Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth & SE Hants LUG - 15th June
Paul, Not sure how organised I will be but I did offer a talk on WireGuard once. Are you still interested and if so are you able to project me via some chat medium? I can't make it physically, obviously. On Thursday 13 June 2024 17:41:10 CEST you wrote: > The next meet is this Saturday (15th June) with the usual start time of > 1pmat Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. > > A short and sweet notification this month as I am just dashing out to a > meeting and am determined to get this sent! -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Using NFS root with raspberry pi.
Tom, Can't say I've done it recently, but on my Red Hat course we did do remote booting. I can't remember of the top of my head what we did, but I'm sure NFS was involved. However I think it's an interesting idea and I'll have to look it up and see what I can find as well! > > Thank you for your response I do like the idea of booting over the network > using PXE however I don’t currently have tufts server set up so was using > NFS a what I thought would be a quick solution. > > Tell me if you set up the PI to PXE boot can you revery back to the Standard > SD boot t it won’t PXE boot? > > Tom. > > > On 10 Oct 2023, at 21:14, James Dutton wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 13:04, Tom Gamble via Hampshire > > > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On my Raspberry Pis I’ve had a few issues with SD Cards failing so > >> thought there would be some mileage in using an NFS root. So if an SD > >> card fails I can just pop a new card in and my root fs will still be > >> good.> > > Hi, > > > > I have not tried your approach before. I have only done something > > called netboot. > > This is where you boot without an SD card at all. > > There are some hints on how to do it here: > > https://raspberrytips.com/network-boot-with-raspberry-pi/ > > Now, I have not actually done it with a Raspberry PI, only with Linux > > servers and embedded systems, but the principles are the same. > > You set up a DHCP server, with parameters that tell it where to find > > the linux kernel and initrd files etc. it then tftp gets them or http > > gets them. > > An interesting aspect of this, is that booting over a 1Gbps network is > > actually quicker than booting from an SD card. > > Also if the device crashes, as the files are not stored on the crashed > > device, the files do not become corrupted at all, so it's really > > helpful when doing kernel development on an embedded system. It not > > only reboots quicker, but no files are corrupted, and you get to see > > the last logs before it crashed. -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Wind is a finite resouce and harnessing it would slow the wind down which would cause temperatures to go up. -- Joe Barton US House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee member -- 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] How to connect Android phone to Debian system
On Thursday 27 April 2023 13:38:19 CEST Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > I have a computer running Debian 11 and a new phone with Android > 13. How do I access the Android file system from the computer via > USB? A web search suggests MTP, but I have not been able to get > that to work. I can use tethering via USB, so there is nothing > wrong the connection. I gather it depends on the generation of the phone and what the vendor felt like. It's very hit and miss. The KDE Connect never worked with a work Samsung phone I had, nor did a USB cable. My more basic Moto G5 and my current Moto G82 both connect with the KDE Connect app, but it's not 100% reliable. The USB connection also worked on both of them out of the box... (sorry for being a bit late to reply) > I have go-mtpfs, lib-mtp-common, lib-mtp-runtime and libmtp9 > installed. > > If I plug in the phone it is recognised as a Portable Media Player, > moto g23, but selecting "Browse Files with File Manager" just gives > a small window with the title "Er..ec ?" containing a red dialog > box with a large X, the text /moto 23, and an OK button. > > Selecting "View Photos with File Manager" produces a similar small > window except the title is "Erro...Exec ?" and the text is "Unknown > error Bad Parameters" -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment. -- Jean Baudrillard -- 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] Raspberry PI projects for children?
Hi, Has anyone had any experience with using a Raspberry Pi for a project with children? I can see that there are loads of projects on-line and in magazines, but which ones actually work well with children? My wife is working with the town hall to provide IT lessons (mostly pensioners) but they would like to do something with children during the school holidays. The ideal projects would be: * Doable over 4 days of mornings or afternoons * Doesn't require use of soldering irons (weapons) * Not strictly attractive to boys or girls * Some thing for primary and secondary school age * Not silly expensive - we can get grant money but not zillions I've said I'm happy to give time on the Linux side and I know some programming, but I expect it will be more of a plug board kit kind of project with a pre-written program that they can tinker with. -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France I guess that, if you're in Microsoft's shoes, it makes sense. If you can't write software or protocols that can stably walk and chew gum, program in a limit that prevents the user from telling it to do so. -- Jonathan Patschke, on limitations in Active Directory -- 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] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG - April 16th IRL & Virtual meet
Hello Paul, Sadly, other commitments mean that I won't be able to be at Broad Oak this afternoon. Have a good meet-up and if I don't make it this month then maybe May be! Thanks, John Spragg On 15/04/2022 16:45, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote: OK, I can't see my previous email on the lists or in my sent, so either I've imagined sending it or it is stuck on another computer / boot somewhere (I may have too many and I may be gradually losing my marbles - they used to be in a jar by my bed!). A reply or two saying you are planning to be there would be nice as I'm aware it is in the middle of the Easter weekend and other things may be happening instead! 🙂 This month's meet will be at Broad Oak, with the usual IRL start of 1pm, and sandwiches will be available (for those attending in person and wanting to partake). We now have a curtain across the room doorway which helps with noise given the new lack if actual doors. For those either not wanting to attend in person, or not able to, I will be running the Jitsi room again. I think the new speaker worked slightly better than the original one. See you there (virtually or in person) or, well, erm, not I guess - it is purely voluntary, but we still don't bite and we have no plans to. To join virtually head to: https://meet.jit.si/plugmeet I will enable the lobby as well as the password of 'sat22' - a totally random change with no discernable pattern to it! If for some reason the URL above has been grabbed I will update via the list and website (you don't seem to be able to reserve them). I use Firefox, but I have heard that some have had issues and recommend Chrome or Chromium. There is also an app that you will be asked to download if you are using Android or Apple (it is also available through F-Droid). Personally I find the best option is the Electron app that can be downloaded from https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron as an AppImage or a Deb package. It is also available from Flathub and the Snap store as third party build, but I don't know how up to date those are. If anyone wants to join by phone I can email a code when the meeting starts (I don't think it gets created until then with Jitsi), but I have no idea where you stand on call costs. It came up at the IWPCUG / IOWLUG meet and I investigated. Keep safe. Thanks, Paul -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Hardware] Fans
On 19/09/2020 12:04, Rob via Hampshire wrote: Hi all As ever – quick questions with more detail below. I’ve got a brand new PC (mobo, PSU and cards) in a very old case with no System Fan (big “funnel” seems to be all it has) – is that a recipe for disaster? If so – do I either transplant into a new case or attempt to mount a system fan somewhere in the old case? For those that think this is a no-brainer because a fan is so cheap compared to a new case (and all the trouble of the transplant) – please bear in mind I have very poor sight and, though I have a fully sighted helper – she’s a technophobe! Hence “mounting a fan somewhere” is not as easy as you might think. A bit more detail: A few weeks back I posted here about the lagging / delay issues I’ve been having with my new PC (replaced in June) and running W10 – apologies for OT post. I’ve managed to improve things (by turning off the 3^rd monitor) but, this very morning, after leaving the PC on accidentally all night, the lags were back with a vengeance. This made me think it’s more likely to be a heat issue. That said, I have just rebooted and things seem ok (for now!!). Said PC is a mobo bundle I bought from Novatech which we transplanted into a very old case. The case is fine but, instead of a system fan, it has an internal “funnel” connected to a grill in the case wall. There is a fan on the PSU and one on the CPU but these are the only 2. I had a quick tweak of the BIOS settings and just realised that, despite it saying CPU temp is around 39 deg C, it was giving me an alarm so often (and in times of load) that I’ve had to switch it off. I’d not considered overheating as an option before – and it’s never shut down or anything like that. So any constructive solutions would be very welcome. Cheers R I bought my PC from Novatech in 2007 as a "bare-bones-bundle" (mobo - case - memory). As yours, it has the "funnel" directing air to the CPU cooler fan, another fan in the PSU, and a third 120mm fan screwed inside the grille below the PSU blowing out of the case. This fan is connected to the SYS_FAN header on my mobo. I haven't experienced any issues with overheating but this wasn't a top-end model even back then. Hope that this is of some assistance. I can send you a photograph of the internal layout of my PC if that helps. John P.S. Looking at the amount of dust that accumulates inside my PC, it looks like a very cost-effective alternative to running a Dyson, particularly as this is internet-enabled. -- 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] Is root mounted twice
Hello Mike, Also found this in the Debian bugs from Jan 2013 concerning Wheezy. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697487 The reply is given here, hope that it makes sense to you! % cat /proc/mounts | grep ' / ' rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/... / btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache 0 0 The root filesystem is only mounted once; this is the second line. The first line "rootfs" is actually the initramfs from when the system booted. The real root filesystem is mounted inside this on /root, but it's not visible on the running system. The only change here was that when /etc/mtab was a static file, we didn't add the initramfs to it. But now that we use /proc/mounts, the information which was previously hidden is now visible. I have looked at my Raspberry Pi that is running Raspbian Buster and it doesn't show the dual root entry for df. pi@raspberry-pi:~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 15G 5.9G 7.8G 43% / devtmpfs 459M 0 459M 0% /dev tmpfs 464M 11M 453M 3% /dev/shm tmpfs 464M 6.3M 457M 2% /run tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 464M 0 464M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 53M 200M 21% /boot tmpfs 93M 0 93M 0% /run/user/1000 Regards, John On 05/04/2020 13:25, Mike Burrows via Hampshire wrote: On 4/4/20 4:17 PM, Gareth Evans via Hampshire wrote: Some potential things to check here too https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71520 Thanks John & Gareth. Sorry, I should have said that I had tried this advice in this post and actually freed up some space. However, when I reboot the settings in /etc/network/interfaces get overwritten. I have posted in the Pi forums too. Waiting on a reply. Back to the question though. Does this indicate that root is mounted twice and/or is root using twice the disk space it needs? Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 3.5G 3.1G 192M 95% / /dev/root 3.5G 3.1G 192M 95% / TIA mike -- 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] Is root mounted twice
Found a similar problem in a post to the raspberry pi forum from 2014. Doesn't say which version of Raspbian they were using. They found that their pi had run out of space and the results of df - h had the two root entries that you have encountered. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=521414|$ df -h Sys. fich. Taille Util. Dispo Uti% Monté sur rootfs 13G 13G 0 100% / /dev/root 13G 13G 0 100% / devtmpfs 211M 0 211M 0% /dev tmpfs 44M 372K 44M 1% /run tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 88M 0 88M 0% /run/shm /dev/mmcblk0p5 60M 19M 41M 32% /boot tmpfs 88M 4,0K 88M 1% /tmp | Hope that this is relevant. Regards, John Spragg On 04/04/2020 14:18, Mike Burrows via Hampshire wrote: Hello Folks. Its been many years since I have posted to this list. (i wonder if Hugo is still around). I do however still subscribe and follow the threads with interest from far off Alabama. Keep up the good work and stay safe. I have a quick question. My rpi is giving me root is full errors and wont accept configuration edits. This is the output from df: pi@raspi ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 3.5G 3.1G 194M 95% / /dev/root 3.5G 3.1G 194M 95% / devtmpfs 460M 4.0K 460M 1% /dev tmpfs 93M 284K 93M 1% /run tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 186M 0 186M 0% /run/shm /dev/mmcblk0p1 56M 20M 37M 35% /boot tmpfs 186M 0 186M 0% /tmp its an 8 gig card. Is this showing root mounted twice or perhaps...could somebody help me understand the first two lines please? TIA Mike -- 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
Tim, > Another thought is to use a series of Esp8266 devices with rwlay and temp > sensors (somebody must have done one), and then central control from a > PC/Pi over wifi. I was looking at that last night. You can get boxes that have a 15 A relay, a jack for a digital thermometer and the ESP8266 controller and their own AC/DC, e.g. Sonoff TH16. You can flash them with your own software and then do everything in house, or use their own cloud based solution. > Sent from my Huawei phone > > > Original Message > Subject: [Hampshire] Raspberry PI > From: Adam John Trickett via Hampshire > To: Hants LUG > CC: Adam John Trickett > > Bonjour ! > > I have finally found a use for a Raspberry Pi...! Since moving to France we > have ended up with a house with stupid electrically heated oil filled > radiators. They are not properly controlled and quite inefficient, at best > you can control them on a thermostat but there is no clock... > > It seems obvious that all I need is a thermometer, a mains relay a Raspberry > Pi and some some software to create a time controlled thermostat that I can > SSH into...! > > So I think I need > a box > a AC/DC transformer for the Pi > a mains relay > a digital thermometer > an override switch > something to mount the relay and transformer on > WiFi Pi or WiFi module for Pi depending on model > > I think this is technically easy to do, but the biggest constraint seems to > be that the overall box needs to be small and "wife friendly"... -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it -- Agatha Christie -- 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
Roger. > I have a friend who has an impressively automated house and you might > want to aim at something a bit more sophisticated. > > First of all the user interface. He has an old smartphone with a 3d > printed holder which makes a smart control mounted on the wall. He has a > nice user interface which his wife his pleased with. He also stores his > data so he can see how the system is performing. > > You might want to control each individual radiator and zone the house > with an individual temperature sensor and power relay. The bathroom > would be the obvious room to zone. I've actually got not choice, the rads are hardwired to the mains, some of them have a pilot wire, some don't, and I don't think they are on separate circuits, so I'll need to control them individually anyway! So unless I re- wire the house I'm committed to one controller per rad - giving total of 4 rads in 3 zones. I could almost tolerate the current design if there was a timer on them, but they are all half baked, and even have exposed wire junctions! > I also had this fantasy a few years ago and with the help of a lot of > research manged to hack a windows programme that could monitor and > control my Vailliant boiler and wrote a programme for the Raspberry PI. > > The idea was to make it smart so that I would record inside and outside > temperatures and over a period of time learn about the heating > charactersitics so I could set the time when I wanted the temperature > and not just switch on the system according to the time. So it would > calculate the time required based on outside temperatures and switch on > accordingly. Also if the sun was up and temperature was rising rapidly > it would switch off prematurely. > > Ultimately it would be combined with weather data for maximum efficiency. > > The project stalled when I discovered that I and my wife worked at home > and we have the heating on all the time. Am hoping to get back to > finishing it soon before climate change renders the project useless. > > Overt the years I have installed cat 5 cabling in the house with a view > to monitoring each room. I have also been collecting the white plastic > containers that dental floss come in to house the temp sensors for > several years. > > I hope that the move to France is successful and your heating > requirements are probably reduced. > > Best Regards > > Roger > > On 18/02/2019 10:37, Adam John Trickett via Hampshire wrote: > > Bonjour ! > > > > I have finally found a use for a Raspberry Pi...! Since moving to France > > we > > have ended up with a house with stupid electrically heated oil filled > > radiators. They are not properly controlled and quite inefficient, at best > > you can control them on a thermostat but there is no clock... > > > > It seems obvious that all I need is a thermometer, a mains relay a > > Raspberry Pi and some some software to create a time controlled > > thermostat that I can SSH into...! > > > > So I think I need > > a box > > a AC/DC transformer for the Pi > > a mains relay > > a digital thermometer > > an override switch > > something to mount the relay and transformer on > > WiFi Pi or WiFi module for Pi depending on model > > > > I think this is technically easy to do, but the biggest constraint seems > > to be that the overall box needs to be small and "wife friendly"... -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France I've found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent. -- Paul Graham, "Great Hackers" 2004 -- 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 Monday, 18 February 2019 20:04:20 CET Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote: > Oh, for digital thermometers, look at the DS18B20 one-wire sensors. They're > easy to read and come in various packages. That's the one I've seen on various Google searches so far, seems popular, and simple to work with. -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- 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 Monday, 18 February 2019 20:01:12 CET Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote: > How about this for the relay side of things? > > https://czh-labs.com/-p0198.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAzKnjBRDPARIsAKxfTRAEdBVGf803U > V1Gs99uRIiE2-Eg6pPYEpWFvF0pXhEaUpcJrIh014QaAjIQEALw_wcB Does indeed look good, I only need one relay per RPi but the three won't hurt. I'd need to check the load, it's 230 V not sure of the amperage, but they'll be in the 1 kW to 2 kW range, so that's 4.3 A to 8.7 A, so that should be in range. > You could also stack a touchscreen on it. That sounds a nice but I suspect I'm more likley to control it via SSH/HTTP. > Sounds like you're on the right track. Thanks that's the kind of thing I need, I don't want to have to solder bits to a board if someone has built a board that nearly does what I want. -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes -- 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] Raspberry PI
Bonjour ! I have finally found a use for a Raspberry Pi...! Since moving to France we have ended up with a house with stupid electrically heated oil filled radiators. They are not properly controlled and quite inefficient, at best you can control them on a thermostat but there is no clock... It seems obvious that all I need is a thermometer, a mains relay a Raspberry Pi and some some software to create a time controlled thermostat that I can SSH into...! So I think I need a box a AC/DC transformer for the Pi a mains relay a digital thermometer an override switch something to mount the relay and transformer on WiFi Pi or WiFi module for Pi depending on model I think this is technically easy to do, but the biggest constraint seems to be that the overall box needs to be small and "wife friendly"... -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced -- anon -- 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] Free to a good home (repost)
I have two tower systems that are free to a good home. They both have an Asus K8V-X Motherboard and ADM64 (single core) CPU. They both have the maximum design RAM of 2GB. They both have AGP-8X graphics cards, onboard Gig Ethernet, parallel, serial, 2x PS/2, onboard sound and some USB jacks. One is in a black DNUK (OEM) case the other a silver/grey retail case. They each have SATA HDs (~200Gb), DVD-RW and either a CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM. They are both running Debian Stable at the moment, fresh clean install and work fine, but are not really fast enough for modern full-fat GUIs like KDE or GNOME, but would be fine for something lighter or headless where that doesn't matter. If no one wants them I'll try freecycling them or breaking them for salvageable parts - the rest going to the local recycling centre. The AGP graphics card does VGA, DVI-D (and so HDMI if you needed that) and s-video. They are obviously obslete, but sometimes people need kit like this. I also have a much older Dell Dimension XPS-200n, which has a PentiumPro 200MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, but does have Plextor SCSI CD-ROM and CD-R drives. This is a very antique computer and probably no interest to anyone, unless you want parts from it. I think it has a NetGear 100MBit CPI Ethernet card, a PCI- SCSI controller, ISA Soundblaster card and a Matrox Millenium graphics card. It has a 3Gb IBM PATA hard drive and a 5Gb IBM SCSI hard drive. You'll need to collect from Overton Hampshire, or we could deliver to Basingstoke or Andover as that is where the recycling centre would be for them if no one wants them. All will be going to the reccling centre within the next few weeks - we need to clear the house before we move out of it. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will make it any better, it will only make it more expensive and foolish. -- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries Assoc, 1916 -- 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] re new linux
hi For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux. http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4?r=US&IR=T thought this may create interesting conversations. John Eayrs -- 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 problem
Hi Try deleting all temporary files. It may be possible that you have too many temporary files. Applying what happens in windows98 to XP. So suggestion may be wrong. John Eayrs On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:09:01 + Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: > Sorry to sully the content of the list with a windows problem but > somebody could be well versed in this sort of thing and it may be a > trivial solution. > > I will also try and make it up next week with an interesting > invitation to the list. > > Years ago I wrote an Epos programme which runs on the pos version of > Windows XP and has worked for years until last week. > > I think that the permissions have been changed. I traced the fault > back to Windows being unable to create a temporary file. > > When I try to copy a file with windows explorer I get "This security > ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object". > > The PC is part of a windows domain and l think the user logs in as > administrator. > > Login is OK and the programme runs so it opens ,reads and writes > files but looks like cannot create. > > Any simple advice before we have to call in the expensive Windows man. > > Thanks, > > Roger > > > -- 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] Rogue Drive Errors
Hi All One of the things I discovered a long time ago is that there was no proper error checking for drives on the USB bus. I have had old computers where I could not transfer data using the USB. Something similar could be happening here. Create a large file and take an SHA of the file. Send both files to the disc. Take an SHA of the file on the disc and compare it to the first SHA. If there is a problem with data transfer on the USB bus then the two SHAs will be different. John Eayrs On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:08:22 - Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote: > Hi all > > > > I can't explain this - perhaps someone else can. I have a 2TB 3.5" > ext4 formatted internal drive (bought only in December) which was > reporting errors yesterday. At the time, it was connected via USB > Icybox JBOD and threw out more "short read" errors than I could > count. I left it running > > > > e2fsck -y /dev/blablabla > > > > overnight and it was still reporting errors this morning. Getting > fed up (and not wanting to write the unit off), I did > > > > mkfs /dev/blablabla > > > > and when I fired up rsync again - same type of IO errors. At this > point I wrote the drive off and used a spare for my purposes. > > > > Curious to see if I could get any more information from the failing > drive, I then moved it into a USB docking station on a different > machine. Running e2fsck again and I got a clean filesystem (no new > formatting or anything). > > > > Worried that this meant the drive was fine and potentially that > particular bay in the (4 bay) Icybox might be the culprit, I moved > the rogue drive back into the JBOD (same bay) and guess what - clean > bill of health from e2fsck. > > > > So in short I have the same drive reporting errors, reformatted > reporting errors, physically moved clean, then physically moved back > clean. I've never been too hot on the rather low level way Linux > handles disks - but I do want to know if the effing thing is good to > use or not. > > > > Is a clean e2fsck result good enough? If so, were the hundreds of > errors it was chucking out safely ignorable?Have I missed > anything obvious? > > > > Cheers > > Rob > -- 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] general genealogy questions?
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2017 12:23:35 Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > I agree with that, and would add that FMP also have the British > Newspaper Archive. You might like to find what is available at your > local public library. Southampton have Ancestry, I think Hampshire > have FMP (I'm fairly sure they had it a few years ago). However, I > also note that while City of London libraries have FMP, their > subscription does not include the British Newspaper Archive, so it > appears FMP allow some options about datasets. Currently Hampshire Library services have both FMP and Ancestry.com if you take your laptop onto their WiFi network, which seems to work okay. Basingstoke library. > If you get to the point of autosomal DNA testing, I have a Perl/Tk > chromosome browser you would be welcome to try. I'm not too fusses about the DNA test, but thanks for the offer. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Sent from a computer. -- Not an iPad or BlackBerry or any other fruit! -- 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] Dead touch pad on laptop that use to work okay
On Monday 04 Apr 2016 15:15:36 Ally Biggs wrote: > Have you tried it on another O/S? / live distro. Could also be a sign of > liquid damage just chucking some ideas out there Not tried another OS yet, but as it's running Debian stable and as I've not done anything too it, I don't think it's software, but I can always try to boot it off a live USB disk (it has no optical drive). Definitely no liquid damage, it's in near mint condition considering it's age. I've even teased open the case and the ribbon cables look good. As I said the buttons work fine and the FN+F1 combination still works at turning the touch pad on and off... > > From: adam.trick...@iredale.net > > To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:52:58 +0100 > > Subject: [Hampshire] Dead touch pad on laptop that use to work okay > > > > Hi, > > > > I've a 6 year old Novatech laptop and the touch pad just stopped > > responding. > > > > I can still see that the kernel has detected an touch pad device and the > > buttons in it still work, as does the Fn+F1 to turn it on and off (well it > > turns the buttons on and off). I can use a external mouse - which is > > better in most respects - but it's still annoying. > > > > Anyone have any bright ideas? It's not been dropped, abused or had any > > significant changes made to it. It us running Debian stable. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell -- 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] Dead touch pad on laptop that use to work okay
Hi, I've a 6 year old Novatech laptop and the touch pad just stopped responding. I can still see that the kernel has detected an touch pad device and the buttons in it still work, as does the Fn+F1 to turn it on and off (well it turns the buttons on and off). I can use a external mouse - which is better in most respects - but it's still annoying. Anyone have any bright ideas? It's not been dropped, abused or had any significant changes made to it. It us running Debian stable. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK People from bad areas steal your phone but people from good areas steal your pension -- The Spectator -- 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] Free 2x2GiB DDR3 laptop RAM to a good home
Hi, I have a matched pair of Samsung 2 GiB PC3/DDR3 SODIMM RAM (4 GiB in total) removed from a Dell Latitude laptop and it's free to a good home. I've no further use for it having upgraded the laptop to it's maximum RAM and I don't have anything else that can take SODIMMs. All I ask is you can collect it or match my postage costs with a charity donation (of your choice). -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK You can't make transgenic mice without blu-tack. -- muscleguy Guradian comment on Wallace and Gromit article -- 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] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March
Hi The adapters are very easily obtained at low prices and my experience is that they work if you got them from CPC. I have used them. John Eayrs On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 15:04:29 + Ben Parsonage wrote: > My understanding is that you will need an active adapter. > > The vga protocol is an analogue display protocol that is designed to > drive a crt display directly (ignoring some amps) . The protocol has > a few clocks (such as pxclk , lsp, vsync etc...) as well as rgb > intensity (3 signals) and positioning which drives x,y mag fields for > the electron deflection. > > DVI, HDMI and display port are all digital protocols. They deliver a > header along with what is essentially a rgb bitmap as well as some > clocks and power. There is also some generic signaling possible for > things like copy protection and remote command pass though. > > Because the standards are so similar the devices can find a common > signal level protocol so passive adapters are possible but only at > the lowest quality of the source, sink, and both interfaces. All will > do 1080p@60Hz. There may be some requirement to level shift on the > electrical level and obviously a change has to be made at the > mechanical level. > > DVI (but not dual link DVI) also has a legacy analogue mode which > allows it to be connected via a passive adapter to a vga port. This > functionally is a feature of dvi and going dp>dvi>vga won't work as > there is no way for the signal to be created. Similarly HDMI as a > "media" (and not display) protocol includes a digital audio line but > any set up which is not pure HDMI will not have this functionality. > > Ben > > == > This is a summary some aspects are intentionally wrong in order to > simplify, other areas may be incorrect due to my ignorance or poor > memory. This has been written all from memory with no sources if this > information is mission critical or you just don't like being wrong > you should cross check, look up format specs on the net or go to the > library (the one in the centre is quite good). I provide this > information in good faith but accept no responsibility for action > taken due to it ;-) . == > > > > On 27 February 2016 13:21:53 GMT+00:00, "Chris. Aubrey-Smith" > wrote: > >My understanding is that rather more is required to achieve the > >digital/analogue conversion. > > > >Chris > > > > > > > >On 27 February 2016 at 13:06, john > >wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> My Understanding is that HDMI is VGA plus audio. So HDMI to VGA > >should > >> work fine. Only difficulty is that some adaptors have difficulty > >with > >> plug and play detection, but that is not a problem because you can > >set > >> the VGA size in the computer. > >> > >> John Eayrs > >> > >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 07:17:06 + > >> Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > >> > Jeffrey Best will be talking to us about ""Developing a CouchDB > >> > Application Using CouchApp"?, about which more anon. But > >meanwhile, > >> > we have a connection problem. Jeffrey has a laptop with a > >> > DisplayPort port. He also owns an HDMI adapter for it. So we > >> > need to be able to adapt: ideally, DisplayPort to VGA for the > >projector; > >> > failing that HDMI to VGA, but I have an inbuilt unease about a > >> > -> b -> c adaptation. Too much to go wrong! So can anyone help > >> > with DisplayPort to VGA? And a backup of HDMI to VGA? It would > >> > help if solutions are known to work. Jeffrey himself has in > >> > fact got a DisplayPort to VGA adapter, but it doesn't work in > >> > practice. > >> > > >> > Jeffrey will bring his presentation on a USB stick in case , so > >could > >> > we be sure to have at least one laptop running LibreOffice > >> > Impress, with an ability to connect to VGA. > >> > > >> > All help and suggestions welcome. If DisplayPort is the future, > >this > >> > problem will arise again, so we need a solution. > >> > > >> > I was thinking of buying this for the group: > >> > > >> > >http://www.amazon.co.uk/DisplayPort-Display-Adapter-Convertor-Macbook/dp/B017Q8OCSY/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1456556516&sr=8-16&keywords=DisplayPort+to+VGA+adapter > >> > > >> > until I saw this: > >> > "Didn't work on my set-up, but this d
Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March
Hi My Understanding is that HDMI is VGA plus audio. So HDMI to VGA should work fine. Only difficulty is that some adaptors have difficulty with plug and play detection, but that is not a problem because you can set the VGA size in the computer. John Eayrs On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 07:17:06 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Jeffrey Best will be talking to us about ""Developing a CouchDB > Application Using CouchApp"?, about which more anon. But meanwhile, > we have a connection problem. Jeffrey has a laptop with a > DisplayPort port. He also owns an HDMI adapter for it. So we need > to be able to adapt: ideally, DisplayPort to VGA for the projector; > failing that HDMI to VGA, but I have an inbuilt unease about a -> b > -> c adaptation. Too much to go wrong! So can anyone help with > DisplayPort to VGA? And a backup of HDMI to VGA? It would help if > solutions are known to work. Jeffrey himself has in fact got a > DisplayPort to VGA adapter, but it doesn't work in practice. > > Jeffrey will bring his presentation on a USB stick in case , so could > we be sure to have at least one laptop running LibreOffice Impress, > with an ability to connect to VGA. > > All help and suggestions welcome. If DisplayPort is the future, this > problem will arise again, so we need a solution. > > I was thinking of buying this for the group: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/DisplayPort-Display-Adapter-Convertor-Macbook/dp/B017Q8OCSY/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1456556516&sr=8-16&keywords=DisplayPort+to+VGA+adapter > > until I saw this: > "Didn't work on my set-up, but this due to DP/HDTV not the cord > itself. I needed active adapter I eventually sussed." in the reviews. > > So: comments? Advice? Has anyone got an "active adapter"? > > If nothing else offers, I'll get two adapters - DisplayPort to VGA > and HDMI to VGA and hope for the best! > > Lisi > > Lisi > -- 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 friendly printer
Hi, To answer my own question, I decided to buy a new Samsung xPress M2835DW which worked perfectly over Ethernet via CUPS on the first try. Nothing to be installed or done, other than google the default network username and password. Thanks for the input, suggestions and offers. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking. -- anon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] ADSL Routers
Hi, Having a clear out, and the following are free to a good home. If no one wants/needs them the go on freecycle then to the refuse tip. ADSL Solwise SAR-110 (EA110) and 9V/1A PSU Billion BIPAC-5100S and 9V/1A PSU ADSL2+ Netgear DM111PSP (Post Office branding but unlocked) and 12V/1A PSU All are single port ethernet, they don't have a built in hub or switch. The Solwise has a serial port, I have it's manual on CD-ROM. All three can be configured for various routing rules, I've had them all set up with inbound SSH and HTTP in the past. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK If only banks were playing in a casino, then we probably could calculate appropriate risk weights. Unfortunately, the world is more complicated. -- Mervyn King, Governor, Bank of England signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] Compaq Deskpros
Hi, Having a clear out, and the following are free to a good home. If no one wants/needs them the go on freecycle then to the refuse tip. Pentium II 450. ATA HD (?10 GB), 128 Mb RAM (?), ethernet, PS/2, parallel, serial, CD, 3.5" floppy, sound and USB. Needs a new motherboard battery to keep the clock right. Works fine but clearly not up to running a GUI. Pentium II 733. SATA HD (180 GB) - via PCI SATA card, 256 Mb RAM (?), ethernet, PS/2, parallel, serial, CD, 3.5" floppy, sound, and USB. Works fine and GUI works. Works fine but onboard Intel graphics can't drive X with lots of colours, so GUI is limited. Both work and currently have Debian on them, and everything works. If you want them, I'd erase them. Would be willing to reinstall if required. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Every test I write reveals a different bug I have to write another test for. -- Zeno's Paradox of Unit Testing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] Wireless access point
Hi, Having a clear out, and the following are free to a good home. If no one wants/needs them the go on freecycle then to the refuse tip. 3Com OfficeConect WL-525. WiFi 11g 12V/1A PSU Manual & CD -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK "There seems to be something wrong with our ships today" -- Rear-admiral Sir David Beatty, on seeing the Queen Mary and the Indefatigable destroyed at the Battle of Jutland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] ASUS AGP motherboard
Hi, Having a clear out, and the following are free to a good home. If no one wants/needs them the go on freecycle then to the refuse tip. ASUS k8V-X motherboard and manual AMD Athlon64 2300+ CPU Stock AMD cooling fan 2 x 1 GiB DDR RAM 2 x SATA sockets 2 x PATA sockets 1 x Floppy socket 3 x DIMM sockets 2 x PS/2 Rear USB & board headers Rear audio & headers 1 x GigE (Marvell Yukon) 1 x parallel port 1 x Serial port 1 x nvidia FX AGP card: DVI-D, VGA & S-video And/or 1 x ATI HD3450: DVI-D, VGA & hdmi Was working perfectly when removed earlier this week. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Not all meetings are a waste of time, some of them are cancelled -- Joe Braysich signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] Domestic old A/V kit
Hi, Having a clear out, and the following are free to a good home. If no one wants/needs them the go on freecycle then to the refuse tip. Pioneer domestic DVD player DV-444S (original and unchipped) Manual Remote control Was working perfectly before being replaced by a Blu-ray player, earlier this year. 2 x Sony VTX-D800U Freeview DVB box (not HD, not a PVR). 3 x Sony remote controls (some buttons stick a bit) Were working perfectly before being replaced by a digital TV. 3 x SCART cables -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows. -- anon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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 friendly printer
> We have an HP4150DPN brought from Jamies many years ago. > 1200 dpi colour networked Postscript. > > Seen them going for free on Freecycle a few years back. > > It's an office grade printer, built out of girders, I'm not kidding when I > say it's a two man lift. Consumables (HP original not clones) are as cheap > as chips since it's obsolete. I thought of that, I'll have a look at Jamies again, and keep an eye on Freecycle. > Only issue, it consumes 45W in standbye. We use it for frost protection in > the garden office. I know how some old hardware can be. I assume it uses 0 W if switched off at the mains though..! -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK In a world without walls - who needs windows? -- anon -- 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 friendly printer
On Sunday 22 Nov 2015 11:33:31 Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2015 00:45:23 j...@osml.eu wrote: > > I just purchased a Samsung M2830DW You can run it either wired via > > USD/Ethernet or via Wifi. Meets you 600 DPI requirements. A local > > office supply shop had one on sale with free next day delivery for $50 > > USD and it works with Google Cloud Print, so it was a buy for me. > > I have used various Samsungs both for myself and for other people. They are > very Linux friendly and have great support; once you get through to the > second tier, that is - but I have the name and direct contact details of > the current Linux chap and he is quite happy for me to pass them on. Most > Just Work. > > My own ML-1510 is also proving very durable and is very cheap to run, having > been very cheap to buy in the first place. Thanks, good to know. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes -- 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 friendly printer
On Saturday 21 Nov 2015 19:45:23 j...@osml.eu wrote: > I just purchased a Samsung M2830DW You can run it either wired via > USD/Ethernet or via Wifi. Meets you 600 DPI requirements. A local > office supply shop had one on sale with free next day delivery for $50 > USD and it works with Google Cloud Print, so it was a buy for me. > > It was a pain to set up Wifi, but once I got it on the wired network, > it was relatively straight forward to configure via a web interface. > I've been looking at Samsung, they seem to be cheap and Linux friendlier than some others. Good to know they work. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Windows has detected: "unknown device", and is installing drivers for it. -- Microsoft Windows -- 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 friendly printer
On Saturday 21 Nov 2015 18:34:30 Jack Knight wrote: > I have an Epson stylus Photo SX515 wireless printer/scanner you can have if > you like and I'll throw in a couple of cartridges. Surplus to requirements > after a downsize. Thanks for the offer, but I've found I rarely print in colour. My current printer, wear excepting, has always been prone to the inks drying out though long periods of inactivity. > I also have a little Dell desktop PC with Ubuntu on and a Sony 17" screen, > ideal for someone's older generation rellie where you want them to have > email and Inet without crapware/malware and low maintenance. Ping me if > interested, collect from West Byfleet. Not specifically at the moment, but if you detail the spec then I may be able to find someone who wants it or someone else on the list may be able to do the same. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles a circle. -- anon, on Usenet -- 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] Linux friendly printer
Hi, My elder Epson ink-jet printer has become increasingly unstable (mechanical failure I'm sure). I'm looking for a laser printer to replace it. Requirements are: 1) Wired networked 2) 600dpi, I don't need to pay for higher, but it's okay if it's higher 3) Duplex would be nice but is not essential. 4) Must work with Linux 5) USB or parallel port okay but not essential if wired network is there. 6) Postscript nice but not essential if Linux (CPUS) driver works perfectly 7) Low volume printing - don't need heavy duty cycle but don't want toner to "go off" if unused for months at at time 8) Don't need a scanner function etc 9) A4 Only. Any suggestions? I've no brand loyalty. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK In a world without walls - who needs windows? -- anon -- 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 Forest Solar
Hi Lisi I keep bending the ear of the recycling people in Southampton about exactly the same type of problem. Will present your comment when they have a citizen science training day. Waiting to hear when this will be. John Eayrs On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:38:17 + Lisi wrote: > On Friday 13 November 2015 10:20:07 Gordon Scott wrote: > > > I looked into the German waste system > > > > Like battery recycling bins everywhere... Years and years ago... > > Sigh. > > I have an electric kettle to get rid of. My days of being able to > repair such things are over, and as it stands it is a fire hazard. > So, I have an electric kettle to get rid of. > > The "correct" way for me to do so is to drive 5 or 6 miles, sit in a > queue with the engine running, or repeatedly restart the engine, dump > the kettle, drive home again. (To go to my "local" tip it is 11 or > 12 miles, but the next door authority tip is a mere 5 or 6 miles > away, with a permanent queue.) > > I do have three mercury based light bulbs I could get rid of at the > same time. And some batteries, but I could get rid of those only > three miles away at a place I go to sometimes anyway. > > Ecofriendly, crackers, or what??? > > Lisi > -- 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] Visit to Community owned Solar Farm in Lymington
Hi, I'm biased as I invested in the West Solar Solar Co-operative, but it's a good place to visit and they are good people to talk to. > If anybody is interested, I will be taking a group around the farm on > Saturday 17th at 10.30 a.m. and it looks as if there will be plenty of > spare places. > > I am also trying to organise a lift share although it is cunningly > organised for those keen to take a train and cycle (15 mins from station). > > The west Solent Solar Coop are also working away to get another farm at > Netley Marsh completed before the end of subsidies so if anybody wants > to join the coop, please contact me for details. > > Roger -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Linux users hate mixed case names, yet Linux supports it. Windows users love mixed case names, but Windows doesn't support it. -- Andrew Tridgell -- 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] Advice on specs for a PC suitable for digital negative processing.
Hi The bottleneck to speed of image processing is not the cpu or the harddisk it is ram. A less expensive CPU and as much ram as you can have enables better processing. SDD's are fine for faster loading of programing but are not as fast as a ramdisk. Novatech do: http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intelsocket2011-3/x99chipsetatx/ga-x99-sli.html www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr4memory/ddr4pc4-170002133mhz/cmk16gx4m2a2133c13.html http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/processors/intelcorei72011/bx80648i75820k.html John Eayrs On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:03:36 +0100 Clive Woodfine wrote: > Having just read the similar thread about Gaming Machines can anyone > recommend a machine suitable for photography? > > At present I use Darktable to get the most out of RAW files and I > would like to use Digikam for general organising. I find my present > machine is too slow if I have a lot of images to work on. It is > several years old. > > It has to be Linux friendly of course. Up to about a £1000 limit. > -- 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] Advice on specs for a gaming machine
Hi For super fast gaming consider upping the ram to 32 GB or 64GB. You can cut down on the SDD. The trick is to setup a ramdisk of 20GB or 40GB. Install and play the program into the ram disk. Save a copy of the installed program on the Hard Disk. When you want to play copy from the Hard disk to the ram disk. I have several different Windows VMs which I use in a ram disk. They are extremly fast. You can do this with linux VMs as well. I believe ram disks are faster than SSD and you dont have to worry about trimming and cell burn out. The copy from the hard disk is a minor inconvenience but worth it for the speed. Also very good for security. Don't care if the program or drive gets trashed. I have another copy on the hard disk. John Eayrs On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:56:29 +0100 Roger Munford wrote: > My son has listed his dream machine for 1080p gaming, (maybe 1440p) > in particular The Witcher 3, FFXIV, GTA V, WoW and Dishonored 2 on > its release. > > I have no need of a machine costing more than £200 and am in no > position to evaluate his choices. My eyes moisten at the thought of a > Raspberry Pi 2. I was wondering if anybody with experience in these > matters could advise. I just have a feeling that this is overkill. > > Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54690k> > Processor > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54690k>Zalman > CNPS10X Performa CPU Cooler > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/zalman-cpu-cooler-cnps10xperforma> > Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz97pd3> > G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f312800cl10d16gbxl> > Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct240m500ssd1> > > Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001> > Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/zotac-video-card-zt9050110p> > Thermaltake Versa H23 ATX Mid Tower Case > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/thermaltake-case-ca1b100m1wn01> > EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power > Supply > <https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-120g10650xr> > > > Thanks very much > > Roger -- 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] Erratum already. :-( Portsmouth Linux User Group August meeting
Hi Lisi Have been compressing video data to the new h265 format. 1028 width video at 1hr 30 minutes will compress to 300 MB. Have been using ffmeg. The compression is better than h264. Have tested out my bash scripts for a variety of different video formats to h265 conversion. This may be of interest to a few people. Talk to be no more than about 30 minutes. John Eayrs On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 23:34:45 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > The next Portsmouth LUG meeting will be at the Broadoaks Sports and > Social Club on Saturday 15th August from 13:00 to 18:00. > > Full venue details here: > http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html > > I apologise for again being late with this. I was hoping to have > news of a speaker - even negative news! Four speakers have said that > they will speak at some time, and I had hoped that one of them might > be able to manage this month. I am still hoping, but I must get > something out to you all, or you will think that I have indeed fled > the country. > > Do come. If you haven't been before, we are a friendly bunch and > would love to see you. All are welcome. > > It is a bring-a-box meeting, so bring a 'box', bring a notebook, > bring anything that might run Linux, or just bring yourself and enjoy > socialising/learning/teaching or simply chilling out! > > As someone said at the other month, Bring a Box meetings are > interesting even without a speaker. It just gives us longer to solve > each others' problems, wonder at each others' gadgets, tell each > other about the marvels of Linux - or the iniquities of > you-know-who ;-) - and in my case have time to give the chap to whom > I promised it an explanation of the Debian packaging system. (If he > himself is there.) Any other requests for help, or specific offers? > > I again have a problem to bring, which I will elaborate in a separate > email. Anyone else with problems? If it might help if someone else > brought some equipment (as in my case), or might need special > expertise, please mention it in advance. And if you can help, then > please come to the meeting to do so! > > Remember, last month's speaker was very last minute and was a real > treat. It could happen again. Don't risk missing anything! > > Hope to see you there, > Lisi > -- 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] Debian 8 on Viglen MPC
Hi, I don't know if anyone still has a Viglen MPC still running and on Debian but I've got a problem with mine. I upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie) and now it won't boot on the new kernel 3.16, but it will boot on the older Debian 7 kernel - though it won't start X on that version. As far as I can tell the new kernel boots up and starts to load devices but isn't able to find the root drive, so gives up and dumps to you into a Busybox terminal session. Short of reinstalling Debian 7 any ideas? -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- 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] Portsmouth LUG BaB meeting on Saturday 16th May 13:00 to 18:00
Hi Lisi I look forward to being at the meeting. Note Truecrypt has a fault in it which can be easily solved. The location of the Disk FAT is known. The values for the Disk FAT are known and so it is possible to use known text to work on decrypting the truecrypt container. This is NSA stuff. John Eayrs On Mon, 4 May 2015 21:41:36 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > The next Portsmouth LUG meeting will be at the Broadoaks Sports and > Social Club on Saturday 16th May from 13:00 to 18:00. > > Full venue details here: > http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html > > Do come. If you haven't been before, we are a friendly bunch and > would love to see you. All are welcome. > > It is a bring-a-box meeting, so bring a 'box', bring a notebook, > bring anything that might run Linux, or just bring yourself and enjoy > socialising/learning/teaching or simply chilling out! > > Gareth Owen will talk to us about Cryptography and Linux. Gareth > teaches and undertakes research into Cryptography and Digital > Forensics at the University of Portsmouth. There is an abstract of > his talk below. Note that he says to bring a box if you can with > your favourite flavour of Linux because there'll be an opportunity to > have a go. Some of you will remember his gripping talk about the > dark web. He is a speaker who is well worth hearing. > > To suit Gareth, the talk will begin earlier than usual at 14:00, so > most of our Linuxy activities will have to be after the talk. I have > promised to try and help someone understand the Debian apt system and > its repositories. Any other requests for help, or specific offers? > > I shall try to be there at about 12:15. > > See you there, > Lisi > > Abstract of Gareth's talk > This talk is divided into two parts. In the first part we'll talk > about how modern ciphers work and how we use them to create something > that's secure. In the second part of the talk we'll discuss how to do > cryptography on Linux from encrypting your hard disk to sending an > encrypted e-mail. There are lots of ways to do this and I'll aim to > cover the key points so that you can choose the best approach that > suits you - if you can, bring your laptop with your favourite flavour > of Linux because there'll be a opportunity to have a go. > > I'm also happy to do a general cryptography Q&A at the end of the > talk and answer anything that I have expertise in - so please bring > any questions. Perhaps you're wondering whether Truecrypt is still > secure despite their vanishing act or how the Police tackle encrypted > data? > -- 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] Alternatives to TrueCrypt?
Hi Truecrypt will not protect from NSA because certain parts of the disk encryption will always be known. Ie some disk fat and partition information. Overwriting the disk FAT and partition area with another encryption algorithm should protect from this problem. other than this problem there was as far as I understood nothing else that needed to be done to improve Truecrypt for linux. John Eayrs On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:02:21 + Neil Stone wrote: > On 03/14/15 11:56, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > > Just wondered what software folks are using to encrypt USB HDDs? > > > > I used TrueCrypt pretty successfully but it's now unmaintained: > > http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ > > > > I tried out eCryptfs sometime back but found it a bit of a hassle as > > it meant I had to mount things twice (the USB HDD and the encrypted > > partition). > > > > What alternatives are out there which are secure, maintained and > > somewhat hassle-free when it comes to removable storage? > > > > Bonus points for GUI-based and able to be used easily with Debian > > stable. > > > > Thanks! > > > gpg? > -- 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] FTTC presentation
> > Am I right in thinking the VDSL presentation has a VDSL decoder and you > > get a BT phone jack and an RJ-45 lead which you need to plug into a > > router? > > > > If that is the case my Netgrar ADSL2+ router already comes with a WAN > > socket and I should be okay, but I'm just checking. > > Hi Adam > > In the FTTC install I have had for work, BT install a small router like > box (VDSL decoder) which your VDSL connects to via the wan socket. I was > also offered the Technicolour router but having had technicolour in the > past threw it in the bin. I fitted Draktek 2850's, not cheap though. I suspected as much... Thanks for the confirmation. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I guess that, if you're in Microsoft's shoes, it makes sense. If you can't write software or protocols that can stably walk and chew gum, program in a limit that prevents the user from telling it to do so. -- Jonathan Patschke, on limitations in Active Directory -- 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] FTTC presentation
Hi, I'm considering upgrading my ADSL2+ service to Fibre/VDSL (which in my case is still copper into the house). In theory my current Co-operative broadband would jump from around 11 Mbit to about 38 Mbit. The Co-operative want to provide me with a Technicolor TG582n "router" for free, but it's still £6 P&P. As far as I can tell it's a cheap and not very popular ADSL2+ router so on paper servers no useful purpose as a VDSL router. I've also found some references online which suggest that it's actually a modified router which has one of it's LAN ports converted into a WAN port. I can't get out them sending me the router, but I just want to confirm what do BT OpenReach actually install in your house if you have "fibre"? Am I right in thinking the VDSL presentation has a VDSL decoder and you get a BT phone jack and an RJ-45 lead which you need to plug into a router? If that is the case my Netgrar ADSL2+ router already comes with a WAN socket and I should be okay, but I'm just checking. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Linux? Il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher. -- anon -- 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] ERRATUM :-( Portsmouth LUG BaB meeting this Saturday, 15th November, from 13:00 to 18:00
Hi Lisi I left my red diary at the meeting. Did you pick it up by any chance. John Eayrs On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:27:34 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Our next bring a box meeting will be the coming Saturday, 15TH > NOVEMBER, from 13:00 - 18:00, in the Broadoaks Social Club. > http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.html > > There is plenty of room and some power points, which can be extended > by the extension leads some of us sometimes remember to bring. > (Hint, hint!) Switches would also be useful. There is Wi-Fi, but it > is, shall we say, problematic (and slow). There is also ethernet, > but again not very fast (2 Meg) and the room has, if they have not > been pinched, homeplugs. > > We have a speaker. Dr Gareth Owen, Senior Lecturer at the University > of Portsmouth will speak on: > Tor, the darknet, online anonymity and privacy. > > Dr. Owen is the course leader for the Forensic Computing degrees and > a cyber security researcher with specific interests in reverse > engineering and memory forensics. There is a talk synopsis here: > http://bsideslondon2014.sched.org/event/b36b081f3fbf462fe45ecb6b45bd4e83#.VFepDH62F5x > > Tea, coffee and a full bar are available. Food on a Saturday is > sparse unless preordered. (Scratchings, crisps etc.) > > The club has requested that in future we should sign in. I shall > therefore have a book or pad on the table at the back of the room. > Please do not forget to sign in on your way in. > > For newcomers: > There is plenty of parking just opposite the club, and Hilsea railway > station is immediately adjacent. If coming by car, please note that > Norway Road is at a higher level than Airport Sevice Road, and flies > over it. > > The door to the club will probably be locked. If so, you will need > to ring the buzzer and ask for the Linux meeting. Go up the stairs > and through the bar to the door at the back left corner of the bar. > > I shall aim to be there not later than 12:30. If I am the only one > left at any time after 5:00, I shall go. So if you want to arrive > ultra late, make sure that you let me know! > > The gold moneybox will as usual be at the back of the room. > **Voluntary** contributions welcome. Recommended amount: £3:00: > which, being interpreted, means in the range £0.00 to £. > We do have sundry expenses from time to time, which this fund > covers. We shall also in future be having to pay a small charge for > the room, which has hitherto been free. > > Lisi > -- 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] Portsmouth LUG BaB meeting this Saturday, 15th November, from 13:00 to 18:00
Hi Lisi What time is the talk? Question? I need WINE on a Tor network boot disk. How would I go about doing this? My program runs on WINE so a boot iso with Security on it would be a useful setup should I want to check my credit card or bank statement in an internet Cafe. John Eayrs On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:16:48 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Our next bring a box meeting will be the coming Saturday, June 21st, > from 13:00 - 18:00, in the Broadoaks Social Club. > http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.html > > There is plenty of room and some power points, which can be extended > by the extension leads some of us sometimes remember to bring. > (Hint, hint!) Switches would also be useful. There is Wi-Fi, but it > is, shall we say, problematic (and slow). There is also ethernet, > but again not very fast (2 Meg) and the room has, if they have not > been pinched, homeplugs. > > We have a speaker. Dr Gareth Owen, Senior Lecturer at the University > of Portsmouth will speak on: > Tor, the darknet, online anonymity and privacy. > > Dr. Owen is the course leader for the Forensic Computing degrees and > a cyber security researcher with specific interests in reverse > engineering and memory forensics. There is a talk synopsis here: > http://bsideslondon2014.sched.org/event/b36b081f3fbf462fe45ecb6b45bd4e83#.VFepDH62F5x > > Tea, coffee and a full bar are available. Food on a Saturday is > sparse unless preordered. (Scratchings, crisps etc.) > > The club has requested that in future we should sign in. I shall > therefore have a book or pad on the table at the back of the room. > Please do not forget to sign in on your way in. > > For newcomers: > There is plenty of parking just opposite the club, and Hilsea railway > station is immediately adjacent. If coming by car, please note that > Norway Road is at a higher level than Airport Sevice Road, and flies > over it. > > The door to the club will probably be locked. If so, you will need > to ring the buzzer and ask for the Linux meeting. Go up the stairs > and through the bar to the door at the back left corner of the bar. > > I shall aim to be there not later than 12:30. If I am the only one > left at any time after 5:00, I shall go. So if you want to arrive > ultra late, make sure that you let me know! > > The gold moneybox will as usual be at the back of the room. > **Voluntary** contributions welcome. Recommended amount: £3:00: > which, being interpreted, means in the range £0.00 to £. > We do have sundry expenses from time to time, which this fund > covers. We shall also in future be having to pay a small charge for > the room, which has hitherto been free. > > Lisi > -- 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] Government open standards - the curious case of Microsoft and the minister
Hi All I have just been sent the reference to a very interesting Computer Weekly Article. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240234078/Government-open-standards-the-curious-case-of-Microsoft-and-the-minister?asrc=EM_ERU_36107763&utm_medium=EM&utm_source=ERU&utm_campaign=20141106_ERU%20Transmission%20for%2011/06/2014%20(UserUniverse:%201160283)_myka-repo...@techtarget.com&src=5322046 It is titled "Government open standards - the curious case of Microsoft and the minister". It makes interesting reading. Hope you like it. John Eayrs -- 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] Hampshire Digest, Vol 97, Issue 2
What about a network tuner? its compatible with anything. http://www.silicondust.com/ or http://www.kaiserbaas.com/ On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:00 PM, wrote: > Send Hampshire mailing list submissions to > hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > hampshire-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > hampshire-ow...@mailman.lug.org.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Hampshire digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Freeview DVB Tuners (Leo) >2. Re: Freeview DVB Tuners (Tim Brocklehurst) >3. Re: Freeview DVB Tuners (Keith Edmunds) >4. Re: Freeview DVB Tuners (Steve Miller) >5. Re: Freeview DVB Tuners (Leo) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:23:24 + > From: Leo > To: Hampshire LUG > Subject: [Hampshire] Freeview DVB Tuners > Message-ID: <5456bcec.7050...@fractal.me.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Can anyone recommend an HD Freeview TV card that works with Linux. > Preferably with dual tuners. > > Regards, > Leo > > > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:56:45 + > From: Tim Brocklehurst > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Freeview DVB Tuners > Message-ID: <3708832.b7JgEQT0BE@lifebook> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Only standard def, but I've used an Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T in the > past with good results. > > Hope this helps, > > Tim B. > > On Sunday 02 November 2014 23:23:24 Leo wrote: > > Can anyone recommend an HD Freeview TV card that works with Linux. > > Preferably with dual tuners. > > > > Regards, > > Leo > > -- > Hampshire Linux User Group Chairman > > > > -- > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:13:06 + > From: Keith Edmunds > To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Freeview DVB Tuners > Message-ID: <20141103001306.14a7d...@ws.the.cage> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:23:24 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said: > > > Can anyone recommend an HD Freeview TV card that works with Linux. > > I use a PCTV nanoStick T2 290e (http://stevekerrison.com/290e/). It's USB > rather than "a card", but it receives HD Freeview nicely. > > > Preferably with dual tuners. > > The above is a single tuner; however, unless you're doing something > unusual, you're unlikely to need a dual tuner. In the UK, all the HD > channels are on the same mux, so only one tuner is needed. I'm using the > above under MythTV, and can record up to three programs simultaneously on > the one tuner (it's only limited to three because that's how I set it up: > in theory, it could record more). > -- > Linux for Web Devlopers - 15 Mistakes to Avoid: http://goo.gl/2SKjYL > > "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone > who will never be able to repay you." > > > > -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:38:27 + > From: Steve Miller > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Freeview DVB Tuners > Message-ID: <5456ce83@seawasp.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Original Message > > On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:23:24 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said: > > > >> Can anyone recommend an HD Freeview TV card that works with Linux. > > I use a PCTV nanoStick T2 290e (http://stevekerrison.com/290e/). It's > USB > > rather than "a card", but it receives HD Freeview nicely. > > > >> Preferably with dual tuners. > > The above is a single tuner; however, unless you're doing something > > unusual, you're unlikely to need a dual tuner. In the UK, all the HD > > channels are on the same mux, so only one tuner is needed. I'm using the > > above under MythTV, and can record up to three programs simultaneously on > > the one tuner (it's only limited to three because that's how I set it up: > > in theory, it could record more). > I use a TBS620 dual-tuner DVB-T/DVB-T2 PCIe card which does both > standard and HD. Unfortunately the drivers are not included in the > main Linux kernel. TBS do release updates to their drivers twice a year > or so but sometimes there is a little messing around needed to get them > to compile with very recent kernels. > > > In the UK, all the HD channels are on the same mux, so only one tuner is > needed. > > This is not the case any more. Hannington has two HD MUXes running right > now. > > Steve > > > > > > -- > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:29:24 + > From: Leo > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Freeview DVB
Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG B-a-B meeting the coming Saturday, October 18th, from 13:00 - 18:00
On Thursday 16 Oct 2014 21:28:19 Clive Woodfine wrote: > Adam Trickett, who spoke at our first non-pub meeting, will be talking on > Perl and/or digital photography. (Two separate presentations. Adam saids > that he will bring both.) Those of you who heard him will remember what a > very good speaker Adam is. It should be a treat. > > I should like to come if Adam will give his talk on digital photography. > How will you decide which which talk he will give? I have not been to a > Portsmouth Lug as it is quite a long drive for me If there is time and interest I'll do both. I don't mind! I've given both talks before and they aren't too long. > Regards, > > Clive Woodfine > > On 13 October 2014 22:35, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Our next meeting will be the coming Saturday, October 18th, from 13:00 - > > 18:00, in the Broadoaks Social Club. > > http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.html > > > > Adam Trickett, who spoke at our first non-pub meeting, will be talking on > > Perl > > and/or digital photography. (Two separate presentations. Adam saids that > > he > > will bring both.) Those of you who heard him will remember what a very > > good > > speaker Adam is. It should be a treat. > > > > It would be great to see a crowd of you, and even better if some of you > > could > > bring open source problems, ideally accompanied by the boxes on which they > > are running. Or bring a box and show us some new Open Source marvel or > > curiosity! It is, after all, a bring-a-box meeting. ;-) > > > > There is plenty of room and some power points, which can be extended by > > the > > extension leads some of us sometimes remember to bring. (Hint, hint!) > > Switches would also be useful. There is Wi-Fi, but it is, shall we say, > > problematic (and slow). There is also ethernet, but again not very fast > > (2 > > Meg) and the room has, if they have not been pinched, homeplugs. > > > > Tea, coffee and a full bar are available, but please note that alcohol can > > only be consumed by club members. Temporary membership is available for > > £1, > > but, for this, you must be signed in by a member. Emma, Dave and I are > > members. Food on a Saturday is sparse. (Scratchings, crisps etc.) > > > > For newcomers: > > There is plenty of parking just opposite the club, and Hilsea railway > > station is immediately adjacent. > > > > The door to the club will probably be locked. If so, you will need to > > ring the buzzer and ask for the Linux meeting. Go up the stairs and > > through the bar to the door at the back left corner of the bar. > > > > I usually aim to be there not later than 12:30, but may be held up this > > month. > > I may also have to leave earlier than I usually do. > > > > The gold moneybox will as usual be at the back of the room. > > **Voluntary** contributions welcome. Recommended amount: £3:00: > > which, being interpreted, means in the range £0.00 to £. > > We do have sundry expenses from time to time, which this fund covers. > > > > Lisi > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -- Robert Frost -- 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] HP Z400 to good home
Hi This machine would be useful to SoMakeIt. John Eayrs On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:44:27 +0100 David Milward wrote: > Hi All > > Thanks to a clear out at work I have ended up with a HP Z400, however > none of my family are interested in it so before I put it on the bay. > Would anyone be interested in it? The rough specs are below > > CPU: Intel Xeon W5320 (Dual Core, Socket 1366, 2.4Ghz) > RAM: 4gb (Not sure about other specifics, believe it to be DDR3) > Motherboard: Intel X58 > HDD: 250gb Seagate 7200.12 > PSU: 80+ Bronze > OS: Fresh Install of Ubuntu with XFCE (Only disk I had) > > If anyone is interested let me know. > > Kind Regards, > David > > -- 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] Arch vs Debian
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2014 10:24:59 Leo wrote: > I use Arch on my laptop and it takes some maintenance when I upgrade > (e.g. merging configs, fixing package clashes), and I was wondering how > it compared to Debian Unstable? Has anyone used both; does Debian > Unstable require more/less/similar amount of maintenance to Arch? I can't comment on Arch, but plenty of people have used Debian testing or Debian unstable (Sid) as their desktop system for many years. Testing is slightly more stable, I've used it for years, BUT doesn't get security updates as quickly as unstable or stable. Unstable does break more often that testing but that isn't as often as you'd think. Plenty of people find it's fine for a desktop. Both are probably best managed by running aptitude updates daily, and safe- upgades fairly regularly (e.g. weekly) but you need to watch what is being upgraded as sometime bits of it stops working. On the Wheezy cycle I lost X for a week, but that was all. On the current Jessie cycle nothings broken at all yet. I probably won't run unstable or testing on a server. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein -- 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] free linux course
Hi Just received this and thought others may be interested. http://www.zdnet.com/linux-foundations-free-online-intro-to-linux-class-opens-its-doors-732217/ John Eayrs -- 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] Mediatomb & Pure radios
Hi, I've got a Pure Siesta and a Pure One. Both are DAB/FM radios that also play media streams from a UPnP server. Initially both would play OGG media on my server that was converted on the fly to MP2 format. I recently rebooted the server and now the Siesta still plays the media but the One refuses. Both players can find the media server, both can navigate the media server and select a song, but the One now will only play media that is already in MP3 format (very little is). Neither player has had a firmware upgrade and the only thing I did to the server was to reboot it to apply kernel changes. Any ideas or suggestions. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK A feature is a bug with seniority. -- anon -- 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] Weird DNS issues
Hi, A few weeks ago when there was the big DNS issue I started to have problems accessing certain sites, twitter being one of them. After a few days I assumed it would get better but even now I'm getting odd results from any computer on my home network using my local DNS. Some sites work fine but some such as twitter, or Map My Ride are unusable. I've flushed all the caches in the browser and even tried different DNS servers - bypassing my own, and even restarted my ADSL connection but I can't see what the problem is. All the sites I try come up okay for the base page but struggle when it comes to the sub components, such as images, javascript and CSS which is often on a fancy CDN server at couldfront etc. It's like there are some duff DNS entries cached somewhere, but I don't know where they would be to purge them. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I've found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent. -- Paul Graham, "Great Hackers" 2004 -- 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] Xrandr and switched off monitors
Hi, I currently run my desktop system with two monitors, the original Iiyama on DVI-D and a cheap Hanns-G on the HDMI. The Iiyama is the primary and the one I use all the time, the Hanns-G is only required some of the time. As far as I can tell X and xrandr is able to detect both devices when they are plugged in but can't actually tell me when they are switched on or off. So if I only have one monitor powered on (even at the mains) xrandr reports both present and hence X and KDE think that there are two monitors in situ. I can write a small script to manually change from a 1 to 2 monitor set-up, which isn't a problem, I just wondered if anyone knows how to detect if there is a monitor plugged in but switched off? Debian testing Nvidia graphics and driver -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- 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] [Wanted] BeagleBone Black (Rev.C)
Hi I am report issued on the latest Beaglebone Black in April. There is a new version coming out in June. This may be why there is a shortfall. John Eayrs On Thu, 22 May 2014 12:22:12 +0100 Chris Smith wrote: > On 22/05/2014 12:08, Bob Dunlop wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 22 at 10:36, Chris Smith wrote: > >> I'm trying to get hold of a BeagleBone Black (Rev.C), but it's > >> proving to be quite difficult. Does anyone here happen to have > >> one that they no longer need/want and would be willing to part > >> with? > > > > Hmm all the suppliers I know are out of stock, including the > > hobbyist ones who often have one or two. RS say September, Farnell > > "short lead time", Mouser 52 weeks and claim to have 3000 on order. > > Wonder what's really happening ? Up rev ? > > Apparently they're having trouble ramping up production to meet demand > following the initial batch of the latest revision. > > > Does it have to be a BeagleBone specifically. There are lots of > > other similar size/price ARM devel boards. > > For this application, yes it has to be the BeagleBone Black. Ideally > Rev.C, but Rev.B would also work for me. > > > You might try Reading Hackspace. They have at least one BBB that > > members can experiment with (I don't know which rev), and are often > > open to bribery :) > > I'll keep that in mind. :) > > Regards, > Chris -- 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] Spam from me.
Clive, > What should I do? By the way my PC has been in Suspend mode for some time. > I plan to change my gmail password first off. Gmail password has probably been guessed and that is the most likely source. Check your account thoroughly to make sure non of the phone numbers or security questions for it have been changed. You may want to contact Google/Gmail security team - though I don't know how much response you'll get from them - it's probably quite common and real problem for them. Happened to my father twice with Hotmail and some someone I know with BT/Yahoo. It seems to be alarmingly common. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK To send one out of office message may be considered unfortunate, but to send two looks like cluelessness. -- Simon Cozens -- 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] Windigo Hijacks 25, 000 Servers to Spew Out Spam, Malware
Hi All I have just picked up information about a linux server hijack. See following link http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/malware/321725-windigo-hijacks-25-000-servers-to-spew-out-spam-malware John Eayrs -- 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] FTGH: Sun Fire v20z 1U server (x86_64)
Hi Some details on a server I'm giving away. Subsequent to the mail below to the Surrey LUG I checked the machine and see it has a pair of Opteron CPUs, 4GiB RAM and a single 36GiB disk. Cheers, MJ - Forwarded message from Michael-John Turner - From: Michael-John Turner To: sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Surrey] FTGH: Sun Fire v20z 1U server (x86_64) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:01:32 + Reply-To: General Linux/Unix community List Hi all, I have a Sun Fire v20z that's sitting here gathing dust and I'm offering it free to a good home. I'm not sure of the exact specs but it's in working order and has CPUs, disks, RAM, etc. For more info on the v20z, see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19121-01/sf.v20z/ Note: it's an x86_64 system, not SPARC. Available for collection in the Guildford (GU2) area, quite close to Surrey University. Otherwise if you're within a 15-20 mins drive from there I can probably drop it off. Cheers, MJ - End forwarded message - -- Michael-John Turner * m...@mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/ -- 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] NASs
I abandoned NAS a long time ago as cost in-efficient.
The way I go now is to use a SATA drive caddy - cost £12 to £20 and use
Samba.
Hard disk size. Your choice.
the following will detect and mount the drive caddy disk.
#!/bin/bash
ls /dev/sd?
for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan
do
echo "- - -" >> $i
done
/sbin/sfdisk -s
ls /dev/sd?
The first line of output is what is already mounted
The second line will give you what is mounted plus the new hard disk
The following will unmount the disk when changing it.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# != 1 ]; then
echo "Synopsis: stopsata.sh "
exit 1
fi
export DRIVE=$1
for i in $(mount | grep ${DRIVE} | awk '{print $1}'); do
echo Unmounting $i
umount $i
done
echo Powering down ${DRIVE}
echo 1 >> /sys/block/${DRIVE}/device/delete
echo You may now safely disconnect the drive
example: sudo ./stopsata.sh sdc
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:33:31 +
DAWE C wrote:
> I would like a NAS at home, on which I can store lots of files and
> have them accessible from both Limux and Widnows. (I am trying to
> avoid the mistake I made w few years ago, when I got a network disc
> which needed a driver to access, so was only available from certain
> versions of Widnows!).
>
> Any recommendations from people?
>
> Chris
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Re: [Hampshire] audio CDs - KDE
On Friday 13 Dec 2013 12:27:29 Peter Alefounder wrote: > I discovered that audio CDs were not recognised under Debian 7.1 KDE. A > web search gave me the impression that Gnome might handle things better, > and indeed, it does: I find that Sound Juicer, for example, works properly > under Gnome. However, it would certainly be more convenient to have it, or > some other CD player, working under KDE. Any ideas on how to achieve this? Always used KDE on Debian and never had a problem with audio CDs. What do you have installed? I find that Amarok is a very good media player and there is always Clementine if you want the simpler version. To rip an audio CD I personally use ripperX but K3B is pretty good at ripping too, both use cdparanoia to do the actual work. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I guess that, if you're in Microsoft's shoes, it makes sense. If you can't write software or protocols that can stably walk and chew gum, program in a limit that prevents the user from telling it to do so. -- Jonathan Patschke, on limitations in Active Directory -- 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] SSH backdoor
Hi all Have discovered this on the web. Linux backdoor squirts code into SSH to keep its badness buried http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/15/stealthy_linux_backdoor/ John Eayrs -- 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] samsung laptop bug
Hi Picked this up on the net. "Samsung Sweden to Linux User: “UEFI BIOS Bug Not Our Problem”" http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2013/10/29/samsung-sweden-to-linux- user-uefi-bios-bug-not-our-problem/ It appears that samsung laptops have a problem when you need to re-install your operating system which can leave you with a useless laptop. See above website for details. John Eayrs -- 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] Add another hard drive to the same mount point?
Hi Why not use externally mounted drives in a drive caddy. This is easy with sata drives. It also helps the environment by being only powered up when you need it. There are bash scripts which enable the drive to be picked up when connected and bash scripts to turn the drive off when not needed. My method of use is to power up the external drive. Copy the data to a ram drive. Switch of the exteranal drive and examine the data at my leisure. Similarly when downloading several big iso files. I download the data to a ram drive. I switch on the external drive and then transfer the data to the exteran drive. This also enables me to use a lower wattage power supply. John Eayrs On Tuesday 23 July 2013 20:47:31 Robin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a home server, running Ubuntu, which has a large hard drive on > which I store photos, videos, music etc, which is mounted at /files. > Unfortunately I'm running out of space on that drive, and am just about to > purchase an extra drive. My question is: > > Is there a way to 'combine' these drives in some way so that they both > appear under the mount point /files, and where the data is actually stored > is transparent? > > Obviously I could put all of my photos and music on the old drive, and all > of my videos on the new drive, and mount them separately - but from > previous experience I've found that gets very difficult very quickly, as > drives fill up and you end up with categories split between drives. > > Does anyone have any ideas for how to go about this? Ideally I'd like > whatever method it is to not require completely wiping my current drive - > it would be possible (if I can find a friend with an empty 2Tb external > hard drive that I can borrow), but it'd be a bit of a pain. > > Cheers, > > Robin -- 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] Hants LUG membership
I have reluctantly decided to cease memebrship of HantsLUG. It is unlikely I will be able to visit any meeting in the future and I don't contribute much to the mailing list either these days. I have enjoyed being a member and would like to say a big thank you for all the help I have had from too many people to be able to list over the years. I shall of course continue to be a user of Debian until such time as I disappear into a personal /dev/nul. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Advice please: disk bottle neck
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:33:25PM +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote: >Thanks for the warning: what are the symptoms of failure do you know? Unfortunately SSDs typically suffer catastrophic failure, unlike traditional spinning disks which hint at impending failure through ever increasing SMART error counts, etc. And yes, I've been the victim of a failed OCZ SDD. -mj -- Michael-John Turner m...@mjturner.net <> http://mjturner.net/ -- 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 Tue, 14 May 2013 15:29:40 +0100 john lewis wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 14:39:57 +0100 > Alan Pope wrote: > > > According to this the libc6 2.17-2 has built so you should be good > > to install acrobat as you wanted. > > > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6 > > > > 2.17-2: amd64 armel armhf i386 mips powerpc s390 s390x > > 2.17-1: sparc > > Thanks Alan, it doesn't look as though acroread is available in > multimedia-debian yet as doing an update followed by upgrade got me > > Setting up acroread-data (9.5.5-dmo1) ... > Setting up acroread-dictionary-en (9.5.5-dmo1) ... > Setting up acroread-l10n-en (9.5.5-dmo1) ... > > but trying to install acroread got > > No candidate version found for acroread I should in theory be able to install acroread from deb-multimedia as it is shown in: > non-free > Unstable (Sid) > Arch i386: I ran this line: dpkg --add-architecture i386 and checked with dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 but still get the same error: No candidate version found for acroread However if I run aptitude install acroread:i386 it is now downloading along with a whole slew of i386 libs but it still won't install > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread: > acroread depends on libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1; however: > Package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 is not installed. > Package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 which provides libgl1 is not installed. > acroread depends on libglu1-mesa | libglu1; however: > Package libglu1-mesa:i386 is not installed. > Package libglu1-mesa:i386 which provides libglu1 is not installed. > > dpkg: error processing acroread (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of > acroread-debian-files: acroread-debian-files depends on acroread (>= > 9.5.5~); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. > > dpkg: error processing acroread-debian-files (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > acroread > acroread-debian-files > > Current status: 1 broken [+1]. so it looks like I still need to wait for some mis-matches to be sorted out. one step forward, one step back seems to be the name of the game at the moment1 -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Tue, 14 May 2013 14:39:57 +0100 Alan Pope wrote: > According to this the libc6 2.17-2 has built so you should be good to > install acrobat as you wanted. > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6 > > 2.17-2: amd64 armel armhf i386 mips powerpc s390 s390x > 2.17-1: sparc Thanks Alan, it doesn't look as though acroread is available in multimedia-debian yet as doing an update followed by upgrade got me Setting up acroread-data (9.5.5-dmo1) ... Setting up acroread-dictionary-en (9.5.5-dmo1) ... Setting up acroread-l10n-en (9.5.5-dmo1) ... but trying to install acroread got No candidate version found for acroread I could try again with the version from Adobe but then it wouldn't get debian upgrades. May be acroread will be available in the morning! I am trying to read that big Baptisms file on the Mac but it is a bit of a nightmare as as soon as I touch the mouse the page skips up or down of couple of times. It makes you realise how good Linux is when you have to use something else for a while -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Tue, 14 May 2013 08:35:13 +0100 john lewis wrote: > I downloaded Foxit but when I try to run it (by clicking on the > Gnome menu item) nothing seems to happen apart from "Starting > Foxitreader" appearing. > > Will have to find out what the prog is actually called and try running > from the command line to see what errors show up - but breakfast > first! OK! running FoxitReader from the command line gives yet more lib errors > ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/local/lib/libtrash.so' from LD_PRELOAD > cannot be preloaded: ignored. FoxitReader: error while loading shared > libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory I give up, I can use acroread on the mac-mini so I'll rearrange my desk so both monitors are alongside each other. Most of the pdf files are 'protected' so that copying and pasting aren't allowed anyway so I don't lose anything by viewing them on another computer. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Tue, 14 May 2013 00:51:09 +0100 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > If the pdf is large, you can always cut it up into more than one file. > Is it text searchable, or is it scanned pages? Mostly text searchable, although there are some that have been scanned. There have been no problems opening/reading them with acroread. qpdfview got shutdown by the kernel - > May 14 03:00:34 benden kernel: [2192228.644260] Out of memory: Kill > process 31591 (qpdfview) score 384 or sacrifice child > May 14 03:00:34 benden kernel: [2192228.644267] Killed process 31591 > (qpdfview) total-vm:1559352kB, anon-rss:986012kB, file-rss:6344kB I had noticed everything was really sluggish before I went to bed and notice qpdfview was missing form its workspace this morning. I downloaded Foxit but when I try to run it (by clicking on the Gnome menu item) nothing seems to happen apart from "Starting Foxitreader" appearing. Will have to find out what the prog is actually called and try running from the command line to see what errors show up - but breakfast first! -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 22:59:34 +0100 Tim wrote: > On 13/05/13 21:50, john lewis wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2013 17:04:28 +0100 > > "Peter B." wrote: > > > >> Do foxit pdf or nitro pdf do anything for Linux? Maybe try a > >> different company like that. > > it looks like both are windows only but thanks for the suggestion, I > > hadn't heard of either before. > > > There is a foxit linux version > > Go to the web site below > > http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ > > Under PDF Reader > > There is Foxit Reader and on the right click the down arrow to change > from Windows to desktop linux Thanks Tim, too late tonite to give it a try but will have a look tomorrow. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 22:30:46 +0100 john lewis wrote: > qpdfview is a new one to me, I guess because I haven't needed to look > for an alternative to acroread. I'll have a look > > Having installed it and open just three pdf files I don't think it > will be good enough for the size of files I have to access. It seems > to have given up on the Berkshire Baptisms file which runs to over > 47,000 pages qpdfview seems to have come to terms with the size of the Baptisms file and I've even found out how to open the navigation side bar that is essential for finding the different parishes. So far I have only opened files in three tabs but I normally have eight open at once and often more so it will be interesting to see how it works out in 'real life' use. Duh! switching between tabs is so slooow and the screen has now gone blank. It came back after several minutes but that will be a pain if it does it all the time I don't have much choice though so will have to persist ;-( -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:59:33 +0100 Philip Stubbs wrote: > Can I ask, how long since you last tried Evince? I only ask as I used > to feel the same but more recently, I can't complain how it renders > PDF. Maybe it has improved a lot recently and worth looking at again. I tried it today and it doesn't do tabs. > 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. qpdfview is a new one to me, I guess because I haven't needed to look for an alternative to acroread. I'll have a look Having installed it and open just three pdf files I don't think it will be good enough for the size of files I have to access. It seems to have given up on the Berkshire Baptisms file which runs to over 47,000 pages and even worse it has deleted acroread so I'm really stuffed. I had tried to install AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i386linux_enu.deb with dpkg -i but this had failed with dependency problems, Installing qpdfview resultes in > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > adobereader-enu:i386 : Depends: libgtk2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is > not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these > dependencies: > Remove the following packages: 1) adobereader-enu:i386 I allowed this thinking it was only going to remove the partially installed package I'd tried to install with dpkg but it seems to have done more than that. > Finally, could the windows version of acroread work in Wine? No idea, most things I have tried to run under wine haven't been supported but I haven't tried to use wine for several years at least so maybe it would work. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 17:39:17 +0100 (BST) "Vic" wrote: > I've just tried it with Okular doing the PDF work and Konqueror doing > the tabbed interface. Works beautifully... Don't both these need lots of KDE libs, I try to avoid mixing apps from Gnome & Kde based distros > > > The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application > > The fundamental problem is that acroread is a non-Free application. > That means you are beholden to what Adobe wants to give you. And they > don't want to give you what you want. There is a possible long term problem with the way Adobe is looking at providing software and it is possible acroread will vanish into the 'clouds. > Any particular reason you're averse to a Free solution? No providing there is one that will give me the functionality I need. I wouldn't ever need the spreadsheet from MS Office for example because libreoffice is quite good enough for my simple needs. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 17:04:28 +0100 "Peter B." wrote: > Do foxit pdf or nitro pdf do anything for Linux? Maybe try a > different company like that. it looks like both are windows only but thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of either before. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:14:11 +0100 Alan Pope wrote: > This doesn't look like a problem on your system, but the fact that on > sid the 64-bit build of libc6 is currently slightly ahead of the > 32-bit build. You can see this here:- > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6 > > 2.17-2: amd64 armhf powerpc s390 s390x > 2.17-1: armel i386 sparc > > Ok, so what this is telling me is that you have a 64-bit system which > has libc6:amd64 2.17-2 but you want to pull in the latest libc6:i386 > to satisfy the dependency for installing the other 32-bit packages > (such as libgtk2.0-0:i386) which you need for Acrobat. > > I see two "solutions" (well there are many solutions, but the two > most straightforward):- > > 1. Wait for whatever issue is holding up the 32-bit build of 2.17-2 > of libc6. > 2. Downgrade libc6:amd64 to 2.17-1 so you can then install libc6:i386 > thus:- > > apt-get install libc6:amd64=2.17-1 > > You can also just "simulate" this operation safely with:- > > apt-get install -s libc6:amd64=2.17-1 > > Chances are some other package or two may need to be downgraded also. > It's only a minor bump so theoretically it should be much to be > downgraded, and you can do them all in one go with:- > > apt-get install libc6:amd64=2.17-1 foo:amd64=1.2.3 bar:amd64=4.5.6 > > etc (replacing foo and bar with package names and 1.2.3 and 4.5.6 > with the version numbers apt asks for). Again, use -s to simulate to > see if it will come up with a sane solution. > > Once you've done that you'll have libc6:amd64 on 2.17-1 and can > happily install libc6:i386 version 2.17-1 too. > > Note: if you "apt-get upgrade" or "dist-upgrade" (or use equivalent > tools like aptitude or synaptic to effect the same thing) you will > end up upgrading libc6:amd64 to 2.17-2, or in fact it may just hold > that back because you also need libc6:i386 to be held back for the > acrobat dependency to fulfil. Thanks Alan, if the libc mismatch doesn't get sorted soon I'll try your suggestions > Now we're in a new multiarch world you should be able to install > individual 32-bit libraries as required. The skew you're seeing is > the pitfall of running sid I fear. True, and there have been a lot of upgrades since the release of wheezy so I suppose it is inevitable things will break. Mostly though sid is pretty stable in actual use and it doesn't justify its other name. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:26:51 +0100 Paul Freeman wrote: > On 2013-05-13 12:11, john lewis wrote: > > > The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application and Debian Sid > > seems to be having problems with 32 bit libs at the moment with the > > result that I cannot re-install acroread from the Debian multimedia > > site. Nor can I install the deb which can be downloaded from Adobe. > > > > Yes sadly they (Adobe) don't seem to distribute a 64bit native linux > binary currently. > > > > > I'm not sure how to get around this problem. > > > > do you have Google Chrome (not Chromium) installed... its embedded > PDF viewer is actually by Adobe anyway. try Ctrl+o and open one of > the PDF's and see if it works. if it does then just open multiple > tabs :) I don't really want to get involved with anything from google (other than the search engine since it is still better than anything else) I did try adding the pdf plugin to iceweasel but nothing happens when I try to 'open' a pdf file. So since I have a mac-mini methinks I'll try acroread on that. I already had an oldish version so got the latest (XI) from adobe but neither the older version nor the latest allow for opening files in tabs. Why! when the Linux version does. It really makes it so much easier to look up data when it is in tabs. It is quite frustrating trying to navigate around OS/X so I'll only switch over to using acroread on the mac-mini if acroread on my Sid system falls over completely. I think I'll give up computing and convert to making a model railway layout, it might give more satisfaction ;-) -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Accessing genealogy data on PDF files
I make considerable use of genealogy data which these days is more often that not provided on CD in PDF format rather than online. It has cost me quite a bit over the years to get these CDs. The first edition of Berks FHS Baptisms @ £20 which I received two days ago is an example, next year there will be a second edition to get as there are lots of parishes missing! 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. Acroread allows me to open files in multiple tabs which is fairly important to me as I'm always needing to access baptism, marriages and burials for a any particular parish at the same time. The alternatives don't seem to be able to do this. The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application and Debian Sid seems to be having problems with 32 bit libs at the moment with the result that I cannot re-install acroread from the Debian multimedia site. Nor can I install the deb which can be downloaded from Adobe. It fails with this error > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobereader-enu: > adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.4); however: > Package libgtk2.0-0:i386 is not installed. > > dpkg: error processing adobereader-enu (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > adobereader-enu and it isn't possible to install libgtk2.0-0:i386 as trying to do so requires installation of 55 other packages but that throws up another error > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6 : Breaks: libc6:i386 (!= 2.17-2) but 2.17-1 is to be installed. > libc6:i386 : Breaks: libc6 (!= 2.17-1) but 2.17-2 is installed. I'm not sure how to get around this problem. It isn't the first time I've had problems using 32 bit libs on a 64 bit system but in the past I've been able to find a solution. I lost the 32 bit libs by a bit of careless clicking whilst doing an update ;-( For the moment acroread is running on my system but without the 32 bit support libs I don't know how long it will keep going, a reboot is definitely a no-no at present. any suggestions welcome (apart from suggestions I use a free software package that is!) -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Friday Fun Question
On Tue, 07 May 2013 15:37:46 +0100 Gordon Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 14:43 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.* > -8<- > > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, > > the answer was "To check that everything is O.K." > > I _like_ to reboot sometime after an upgrade, to confirm that > everything is indeed OK, but it's a preference not a need. > > That preference applies also to the kernel. The present kernel is > working, the new one probably also will, there's likely no hurry. Agreed, the latest kernel possibly/probably has stuff that will never be needed if like me you don't have any fancy requirements I don't remember ever having to do a reboot after an upgrade because a package required it, perhaps Debian is better at doing this sort of thing ;-) the most common problems I get when upgrading are in building modules for virtualbox as today:- > Setting up linux-headers-3.8-1-common (3.8.11-1) ... > Setting up linux-kbuild-3.8 (3.8.11-1) ... > Setting up linux-headers-3.8-1-amd64 (3.8.11-1) ... > Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d. > run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 3.8-1-amd64 > Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.8-1-amd64 > (x86_64) > Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.1.18/build/make.log for more > information. > Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.8-1-amd64 > (x86_64) > Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.18/build/make.log for more > information. but as I don't intend (for now anyway) re-booting to use the new kernel installed today (linux-image-3.8-1-amd64) I'm not going to worry about not having modules for virtualbox-guest. I rarely use virtualbox anyway ;-) -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Friday Fun Question
Hi Actually sometimes you do need to reboot. I have experience of upgraded programs not working until the system is rebooted. John Eayrs On Tuesday 07 May 2013 14:43:25 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 15 March 2013 22:38:55 john lewis wrote: > > I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the author knows too > > much about Linux to have written that without knowing he was writing > > 'nonsense' but I guess he is aware that there will be many windows > > users reading it who will expect several reboots following installation > > of a techy package like an anonomizer. > > I went on a Raspberry Pi workshop on Friday, located in the Computing > Department of Protsdmouth University. One university computing student > wandered in and joined in with me and my "partner". She reckoned to know > Linux. > > The organiser of the workshop told us to apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, > and then reboot, and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.* > The student said: "You have to reboot after you update." Erm... not in > Linux/Debian. "Of course you have to reboot after an update!" Erm... No, > you don't - unless there is a new kernel. At that point (luckily) she > gave up on that and went on to the next problem. > > Not bad for an average man or woman in the street, but worrying in a > computing student who said that she knew Linux!! > > Lisi > > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the > answer was "To check that everything is O.K." -- 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: May Meeting
On Thu, 2 May 2013 08:07:44 +0100 Imran Chaudhry wrote: > On 26 April 2013 21:33, Tim Brocklehurst > wrote: > > On Friday 19 Apr 2013 22:10:20 Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > >> Our next meeting is at Southampton University on 4th May, starting > >> at 1pm; And we've got a few talks planned: > > > > This week, the Debian team annouced the release date for Wheezy. > > Excitingly, it's the weekend of the 4th/5th! Any ideas for how we > > can mark this momentous occasion? > > Sadly I cannot make the meeting otherwise I'd join in the celebrations > for Wheezy. > > I'd be curious to know how many of us would be sticking with Gnome 3 > in the upgrade or keeping it "Gnome 2-style" with something like MATE. I have accepted that gnome3 is OK so long as 'classic mode' is available. I have installed cinnamon and given it a try but prefer the gnome2 look. Cinnamon has had several updates on my sid box since I installed it but I haven't looked at it to see what has been changed. Mate hasn't been packaged for Debian although mate-common is in experimental so don't think mate is the way to go at the moment unless you are happy to use non-debian packages for it. I had a go a few days ago at upgrading one of my laptops to wheezy but it was going to need tons of packages so gave up on it for now. I am going to wait a while before thinking of up-grading my VPS though I should really do it before geneweb 6.07 migrates into wheezy. I have tried it out from experimental and don't like some of the changes the developers have made since 6.05. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Free to a good home
Hi The Visio 4 would be very useful. I have a number of old visio files that this would enable me to read and print off. When can I pick it up. John Eayrs On Saturday 13 April 2013 15:31:23 Paul Tansom wrote: > I am continuing my clearout and if anyone is interested in any of this > ancient kit they are more than welcome. I'd prefer it to go in single lots > (Mac and PC) although the scanner could be an either or! Worded pretty > much as per my Freecycle / Freegle post there is: > > I have a selection of old PC bits to clear, mainly as parts for an > enthusiast I should imagine. > > Software: > Pagis Pro 2 > Visio 4 > Corel Draw 4 > > Parts: > Dual P300 motherboard (I think!) > Syquest Parallel port drive > DVDs > FDs > ADSL wireless router > PSU > Mice > PCI & AGP graphics cards > etc. > > Toshiba Satelite 1800-700 > Compaq Evo N160 (broken hinge) > both no RAM or HD > IBM P70 luggable (no idea if it works) > > I also have an Epson SCSI flatbed scanner with slide adapter, although you > will need your own SCSI card and cable for it. > > I have a selection of old (pre-OSX) Apple bits to get rid of that would > suit a retro Mac enthusiast. I wouldn't suggest any of this is suitable > for general use anymore. > > Software: > Apple Magic Collection > WordPerfect > FileMaker Pro > Claris Works > Claris HomePage > Aldus PageMaker > Norton Utilities > Symantec AV > MIDI Translator > FormatterFive > DOS Mounter 5.0 > Extreme 3D > Freehand 7 > Illustrator 5.5 > Lemmings > Perfect French > > Odd cards nic / firewire > CD drives > > Mac SE > Mac LC 475 > Performa 6320 > All three with keyboards and mice. -- 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] Friday Fun Question
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:07:09 + Sean Gibbins wrote: > I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) > excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with > some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand. > > There were a couple of other inaccuracies too, relating to Internet > cafes and Linux boxes but I will bite my tongue on those and finish > the book. > > The author in question is a pretty tech-savvy and generally smart > guy, hence the question, but I shouldn't have doubted my intuition on > that one. I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the author knows too much about Linux to have written that without knowing he was writing 'nonsense' but I guess he is aware that there will be many windows users reading it who will expect several reboots following installation of a techy package like an anonomizer. The thing that worried me more though were the right wing attitudes of members of the main character's family and the implicit gun culture that involved. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 device
Hi All Just seen this. I looks fantastic. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415979,00.asp I know its windows but someone out there will hack it for linux. John Eayrs -- 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] Digital SLR recommendations
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:40:18 + Stephen Davies wrote: > The Nikon D3200 will do pretty well everything your daughter wants. > > As for wanting a DSLR to do video, perhaps some people don't > understand how far DSLR Video has come these days. Hi Stephen, me for one! I am still stuck in the era of the Pentax Me Super photographically speaking although I now use a Pentax K-r having moved on from a compact digital which I bought when it got difficult to get film processed and a bridge DSLR. I bought the K-r because it can use one of the k mount lenses from the Me. I am unlikely to want to use its video capabilities though, I assume it has some but haven't even looked at that part of the manual. P.S. I have been watching the CBBC program from Madagascar that gets broadcast at 4.30 each day and can understand why you like the island. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Digital SLR recommendations
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:02:00 + Roger Munford wrote: > My daughter wants to buy a DSLR camera and is seriously considering > the NIKON D3100. > > The video function is quite important for her. I am a bit surprised that you or anyone else would want a DSLR for making videos. I have never understood why they have this function. It has always seemed to me that you'd buy a video camera to make vidoes and a DSLR (or other digital camera) to do still photography. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] The future of Linux / career advice
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:33:58 -0500 j...@osml.eu wrote: > I see a slightly different future for Linux. The desktop, for many, > will disappear. The Chromebook is a V2.0 successor to the Network > Computer. It's a computing device. Read you email: Open a browser > tab for G-Mail. Edit a document/spread sheet/presentation: Open a > browser tab for Google Docs/Sheets/Slides \ that sort of thing will never replace a desktop computer for me and I don't need mobile computing. I don't really like the look of the future of computing if it means more and more touch devices and apps/data stored 'in the cloud' or whatever. Our current systems should last out our (my wife and I) lifetimes and we'll not need istuff or googlestuff or chromestuff. I was in fact a bit horrified to read that my favourite browser is to use chrome stuff in the near future, I quite like Opera the way it is now. I can always put a hold on the current version though, at least I have a choice ;-) Yup! I am a luddite but at my age I'm entitled to be one. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] The future of Linux / career advice
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:31:53 + Ally Biggs wrote: > So how did you guys learn Linux? by installing it and using it!! > Has anyone else made the transition from Windows? Or what are the key > areas to focus on to develop a good foundation. Need some inspiration > if I go down the Linux route would I be missing out on much? Please > help me resolve the tug of war it is driving me mad :) I have never used Windows on any computer I have owned (other than the ones my wife uses and I have to fix occasionally for her) I migrated from CP/M to OS/2 to an early version of Linux on a stack of floppies I'd downloaded. I made a permanent move from OS/2 Warp when IBM decided not to support home users any longer and have never regretted the move. As most oldtimers in HantsLUG know I am a bit of a Debian fan(atic). I use the command line for most admin tasks, I do use gui tools from time to time but mc is my best friend ;-) I am not a programmer of any sort and am only just about capable of managing my vps at Bitfolk without needing much help. But I like it that Linux avoids the need to me to pay the Microsoft tax! Having said that I do have a Mac Mini and recently paid for an upgrade to OS/X Snow Leopard. I don't use it a lot but it was a gift and it is enough like a unix box for me to find it acceptable. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 event
Hi All I have been informed at there is a raspberry-pi event with the IET, to be held on the Highfield Campus on 25th April. I gather its being organised by Dirk Gorissen. Sorry no more details at present. John Eayrs -- 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] Videoing talks
Hi All Sotouthampton University have used a webcam to record talks at seminar/conferences. The quality of video and sound from skype can be quite good. I would think most LUG members have webcams to experiment with. John Eayrs On Sunday 03 February 2013 10:49:09 Tony Whitmore wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 02/02/13 23:43, Chris Dennis wrote: > > I think it was Alan Pope who used to video HantsLUG talks, and he became > > adept at creating good presentations from them, complete with titles and > > stuff. > > No, it was me. Though I did use Alan's video camera in the early days. > > > If Alan is reading this: did you find a way to directly capture what's > > being shown on the screen in the meeting room as well as videoing the > > speaker? > > I took the slides from the presenter and generated images of each slide > in JPEG, PNG etc. Then I used a video editing programme to insert the > slide at the appropriate juncture. > > That technique doesn't work for live demonstrations of course. VGA > scanning kit is expensive, but having the speaker run screen recording > software (like recordmydesktop) might be a workable alternative. > > > Do you have any tips for the next generation of HantsLUG > > videographers? > > Audio, as you pointed out, is important. If you don't have access to a > video camera that has an external microphone socket, then you could > record it separately and dub it on afterwards. For example connect a > lapel microphone to a laptop running audacity. > > > Does anyone have the necessary equipment and skills (and inclination) to > > do this properly at future meetings? > > Nope. :) > > Tony -- 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] Promoting LUG meets via social networking
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:54:44 + Lisi wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2013 10:36:26 john lewis wrote: > > Even Debian, which used to have a reputation for being > > difficult to get running, is nowadays a breeze. > > > > (It took about ten minutes to get a minimal install of Wheezy up and > > running on an aopen Xcube box a few weeks ago > > You clearly have entirely open hardware!! Now that the installation > kernel has *no* binary blobs, Debian is back to being sometimes a bit > tricky. There is, of course, an unofficial installation disk which > has proprietary drivers, and you can have a particular driver > available on a USB key. But I would not call it a breeze any more. I have no idea how linux compatible the xcube box is. My existing 'server' died after quite a few years of service, probably motherboard failure so I looked on ebay for something cheap to replace it - the xcube box was on offer for £40, it had a reasonable spec as far as memory, speed, etc were concerned and had no OS installed. It arrived two days after I ordered it and I had it up and running about half an hour after the courier delivered it. I used a Debian wheezy netinst CD that I'd downloaded recently to give the updated installer a try out and it worked perfectly. As usual I only installed the basic minimum to get a bootable system, added a few extras, geneweb for example and that was it. I like the system, it seems reasonably fast, it is silent and is small enough to sit on top of the desk in an otherwise unused corner. I haven't even looked inside the box ;-) Oh yes, nearly forgot - I did modify the /etc/apt/sources.list to include the "non free" packages before the installer went off looking for stuff to download. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Promoting LUG meets via social networking
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:56:00 + Victor Churchill wrote: > The LUG is different things to different people. It has always worked > pretty well as a group for self-help and information interchange > between members who are pretty committed and established Linux users. > My observation would be that it has perhaps worked less well as a > vehicle for introducing Linux to new or potentially new users and > supporting them in the early stages of getting to know Linux. > > Typical Saturday meetings seem to be largely attended by hard-core > long-term members and less so by new users, and I fear that there may > be many new/potential users who come to one meeting and don't come > again because they feel out of their depth. I don't know if things have changed in the last five year or so since we moved too far away from Hampshire to make attending LUG meets easy for me but meetings were mostly very informal - people turned up, found a space and got on with whatever they wanted to do that day. This would in itself be off-putting to a complete newcomer so perhaps, if it hasn't already been done, there should be a way of breaking the ice for some one new. > (It also seems to me that there has a bit of a downward trend in the > "long term user attendance", maybe due to the way that Linux itself > has changed over the years. That's a different discussion.) If it is the case that long term users are not turning up it probably is because there isn't the need for as much hand-holding with current Linux distros. Even Debian, which used to have a reputation for being difficult to get running, is nowadays a breeze. (It took about ten minutes to get a minimal install of Wheezy up and running on an aopen Xcube box a few weeks ago and about the same length of time to get ssh/rsync working so I can login to it remotely and use it as a headless backup system) -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] Scamming call
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:19:22 + Keith Edmunds wrote: > When we moved house in 2007, we had a new telephone number. We made it > ex-directory: no marketing calls at all. Or many others, come to that. We have always had an ex-directory number but it didn't stop unwanted calls. We have also re-subscribed to TPS when we moved to Yeovil but still got the same sort of calls. Now we have signed up to "caller display" and ignore any calls that don't show a known number. We may miss a few genuine calls that way but that is preferable to getting calls for a long dead former resident of our house !!! -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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] educational game?
Hi I have just discovered this game "d0x3d". See http://d0x3d.com/d0x3d/welcome.html. It looks educational on network security and appears to be fun. Could be used at a LUG meet? Have a look interested in your thoughts. John Eayrs -- 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 Friday 04 January 2013 20:20:49 Michael Pavling wrote: > Hiya, > > I need a desktop printer for occasional hard-copies. My old HPLJ1200 is > sometimes a bit temperamental, and I'm looking for a cheap rather than > cheerful replacement. Does anyone know if any of the c.£30 inkjets that are > all over Dabs, eBuyer, etc, run happily with 64bit Ubuntu? > > We got a colour laser printer in the house too, and it works fine with > 32bit but not 64bit, so I need something on my desk that will work for me. > > Ta! Laser printer not inkjet is recommended for occasional hard-copies. Brother laser printers will work on both 32 and 64 bit. Brother also offer telephone support on both windows and linux. John Eayrs -- 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 spy program
Hi I have just read this http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do concerning Ubuntu spyware. I thought others in the LUG may be interested. John Eayrs -- 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] Was gnome Applications menu keyboard shortcut
Having only a week or so ago announced that "Classic Mode" would be discontinued from the next upgrade to Gnome (3.8) it looks like the developers have been listening to users after all ;-) https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00093.html I think it will make many Gnome users happy if what they are saying works out. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 Applications menu keyboard shortcut
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:15:01 - "Rob Malpass" wrote: > After several unsuccessful google searches, I have to ask. > Alt+F1 doesn't bring up the applications menu in gnome any more - does > anyone know how to reinstate it? It does on my debian box running gnome3 in classic mode fwiw. I didn't even know there was such a short cut as I always use a mouse ;-) -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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: broadband router with DNS....
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:02:37 + Gordon Scott wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 17:23 +, Chris Dennis wrote: > > On 22/11/12 15:33, john lewis wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 + > > > john lewis wrote: > > > > > >> which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s) > > > > > > That is what the 504T says but it must be wrong! > > > > > Not necessarily -- how old are you again? :) > > Curiously enough, if those minutes are to be believed and I did the > sums correctly ... about as old as Methuselah. :-) > > Of course if the hours are to be believed, Methuselah was slip of a > lad. > > Slightly more seriously, I'd guess at a Y2K bug, presuming the router > is old enough. I suspect it is pre-2000 at the very least. It works tho' and that is all I ask of it. One of these days when I am feeling brave I'll reconnect the 2740 again and see if a long rest has restored its functionality but I doubt if it has. -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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: broadband router with DNS....
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 + john lewis wrote: > which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s) That is what the 504T says but it must be wrong! -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- 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 --
