Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox and Ifrared devices

2008-11-26 Thread Steve
On 16 Nov 2008, at 11:09, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/11/16 Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> If you buy a USB IR device with Windows drivers, and map the USB >> port into the guest, then I can see no reason why you couldn't install >> the Windows drivers on the guest and have it all work. >> > > I

Re: [Hampshire] Digital Cameras

2008-11-26 Thread B STEVENS
I have a FujiFilm 6900 Zoom which can take a 6MP 2832 x 2128 TIFF image that weighs in at a hefty 17MB so I'd love to see an image of 50MB! P.S. The camera came with a mere 16MB card :-) Regards Bryan --- On Wed, 26/11/08, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would be surprised if they are 50mb,

Re: [Hampshire] Digital Cameras

2008-11-26 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 08:57:24 Paul Stimpson wrote: > Hi, > I think RAW files from my Canon EOS 350d 8MP are about > 50MB) Rawtherapee can process them. I would be surprised if they are 50mb, my canon 400D 10m pixel shooting in raw and picture size vary between 8mb and 12mb per pictur

[Hampshire] Virtualbox 64-bit problem

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all I'm going wrong somewhere trying to setup VirtualBox - can anyone help? I'm trying to get a 64-bit host running 64-bit virtual machines but I'm getting virtualbox errors along the lines of "I need a amd_64 kernel but I'm only detecting an i586". Thus far I have: 1) Ensured I'm runnin

Re: [Hampshire] PC turns itself off after a few minutes

2008-11-26 Thread Imran Chaudhry
> Also check the capacitors on the motherboard for the dreaded "capacitor > failure" > > http://www.capacitorlab.com/visible-failures/ > > http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195 > > We've lost loads of machines at work because of this, both motherboard & > PSU's have been affected :-(

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Clive Woodfine
2008/11/25 Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Clive Woodfine wrote: >> I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop >> which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under >> Linux? >> > Hi Clive, > > As others have said, they all seem to work 'out of the box'.

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008-11-26 Thread Victor Churchill
2008/11/26 Bob Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a project in mind that requires just the scroll wheel mechanism from > a USB mouse so maybe it'll be a hacksaw job. Saw one somewhere on t'web (probably O'Reilly Maker pages) acting as the encoder for a weather station wind meter thing ... (ane

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Stephen Pelc
Quoth Vic: > My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really > boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. > Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with > driver installation, the lucky gits... For most of them, the INF file is all you need. The INF file actu

[Hampshire] Bring-a-Box meeting soon, Sat 13th December

2008-11-26 Thread Dominic Cleal
Hello, This is your semi-automated reminder that the next joint Surrey and Hampshire LUG Bring-a-Box meeting is being held at the University of Surrey in Guildford, on Saturday 13th December.  Doors open from 11am until around 5pm.   http://www.surrey.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BringABox === W

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: > My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... > Serial 2 USB is something I've always shyed away from. Windows or Lin

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: > My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug > the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all > that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... > Serial 2 USB is something I've always shyed away from. Windows or Li

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Dunlop
> BTW Bob, have you looked carefully at the mouse that came with your MPC-L? > If it is the same as the one I received you may want to throw it out > before it contaminates anything :) I did point out the warning message to Kelly. We've left it carefully sealed in it's plastic bag so far. I hav

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008-11-26 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/26 Andy Random <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW Bob, have you looked carefully at the mouse that came with your MPC-L? > If it is the same as the one I received you may want to throw it out > before it contaminates anything :) > I don't mind coming out and saying "I love microsoft mice". There,

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008-11-26 Thread Andy Random
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Bob Dunlop wrote: > Okay how about 79 quid, including VAT and delivery. > > Not quite the same spec but that's what I just got a Viglen MPC-L for > thanks to Alan Popes pointer to the Ubuntu podcast. Mine arrived last Thursday as it happens :) > 512Mb RAM, 80G hard drive, 4

[Hampshire] comments on Linux suitability of computer, please.

2008-11-26 Thread Lisi
Has anyone any experience of installing Linux on one of these? http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/extras.html?t=pc&c=all&r=ORA&s=PC-1203&v=1 All comments - good or bad! - gratefully received. Thanks, Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008-11-26 Thread Dr Adam J Trickett
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 at 08:35:30AM +, Bob Dunlop wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:06, Andy Random wrote: > > > > If it was half the price I might have considered it (though even then the > > kit might end up in boxes for months) but for a saving of 20-30 quid, it > > really isn't worth

Re: [Hampshire] Digital Cameras

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I recently saw an article in a magazine about Rawtherapee ( http://www.rawtherapee.com/ ) that you might find interesting. If you get a DSLR and set it to save the files in RAW format (big memory card required - I think RAW files from my Canon EOS 350d 8MP are about 50MB) Rawtherapee can

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi Bob, If you find the answer to this one please do post it as I may also be interested in doing something similar. IIRC there was a recent thread either on here or Surrey (to do with powering down USB hard drives I think) that had something to do with identifying port numbers on hubs. If t

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:06, Andy Random wrote: > > If it was half the price I might have considered it (though even then the > kit might end up in boxes for months) but for a saving of 20-30 quid, it > really isn't worth it to me. Okay how about 79 quid, including VAT and delivery. Not quite

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 10:48, Vic wrote: > > My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug > the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all > that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... Okay I have a puzzle for you. Plug 5

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 04:51, Andy Random wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, trotter wrote: > > > Hmm i get a flower shop at that website. > > So do I, but a web search for FTDI also finds me > >http://www.ftdichip.com/ > > That might be the people Bob meant... That'll be the one. Sorry about