On 2016-11-04 12:24, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with Linux
Thanks for the heads up on Blu Ray, a technology that I will let pass me by
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 4 December 2011 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine.
DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host
private key.
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 23:11:04 Jim Kissel wrote:
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that jars considerably less than modern teenager-speak
for contact lenses.
To me, a "contact" is either a person with who
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
However I think Lisi's comments and others suggest it's a bit
half-hearted yet. Apparently if you sign up for a Linux course I
can get MS Office at a really good price..
I fail to understand why anyone would want the *latest* version of MS
office even at a *good price*.
Keith Edmunds wrote:
Signing the OSA is meaningless: we're all bound by it, whether or not
we've signed it.
Whatever you do, don't wear a loud shirt in a built-up area. I did
once, but I think I got away.
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Mike Burrows wrote:
On 3/3/2011 11:50 AM, Jim Kissel wrote:
Mike Burrows wrote:
Hello Folks.
If I may hi-jack the list for a personal cause. I am "between
opportunities" here in sunny Alabama and would just like advertise
my availability to any of the companies that are "
Mike Burrows wrote:
Hello Folks.
If I may hi-jack the list for a personal cause. I am "between
opportunities" here in sunny Alabama and would just like advertise my
availability to any of the companies that are "represented" by list
members, that have a desired to move into the US market but
Samuel Penn wrote:
On Friday 16 July 2010 10:19:11 James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
I have a requirement for a Laser Duplex printer with Ethernet network
interface. The last time I brought a printer was about 10 years ago.
The previous one was a HP LaserJet 4L.
Does anyone have any recommen
It's not difficult to configure apache or for that matter most other web
servers to run on any non-used port. The default for httpd is to run on
port 80, or 443 for shttp requests. "non-standard" ports use to be
quite common in the early days of the web.
It would require some manual configur
The reply from the line starting 501 looks like the reply one would
expect from a web server when throwing something un-http at it.
Vic wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> This might be OT for the list, but I know there are some decent network
> admins reading it...
>
> A customer of mine has a static IP addr
Leo wrote:
> I've recently started using this nifty piece of software. However I
> cannot get Ubuntu to run it at logon. Most of the advice I've seen on
> the internet says to run it from a script after sleeping for a while.
> However even this doesn't work for me. I also can't find any refere
Edward Beckmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have no idea where to start, but I'd like to display all of the roads in
> the UK that are deristricted, but not motorways. The simple reason is that I
> am a motorcyclist, and am frustrated with picking nice bendy roads on a map
> to find they are all 30 or 40mph.
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> A philosophical question: O.T. or not O.T?
>
> I've been amusing myself recently with an old machine on which I've
> installed Version 7 Unix, ported to the x386 architecture. (System III was
> the latest thing when I started, but there was still a lot of Version 7
> ar
Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
> I was in a discussion with someone on a spam list about the definition of
> "old school" and I suggested that anyone who remembers a time before SMTP
> was de-facto should not be called old school but "old gits" and yes that
> includes me :-)
>
Does that make me a old-
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> My Google-foo is clearly deficient. How can I power off a Linux system
> immediately, the equivalent to pulling the plug out of the wall? I don't
> need to terminate processes, umount filesystems, etc, I just want it to
> power off.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
sudo sbin/halt
#
Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Saturday 12 December 2009 17:08:55 Roger Munford wrote:
>
>> I am in the process of choosing a small colour laser printer for very a
>> light printing requirement. The last one was sadly only half way through
>> its second set of cartridges after about 5 years.
>>
>> Does
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/10/28 Sean Gibbins :
>
>> Chris Aitken wrote:
>>
>>> > Sean,
>>> > Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS...
>>>
>>> I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way
>>> down on the
>>> list of annoyingizations of the
Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote:
>
>> > Sean,
>> > Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS...
>>
>> I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way
>> down on the
>> list of annoyingizations of the language :)
>>
>> The one that gets me is H
Chris Aitken wrote:
>>> Sean,
>>> Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS...
>>>
>> I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way down on
>> the
>> list of annoyingizations of the language :)
>>
>> The one that gets me is Herbs, pronounced Erbs, and yet the abilit
What do you expect from Microsoft. Love and kisses? They are running
shit scared. "Fear and loathing" stalk the corridors of Redmond and
they don't have anything they can do other than attack. FUD is there
only weapon. This is just a replay of the "Best Buy" playbook that we
saw yesterda
Leo wrote:
> I've got a shell script that calls a program and pipes its output to
> grep, i.e.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> program | grep -v "remaining\s*$"
>
>
> When I run the script this works fine (i.e. no lines output ending in
> remaining). However if I set the script to run using ana
Sean Gibbins wrote:
> John Cooper wrote:
>> I don't think you are missing much. I'm not happy that the BBC didn't
>> say it is based on Linux. M$ have killed Linux on netbooks so hopefully
>> Google chrome OS will allow manufacturers to agree to try again.
>
> Did Microsoft kill it or did they g
Victor Churchill wrote:
> 2009/6/1 Jim Kissel
>
>>
>> Isaac Close wrote:
>>> I was thinking more along the lines of creating a tunnel to a remote
>> location where access to my proxy and dns is availible. Thus all traffic
>> will be encrypte
Isaac Close wrote:
> --- On Mon, 1/6/09, Jim Kissel wrote:
>
>>> Isaac Close wrote:
>>> The very next thing i'm going to do is install linux.
>
>> If Vodafone is messing with DNS to do the re-direct,
>> switching OS's will
>> not alte
Isaac Close wrote:
> --- On Mon, 1/6/09, Sean Gibbins wrote:
>
>> Richard Danter wrote:
>>> And to think I bought my wife an Eee _because_ it was
>> Linux...
>>>http://www.itsbetterwithwindows.com/
>>>
>
> Everytime I try to open this link i am redirected to a vodafone page.
>
> That is,
Stephen Rowles wrote:
>> I have a tv set which is connected to a satellite dish and tuner and is
>> capable of receiving only German tv. How does that fit into all this?
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>
> I *think* that this still requires a license. In the UK you need a license
> to watch live TV, regardless
Any offers on what the differences between el5 and el5PAE Centos kernels?
sun1
rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1859484 Jun 11 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5
sun2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1801908 Jun 11 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5PAE
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Isaac Close wrote:
>> wrote:
>>
> > What is the nature of the material you are trying to
> > compress and what is the reason for wanting to
>> compress it
> > please?
> >
>
> Thats a good, but obvious question, unfortunately the
> answer is somewhat naive.
>
> Arbitrary (but small (m
David Ramsden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently been helping out with a server performance problem, for a
> club I'm a member of. The site runs a vBulletin forum (PHP+MySQL). The
> server also hosts a few other domains but these are personal blogging
> sites and don't receive too many hits.
>
>
Simon Reap wrote:
> Jim Kissel wrote:
>> It's a bit behind the times, but colour printing via my Xerox 8550
>> Phaser was never a problem until I "upgraded" to 8.04. Now the colours
>> are "muddy" Printing the Ubuntu logo gives:
>> reds tha
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/1/1 Jim Kissel :
>> Checked the ppd files and re-installed and re-booted but still no luck.
>> Even the self test print with does Grayscale + RGB and CMYK are
>> "shifted" into the dull/muddy colour scale.
>>
>> suggestions?
It's a bit behind the times, but colour printing via my Xerox 8550
Phaser was never a problem until I "upgraded" to 8.04. Now the colours
are "muddy" Printing the Ubuntu logo gives:
reds that are dark brown
oranges that are brownish ornage
yellows that are a dull goldish colour
Checked the ppd
Tim wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2008 10:50:30 Paul Stimpson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly on
>> my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites)
>>
>> The front page at www.donttellbill.com looks really nice. Would it be
>> possible t
Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 19 at 06:26, john lewis wrote:
> ...
>> I'd like to increase the memory and possibly the storage above what
>> came with the system, Memory should be no problem as they are standard
>> SO-DIMM modules. Storage not so easy although this URL suggests 32GB &
Andy Random wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Bob Dunlop wrote:
>
>> I'll just add my response to that of another poster here, I have an
>> Asus EEE 901 and the standard battery gives me 5 hours with WiFi enabled.
>> I suspect the WiFi of being a considerable drain as the access point is
>> old and
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the recent proliferation of netbooks, it seems strange to me that
> they seem to have such a short life on batteries. For something that
> is designed to be used on the move, I would want it to work all day.
>
> In fact, my wife has a very good use for such a
Stephen Davies wrote:
> Shame about the last words though
>
> http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
>
>
>
Thanks for that. Very slick. It made my morning.
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Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello Netbook Fans
>
> The early Asus eee PCs had a modem port, but by the time I tried to get
> hold of one for a client wanting a replacement for their Amstrad
> Emailer, the only ones I could find had the modem port blocked off or
> just absent.
To the best of my kno
Jacqui Caren wrote:
> Lisi wrote:
>> On Tuesday 07 October 2008 23:17:12 Steve Kemp wrote:
>>> I'm actually more curious about the relative age spread amongst the
>>> LUG members.
>> Well, assuming that 14 is now the youngest, we have 14 to 79 or 80.
>
> I am also curious about how long members
Lisi wrote:
>
> I was just shying off admitting my age I expected you not to know. But
> I'm younger than I look, so I don't know why. ;-) Here's another random fact
> for you (I too like random facts more than history): Colossus (the first
> real electronic computer) was end of 1943/
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