Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-02-02 Thread Antony
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > Is there an 'approved' method for separating a big aluminium heatsink from a > processor, to which it is attached as though superglued? Clamp the heatsink in a vice, protect the CPU and use a scalpel or craft knife blade to remove any actual glue and to wedge the compo

Re: [Hampshire] stuart biggs added you as a business connection on Plaxo

2010-02-01 Thread Antony
LinuxLearner wrote: > >> Which in my view is most probably a breach of Data Protection Act > >> provisions. e.g. I get regular 'invites' from Facebook, though I have > >> never given Facebook consent to email me (nor ever given anyone I know > >> consent to give Facebook my email). This infuriate

Re: [Hampshire] Krfb (VNC) remote connect nightmare with screensaver *solved*

2009-11-27 Thread Antony
Stephen Rowles wrote: > > I'm running Fedora 11 and trying to allow remote access to my machine > > via Krfb - I need to get this working so I can work from home tomorrow! > > If I'd know it was going to be difficult I would have started earlier > > :(. I rather foolishly assumed that because Krfb

Re: [Hampshire] Scrounge for 200-pin SODIMM RAM

2009-10-28 Thread Antony
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: > Before a colleague at work buys new RAM for his Tosh A110-233 > notebook I thought I'd ask, does anyone have any spare 200-pin > DDR2 PC2 notebook ram going free or cheap? Similar question here except for regular DDR (aka DDR1): my Thinkpad X40 takes PC-2700 / DDR 333 CL

Re: [Hampshire] OT: TRIAC circuit question

2009-06-24 Thread Antony
"Bond, Peter" wrote: > http://www.st.com/stonline/books/pdf/docs/3566.pdf Thanks for all the replies, which have led me to this detailed tutorial www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/HBD855-D.PDF and an offer to eyeball a design if I can come up with one :-) Anthony -- Please post to: Hamps

Re: [Hampshire] OT: TRIAC circuit question

2009-06-22 Thread Antony
Anthony wrote: > >> You can get DIY circular saws with built in soft start [1] but not stand > >> alone starters for older tools. ?After lining up the saw guide on the > >> workpiece I want to slot the saw into the guide, then switch on without > >> it jolting out of alignment. ?It might be time to

[Hampshire] OT: TRIAC circuit question

2009-06-18 Thread Antony
come across a circuit that does something like that? Apologies for list abuse but I've Googled MAO without success. All suggestions gratefully received (except "Buy a new saw", obviously). Antony [1] eBay.co.uk item 400054540068 [2] http://www.quasarelectronics.com/kit-files/ele

[Hampshire] Desktop tricks (was: Legal DVD ripping)

2009-06-09 Thread Antony
Simon Reap wrote: > Rob Malpass wrote: > > 2) Is there a way I can scroll around my own desktop if this sort of thing > > happens again? To be clear, what has happened here is that, running in > > the > > 14 point font which I must observe with my eyes, the window is bigger than > > the deskt

[Hampshire] Recovering flash (was: Flash memory performance timing)

2009-03-11 Thread Antony
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:04:02 +, "Antony" said: > I'm trying to check the raw speeds of a few SD cards, partly to choose > the fastest for the camera and partly out of curiosity as some are > unbranded. [snip] > r...@pc5:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=10 bs=1M o

Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34

2009-01-01 Thread Antony
Stephen Davies wrote: > Did you try the archive on the Royal Institution web site? > http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=1882 Nice, thanks, although I'm only getting 12 second 'intros' and have mailed website support to ask for a fix - fingers crossed. Another lister has

Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34

2008-12-31 Thread Antony
Stephen Davies wrote: > The downside is that now I'll have to think of something else to do from > the 1st. > > Honest suggestions welcome? Several Hants and Surrey listers have raised pretty much the issue that is eloquently put here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-alsamixer/

[Hampshire] Recording of the Royal Institution lectures?

2008-12-30 Thread Antony
Did anyone record the lectures about Coping with Extreme Temperatures and Mechanical Adaptations of the Body, shown on 27th at 04:05 on Five? They're repeated from last Christmas. Sorry for cross-posting but urgency prevails. Anthony -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interfac

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS

2008-12-23 Thread Antony
> From: "Paul Stimpson" > That's what I was thinking too but the machine is a dual core 2.4 and the > 2 cores are alternating between 43% and 57% (one on each then swapping). > I assume that random generation is a compute-bound activity so if that > was the bottleneck I would have expected near on

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS

2008-12-22 Thread Antony
"Vic" wrote: > > I got a howto online with the steps to configure the last version of > > Ubuntu for LUKS LVM. One of the things it tells you to do is a "dd > > /dev/urandom /dev/sda5" to fill the LVM group with random noise before > > creating the groups. I have started this but I'm only getting 1

Re: [Hampshire] IBM X41 recovery CDs

2008-12-04 Thread Antony
Dean Earley wrote: > Does anyone here have a set of IBM X41 recovery CDs that I could use? > I've recently had a hard disk die, taking its recovery partition with > it... :) > > Failing that, is there any known way to reset the supervisor password? According to this [1] the SVP is stored in eepr

Re: [Hampshire] Music software Recommendations

2008-10-09 Thread Antony
> If you just love playing with drum loops then hydrogen is the best fun ever. Definitely! - it's easy to use and gives instant results, making it perfect for our 6 year old. Which other apps are easy, for example for building up multi-track tunes? I installed the Ubuntu Studio apps on her PC bu

Re: [Hampshire] Cannot boot from ide HDD when slave attached

2008-10-05 Thread Antony
Martin N wrote: > The problem is that the seagate master will boot only on its own. > When a samsung (slave jumpered drive) is attached to the second ide > connector on the single cable it gives a non system disk error! > > The gigabyte is a new board with the old hard drives transfered across > p

Re: [Hampshire] USB Bluetooth adapter

2008-09-30 Thread Antony
Paul Tansom said: > Can anyone recommend a Linux compatible USB Bluetooth 2 adapter? Not sure I've understood your requirement in full but this one connects Ubuntu 8.04 and my K750, cost 6 pounds and claims to be BT2 - AFAIR it was also identified as BT2 in dmesg output. http://www.dealextreme.