Re: [Hampshire] Building Debian/Ubuntu packages

2010-06-20 Thread Anton Piatek
On 19 June 2010 22:48, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20:42PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: On 19 June 2010 20:53, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Several people have asked me at various Hants/Surrey LUG events about building Debian/Ubuntu packages. I have

[Hampshire] Building Debian/Ubuntu packages

2010-06-19 Thread Anton Piatek
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Re: [Hampshire] Building Debian/Ubuntu packages

2010-06-19 Thread Anton Piatek
On 19 June 2010 22:20, Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org wrote: On 19 June 2010 20:53, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Several people have asked me at various Hants/Surrey LUG events about building Debian/Ubuntu packages. I have just started the first of a series of blog posts about

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] Building Debian/Ubuntu packages

2010-06-19 Thread Anton Piatek
On 19 June 2010 22:24, Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org wrote: On 19 June 2010 20:53, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Several people have asked me at various Hants/Surrey LUG events about building Debian/Ubuntu packages. I have just started the first of a series of blog posts about

Re: [Hampshire] FW: Secure Archives

2010-06-12 Thread Anton Piatek
I would us gzip or bzip2 and then gpg if you want encryption. If it just during copy then sync over ash has always worked well for me (and can be stopped and started happily and it continues where you stopped) Anton On 12 Jun 2010 14:28, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all

[Hampshire] Meeting Tomorrow at IBM Hursley

2010-02-05 Thread Anton Piatek
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] UPS wanted

2010-02-04 Thread Anton Piatek
on battery so doesnt do much... I also want to replace the battery but am not sure where to source it (not to mention it will take several hours to get the bugger out) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp

Re: [Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-03 Thread Anton Piatek
I'm more than happy to pop up when it's convenient. I tried to get my key signed a few years ago, however the Debian peoples pages at the time didn't list anyone outside of London I would also love to get my key signed by a DD if any are coming to Hursley this weekend :) Anton -- Anton Piatek

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

2010-02-03 Thread Anton Piatek
hoping the IBM Serial Number stickers on each of our issued ones will be enough to convince security that your Thinkpad is not a pinched IBM one Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
that bit depth... I would look at the ImageMagic manpages very carefully as you are right that searching for 32 wont get you far. I have only ever use professional photo tools to work with 32 bit images (and even 16 bit is more than I can reasonably print) Anton -- Anton Piatek email

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
bit? 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 in the sending of this message

Re: [Hampshire] 06 February at IBM Hursley

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Piatek
with an enormous projector and wireless microphones! Shall I put you down for this talk? (can you remind me again what the book is about?) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-17 Thread Anton Piatek
else it can work unless you can get everyone to agree... Getting them to all use .debs (for example) will be comparatively easy compared to getting them to synchronise library names and versions Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http

Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-19 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/10/18 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:02:48 +0100 Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: What was the last flame war there about? On 18/10/2009, Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com wrote: Though I don't know how up to date it is. As an alternative you

Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-18 Thread Anton Piatek
/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A

Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-16 Thread Anton Piatek
in Hursley that I even tested on the day and worked. Please don't sit in silence if the lighting or audio are not right as we can probably fix it to your liking Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF

Re: [Hampshire] CurrentCost meters

2009-09-23 Thread Anton Piatek
been away for most of the week and haven't had a chance to do anything more sophisticated with it yet. There are snippets of code on the homecamp wiki: http://homecamp.pbworks.com/ (near the bottom) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http

[Hampshire] Ubuntu Global Jam - Birmingham

2009-09-22 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, Seeing as we are talking about going to various events - is anyone interested in going to the Ubuntu Global Jam? http://www.sourceguru.net/ubuntu-bugjam-birmingham-uk/ I am curious, but doubt I will go by myself (simply way too lazy...) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Global Jam - Birmingham

2009-09-22 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/9/22 Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 at 02:09:13PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, Seeing as we are talking about going to various events - is anyone interested in going to the Ubuntu Global Jam? http://www.sourceguru.net/ubuntu-bugjam-birmingham-uk/ I

[Hampshire] bashrc in source control, but which one?

2009-09-19 Thread Anton Piatek
be more suitable. I will probably use one server as a central store, so I don't need it to be distributed like git. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

2009-09-17 Thread Anton Piatek
, maybe doing some at a meetup Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF No trees were destroyed

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

2009-09-15 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/9/15 Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:17:09 +0100, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: For those that attended the Hants LUG meeting at Hursley on Saturday I would appreciate feedback on how the day went. Things that went well Things that could have been

Re: [Hampshire] Open Source Camera!

2009-09-06 Thread Anton Piatek
firmware is fairly simple, so reverse engineering it should be simple enough and as the camera body will be opensource it shouldnt be too hard to keep it working with existing lenses, and easier to update it for new lens firmwares that appear in the future. Anton -- Anton Piatek email

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

2009-09-01 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/8/28 Anton Piatek1 anton.pia...@uk.ibm.com: As you know the next Hants LUG meeting is at IBM Hursley Labs on Sat the 13th Sept. Of course you all know I really meant the 12th Sept (as the 13th would be Sunday) Anton Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos

Re: [Hampshire] Debian to Ubuntu, without complete reinstall?

2009-08-07 Thread Anton Piatek
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Re: [Hampshire] Ultimate Linux Media PC?

2009-08-06 Thread Anton Piatek
to be brand new so 2nd hand laptops/refurbished PCs aren't out of the question. Like most people (or in her case, public servants) she is pretty skint so the cheaper the better. All suggestions welcome :) Cheers, Stuart -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos

Re: [Hampshire] No WPA2 option in Jaunty

2009-06-26 Thread Anton Piatek
that you have both local in case you have problems) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-08 Thread Anton Piatek
, regexes with matching substring return - all so long as it is indented into a clear table... Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] CD Players Best Suited To Audio Books

2009-06-07 Thread Anton Piatek
and offer it to you, though I have no seen it in years so no even sure I still have it Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-07 Thread Anton Piatek
anything other than only one of the blocks Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF No trees

Re: [Hampshire] Disk mounting locations

2009-06-05 Thread Anton Piatek
disk. Warning: LVM means that if all your disks are in one LVM group, then a single disk failing can mean ALL your data is corrupted - backup data if using LVM Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-04 Thread Anton Piatek
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Re: [Hampshire] Install Ubuntu from USB HDD

2009-06-04 Thread Anton Piatek
that usb ports could even be disabled in the bios... It is worth checking the bios carefully for disabled usb, boot order and also enableing boot other decides as USB often comes under that (and may need a shortcut key as above Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos

Re: [Hampshire] Keeping My Hard Drives Safe

2009-05-31 Thread Anton Piatek
want access to it without requiring a large amount of the pool online) capacity trying to make it redundant. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint

Re: [Hampshire] 32bit compiled library on a 64bit system?

2009-05-29 Thread Anton Piatek
the same 64 bit kernel (which works fine with 32 bit userspace) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622

Re: [Hampshire] Wireless photo frames

2009-04-29 Thread Anton Piatek
to configure it to use a samba share? Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF No trees were destroyed in the sending

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-30 Thread Anton Piatek
I wrote a fairly long piece on my blog about software raid + lvm on my blog. You may find it useful if you are setting up raid again http://www.strangeparty.com/2008/05/24/software-raid1-and-lvm-on-debian-etch/ Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos

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