Re: [Dorset] Interesting email security check

2023-06-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Peter, Thanks for sharing this, it prompted me to make some improvements to my domain's email security. Hamish On 31 May 2023 08:52:25 BST, Peter Merchant wrote: >I came across this from Linked-In >https://emailsecuritycheck.service.ncsc.gov.uk/check > >It shows me how much I need to learn

Re: [Dorset] Logging into the WMT Database

2023-07-07 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Terry, Yes, there are compatibility issues with newer versions of mysql/mariadb clients and the old version of mysql the server uses, which is why the installation spec says to use an older version of python-mysqlclient, amongst other things. I'm surprised the users I created aren't showing

Re: [Dorset] Logging into the WMT Database

2023-07-09 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 08/07/2023 08:33, Terry Coles wrote: On 07/07/2023 19:25, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: Hamish, Yes, there are compatibility issues with newer versions of mysql/mariadb clients and the old version of mysql the server uses, which is why the installation spec says to use an older

Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Terry, At the time, I didn't have to do anything for the pis to be compatible, because the mysql client provided worked with the database on the NAS box. I believe incompatibility would start to be a problem if we updated Raspberry Pi OS as well, but with the current version all seems fine.

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

2023-08-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Sorry, I forgot that it was on last night so didn't show up, see you all at the next one. Hamish On 1 August 2023 12:40:04 BST, Terry Coles wrote: >Hi, > >The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 p.m. using Jitsi. > >The meeting can be joined using a web browser to open >https://meet.jit.si/dors

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2023-08-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
This reminds me, Jitsi now requires sign-in to start meetings, so whoever first arrives may have to sign in with Google, Facebook, or GitHub to start the meeting. Hamish On 29 August 2023 09:49:09 BST, Terry Coles wrote: >Hi, > >The next Meeting will be one week tonight; Tuesday, 2023-09-05 at

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8pm

2023-09-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi, I have something else to attend as well, so I will be joining the LUG a little later at around 8:30. As I preciously mentioned, someone with a Google, GitHub, or Facebook account will need to set up the call. Hamish On 5 September 2023 12:37:16 BST, Terry Coles wrote: >Hi, > >The next On

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

2023-10-03 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi all, I will be a little late again and will join a little after 8:30 pm. Hamish On 3 October 2023 13:12:04 BST, Terry Coles wrote: >Hi, > >The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 p.m. using Jitsi. > >The meeting can be joined using a web browser to open >https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug > >Chr

Re: [Dorset] Somewhat Off Topic - Can Anyone Recommend a Decent Tablet Computer?

2023-10-30 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Just a thought: I wonder if an E-ink tablet would be a good idea, though the contrast might be lacking a bit for text-on-colour sections. Hamish On 30 October 2023 13:14:02 GMT, Peter Merchant wrote: >WE have had a few, and I have been happy with Lenovo ones. I once had a 10" >one, but it was

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting Tonight at 8 pm

2023-11-07 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
I will be a bit late again and start from 8:30, assuming the other thing is running this time. Hamish On 7 November 2023 14:13:42 GMT, Terry Coles wrote: >Hi, > >The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 p.m. using Jitsi. > >The meeting can be joined using a web browser to open >https://meet.jit.

Re: [Dorset] TP-Link routers

2023-11-18 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 18/11/2023 16:41, Peter Merchant wrote: On 18/11/2023 14:49, Terry Coles wrote: On 18/11/2023 14:25, Peter Merchant wrote: Does anybody have any experience with TP-Link routers?  I see the C50 and C64 are not badly priced and I really want to improve the response of my  wireless connection

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8pm

2024-03-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 05/03/2024 05:28, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 p.m. using Jitsi. The meeting can be joined using a web browser to open https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug Chrome or Chromium may fare better than Firefox. An alternative to installing either of those is to obtain

[Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-03-11 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi all, At the last online meeting, several of us expressed interest in doing in-person meetings again, probably at the Broadway in Bournemouth where we used to do them. We were thinking of doing them on a different day so they don't clash with the online meetings, and so that people who don

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-03-12 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 12/03/2024 11:27, Peter Merchant wrote: On 11/03/2024 18:09, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: Hi all, At the last online meeting, several of us expressed interest in doing in-person meetings again, probably at the Broadway in Bournemouth where we used to do them. We were

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-04-17 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Bump. What dates and times and venues work for all of you? I can be pretty flexible because I can drive and I don't have too much going on at the moment. Hamish On 12 March 2024 20:52:18 GMT, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: >On 12/03/2024 11:27, Peter Merchant wrote: >>

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-05-03 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
ot sure what's up with that. Hamish On 17/04/2024 16:00, Hugh Frater wrote: I'm also flexible, I drive and don't have a particularly full schedule at the moment. On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 14:51, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset < dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: Bump. What

Re: [Dorset] Free: iPad mini

2024-05-13 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Hugh, I don't have any use for that, but it's probably worth something at CeX even if it's not a supported model any more, so even if no one here wants it, I'd hesitate before recycling it. Hamish On 13 May 2024 09:39:05 BST, Hugh Frater wrote: >Before it goes in the WEEE skip, does anyone

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-05-28 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
nd meet? I guess we could always discuss this at the online meeting next Tuesday. Hamish On 03/05/2024 20:37, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: Hi all, I have taken the executive decision that Wednesdays are best, but we can change that later. Here's the link so all of you can note you

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-05-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 29/05/2024 10:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Peter wrote: At a previous discussion the Kings Arms at 252 Wallisdown Road Wherever you decide, have someone scout it out on the same weekday and time. It may now be a dive, or have constant, loud music. Even if someone vouches for it for Sunda

Re: [Dorset] Updating technology NvMe memory

2024-05-30 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Peter, You'll likely not be able to boot from NVME on a system that old, and you probably don't have NVME slots either, but that can be fixed with a PCIE to NVME adaptor card, if you have a free PCIE slot. A while ago back when I had an older computer, I booted it from NVME using Clover and

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-06-13 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 29/05/2024 20:56, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: On 29/05/2024 10:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Peter wrote: At a previous discussion the Kings Arms at 252 Wallisdown Road Wherever you decide, have someone scout it out on the same weekday and time.  It may now be a dive, or have

Re: [Dorset] In-person meetings

2024-06-13 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Also just noting that I guess we'll meet at 8pm as that's what we used to do. Hamish On 13 June 2024 14:03:37 BST, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: >On 29/05/2024 20:56, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: >> On 29/05/2024 10:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >>&

Re: [Dorset] Who knows Winton? In-person meeting, Wednesday 19th June.

2024-06-18 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi, I would be happy to go there, but unfortunately I am ill so I shouldn't go and spread the illness. Hope any of you who do go have a good time :) Hamish On 18/06/2024 14:27, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Tim wrote: If that turns out too noisy then consider a Wetherspoons as they have no mu

Re: [Dorset] When is next month's meeting: 2024-11-??.

2024-10-08 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 02/10/2024 09:59, Terry Coles wrote: On 02/10/2024 09:56, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: How about we do the second Tuesday instead? I may be in the Midlands on that day, but since this crops up regularly, it's nothing new.  Otherwise OK. -- Terry Coles Okay, any thoughts

Re: [Dorset] When is next month's meeting: 2024-11-??.

2024-10-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
All, How about we do the second Tuesday instead? Hamish On 02/10/2024 09:28, Terry Coles wrote: Ralph, It was mentioned, but not discussed, except that we might want to move it. Any suggestions? On 02/10/2024 09:21, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, When's the next meeting?  Was it discussed la

Re: [Dorset] Interesting feature of LUG Mails

2024-10-22 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
This is quite interesting. I use Zoho mail and don't have any problems receiving LUG emails as far as I'm aware. Hamish On 22/10/2024 10:18, CA Wills wrote: Just read through this subject comments. Not sure if this is any connection but our Church sends out auto reminders to people with a 'S

Re: [Dorset] Can I move the beginning of my root partition (to increase size) and still boot normally?

2024-10-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi John, Moving the rootfs partition shouldn't pose any problem, I've done this multiple times in the past with both EFI and BIOS systems. Hope this helps, Hamish On 29 October 2024 15:20:43 GMT, John D wrote: >Hi, >A longish story. I tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 several weeks

Re: [Dorset] NAS not Auto Mounting

2024-12-12 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Tim, So "sudo mount -a" mounts it? Strange that it doesn't mount on boot then, if the fstab entry is correct. Maybe it's trying to mount before the networking is set up? Best, Hamish On 12 December 2024 17:48:31 GMT, Tim wrote: >Hi Ralph > >Mount on booting, if I want to mount it I have to

Re: [Dorset] Characters in lug messages

2024-12-14 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
I also use Thunderbird so would be interested to know if my emails get corrupted too. Hamish On 14 December 2024 07:44:00 GMT, Terry Coles wrote: >On 13/12/2024 16:31, Tim wrote: >> If it makes any difference I am using Thunderbird, I am not  big fan >> of it but it is the best of available ema

Re: [Dorset] Nas & NFS, stopping boot up

2025-04-19 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
't get an issue to test it. > >Tim H > >On 18/04/2025 20:09, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote: >> If you use the "nofail" mount option in /etc/fstab, that should stop it from >> stopping the boot process. >> >> Best, >> >> Hamis

Re: [Dorset] Nas & NFS, stopping boot up

2025-04-18 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
If you use the "nofail" mount option in /etc/fstab, that should stop it from stopping the boot process. Best, Hamish On 18/04/2025 19:08, Hugh Frater wrote: I access my on-prem nas (running trunas) using bookmarked ‘servers’ from the gtk file manager. These then appear in a totally predictabl

Re: [Dorset] What linux distro should I use?

2025-03-11 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi all, I recently switched from Mint to Linux Mint Debian Edition and can vouch for it, it's very polished and stable. Best, Hamish On 10 March 2025 09:24:08 GMT, Tim wrote: >Hi James > >If you are looking at the Mint, then Mint has a Debian version you could try. >While I have not used it f

Re: [Dorset] Easy way to move files in directories to the root of a USB Stick

2025-07-01 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 01/07/2025 13:05, Terry Coles wrote: On 01/07/2025 12:47, Andrew via dorset wrote: These were both brand-new devices.  They wouldn't be much use to anyone if the partition table was wrong.  They both worked on the PC, but not the Mini. I'm glad I didn't waste much time trying to help this

Re: [Dorset] Easy way to move files in directories to the root of a USB Stick

2025-07-22 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
On 02/07/2025 08:42, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Hamish, My car has a limitation where it can only see the first 100 or so tracks I think, so trying to load the family's complete collection on to a USB stick for it doesn't really work that well. The USB stick presents a USB mass-storage device to