Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

2014-07-23 Thread Anton Piatek
I checked my self hosted WordPress blog and it was fine, is WordPress really the reason? Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 23 Jul 2014 17:41

Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

2014-07-23 Thread Anton Piatek
Nice Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 23 Jul 2014 18:45, Keith Edmunds k...@midnighthax.com wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:42:19 +0100

Re: [Hampshire] [OFF TOPIC] Electrician recommendation

2014-07-05 Thread Anton Piatek
And how does one know when buying a house if electrical work was done after 2005? I'd say it is rather hard to enforce, unless of course you are wiring an extension and it is obviously new wiring. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending

Re: [Hampshire] OT: Does anyone have an A1 printer?

2014-07-03 Thread Anton Piatek
We do, but I think it still needs some ink spills cleaned internally Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Jul 2014 18:56, Peter Collins hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-28 Thread Anton Piatek
:) many more fields of issues in the world that need more time and attention brought to them! +1 So I completely failed to start a vicious flame war :( One of the things I like best about our list is the paucity of flaming. (Does this count as top or bottom posting?) -- Anton Piatek email

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-28 Thread Anton Piatek
Excellent! In my line of work everyone should know at least vi, as it is the only editor on Unix and z/OS you can expect to find. I've never had time to learn emacs... Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-27 Thread Anton Piatek
rather see secure email solved rather than top/bottom posting Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-21 Thread Anton Piatek
If I didn't want a footer then bottom posting would be easier in Gmail (reply in line and it still sticks it at the top) Maybe I should ditch a footer, but I've grown used to having one for the last 20 years Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 20 May 2014 13:21, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Fwd: Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
On 20 May 2014 21:24, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014, at 13:27, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Gmail’s interfaces are all geared up for top-posting both on mobile and desktop browsers

Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

2014-04-24 Thread Anton Piatek
One of them should be the official one Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 24 Apr 2014 19:32, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anton

Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

2014-04-23 Thread Anton Piatek
Fwiw I use an Intel atom ion board with xbmc and the xbmc remote app on my phone to control it Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 23 Apr 2014 10:00

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-14 Thread Anton Piatek
A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering will stress the gpu more though. No idea of specific workload tools though Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I would always replace the thermal paste in a case like this. Worth paying the premium for a good one, still not expensive though Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly

[Hampshire] Fwd: Fw: Winchester meetup for Open Rights Group

2014-04-07 Thread Anton Piatek
The Open Rights Group is starting a chapter for Hampshire if anyone is interested *http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Hampshire/events/173967952/ http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Hampshire/events/173967952/* -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp

Re: [Hampshire] Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

2013-11-18 Thread Anton Piatek
I have the same issue in the same drive. I replaced mine. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 15 Nov 2013 18:11, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com

Re: [Hampshire] Embedded Java on the Raspberry Pi - Oracle running on-line training course

2013-10-21 Thread Anton Piatek
Depends who is choosing, mine is still perl though node.js is interesting me recently. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 21 Oct 2013 15:38, James

Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

2013-10-12 Thread Anton Piatek
the mirror without any down time, but I've deleted stuff I didn't want to many times. ... I have just bought a new drive as mine is giving me SMART errors and is one month out of warranty. I don't trust hard drives as it seems most of mine die sooner or later. Anton -- Anton Piatek http

[Hampshire] So Make It crowdfunding

2013-09-18 Thread Anton Piatek
grow bigger and better! [1] http://www.somakeit.org.uk/ [2] http://blog.somakeit.org.uk/2013/09/10/crowdfunding/ [3] https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/fundraiser-for-so-make-it Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37

Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot

2013-06-27 Thread Anton Piatek
I assume akismet is not an option? Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 24 Jun 2013 12:59, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: On 18/06/13

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Anton Piatek
I can't recall details from memory, but there is something like /server-status which can be enabled. It can tell you a but about how busy apache is. Worth looking at as it should tell you about thread and memory usage. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility

2013-04-25 Thread Anton Piatek
http://fr.asus.com/websites/global/aboutasus/OS/Linux.pdf Suggests it works Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 25 Apr 2013 21:46, Ian Park i.d.c.p

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?

2013-04-24 Thread Anton Piatek
-- -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

2013-04-15 Thread Anton Piatek
I love the layout manager and that it remembers layout after disconnecting and reconnecting! I have a shell script for starting a load of windows and commands easily, it actually runs at boot to start some things I want to run and be able to check stdout of Anton -- Anton Piatek http

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

2013-04-15 Thread Anton Piatek
For me it is the fact I can split the view into a grid and tmux remembers after disconnecting, screen doesn't... Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced

Re: [Hampshire] Legacy ide

2013-04-07 Thread Anton Piatek
I've had no problems with a sata to ide adapter on my box. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 7 Apr 2013 12:17, Rob Malpass li

[Hampshire] Free: Linksys pls300 powerline adapter

2013-03-02 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a 4 port powerline ethernet adapter here. The other end died so it is no use to me. Yours for the cost of postage (or collection from Eastleigh or the next meetup) See photos at http://ubuntuone.com/album/0HFtl27BW0KekkoRXnG3JR -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Piatek
I'm always up for a debate :-) Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 11 Feb 2013 18:58, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Hi guys

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Piatek
On 11 Feb 2013 19:32, an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I'm always up for a debate :-) That said, I am also happy to be the host for the debate if nobody else wants to. We should have several microphones in the auditorium if that would suit the event, otherwise there are more informal rooms available.

Re: [Hampshire] HD activity

2013-02-04 Thread Anton Piatek
Also worth looking at atop which is good for disk activity. Thanks, Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Feb 2013 20:34, Benjie Gillam ben

Re: [Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website

2013-02-04 Thread Anton Piatek
, Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Feb 2013 18:00, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: Hello HantsLUGgers Here's an idea... Since

Re: [Hampshire] Little job needed for TV video company - SUSE RAID.

2013-02-03 Thread Anton Piatek
I wondered about btrfs too, but I'm not sure it is really ready... Anton On 3 Feb 2013 15:45, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 February 2013 20:02, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Hi Guys, Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
technically not at that level. It would put me off attending further meetings. A beginners setting up a Linux server workshop would be very Popular with myself and a lot of other People out there. Just some thoughts Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jan 2013, at 17:52, Anton Piatek

Re: [Hampshire] Dropbox alternative

2012-12-19 Thread Anton Piatek
I use ubuntu one, I sync to my Android devices using folder sync. I looked at sparkle share as an OSS implementation, but it was a long way off at the time. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending

Re: [Hampshire] Reprap

2012-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
://readinghackspace.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page [3] http://sh-hackspace.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page [4] http://sh-hackspace.org.uk/wiki/index.php/RepRap http://southackton.org.uk also has several reprap builders depending on where you are located. -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog

[Hampshire] For sale / free: various pc parts

2012-12-15 Thread Anton Piatek
: 2x high speed IDE ribbon cable Free: IDE ribbon cable Free: Floppy ribbon cable Free: Vga cable Free: Hard drives: 60G Seagate barracuda 120G ED Caviar 250G WD Caviar Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-11 Thread Anton Piatek
%3Dt1force=1partnerid=t1 Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 11 Dec 2012 17:53, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

2012-12-10 Thread Anton Piatek
I am also sorely disappointed I couldn't make it. The topic sounded excellent! Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly

Re: [Hampshire] CoderDojo Southampton?

2012-12-09 Thread Anton Piatek
Southackton has discussed many similar ideas, not necessarily a dojo. Any event like this would be good to make sure both are aware of. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

2012-11-19 Thread Anton Piatek
Really gutted i can't make either due to a wedding. The topic looks incredibly exciting! Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Anton Piatek
) Ymmv. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 10 Nov 2012 14:21, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Fujitsu 1008AT 8 port LCD kvm for sale

2012-11-08 Thread Anton Piatek
You might want to clarify usb or ps2, dvi or vga. Not that I have a use for an 8 port kvm myself. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons

[Hampshire] upnp

2012-10-24 Thread Anton Piatek
, tablet or pc) and have the playback happen on my linux pc which is connected to my tv and hifi? Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were

Re: [Hampshire] upnp

2012-10-24 Thread Anton Piatek
Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, sadly my tv isn't networked. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were

Re: [Hampshire] upnp

2012-10-24 Thread Anton Piatek
Interesting, and but my tv doesn't do dlna so would want a dlna client? app to actually render for me. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number

[Hampshire] [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]

2012-10-18 Thread Anton Piatek
in IBM whom I could persuade to come and give a talk. Perhaps someone like Dale Lane talking about IBM's Watson (the Jeopardy-beating machine) Anton [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Stanford-Clark -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com

Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

2012-08-26 Thread Anton Piatek
as a backup strategy, but a new disk every few years is looking very expensive compared to glacier... Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending

Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

2012-08-26 Thread Anton Piatek
for me. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Aug 26, 2012

[Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

2012-08-24 Thread Anton Piatek
, actual diffs probably arent that worthwhile so long as I can get it all back again in the end. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

2012-03-29 Thread Anton Piatek
I actually have a saitek cyborg joystick I was going to put on eBay if anyone wants it. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

[Hampshire] Humble bundle: games!

2012-03-20 Thread Anton Piatek
In case you haven't seen it, the latest Humble Bundle is out, and features games for linux and android (and other OSs). It is worth noting that Linux users are the most generous when it comes to choosing how much to pay. See http://www.humblebundle.com/ for more Anton - Anton Piatek email

Re: [Hampshire] Black Hole detection

2012-03-20 Thread Anton Piatek
How or why does this problem occur? I can't think of an explanation. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] Looking for a Perl IDE

2012-03-08 Thread Anton Piatek
EPIC for eclipse can do the perl debugger, however I have never done much with it. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] Replacing home server with a Linux NAS device?

2012-03-07 Thread Anton Piatek
I love my Asus at3ion deluxe mini itx board. Fanless, though I have a big silent fan for the disks. Only problem is not spending a fortune finding the right case :p Probably better options now though. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk

Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

2012-02-24 Thread Anton Piatek
afraid.org is good because you can use your own domains for free with them. Few others do. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] What dynamic DNS ?

2012-02-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Afraid.org do really good free service (it is donation based) Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-15 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a copy at my parent's house as well, so have 2 copies Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending

[Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
on my 6 core desktop, currently I think the disk I/O is my limit to go faster. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965  A358 4046 71FD 74B1

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
I On Feb 14, 2012 5:44 PM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2012 16:25, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I currently backup my entire desktop to a sever sitting downstairs. I work on (mostly photos) locally on the desktop and then back them up

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
On Feb 14, 2012 6:05 PM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2012 17:49, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Quick test should tell you. Set up nfsd on the server, and access your pictures/files over the nfs share. If they are fast enough

Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

2012-02-14 Thread Anton Piatek
I just use cp with hardlinks to make a copy every month. Similar to rsnapshot in many ways. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] SSD specs

2012-02-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I didn't think you had direct access to sectors. I thought the controller rotated data to spread writes across the the storage. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] Dying HDDs

2012-02-06 Thread Anton Piatek
I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap end. Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are normally pretty obvious. Loose cables are a common enough problem. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email

Re: [Hampshire] ntpd vs. ptpd

2012-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
Could you be any more blunt about this? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however

Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
I have an oldish Samsung bw laser, but it was trivial to make work in linux. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] Linux power monitoring tools.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
I agree with Bob. This generally isn't possible with normal pc hardware. Also, unloading a module doesn't necessarily stop the hardware using power. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37

Re: [Hampshire] External USB HDD spindown.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
Hdparm can set it on the drive with a timeout iirc Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message

Re: [Hampshire] DVD-Rom Long Shot

2011-10-30 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a slot loading ide DVD rom drive I was going to bin. Interested? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] CLI XML diff (and patch?) tools?

2011-10-28 Thread Anton Piatek
Xmlstarlet offers several tools but I don't think diff. I suspect you could get it to format the XML better for diff to use though. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs

2011-10-09 Thread Anton Piatek
Even the PowerPC ones apparently run Debian quite nicely. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
amount of space. I wrote a blog post on how to do it http://www.strangeparty.com/2011/06/23/cyanogenmod-on-htc/ I do reccomend rooting (it is even easier before you have data to back up) it as you really run out of space quickly otherwise. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-28 Thread Anton Piatek
I believe there's a very active KDE3 backports (or is it forward? ) community. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed

[Hampshire] Btrfs

2011-09-25 Thread Anton Piatek
Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks of varying sizes really appeals. I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really promising. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] 4 by 3 Thinkpad conclusion

2011-09-24 Thread Anton Piatek
Try reading about video drivers now. I think the ATI card in the T60s is the unloved one that had no good opensource driver and ATI dropped support for them in the RadeonHD drivers. They do work, but you might have to fiddle a bit. Try thinkwiki.org Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone

[Hampshire] Free: slot loading IDE DVD drive

2011-09-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a slot loading IDE DVD drive, free to the first person to reply to me (off-list please) Preferably collect from Eastleigh. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] NPM: Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

2011-09-24 Thread Anton Piatek
A good write up of the issue and possible solutions, from a friend of mine in Google if anyone is interested: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/23/chromeandbeast.html Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image

2011-09-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Does the graphics card offer anything to help? I know NVidia cards have a nvidia util which lets you adjust this sort of thing, but I have no idea about other cards. The option you are looking for is keystone iirc, maybe a search on that will help? Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image

2011-09-20 Thread Anton Piatek
The option you are looking for is keystone iirc I think Bob's after a bit more than keystone correction; mapping onto a 2-D curved surface isn't yer run-of-the-mill operation... Quite possibly, though from memory the nvidia driver did allow rather arbitary adjustments with some grid

Re: [Hampshire] Refurbished Lenovo laptop 4 by 3 screen

2011-09-16 Thread Anton Piatek
not the base models (and many may have been widescreen) Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were

Re: [Hampshire] Loss of computer or Smartphone

2011-09-06 Thread Anton Piatek
I think you raise a good point. Most stolen devices will be wiped so they appear good to sell. These tools wont help much there... Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Anton Piatek
One of the draws of android, for me, was that I wouldn't need to connect it to a computer. I prefer it syncing to some form of cloud,(or multiple other online systems) Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http

Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Anton Piatek
just ad much as I am allowing google to store my email and calendar. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I quite like tmux as an alternative to screen, it has better layout control than screen. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?

2011-07-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I find spare disks the cheapest option. I have them in an old PC at my parents house and on the net. Rsync does weekly backup updates. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Broadband?!

2011-07-14 Thread Anton Piatek
I have been loving BT infinity, but might replace my router ad the older home hub is basic. Can't comment on much else, have not used BTFon really. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37

[Hampshire] Screen

2011-06-19 Thread Anton Piatek
I feel like a n00b for not knowing this, but does anyone know if/how I can script a screen session to launch multiple apps? Ideally laying each out in its own window in the same screen session. Anton -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

[Hampshire] Free: Various PC bits and pieces

2011-05-17 Thread Anton Piatek
.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case2.2.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8196837/fwdfreevariouspcbitsandpieces/case3.3.jpg -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com

Re: [Hampshire] Free: Various PC bits and pieces

2011-05-17 Thread Anton Piatek
Reserved - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 17 May 2011 21

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting, Saturday 7 May, Southampton

2011-05-06 Thread Anton Piatek
-- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965  A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number

[Hampshire] Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] LaTeX Training course

2011-03-15 Thread Anton Piatek
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net Date: 15 Mar 2011 12:42 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] LaTeX Training course To: l...@dcglug.org.uk, British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com, dfey general discussion dfey-general-disc...@nongnu.org Hi I have pasted in the

Re: [Hampshire] EXIM

2010-12-13 Thread Anton Piatek
/the_remote_root_hole_in_exim4_is_painful.html Debian security advisory: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2131 Ubuntu security advisory: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1032-1 It looks like a pretty serious exploit, so if you run Exim, do upgrade ASAP. Anton -- Anton Piatek email

Re: [Hampshire] Cron script problem

2010-10-12 Thread Anton Piatek
the contents of the file, even if the file has an extension that might suggest something else Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965  A358 4046

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki, book reviews and AGM

2010-09-18 Thread Anton Piatek
Has OpenID been suggested for the Wiki? I'm not familiar with moin moin but am happy to help try implement it. Anton On 18 Sep 2010 15:32, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote: Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, I hope everyone has had a good summer! I have a few important things to say.

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki, book reviews and AGM

2010-09-18 Thread Anton Piatek
I think OpenID is a good compromise for registering (and doesn't require a new password) Thoughts? Anton On 18 Sep 2010 18:31, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: On Saturday 18 Sep 2010, Anton Piatek wrote: Has OpenID been suggested for the Wiki? I'm not familiar with moin

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki, book reviews and AGM

2010-09-18 Thread Anton Piatek
On 18 September 2010 18:59, Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Anton Piatek wrote: I think OpenID is a good compromise for registering (and doesn't require a new password) Thoughts? If MoinMoin can easily be configured to use OpenID that sounds like a good option

Re: [Hampshire] eReaders

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Piatek
(most of Guttenberg by the look of it) in ePub format Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965  A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meet - 11th Sept - Hursley

2010-09-11 Thread Anton Piatek
Thanks to all that came today, and a special thanks to all those that presented. If I could ask those who presenter to add a link to their slides on the wiki page as several people who couldn't make it have already asked about the talks http://www.hantslug.org.uk/wiki/11September2010 Anton Piatek

Re: [Hampshire] Oops, I did it again

2010-09-11 Thread Anton Piatek
Matt picked it up. What is the easiest way to get it to you? Anton On 11 Sep 2010 21:08, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: I left my laptop power supply plugged in to the floor outlet of the room we were in at Hursley ;-( It was in the corner to the immediate left as you go in

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

2010-07-04 Thread Anton Piatek
mouse around or scrolling unexpectedly) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Anton Piatek
laptops and linux? Lenovo thinkpads usually work well with Linux hence a Linux Thinkpad list. linux-think...@matrix.de Ubunutu runs great on my W500. Have you looked at http://thinkwiki.org ? Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http

  1   2   >