Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory

2010-10-09 Thread jr
hi Tim, Can anybody tell me if HP use standard SoDimm memory (Laptop type) or a propriatory format for there printers?? what model? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet#Upgrading_memory_of_older_models -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next

Re: [Dorset] Install day..... Maybe?

2010-10-09 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:43:04 +0100, Bryn Jones bryn.jon...@gmail.com wrote: Are you saying BUNIX is willing to help out with my own harebrained scheme or with an install day?. On a specific note - the install day. I will bring your scheme up at the next BUNIX meet-up though. I'm sure

Re: [Dorset] [Hampshire] Google code university

2010-10-09 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:33:01PM +0100, Tim wrote: Not seen this mentioned http://code.google.com/edu/ Looks interesting Ah, excellent, they're centralising the store of plagiarisable code examples, so we only need to check in one place to see which of our undergraduates we need to

Re: [Dorset] I See The Light! Testify!

2010-10-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Simon, I transferred my new library and executable in the usual way, and this is what I found; the debugger will execute local copies of an .so file, but otherwise it is locked out by security. Shared libraries are looked for in defined places by the dynamic linker/loader. To get the

Re: [Dorset] I See The Light! Testify!

2010-10-09 Thread Simon O'Riordan
I thought as much, but life is too short, what are you going to do? I just wanted to check it works, and it does. Besides, tomorrow is upgrade day, so what's the risk? If my own software doesn't have the rights of other people's on my own system, what price orthodoxy? Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise

[Dorset] AR.Drone

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi has anyone (with money to burn!) got one of these yet? http://ardrone.parrot.com It appears to be a fully fledged UAV (running embedded Linux) with current pilot support for the iPhone, but support for linux based phones in the pipline. I think this is stunning - amazing! There is an article

Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:41 +0100, Tim wrote: Can anybody tell me if HP use standard SoDimm memory (Laptop type) or a propriatory format for there printers?? Tim -- Can we have more information? I have this morning bought an HP 1660 from Argos for £34 - for my wife as the Epson D78 died.

Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory

2010-10-09 Thread Tim
On Saturday 09 October 2010 11:29:51 jr wrote: hi Tim, Can anybody tell me if HP use standard SoDimm memory (Laptop type) or a propriatory format for there printers?? what model? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet#Upgrading_memory_of_older_models It is a P2015, looking at the

Re: [Dorset] Install day..... Maybe?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 12:16 +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:43:04 +0100, Bryn Jones bryn.jon...@gmail.com wrote: Are you saying BUNIX is willing to help out with my own harebrained scheme or with an install day?. On a specific note - the install day. I will

Re: [Dorset] I See The Light! Testify!

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:14 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I thought as much, but life is too short, what are you going to do? I just wanted to check it works, and it does. Besides, tomorrow is upgrade day, so what's the risk? If my own software doesn't have the rights of other people's on my

Re: [Dorset] Install day..... Maybe?

2010-10-09 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:31:27 +0100, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: In days gone by we could probably have used the university computers as hosts, but they lock them down a lot more now. I have lost my lab, and the Computer rooms in DEC are pretty fixed. But it is simple to

Re: [Dorset] AR.Drone

2010-10-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andy, It appears to be a fully fledged UAV (running embedded Linux) Looks very nice. And they've got a page up providing the source of the external stuff they've used. http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/uk/gpl Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?

2010-10-09 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 27/09/10 17:02, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 27/09/10 16:52, Natalie Hooper wrote: Seems like ArchLinux is great for old hardware but not really suitable for my spanking new hardware ;-) I run it on old and new hardware, and it works well on both ;) Having said that, I'm also looking

[Dorset] Microscum

2010-10-09 Thread Simon O'Riordan
http://www.infowars.com/microsoft-proposes-government-licensing-internet-access/ -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Microscum

2010-10-09 Thread Bryn Jones
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Simon O'Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote: http://www.infowars.com/microsoft-proposes-government-licensing-internet-access/ -- There's a line in there about the Chinese dismissing a similar idea for being too authoritarian. I like it when M$ makes

Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?

2010-10-09 Thread Richard Johnston
Just a suggestion from the West Indies. I'm running LinuxMint, latest edition and am well pleased with it. Its based on Ubuntu and is sympathetic to ignoramuses like me. Richard On 9 October 2010 08:59, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote: On 27/09/10 17:02, John Carlyle-Clarke

Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:57 -0400, Richard Johnston wrote: Just a suggestion from the West Indies. I'm running LinuxMint, latest edition and am well pleased with it. Its based on Ubuntu and is sympathetic to ignoramuses like me. Richard On 9 October 2010 08:59, John Carlyle-Clarke

Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?

2010-10-09 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 09/10/10 14:57, Richard Johnston wrote: Just a suggestion from the West Indies. I'm running LinuxMint, latest edition and am well pleased with it. Its based on Ubuntu and is sympathetic to ignoramuses like me. Richard I was looking at Mint's website because we were talking on #dorset

[Dorset] As Ralph Suggested Earlier

2010-10-09 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Having made an all-shared library version of the security webcam programme, I tried a test install. Using sudo ldconfig -n the directory path I made the library link in situ. Unfortunately a face detection system all in-process is more than my netbook can cope with. I also produced a conf file to

[Dorset] xloadimage - transparent images

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi all, Is there anyone familiar with the use of xloadimage/xsetbg who can give me a hint as to why I can't load a small image with a transparent background image onto an existing background image. In the following bash shell function, virgin.jpg is intended to cover the whole

Re: [Dorset] [OT] HP Printer memory

2010-10-09 Thread Tim
On Saturday 09 October 2010 16:49:16 jr wrote: hi Tim, It is a P2015, looking at the links on the bottom of the wiki they seem mainly older HP lasers google reveals: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=encc=us

Re: [Dorset] xloadimage - transparent images

2010-10-09 Thread jr
hi Andrew, TIA for any assistance/suggestions don't have 'xloadimage' on my machine, however, if you have the ImageMagick(1) software installed, 'composite' will combine images. -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford

Re: [Dorset] xloadimage - transparent images

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 09 October 2010, you wrote: hi Andrew, TIA for any assistance/suggestions don't have 'xloadimage' on my machine, however, if you have the ImageMagick(1) software installed, 'composite' will combine images. Hi jr, thanks for that, but I dont think I can get display (the

Re: [Dorset] xloadimage - transparent images

2010-10-09 Thread jr
hi Andrew, thanks for that, but I dont think I can get display (the imagemagick viewer) to load onto multiple images onto the root window :( Unless you know otherwise. 'composite' can save the combined result in a new file, also, 'convert' and 'mogrify' can be used to manipulate images. --

[Dorset] Anyone in or near Melksham?

2010-10-09 Thread Philip Vossler
Are there any Dorset members at all close to Melksham? I'd like to run an install day here in Melksham - maybe at the old Wiltshire College Campus (if I can gain access), or possibly at the company I work for. Hopefully this would be the start of a regular group that are into hacking hardware and