Re: [Dorset] Can I use hostnames with ssh without editing /etc/hosts

2013-08-17 Thread Peter Merchant
0 This limits the range of static IP addresses that you can use. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Peter Merchant
ux. HP, Acer and Asus seem to be OK but have heard of some problems with Linux on some models. Any help please? Hi Clive, I have just looked on Gumtree and there is a dell D600 laptop there, Used for one year, and free delivery. £90. would tide you over, or provide parts? Nothing except prin

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Merchant
On 15/08/13 19:42, Peter Washington wrote: - I have always been a fan of Toshiba laptops. Tesco have an offer on a Toshiba Satellite Pro C850-1HE with a 15.6" screen at £299, unfortunately with windows 8. It works with Ubuntu Linux according to the forums. My 2-bits for what it&#x

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Washington
icular computer by actually trying to run up the WiFi connection from and actual Linux boot ! Hope that helps :-) -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-14 Thread Peter Washington
oard to go with a tablet, (the tablet would have to have USB OTG or a standard Host connnection), a stand for the tablet might be quite a good idea too, either buy or make one yourself. -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin

[Dorset] Spare video card

2013-08-11 Thread Peter Merchant
Hi, Does anyone happen to have a spare VGA video card that I could borrow until I buy a new one? It needs to be PCI-e. I put a replacement Motherboard in a computer without realizing that it did not have a video port. Cheers, Peter Merchant. (Colehill) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth

Re: [Dorset] Unable to Make the next LUG meeting

2013-08-04 Thread Peter Merchant
a public talk you should give it to the LUG Charles? Peter :) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-08-03 Thread Peter Merchant
On 03/08/13 14:26, Natalie Hooper wrote: Sadly, I won't be able to make the next meeting as I am currently working up in London during the week. @Victor/Peter: CyanogenMod is the biggest non official provider of Android roms and is quite reliable http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ @Victor: Sa

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-07-31 Thread Peter Merchant
a bit old ... Ditto for my Archos7 Internet Tablet Peter M -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] [OT] ADSL Router monitoring

2013-07-25 Thread Peter Merchant
many Ethernet ports in use on the router? If only one, then run Wireshark on the host. If more than one, or includes Wifi, then can one port be mapped to another and run a computer with Wireshark on it to monitor usage? Cheers, Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Samba and Windows Access to Drives.

2013-06-20 Thread Peter Merchant
ive colour printer on the cheapy HP laserjet 5M parallel printer on my linux computer. Cheers. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-07-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How t

Re: [Dorset] Samba and Windows Access to Drives.

2013-06-20 Thread Peter Merchant
a lot more expensive to run. At the moment on the XP box I print to pdf and stick it in the shared directory to print off from linux. So like many people I do need to be literate in more than one OS. I have not succeeded like Terry in getting my wife on to linux. She thinks that is s

Re: [Dorset] Last nights meeting and thanks

2013-06-05 Thread Peter Merchant
puts me off for a start. Also it is possible down there that we would have to pay for parking. Once before I suggested that we meet at Bournemouth University in their upstairs bar. Any students able to comment? It has wifi. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-07-02 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Broadway meeting next week: event notification

2013-06-04 Thread Peter Washington
I'm not sure how soon I can get it to Rory. Rory, let me know if you'd like a copy, talk to Ralph tonight if you're able to get there and he can put you in touch with me. -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-06-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2013-05-03 Thread Peter Merchant
On 01/05/13 23:32, Victor Churchill wrote: Come on Peter - have not seen you in ages :) Well, You weren't at the last one - first one that I have made in awhile. On 1 May 2013 22:59, C A Wills wrote: Also plan to be there. Peter M - do you want a lift? *C A Wills* /Powered by

[Dorset] A need for short term Oracle DBA and Linux expert

2013-05-02 Thread Peter
. If any one knows someone who may be interested, please pass this on. And please get back to me Peter Linehan p...@aussiepete.co.uk Thanks pwl -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGCsFcACgkQnbH2cLovUvK6iQCfZ7gYi4H7TaolFx8AV4ezpkk6 qroAoLn2OZvqyHjq

Re: [Dorset] Skype - No Video

2013-04-13 Thread Peter Merchant
On 13/04/13 19:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, Natalie wrote: Start-Date: 2013-04-10 17:30:53 Upgrade: libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1, 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1), My guess would be nvidia It does stick out as a common culprit of all ills, doesn't it. :-) Do you have Cheese installed?

[Dorset] USB DVB-T TV receiver

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Merchant
mmands, I have my freecom DVB-T working again. Cheers, peter M -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - 2nd April

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Merchant
t know what you went on to after I left. Peter Dan, Try the instructions here to get your USB TV receiver working, suitably modified of course. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=183297 P. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] DLUG Radio

2013-04-02 Thread Peter Merchant
On 02/04/13 05:23, Dan Jones wrote: 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? If you are dabbling in radio, is it DLUG-DAB?

Re: [Dorset] Anyone familiar with Wine ( the environment, not the liquid)

2013-03-26 Thread Peter Merchant
On 26/03/13 11:30, Gemma wrote: Hi Peter You might try 'PlayonLinux' which although mostly a games installer, uses Wine and installs to a virtual disc. I've found that worked for me with a windows program that didn't want to install correctly directly under Wine. It sho

Re: [Dorset] Anyone familiar with Wine ( the environment, not the liquid)

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Merchant
According to WineHQ, Brothers Keeper is rated as Gold; see http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=7841 If you rummage around on that site you may find some guidance. I know, but that is an older version of Brothers keeper, on an older version of Ubuntu. I have looked

[Dorset] Anyone familiar with Wine ( the environment, not the liquid)

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Merchant
close the program. I have to kill it from the terminal. I notice that BK is using 74% of the cpu and wine another 44%. To test it I then installed Irfanview under wine and that works fine. Any suggestions please? Thanks, Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets

Re: [Dorset] Hi from pissed off Windows user in Weymouth - wanting to change

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Merchant
forum, so wait for other suggestions. Cheers, Peter M PS In Xubuntu the menu is in the top left hand corner. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Hello All - At last. Just starting out!

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Merchant
get the 'man' pages from the command line. CTRL-x to exit when you have read them, and at the foot of the techrepublic.com page is a one page Linux quick reference page. Cheers, Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] External HD - Permission denied

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Merchant
/dev/sdb1 /media/CAW1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 For those of us not so hot on this stuff, is it related to "nosuid,nodev" and then what do we do? Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-04-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC

Re: [Dorset] Power saving - how to shut down

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Merchant
On 24/02/13 13:03, Peter Merchant wrote: On 24/02/13 10:01, Peter Merchant wrote: Sometimes this machine is left switched on from early morning until late evening, and only used a couple of times. Can anyone suggest a means of causing the computer to shut down if unattended for a specified

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 474, Issue 2

2013-02-24 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/02/13 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: > One final question; I've never played around with RAID before. What happens > if I remove one disc from the array and then power the machine up? Is this a > reasonable simulation of a fa

Re: [Dorset] Slight OT: Cloning a RAID array of SSDs

2013-02-24 Thread Peter Merchant
aying that makes me think it might be a good idea to back up the clonezilla backup off-PC. You don't mention where you intend to back up your stuff to. Is it an attached external disc(s), or across a network? Will Clonezilla make a copy of each raid disc, or will it make one copy of

Re: [Dorset] Power saving - how to shut down

2013-02-24 Thread Peter Merchant
On 24/02/13 10:01, Peter Merchant wrote: Sometimes this machine is left switched on from early morning until late evening, and only used a couple of times. Can anyone suggest a means of causing the computer to shut down if unattended for a specified time (i.e 20 mins, 30 mins)? I don't

[Dorset] Power saving - how to shut down

2013-02-24 Thread Peter Merchant
at it has not been gobbling watts for the last 4 hours. I'm not concerned about the arguments that switching on and off more than necessary stresses the PSU etc. Thanks, Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn,

Re: [Dorset] opensource projects

2013-02-16 Thread Peter Merchant
too). Cheers, Adrian This is pretty good too. https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ I read the text and did the first set of exercises before I realised that there were videos to go with it. Because it is interpretive I can edit the 'source' code and flip over to the terminal

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-14 Thread Peter Merchant
My Android tablet has downloaded my gmail contacts to the contact application. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectiv

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: FW: Common Linux myths busted

2013-02-02 Thread Peter Merchant
On 02/02/13 18:36, Victor Churchill wrote: Sorry Peter, but I am afraid I find linuxit.com is (yet another) one of those linux bandwagon sites that I feel an automatic aversion to - it does not really do it for me either. Good. I thought it was a bunch of Hokey too. The only interesting

[Dorset] Fwd: FW: Common Linux myths busted

2013-02-01 Thread Peter Merchant
http://www.linuxit.com/blog/bid/253074/Eleven-Bizarre-Things-People-Say-About-Linux-FLIPBOOK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bu

Re: [Dorset] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools

2013-02-01 Thread Peter Merchant
On 01/02/13 10:09, Peter Merchant wrote: On 01/02/13 09:06, Tim Allen wrote: On 31/01/13 18:57, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 31 Jan 2013 13:38:55 Ralph Corderoy wrote: What kind of teaching are they going to do? Playing with Scratch, or doing it properly by teaching them logic and

Re: [Dorset] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools

2013-02-01 Thread Peter Merchant
cro in real terms. Tim Terry - That was the Logo language wasn't it? I wonder if it is available for the R-Pi. Tim - Will you take your R-Pi to the meet on Tuesday, I won't be able to come, but I could pack up mine with an Ethernet hub and PSU so that you could play with it?

Re: [Dorset] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools

2013-01-31 Thread Peter Merchant
"CoderDojo also puts a strong emphasis on open source and free software." Do the others use Open Source, or is it completely inconsistent? Note - Plenty of 'coderdojos' in Ireland, 16 in the UK, None in Dorset. Not a lot to be going on with. Apologies for my rant on this. Pete

Re: [Dorset] Google to Give Away 15, 000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Merchant
On 29/01/13 18:21, Terry Coles wrote: Here's some good news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21243825. Google giving 15,000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools through the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Well, Perhaps that will bring down the prices of HDMI monitors. I couldn't find one under £103 P.

Re: [Dorset] Code Club and Volunteers.

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Merchant
what I have seen of Scratch, it is very much a 'program generator' as we used to call them. Peter. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman

Re: [Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-25 Thread Peter Merchant
so I thought I would get it and replace W8 on my test box. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/fedora-18-finally-to-be-released-with-game-changing-features/4105 Now thinking again while test box rests. Peter M -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list

Re: [Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Merchant
it on only has a CD drive. Peter M -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] volunteer work

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Merchant
t advice. That email should have come across as an advertisement for you. You should have told us something of your capabilities and experiences, in good English. Also you must have a decent email address to use when applying for jobs, not the one that you have used here. Good Luck, Peter

Re: [Dorset] They can have Windows and other proprietary operating systems

2013-01-16 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/01/13 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: > They can have Windows and other proprietary operating systems If I remember correctly there is a US battleship running Windows that has been regularly towed back to port due to computer malf

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2013-01-03 Thread Peter Merchant
On 02/01/13 18:36, Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jan 2013 19:29:51 Andrew R Paterson wrote: you state "Certainly, on desktop Linux, there are far more virus signatures in the virus database than there are known viruses that attack Linux." Thats an interesting "fact", pray where did you get i

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Less than one week tonight

2013-01-02 Thread Peter Merchant
ck for the day. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Nexus 7 virus software, any problems?

2013-01-02 Thread Peter Merchant
e user. See above. I didn't get a chance when my kids and consorts came back for New Year to find out which ones Android phone was responsible for the smurf attacks in my network. It is 4 x android, 0 x iphone and I know that three of them connect to my wireless network, not sure ab

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 466, Issue 4

2012-12-30 Thread Peter
Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:48:47 + > From: Ralph Corderoy > To: Dorset Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Dorset] Can you elaberate on how ksh is more secure? > Message-ID: <20121229174848.2a37227...@orac.inputplus.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ut

Re: [Dorset] Can you elaberate on how ksh is more secure?

2012-12-28 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/12/12 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: > Can you elaberate on how ksh is more secure? Chris, Bash is open source so the source code is available, hence a modified version might be installed - obviously proper setup; configurations

Re: [Dorset] Android - Network Parameters

2012-12-28 Thread Peter Merchant
On 22/12/12 18:35, Natalie Masse Hooper wrote: On 22/12/12 16:33, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, periodically my Archos tablet (android 2.2) sends multiple UDP packets that my router calls a UDP flood. Have you Skype installed on the tablet? Yes. But I've never used it! I think it&#

Re: [Dorset] MEMTEST on Ubuntu 12.10 is Broken!

2012-12-27 Thread Peter Merchant
y new year. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Android - Network Parameters

2012-12-22 Thread Peter Merchant
On 22/12/12 15:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, periodically my Archos tablet (android 2.2) sends multiple UDP packets that my router calls a UDP flood. Have you Skype installed on the tablet? Cheers, Ralph. Yes. But I've never used it! P. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tu

[Dorset] Android - Network Parameters

2012-12-22 Thread Peter Merchant
out that. Any thoughts? For the moment I am going to disable the wireless on the tablet when it is not in use, which is a bit of a pain, but the battery should last longer. Thanks,Peter Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] Apostrophes etc Bash and alternatives

2012-12-21 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/12/12 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Just to add to what Terry and Ralph have written, I work with Linux all day and if I need a job done its almost the shell [ I use ksh as its more secure ] and awk. Yes I know python is bette

Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu spyware?

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Merchant
. Should the article have specified Ubuntu with the unity GUI? Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Query- accessing python files as a web page on this computer.

2012-11-25 Thread Peter Merchant
On 25/11/12 10:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Ok, So maybe I defined my problem incorrectly. I want to have a form on the screen to fill, and thought that a web browser was the way to go. It might be. Is this for just you to use? There's still a bit of a lack of detail, e.g. compl

Re: [Dorset] Query- accessing python files as a web page on this computer.

2012-11-24 Thread Peter Merchant
On 20/11/12 14:37, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, http://www.ehow.com/how_8795737_create-screens-forms-python.html OK, so that's two Python scripts expecting to be run by a CGI web server, e.g. Apache. Or you could consider this little Python one. http://effbot.org/librar

Re: [Dorset] Query- accessing python files as a web page on this computer.

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Merchant
On 20/11/12 13:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, What does myform.py do? It puts a form up on the screen as a web page. Will it need to handle the form's submission too? Cheers, Ralph. Eventually - one step at a time. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-12-04 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Query- accessing python files as a web page on this computer.

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Merchant
On 20/11/12 12:43, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I want to open my python file as a web page, but cannot easily figure out how to do it. When I browse to it as a file in firefox, FF wants to open it with kate. I have tried http://localhost/peterm/Python/myform.py and that doesn't work

Re: [Dorset] Query- accessing python files as a web page on this computer.

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Merchant
On 20/11/12 12:43, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I want to open my python file as a web page, but cannot easily figure out how to do it. When I browse to it as a file in firefox, FF wants to open it with kate. I have tried http://localhost/peterm/Python/myform.py and that doesn't work

[Dorset] Query- accessing python files as a web page on this computer.

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Merchant
lhost. Is it easy, or do I need to install Apache? Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-12-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Accessing Mac OS X Keychain on Linux.

2012-10-28 Thread Peter Merchant
.co.uk/ He has been helpful and is linux friendly( especially as OSX is a sort of linux). I have never seen him in a dirty mac. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: m

Re: [Dorset] Nas access issues

2012-10-27 Thread Peter Merchant
xed IP addresses outside of your DHCP range, but in the same subnet. For instance, my router is 192.168.1.1, my DHCP range is 192.168.1.2 - 8 and my wife's XP box, which has the shared folder that I use for passing things between other units on the network, is 192.168.1.10. Cheers, Peter -

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Computer/Recycle mailing lists

2012-10-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On 21/10/12 13:33, Gemma wrote: Hi a quick search of the 10,000+ emails I have from the group, turned up this, I hope its useful and maybe of interest to others with old machines. Gemma Original Message Subject: [Dorset] Computer/Recycle mailing lists Date: Wed, 14 Ja

Re: [Dorset] Who was it that I had email re a Charity that needs old computers

2012-10-18 Thread Peter Washington
Hi Peter, On 18 October 2012 15:46, Peter wrote: > Sorry to send this to the group, but for the life of me I can not find the > email > I thought I had kept. > > Some time ago one of the members sent me an email relating to some old > hardware > and he/she mentioned that h

[Dorset] Who was it that I had email re a Charity that needs old computers

2012-10-18 Thread Peter
Sorry to send this to the group, but for the life of me I can not find the email I thought I had kept. Some time ago one of the members sent me an email relating to some old hardware and he/she mentioned that he got and refurbished old equipment to give to a charity. If it was you can please emai

Re: [Dorset] Recover

2012-10-12 Thread Peter Merchant
it always takes a day or two to recover from that. Peter M. -- Next meeting: ???, ???day, 2012-11-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Kaffeine plays only one track - linked to CD under VM problem?

2012-10-11 Thread Peter Merchant
On 10/10/12 17:54, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, In /dev I have: cdrom3 --> sr0 cdrw3 --> sr0 dvd3 --> sr0 dvdrw3 --> sr0 sr0 and sr1 I guess that the --> means a simlink? Probably, depends what's showing it. `ls -l' will show a `l' in the first column

[Dorset] Kaffeine plays only one track - linked to CD under VM problem?

2012-10-09 Thread Peter Merchant
drom3 --> sr1 cdrw3 --> sr1 dvd3 --> sr1 dvdrw3 --> sr1 sr0 and sr1 I guess that the --> means a simlink? I don't know why the (3) on each of those filenames. Any idea how I find out which of these is being used and how to simplify the setup/ Thanks, Peter M -- Next meeti

Re: [Dorset] connecting to SMB server

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Merchant
ry Pi forums, and a couple of security forums as well as Techrepublic. And also winnews.com forum, but I haven't been on that one for a year or so. That takes up too much of my time Peter M. -- Next meeting: ???, ???day, 2012-11-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn,

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-10-07 Thread Peter Merchant
On 28/09/12 08:05, Peter Merchant wrote: When you used wicd did you change the settings to use wext? I have a hazy but insistent memory that this was key to getting the card working correctly with any security settings. I can also remember that wicd and network-manager didn't play n

[Dorset] Printer profiles

2012-10-03 Thread Peter Harris
r for photo paper, photo tray and high quality printing. I have tried setting up two printers to the same physical printer but some of the settings are not remembered. Any ideas please? Peter Harris. I don't think this was sent properly so am sending again. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tue

[Dorset] Printer profiles

2012-10-01 Thread Peter Harris
r for photo paper, photo tray and high quality printing. I have tried setting up two printers to the same physical printer but some of the settings are not remembered. Any ideas please? Peter Harris. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-10-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-28 Thread Peter Merchant
on Tuesday, but I'll buy you a beer when we do meet. Cheere, Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-10-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Recover

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Merchant
it-hot-qstn;hot-qstn3 It suggests trying 'recova' but also warns like Adrian, that this is best left to teh professionals. Cheers, Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-10-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mai

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-23 Thread Peter Merchant
On 23/09/12 12:25, Peter Merchant wrote: On 22/09/12 22:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 22/09/12 21:18, Peter Merchant wrote: The PCMCIA card is a Linksys WPC54g revision 5. I have spent some time every evening since before last Friday working on this, and am now giving up and admitting defeat

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-23 Thread Peter Merchant
On 22/09/12 22:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 22/09/12 21:18, Peter Merchant wrote: The PCMCIA card is a Linksys WPC54g revision 5. I have spent some time every evening since before last Friday working on this, and am now giving up and admitting defeat. I'll move on to my next pr

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-22 Thread Peter Merchant
Dynamic WEP to start with, and under the WPA selection 6 other choices, starting ith the type of authentication. Peter -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Repor

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On 21/09/12 15:38, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get an obscure PCMCIA card working under ndiswrapper and I now have it recognised, but it doesn't connect. I have discovered that the existing config files were for the usual wir

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On 21/09/12 09:28, Peter Merchant wrote: On 19/09/12 22:59, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 19/09/12 22:02, Peter Merchant wrote: On 19/09/12 17:21, Peter Merchant wrote: On 18/09/12 21:50, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 18/09/12 09:59, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 18:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On 19/09/12 22:59, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 19/09/12 22:02, Peter Merchant wrote: On 19/09/12 17:21, Peter Merchant wrote: On 18/09/12 21:50, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 18/09/12 09:59, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 18:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 17:47, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-19 Thread Peter Merchant
On 19/09/12 17:21, Peter Merchant wrote: On 18/09/12 21:50, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 18/09/12 09:59, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 18:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 17:47, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 13:46, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-19 Thread Peter Merchant
On 18/09/12 21:50, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 18/09/12 09:59, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 18:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 17:47, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 13:46, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get an obscure PCMCIA card

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-18 Thread Peter Merchant
On 17/09/12 18:43, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 17:47, Peter Merchant wrote: On 17/09/12 13:46, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get an obscure PCMCIA card working under ndiswrapper and I now have it recognised, but it doesn't co

Re: [Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-17 Thread Peter Merchant
On 17/09/12 13:46, Dean Ramsden wrote: On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get an obscure PCMCIA card working under ndiswrapper and I now have it recognised, but it doesn't connect. I have discovered that the existing config files were for the usual wir

[Dorset] Shades of Grey - Ndiswrapper config

2012-09-17 Thread Peter Merchant
d use the Windows Wireless Drivers program from the menu, and select the configure driver option, it is greyed out and I cannot use it. Any thoughts, aside from pulling back one of the other configs and changing MAC address? This is on an ancient x30 thinkpad running xUbuntu 12.04. Thanks, Pe

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread Peter Washington
On 15 September 2012 20:07, Peter Merchant wrote: > On 15/09/12 19:33, Adrian Warman wrote: >> >> I think Leo's recommendation is Python. >> >> In any event, I would also recommend it. It's platform-agnostic, it's >> used by big compan

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread Peter Merchant
thon for learning. I believe that there is an editor from which you can run your python and then drop back to the editor, but I don't know what it is. It might be Notepad++ in a W$ environment. Notepad++ and Kate both display text in different colours depending on their function. Peter

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 449, Issue 4

2012-09-01 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/12 13:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: > Send dorset mailing list submissions to > dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2012-08-07's Pub Meeting.

2012-08-12 Thread Peter Merchant
. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2012-09-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Aug 7th Meeting - wireless PC cards

2012-08-08 Thread Peter Merchant
On 08/08/12 21:06, Peter Merchant wrote: Here is a useful link to the wireless devices supported by Ubuntu, by different form factors/card types. Peter And the link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported P. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, ???day 2012-09-0? 20:00

[Dorset] Aug 7th Meeting - wireless PC cards

2012-08-08 Thread Peter Merchant
ived circa 2008. Here is a useful link to the wireless devices supported by Ubuntu, by different form factors/card types. Peter -- Next meeting: Dorchester, ???day 2012-09-0? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mai

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 442, Issue 5 Meetings in Dorchester

2012-07-07 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I work in Weymouth but live in Wareham so a meeting Dorchester is workable for me. I had tried to get to a couple there a few years ago, but managed to miss everyone - both times :-( cheers pwl -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

[Dorset] Wireless devices supported by Linux

2012-07-03 Thread Peter Merchant
caught out by this. Peter M. http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Belkin -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs

Re: [Dorset] Old 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive needed

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Washington
it form you at the next meeting. Thank you very much for your offer and quick response, it's much appreciated. On 25 June 2012 21:57, C A Wills wrote: > Peter W > > I've got one you can have. Live in Wimborne or can take to next meeting. > If required please email off list

[Dorset] Old 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive needed

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Washington
27;d spread the net a bit wider, he's prepared to pay a reasonable price for one if there's one available. Ralph, could you polssibly pass this request on other LUG's Hampshire & Wiltshire would be good, thanks. -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06

Re: [Dorset] New DVD writing error

2012-06-23 Thread Peter Merchant
ors. So my conclusion is that the Drive is OK, but ubuntu has a problem communicating with it. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] Made me laugh

2012-06-19 Thread Peter Merchant
I have just bought from Novatech a 7 port powered USB Hub to work with my Raspberry Pi. It's smaller than a fag packet. What is interesting is that the features lists compatible with Windows ME/2000/xp etc, Lunix 2.4. ??? Under System Requirements, aside for Pentium etc, it lists 'Macitosh'.

Re: [Dorset] New DVD writing error

2012-06-16 Thread Peter Merchant
On 14/06/12 21:08, Justin Stringfellow wrote: On 14/06/2012 20:36, Peter Merchant wrote: WRITE@LBA=240h failed with SK=5h/INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE]: Invalid argument Check out the following thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1317448 Other than that, try a live CD to see if it

Re: [Dorset] New DVD writing error

2012-06-14 Thread Peter Merchant
On 14/06/12 23:07, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 14/06/2012 20:36, Peter Merchant wrote: Devices --- TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222BB SB00 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential

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