[Dorset] OT Software work

Hi I have some software contract work coming up. It will involve detailed reviewing and testing of a small number of functions written in C. We're in Poole but some can be done remotely. If anyone is interested please contact me off-list. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday,

Re: [Dorset] OT Software work

Hi All Thanks to all those who responded, I think this is now covered. Tim On 30/05/14 08:31, TimA wrote: Hi I have some software contract work coming up. It will involve detailed reviewing and testing of a small number of functions written in C. We're in Poole but some can be done remotely

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

Hi Terry On 18/07/14 14:47, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I can use tools available in Linux to convert a PDF file to MS Word .doc or .docx format (or even to LibreOffice .odt)? Closest I'm aware of is pdftotext (also pdf2text, pdf2txt etc). But of course you'll lose the

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

Hi Tim On 29/07/14 13:19, Tim Waugh wrote: Hello! Does anyone have a floppy disk drive I could borrow? I finally get around to investigating some old floppy disks of mine only to realise it must have been years ago that I got rid of the last disk drive I had! Just to add to the offers, I

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup

Hi Tim On 14/08/14 08:04, Ken Hutton wrote: You can clone the disk yourself if you have a new drive e.g.: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc Or create an image on a larger disk e.g.: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/newdisk/image dd does a low level copy so it should copy the partition table and any

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

Hi Terry On 30/09/14 14:05, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: Hi, Our company has a presence in several European countries and our collective bosses would like to set up a Corporate Social Network based on Linux servers and Clients running on Windows hardware. The system would have to be private

[Dorset] Multiple commands in bash

Hi I'd like to run multiple commands in Bash: patch -m patchfile hg diff cd dir make -s but for audit purposes I'd like each command in the list to be echoed as run, even better I'd like the Bash prompt to appear too in front of each line. I know that as an alternative I can put the

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

Hi John On 20/04/15 13:14, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: Using the RDP server on Linux doesn't really gain you much over VNC (other than making it easier for Windows clients to connect). The best thing about RDP on Windows is that it hooks the graphics layer to send drawing primitives and

Re: [Dorset] DLUG Website - Media File Uploads

Hi Terry On 04/06/15 09:56, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, Can anyone get the Media Files upload tool to work? I think this is a long-standing problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/dorset%40mailman.lug.org.uk/msg02597.html Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-06-02 20:00

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

On 01/07/15 12:12, TimA wrote: Hi Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded running on a Debian 8 (Jessie) amd64 machine. Compiler is 32-bit: $ file /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9

[Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

Hi Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded running on a Debian 8 (Jessie) amd64 machine. Compiler is 32-bit: $ file /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc: ELF

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

saw that but it's a step removed from the base release and I need to get the 32-bit libs installed anyway for other compilers which are not available in 64-bit. Cheers Tim On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 12:15 TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from

[Dorset] XDMCP connection problem

Hi I connect to local machines (called fleet and golux) using XDMCP (using Xephyr on a laptop) but am just getting a black screen since upgrading my laptop to Debian Jessie. Xephyr -query fleet :1 Xephyr -query golux :1 give black screen. I can connect to the laptop XDMCP server fine:

Re: [Dorset] XDMCP connection problem

Hi Bit more info below: On 07/09/15 10:32, TimA wrote: Hi I connect to local machines (called fleet and golux) using XDMCP (using Xephyr on a laptop) but am just getting a black screen since upgrading my laptop to Debian Jessie. Xephyr -query fleet :1 Xephyr -query golux :1 give black

Re: [Dorset] XDMCP connection problem

On 07/09/15 20:44, Peter Merchant wrote: On 07/09/15 19:52, Tim Allen wrote: Problem was eth0 was manually configured in /etc/network/interfaces, wlan0 was configured by network manager. Removing manual eth0 config (which previously worked in Wheezy) fixed the problem. Tim I have seen