Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-05-16 Thread Damian Brasher
On Sun 15/05/11 3:45 PM , Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Advance warning: As some of you may know for some insane reason I appear to have allowed myself to been volunteered onto my local parish council. As a result my time is under more pressure than normal, it is therefore my intent to stand

[Hampshire] Introducing Interlinux Engineering Foundation

2011-05-13 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List For a host of reasons and what not, http://interlinux.co.uk is no more, including the departed blog Discovery Systems and several other sites. I (we) cut deep and hearty severed websites, slashed email addresses, hosting, google accounts, other passworded supported entities and

[Hampshire] [OT] ...and now for something a little bit different.

2011-04-09 Thread Damian Brasher
Free Download – Damian’s Social Networking Rule Book Social networking without the need for time travel… A free, public domain ebook. I am Damian Brasher, an IT engineer. I use social networking software for work and leisure and have been doing so for several years. At first I often felt

Re: [Hampshire] [Re-pitch] Free ebook for all HLUG members

2011-04-07 Thread Damian Brasher
From: Keith Edmunds Subject:Re: [Hampshire] [Re-pitch] Free ebook for all HLUG members Damian, would you like critique of the pitch, either privately or here? I don't mind either... a discussion about pitching is more than relevant. Damian -- Please post to:

[Hampshire] [Re-pitch] Free ebook for all HLUG members

2011-04-06 Thread Damian Brasher
. If anyone would like a free copy in exchange for a short review please email me at: dlb { @ } interlinux { . } co { . } uk http://walkingwiththeelephants.co.uk !Here is the new pitch! I’m Damian Brasher, the author of this ebook. I’ve worked for over 9 years as a Linux systems administrator

Re: [Hampshire] Suggestion for low-power file server to run at home

2011-03-18 Thread Damian Brasher
-Original message- From: Tim Brocklehurst Sent: Sat 12-03-2011 22:32 Subject:Re: [Hampshire] Suggestion for low-power file server to run at home For really low power, how about one of these: http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-matrix.php I got a TS-7550 in January

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] for those of you who are getting rather ancient

2011-02-02 Thread Damian Brasher
From: john lewis Sent: Tue 01-02-2011 12:49 Subject:[Hampshire] [OT] for those of you who are getting rather ancient Please _don't_ send me any sympathy messages as I feel perfectly OK and I am not worrying about having cancer (I don't 'do' worry),... Well this little video

[Hampshire] sshd command execution oddity

2011-01-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi Andy, bad luck re: ssh post:-/ Perhaps RHEL6 has been tightened up or perhaps I have found a bug. Before I go any further I wonder if anyone here might know more. I'm working with sshd and executing commands using Perl-Net-SSH-Perl and one of these commands is useradd. Now, for every other

[Hampshire] Test - Zarafa

2011-01-15 Thread Damian Brasher
See what this looks like now I have configured Zarafa fully... (For interest sake, I'm running our double NIC interface mailserver/gateway on an 800Mhz VIA CPU. With three users performance is fine - I needed to turn off one of the indexers). model name : VIA Esther processor 1000MHz

Re: [Hampshire] Test - Zarafa

2011-01-15 Thread Damian Brasher
-Original message- From: Damian Brasher model name: VIA Esther processor 1000MHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size: 128 KB To up the number of services I can comfortably run I will upgrade to 1.5Mhz. Wishful thinking, 1.5GHz CPU minimum

Re: [Hampshire] Seeing all processes running.

2010-08-25 Thread Damian Brasher
Simon Reap wrote: On 25/08/2010 16:15, Clive Woodfine wrote: My eeePC 701 (UNR installed) has started running something that is using 100% cpu as shown by System Monitor/Resources. All attempts using all likely variations of the ps command and top have failed to identify any process using

Re: [Hampshire] Big Iron...

2010-08-20 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: I hope this post doesn't come across as advertising - that's not my intent. Someone will probably be grateful for the awareness:) I was down at Jamie's yesterday, playing with an IBM x3950 server. It's got twin 2.6GHz Xeons, multiple[1] 70GB SAS drives, and 16GB of RAM. And

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-08-14 Thread Damian Brasher
We have made progress. Jacqui Caren wrote: John Cooper wrote: If it was so easy we would all be a millionaires by now. Getting the business model right is still difficult for FLOSS projects, but some are making good money and are attracting investors. This month I am working towards

[Hampshire] [OT] C cross-compile Makefile.am

2010-08-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi I have two Makefile.am(s) that work for the Linux build of an application but not the equivalent M$ build: /svnroot/sources/Makefile.am INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(srcdir) bin_PROGRAMS = DSI DSI_CFLAGS = -DDSI_DIR=\$(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)\ \

Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

2010-08-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Philip Stubbs wrote: Hi Ben, I can't come round, I am afraid. Actually, I could but not now. Also, I have learnt that I am a rubbish teacher. Anyhow, in case nobody else can help in person, here are a few questions that would help the good folk here guide you a little. * Are you currently

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-31 Thread Damian Brasher
Edward Beckmann wrote: Simplest way to do all this is to make a list of your types of 'customer' - large corp, small corp, school etc. and use them as column headings. Then list your features in rows of a table and tick the columns where these features are benefits. Put a double tick where it

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-29 Thread Damian Brasher
Keith Edmunds On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:13:15 +0100, l...@interlinux.co.uk said: Just wanted to tack this feature list Just a thought: next time you have your BizHat on, you may want to compile a list of benefits. You can derive benefits from features by adding which means that... after the

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-23 Thread Damian Brasher
Edward Beckmann wrote: There's loads of sound feedback that I do not intend to duplicate, but here is an extract of the kind of guidance that I offer people. It tends to be on the blunt side because investors are blunt. Take it as read I am aware of the time, expertise and heart that you have

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-23 Thread Damian Brasher
John Cooper wrote: business model right is still difficult for FLOSS projects, Sure is, thanks to all respondents. At least there is most of a proposal-left. -- Damian -- http://interlinux.co.uk - Interlinux Services DIASER RoadMap http://bit.ly/1Vtdp5 -- This message has been scanned

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Sean Gibbins wrote: wever, it occurred to me that asking for between 30-100K sends a message that you don't really know how much you need, i.e. there is no hard and fast business plan. Thank you for your relevant response. Open Source is an evolving code base. I am using a copyleft (evolving

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Chris Aitken wrote: On 22 July 2010 14:02, Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote: On 22/07/10 13:26, Damian Brasher wrote: We are a small company that has designed and built an Open Source long-term archive system for education, currently in beta2. DIASER - Distributed Internet Archive

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Chris Dennis wrote: On 22/07/10 14:02, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 22/07/10 13:26, Damian Brasher wrote: ...Somewhere in the region of UKP 30-100K. Does that mean UKP(30-100)K or UKP30-(100K) ? :) UKP30 - UKP100,000 is a big range. Thanks for your comment Chris. Again, please see earlier

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
John Cooper wrote: Damian, Do you watch Dragon Den? If not I suggest you do. You are asking for investment in a project but offer no idea of the potential profits or benefits of backing this. Adding links is not enough to grab any companies attention, it has to be written in the first

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: I'm afraid I've fallen at the first hurdle; I've done some reading on DIASER, but I've yet to understand what it offers me over and above something like MooseFS and losetup -e... If that is the case and others agree then I will cease coding DIASER. -- Damian --

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: I'm afraid I've fallen at the first hurdle; I've done some reading on DIASER, but I've yet to understand what it offers me over and above something like MooseFS and losetup -e... For a start, and I believe this is quite visible, no system modifications are required for installation.

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Sean Gibbins wrote: However, the fact that your product is not unique in the market place doesn't strike me as a reason to give up. Thank you for continuing the discussion. Strike? Can you be more specific? Two points to make here: 1) By discussing this I am making sure the business is

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: However, the fact that your product is not unique in the market place doesn't strike me as a reason to give up. Absolutely. Diversity is a good thing. One of the reasons for trying. And sustain important discussions like this. What I'm trying to highlight is that the first

Re: [Hampshire] Backing up your data with Duplicity and Amazon S3.

2010-07-12 Thread Damian Brasher
Martin A. Brooks wrote: http://hinterlands.org/wiki/index.php/BackupsWithDuplicityAndS3 Mostly what it says on the tin. Comments and feedback appreciated. Thanks, interesting... I'll be picking apart the S3 API sometime later in the autumn. Perhaps a way to limit the amount of storage you can

Re: [Hampshire] Tester role available - opportunity for experience

2010-06-04 Thread Damian Brasher
NB: For those of you not used to this kind of volunteer role posting please see: http://sourceforge.net/people/ :) The role below has been updated. Apols for the top post. -- Damian Hi List Most of you are far too experienced for this to be technically useful but not necessarily

[Hampshire] Tester role available - opportunity for experience

2010-06-03 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List Most of you are far too experienced for this to be technically useful but not necessarily applicable - but could you forward the role to anyone you think might be interested or could benefit. Many Thanks --- SourceForge - Help Wanted - Tester - To install and test DIASER

Re: [Hampshire] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?

2010-06-02 Thread Damian Brasher
Jacqui Caren wrote: Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: Many people still believe that free (as in beer) stuff can't be any good. Arguments like who are you going to sue? etc. Like you are going to sue Microsoft for a bug in Word, or Outlook. The sue bit is very very important to many corporates. My

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] June Meeting - Saturday 5 June Southampton

2010-06-01 Thread Damian Brasher
Ashwin wrote: and would like to have access to the net during that meeting :) The problem we noticed the last few meetings with intermittent wireless connections was not resolved. It was deduced the most likely cause was Linux WAN drivers sending incompatible packets through the local WAP

[Hampshire] Bank holiday humour

2010-05-31 Thread Damian Brasher
I won't say who sent it to me as they will probably be embarrassed. I have a lot of work to do at the office, so usually I have to run at about a couple of petaflops. Luckily, I am fault tolerant, so if a bit of me fails, I don't fall over. -- Damian -- w: http://www.diaser.org.uk - Geo-data

Re: [Hampshire] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?

2010-05-28 Thread Damian Brasher
John Cooper wrote: On 27/05/10 16:08, Owain Clarke wrote: I wonder if, with the new government desperate to save money anywhere, there may be a bit of an open door for pushing the idea of Linux adoption? I sense there is a drift towards OSS, the drift needs steering though so it doesn't

[Hampshire] DSI space invaders blogged by SourceForge's Lee Schlesinger

2010-04-15 Thread Damian Brasher
Great news, DSI space invaders blogged by SourceForge's Lee Schlesinger https://sourceforge.net/blog/dsi-space-invaders-lives-again/ Thanks to certain members for you feedback which helped, Cheers Damian -- w: http://www.diaser.org.uk - Geo-data redundancy long-term archive system (WAN

[Hampshire] Spec file build problem

2010-04-14 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi, I'm building a spec file for a C application, my first so a test run. The problem I have found is that an install-data-hook directive from the Makefile.am cases an error after rpmbuild -ba dsi.spec: make install-data-hook make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dbrasher/rpmbuild/BUILD/dsi-1.0.2'

Re: [Hampshire] Spec file build problem

2010-04-14 Thread Damian Brasher
Noo, drop that question, as the experienced know it's an iterative trial and error job. I'm gradually finding my round and have got past this error a while back, now tackling the desktop icon placement etc... Thanks for the thought if you had one, Damian Hi, I'm building a spec file for a C

Re: [Hampshire] Linux meeting this Saturday.

2010-04-09 Thread Damian Brasher
Ian Brazier wrote: Luckily I'm 17, with 32 years experience at it..lol ...and your secret is? -- w: http://www.diaser.org.uk - Geo-data redundancy long-term archive system (WAN vault)- beta1 w: http://www.walkingwiththeelephants.co.uk - ebook about small scale OSS collaborative

Re: [Hampshire] Linux games testers required

2010-04-05 Thread Damian Brasher
I wrote: Wondering if anyone that tested the game thinks the sound track could be gone? (keeping sound effects) With some help from a Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) coder DSI 1.0.1b2 05/10/2010 - major code tidy, some re-writes and optimisations, reduces the binary size by

Re: [Hampshire] Linux games testers required

2010-04-05 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian wrote: Wondering if anyone that tested the game thinks the sound track could be gone? (keeping sound effects) Only in SVN at the moment: svn co https://dpsaceinvadors.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspaceinvadors/ dspaceinvadors -- This message has been scanned for viruses and

Re: [Hampshire] Linux games testers required

2010-03-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Jonas wrote: Tried it and it worked great. It confused me a tiny bit that the firing rate was so low but then it made it much more tactical.Didn't spot any bugs at all. Great game. Thanks you. Someone helped me standardise the code base structure and build tools. Did this last night. This

[Hampshire] Linux games testers required

2010-03-23 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi Some may remember this; DSI - Damian (not very imaginative) Space Invadors, has been re-released. Many of the bug fixes collected over the last 9 years have been incorporated into the code, recompiled for Linux 32/64, with 5 levels of increasing difficulty, hi-score, sound effects, funky sound

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Wiki

2010-03-19 Thread Damian Brasher
Daniel Pope wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Out_of_date to many of the LinuxHints pages to warn that they may well be outdated and should be checked. Excellent! Looks nice, crisp and manageable. I just hit enter on a blank search on the front page to see all the links that may

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] todays meeting

2010-03-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi Thanks to all those that attended today and great to see several new faces. My apologies for the intermittent wireless internet connection today and the last couple of meetings, to resolve this next time I will deploy an unused WAP I have available, the use of this will also simplify MAC

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] March meeting in Southampton - Talks

2010-03-05 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi There is only the one talk at the moment - however I am organised enough to offer a DIASER demonstration at 1pm. 1) Overview 2) Live configuration 3) Live installation 4) Peek into the first (beta-1) production system - (another, larger production HE installation is in planning phase) 5)

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] March meeting in Southampton - Talks

2010-03-05 Thread Damian Brasher
AdamC wrote: I would really like to attend Daniel's talk on Python gaming, but cannot as I've got other commitments. Is anyone recording it in any way/shape/form? Even my two sons would benefit from this (they started using pygame last summer holidays) and so it would be a shame to lose it.

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] March meeting in Southampton - Register and MAC(s)

2010-03-04 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List, this is a reminder including amendments to the previous post... BaB meeting Saturday 6th March -- Please see http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SeminarRoom1 for more information about the venue. Talks - We have one offer for a talk so far; 12

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] March meeting in Southampton - Register and MAC(s)

2010-03-01 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List BaB meeting --- This is an announcement that the BaB meeting in Southampton is due to go ahead this Saturday the 6th. I am making this announcement on Adam's behalf as he is very busy after moving to a new house and is currently not connected to the internet. Please see

[Hampshire] RFC ID advice - was DIAP (Ubuntu compat)

2010-02-28 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List, for those who might be interested (or were frustrated with this;), a couple of things to note re: this post, which probably ends it; and before midnight. DIASER now really does install on Ubuntu server 9.10 and LTS nodes without extra Perl modules - you can throw the installer (from

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] ebook review free offer - re-post

2010-01-27 Thread Damian Brasher
Peter B wrote: Go on then I am game Do not know alot about this subject area, but if I did I guess I would not need to read your book Copy sent, you represent a segment of target readers:) Damian -- w: http://www.diaser.org.uk - Open Source Data Vault Application - beta-1 w:

Re: [Hampshire] 06 February at IBM Hursley

2010-01-21 Thread Damian Brasher
Adam Trickett wrote: We have again been invited to IBM and so our next meeting on the 6th of February will be at IBM Hursley Labs. As with last time entrance and exit times will be less flexible than a Southampton meeting but I hope this is offset by the excellent meeting that will take place

Re: [Hampshire] 06 February at IBM Hursley

2010-01-21 Thread Damian Brasher
Anton Piatek wrote: Absolutely! We have an auditorium with an enormous projector and wireless microphones! Super, I will use a projector. This will make a nice change from being a BaB meeting facilitator. Shall I put you down for this talk? (can you remind me again what the book is about?)

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] ebook review free offer - re-post

2010-01-21 Thread Damian Brasher
[Re-post to clarify a request I posted earlier, based on some feedback.] A free copy of my new ebook Walking With the Elephants is available in return for a short review, anywhere between 4 - about 60 words. If you do, please do blog your review if you want to, I may not use your review or may

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] data.gov.uk

2010-01-21 Thread Damian Brasher
Sean Gibbins wrote: Browsing the BBC's tech news today I spotted this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8470797.stm Reading past the bit about Sir Tim Berners-Lee's involvement, I notice a Southampton Uni professor - Professor Nigel Shadbolt - was involved too. Not just the

[Hampshire] Meeting venue 16th Jan - Register and MAC(s) - reminder

2010-01-15 Thread Damian Brasher
(Reminder) For security reasons I have maintained a register, since Jan 09, of regular attendees and new attendees of the BaB meetings held at Southampton University. All attendees, both HLUG members and non-members, must provide their name to security upon entry. Security guards usually occupy

[Hampshire] [OT] Reviewers needed

2010-01-13 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi *This offer is for Hants Lug members only.* I have just completed an ebook, as some of you may have noticed that I was writing one, about small scale Open Source collaboration; Walking With the Elephants; setup or streamline your Open Source software project / how to set up a contract to

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Reviewers needed

2010-01-13 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian Brasher wrote: Hi *This offer is for Hants Lug members only.* I am looking for reviewers now as the ebook has passed the Interlinux Ltd QA process. It is for sale at £2.99 ($4.8 USD). Probably worth noting, that any reviews I receive may be posted on the website with your first name

[Hampshire] Meeting venue 16th Jan - Register and MAC(s)

2010-01-11 Thread Damian Brasher
Happy New year everyone, Here is the usual post for security and MAC addresses. I need to warn everyone that the university was closed today due to bad weather http://www.soton.ac.uk/university_closure.html The university is open tomorrow and I suspect there will be no disruption to the meeting

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Open Source vendor software question

2010-01-10 Thread Damian Brasher
Alan wrote: Via the gift of the internet the author of that book mailed me after noting the inbound link from our (open - ahem) mailing list archive and gave me this link for you: http://ianozsvald.com/2009/11/22/how-im-writing-the-screencasting-handbook/ Super! WWTE is now out hot off the

Re: [Hampshire] Recommend a local CCNA training option?

2010-01-04 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi Danny, Any suggestions from personal experience would be much more valuable than a 'google', which yields only a 2 year(?) option at Southampton (bit to far and slow) or a 6 day in Birmingham. Basingstoke would be handy, but their college (a technical collage???) does not offer the CCNA

[Hampshire] [OT] Open Source vendor software question

2009-12-15 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi I need to build a simple payment system for an eBook I'm planning to release soon. I'd like the customer, after reading a preview to decide to purchase the book. I don't need a shopping cart, but will use one if inevitable, as there is only one product. Purchasing needs to be as simple as: 0)

Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-11-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Leo wrote: Alan Pope wrote: 2009/7/25 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk: On a not entirely unrelated note, when the a file system check starts during a boot up, is it possible to skip it? I've tried Ctrl-C but that doesn't work. Pressing Esc doesn't work for me, it just carries on doing the check.

Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-11-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Hugo Mills wrote: Or, when you have time, boot onto emergency mode from grub by adding 'emergency' at the grub command prompt. Login when prompted then fdisk -l to view the available partitions then fsck manually. That requires you to think about it, and involves a reboot and

[Hampshire] Meetings notes for last saturday

2009-11-14 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List This is a reminder to attendees of the BaB and AGM held in Southampton last Saturday, who have not already, if they have a moment, to add their name to the meeting notes page: http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?07November2009 Thanks to attendees for providing their details as

[Hampshire] Meeting venue 7th Nov - Register and MAC(s)

2009-11-02 Thread Damian Brasher
For security reasons I have maintained a register, since Jan 09, of regular attendees and new attendees of the BaB meetings held at Southampton University. All attendees, both HLUG members and non-members, must provide their name to security upon entry. Security guards usually occupy a reception

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

2009-10-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: There are also some unofficial spinoffs to try, such as CrunchBang and EasyPeasy. I kept UNR on this machine for reference and I like it, nice memories of the trip:) I added links to the download on my blog post http://tiny.cc/fDQta and emphasised the small install

[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

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

[Hampshire] How should the Open Source world handle new vulnerabilities?

2009-09-26 Thread Damian Brasher
When you first see this: Linux Kernel 'sock_sendpage()' NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in an email or twitter it does not mean much at first glance. When you realise this is a kernel issue if you are a Linux systems administrator you will start scanning, thinking and then you read some

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Next meetings

2009-09-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Adam Trickett wrote: people send by emails their Linux problems... Oh, just Linux? not about the latest aches and pains remedy, cures for toe fungus and how best to treat a cat with scabies... demob happy;) -- [over 1k downloads since Apr 09] WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - Open Source Data

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Next meetings

2009-09-22 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: I don't know about cats though... What's to know? Sainsbury's are doing curry sauce for 4p a jar. That about covers the topic, I reckon... The thought of Monty with a curry rubdown, hhmmm ;) == one v..angry cat. Turmeric has medicinal properties [1], vets tomorrow, not sure if it

Re: [Hampshire] Private RHCA tuition required

2009-09-09 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian Brasher wrote: I am studying for an RHCA module, RH442, and due to take the exam on Friday 18th September. I believe some private tuition would be of great benefit right now due various commitments that have built up unexpectedly recently. Happily I will withdraw this request:) I

Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

2009-09-07 Thread Damian Brasher
Daniel Pope wrote: Damian Brasher wrote: Seems to have stopped working even when I use @HantsLUG? Accidentally killed it. My bad. Dan Okay, it works, thank you, Damian -- WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - Open Source Data Vault Application - beta-1 RSS http://sourceforge.net/export

Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

2009-09-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian Brasher wrote: Daniel Pope wrote: You don't need to mention HantsLUG at all. It's simply retweeting the people it follows. Dan Goodo, Seems to have stopped working even when I use @HantsLUG? -- WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - Open Source Data Vault Application - beta-1 RSS http

Re: [Hampshire] Private RHCA tuition required

2009-09-01 Thread Damian Brasher
Jon Fautley wrote: The best training you can get for this course would be from these guys: http://www.europe.redhat.com/training/ I suppose you might be able to find someone to tutor you privately, but unless they've recently sat the course and the exam, you're probably going to

[Hampshire] Private RHCA tuition required

2009-08-29 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi I am studying for an RHCA module, RH442, and due to take the exam on Friday 18th September. Whilst I have self taught 80% of my IT knowledge I believe some private tuition would be of great benefit right now due various commitments that have built up unexpectedly recently. The knowledge in

Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

2009-08-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Daniel Pope wrote: I've added a Twitter bot at http://twitter.com/HantsLUG which retweets HantsLUG members. Does anyone else have a Twitter account and want to be included in the HantsLUG feed? Think I'm there, this also means you don't need to prefix HantsLUG with an @ when you post to

Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

2009-08-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Daniel Pope wrote: Damian Brasher wrote: Think I'm there, this also means you don't need to prefix HantsLUG with an @ when you post to HantsLUG, I think... You don't need to mention HantsLUG at all. It's simply retweeting the people it follows. Dan Goodo, Damian -- WWW http

[Hampshire] Important Red Hat errata

2009-08-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Nasty bug as most probably know: This has been released today for RHEL, not sure about other distros... http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1222.html more info: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/critical_linux_bug/ Slashdot search: linux kernel vulnerability post 13th August for in

Re: [Hampshire] Important Red Hat errata

2009-08-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian Brasher wrote: Nasty bug as most probably know: Slashdot search: linux kernel vulnerability post 13th August for in depth discussion Really defeatist stuff buried in there, my take on the kernel oops - Linux is just the other side of the same coin, a side I prefer and millions

Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviewers

2009-07-30 Thread Damian Brasher
Adam Trickett wrote: The list includes: I can also highly recommend Linux Administration Handbook - second edition - ISBN 0-13-148004-9 The first edition was very good and became dog-eared and worn, the page numbering was a little skew but not in this second edition. Damian -- WWW

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Axis 206 network cameras dead

2009-07-28 Thread Damian Brasher
Tony Whitmore wrote: I know there are a few people on this list who have played with network cameras. Any tips? Sounds as if you have covered everything therefore I am reluctant to suggest much. The next step for me would be to use any layer 2 software supplied with the devices directly

Re: [Hampshire] Can't update the wiki

2009-07-24 Thread Damian Brasher
Hugo Mills wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:32:53PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: I'm in the mood for some Friday afternoon documentation, Much as I love writing documentation and I do, really, see http://www.diaser.org.uk/manual.html that is still an interesting sate of mind for a Friday

Re: [Hampshire] LiveCD distro reputation good device detection

2009-07-21 Thread Damian Brasher
trotter wrote: I was thinking if someone could suggest a LiveCD distribution that has a good reputation for a wide range of device detection. Generally speaking the more modern the distribution the better compatibility it is likely to provide. Also more likely to provide better fail feedback.

[Hampshire] Meeting Saturday and new attendees

2009-07-08 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List Just a quick note to say welcome to a few new faces at Saturday's meeting held at ECS if I didn't have a chance to on the day:) I have updated the meeting notes page with names from the register. For the new folks do have a look around the HLUG Wiki, if you feel like it and want to

[Hampshire] Meeting 4th July - Register and MAC(s) - reminder

2009-07-03 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi list - this is a reminder... For security reasons I have maintained a register, since Jan 09, of regular attendees and new attendees of the BaB meetings held at Southampton University. All attendees, both HLUG members and non-members, must provide their name to security upon entry. Security

[Hampshire] Meeting 4th July - Register and MAC(s)

2009-06-28 Thread Damian Brasher
For security reasons I have maintained a register, since Jan 09, of regular attendees and new attendees of the BaB meetings held at Southampton University. All attendees, both HLUG members and non-members, must provide their name to security upon entry. Security guards often occupy a new

[Hampshire] [OT] 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

2009-06-22 Thread Damian Brasher
This is great, I have been advised to use this as a reference and it makes sense to me from a Linux security and Perl point of view. I printed the whole 66 pages, accidentally (I wanted the index to stick on my cubicle wall) but I'm glad I did. From the site... The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most

[Hampshire] [OT] 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

2009-06-22 Thread Damian Brasher
http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/ This is great, I have been advised to use this as a reference and it makes sense to me from a Linux security and Perl point of view. I printed the whole 66 pages, accidentally (I wanted the index to stick on my cubicle wall) but I'm glad I did. From the site... The

Re: [Hampshire] [Fwd: [Leicester] Call for volunteers for the Linux Gazette]

2009-06-21 Thread Damian Brasher
Alan Cocks wrote: This is a fantastic magazine and I'd hate to see it die. I know from reading the posts here over the years that there are a bunch of clever people with a wealth of Linux experience. Could it be that you are willing to convert some of your talks to articles for publication?

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-15 Thread Damian Brasher
Jacqui Caren wrote: Damian Brasher wrote: Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human data (memory) management? Very very simplistic :-) - how people respresent text differs from person to person. Indeed, every scale devised misses something. I suppose we use

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-15 Thread Damian Brasher
When I diagnose a fault at the CLI I scan the text as if they are single images then rapidly process these as a whole and try to match against previous experiences. That scanning is okay for debugging, there is a name for that and we all do it under various pressured circumstances. I recall

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-14 Thread Damian Brasher
Jon Wilks wrote: I think you should get out more. Just back from Wimborne Folk Festival, which was great fun and an afternoon Kayaking at Calshot:) Cheers Damian -- WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - working together to make long term digital archives more accessible RSS

[Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-12 Thread Damian Brasher
Some of you may know this, anti-aliasing has been available since 7th May. Great news and I am already getting stuck in to some new illustrations. Full details here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/index.html To upgrade I removed the native OS rpm's then installed the complete

[Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-12 Thread Damian Brasher
Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human data (memory) management? Whilst thinking, probably too deeply again, about the differences between Perl arrays and hashes it struck me that the human mind may use a similar construct to manage memories. Which posed the

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-12 Thread Damian Brasher
Hugo Mills wrote: Great news and I am already getting stuck in to some new illustrations. Is it still a bloated an unstable pile of crap? Their aims appear to be to reproduce MS Office exactly, so yes. I just did these in OOo Draw: http://www.diaser.org.uk/images/graphic3.png

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-08 Thread Damian Brasher
Hugo Mills wrote: If you were writing a function with a fast path and a slow path, which style would you use to write the function? Style A: if can_use_fast_path: return fast path result # do slow stuff return slow path result Style B: result = fast path result if

Re: [Hampshire] A sad day...

2009-06-02 Thread Damian Brasher
Pavithran wrote: 2009/6/1 Richard Danter radan...@googlemail.com Guess Asus have abandoned Linux. Yeah corporate decissions .. god knows how much M$ is paying for it . This link looks up to date and GNU Linux is still mentioned as an option,

Re: [Hampshire] P2P backup cloud (Was Re: Keeping My Hard Drives Safe)

2009-06-02 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian wrote: These points, lets speak cloud - I'm using cloud crystal formation in the private storage cloud... Andy Smith wrote: Hi Anton, The idea being that you get together with either a group of friends, or just join an existing pool and you allocate a certain amount of your disk to

[Hampshire] [OT] Friday ruminate

2009-05-29 Thread Damian Brasher
This is an interesting contemplation:) http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html Have a good weekend all, Damian -- WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - working together to make long term digital archives more accessible RSS http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=258272 --

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