Re: [Hampshire] Document Management Systems

[Samuel Penn via Hampshire]

On Thursday, 15 November 2018 11:26:25 GMT Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am on the local residents association committee which generates a
> quite a bit of documentation through its various activities and there is
> a paper archive stretching back to the 30's.
> 
> It has been suggested that we should digitise it. At the same time most
> of the current documentation is held as emails and attachments so I
> thought it would make sense to see if there was a document management
> system which would suit our needs or standards to follow.
> 
> I was wondering if anybody had similar experience and had any advice to
> offer.

Ten years ago (that's a scary thought in itself) I used to work as a consultant 
for various document management solutions. One of the products we used 
was Alfresco, which was pretty decent and also available under the GPL 
(though there's also a commercial Enterprise edition).

At the time, it had a feature that allowed you to suck in data from Email.

Whether it's still any good or not, or at all suitable for your needs, I don't
know. It's probably quite a heavy weight and feature rich option. Whatever 
you choose, it probably needs to be a solution that's going to last a 
reasonably long time.

https://www.alfresco.com/

Sam.





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Re: [Hampshire] Colour Printer Replacement

[Samuel Penn via Hampshire]

On Friday, 21 July 2017 10:03:50 BST Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
> Our HP colour laser printer which is quite old now must be replaced. A
> repair seems out of the question I assume because nobody seems to repair
> these days. It is a pity because we have quite a bit of toner left.
> 
> Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings of a replacement. It
> is the normal home office sort of usage probably quite low.

I like the Xerox Phaser range. The solid ink is nice and easy to handle.
My printing usage is generally printing hardly anything for months, with
sudden bursts of printing large amounts of stuff.

The printers aren't the cheap end of the range though.



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Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

[Samuel Penn via Hampshire]

On Friday 05 May 2017 11:13:02 Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> Thanks to all those who replied, Thomas Kluyver, Ian Park, Aaron West
> and particularly Ben Parsonage. Ben - I think you have solved the
> problem. The Dell Inspiron machine looks like it will do very well. I
> investigated Entroware some time ago, but they do not reply to email.

Sorry, only just noticed that comment.

I thought it was just me, since Entroware seem to get rated as a
good company by the Ubuntu Podcast. Twice I've tried to contact
them about their laptops over the past few years, and neither time
did I get a peep out of them. I ended up buying something from
elsewhere both times.


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Re: [Hampshire] DAT as a backup medium

[Samuel Penn via Hampshire]

On Friday 21 Apr 2017 15:55:27 Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:
> Is DAT still a viable backup medium if you want USB and to avoid 
optical
> disks?

If the backups are stored at the same site as the original data, then no
(unless they're going into a suitably secure safe).

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Re: [Hampshire] HTTPS Certificate problem

[Samuel Penn via Hampshire]

On Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 11:20:12 Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:
> ** Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire  [2017-02-07 
> 07:52]:

> > +1 for letsencrypt.org - I recently switched to HTTPS for all my
> > hosted server domains and was very happy to find a "letsencrypt"
> > package for Debian that automated the entire process. It even
> > auto-renews the cert for you.
> 
> ** end quote [Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire]
> 
> Seconded, I've been using Letsencrypt for a while now (just checked and it
> looks as though I signed up back in November 2015), and I've had no problems
> in that time. I used to use StartSSL and the manual renewal and install was
> a pain, particularly if you'd managed to let your personal account
> certficate expire and lost access to the certificates you already had
> (thankfully I managed to merge the accounts I had when they did a system
> upgrade a while back).

I'm also using Let's Encrypt, and I'm really happy with it. I've had two
issues with it though.

First, was that my original websites were behind a proxy/firewall that
didn't allow HTTP (only HTTPS) access, and the auto-setup didn't work due
to not being able to call back. I've since moved away from that setup,
and with a more normal environment it all worked first time.

Second, was that if you install the script manually, and run the cron
with the recommended --no-self-upgrade option, then it doesn't update
itself. I have had it fall far enough behind that the script then stops
working and fails to update your certificates. Running it manually
without the --no-self-upgrade flag fixed that relatively quickly, but
I need to make sure the script gets updated regularly.

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Re: [Hampshire] How to get a laptop with Linux?

[Samuel Penn via Hampshire]

On Thursday 03 Nov 2016 17:58:26 Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these
> days? Various web searches haven't helped me much.

https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops

I haven't used them, but they've been mentioned on the Ubuntu Podcast
a few times.

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