Re: [Hampshire] AGM Apologies

I won't be able to get to the AGM either unfortunately. Is there a mechanism for remote voting? I have registered to vote in the prescribed manner. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hamp

Re: [Hampshire] AGM Apologies

Hugo Mills wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: >> I won't be able to get to the AGM either unfortunately. >> >> Is there a mechanism for remote voting? I have registered to vote in >> the prescribed manner. > >Followi

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Talks for future meetings

I've been playing with Hugin and other open-source tools for manipulating digital photos recently, in particular high dynamic range images and panoramas. Would anyone be interested in a talk and/or some sort of workshop thingy at the November meeting? cheers Chris -- Chris D

[Hampshire] Remote voting at general meetings

on the wiki if required, but here it is in plain text form. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- HantsLUG Remote Voting – a suggestion

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Talks for future meetings

Chris Dennis wrote: > I've been playing with Hugin and other open-source tools for > manipulating digital photos recently, in particular high dynamic range > images and panoramas. > > Would anyone be interested in a talk and/or some sort of workshop thingy >

[Hampshire] Dial-up netbook?

old-fashioned 56k dial-up for someone just wanting to send emails in the absence of wifi or any other network resources? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] LUG BaB Meeting 01/11/08 (reminder)

ra to play with panoramas and 'high dynamic range' images using Hugin and other open-source software, in a very informal demonstration sort of way. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] powering off USB external HDDs

S. How about a switched USB hub? This for example: http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00394 (just the first thing I found by Googling 'usb hub individually switched'. On the other hand, some external hard drives power themselves down when idle (and some of those won

Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

I can steer the thread > towards a 'My Favourite Haiku' strand. > > From a Threadless Tee shirt that I bought someone last Winterval: > > haiku are easy > but sometimes they make no sense > refrigerator. > November evening: The moon is up, rooks settl

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] November Meeting and beyond

lights and the deep shadows. Still, an improvement on a single shot. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ham

Re: [Hampshire] Info sought re BitDefender Rescue CD - Knoppix based, so not OT ; -)

hasten to add.) I've found SuperAntiSpyware (http://www.superantispyware.com/) to be effective against that particular infection (and many others). cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman

Re: [Hampshire] mod_rewrite

could try it without one of the ?s, since if it doesn't match, the rule shouldn't get invoked anyway: RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L] You don't need QSA if you're not expecting '?...' on the end of the URL before the subst

[Hampshire] [OT] Business insurance

else met this obstacle? Can anyone recommend a suitable insurance company? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/lis

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Business insurance

a similar group policy for > members? No BCS membership, but I'll try the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) again -- the insurer I was with a year or so ago put the premiums up by a big amount so I went elsewhere. cheers Chris > > Cheers, > Paul. > >

Re: [Hampshire] Digital Cameras

tc., and is not in itself a useful measure of 'quality'. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ha

Re: [Hampshire] Photography Talk

isplay LT which has worked very well in the short time I've had it. I'm not an expert on CMS though, and I'd welcome a talk/discussion on the subject at a meeting. cheers Chris [1] http://www.argyllcms.com/ -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] [OT Doze networking]

nd have you check for spurious proxy settings and the like? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

[Hampshire] [OT] Festive headline

I spotted this very topical headline on news.bbc.co.uk: Virgin unveils next generation Well, almost. The actual headline is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7776139.stm Have a fun Christmas! cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Festive headline

Chris Dennis wrote: > I spotted this very topical headline on news.bbc.co.uk: > > Virgin unveils next generation > > Well, almost. The actual headline is at > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7776139.stm Did nobody get the religious reference then? Or is i

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Festive headline

Victor Churchill wrote: > 2008/12/27 Gordon Scott : >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Chris Dennis wrote: >> >>>> Virgin unveils next generation >>> Did nobody get the religious reference then? >> I certainly did and LOLed. My wife didn't. Curious. > &g

Re: [Hampshire] Optical drive not recognising Audio Cds

omething to do with Intrepid being clever and trying to do some sort of automounting on the CD, which fails on audio CDs (although Kaffeine, grip etc. still work). I still can't write CDs or DVDs in Intrepid either -- I'll look into it after the festivities have died down. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

Hello Damian I'll probably be there, so please add my name to the in-crowd list. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.o

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction

tally harmful materials, they should be recycled - for instance at the vendor from whom a new hard drive is purchased. --- Can you imagine what would happen if you turned up at PCWorld with a bag of platter shards and said "Recycle that!" ? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

[Hampshire] [OT] name hegemony, was Re: [OT] BaB Soton Uni register MySQL script

with my online tax return all afternoon. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] TV Tuner

h trying this if you're still having problems. I get these messages in dmesg: dib0700: loaded with support for 7 different device-types dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in cold state, will \ try to load a firmware firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1

Re: [Hampshire] Data Recovery

priced, and work on a "no data, no fee" basis. I've had dealings with them once and they seemed to know what they were doing. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] political party uses FLOSS

g back since. I haven't had time to have another go. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/li

Re: [Hampshire] DVD remastering

> >Hugo. > > dvdunauthor, obviously :-) see http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/r2287.html I haven't tried it myself though. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Ham

Re: [Hampshire] Wolveslug and Bletchley Park

ons are in beta. Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths. Walking directions to Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB, UK 104 mi – about 1 day 10 hours - But seriously, I'm potentially interested in the trip, although I may

Re: [Hampshire] When I'm gone?

oming on. This > will be slightly off topic but the end is relative. > > I had a PC from the Newbury Freecycle, which I installed Ubuntu on, and > then passed on. I'm sorry to hear that you've passed on. :) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden

[Hampshire] Mobile broadband on an Asus eeePC 701?

gnorant of both eeePCs and mobile broadband, but I said I'd ask around. Can anyone make any recommendations? cheers chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web I

Re: [Hampshire] Mobile broadband on an Asus eeePC 701?

Thanks for the replies folks -- I'll pass them on. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LU

[Hampshire] iplayer and BBC licence fees (again)

lly. Maybe the government should admit the the licence fee is really a tax that they expect everyone to pay, and give up the charade about the BBC being independent. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please pos

Re: [Hampshire] iplayer and BBC licence fees (again)

bout the BBC being independent. > > This link from the iPlayer site seems to sum it up quite nicely: > > http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/tvlicence > > Catch-up: No license needed > Live online (simulcasting): License required. &g

Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

ting F11 and going to fullscreen mode, but > not the same. There are add-ons that make changes to the Firefox window, e.g. for setting up a 'kiosk'. Are you sure that there are no such add-ons active? Running 'firefox -safe-mode' will start Firefox with all add-on

Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews from Apress

e I've been meaning to learn about Joomla! myself. If asking for two is too greedy, I'd prefer the Joomla! book. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Inter

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

t the frsit and lsat ltteer > be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll > raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not > raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? > yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was i

Re: [Hampshire] camaserv issue [long post sorry]

itted) > > testerm...@marvin:~$ > > I have changed the ownership of video0 to testermike and group to video, > same for /etc/init.d/camserv. but get the above error. > > any thoughts please? My first thought is that scripts in /etc/init.d generally (always?) need t

Re: [Hampshire] Ergonomic mouse ?

oblems with RSI as a result of using a computer. I went to the doctor about it and they didn't help much. Eventually I realised that my chair was too low for my desk -- once I got a proper office-type swivel chair with adjustable height the symptoms went away and have not returned, despite t

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday ruminate

Damian Brasher wrote: > This is an interesting contemplation:) > > http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html > > Have a good weekend all, > > Damian > Who'd have thought we'd need more than five (count 'em) bits for an IP a

[Hampshire] [OT] Pirate Bay gets Euro MP

In case you hadn't noticed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8089102.stm Teehee! cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.o

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

in Wimborne, and I knew it began with "P" -- eventually we stumbled across the "Pudding and Pye" and then I remembered. What does that say about how my brain stores information? The music in the P&P was excellent, BTW. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

[Hampshire] Sharing calendars

dows clients via a Linux server? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Sharing calendars

Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Chris Dennis [2009-06-24 22:48]: >> I've got a client who wants to combine their Windows PCs with a Linux >> server. The server will provide file sharing (using Samba), email >> (using IMAP), and shared calendars and task lists. >>...

Re: [Hampshire] No WPA2 option in Jaunty

m/jaunty/wpagui If network-manager isn't working, you could try Wicd (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/), which I prefer. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk W

Re: [Hampshire] copying data from SataII drive from VIA RAID too slow

am trying to copy the data to a > USB2 HDD but it is so dog slow. Maybe the USB ports on the computer are only USB 1 or 1.1, rather than 2.0. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please pos

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Laptop A3380 Power Problem

; Rob > Have you checked that the mains lead is supplying the advertised number of volts? If the power socket has suffered trauma in the past, perhaps there's breakage in the plug too. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

[Hampshire] Can't update the wiki

Hello HantsLUG I'm in the mood for some Friday afternoon documentation, but the wiki is ignoring my changes. Even selecting 'Preview' just takes me back to the unaltered page. Is there anything I should be doing apart from signing in as ChrisDennis? cheers Chris -

Re: [Hampshire] Jessops Photo Printing Software

peful this time! > > Not actually sent anything for printing yet, will let you all know how it > goes. > > Rich > > http://photo.jessops.com/free-software.html > As soon as I tried to run their Java-based ordering system it crashed Firefox. It's good that they acknowl

Re: [Hampshire] Can't update the wiki

Damian Brasher wrote: > Hugo Mills wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:32:53PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: > >>> I'm in the mood for some Friday afternoon documentation, > > Much as I love writing documentation and I do, really, see > http://www.diaser.or

Re: [Hampshire] Ultimate Linux Media PC?

012. > I agree absolutely. Every time I retune I end up messing about with scripts and SQL, but never really come up with a proper solution. There must be someone in the UK who has cracked this. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com

[Hampshire] [OT] Armoured network cable supplier?

Hello folks Can anyone recommend a supplier and/or installer of armoured ethernet cable? My client (www.lotusflowertrust.org) needs a network connection to their outside office about 30m from the main house. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Armoured network cable supplier?

what you are after, but a > possible alternative. > Thanks for the replies. I did the cable-in-a-pipe thing once in the past, but I wasn't convinced that the result would last, and it involved a lot of hassle getting the wires down the pipe. Maybe I'll reconsider wifi solution

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Armoured network cable supplier?

David Ramsden wrote: > Chris Dennis wrote: >> Hello folks >> >> Can anyone recommend a supplier and/or installer of armoured ethernet >> cable? >> >> My client (www.lotusflowertrust.org) needs a network connection to >> their outside office ab

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Armoured network cable supplier?

Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello folks > > Can anyone recommend a supplier and/or installer of armoured ethernet cable? > > My client (www.lotusflowertrust.org) needs a network connection to their > outside office about 30m from the main house. > > cheers > > Ch

Re: [Hampshire] Pipe issues

Simon Reap wrote: > > (BTW, did anyone else read the subject of this email and assume it was > carrying on the armoured ethernet thread?) No, I thought it was about smoking. Virginia shag, anyone? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btint

Re: [Hampshire] pcworld southampton & linux (pavithra

ht a laptop. It's got Vista on it, but I don't want that. Please can you install Ubuntu on it for me?". So I did (and got paid for it). cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshi

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Armoured network cable supplier?

Chris Dennis wrote: > Chris Dennis wrote: >> Hello folks >> >> Can anyone recommend a supplier and/or installer of armoured ethernet cable? >> >> My client (www.lotusflowertrust.org) needs a network connection to their >> outside office about 30m from t

[Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

Or maybe the user should somehow tell the server "I want to unplug the drive -- stop using it and unmount it". The user's only way of communicating with the server is by email or possibly via Webmin. Has anyone come up with a cunning plan to deal with this? cheer

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

John Cooper wrote: > Chris Dennis wrote: >> Hello folks >> >> I'm planning to use one or more external USB hard drives to backup a >> headless server running Debian. I'll probably use rsnapshot, with a >> script that detects for the presence of the rig

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki

to add some stuff about Getmail to the LinuxHints page.) cheers ChrisDennis -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] DAB / DVB recommendation

t a back-end system together with a DAB or Freeview tuner etc., and a little silent, diskless front-end PC to sit by the bedside. But that could be overkill for what you want. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK

Re: [Hampshire] CurrentCost meters

eractions. RRDTool is an easy place to start though. I used instructions at http://www.jibble.org/currentcost/ to create graphs such as http://www.fbcs.co.uk/files/power-week.png which proves that I've been away for most of the week and haven't had a chance to do anything more sophi

[Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

009/09/24/4388169.htm [2] http://www.limofoundation.org/ [3] http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/vodafone360-samsung-h1 [4] http://www.android.com/ [5] http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/coming-soon/mobile-phones cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.co

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

ly for Apple - and it is a BSD > core), MS Windows Mobile (fill in your own comments here) or Linux. > Which is the cheapest and most cross platform? Which one do you think > handset manufacturers will adopt? The answers to those two questions are not necessarily the same. cheers C

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

Hugo Mills wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:00:09AM +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Sep 25 at 12:10, Chris Dennis wrote: >> ... >>> Any thoughts about how LiMo compares with Android[4]? Or any of the >>> other shiny toys that are &#x

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

Sean Gibbins wrote: > Chris Dennis wrote: >> Thanks for that, Hugo. >> >> One question, somewhat off-topic: how well do these high-tech phones >> manage with accessing the internet over GPRS rather than 3G? Vodafone's >> 3G coverage is pretty much absen

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/9/26 Chris Dennis : >> James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> ... >>> Conclusion: A 3G phone should still be able to fall back to do GSM based >>> GPRS. >> Thanks for that James. >> >> Is GPRS unusably slow for things like GP

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >... > Conclusion: A 3G phone should still be able to fall back to do GSM based GPRS. Thanks for that James. Is GPRS unusably slow for things like GPS (where the relevant bit of map gets downloaded as you go)? cheers Chris -- Chris

[Hampshire] Samba vs. Dovecot (and some amusement)

houghts on this? And for your amusement: while trying out things with Samba, Nautilus and names with colons in, I got this wonderful error message which could be taken as philosophy: Unexpected error: Success cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden..

Re: [Hampshire] Samba vs. Dovecot (and some amusement)

Hugo Mills wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:49:20PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: >> And for your amusement: while trying out things with Samba, Nautilus and >> names with colons in, I got this wonderful error message which could be >> taken as philosophy: >> >&g

Re: [Hampshire] Samba vs. Dovecot (and some amusement)

nted to be able to demonstrate to the client that their emails are being backed up (to an external hard drive using rsnapshot) along with all their other files. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to

Re: [Hampshire] Samba vs. Dovecot (and some amusement)

27;t I see a list of things that look like emails?" I'll say "Because you're using the wrong tool to look at them." I still think Samba is broken though... cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire,

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/10/12 Dr A. J. Trickett : >> I am willing to stand again... >> > > Quick! Nominated! > > Mad fool. > > Cheers, > Al. > Seconded. Well done Adam. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btin

[Hampshire] [OT] Monday morning madness

may not be interfering with the correct function of the device." It's nice to get a definite answer to a question. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

ssle than it's > worth. Okay, so I do run LDAP at home, but that's since I use it as a > test bed for doing LDAP work. > > Adrian I've found 'hassle' to be an understatement when it comes to LDAP. Is there anything else that will do a simple

Re: [Hampshire] Bad Karma

Jacqui Caren-home wrote: > Mat Grove wrote: > >> list of annoyingizations of the language :) >> > > IMHO if you use 'zation' you are now an american :-) > > It's not as simple as that, if you believe Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

[Hampshire] [OT] data recovery from dead USB stick

re these people reputable? [1] http://www.flash-data-recovery.co.uk/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ha

[Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

Hi folks Have you seen this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8333194.stm I wonder how many programmes / operating systems / routers etc. will break? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to

Re: [Hampshire] Adding XML metadata to pictures

to look in. I don't know much about any of these things, except that they exist. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

[Hampshire] cron riddle

iday, and not a different day of the week every month. Are there any clever tricks that I've missed? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https:

Re: [Hampshire] cron riddle

;second Friday of the month" option is the best available, should rsnapshot run a cycle of 4 weekly backups or 5? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interfa

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] southampton shop to fix lennovo laptop

t; adapter) to copy the files. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] cron riddle

Peter Salisbury wrote: > 2009/11/13 Chris Dennis : >> Peter Salisbury wrote: >>> Use anacron? From the man page: >>> >>> Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a frequency >>> specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume

Re: [Hampshire] Video editing - 1st steps

size, e.g. 720x576, then cropping the edges and expanding the result to fill the frame will inevitably lose quality. It might be better to just mask off the blurry bit at the bottom, giving a black bar instead. Just an idea (that I read somewhere on the interweb). cheers Chris -- Chris

Re: [Hampshire] GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04

doesn't take that long to >> learn the basics. > >For the items I listed above, it's massive overkill, and it's hard > to find the relevant tools within the gigantic list of other options. > >Hugo. > > I like gThumb for photo management and ba

[Hampshire] [OT] Not drowning but waving

m. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Book Reviews

books of interest? I'm interested in > * Crafting Digital Media: Audacity, Blender, Drupal, > GIMP, Scribus, and other Open Source Tools and > * Pro Data Backup and Recovery I won't be at the December meeting though. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Hampshire] Rawtherapee released under GPL3

2.3 and 2.4 versions. I'm glad to see that the author has chosen to go open source at last. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https:/

[Hampshire] Debian auto-mount scripting?

got autofs mounting the drive when it's plugged in, but I'd also like to trigger the backup script. And this is for a server, so there's no desktop magic happening. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Debian auto-mount scripting?

Stuart Sears wrote: > On 11:58 Mon 01 Feb , Chris Dennis wrote: >> Hello folks >> >> What's the up-to-date way to run a script when a USB hard-drive is >> plugged in to a server running Debian 5.0 and a 2.6.26 kernel? >> >> Autofs/automount? udev?

Re: [Hampshire] Hardware Fault?

und. > > It may be that this system has is passed its 'usability date' and > I'll need to get a replacement system but the only option locally is > to buy a brand new system from PC World which I am very reluctant to > do. All I need is to be

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

ary grumble, mutter...) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] SF Denies access based on US Sanctions

world'[1], so avoid such a blockade is not hard. [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LTS

format and contents of config files. You'll have to go through each subsystem (e.g. exim, apache, etc.) and work out how to migrate settings from old to new. In some cases, just copying files will work, but don't ask me which cases those are. cheers Chris -- Chris De

Re: [Hampshire] Upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.x.x LTS when it ships

om 9.04 to 9.10. The LTS status of 10.04 is irrelevant to me. In other words, there's no difference between 10.04 LTS and 10.04 non-LTS. There are two possible upgrade sequences: Non-LTS: 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 LTS: 8.04 -> 10.04 cheers Chris -- Chris D

Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware Problem

rs Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

[Hampshire] [OT] I'm an octopus!

According to https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/webbehaviour I'm an octopus -- which probably translates as a sad loner who spends too much time with computers :) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshir

Re: [Hampshire] SheevaPlugs and offshoots.

ys get at things with desktop.imran.local, router.imran.local, >> debian1-xen.imran.local etc >> > Thanks Imran for the interesting info. I look forward to your talk, hopefully. > > Clive Woodfine > Me too. -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet

Re: [Hampshire] WePad

Philip Stubbs wrote: > Has anybody seen this? > http://wepad.mobi/en > > Will it live up to the hype? > I hope it doesn't go the way of the OpenMoko FreeRunner. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire,

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