[Scottish] ANSWER: Slow writes on large modern SATA disks
New large disks, fast computer, good Linux install but lousy write performance, with no errors to be found? I've hit this twice recently and here's how I solved it: http://shearer.org/Slow_Writes_4k_Sectors Short version: modern drives won't work by default with common default ways of installing Linux. -- Dan Shearer d...@shearer.org ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] This months meeting
Hello all, Yet that time again for the monthly meeting. This month Claudio will be giving a talk on his ideas on how we can provide reliable wireless internet access. I will say no more ;) I sadly will not be attending this month as I have a meeting I have to be at. Greg will be taking over the running of the meeting this month so any flames in his direction please ;) Hope you all have fun without me :) -- Rob Lazzurs Chief Bearded One ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] NEoN Digital Arts Festival
Thought this maybe of interest ! NEoN Digital Arts Festival 8 - 14 November 2010 NEoN 10 is a seven-day international digital arts festival featuring moving image, performance, music and technology driven arts. The over arching curatorial theme this year is Character: going beyond the agent in a work of art; looking at the fictional; observing the character as a symbol, or within sound or written language. Through this focused dimension NEoN intends to explore the notion of collaboration between visual art, information communication, media production and gaming that will expand digital development and knowledge. Check out http://www.northeastofnorth.com/ for the full programme. NEoN Conference 11 - 12 November 2010 This year the University of Abertay Dundee will host the conference at the Centre of Excellence. Speakers at the conference will include; Creative Director of leading digital arts organization, Folly, Kathryn Lambert ; multimedia artist Akinori Oishi; design duo Peter Thaler and Lars Denicke of Pictoplasma; member of the Chaos Computer Club, Tim Pritlove; and performative visual instrument Tagtool producer, Matthias Fritz aka IINK. Speakers will address this year's curatorial theme 'character' according to their own personal interpretation and its relevance to their specific fields of interest. £99 + VAT Early bird special available until 4th October £125 + VAT There after £30 + VAT Special student rate (limited number available) NEoN Hosts: International App Development Conference AppJam 8th-10th November 2010 This key conference will bring together the very best in professional app development from around the North Sea Region. Platform providers, developers and other industry professionals will provide practical, hands-on knowledge transfer together with a real insight into the future of apps development. Places are limited to 100. Hosted at Discovery Point. £99 + VAT Early bird special available until 4th October £125 + VAT There after £30 + VAT Special student rate (limited number available) To buy a ticket follow: http://bit.ly/dy97FS ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] shackbox live dvd
Hello, Ive just installed Ubuntu 10.4 32bit desktop . I have a Shackbox live cd which contains Ham Radio programs its based on Ubuntu 9.8 How can I install the files on the hard disk of the 10.4 machine. bob renshaw ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] shackbox live dvd
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:33 +0100, bob wrote: Hello, Ive just installed Ubuntu 10.4 32bit desktop . I have a Shackbox live cd which contains Ham Radio programs its based on Ubuntu 9.8 How can I install the files on the hard disk of the 10.4 machine. bob renshaw You'd probably be better installing the packages individually from the appropriate repository, using Synaptic (or whatever modern Ubuntu uses for package management). I'm sorry to say that amateur radio software in Linux is if anything slightly worse than amateur radio software in Windows. At least you mostly don't have to pay to use ten-year-old shareware. I started packaging some commonly-used amateur radio apps for Arch Linux, but gave up on it a bit when I realised how much work it would take to make them even vaguely usable on modern systems. 73s de Gordon MM0YEQ ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
