Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

[Anton Piatek]

Nice

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On 23 Jul 2014 18:45, "Keith Edmunds"  wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:42:19 +0100, stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk
> said:
>
> > most
> > people are not using the mandatory [redacted] filters at the ISP's.
>
> I like A&A's approach. When you sign up for an account with them, you're
> asked (as you must be now) whether you want a filtered connection. If you
> answer "yes", they refuse to take you as a customer. A&A don't filter.
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Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

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I checked my self hosted WordPress blog and it was fine, is WordPress
really the reason?

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On 23 Jul 2014 17:41, "Stephen Davies" 
wrote:

>  There were a lot of posts on the Interwebs about the fact that most
> people are not using the mandatory [redacted] filters at the ISP's.
>
> Some of the commenters complained that the likes of Talk-Talk were
> blocking their wordpress blogs for no good reason other than the fact that
> they were running Wordpress.
>
> I checked my  blog via
> https://www.blocked.org.uk
>
> and found that Sky were blocking it. I have requested that the block is
> removed or at least they explain why it is blocked.
> If they decline to unblock it then I'll have good really ammo to fire at
> them the next time someone tries to get me to sign up for Sky.
>
> If you have a wordpress blog then you might like to check that it is not
> being blocked by an ISP.
>
> Regards,
>   Stephen D
>
> PS, just updated the MacMini that runs the blog to CentOS 7. I'm really
> glad that I don't install a GUI on this box. Long live Gnome 2!
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Re: [Hampshire] [OFF TOPIC] Electrician recommendation

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And how does one know when buying a house if electrical work was done after
2005?
I'd say it is rather hard to enforce, unless of course you are wiring an
extension and it is obviously new wiring.

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On 5 Jul 2014 19:22, "Brad Rogers"  wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 18:35:13 +0100
> Daniel Llewellyn  wrote:
>
> Hello Daniel,
>
> >> "competent person" who will check your work before s/he signs off on
> >> it all.
>
> >That's not entirely accurate. Building regulations Part-P requires that
> >all domestic electrical work be audited and approved by a qualified
> >Part-P
>
> Except for the term Part-P (head went blank, so I wrote "competent
> person"), that's what I said.  Note: "s/he signs of on it all".
>
> >In practice, and as far as I'm aware, this isn't actually an issue
> >until you come to sell the property - all work carried out on the
>
> True.  Also, given the level of understanding (i.e. almost nil) >90% of
> the general population have of the legislation, the door is still wide
> open for the cowboys.  If anything, it opened wider because the
> responsible electricians doing all the Part P installation, testing and
> so on, are going to have to charge more because their costs have gone
> up.  Poor buggers.   :-(
>
> OTOH, they do pick up a few testing jobs from sparkies like me who
> aren't Part P registered.
>
> Plus, of course, certain jobs are exempt.  Although that's not
> applicable in the case of Stephen's barn job, of course.
>
> >premises must have a valid Part-P certification paper for the legal
> >side of changing ownership.
>
> As for properties that have had nothing done since the instigation of
> Part P in 2005 (I had to check - head blank again); they won't have
> certificates.  What happens then?  No need to answer, the question is
> (mostly) rhetorical.
>
> >Note also, I'm not sure whether a Barn wired to a domestic premises is
>
> That will depend on what it's being used for.  Local Planning Dept.
> will, or at least should, know even if the home owner doesn't.
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Re: [Hampshire] OT: Does anyone have an A1 printer?

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We do, but I think it still needs some ink spills cleaned internally

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On 3 Jul 2014 18:56, "Peter Collins"  wrote:

>
>
>
> On 2 July 2014 15:46, Vic  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All.
>>
>> I'm trying to get a small number of A1 sheets printed. Does anyone have
>> access to a printer that could do this?
>>
>> I'm not looking for a freebie, just a realistic price :-)
>>
>
> So Make It have a A0 printer iirc, I'm a member but haven't been down
> there for a good while due to work commitments.
>
> But someone there might be able to help you out, details here:
>
> www.somakeit.org.uk
>
> Rgds
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

[Anton Piatek]

Excellent!

In my line of work everyone should know at least vi, as it is the only
editor on Unix and z/OS you can expect to find.

I've never had time to learn emacs...

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On 28 May 2014 17:09, "Daniel Llewellyn"  wrote:

>
> On 28 May 2014 16:21, Freaky Clown  wrote:
>
>> Surprised this hasn't turned into "well your mail client is shit - use
>> pine/elm/outlook/lotus" rage already.
>
>
> well now that you mention it...
>
> in other news, I'm learning vim today. I quite like.
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Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

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It certainly seems to be easy enough to start a flame war

On 28 May 2014 10:20, Tony Wood  wrote:
> On 27/05/14 15:19, Owain Clarke wrote:
>> On 27/05/14 12:44, Joseph Bennie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> or you know... you could just get on with life and not worry about
>>>> the little things :)
>>>> many more fields of issues in the world that need more time and
>>>> attention brought to them!
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> So I completely failed to start a vicious flame war :(
>
> One of the things I like best about our list is the paucity of flaming.

(Does this count as top or bottom posting?)

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Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

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On 27 May 2014 12:51, Michael Pavling  wrote:
> On 27 May 2014 12:37, Freaky Clown  wrote:
>>
>> or you know... you could just get on with life and not worry about the
>> little things :)
>> many more fields of issues in the world that need more time and attention
>> brought to them
>
>
> yup... and if I wasn't spending so much effort trying to reverse-read
> upside-down conversations to try to work out what part of a reply might be
> in relation to a previous comment, I would have more time to devote to those
> other issues.
>
>
> In all seriousness... when posting to a mailing list of many hundreds (or
> more) people, it strikes me as presumptuous (if not a little rude) to assume
> that the as the writer the minute extra of my time it would take me to
> compose well a reply is more important to save than the accumulated hundreds
> of minutes of effort the readership have to expend :-/

Your presumption however assumes that it is that much harder to read?
If it really were, then all mail clients would make top-posting hard.

The fact that most of the corporate mail clients don't speaks volumes
for how the rest of the world thinks email should work.

Personally I'd rather see secure email solved rather than top/bottom posting

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Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

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If I didn't want a footer then bottom posting would be easier in Gmail
(reply in line and it still sticks it at the top)

Maybe I should ditch a footer, but I've grown used to having one for the
last 20 years

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On 21 May 2014 19:03, "Imran Chaudhry"  wrote:

>
> On 20 May 2014 22:41, "Samuel Penn"  wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 13:27:50 Anton Piatek wrote:
> > > Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post
> >
> > Really? Click the "Respond inline" button and it switches to
> > inline quoting, and even adds a proper "On X, Y wrote" line
> > to the start of the quoted text.
> >
> > You can then start adding text anywhere in the quoted mail.
> >
> > At least it does on my phone.
>
> Thanks Samuel, my reasons were same as Anton but I've just responded to
> this using your method.
>
> Bear in mind that more of us use a mobile device more these days so
> convenience sometimes trumps ettiqutte.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Fwd: Top posting

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On 20 May 2014 21:24, Daniel Llewellyn  wrote:
> On 20 May 2014, at 13:27, Anton Piatek  wrote:
>
>> Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post
>
> Gmail’s interfaces are all geared up for top-posting both on mobile and 
> desktop browsers and native apps. The nice thing, however, is that Gmail 
> provides SMTP and IMAP capabilities for you to use with your favourite 
> offline MUA (Mail User Agent - e.g. Thunderbird) which is more likely to 
> provide the capability to bottom post easily.

Except that the Gmail app uses push notifications and that means it is
incredibly more battery efficient. Also, having started using the more
powerful sorting features of Gmail, it is really hard to consider IMAP
a suitable protocol for working with this amount of email any more.

> To reference Dr Trickett’s email:
>
>> Sadly almost all non-technical business email is top-posted and it is 
>> difficult to read, often incoherent and a great source of confusion in 
>> business.
>
> This is perpetuated by every(?) closed-source MUA such as Outlook (look 
> out!), Apple Mail and the aforementioned Gmail clients per their default 
> settings which most folk don’t realise there’s any need to change nor even 
> know they can do so. Some clients don’t even provide the option to switch to 
> the saner variety (bottom-posting) at all!
>
> I often fall into the same trap that most folk do where I’ll hit reply, start 
> typing my message and hit send before then remembering that my client 
> top-posts by default but now my message is already sent.

There is a bug/ticket somewhere for the Gmail app to support bottom
posting, but I just don't think Google care.

Google and Gmail also means I don't care much either, as it collapses
already seen parts of the message so it only shows the reply, meaning
that if you top or bottom post it makes little difference to me. For
some mails I do find a pc and reply inline, but for the most part it
isn't worth the extra effort unless the pc is in front of me already
(like now)

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Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

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Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post

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On 20 May 2014 13:21, "Brad Rogers"  wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2014 12:48:38 +0100
> Lisi  wrote:
>
> Hello Lisi,
>
> >I plough on interleaving.  I rarely get complaints.
>
> Same here.  Somebody even asked me what software I used that could do
> that.  I explained it was wetware (i.e. my brain) that did most of the
> work.  They didn't seem keen on that.   :-)
>
> >remaining life too short.  If people want me to read their stuff, they
> >must make it easier! And yes, I am a grumpy old .  Supply your own
> >noun. ;-)
>
> Curmudgeon?   :-D
>
> I'm the same BTW.  With very few exceptions, any HTML email simply gets
> deleted.
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Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

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One of them should be the official one

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On 24 Apr 2014 19:32, "Imran Chaudhry"  wrote:

> Hi Anton, which remote app do you recommend? I did a quick search on
> Google Play and see a few of them.
>
> Thank
>
> On 23 April 2014 10:16, Anton Piatek  wrote:
> > Fwiw I use an Intel atom ion board with xbmc and the xbmc remote app on
> my
> > phone to control it
> >
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> > On 23 Apr 2014 10:00, "Peter Collins" 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Imran
> >>
> >>
> >> On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm after decent hardware to run XBMC on, I've already tried
> >>> OpenElec/Raspberry Pi but was not satisfied with it. I've bought a WD
> >>> Live Media Player which I am similarly not 100% happy with.
> >>>
> >>> My requirements are:
> >>>
> >>> * must have power on/off via remote
> >>> * must be small footprint
> >>> * menu click sounds
> >>> * quick response with no lag between button press and on-screen menu
> >>> * able to play hi-def including 1080p via HDMI
> >>> * remote that is easy to configure
> >>> * at least one USB port
> >>> * optical digital audio out nice but not essential
> >>>
> >>
> >> I have also been looking for such a device which would fit nicely in the
> >> family lounge but wont cost a fortune and have just come across this
> device:
> >>
> >> http://cubox-i.com/table/
> >>
> >> According to the manufacturer the CuBox-i4Pro is ideal and comes with
> the
> >> IR transmitter and receiver. It also includes Optical S/PDIFAudio Out
> >>
> >> If you plunge in and try one I would be interested to hear your
> feedback.
> >>
> >> Rgds
> >>
> >> Peter.
> >> @tripleclones
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Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

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Fwiw I use an Intel atom ion board with xbmc and the xbmc remote app on my
phone to control it

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On 23 Apr 2014 10:00, "Peter Collins"  wrote:

> Hi Imran
>
>
> On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry  wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm after decent hardware to run XBMC on, I've already tried
>> OpenElec/Raspberry Pi but was not satisfied with it. I've bought a WD
>> Live Media Player which I am similarly not 100% happy with.
>>
>> My requirements are:
>>
>> * must have power on/off via remote
>> * must be small footprint
>> * menu click sounds
>> * quick response with no lag between button press and on-screen menu
>> * able to play hi-def including 1080p via HDMI
>> * remote that is easy to configure
>> * at least one USB port
>> * optical digital audio out nice but not essential
>>
>>
> I have also been looking for such a device which would fit nicely in the
> family lounge but wont cost a fortune and have just come across this device:
>
> http://cubox-i.com/table/
>
> According to the manufacturer the CuBox-i4Pro is ideal and comes with the
> IR transmitter and receiver. It also includes Optical S/PDIFAudio Out
>
> If you plunge in and try one I would be interested to hear your feedback.
>
> Rgds
>
> Peter.
> @tripleclones
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Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

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A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering will
stress the gpu more though.

No idea of specific workload tools though

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On 14 Apr 2014 13:31, "Ally Biggs"  wrote:

> Yeah it's gotta be the thermal paste I have worked on alot of kit over the
> years where the original supplier has used cheap cement type paste with has
> a habit of drying up completely over the years leaving you with a toaster.
> Also is a common occurrence with laptops again lost count of the amount of
> machines I have repaired due to fans clogging up with crap and rubbish
> thermal paste.
>
> I usually get Arctic Silver and have used Arctic Cooling freezers for the
> all my builds. Got one rocking a Intel Ivybridge 3.5Ghz has no issues. Your
> should be able to pick up a older version for your socket type on ebay.
>
> I usually fire up a live cd (falcon4) afterwards and run Speedfan and
> torture test builds with prime95
>
> Are there any good Linux benchmark tools? Would be handy to add to my
> arsenal :)
>
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:31:36 +0100
> > From: i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com
> > To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU
> >
> > Hmm, I suspect I may be getting a similar problem with my box (2 x
> > Opteron 2GHz dual core processors); if I work it too hard (processor
> > loading up to 90ish% on all four cores) it just shuts down. I suspect it
> > will be an "interesting" task to take off the Zalman coolers, re-paste
> > and refit...
> >
> > Ian
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> > On 13/04/14 23:49, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> > > On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, you wrote:
> > >>> My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it?
> > >> Yes.
> > >>
> > >> I seem to get about 3 years from modern stuff; at 7, your machine is
> long
> > >> overdue for a re-pasting.
> > >>
> > >> Make sure you clean off all the old crud with acetone or similar, then
> > >> replace with fresh stuff. I'm unconvinced that any one brand is better
> > >> than another - I use a large tube of Servisol.
> > > It seems everyone is of the same opinion. Something to do over
> Easter...
> > >
> > >
> >
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Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

[Anton Piatek]

I would always replace the thermal paste in a case like this. Worth paying
the premium for a good one, still not expensive though

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On 13 Apr 2014 20:11, "Dr A. J. Trickett"  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My 7 year old DNUK home server is prone to overheating.
>
> It has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor which is okay at 1GHz but
> when
> it gets up to 3.2GHz the temperature quickly rises, it starts to beep and
> if
> left long enough it shuts down.
>
> If I left it at 100% CPU load for hours it use to happen, now it will
> happen
> after less than 1 hour, it can take as little as 30 minutes under full
> load.
>
> I now run it with the CPU governor, mostly set to on-demand and it spends
> around 98% of it's life at 1Gz and is fine for what I use it. However it I
> do
> need the CPU grunt, it shoots up to 3.2GHz and then over heats.
>
> My current compromise is to lock the CPU at 1Gz and it's fine but it
> should be
> fine to run at the maximum clock speed for a while at least if I need it
> (e.g.
> running virtual machines).
>
> Having checked the mechanicals out this afternoon, the PSU, case and CPU
> fan
> are all running fine.
>
> I know the parts are getting old and were all generic jobs in the first
> place.
>
>
> My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it? And if so
> what is the best replacement alternative for a basic home server? Is there
> anything else I could consider?
>
>
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[Hampshire] Fwd: Fw: Winchester meetup for Open Rights Group

[Anton Piatek]

The Open Rights Group is starting a chapter for Hampshire if anyone is
interested

*http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Hampshire/events/173967952/
<http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Hampshire/events/173967952/>*



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Re: [Hampshire] "Currently unreadable (pending) sectors"

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I have the same issue in the same drive. I replaced mine.

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On 15 Nov 2013 18:11, "Imran Chaudhry"  wrote:

> I've been getting these mails once daily for the last week - is my USB
> HDD on the way out? I have not seen any difference from a user point
> of view.
>
> It is a WD Element 1TB model, can't be more than 2 years old I think.
> It is also a media server HDD and is on all the time, spinning up and
> down when needed. The host is Debian 7.2
>
> ===
> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>
>host name: foo
>   DNS domain: bar.net
>   NIS domain: (none)
>
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>
> Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>
>
> For details see host's SYSLOG.
>
> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> The original email about this issue was sent at Wed Nov  6 09:53:32 2013
> GMT
> Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
> ===
>
> I don't see any errors logged though:
>
> # smartctl -i /dev/sdc
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-4-686-pae] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green
> Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0
> Serial Number:WD-WCAV5N483757
> LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2057ae091
> Firmware Version: 01.00A01
> User Capacity:1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
> Sector Size:  512 bytes logical/physical
> Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   8
> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is:Fri Nov 15 18:08:31 2013 GMT
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> # smartctl -l error /dev/sdc
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-4-686-pae] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> No Errors Logged
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Re: [Hampshire] Embedded Java on the Raspberry Pi - Oracle running on-line training course

[Anton Piatek]

Depends who is choosing, mine is still perl though node.js is interesting
me recently.

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On 21 Oct 2013 15:38, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
wrote:

> On 21 October 2013 14:16, Jerry Webb  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Oracle are considering running an on-line course for teaching how to use
>> embedded Java on the Raspberry Pi and are gauging whether the public
>> take-up would justify the effort involved.  Would you be interested?  If
>> so, there’s a Survey Monkey survey from them running (see below) as a poll
>> that you should respond to?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I thought python is the language of choice for the raspberry pi.
>
>
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Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

[Anton Piatek]

On 4 Oct 2013 17:37, "Dr A. J. Trickett"  wrote:
...
>
> However I'm more likely to delete something by accident than have a drive
> failure. I've only ever had one drive go bad at home in 15 years, even
then
> SMART let me know and I was able to buy a new drive and rebuild the mirror
> without any down time, but I've deleted stuff I didn't want to many times.
...

I have just bought a new drive as mine is giving me SMART errors and is one
month out of warranty. I don't trust hard drives as it seems most of mine
die sooner or later.

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[Hampshire] "So Make It" crowdfunding

[Anton Piatek]

Hi all, Sorry to crosspost so blatantly but as the meetings are often
in Southampton I though this quite a relevant topic. I also hope to
host some HantsLug meetings at our new space sometime.

So Make It [1], the Southampton Makerspace, is a volunteer-run
non-profit community space for people of all walks of life who like to
make things, be they physical, digital or otherwise. Having only
existed since March 2013, the Makerspace already has many tools
available to use such as a 3D printer, lathe, various drills and saws,
angle grinder, welder, soldering irons, printers, guillotines and much
more. Besides it’s twice weekly meetups it has also organised a number
of events including a soldering workshop, programming course and
quadcopter hack day; and hosts a number of groups including
electronics (Southackton), 3D printing (So RepRap) and .NET Gadgeteer
(Gadgeteer South Coast).

The agreement we have for our space in Southampton is coming to an end
in the middle of October, at which point we need to pay for 12 months
rent up front. We are asking for donations via a crowd-funding
campaign [2] to cover our basic costs for the next year. This will
enable us to grow, have more tools and equipment, longer opening hours
and more space for more members, more events and more workshops. We
will even have our own locked doors and are aiming for 24 hour, seven
days a week access for all members!

Please donate [3] to our campaign [2] to keep So Make It around. With
your help we can grow bigger and better!

[1] http://www.somakeit.org.uk/
[2] http://blog.somakeit.org.uk/2013/09/10/crowdfunding/
[3] https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/fundraiser-for-so-make-it

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Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot

[Anton Piatek]

I assume akismet is not an option?

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On 24 Jun 2013 12:59, "Chris Dennis"  wrote:

> On 18/06/13 19:01, Tim wrote:
>
>> I use this on my WP site,
>>
>> http://picklewagon.com/**wordpress/new-user-approve/<http://picklewagon.com/wordpress/new-user-approve/>
>>
>> Basically new users have to be approved, a pain in the rear yes but it
>> stopped all the Polish mobile O2 spammers that were getting on my site.
>> It sends an email to let you know somebody is requesting a registration
>> you simply approve or ignore, your choice, works for me
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
> Thanks for that, Tim.  I've added that to the HantsLUG site, so we'll see
> how it goes.
>
> cheers
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

[Anton Piatek]

I can't recall details from memory, but there is something like
/server-status which can be enabled. It can tell you a but about how busy
apache is. Worth looking at as it should tell you about thread and memory
usage.

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On 27 Apr 2013 17:51, "Chris Malton"  wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I can take a look at this with you next weekend - I've been running Apache
> in a memory constrained environment for quite some time now (256MB RAM),
> and it seems to be OK running Wordpress + a couple of other fairly high
> traffic sites.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
> On 27/04/13 17:32, Chris Dennis wrote:
>
>> Hello folks
>>
>> As HantsLUG hostmaster, I'm looking after our server which, among other
>> things, runs the hantslug.org.uk website.
>>
>> It works fine, until people actually start trying to access the site! At
>> which point it tends to grind to a halt.
>>
>> It may be that it doesn't have enough RAM (300MB) for Apache to run
>> WordPress properly.  Or perhaps I just haven't configured things right.
>>
>> So I'd be grateful for some expert opinions.
>>
>> Please add general ideas here, or else contact me off-list if you want
>> more information and possibly SSH access to the server so that you can have
>> a look.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Asus Motherboard/Linux compatibility

[Anton Piatek]

http://fr.asus.com/websites/global/aboutasus/OS/Linux.pdf
Suggests it works

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On 25 Apr 2013 21:46, "Ian Park"  wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I thought I'd try picking brains about the compatibility of a motherboard
> I'm thinking of using with Linux Mint. The MB is the Asus Rampage IV
> Extreme [1], which brags about its compatibility with Windows 8. I don't
> want to commit to pretty substantial expense in building a PC based on this
> MB, only to find that it gives me all sorts of grief when I try to install
> Linux, because of UEFI. Can anyone advise on whether it's sensible to go
> ahead with building a PC based on this MB, or indeed whether I would be
> better advised to avoid it in favour of another one?
>
> [1] 
> http://www.asus.com/**Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_**EXTREME/<http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_EXTREME/>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?

[Anton Piatek]

lol

On 24 April 2013 19:31, Paul Tansom  wrote:
> ** Chris Dennis  [2013-04-24 19:23]:
>> On 24/04/13 17:02, Alan Pope wrote:
>> >On 24/04/13 15:12, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> >>Yes, the old wiki still requires manual intervention (by me) to create
>> >>accounts for editing pages.  I'm more than happy to do that for people
>> >>who ask.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Consider yourself asked.
>>
>> Done!
>>
>> User name: AlanPope
>> Password:  mie8ahWe
> ** end quote [Chris Dennis]
>
> Which I would change very promptly!!
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Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

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For me it is the fact I can split the view into a grid and tmux remembers
after disconnecting, screen doesn't...

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On 15 Apr 2013 21:34, "Benjie Gillam"  wrote:

> Imran: nice. I prefer using Ctrl-s as prefix - I never use XOFF/XON
> deliberately, so I don't lose a binding. Ctrl-a is very useful I find -
> increment number in vim normal mode; jump to beginning of line in
> bash/emacs; and other uses I forget - so I don't like overriding it. Others
> I know use Ctrl-space but I use this globally in my desktop environment.
>
> I like your 'r' binding to reload!
>
> -
>
> Victor, Andy and anyone else interested in tmux vs screen:
>
> tmux splits both ways without a patch (screen may do this too now; I'm not
> up to date with it) and has handy tools for rearranging the splits
> ('panes').
>
> Multiple tmux clients can connect to the same tmux "server"; so two people
> can share the same tmux instance but they can both view the same 'window'
> or different windows. tmux will automatically resize a shared window to the
> smallest of the connected screens, but will resize it back up again when
> no-one else is viewing the current window. This is great for pair
> programming (though I've not tried it for this); but I've used it for
> setting up a Raspberry Pi server at So Make It easily with a friend - he
> was configuring some things whilst I others; but we could each quickly
> switch to each others windows to either work together, glean information,
> or just to see what the other was doing. I've also seen people use this for
> guiding newbies in the setting up of Linux/Linux software on a fresh
> machine.
>
> It's easy to move panes between windows, and even move windows between
> sessions. It's easy to switch sessions. It's highly configurable. You can
> give it vi-like bindings if desired.
>
> Panes/windows can be shared across multiple sessions.
>
> Tmux seems faster and lighter than screen to me; but this may just be my
> perception.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benjie.
>
>
> On 15 April 2013 18:30, Andy Smith  wrote:
>
>> Hi Benjie,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:09:58AM +0100, Benjie Gillam wrote:
>> > If anyone would be interested in hearing about how I use tmux then I'd
>> be happy to write something up?
>>
>> I am more interested in why you choose tmux over screen. I use
>> screen and am pretty happy with it, but have never tried tmux, so I
>> wonder what I am missing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
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Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

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I love the layout manager and that it remembers layout after disconnecting
and reconnecting!
I have a shell script for starting a load of windows and commands easily,
it actually runs at boot to start some things I want to run and be able to
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On 15 Apr 2013 10:10, "Benjie Gillam"  wrote:

> Does anyone here use tmux (as opposed to screen) for terminal
> multiplexing? I've been using it for a few months and it's awesome -
> especially v1.8 which was released just a couple of weeks back. I no longer
> use tabs/multiple terminals - everything on my system goes through one
> single terminal window via tmux sessions, windows and panes; even when I'm
> working locally only.
>
> I'm aware that screen can do some things that tmux can't - I'd love to
> hear from anyone who uses these screen features so I can learn what I'm
> missing out on!
>
> If anyone would be interested in hearing about how I use tmux then I'd be
> happy to write something up?
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Legacy ide

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I've had no problems with a sata to ide adapter on my box.

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On 7 Apr 2013 12:17, "Rob Malpass"  wrote:

> Hi all
>
> ** **
>
> Another question demonstrating how out of date my knowledge is…
>
> ** **
>
> Just bought a new mobo but forgot that the case into which I’m putting it
> has a perfectly working DVD-ROM ide drive.   The mobo has no such legacy
> connector.   To be honest, I don’t particularly need the dvd drive and have
> installed the os from a pen drive but to get the DVD back up again - what’s
> the best approach here?
>
> 1) Get a sata dvd drive – slightly defeating the object!
>
> 2) Get an IDE controller card.   If so, anyone know how easily these
> things integrate with Linux?   Being so low level I’d assume it would work
> “out of the box” but you never know.
>
> 3) I’ve seen IDE to SATA adapters for about 7UKP but as this is parallel
> to serial (isn’t it?) would there not be driver issues here?
>
> 4) Get an IDE to USB adapter – but I can’t see a usb socket on my new mobo
> so presumably the data cable would have to come outside the case to connect
> to a usb socket wouldn’t it?
>
> ** **
>
> Sorry this is all a bit old hat for most of you – but I’m loathe to chuck
> away perfectly working hardware.
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
> ** **
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[Hampshire] Free: Linksys pls300 powerline adapter

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I have a 4 port powerline ethernet adapter here. The other end died so
it is no use to me.

Yours for the cost of postage (or collection from Eastleigh or the next meetup)

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Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

[Anton Piatek]

On 11 Feb 2013 19:32, an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
>
> I'm always up for a debate :-)

That said, I am also happy to be the host for the debate if nobody else
wants to.
We should have several microphones in the auditorium if that would suit the
event, otherwise there are more informal rooms available.
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Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

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I'm always up for a debate :-)

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On 11 Feb 2013 18:58, "Tim Brocklehurst" 
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Just thought I'd give you an update on the next two meetings.
>
> Next month we are at the University again (Bldg 59). We start at 1pm
> (Saturday
> 2nd March). Please post about any talks you want etc.
>
> In April, we are privilidged to be hosted at IBM Hursley. For those who
> haven't been before it's a great opportunity. The plan is to hold the
> Easter
> debate at this meeting, but we need some speakers. The topic is (broadly)
> "The
> Future of Linux"; The exact topics covered are at the discretion of the
> speakers, but there's plenty to go at, from mobile-space to server-space,
> SystemD to the Desktop.
>
> Could anybody who is interested in speaking at the debate let me know.
> We'll
> need a minimum of two people.
>
> Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting,
>
> Tim B.
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Re: [Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website

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I never set a mailman password, and think that the effort of sharing
passwords is unlikely to be worth the effort.

I'm not sure how to simplify WordPress logins, maybe only giving draft and
comments access by default? OpenID helps as you can then just use a Google
address or similar.

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On 3 Feb 2013 18:00, "Chris Dennis"  wrote:

> Hello HantsLUGgers
>
> Here's an idea...
>
> Since membership of the LUG is defined as being subscribed to this mailing
> list, it would make sense to link the list with WordPress's users.
>
> In other words, subscribers to this mailing list should be able to log in
> to the WordPress site in order to add and edit content.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> A quick search hasn't revealed any obvious ways of doing it, although
> there is some discussion at http://mail.python.org/**
> pipermail/mailman-users/2011-**June/071787.html<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071787.html>There
>  is also a 'MailMan Widget' for WordPress that does the reverse: maybe
> that's the way to go.
>
> Perhaps it would need a regular job to extract the current list of
> subscribers from MailMan and use that to update the WordPress user list.
>  The first problem would be that MailMan just needs an email address,
> whereas WordPress works in terms of usernames.
>
> And the other problem would be to find a way to share passwords between
> the two systems securely.
>
> If anyone thinks that this is a) a good idea, and b) feasible, please let
> me know.
>
> (But I'll be away until Thursday, so don't expect any immediate replies
> from me.)
>
> cheers
>
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Re: [Hampshire] HD activity

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Also worth looking at atop which is good for disk activity.

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On 3 Feb 2013 20:34, "Benjie Gillam"  wrote:

> iotop is great for diagnosing disk I/O :)
>
> On 3 Feb 2013, at 19:28, "Rob Malpass"  wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> ** **
>
> For some reason, the external drive that my media centre has all its stuff
> on has just started working really hard.   I’m not sure whether I should be
> worried but my **ix is very much basic so could someone help me zero in on
> what might be causing this.
>
> ** **
>
> The server currently has no windows open
>
> Uptime reveals 0.35, 0.47 and 0.25
>
> Finger reveals only two users logged in (me from ssh on another box and me
> on console)
>
> ** **
>
> Normally at this stage, I’d do a netstat –a and or a ps aux to find out
> what’s using the CPU and network but having done both, I see a lot of stuff
> I can’t interpret (for example CPU processes enclosed in square brackets)
> and besides which, as I’m in gnome on the desktop, I’d assume these are all
> required processes.   
>
> ** **
>
> What other checks should I be doing?
>
> ** **
>
> …and while on the subject, I need to tie down this machine’s firewall a
> bit better.   Using ufw, I want a rule which allows any sort of access from
> my subnet (and obviously nothing beyond) – can anyone give me the syntax?*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
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Re: [Hampshire] Little job needed for TV video company - SUSE & RAID.

[Anton Piatek]

I wondered about btrfs too, but I'm not sure it is really ready...

Anton
On 3 Feb 2013 15:45, "James Courtier-Dutton"  wrote:

> On 1 February 2013 20:02, Tim Brocklehurst 
> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2 including backing up
> > existing data) to help out a local company between Andover and
> Stockbridge. If
> > anyone is able to help, let me know and I'll put you in touch. I have
> given
> > the enquirer some basic details on RAID, and advised that he doesn't
> move to a
> > windows server, as per last part of thier e-mail.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tim B.
> >
> > Original Message below:
> >
> > To: chair...@hantslug.org.uk
> >
> > Hi Tim
> > I wonder if you could help us. Do you know anyone who could configure a
> > Suse RAID 5 Array on a fairly old machine so that we can increase the
> > disk sizes?
> > We are a small video company between Andover and  Stockbridge
> >
> > Details are -
> > We have a Tyan 2892 mb in a 16 X HD server chassis. We only use it as a
> > place to keep our very large video file back ups. It connects by gigabit
> > ethernet to our Win 7 work stations. (We have to have Windows to run
> > Adobe production software)
> >
> > It has 16 HD including a sys drive, some office data (which we can put
> > anywhere else) and 12 X 750 Gig of video files in a RAID 5 array
> > We want to change 6 HDs initially with 2TB HDs. At present most the data
> > is already copied off.
> >
> > We had thought our one year old version of Suse and our RAID controller
> > (unknown to us at present) would enable us to upgrade one disk at a time.
> > Failing that we would configure two arrays, one to hold the new disks
> > and one to use the rest of the existing ones.
> >
> > The Suse and server have run faultlessly for several years.We have had 2
> > or 3  single failed HDs that get replaced and re-stripe/restore RAID 5
> > data  with no problems.
> >
> > We cannot find a local Linux person to call on for occasional support so
> > were thinking we should move to Windows - but we don`t really want to
> > although we are ourselves reasonably proficient with Windows (started
> > before XP now on Win 7  - 6 work station PCs.
> >
>
> I would be curious what people recommend as the solution.
> btrfs might be good here, because it allows expansion easily
>
> James
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Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

[Anton Piatek]

I have done a basic intro to the Linux and the command line at work and
will be repeating it. Maybe I should do it for the lug? I assumed it would
be a bit basic...

Anton
On 27 Jan 2013 17:59, "Ally Biggs"  wrote:

> Just a idea but to attract more newcomers to meets. You should hold
> Talks on stuff like the basics of Linux
> Administration covering areas such as basic samba (getting windows and
> Linux to play nicely). There is probably
> Alot of people out there coming from a windows world who are making the
> transition to Linux. Who are not necessarily gurus and do not want to sit
> to talks and lectures on advanced topics. With raspberry pi being released
> this would also be a perfect opportunity
> To grab new users attention. I'm quite
> New to Linux myself I wouldn't want to
> Attend a meeting and sit through a talk
> On something I'm either not interested in or am technically not at that
> level. It would put me off attending further meetings. A beginners setting
> up a Linux server workshop would be very
> Popular with myself and a lot of other
> People out there. Just some thoughts
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 27 Jan 2013, at 17:52, "Anton Piatek"  wrote:
>
> In general I think it is a good idea.
>
> Facebook has a good process for multiple admins of a page, but I've not
> seen a good solution for twitter other than relying on one person. Anyone
> know of anything.
>
> Anton
> On 27 Jan 2013 17:48, "Alan Pope"  wrote:
>
>> Hullo,
>>
>> It struck me today that the LUG doesn't have any kind of active presence
>> on social networks (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+). I have seen
>> other LUGs promote their meetings (and not much else) via these networks
>> and it struck me as a good way to reach a wider audience than the website
>> and mailing list currently do.
>>
>> I wondered if it might be worth setting up a presence on each of the
>> above networks and have some people responsible for posting when the LUG
>> has a meeting.
>>
>> To be clear, this isn't to replace the mailing list or website, and isn't
>> targeting _you_ because you are already on the list. It's to target
>> potential new people.
>>
>> Opinions / flames...
>>
>> Cheers,
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>>
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>> +44 (0) 7973 620 164
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Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

[Anton Piatek]

In general I think it is a good idea.

Facebook has a good process for multiple admins of a page, but I've not
seen a good solution for twitter other than relying on one person. Anyone
know of anything.

Anton
On 27 Jan 2013 17:48, "Alan Pope"  wrote:

> Hullo,
>
> It struck me today that the LUG doesn't have any kind of active presence
> on social networks (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+). I have seen
> other LUGs promote their meetings (and not much else) via these networks
> and it struck me as a good way to reach a wider audience than the website
> and mailing list currently do.
>
> I wondered if it might be worth setting up a presence on each of the above
> networks and have some people responsible for posting when the LUG has a
> meeting.
>
> To be clear, this isn't to replace the mailing list or website, and isn't
> targeting _you_ because you are already on the list. It's to target
> potential new people.
>
> Opinions / flames...
>
> Cheers,
> --
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>
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Re: [Hampshire] Box on last legs

[Anton Piatek]

I think you need to rule out the kvm first.

It could be overheating, but modern cpus should be stable to at least 60 or
70 deg c as measured on silicon, maybe higher.

The psu seem less likely to me, but I've never had one fail, other than
completely, but have had every other thing fail over the years and produce
odd errors.

Ram can be tested easily, the rest is a bit harder to test. Cpus normally
only overheat but other components on a motherboard can be more finicky.

It is worth saying I have had cpu overheating issues from old thermal
paste. Removing the cpu cooler, cleaning it and reseating with new, quality
thermal paste solves that.

Anton
On 26 Jan 2013 23:05, "Leszek Kobiernicki 1" 
wrote:

>  On 26/01/13 14:30, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
>  Hi all
>
> ** **
>
> My dad (an electronics engineer of 40 years experience) once told me
> “intermittent faults are a swine to fix” – and never truer words were
> spoken.   Could you all please take a look at my logic before I condemn
> certain parts of this failing box to the bin?
>
> ** **
>
> 2008 vintage 64-bit 4Gig RAM machine running Ubuntu 12 fine for the past
> month – 28 days uptime as my media server and no problems at all.   Today I
> switched the kvm box controlling it to control another machine (no
> disconnection, just a flick of a switch) and the box powered down!   For
> some reason whenever the bad box powers down, it needs  to be physically
> unplugged from the mains before it will come back up – this particularly
> baffles me.   Brassed off with this, I started to look into what causes
> random shutdowns (it’s not the first time it’s done this but as I say it’s
> been fine for 28 days).   I left it running for 20 minutes in BIOS to check
> the CPU temp was fine – and it was at 44 degrees C max.   Rebooted to see
> what dmesg might say but – post BIOS but before boot – it shut itself
> down.   And at that point my anglo saxon became taboo for the good folks on
> this list!
>
> ** **
>
> I’m now stumped and, as the machine is 2008 vintage (though good for its
> time) it might be time to upgrade – but I’m wondering which bits I can
> salvage.   I’m thinking the following are ok to reuse: case, optical drive,
> hdd whereas any of the mobo, RAM and certainly PSU could well be the
> trouble and it’s almost impossible to test which.
>
> ** **
>
> Can anyone offer another diagnosis / treatment for these symptoms?   I
> might be inclined to buy a new PSU and see what happens swapping that
> before any more major surgery but *is there really anything I’ve missed
> as regards seemingly random shutdowns*?  Incidentally when I say shutdown
> – I’m talking immediate power down – not the OS executing a halt command.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers
>
> ROb
>
>
>  I'd put money on it, that you've a heat problem
>
> My boxes are never allowed to go beyond 36 degrees, before I power off
>
> They all have 2 additional fans - besides the ones they came with - to
> ensure component life isn't shortened
>
> BIOS powers off a box which goes beyond critical temperature: the manual
> should tell you what the manufacturer considers that to be
>
> Opinions seem to vary quite a bit on this point ..  Wonder what others
> think about this .. ACRONIS Disc Manager states it is up at 50 degrees !
>
> A short-term fix, would be to take the side off, & put a small desk fan
> next to it, blowing cold air into the box, & help dissipate whatever is
> causing the pb.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Dropbox alternative

[Anton Piatek]

I use ubuntu one, I sync to my Android devices using "folder sync".
I looked at sparkle share as an OSS implementation, but it was a long way
off at the time.

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> Try SpiderOak.com
>
> 100% secure and works great!
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 19 December 2012 21:28, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> A friend is looking for something like Dropbox but it can't be Dropbox as
>> it's apparently banned in China. He basically need to sync data on a server
>> in the UK and one in China so people can easily read and write to their
>> local server and have it synced with the other one, and ideally access it
>> on the move - web access. Clients are mostly Windows but the servers could
>> be Linux. He is willing to pay but free is also good!
>>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>> Overton, HANTS, UK
>>
>>
>>
>> No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking.
>>
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Re: [Hampshire] Reprap

[Anton Piatek]

On 17 December 2012 13:38, Petyr B  wrote:

> Thanks for the advice and links.
> Expect to see me in the new year after the expensive season at reprap
> meet.
> Reprap + pi = interesting
> :-)
>
>
> Bob Dunlop  wrote:
> ...
>
> [1] http://tvrrug.org.uk/home
> [2] http://readinghackspace.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page
> [3] http://sh-hackspace.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> [4] http://sh-hackspace.org.uk/wiki/index.php/RepRap
>

http://southackton.org.uk also has several reprap builders depending on
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[Hampshire] For sale / free: various pc parts

[Anton Piatek]

I have a bunch of PC parts that I want to get rid of. Prices are quick
checks from eBay, I will accept lower offers as I'd prefer not to throw it
away if someone can make use of it.

Ideally collection from Eastleigh, or Hursley (during business hours) or
will bring along to a meetup.


£30: Thermaltake Tenor silver home theatre pc case (desktop style)
  Excellent media PC or desktop case, great construction

£50: mobo+cpu+2g ram (would prefer not to split)
  MSI K9VGM-V Motherboard
  Amd X2 3800+ (inc stock cooler+fan)
  2x 1024mb DDR2 800mhz xms2-6400 (4-4-4-12) ram

£10 - ATI HD5450 PCI-E 1gb DDR3 graphics card

£30: mobo+cpu+1g ram (would prefer not to split)
  MSI K8MM3 v2 Motherboard (builtin vga)
  AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.66ghz) (inc stock cooler+fan)
  1Gb Ram (2x 512 DDR 400 cl3)
  God low-power base system

£10: NorthQ 400W PSU - NQ-4775-400
  Great PSU, quiet, fine for anything but a hardcore gaming rig

£10: Linksys WAG200G 4 port wifi (g) adsl modem

£15: BT infinity FTTC modem (huawei echolife HG612)

£10: BT Infinity home hub v2 (v2.0 tybe B(i))

Free: IDE slot loading dvd drive

Free: 2 port ps/2 vga kvm

Free: 5 1/4 " IDE hard drive caddy

Free: 3x sata cable

Free: 2x high speed IDE ribbon cable

Free: IDE ribbon cable

Free: Floppy ribbon cable

Free: Vga cable

Free: Hard drives:
60G Seagate barracuda
120G ED Caviar
250G WD Caviar

Anton

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Re: [Hampshire] Reprap

[Anton Piatek]

You might want to talk to people on the southackton Google group, some of
them have repraps.

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On 15 Dec 2012 01:26, "Peter B."  wrote:

> Hi.  This is my first request post so near with me please.
> If I am posting in the wrong place please correct me rather than flame
> pls.
>
> Ok that done.
> I want to make a reprap.
> V2
> That can make itself if I have read correctly.
> Off not the closest to.
> I recall it easy u hants lot that were missing near reading was it not?
>
> Deep camera. ... script. mold :D Kinect it up they said
>
> Any links.
>
> Pointers
>
> Help at all!
>
> Would be very helpful if this is a read project. ... which it should not
> be.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

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Funnily enough, this is exactly the way SSL work iirc, and is the point of
it...

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On 14 Dec 2012 21:07, "Peter Collins"  wrote:

> On 14/12/12 16:53, Benjie Gillam wrote:
> > I think a Diffie-Hellman key exchange would mean even if you surrender
> your passwords/certificates/etc they still can't decode previously captured
> network data. Though I think it only works for "real time" communications
> where the key is destroyed after the communication has completed (e.g.
> SSL), so it'd protect you from man in the middle attacks when sending email
> to a trusted server, but it's not useful for storing said data securely.
> >
>
> If this was true then it would prove that the CDB was useless and anyone
> who was exchanging information of a sensitive nature could do so with
> much hassle.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

[Anton Piatek]

On 14 December 2012 08:33, Tony Whitmore  wrote:

> On 2012-12-14 08:26, Gordon Scott wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 07:27 +, Anton Piatek wrote:
>>
>>> I notice you use Gmail. Are you not more worried about what google
>>> does with that massive wealth of personal data (all your mail)?
>>>
>>
>> And Google most definitely does scan gmail and use the content!
>> Of that I have no doubt.
>>
>
> Of course. They declare that they do in the T&Cs for the service. They
> actively scan the contents of your e-mail to better tailor adverts to your
> interests. Facebook does the same.


And both of those make the unity shopping lens look really friendly and
welcoming by comparison... yet I still use gmail, google, android, and
facebook...

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Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

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I find it more amusing that they think this will solve anything. Even
Facebook is moving to ssl default connections...

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On 13 Dec 2012 19:55, "Tim Brocklehurst" 
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> On Thursday 13 Dec 2012 19:31:42 Peter Collins wrote:
> >
> > http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32400
> >
> > Also how would this effect SSL?
> >
> > Rgds
> >
> > Peter.
>
> Signed the petition some time ago, but I can't wait until GCHQ realises
> exactly how much e-mail traffic there is!
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

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I notice you use Gmail. Are you not more worried about what google does
with that massive wealth of personal data (all your mail)? If you have an
android phone then the whole shopping lens thing is tiny compared to what
googe tracks from your phone...

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On 13 Dec 2012 16:07, "Russell Gadd"  wrote:

>  On 12/12/12 10:06, Anton Piatek wrote:
>
> 
>
> Canonical is a company and has a right to turn a profit. It also pays
> developers, so needs to fund that somehow.
> Unless you are prepared to start donating to Canonical, this seems like a
> reasonable way to make some money. They anonymise all input data so that
> amazon etc can't tell who it is from and do not store it. There are still
> some privacy issues but I am told these are being worked on, and even the
> EFF has raised the points so it isn't like it is a secret.
>
> If you want a really open, properly free (libre) operating system then you
> should be looking at Debian as it is the only linux I know of that has a
> goal of free software and is serious about it 
> -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines
> I really admire Debian for it's goals of completely free software, and if I
> were to donate to any linux it would be Debian, despite most of my machines
> now being Ubuntu.
>
> Anton
>
>
>
>
>  It seems reasonable but although at present the data is to be used
> anonymously, that isn't really enough for people to be disadvantaged.
>
> I see it as a dangerous marketing tool. For example I buy groceries at
> Ocado and I noticed these statement that they make on their web site:
>
>
> http://www.ocado.com/webshop/content/ws5/customerServices/termsAndConditions/voucherTerms
>
> "Will all customers receive the same offer?
>
> Ocado may from time to time run different customer offers or Vouchers,
> with different terms (including amounts, types and expiry dates). Ocado
> reserves the right to limit the applicability of any particular offer to
> specific regions or delivery areas. Different offers and Vouchers may be
> run simultaneously."
>
> Also here:
>
> http://www.ocado.com/webshop/content/ws5/customerServices/policies/privacypolicy
>
> "Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of Ocado customers on behalf
> of other businesses"
>
> So there's obviously some targeting with different areas receiving better
> terms than others. When will this be drilled down to individual consumers?
> It is said that information gathered from cookies can very accurately paint
> a picture of an individual. I don't know if they can link this to an email
> address.
>
> So coming back to Ubuntu, is this the thin end of the wedge? If Canonical
> were to stop using the data anonymously how would people be made aware of
> it - in some small print?
>
> It's worrying, but there's no easy choice. I agree that unless you are
> using software developed by enthusiasts giving their time for nothing (e.g.
> Debian), there has to be a mechanism to pay for it. Advertising is one way.
> I don't like adverts (their basic ethical approach is like lawyers
> presenting a case in court - no balanced view) and they are getting into my
> subconscious even if I think I'm making rational choices. However this is
> another method of raising finance, and I'd prefer adverts to data gathering.
>
> Unfortunately what I'd prefer isn't going to change anything. I shop on
> the internet. Whether Canonical do this won't stop the data gathering. It's
> already too late, so I guess they might as well get in on the act. We might
> think we are masters of our destiny, but if we choose to live in the modern
> world we are at the mercy of big corporates whether we like it or not,
> using Debian or Ubuntu.
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Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

[Anton Piatek]

On 11 December 2012 22:23, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:

> Thanks for the repost Andy.
>
> I read about this last month, and I must admit that I felt glad that I'm
> not a
> Ubuntu user.
>
> I'm not so worried about Canonical collecting data, as I am about whether I
> trust that Canonical has my best interests at heart. And that's why I don't
> use Ubuntu.
>
> There is an implicit trust that the distribution maintainers will take
> decisions that are at least in the spirit of those that you would make
> yourself. I realise that sometimes upstream makes big changes (generally
> with
> good reason), but it's up to the distributions to decide if, when and how
> to
> adapt to it. Personally, I'm a Debian guy, and with the slight exception of
> early versions of KDE4 and Amarok (notably); the debian maintainers have
> done
> a damn good job of giving me the system I need for both work and home.
>
> However, once you remove that trust between user and maintainer, you stand
> to
> lose users; quickly. I realise that Canonical has to pay the bills, and I
> know
> they want to be new and flag-waving; but the flag you need to wave is "we
> have
> happy users", not "we keep doing things and accidentally irritate you".
> Canonical's influence has been massive, and beneficial; don't underestimate
> that; particularly raising the expectations for the quality of the desktop.
>
> Unfortunately, with this following hot on the heels of Unity, I think many
> users might migrate to other distro's and not recommend Ubuntu at all.
> After
> all, would you use a system out of choice if you didn't think you could
> trust
> the developers? Isn't that WHY we use Linux at all?
>
>
Canonical is a company and has a right to turn a profit. It also pays
developers, so needs to fund that somehow.
Unless you are prepared to start donating to Canonical, this seems like a
reasonable way to make some money. They anonymise all input data so that
amazon etc can't tell who it is from and do not store it. There are still
some privacy issues but I am told these are being worked on, and even the
EFF has raised the points so it isn't like it is a secret.

If you want a really open, properly free (libre) operating system then you
should be looking at Debian as it is the only linux I know of that has a
goal of free software and is serious about it -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines
I really admire Debian for it's goals of completely free software, and if I
were to donate to any linux it would be Debian, despite most of my machines
now being Ubuntu.

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Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

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Not sure if I got the url right via mobile phone but there's a post from an
ex-canonical emoyee about this:
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z132szwbruiozdntp22iiziggr24tzlwg04?cbp=104mhlwf5d4ys&spath=/app/basic/109365858706205035322/posts&sparm=cbp%3Dix7bz3mtvnnl%26force%3D1%26partnerid%3Dt1&force=1&partnerid=t1

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On 11 Dec 2012 17:53, "Lisi"  wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 December 2012 17:40:25 Gordon Scott wrote:
> > When I first read that I thought it was just Richard Stallman going off
> > on one of his "software must be free or die" rants, but I followed some
> > of the links and there seems to be a number of people who are convinced
> > it's true. Of course one has to be cautious of things one reads in the
> > media and especially on the 'Net.
>
> I had already heard about it, and I am pretty sure that it is true.  Some
> people feel that Canonical is justified.  And I don't like Ubuntu anyway!
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

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I am also sorely disappointed I couldn't make it. The topic sounded
excellent!

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On 9 Dec 2012 23:43, "Dr A. J. Trickett"  wrote:

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>
> On Sunday 09 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote:
>
> > The first ever HantsLUG Christmas Lecture was held on Saturday 1
>
> > December in the Zepler Building at Southampton University.
>
> >
>
> > The speaker was Mike Bond (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mkb23/), of the
>
> > Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he has been
>
> > researching security in the banking system for 10 or more years.
>
> >
>
> > He gave us a talk on "Hacking bank cards: 10 years of tools." – a
>
> > subject that sounded distinctly illegal to me. In fact the work on
>
> > computer security done at Cambridge has been an important tool for
>
> > improving the complex security measures that banks need to use.
>
> > Although publicly criticising any attempts to break their systems, the
>
> > banks do in fact cooperate with this type of research because it helps
>
> > them to develop better ones.
>
>
>
> Congratulations on getting a good speaker on an interesting topic, I'm
> only sorry I was not able to attend. I look forward to the next year!
>
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Re: [Hampshire] CoderDojo Southampton?

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Southackton has discussed many similar ideas, not necessarily a dojo. Any
event like this would be good to make sure both are aware of.

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On 9 Dec 2012 15:44, "Imran Chaudhry"  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've recently become aware of this "CoderDojo" thing from an article
> in the Guardian [0]
>
> It got me thinking on how great it would be if Southampton had one of
> these. I have been reading the website and "Getting started" guide [1]
> and it all looks doable.
>
> For me, I'm thinking I have too many family and personal commitments
> to give this a go as a mentor... but I thought I'd put it out there
> just in case anyone is interested? It's something I am still thinking
> about so who knows.
>
> One challenge is lack of weekly venue perhaps, something the
> Southampton Hackspace people seem to be having too [2].
>
> Anyhow, just a thought!
>
> [0]
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/05/coderdojo-programming-kids
> [1]
> http://coderdojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/StartingaDojoCoderDojo1.pdf
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Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

[Anton Piatek]

Really gutted i can't make either due to a wedding. The topic looks
incredibly exciting!

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> On 14/11/12 19:04, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
>
>> This is a reminder that the Christmas Lecture will be held on the 1st
>> December
>> at Southampton University. We will be next-door to our usual location (in
>> Zepler/Mountbatten building). There will be signs in prominant positions.
>>
>>
> Are many LUG people planning to attend this? I'd like to, but if it's just
> me, Ed and Tim I'm inclined not to (no disrespect meant to Tim & Ed)
> because I'd quite like to socialise with a few members of the LUG I haven't
> seen for a while.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

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I don't think you need quad core. My dual core Asus at3 ion mobo with cpu
does hd playback (no idea of the codec) but it also has a nvidia gpu
builtin with hardware acceleration.

I would always recommend hardware accelerated decoding over more cpy power
(not sure if extra cores really  help here)

Ymmv.

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>
> On Friday 09 Nov 2012, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> >
>
> > Every now and then I think I may get a DVB tuner for my computer. Now
> that
>
> > Hannington has been upgraded to HD I could even watch/record stuff in HD
>
> > (in theory) on my computer - our TV is still ye olde CRT.
>
> >
>
> > The Hauppauge PCTV Systems DVB-T2 290e nanoStick HD is apparently
> supported
>
> > in Linux on 3.0 Kernel and above. It's also not so expensive on Amazon
> and
>
> > other online retailers.
>
>
>
> Replying to my self here...
>
>
>
> Thanks to everyone for their comments. My current PC is getting antiquated
> I'll probably get a new quad-core box in the new year, so I wasn't
> expecting to watch much HD until I had a new PC anyway.
>
>
>
> I'm mostly relieved to hear that they do work - assuming you have good
> basic reception. Thanks for the offers of loans but I'll probably just buy
> one anyway, they aren't much on Amazon.
>
>
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Fujitsu 1008AT 8 port LCD kvm for sale

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You might want to clarify usb or ps2, dvi or vga.
Not that I have a use for an 8 port kvm myself.

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> I have a Fujitsu 1008AT 1u rack mount (complete with rails) 8 port
> foldaway LCD screen kvm complete with 5 kvm cables for sale.
>
> If anybody is interested then let me know off list.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] upnp

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Interesting, and but my tv doesn't do dlna so would want a dlna client? app
to actually render for me.

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On Oct 24, 2012 6:48 PM, "Mike Dwerryhouse"  wrote:

> On 10/24/2012 06:35 PM, Anton Piatek wrote:
>
>>
>> Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, sadly
>> my tv isn't networked.
>>
>> Anton
>>
>>  I tried DLNA with my TV once. I installed a package called serviio,
> to make the PC into a media server. I don't remember the setup
> details, but I don't think it was difficult.
>
> It all worked fairly smoothly. The only drawback was that the GUI
> on the TV was fairly primitive. I now use a media PC connected
> directly to the TV via HDMI.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] upnp

[Anton Piatek]

Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, sadly my
tv isn't networked.

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> You might want to look at DLNA too (it's built on top of UPnP) - thats
> where renderer/server/controller/etc are defined and often helps solve
> these issues I've found.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:32, Anton Piatek  wrote:
>
> I have been playing with upnp lately and by using media tomb on my linux
> box I can make all audio, video and pictures available on my phone and
> tablet, which is cool. Unfortunately (unsurprisingly?) Microsoft buggered
> up the upnp protocol on the xbox so it can't find media.
> My phone also has a upnp server, so I can share files from there too. It
> also appears that upnp allows ayback to another device, which sounds cool.
>
> This brings me to my question. Is there any linux software that cab be a
> upnp playback target or renderer so that I can use my phone to browse media
> (stored on my phone, tablet or pc) and have the playback happen on my linux
> pc which is connected to my tv and hifi?
>
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[Hampshire] upnp

[Anton Piatek]

I have been playing with upnp lately and by using media tomb on my linux
box I can make all audio, video and pictures available on my phone and
tablet, which is cool. Unfortunately (unsurprisingly?) Microsoft buggered
up the upnp protocol on the xbox so it can't find media.
My phone also has a upnp server, so I can share files from there too. It
also appears that upnp allows ayback to another device, which sounds cool.

This brings me to my question. Is there any linux software that cab be a
upnp playback target or renderer so that I can use my phone to browse media
(stored on my phone, tablet or pc) and have the playback happen on my linux
pc which is connected to my tv and hifi?

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[Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-HACK]

[Anton Piatek]

> LUG / Hackerspace relations: (subject line [ADMIN][IMP-HACK])
> Hackerspaces are becoming more prevalant, and I don't believe that 
> they
> are any sort of threat to the LUG. I think there is a lot to learn from making
> and building things, and there's a lot of information in both the LUG and
> Hackerspaces which can be mutually beneficial. I think this is particularly
> important for the younger LUG members (thinking 16-21yo), as there is a good
> probability that if they choose an engineering career there will be a lot of
> cross-over. So I heartily welcome any talks about hacking (the legal
> interfacing or coding type), interfacing electronics. I think we could also
> consider holding joint meetings.

I am *very* involved with SoutHackton[1] and have even done a linux
installfest for one of their events. I dare say that if we ever find a
permanent venue then you would be welcome to use it. In the mean time
I believe that working together could benefit us both greatly. I have
posted to this list about southackton before, and a few people attend
both, but not many. I suspect this is largely to a lack of knowledge
of both existing and a lack of time to make both.
We could perhaps try and combine any of the meetups where there are
overlaps - Southackton recently had a hack day and there would have
been space for people to turn up and talk about linux hacking rather
than just robotics and 3d printers.

[1] http://southackton.com
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[Hampshire] [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]

[Anton Piatek]

> Christmas Lecture: (subject line [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS])
> This is meant to be something a bit special for the December meeting. 
> The
> plan is to hold a formal lecture (open to the public) with a guest speaker;
> followed by a formal dinner for HantsLUG members. I am trying to get this
> sorted out as fast as I can, and I'll let you know what's happening as soon as
> possible.

What sort of topics did you have in mind? I have persuaded Andy
Standford-Clark[1] to talk at our meetups before. I'm not sure people
would want to listen to him again, but I am sure there are some other
people in IBM whom I could persuade to come and give a talk. Perhaps
someone like Dale Lane talking about IBM's Watson (the
Jeopardy-beating machine)

Anton

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Stanford-Clark

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Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

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Interesting. Actually displaying is pointless as I run a load of conversion
filters on it to get a jpeg (I uses AfterShot Pro, which used to be Bibble).
Is it easy to bulk upload/download the raws from picasa?

I suspect that maintaining my folder structure might be a lot of effort in
picasa. If I get an automated glacier backup sorted then that should be
easier. I have only recovered once from backup and that was for a failed
disk. I don't mind the delay involved in glacier.
I am actually migrating my raid array from my parent's pc to a new disk as
one failed, so the topic is quite timely for me.

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On Aug 26, 2012 11:00 AM, "Samuel Penn"  wrote:

> On Sunday 26 August 2012 10:25:56 Anton Piatek wrote:
> > Can picasa store RAW photos? I have about 120G of RAW files to backup.
>
> According to this:
> http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=15625
>
> Yes.
>
> I just did a test with my Canon, and it seems to upload the
> RAW file and display it just fine:
>
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/106447163250994392861/August262012?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKi1_aCA_qT45wE&feat=directlink
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Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

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Can picasa store RAW photos? I have about 120G of RAW files to backup.
Flickr is great for displaying photos but is no way to store originals. I
have a similar problem for videos, though I have less of those right now.

I currently use a raided array at my house, and the same at my parent's
house as a backup strategy, but a new disk every few years is looking very
expensive compared to glacier...

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On Aug 25, 2012 10:45 AM, "Samuel Penn"  wrote:

> On Friday 24 August 2012 20:29:01 Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> > On Friday 24 Aug 2012 18:12:02 Benjie Gillam wrote:
> > > My current plan is to just do a few big tar files of various subjects
> > > (Documents/Photos/Development/etc), encrypt and upload once a month. In
> > > between times could use tar's incremental features, though I have no
> > > experience with them.
>
> I do a system backup like this once a week with S3. Documents (such as
> PDFs/eBooks I've downloaded, which I don't care about encrypting) get S3
> rsync'd every few hours.
>
> I did a talk on this early last year at Surrey LUG, so it's a bit out
> of date now:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbZoSnTywR59ZGdxNDdmeDhfOWNxeHozeGYy
>
> > TAR and encryption sound like a good plan. For incremental backups you
> > might want to keep a list (or database, or whatever) of files and
> md5sums,
> > then write a script to compare and backup the ones that have changed
> > (perhaps checking on timestamps too to make things quicker).
> >
> > I have no experience with Glacier, but whether it's preferable to do lots
> > of small uploads will depend on how robust your connection is and how
> > thier pricing works.
>
> The problem with Glacier is there's a really big delay before getting
> access to the files again. I may not want to download data often, but
> when I do, I'd like to be able to do a restore right now.
>
> Currently S3 is costing me a few dollars a month for system backups
> (it could be a lot less, if I could be bothered to tidy up old backups),
> and Google is costing $20/year for 80GB of photo backups in Picasa.
>
> That's well within what I'm happy to pay, so I don't feel a need to
> switch to Glacier, except for use as possibly a secondary backup of
> music, video and photos.
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[Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

[Anton Piatek]

Has anyone had a good look at Glacier? http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
At $0.011 per GB/month to store data, and quite low transfer fees, it looks
like a great way to backup large volumes such as all my raw digital photos.

What I am not clear on is whether it is geared to backing up 15k files, or
if I need to work out some form of archive of them. If I need to build up a
small number of large archives, is there good software available to help me
track what has already been archived and uploaded, and what is new/changed
and therefore needs to be built into a new archive. Given the pricing,
actual diffs probably arent that worthwhile so long as I can get it all
back again in the end.

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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Anton Piatek]

I actually have a saitek cyborg joystick I was going to put on eBay if
anyone wants it.

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> Vic
>
> I have used FlightGear successfully before and have experinced no problems.
>
> The joystick was a Cyborg V1 which was working okay.
>
> If you require help, I would be delighted to help you.
>
> Cheers
> Dominic
> On Mar 29, 2012 2:59 PM, "Vic"  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All.
>>
>> I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and FlightGear
>> seems to have the necessary models for my needs.
>>
>> Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it was
>> completely unusable.
>>
>> I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Vic.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Hampshire] SQLite3

[Anton Piatek]

You could setup a build env in a chroot. Trivial on Debian and must be as
easy on fedora and centos.
Zip it up when done and store for next time. Pbuilder is worth using for
this sort of thing.

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On Mar 22, 2012 7:28 PM, "Benjie Gillam"  wrote:

> Thanks Jan,
>
> That's what I thought, I was just hoping that SQLite3 was simple enough
> and Fedora/Redhat/whatever were similar enough to CentOS that it wouldn't
> cause conflicts/dependency issues if I imported the RPM. I'll have to spawn
> a cloned AMI to do the build on then, don't want to clutter this one with
> build tools/logs/etc. Oh well :)
>
> What I was really hoping was that someone would say "Oh, you just need to
> install it from the [name of repository] CentOS repository " :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benjie.
>
> On 22 Mar 2012, at 18:07, Jan Henkins wrote:
>
> > Hello Benji,
> >
> > On Thu, March 22, 2012 15:25, Benjie Gillam wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >>
> >> I recently started experimenting with the Amazon Linux AMI (on AWS/EC2)
> -
> >> it's a CentOS based distribution. Unfortunately it has sqlite 3.6.20 and
> >> I need 3.7.4+ for FTS4 features. What's my best bet - download and
> >> compile the latest source? Nab a more up to date package from Fedora?
> >
> > Compiling from source might be an idea, especially if you do it from a
> > source RPM. Then again, you might find a nice updated one in the EPEL
> > repository, so that would most certainly be worth checking out. Please do
> > not install Fedora RPM's directly onto the system, it will most certainly
> > break stuff.
> >
> >
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Re: [Hampshire] Black Hole detection

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How or why does this problem occur? I can't think of an explanation.

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On Mar 20, 2012 11:43 AM, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
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> Hi,
>
> Sometimes, a network will have black holes in the sense that say,
> packet sizes up to 0-1400 get through, 1400-1404 fail, and 1405-1500
> get through.
> You can find these holes using ping with DF bit set and various sized
> pings.
> If you find problems, you then fix them so all sizes get through.
> Does anyone know of a tool that will automatically scan all packet
> sizes and report the result?
>
> Kind Regards
>
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[Hampshire] Humble bundle: games!

[Anton Piatek]

In case you haven't seen it, the latest Humble Bundle is out, and features
games for linux and android (and other OSs). It is worth noting that Linux
users are the most generous when it comes to choosing how much to pay.

See http://www.humblebundle.com/ for more

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Re: [Hampshire] Looking for a Perl IDE

[Anton Piatek]

EPIC for eclipse can do the perl debugger, however I have never done much
with it.

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> Bit confused from your title as to whether you are wanting an IDE or an
> interactive debugger.
>
> For a debugger that is a bit more acceddible than 'perl -d', have you
> looked at Devel::ptkdb ?
> ( https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::ptkdb )
>
> It is a while since I used it but I seem to recall it did the particular
> thing you mention of letting you inspect variables while the code runs.
>
> I don't know what Padre offers in the area of run time support ( I believe
> it's more of an Eclipse-y IDE tool for coding rather than debugging) but
> it's getting quite good press these days.
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Re: [Hampshire] Replacing home server with a Linux NAS device?

[Anton Piatek]

I love my Asus at3ion deluxe mini itx board. Fanless, though I have a big
silent fan for the disks.
Only problem is not spending a fortune finding the right case :p

Probably better options now though.

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> Hi,
>
> I might have to replace my home server due to a hardware failure. It's a
> Tranquil PC unit which I chose because it has accessible disk bays and runs
> pretty quietly. I have been looking at a few options online but most
> microservers are sold on their size rather than noise. However, NAS devices
> look like a good option but I'm not sure which of them either run Linux or
> can be easily hacked to do so.
>
> The requirements are:
> 1) Low power. As low as possible, ideally 20-30W.
> 2) Quiet. Ideally fanless.
> 3) SSH access for remote rsync backups.
> 4) 3TB storage. Ideally I would be able to reuse the 4 existing data 1TB
> disks I have in a software RAID5 configuration.
> 5) Can run Ubuntu or Debian.
>
> Would be nice:
> 6) Small.
> 7) USB connection for printer.
>
> I've looked at Synology and ReadyNAS products but any recommendations
> would be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
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Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

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afraid.org is good because you can use your own domains for free with them.
Few others do.

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On Feb 24, 2012 9:34 PM, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
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> On 15 February 2012 12:38, Imran Chaudhry  wrote:
> > Another vote for rsnapshot here. As Leo says it works over rsync and you
> can
> > just feed rsnapshot the rsync options you are already using. It supports
> > daily, weekly, monthly out the box so it's just a matter of commenting
> out
> > the relevant lines in the config. My approach would be to set-up
> rsnapshot
> > to do an immediate backup of something small so the directory structure
> is
> > correct, then copy your backup data into the relevant place, then
> perform a
> > "dry run" to confirm that only the diffs are transferred.
> >
> > The only snag would be that the backups are not encrypted, in which case
> > duplicity might be your best bet. However it comes at the cost of
> complexity
> > and I found that restoring backups becomes non-trivial. Another HantsLUG
> > member wrote a good guide to duplicity a while back on his personal wiki.
> >
> >
> > On 14 February 2012 19:36, Leo  wrote:
> >>
> >> Have you seen rsnapshot? That might be able to do what you want and
> works
> >> on rsync, so you might be able to avoid copying everything again.
> >>
> >> Leo
> >>
>
> I have looked at rsnapshot.
> It uses hardlinks, so if I need to copy the backup data itself, I will
> have to find a special copy program that preserves hard links.
> I am sure they exist, but not found an answer on google yet. I know
> how to handle copy softlnks, just not hardlinks yet.
> I have also looked further at duplicity, and found that I can convert
> my current backup into a duplicity one without having to copy
> everything across the WAN/Internet again.
> The final requirement I have is to be able to select a file, and see
> the dates when it changed.
> I don't think duplicity or rsnapshot has this feature but I am still
> looking.
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Re: [Hampshire] What dynamic DNS ?

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Afraid.org do really good free service (it is donation based)

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On Feb 20, 2012 4:51 PM, "Jon Wilks"  wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for ddns and domain
> registration.  I have built a home email and web server for the family and
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Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

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I have a copy at my parent's house as well, so have 2 copies

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> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 16:25 +, Anton Piatek wrote:
>
> > The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk
> > from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and
> > swap disk.
>
> My own first question would be how comfortable I was having my data
> stored on only one machine, raid or not.
>
> Personally I don't like my data in only one building.
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Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

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I just use cp with hardlinks to make a copy every month. Similar to
rsnapshot in many ways.

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> Have you seen rsnapshot? That might be able to do what you want and works
> on rsync, so you might be able to avoid copying everything again.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

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On Feb 14, 2012 6:05 PM, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
wrote:
>
> On 14 February 2012 17:49, Anton Piatek  wrote:
> >>
> >> Quick test should tell you.
> >> Set up nfsd on the server, and access your pictures/files over the nfs
> >> share.
> >> If they are fast enough for displaying on the desktop, you could move
> >> to a minimal setup.
> >
> > I did try that in my last house with 100mbit network,and that obviously
> > wasn't. I currently have ethernet over power, so would need to invest
> > considerable effort in getting 1000mbit network wired in. So testing
isn't
> > really possible without moving pcs around.
> >
> > It is really the rate of replacing disks in my desktop and server that
is
> > bugging me - I'd rather have more disks under raid than spread out in
> > separate machines. (I have just restored my desktop from the backup
copy on
> > raid, as the desktop disk started giving read errors)
> >
>
> Disks should not fail that often.
> If they do, at least you should be getting them replaced for free.
> As a report I saw a long time ago, I think it was done by google, HDs
> are most likely to fail in the first 6 months, but generally, if they
> get past 6 months, they tend to last quite a long time. But at least
> if a HD fails in the first 6 months, you get a replacement under
> guarantee.
>
> I have one server in my house, and a separate one in another building,
> and backup between them.
> I a HD fails in my house, I take a new disk to the other building,
> clone the HD, and then bring it back to my house and off I go again.
> I don't bother backing up the OS, just the data, pictures etc.

I have probably replaced 12 disks under warranty in my time, and probably
had a similar number fail out of warranty. The last two were getting older
and out of warranty.
I don't have that much data to store, I think I have a 1TB mirrored raid
setup on my server at the moment which is adequete, but having just
replaced the disk in my desktop disks are not cheap at the moment, so I was
wondering if the effort of wiring cat5e/6 would be a better long-term
investment.

(I am actually paranoid enough about disk failure to mirror my ~200G of raw
photos across to a machine at my parent's house, which has even older disks
which are constantly being replaced as they really are getting end-of-life)

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Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

[Anton Piatek]

I

On Feb 14, 2012 5:44 PM, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
wrote:
>
> On 14 February 2012 16:25, Anton Piatek  wrote:
> > I currently backup my entire desktop to a "sever" sitting downstairs.
> > I work on (mostly photos) locally on the desktop and then back them up
> > to the downstairs machine which has raided disks (as I don't trust
> > disks, I have had too many fail).
> >
> > This means I need 3 disks to store data on.
> > The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk
> > from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and
> > swap disk.
> > How fast a network do I need to make this work sensible? Is gigabit
> > network enough?
> > Photo processing is quite data intensive, especially when batching
> > conversion on my 6 core desktop, currently I think the disk I/O is my
> > limit to go faster.
> >
>
> Quick test should tell you.
> Set up nfsd on the server, and access your pictures/files over the nfs
share.
> If they are fast enough for displaying on the desktop, you could move
> to a minimal setup.

I did try that in my last house with 100mbit network,and that obviously
wasn't. I currently have ethernet over power, so would need to invest
considerable effort in getting 1000mbit network wired in. So testing isn't
really possible without moving pcs around.

It is really the rate of replacing disks in my desktop and server that is
bugging me - I'd rather have more disks under raid than spread out in
separate machines. (I have just restored my desktop from the backup copy on
raid, as the desktop disk started giving read errors)

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[Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

[Anton Piatek]

I currently backup my entire desktop to a "sever" sitting downstairs.
I work on (mostly photos) locally on the desktop and then back them up
to the downstairs machine which has raided disks (as I don't trust
disks, I have had too many fail).

This means I need 3 disks to store data on.
The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk
from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and
swap disk.
How fast a network do I need to make this work sensible? Is gigabit
network enough?
Photo processing is quite data intensive, especially when batching
conversion on my 6 core desktop, currently I think the disk I/O is my
limit to go faster.

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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] SSD specs

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I didn't think you had direct access to sectors. I thought the controller
rotated data to spread writes across the the storage.

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On Feb 13, 2012 10:59 AM, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
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> Hi,
>
> I have looked at OCZ and Kingston datasheets, they mention things like
> IOPS and read and write speeds, but there is no mention of "Max writes
> per sector".
> I thought that bit of info was useful because it helps you decide if
> your application will wear the SSD out of not.
> Is the reason why it is not in the datasheets because it is not a
> problem anymore, or are the manufacturers intending to mislead?
> I would also like the drive to fail gracefully. I.e. It reaches its
> max writes per sector, the drive turns into a Read-only device, but
> does not loose all data and make the drive unreadable.
>
> Kind Regards
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Re: [Hampshire] Dying HDDs

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I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap
end.

Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are
normally pretty obvious.

Loose cables are a common enough problem.

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On Feb 6, 2012 7:11 PM, "Isaac Close"  wrote:

>  On 06/02/2012 18:09, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
>  Hi all
>
> ** **
>
> As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD died.
> Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems ranging from
> install failing to complete with another HDD error to the BIOS not
> detecting the drive at all.
>
> ** **
>
> I have literally just tried a new SATA data cable and all (so far touch
> wood!) seems well.   The thing is - if the problem persists - what part
> should I look at replacing next?   The PSU? The mobo? Could this be some
> sort of mains AC problem and would a new surge protector be more the order
> of the day?   I should add I have several other boxes on the same ring main
> that appear to be working fine.
>
> ** **
>
> Are these "new" (yada yada I know I'm not exactly Mr Current Affairs) SATA
> data cables any better or worse for bad connections than other types of BUS
> e.g. usb or even pata ide?
>
> 
>
> These days, it is PSU's that seem to go bandy more frequently than
> anything else and it is usually intermittent.
>
> I use a PSU testing tool (a half decent one with an LCD display costs
> around 40 GBP), its proved a great investment. And, I have dealt with a few
> thousand machines in the past couple of years or so and my findings appear
> consistent.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
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Re: [Hampshire] ntpd vs. ptpd

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Could you be any more blunt about this?

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On Jan 25, 2012 3:39 PM, "Vic"  wrote:

>
> > I thought that only worked when transmitted over a serial link, i.e. ATM
> > or DVB.
>
> You thought wrong.
>
> > It is not so effective on packet based links such as Ethernet.
>
> All headend distribution systems these days are Ethernet-based. It is
> incredibly effective.
>
> > I have never heard of those timestamps being used to synchronize
> > multiple endpoints.
>
> I'm sure there are many thing in the Universe of which you have not heard.
> This does not mean they do not exist.
>
> > I have only ever seen them used to do synchronization within each
> > device in the chain.
>
> This leaves us with one of two possible situations :-
>
>  - Timestamps aren't used in this way
>  - You are not omniscient.
>
> Given that I've worked on these systems for quite a few years, I know
> which one I believe to be true.
>
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>
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Re: [Hampshire] External USB HDD spindown.

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Hdparm can set it on the drive with a timeout iirc

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On Dec 17, 2011 5:07 PM, "Clive Woodfine"  wrote:

> Having just read about PC power monitoring reminded about this question.
>
> Is there a way of saving power on an external hard drive by spinning
> down the disk after a certain period of non use? I have one in an
> external USB attached caddy. Do you need a special disk or caddy?
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Re: [Hampshire] Linux power monitoring tools.

[Anton Piatek]

I agree with Bob. This generally isn't possible with normal pc hardware.
Also, unloading a module doesn't necessarily stop the hardware using power.

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On Dec 14, 2011 2:46 PM, "Bob Dunlop"  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 14 at 10:33, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an aim to monitor as precisely as possible the power usages of
> > a number of servers.
>
> Like:
>
> # ioline-summary
> Data Out power: Bus Voltage 13.38 V
> Data Out power: Current 0.256 A
> Data Out power: Power 3.43 W
> External power outlet 0:Bus Voltage 12.87 V
> External power outlet 0:Current 0.002 A
> External power outlet 0:Power 0.02 W
> External power outlet 1:Bus Voltage 12.86 V
> External power outlet 1:Current -0.001 A
> External power outlet 1:Power -0.02 W
> Port A power:   Bus Voltage 12.86 V
> Port A power:   Current -0.069 A
> Port A power:   Power -0.89 W
> Port C power:   Bus Voltage 12.84 V
> Port C power:   Current 0.001 A
> Port C power:   Power 0.02 W
> Sensor power:   Bus Voltage 12.87 V
> Sensor power:   Current -0.001 A
> Sensor power:   Power -0.02 W
>
>
> Sorry to tease, that's on a piece of non-PC equipment and uber expensive.
> Oh and Kelly wrote the interface so users can get graphs against time and
> other parameters such as temperature.
>
>
> Standard PC hardware doesn't normally allow you to monitor the current
> drawn from a supply, only the voltage, hence no way to determine the
> power consumption.  Voltage was easy to measure so was thrown in to keep
> customers amused, but current would have cost a few pennies so wasn't.
>
> A few specialist suppliers and high end manufacturers do include current
> monitoring hardware.  Look for ESA compatible power supplies for example.
>
>
> > I cannot seem to find any tools that monitor things like:
> > 1) Total power consumbed as a monotonic kWh value.
>
> Unless you've got one of those expensive monitorable power supplies your
> best bet is going to be a CurrentCost appliance monitor or similar.
>
>
> > 2) Power broken down by device within the system.
>
> Without the sensors to measure it software is only going to be able to give
> you the broadest stroke estimate.  Again per device current sensors is
> rather specialist.
>
>
> > 3) Power broken down by process within the system.
>
> Even with hardware sensors ascribing power consumption to individual
> processes would be difficult.  I guess you could look at a processes I/O
> stats then do something like 10% of disk I/O equals 10% of disk hardware
> power consumption.
>
>
> I think a lot of the monitoring software out there is smoke and mirrors
> on top of guesswork.
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Re: [Hampshire] Debian 3.0 kernel help

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If you are building a kernel for debian I recommend the debian kernel
source and building the debian way. Its been a long time since I've done
it, but Google should help. You could even grab the source package for the
wheezy kernel and just build that.

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On Dec 16, 2011 4:31 PM, "Jan Henkins"  wrote:

> Hello Bob,
>
> OK, not running Debian (/me on *buntu, actually Mint 12 but that is pretty
> much 11.10), but I did exactly what you want to do. I feel your pain,
> Gentoo made this a lot easier. The portage system is just so much easier to
> manipulate.
>
> Anyhow, I managed to grok a way to do this on MintBuntu. In principle it
> should be similar enough to Debian, so here is what I did -
>
>  * Pinned all my kernel packages by adding the following fragment to the
> bottom my /etc/apt/preferences file:
>
> ---start---
> Package: linux-firmware
> Pin: release o=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: -10
>
> Package: linux-generic
> Pin: release o=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: -10
>
> Package: linux-image-*
> Pin: release o=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: -10
>
> Package: linux-headers-*
> Pin: release o=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: -10
>
> Package: linux-libc-dev
> Pin: release o=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: -10
> ---end---
>
> Note: You will have to research the "Pin" entry a bit to ensure that you
> put something sensible in there for Debian.
>
> * Then I downloaded the 3.1.5 kernel sources from kernel.org,
> * made sure that the source is in /usr/src/linux-3.1.5,
> * created a kernel config (see [1])
> * did a "make all ; make modules_install ; make install"
> * made sure that "make install" inserted the right bits in my grub.conf
> * rebooted! :-)
>
> The pinning ensures that I can now update the system without having to be
> scared that my kernel will get clobbered.
>
> Footnote [1]:
>
> As with building your kernel source on Gentoo, you will have to start the
> process with a kernel config. I simply copied my 3.0.0-13 running kernel
> config from "/boot/config-3.0.0-13-**generic" to
> "/usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config"**, and rebuilt the config with a "make
> oldconfig" before I started the "make all" bits. Since a lot of things have
> changed from 3.0.0 to 3.1.5, "make oldconfig"  will ask you what to do for
> all the newer kernel options. In this particular case I simply accepted the
> defaults, which seems to work for me. Incidentally I tried the same for
> kernel 3.2-rc5, but my wireless is not working (I probably need to
> reconfigure the kernel again with "make menuconfig" and rebuild it).
>
> Also one last tip: make sure you edit the kernel source Makefile and add
> your bit to the "EXTRAVERSION" line. Mine looks like this:
>
> ---start---
> VERSION = 3
> PATCHLEVEL = 1
> SUBLEVEL = 5
> EXTRAVERSION = -jh1
> NAME = "Divemaster Edition"
> ---end---
>
> Let me know if you want my 3.1.5 kernel config file, and I will mail it to
> you.
>
> Hope this helps! :-)
>
> On 16/12/11 15:57, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
>> On Friday 16 December 2011 15:33:54 Bob Dunlop wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to upgrade a single package?  On Gentoo this is trivially
>>> easy.
>>>
>> Have you tried Squeeze backports, Bob?
>>
>> http://backports-master.**debian.org/Instructions/<http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/>
>>
>> It works great for any packages that are there.  I did search for a 3.x
>> kernel, using various terms and couldn't find one.  If the kernel you
>> want is
>> in Wheezy, I am surprised if it is not in backports and my search
>> abilitites
>> fade with my eyesight.
>> But you can, by pinning, use just named packages form Wheezy.  I have not
>> tried this and can therefore not tell you how, but it seems to be
>> eminently
>> doable by the competant!
>>
>> The Debian users list would be a good place to ask.  There are some real
>> experts on pinning there.  But tell them what you want to achieve.  There
>> may
>> be a more debianised way of doing it.
>>
>> http://lists.debian.org/
>>
>> HTH
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Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

[Anton Piatek]

I have an oldish Samsung bw laser, but it was trivial to make work in linux.

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> I hate all printers - they are the only piece of technology that has
> not gotten significantly better in 5 years - however I recently HAD to
> buy a printer and was shocked at how easy the Kodak ESP 7250 was to
> get workign in linux - it literally was 30 seconds - I was gobsmacked.
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Re: [Hampshire] DVD-Rom Long Shot

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I have a slot loading ide DVD rom drive I was going to bin. Interested?

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On Oct 30, 2011 10:46 AM, "e-mail phillip.chandler" <
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> A bit of a long shot. Ive got a Dell Inspiron 1200 with a DVD-Rom which
> doubles as a cd-rom and dvd writer, which has now started to not read any
> disc.
>
> Would any of you have a standard dvd-rom that you were thinking of
> chucking out ? If so, could you chuck it my way for a few pound notes ?
>
> Im in Newbury, so if your local to north hants Id pick up.
>
> Thanks
> Phillip
>
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Re: [Hampshire] CLI XML diff (and patch?) tools?

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Xmlstarlet offers several tools but I don't think diff. I suspect you could
get it to format the XML better for diff to use though.

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> Is there any reason you don't want to use the regular diff and patch apps?
>
> Does it have to be something that is "XML aware" if you like?
>
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs

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Even the PowerPC ones apparently run Debian quite nicely.

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> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:39:10 +0100
> Damian L Brasher  wrote:
>
> > Thank you for some fun, a few years ago, playing with a Mac Mini for a
> > few months until it found a more appreciative home.
>
> It seems I am going to be given a Mac Mini soon, apparently it can't
> be upgraded enough to run the latest version of OS/X.
>
> Not sure what is in it but the owner has had it for several years and I
> benefited by getting the Mac G3 it replaced at the time.
>
> I didn't keep that for long but provided the Mac Mini is an Intel
> based box I think the it could make a nice (Debian based)
> Geneweb server to replace the ageing Celeron 1100 MHz box I use now, it
> will at least be somewhat quieter.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

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If you are thinking of a HTC desire (I have one) I would say that the
internal storage is rubbish, however the good news is that rooting and
installing cyanogen mod 7 is really easy and with e2sd you can move your
dalvik cache (android Java bit cache) to an ext partition and that frees up
a huge amount of space. I wrote a blog post on how to do it
http://www.strangeparty.com/2011/06/23/cyanogenmod-on-htc/

I do reccomend rooting (it is even easier before you have data to back up)
it as you really run out of space quickly otherwise.

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Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

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I believe there's a very active KDE3 backports (or is it forward? )
community.

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> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:52:15 Anton Piatek wrote:
>> Has anyone suggested a keyboard ? I know it is not a mouse, but learning
>> keyboard shortcuts can help a lot with rsi...
>
> And just when you know keyboard shortcuts for everything that is important
to
> you, for just that reason, the gremlins grin at each other and pull the
rug
> from under your feet. :-( (I.e. the powers that be abandon KDE 3.)
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

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Has anyone suggested a keyboard ? I know it is not a mouse, but learning
keyboard shortcuts can help a lot with rsi...

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> Seems like I am going to be suffering with Arthritic hands from here
> on in. Yay! :-(
>
> The mouse is starting to cause me a problem. It is not holding the
> mouse, but straightening my hands after holding it, even after a
> relatively short period. Before things get too bad, I would like to
> try alternative pointing device.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions? A Logitech Marble seems like the
> sensible choice to try, but I am wondering if something like a
> Graphics Tablet would make a suitable alternative to a mouse?
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[Hampshire] Btrfs

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Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks
of varying sizes really appeals.
I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really promising.

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Re: [Hampshire] NPM: Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

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A good write up of the issue and possible solutions, from a friend of mine
in Google if anyone is interested:
http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/23/chromeandbeast.html

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On Sep 21, 2011 10:27 AM, "James Courtier-Dutton" 
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/
>
> Guess we will have to wait for firefox to support TLS 1.1 or 1.2.
> Currently it only supports TLS 1.0.
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[Hampshire] Free: slot loading IDE DVD drive

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I have a slot loading IDE DVD drive, free to the first person to reply to me
(off-list please)
Preferably collect from Eastleigh.

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Re: [Hampshire] 4 by 3 Thinkpad conclusion

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Try reading about video drivers now. I think the ATI card in the T60s is the
unloved one that had no good opensource driver and ATI dropped support for
them in the RadeonHD drivers.
They do work, but you might have to fiddle a bit. Try thinkwiki.org

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On Sep 23, 2011 9:45 PM, "Martin N"  wrote:
> Lo,
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemNext&item=120774227498&autorefresh=true
>
> So i picked this one up pretty cheap it seems to me.
> ATI gfx rather than the Nvidia that has been mentioned to fail and
> the screen res of 1400x1050
> on a 15" screen.
>
> Thoughts when it finally turns up in 5 working days which seems a bit
> long to turn it around.
>
> Martin N
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image

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> > The option you are looking for is "keystone" iirc
>
> I think Bob's after a bit more than keystone correction; mapping onto a
> 2-D curved surface isn't yer run-of-the-mill operation...

Quite possibly, though from memory the nvidia driver did allow rather
arbitary adjustments with some grid adjustment tool. Not sure if it does
curves well though...

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Re: [Hampshire] Pre-distorting console image

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Does the graphics card offer anything to help? I know NVidia cards have a
nvidia util which lets you adjust this sort of thing, but I have no idea
about other cards.
The option you are looking for is "keystone" iirc, maybe a search on that
will help?

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> Hi,
>
> A bit of an oddball query but I thought someone here might know where to
> look. A friend at work wants to project the X11 console image onto a
> curved (in 2 directions) surface. He'd like to pre-distort the X11 image
> to counteract at least some of the distortion introduced by the curve.
>
> Anyone know where we might find an application to do this?
>
> In the good old days we'd slap some magnets around the back of the CRT
> to curve the beams, but this is a modern micro-mirror based projector so
> the pixels are fixed.
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Re: [Hampshire] Refurbished Lenovo laptop 4 by 3 screen

[Anton Piatek]

A colleague at work (I work for IBM) decided his work supplied Lenovo
thinkpad had too low a resolution. He bought a new screen online and said it
was very easy to replace it himself.

Not sure if that option appeals to your or not...

T60s also had much higher resolutions, but they were not the base models
(and many may have been widescreen)

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> Hello,
>
> I am struggling to find a Lenovo laptop second hand on-line which has
> a decent screen
> height.
> I originally looked for only 4 by 3 but the maximum resolution seem
> low at 1024x800
> on a 15" which was present of the T60.
>
> I have started looking for a t61 which are unfortunately widescreen
> but look like they
> have some 16:10 screens. The resolution is 1680x1050 on a 15" screen.
>
> Does anyone have a source for a laptop which has a high vertical length.
> I have to use one at college for an ECDL Office 2010 course and they
> have these titchy
> widescreen laptops that I am struggling with. There are no other
> laptops or screens
> available for me to used- i asked!
>
> Thanks for any help on sources or alternatives models
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Loss of computer or Smartphone

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I think you raise a good point. Most stolen devices will be wiped so they
appear good to sell. These tools wont help much there...

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On Sep 5, 2011 3:33 AM, "Andy Smith"  wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Mike Austin wrote:
>> Those of you concerned about loss of a computer or Smartphone should
visit
>>
>> http://preyproject.com/download
>
> I've been thinking about this, but the difficulty is that I kind of
> want to continue using full disk encryption. Expecting a thief to
> know how to log in to Linux is already a bit unlikely, before you
> even add the encryption. I'm thinking it's more likely that they
> would know how to wipe the SSD and install Windows, or just sell it
> as-is down the pub.
>
> What do people do to ensure that Prey can be run even while using
> full disk encryption?
>
> I was thinking it would be nice if dm-crypt would have a password
> timeout so that e.g. after 30 seconds it boots into something else.
>
> Even then, the trouble is I'd have to install a minimal Linux
> environment on the alternate boot just to be confident that it gets
> online, webcam works, etc. This sounds like a lot of work.
>
> I don't really want to start only encrypting certain directories
> (e.g. /home); I don't trust *myself* to never put sensitive info
> outside these directories, so if I was in charge of desktop support
> at a larger company I would certainly never trust employees to do
> the right thing in this regard.
>
> Maybe it comes down to how paranoid you are. It's just that dm-crypt
> works really nicely these days so it's hard to justify not using it
> on mobile devices.
>
> It would be interesting if the BIOS could do all the stuff that Prey
> does!
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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Re: [Hampshire] FW: More basic commands - was RE: ls -l

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Isn't the filesysyem in hackers the big GUI towers?

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On Aug 26, 2011 12:21 PM, "Rob Malpass"  wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Hmm - screen is a neat tool - thanks for pointing this out. The following
> is a bit of a circuitous link but I was watching Hackers the other week
and
> it made me wonder if there are other "basic" commands out there that are
> really useful but nobody uses.
>
>
>
> In the film, the sysadmins managed to narrow the hacker activity down to
> "terminal 27" and then one said "OK - let's echo terminal 27". By this I
> assume:
>
> a) terminal 27 = pts/27 or IP address 27 or whatever
>
> b) echoing means sysadmin can see what you're up to.
>
>
>
> I thought the only way to spy on your users was to do something like
>
>
>
> ps aux |grep username
>
>
>
> but (in another tenuous link to screen) there are situations where I could
> usefully see the progress of shells I have running on the console. I know
> VNC can do this for me but for some reason I really dislike the program -
> might be to do with it screwing up my screen reader but it's just a
personal
> preference.
>
>
>
> Is there a magic command to echo the contents of a particular terminal to
> root's screen (whether root is locally or remotely logged in)?
>
>
>
> Thanks again everyone - this is just another example of the incredible
depth
> of knowledge on this list.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
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Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

[Anton Piatek]

There is a big difference between publically posting private details and
movements to that of allowing someone else to host your contacts, calendar
or email.
I assume you encrypt every email you send, only accept encrypted mail and
only use websites with ssl. Otherwise you are probably sharing just ad much
as I am allowing google to store my email and calendar.

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On Aug 29, 2011 7:25 PM, "e-mail phillip.chandler" <
phillip.chand...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> One *massive* bonus of Android was getting the replacement, and all my
>> contacts and appointments (via google) were resynced with the greatest of
>> ease.
>>
>>
> Im more concerned about security on cloud computing. you have no idea who
is
> managing the computers with your information. You have no idea where they
> are. What protections may or may not be in place to make sure your
> information is not stolen or disclosed or that it does not accidentally
> disappear.
>
> Or what if the computer is in a country that doesn't recognize our data
> protection laws, goes bankrupt and sells the servers to another country
with
> different data protection laws to us, and the country that sold the server
?
>
> And do I really want to have all my personal stuff advertised on Facebook
> for the world to see ? People are too eager to advertise "Im getting in
the
> bath, im getting out of the bath, im getting dried, im having a fart, im
> walking out the door, im getting the bus, im half way to the pub, im
walking
> into the pub, wheres my drink ?"
>
> Call me old fashioned, but Id rather keep all my personal stuff backed up
on
> a usb stick. And that the biggest threat to any anti-anything you can buy,
> is the end user.
>
> Just my pounds worth on a lovely bank holiday. Hope you all had a good
one.
>
> Phill
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Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

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One of the draws of android, for me, was that I wouldn't need to connect it
to a computer. I prefer it syncing to some form of cloud,(or multiple other
online systems)

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> On 08/29/2011 04:56 PM, Keith Edmunds wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:49:32 +0100, cgden...@btinternet.com said:
>>
>>> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
>>
>> Would have thought any DAViCal server would be fine.
>
> That looks promising -- thanks.
>
>> Which client side
>> calendar program (sorry, "app") are you using?
>
> Up to now I've been using the calendar thingy on my Clie, syncing JPilot
> on Linux.
>
> cheers
>
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Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

[Anton Piatek]

I quite like tmux as an alternative to screen, it has better layout control
than screen.

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On Aug 24, 2011 7:39 PM, "pavithran"  wrote:
> On 24 August 2011 19:15, Victor Churchill 
wrote:
>> That and, subsequently, screen.
>
> Screen is something which I heard like 3 years back but never tried it
> , now I absolutely love , can't live without GNU Screen !
>
> One cool thing which screen allows is to log on irc forever !
>
> Regards,
> Pavithran
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?

[Anton Piatek]

I find spare disks the cheapest option. I have them in an old PC at my
parents house and on the net. Rsync does weekly backup updates.

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On Jul 24, 2011 7:08 PM, "Rob Malpass"  wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
> I need some sort of decent method of backing up 2TB besides just buying an
> external HDD - which is what I already have.
>
>
>
> Having looked around - online storage is out (way too pricey) and Blu Ray
is
> too small. Tape looks the best bet but SDLT (which seems to be an
> affordable medium) might be getting a bit old...
>
>
>
> Does anyone use SDLT? If so, what do you think of it? Any ideas how long
> it takes to restore a backup of 600Gb (which seems to be the tape's max
> capacity)?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Broadband?!

[Anton Piatek]

I have been loving BT infinity, but might replace my router ad the older
home hub is basic.
Can't comment on much else, have not used BTFon really.

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On Jul 14, 2011 2:37 PM, "Peter Andrijeczko" 
wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> Keeping it honest, I have BT Fusion with the Home Hub 2 and it's very
> reliable - I have the unlimited option at £25 a month but as a home worker
> my company pays for it anyway - so price is secondary to me.
>
> I had huge instability problems when I first got BT Broadband about 4
years
> ago, eventually the causes were found to be internal home cabling and the
> totally crap BT Home Hub 1 - the Home Hub 2 is much better, it still has a
> couple of firmware quirks but I don't think my service has been down more
> than one in the past 18 months, and I am a heavy user of broadband.
>
> As for FON, I'm opted into it, I'm in a semi-rural area so I don't think
> there are that many people that use my hotspot so I've not noticed any
> slowdown because of it - and the benefits of good coverage outweigh the
opt
> in.
>
> BT are ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE for support or whenever you need to change any
of
> your services - but I've always found the services themselves to be fairly
> good.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
> On 14 July 2011 14:14, alan c  wrote:
>
>> On 14/07/11 12:19, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> > Hello folks
>> >
>> > I find myself being tempted away from the reliable plainness of
>> > UKFSN/Entanet broadband towards the glossy excitement of BT broadband.
>> >
>> > For these reasons:
>> > * I need a new wifi router anyway, and I'll get a free one with BT.
>> > * It will probably be cheaper once the free UK landline calls and other
>> > goodies are factored in.
>> > * They offer lots of free wifi hotspots via BT Fon and BT Openzone,
>> > which will be of interest to me if I get a smartphone or tabletty
thing.
>> >
>> > Has anyone used BT Fon? Is it any good?
>> >
>> > I have experience of wrestling with BT Broadband customer support on
>> > behalf of customers -- it's often not fun. But on the other hand, for a
>> > lot of people BT Broadband is very reliable.
>> >
>> > What does the team think? Would moving to BT be a mistake?
>>
>> I use BeThere isp, good if they have equipment in your area.
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Re: [Hampshire] Screen

[Anton Piatek]

That looks exactly like what I want!  Any way of splitting the screen
session into windows so when I attach I can see all 3 at once by default?

Anton

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On Jun 19, 2011 5:06 PM, "Adam John Trickett" 
wrote:
> On Sunday 19 Jun 2011 16:50:58 Anton Piatek wrote:
>> I feel like a n00b for not knowing this, but does anyone know if/how I
can
>> script a screen session to launch multiple apps?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Ideally laying each out in its own window in the same screen session.
>
> Yes.
>
> I do this all the time by creating screenrc files with instructions for
each
> screen in them. That way when I logon to a box I just start screen and it
> starts one screen with a bash session (the default) one with mutt and one
with
> SSH to another box. It even gives them nice names.
>
> Somewhere in the .screenrc file put something like:
>
> screen -t Rouge 0
> screen -t Mutt 1 mutt
> screen -t Bleu 2 ssh -A lapin-bleu
>
> The "-t" means title if the status bar
> The number is the screen session
> and the bit at the end is the command to run, type nothing and you get
your
> default shell.
>
> Does this help?
>
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[Hampshire] Screen

[Anton Piatek]

I feel like a n00b for not knowing this, but does anyone know if/how I can
script a screen session to launch multiple apps? Ideally laying each out in
its own window in the same screen session.

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