[ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Swaysland
Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does anyone have any recommendations for powerline adapters? All the power

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Simon, On 22 October 2010 10:31, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for powerline adapters? All the power wiring in my house is 5 years old. I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for enabling encryption so your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! I drilled throught

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread James Thomas
Been using devolo units for years. Excellent. On 22 Oct 2010 10:45, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: I need to connect a server to my home LA... I drilled throught the outside wall and have CAT5 all around the outside. Quick,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
On 22 October 2010 10:44, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: I drilled throught the outside wall and have CAT5 all around the outside.  Quick, easy, fast, secure ...almost certainly against building regs.. :) If it gets struck by lightning (a very real possibility given it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 October 2010 10:47, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 22 October 2010 10:44, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: I drilled throught the outside wall and have CAT5 all around the outside.  Quick, easy, fast, secure ...almost certainly against building regs.. :) I would not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for enabling encryption so your neighbours can't snoop on your traffic. Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? Or does it create a local interface on the Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
On 22 October 2010 11:01, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: I would not have thought so (though not an expert), that is how TV aerial leads are generally wired. Which is why many people unplug their telly at night :) Just make sure when you drill that the drill slopes down to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
On 22 October 2010 11:15, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for enabling encryption so your neighbours can't snoop on your traffic. Does the Linux app enable encryption

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:18 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? It does. You plug a PC directly into the device and choose a key which is set inside the device. Do that for all devices and then you're set. Nothing more to do, no computers need to be

[ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which his windows install has been bricked by his AV. I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've agreed to look and get it working again for him,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread K.de Jong
a simple serch pointed me here: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html 2010/10/22 Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which his windows install has been bricked by his AV.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Sutton
On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which his windows install has been bricked by his AV. I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: He uses sage a lot, and, not being an accounting type I was wondering what is the most similar package to use. I know what's available in the repo's but not their capability / compatibility with sage. Will he be able to get his sage info into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Giles
On 22/10/10 12:31, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does anyone have any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ For larger organisations I'd go with something like OpenERP: http://www.openerp.com/ Al Thanks Alan, I'll have a look at these two and find out which Sage he's using, I'll probably give him both and let him decide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Glen Mehn
There's not a whole lot in the linux world which equates to quickbooks or sage, unfortunately. It's a massive hole. OpenERP is a solid but massive bit of software which is likely to be overkill. I've had complaints from clients that it's really user-unfriendly (and these were accountants,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Swaysland
Thanks for your help everyone, much appreciated. On 22 October 2010 13:17, Bob Giles thecorf...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/10/10 12:31, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to's is this useful to someone

2010-10-22 Thread pmgazz
On 20/10/10 12:28, Paul Sutton wrote: What license are the other help sheets under? If you could let me know please. I will try and add an appropriate link. Thanks Hi Paul - we mostly use the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ - although sometimes we use the commercial

[ubuntu-uk] External CAT5 (subject change for change of topic)

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Harrison
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:47:42 +0100 From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations To: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: aanlkti=eeef3pwvvg3r2bdtmafvjzaq8nun6b5gp7...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a linksys kit with encryption that works great, 200mbps Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External CAT5 (subject change for change of topic)

2010-10-22 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Actually, the biggest problem I've come across is the fact that ethernet cable sheathing doesn't have great U/V stability - it will degrade over about 7-10 years if it's left in direct sunlight. I wired my external CAT5's over 12 years

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Beard
On 22/10/10 13:49, Will Bickerstaff wrote: For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ For larger organisations I'd go with something like OpenERP: http://www.openerp.com/ Al Thanks Alan, I'll have a look at these two and find out which Sage he's using,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 October 2010 12:45, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: [...] For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ +1 for GnuCash for personal use, don't know about business Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apache not correctly running php scripts

2010-10-22 Thread Jacob Mansfield
still nothing I'm afraid Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 20 October 2010 23:42, Marc Deslauriers marcdeslauri...@videotron.cawrote: On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 22:29 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: I am trying to install squirrelmail onto my new mail server, however it appears that Apache is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Yorvyk
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:32:33 +0100 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: I'm a bit late in posting but a while back I did see a package called Accountz. It's from a UK based company, I believe they do a Business version for about £100 and a Home version for about £40. The thing that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Beard
On 22/10/10 21:42, Yorvyk wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:32:33 +0100 Rob Beardr...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: I'm a bit late in posting but a while back I did see a package called Accountz. It's from a UK based company, I believe they do a Business version for about £100 and a Home version for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Thanks all, I'll spend the weekend looking at some of these. Put a couple on his machine and leave him with it for a few weeks and see what he thinks. Glenn, I'll definitely come back with some feedback from him once he's had time to acclimatise to whatever he settles with. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apache not correctly running php scripts

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
You might need to install suphp or set a mime type in Apache to handle suphp. s/ On 22 October 2010 21:35, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: still nothing I'm afraid Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 20 October 2010 23:42, Marc Deslauriers marcdeslauri...@videotron.cawrote: On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External CAT5 (subject change for change of topic)

2010-10-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: As far as I'm aware, it poses no more risk than, say, a satellite dish. I *am* a satellite engineer. I've installed and operated antennas from 1.2m to 9.3m in diameter, from Baghdad to London. I've never seen lighting strikes an antenna in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apache not correctly running php scripts

2010-10-22 Thread Daniel Case
Jacob, did you download libapache2-mod-php5? This package contains the apache modules to enable PHP :) Daniel (PHP Programmer by job) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External CAT5 (subject change for change of topic)

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Beard
On 23/10/10 00:02, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: As far as I'm aware, it poses no more risk than, say, a satellite dish. I *am* a satellite engineer. I've installed and operated antennas from 1.2m to 9.3m in diameter, from Baghdad to London.