On 29 May 2014 17:51, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote:
I must admit £120 is a bit steep but I guess if it contains everything and
is basically plug and play – fair enough. Just wondered if anyone had
tried it and noticed any performance issues.
Raspberry PIs do run XBMC but
On 27 May 2014 12:37, Freaky Clown freakycl...@gmail.com wrote:
or you know... you could just get on with life and not worry about the
little things :)
many more fields of issues in the world that need more time and attention
brought to them
yup... and if I wasn't spending so much effort
On 27 May 2014 12:54, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
Your presumption however assumes that it is that much harder to read?
If it really were, then all mail clients would make top-posting hard.
If I wrote my reply in ROT13, it would be harder to read.
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On 28 April 2014 08:09, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, I did a bit of research on that and it seems like FastEtherNet
will cope fine:
http://superuser.com/questions/434532/what-data-transfer-rates-are-needed-or-streaming-hd-1080p-or-720p-video-or-stan
As long as the
If you do go the route of having a central media server, gigabit ethernet
has proved to be essential due to increasing file sizes of HD content :-/
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On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm after decent hardware to run XBMC on, I've already tried
OpenElec/Raspberry Pi but was not satisfied with it. I've bought a WD
Live Media Player which I am similarly not 100% happy with.
I've run it on a Pi, and it just
Rails or some other crud-enabled framework would probably do the job
quickly and easily. Though you may need a little assistance (whatever tool
your choose) to get close to getting it implemented right first time.
On 2 Dec 2013 23:20, Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote:
I was thinking of porting a
On 13 March 2013 21:57, Paul Stimpson p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk wrote:
Maybe a good cheap quiet boot device for an Openelec media player
though?
(assuming the media files are on a server somewhere else in the
house...)
An OpenElec machine will keep its database and all the downloaded
On 13 March 2013 10:19, Peter Salisbury peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:
Thank for all your comments. I've tried the CF card SSD and it's no
better. It gives an hdparm -t figure of about 20M compared with 50M
for my internal drive so predictably it takes longer to start up, but
I'd
On 4 Mar 2013 17:25, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone else been in this situation and what did they do to counter
it? I'm kind of hesitant to contact Google as I perceive no conduit
for regular users to complain unless you're a paying customer (eg.
Google Apps for
On 15 February 2013 15:17, Richard Bensley richardbens...@gmail.com wrote:
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*applauds*
Post of the Year.
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On 14 February 2013 10:53, Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote:
Other companies take PDFs and strip all formatting, as I discovered to
my detriment
Think yourself lucky. I had an agent strip an entire page from my CV once,
and had the interviewer repeatedly complain that I'd done nothing for 3
On 7 January 2013 01:34, p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk
p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk wrote:
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one might consider buying a copy of MakeMKV for Linux. It costs about £50.
That would allow the lucky owner to rip the content of the BluRay to their
hard drive as an unencrypted MKV file. Handbrake would
Hiya,
I need a desktop printer for occasional hard-copies. My old HPLJ1200 is
sometimes a bit temperamental, and I'm looking for a cheap rather than
cheerful replacement. Does anyone know if any of the c.£30 inkjets that are
all over Dabs, eBuyer, etc, run happily with 64bit Ubuntu?
We got a
On 14 November 2012 09:25, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote:
Are there any options for remote wiping Linux systems, in the case of them
being lost or stolen? I'm sure that some funky trigger mechanism could be
set up using dyndns and SSH, but I was looking for something that would
On 14 November 2012 10:04, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote:
I quite agree Michael, but at the moment encryption is not what they are
looking to do.
Ah... I see, corporates have made a decision about a solution, and are now
looking for a problem it fits :-)
What is their use-case
On 12 October 2012 19:52, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Anyway, I'm taking a look at alternatives, starting with Zencart which is an
obvious one to look at, and was wondering if anyone had any experience in this
area and could suggest others that may be worth evaluating.
Magento might be
On 7 October 2012 16:16, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote:
My struggle with Unity continues :-/
Can anyone tell me how to get a samba drive on my server mounted on my new
PC with Unity, such that I can write to it and so it mounts automatically?
Searches in the Dash for Samba, smb, map,
On 19 July 2012 09:20, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote:
So what is Citrix and can anyone see why they may have set things up in this
way?
What do your IT people say about why they have set things up this way?
I presume there could be all sorts of reasons... and all sorts of pros
and
On 8 June 2012 20:49, Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
On a whim I fired up the Revo 3600 (running 64-bit Xubuntu 12.04) today and
plugged it in to the HDMI socket of the LCD TV.
Up popped a lovely sharp 1920x1080 desktop with just one small snag - the
desktop appears to extend
On 11 May 2012 16:16, Dominic Rodriguez shym...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I'd like to come but the idea of a price scares me away... I mean
freedom guys!
Are you willing to provide a meeting space to the group for free?
(power? equipment storage? insurance?)
That would probably bring the cost
On 10 May 2012 14:40, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of good or otherwise trackballs? I'm
considering getting one due to some pain in my right elbow but the choice
seems
more limited that it used to be. I have some old PS/2 ones, but they don't
work
On 10 May 2012 16:12, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote:
here is another option. Not seen this before.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/3M-Optical-Ergonomic-Buttons-Medium/dp/B000F2BP7U/ref=sr_1_10?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLEs=computersie=UTF8qid=1336662531sr=1-10
One colleague here uses one of these:
On 10 May 2012 16:44, David Anderson li...@pern.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:47:04 +0100
Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Trackman-Wheel-Trackball-optical/dp/B5NIMJ/
Shame they are right handed
Certainly for left-handed people
On 4 May 2012 11:03, Edward Beckmann edward.beckm...@gmail.com wrote:
However, the drive bay is much larger than the HDD so I presume there is a
metal slot-in carrier or something to keep it in place. Although I have made
a temporary fix, I bet someone has just the thing taking up room amongst
On 19 January 2012 09:30, Freaky Clown freakycl...@gmail.com wrote:
You can kill a locked screen by pressing ctrl+alt+*
It doesn't do anything on the CentOS machine I have running right now.
When you say kill a locked screen, what, exactly, do you mean? Does
it effectively unlock it, leaving you
On 19 January 2012 09:40, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't do anything on the CentOS machine I have running right now.
PS CentOS 5.4, GNOME 2.16 (yes... this one is lagging behind a bit ;-)
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On 12 January 2012 17:32, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Anyway, having played with it for a while I am now looking for a VPN client
that will hook into a Linux based VPN (specifically that used by DD-WRT which
I
now run on an old Virgin supplied D-Link router I picked up of Freegle and
On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann edward.beckm...@gmail.com wrote:
Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say I did ... as
opposed to I knew someone who did ...
I have flicked the off-switch (pesky old-style toggles) on an AS/400
crossing my legs while sitting at a terminal
On 23 June 2011 14:08, Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have a favourite CMS to use for such things?
phpSQLiteCMS
http://phpsqlitecms.net/
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On 1 April 2011 10:16, bryan hunt the.troll@the_bridge.com wrote:
Grow up, and message me on list. I'm sure this has got more to do with
my mockery of your previous, pompous, posting than a concern for the
greater good.
... and I only read The Three Billy Goats Gruff to my daughter last
On 7 November 2010 15:25, Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
Guess he'll have to get used to the idea of sitting at his desk to use
his laptop, eh?
How big *is* his room? Wouldn't a 5-metre network cable allow him to
sit wherever he wants?
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On 7 November 2010 15:36, Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
However, the issue is that Sam
is somewhat less than steady on his feet when not using his sticks,
which he tends to abandon around the house and in his room, and a cable
trailing across the floor might present a problem to
On 20 September 2010 17:08, Michael Burrows testerm...@btinternet.com wrote:
I have been asked by a friend to deploy a NAS/Domain Controller on some old
hardware for a small realty business (I dont there access from outside the
LAN is needed).
I have something running successful here in my
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