Re: [Hampshire] [OT] OLPC XO
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Daniel Pope wrote: > It's often said that most programmers suck at HCI, but at least most > programmers know to copy designs that work. You'd have to be pretty > arrogant to think that you can design a better GUI than what the entire > industry has researched and developed over 30 years. If you only ever copy stuff that works, you’ll never do anything new. Just because that’s what we’ve always done doesn’t mean it’s the best way. A completely different approach, even if it turns out in the end to be worse, is not a bad thing in itself. -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7 “If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.” — Tony Benn pgptvllsJKDfF.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Jabber Servers
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:02:59PM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Have any of you set up a jabber service before? I've done a brief > spike using openfire - has anyone any experiences with other servers? > Any recommendations? I use ejabberd; on Debian, at least, it works out of the box. I’ve not tried to do anything complicated with it, though, so I don’t know how it would compare if you want more than just the basics. -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7 “My own mind is my church, the world is my country, to do good is my religion.” — Thomas Paine pgpSLGLuBHsBG.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:15:12AM +0100, pavithran wrote: > 2009/7/30 Hugo Mills : > > >> 1. Please update the gallery software > > > > Without meaning to come across as a miserable curmudgeon(*), what > > would newer software gain, other than a fleeting warm fuzzy feeling of > > running something up to date, and an indefinable odour of undiscovered > > security flaws? > http://codex.gallery2.org/G1-G2_Comparison > and Gallery 3 is going to be released soon . Aren't we as linux users > on Cutting edge ? There’s no point in using bleeding-edge software for the sake of it. On the other hand, there’s no sense using old software for the sake of it, either. If there’s some reason not to upgrade, then don’t. > >> 2 . Use some candy template ( but usable) > > > > I'd rather do without. The primary function of the gallery is to > > show the pictures that people have taken, not to surround them with > > distracting fripperies. > Agree but I didn't ask for a candy template which has all that Ajax > features which suck the memory/processing memory . I just asking for a > nice looking gallery template which is *usable* :) You haven’t explained what’s not usable about the current template. It seems fine to me. > Well no wrong in using the old gallery software . But the reason for > my mail was the gallery didn't render properly in my Minefield 3.6a ( > firefox 3.6 alpha ) browser . > > I had to reload the page sometimes to get the gallery right . This was > happening only in Album display page . Hence my opinion is to move > from the old un supported software to something new . You’re using new, unsupported software and surprised that it doesn’t work? Are you certain that the gallery is to blame and not the alpha browser you’re using? -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7 “Now, now, dear man, this is not the time to be making enemies.” — Voltaire, on his deathbed when a priest asked him to “renounce Satan” pgpuSc4z5mhBm.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] GRUB2 is anyone using it ?
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:29:27AM +, isaaccl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Simple enough question, is anyone using GRUB2 yet ? I ask this because > i've had a quick look at it, and unless i'm very wrong, it seems quite > different to GRUB. I've been using it for quite a while; the version in Debian, at least, is perfectly stable. The config file syntax is different (more flexible, I think), but Debian takes care of that anyway. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." -- Seymour Cray commenting on virtual memory -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BaB Soton Uni register MySQL script
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:30:42PM +, Jacqui Caren wrote: > Jim Nicholson wrote: > > This says that an attendee must exist for each mac address, but says > > nothing about the number of mac addresses per attendee. To add a mac > > address, you must have an attendee, and you cannot delete an attendee if > > there are any mac addresses referring to it. > > vc(50) for email address is often too short - consider vc(200) > > I work with email logs and have hit addresses over 200chrs. IIRC, the two parts of an email address (i.e. before and after the @) have a limit of 64 characters each. The local part certainly does; I'm not so certain about the domain part, but I doubt there are many hostnames much longer than that. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] TVLA (was: I am a person not a PC...)
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:07:41AM -, Stephen Rowles wrote: > > They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My > > friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come > > round. > > > > I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told them > > he didn't have a TV. The investigator challenged him "but you've got a TV > > aerial." I love his response "I've got a pint of milk in the fridge. > > Doesn't mean I've got a cow in the back garden." > > That is really weird... before I was married my fiancee lived in a flat > and had a TV/Video combo, but no TV license, she just used to get video's > out of the Library and watch them. The first time the letter came she > simply replied with "I have a TV, but it is not tuned and I don't watch > TV" and never got pestered again :) > > Will be interesting to find out how well that works, I intend to do the > same thing in the new year (after recording lots of Christmas telly) ISTR this is what they ask (tell) you to do; I personally just object to having to go to any effort to tell them that I'm not commiting a crime. (When I was living in halls in my first year at uni, they sent threatening letters along the lines of "you don't have a licence! that's illegal!", with small print at the bottom saying "of course, if you don't have a TV you don't need a licence".) -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] LOCALE: ja_JP.UTF-8
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:09:16PM +, Lisi wrote: > If I set a system's locale to the above, will it not turn the whole system > Japanese? > > At the moment I have LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, and my system is English. I had > always > imagined that the two facts were connected. It should, if the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale is installed (though if a particular app doesn't have a translation to that locale, it will probably fall back to "C", which is basically US English). -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe." -- Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Debian Lenny + Firefox 2.0.0.17 +Prefbar Correction to first email.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:04:00PM +0100, Bond, Peter wrote: > > Why, what is wrong with Iceweasel? it's just Firefox without the > > Mozilla branding and Firefox name. It works fine for me with > > normal Firefox add-ons. Other than a logo you wouldn't know you > > you were not using Firefox. > > Up until the point that your bank strops about the useragent coming from > an unsupported browser. Easy enough to fix, but irritating and > completely unwarranted IMO. Except Debian had a choice between rebrand Firefox, abandon the principles it's been working on for over a decade, or abandon Firefox. Rebranding was considered to be by far the better option, for obvious reasons. If you disapprove, complain to Mozilla: out of all the free software with a trademarked name/logo, Mozilla is the only one that causes problems. > Also - how well is iceweasel tracking the Firefox releases? Debian has a new version of Iceweasel just as quickly as it would have a new version of Firefox (i.e. it can lag behind the actual release by a couple of days, but so can other things that aren't rebranded). -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:29:29PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > Has anyone had any experience of this? I have googled it and have found > conflicting accounts of how real a threat it is. Also how recent! > > And would it be likely to jump from an external usb caddy to the HDD (if > mounted)? > From <http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2001-032311-2042-99&tabid=2>: Discovered: March 23, 2001 Apparently it was patched in Red Hat 7. I doubt it's still an issue. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
