I will try to drop in and say hello - long time lurker...
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 11:12, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
wrote:
> I have a shift this evening, so sadly I can't attend unless you're still
> going at 10PM when I get back.
>
> Hamish
>
> On 01/09/2020 10:17, Terry Coles wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >
I will be able to attend, looking forward to it.
New laptop, new distro, new challenges :)
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, 17:24 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty,
wrote:
> Yay, I forgot it was this time already :)
>
> I have a lot of things to ramble about this time so it shall be good :)
>
> Hamish
>
> On 30/03/20
I'm very happy to continue with meets on Jitsi as my location and work
schedule will often preclude me from attending meetings in person. I've
thoroughly enjoyed my time spent on the last few Jitsi meets. Perhaps there
could be scope for on-line meetings in addition to physical ones?
Hugh
On Tue,
Tl;Dr?
On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 11:25, Neil Stone wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> There's been a bit of a s**t storm going on with the Freenode network it
> seems (all behind the scenes).
>
> Some details are available via:
> https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt
> https://web.archive
Thanks Ralph, a good summary indeed.
On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 09:24, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Nice summary, thank you Ralph.
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I'll try and get on, but it will be later in the evening.
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 12:55, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
wrote:
> I'll come to this one for once, it's been a while. Hope you are all well.
>
> I have a new old retro laptop to show you :)
>
> Hamish
>
> On 01/06/2021 12:32, Terry Coles wrote:
I do remember looking at it for a motion control application I was working
on but decided to spin my own instead. I seem to recall it was a bit of a
large hammer in relation to the small nut that was my problem.
I was looking to run it on a BBB as that's our platform of choice.
On Tue, 30 Nov 202
It was my ramblings about the state of housing stock in the private rental
sector, specifically in relation to the quality and inspection of
electrical installations that prompted the link to bimdl.com
It's my understanding that it is a platform where information about the
built environment (build
Interesting, although I'd expect them to run either some custom firmware or
something sat on a commercial RTOS (freeRTOS) rather than embedded linux.
I'm looking to add some extra solar on the AC side of my system - looking
at Chinese microinverters from AliExpress, mainly because I'm a cheapskate
Oops, sorry I missed this last night.
On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 16:18, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
wrote:
> On 06/07/2022 11:24, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Here's a list of links from last night's meeting.
> >
> > https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/ - Diagramming tool.
> >
> > http
We were referring to discord, the irc like chat environment/app.
Discourse is also a thing, it’s more like a modern version of a typical
forum. A few projects I interact with use it and it’s ok. I do prefer
xenforo for forums though.
Hugh
On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 at 22:00, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Th
If you don’t need your landline, you can get rid of that and the associated
line rental costs when you move to fttp. If I had the offer, I’d jump at
the chance. You can never have fast enough broadband 🤣
On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 at 11:22, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has got fibre
convert it into a voip service. That’s £10/mo so cheaper than paying for a
landline.
On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 at 11:37, Hugh Frater wrote:
> If you don’t need your landline, you can get rid of that and the
> associated line rental costs when you move to fttp. If I had the offer, I’d
> jump at t
FWIW I’ve never had much luck getting fingerprint readers to work on my
laptops when dual booting - the current Machine (asus g14) is no
exception. Everything else works fine though.
I had an aluminium chassis’d huawei that worked well with mint. I believe
their 14” matebook series actually have
Hamish,
I might well have something, let me have a look this weekend.
Hugh
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 13:52, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On our last call, someone was talking about older PCs being sat in a
> garage. As it turns out, it would be useful for me to have a system with
>
Ralph,
Thankyou kindly for putting this synopsis of the meeting together.
Hugh
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 10:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Government's Project Gigabit aims to increase good broadband to
> rural areas. https://projectgigabit.campaign.gov.uk/
>
> Though I don't think Hugh
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is almost certainly a
cartridge/head issue. After all, inkjet printers are designed to sell ink 🤣
I’ve always had excellent results with HPLIP driving inkjets from mint so I
doubt it is that.
I assume you can dual boot into windows and try printing th
Google suggests that the arduino ide binary is located in ~/.local
On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 at 13:40, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> On 03/02/2023 12:42, Terry Coles wrote:
> > On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote:
> >> Ah, herein is the rub. I don't know where the program is stored. And
> w
I would have thought it highly likely that since pipewire is now a thing,
pulseaudio would no longer be setup on any distro released in the last
couple of years.
And that’s the reason why pavucontrol doesn’t see any devices, it needs the
pipewire sink/connector/driver installed so that application
Glad to hear that you’ve got it working Peter.
I’m not sure why sound on Linux has always been such a complicated affair.
All I know is that I’m still on the alsa+pulseaudio train and it works for
me.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 11:46, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> That worked, and started bringing up a m
Null-modem cables are still available new, if required. We still use them
extensively in the offshore survey industry, which is still heavily reliant
on the old serial port.
I might have both a serial and parallel lap link cable floating about if
required.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 10:06, Hamish McI
I didn’t think we had a discord server running yet? Hamish was looking at
the open source alternatives but I don’t think we’ve got any further
forwards with that.
Or did I miss something?
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 21:50, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> What is the LUG name on Discord? I have had to join
Ah, the joys of USB charging protocols. It’s taken nearly 20yrs and they
still haven’t got a reliable, performant solution. USB-pd gets it nearly
correct, but it’s still not perfect.
Slow charging speeds are also very much caused by the cable type. Back when
I was charging micro-usb based smartpho
n to me is that the charging
> circuitry in the phones is limiting the current. This test was repeated
> with as said below with 6 chargers.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 04/05/2023 05:10, Hugh Frater wrote:
>
> Ah, the joys of USB charging protocols. It’s taken nearly 20y
Probably related to an oauth2 protocol requirement. I had the same when
using thunderbird to access gmail over imap.
I don’t bother now, just use the webmail interface and my phone…
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 at 12:50, Terry Coles wrote:
> On 04/06/2023 12:44, Peter Merchant wrote:
> > Clive is back fr
An update for the list members, following a good remote troubleshooting
session last night (which I apologise for taking up the whole meeting
with), I think this is where things are with the Email issue.
1. Clive's domain and hosting provider have migrated his mail account to a
new server, who's h
That's very encouraging news Clive, thanks for the update.
On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 14:39, CA Wills wrote:
> Hi All on DLUG Meeting.
>
> Thanks to you it appears Hugh is correct and today Tsohost have
> corrected the MX server.
> At the moment my cinfo email is working but the others are not - yet.
Have you done an slocate libncurses* to see if any of the ncurses libraries
are lurking on your system?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 08:38, Terry Coles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With Hamish's help, I've got as far as logging into the WMT Database
> over ssh; it appears that my keys didn't match.
>
> I'm now ba
This is indeed the way that .so files work. A symlink from the current
version, to the non-versioned, and linked, library.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 09:14, Victor Churchill
wrote:
> My recollection (a bit hazy, and I don't have a machine to hand to check)
> is that under /usr/lib you should find
Hi all,
I will try and pop in later but I’m on the road at the moment and might not
be back for a sensible time.
Hugh
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 18:28, Terry Coles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In fact I won't be able to attend tonight. We went rambling in the New
> Forest this afternoon and only just got back
The room is open, I was the first one there so I’ve signed in.
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 at 15:11, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset <
dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have something else to attend as well, so I will be joining the LUG a
> little later at around 8:30.
I hate to say it, but having been through a tablet a year since the form
factor became a thing, I’ve settled on the smaller iPad Pro. This being my
second iPad.
They are excellent devices, with a long lifespan and excellent hardware.
I always buy them used/refurbished, usually the previous genera
I use the paper like screen protector on the iPad, mainly because I like to
do sketching (badly) using the rather fantastic Apple Pencil.
It transforms it into a nice Matt surface.
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 11:55, Terry Coles wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I stopped using screen protect
My friend in Boscombe has it, supplied through Vodafone (iirc). 900 both
ways. No complaints from him, and the supplied router seems fine, although
he uses a mesh wifi setup from google.
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 22:42, Tim wrote:
> Be interested to hear anybody experience of
Yep, this is pretty much how I have my system configured, each account has
an allocated smtp server and you can pick whichever account to send from.
I have an internal server and a 365 account setup on my thunderbird.
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 17:56, Tim wrote:
> I have Thunde
My suspicion would be a failed disk check on startup, and now you’re booted
in a read only state…
Can you get a full terminal output during boot?
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 10:30, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> On 14/11/2023 07:55, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was attempting
Sounds like a style sheet isn’t being served up correctly onto the laptop,
and the divs for the buttons aren’t getting styled correctly.
Screenshots would definitely help here.
Hugh
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 10:59, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Clive,
>
> > First I thought it w
Great detective work Ralph, good job.
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 11:26, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I've worked out what's happening with the rendering of the
> website on Clive's laptop. Perhaps it will help someone spot why.
>
> The large buttons have text appear
A better option would be to use the existing vdsl router as purely that,
then add on a modern Wi-Fi solution. I recently setup a Tenda mesh system
and it was very good for the money. My friend with 900mb fttp uses a google
mesh Wi-Fi and that’s also very good.
Other options are of course available
I thought all hosting providers did this about 10 years ago?
It has certainly been the case with fasthosts for as long as I can remember.
Couple that with a proper spf and dmarc entry and it pretty much eliminates
from: spoofing.
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 08:08, Terry Coles w
Yeah, that’s what I figured Terry was trying to do. I know fasthosts don’t
let us do this for our work domain. The from address must exist as a
mailbox, and smtp auth is required on the server for that mailbox
(obviously)..
As I said, I’m surprised that any hosting provider allows otherwise these
The first thing to figure out is whether you are running in uefi or mbr
mode…
If the former, you should be able to see the boot loader as a boot option
in the bios.
Windows updates on my 3yr old g14 regularly deletes the uefi entry for
grub, and I have to re-create it. Grub then allows me to sele
A quick skim read: doesn’t apply to open source stuff, and manufacturers
can self certify…
So a paper exercise in essence, no different to self certification against
the low voltage directive (for example)…
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 at 21:59, Tim wrote:
> I came across a stateme
Very wise…. Bluetooth mice and keyboards are nearly always unreliable
battery guzzlers.
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 10:50, Terry Coles wrote:
> On 01/01/2024 15:06, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Thanks again Ralph. I'll have to look at this tomorrow, but I'll
> > report back how I get
I was going to suggest, docker is the answer here. You don’t even need a
base distro, as you could just host the docker image of choice on a
container runner such as Amazon or Azure.
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 16:18, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > you may like to take a
Ralph, well remembered... I was going to post a message explaining the same
shortly after last month's meeting but forgot.
It would seem that Jitsi will not notify others in the lobby when
lobbyMembersWaiting >1, which seems a bit weird. Everyone just sits there
thinking they are the only ones wai
future I'll try to join the meeting later.
> On 27/02/2024 10:49, Hugh Frater wrote:
> > Ralph, well remembered... I was going to post a message explaining the
> same
> > shortly after last month's meeting but forgot.
> >
> > It would seem that Jitsi will not not
Meeting is open and ready for 8pm…. I’m pottering about so will come and
go. But I’ll leave the room open.
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 19:20, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset <
dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/03/2024 05:28, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The next On
Was it not the Kings Arms in Wallisdown where we used to meet?
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 at 11:27, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> On 11/03/2024 18:09, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At the last online meeting, several of us expressed interest in doing
> in
I'm also flexible, I drive and don't have a particularly full schedule at
the moment.
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 14:51, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset <
dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> Bump. What dates and times and venues work for all of you? I can be pretty
> flexible because I can drive and
Before it goes in the WEEE skip, does anyone have a use for an iPad mini,
model a1490 (cellular)… works fine, holds a charge.
Happy to deliver in the bpc area.
Hugh
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If you boot it up with the lid closed, the login screen should appear on
the external monitors, at least it has done for me on every Linux laptop
I’ve used for the last 20yrs (I’m exclusively a laptop user)….
You’ll need to make sure the bios settings are such that it won’t go to
sleep when you cl
I would personally avoid... WiFi extenders are junk, you're much better off
with a proper mesh network setup.
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 11:43, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> We are in the middle of a kitchen refit, and I am wondering if anyone has
> any experience with this sort of socket.
>
> Or should I
I would usually be able to make it, no problem, just not this week as I’m
away tomorrow evening.
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On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 at 14:30, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset <
dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would be happy to go there, but unfortunately I am ill so I should
Sorry I missed last nights meeting, was otherwise engaged in non-computing
related stuff.
Clive, sorry to hear you’re having issues. Probably the easiest option is
to just do a clean install ?
Will anyone be at FRARS Hamfest this Sunday? I’m planning on going for a
wander around.
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Linux first, vista secong is pretty easy. I did it a few months back
but can't remember the instructions I used. Nothing super technical
though.
Hugh
2009/3/9 Nic Lonsdale :
> Might I suggest he install Ubuntu.
>
> There is plenty of information on the Ubuntu forums about creating a
> dual boot m
The instructions I read also had a link to doing it the other way round...
Hugh
2009/3/9 Terry Coles :
> On Monday 09 Mar 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
>> On Monday 09 Mar 2009, Hugh Frater wrote:
>> > Linux first, vista secong is pretty easy. I did it a few months back
>>
>Was it either of these?
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_linux_is_already_installed.htm
Yep, that's the one
> I have a vague memory of that being one of the improvements in Vista.
> Even if it wasn't, it wouldn't wipe Linux, only GRUB. You'd have to boot
> into Linux from a CD
FWIW - I've always used EnvyNG to configure ati and nvidia graphics
cards - it's the only way I've managed to get them to work properly!
Hugh
2009/3/19 John Carlyle-Clarke :
> Terry Coles wrote:
>> I decided that a new (more) 'soopa-doopa' graphics card would be in order to
>> replace my low-end
Provided you buy an intel centrino platform laptop and avoid the
amd/broadcom/ati package that comes with amd's turion mobile platform
your fine with any modern distro.
Hugh
2009/3/24 Sean Gibbins :
> Mark Elkins wrote:
>> Sean
>>
>> Even though a staff discount is available is this Acer laptop t
I past the car whilst heading into wool from wareham last week on my
way to work...
Don't know if he was 'working' or not...
2009/3/29 Simon O'Riordan :
> I saw the Google Earth car in King Street on Friday. Weymouth will soon be
> available. Look for the guy who is waving from the Red car.
> Sim
Have you installed the nvidia-settings package? I use that to control
my graphics resolution...
2009/4/7 Dean Ramsden :
>>
>> Any thoughts on how to get back to 1280x960?
>>
>> Peter M.
>
> I don't have the full thread on this box so I have no idea what you have
> attempted before but have you tr
Peter,
Did you have any joy with nvidia-settings? It works sweetly on my
lenovo with geforce go 7600 or whatever it is and I run 1680x1050
2009/4/8 Simon O'Riordan :
> There is a manual selection available in a configuration utility(whose name
> I forget) which is used to select make, model and o
This looks very interesting, thanks. I think I will make an appearance
with my boss...
Hugh
2009/4/30 Simon O'Riordan :
> Peter Merchant wrote:
>> My external examiner, John Easton of IBM will be giving a talk in
>> Weymouth about some of the things that you can do with a playstation.
>>
>> He is
Anyone going? My boss and I were going to make an appearance but he's
busy now - I might pop on down after work...
Hugh
2009/5/14 Ralph Corderoy :
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a reminder that the talk Peter Merchant pointed out is tonight at
> Weymouth College.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailm
You could just do a distro update from the update manager? I did it a
few weeks ago from 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 and it worked sweetly...
Hugh
2009/5/29 C A Wills :
> Hi All
>
> I have just bought a Maxtor Basic 250Gb external HD for storing my
> wife's photo's. It is formated as NTFS and I'd like
I'm an amarok guy but the newest version is a little bit 'weird'...
Guess that's qt4.x or whatever that makes it look like it does.
Nice player though imho...
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Okay, so I've decided that I want to write some technical
documentation for one of our software packages here at work. I would
like to be able to deliver a help system for windows (chm probably -
some of our user base uses 2k pro) as well as a nicely styled
paper/pdf manual from the same source. It
Ralph,
> Is DocBook to CHM straighforward these days?
I simply assumed from my research that it was. I know that microsoft
now want to eol CHM support and move to something else (I can't
remember what exactly though) and this replacement might be easier?
Hugh
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And to throw another spanner in the works, I've just discovered
reStructuredText which looks rather sweet...
Hugh
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>> Nice pub but limited parking. I think the Bournemouth Wetherspoon's pub
>> (Moon in the Square) might be a better venue as you can park after 7pm
>> for free outside the townhall.
>>
> Hello
>
> Don't think you can park for free now as they've put in parking machines
> in the last few weeks. Ca
I left Crossways and headed back home (corfe castle) around 5pm, just
rain everywhere...
The severe weather warning says, for dorset:
'A band of heavy rain will turn to sleet or snow, especially on hills
and away from southern coastal districts of Dorset'
So I guess that means that if the pub me
The DVS (Digital vinyl software) I use, Xwax uses git and it seems to
work well, not that I use it for anything other than checkouts...
Might be worth asking Mark (project manager for xwax) on the mailing
list what his thoughts on it are?
hth,
Hugh
On 11 February 2010 19:45, Tim Allen wrote:
>
Any other N900 users on list? I've just ordered mine after much tooing
and froing between getting android and the htc hd2...
Purchased out right sim free...
On 13 October 2009 07:30, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 12 at 04:19, Andrew Drapper wrote:
>> What do people on LUG think of Maem
Please accept my apologies for receiving a message with an attached
link to a rapidshare file. I believe my gmail account was comprimised
sometime this morning.
Regards,
Hugh Frater
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On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Hugh Frater wrote:
> > Please accept my apologies for receiving a message with an attached
> > link to a rapidshare file. I believe my gmail account was comprimised
> > sometime this morning.
>
> I don't think it was compromised quite as badly as
gt;
>
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 08:41 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
> > On Friday 02 Apr 2010, Hugh Frater wrote:
> > > Please accept my apologies for receiving a message with an attached
> > > link to a rapidshare file. I believe my gmail account was comprimised
> > >
Hello! Does anyone have a spare NSLU2 lying about that they don't use anymore?
Cheers,
Hugh
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Natalie,
Dasault systems are due to release they're new 2d cad package
'draft-sight' I think it's called for linux later this year. Worth a
look if you want some 'what looks like' half decent 2d cad on linux?
I'm going to give it a roll when it comes out
Hugh
On 27 September 2010 17:02, John Ca
www.linuxcnc.org is the way forward :)
On 20 September 2010 09:50, Tim Allen wrote:
> Hi Ralph
>
> On 20/09/10 00:11, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just read http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+start-up+from+hell and
>> thought it may amuse some on the list. It's about using an Atari ST
talie Hooper
wrote:
> On 27 September 2010 22:25, Hugh Frater wrote:
>
>> Natalie,Nicely done sir :)
>>
>> Dasault systems are due to release they're new 2d cad package
>> 'draft-sight' I think it's called for linux later this year. Worth a
>
> To be honest, I'm
> not even sure how AutoCAD compares to other packages for highways.
>From my experience with Solidworks and what I've heard about ProE and
Catia, you wouldn't want to design highways with them, they're far too
'technical', for want of a better word!
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