Re: [Dorset] [Dorset ] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2017-10-03.

On 03/10/17 11:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops, or stuffed Terry's penguin.  Sorry, can't make it tonight.  Maybe next time... Cheers Chris . -- Next meeting:

[Dorset] Linux support in Verwood

Hello Dorset Luggers Until recently I've been providing ad hoc support for a company in Verwood, looking after a Linux server running Samba for file sharing with various Windows PCs. I'm winding down that side of my business now, and the client has asked me if I know anyone who could take

Re: [Dorset] Skype

I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype alternative? https://appear.in/ It uses WebRTC, and claims to be secure. Cheers Chris -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-01-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than a Week to Go

On 28/02/14 11:40, Peter Merchant wrote: I do like that. IS a similar sort of thing available for other counties? P. No, same Post Code District. BTW, they, along with lots of other interesting layers, are available for Dorset.

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 469, Issue 1

, secure operating system, or on the other one? Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread

Re: [Dorset] Options for a 'new' machine

versions of everything. Compared with Ubuntu, you have to do a lot of configuring yourself, but the wiki is full of excellent documentation. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] HUD

' and 'Gnome3' things. And on my own desktop, I've taken the radical step of moving from Ubuntu to ArchLinux (again with XFCE4). It gives back the feeling of being in control of the machine. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire

Re: [Dorset] A few links following last night meeting

TeamViewer is free for all non-commercial users! Looks interesting. I've used reverse VNC connections in the past to access a remote machine, avoiding talking the remote user through opening up an incoming port. Traffic is in the clear though.

Re: [Dorset] laptop battery suppliers

an even cheaper New Trent brand one from Amazon, and it's been fine (at least the client hasn't complained). cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] Locking down physical console access

completely. On the other hand, I'm not an expert on this stuff, so you should confirm these ideas elsewhere. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-10-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10

to the mythconverg database. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively

Re: [Dorset] Getting MythTV to work in Kubuntu 10.10

connection parameters are specified in the UI: you can connect as whatever user you want. You're right, of course. -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

-tunnelbroker-net-ipv6-routers/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

On 22/04/11 01:30, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote: I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs test-ipv6.com, and he says: \ Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider disabling teredo

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

-- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] USB 1-2 problem

Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

? If it's really just two computers talking to each other, you could just give each one a fixed IP address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, and they can talk to each other without requiring DHCP or DNS. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

to work with, and is probably available in your favourite distro. [1] http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets

Re: [Dorset] Lost booting on PC

instance, you could try booting with a DOS boot disc and running the command 'fdisk /mbr'. Or, if it's Windows XP, you could do a 'repair install' to revive it. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] cd question

. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 359, Issue 4

-directories is rarely what you'd expect or want. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http

Re: [Dorset] Winjoke - stuck in the dark ages!

and W7. [1] http://cdburnerxp.se/ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http

Re: [Dorset] New book.

on optimising IDE hard drives, but no mention of SATA. And in the introduction it speculates about what a wonderful server Linux will be in 2003. And you have to sign your life away to get the download in the first place. Thanks for the link though. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Dorset] texlive problem

Peter Harris wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:13 +, Chris Dennis wrote: Peter Harris wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:26 +, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:54 -, Peter Harris peter.harr...@virgin.net wrote: It does not appear in the applications menu and I

Re: [Dorset] texlive problem

of Lyx allows maths via the Insert / Math menu, e.g. $\sqrt{\frac{a}{b}}$ cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

expired and I don't think that the IP address has changed. Does that mean that ddclient is clever enough to automatically contact DynDNS every 28 days even if the IP address is the same? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge