Re: [Hampshire] Jessie upgrade question.

2015-12-19 Thread Michael Daffin
> 830 not upgraded Suggests that it did not work. I would revert your sources file before continuing. It's been a while since i last used debian. But the procedure back then was to edit the sources and run 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' which will upgrade every package to the latest

Re: [Hampshire] Hosting recommendations

2015-08-21 Thread Michael Daffin
I quite like digitalocean https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=8fba3fc95fef (this link will also give you $10 credit for free, cheapest vm they offer is $5 a month). They are the cheapest and simplest VPS provider I have seen so far but still provide excellent quality service. The provides a

Re: [Hampshire] Advice on specs for a gaming machine

2015-08-12 Thread Michael Daffin
Overall that is a solid top end gaming machine that will be able to run basically all modern games on max or at least high for the next 2-3 years. I would consider getting the https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e250bam instead. Not much of a price difference but

Re: [Hampshire] Email services

2014-11-26 Thread Michael Daffin
You could try http://mailchimp.com it will be faster then trying to switch ISP now. On 26 Nov 2014 13:32, Roger Munford rogermunf...@parussoftware.co.uk wrote: I have a client who has a food home delivery service and I provided him with a function for mass emailing of customers so that he can

Re: [Hampshire] UEFI booting woes

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] UEFI booting woes

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Daffin
That is secure boot preventing you from booting an unsigned kernel. You should be able to disable it in the BIOS though some don't label it as so obviously. On 8 Nov 2014 21:18, Ian Park i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com wrote: I recently bought a new PC from PC Specialist (the third one I've had from

Re: [Hampshire] Arch vs Debian

2014-10-08 Thread Michael Daffin
How are you upgrading arch, what repos do you have enabled? I have never had any real problem updating archlinux, in fact overall I have had less problems with pacman then with either apt-get or yum. On 8 Oct 2014 10:25, Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote: I use Arch on my laptop and it takes some

Re: [Hampshire] NASs

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Daffin
Raspberry Pis make very slow NAS drives as both the HDD and Ethernet port are on the same USB bus. I quite like using the HP microserver as a nas, takes up to 5 HDD (4 in easy to remove caddies) fairly low power conspired to most desktop PCs, very compact and very cheap, normally about £100-200.

Re: [Hampshire] Android app to stream video content over Samba/CIFS?

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Daffin
No, samba can stream media raw, it is normally the client not supporting it that is the issue. On 19 Dec 2013 17:51, Joseph Bennie j...@lincore.com wrote: On 19 Dec 2013, at 17:41, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Hope this is not too off-topic (it does involve Android

Re: [Hampshire] How to get your foot in the door?

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] Add another hard drive to the same mount point?

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Michael Daffin
want a low resource web server that scales better than apache does. -- Michael Daffin james1...@gmail.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] new device

2013-03-01 Thread Michael Daffin
I believe that the developers have plans to support linux. They even have a section on their fourm for Linux On 1 Mar 2013 20:46, john j...@jesoftware.freeserve.co.uk wrote: Hi All Just seen this. I looks fantastic. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415979,00.asp I know its windows

Re: [Hampshire] Pay-as-you-go mobile data sim?

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] Pay-as-you-go mobile data sim?

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Daffin
I quite like storing my cv in markdown, it's plain text and easy to read even in the raw format, easy to version control unlike compressed formats like word and you can convert it to many different formats including html and pdf and possibly word (if not you can always copy and paste). On 14 Feb

Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Daffin
simple design and transparency much nicer for a power user and I can now get it to do what ever I want will little to no fuss. -- Michael Daffin james1...@gmail.com -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Daffin
people who use it for the exact same purpose there are even two distributions focused on this task for the pi, openelec and rapbain. It can also act as a server amusing you only need to do lightweight tasks on it such as a file server, small web server, firewall etc. -- Michael Daffin james1

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Daffin
hosting -- 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 -- -- Michael Daffin james1...@gmail.com -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-27 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] Box on last legs

2013-01-26 Thread Michael Daffin
I don't think running in the bios is a good way to test temp, best to do that while it is under some load. I suggest running some stress tests on it. On 26 Jan 2013 14:30, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all ** ** My dad (an electronics engineer of 40 years experience)

Re: [Hampshire] Scamming call

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Daffin
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Steam game problem with half life 2.

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Daffin
I don't think that steam games can be transferred between accounts, however they are locked to your steam account not your computer so can be accessed on any computer that you loginto via steam. On Jan 29, 2012 1:44 PM, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A long time ago I

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Steam game problem with half life 2.

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Daffin
Steam basically works out the box on wine (as fose half life 2 btw). But you should be able to reset your password on their site as has been mentioned before. On Jan 29, 2012 2:01 PM, Benjie Gillam ben...@jemjie.com wrote: I have steam on my Mac and PC; I'd be happy to help if you email me

Re: [Hampshire] Sorry for the cross post but you need to read this.

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Daffin
Seeing the same thing here (archlinux kde 4.7) after locking the screen pressing alt+crtl+* effectively unlocks the screen without authentication... -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] Sorry for the cross post but you need to read this.

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Daffin
Seems to be a xorg debug feature according to [1] [1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=275363 On 19 January 2012 09:45, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2012 09:40, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't do anything on the CentOS machine I

Re: [Hampshire] Sorry for the cross post but you need to read this.

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Daffin
Yes, it's with the numpad *, the 8/shift+8 keys don't do it for me. Seems that it was introduced in version 1.11 of xorg [1] (Arch is currently on 1.11.3) don't think Ubuntu past 1.10 yet so shouldn't be affected. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTA0NTA On 19 January 2012

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

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Daffin
On 16 January 2012 23:22, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.orgwrote: The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice. Really? That doesn't sound right, never seen a touchpad that cannot scroll. These days it tends to be two finger scrolling rather then the right side

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

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Daffin
I had a Novatech Laptop a couple years ago, had a few problems during its life including having to send it back to get its screen fixed. It died completely after just over a year... my sister had the same model and it died sooner. It could have just been that one model, but either way I don't

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

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Daffin
. But then this is what I generally want I want from a laptop. But what ever you decide to do, make sure its if from a trusted manufacture, can do what you need it to and you cannot really go wrong :) Michael Daffin. [1] http://uk.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_1018P/ -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Big storage

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Daffin
On 28 December 2011 11:34, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote: That depends upon the RAID level. Raid zero offers no redundancy whatsoever, It's sole purpose is to increase throughput. Raid one is disc-for-disc mirroring, so offers 100% redundancy and it therefore a data backup, though