Re: [Scottish] All Stock must go (says SWMBO)

2009-02-22 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 21 February 2009 09:37:14 pm David Miller wrote: Hey Colin, I would like the USB wifi adapters if that's okay? I have a cunning plan for them... Happy to pay postage - you can contact me off list at dmil...@sofi.org.uk Hi David, I can certainly post them. Is paypal OK for

[Scottish] Amazon albums?

2009-04-25 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, Does anybody know if there's anything other than amazonMP3 which will open .amz files. Despite what it says in the Amazon MP3 faq: What does DRM-free mean? Digital Rights Management or DRM commonly refers to software that is designed to control or limit how a file can be played,

Re: [Scottish] Amazon albums?

2009-05-06 Thread Colin McKinnon
. -- Matt On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Colin McKinnon colin.mckin...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know if there's anything other than amazonMP3 which will open .amz files. Your description of the files is certainly correct. I found a project called clamz (http

Re: [Scottish] Cloudscan headers anyone?

2009-09-09 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 09:36:57 pm Colin McKinnon wrote: I'm not sure that I want my my service provider to decide whether I get mail or not! Its certainly giving a few false negatives already. Indeed, a bit of digging, and yes, Virgin has been deleting my mail without telling me

Re: [Scottish] wanted: wireless router

2010-05-26 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 01:39:33 pm Kenny Duffus wrote: Hiya don't suppose anyone thats coming along to the meeting tomorrow has a spare wireless router (or possibly access point) they don't use/need anymore? the one at the electronclub (http://www.electronclub.org) is becoming very

Re: [Scottish] book tidy out

2010-07-27 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 24 July 2010 05:34:42 pm Kenny Duffus wrote: Been having a bit of a tidy out of my bookshelves the result is that i have a pile looking for new homes: http://selkie.fankled.net/~kd/books/ OMG - now we know what happenned to the rainforest! Can I have the XML and XSLT books?

[Scottish] Possible job openings - System Security Analyst

2010-08-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, Just a wee heads up that both the security analysts at [where I work] are moving on to pastures new. Given the current climate in the public sector noone's actually admitted that they might be replaced - and the posts were last filled when they had only advertised externally via

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 01:48:38 pm Jason Irwin wrote: Looking at Virign Media just now, any good? On the whole yes - the infrastructure is **very** good - fibre to the wall of your house means you get the bandwidth they advertise, and on the whole service is very reliable. They were

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-07 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 07 January 2011 03:14:48 pm Georgia Thomson wrote: On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: As for support? Well its a call centre in Asia somewhere who work from a set of about 4 scripts for diagnosing internet problems Virgin media have their issues, but their support

[Scottish] Checked your proxy lately?

2011-01-07 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, While I'm sure you've all got your systems setup securely, I've noticed that recently there is more noise in my logs from HTTP proxy requests than I get for ssh attacks. AFAIK, I'm not running an open proxy. The origin of these requests are primarily China. Do I nned to spell out the

Re: [Scottish] Cost of M$ in councils.

2011-01-27 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:45:19 pm Marcel Hecko wrote: I was actually expecting this number to be much higher. Is this only software license costs which are accounted into the amount, or is this including support and mainetnance fees? It that a flat rate, or monthly/yearly cost? I would

Re: [Scottish] Security breach

2011-07-04 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 10:14:55 am John Gordon Ollason wrote: Greetings, I received e-mail from the ISP that hosts my websites that my shell account had been used in a security breach. I have had a superificial check of my files, and can't find anything altered. What checks ought I to do to

[Scottish] BBS / mini social network network software

2013-04-16 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi, As the computer guy, I've become responsible for the Scottish Rat Club's website (my daughter breeds and shows fancy rats). The current online provision is not great - some static HTML pages and a freebie invision BBS. Increasingly online activity is moving onto facebook :( I think we

Re: [Scottish] UK Hosting? was BBS / mini social network network software

2013-05-03 Thread Colin McKinnon
? Aiming for something under £5/mo Any other suggestions? On 19/04/13 23:50, Colin McKinnon wrote: On 19/04/13 19:06, Ronald MacDonald wrote: I've had a good bit of success with Symphony. Drupal's great too and tends to be what I use if I need a site up real quick. It is, however, overkill

[Scottish] Window manager for tablet?

2014-05-05 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for WM which will be usable on a tablet (i.e. small screen) VNCing onto a Linux box. Really I want to run all my apps full screen without the expense of a menu bar. Although most tiling WMs allow this, it's rather difficult to do alt+tab with no keyboard!

Re: [Scottish] Window manager for tablet?

2014-05-06 Thread Colin McKinnon
On 06/05/14 06:35, ray wrote: I haven't tried with a touch screen, but what about KDE-4 system Settings Workspace Behaviour Workspace Workspace Type : Netbook This opens applications full screen and has a sort of finger-friendly menu system. Ooh. Was rather surprised to find this in my

Re: [Scottish] Window manager for tablet?

2014-05-13 Thread Colin McKinnon
On 07/05/14 08:43, ray wrote: Thanks for the keyboard info; I will investigate local price. Do you have an Intel chipped tablet? I have not had much luck running regular Linux desktops on Arm. Sorry offline for a bit there. Was back at PCWorld this weekend and price is now £48. I've

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