Re: [Dorset] Sound issues

2017-02-04 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday, 4 February 2017, at 23:24:23 GMT, Tim wrote: > ...very bassey, very distorted. If I play a CD\mp3 through > Clementine then with the use of the inbuilt equaliser the > output is ok. This makes me wonder whether your sound hardware is being treated as surround sound hardware, and the

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 15:38:52, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > The relevant documentation is > https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html > and this list's settings are > > first_strip_reply_to = 0 > reply_goes_to_list = 0 > reply_to_address = '' I was more inclined

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 15:10:39, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > I have "Reply-to" set to my own address in my configuration > (As an experiment, I will remove it for this message.) That seems to solve the problem. Apologies for any inconvenience. Patrick -- Next meeting: Bour

[Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi All, I've just noticed that my messages to this list seem to be set up so that replies to them by default go straight to me rather than the list. This seems wrong to me. Does anyone know what configuration I need to change in KMail so that replies go to the list by default? I have "Reply-t

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 14:29:54, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > It may be that the only way to terminate Firefox cleanly from > outside of Firefox is to simulate a Ctrl+Q keystroke I tried > xdotool search --name "Mozilla Firefox" key ctrl+q which worked. (You probably

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Tim, On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 13:06:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Firefox's handling of TERM is unsavoury. It doesn't treat it > like a user's request to quit. You may find one of the > programs that lets you script user actions on the X server is > better, e.g. pretending Firefox's window m

Re: [Dorset] Restoring Grub on an EFI Machine

2016-10-05 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Wednesday 05 Oct 2016, at 13:41:45, Terry Coles wrote: > I think things will gradually become less depressing. That would fit with my experience buying a laptop from Dell, with Ubuntu installed, in 2008. A year or two passed before everything in the laptop was supported by standard Linux dist

Re: [Dorset] Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2016-08-12 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Terry, Will's advice looks good. I am watching the thread with interest! I imagine the way to achieve a captive portal is to run a specialised DNS server on the Raspberry Pi, and configure the router to use that as the DNS server for the local network. In your case it would probably suffic

Re: [Dorset] Help Needed: Can anyone with a Windows Phone or an older iPhone or iPad test this link?

2016-08-06 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 06 Aug 2016, at 18:45:45, Terry Coles wrote: > ...what I need to know is can people play the samples on the > page below with a Windows Phone or older iPhone or iPad? I tried the page in Safari on my university-issued iPad Mini, which has the user agent string: > Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CP

Re: [Dorset] OT: No Signal from Graphics Card on Newly Built PC

2016-07-13 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Wednesday 13 Jul 2016, at 21:40:29, Andrew wrote: > Assuming the OS is going to be Linux-based, install it on the > hard disk using another machine (Possibly using a USB to SATA > adapter), then plug the hard disk into the 'real' computer. If > you install an SSH server you might find you can co

Re: [Dorset] IMAP instead of POP3 in KMail

2016-06-19 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sunday 12 Jun 2016, at 12:04:45, Terry Coles wrote: > ...In particular, I like to archive messages into sub-folders and > then get the filters to automatically sort incoming messages > into the appropriate folders automatically. > ... > If I changed from POP3 to IMAP ... will I still be able to

Re: [Dorset] New subscriber using Kubuntu in Poole

2016-06-19 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sunday 19 Jun 2016, at 17:16:57, Terry Coles wrote: > On Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:29:32 BST Peter Merchant wrote: > > On 18/06/16 22:46, Tim wrote: > > > Hi Patrick, welcome to the group... > > > > > > I also cycle, I can be seen astride a mountain bike from > > > time to time, it is not a prett

[Dorset] New subscriber using Kubuntu in Poole

2016-06-18 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hello, My name is Patrick and I have just subscribed to this mailing list. I've been meaning to for years but only just got around to it. I have been using Linux-based OSes on personal systems for about ten years, mainly on laptops as my day-to-day desktop OS. My current and fairly long-stand

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