Re: [Hampshire] Clearout At Jamies

2009-08-10 Thread Tim
On Monday 10 August 2009 12:01:23 Ally Biggs wrote: Hi Guys. Thought I would give you all the heads up, I'm basically clearing the decks at Jamies I have quite alot of Network gear which I thought you guys may be interested in. I have various switches, Hubs, 1U Servers I also have quite alot

Re: [Hampshire] Clearout At Jamies

2009-08-10 Thread Ally Biggs
If you are after server ram I have a bucket load 512MB ECC DDR 266Mhz CL2.5 I would be willing to do business at £5 a stick so 2gig for £20. Many Thanks Ally From: xendis...@gmx.com To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:19:27 +0100 Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Clearout

[Hampshire] Replicating directory tree and filenames

2009-08-10 Thread Keith Edmunds
I want to replicate a huge (multiple TBs) directory tree such that the replica has the same files, same GIDs/UIDs as the original, same paths, but with all the files 0 bytes. In other words, copy the directory and file structure but not the data. It feels as if this should be easy to do, but I

Re: [Hampshire] Replicating directory tree and filenames

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:00:14PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: I want to replicate a huge (multiple TBs) directory tree such that the replica has the same files, same GIDs/UIDs as the original, same paths, but with all the files 0 bytes. In other words, copy the directory and file structure

Re: [Hampshire] Replicating directory tree and filenames

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:21:53PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:00:14PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: I want to replicate a huge (multiple TBs) directory tree such that the replica has the same files, same GIDs/UIDs as the original, same paths, but with all the files 0

[Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, I have had a couple of drives fail recently and need to RMA them back to Seagate. They insist [0] that all disks returned are packed first in those transparent plastic seashell/clamshell things. Don't suppose anyone has a couple spare, or know where I can get a couple el-cheapo do they? I

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:52:52PM +, Alan Pope wrote: I have had a couple of drives fail recently and need to RMA them back to Seagate. They insist [0] that all disks returned are packed first in those transparent plastic seashell/clamshell things. Don't suppose anyone has a couple

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Alan Pope
2009/8/10 Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk:   I may have one or two for 3.5 drives. I'll look when I get home tonight. Thanks. [0] http://www.seagate.com/support/service/pdf/pack.pdf - page 5   Page 3 states seashell or ESD bag... I kinda thought that was a cover-all as in the multi-boxes

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Andy Random
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Alan Pope wrote: I have had a couple of drives fail recently and need to RMA them back to Seagate. They insist [0] that all disks returned are packed first in those transparent plastic seashell/clamshell things. Interesting, I've returned a dozen drives to Seagate this

[Hampshire] [Fwd: Re: [Surrey] Linux hardware development was: What do YOU want Surrey LUG to be?]

2009-08-10 Thread Jacqui Caren
As requested by Robert Original Message Subject: Re: [Surrey] Linux hardware development was: What do YOU want Surrey LUG to be? Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:22:29 +0200 From: robert.beat...@nokia.com Reply-To: General Linux/Unix community List sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk To:

Re: [Hampshire] Replicating directory tree and filenames

2009-08-10 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:21:53 +0100, h...@carfax.org.uk said: My (sketch) attempt in python is below. Hugo, thanks for that, I may well base what I do on that. Appreciate you taking the time to sketch it out. Keith -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:16:31PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/8/10 Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk:   I may have one or two for 3.5 drives. I'll look when I get home tonight. Thanks. It would appear, on inspection, that I'm as profligate with original packaging as you. Sorry.

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Andy Random
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: It would appear, on inspection, that I'm as profligate with original packaging as you. Sorry. Excellent! That means I've cornered the market and can charge what I like :) Popey contact me off list if you want to negotiate... Andy -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:12:53PM -0400, Andy Random wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: It would appear, on inspection, that I'm as profligate with original packaging as you. Sorry. Excellent! That means I've cornered the market and can charge what I like :) Popey

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got any 'SeaShell' drive packing?

2009-08-10 Thread Andy Random
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Popey contact me off list if you want to negotiate... How about you hand over the packaging, and he doesn't put the MP3s of the tapes up on his blog? Ooo E Ok, ok I know when I'm beaten! Andy -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Clearout At Jamies

2009-08-10 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
Alastair, You might be just the man to help me... Do you have any ram (PC 2100R 2.5v 133MHz DDR ECC) for an IBM X335 (2.4GHz twin Xeon e-series) I'm looking for 4x 1GB or better ideally. Also, no promises, but what spec are the Xeon e-series servers? Cheers, Tim B. On Mon, August 10, 2009

Re: [Hampshire] pcworld southampton linux

2009-08-10 Thread alan c
john wrote: Hi All I could not resist the itch to say something. More than once the use of Microsoft software has save my bacon. I have the greatest respect for the windows system provided it has no contact with the Internet. I have seen well [...] As you may be aware, one reason to

Re: [Hampshire] pcworld southampton linux

2009-08-10 Thread John Cooper
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:26:50 +0100 Stephen Pelc step...@mpeforth.com wrote: I've never seen a Linux desktop to compare with OSX in any of its forms. Then you haven't seen baghira. http://baghira.sourceforge.net/screenies.php Vic. If you lock down Linux to a limited amount of