Re: [Dorset] kubuntu 9.04

sued it further because I don't expect the modem to be used. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.or

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

or wave-spam, or anything bad at all. There is some discussion of such things on the wave forum though -- the Google people claim to be aware of and planning for such problems. It all looked very clever, but does, as Si says, require a fast and reliable network

Re: [Dorset] Samba Help

92.168.1.5:445 > timeout connecting to 192.168.1.5:139 > Connection to 192.168.1.5 failed (Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) I had a similar problem recently -- and failed to solve it (I only needed temporary access to the XP box, so I rebooted it with Knoppix and did the job properly).

Re: [Dorset] Struggling with Video

as a package in your favourite distro. Likewise AVIDemux[2]. [1]http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html [2]http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Dor

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. DynDNS doesn't necessarily require router support -- you can run a service on Linux or Windows to keep the dynamic address up to date. HTH Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordin

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

Tim Allen wrote: > On 07/12/09 15:41, Chris Dennis wrote: >> Simon O'Riordan wrote: >>> Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and >>> dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. >>> This morning I took delivery of

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

equency, which obviously only happens rarely, when the IP address changes. My DynDNS account hasn't expired and I don't think that the IP address has changed. Does that mean that ddclient is clever enough to automatically contact DynDNS every 28 days even if the IP address is the same?

Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take

a? It's a bit like handing your money over to a bank and expecting them to look after it. Madness! DropBox is very convenient though... cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, W

Re: [Dorset] texlive problem

> I want to present mathematical formulas in a proper format. At the > moment I can't properly show things like Square root of A divided by b. > Does this help? My standard installation of Lyx allows maths via the Insert / Math menu, e.g. $\sqrt{\frac{a}{b}}$ cheers Chris

Re: [Dorset] texlive problem

Peter Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:13 +0000, Chris Dennis wrote: >> Peter Harris wrote: >>> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:26 +, Robert Bronsdon wrote: >>>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:54 -, Peter Harris >>>> wrote: >>>> &

Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill

7;ve written to Desmond Swayne -- the MP on this side of the border. Last time I wrote to him about something (the arms trade) he just replied "I disagree" (embedded in a couple of paragraphs of waffle). cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet

Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill

continue. As a constituent I ask you to do all you can to ensure the Government does not rush the bill through and deny us our democratic right to scrutiny and debate. Yours sincerely Chris Dennis --- 22nd March 2010 Dear Mr

Re: [Dorset] New book.

section on optimising IDE hard drives, but no mention of SATA. And in the introduction it speculates about what a wonderful server Linux will be in 2003. And you have to sign your life away to get the download in the first place. Thanks for the link though. cheers Chris -- Ch

Re: [Dorset] Winjoke - stuck in the dark ages!

Vista and W7. [1] http://cdburnerxp.se/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 359, Issue 4

s sub-directories is rarely what you'd expect or want. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn,

Re: [Dorset] cd question

. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http

Re: [Dorset] Lost booting on PC

a Windows instance, you could try booting with a DOS boot disc and running the command 'fdisk /mbr'. Or, if it's Windows XP, you could do a 'repair install' to revive it. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbri

Re: [Dorset] USB re-mounting

ed into the kernel. cheers Chris -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingb

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

imple to work with, and is probably available in your favourite distro. [1] http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

is possible. Any takers? If it's really just two computers talking to each other, you could just give each one a fixed IP address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, and they can talk to each other without requiring DHCP or DNS. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Dorset] USB 1-2 problem

ou knew that :) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

to OO for now. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready?

On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ My ISP (UKFSN / Entanet) seems to be ready, but how do I actually get an IPV6 connection? Can anyone recommend a suitable wifi-enabled ADSL router for IPV6? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

library/bb457011.aspx Is that true? Do teredo/miredo make connections more complicated for IPv4 addresses? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

page was in 2008, and it doesn't do IPv6. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ H

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

On 22/04/11 01:30, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote: I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs test-ipv6.com, and he says: \ Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider d

Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10

ss to the mythconverg database. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs E

Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10

abase connection parameters are specified in the UI: you can connect as whatever user you want. You're right, of course. -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meet

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

t-4-0-tunnelbroker-net-ipv6-routers/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report

Re: [Dorset] Locking down physical console access

ent logins completely. On the other hand, I'm not an expert on this stuff, so you should confirm these ideas elsewhere. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-10-04 20:00

Re: [Dorset] laptop battery suppliers

bought an even cheaper "New Trent" brand one from Amazon, and it's been fine (at least the client hasn't complained). cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2

Re: [Dorset] Capturing bootup messages

C-s/C-q no help. Is there a way of stepping though or paging a startup? Sometimes you can scroll back through console output with PageUp or Shift-PageUp or something similar. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK --

Re: [Dorset] A few links following last night meeting

"TeamViewer is free for all non-commercial users!" Looks interesting. I've used reverse VNC connections in the past to access a remote machine, avoiding talking the remote user through opening up an incoming port. Traffic is in the clear though. http://library.gnome.org/users/vinagre/stable/revers

Re: [Dorset] HUD

x27;Unity' and 'Gnome3' things. And on my own desktop, I've taken the radical step of moving from Ubuntu to ArchLinux (again with XFCE4). It gives back the feeling of being in control of the machine. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@

Re: [Dorset] Options for a 'new' machine

very stable, with the latest versions of everything. Compared with Ubuntu, you have to do a lot of configuring yourself, but the wiki is full of excellent documentation. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next

Re: [Dorset] DHCP question

On 18/04/12 22:22, Tim Allen wrote: I think I've sorted this now. For anyone who's interested: > ... Thanks for posting that. I didn't know that sort of thing was possible -- I'll make a note of it for later. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Dorset] Recover

mining each file and working out what its name should be. Good luck! cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New th

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 469, Issue 1

, secure operating system, or on the other one? Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go

On 28/02/14 11:40, Peter Merchant wrote: I do like that. IS a similar sort of thing available for other counties? P. No, same Post Code District. BTW, they, along with lots of other interesting layers, are available for Dorset. http://explorer.geowessex.com/?search=BH8%209TG&layers=7006,41&basem

Re: [Dorset] Skype

I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype alternative? https://appear.in/ It uses WebRTC, and claims to be "secure". Cheers Chris -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-01-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New threa

Re: [Dorset] Vivaldi

On 07/04/16 08:16, Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, I've looked at Vivaldi for the first time today. Firstly it's closed source. Now I don't look through the source of every program I run, but it's good to know that others can, and help to keep the provider honest. Secondly, has anyone looked at the pri

Re: [Dorset] Vivaldi

On 09/04/16 01:51, CPK Smithies wrote: Please note that the privacy policy quoted earlier on this thread was not that governing the use of the Vivaldi browser. It was linked to by that policy as affecting certain "search services". So far as I can see, there's nothing in the browser that forces y

[Dorset] Linux support in Verwood

Hello Dorset Luggers Until recently I've been providing ad hoc support for a company in Verwood, looking after a Linux server running Samba for file sharing with various Windows PCs. I'm winding down that side of my business now, and the client has asked me if I know anyone who could take ove

Re: [Dorset] [Dorset 🐧] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2017-10-03.

On 03/10/17 11:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops, or stuffed Terry's penguin. 🐧 Sorry, can't make it tonight.  Maybe next time... Cheers Chris . -- Next meeting: Bournemout