Re: [Hampshire] Booster vaccs

[Owain Clarke via Hampshire]

*University Health Centre University of Southampton,* Highfield Campus, 
Southampton, SO17 1BJ 02380 595 000


On 20/12/2021 17:16, Neil Stone via Hampshire wrote:
Thanks for the update, I don't suppose anyone has a postcode (or even 
address) for this place? Google is offering several alternatives, I 
don't fancy doing a tour-de-Hampshire if I can help it.


On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 16:50, Roger Munford via Hampshire 
mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>> 
wrote:


The vaccination session at Southampton University has started and
will run until 8 this evening. I saw a short queue there about 16.30.

There will be two further sessions next Monday and Tuesday from 9
to 17.00 if they are useful to anyone.

Seasons Greetings

Roger

On 20/12/2021 14:36, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:


Sorry, Southampton. Started mailing a few local friends but
thought might do a bit of good just mailing my address book

On 20/12/2021 13:59, Neil Stone via Hampshire wrote:

Thanks for the heads up Roger...

Which University? My fiancee and I are keen to get our boosters,
but we can't find anywhere available that's accessible, this
side of next year.

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 13:14, Roger Munford via Hampshire
mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:

The university health centre has a walk-in booster session
today
building 48 from 4pm to 8pm and are asking people to spread
the word.

If this helps any body let them know.

I am going to walk round later this afternoon to check that
is happening
for my niece who will travel from Romsey so if anybody else
is thinking
about it but has to travel a long way, they can check with
me first.

Several neighbours had it over the weekend and there was no
wait.

Regards

Roger


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Re: [Hampshire] bash error

[Owain Clarke via Hampshire]

Thanks Brad.  The second one solves my conundrum.

    'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)'

Owain


On 26/02/2021 09:30, Brad Macpherson via Hampshire wrote:

G'day Owain,

I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)

On 26/02/2021 09:23, Owain Clarke via Hampshire wrote:
Hi.  Could someone help me with the error of my ways?  I'm sure this 
one is dead simple but I can't see it.

I have this alias:-
 alias my_alias='cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * & geany 
progress &'


The ristretto bit works as expected, but I thought that the text file 
that opened would be ~/somedirectory/progress, but instead it creates 
~/progress.  What's wrong with my syntax?


Thanks

Owain




My guess is that the && is tying together 'cd ~/somedirectory && 
ristretto * &' which then is backgrounded; 'geany progress &' is 
invoked separately (from whichever directory you issued the alias) and 
backgrounded.


Did you mean to do something like

'cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * && geany progress &'

or

'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)'

instead?

Cheers

Brad


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Re: [Hampshire] !![SPAM]!! Re: bash error

[Owain Clarke via Hampshire]

I think that's the nub of it.  I want to put ristretto into the 
background but stay in the same directory for geany


On 26/02/2021 09:31, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote:

The '&' before 'geany' will put the process into the background. Is that
what you want?


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[Hampshire] bash error

[Owain Clarke via Hampshire]

Hi.  Could someone help me with the error of my ways?  I'm sure this one 
is dead simple but I can't see it.

I have this alias:-
    alias my_alias='cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * & geany progress &'

The ristretto bit works as expected, but I thought that the text file 
that opened would be ~/somedirectory/progress, but instead it creates 
~/progress.  What's wrong with my syntax?


Thanks

Owain


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Re: [Hampshire] Hosting recommendations

[Owain Clarke]

Think you all for taking the time and trouble to give these various 
suggestions, which I will now investigate. As they say stateside, you guys are 
awesome!

Owain
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[Hampshire] Hosting recommendations

[Owain Clarke]

Hello all.

I have been asked to build a website for someone who is going into 
self-employment.  The site will consist of contacts, pictures of 
completed projects and a few other bits.  In short it will not be a 
complex site.  I am planning to use WordPress or some other template 
based system as my day to day work is nothing to do with coding, so my 
head will never expand enough do build it the old fashioned way.


What I'm wondering is whether anyone has any fabby recommendations for 
hosting?


Thanks


Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] Free Wii

[Owain Clarke]

The medical research charity XLP Research Trust is desperately trying to 
replace flood damaged stock for its monthly stall and would want the 
games - they're in Romsey so would probably collect 
http://www.xlpresearchtrust.org/


On 30/05/14 17:05, James Bensley wrote:

Hi All,

I have some Wii consoles and bits going free if anyone wants them.
They have been in storage for 3 years so they're a bit dusty but
should be all fine.


Wii Accessories;
4x Wii Remotes
4x Protective Rubber Wii Remote Covers
4x Wii Nunchuk
1x WiiFit Board
2x Wii Remote Gun Holders - Two different styles
1x Wii Remote Racing Wheel Holder
1x Wii Guitar
2x Wii Remote Maraca Holders
2x TV IR Sensor
2x SD TV Connnectors
1x HD TV Connector
1x Power supply
2x Wii Consoles (that's the interesting bit)

Wii Games;
Carnival Funfair Games
Guinness World Records The Videogame
Guitar Hero Legends of Rock
Lego Batman The Videogame
Lego Indiana Jones The Original Adventure
Links Crossbow Training
Mario  Sonic At The Olympic Games
Mario Party 8
Mariokart Wii
Rayman Raving Rabits TV Party
Resident Evil THe Umbrella Chronicles
Samba De Amigo
Super Mario Galaxz
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz
The House Of The Dead 2  3 Return
The House Of The Dead Overkill
Wario Ware Smooth Moves
Wii Fit
Wii Play
Wii Sports


Gamecube Games (these are all copies):
Broken Sword
Goldeneye
Resident Evil
Spiderman 2

There are 2 Wii Conoles here - One the CD/DVD drive died so I have
another. On to one of them I I flashed various custom firmwares files
on there to (i) play copied wii games (ii) install a GameCube emulator
and play copied GameCube games. I think that is the one with the
working CD/DVD drive. The otherone I can't remember but I think I
flashed that one to so you could play games from an SDCARD (these
consoles have SDCARD readers built in).

It can be collected from Southampton (or I can deliver it to you in
Southampton) or in Reigate or Leatherhead, I am circulating between those
locations regularly.

Cheers,
James.




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Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

[Owain Clarke]

I second that!

On 20/05/14 08:09, Tony Wood wrote:

On 20/05/14 07:25, Keith Edmunds wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2014 07:03:31 +0100, t...@engineering.selfip.org said:


The etiquette was that one should reply
underneath, but haven't the top posters won?


The history of persuading others to change their behaviour to make life
easier for oneself is not riddled with success.

There's lots to dislike about how others post (being a grumpy old man,
my list is long), but the choice to read others' posts is the reader's
alone.



I nominate Keith's response as 'Posting of the Month'.


I second that!

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[Hampshire] Emails not delivering

[Owain Clarke]

Has anyone else noticed messages failing to deliver to hotmail 
addresses?  This is happening a lot to me at the moment, and the 
troubleshooting page is no help.  What's going on here?  Is it to do 
with my email provider, or yet another inscrutable Microsoft problem?


Owain


 Original Message 
Subject:Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Date:   19 May 2014 18:43:05 +0100
From:   Mail Delivery System mailer-dae...@iprslrsmtp2msp.cpwnetworks.com
To: simb...@cooptel.net



The following message to (i've removed the name)@hotmail.com was 
undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.4.7 - Delivery expired (message too old) [Default] 421-RP-001 (COL0-MC3-F36) 
Unfortunately, some messages from 62.24.128.202 weren't sent.
Please try again. We have limits for how many messages can be sent per hour and per 
day. You can also refer to 
http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.;



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Re: [Hampshire] Emails not delivering

[Owain Clarke]

Thanks, Jim.

I have now discovered that Hotmail has blacklisted the Phone Coop - 
accidentally it seems.


Owain

On 19/05/14 22:17, Jim Leake wrote:


You can check online to see if your provider is blacklisted if not may 
be the anti phishing filters are to tight


On 19 May 2014 19:33, Owain Clarke simb...@cooptel.net wrote:
Has anyone else noticed messages failing to deliver to hotmail 
addresses?  This is happening a lot to me at the moment, and the 
troubleshooting page is no help.  What's going on here?  Is it to do 
with my email provider, or yet another inscrutable Microsoft problem?


Owain


 Original Message 
Subject:Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Date:   19 May 2014 18:43:05 +0100
From: 	Mail Delivery System 
mailer-dae...@iprslrsmtp2msp.cpwnetworks.com 
mailto:mailer-dae...@iprslrsmtp2msp.cpwnetworks.com

To: simb...@cooptel.net mailto:simb...@cooptel.net



The following message to (i've removed thename)@hotmail.com  
mailto:name...@hotmail.com was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.4.7 - Delivery expired (message too old) [Default] 421-RP-001 (COL0-MC3-F36) 
Unfortunately, some messages from 62.24.128.202 weren't sent.
Please try again. We have limits for how many messages can be sent per hour and per 
day. You can also refer 
tohttp://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.;







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Re: [Hampshire] Invitation | ORG Hampshire Meetup Tomorrow

[Owain Clarke]

I'm sorry but while it is an important aim I don't feel I can ask anyone
to sign up to a charter that includes the word multistakeholderism.
It is important, though, in our supposedly enlightened society, not to 
suffer from the ugly prejudice of being a Multistakeholderist (some of 
my best friends are multistakeholders!)



Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] NASs

[Owain Clarke]

On 30/01/14 22:07, Ian Park wrote:

Yes, for a while I went down the road of sticking some drives in an 
old PC and running a Debian server installation; however the NAS has 
the dual advantage of being a lot more compact than even a low-profile 
desktop case (which you'd be pushed to get a couple of hard drives 
in), ans much lower power consumption (significant if you're going to 
keep it running most of the time).


Ian




Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone tried using a Raspberry Pi with 
connected hard drive?  How would this compare for power consumption?


Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] choice of motherboard for use with Linux

[Owain Clarke]

On 12/09/13 11:04, Artur ?a;dka wrote:

On 11/09/13 19:52, Keith Edmunds wrote:

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:58:24 +0100, arturla...@gmail.com said:

try Ubuntu (or K/X/Lubuntu) - it is Debian based, have very good 
support
and work just out of the box while Debian needs much more 
configuration.
In what way does Debian need much more configuration? (Genuine 
question)
In my opinion and personal experience with novice or less experienced 
Linux users Ubuntu (or Mint) is easier and better for people who just 
want working system straight after installation. Of course it all 
depends on personal preferences and usage, but Ubuntu was made to be 
more desktop user friendly and it does the job very good, keeping 
almost all Debian functionality.



I would consider Crunchbang as Debian with a bit of hand-holding

Owain



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Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG membership

[Owain Clarke]

On 12/06/13 16:02, john lewis wrote:

I have reluctantly decided to cease memebrship of HantsLUG. It is
unlikely I will be able to visit any meeting in the future and I don't
contribute much to the mailing list either these days.

I have enjoyed being a member and would like to say a big thank you for
all the help I have had from too many people to be able to list over
the years.

I shall of course continue to be a user of Debian until such time as I
disappear into a personal /dev/nul.


Thank you for all your contributions

Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] Accessing genealogy data on PDF files

[Owain Clarke]

On 13/05/13 19:59, Philip Stubbs wrote:
Can I ask, how long since you last tried Evince? I only ask as I used 
to feel the same but more recently, I can't complain how it renders 
PDF. Maybe it has improved a lot recently and worth looking at again.


For a tabbed viewer, there is qpdfview. I have not used it myself, but 
it uses the same libs as evince to render PDF's, so should do just as 
well. Maybe worth a try if Acroread dies for good.


Finally, could the windows version of acroread work in Wine?


This is taking it away from the original issue, but I managed perfectly 
well with Evince until I had to read downloaded journal articles which 
were only available for 24 hours.  Evince couldn't cope with this - 
after extensive internet searching I concluded I needed Acroread's 
security features to read the files


Owain

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[Hampshire] Don't suppose...

[Owain Clarke]

Hello all.

I don't suppose anyone's selling a laptop?  It's to replace my son's
one which is 6 or 7 years old, so it doesn't need to be state of the
art.  I don't really have a clear idea of spec, just thought I'd find
out if anyone is selling something.

Thanks

Owain

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[Hampshire] top error

[Owain Clarke]

Hello, Luggies.

I'm suddenly getting a new error - I don't know of anything I've
changed that's caused this.  Top responds with top: Invalid user.
I can run it with sudo as before.  Google doesn't throw up anything
obvious for me.  I'm using Crunchbang with Debian testing repositories,
if this is relevant.

Thanks for any help

Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] top error

[Owain Clarke]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:53:56 +0100
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:


 
  I'm suddenly getting a new error - I don't know of anything I've
  changed that's caused this.  Top responds with top: Invalid user.
 
 Permissions changed perhaps?  FWIW, here they're;
 
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  71792 Jan 23 11:40 /usr/bin/top
 
 I'm using Debian Testing.
 
No it's not that, Brad - I have:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65656 Jan 23 12:50 /usr/bin/top


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Re: [Hampshire] top error

[Owain Clarke]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:53:56 +0100
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:

 
 Permissions changed perhaps?  FWIW, here they're;
 
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  71792 Jan 23 11:40 /usr/bin/top
 
 I'm using Debian Testing.
 

Solved.  There was an error in my bash aliases file.

Thanks

Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] top error

[Owain Clarke]

 When I recently upgraded my server Debian Wheezy/testing, top gave an 
 error about ~/.toprc being invalid.  I deleted that file, and now it 
 works again.
 
 That may be related to your problem.
 
 cheers
 
 Chris
 

Chris, I sorted it - see my third email.  Thanks all the same - good to
know there's somewhere to come for help!

Owain

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[Hampshire] power problem

[Owain Clarke]

  
  
I wonder if anyone would mind commenting on a problem? I noticed
that recently my Asus Eee has only been getting up to about 65% of
charge, and I assumed this is a battery problem (I think it's about
18 months old). But then I have noticed a couple of times, that
even with a reasonable amount of charge, if I unplug the mains
charger, the computer immediately switches off, so I wondered
whether there is a more general power problem, or whether that could
just be indicative of a naff battery. It also sometimes switches
off when it's suspended, even though the battery appears to have
quite a bit of charge left. Any opinions?

Thanks all




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Re: [Hampshire] power problem

[Owain Clarke]

Thanks, Jan.  It's not a fortune, but it's too much to spend only to 
find out it's something else


Owain


On 06/12/11 09:49, Jan Henkins wrote:

Hello Owain,

Yep, that sounds like a borked battery. I find that lappy batteries can
start giving problems almost from the get-go, but a life-span from around
18-24 months seems to be the norm. It's inconvenient to say the least, but
luckily Eee batteries are readily available. A quick look on Amazon seems
like depending on your model, a battery should cost between £26-£34 (or
around that). I'm sure that you can most probably find cheaper unbranded
batteries elsewhere, bit then again I fully believe that you get what you
pay for in this case... :-)

On Tue, December 6, 2011 08:02, Owain Clarke wrote:

I wonder if anyone would mind commenting on a problem?  I noticed
that recently my Asus Eee has only been getting up to about 65% of
charge, and I assumed this is a battery problem (I think it's about
18 months old).  But then I have noticed a couple of times, that
even with a reasonable amount of charge, if I unplug the mains
charger, the computer immediately switches off, so I wondered
whether there is a more general power problem, or whether that could
just be indicative of a naff battery.  It also sometimes switches
off when it's suspended, even though the battery appears to have
quite a bit of charge left.



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[Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

[Owain Clarke]

  
  
Hi all.

Have started using Mint on my Desktop. When I press the up arrow in
a terminal I get "^[[A". I assume it's because it isn't Bash,
because if I type bash it then starts behaving what I think of as
properly. I've searched on the web but I can't express my search
terms clearly enough to get a good answer. So I wander if someone
could help me to set things up so that any terminal on any user
defaults to Bash, and also how I find out what it's doing at the
moment?

Thanks in advance

Owain


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Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Linux distro recommendations

[Owain Clarke]

  
  
On 29/10/11 01:03, Bryn Jones wrote:

  
  I'd recommend Mint - Ubuntu with a shiny finish (and in 11 running
  Gnome 2). The only thing I'm not sure about is encrypting home dir
  (but I'm pretty certain you can).


Yes it should prompt you to encrypt /home

Owain
  


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Re: [Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

[Owain Clarke]

On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote:

The shell for each user is defined in /etc/passwd - just edit that to set
up the shell you want.

Defaults for new users can be set up by editing /etc/default/useradd .

HTH

Vic.

Great - thank you very much, Vic

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Re: [Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

[Owain Clarke]

On 29/10/11 14:50, Ian Grody wrote:

vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and 
/etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you 
adduser you get to choose what shell

Thanks

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[Hampshire] non-functioning key

[Owain Clarke]

Morning.  I wonder if anyone could give me any ideas for what might be 
the cause of a non-functioning key, the escape key on my netbook.  xev 
gives no output at all.  There doesn't seem to be anything physically 
wrong.  I've managed to remap the poor neglected altgr key, so I still 
have a functioning keyboard, and this is just out of interest


Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] Sudo question

[Owain Clarke]

%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
   
Thanks, Keith, but I've done this, and it still prompts for password.  I 
am a member of  the users group. Any other ideas?


Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] Sudo question

[Owain Clarke]

On 13/06/11 10:41, Simon Reap wrote:
 Thanks, Keith, but I've done this, and it still prompts for 
password.  I am a member of  the users group. Any other ideas?

   %users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

 The order of entries in sudoers is important - I think it uses the 
last match in the file, and a later line in the file may match you but 
not have the NOPASSWD: field.


 Simon

Thanks all.  I think you may have identified it, as my sudoers includes

%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL

 Have you logged in again since you made yourself a member of the
users group?

The computer had been rebooted, which answered this one.

sudo -l gives

env_reset

User oclarke may run the following commands on this host:
(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
(ALL) ALL

grep pm-suspend /etc/sudoers gives:-

%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend.

As for which pm-suspend I'd already checked that.  It's

/usr/sbin/pm-suspend

# grep sudo /var/log/auth.log

is not useful - nothing seems to have been written (I'm writing this at 
19:06 and the last entry is 10:01)


So I guess my next step is to swap the 2 lines in sudoers and log in again?

Thanks to the 3 of you - excuse the bittiness of this post.

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[Hampshire] Sudo question

[Owain Clarke]

I wonder if anyone could explain this to me?

In my sudoers file I have:-

%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

but if I run pm-suspend I am told this can be only run by root, and if 
I run sudo pm-suspend I am asked for my password.  I assume that there 
must be something wrong with the line above from /etc/sudoers, but my 
research hasn't thrown up an answer.


Grateful as ever for any help

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Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

[Owain Clarke]

On 12/04/11 08:39, john lewis wrote:

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:46:38 +0100
Mark Johnsonm...@barrenfrozenwasteland.com  wrote:

   

On Monday 11 Apr 2011 22:27:18 john lewis wrote:
 

Has anyone played with it yet?
   

I played with the Fedora-based live CD, I'd recommend you try that as
a good way to see how well it works with your set up.  There's some
nice touches in there, but nothing to tempt me away from KDE :-)
 

I am currently downloading the openSuSE live CD so will be able to
have a look at it myself.

I don't think anything would tempt me to move to KDE :-) All the
'comments' I've seen about it being the closest thing to windows for
linux newbies are enough to suggest I won't like the interface.

I was a very long time user of WindowMaker but lack of development
has meant that it is now a very old fashioned interface and I'd be
reluctant to go back to wmaker and give up the 'bells  whistles' that
gnome provides.

   
Not having any high-powered machines, and having jumped to Openbox a few 
months ago I can't see that Gnome or KDE have any appeal (all flames are 
welcome...)


Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] [OT, I suppose] Router

[Owain Clarke]

Owain Clarke wrote:

  
I'm still working on this one (the main symptom being random outages),
and have been unable to trace what the problem is. My ISP (the Phone
Coop) tell me that if they call in an Open Reach engineer and it turns
out that the problem is within my property I'll be liable for a hefty
BT callout fee, so I wonder if anyone knows of someone who would test a
domestic network and charge a reasonable amount of money?
  

Sorry for not acknowledging various people's suggestions on this one.
I'm working through it all.

Owain




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[Hampshire] [OT, I suppose] Router

[Owain Clarke]

After a period of connection problems my ISP wants to test my line with 
a different router, and I wonder if there's anyone who might be able to 
lend me one for a couple of weeks. I'm in the Romsey area, but work also 
takes me near Fareham, Brockenhurst and New Milton


Thanks in anticipation

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[Hampshire] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?

[Owain Clarke]

I wonder if, with the new government desperate to save money anywhere, 
there may be a bit of an open door for pushing the idea of Linux adoption?


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[Hampshire] Escape characters with man | grep

[Owain Clarke]

I'm sure this is an easy one for you:-

If I want to read a line from a man page with a character which needs 
escaping, how do I do it? For example, to read the -r option of rsync:-
man rsync | grep -r
produces no output, presumably because the - needs escaping.

Thanks in anticipation

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Re: [Hampshire] Escape characters with man | grep

[Owain Clarke]

Adrian Bridgett wrote:

  On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:35:20 +0100 (+0100), Owain Clarke wrote:
  
  
I'm sure this is an easy one for you:-

If I want to read a line from a man page with a character which needs 
escaping, how do I do it? For example, to read the -r option of rsync:-
man rsync | grep -r
produces no output, presumably because the - needs escaping.

  
  
It doesn't need escaping per-se (it's not a protected character - e.g.
"grep '-r'" won't work either.  It's being interpreted as "please work
recursively".

As kish/krisk/Esse (sorry, couldn't figure out which was your name!!)
suggests, using a backslash works as it then passes \-r into grep.

However the easiest trick is that most programs will interpret "--" as
"end of all options".  So you can use "grep -- -r".

Adrian
  

Thank you, Kish and Adrian.

Owain



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Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

[Owain Clarke]

Lisi wrote:

  On Friday 23 April 2010 16:32:46 Benjamin Ashton wrote:
  
  
Hmmm

I'm afraid my love affair with Linux is beginning to wane. 

After finding that the spellcheck in OpenOffice was failing to work
(despite Hunspell being apparently installed), and that the OoHelp was
giving me blank pages, I decided to install Abiword.  This looked promising
until I tried to Print or PrintPreview whereupon Abiword self-destucted
into nothingness.

  
  
I have both of these running without problems.  Installation was easy.  I did 
not install Hunspell, tho' I appear to have libhunspell installed.  I 
installed the British English OOo packages and am running a British English 
locale and environment.

  
  
I'm running Zenwalk 6.0

  
  
I have no experience of Zenwalk, beyond a brief look.  It did not appeal, so I 
went no further.

  
  
My wife's needs are to be able to run a basic wordprocessor, do emails and
internet.  These would, I would have thought, be pretty universal
requiremants.  The fact the Zenwalk can't seem to be able to do this is
worrying.

Is it now time to give up on Linux and 'ask Bill'?

  
  
Hmm...  Zenwalk or Doze?  Now which shall it be.  I know!  Lenny.  In other 
words, it is not a binary decision.  Perhaps ask for people who are 
successfully running what you want on low-spec hardware, and ask how they do 
it, and which distros they use.

XP is surely no longer supported (?) and 7 would be way too resource hungry 
for your wife's machine.

Lisi



  

Last time I lost my spell check in OpenOffice, I deleted the folder
.openoffice.  This means that next time you launch the program, it has
to initialise the whole thing again, including looking for the
spellcheck.  Worth a go?  

I went through months of feeling infuriated with Linux.  I reckon the
best cure for it is to spend some time with Windows.  In the long run,
if you stick with Linux it will learn to behave itself perfectly.

Owain



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Re: [Hampshire] Python multiplicaton

[Owain Clarke]

Keith Edmunds wrote:

  On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:11:31 +, simb...@cooptel.net said:

  
  
as the amounts are to do with pounds and pence, I 
should convert everything pence before multiplying so that the 
calculation is with integers.

  
  
Or use Binary Coded Decimal (BCD), which is designed for exactly this
purpose. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal. PEP
regarding BCD at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3127/

hth,
Keith

  


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Re: [Hampshire] Python multiplicaton

[Owain Clarke]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:51:35AM +, Owain Clarke wrote:
 Could anyone explain to me why 3*7.6 gives me 22.797? I have 
 Python 2.5.2
 
OK, now I understand.  Thanks all - will continue to seek a workaround, 
and I'm guessing that, as the amounts are to do with pounds and pence, I 
should convert everything pence before multiplying so that the 
calculation is with integers.

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[Hampshire] Python multiplicaton

[Owain Clarke]

Could anyone explain to me why 3*7.6 gives me 22.797? I have 
Python 2.5.2

Cheers

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[Hampshire] Connect linux netbook to Mac server

[Owain Clarke]

I don't know if anyone has experience of this, but I am working in a 
place with a Mac OS 10.2 server, and I am wondering about the 
feasibility of connecting to the server with a Linux (Ubuntu) netbook, 
so that I could both use files on the server and continue using my GNU 
software.

I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me what service(s) I need to enable 
on the server, and then how I get my netbook to spot the network. I'm 
only here once a week, so I won't be able to try anything out quickly, 
but would be glad to receive any help on this one.

Google is hard to enlist for help, as a search with Linux and Server 
always throws up pages in which the Linux machine is assumed to be the 
server.

Thanks

Owain Clarke


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[Hampshire] Computer monitor strange behaviour

[Owain Clarke]

I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old - which 
has recently begun behaving oddly.  It suddenly goes a deep purple 
colour.  It can be revived by going onto a virtual terminal then 
switching back.  It's on a dual boot Linux and Windows computer and 
happens on both, so I know it's not the OS.  Dmesg doesn't give any 
information.

All in all I assume my monitor is dying, but I just thought I'd ask if 
it sounds familiar to anyone, so I don't have to buy a new one before I 
have to.

Owain Clarke


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Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

[Owain Clarke]

I must admit my Eee 701 has been so much more enjoyable since I 
eventually managed to get Ubuntu running on it.  Apart from anything 
else, the original setup is incredibly wasteful of space, e.g. Adobe 
Reader rather than Evince, and the lack of uptodate software is 
frustrating.  No wonder the less well informed have been resorting to 
the dreaded XP.

Owain

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Re: [Hampshire] Broadband usage

[Owain Clarke]

 I'm looking for a new broadband provider
[...]
  I'm wondering
 if there is a way of logging my current usage level.  Any ideas?

 Owain Clarke

   

Paul, Bob, Alan: thanks for the ideas.
Sorry I posted twice - no idea how that happened!

Owain


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[Hampshire] Broadband usage

[Owain Clarke]

I'm looking for a new broadband provider, having intended to escape
Tiscali ever since realising during a support call that I knew more about
networking than the person at the other end.

There are packages which depend on your level of usage, and I'm wondering
if there is a way of logging my current usage level.  Any ideas?

Owain Clarke


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Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

[Owain Clarke]

 

 Subject:
 Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill
 From:
 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date:
 Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:10:28 +
 To:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hampshire LUG Discussion List 
 hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

 To:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hampshire LUG Discussion List 
 hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk


 On Saturday 06 December 2008 10:50:30 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)

 The front page at www.donttellbill.com looks really nice. Would it be
 possible to put Don't tell Bill... At the top left and make it link to an
 info page with links to the user-generated content? I just think
 www.donttellbill.com is going to be more memorable and less ignored than
 www.donttellbill.com/somerandomfolder.

 What do you think?

 Cheers,
 Paul.


 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
 


 I Think the picture on the site would look better if you could get Bills face 
 peering around the monitor with a puzzled expression on his face??

 I guess that going to be copyrighted though

 Tim


   
I think the photographer owns the copyright of a photo - not the subject 
- so wouldn't you just need a creative commons licenced photo of The Man 
- or any photo with permission

Owain


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[Hampshire] deborphan

[Owain Clarke]

Just out of interest, is there a reason why deborphan isn't integrated 
into apt-get / synaptic, etc.  Having a system with limited space (Eee 
701), I've been culling mercilessly with deborphan - it seems to find 
plenty of unused libraries which autoremove doesn't.

Any comments?

Owain Clarke


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Re: [Hampshire] Hello

[Owain Clarke]

 On Tuesday 07 October 2008 23:02:43 Becky Taylor wrote:
   
 Err... my history... not good. I have never had one history lesson. So
 things like dates, people, I'm not good at, but random facts I'm ok. :-D
 

 I was just shying off admitting my age  I expected you not to know.  But 
 I'm younger than I look, so I don't know why. ;-)  Here's another random fact 
 for you (I too like random facts more than history):  Colossus (the first 
 real electronic computer) was end of 1943/beginning of 1944 (depending on 
 whether you take the first day it worked or the first day it went 
 operational).

   
 I doubt I will be able to meet any dates in the school holidays, as I go
 back to my home in Shropshire then... just a bit of a long commute! ;-)
 

 No - that was why I said that we were sadly (from my point of view) unlikely 
 to meet.

   
 Well, I am looking forward to the first meeting. Hope I can get to it!
 

 Where in Hampshire is your school?

 Lisi


   
It's great to see the new generation are turning to Linux, but I wonder 
about the wisdom of asking for details about schools, etc, on a list 
which is in effect open.  It's a shame to have to be boring in this way, 
but we should be web aware, especially as younger members become 
involved in the lug.

Owain


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