How quickly the years fly by. It seems you learnt nothing
It's a two way road it seems. I have been recruited from a mailing list in
the past. And I shall continue to network with and employ professionals
using public resources. Especially when said resources are related to
software developed
My current plan is to use two instances of 'feh', to cycle through two
different directories of images - one for the main part of the screen, and
one for the sidebar. But this seems like a bit of a kludge to me. Note that
whatever is implemented will be done using a relatively old, low-power
On 16 September 2013 21:48, Peter Collins hampshire@mail-box.me.ukwrote:
Hi All,
Just a quick note to let you know about a talk I'm arranging for So Make
It about rendering technologies in 3ds Max by Neil Hazzard (Autodesk
Principal engineer and development manager for rendering within
Sorry Tim I wont be able to make it, work calls :(
On 3 September 2013 18:49, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.orgwrote:
Hi guys,
Just a quick reminder that there is one day left to register your interest
for
this meeting.
All you have to do is drop me an e-mail at
On 27 August 2013 23:07, Peter Collins hampshire@mail-box.me.uk wrote:
There is setx available at cli:
setx path %path%;c:\newpath
Ah of course, like setenv! Cheers
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I came across the following blog entry today, it makes for quite
interesting
reading. Thought you might be interested.
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
Really good read cheers Tim.
Sadly a lot of companies have this problem; don't re-factor, replace.
Oracle and MS are two shining examples
Oh Actually BPI is the British Phonographic Industry, not the British Porn
Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/default.aspx
So I guess they won't be much help in this case!
Sorry about that, now I must get back to my exercise program on my
Telescreen.
On 23 July 2013 15:29, Richard Bensley
Hi all, offering these to HLUG first.
HP xw6400 workstation, £200
- 2 x Quad Core Intel Xeon E5345 2.33GHz (8 cores)
- 8GB FBDIMM DDR2 667MHz PC2-5300
- CDRW/DVD IDE Optical Drive
- 500GB SATA2 Hard Drive
- AMD Radeon HD 6450
- Onboard sound, USB, 1GBps Ethernet
- Onboard LSI RAID controller
-
I really don't need 8 cores to read my error logs and compile errors :D
On 2 July 2013 20:40, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote:
On Tuesday 02 Jul 2013 19:50:59 Richard Bensley wrote:
I am selling the HP because it's a little too much muscle for me.
Rich, are you feeling
Please, I am very interested in your copies of 'Thinking in C++' and
'Exceptional C++', if they have not already been claimed.
Rich
On 16 June 2013 16:58, Peter Collins hampshire@mail-box.me.uk wrote:
Hi,
I have the following books I need to clear out, if you would like any
of them
As James mentioned you can run the Apache/MySQL/PHP stack on windows. Which
is a great solution.
Mysql, PHP, and Apache are all cross compiled to run natively on most
platforms.
WAMP server currently provide the whole stack at 64bits!
http://www.wampserver.com/en/#wampserver-64-bits
If that's
I am not a programmer, but I can fudge things when I try. Some simple C or
Python is not a problem, but I always hit a wall when it comes to UI. Seems
there is lots of code required to build and operate the interface. So
really, I want something like Python or PHP, and a really simple UI
Heh, I just went through this tutorial, that was a doddle!
http://www.speqmath.com/tutorials/couchdb_tasklist/index.html
On 15 May 2013 21:41, Richard Bensley richardbens...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not a programmer, but I can fudge things when I try. Some simple C
or Python is not a problem
I think you should check out novatech, who are local and much more
forgiving with what you do or don't install.
Plus, they are much more likely to know which laptops can have Linux
installed without any secureboot fuss. The price is also cheaper if you buy
without an OS installed, so you can just
If I owned a fabrication, manufacturing, and distribution company; I
would not be using premium hardware reserved for established customer
bases, to take a stab in the dark.
The Dell Ubuntu Developers laptop certainly needed a better screen for
the price, but I think this is OK for new people to
My main issue is that 8 years ago, 1920x1200 was a good resolution for a
desktop
In that time, computers have improved immensely in nearly all respects,
except
for screen size which seems to have gone backwards.
8 years ago HD Ready LCD TV's were a gimmick for the living room.
8 years ago
HP have gone and released an all-in-one desktop, with Ubuntu 12.10!
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/hp-launch-ubuntu-all-in-one-pc-for-349
It's £349 and available here:
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=ECC_BUNDLE_3836543opt=sel=PCDT
Rich
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On 27 February 2013 23:20, Leszek Kobiernicki 1
l.kobierni...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Can't see a clear way to switch between that, back to my preferred
version of desktop, Cinnamon ( a customized Gnome )
Could anyone please advize how to ? ( Easily done in Ubuntu: at logon
time ) but alas, no
+1 for GiffGaff
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On 13 February 2013 16:31, Ally Biggs bluechr...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Do you guys ever think there will be a day that Linux will be as popular as
Windows in the desktop market.
It's slowly happening. The US and Europe are not the only desktop
demographics. Asia and the third world are heavily
Upgrade your bios if possible just to make sure.
After you have found out what SATA version you require, measure your
current laptop hard drive. Generally laptop HD's are slimmer than 2.5
drives found in servers and desktops.
For example, this SSD is 7mm think, they tend to range between 7mm and
of SQL, without burying too deep
into the Relation Model,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-SQL-St%C3%A9phane-Faroult/dp/0596008945/
Rich
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to this would be to allow third party authentication API's
such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, OpenID etc to allow account logins.
Stack Exchange is a great example of this.
Some wordpress plugins already exist to handle this:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-connect/
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After attending many LUG's over the years in various regions. I have
to say one of the best methods of helping people new to Linux and
LUG's in general has been social meetups, generally held in a pub of
some sort.
No lectures, don't need to bring your laptop. Just have a drink and a
chat, there
The beginners guide to MySQL was also very popular.
Yes - MySQL per se is not for *total* beginners. Pity I missed it. :-(
I can certainly help in the MySQL front. I am a DBA for a trading
platform. I train and implement MySQL at various levels, brunting its
various idioms.
A five minute
. Talks can
still be scheduled, please just reply the the meeting notification and request
a time.
Cool, I will have a laptop and a VGA adaptor. That's for mysql if
anyone is interested 5-15 mins max.
Rich
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