Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Linux distro recommendations

2011-10-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 29/10/11 16:09, Paul Tansom wrote: I think the changes to Unity in 11.10 are a positive move, but for me it is still seriously lacking in basic functionality. Hi Paul, I've been with Ubuntu in one form or another on and off since the first public release, and I'm not sure I agree with

[Hampshire] DVD-Rom Long Shot

2011-10-30 Thread e-mail phillip.chandler
A bit of a long shot. Ive got a Dell Inspiron 1200 with a DVD-Rom which doubles as a cd-rom and dvd writer, which has now started to not read any disc. Would any of you have a standard dvd-rom that you were thinking of chucking out ? If so, could you chuck it my way for a few pound notes ? Im in

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Linux distro recommendations

2011-10-30 Thread Jan Henkins
On Sat, October 29, 2011 16:02, Samuel Penn wrote: To me, that sounds like it's your fault if you don't like it. Sadly, I have to agree here. The target very obviously isn't people who like KDE because it gives them lots of control over their desktop. Gnome/Unity takes away options (or

[Hampshire] Analytics packages

2011-10-30 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all Does anyone know a good, user friendly statistics / analytics package for Linux? The trick is - it needs to be able to handle an absolutely massive dataset - 13m rows. For Uni, I have a dataset with no fewer than 13m records and I need to run a regression on it. In fact I

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Linux distro recommendations

2011-10-30 Thread Samuel Penn
On Sunday 30 October 2011 12:23:12 Jan Henkins wrote: On Sat, October 29, 2011 16:02, Samuel Penn wrote: To me, that sounds like it's your fault if you don't like it. Sadly, I have to agree here. The target very obviously isn't people who like KDE because it gives them lots of control

Re: [Hampshire] Analytics packages

2011-10-30 Thread Robin Wilson
Hi Rob, I'd recommend going for R. Yes, it's fairly complicated, but it is incredibly powerful and very good at dealing with large datasets. Depending on your needs, RStudio (http://rstudio.org/) may be useful as an Integrated Development Environment for R - very lightweight, but helps a lot.

Re: [Hampshire] Analytics packages

2011-10-30 Thread Rob Malpass
-Original Message- From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robin Wilson Sent: 30 October 2011 14:20 To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Analytics packages Hi Rob, I'd recommend going for R.

[Hampshire] Shutdown -h sometimes restarts

2011-10-30 Thread Leo
My server (Debian stable) has developed a habit of sometimes restarting rather than shutting down when I run shutdown -h now Has anyone else seen this, as Googling and looking at logs has got me nothing so far. Thanks, Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] CLI XML diff (and patch?) tools?

2011-10-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 30 October 2011 19:40, Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, James Bensley wrote: Is there any reason you don't want to use the regular diff and patch apps? Yes. Does it have to be something that is XML aware if you like? I'm writing a report script which

Re: [Hampshire] CLI XML diff (and patch?) tools?

2011-10-30 Thread Samuel Penn
On Sunday 30 October 2011 19:40:56 Andy Random wrote: I'm writing a report script which checks for differences in two XML files and emails them to non-tech people. Just sending them a plain diff of the files simply causes confusion because the don't understand XML. It sounds like the best

Re: [Hampshire] DVD-Rom Long Shot

2011-10-30 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a slot loading ide DVD rom drive I was going to bin. Interested? Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the