On Sunday 09 September 2012 10:22:16 Benjie Gillam wrote:
Apologies for the cross-post but I'm aware that there are a number of
people on this list who are into hacking/making/tinkering.
We're trying to get a Southampton Hacker/Makerspace off the ground, so
we're about to start talks with
Thanks, Benjie for your reply.
On Sunday 09 September 2012 12:50:35 Benjie Gillam wrote:
As regards Surrey and Hampshire Hackspace - like Southackton they don't yet
have an actual hackspace, they're a group of hackers/makers who meet
frequently
There has been no mention of anything to suggest
amount of hacking,
although that is necessarily limited by the lack of a permanent home.
It also is trying to build up its membership, which you clearly are not
yet doing. So it is more advanced than you are in the process of setting
up.
Lisi
Having not looked at hantslug list for some
On Sunday 09 September 2012 16:16:00 Tony Whitmore wrote:
On 09/09/12 14:18, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2012 12:50:35 Benjie Gillam wrote:
As regards Surrey and Hampshire Hackspace - like Southackton they don't
yet have an actual hackspace, they're a group of
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 09:09:58 Victor Churchill wrote:
I'll aim to make it for Saturday 3 October but I rarely manage the other
non-Soton meets.
According to the wiki, that meeting is at Southampton, as are the November and
December meetings.
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On Wednesday 29 August 2012 21:07:39 Imran Chaudhry wrote:
On 29 August 2012 09:09, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote:
LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk
Just FYI, I have seen several people with this URL in sigs but the www
address does not resolve.
But
On Tuesday 31 July 2012 13:40:32 Paul Tansom wrote:
I'm assuming they aren't as good, but can they be that bad
to justify the price of an official one? (Actually official ones seem to be
thin on the ground so it seems likely to be a 3rd party anyway.).
Does anyone have any experience / horror
On Friday 20 July 2012 09:35:06 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
Novatech once sold us 150 ECS motherboard-based boxes, quite a number of
which had a faulty 2nd channel, so I ended up having to be creative with
getting all the drives connected .. ( ECS is a cheap cheerful copy of
MSI )
If they
On Friday 20 July 2012 10:39:19 Full Circle Podcast wrote:
Lisi: couldn't remember which Act precisely (hence 'disability rights
legislation' in lower case), but that would be the one.
No, I realise that. My email wws aimed rather at Rob, who was being advised
to quote it. As someone with
On Friday 20 July 2012 12:05:20 Rob Malpass wrote:
And I have found quoting to be very useful. It concentrates people's
minds wonderfully!
Thanks Lisi. I'm 99% sure it won't come to that.
No - it rarely does. But it is useful to know what arrows one has at one's
disposal!! And I did
On Thursday 19 July 2012 10:46:48 Full Circle Podcast wrote:
a gentle reminder
about disability rights legislation around the coffee machine
I assume you know (and apologise for mentioning it if you do) that the
Disability Act 2000 has been superseded by the Equality Act 2010?
Lisi
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On Wednesday 04 July 2012 18:14:08 Imran Chaudhry wrote:
Log-in without password I found a hassle with Debian.
I set this up regularly for my husband, my granddaughter and myself. I have
never had a problem. (kdm, kdm-trinity, gdm with LXDE. also Lubuntu, but I
don't remember whether it was
On Monday 02 July 2012 01:49:29 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
We're still all adults here, I think ?
I wouldn't count on it! Seriously, I hope that there are some who have no yet
reached adulthood. Catch 'em young and all the rest of it. And we perhaps
should set a good example?
There was
On Saturday 30 June 2012 11:37:06 Alan Pope wrote:
I hear Debian is quite nice :)
I never expected to hear you say that! ;-)
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On Saturday 30 June 2012 17:59:00 Jonathan Hudson wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:21:59 +0100, David Anderson wrote:
My Raspberry Pi is supposed to be arriving next week. Has anyone tried
one, or got one in use?
Had one for nearly two months now. Fun bit of kit. Running Arch (and
sometimes my
On Tuesday 26 June 2012 16:37:33 Alan Pope wrote:
Larger image:
https://twitter.com/popey/status/217622611264417792/photo/1/large
I no longer want ^^ this pile of books. If someone would like to take
them all away I would be very happy.
Hello, Popey :-)
If it is not too late, may I grab
On Tuesday 26 June 2012 16:54:13 Alan Pope wrote:
On 26/06/12 16:37, Alan Pope wrote:
https://twitter.com/popey/status/217622611264417792/photo/1
These are being donated to the Surrey Hants Hackspace..
Sorry to those others who also mailed..
And sorry for rushing to answer, so that I was
On Thursday 21 June 2012 22:55:59 Andy Smith wrote:
So if someone were to say to me,
I know I have a problematic phone line and need an ISP that's
going to go to fight for me with BT instead of one that will
just do the equivalent of a shoulder shrug and pass the buck
after
On Thursday 21 June 2012 11:01:50 Alan Pope wrote:
On 21/06/12 10:54, Kevin Safford wrote:
Can anyone with experience in this area offer advice on hardware
and best distro - or indeed an alternative approach?
Gut reaction says iPad. :S
:-)
But a (much) bigger screen with large display
On Thursday 21 June 2012 18:32:27 Rob Malpass wrote:
When I asked him about this
he said Zen didn't support the router (even though they supplied it!)
Zen sells routers, but does not supply them in the same sense as e.g. Sky
does. Though I would agree that it does not sound as tho' the chap
On Sunday 27 May 2012 09:27:29 Brad Rogers wrote:
FF, in common with all the browsers
I've ever used, allow you to view the cookies via their settings pages.
How?
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On Sunday 27 May 2012 12:01:54 john lewis wrote:
In opera it is
Tools Preferences Advanced Cookies Manage Cookies
I imagine FF does something similar.
I can't find it anywhere. :-( Perhaps I am being blind, but I still can't
find it.
Hence my asking how.
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On Friday 25 May 2012 21:47:51 Tony Whitmore wrote:
You need to explicitly tell users what cookies you set, what they are
used for and allow them to opt out of having them set. I've seen a
number of companies and organisations changing their website to reflect
these requirements too.
The
On Friday 25 May 2012 22:26:16 Brad Rogers wrote:
Many sites will. It can be a painful experience though. Having to
enter your name and address *every* time you order something from a
supplier is just one example.
I don't order from Which?. I just read the site. And now it is impossible to
On Tuesday 24 April 2012 12:12:25 Full Circle Podcast wrote:
The Acer Aspires are also good.
Yes, I have an Acer Aspire One with which I am very pleased. I am starting to
find the screen too small for me, but the clarity is excellent, and I have
had it running for (temporary) use as desktop
On Monday 23 April 2012 11:49:03 Paul Tansom wrote:
I do have some
parts that I'll let you have though, CDROM drives if they are of any use,
maybe a case or two -
Thanks, Paul. :-)
oh, and I still have those two keyboards for you!!!
And I still have that BBC box for you. Perhaps we
On Monday 23 April 2012 12:37:39 hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
maybe a case or two
Wake up, Lisi!
I obviously need Peter's help. He is actually going to be at home for a
resonable chunk of May, so it should be fixable.
Lisi
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On Sunday 22 April 2012 17:50:33 Paul Tansom wrote:
Has anyone got any interest in some old Apple Macs?
[snip]
I'm as yet not
completely decided about ditching all of them and/or eBaying some (not
entirely sure how/if they go), but thought if anyone had an interest in
something it may help
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 22:43:34 Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
In the case of the LUG, I would advise that we seek further advice, from
someone with suitable knowledge.
That would obviousl;y be a good idea.
I don't think the argument that you pose
Lisi can ever stand up, just due to the
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:20:46 James Bensley wrote:
Ultimately where I'd like to go with his is if the talker where happy
to, record the talks and host them on line, to form a community
lectures page for the wiki, with an archive of the talks.
There is already an archive of the talks. Here
On Monday 09 April 2012 20:50:35 hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
I am on the hunt for a Dell Latitude C840 keyboard. I could obviously try
eBay, but my experience of getting electronic/computing bits for eBay does
not inspire me with confidence. I have wasted my money on duds more often
than
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 20:16:26 Jon Wilks wrote:
I took my son Ross to the last HantsLug meeting and he is 9.
Jon
On Apr 10, 2012 7:03 PM, Dominic Rodriguez shymega2...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell
me? I am 13
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:20:46 James Bensley wrote:
Ultimately where I'd like to go with his is if the talker where happy
to, record the talks and host them on line, to form a community
lectures page for the wiki, with an archive of the talks.
This used to be done almost always. Has the
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 22:08:10 Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
However, if the previously unsupervised youngster is in the company
of a responsible adult (trusted by both youngster and parents), then I
don't think there would be a problem
I think that you would find that there would. Parents
I am on the hunt for a Dell Latitude C840 keyboard. I could obviously try
eBay, but my experience of getting electronic/computing bits for eBay does
not inspire me with confidence. I have wasted my money on duds more often
than I have been successful. So I thought that I would try here
On Sunday 08 April 2012 12:35:52 Ally Biggs wrote:
Sent from my iPhone
I know that that imposes certain limitations, and am not sure what they are,
but would it be possible for you to break your text up a bit? I made the
effort to read it, but it was an effort, and I would greatly appreciate
On Sunday 25 March 2012 16:36:23 Bryn wrote:
Why is your company's policy this??? dban'll wipe a disk. an old
phone can be reset. WEEE by any chance?
That, and the horror stories they have heard.
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On Sunday 25 March 2012 17:22:45 Bryn wrote:
Yeah there's a note on my todo list about writing a data destruction
policy!!! AFAIK dban works and has been certified by someone or other
cleverer than me.
I believe Jamies use a paid for tool (paid per use not by single
licence!!!) as part of an
Hi Bryn,
As others have said, welcome to the list!
On Saturday 24 March 2012 08:31:16 Sean Gibbins wrote:
Not that it will necessarily present a problem, but just that you may
find yourself in competition with them for donated kit. On the other
hand you may find them to be a useful resource
On Saturday 24 March 2012 21:25:57 Bryn Jones wrote:
seems
to be using volunteers to refurb machines they'd been given free to sell
at inflated prices
Last time I read the emails they used to send me, they were charging to accept
the donated gear, and were acceepting only stuff that I find it
On Saturday 24 March 2012 22:09:47 Ally Biggs wrote:
It is my intention to setup a inventory of the kit we have at Jamies,
especially the server / side of things previously this has been overlooked
I was told there wasn't a market for this type of hardware not naming any
names here we all know
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 14:28:08 Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
What is your take on this development? will anyone be converting to
Chrome from another browser because of this? it is a good/bad thing?
I shan't convert. I don't much like Chrome. But I shall probably run it for
news items etc.
On Saturday 11 February 2012 14:38:31 Stephen Davies wrote:
This one is currently at the top of my list
http://www.lambda-tek.com/A034022-Konica-Minolta-Magicolor-1650EN-Colour-La
ser-A4-Colour-Laser-20ppm-Mono-5ppm-Colour-600-dpi-x-600-dpi-256-MB-Internal
On Saturday 11 February 2012 22:27:34 Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Rob,
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:54:57PM -, Rob Malpass wrote:
I've gone into synaptic and installed everything I can see for libpcap
but the file still hasn't appeared. This is the right procedure isn't
it? What should my
On Thursday 09 February 2012 22:26:33 Peter Collins wrote:
Just as a vote for HP, I have a HP 2840 (big and colour) it worked with
no messing around, if I remember right Ubuntu 10.10 and debian 6 just
scanned the network found it and made it available, I have also an old
HP 2100 with a Jet
On Monday 16 January 2012 16:34:05 Stephen Davies wrote:
I've always found the staff at Novatech very techincally aware.
And very helpful. In addition, I have several times had helpful advice about
Linux; and Linux using Novatech staff sometimes showed up on the Linux
Novatech forum.
On Saturday 14 January 2012 18:46:37 Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 14/01/12 18:35, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said:
It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat.
I enjoy a drink as much as most other people, but I take
On Sunday 01 January 2012 16:15:39 Stephen Davies wrote:
I've certainly not regretted upgrading to FTTC.
Some of us haven't got the option. :-( And there are no plans at present to
bring us either 20N or cable.
Still, there are htose who can only get dial-up speeds. At least we get 8meg.
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 jars considerably less than modern
teenager-speak for contact
On Friday 23 December 2011 11:12:10 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On my recent birthday, I rejoiced at being told that I'm only 21 Celsius!
Sorry to be dim, Chris, but are you saying that 21 Celsius is the same thing
as 70 Fahrenheit? Getting that far has taken me a mere 7 hours! Yes, I
suppose
On Friday 23 December 2011 19:53:35 Jack Knight wrote:
On 23 December 2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Friday 23 December 2011 11:12:10 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On my recent birthday, I rejoiced at being told that I'm only 21
Celsius!
Sorry to be dim, Chris, but are you
On Friday 23 December 2011 18:58:46 Mike Austin wrote:
Fortunately the several members of this LUG who have already joined
understand my intent.
I'm sure that everyone did. Pedantry is just that, but most pedants know
perfectly well what other people actually mean. And it is sometimes
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 whom I in contact, or a person with
whom I
On Tuesday 20 December 2011 15:03:00 Paul Stimpson wrote:
The problem is, if I fail to get the concept across correctly, actual
lives might be lost!!! (It is going to be used in a safety related
communications system)
It is the job of the other person to decide if equipment X is good
enough
On Saturday 17 December 2011 16:11:41 Anton Piatek wrote:
I have an oldish Samsung bw laser, but it was trivial to make work in
linux.
+1
Lisi
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On Friday 16 December 2011 15:33:54 Bob Dunlop wrote:
Is there a way to upgrade a single package? On Gentoo this is trivially
easy.
Have you tried Squeeze backports, Bob?
http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/
It works great for any packages that are there. I did search for a 3.x
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 10:06:09 Owain Clarke wrote:
It's not a fortune, but it's too much to spend only to
find out it's something else
That is what happened to me. Now I don't know whether I was sent a dud
replacement or it is somerthing else that is wrong. :-(
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On Thursday 01 December 2011 20:19:12 James Bensley wrote:
Get a clue-full LLU package supplier and you should be sorted IMO.
Only if he is on an LLU exhange. Many of us are not.
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On Thursday 01 December 2011 21:14:39 Vic wrote:
- threaten to sue their ass, mention the name of a good solicitor.
I have a maxim by which I stick: never threaten to sue unless you really
intend to.
Aside from it almost always being a clear sign of someone with no legal
representation,
On Thursday 01 December 2011 21:56:48 Vic wrote:
My personal experience - which lacks statistical significance, naturally -
is that it isn't so much the *rank* of a person that matters so much as
the need to abide by assorted rules and procedures. Those of us of a lower
rank tend to find these
On Monday 28 November 2011 21:34:28 Vic wrote:
I need someone with some paper accreditations from some of the following
organisations :-
Cisco
I have a piece of paper from Cisco, if I can find it. It is of no practical
use whatsoever, but it does (or anyhow did) exist.
Lisi
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On Sunday 27 November 2011 17:09:08 Hants LUG Chairman wrote:
Can I also call for someone who will attend but is NOT standing for a
position to act as returning officer. You lose your vote, cannot second any
candidate and must have been a member for at least the past two years.
I'm game, but I
I have had this problem since yesterday evening.
When my main desktop is connected to the router
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Sorry, everybody. Shouldn't have explored while I had an email on the go. :-(
I have had this problem since yesterday evening.
When my main desktop is connected to the router the light on the port to which
it is connected flickers constantly. I have tried it on 3 of the 4 ports. I
do not
Please tell us a bit about the machine. OS and version. What software you have
running.
Do you have bittorrent?
-
Sorry - I ought to have said those. They are not even in the real email I
sent after my slip.
Answers: I have ktorrent.
Found this had gone from a dummy address and that is why it hadn't arrived -
sorry, Paul.
On Sunday 17 May 2009 20:14:31 you wrote:
Please tell us a bit about the machine. OS and version. What software you
have running.
Do you have bittorrent?
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