[Scottish] ANSWER: Slow writes on large modern SATA disks

2010-09-30 Thread Dan Shearer
New large disks, fast computer, good Linux install but lousy write performance, with no errors to be found? I've hit this twice recently and here's how I solved it: http://shearer.org/Slow_Writes_4k_Sectors Short version: modern drives won't work by default with common default ways of

[Scottish] This months meeting

2010-09-30 Thread Robert Lazzurs
Hello all, Yet that time again for the monthly meeting. This month Claudio will be giving a talk on his ideas on how we can provide reliable wireless internet access. I will say no more ;) I sadly will not be attending this month as I have a meeting I have to be at. Greg will be taking over

[Scottish] NEoN Digital Arts Festival

2010-09-30 Thread Holford-Lovell, Donna
Thought this maybe of interest ! NEoN Digital Arts Festival 8 - 14 November 2010 NEoN 10 is a seven-day international digital arts festival featuring moving image, performance, music and technology driven arts. The over arching curatorial theme this year is Character: going beyond the agent in

[Scottish] shackbox live dvd

2010-09-30 Thread bob
Hello, Ive just installed Ubuntu 10.4 32bit desktop . I have a Shackbox live cd which contains Ham Radio programs its based on Ubuntu 9.8 How can I install the files on the hard disk of the 10.4 machine. bob renshaw ___ Scottish mailing list

Re: [Scottish] shackbox live dvd

2010-09-30 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:33 +0100, bob wrote: Hello, Ive just installed Ubuntu 10.4 32bit desktop . I have a Shackbox live cd which contains Ham Radio programs its based on Ubuntu 9.8 How can I install the files on the hard disk of the 10.4 machine. bob renshaw You'd probably be