[Hampshire] Free kit from my clearout

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Tansom
:) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Please

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-02 Thread Paul Tansom
of advertising. Then the 'Mac' asks whether the money set aside for RD is enough to fix all the Vista bugs, to which the 'PC' replies you're right and puts the whole lot into advertising. I can't imagine Microsoft being too keen on that one, however true it may be ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [Hampshire] Which Netbook?

2008-12-02 Thread Paul Tansom
I'm slow to lift my left little finger off the shift key and type shit+space - which enables SCIM, which for a while was configured for Korean! Now I just have to decide whether to keep trying to repair this installation, put on Ubuntu or wait for HP to send me the install / recovery CD. -- Paul

Re: [Hampshire] Which Netbook?

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Tansom
would compare to my HP. It does come with the requirement to reformat and put a usable OS on though ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028

[Hampshire] Asus EEE screen resolution

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Tansom
know how to configure it to scale the screen on the netbook to show the whole thing rather than just a less than useful corner of the larger screen show via the external vga the projector is connected to? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Paul Tansom
nicely?! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU

Re: [Hampshire] Just a hi

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Tansom
be correct in surmising that you have some links with Cornwall? Hi, by the way :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford

Re: [Hampshire] Python book

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Tansom
://docs.python.org/library/index.html ** end quote [Hugo Mills] Not read it yet, but what about this site? http://diveintopython.org/ It's billed as Python from novice to pro. There's a an update at http://diveintopython3.org/, but it is early days yet for that. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd

Re: [Hampshire] When I'm gone?

2009-03-11 Thread Paul Tansom
** alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com [2009-02-04 19:27]: Paul Tansom wrote: OK, somewhat prompted by my current state of mind and recent events, but a valid question none the less. For those that have non-technical other halves, relatives or etc. who don't know other techies, what

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Hard disk recovery

2009-03-11 Thread Paul Tansom
- one I was got the dust out of the air by running the shower hot for a while before opening the drive, it may work but it's pretty high risk and there's no turning back!!! [1] www.dq-int.co.uk [2] quote reference DQP0189 [3] 0845 200 9241 -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023

Re: [Hampshire] 10 reasons why Linux is better than Windows Vice Versa

2009-03-11 Thread Paul Tansom
don't think either manage to put together a convincing case. In fact both, to my mind, put a better case for the other side by failing to provide sound enough arguments! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] DIY RAID - quick answer required

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Tansom
/Sitecom-CN-042-4-Port-eSATA-PCI-Card/Product.html?searchtype=genre [2] http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4QTG [3] http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?AKA-STONBK -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Tansom
), and I'll probably look at Morphix before starting any custom builds. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Tansom
of the pain that Red Hat has caused me (with RPM dependencies, and more recently poor tech support and the fact that it is useless without a contract). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Tansom
. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Tansom
** Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net [2009-06-02 21:41]: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:52:44PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: Before I start rejigging the Ubuntu live CD I thought I'd see if anyone knew of an alternative that may save me some time. What I'm looking for a is a boot CD that has

Re: [Hampshire] Sharing calendars

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Tansom
] http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/ChandlerServerSource [4] http://www.davical.org/ [5] http://www.scalableogo.org/ [6] http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav [7] http://mozilla.org/ [8] http://www.mulberrymail.com/ [9] http://openconnector.org/ OK, I may have overdone the links! -- Paul

Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome OS..?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Tansom
processor not I can use Word, etc., etc., etc. snip ** end quote [Jim Kissel] [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_company_file/368660.stm -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered

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

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Tansom
where I can get a couple el-cheapo do they? I seem to have foolishly thrown mine away. Cheers, Al. [0] http://www.seagate.com/support/service/pdf/pack.pdf - page 5 ** end quote [Alan Pope] If you're not already sorted I should have a couple kicking around somewhere. -- Paul Tansom

Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Tansom
: twitter.com = drajt identi.ca = ajt ** end quote [Dr A. J. Trickett] I'm aptanet on both Twitter and identi.ca. I've also created a HantsLUG group on identi.ca if anyone wants to join. It will pick up and re'dent anything with !hantslug in as I understand it. -- Paul Tansom

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Global Jam - Birmingham

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Tansom
** Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com [2009-09-22 22:38]: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Paul Tansom wrote: Mind you, LUG meets are tough enough. I was going to make the last one, but at just as I was getting ready to leave noticed the need to register and the limited time with anybody on the door

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Global Jam - Birmingham

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk [2009-09-23 09:02]: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:44:18 +0100, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Well one of the reasons I don't attend these is the travel distance and related costs, hassle, accomodation, etc.. I was hoping to make LUGRadio Live

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] November Meeting AGM

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Tansom
, bring some state-issued photo ID and some copies of your key fingerprint. ** end quote [Andy Smith] That rules me out, I have no state-issued photo ID, in fact I can't think of a current photo ID of any sort - I should probably update my passport really! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [Hampshire] GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Tansom
to install, along with Thunderbird, Vim, Mutt, etc.. I must look at getting rid of Evolution some day, it may reduce resource usage a bit given that it seems to run services by default that I don't use - unless it's too integrated in to Gnome that is! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

[Hampshire] Gnome notification area

2009-12-01 Thread Paul Tansom
an annoying bug in the error when connecting to Facebook if you have no network connection which I really must document and log. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England

Re: [Hampshire] OggCamp10 - 1st 2nd May 2010, Liverpool

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Tansom
days, so you get twice the geeky fun! Please read my blog post to find out more: http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/01/12/oggcamp10-free-software-free-culture-free-thinking/ ** end quote [Tony Whitmore] Out of interest, why Liverpool? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Tansom
by Dyn Inc, so will likely be merged with DynDNS in due course, so no idea where the free service will stand in the long term so may well move!). My current set up was a bit of a rushed decision after having to move in a big hurry from my old hosting provider who also proviced DNS hosting. -- Paul

[Hampshire] Free to a good home

2010-02-28 Thread Paul Tansom
if you are interested. (*) Actually my servers are moving to Atom 330 motherboards, so dual core 64 bit, etc., but they are replacing Celeron 566 systems! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Tansom
it was, but it worked. Of course this was all done so I could send email from my work to my mum at work, as well as for the challenge of whether I could set it up ;) That said, once I had it was used for legitimate work purposes, so it was purely in the spirit of testing :) -- Paul Tansom

Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk [2010-03-04 23:35]: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:36:28 + Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: I can't for the life of me think whether it was pre-SMTP being de-facto, but I do remember the fun of setting up special addresses on the IBM gateway at work

Re: [Hampshire] greetings card makers

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Tansom
mum used to use MS Publisher that came with the old (well, new at the time) Dell my parents had, so is there a template that would make things easy for Scribus? I don't have a machine with Scribus on to hand to check, but I would have thought one could be created. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd

Re: [Hampshire] greetings card makers

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Tansom
** Lisi hants...@googlemail.com [2010-03-22 17:49]: On Monday 22 March 2010 16:44:01 Paul Tansom wrote: ** Edward Beckmann edward.beckm...@gmail.com [2010-03-22 16:00]: Of the many buggy and naff programmes my Mum used to use on windows, card makers were some of them. As she

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
are linked. I see you are registered with Mark, so it would be worth checking with him whether he has made any changes to the DNS servers or domain record. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[Hampshire] Lucid quirks

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
, this was supposed to be a quick post, I'll stop now... -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
important client happy for a while :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
-27jan10-en.htm http://www.root-servers.org/ http://www.root-dnssec.org/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Tansom
seems to be working smoothly. I have had 2 or 3 renewals without hassle so far. They also manage the DNS as part of the package if required - the interface for DNS is reasonably comprehensive, even if I'm not a big fan of web based DNS input! http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/domain-names/ -- Paul

Re: [Hampshire] Free stuff

2010-06-06 Thread Paul Tansom
not computerised my boat yet, but both these look interesting, and I signed up on the OpenPilot list a while back to see how its developing. OpenPilot - http://openpilot.engineering.selfip.org/ OpenCPN - http://www.opencpn.org/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] What is granola?

2010-06-06 Thread Paul Tansom
for most tasks, and Windows 7 adequatly for the basics, but 2.5G RAM helps :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House

[Hampshire] Cobalt RAQ4

2010-06-06 Thread Paul Tansom
, a version of IPCop. A bit out of date though sadly, still running a 2.4 series kernel! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office

Re: [Hampshire] Cobalt RAQ4

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Tansom
a play. It'll only sit in the rack in my office, so although headless, isn't too much hassle to hook up. I'd been contemplating using it for something along the lines of a monitoring server or firewall, and it wouldn't be heavily loaded. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023

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

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Tansom
do anything and you still get logged out. When I queried it with tech support they sent me two letters a month apart telling me they were still working on my query and would get back to me, and then on the third month they sent me one saying the didn't understand the question - doh!! -- Paul Tansom

[Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Tansom
to use the extra space. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Tansom
(hd1,0) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet Note the last three entries allow me to use the BIOS boot menu and boot from the second HD if the first is failing or blank. The sda (hd0,0) is the replaced drive. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[Hampshire] Budgetone SIP phones

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Tansom
, or when you're trying to access your voicemail!!! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [Hampshire] Budgetone SIP phones

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Tansom
** Jan Henkins j...@henkins.za.net [2010-10-12 14:42]: On Tue, October 12, 2010 14:01, Paul Tansom wrote: I've just got one in preparation for a new Asterisk server setup, but for some reason my testing is not going well. To make sure it works OK I've got it connected directly to my SIP

Re: [Hampshire] Budgetone SIP phones

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Tansom
nice to have it working, thanks :) ** end quote [Vic] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [Hampshire] Budgetone SIP phones

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Tansom
of the three to use then, and think about what to use on the impending Asterisk box (assuming I can use different between server and client and server and provider, which seems to make sense to me at the moment!). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[Hampshire] automating sshfs

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Tansom
alternative suggestion? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants

Re: [Hampshire] automating sshfs

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Tansom
** Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com [2010-10-28 12:27]: I'd better clarify that subject a bit. I'm quite happy with configuring fstab to automatically mount a filesystem, using keys to ease the authentication and a keepalive in ~/.ssh/config to keep the connection active. What I'm looking

Re: [Hampshire] automating sshfs

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Tansom
** Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com [2010-10-28 18:03]: On 28/10/10 12:34, Paul Tansom wrote: ** Paul Tansomp...@aptanet.com [2010-10-28 12:27]: I'd better clarify that subject a bit. I'm quite happy with configuring fstab to automatically mount a filesystem, using keys to ease

[Hampshire] Smart cards

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Tansom
:) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] ATX PSU in rack case

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Tansom
** Neil Stainton neil.s.mailingli...@imap.cc [2010-12-05 19:31]: On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:14:04 +, Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com said: On 05/12/2010 01:07, Paul Tansom wrote: Has anyone experimented with fitting a standard ATX PSU in a rack case? I know there are some

Re: [Hampshire] ATX PSU in rack case

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Tansom
** Neil Stainton neil.s.mailingli...@imap.cc [2010-12-06 13:21]: On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:00:28 +, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com said: These PSUs are about 9 years old by the dates on them, and, although not an immediate problem, they don't support SATA (connectors wise), so that would

Re: [Hampshire] Interesting DNS problem

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Tansom
redirect from there. ** end quote [Adrian Bridgett] Does: @ IN CNAME example.dyndns.org. work? Where the @ represents the zone origin. Alternatively try using a . at the end to prevent automatic appending of the domain: example.com.IN CNAME example.dyndns.org. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd

[Hampshire] Old Hants mailing list

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Tansom
Is something happening with the old Hants mailing list? I've just had a subscription request rejected, and I haven't made one! Is it just me, or has somebody been doing something with the old list? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] OggCamp 11 - it's (nearly) in Hampshire this year!

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Tansom
to attend this year. Just signed up, and count me in if the camping idea goes ahead - so long as the ground is firm enough for my VW camper van :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered

Re: [Hampshire] OggCamp 11 - it's (nearly) in Hampshire this year!

2011-04-15 Thread Paul Tansom
** Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com [2011-04-15 10:38]: On 13/04/2011 19:25, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: On 12/04/2011 15:29, Paul Tansom wrote: Yay, close enough to attend this year. Just signed up, and count me in if the camping idea goes ahead - so long as the ground is firm

[Hampshire] Free to a good home (again)

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Tansom
guarantee anything. I'm based just outside of Portsmouth, and I doubt it is worth travelling far for any of this. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-09 Thread Paul Tansom
!). Of course if you're not happy using an off the shelf firewall router you're probably not just relying on the ADSL router and have a PC configured you can add an extra NIC to and adjust the routing rules - as already suggested I think. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-09 Thread Paul Tansom
a custom PC with twin NICs and a PCI ADSL card. ** end quote [Vic] [1] I'm making the assumption here that the standard setup is simply to have clients directly behind the ADSL router as used by the majority of default ISP configurations these days. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [Hampshire] Scanner/Printer recommendations or problems?

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Tansom
I was stuck with before. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Officejet-8500A--All--Enabled-Printer/dp/B003VYB718/ref=sr_1_3?s=computersie=UTF8qid=1311712483sr=1-3 [2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Officejet-8500A--All--Enabled-Printer/dp/B003VYB70Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=computersie=UTF8qid=1311712483sr=1-1 -- Paul

Re: [Hampshire] Scanner/Printer recommendations or problems?

2011-07-29 Thread Paul Tansom
** AdamC kab...@gmail.com [2011-07-27 13:54]: On 27 July 2011 12:16, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** AdamC kab...@gmail.com [2011-07-26 18:38]: I'm looking at purchasing a scanner and thought I may as well go up to date and get a built in printer too (my ageing HP Desktop

Re: [Hampshire] Replication speed - rsync v robocopy

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Tansom
] http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/unison-ssh.html -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [Hampshire] error competition

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Tansom
these days I seem to have the opposite effect. I often get to a customer and find they can no longer replicated the problem that was easy to reproduce before I got there! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] error competition - thanks

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Tansom
in the resource kit that could back up the permissions so they could be re-applied easily. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered

[Hampshire] Dell Flexbay cable

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Tansom
reader cable 10 pin and uses a 10 pin 0.2mm pitch connector instead of the usual 2.54mm pitch that my card reader has :( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company

Re: [Hampshire] Slightly OT - Firewall Server

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Tansom
=engl=ukpid=blsrcid=ADGEEShrVcwxO76pgEt89DZJEMEmohxbKr6JniED4wOPn0ktnGStSNdgwtvLF2oOwXh1iuYuUIvyFTl9e1aWkfA5JW6xdk-u1fsHuSpZsjAU2uoqKjdo-0-Z-y4FZpguKS3wQo4WZUHzsig=AHIEtbQMdmDGXtzcR99Jq-IMLFr7uzZdaw -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[Hampshire] Free books and bits

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Tansom
doubt they are of any interest, but since I was posting anyway! Oh, I'm based just outside Portsmouth between Cosham and Waterlooville for collection - ignore my registered office below!! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[Hampshire] Sync on Green monitors

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Tansom
a common feature as far as I can tell, or at least not one listed in features if it is! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office

Re: [Hampshire] Sync on Green monitors

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org [2011-09-10 17:55]: On Saturday 10 September 2011 16:10:43 Paul Tansom wrote: I've got an old Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400 taking up space that I would like to get rid of. The only reason I am keeping it is because it supports Sync

[Hampshire] More free bits

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Tansom
fit in any of the others if you want to swap between systems or something (if you don't want to try repairing them). Based just outside Portsmouth (not Denmead, but not much further south!). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Tansom
not shopped around. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU

[Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Tansom
a Samsung G600 at the moment, so who knows with a smartphone! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk [2011-10-03 18:05]: On 03/10/11 17:24, Paul Tansom wrote: A bit of a vague subject, but I'm looking at the possibility of finally getting a smartphone and at the moment the HTC Wildfire S and the Samsung Galaxy Ace There is very little between them

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk [2011-10-05 14:30]: On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:03:47 +0100 Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Thanks for the info everybody. I may well wait for a bit to see if the new iPhone has an impact on pricing, but somehow I doubt it - well, little impact

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Linux distro recommendations

2011-10-29 Thread Paul Tansom
- if something is obvious he will explore, but if it is hidden he won't spot it, or remember where it is. ** end quote [Alan Pope] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] December Meeting and AGM

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Tansom
updated to show this. ** end quote [Adam John Trickett] I'm happy to help out as a GO to keep the LUG going. If there is nobody with more time available than me I may be able to help out with hostmaster, but don't let that stop anyone else from volunteering! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting reminder and AGM Information

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Tansom
to Richard: rjo2g10 at ecs DOT soton DOT ac DOT uk Committee volunteers: Vic lug at beer DOT org DOT ukGeneral officer or hosmaster Peter Collins hlug at 3720 DOT co DOT ukGeneral officer Paul Tansom paul at aptanet DOT com

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting reminder and AGM Information

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Tansom
these to the meeting to enable voting if you haven't done one already, and don't have to worry about getting one posted to arrive beforehand. ** end quote [Hants LUG Chairman] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Final reminder for December meeting

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Tansom
for nominations? ** end quote [Hants LUG Chairman] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead

Re: [Hampshire] HAT IN RING

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Tansom
Outlook and you circulate any documents as .doc or .docx ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone coming to the AGM?

2011-12-03 Thread Paul Tansom
. How many more do you need? How many are there? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

[Hampshire] Unity with dual monitors

2011-12-23 Thread Paul Tansom
to the late 90s and manually hacking configuration files for Unity - not that I mind that I'm always doing it with my servers, but when you have a mix of GUI, CLI and auto configuration changes things never work together well :( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [Hampshire] Unity with dual monitors

2011-12-23 Thread Paul Tansom
** Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com [2011-12-23 15:31]: Has anyone got Unity working with dual monitors, and if so how. I've done some searching and only found references to people that have done it with no indication of how! I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and, although the displays settings allows me

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Tansom
it is to get replacement batteries for them when the time comes. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House

[Hampshire] Android VPN clients

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Tansom
not read up on it yet! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7

Re: [Hampshire] Android VPN clients

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Tansom
** Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com [2012-01-12 17:40]: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 17:32, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: OK, I've finally taken the plunge and jumped on the Android smartphone bandwaggon - thanks for all the suggestions, I went for something completely different when

Re: [Hampshire] IPv6 ADSL router recommendations

2012-02-25 Thread Paul Tansom
of the photograph is a great one, I seem to have seen it before somewhere ;) Mine are Exmoor ponies :) http://www.aptanet.com/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Anyone know about Dell Latitude D600 laptops?

2012-03-10 Thread Paul Tansom
it wasn't an uncommon problem with Dell laptops though. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Tansom
/wiki/4thNovember2006 for the meeting and... http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/wiki/AaronTansom for his very own (way out of date) wiki page :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered

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

2012-04-21 Thread Paul Tansom
it and know nothing about the signals used, etc., etc. :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Please post to: Hampshire

[Hampshire] Old Macs

2012-04-22 Thread Paul Tansom
beige PPC based Performa and maybe a low end G4. I'm as yet not completely decided about ditching all of them and/or eBaying some (not entirely sure how/if they go), but thought if anyone had an interest in something it may help me along the way to creating some space :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet

Re: [Hampshire] Old Macs

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Tansom
** hants...@googlemail.com hants...@googlemail.com [2012-04-22 18:30]: On Sunday 22 April 2012 17:50:33 Paul Tansom wrote: Has anyone got any interest in some old Apple Macs? [snip] I'm as yet not completely decided about ditching all of them and/or eBaying some (not entirely sure how

Re: [Hampshire] Old Macs

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Tansom
** Martin N marti...@bluebottle.com [2012-04-22 22:22]: At 18:27 22/04/2012, you wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2012 17:50:33 Paul Tansom wrote: Has anyone got any interest in some old Apple Macs? [snip] I'm as yet not completely decided about ditching all of them and/or eBaying some

Re: [Hampshire] Old Macs

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Tansom
.), and cables (printer, modem iirc) if they are of any help. Oh and some ADSL modems. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU

[Hampshire] Up for grabs, rack server cases

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
the slots at the back are t 90 degrees, but I do have AGP and possibly PCI adapters available, one of the PCI is a 64 bit one. I'm based just outside Portsmouth (though not Denmead as per the address below!) if anyone is interested - they are heavy so will need to be collected! -- Paul Tansom

[Hampshire] Free to a good home

2012-05-09 Thread Paul Tansom
I have 18 old hard drives to get rid of if anyone wants them. All are PATA and sizes range from 500M to 20G. Of the top of my head I think they are: 3x 500M 1x 1G 4x 2G 1x 4G 3x 8G 1x 10G 3x 13G 2x 20G All tested and DBan'd. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238

[Hampshire] Trackballs

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Tansom
buttons. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Trackballs

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Tansom
:( (Hmm, it's gone up £2 while I've been typing this!!) [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-M570-Wireless-Trackball-Graphite/dp/B0042BBR2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1336075069sr=8-1 -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028

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