[Hampshire] [OT] today

2011-02-11 Thread Victor Churchill
Way back I can remember my dad, (R.I.P.), used to write(*) dates in dd-rm-yy format, with Roman numerals for the month. Just noticed that in that notation, today is 11-ii-11 Why does that make me smile ;-) (*) With a fountain pen. Or on an Olivetti portable typewriter. -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] grep -50 foo /dev/sda1 runs out of memory

2011-02-11 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Thu, Feb 10 at 10:22, Victor Churchill wrote: ... I believe 'grep -number' will give number lines of context around the match. Like 'grep -A 100 -B 100. grep -number is not portable -A -B is. Unless you are putting it in a script whatever works for you is fine. Anyway rather than the tr

[Hampshire] Lift to Nokia tomorrow?

2011-02-11 Thread Andy Random
Hi, Is there anybody heading to the meeting tomorrow who can offer me a lift either from Fleet/Farnborough train station or from Basingstoke town centre? I'd be happy to offer petrol money or buy beer at lunchtime in return for a lift. Andy -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Lift to Nokia tomorrow?

2011-02-11 Thread Victor Churchill
I am aiming to go tomorrow - first time I have gone to one of the joint meetings. I'll be going up the M3 from Bournemouth, so if you can manage to get to somewhere idiot-proof to rendezvous that's not too hard to access from the motorway you're welcome. Sort out details off-list. Same offer

Re: [Hampshire] GuruPlug no longer boots.

2011-02-11 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 10/02/2011 23:03, Clive Woodfine wrote: aptitude update which also did not work at first but after about a minute resolv.conf or routing issues? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] GuruPlug no longer boots.

2011-02-11 Thread Clive Woodfine
Thanks for that Jacqui, here is an update (ignore the pun). I have just tried apt-get update and shortly afterwards I get this message Archive directory '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing'. It then exits apt-get. With aptitude I get the same message but it waits longer before exiting.

[Hampshire] rsync help needed

2011-02-11 Thread john lewis
I have been reading the rsync documentation and it has left me confused as there is so much of it and so many permutations. I need help to work out the correct 'spell' I keep my geneweb database on a local headless server and do all my updating of the database on that system. The database lives

Re: [Hampshire] rsync help needed

2011-02-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11 February 2011 18:36, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote: I have been reading the rsync documentation and it has left me confused as there is so much of it and so many permutations. I need help to work out the correct 'spell' I keep my geneweb database on a local headless server