Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Keith Edmunds
For password management, you could keep it Open Source with Bitwarden. Runs on Window, Mac, Linux; apps for iPhone and Android; browser plugins for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge, Safari and even the Tor Browser. https://bitwarden.com/ -- Linux Tips: https://www.tiger-computing.co.uk/category/

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again, Forgot one. Aussie David Rowe, he of the `electrocuted boat', A hidden feature is Azipod steering – it steers through more than 270 degrees. You can reverse without reverse gear, and we did “donuts” spinning on the keel! — http://www.rowetel.com/?p=5843 has been working a

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Victor Churchill
I'm not sure if you're correct about discussing LastPass (I wan't there :-) but I can chip in my $0.02 : I've used LastPass for several years now and am generally pretty happy with it. It's /pretty/ good at spotting user name /password fields in web pages - not quite perfect, and all password manag

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 02/05/18 12:26, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: On 02/05/18 12:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Hamish, I think somebody said during that discussion that there wasn't time to do it in industry, and that refactoring was mostly limited to open source software projects. Is that right, because I w

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 02/05/18 12:12, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: and Keepass https://keepass.info/ P. Sorry, That is Not it. I was looking to install it and found both keepass and keypass, But I think the one that we discussed was lastpass? Am I correct? P. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 201

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite (Terry Coles)

2018-05-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 13:38:24 BST Graeme Gemmill wrote: > It's mounted as a Samba share. /etc/fstab entry is > //192.168.1.6/data /mnt/nasdata cifs > credentials=/etc/samba/auth.192.168.1.6.graeme,vers=1.0 0 0 > IIRC it took a bit of fiddling to get the access correct. I just worked that out (

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite (Terry Coles)

2018-05-02 Thread Graeme Gemmill
From: Terry Coles To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite Message-ID: <2054119.CVVPnpWrWd@optiplex> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday, 30 April 2018 14:07:52 BST Graeme Gemmill wrote: write to a Buffalo Linkstation (why do yo

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Think RBS? I don't know the cause of their woes, but for free software there's the bug I recently found with debugfs(8) when trying to recover deleted files from an ext4 filesystem. It has a `dump_unused' command that putchar(3)s every byte of every disk block that it isn't using to

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 02/05/18 12:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Hamish, I think somebody said during that discussion that there wasn't time to do it in industry, and that refactoring was mostly limited to open source software projects. Is that right, because I was pretty sure that refactoring was always necessary

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hamish, > I think somebody said during that discussion that there wasn't time to > do it in industry, and that refactoring was mostly limited to open > source software projects. > > Is that right, because I was pretty sure that refactoring was always > necessary to some degree, unless you were

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
Not heard of refactoring before. In the Business School there used to be a technique called RAD -Rapid Application development(?) which allowed for rapid response to changes in design, and any software that I have worked on was in the form of 'creeping excellence' in other words getting bits wo

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:03:21 BST Hamish MB wrote: > We also talked briefly about refactoring, and the various ways of doing > it. I think somebody said during that discussion that there wasn't time > to do it in industry, and that refactoring was mostly limited to open > source software pro

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
and Keepass https://keepass.info/ P. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST O

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Hamish MB
Oops, sent to wrong address. Hi, We also talked briefly about refactoring, and the various ways of doing it. I think somebody said during that discussion that there wasn't time to do it in industry, and that refactoring was mostly limited to open source software projects. Is that right, becau

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 02/05/18 10:57, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Nines' complement and ten's complement are to decimal what ones' and two's are to binary, i.e. you can subtract a number by adding its ten's complement instead. Old adding machines would have nines' complement digits written alongside the normal digi

[Dorset] Links from 2018-05-01's Pub Meet.

2018-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Nines' complement and ten's complement are to decimal what ones' and two's are to binary, i.e. you can subtract a number by adding its ten's complement instead. Old adding machines would have nines' complement digits written alongside the normal digit, e.g. 2 by 7. https://en.wikipedia.or