Re: [Dorset] nepomukserver
On 9 January 2011 19:06, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > If I (try to) turn nepomuk off, I Iose things like my kmail address book > (kmail being the most important thing to me at the moment). have you considered switching to Thunderbird ?? http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/ -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] nepomukserver
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Brian Masterman wrote: > I have just been struggling to kill off a set of processes that were > gobbling up all my CPU time. > > nepomukserver > > checking on the web revealed that lots of people were having the same > problem. > > I uninstall all reference to it which removed sooo much, but it was > still running. Eventually I did a search in my home directory to see > what was configuring it so, in $HOME/.config there was mention of it in > Trolltech.conf, > > removing this, then killing the processes stopped nepomukserver from > respawning. > > Now I need to find out what damage I have done. > > Brian M > > -- > Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue I'm glad someone else has noticed this. I am running out of disk space in my home partition thanks to the "terrible trio" - akonadi, strngi & nepomuk. When I first came across these I thought - eh! viruses! You are right, they absolutely slug my system (FC12) and to cap it all, when trying to figure out where all my disk space has gone I find : ~/.kde/share/apps consumes 6638984 blocks! with ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend containing: 816 soprano-virtuoso.cpt-after-recov 6617412 soprano-virtuoso.db 2736soprano-virtuoso.log 0 soprano-virtuoso.pxa 2052soprano-virtuoso-temp.db 0 soprano-virtuoso.trx 5684soprano-virtuoso.trx-after-recov Which is I believe a mysql database. I really dont want this garbage and on browsing the net I find lots of people with similar opinions. Whatever has happened to KDE to have them foist this on us? If I (try to) turn nepomuk off, I Iose things like my kmail address book (kmail being the most important thing to me at the moment). What is going on - has kde been taken over by microsoft I'm angry! Andy -- Andy Paterson -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] PC repair services
On 09/01/11 10:14, Peter Merchant wrote: On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the live disk, copy 18 GB of data onto a backup disk of mine, repartition so that there was a data partition, and then once I had sorted out XP, get them back working again. But not for long I fear. Unless they do some data maintenance It will occur again. Can anyone recommend a PC support person/organisation who I can recommend to my friend? Since his retirement on Medical grounds about 18 months ago he has been using friends and his ex-employers IT department to keep things up and running. As a friend I don't want to charge, but also do not want to spend lots of my time sorting him out. His main problem is basically that they do not do any maintenance on the PC's, and his son has stuffed it full of programs like Autocad. Perhaps not appropriate here as it's XP. ( But in my sorting out of his computer it nearly became Ubuntu!) Peter, Shame you didn't suggest buying a bigger hard drive (500GB SATA £35, PATA £70) and also put Ubuntu on for future fixing. I suppose you could still add a second drive and show them how to save all their files there. As far as support, there must be someone local to you and getting them to add a second drive and give advice would be a good test to see how good they are. John. -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -- -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] PC repair services
On 09/01/11 10:14, Peter Merchant wrote: >> On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in >> perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think >> they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks >> to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the live disk, copy 18 GB of data onto >> a backup disk of mine, repartition so that there was a data partition, >> and then once I had sorted out XP, get them back working again. But not >> for long I fear. Unless they do some data maintenance It will occur >> again. >> > Can anyone recommend a PC support person/organisation who I can > recommend to my friend? Since his retirement on Medical grounds about 18 > months ago he has been using friends and his ex-employers IT department > to keep things up and running. RapidPCs in Christchurch are both very good and reasonably priced. Their turnaround is pretty swift too. > As a friend I don't want to charge, but also do not want to spend lots > of my time sorting him out. His main problem is basically that they do > not do any maintenance on the PC's, and his son has stuffed it full of > programs like Autocad. > > Perhaps not appropriate here as it's XP. ( But in my sorting out of his > computer it nearly became Ubuntu!) Well, that's a sensible alternative to patching up XP every time it keels over. Of course, it depends upon what the PC is used for, but if like my family PCs/laptops it is mostly for browsing, email and word processing then it is an ideal low-maintenance solution worth considering. Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] PC repair services
> On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in > perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think > they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks > to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the live disk, copy 18 GB of data onto > a backup disk of mine, repartition so that there was a data partition, > and then once I had sorted out XP, get them back working again. But not > for long I fear. Unless they do some data maintenance It will occur > again. > Can anyone recommend a PC support person/organisation who I can recommend to my friend? Since his retirement on Medical grounds about 18 months ago he has been using friends and his ex-employers IT department to keep things up and running. As a friend I don't want to charge, but also do not want to spend lots of my time sorting him out. His main problem is basically that they do not do any maintenance on the PC's, and his son has stuffed it full of programs like Autocad. Perhaps not appropriate here as it's XP. ( But in my sorting out of his computer it nearly became Ubuntu!) Cheers, Peter -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - (just under) One week tonight
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 18:52 +, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > The next meeting is less than one week away (I forgot to post last night). > We're at the Crown Hotel in Blandford Forum from 8pm. > > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub > Damn, Due to the threat of closure to Dorset Libraries I have been co-opted to attend a meeting of Colehill Parish Council on Tuesday, so I cannot attend this. Enjoy yourselves. On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the live disk, copy 18 GB of data onto a backup disk of mine, repartition so that there was a data partition, and then once I had sorted out XP, get them back working again. But not for long I fear. Unless they do some data maintenance It will occur again. Cheers all, Peter -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
