Re: [Hampshire] [OT] CD device with mono audio out

for the video into the BNC socket on the video! Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 GSM: +44 (0)7785 300290 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Hampshire] Long Life Netbook style device

, which supports several wireless network cards - I use an Orinoco Wavelan Gold (also bought on ebay), which supports 802.11b and 128 bit WEP (not the latest and greatest wireless technology, but it works! HTH Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 GSM: +44

[Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software based?

, please? Thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 GSM: +44 (0)7785 300290 email: i...@chalmers-park.name -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software, based?

drives with the 3405, because (to paraphrase) they're not good enough - you should use enterprise class drives, which rather contradicts the inexpensive part of the RAID acronym... Cheers Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 GSM: +44 (0)7785 300290

[Hampshire] Subject: Re: A sad day...

://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=65606 -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 GSM: +44 (0)7785 300290 email: i...@chalmers-park.name -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

[Hampshire] [OT] Recommendations for email hosting?

around £20 a year for the domain name registration and email hosting, and I'd prefer not to see a steep increase... Thanks in advance for any advice Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

home network with both Ubuntu and Windoze machines. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] Americanisations (Was: Bad Karma)

in school, as well as pronouncing R as ORR. jfk (Also in the USA at the moment) My two-penn'orth: the pronunciation of nuclear as if it were spelled nucular grate Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu ( Other) users beware

. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- Tim Brocklehurst wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:51:46 Stephen Davies wrote: Microsoft has patented 'sudo' Arrgghhh! WTF? etc etc etc http://www.groklaw.net/article.php

Re: [Hampshire] Useful utility - regionset

own region 2 dvd's, it seemed like a good idea to me :). Given the pretty low cost of DVD drives, this looks like a reason for having two drives, one of which can be set to region 1 and the other to region 2... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420

[Hampshire] [OT] Smartphones with keyboards

to; in fact I want one that *isn't* tied to an operator (it would take a long time to explain...). Can anyone with experience of such a machine suggest which models would be worth researching further please? Thanks Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Smartphones with keyboards

is running - when we go away for a while I prefer to shut everything down, to save power consumption... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

language code... /brag Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] 32- or 64-bit distro?

insists on Internet Explorer to let me use the web admin interface :S ). HTH Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman

Re: [Hampshire] 3g dongles (Was: Re: GPS Dongle recommendations)

it with Lucid yet). Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)

Hmmm, Smile (the Co-op internet bank) are even more confusing: if you grab a recent items statement, that comes with the most recent at the top; if you grab a complete statement (when Smile thinks a page is full), that comes with the most recent at the bottom. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

I can second that - I use Brother HL-5270DN, which does PostScript emulation and duplex printing. Bought it through Amazon; the only small wrinkle is that it came from France, but they supplied a UK mains lead for it as well as the continental one. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire

[Hampshire] [OT] Nokia N900 as a tethered modem using the USB cable

suite mode. Is there something fundamental that I'm overlooking, or is it a hardware problem in the phone (in which case I'll be back to the Nokia shop...)? If anyone has been down this road and can offer suggestions, I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Nokia N900 as a tethered modem using the USB cable

On 17/08/10 14:47, Ian Park wrote: I bought a Nokia N900 a few months ago after seeing the views of various people on this list when I asked about smart phones with keyboards. I'll be going away to (very) foreign parts next month, and I'd like to use the N900 as a modem tethered to my netbook

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop BIOS settings

from the BIOS. By a process of elimination, with your choices I'd go for Other. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop BIOS settings

a year old) and my wife's laptop (Acer Ferrari) all have no choice. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG

Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

, which runs some flavour of Linux!), and other awkward apps. I shall join Lisi in protesting to the course management team about Microsoft bias... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire

[Hampshire] [Hardware] DVI to DisplayPort adapters

connector? Google searching has only turned up adaptors for the converse: feeding from a DisplayPort output to a DVI connector on the monitor. I don't know whether one of these would serve for the opposite direction. Thanks in advance for any help Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ

Re: [Hampshire] [HARDWARE] Dead PC

the life out of the backup battery trying to keep the RAM alive... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire

[Hampshire] [OT] HP29-C calculator going spare - free to a good home

Newbury or I can send it if you're prepared to pay the postage. Ian Park -- 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] Firewall distributions

socket, and I already use about 18 in this room... Thanks in advance for any help Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

On 15/09/11 17:22, Ian Park wrote: On 14/09/11 17:09, Ian Grody wrote: On Wednesday 14 September 2011 15:09:57 Ian Park wrote: I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from Jamie's. I started

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

for a friend from CCL (http://www.cclonline.com) - that comes with USB as the primary connector, and a USB to PS/2 adaptor. Price was quite reasonable too... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

On 12/11/11 13:07, Rob Malpass wrote: -Original Message- From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Park Sent: 11 November 2011 18:41 To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

on those is astronomical... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- No, the great majority, if not all, were second hand! Seems the word has got around that these are desirable... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Anyone got a PCI sound card they don't need?

with a bunch of 160GB HDDs in a RAID 5 array). I've still got the driver CD (though you can download more up-to-date drivers from the web), and I printed out the manual from the CD as well. Contact details are below if you're interested Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel

Re: [Hampshire] CS Degree Courses (was Re: Linux Answers)

-10, with (amongst other things) a massive 64MB (if I remember correctly) head-per track hard disc drive... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags

in the western world... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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] Custom-built PCs

. Unfortunately, Vadim have gone out of business. Does anyone know of a similar company they'd trust to do a decent job of building a similar system but with a more up-to-date (spelled f - a - s - t - e - r!) processor etc? Thanks in advance for any help. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury

Re: [Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

On 02/04/12 10:39, I Close wrote: On 04/02/12 09:34, Ian Park wrote: A few years back, on a recommendation from someone on this list (sorry, can't remember who), I bought a custom-built PC from a company called Vadim. At the time I bought it, it was pretty high spec: 2x 2GHz dual core Opteron

Re: [Hampshire] USB, PS/2 and 5 pin DIN keyboards

old IBM Series M developed a reluctance to work for the 1 key on the numeric keypad. A friend whose PC I set up (with Ubuntu) also decided to go for the same model. Cost was about £50 IIRC. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p

Re: [Hampshire] Crash course mobile broadband

on it, and I still have over £10 left, without topping up. If you look out for a dongle to use with Vodafone you'll probably be OK - I don't know about any other network operators [1] http://developer.vodafone.com/labs/ Ian Park -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Vodafone USB dongle and wvdial

On 17/12/12 21:51, NeilS wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone the list have any experience with the Vodafone pay-monthly dongle and the wvdial package? Before I sign up for one, was it straightforward to get working or are there any show stoppers? For what its worth, I want to use it for a

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

On 29/01/13 15:25, Leo wrote: With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's getting a bit of a pain to manage hostnames/ips. I have an old computer running debian acting as a firewall and dhcp server though. So I was wondering is there some way I can get it to record the

[Hampshire] Free to a good home: back issues of Linux Format magazine with DVDs

, and I can probably roust out those for the later issues). Clearly, posting the magazines won't make sense, but anyone who'd like them is welcome to contact me off-list to arrange collection. To save you asking where I live, the postcode is RG14 7JJ... Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p

Re: [Hampshire] Free to a good home: back issues of Linux Format magazine with DVDs

!) to host any of your meetings just yet, but perhaps we can help you out in other ways? Cheers, Benjie. On 15 Apr 2013, at 09:40, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 l.kobierni...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 15/04/13 09:35, Ian Park wrote: I've been instructed by Her Who Must Be Obeyed to turn out some of my

Re: [Hampshire] Free to a good home: back issues of Linux Format magazine, with DVDs

to Newbury than Southampton, so I could arrange to meet and transfer them for onward carriage to Southampton? Failing that, I guess I could try putting them on Freecycle... Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

[Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility

://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_EXTREME/ Thanks in advance for any help. Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility

. On 25 Apr 2013 21:46, Ian Park i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com mailto:i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi all I thought I'd try picking brains about the compatibility of a motherboard I'm thinking of using with Linux Mint. The MB is the Asus Rampage IV Extreme [1], which brags about its

Re: [Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility

On 26/04/13 19:53, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 26 April 2013 10:30, Ian Park i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com mailto:i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com wrote: Thanks both for the reassurance - it looks as though I should be reasonably safe to go with that MB. But before I do, I'm waiting to hear from

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] SMTP servers

away on holiday next week... Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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] Switch boxes free to a good home

or distributors. If you're interested, please contact me off list. I live in Newbury. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Suggested Distro for an original Acer Aspire one?

On 12/01/14 17:31, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:29:23 -0500 (EST), andy.ran...@gmail.com said: Anyone else using an old Aspire one, what do you run on it? Hi Andy I'm running Debian + XFCE on mine, which works pretty well. Not tried any RH derivative, sorry. I'm running Mint

Re: [Hampshire] NASs

I have a D-Link DNS-320, which has 2 SATA drive pays; I populated them with a couple of Western Digital 1TB drives in RAID-1. Found a very useful tutorial [1] on how to tweak it so it's accessible from my Linux box to back up my media files. [1]

Re: [Hampshire] NASs

On 30/01/14 18:51, Ally Biggs wrote: Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get Freenas on there. I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was happily chugging along serving up files for over 2 years. Sent from my iPhone On 30 Jan 2014, at 18:21, john

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

... Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44 (0)1635 821420 email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- On 13/04/14 23:49, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, you wrote: My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it? Yes. I seem to get about 3 years from

[Hampshire] Strange handling of multiple optical drives in Mint 17

but met with a resounding silence... Thanks in advance for any help. Ian -- -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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] UEFI booting woes

of removing this Windows contamination, please? Thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] UEFI booting woes

updated, though. Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] UEFI booting woes

Thanks, Michael; with that hint I tried a google search on Asus Sabertooth FX + secure boot and found a You-tube video showing me how to do all sorts of tweaking, including disabling secure boot. Tried that, and now I can boot from the rEFInd CD. Cheers Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p

Re: [Hampshire] UEFI booting woes

in your BIOS! Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- On 10/11/14 19:40, Martin N wrote: OT i know but does this mean when an old windows OS is installed, the same error will occur? ie xp vista What is the earliest version of the windows to support the signed kernel? Martin At 13:44 09

[Hampshire] System unit for sale

150GB SATA HDD and 5x Seagate 320GB SATA HDD; 2x NEC IDE DVD writers; T-Balancer fan controller; 4x front USB2.0 ports. I was running Linux Mint 17 on it, with the Seagate drives in a RAID 5 array; the HDDs have been wiped with DBAN. I'd be happy to take GBP250 for it - any offers? Ian -- -- Ian

Re: [Hampshire] Help for Linux Mint please.

uefi/. If you need more step by step guidance, contact me off list and we could arrange a phone call to talk you through it. Given my location (Newbury), I suspect a face to face meeting could be tricky... Best regards Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- -- Pleas

[Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

his method of attack? Ian Park -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] How to get a laptop with Linux?

to your desire for power vs cost. Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com -- On 04/11/16 09:18, Stephen Nelson-Smith via Hampshire wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

with Windows 10, because the tech support people at Benenden need to be able to use Windows remote desktop . If your budget is a bit more limited than that, you can tailor the spec to bring down the cost - look at http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com

[Hampshire] Slightly OT: Intel SDK-85 board up for grabs

8 static RAM chips and a Hitachi HM62832 32k x 8 static RAM chip (an alternative to the dynamic RAM I tried to put on the board...). If anyone would like it, please contact me off-list to arrange collection. I live in Newbury. Ian -- -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire RG14 7JJ Tel: +44

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

blet, and despite nudging from me (I set the printer up so she could print from her tablet) she turned out the printer as well. If you're interested, contact me off list and we'll see if we can arrange a transfer. I live in Newbury. Best wishes Ian -- Ian Park email: i.d.c.p...@chalmers-park.

[Hampshire] "Linux Format" magazines, fee to a good home

ou're interested, please contact me off list. Ian -- -- Ian Park email: i...@chalmers-park.name -- -- 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] Free to a good home: "Linux Voice" magazines

folded. Fairly obviously, I'm not up for posting them - if you want them, come and collect! I live in Newbury. If you're interested, please contact me off list. Ian -- -- Ian Park email: i...@chalmers-park.name -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailm