[Hampshire] [For Sale] Toshiba Laptop Satellite 4200

2009-07-25 Thread Tim
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 Laptop for sale. Basic spec are: Intel Celeron 550mhz 64mb ram (exp to 320mb) 6gb hard disk 12 TFT screen Floppy drive CD Rom drive Netgear PCIMIA network card working On board Bios battery dead Main battery is holding a charge and lasts just over an hour NO

[Hampshire] [OT] Audacity

2009-07-25 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all Anybody know if it's possible to get Audacity to record and stop recording after a fixed length of time? I'm trying to copy loads of old C90 cassettes to digital and if I forget - I'm very often left with 4 and 5 hour recordings which I need to stop and chop off the last 4 hours. Not

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Audacity

2009-07-25 Thread Luke Stutters
Yeah, generate 45 minutes of silence, select it and hit record. 2009/7/25 Rob Malpass l...@getiton.myzen.co.uk Hi all Anybody know if it's possible to get Audacity to record and stop recording after a fixed length of time? I'm trying to copy loads of old C90 cassettes to digital and if I

[Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-07-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
As we all know, by default Linux will run a periodic fsck at boot time if the filesystem in question has been mounted X times without checking or has not been checked for Y days, those parameters being set with tune2fs(8). Is it possible to establish, on a running system, how many mounts each

Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Keith, On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:53:07PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: Is it possible to establish, on a running system, how many mounts each filesystem has had since the last check and what the tune2fs -c parameter is? Similarly, is it possible to find out how many days have elapsed since

Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-07-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
Thanks Andy, exactly what I was looking for. Keith -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

[Hampshire] GMail sloooooooooooooow

2009-07-25 Thread Richard Mace
Hi Guy's, I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction... I have an issue with a Draytek 2800 router, and Ubuntu 9.04 which is really puzzling me. If I try and log into GMail, it is dreadfully slow, and in most cases is unable to view a message when I click on it, with a messgae just

Re: [Hampshire] GMail sloooooooooooooow

2009-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:07:47PM +0100, Richard Mace wrote: If I try and log into GMail, it is dreadfully slow, and in most cases is unable to view a message when I click on it, with a messgae just saying transeferring data, essentially, un-usable. However, this only happens on

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Audacity

2009-07-25 Thread alan c
How does that work please? Luke Stutters wrote: Yeah, generate 45 minutes of silence, select it and hit record. 2009/7/25 Rob Malpass l...@getiton.myzen.co.uk Hi all Anybody know if it's possible to get Audacity to record and stop recording after a fixed length of time? I'm trying to

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Audacity

2009-07-25 Thread Jack Dunford
By selecting the audio, Audacity thinks you only want to record over that bit and so stops recording when it goes over that time. Bit of a hack but gets the job done. :) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-07-25 Thread Leo
On a not entirely unrelated note, when the a file system check starts during a boot up, is it possible to skip it? I've tried Ctrl-C but that doesn't work. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/25 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk: On a not entirely unrelated note, when the a file system check starts during a boot up, is it possible to skip it? I've tried Ctrl-C but that doesn't work. Depends. On Ubuntu you can press ESC to skip it. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: