Re: [Dorset] Web Kiosk OS
You'll find a lot out there. I even made a few back at the time that Web OS's were cool - to go along with Bibud... There are plenty - e.g. Webconverger, or even just a slim version of Debian. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] MagPi Magazine for the Raspberry Pi
I'd also remind everyone that this is also available through the Pi Store :P -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-07-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] External HD - Permission denied
It'll be to do with permissions in PolicyKit to disallow users from doing so. There are a few solutions: 1. Fix in policykit to allow you to edit volumes (the tool depends on your DE, it's usually in the relevant settings tool). 2. Format to VFAT and it will automount as user 3. Edit the fstab and add it in, with an option of "user,auto" 4. Do everything as root on the disk. Cheers, Dan -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] The Latest Linux Powered Device
> The H-bomb is fairly complex. Not really. An uncontrolled explosion of tritium and deuterium is no work (i.e. it happens on its own), you just have to make the stuff. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] Warranty annoyances was: Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?
> it is not covered by warranty. Nothing ever is. No problem I've ever had with any device that I need outside help with has been. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers
> Card - GeForce 8500 GT This is fully compatible with the latest NVIDIA drivers Source: myself :) Dan Dart _ WEB DEVELOPER | SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR | BLOGGER | MUSICIAN http://dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language
Well... BASIC. It helped me learn the programming principles learning QBASIC. My second language was probably Javascript... -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IT Clipart Images
openclipart.org ? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi
I just want to buy one at my nearest electronics shop. Until that day happens, they don't exist. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Skills and technologies
I wouldn't buy from someone who tried to sell me new technology technology - either they're a child or illiterate. And not to name the out-house name from the in-house name?... Err -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, second Tuesday 2012-01-10 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Skills and technologies
> Windows 2000 start-up screen proclaims "Based on NT Technology", What's that? New Technology Technology? :P -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, second Tuesday 2012-01-10 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu ARM Netbook
So? When's it coming to the UK? And how much will it be? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: A bit of fun
I know of nothing except the first and last references. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Print-to-file Configuration
/etc/lettersize or something like that should give you a start. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Locking down physical console access
I believe some programs will stop working with a "no more ttys" error - can you just not start the gettys but leave the ttys? Not sure I have the correct terminology there - even don't start the login processes? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-10-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Locking down physical console access
Err don't launch any gettys in inittab? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-10-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Odd KDE almost-random lock-up issue
Dodgy ram has always been the cause of lockups for me. On 29 Apr 2011 22:43, "StarLion" wrote: Hallo all. Got a bit of a puzzler for you to... well, puzzle over. Finally gave in and put Arch on me new(er) laptop, set myself up a KDE desktop, personalise, etc... the usual post-install kind of things. Now, I've often got downloads I leave going overnight while I sleep, which wouldn't be a problem... except at some point in the night the entire system just locks up. By the time I open the lid in the morning, the laptop presents me with a black screen and is totally unresponsive. Yet if I leave it on a console without X running, it doesn't happen. Of course, this doesn't really help much, since the download app I use is a graphic app without a CLI backend, inconveniently. I've thought to check the logfiles, except even the 'everything.log' just shows a line with '--MARK--' on it, and then nothing else until syslog-ng starts up on the next boot up. Without anything logged to trace it from, I'm at a complete loss here. I've tried disabling pretty much all of KDE's power management in case it happened to be that, but no luck. Searching about the internet suggested two problem possibilities, namely VLC (which apparently somehow causes KDE to experience issues just by having it installed...) and cron, though there's nothing cron is running except three daily jobs - logrotate, man-db and shadow respectively, none of which would seem to me to be the cause. Anyone got any ideas to lend a hand here? -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10
Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, worked for me On 22 Apr 2011 23:19, "Archie Ferrier" wrote: Hi All Has anyone had any success getting MythTV installed and working without resorting to Mythbuntu? I am having problems getting it to connect to the database despite being able to access it myself in a terminal. I think the problem is with it trying to call kdesu instead of kdesudo when opening the database. Is there some way to redirect this? Any help would be much appreciated. Archie -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] [OT] DNS port number
Yup, Ralph, that's how I see one abstraction of it... I get iptables panic when I use Skype. It uses lots of high UDPs for a hole punch. It eventually works though. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] [OT] DNS port number
Yes - the RESPONSE is on high ports - which your router would normally let in because they are in the state ESTABLISHED or RELATED (hole punching). You can try blocking everything coming in on iptables - but you won't get any responses from anyone unless you let these packets in. Obviously your firewall was being too strict and disallowing them - and it kept trying on different ports. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] [OT] DNS port number
8.8.8.8 is Google's DNS service. If you're using it, then that'll be why. The high port numbers are the responses. which were blocked :( -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Use of cat to concatenate .gz files
cat works with mpg files too: cat file1.mpg file2.mpg > file3.mpg file3.mpg is a valid mpg file! -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Launching a graphical App from within a script
The first X session being :0.0, (you can specify a hostname before the colon) the second will be :1.0, will it not? I'm not sure about the .0, as you can also refer to it with just :0, :1, etc., and they get mapped on the local machine like :0 -> ctrl+alt+f7, :1 -> ctrl+alt+f8, etc., unless they're virtual (e.g. VNC) Cheers -- 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] Identifying the drive containing a CD
You might think about editing the initrd/initramfs, it's really just a gzipped ext2 image / squashfs image usually. Just make a new one with the stuff in there, add your stuff and remake your CD! Job done! -- 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] Music CD's to Disk
> I'm gonna throw caution to the wind and presume this is a "regular" audio CD > and you have some piece of software which is showing you these different file > types > as possible transcoding options. I can't imagine any reason for someone to > bundle that lot onto a CD. It's okay. KDE does that (I assume that's what's being used?) - it creates a virtual folder with formats analogous to codecs installed. The files show the approximate size of the output file (it's just a guess, in the case of lossy, I believe). It's a clever ioslave and I've used it many times and love it. > P.S. A final word of caution, if your looking to copy straight from computer > to an MP3 player in the future you might note wma support is more prevalent > that ogg. Not anymore, it seems. If you have a little £10 player, then maybe, but Android supports ogg out of the box and can be modified to also support FLAC. Cheers -- 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] dorset Digest, Vol 359, Issue 4
I still do that chown command when necessary but only as a normal user. On 18 Nov 2010 17:02, "Brian R Masterman" wrote: > On 18/11/10 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: >> The command I put in was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples >> > You are not alone, we had a UNIX administrator do a; > chown -R .* username > > Only to discover that it had changed all the above directories and then > down. > > Whereas they should have typed; > > chown -R .[a-z]* username > > The saying comes to mind, measure twice, cut once. > > Brian M. > > -- > Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Listening to BBC Radio stations online without iPlayer
> In the end I bought an old Psion Wavefinder off of ebay to listen to the > radio through my PC. Not all that portable though. Very nice device, and not too difficult to get working in Linux with OpenDAB (if you have 32 bit). -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPV6 article in Daily Telegraph
> The other day I installed Windows 7 in a kvm virtual machine, using kvm's > default networking setup, and somehow Windows managed to get a real routable > IPv6 address! I'm not sure how it did that as there's no IPv6 on my network > at all Windows 7 uses Teredo tunneling by default, which gives you a tunnel to an IPv4 server with an IPv6 connection to get you the IPv6 tunneled all the way. However, only apps designed for it will work with it in Windows. So no ipv6.google.com in the browser. You can get free software for the protocol by installing the Miredo package and it will work the same, except give you a network virtual device called "teredo" which it tunnels all IPv6 traffic through, and you CAN get ipv6.google.com! -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPV6 article in Daily Telegraph
> I don't think any ISP anywhere does, for that matter. I talked to some guy with IPv6 - I can't remember, but I know some ISPs do. I was testing others' IPv6 connectivity as I had a Miredo tunnel to give me a global address. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] IPV6 article in Daily Telegraph
Most do, but it's the ISP that you have to wait for. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Linux Assembly Programming.
Go ask mike.saund...@futurenet.com and look at his x86 OS assembler project: mikeos.berlios.de -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Use of Visual Basic
Tried Gambas? It's a VB like language. I too missed VB, but as it's so dead and not as powerful as FLOSS languages (had a look at Qt Creator or pyGTK?) I wouldn't go back. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Just testing
> Just checking I am still connected Hadoukren! -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] WTH?
Don't forget the ten seconds! -- 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] Which distro would you install?
The perfect 10 is out! Just to break your modes of speech. -- 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] WTH?
It's out! -- 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] Input text without a keyboard
If in doubt use a vkeybd -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] (no subject)
> I'd suggest the mail list drops all meesages from msn.com as the simplest > solution. Sounds sensible to me! -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] (no subject)
> http://bit.ly/cvIBAp Looks dodgy - since it was sent to everyone - I'd like a little explanation. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?
> VM's are the future Yes. Especially with 6 cores! :D -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?
> Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-) Oh, me! me! me! Pick me! I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM. As soon as they are I use them full time. And make sure everything is fixed before release day (submitting bug reports etc) THEN being confident of being able to use the stable system. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] SNNLFU Back To Normal.
My thinking was kernel.org is newer and thus more likely to have been fixed. On 18 Sep 2010 15:25, "Simon O'Riordan" wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 15:12 +0100, Dan Dart wrote: > If it happened to me, it's in the image right?... Speaking strictly personally, I don't yet think I know better than the entire staff of Ubuntu, even if their releases can be a little intractable. I'll wait and see what happens with 10.10 before taking a step like that. Simono -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Li... -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] SNNLFU Back To Normal.
If it happened to me, it's in the image right? So I'd have my own kernel and not upgrade theirs? On 18 Sep 2010 14:50, "Simon O'Riordan" wrote: Reinstalling version 23 alsa via the script doesn't work until you use the -s option on the script. This forces the use of the latest alsa approved snapshot, and upgrades the computer to 23. And it works with Skype on the HP2133 again! But beware the Ubuntu scheduled upgrades. Simono -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] This is a test.
This is also a test for no reason. :p On 18 Sep 2010 14:55, "Simon O'Riordan" wrote: Just a test to work out contacts synching. Simono -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] SNAFU again
> Might pay to scan the update list carefully to prevent reversion of > Alsa, but I think it was the image that did it. Tried apt-pinning? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] And while we're at it.
So they don't work without it even when they're configured in Monitors? On 17 Sep 2010 19:59, "Simon O'Riordan" wrote: To make the HP 2133 external VGA port work, create an xorg.conf file(it doesn't come with one in 10.04). Contents: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Option "ActiveDevice" "LCD, CRT" Option "SWCursor" "on" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" EndSection When this file is placed in the xorg.conf.d folder, when you reboot, external monitors connected to the vga port will magically work! Simono -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Source for new Netbook with Linux or no OS?
> if the machine isn't made to be compatible with Linux, A kernel developer came out and said "EVERYTHING works with Linux" - and as far as I've seen, that's the case :) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Source for new Netbook with Linux or no OS?
> arguably supports the system better than any MS offering would. Heard of "Novell-certified"? ;) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Source for new Netbook with Linux or no OS?
> There's also http://www.system76.com/ who have a good reputation. Oh? I heard they were US-only. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] New FSFE Free PDF Readers Campaign
Security is my biggest gripe! As with almost all non-free apps, really! -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Source for new Netbook with Linux or no OS?
That doesn't sound nice. I wouldn't want to work with a business with dirty tactics like that. They should properly try to compete by innovation rather than removing anyone else from the market. If only the world worked that way. I'm not sure it's competely legal, it could be covered under antitrust, what MS are doing specifically. If sales of their product weren't so vital to mine (assuming I'm a small business) then I'd ditch them for not supporting me. Of course, I can't do that. But I would like to show consumers what MS have done to us - maybe it'd put them off with any luck. I'm afraid I'm not a businessman. Goody-goody businessman is an oxymoron :( -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Source for new Netbook with Linux or no OS?
> not any more. I wonder why? They were nifty, but you couldn't install stuff on them very easily without installing UNR. Not many had UNR. Bad rep? Time to introduce more with UNR! Geez, I need to start up my idea for a company that sells things properly. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Source for new Netbook with Linux or no OS?
> It looks like Dell have finally succumbed. There were reports of it dropping Linux in the UK but then they said "Oh, no, we're just in the middle of upgrading them all! We'll sell them again soon!". There are a million places to get Eee PCs with Linux - including Asus themselves. Same goes for Aspire Ones - whose microphones aren't that bad. PC World used to do them too - they still should if they have any sense. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Mirror mirror on the wall....
> And will you document it all on the lug wiki? Sounds painful. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] gcc cross compiling to m68k
Hi, I'm surprised newlib is in use here at all. Did you choose it, and if so why? I'm not a newlib buff so I won't know about how it's awesome quite yet I'm afraid. If all else fails, check out buildroot as it can probably make you a toolchain, plus a load of userspace stuff, based on µClibc/busybox. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Updating Software on Linux without rebooting
.> running code gets overwritten Not Firefox... yet... -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] gcc cross compiling to m68k
> initial questions, if anyone on the list has experience using gcc as a > cross-compiler. Yep - I use buildroot a lot. > What's multilib and how does it fit in with newlib (which I gather I need to > build for a different target)? Multilib is a feature of gcc that lets you compile for multiple architectures with one binary e.g. x86/x86_64, or even x86/ppc (I think) Newlib is a C library, replacing glibc or µclibc > Do I need to do a specific gcc build for m68k (I'm assuming yes, but > confirmation would be nice!). Most definitely. You need gcc to compile a static gcc that compiles code for m68k on your architecture. And maybe including a m68k version of gcc (only runs on m68k) > I assume I also need to build binutils for m68k too? Most definitely again. That's the second thing you put in your toolchain, after kernel headers. You compile gcc against that. Hope that helps Dan -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Clive's Problem with /tmp/.X11-unix.
> 1 root:x:0:clive,root I thoughth normal users weren't allowed to be in the root group? I thought they usually go in wheel or admin (ubuntu) but only root if they need to access root's files that are setguid or chmod g+ -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Clive's Problem with /tmp/.X11-unix.
Here ya go.
d...@powerhouse:~$ uname -a
Linux powerhouse 2.6.35.4-Dan #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 29 13:23:30 BST
2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
d...@powerhouse:~$lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release:10.04
Codename: lucid
d...@powerhouse:~$awk -F: '$1 == "root" || $3 ~ /^0*$/ {print NR,
$0}' /etc/group
1 root:x:0:
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Re: [Dorset] From Wikipedia:(and I can hardly wait)
> apparently, the beta's out now. Yeah, I tried it, it's very pretty... and kinda works. I might move fulltime to it. But it doesn't really excite me, as I can't see any new features. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] From Wikipedia:(and I can hardly wait)
> Lol. Maybe they'll do some artwork like with Hardy? Hope so. This current one looks like a mutated vegetable. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] From Wikipedia:(and I can hardly wait)
> Er, yeah. I'm really looking forward to Meerkat. It would be a sin if their slogan wasn't "Simples!" -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] From Wikipedia:(and I can hardly wait)
> I don't get it. Ok, I do get it. But it's completely arbitrary, and wrong too. But here's something else interesting (in base 10 this time): How do you make eight eights equal a thousand? 8+8+8+88+888=1000 -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] From Wikipedia:(and I can hardly wait)
> You've fallen for their propaganda! It's a well-known secret that > Canonical work in senary internally. 10/10/10 is not what it seems! I don't get it. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Just Saying Is All.....
> I wonder: in twenty years' time, will people look back and say, "I can't > believe people used to pay for that kind of software"? Or will they say, > "I can't believe it was free"? I hope for "I can't believe they didn't let you do that!" -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Simple? MEPIS and Regionset.
Just fri, libdvdcss is region-free. You don't need to set a region when watching DVDs with it. If I got the right end of the stick... -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Mirror mirror on the wall....
> was it somebody else punching you on the nose to bring you back > to reality from doing the happy dance around the room?? Are you sure that's a happy dance? Sure it's not an insanity dance? -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Mirror mirror on the wall....
Ahaha. How many geek points do I get for compiling lots of kernels, tweaking Buildroot, making LFS and doing 90% of Bibud? On 26 August 2010 22:08, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > And the nominations for most nerdly behaviour are: > Simon O'Riordan, for successfully building his first C++ Shared Library > on Linux, using it, and promptly getting a nosebleed > > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
Re: [Dorset] Winjoke - stuck in the dark ages!
Yeah, that's what it's like on that ... other... side of town >_> Things we have had for ages they can't get right. It's like we live in China and they live in Britain or something. Have a nice day On 22 August 2010 14:27, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > So the wedding DVD has been edited in Kdenlive, authored in DeVeDe and > written by Brasero. > That's all the region 2's done. > What about the USA relatives? > I could buy an external drive, and set it to region 1; but that is > expensive. > I thought (stupidly) that I'd feed the NTSC iso over the network to my > windoze box. First, I'd take the DVD writer from my MEPIS box because > changing regions might be 'difficult'. > > They are identical Optiplexes so it's just a rack change. > > XP; no built in DVD writing. Deep-something-or-other comes highly > recommended as a free writer. It's CRAP, totally non functional. > NCH? > Their stuff usually works. I installed it and burnt 4 copies. When I > closed it, it took me to the 'buy now' page. It costs as much as that > external drive I was avoiding. > > > So I bit the bullet. Went to MEPIS synaptic and installed: regionset and > Brasero off the shelf. > So I'll be making this an all Linux project after all, and windoze is > only surviving on the cusp of realisation and ignorance. > > It'll be great to see people power topple the Soviet Union once more. > > Simono > > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Boot up fault Ubuntu 10.04
>From GUI you can use gksudo gedit (file) and it prompts you. On 20 Aug 2010 13:25, "Sean Gibbins" wrote: On 20/08/10 12:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > > I don't know how to recommend a GUI user looks at its... To list out the files: sudo ls -ltr /var/log/gdm/ To view one: sudo gedit /var/log/gdm/:0.log (substituting gedit for the GUI text editor of choice, and :0.log for the file you want to look at from the output generated by the previous command) Despite its world read permission being set, you still need the sudo to get to it on my machine. Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://w... -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Boot up fault Ubuntu 10.04
> (process:349): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user > id(0) User ID 0 is root. Is your /etc/passwd still there and showing a root user? -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Sheevaplugs
> Ralph mentioned these in relation to backups. Has anyone on the list tried > them, or others (like Guruplug). I agree, it would make a great backup > server, or DNS, print server etc... I'd like to use them for home sharing servers, to run Bibud et al. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] FTP files blocked.
> I would start with the Binary mode problem. This is only a problem if you > are looking at compiled code, not bash scripts etc. I think any binary data type not openable with a text editor would have the same problem. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] FTP files blocked.
Looks like either the format is incompatible (vastly differing versions of glibc?) or the file was transferred in ascii mode when it should have been transferred in binary mode. Take a look at your settings on the FTP programs. On 7 August 2010 17:28, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > When I put a linux-based executable file onto my ftp site(not CLI), and > I download it to another computer it no longer works. > The same file across the network works, after I set the permissions to > allow as an executable. > Does anybody know what sort of wise-ass magic the Filezilla programme, > or Ubuntu, does to prevent any executables brought in by this route from > working? > And does anybody know how I can set the permissions back to make it > usable? > It may be because I am downloading to the Desktop. > Thanks, > Simono > > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Monitor resolution
Submit a bug report! I have an X193W that is, this is strange. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] YouTube - word to the wise -
> But if you do this, the YouTube uploader doesn't need to do any > processing and your video goes live immediately it gets there. > Which is nice. > Simono Except now where it's using WebM. -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] That's that.
> Networking hobbled. > Kernel crashes. > Feeble standard repositories. > Sound disappears. > Sound controls disappear too. > Can't be configured for Samba. > Video editor programmes 'unstart'. > Freezes at kernel level on boot up-login. > > Apart from that, it's brilliant! Ubuntu has: > Networking hobbled. (Occasionally) > NetworkManager disappears > Logoff button disappears > No session management in "System" Woohoo, distro bashing! That means I can make mine perfect. :P -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] That's that.
> Fedora is simply dreadful. Why? I've never tried it so please enlighten me on why it sucks so much. -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Somewhat off-topic.
/tmp or Video DownloadHelper extension for Firefox! Or indeed search "download youtube" and there'll be web based ones available -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Slow night
Good call! I'll drink to that... -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] It'll Never Catch On.
> across the air Are you serious! That's amazing! -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] It'll Never Catch On.
It's amazing what people get up to these days for dirt cheap. -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] USB wireless keys.
Oh yes, Debian doesn't come with the firmware due to the project's beliefs but if it's new enough should come with actual modules. I think.their stock kernels are far too stable. On 19 Feb 2010, at 10:11, Tim Allen wrote: > On 19/02/10 01:04, Dan Dart wrote: >> They all work with Linux - in general you don't have to worry, it's >> rare these days that they won't. >> >> We got 3 from 7dayshop and they turned out to be zd1211rw fully >> compatible with Linux. >> My PCI wifi card is rt61pci - works nicely. >> My laptop internal: (ipw/iwl)3945 - nicely >> My laptop's PCMCIA (ath5k) - nicely. >> >> So 4 out of 4 models worked. And it's not just luck. >> >> On 18 February 2010 23:33, Simon O'Riordan > > wrote: >>> Just bought a USB wireless key for £6.95 on e-bay. It works with >>> windows for sure, haven't tested it on Linux yet, but the price >>> includes tax and postage. >>> www.digiflex.co.uk >>> Simono >>> -- >>> Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 >>> http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 >>> Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset >>> List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset >>> >> >> > > I had a Ralink RT2870 Wireless-n USB dongle I wanted to use with > Debian > Lenny a few months back. > Had to get the drivers from the Ralink website and build them, but it > was pretty straightforward. If anyone happens > on one of these I can stick my notes up on the Wiki. > > Tim > > > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel= > %23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ > dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] USB wireless keys.
They all work with Linux - in general you don't have to worry, it's rare these days that they won't. We got 3 from 7dayshop and they turned out to be zd1211rw fully compatible with Linux. My PCI wifi card is rt61pci - works nicely. My laptop internal: (ipw/iwl)3945 - nicely My laptop's PCMCIA (ath5k) - nicely. So 4 out of 4 models worked. And it's not just luck. On 18 February 2010 23:33, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > Just bought a USB wireless key for £6.95 on e-bay. It works with windows for > sure, haven't tested it on Linux yet, but the price includes tax and postage. > www.digiflex.co.uk > Simono > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] [OT] Line speeds
There are 2 units: bps (bits per second) and B/s (bytes per second). 2Mbps means 2 megabits per second which equals ~ 2000 kilobits per second which equals ~ 250 kB/s. (kilobytes per second) To be fair, due to protocol overhead and line usage by your neighbours on the same exchange you're hardly likely to get 2Mbps. In fact we live 3 miles from the exchange and paying for 8Mbps - and we barely get 1/2 Mbps - and that's on a good day when it's half reliable! On 4 February 2010 16:10, Tim wrote: > > I am trying to understand line speed but I sinking into a hole full of kbps, > kbs > and mbs > > If I have a 2mb dedicated line, what is the maximum kbps that I would need to > reach before I reached the maximum capacity of the line? > > I hope that is clear > > Tim > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take
True, but for businesses, they need to do that. Our Xenon server backs everything up every day along with a few more computers along to BackupPC through wi-fi which keeps everything for a year. On 3 February 2010 17:43, Terry Coles wrote: > On Wednesday 03 Feb 2010, Dan Dart wrote: >> I don't suppose assuring the users they have RAID arrays will help? >> Thought not. Yes, if anything can't afford to be lost it should be >> backed up 5 times. Once on CD, once on RAID, once on USB, once in the >> cloud, once at your friend's house 8 miles down the road, And probably >> more so. > > I appreciate that you are a bit tongue in cheek with this comment, but the > fact is that that the average user will do none of those things; just as most > of the T-Mobile customers had no personal backups. They thought that the > provider would deal with it. > > Also, I suspect that Sidekick *were* using RAID. The trouble is that a dumb > admin or some software that goes wild can trash everything because they (it) > thinks that the data being overwritten is the right data. Do you remember the > big Internet outage some years ago when the DNS records were accidentally > overwritten by an out-of-date backup? > > I accept that things *shouldn't* go wrong. The problem is that they do, even > in the best maintained systems. If your data is in the cloud, then there is > no point complaining if the provider loses it, because his licence will almost > certainly absolve him from responsibility. On the other hand, if you are > going to do as you suggest, and take your own backups, then you might as well > run your own server and be responsible for the whole stack; OS, Apps and data. > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take
I don't suppose assuring the users they have RAID arrays will help? Thought not. Yes, if anything can't afford to be lost it should be backed up 5 times. Once on CD, once on RAID, once on USB, once in the cloud, once at your friend's house 8 miles down the road, And probably more so. On 3 February 2010 17:24, Terry Coles wrote: > On Wednesday 03 Feb 2010, Dan Dart wrote: >> But remember the AGPL is to fix the cloud loophole. > > That might fix the software problem, assuming that the provider takes any > notice of your bug reports and patches, but it won't fix the potential for > data loss. > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take
But remember the AGPL is to fix the cloud loophole. On 3 February 2010 17:12, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday 02 Feb 2010, Peter Merchant wrote: >> I'm Interested in your take. Is he spouting nonsense again? >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.st >> allman > > RMS has been accused of spouting nonsense ever since the first draft of the > GPL. I will acknowledge that he 'has a way with him' that tends to generate > hostility towards his point of view. However, he has been proved right more > often than he has been proved wrong, so I always think hard when he makes a > pronouncement. > > Personally, I've been somewhat concerned about cloud computing ever since the > idea was first mooted. On the one hand you've got convenient and flexible > storage. On the other: > 1. You've got to use software running on someone else's computer over which > you have no control whether it's open source or not. > 2. There is the potential to lose your data, either legally (all your bases > are belong to us) or in reality, as with the recent loss of data by Sidekick > (http://www.intomobile.com/2009/10/12/t-mobile-sidekick-user-data-lost-in- > microsoft-server-crash.html). > > Admittedly the data loss case was by a company owned by Microsoft (Need I say > more?). The cause was reported by some sources to be because MS were > monkeying around with the server code (ie trying to replace it with their own > buggy crap) and by others that they simply had no backup (the mind boggles). > Who can swear that Google or Amazon might not have a similar catastrophe as > the years go by? > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Public Spirited BT. Not.
Openzone is the same idea for BT customers but FON charges money, often you get them both on the same router but openzone can be used freely because the BGP port is open. On 3 Feb 2010, at 04:22, Dominic Lonsdale wrote: >> From the BT site; > > Q. What is BT FON? > > A. BT FON is an initiative between BT and FON that aims to give all > its > members access to wireless broadband wherever they are in the world. > This is possible because all BT FON members agree to securely share a > portion of their Wi-Fi bandwidth through a SEPARATE channel on their > wireless router with other members who are in range of their wireless > router. These wireless routers become known as "BT FON hotspots". > > Q. What happens if someone uses my broadband connection to access an > illegal site? Can I prove that it wasn't me accessing the sites? > > A. When the visitor accesses the Internet it is through a independent > channel and so any Internet activity will be clearly separate from > your > home network. > > > > >> I would be interested on hearing what they way. The idea that this >> is one >> way to generate 'public' wireless is interested (at the very least). >> > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel= > %23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ > dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Cloud Computing - Stallman's take
He doesn't seem to like Javascript and especially non-free ones. But if the software's AGPLd or something then he sees it fit. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] iPad Petition by 'Defective by Design'
Similar reasons. Why I regret buying an ipod. But at least I can run bash on it now. On 29 January 2010 09:10, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:16:59 -, Sean Gibbins > wrote: > >> Good luck with that Terry, both genuinely and also in that slightly >> sarcastic tone that suggests you are peeing in the wind. > > I don't think a campaign can ever be dropped because its not likely to do > much. > >> It's a good thing that you and your fellow petition signers are letting >> them know you disapprove, but I suspect the rush of eager fan-boys (and >> girls!) will make more of a statement to Apple on launch day than your >> petition ever will. > > I don't know how much I agree with the petition. I feel the petition is a > bit of a rush job by the FSF and things like this could well damage them > more than help. > > Instead of giving people the freedom to choose if the DRM will harm them, > the FSF is telling people it will. I'd much prefer too see people educated > as too why its damaging and to leave people too choose. > >> It's for similar reasons I will not buy an iPod. > > And that would be the choice they should make. To buy or not to buy. > > I also feel that if the FSF just sat back and attempted to educate people > from afar, they wouldn't get through too any more than the people that are > already interested in listening (aka. us). > > Maybe the campaing will bring some attention to the FSF and the cause in > general. Like I said earlier, not sure. I'm just worried the impact of > campaigns like this could leave more members of the FSF looking like > screaming FOSS fanboys and damage the whole argument. > > > -- > Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Last hurdle for my daughter's machine (I hope) - GRUB
Look in /boot/grub/grub.conf (I think) Change the file to reflect the new kernel images! Or sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc might do it 2010/1/24 Terry Coles : > Well. I'm nearly there (I hope). Microsoft were true to their reputation to > the bitter end and the fix that I discovered earlier (Restore Points) didn't > work out. I had a running system, but Windows Update wouldn't work. > > Fortunately, Dell provides an excellent 'Restore to Factory Defaults' feature > which uses a Recovery Partition to allow the machine to return to the state > when we got it. One happy afternoon of Windows Updates and reinstalling > software later, I think I have a working Vista installation. > > Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, the Linux installation got broke. I > don't think it was Microsoft's fault this time; it seemed to happen when I > upgraded Kubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10. The problem is that the upgrade worked > fine; I simply can't boot into it because the boot menu still lists the old > kernel images (2.6.28-13, instead of 2.6.31-17). > > I burnt Super Grub Disk and following the instructions in last month's Linux > Format, was able to boot into a working 9.10. But it won't work from the boot > menu. ;-( > > Still following Linux Format, I typed: > sudo update-grub > > followed by: > sudo grub-install /dev/sda > > which all seemed to work fine, but made no difference to the boot menu. > > This is a hybrid GRUB2 installation, because it was upgraded from a version of > Kubuntu that uses old GRUB. > > Any ideas before I reinstall a clean version of 9.10? > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming
The audio may be in an unrecognised format. Have you tried -ao mp3lame in mencoder? 2010/1/18 Ralph Corderoy : > > Hi Terry, > >> I never got round to following up on this. The file apparently >> converted OK and I was able to play it on my machine using MPlayer and >> Kaffeine. However, once it had streamed, no audio arrived at the PS3 >> (or at least if it did, it didn't know what to do with it). > > Perhaps one of the many options helps control the audio output such > that a PS3 likes it. I don't have any other suggestions other than > Google. :-) > > Cheers, > Ralph. > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
[Dorset] Any LAMP/Sysadmin jobs about?
Ahoy Luggers I am currently looking for a job, and wondered if the LUGs could help find me anything. My primary interests are Linux (of course!) and LAMP development. My personal website is http://dandart.co.uk - which has handy AJAX for sending me email through PHP. and DIV hiding and showing for instant loading. My business website is Xenon at http://hackerlanes.com - it's an alpha web desktop I programmed (with help) in JS, AJAX, PHP and MySQL. My CV is located here (depends what format you want): http://dandart.co.uk/CV.pdf http://dandart.co.uk/CV.txt Cheers -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Firewire PCI for Ubuntu Video Capture
Just get any one. See, the kernel devs say that all hardware works. So most will probably. If it doesn't (I'd say <0.5% chance, it'll be fixed soon anyway. 2009/12/9 Andrew Drapper : > Hi, > > I am looking forward to the arival of my CPU and getting my PC up on Ununtu > 9.10 64bit. > > I am now wanting to attach a Firewire PCI card for video capture. > > Any comments on compatibility etc. > > Andrew Drapper > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?
You can split a disk so you can put documents on one partition and system files on another if you so wish. If you insist on using 2, you should be able to specify the second disk (sdb) as /home on install of UBuntu. For revision control I'd use Subversion or Git (there are many GUI front-ends, if you want). Cheers Dan 2009/12/5 Andrew Drapper : > Hi, > > Looking to put Ubuntu on a refurbished PC, Should I use a single > drive, obviously the easiest, or should I put the os and programmes on one > disc docks on another, and if so how do I re-address the file system to the > second disk? > > Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for creating a > revisions backup of my documents? > > On Windows I an doing this with syncplicity. > > Thanks. > > Andrew Drapper > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Apropos nothing is particular.
Haha, excellent. We don't need VS, we have things like Eclipse and KDevelop, and Anjuta and things. 2009/12/3 Simon O'Riordan : > My new 9.10 netbook just gets better. > Wireless connection is automatic after the first time. > Printer? Just plug it in and it is ready to use. > Networking? Sees every linux or windows computer straight away, and mixes > wired/unwired networks effortlessly. > Now I have one question: > How can Microsoft have the absolute, brass-balled, GALL to charge money for > their software? The only advantage it still has is the convenience it offers > for writing software applicaitons through Visual Studio. > Without Visual Studio, Microsoft is nothing. > Simono > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
[Dorset] Introducing myself
Hi LUGs I am Dan Dart, and I am the current administrator of the Glastonbury LUG. I am primarily a LAMP developer, and second, a GNU & Linux administrator. I felt it was necessary to introduce myself around, since I have a few years experience with Linux et al. So I can offer help when it's needed usually, even if I cannot make it to your meetings. Cheers -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
