Re: [Dorset] Evolution mail settings....
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 22:31 +0100, Bryn Jones wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 22:22 +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 11/10/10 22:10, Bryn Jones wrote: The resolution is fine Just the window running off screen In Ubuntu/Gnome there are some useful mouse + keyboard combinations: Alt + left button to move a window, Alt + middle button to resize a window. I didn't know that. But This is a fixed size GUI same issue in vinagre... Minor irritation to me Major issue imho for new users Minor irritation to me too. I think I asked about this many moons ago, that it has a 72 character wide text display, leaving half the window blank. Not sure if this is Historical, or if it can be adjusted to wrap at 132 chars, or full screen width. Peter -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory
hi Tim, Where abouts are You? Or if you can make it up to the Uni, I'll buy the coffees. I'm in the BH1 postcode area, so we could either meet in 'La Crème brûlée' (a small French place, best coffee in town, just off the Lansdowne roundabout) or I could come out to Winton, where there is 'The Baytree' in Withermoor Road (a friendly neighbourhood cafe). (and sorry about the belated offer, it wasn't until read about the 'spring cleanout' that I remembered those DIMMs). -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box
On 12/10/10 17:16, Terry Coles wrote: What we have decided to do is to install cygwin on a little used server on the internal network and use terminal services to get to it via VPN. The server isn't running a firewall and everything will be inside our secure netork, so we think it will work. That's tomorrow's task. Great news. Sounds like a good plan to use the internal network server. Although I don't recommend using telnet to logon (unencrypted, password in clear text), it is great for diagnostics, like telnet ipaddress portnumber, to check you can actually get to the port ( use Ctrl ] to break out then type exit to quit). I've used cygwin a lot in the past where I was forced to use Windoz to get some sort of control back. OpenSSH is a great tool, particularly for securing traffic like X using tunnelling. Saved a lot of hassle where very restrictive firewall rules are applied as you just need SSH port 22 open. Good luck fixing the script ;-) John. -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -- -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010, John Cooper wrote: Great news. Sounds like a good plan to use the internal network server. Although I don't recommend using telnet to logon (unencrypted, password in clear text), it is great for diagnostics, like telnet ipaddress We're not too worried about using telnet, because nothing will ever be transmitted in clear text apart from within our very secure internal network. Everything else will be through VPN. OpenSSH is a great tool, particularly for securing traffic like X using tunnelling. Saved a lot of hassle where very restrictive firewall rules are applied as you just need SSH port 22 open. We thought about using SSH, but it was another hassle so we decided not to bother. Good luck fixing the script ;-) The script is OK now; I watched it run from end to end from my Windows laptop. It's just getting remote access to work for all the corner cases. Hopefully Terminal Services will solve all that. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
