Re: [Hampshire] Freeview DVB Tuners

2014-11-11 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Keith, On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 at 08:11:43PM +, Keith Edmunds wrote: I use MythTV to capture the video. I haven't tried it outside of that environment, so I'm not sure I can help - sorry. The one thing you may want to check is that you are tuning to correct MUX. Your post was enough for

Re: [Hampshire] Weird DNS issues

2014-07-23 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
To reply to myself. I swapped the router for a spare ADSL router and found that all the sites that had not been accessible were now accessible. As it wasn't an ASDL2+ router my connection speed fell by more than 50%, but at leas it confirmed it wasn't an issue with any of my PCs or my ISP. I

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 20 May 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0100, Tim B wrote: Probably.  Sadly when you ask most top-poster why they do it, very few can come up with a good or meaningfully reason to support their behaviour. It appears to have mostly won because: Most email clients encourage it Most people copy what

[Hampshire] LibreOffice not working over SSH for one user but not another

2014-04-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, I have a strange one for you. On box F the local user V can run LibreOffice (Debian stable) without a problem. If user A SSH into the box F from W or M and runs any LibreOffice application back down the tunnel they work perfectly well. If user V tries to do the same then LibreOffice

Re: [Hampshire] LibreOffice not working over SSH for one user but not another

2014-04-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 26 Apr 2014, Simon Reap wrote: On 26/04/2014 15:20, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: If user V tries to do the same then LibreOffice starts but after about 1 second of any application (e.g. writer) running it vanishes without trace. User V has no problem running other applications on F

Re: [Hampshire] LibreOffice not working over SSH for one user but not another

2014-04-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Maybe run strace on the command? So,rather than just libreoffice as the command you tunnel through SSH, strace -o /tmp/lbo.log /usr/bin/libreoffice -writer I would also be tempted to, at least temporarily, zap the ~/.libreoffice directory for the user for whom it doesn't work

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-18 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
After checking the fan is running, clean it of dust. The most likely problem is replace the thermal paste between cpu and heatsink. This morning I cleaned enough fluff off the CPU cooler to make a reasonably sized dust bunny. I also repositioned the air-duct to the fan that it draws air in

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-14 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Make sure you clean off all the old crud with acetone or similar, then replace with fresh stuff. I'm unconvinced that any one brand is better than another - I use a large tube of Servisol. It seems everyone is of the same opinion. Something to do over Easter... If the power supply

[Hampshire] DDR2-800 RAM

2014-04-13 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, On the off chance, does anyone have 2G DD2-800 unbuffered/non-EDO RAM that they are not using? I'm hoping to eke out a few more years life from a home server, and thought I'd better ask before everyone bins RAM of this vintage and it becomes hideously expensive. Free or charity donation

[Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-13 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, My 7 year old DNUK home server is prone to overheating. It has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor which is okay at 1GHz but when it gets up to 3.2GHz the temperature quickly rises, it starts to beep and if left long enough it shuts down. If I left it at 100% CPU load for hours it use

Re: [Hampshire] DDR2-800 RAM

2014-04-13 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On 13 April 2014 20:07, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: On the off chance, does anyone have 2G DD2-800 unbuffered/non-EDO RAM that they are not using? I have 1xOCZ2N9002GK (which is 2x1GB sticks) . Any use? Yes. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Any technology

Re: [Hampshire] DDR2-800 RAM

2014-04-13 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, Alan Pope wrote: On 13 April 2014 20:48, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: On 13 April 2014 20:07, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: On the off chance, does anyone have 2G DD2-800 unbuffered/non-EDO RAM that they are not using

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-13 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, you wrote: My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it? Yes. I seem to get about 3 years from modern stuff; at 7, your machine is long overdue for a re-pasting. Make sure you clean off all the old crud with acetone or similar, then replace

[Hampshire] Heartbleed Bug

2014-04-08 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, If you haven't noticed there has been a serious boo-boo in the recent OpenSSL code-base. If you have anything that uses OpenSSL you should check and patch your box and restart anything that uses OpenSSL. Details can be found here: http://heartbleed.com/ with links to each distros page

Re: [Hampshire] PCI SATA controller

2014-02-12 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
, so it's just one older PC I'm reusing, so I don't have a lot of PATA drives to carry forward. I'll bear in mind for other use cases though. Sent from my iPhone On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:58, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, Before I buy a new one, does anyone

Re: [Hampshire] PCI SATA controller

2014-02-12 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Before I buy a new one, does anyone have a PCI (not PCIe) bus, SATA controller card I could put in an old PC to allow it to take SATA hard disks instead of the tiny PATA disk it currently has in, that they no longer need...? They only cost about £10 on ebay. Why not just buy one?

[Hampshire] PCI SATA controller

2014-02-11 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, Before I buy a new one, does anyone have a PCI (not PCIe) bus, SATA controller card I could put in an old PC to allow it to take SATA hard disks instead of the tiny PATA disk it currently has in, that they no longer need...? It's not desperate but just checking. It goes without saying it

[Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Additional Google Workshop announced!!!]

2014-01-28 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, May be of interest to some. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:27:37 + From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Additional Google Workshop announced!!! Google Workshop - Tuesday 18th

[Hampshire] Python/Linux Job in London

2014-01-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, The firm a friend works for is looking for developers with a background in Python on Linux platforms. My friend is a good bloke but I can't comment on his employer as I don't know anything about them. They are London based so it's a sensible time based commute from Hampshire that may

[Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG O'Reilly - Damian Conway - Regular Expressions - Training Day!]

2014-01-23 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, May be of interest to some. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG O'Reilly - Damian Conway - Regular Expressions - Training Day! Full details and on-line booking available very soon.

Re: [Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG O'Reilly - Damian Conway - Regular Expressions - Training Day!]

2014-01-23 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 at 12:47:51PM +, Victor Churchill wrote: It will no doubt be hugely entertaining, hugely informative, and hugely expensive!! I believe that the first two statments are corect, I don't know about the third but I fear it is also correct... -- Adam Trickett Overton,

Re: [Hampshire] audio CDs - KDE

2013-12-16 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Peter, Thank you, Adam. I installed K3B and found that KDE now recognises audio CDs, and offers to open them with it. Still a mystery why Sound Juicer works under Gnome but not KDE, but I can manage with K3B. It occurs to me that Sound Juicer was installed under Gnome: maybe when I added

[Hampshire] UKUUG-FLOSS UK - Spring 2014 - Prov. programme information

2013-12-11 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, This may be of interests to some. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - ***NOTE: On-line bookings for Spring 2014 will be open later this week*** The 2014 Spring event will be held on 18th, 19th 20th March at The Old Ship Hotel, Kings Road, Brighton BN1 1NR

Re: [Hampshire] Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

2013-11-18 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 at 11:03:48PM +, Leo wrote: Have you tried running a test - smartctl -t long /dev/sdc and then smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc to check the results when it's finished - to see what that throws up? I would concur. It is possible that 1 unreaedable sector still means

[Hampshire] Fw [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - BCS OSSG/FLOSS UK Unconference - 26th October 2013]

2013-10-21 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, This may be of interest. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:12:02 +0100 From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org BCS OSSG / FLOSS UK Un-conference - Saturday 26th October 2013 Sponsored by: Andrews Arnold Ltd.

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

2013-10-04 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
I don't think the 180 GB drive is large enough on it's own, so I could get a pair of them and then LVM them together and put a single ext4 over the two. I know you say later in the thread that you backup all your important stuff, but for me, the lost productivity involved in a disk

[Hampshire] Sky+ box free (no HD)

2013-09-29 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, Before I send it to the council tip for WEEE processing I have a Sky+ box for anyone. I've cracked the case open to extract the hard disk, so the metal innards are a bit bent in places as it's not assembled with screws, but if anyone wants it for electrical parts they are more than welcome

[Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

2013-09-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, My ageing desktop system is due for a replacement. It's single core processor, 2 Gig of RAM and old AGP graphics just don't hack it any more for photo work and it's tiny 120 Gig hard disk is almost always full. So I'm looking at a modern processor, 16 Gig RAM box, with modern graphics.

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

2013-09-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
to an external drive and DVD. Not perfect but it has saved me when I deleted files I didn't intend to, or when a disk in the server started to go bad. Cheers Sent from my iPhone On 27 Sep 2013, at 09:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Hi Adam, On 27 September 2013 08:58, Dr A. J

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

2013-09-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
... On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 08:58 +0100, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: it's tiny 120 Gig hard disk : :-) Hm, the first hard drive I used was the size of an industrial top-loading washing machine, had a massive 5MB fixed + 5MB removable cassette and changing the cassette took half a day to spin

[Hampshire] Begging for old PCI graphics card with s-video output

2013-08-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, I'm begging to see if anyone has a PCI bus (not PCIe) graphics card that has a s-video output as well as VGA that they've not yet thrown away. It's not urgent and I could collect from a LUG meet this autumn but I have an oldish PC that I'd like to connect to an old CRT TV and a s-video

Re: [Hampshire] Linux compatible cameras

2013-06-16 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Sunday 16 Jun 2013, Keith Edmunds wrote: I'm looking for a simple-to-use camera that is Linux compatible. It's for my mum, who is in her 70s, so point, click is about as complex as it needs to be. Her PC runs Linux, supported by yours truly from 165 miles away, so ideally she would connect

Re: [Hampshire] Linux compatible cameras - prices and shops

2013-06-16 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Sunday 16 Jun 2013, Keith Edmunds wrote: I'm looking for a simple-to-use camera that is Linux compatible. It's for my mum, who is in her 70s, so point, click is about as complex as it needs to be. Her PC runs Linux, supported by yours truly from 165 miles away, so ideally she would connect

[Hampshire] Ethernet Over Mains

2013-03-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, I've been running Devolo 200AV units for a while and recently asked abut their 500AV+ units. I bought a pair of 500AVs and they are noticably faster and use less electricity apparently and even have a power pass-through. They didn't talk to the 200AV units I alredy had which was a pain,

Re: [Hampshire] Ethernet Over Mains

2013-03-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 at 03:58:39PM +, Alan Pope wrote: On 26/03/13 15:29, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: I've been running Devolo 200AV units for a while and recently asked abut their 500AV+ units. I bought a pair of 500AVs and they are noticably faster and use less electricity apparently

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Domestic Energy usage

2013-03-05 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Gordon, I remember a landlord friend complaining that he'd done all the cavity wall and loft insulation, etc., that the authorities demanded, then when the inspectors came they marked the cavity wall insulation entry as presumed not. They didn't even ask. Our certificate was full of

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Domestic Energy usage

2013-03-05 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 at 09:49:37AM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Our house was built in 1936 and has a EPC rating of E and an estimated energy use of 314 kWh/m2/year. Last year we ran the house at an actual energy use of 85 kWh/m2/year. What the inspector said and what is real are

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Domestic Energy usage

2013-03-05 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Brad, the inspectors came they marked the cavity wall insulation entry as presumed not. They didn't even ask. They seem to always do that - even when the property was built *after* the time when insulation became a requirement, as mine was. Stupid.. Depressingly lots of houses

[Hampshire] [OT] Domestic Energy usage

2013-03-04 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, At the LUG meeting on Saturday I was chatting about energy usage at home. We bought our house recently and like anyone who buys or rents these days you are supposed to get an EPC telling you how much energy the house uses per year per unit area. Normally this is quoted as a letter code, A

Re: [Hampshire] Free: Linksys pls300 powerline adapter

2013-03-02 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 02 Mar 2013, Anton Piatek wrote: 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) Didn't want to play ball with my Devolo units so it's available to anyone

[Hampshire] Iceweasel (Firefox) on Debian Stable oddness

2013-03-01 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, This week I upgraded a Debian stable box as per normal stable upgrades. It has: Iceweasel (firefox) 19.0-1~bpo60+1 KDE window manager 4.4.5-7+squeeze1 X.org 7.5+8+squeeze1 Binary Nvidia driver

Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

2013-02-15 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Wednesday 13 Feb 2013, Ally Biggs wrote: Do you guys ever think there will be a day that Linux will be as popular as Windows in the desktop market. By which I assume you mean in the UK? Linux is very popular in some place already. If you include tablets, then Linux kernel powered devices

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi Questions

2013-02-08 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hello again, Many thanks for the various suggestions and comments. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I never really understood how there could be things that would drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows. -- anon -- Please post to:

[Hampshire] Raspberry Pi Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, Having actually seen and photographed a Raspberry Pi I think I'm sold on the idea of them. I currently have an Ethernet switch under the TV, spare power and a CRT (composite TV input) though I do plan to replace it with a flat TV of some sorts eventually (HDMI input). It seems to make

[Hampshire] Dropbox alternative

2012-12-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, A friend is looking for something like Dropbox but it can't be Dropbox as it's apparently banned in China. He basically need to sync data on a server in the UK and one in China so people can easily read and write to their local server and have it synced with the other one, and ideally

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

2012-12-09 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Sunday 09 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote: The first ever HantsLUG Christmas Lecture was held on Saturday 1 December in the Zepler Building at Southampton University. The speaker was Mike Bond (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mkb23/), of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he has

[Hampshire] Fwd: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Forthcoming Events]

2012-11-28 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, This may be of interest to some. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:13:49 + From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Forthcoming Events Please note our forthcoming events: Intermediate

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Equality Act 2010 compliance

2012-11-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Monday 26 Nov 2012, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks One of my website clients has just received the email which is pasted below. I'm pretty sure that it's a scam -- they're just trying to scare people into using their 'intercrm' product. It's probably bullying if not an outright scam.

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-20 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 09 Nov 2012, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, Every now and then I think I may get a DVB tuner for my computer. Now that Hannington has been upgraded to HD I could even watch/record stuff in HD (in theory) on my computer - our TV is still ye olde CRT. The Hauppauge PCTV Systems DVB

Re: [Hampshire] An interesting rsync problem

2012-11-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, One option would be: -c, --checksum But that would likely be extremely slow on a file of that size. A checksum is designed to be quick to calculate so it should not be that bad, however if the file is huge and almost certain to have changed then it's pointless waste of CPU on both

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 10 Nov 2012, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: On Friday 09 November 2012 20:52:54 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: our TV is still ye olde CRT. I though I was the last person in the country to go digital Actually we almost never used the TV in analogue mode at all. We use to live

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 09 Nov 2012, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, Every now and then I think I may get a DVB tuner for my computer. Now that Hannington has been upgraded to HD I could even watch/record stuff in HD (in theory) on my computer - our TV is still ye olde CRT. The Hauppauge PCTV Systems DVB

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 10 Nov 2012, Anton Piatek wrote: I don't think you need quad core. My dual core Asus at3 ion mobo with cpu does hd playback (no idea of the codec) but it also has a nvidia gpu builtin with hardware acceleration. I'm not buying specifically for the video, I was just thinking of

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] AGM

2012-10-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hello, Today we had our AGM and the new committe was voted in. I acted as returning officer as I didn't vote, nominate, second or was standing myself. All candidates were returned with a unanimous result. PostCandidate Result Chairman

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] AGM supplementary

2012-10-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hello Again. It was raised at the AGM if the AGM was itself quorate. Alas the definition of what the quorate number actually is is imprecise, as technically anyone can vote who is a member of the mailing list and turns up with a piece of paper. Therefore to expedite the transfer of

[Hampshire] London Perl Workshop 2012

2012-09-21 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
May be of interest to some. Subject: London Perl Workshop 2012 The day of this year's London Perl Workshop (the United Kingdom's Perl Workshop) is fast approaching. It will be held on: Saturday 24th November 2012 University of Westminster Cavendish Square Campus Now is the time to register

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!

2012-08-24 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 at 08:37:20AM +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote: On Thu, Aug 23 at 10:12, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: ... We must elect a new committee this autumn. If our friends can arrange it for us, the next meeting will be at Southampton University on Saturday 3 October, that will be

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Vision and two routers

2012-08-24 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 at 07:40:12AM +0100, li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all This is a bit convoluted and a bit techie but please bear with me. My question boils down to: Can a BT vision box find the BT Home hub it needs if there is another router on the same LAN and that other

Re: [Hampshire] Spinning rust

2012-07-21 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 21 Jul 2012, Jacqui Caren wrote: On 20/07/2012 11:28, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: In my experience, and I have bought a lot from them over the years, Novatech does not leave people out in the cold. I would be interested to know what had happened to get your acquaintance into

Re: [Hampshire] Spinning rust

2012-07-21 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 20 Jul 2012, Imran Chaudhry wrote: BTW, I have good backups of my data...! This. Also, what I've learnt recently is to periodically archive your backup - either to another HDD or to some other media. That's what I do. I recently had some bad luck whereby my backup USB HDD

Re: [Hampshire] Spinning rust

2012-07-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012, you wrote: I've been using these Hitachi Deskstar 1TB drives for over a year now in mirrored configuration in three Netgear Stora NAS boxes (6 drives in total) without a problem: http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=Hitachi+HDT721010SLA360hl=ensa

[Hampshire] Spinning rust

2012-07-18 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, I have a pair of Samsung Spinpoint 0.5 TB drives in a mirrored pair in my home server. One of them is now producing: smartd[..]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 38 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors warnings. The SMART health of the drive is good, but I understand that this means next time

Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome and a kermel oops

2012-06-30 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
: FitFu.com, GymFu.com Brain Bakery Ltd. and GymFu Ltd have registered address: 7 Duck Island Lane BH24 3AA. Registered in England and Wales, Company Numbers: 5849251 and 7022440 respectively On 30 Jun 2012, at 12:57, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, Has anyone

Re: [Hampshire] rsync Problem

2012-06-29 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 29 Jun 2012, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: Aha! SSH server wasn't running. (To be honest, I didn't appreciate fully its role in all this.) After exploring a little further, all is now well. Thanks to all who responded so promptly! You don't need to use SSH to use rsync. If the

Re: [Hampshire] rsync Problem

2012-06-29 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 29 Jun 2012, Vic wrote: As rsync is normally used in dangerous spaces Really? I use it to copy directory trees on the same machine... I meant between machines, it's great over the network. Using it locally doesn't count... ;-) -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Deck of

[Hampshire] [UKUUG-Announce] Richard Stallman Event

2012-06-14 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
This may be of interest. - Forwarded message from Jon Neale - Richard Stallman is coming to give a free talk on Copyright vs Community in Camden on June 22nd. Spaces are limited, and we are encouraging people to sign up here: http://richardstallmanvisitsforward.heroku.com, where you can

Re: [Hampshire] Relative performance on curent AMD and Intel chips

2012-06-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Neil, Either later this year or next year I may replace my 7 year old desktop systems. They are currently running first generation single-core AMD64 processors with 2 GiB of RAM. Just anecdotal evidence, but I just recently upgraded my 4 year old Intel Core 2 Quad to a Core i5 3750k.

Re: [Hampshire] Relative performance on curent AMD and Intel chips

2012-06-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Tim, I think (though this is not based of anything other than hear-say), that the A6 and the i3 are probably pretty comparable overall. Looking to laptop-type applications the graphics is better with the AMD, so I'd go with that; however, if you're not worried about the graphics, I would

Re: [Hampshire] Relative performance on curent AMD and Intel chips

2012-06-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
John, On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 at 03:05:49PM +0100, john lewis wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 16:41:04 +0100 Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Either later this year or next year I may replace my 7 year old desktop systems. They are currently running first generation single-core

[Hampshire] Relative performance on curent AMD and Intel chips

2012-06-05 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, Either later this year or next year I may replace my 7 year old desktop systems. They are currently running first generation single-core AMD64 processors with 2 GiB of RAM. Times clearly have moved on and I am well aware that Intel have caught up and overtaken AMD in the raw performance

[Hampshire] [ADMIN - IMPORTANT] Time shift - HantsLUG Meeting this Saturday

2012-05-31 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Regarding this Saturday's meeting: The online system is displaying that it's only available from 13:00 so I've booked from then until 6pm. If you wanted to start earlier then I can't see it being a problem if we occupy the undergraduate labs upstairs. There's a breakout area that's free

[Hampshire] UKUUG OSSG FRAND Event 29/03/12

2012-03-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
The following may be of interest: - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:56:44 + From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG] OSSG FRAND Event 29/03/12 Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS – London 29th March 2012

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] March Meeting reminder

2012-03-02 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 02 Mar 2012, Imran Chaudhry wrote: Thanks Adam, Are there going to be any talks at this meeting? Do we have use of the seminar room? I was thinking of giving a quick talk on 10 ways to make Debian more useful (or 10 ways to make Debian more like Ubuntu :-) - basically a

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] March Meeting reminder

2012-03-02 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 02 Mar 2012, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: I'm happy to do a how to script C++ with LUA primer talk. Ta. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. -- John Lennon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Adobe Flash

2012-02-25 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Wednesday 22 Feb 2012, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: I figure I'll be the first to mention it: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chrome-only-future-for-Flash-on-Linu x-1440104.html What is your take on this development? will anyone be converting to Chrome from another browser because of

Re: [Hampshire] power problem

2011-12-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 at 09:49:42AM -, Jan Henkins wrote: Hello Owain, Yep, that sounds like a borked battery. I find that lappy batteries can start giving problems almost from the get-go, but a life-span from around 18-24 months seems to be the norm. It's inconvenient to say the least,

Re: [Hampshire] power problem

2011-12-06 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 at 01:01:29PM -, Vic wrote: Li batteries have good charge densities but don't last that long unless they are charged and discharged evenly (apparently). It's even more complicated than that... Li batteries suffer permanent degradation with time. The rate of

Re: [Hampshire] Changing from TalkTalk

2011-12-01 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Thursday 01 Dec 2011, Peter Collins wrote: On 01/12/11 12:24, Full Circle Podcast wrote: - comb their website for the name of the Customer Service Director and send a strong letter directly to him/her at the HQ address. Hi Adam, The Chief Executive is Dido Harding

Re: [Hampshire] Changing from TalkTalk

2011-12-01 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
that their customer service droids... Rgds RC Robin Catling Full Circle Podcast On 30 November 2011 23:00, Ian Grody l...@grody.me.uk wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2011 20:58:22 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, Some time ago I mentioned I was changing phone company and ISP

Re: [Hampshire] Changing from TalkTalk

2011-12-01 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Thursday 01 Dec 2011, Martin N wrote: Lo, At 20:58 30/11/2011, you wrote: Hi, Some time ago I mentioned I was changing phone company and ISP. For the record BT terminated my account correctly on the day I changed to the PhoneCoop. TalkTalk are still billing me 4 months after they

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Final reminder for December meeting

2011-12-01 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Thursday 01 Dec 2011, Paul Tansom wrote: Please have a look at the list and can we have some nominations and seconds on the list. I took the liberty of filling in some names, where people indicated they'd second anyone! As I originally said, I'm happy to stay on as a GO to help

[Hampshire] Changing from TalkTalk

2011-11-30 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, Some time ago I mentioned I was changing phone company and ISP. For the record BT terminated my account correctly on the day I changed to the PhoneCoop. TalkTalk are still billing me 4 months after they stopped providing service. They keep promising that they will sort it out but they so

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 at 08:44:57AM +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: Seems like I am going to be suffering with Arthritic hands from here on in. Yay! :-( On my laptop I use a Logitech Wireless Mouse M305 which is tiny and I find more comfortable than a standard sized mouse I use at work. On my

[Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Unconference - Saturday 8th October - Manchester]

2011-09-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
This may be of interest, if you happen to be going north. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:29:32 + Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Unconference - Saturday 8th October - Manchester FLOSS UK Unconference 2011

Re: [Hampshire] error competition

2011-08-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 19 Aug 2011, Michael Pavling wrote: On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann edward.beckm...@gmail.com wrote: Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say I did ... as opposed to I knew someone who did ... I have flicked the off-switch (pesky old-style toggles) on an

[Hampshire] [josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter - July 2011]

2011-08-03 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
May be of interest. - Forwarded message from josette garcia josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk - Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:56:34 +0100 Subject: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter - July 2011 View in browser http://connect.oreilly.co.uk/oreillyuklz//lz.aspx?p1=05068S29p=0cID=0cValue=1

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop batteries

2011-07-28 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Brian, On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 at 03:18:28PM +0100, Brian Chivers wrote: Does your laptop power supply have a centre small pin ?? Don't know, I'll have a look tonight, it's another thing to consider. If it does it might be like a couple of Dell's I've looked at. If the centre pin doesn't make

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop batteries

2011-07-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Peter, Just a word of warning... My last work laptop was a Dell D620 which experienced what sounds like identical charging problems to yours, but in that case I borrowed a known good working battery from a colleague and found that it too would not recharge - the only conclusion therefore

[Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG O'Reilly - 'Practical DNSSEC Tutorial / Training' - November 2011]

2011-06-08 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, may be of interest. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:44:14 + From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org To: annou...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG O'Reilly - 'Practical DNSSEC Tutorial / Training' - November 2011

[Hampshire] [josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter - May 2011]

2011-05-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
From O'Reilly. - Forwarded message from Josette Garcia josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk - Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:31:32 +0100 From: Josette Garcia josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk To: chair...@hants.lug.org.uk chair...@hants.lug.org.uk Subject: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter -

[Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - forthcoming events]

2011-05-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
May be of interest - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:08:44 + From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org To: annou...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - forthcoming events 'Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet

Re: [Hampshire] 4th June meeting - IBM Hursley

2011-05-26 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Thursday 26 May 2011, Anton Piatek1 wrote: Hi all, As you know the next Hants LUG meeting is at IBM Hursley Labs on Sat the 4th June Details of the day (times to arrive) and how to get there are being put up at http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HursleyLabs but are also below

[Hampshire] Fwd: Building the network you need with OpenBSD's PF

2011-05-16 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
The following may be of interest to some. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Building the network you need with OpenBSD's PF From: Josette Garcia josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk Having trouble reading this? View this in your browser:

Re: [Hampshire] How did the Tiscali switch over go Dr A. J. Trickett ?

2011-05-04 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Monday 02 May 2011, Martin N wrote: Hello, You were in the process of switching from tiscali to another ISP. How did it go at tiscalis end as i am looking at switching as well? My contract hasn't ended yet, so I've not done anything yet. I'll let you know when it does end though -

[Hampshire] [josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk: User Group Newsletter - April 2011]

2011-04-28 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Latest ORA newsletter. - Forwarded message from Josette Garcia josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk - From: Josette Garcia josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk Subject: User Group Newsletter - April 2011 View in browser

[Hampshire] [off...@ukuug.org: [UKUUG-Announce] OSSG Event 12/05/11]

2011-04-27 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, The following event may be of interest. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:14:27 + From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] OSSG Event 12/05/11 Open Source SG (OSSG) event: Open Source and the UK: Liam

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
I was a very long time user of WindowMaker but lack of development has meant that it is now a very old fashioned interface and I'd be reluctant to go back to wmaker and give up the 'bells whistles' that gnome provides. Not having any high-powered machines, and having jumped to Openbox a

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-11 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Monday 11 Apr 2011, john lewis wrote: Has anyone played with it yet? I'm a bit worried about the complete change in interface and wonder if I'll still be able to work the way I do now. wild_speculation No, but I think based on how radical the change from KDE3 to KDE4 was, if you are an

Re: [Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

2011-03-25 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Wednesday 23 Mar 2011, Mike Burrows wrote: Hi Folks. I have a western digital hard drive attached to a usb port on my deb box. It mounts automagically on boot and I can access the file structure and read/write files from a windows samba client. However, when working on the Deb box I

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Clive Woodfine wrote: Good news. Well done Adam. Chris is the one to thank, he is the one who is letting us in. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Windows has detected: unknown device, and is installing drivers for it. -- Microsoft Windows -- Please post

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