*University Health Centre University of Southampton,* Highfield Campus,
Southampton, SO17 1BJ 02380 595 000
On 20/12/2021 17:16, Neil Stone via Hampshire wrote:
Thanks for the update, I don't suppose anyone has a postcode (or even
address) for this place? Google is offering several
Thanks Brad. The second one solves my conundrum.
'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)'
Owain
On 26/02/2021 09:30, Brad Macpherson via Hampshire wrote:
G'day Owain,
I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)
On 26/02/2021 09:23,
I think that's the nub of it. I want to put ristretto into the
background but stay in the same directory for geany
On 26/02/2021 09:31, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote:
The '&' before 'geany' will put the process into the background. Is that
what you want?
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Hi. Could someone help me with the error of my ways? I'm sure this one
is dead simple but I can't see it.
I have this alias:-
alias my_alias='cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * & geany progress &'
The ristretto bit works as expected, but I thought that the text file
that opened would be
Think you all for taking the time and trouble to give these various
suggestions, which I will now investigate. As they say stateside, you guys are
awesome!
Owain
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Hello all.
I have been asked to build a website for someone who is going into
self-employment. The site will consist of contacts, pictures of
completed projects and a few other bits. In short it will not be a
complex site. I am planning to use WordPress or some other template
based system
The medical research charity XLP Research Trust is desperately trying to
replace flood damaged stock for its monthly stall and would want the
games - they're in Romsey so would probably collect
http://www.xlpresearchtrust.org/
On 30/05/14 17:05, James Bensley wrote:
Hi All,
I have some Wii
I second that!
On 20/05/14 08:09, Tony Wood wrote:
On 20/05/14 07:25, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2014 07:03:31 +0100, t...@engineering.selfip.org said:
The etiquette was that one should reply
underneath, but haven't the top posters won?
The history of persuading others to change
Has anyone else noticed messages failing to deliver to hotmail
addresses? This is happening a lot to me at the moment, and the
troubleshooting page is no help. What's going on here? Is it to do
with my email provider, or yet another inscrutable Microsoft problem?
Owain
Original
Thanks, Jim.
I have now discovered that Hotmail has blacklisted the Phone Coop -
accidentally it seems.
Owain
On 19/05/14 22:17, Jim Leake wrote:
You can check online to see if your provider is blacklisted if not may
be the anti phishing filters are to tight
On 19 May 2014 19:33, Owain
I'm sorry but while it is an important aim I don't feel I can ask anyone
to sign up to a charter that includes the word multistakeholderism.
It is important, though, in our supposedly enlightened society, not to
suffer from the ugly prejudice of being a Multistakeholderist (some of
my best
On 30/01/14 22:07, Ian Park wrote:
Yes, for a while I went down the road of sticking some drives in an
old PC and running a Debian server installation; however the NAS has
the dual advantage of being a lot more compact than even a low-profile
desktop case (which you'd be pushed to get a
On 12/09/13 11:04, Artur ?a;dka wrote:
On 11/09/13 19:52, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:58:24 +0100, arturla...@gmail.com said:
try Ubuntu (or K/X/Lubuntu) - it is Debian based, have very good
support
and work just out of the box while Debian needs much more
configuration.
In
On 12/06/13 16:02, john lewis wrote:
I have reluctantly decided to cease memebrship of HantsLUG. It is
unlikely I will be able to visit any meeting in the future and I don't
contribute much to the mailing list either these days.
I have enjoyed being a member and would like to say a big thank
On 13/05/13 19:59, Philip Stubbs wrote:
Can I ask, how long since you last tried Evince? I only ask as I used
to feel the same but more recently, I can't complain how it renders
PDF. Maybe it has improved a lot recently and worth looking at again.
For a tabbed viewer, there is qpdfview. I
Hello all.
I don't suppose anyone's selling a laptop? It's to replace my son's
one which is 6 or 7 years old, so it doesn't need to be state of the
art. I don't really have a clear idea of spec, just thought I'd find
out if anyone is selling something.
Thanks
Owain
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Hello, Luggies.
I'm suddenly getting a new error - I don't know of anything I've
changed that's caused this. Top responds with top: Invalid user.
I can run it with sudo as before. Google doesn't throw up anything
obvious for me. I'm using Crunchbang with Debian testing repositories,
if this is
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:53:56 +0100
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:
I'm suddenly getting a new error - I don't know of anything I've
changed that's caused this. Top responds with top: Invalid user.
Permissions changed perhaps? FWIW, here they're;
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71792
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:53:56 +0100
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:
Permissions changed perhaps? FWIW, here they're;
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71792 Jan 23 11:40 /usr/bin/top
I'm using Debian Testing.
Solved. There was an error in my bash aliases file.
Thanks
Owain
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When I recently upgraded my server Debian Wheezy/testing, top gave an
error about ~/.toprc being invalid. I deleted that file, and now it
works again.
That may be related to your problem.
cheers
Chris
Chris, I sorted it - see my third email. Thanks all the same - good to
know
I wonder if anyone would mind commenting on a problem? I noticed
that recently my Asus Eee has only been getting up to about 65% of
charge, and I assumed this is a battery problem (I think it's about
18 months old). But then I have noticed a couple of times, that
even
unbranded
batteries elsewhere, bit then again I fully believe that you get what you
pay for in this case... :-)
On Tue, December 6, 2011 08:02, Owain Clarke wrote:
I wonder if anyone would mind commenting on a problem? I noticed
that recently my Asus Eee has only been getting up to about 65% of
charge
Hi all.
Have started using Mint on my Desktop. When I press the up arrow in
a terminal I get "^[[A". I assume it's because it isn't Bash,
because if I type bash it then starts behaving what I think of as
properly. I've searched on the web but I can't express my
On 29/10/11 01:03, Bryn Jones wrote:
I'd recommend Mint - Ubuntu with a shiny finish (and in 11 running
Gnome 2). The only thing I'm not sure about is encrypting home dir
(but I'm pretty certain you can).
Yes it should prompt you to encrypt
On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote:
The shell for each user is defined in /etc/passwd - just edit that to set
up the shell you want.
Defaults for new users can be set up by editing /etc/default/useradd .
HTH
Vic.
Great - thank you very much, Vic
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On 29/10/11 14:50, Ian Grody wrote:
vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and
/etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you
adduser you get to choose what shell
Thanks
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Morning. I wonder if anyone could give me any ideas for what might be
the cause of a non-functioning key, the escape key on my netbook. xev
gives no output at all. There doesn't seem to be anything physically
wrong. I've managed to remap the poor neglected altgr key, so I still
have a
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
Thanks, Keith, but I've done this, and it still prompts for password. I
am a member of the users group. Any other ideas?
Owain
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On 13/06/11 10:41, Simon Reap wrote:
Thanks, Keith, but I've done this, and it still prompts for
password. I am a member of the users group. Any other ideas?
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
The order of entries in sudoers is important - I think it uses the
last
I wonder if anyone could explain this to me?
In my sudoers file I have:-
%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
but if I run pm-suspend I am told this can be only run by root, and if
I run sudo pm-suspend I am asked for my password. I assume that there
must be something wrong with the
On 12/04/11 08:39, john lewis wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:46:38 +0100
Mark Johnsonm...@barrenfrozenwasteland.com wrote:
On Monday 11 Apr 2011 22:27:18 john lewis wrote:
Has anyone played with it yet?
I played with the Fedora-based live CD, I'd recommend you try that as
a
Owain Clarke wrote:
I'm still working on this one (the main symptom being random outages),
and have been unable to trace what the problem is. My ISP (the Phone
Coop) tell me that if they call in an Open Reach engineer and it turns
out that the problem is within my property I'll be liable
After a period of connection problems my ISP wants to test my line with
a different router, and I wonder if there's anyone who might be able to
lend me one for a couple of weeks. I'm in the Romsey area, but work also
takes me near Fareham, Brockenhurst and New Milton
Thanks in anticipation
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?
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I'm sure this is an easy one for you:-
If I want to read a line from a man page with a character which needs
escaping, how do I do it? For example, to read the -r option of rsync:-
man rsync | grep -r
produces no output, presumably because the - needs escaping.
Thanks in anticipation
Owain
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:35:20 +0100 (+0100), Owain Clarke wrote:
I'm sure this is an easy one for you:-
If I want to read a line from a man page with a character which needs
escaping, how do I do it? For example, to read the -r option of rsync:-
man
Lisi wrote:
On Friday 23 April 2010 16:32:46 Benjamin Ashton wrote:
Hmmm
I'm afraid my love affair with Linux is beginning to wane.Â
After finding that the spellcheck in OpenOffice was failing to work
(despite Hunspell being apparently installed), and that the OoHelp was
Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:11:31 +, simb...@cooptel.net said:
as the amounts are to do with pounds and pence, I
should convert everything pence before multiplying so that the
calculation is with integers.
Or use Binary Coded Decimal (BCD), which
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:51:35AM +, Owain Clarke wrote:
Could anyone explain to me why 3*7.6 gives me 22.797? I have
Python 2.5.2
OK, now I understand. Thanks all - will continue to seek a workaround,
and I'm guessing that, as the amounts are to do with pounds
Could anyone explain to me why 3*7.6 gives me 22.797? I have
Python 2.5.2
Cheers
Owain Clarke
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, as a search with Linux and Server
always throws up pages in which the Linux machine is assumed to be the
server.
Thanks
Owain Clarke
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know it's not the OS. Dmesg doesn't give any
information.
All in all I assume my monitor is dying, but I just thought I'd ask if
it sounds familiar to anyone, so I don't have to buy a new one before I
have to.
Owain Clarke
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I must admit my Eee 701 has been so much more enjoyable since I
eventually managed to get Ubuntu running on it. Apart from anything
else, the original setup is incredibly wasteful of space, e.g. Adobe
Reader rather than Evince, and the lack of uptodate software is
frustrating. No wonder the
I'm looking for a new broadband provider
[...]
I'm wondering
if there is a way of logging my current usage level. Any ideas?
Owain Clarke
Paul, Bob, Alan: thanks for the ideas.
Sorry I posted twice - no idea how that happened!
Owain
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current usage level. Any ideas?
Owain Clarke
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Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill
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Date:
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Just out of interest, is there a reason why deborphan isn't integrated
into apt-get / synaptic, etc. Having a system with limited space (Eee
701), I've been culling mercilessly with deborphan - it seems to find
plenty of unused libraries which autoremove doesn't.
Any comments?
Owain Clarke
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 23:02:43 Becky Taylor wrote:
Err... my history... not good. I have never had one history lesson. So
things like dates, people, I'm not good at, but random facts I'm ok. :-D
I was just shying off admitting my age I expected you not to know. But
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