Re: [Hampshire] Webcam that works well with Debian Stable
> > I think I just need to get a modern USB webcam but does anyone have > any recommendations? > My thought was to check raspberry pi croud and see what they use. https://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Webcams > -- 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] Wuala stopping its free service
On 27 Oct 2014 21:46, "Peter Salisbury" wrote: > > Hi there, > > Cloud storage recommendations. Dropbox seems to 'just work'. I noticed that bit torrent sync offer cloud storage. -- 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] Google drive files and dropbox
You could use something like Grive[1] to sync a folder with Google Drive. If that folder happens to be within your Dropbox folders, then the files will be synced to both services. Be aware that Grive has it's limitations. [1]https://github.com/Grive/grive On 18 August 2014 10:25, Edward Beckmann wrote: > Firstly, thanks to those who have come up with suggestions. Although > interesting, it proves that my original post was too vague. Thanks to all > of you who have the patience to have another go. > > Problem > > > I use a hosted training system from which I want to link to files which > a few people can edit. The hosted system is not up for debate or > modification, and can't be used to host those files > > Files could be kept in Dropbox or Google Drive (I'd rather not add any > more storage options to my collection) > > Google Drive suits the other party better > > I like the easy offline use then sync abilities of Dropbox > > I run debian testing, and I'm not looking to change OS or machine to > solve this relatively small issue > > We are talking about a dozen files, mainly WP documents and a MS project > file > > Question > > > I'm looking for something which can sync a Dropbox Directory with a > Google Drive one. Has anyone tried any of he free tools available to do > this? > > Thanks very much > > -- > Ed > > -- > 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 > -- > -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Over heating CPU
Blender allows you to select if you want to use CPU or GPU for rendering. On 14 April 2014 15:37, Jan Henkins wrote: > On 2014-04-14 13:33, Anton Piatek wrote: > >> A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering >> will stress the gpu more though. >> >> No idea of specific workload tools though >> > > How about good old povray? AFAICR the standard povray doesn't use a GPU, > it uses the system CPU. Back in the day when I played around with such toys > there was specific patches needed to use it with CUDA or OpenCL/Stream. > Another useful method to stress-test a CPU is to do movie encoding or > transcoding. > > -- > Regards, > Jan Henkins > > > -- > 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 > -- > -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Simple Database apps
On 15 May 2013 19:56, Richard Bensley wrote: > As James mentioned you can run the Apache/MySQL/PHP stack on windows. > Which is a great solution. > > Mysql, PHP, and Apache are all cross compiled to run natively on most > platforms. > > WAMP server currently provide the whole stack at 64bits! > http://www.wampserver.com/en/#wampserver-64-bits > It is a good solution, just not what I want. I don't want to have to run and maintain two sophisticated apps, just for one simple db. This is a simple single user database similar to what someone may create in Access to keep some records. What I need to do is keep a record of some tests that I do at work. I could use access, but I don't want to. I could just create a table in Excel or other spreadsheet, but that would be horrible. I am not a programmer, but I can fudge things when I try. Some simple C or Python is not a problem, but I always hit a wall when it comes to UI. Seems there is lots of code required to build and operate the interface. So really, I want something like Python or PHP, and a really simple UI construction like HTML/CSS. I don't know if there really is an answer, but I thought I would put it out there in case I have missed something. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Simple Database apps
In the past, I have created simple apps that store data in a Mysql database, and are accessed with some simple PHP forms. I found this simple. intuitive and quite successful. Now I have a requirement again for something similar at work. Unfortunately, we only run Windows. The obvious solution would be to use Microsoft Access. It will certainly do what I want, but I don't really want to spend the time learning it. Running apache/mysql/php for my own needs seems a bit of a pain. What I would rather do is use something like Sqlite for the database, and then create a simple UI with something as simple as PHP/HTML. I know that there are a ton of scripting / programming languages that could be used. My question is, what can I use that will be no more complicated than PHP/HTML, will run on Windows /Cygwin, and be available on Linux too? Ideally for my simple database type app, I want no more than one file for the data, and another for the app. Any suggestions? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Accessing genealogy data on PDF files
On 13 May 2013 12:11, john lewis wrote: > > For quite a few years I've used (non-free) acroread to access these > files quite simply because the free readers (evince, xpdf, et al) just > aint good enough. > Hi John, 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? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer
I don't use screen or tmux bare anymore, but I use byobu. Certainly makes life easy for the occasional user. Can be blinged up with unicode too: http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/byobu-bling-with-unicode-custom.html -- Philip Stubbs -- 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 Raspberry PI question.
You definitely need to isolate between the mains and GPIO. An optical isolator would seem to be the ideal device. http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/50782/ac-detection-for-microcontroller I am not an electrical or electronics engineer, I know just enough to be dangerous. On 4 February 2013 21:49, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > I have found lots of web site detailing how to drive a relay from a > Raspberry PI, for example, turning 240V AC mains devices on and off. > What I cannot find is how to have the PI detect if 240V is on a wire > or not. I.e. If a 240 AC wire is powered or not? > It is a useful function for home automation purposes. > For example, I could use it in order to make a log of when the heating > is switched on, or use existing 240V AC main light switches to provide > inputs to the Raspberry PI, and let the PI control something else as a > result. > > Done anyone know of any sort of "detect 240V AC" adapter for the GPIO > of the Raspberry PI? > > Kind Regards > > James > > -- > 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 > ------ > -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] printer recommendation
On 4 Jan 2013 23:46, "Lisi" wrote: > > On Friday 04 January 2013 21:37:04 john wrote: > > Laser printer not inkjet is recommended for occasional hard-copies. > > +1. If the printer is only used occasionally the ink dries out in the > nozzles. The skilled and adept can clean the nozzles, but it can get a bit > time consuming, and some of us are not very successful at it. > > > Brother laser printers will work on both 32 and 64 bit. Brother also offer > > telephone support on both windows and linux. > > My Samsung ML1510 cost me £49 some years ago. Samsung nowadays supplies Splix I have also been very impressed with my cheap Samsung ML1210. It has also been possible to replace the toner without buying a new drum. It is a bit messy, but for £12, quite a saving. The drum does wear out and the prints are now a bit too light. Also the paper feed is not working so well anymore. -- 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] Windows 8 (Not entirely O.T.)
On 28 December 2012 15:15, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > Festive greetings to all! > > I spent a large part of the Midwinter Festival trying (under a three-line > whip) to upgrade a PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Many, many hours and > countless re-starts later, it works. Up to a point. > > Much of the installed software was deemed 'incompatible' and had to be > removed. More and yet more re-starts. Even the supplied MS Word 'starter' > edition simply delivers advertising for the outrageously expensive 'full' > version and then hangs. > > I'm still trying to work out how to persuade this machine to do something > useful. Intuitive it certainly ain't. > "Yes, I know it says Ubuntu. That is the new name for windows 8!" Do you think you could get away with that? :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Reprap
If anybody is interested in buying a reprap. I think I should sell mine. It has sat unused for far too long. On 15 December 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. > > LC > > -- > 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 > -- > -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] rsync
On 5 November 2012 18:32, Rob Malpass wrote: > > > ** > > So in the spirit of my sanity, could someone please post the syntax to > exactly mirror /mnt/foo to /mnt/goo ? > > ** ** > > And by exactly mirror I mean > > * Copy all files on foo which are not on goo > > * Delete all files on goo which are not on foo > > ** > I have a real simple script that uses this line rsync -av --delete --ignore-errors It works for me. So far! :-) man rsync is also very helpful. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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][IMP-WEB] Developing the HantsLUG website
On 16 October 2012 08:22, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Chris, > > > On 15/10/12 21:43, Chris Dennis wrote: >> >> At the AGM, we discussed the fact that the existing website is >> languishing somewhat for lack of fresh content and general TLC. >> > > How does moving from Website Engine A to Website Engine B generate fresh > content? In my experience it results in a small bump in website activity > then as excitement about the new system fades, it falls back to the current > state, no activity besides when the last/next meeting was/is. I think Alan is right. Installing a fresh new CMS will generate some excitement, it does nothing for the longer term. The most useful information on the Wiki is going to be the pages regarding meetings and mailing list details. The other information is likely to get old and stale. Can we have a system where the oldest pages get highlighted and requests for updates? Could be done as a group activity at a meeting. Just a thought. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?
On 12 July 2012 20:34, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Thanks Tony, I forgot about Terminator and will look again. > > Another idea could be to use virtual desktops with one desktop for each > terminal group. > > I have a feeling that tiling window managers will also accomplish what I > want but this may be overkill for me. I am curious about them though - does > anyone here run XMonad or Awesome and have configured them to place their > terminal windows for efficiency? Give awesome a go. It is easy to install on Ubuntu, and can be selected at the log in screen. I am sure it will be just as simple in Debian. I don't have lots of terminals open but it should work as you expect. The config is done in Lua, which I have found easier to understand than the Haskel config of Xmonad. QTile would be great, but did not seem as stable as Awesome. If you do decide to give Awesome a go, be prepared to give it a fair crack. It is quite different to Gnome, and there are a number of keyboard short-cuts that will need to be learnt to be useful. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Flash Player on Linux
On 2 July 2012 21:03, Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello Folks > > I've just noticed this on the Adobe web page > (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP): > > NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target > Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide > security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. > > Is this a problem? Are we better off without Flash Player? What will > replace it -- HTML5? They also have no plans to support Android 4.1 and beyond. That is probably more significant an indication that Flash is going away to be consigned to history. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Raspberry Pi
On 30 June 2012 17:21, David Anderson wrote: > My Raspberry Pi is supposed to be arriving next week. Has anyone tried > one, or got one in use? I have two! :-) One is jury rigged to the tv running OpenELEC. (minimal Linux with XBMC). Still need to spend some time setting it up. It makes a great Photo viewer. We had some family round and having old pictures on a random slideshow makes a good background. The second one is still in its box. Not sure exactly what I am going to do with that one yet. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Recommendation please - Big NAS
On 31 May 2012 11:39, Rob Malpass wrote: > question is - why not build a machine myself instead of the microserver? > Quietness isn't much of an issue because it'll be in a room separate to the > TV. Are there any other considerations here? power consumption speed space aesthetics reliability ongoing admin overhead -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Aldershot Hackspace?
On 11 May 2012 14:40, Freaky Clown wrote: > Sorry for the cross post but im lazy... (talk to my lawyer if you have > a problem!) > > Anyway a few of us folks are looking at a possibility of a Hackspace > based in aldershot - working on the basis that membership would be > about £20/month to start with > how many people would be genuinely up for joining? Darn. Aldershot may be a bit far away. £20/month seems reasonable. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Trackballs
On 10 May 2012 16:03, Paul Tansom wrote: > Interestingly I've not seen Bob's reply yet! I have preferred the Marble Mouse > concept as I've found using fingers gives tighter control - way back with my > first PC (a laptop) I had a convertable mouse which worked as a mouse one way > up and a trackball the other way. This worked very nicely as a trackball. > Having said that I suspect that the wrist movement on this sort may be little > different to that on my current mouse setup. In this case the thumb wheel > makes > most sense, and I had been looking at the Logitech M570 [1], although I'm not > a > fan of wireless mice and keyboards as the batteries never seem to last very > long for me :( At one point PC World had them on display and you could have a > play, but not anymore it seems :( (Hmm, it's gone up £2 while I've been typing > this!!) > > [1] > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-M570-Wireless-Trackball-Graphite/dp/B0042BBR2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336075069&sr=8-1 here is another option. Not seen this before. http://www.amazon.co.uk/3M-Optical-Ergonomic-Buttons-Medium/dp/B000F2BP7U/ref=sr_1_10?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1336662531&sr=1-10 -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Trackballs
On 10 May 2012 14:40, Paul Tansom wrote: > Does anyone have any experience of good or otherwise trackballs? I'm At home I have one of these. http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/peripherals/miceandtrackballs/910-000808.html At work I have one of these http://www.kensington.com/kensington/en/gb/p/1444/64325/expert-mouse-optical-trackball.aspx No, it is not worth the extra cost, IMHO. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] DVD Ripping
On 1 May 2012 18:54, Stuart Sears wrote: > On 01/05/12 17:54, Philip Stubbs wrote: >> Lots of mentions of Handbrake in this thread made me try it. There >> seems to be no easy route to get it on my system at the moment, > > how so? Are you running a really obscure distro? > > http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php > has packages for at the very least *buntu and Fedora > (although they're in the repos for those too) Well I added the ppa and it did not work. I do give up easy these days :-) Looking at the launchpad page, it seems at the time 12.04 was not supported yet. If it is in the repo's I will try again. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] DVD Ripping
Lots of mentions of Handbrake in this thread made me try it. There seems to be no easy route to get it on my system at the moment, so looking around, I found h264enc. This is a script that puts together a list of tools, mencoder, mplayer, faac, MP4Box etc in a way to get decent results. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] IPv6 ADSL router recommendations
On 21 February 2012 19:37, Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello Folks > > Has anyone actually got a (modestly priced) IPv6 ADSL router working (i.e. > IP6 to the ISP, and IP6 on the LAN)? > I don't know if it would work, but will OpenWRT or DD-WRT on a cheap router support ipv6? http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6 -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Vodafone - the hard sell
On 7 February 2012 18:26, Rob Malpass wrote: > Any thoughts anyone? I'm anxious not to sign up for 24 months if there are > better shorter deals out there... and Vodafone keep giving me the hard sell. Haggle. My Brother is with Vodafone, and he always gets a better deal than they advertise. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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 Answers
On 23 December 2011 09:55, Jack Knight wrote: > Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the practice > I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing age in Hex; 40 has a nice > ring to it don't you think? ;^)= Cool. I am now 27 again! Yay. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] test message
On 16 November 2011 08:01, Tim wrote: > Thanks for the reply Alan and yes it is irritating the hell out of > me > > Time for another e-mail address change I think > > Tim Just a thought. Have you tried accessing your Gmail from an IMAP client? May be worth a try. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice
On 23 October 2011 19:06, James Bensley wrote: > On 23 October 2011 13:21, Victor Churchill wrote: >> Absolutely none of my business but the request sparked a bit of >> curiosity in me as to what one might want a few floppy disk drive for. >> I wondered if it might be a project like this ;-) >> >> http://www.howtogeek.com/news/floppy-drives-play-the-imperial-march-video/6806/ > > You got me Victor! Chris had also guessed this when I went to collect > the drives from him; I didn't realise it was that obvious! > Now that you have been sussed, you are obliged to make a recording of this, and post a link to it here. :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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 Please tell me how this is not a scam.
On 17 October 2011 15:06, Philip Stubbs wrote: > Can anybody tell me how this works:- > http://www.bluecarbon.com/how-it-works.html Well I guess I need to admit that my boss did get one of these fitted. I was asked for my opinion and I may have mentioned that it probably worked on the same principle as my perpetual motion machine, but really I was trying not to get involved. Apparently, there is very little risk. Once the device is installed, they will analyse the half hourly meter readings for you. If they can't demonstrate a saving, then you don't have to pay for it. Fortunately my boss is no fool when it comes to Excel. After looking at reams of data every which way, the only conclusion was a slight increase in usage. I am not sure if there was an installation charge, but I know they want some money to take it away, unless we disconnect it ourselves and send it back. That, plus people who can be fooled by Excel, is probably where they make their money. If I get the chance, I will take some pictures of inside the box. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.
Can anybody tell me how this works:- http://www.bluecarbon.com/how-it-works.html -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Data Destruction
On 6 October 2011 18:46, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > Yes this old chestnut again. Like most of us I guess, I have quite a few > old hdds and we're now in chuck away mood. Physically I'll be disposing of > these in as environmentally friendly a way as I can but destroying data is, > as I remember, a bit tricky. I know data can be recovered even if you wipe > the partition etc so here's my plan - any ideas how robust this is?? > > Essentially without a safe data shredding program, I'm going to use > truecrypt to create an encrypted partition over whatever data was there > beforehand. AFAIK this must overwrite what was there with a blank drive > (not just a new partition table) which could only be accessed if they > guessed my truecrypt encrypted password. So at best, someone could only > ever get back to the blank encrypted drive - not the ntfs partition that was > there before I "formatted" it with truecrypt. > > I guess anything's possible but how decent a solution is this? Recovering data from wiped drives is not going to be easy, if possible at all. Just write zero's or random data to it and be happy. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Smartphones
On 3 October 2011 17:24, Paul Tansom wrote: > A bit of a vague subject, but I'm looking at the possibility of finally > getting > a smartphone and at the moment the HTC Wildfire S and the Samsung Galaxy Ace > are looking to be fairly decent entry level options. Has anyone any experience > of these? I've seen some comments that the HTC can be a bit slow with the > 600MHz processor, and the Galaxy is only 800MHz. Clearly it depends on how > well > they are designed to some extent, but both run Android (so I assume should be > good with Linux). I think the Ace is the front runner at the moment for the > better screen and marginally faster processor. > > As for usage, which will define whether performance is an issue to some > extent, > I will no doubt use it for web and email, but calendaring and a SIP client are > of particular interest (clearly I need the right network to not block SIP > traffic!). I'm not a bit gamer on my phone, but then I only have a Samsung > G600 > at the moment, so who knows with a smartphone! I have a smartphone with a 600MHz processor. (SE Experia X8). I would say that it is marginal even on core functions. Opening the contact list can take an age. If I had the option between two, and one of the differences was processor speed, then I would go for the faster one, as long as the battery life was the same. My main gripe with these smart phones is they eat batteries. Charging every day is a must if you actually want to use the bits that makes a smart phone smart. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Video editing recommendation please
On 29 September 2011 14:12, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > > > With due respect to those that do it all the time and love it - I hate video > editing. What I need to do at the moment is take a 3 hour mpg file and > split it (manually is fine I'm not in need of a batch job) into 6 half hour > mpgs. If the mpeg is a TS then when you cut it, it will likely screw with the audio sync. If that happens, try using Project-X to do the cutting. http://project-x.sourceforge.net/ -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Pointing device for arthritic hands
On 27 September 2011 08:44, Philip Stubbs wrote: > 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? Thanks for all the suggestions. I mentioned above trying a Logitech Marble, because I knew that I had one. Yesterday I dug it out of the shed and tried it at work for the day. The pain in the fingers did not return. Today, I am back to a regular mouse, and the pain is back. So I have ordered a trackball mouse for work. I did not want another Marble because I want to keep that for use at home, and having a different position for work seems like a good idea. So I have ordered a Kensington Expert Mouse [1]. [1] http://goo.gl/S4q5I -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Pointing device for arthritic hands
On 27 September 2011 20:30, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 08:44:57 Philip Stubbs wrote: >> Seems like I am going to be suffering with Arthritic hands from here >> on in. Yay! :-( > > Osteo-arthritis or rheumatoid-arthritis? > > Lisi When it first happened, I did look it up and it seems there are lots of different types. Mine seems to result in a knobbly joint on one finger that does not hurt, and normal looking joints on another that does hurt. I have seen the quack, and had a blood test, and then was basically told, "Welcome to old age". On the plus side, I have spoken to my boss, and he has said go and order whatever I need and offered to send me to an occupational health specialist. I found an old Logitech Marble mouse that I used to use at home. I will give that a trial at work, and if successful will buy a new trackball type device for work. I won't buy another Marble in case I want to use this one at home, and it would be better not to have the same. If the trackball does not work, then I will get a graphics tablet with stylus, as holding a pen is no problem, at the moment. :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Pointing device for arthritic hands
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? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Badge Generator
On 25 August 2011 16:51, Graeme Hilton wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if the Badge Generator [1] on the hantslug website was GPL > licensed? If so, could I have a copy of the source code? I'm looking at > generating sheets of name badges for volunteer staff at various events and > the Badge Generator seems like it's solving my problem. > Thanks for any responses. > > [1] http://www.hantslug.org.uk/wiki/BadgeGenerator The Badge Generator was written by Hugo Mills. As I understand it, it relies on some low level postscript to do its magic. From memory, this has been asked before and the response was along the lines of you would probably be better starting from scratch unless you are already a wizz with postscript. If you don't want to get into the murky depths of postscript, then you could do something similar in bitmap with imagemagic and some bash. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Screen
Talking of screen, there is https://launchpad.net/byobu that I find very good. There is also an alternative to screen http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ I have not looked at that myself, but is supposed to be very good. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] More Tab Completion fun ....
I have recently upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 11.04. Before the upgrade, if I tried to use tab completion on a file name that contained spaces, it would automatically escape the spaces. Now, it does not. I have to remember to add quotes. Does anybody know why this has been changed and how can I get the old behaviour back? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Gnome 3
On 13 April 2011 18:42, john lewis wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:43:31 +0100 > john lewis wrote: > > I think it is possible to use the original interface but keep the rest > of the gnome-3 stuff but I didn't have the will to play around enough > to find out. John. I was just reading this:- http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/04/13/gnome-panel-is-dead%2C-long-live-gnome-panel%21 Maybe you want to bookmark that for next time you try Gnome 3. Personally, I like to give new interfaces a try. Normally there is a good reason why things are made the way they are. It may not fit with my current methods, but it may also open up a better way of working for me. A classic case was when I used AutoCAD for work. Every new release moved lots of commands about, and one of my workmates would spend hours moving things back to the old way. Later, when he was watching me use the same software, he kept asking how I was calling the commands so fast. He soon learnt that people like Autodesk spent a lot of time optimising the command layout. At the moment I am just starting using Unity on the latest Ubuntu. Instinctively I don't like the big clumsy looking icons down the left, and the search dialog is designed to be read from the other side of the room! Once I am using my applications, then the icons get out of the way, and keyboard navigation works fine. Soon, when things have settled down and a reliable PPA for Gnome 3 is available for Ubuntu, I will give Gnome Shell a go as well. Regards, Philip Stubbs -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Domestic ADSL ISPs
On 5 April 2011 18:58, Lisi wrote: > > It would take a lot to make me move from Zen. In my experience, Zen has the best customer service possible. The sort I have never had to call! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Small form factor backup machine
On 5 April 2011 07:34, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > I need a small, preferably silent machine into which I can install two > (or better 4) disks, to run as a local backup server in a hybrid > solution, backing up its contents offsite. > > Data volume is very low (like 100s of GB) but space in the office is > at a premium. > > Performance not an issue either, although multiple network cards would > be advantageous and integrated or easy to add wireless network would > also be good. > > Any recommendations for what hardware to use? http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009.html Last month there was a £100 cash-back offer. If you can find a similar offer, then this is very reasonable. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] simple description of open source etc.
On 22 March 2011 22:20, john lewis wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:48:36 + > Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > >> Reasons for not using are currently: >> Software won't run. (particularly for CAD) > > true you can't get autocad for linux. > > In any case you'd need lots of money for a windows version but I have > been playing with QCad a little bit and it looks quite good for a 2D > cad app. It has autocad file compatibility. It is even in the debian > squeeze repository. There is also http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/ -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Cable coverage
On 9 January 2011 10:37, Benjie Gillam wrote: > The UK post code database is out there on the net, you just have to look :) > I'd guess a name for the 2009 post code database might be along the lines of > uk-post-code-2009? And perhaps, due to size, it might be bz2 compressed...? > Benjie. It sounded like the original poster wanted to provide some sort of service. Therefore I am sure that he would only want to use data that he is allowed to redistribute. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Cable coverage
On 8 January 2011 15:42, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > > > Further to my message about mapping the other day, I wondered if anyone > could help with (what I perceive) as a huge gap in the market for cable > TV? I can find no map of UK cable coverage. If any of you can then fine > and I'd love to see a link. > > > > There is a postcode checker on the Virginmedia website [1] but this just > let's me know what's available at my property. It may sound mad, but one > factor as to where I'll be moving to is the availability of cable. I'll > explain why later - but is it possible (presumably all one needs is a > complete list of postcodes) to write some sort of script that queries their > database to effectively build up a map? If this is venturing into hacking > territory then I'll stop there - I've no wish to upset anyone. However the > lack of a map showing (if you locate here no cable but half a mile away you > can have 100Mbps) is what I really want. I think the problem you will have will be associating geographical locations with post codes. The post office charges a nice fee for this information, and therefore it is not readily available. I know that the Openstreetmap.org crowd have been after this data in a freely distributable form for some time. Also, I bet the information you get from the Virgin checker site is also protected. As Virgin hold this data, maybe you should suggest that they create a map! Alternatively, explain what you want to do with it and see if they will provide the data for you. Although, if they only give you post codes for the locations, you will still be stuck converting that to real locations. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Mapping software
On 7 January 2011 13:51, pavithran wrote: > Mapnik IMHO is not simple and it requires dependencies on the server > which you want to host . Instead you can generate tiles using > ti...@home client[1] which uses osmarender[2] for rendering . and > upload the tiles to any web server you like . Some JS with the help of > openlayers[3] can get you going . > > I have done it for my home town and am very happy with it :) . > PS: take care of attributing the OSM project properly . > > 1. T @ H client http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/t...@h > 2. Osmarender http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender > 3. Openayers http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers In my experience, osmarender is much slower at rendering that Mapnik. I played with that first and joined the Tiles at Home effort for some time. Mapnik does not need to be run on a server. I have it installed along with its dependencies on my desktop machine. I can't remember, but I think it all came from the Ubuntu packages. Admittedly, the more RAM you can give it the better. Also, I doubt you will want to render the whole planet, so only grab extracts for the area you are interested in. In fact, Mapnik is still useful without a database. It will render from shape files just fine, but to do interesting things like 'render all roads within this boundary', it is so simple with PostGIS, that setting up the database is worth the effort. Mapnik will also produce tiles suitable for Openlayers use. You can also do fun things like this :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bc50sC8adM -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Mapping software
On 6 January 2011 18:19, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all - happy new year > > > > I need a recommendation for some mapping software. If - having read the > following you conclude there's a website - that's fine - but I've not been > able to make Google maps do exactly what I want. Apparently, these people also do maps :-) http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/01/changes-to-the-os-opendata-licence/ It may be that their data and license are compatible with your application. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Mapping software
On 6 January 2011 18:19, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all - happy new year > > > > I need a recommendation for some mapping software. If - having read the > following you conclude there's a website - that's fine - but I've not been > able to make Google maps do exactly what I want. What you want is Mapnik! I have been playing with this myself recently, and it is really powerful. Unfortunately, it is a little bit of a pain to set-up. First you need a Postgresql database, then you need to add PostGIS extensions to it. Then you can download data from OpenStreetmap and other places, and populate the database with it. If you want to create your own data as well, the a program such a QuantumGIS can display the data from the database and allow you to create overlays. QuantunGIS will also allow you to print the maps, but if you want really nice looking renderings, then you can use Mapnik. I know it sounds a bit long winded, but the results are great. Mapnik can be driven from Python, so automating map generation is easy. I would recommend that you go to Openstreetmap.org and see if you can find the Mapnik install guide. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik Any questions, then give us a shout. Also, the Mapnik mailing list is very helpful. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Graphics Card Fan Noise
On 20 October 2010 18:49, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > > > Can anyone help with solving the following "phenomenon"? At boot, my main > machine developed a low tone groaning noise - the sort that signals the fan > is gunked up. After being on for about a minute - the noise goes away. I > brushed it clean on Monday. On reboot - silence - all seemed well. > > > > Now curiously the groaning noise is back! However rather curiously the > noise doesn't start a couple of seconds after boot as it did before - it now > happens about 15-20 seconds after boot - then it goes silent again after > about a minute. > > > > So I'm pretty sure the graphics card fan is the culprit (running the machine > with no graphics card it was silent from power up to power down), but it was > brushed clean so it can't have gunked up again in 2 days - or can it? And if > it has (there are no holes in the case - no open card slots etc) I'm not too > sure how I could prevent it gunking up again. > > > > Anyone experienced this? Any known workarounds? The only sure way to fix this it to replace the fan. What is happening is as the bearings heat up, the remaining oil in them will start to flow better and cause the noise to go away. Cleaning the fan will only improve things marginally as the balance will be better, but your bearings will still be worn and/or low on oil. I had the same problem, and tried lubricating the bearings. It worked for a little while, but the noise came back. I then had a strop with it, and bought a cheap fan-less graphics card. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] after a cheap screen and power cable
On 2 October 2010 18:43, James Kingswell wrote: > Hi guys, > > I picked up a couple dektops up from a dump a few weeks ago and, combined with > my old broken desktop, have managed to get two working (to an extent), though > i > only have one screen and two power cables (one for the screen). > > I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to pick up said items cheaply (or > if > anyone had any old spare ones lying around) oh and not HD please :) > > (please inform me if this is in anyway inappropriate, im new :P) > > Thanks, > > James Hi James, I have a 17" flat screen CRT in my shed that I would be glad to see the back of. Oh, and welcome to the LUG! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] eReaders
On 12 September 2010 22:35, trotter wrote: > Is there a feature in the 350 that you are looking for? > Haven't heard about it and most features seem to be present in the 505 > including a SD card slot. It has a touch screen. Unlike the older PRS-600, the new PRS-350 and PRS-650 do not use an overlay, but inferred detectors around the screen edge. That avoids the problems caused with extra layers over the eInk display. Other than that, it supports the more open ePub format. I have read somewhere that Best-Buy are going to start seling the Kindle. As they already sell the Sony, I will wait a bit and see if I can see them side-by-side. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] eReaders
I would be interested in peoples thoughts on ereaders. Ever since I first read about eink displays, I have been fascinated. Recently, the price has dropped to a point where I am seriously tempted, but I have a problem. The two that interest me the most are the Kindle from Amazon, and the new Sony PRS-350 due out soon. They both have the ability to display PDF's but only the Sony will work with industry standard ePub format, avoiding the lock in to Amazon with the Kindle. This would be great, except I have tried to run Sony's library software and Adobe's digital editions, and failed as they are only supported on Windows and Mac. If I can get over my dislike of being tied to Amazon, the Kindle would work great as I understand that it does not need any sort of library software on the computer to make purchases. What I really want is for the book publishers to get over themselves and remove DRM as the music industry has. The really stupid thing is that I will probably not purchase much content anyhow. There is more than enough PDF's and other content out there that will fill my needs. After all that, the short question is, does anybody use an ereader and if so, who have you got on using it with Linux? P.S. I already know about Calibre :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Scanner recommendations
On 29 August 2010 11:20, Keith Edmunds wrote: > Can anyone recommend a scanner suitable for a non-techy Ubuntu user? I use a CanoScan LiDE 60 with Ubuntu, and the Simple Scan application. It just works. Simple Scan is much more friendly than Sane. The only thing to remember is to plug the scanner in before launching the application. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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
On 6 August 2010 14:38, 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. > > Ben > Hi Ben, I can't come round, I am afraid. Actually, I could but not now. Also, I have learnt that I am a rubbish teacher. Anyhow, in case nobody else can help in person, here are a few questions that would help the good folk here guide you a little. * Are you currently still using Zenwalk? * What alternative distro did you have in mind? * Are you still using the same hardware? * What are the hardware specs? * What have you tried? * How did it fail? Hope this helps. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Virgin media: good and bad
On 27 July 2010 13:07, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: > Also google are now reading/archiving/analysing your email - expect very > highly targetted span real soon now. I have been using Google's email system for some time now. At least I know they are analysing my email. Spam is not a problem. So what if the adverts in the web interface are targeted? At least they are unobtrusive. Anybody who is worried about what others may make of their email should find another way of communicating. Once you press send, there is little control over what machines it will pass through. I always considered email to be as private as a postcard. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] [OT] Conference Audio Recording
I have been asked to make some audio recordings of a conference. The last one I did, I used a cheap Sansa MP3 player that will record the FM radio that the audio was transmitted on. The next one will not be transmitted via FM, so I am looking at how best to do it. My first thought is something like a Zoom H2 http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/ If the facility also has an induction loop, I could probably connect one of these http://www.inta-audio.com/pa-live-sound-c88/induction-loop-systems-c243/adastra-adastra-induction-loop-receiver-with-belt-clip-p3066 If anybody has any experience of making good quality audio recordings with minimum audience noise at conferences without being ably to jack into the sound system, then please let me know if you think my idea will work, or if you have any better ideas. We do not need super hi fidelity, just clear spoken word. Thanks. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] west quay on OSM
On 4 June 2010 05:23, pavithran wrote: > I was a bit surprised to see the biggest shopping mall (AFAIK) of > hampshire missing in open street map . It looks like 'removed' > because even the roads beside were marked as west quay road and the > busstops before it were mapped . > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.90446&lon=-1.40857&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF > > Those who have a fair idea of the shopping mall . Kindly map it . > > You can use the tag http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dretail . > > Regards, > Pavithran It has already been mapped. The fact that it does not show up on the map is a problem with the renderer not the data. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Laptop Hardrive
On 19 May 2010 12:21, Vic wrote: > If the data is not recovered, you haven't got a reallocation - you've got > a disk failure. Disk failures do occur; they are less frequent than they > might be because of the drive's ability to swap out failing sectors before > they are completely gone, but immortal drives do not exist, even with > sector reallocation. Yes they do. If we consider 'dying' to be when a read fails, by simply not asking the drive to read the data, we will never get a failed read. Therefore the drive will never die. Immortal. :-) I have about five 250 mb such drives on my bench in my shed. As long as I don't try and use them, they are still alive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] WePad
Has anybody seen this? http://wepad.mobi/en Will it live up to the hype? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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
On 14 April 2010 13:24, john lewis wrote: > Plotters are great fun to watch all the black lines were drawn first, > the black pen is then parked, the head selects the next colour, say > red, then all the lines in that colour are drawn and so on. Yay! I used to love playing with an A0 pen plotter. Set to maximum speed, the paper would shoot out horizontally. It also puzzled me why when doing text, it would do partial letters, shoot off to the other side of the sheet, do something else, then come back and finish off the letters. When they changed to the electrostatic plotter, that was no fun :-( -- Philip Stubbs -- 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
On 11 April 2010 22:22, 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. > > Thanks > > Roger Google scetchup should work with wine http://wiki.winehq.org/GoogleSketchup -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Wiki
On 11 April 2010 21:57, Daniel Pope wrote: > On 11/04/10 21:47, Philip Stubbs wrote: >> "You are not allowed to view this page." - Not very good. It should >> not require login to read the site. > > Messed up the ACL on the homepage - copypasted it without thinking it through. > > Fixed? Yep. Thanks! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Wiki
On 11 April 2010 21:47, Philip Stubbs wrote: > "You are not allowed to view this page." - Not very good. It should > not require login to read the site. Sorry, that was a bit terse. Good effort on the update. Well done. I was trying to help with ironing out a fairly major wrinkle. :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Wiki
On 11 April 2010 21:03, Daniel Pope wrote: > Hi all, > > Since the meagre feedback that there was to the wiki migration was universally > positive, I have pushed ahead and switched the site to MoinMoin. > > As another change, I have added redirects so that all of the LUG's domains are > canonicalised to www.hantslug.org.uk. I think this is the best choice; it is > the > one in the mailing list footers. "You are not allowed to view this page." - Not very good. It should not require login to read the site. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Unpicking gps data
On 16 March 2010 11:34, Edward Beckmann wrote: > > Hi > I have no idea where to start, but I'd like to display all of the roads in > the UK that are deristricted, but not motorways. The simple reason is that I > am a motorcyclist, and am frustrated with picking nice bendy roads on a map > to find they are all 30 or 40mph. There are a few 'best roads' sites, but > they tend to be for head down, ass-in-the-air performance bikes that seem to > like going at 140mph along straight roads. > So, the idea is to suck the data out of a gps device (not that I have one), > and then ask it stuff. I assume that gps data is a database with name, > class, start point, end point, speed grading, speed limit etc. Can anyone > help please (suggesting I get a push-bike and stop polluting the planet is > not necessarily classed as help, in case you were tempted)? > Thanks > Ed This sounds like an ideal problem for the http://openstreetmap.org data. With a bit of work, a map could be created with the roads you want highlighted. There are even sites that let you play with the map style on-line, but you will have to search for them, as I don't have a reference to hand. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Off-site backup with Amazon S3
Hi, I have recently been thinking about what to do about my backups for my home computers. I have a laptop, desktop and a server. The server has mirrored disks and is in a separate part of the property. I currently copy data between the three machines in an ad-hock fashion. Not very clever really. I would like a more robust solution and have been thinking of off-site storage. At the moment, I have a free Dropbox account that works great. Ubuntu one has not been so great. Initially, I thought that I could simply buy some extra storage but the cost is not so cheap. Somewhere it was written that both Dropbox and Ubuntu One use Amazon S3 for storage. This lead me to thinking that I could use this service directly. Has anybody else tried this? what has been the results? Are there any simple and competitive alternatives? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Playing music in my living room
On 11 March 2010 13:51, Andy Random wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for an *easy* way to play my MP3 collection through speakers > in my living room. Ebay for an old NAD amplifier and speakers. Then buy a second mp3 player and dock. Should have loads of change out of 400. Spend the rest on a really good pair of headphones. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Whatever happened to programming?
On 8 March 2010 13:47, Daniel Pope wrote: > On 08/03/10 13:42, Daniel Pope wrote: >> Being productive is so bloody boring. > > Sorry, just read that back, and realised I may have come across as a teeny bit > sarcastic. No problem :-) I did say that I was not a programmer, and like the challenge more than the result. If I was getting paid to do this, then productivity would be a higher priority. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Whatever happened to programming?
I am not a programmer, but this thread makes me feel that I am not alone in my thoughts. At work, I have a small task that involves extracting data from a data logger, and munging it into a format suitable for graphing. A small perl script does this just fine, but I normally end up editing the script every time I use it. This led me to think that I should have a go a writing a decent program with options to cover all common uses of the data. With such a lot being said about Python, I thought that it would be good to use the opportunity to learn that language. The problem was that it is so boring looking for a suitable module to do whatever. I just know that there must be a module that will read a csv file, allow me to munge the data a bit, then export in tab format. In the end, I have started writing the thing in C. Just getting it to read a single row of data into an array and printing it to screen was a real buzz. Trying to get my head round pointers and arrays is like a real mental workout. A real feeling of satisfaction when it works. Much more fun than plugging some modules together. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory
On 15 February 2010 15:51, Peter Salisbury wrote: > Is > LaTex trying to create a temp file with characters the server won't > allow in a file name? Now that is one thing I have not thought about. I will check that tomorrow. vi can edit the file just fine. For the time being, I have a simple bash script that will copy the LaTeX file to a /tmp directory, run LaTeX, dvips and ps2pdf, and then copy the result back. Long winded but works for now, with simple documents without any includes. Would rather get the file mounting working properly though. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory
At work we have a Microsoft Windows setup. I have to have Windows as my main operating system. However, I do have VirtualBox running with Ubuntu so that I can do some useful stuff. My problem is accessing the files on the network. I have the following line in fstab //10.10.20.11/dan_data /mnt/danmail cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/philip/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mod=0755,dir_mode=0755,noatime 0 0 I can browse the files ok. I can open the files in vi to edit them. However, if I try and run LaTeX, it complains "! I can't find file `whatever.tex'." I have tried mounting the file using the gnome file browser GUI thing, and that puts the mount point under ~/.gvfs/etc... but it puts a space in the mount path that causes ghostscript to barf. Any suggestions as to how I can improve this? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Ubuntu Changing default Search Enging to Yahoo
2010/1/27 Stephen Davies : > Groklaw is reporting that as a result of a revenue sharing deal the > default search engine for FFox in future Ubuntu releases will be changed > to Yahoo. > http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20100126135326412&title=Ubuntu+switches+default+search+engine+to+yahoo&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=815475#c815497 > > I am with another HantsLug member in being slightly sceptical of this. I > wonder what would happen the day after Microsoft takes over Yahoo? That's easy! All search results will point to windows update. :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Ubuntu 9.10, dvb and dual boot
2010/1/17 Leo : > Is anyone out there using a digital TV card on Ubuntu 9.10 and also dual > booting with windows? If so do you find that after switching back from > Windows to Ubuntu the TV card doesn't work, and you have to reboot again > into Ubuntu? > If not, can anyone tell me how I'd go about finding out what's changed > between 9.04 and 9.10 in terms of dvb firmware, drivers and dvbstream > between the two version of Ubuntu, so that I could try and figure out > what's broken. When I first started using my USB dvb dongle, I had the opposite problem. It would only work if I loaded Windows, then rebooted into Linux. It turned out that I did not have the correct firmware in Linux. From my experience, it sounds like the firmware loaded by windows is not the same as the one loaded by Linux. Is it possible to up/down grade the windows driver so that it matches the Linux one? -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Motorola Milestone (Was:[OT]ish ipod software)
2010/1/14 lists :
> Unless, of course, they make it part of a public discussion. Of course
> you are entirely free to spend a little shy of £50 per month for the
> next 18 months {does that not run to around £900} for a mobile telephone
> which kind of acts like a retarded computer - but you have to respect my
> right to pms laughing at you for doing it.
>
> With regards to Andy's point and my previous post regarding rudeness,
> allow me to clarify that in no uncertain terms. I complained about one
> of those usual asshole type 'RTFM' responses typical of Lintards who are
> too big for their boots and stuck up their own backsides. This kind of
> response usual means 'I don't know the answer but I'll try to be a witty
> tard'.
Is that not what you have just done? You could have avoided doing it
by explaining how one would be able to enjoy the same mobility and
functionality for a lot less money.
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Re: [Hampshire] NAS devices and MTU
2009/12/31 lists : > Could you not just be a bit more polite and say 'Did I misunderstand?' > The reason I mention it is simple. When I started out with Linux I made > lots of mistakes. I still do. I don't mind that, I'm human. It's a real > turn off when you come up against those that throw the short, curt and > plain bloody minded and rude answers down. > > Ironically most people don't think 'wow, he's clever, he made that guy > look a fool', the tend to think 'WHAT AN ASSHAT'. Happy New Year Keith. > Don't disappear up yourself, will you ;-) Now that is funny! It is not Kieth who seems to of disappeared... -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] SQL SELECT query.
2009/12/6 Hugo Mills :
> SQL is really, really bad at this kind of job, I'm afraid. If you
> want precisely the longest way, it's going to have to look something
> like this, I think:
>
> SELECT way,highway,aeroway,name,ref,char_length(ref) AS length,
> ST_Length(way) AS road_len,
> CASE WHEN bridge IN ('yes','true','1') THEN 'yes'::text ELSE bridge END AS
> bridge
> FROM planet_osm_line,
> (SELECT MAX(ST_length(way)) AS waylen, name, ref GROUP BY name, ref) AS
> longway
> WHERE waterway IS NULL
> AND leisure IS NULL
> AND landuse IS NULL
> AND (name IS NOT NULL OR ref IS NOT NULL)
> AND planet_osm_line.road_len = longway.waylen
> AND planet_osm_line.name = longway.name
> AND planet_osm_line.ref = longway.ref
> ORDER BY road_len DESC
Ok, another small step forward. I have tried your suggestion, mapnik
then refused to print anything. So I decided it was time to actually
run some of these commands in psql so that I could see what is
happening. The problem is, I believe the select statement that I am
working on becomes part of a larger complex select built by mapnik.
Anyhow, I have almost achieved what I want with the following:-
SELECT DISTINCT ON (name)
way,highway,aeroway,name,ref,char_length(ref) AS length,
ST_Length(way) AS road_len,
CASE WHEN bridge IN ('yes','true','1') THEN 'yes'::text ELSE
bridge END AS bridge
FROM planet_osm_line
WHERE waterway IS NULL
AND leisure IS NULL
AND landuse IS NULL
AND (name IS NOT NULL OR ref IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY name,road_len DESC
The problem I have now is that it is searching the entire database for
unique names, not just the area I am interested in. That is a PostGIS
issue I will save for another day.
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Re: [Hampshire] SQL SELECT query.
2009/12/6 Hugo Mills :
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:32:25PM +0000, Philip Stubbs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been playing with mapnik to create some maps. It has been fun,
>> but I am a bit lacking in Postgres SQL. Can anybody help me to adjust
>> the following SELECT statement so that it will return a result set
>> that consists of only one of each distinct 'name'?
>
> In brief, no. What you're asking for, on the face of it, doesn't
> really make sense in SQL.
>
>> SELECT way,highway,aeroway,name,ref,char_length(ref) AS length,
>> ST_Length(way) AS road_len,
>> CASE WHEN bridge IN ('yes','true','1') THEN 'yes'::text ELSE
>> bridge END AS bridge
>
> You've selected a whole bunch of fields here. If there's, say, two
> records with the same name but different "way" values, what do you
> want it to do? Pick an arbitrary record where the name matches?
>
>> FROM planet_osm_line
>> WHERE waterway IS NULL
>> AND leisure IS NULL
>> AND landuse IS NULL
>> AND (name IS NOT NULL OR ref IS NOT NULL)
>> ORDER BY road_len DESC
>
> If you simply want a list of unique names, then:
>
> SELECT name FROM planet_osm_line WHERE [...] GROUP BY NAME;
>
> It might help us if you explain what you want to do with the data
> from this query.
I guess that is part of the problem. I don't really understand what
happens. All I know is the results from this query are used to add
labels to my map. All the magic happens inside mapnik. The contents of
the name or ref field is used for the value of the label. The way
field contains the data for the road, and highway contains the type of
road. What I am trying to do is make sure that as many roads as
possible are labelled. However, many small closes etc are made up of
multiple segments, often short stubs used as a turning place. If I use
the SELECT statement as is, I get a label for every way, so the map is
cluttered with multiple labels with the same value. What I would like
is to modify this statement so that the returned results contains just
the one occurrence of each name representing the longest way.
I am only drawing small maps, so the chance of having two different
roads with the same name in the one map is very small indeed.
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[Hampshire] SQL SELECT query.
Hi,
I have been playing with mapnik to create some maps. It has been fun,
but I am a bit lacking in Postgres SQL. Can anybody help me to adjust
the following SELECT statement so that it will return a result set
that consists of only one of each distinct 'name'?
SELECT way,highway,aeroway,name,ref,char_length(ref) AS length,
ST_Length(way) AS road_len,
CASE WHEN bridge IN ('yes','true','1') THEN 'yes'::text ELSE
bridge END AS bridge
FROM planet_osm_line
WHERE waterway IS NULL
AND leisure IS NULL
AND landuse IS NULL
AND (name IS NOT NULL OR ref IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY road_len DESC
Thank you all.
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Not drowning but waving
2009/11/30 jack : > yes, if you have any left. Done. I have more if anybody else wants one. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Americanisations (Was: Bad Karma)
2009/10/28 Sean Gibbins : > Chris Aitken wrote: >> >> > Sean, >> > Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS... >> >> I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way >> down on the >> list of annoyingizations of the language :) >> >> The one that gets me is Herbs, pronounced Erbs, and yet the ability to >> pronounce the letter H as Haitch. >> >> All Set. > > The use of 'z' instead of 's' - as in Americanization - and also 'zee' > instead of 'zed' while we're at it! > And they still claim to speak English! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] BBC iPlayer Broken With Karmic
2009/10/27 Alan Pope : > 2009/10/27 Sean Gibbins : >> Point taken, but it's a shame that it seems to be working in Jaunty >> version and broken in Karmic, bit of a step back in my opinion. >> > > Sure, but that doesn't mean it's Karmics fault that it's broken. It > may well be of course, and I'm sure we'll find out sometime soon. Do > note that it's not just Firefox that is affected, Google Chrome is > broken too. The main common factor is flash. If Google does ever release its own Linux based Google OS, surely then we will see a better Linux Flash player? I would rather not need to use flash at all, but if we do need it, then please let us have a flash player that works as well in Linux as it does in Windows. My hope is that Google will provide the incentive that Adobe needs to pull its finger out on this one. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Elections
2009/10/21 Sean Gibbins : > Rob Smith wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 22:02 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: >> [snip] >> >>>> The incumbents of these posts, for information, are: >>>> >>>> Chairman: Adam Trickett >>>> Treasurer: Ian Brazier >>>> Hostmaster: Alan Pope >>>> GOs: Adrian Bridgett >>>> Rob Smith >>>> >>>> I'm sure they will announce their willingness or otherwise to stand >>>> for re-election. >>>> >>> If any of the incumbents do wish to stand again to continue their >>> highly valued work, then I would be willing to nominate them. >>> >> >> >> I'm happy to stand again. >> >> Rob. >> > > I nominate Rob Smith for the position of General Officer. I second Rob Smith for the position of General Officer. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Webcams
2009/10/19 Leo : > Philip Stubbs wrote: >> Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for >> years. Works fine. >> > > I suppose I was thinking that it would get in the way of the lawn mower > and things, although I guess it could be buried. > > Leo When I was running a power cable to my shed, I took the opportunity to bury some small drain pipe. I then was able to pull my Ethernet cable and a telephone wire down at a later time. It is a run of about 25 meters or so. I hope it lasts for some time yet because I have now built a conservatory and a concrete patio over one end of the pipe :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Elections
2009/10/19 Sean Gibbins : > Damian Brasher wrote: >> Hugo Mills wrote: >> >> >>> GOs: Adrian Bridgett >>> Rob Smith >>> >> >> For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to >> usual commitments; >> >> Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and corresponding slides. >> >> Depth, time permitting, I'd also like to enhance my understanding of how >> Hants Lug sits as British organisation and better understand how LUG >> internationally and nationally evolved and continues to do so. >> >> Damian >> >> > > I nominate Damian Brasher as a General Officer. I would like to second Damian Brasher as a General Officer. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Webcams
2009/10/17 Leo : > Jacqui Caren wrote: >> >> Have you considered POE? >> >> Wireless is just way too easy to block. >> >> Also are you looking for a pan-tilt-jobbie or a fixed camera? >> >> Jacqui >> > > No I hadn't though of POE, but that will mean running an ethernet cable > up the garden, which I don't think will work well. Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for years. Works fine. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] LaTeX on a samba share
2009/10/16 Jacqui Caren : > Philip Stubbs wrote: >> Has anybody else seen this? This problem has only occurred since >> upgrading to Karmic. My Google foo is weak today. Even suggestions of >> where to look for answers would be appreciated. > > Sorry, brain is still asleep from a 4am burst of coding but I remember > somethign similar relating to LF/CRLF translation via samba shares. > > There was a flag to control LF->CRLF translation for samba shares. > Perhaps this has been enabled and is corrupting the files. I don't think the problem is what is in the file. If I copy the file to a local directory, LaTeX will process the file fine. If I try and run LaTeX on the cifs mounted directory, LaTeX will complain that the file is not there! Vim will edit the file fine. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] LaTeX on a samba share
At work, I use Ubuntu within VirtualBox on my Windows computer. I access my files on the company server via samba. I can edit the files no problem with vim. However, when I try and use LaTeX, it complains that it can not read the file, as if it is not there. If I copy the directories to the VirtualBox, then LaTeX will run just fine. Has anybody else seen this? This problem has only occurred since upgrading to Karmic. My Google foo is weak today. Even suggestions of where to look for answers would be appreciated. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Elections
2009/10/15 Andy Ransom : > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Ian Brazier wrote: > >> I'm willing to stand again if elected.. > > I nominate Ian Brazier as Treasurer. Seconded! -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Mysql not starting at boot with Ubuntu Karmic
2009/10/15 Sean Gibbins : > Philip Stubbs wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have updated one of my machines to ubuntu karmic. Now when it boots, >> mysql is not started. Once it is up and running, I can run "sudo >> /etc/init.d/mysql start" and it starts fine. I have tried purging >> mysql and re-installing. I have checked to make sure the links are in >> the rc directories. I even used the update-rc.d script to remove and >> re-instate the links. >> >> Does anybody know why this may be happening? Any pointers to finding the >> cause? >> >> Regards, >> > > > My (Jaunty) /etc/rc2.d looks like this as far as mysql is concerned: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2009-01-14 17:44 S17mysql-ndb-mgm -> > ../init.d/mysql-ndb-mgm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-01-14 17:44 S18mysql-ndb -> > ../init.d/mysql-ndb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-01-14 17:44 S19mysql -> ../init.d/mysql > > It occurs to me that it could be starting up and then failing on account > of something else not being ready that it needs. > > That said, I don't know a great deal about mysql or its dependencies, so > it's purely guesswork based on the fact that it starts okay manually > after the machine has booted. > > Sean On of the side effects of running beta software. Turned on this evening, and all seems to be fine :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Mysql not starting at boot with Ubuntu Karmic
Hi all, I have updated one of my machines to ubuntu karmic. Now when it boots, mysql is not started. Once it is up and running, I can run "sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start" and it starts fine. I have tried purging mysql and re-installing. I have checked to make sure the links are in the rc directories. I even used the update-rc.d script to remove and re-instate the links. Does anybody know why this may be happening? Any pointers to finding the cause? Regards, -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Elections
2009/10/12 Adrian Bridgett : > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:43:07 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Mills wrote: >> GOs: Adrian Bridgett > [snip] >> I'm sure they will announce their willingness or otherwise to stand >> for re-election. > > As long as I can still claim for that penguin house in the middle of > my moat I'm in. If not I'll still stand :-) I nominate Adrian Bridgett for the position of General Officer. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Elections
2009/10/10 Alan Pope : > I am happy to stand again as host master. I nominate Alan Pope for the position of Host Master. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Elections
2009/10/10 Hugo Mills : > All - > > I have been asked to run this year's elections to the committee. > The timetable is that the period for nominations opens today, lasts > for two weeks, and will close at mid-day on Saturday 24th October. The > following period, up to the election, is for any hustings or > campaigning that people may feel it necessary to do. The election will > be held at the AGM, which will be a small part of the November > meeting, provisionally scheduled for November the 7th. > > So, as always, I'm asking for nominations and seconds for the > following five posts: > > Chairman > Treasurer > Hostmaster > General Officer (two posts) > > The incumbents of these posts, for information, are: > > Chairman: Adam Trickett > Treasurer: Ian Brazier > Hostmaster: Alan Pope > GOs: Adrian Bridgett > Rob Smith > > I'm sure they will announce their willingness or otherwise to stand > for re-election. If any of the incumbents do wish to stand again to continue their highly valued work, then I would be willing to nominate them. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Xorg is hungry today...
2009/10/6 James Ashburner : > Philip Stubbs wrote: >> >> I would say that it is ignorant to not accept that rpm based distroes >> have had to catch up with Debian based ones with regards to package >> management. If they did not have to catch up, why did they introduce >> yum? Maybe now they have caught up, and for some, maybe they have >> surpassed. It is good to learn from history, but to be fair to you, we >> also need to learn from the present, and that is why I suggested a >> compare and contrast session. Not as a, 'mine is better than yours' >> but as a method of knocking down old walls and removing some bias >> where it is not warranted. >> >> >> > My distro of choice uses apt and is rpm based, which side of the fence > should I be sitting on? :) That proves it! There is no fence. :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Xorg is hungry today...
2009/10/6 Vic : > I *suspect* that what is being said was never really true - it's just a > feature of individuals not knowing what was available. But whether or not > that was the case many years ago, it certainly isn't the case now. Just to be clear, it *was* the case many years ago. At the time when the then current documentation and accepted recommended method of installing software in a RedHat based system was to use rpm directly, Debian was using apt. Therefore it does make sense to compare the two in that historical context. > Continuing to harp on about it means that someone is either being wilfully > ignorant, or is deliberately spreading FUD. I would say that it is ignorant to not accept that rpm based distroes have had to catch up with Debian based ones with regards to package management. If they did not have to catch up, why did they introduce yum? Maybe now they have caught up, and for some, maybe they have surpassed. It is good to learn from history, but to be fair to you, we also need to learn from the present, and that is why I suggested a compare and contrast session. Not as a, 'mine is better than yours' but as a method of knocking down old walls and removing some bias where it is not warranted. -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Xorg is hungry today...
2009/10/6 Victor Churchill : > 2009/10/5 Hugo Mills : >> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:30:22PM +0100, John Lewis wrote: >>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:11:09 +0100 >>> Philip Stubbs wrote: >>> > >>> > Nor have I. Then it was about three years ago that I started using >>> > Debian :-) >>> >>> nor have I, but then I stopped using rpm based systems when I dumped >>> RedHat 5.1 and moved to a distro with 'proper' dependency control based >>> on dpkg/apt and more recently aptitude. >> >> I lasted slightly longer (to 6.0), moving to Debian for the same >> reasons. However, to be fair, that was well over 10 years ago, and the >> package management on RPM-based system has improved quite a bit since >> then. yum is eminently usable, although I find it a little frustrating >> because I don't know how to do many of the things I do know how to do >> with apt... >> > > Similar story. Cut my teeth on Red Hat 4 onwards, struggled with using > rpm, migrated to The Other One. Now have just started getting > acquainted with CentOS and actually quite pleasantly surprised. But > because yum is 'closer' to apt than rpm is/was, there is a tendency to > expect it to be the same which it ain't. This has given me an idea. How about at a BaB meeting, three machines could be setup with a base RedHat, Debian and Gentoo installation. Then people could have a go or be demonstrated doing common tasks in each system. I think we all probably have a favored distribution, and sometimes we simply stick with what we know. We don't all have the time or inclination to do extensive testing of what other distributions offer. It should help dispel out-dated opinions. If nothing else, it could make a lively meeting :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] xorg defaults on MPC-L
2009/10/5 Simon Reap : > I am running my lovely new Viglen MPC-L (yes, the UKUbuntu > podcast offer is still available!) as a headless home server. > > I do have a couple of things I need to work on. > > One is that if I boot without a screen attached, the graphical > display defaults to 640x480 and, I think, 16 colours (certainly > not many). Trouble is, I want to run x11vnc on the server, and > run the display from another PC. I want it to default to, for > example, 1280x1024 and millions of colours. I know the graphics > card can do it, because that's what I get if I *do* have a screen > attached when I boot. Does anyone know what I need to set, and > where, to change the default? > > This is on xubuntu 8.04 (which is what the MPC came with), but I > have the same problem on a debian sid server at work - on that one I > normally run it headless, but sometimes (i.e. when I accidentally > leave my work laptop at home), I want to plug in a real screen and > see a reasonable resolution. Have a look for EDID. This is the info that xorg gets from the monitor. You should be able to extract it manually, and there are tools to create the correct file for it. Then you can add an option to your config file for x that uses this information. It was some time ago that I was playing with this, but I know EDID is one option open to you. Regards, -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] Xorg is hungry today...
2009/10/5 Stephen Davies : > .deb Hell ??? wtf? > > We all know that it is only rpm's that give you hell! > (Now where's the 'only pulling your leg emocion?') > > I for one have not had an 'rpm dependency hell' for well over three years. Nor have I. Then it was about three years ago that I started using Debian :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] New Linux-based phone
2009/10/5 Hugo Mills : > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:46:35AM -0400, Andy Random wrote: >> Reviving this thread briefly, I'm surprised I've not seen any mention of >> the Palm Pre during it, it's even due out this month (though exclusive to >> 02) and generated quite a buzz when launched in the US earlier this year. >> >> Also has anybody seen a confirmed release date for the Nokia N900? > > Not official, but Amazon seem to think October 19th. Or even the 26th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-N900-Mobile-Computer-Software/dp/B002QEBX5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1254747786&sr=8-1 -- Philip Stubbs -- 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] LCD Monitor repair
A while ago, i bought a cheap LCD monitor. Except for the one dead pixel, the picture is fine for my needs. The only problem is it makes a noise. A really irritating high pitched whine. If I grip the case by its sides, the noise goes away. Sometimes for a bit, sometimes it comes back as I release it. It is one of those sounds that you don't really know what is annoying you until you turn it off. Now I should have returned it straight away, but feel I have left it too long now. So I am thinking of opening it up and seeing if I can fix it. My plan is to fill each gap and joint with a non-corrosive silicone sealant to try and damp down any resonances in the case. Has anybody done anything like this? Are there any real gotcha's? If I really screw it up, it will just mean that I can justify getting a better monitor, so as I see it I can only win :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- 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 --
