Re: [Hampshire] Crossover
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011 12:58:12 Tony Wood wrote: Hello Mike Most interested in your multi-personality computer as I, a newcomer to Linux of only a few weeks, am still having difficulty with editing web-size movies with all the Linux video-editing programs I've tried. (It's the only facility I seem to have lost!) I used to use Windows Movie Maker regularly with great success, but have now abandoned Windoze XP Pro completely. Would your amazing system allow me to use Movie Maker on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine, do you think? How might I set that up? Looks like that's probably a no :-( [1] Just to add to the CrossOver love, after being a paying customer for about 2 years I've recently become an advocate, which give you access to all the stable and testing versions in return for contributions to the compatibility database. At the moment I'm primarily using to to play games from GOG.com[2], many of which work seamlessly. The number of community supported applications has also taken a leap in the most recent version as the software installer now downloads a list of installer scripts provided by the community to help get programs up and running. Can't recommend it highly enough! Mark [1] http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search/?name=Windows+Movie+Maker [2] http://gog.com -- 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] Wireless Access Point
On Sunday 07 Nov 2010 10:40:10 Paul Stimpson wrote: Before you do anything I would have a look at the rules to see if it is naughty, see if anyone else is doing it and take precautions like turning off the SSID broadcast on the AP and using dd-wrt's MAC address clone function to clone the MAC address of the wired Ethernet port on your son's laptop in case they scan the network looking for unauthorised APs. Obviously each university's going to have a different setup, but this step would have been absolutely necessary at my uni, as you had to register your MAC address with your room number to get online, and were only allowed 1 MAC per room. I'd be suprised if it wasn't a breach of the uni's AUP for users to hook up their own networking equipment, so I'd speak to them rather than risk him getting kicked off the network, but that's just the sysadmin in my head trying to be heard ;-) Cheers Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] [Hardware] GuruPlug
Hi Everyone, Those of you who were at the last meeting at Southampton Uni will have seen my GuruPlug server[1], the Debian-based successor to the SheevaPlug, which spectacularly failed to connect to the network properly. Of course, when I got it home where no-one could see it, it started working perfectly again, and continues to do so. For those who are interested, I've set it up to run as a NAS, a web server, wireless access point and bit torrent client, and am considering some other uses for it. If you're looking for a low-powered server for ~£100 (and aren't scared of a bit of hacking), they'd certainly have my recommendation. I've put more details and pictures on my blog[2][3][4]. Cheers Mark [1] https://www.newit.co.uk/shop/products.php?cat=11 [2] http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/index.php?q=node/22 [3] http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/index.php?q=node/23 [4] http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/index.php?q=node/24 -- 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] [Hardware] GuruPlug
Hi Roger, On Saturday 09 Oct 2010 16:31:36 Roger Munford wrote: I was on the verge of buying one but I came across a lot of references to overheating. Is this a problem with yours? I believe this problem was only present in the GuruPlug Server Plus, mine is a Standard model. From the emails I got from NewIT while waiting for my order to ship, this problem is fixed in new plugs. Mine certainly gets warm, but hasn't showed any signs of overheating. Cheers Mark -- 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] [Hardware] GuruPlug
On Saturday 09 Oct 2010 16:40:10 Mark Johnson wrote: From the emails I got from NewIT while waiting for my order to ship, this problem is fixed in new plugs. Just to clarify that a bit further, here's Globalscale's official statement on the subject: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/news.aspx?showarticle=4 -- 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] Man jailed over computer password refusal
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2010 19:26:03 Sean Gibbins wrote: Finally, where does this leave the right to remain silent? Try getting caught on a speed camera[1] and being asked to confirm who was driving your car, then you'll see if you've got the right to remain silent. Sad, but true. Mark [1] Don't. -- 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] MAC addresses for AGM and next meeting
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 15:35:09 Ashwin wrote: Hello All, I just heard from the department sysadmins that they are insanely busy dealing with the hundreds of new students who have descended on the university this week to begin their courses. The addition of MAC addresses is therefore a lower priority and there is a small chance that it may not get done, which means everybody who attends the meet tomorrow may not have internet access. I can personally add three guest MAC addresses but just wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you can bring along any 3G dongles or brush up on ways to share an internet connection from the the 3 (fortunate :) ) guest addresses I can add myself. We do have the rooms, so in the worst case, there is still place to sit and conduct the meeting/talks. Will there still be wired connections available? I haven't been to a meeting in ages so I don't know what the situation is anymore. Cheers Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] LVM problems
Hi Everyone, I've got a system with a USB drive connected as /dev/sda, with a single partition at /dev/sda1. I've set up /dev/sda1 as an LVM Physical Volume, and added it to a volume group (/dev/vg0) with no other PVs. I've then created 3 Logical Volumes, /dev/vg0/home /dev/vg0/usr and /dev/vg0/var. When I created them, they showed up fine, mounted fine, and all seemed well. However, after a reboot, the system can't find and mount the LVs. /dev/sda1 is showing up in $ ls /dev and the physical volume is still set up, but /dev/vg0 doesn't exists and I get the following output from $ sudo /sbin/lvdisplay: --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg0/usr VG Namevg0 LV UUIDUtweqQ-vZgr-0DYt-16wD-yy9G-e0yz-JxNpwX LV Write Accessread/write LV Status NOT available LV Size20.00 GB Current LE 1280 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg0/var VG Namevg0 LV UUIDeiDkxP-kBvw-ngzL-REtA-ek3Z-Ikwu-bu3jX9 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status NOT available LV Size100.00 GB Current LE 6400 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg0/home VG Namevg0 LV UUIDH0KL6l-b03n-Z1yI-9CUE-1W0O-0XpR-TxHdZu LV Write Accessread/write LV Status NOT available LV Size200.00 GB Current LE 12800 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto The LV Status lines being of particular worry. If anyone wants a closer look at the problem, I'll be bringing it along to the BaB tomorrow. Cheers Mark -- 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] LVM problems
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 17:00:30 Hugo Mills wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:56:02PM +0100, Mark Johnson wrote: Hi Everyone, I've got a system with a USB drive connected as /dev/sda, with a single partition at /dev/sda1. I've set up /dev/sda1 as an LVM Physical Volume, and added it to a volume group (/dev/vg0) with no other PVs. I've then created 3 Logical Volumes, /dev/vg0/home /dev/vg0/usr and /dev/vg0/var. When I created them, they showed up fine, mounted fine, and all seemed well. However, after a reboot, the system can't find and mount the LVs. /dev/sda1 is showing up in $ ls /dev and the physical volume is still set up, but /dev/vg0 doesn't exists and I get the following output from $ sudo /sbin/lvdisplay: The LV Status lines being of particular worry. Try: # vgscan # vgchange -a y The vgscan may not be necessary. You may also be missing the necessary rules that generate /dev/vg0/* devices -- look in /dev/mapper/ instead (because those are guaranteed to exist). Well that certainly worked, cheers Hugo! Is there a way I can make sure that they LVs are found and made active at boot time so they can be mounted? Thanks Mark -- 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] LVM problems
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:09 +0100, Vic wrote: Is there a way I can make sure that they LVs are found and made active at boot time so they can be mounted? They usually will be. On RH-type systems, this is done by the init script in your initrd - I've no idea about other flavours, but I suspect it will be similar. The only real difficulty I've had here is if you have multiple VGs; the init script mentions the main VG by name, so additional ones aren't made active there, and nor is the main one if you change its name. I usually hand-modify the initrd to cope with this - but that's not a maintainable situation. zcat and cpio are your friends :-) I'm running Debian Lenny. As far as I can tell, all the init scripts are in place, and I only have 1 volume group. On boot I get the following (relevant) messages: Setting the system clock. scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST310003 33AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda:Cleaning up ifupdown Loading kernel modules...done. Setting up LVM Volume Groups device-mapper: ioctl: 4.15.0-ioctl (2009-04-01) initialised: dm-de...@redhat.com sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... . Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) done. Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.conf)...done. Mounting local filesystems...mount: special device /dev/vg0/home does not exist failed. Am I correct in my interpretation of the above that /dev/sda1 isn't being found until after the Volume groups are set up, and therefore the PVs cant be activated? If so, is there any messing I can do to make it work? Cheers Mark -- 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] LVM problems
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 18:09:28 Vic wrote: The only real difficulty I've had here is if you have multiple VGs; the init script mentions the main VG by name, so additional ones aren't made active there, and nor is the main one if you change its name. I usually hand-modify the initrd to cope with this - but that's not a maintainable situation. zcat and cpio are your friends :-) I went for the hand-modification in the end. I modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to call vgscan and vgchange before it tries to mount anything. It's not pretty, but it certainly works like a charm! Cheers Mark -- 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] [ADMIN] October meeting
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010 20:53:20 Hants LUG Chairman wrote: ### In other news On 27 November there is the Barcamp meeting in Southampton. http://barcampsoton.eventbrite.com/ The barcamp's now sold out but they may be looking into a second venue nearby if there's demand. Tweet #bcsoton #metoo or email ch...@totl.net if you're interested :-) Mark -- 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] Southampton BarCamp
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 18:23 +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote: This BarCamp is being held in Southampton in November. I'm thinking about going, anyone else interested? http://www.eventbrite.com/event/858747537 I'll be there, I've been hoping for something like this in Southampton! Mark -- 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] 3G Dongle MicroSD slot
On Saturday 04 Sep 2010 10:53:25 Sean Gibbins wrote: On 04/09/10 10:30, Mark Johnson wrote: Hi Everyone, I've got a HUWAEI E160 3G dongle, which has a MicroSD slot on the side. Has anyone had any luck it getting the MicroSD recognised under Ubuntu? When I plug it in nothing happens, apart from the lights on the dongle flashing indicating a signal. I'm running Kubuntu Lucid. Hi Mark, What do you get if you run the command dmesg after you have plugged in the card? Thanks for the hint, Sean! dmesg showed the reader being detected as /dev/sdc, and inserting a card then mounting /dev/sdc1 gives me access to the card. It must just be KDE that's not autodetecting it. In case anyone's interested, you can also mount /dev/sr1 to gain access to the storage containing the dongle's drivers and setup tools. Cheers Mark -- 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] Hants LUG meet - 11th Sept - Hursley
On Saturday 04 Sep 2010 16:36:30 Hugo Mills wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 03:51:12PM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: Having said that, what presentation software do people favour? I'm not over fond of Open Office (nothing actually wrong with it, just a bit predictable). I have seen various 'things' (packages/programs/tools) but am undecided what to use. Something that generates HTML so you can run the presentation in a browser appeals. I've been intending to have a play with S5[1] for a while now. Haven't actually got round to it yet, but it looks quite nice. Hugo. [1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ I've done a presentation with it, and it fared very well, especially considering I had to move to a different machine last minute. Plus it makes it a doddle to publish your slides (I just put them in a public Dropbox folder, which serves them over HTTP). Mark -- 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] Fixing a USB stick
On Monday 16 Aug 2010 11:33:30 Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hello, Yes there certainly are companies who can do this. Goo-fu is failing me Try looking for Data recovery company/specialists/services/etc. I wouldn't expect them to specify broken USB sticks as a service, but I'd imagine you'll find one that'll do it if you email a few. Cheers Mark -- 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] Idiots Guide to Andriod Development?
On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010 19:51:32 Andy Random wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a good place to start to learn about developing apps for Android. http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ :-) Mark -- 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] Slight Plea For Help
Hi Ben, On Friday 06 Aug 2010 14:38:56 Benjamin Ashton wrote: Hi, If anyone is willing then I could do with some help. Our version of linux sort-of works but is also really annoying and seems to fail on some of the basics. Any attempts that I've made putting on a different distro usually end in failure. We live up near Southampton University. If someone is close enough to drop by to give advice then I would be most grateful. Why don't you come along with your machine to the next Bring a Box meeting in Southampton? We're a friendly bunch and I'm sure there'd be people willing to help you out. Cheers Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] [Slightly OT] Free JQuery eBook
Hi Everyone, Just in case anybody's interested and reads this in time, Sitepoint are giving away their JQuery Novice to Ninja ebook free for the next few hours in celebration of spain winning the world cup. http://sale.sitepoint.com/ Mark -- 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] GPS Dongle recommendations
Hi Dee, On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:05:15 Dee Earley wrote: On 19/05/2010 12:45, Mark Johnson wrote: I use a SirfStar III based Globalsat BU 353 and it works perfectly. As with all GPS devices, they appear as a serial port and as this one is USB, it uses the common PL2303 USB-RS232 chipset. They retail for ~£30 too. That one had caught my eye actually. Sounds like the one to got for! Thanks for everyone's input, Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] GPS Dongle recommendations
Hi All, I'm looking at getting a GPS dongle (or just a compact USB-attached GPS) to have a play with I was wondering if anyone would mind sharing experiences and recommendations with the devices? The main system it'll be used on is an EeePC 901 running Ubuntu Netbook Edition, so any experiences with those would be an extra bonus :-) Cheers Mark -- 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] Booting from a USB device
On Wednesday 28 Apr 2010 08:40:15 Bob Dunlop wrote: Perhaps simplify things. Can you use dd or similar to take a flat image of the SSD and put it in a file. Then configurue your virtualbox to boot from the file. I assume virtualbox can use filesystem images in files. Good suggestion! I'll give that a go. Alternativly what model Eee did you have ? Maybe someone has the same model and might let you swap drives long enough to boot and recover the data. That also sounds like good solution if the former doesn't work. I had an EeePC 900, I imagine a 901 would also do the job. Would anyone be willing to lend me their machine at the next Southampton meeting? Cheers Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] Booting from a USB device
Hi All, After my EeePC broke recently I purchased a USB enclosure for the SSD with the hope of recovering data. The root of the problem is that my home partition is encrypted and I've had no luck mounting it and managing to decrypt the filenames, so I was hoping to boot into the system, log in and get at my data that way. However, now that the SSD is in its enclosure, neither my physical machine nor virtualbox sees it as bootable, despite the fact that it booted fine when it was installed directly in the EeePC. Is there a trick to make a USB device bootable? Cheers Mark -- 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] Basic drawing programme to design roof extension
Hi Roger On Sunday 11 Apr 2010 22:22:14 Roger Munford wrote: Will have to learn from scratch but I hope to be able to quickly produce a simple 2D plan of my roof showing position of rafters, rooflights etc. Have you looked at QCad [1]? I was looking for a similar program to my dad while trying to tempt him to Linux (he's stuck on Windows for TurboCAD), and it seemed pretty good. You can get the community (open source) version for free, I'm not sure what you miss out from the professional version though. Cheers Mark [1] http://www.qcad.org/qcad.html -- 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] Quick Hi from a new member
On Saturday 20 Mar 2010 18:04:06 David Hopwood wrote: Hi all Joining the Hantslug group has been on my Todo list for some time :) and have a 5 mins free for once. Joys of starting a new company no time on your hands. Welcome! Take a look at my site if anyone is board and let me know what you think. Feel free to pick holes, still building the site and still have endless pages to add also errors to correct. One thing I feel should mention, your menu bar doesn't appear at all if you have javascript turned off (which I do by default, and I'm pretty sure some others on this list will). Since it's just a list of links, there's no real need to rely of javascript for this sort of thing, you can just put the static HTML in it's place. I could make a few other constructive criticisms (I'm a web developer), but I don't want to put you off posting on the list by making your first few responses a list of what you could change on your website :-p However, if you're interested, you can always ask me off-list! Cheers Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] [Hardware] anyone got experience fixing eeePCs?
Hi Guys, My eeePC 900 fell out of my bag on the bus yesterday, and now appears to be somewhat broken. The lights on the front come on when I press the power button, but I don't get any video output from either the monitor or the external VGA port. I've tried re-seating the RAM which didn't make a difference (didn't really expect it would). Anyone got any success stories they'd like to share? Cheers Mark -- 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] SheevaPlug catch-up
On Thursday 31 Dec 2009 13:01:20 Imran Chaudhry wrote: So a few weeks back I made a posting asking if anyone had a SheevaPlug. Well, I've taken the plunge and bought one. Initially they we being sold from the Far East and you had to wait ages for delivery. New-IT are the UK distributor. I bought it from their online shop: http://www.newit.co.uk/ I got the package with Debian pre-installed on a 4Gb SD card. Arrived very quickly and their service is excellent. It works great. If using Ubuntu 9.10 then you can get at the USB- serial console really easily (it auto-loads the driver etc), then configure for ssh. Also there is a ton of good docs on the plugcomputer.org wiki - eg. there are tweaks on reducing the writes to the SD card. I'm using it as an openvpn gateway but plan on using it as a webcam server and then maybe a git repository and maybe backup MX. I have a slug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2) already which is serving media (Samba) to several XBMC systems and DNS for my local network and wanted something with more power. Anyhow, just thought some folks might be interested. Oh, and a Happy New Year to everyone in the LUG!, Imran Happy new year Imran, I've been looking at getting a low-powered device to run a web server on. I'd been looking at something nettop-sized, but it looks like one of these should be up to the job (and significantly cheaper!). I may well be joining the SheevaPlug owner's club at my next pay day :-) Mark -- 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] SheevaPlug catch-up
On Thursday 31 Dec 2009 13:01:20 Imran Chaudhry wrote: It works great. If using Ubuntu 9.10 then you can get at the USB- serial console really easily (it auto-loads the driver etc), then configure for ssh. Also there is a ton of good docs on the plugcomputer.org wiki - eg. there are tweaks on reducing the writes to the SD card. I'm using it as an openvpn gateway but plan on using it as a webcam server and then maybe a git repository and maybe backup MX. I have a slug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2) already which is serving media (Samba) to several XBMC systems and DNS for my local network and wanted something with more power. It it plausible to connect it to a wireless network via a USB dongle? I can't think why it wouldn't be, but was wondering if you'd tried? Mark -- 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] GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04
Kubuntu's never had GIMP installed by default, and doesn't have Krita which would probably be the KDE equivalent. Never bothered me, apt-get install... Mark -- 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] Meetings notes for last saturday
Hi John, On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:45:31 john wrote: How do I add my name to the meeting notes. In the footer, there's a link to Edit the text of this page. HTH, Mark -- 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] Kubuntu 9.10
On Friday 30 Oct 2009 23:13:20 Peter Salisbury wrote: Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. Besides Grub 2 completely failing with my mixture of SATA and PATA disks, I've nothing but praise for Kubuntu 9.10. It runs like a charm on my machine, drives and codecs not a problem, and the whole thing feels nicely polished. Definitely the best release yet (and that's not always the case with a new Kubuntu release). Mark -- 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] Konsole
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:44:03 john lewis wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:47:31 +0100 Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 at 10:31:54AM +0100, john lewis wrote: Until a short time ago Konsole had options in the File menu for a Root tab and a Root MC tab in addition to New tab and New Window. A recent update removed the two 'Root' options, I suspect a bit of ubuntization at work. Which version of Konsole/KDE do you have? KDE4 radically changed Konsole and Root Konsole went away on my Debian system - nothing to do with Ubuntu as far as I'm aware. Hi Adam I was only wondering if the KDE people had removed the 'root' options as Ubuntu doesn't have the concept of doing things as root - hence 'ubuntized' I'm not going to start and argument on the subject, but that information is somewhat misguided. I log in to Ubuntu as root on a daily basis, and execute commands as root on my home (Kubuntu) machine all the time. Mark -- 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] banks and home use of card readers
Hugo Mills wrote: As far as I know, they're stand-alone units. Hugo. Yes I can confirm this. I have one for my Natwest account and they are completely standalone units. They look a little like a calculator, and you just put your card in it and it displays various numbers which you then type into the computer - there's no USB interface or anything. Cheers, Robin Also (with NatWest at least) they're currently only used for verification in certain on-line banking operations, such as setting up standing orders. AFAIK there's no way of using them for chip-and-pin payments (as of yet). Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] Whoops! (PAM Failure)
I decided to be clever today and encrypt my Eee PC's home partition. I followed [1] to copy all my files correctly, and [2] for creating and automounting an encrypted home partition. However, now when I try to log in, I get: login: PAM Failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort Looking back, I have a feeling I neglected to do mkdir /home after moving /home to /old_home. Could this be causing the error? If not, any suggestions what's up. And more importantly, can anyone tell me how I'd get to single user/recovery mode? I've got Super Grub Disk [3] on a USB drive, but all i seem to be able to do with that is boot into the broken system (there's no grub menu displayed on boot from the internal drive). A million thanks, Mark [1] http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/ [2] http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10 [3] http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ -- 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] Festive headline
On Monday 22 December 2008 12:23:20 Rob Malpass wrote: At the risk of asking the obvious (and having seen the diagram on the BBC website) - does fibre optic broadband mean digging up the roads to domestic houses? Or is it just the fatter pipes to whatever the cabled equivalent of exchanges are (UBRs is it?) that need replacing ? AFAIK, when cables are laid (such as when virgin come and dig up the road) they'll lay a plastic conduit with a coaxial cable in, that has plenty of room for a fibre optic cable next to it. This means that when it comes to installing the FO, they just open up the inspection chambers and feed it through the conduits, with no further digging up required. Mark -- 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 --
[Hampshire] Apache2 PHP weirdness
Hi guys, I have apache2 running on my laptop under Ubuntu. I've got mod_php5 and mod_userdir both loaded and aparrently working. The login page for phpmyadmin (at http://localhost/phpmyadmin) displays fine. However, if I try and view a php file in my public_html directory (e.g. http://localhost/~mark/whatever.php) it tries to download the file rather than interpreting it and displaying the output. Can anyone explain this behaviour, and suggest how to fix it so that the PHP files are executed correctly? Thanks, Mark -- 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] Don't tell Bill
On Saturday 06 December 2008 11:03:38 Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote: Hi, Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly on my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites) I like the picture and idea but it looks dreadful with JavaScript disabled (NoScript). You may need to tweak your style sheets so that you get the desired effect without looking ugly. I concur, I just went on the site with NoScript (bear in mind a lot of security conscious people use it, and it's the 4th most popular Firefox addon) and was presented with a pile of overlapping incomprehensible text. Until I read Adam's post, I didn't even occur to me that it could have required Javascript, so you might want to play with that a bit. The only other suggestion I'd make is speed up some of the transitions between the text a bit. It takes about 7 seconds for the first text to appear, by which time I've lost interest. In general, I do like the general look and feel of the page, and it does handle different screen sizes pretty gracefully. I'll start work on my Don't Tell Bill! Mark -- 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] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt Cutters!
On Thursday 16 October 2008 22:50:18 Lisi wrote: But I have a more cheerful addendum. I was in Carphone Warehouse in Petersfield yesterday because my granddaughter wanted to put some money on her mobile 'phone. I looked idly at the display next to me while waiting for her - and there was a Webbook in all its splendour running Ubuntu. So when my granddaughter moved on from topping up her mobile 'phone to window shopping earphones, I collared the salesman who had been serving her and asked if he would like some leaflets explaining Ubuntu. He said that they are not allowed to display any leaflets but their own. So I said perhaps for the staff, perhaps for him. And he said... He knew thanks. He used Linux at home and actually had a Webbook. So I said that there was obviously no need for me to attempt to persuade him of its virtues, and he said no, there was no need to convert him because he was already converted!!! :-) One of my friends works at CPW. When they first got webbooks he was telling his housemates how he'd been told the Linux versions were rubbish and you couldn't do anything with them. Then I used Knoppix to fix his Windows desktop. It's amazing what a little demonstration can do to educate. Mark -- 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] Another Hello
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 08:03:04 Greg Auger wrote: Tony: I'd be more than happy for you to do so, you can use the the face in the top right corner if you wish. I haven't been here for 30 days yet, so in theory you shouldn't let me on there though! :) And I'm coming to see you at Taunton's today (hopefully!). Becky: Yes, it's nice to know you're not alone! My school has been giving out eeepcs recently, one of which my best friend has. Of course they run linux, and its great to see some of my friends and teachers see that linux is very useful. (Even though the Eees have uselessly small screens). Paul: I'm running Sid, mainly because I wanted the latest and greatest (although sid doesn't always provide). Perhaps I'll write a blog post on my distro choice some time! Lisi: It's so nice to meet similar people in a world of people who don't really understand you! Philip: For me it was the greatly improved speed and stability on my old(ish) computer. I've got a far faster one since, but I could never go back! Hi Greg, It's nice to have someone substantially younger than me on the list! Just a quick note about the mailing list so that you don't get flamed for it in the future: It's generally considered better to reply to each person in a separate email, with particular text you're responding to quoted at the top. This just makes it easier to work out where the conversation's going (and come from), especially when not all the members' short term memories are as fresh as ours *ducks* ;-) Hope you're enjoying your Linux experience so far. I've got myself an eeepc 900 recently. I certainly wouldn't describe the screen as uselessly small, although I have had the owner of a 701 tell me he finds the screen too small, so maybe the extra couple of inches makes all the difference. Mark -- 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 --
