specifications. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

The next pub meeting is in Dorchester, next Tuesday. Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak I'm hoping to be there, but I may be in Europe all week. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Terry wrote: I'm hoping to be there, but I may be in Europe all week. Quite right. We're not Europe. I meant the *real* Europe. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester

[Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2

this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275. These all talk about menu.lst being replaced by /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The trouble is that I don't seem to have this file. Does anyone know what I should do? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux

Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2

getting old you know ;-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2

of which are worth having, but remove something else that makes it harder for the new user. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com

Re: [Dorset] Location of the Bournemouth meetings

there. There was talk of other Wetherspoons pubs some time ago and someone was going to check them out. What happened to that? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat

Re: [Dorset] Location of the Bournemouth meetings

time now. You've just picked up on the end of the thread. Well almost the end; we still have to decide where to go. Any advances on the Goat? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset

Re: [Dorset] Multiple startup

instances of Skype that way. It may be that you have these running from some point in the past and when you shut down, they are marked for restart the next time you log in. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday

Re: [Dorset] Linux data recovery .... doh!!!

installation, I choose to reformat only the / partition and I tell the installer to use the old /home partition again. (K)Ubuntu at least automatically uses any user folders that it finds when I add a user of the same name. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing

[Dorset] OT: Help Needed - Using OpenOffice to do a T-Test

. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 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

Re: [Dorset] OT: Help Needed - Using OpenOffice to do a T-Test

got far yet. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 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

Re: [Dorset] OT: Help Needed - Using OpenOffice to do a T-Test

to be calculated piecemeal. It isn't a problem, but being a teenager, she'd rather the tools did the work for her :-) Thanks everyone for trying to help. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009, Terry Coles wrote: The next meeting is in Bournemouth next Wednesday night; that's 8pm on December 2nd. See: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms. I just remembered. Won't we going to try somewhere different? Did we get

[Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

stuff on the Internet about this, but nothing much that gives me confidence that it isn't going to be a real pain. She has an Asus EEE 900. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

, but there is clearly something not quite robust enough yet. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

for Ubuntu 8.10? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https

Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest

. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 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

Re: [Dorset] Wi-Fi in Pubs

if there network is used to download illegal content, but that will soon be the law here in the UK. As I said; no-one in the legal camp understands the tech. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00

[Dorset] Another Wow!

a lamb and both the camera and the mic are made available in the drop lists when you set up video and audio. So if you need a webcam, this is well worth considering. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday

[Dorset] Request for Help on NAS Boxes

(20MB) Linux RPM (36MB) Pen Source Code (tar.gz - 55MB) Windows Home Server (50MB) Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (50MB ' He's looking for a fanless, low power NAS that he can run one of those on. Anyone done this or something similar? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing

Re: [Dorset] Request for Help on NAS Boxes

as if he would have to find a way to get the Squeezebox to send the magic packet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN Presumably the server would then go to standby after a period of no activity. Or isn't that the way it works? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

sector, but it will probably need a younger generation of IT staff for it to happen across the enterprise. Never under-estimate the resistance to change! -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

, interoperability should get better over the years, not worse. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Editing grub menu config

. We discussed this some weeks ago, I'll see if I can find the relevant post. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] Editing grub menu config

! I was amased. But then it isn't much more than a default install + mpd. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

' :-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

[Dorset] Next Meeting: One Week Tonight

The next pub meeting is in Dorchester, next Tuesday. Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_royal_oak I'll see you there. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-05 20:00.

was bringing two people, but have already told them that I'm crying off. I think that Ralph and Simon's suggestion of postponing for one week is the best idea. Anyone else can make it next week? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-05 20:00.

On Tuesday 05 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: OK, that's official then. :-) Tonight's meet at Dorchester pub is CANCELLED. New date TBD. I'll change the wiki page. I think we should definitely go for next week. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-05 20:00.

with major problems, simply because their isn't enough salt and drivers have to relearn how to drive in adverse conditions. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 CANCELLED -- snow Dorset LUG: http

Re: [Dorset] New member

. -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-12 20:00. (Was: Weather Forecast)

have light rain and now snow (either on the ground or forecast) in Wimborne. -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-12 20:00. (Was: Weather Forecast)

On Tuesday 12 Jan 2010, Terry Coles wrote: We have light rain and now snow (either on the ground or forecast) in That should be *no* snow. Duh! -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00 ** New

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010-01-12 20:00. (Was: Weather Forecast)

, but the weather is supposed to be moving east I'll decide in about half an hour or so, when I've seen the forecast on South Today. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00 ** New date ** Dorset LUG

Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meeting, Tonight, 2010 -01-12 20:00. (Was: Weather Forecast)

in Dorchester at the moment. Unless it suddenly gets a lot colder, I don't see there being snow. We've decided to risk it, so I'll be there with Paul and Steve. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-12 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

On Saturday 16 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: MPEG1/2 does not support 2997/100 fps Try adding -ofps 3/1001 to the command line. Well that's converting, but I've 17 minutes to wait to see if it's worked! Thanks! -- Terry Coles 64 bit

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

the defaults to convert AVI to MP4, put it on a USB stick, put the stick into the PS3 and it worked! Even if it won't stream, we can still copy files to the PS3 manually and watch them that way. Thanks. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

this in the shell instead of through a browser so I can see the error codes? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

got that far and the script worked fine. I just couldn't stream the O/P. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

On Wednesday 20 Jan 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:04:17 -, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: It's not that the file wouldn't play on the PS3; I couldn't even add it to the list of videos for streaming in MediaTomb. Is there a way to do

[Dorset] OT: (Almost) Copying a humungous amount of data between NTFS Partitions

Off Topic. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] OT: (Almost) Copying a humungous amount of data between NTFS Partitions

On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, C A Wills wrote: Terry Coles wrote: Before I kick it off again can someone confirm that I'm using the right incantation? I used cp -rp source destination. Thanks to all who offered advice; I was able to backup her data using cp. I then remembered that Windows has

[Dorset] Last hurdle for my daughter's machine (I hope) - GRUB

no difference to the boot menu. This is a hybrid GRUB2 installation, because it was upgraded from a version of Kubuntu that uses old GRUB. Any ideas before I reinstall a clean version of 9.10? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting

[Dorset] iPad Petition by 'Defective by Design'

, but it bothers me. Please consider signing. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

[Dorset] Free Traing Webinars from the Linux Foundation

This may well interest a few people: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2010/01/linux-market- needs-more-talent I might even do them myself, even though I do little actual development these days. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu

Re: [Dorset] iPad Petition by 'Defective by Design'

in the world, FOSS users will always be thought of in that way. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http

Re: [Dorset] Long range wireless network

has to be fixed, leaving the potential for problems later, as I describe. Others may be able to confirm or refute aspects of what I've said. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 -Directions to meeting

On Tuesday 02 Feb 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: David da...@noroutetohost.net wrote: is there an easy way to spot the meeting in the Kings Arms lounge bar area? The standard answer is to look out for Terry Coles. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles

Re: [Dorset] Petition about IE6.

and Germans and recommended an alternative browser rather than an upgrade to IE7 or 8. At least then we could wave bye bye to browser support for ActiveX controls and (hopefully) Silverlight, with all the security gotchas that those two (so called) technologies bring. -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take

by? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

[Dorset] Another No 10 Pettion worth signing

/ -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- 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

Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take

On Wednesday 03 Feb 2010, Dan Dart wrote: But remember the AGPL is to fix the cloud loophole. That might fix the software problem, assuming that the provider takes any notice of your bug reports and patches, but it won't fix the potential for data loss. -- Terry Coles

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