Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 22:38, john lewis wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:07:09 + Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote: I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with some folks who I knew would have the answer to

[Hampshire] [OT] 35mm slide scanning

2013-03-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I friend on mine has a lot of old 35mm slides they wish to scan into computer. Apparently they have a lot, so taking them into a shop to do the scanning is too expensive. Does anyone have any knowledge of how to do this in a simple way. Maybe some USB attached device? What sort of quality

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] 35mm slide scanning

2013-03-16 Thread Chris Dennis
On 16/03/13 10:34, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I friend on mine has a lot of old 35mm slides they wish to scan into computer. Apparently they have a lot, so taking them into a shop to do the scanning is too expensive. Does anyone have any knowledge of how to do this in a simple way. Maybe

[Hampshire] USB memory stick corrupted

2013-03-16 Thread Roger Munford
I installed Ubuntu on a friends pretty old PC. He has a laptop for work and the PC was not used for much and he was interested in giving Linux a whirl. It all went well but a week later he phoned to say that two memory sticks (fat32 KINGSTON DT100 G2) were corrupted by Ubuntu. He tried

Re: [Hampshire] USB memory stick corrupted

2013-03-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Roger, On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 07:18:07PM +, Roger Munford wrote: I cannot format the disk What happens when you do try to create a filesystem on the USB device? What exact command are you typing? Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting signature.asc