Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Peter B.
are you sure it is gnome shutting it down and not some power saving device ? sorry if I am stating the obvious 2009/10/19 Leo > Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > > I don't know of a nice elegant way, I suspect you'll need to have a > > program registed with the gnome-session somehow so that instea

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/10/19 Leo : > Philip Stubbs wrote: >> Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for >> years. Works fine. >> > > I suppose I was thinking that it would get in the way of the lawn mower > and things, although I guess it could be buried. > > Leo When I was running a power c

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Jacqui Caren
Leo wrote: > I was expecting to have to pay a couple of 100 pounds but hadn't had > much luck finding something appropriate. > It's actually for watching for wildlife rather than security, but, yes, > it still needs to be reasonable quality. I will see what I can find > about Axis. Aldi were

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Peter Brooks wrote: > If you could really specify what price you're talking about spending, > for a single install camera it'll be best looking into something over > IP and certainly power it using PoE. Sinking a stretch of network > cable into the ground will be a lot less effort that messing arou

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Dee Earley wrote: > > You also want the holy grail. > :) > 24/7 use will require some hefty batteries and daily recharge, > especially if you want to power illuminators for night time use. > Wireless and PTZ would also add more load to the batteries. > > Simpy put, you will have to run some fo

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Philip Stubbs wrote: > Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for > years. Works fine. > I suppose I was thinking that it would get in the way of the lawn mower and things, although I guess it could be buried. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Int

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hugo Mills wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:39:56PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: > >> Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: >> I tried Eeebuntu on my daughter's eeepc 700 and it was extremely >> sluggish, so I switched to Pupeee 4.2 and it is far more usable, pokey >> > >Is that any relation to Alan

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > I don't know of a nice elegant way, I suspect you'll need to have a > program registed with the gnome-session somehow so that instead of it > saay "do you want to save?" it can cancel the shutdown. > Thanks for that, I'll see what google can tell me about gnome-session

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:39:56PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: > Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: > I tried Eeebuntu on my daughter's eeepc 700 and it was extremely > sluggish, so I switched to Pupeee 4.2 and it is far more usable, pokey Is that any relation to Alan Popeee? Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills:

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/10/19 Sean Gibbins : > Damian Brasher wrote: >> Hugo Mills wrote: >> >> >>> GOs: Adrian Bridgett >>>              Rob Smith >>> >> >> For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to >> usual commitments; >> >> Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and correspon

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: > > I have a Dell Mini 10v, which came with Ubuntu 8.04 - Dells own > version (sort of a Netbook Remix, with some Yahoo branding). > > I thought I'd replace it as soon as it arrived, but everything works, > as far as I've tried it, so it's still there. I think maybe I'll try

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Dwerryhouse
Damian Brasher wrote: > I have just returned from a trip which took me to Debrovnik, then to my > final destination in Athens to stay with family, via Sarajevo, Belgrade and > Thessaloniki. Planes, buses and trains. I took my Acer Aspire One, 110-Ab and > installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix to disk usi

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Damian Brasher wrote: > Hugo Mills wrote: > > >> GOs: Adrian Bridgett >> Rob Smith >> > > For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to > usual commitments; > > Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and corresponding slides. > > Depth, time p

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-19 Thread Damian Brasher
Hugo Mills wrote: > GOs: Adrian Bridgett > Rob Smith For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to usual commitments; Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and corresponding slides. Depth, time permitting, I'd also like to enhance my understand

[Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Damian Brasher
I have just returned from a trip which took me to Debrovnik, then to my final destination in Athens to stay with family, via Sarajevo, Belgrade and Thessaloniki. Planes, buses and trains. I took my Acer Aspire One, 110-Ab and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix to disk using the image transferred to a

[Hampshire] Ubuntu - bridging networks & network cards

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Chivers
I have a server that I'm going to start trialling KVM, it's running Ubuntu 9.0.4 & I have KVM running OK but I'm having trouble getting my brain round how Ubuntu decides which netcard gets which ip address & then how to setup bridging. The server has 6 Gb cards, two onboard(currently eth0,eth1

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Salisbury
There are a few different ways that shutdown happens depending on what you have installed. The normal with a modern install is via scripts in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux which all have self-explanatory names and simple contents. All the default shutdown script does is call "shutdown -h now". HTH, P

Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Anton Piatek wrote: > I guess google mail mobile defaults to top-posting... Do you think > google would consider that a bug? I doubt it; you'd be surprised at how many people prefer top-posting, especially in the corporate world where it means you don't have to read/skip everything that came befor

Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-19 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/10/18 john lewis : > On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:02:48 +0100 > Anton Piatek wrote: > >> What was the last flame war there about? >> >> On 18/10/2009, Andy Random wrote: >> >> > Though I don't know how up to date it is. As an alternative you >> > might want to consider posting to the LUG Masters m