[Dorset] Host boot dendancies

2013-07-22 Thread Dan Jones
Hey all, At the radio station I'm involved with in the north of the county, we have various machines that need to power on after power failure. The radio playout software depends on a MySQL server running in a CentOS VM, which in turn runs on top of WinServer2k8. The audio for the playout softwar

[Dorset] DLUG Radio

2013-04-01 Thread Dan Jones
Mad idea, Im involved with a radio station, that has currently no tech program. DLUG has members who are very much involved with tech, but not involved with a radio station DLUG has pub meets So, DLUGFM? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC,

[Dorset] [OT] Anyone in the north of Dorset?

2013-03-29 Thread Dan Jones
[OT] Hi all, Is anyone based up the north end of Dorset/Sherborne way? For my sins, I'm involved with a community radio station (Abbey104) and I'm in need of a second pair of eyes for some of the stations ubuntu systems. If youre interested email me off list. Ta ~Dan -- Next meeting: Bourne

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-02-01 Thread Dan Jones
>> > You are not ready for it yet. Once the road is completed BT will come > along and dig it up to plant the Fibre for the Olympics network. Seems to be that whoever is uilding the road and southern gas networks have coordinated to dig up all the roads at the same time, making things even worse.

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-01-31 Thread Dan Jones
> Not even then. On the other hand, it seems to have been a wonderful > idea to cause complete chaos by overhauling the roads with a new > layout that doesn't even make sense - and what's more, we're not just > being told conflicting stories over it, when it'll be done/opened, but > now it seems th

Re: [Dorset] IPV6 article in Daily Telegraph

2010-11-13 Thread Dan Jones
On 13 November 2010 14:29, John Cooper wrote: > On 13/11/10 14:10, Peter Merchant wrote: > >> After reading this article in the telegraph today >> >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8126181/UK-will-run-out-of-web-addresses-by-2012.html >> >> About Vint Cerf saying that the Uk will

Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu failed update....

2010-10-26 Thread Dan Jones
As an aside, I downloaded the Kubuntu 10.04 image on my headless debian box. Using my mothers laptop to burn it, but WinSCP is the easiest way of getting files off a box on windows I've found if SSH is installed. ~Dan -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets,

Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu failed update....

2010-10-26 Thread Dan Jones
> > > I would have tried going straight from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS myself if > > Ralph hadn't pointed out to me that Ubuntu explicitly state that it > > won't work. > I think I was running on too much wishful thinking, going between 2 LTS versions I thought it would be a doddle. Evidently not, I ha

[Dorset] Ubuntu failed update....

2010-10-25 Thread Dan Jones
Finally decided to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 (got bored of the update manager nagging me :]) Anyway, after a day of waiting for all the packages to download, towards the end of the update it bombs out due to the non-free nvidia drivers. Now I'm scared to reboot... Any advice? ~Dan -- Next meetin

Re: [Dorset] It's been a year in the pipeline.

2010-09-12 Thread Dan Jones
On 12 September 2010 11:56, jr wrote: > On 12 September 2010 11:42, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > > It gets the public accustomed to collecting evidence, dubious accuracy. > > against their peers. > > > > It makes people accustomed, to aiding in the prosecution of their peers, > in > > the process of

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Jones
It appears Ralph is a glutton for punishment ~Dan On 25 Aug 2010 20:43, "Peter Merchant" wrote: I wondered if there was a linux equivalent to Laplink, and Amazon offers one called PCsync that mentions linux under the OS's available. Reviews are dead against it, and it seems to be USB based. And

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

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Jones
CDBurner XP is the only decent dvd/cd burning software I've found for windows ~Dan On 22 Aug 2010 14:27, "Simon O'Riordan" wrote: So the wedding DVD has been edited in Kdenlive, authored in DeVeDe and written by Brasero. That's all the region 2's done. What about the USA relatives? I could buy

Re: [Dorset] Tour of C4L

2010-04-19 Thread Dan Jones
On 19 April 2010 22:15, David wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:29:56 +0100, da...@noroutetohost.net said: >> >>> a tour of the C4L facilities >> >> What's C4L? >> > > C4L are a provider of colocation, transit, virtual and physical Dedicated > Servers, etc > > The C4L website is http://www.c4l.co.u

Re: [Dorset] Another No 10 Pettion worth signing

2010-02-03 Thread Dan Jones
On 3 February 2010 17:22, Terry Coles wrote: >    'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require >     publicly-funded bodies, in light of the Government's newly >     published Open Source policy, to fully explore free and open >     source software before choosing proprietary systems

Re: [Dorset] Samba Help

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Jones
As a suggestion as well, try turning off simple file sharing in windows. It tends to cause a lot of problems The option can be found in control panel > folder options > advanced. If I remember right its towards the bottom of the options tree. You need to have a password set as it will ask for auth

Re: [Dorset] Samba Help

2009-09-30 Thread Dan Jones
You need the 'Client for Microsoft Windows networks' (or something named very similar to that) for XP to be able to access file shares. It's a protocol in the nic config pane Cheers, Dan On Sep 30, 2009 8:50 PM, "Peter Merchant" wrote: In the last few weeks, I can't say exactly when, my smb co

Re: [Dorset] help in sorting files for duplicates

2009-07-28 Thread Dan Jones
2009/7/23 Simon O'Riordan : > I think the ideal programme would scan the hard drive and count > instances of all the filenames it found. > Any instance count greater than 1 would generate a log entry in a text file. > You could just leave it running in the background; perhaps it could pop > up a me

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Jones
John, >  This might smart a bit > for hard core fundamentalist free software nerds, but our world is as > much political as doing the right thing so fine by me. >From your previous posts to the DLUG list, I was given the impression that you were/are one of these fundamentalist nerds ;) ~D -- N

Re: [Dorset] Mailing list archive public from now on.

2009-03-03 Thread Dan Jones
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:12:48PM +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi, > > As planned, I've today subscribed mail-archive.com to this Dorset LUG > list. Posts from now on will be archived there and publically readable > by anyone, including Google. This is the test message. :-) > > Mailman's