On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:18:18 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> These rights include the ability to lend or resell the book
> and to move it to another reader. As with the MP3 industry, the
> publishers want you to buy a new copy every time you buy a new reader.
I think this is the key point with
Hello,
Does this server have Firefox and Flash installed? You might find you need
X installed for this to work.
If it does have both installed and working you should be able to use FF.
Now every so often get FF to open
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/speedtest this will run the test.
Then
Hello,
I just thought I'd post regarding BUNIX having a meeting October 14th @
19:00. I know a few people have shown interest in the past so I thought
I'd pass the invite out.
In case anyone is not aware we are a UNIX related user group (not directly
associated with the University) who get
Hello,
I've just had it pointed out to me that I failed to post a URL of any kind
linking to us.
http://www.bunix.org.uk/ is out main site with links to our irc channel
and mailing list.
http://groups.google.com/group/bunix or bu...@googlegroups.com for
shortcuts to our mailing list and fi
Opera 10 flash 10 Fedora 11...no luck same wierd problems.
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Hello,
Yeah we had 7 turn up in the end. Was a good night with talks covering a
range of Linux and non-computing subjects. Some interesting input on the
current image of the BCS.
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:34:16 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
I am currently trying the guide at
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=221727 . If I have any success
I will post back. Thought I'd point you this way just in case you wanted
to give it a go yourself.
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;m open to offers. I
should be able to drive it to you if necessary.
Give me a shout if anyone is interested - or you know someone who might be.
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:11:34 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> Anyone know how to cut and paste into a vi session running in an ash
> shell under VirtualBox?
Without pastebin integration working - you can't.
You could however ssh into the Guest and copy/past into your terminal on
your Host.
Or
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:06 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> find / -name xorg.conf
>
> Tried that; there was no find command (or locate).
use -iname (ignores case).
As for not being able to use find. Have you checked your $PATH etc. Also
ha
I put my name to the petition for one reason.
Members of a population cannot be expected to make valid decisions (aka.
vote) if data is presented to them in a format which is either
non-accessible or would cause the members of the populous personal
sacrifice to access. OK data could be prese
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:47:33 -, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> They are asking for a prior decision to discriminate against individuals
> and companies who attempt to retain ownership of their property.
You don't stop 'owning' software by open sourcing it. Same as you don't
stop 'owning' the
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:41:54 -, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> That's a persuasive argument. But I think proprietory companies would
> simply comply by providing 'readers', like Powerpoint viewer.
As far as I'm concerned if a company provides a 'reader' that will work on
any system I choose
Hello,
I should be able to get to Dorchester this month. I'll be driving from
Bournemouth and currently have 3 spare seats if anyone would like a lift.
Diesel money would be nice - a coke would do ;) - but isn't necessary.
Drop me an email with your address if you'd like me to pick you up alo
KDE 4.3 is a big improvement on 4.2 (I'm in the Fedora camp over here).
Much more stable and many of the quirks ironed out. Thats not to say its
"finished" yet, just at a point where its useable.
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Not open source software - but I'm a long term user. Very much a program
worth a try if you get the time.
Sorry - I'll try not to be a fanboy too much.
Rob
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In Bournemouth we have the Moon in the Square - I'd agree its often too
busy/noisy (even mid week) to be able to have a conversation. There is
also a new Weatherspoons in the Lansdown area The Christopher Creeke. This
is somewhat quieter but parking would be a real issue. There is roadside
parking
Also check if KDE is trying to start Skype (under System Settings ->
Advanced -> Autostart) I've found KDE trying to start apps in there and
from the previous session before.
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If this patent were ever to come up in court I would just fight prior
existence. A GUI requesting priviledge escalation has existed on OSX and
*nix long before MS ever implemented it in Windows - end of story.
Personally I am happy such patents exist as they do two things:
a) Show how flawed
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:06:52 -, Clive Wills
wrote:
> On laptop:
> cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
> sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
I think what you are after is actually
sudo tar cvf /media/disk/home.tar /home
The manual for tar I have on Fedora says its this way ro
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:49 -, C A Wills
wrote:
> By the way the USB stick is an 8Gb one so should not be full; just
> thought - formatted vfat - wonder if this is causing the problem, is
> there a file size limit on vfat?
That would be the problem then I'm guessing. You will have a 4GB f
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:47 -, Justin Stringfellow
wrote:
> That said, I would have guessed that a decent SSD will be able to
> retire/reallocate flaky memory locations before they fail completely.
I tend to 'attempt' similar myself. I try to only write to a USB key once
per session. So
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:43:17 -, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> Just discovered, Opera is also a bittorrent client.
Unfortunately not a particularly good one. If your just after the odd
quick file its fine. If your downloading 1080p TV Series I would advise
something more substantial.
Take a
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:39:12 -, Andrew Drapper
wrote:
> I have very little spare cash. Should I upgrade the main-board and
> and processor or by something second-hand from ebay?
This would depend on how 'little' little is. What would be an ideal amount
to spend?
In my experience re-cycl
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:20:48 -, Terry Coles
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My daughter has to do an assignment at Uni using a T-Test. Although the
> Uni
> says that work can be submitted in Either MS or Open Office, they've
> only told
> her how to do it in Excel and she only has OpenOffice.
>
> Is
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:37 -, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Gives the usual problem:- will she know if what she sees is correct?
I suppose to answer that she could either run the test on her simpler
input data she already has the answer for - or - she could try
http://studentsttest.com/
R
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:01 -, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Well, I'm blowed and need to retract this:
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
Big to small - same way time is written ;)
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Hello,
Maybe this is just because I'm running Fedora but - basic install of OO.o
from the main repos through Yum.
Open Calc
select a cell
click the little = sign by the function bar
Open the function wizard (odd icon to the left of the Sigma
Category statistics
TTEST is listed under those func
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:38:08 -, Terry Coles
wrote:
> I just remembered. Won't we going to try somewhere different? Did we
> get a consensus?
I don't think one was ever reached.
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:33:19 -, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> Downloaded the Ubuntu onto the netbook to shuffle onto the flash drive.
> Wouldn't you know it? SLED can't move the file. Sled can't open Nautilus
> as admin. Bloody useless. Can't wait to get rid of this diablolical
> distro.
So
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:44:40 -, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Now, Take the university, with it's 250-300 Wireless access points and
> 16,000 students, and tell me that none of them have ever downloaded
> anything not legit. And it all comes over JANET (Joint Academic
> Network).
I can take qu
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:09:51 -, Sean Gibbins
wrote:
> Instead of Lord Mandelson being paid a fortune to try and make bad,
> outdated law work in favour of his rich sponsors, perhaps we need to
> start employing forward-looking and tech-savvy law makers to overhaul
> the system so that every
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:47:57 -, Mark Elkins
wrote:
> In theory UK law decisions apply a test of reasonableness to them.
> Therefore is it reasonable for those supplying any form of open public
> internet access such as pubs, universities etc to be prey to fines for
> unlawful downloa
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:00:08 -, Andrew Drapper
wrote:
> Looking to put Ubuntu on a refurbished PC, Should I use a single
> drive, obviously the easiest, or should I put the os and programmes on
> one disc docks on another,
That is a question only you can answer. From the sounds of it you
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:12 -, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> I have been aware of the client, but for the cost of the electricity a
> commercial account is better. I have a sensible domain name as well.
From this conversation I am getting the impression you are not running the
client on the
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:03:19 -, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> As I said, I'm using the HP2133 Mini. Must be a Via issue.
> Simono
The Via chips are pretty poor performers, if you are getting it to do
large amounts of graphics work without offloading things onto a GPU then
its not massively
Happy new year guys and gals.
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:12:44 -, Ralph Corderoy
wrote:
> So, perhaps it's easier the other way. Who's planning on going to the
> Dorchester pub tonight?
Given I've two passengers I was going to play it by ear and possibly come.
Most of the forecasts are putting the 'heavy' snow around 18
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:06:28 -, Victor Churchill
wrote:
> I am/was going to be taking Robert up on his offer of a lift in, but
> can see that it could be tricky getting there and especially back
> again. So amybe it does make sense to defer. (Mind you, the pub
> probably won't be too crowde
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:03:40 -, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> and I wonder how many English have a shovel in their car boots?
Sorry - best I've got are some blankets and a full tank of diesel in case
I get stuck.
It just comes down to only ever having snow for a week a year. I've just
learn
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:52:33 -, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> It's too late to study for the exam by then. They have had since
> December 14th to do that. Time to come out and chill.
I'm inclined to agree - as one of the students with an exam - however I
have to put the exam down as my priorit
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:11:23 -, Keith Edmunds
wrote:
> Interesting. Care to summarise how the two methods differ?
An example from our coursework - people gained marks for putting a not
putting firewall between an internet connect and a web-server. Those who
put a firewall between did n
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:14:46 -, Terry Coles
wrote:
> Even if it won't stream, we can still copy files to the PS3 manually and
> watch them that way.
If the PS3 can play it then it can stream it - I've been using mediatomb
for some time now and am very impressed. I've even got mediatomb
Hello Terry,
Sorry for posting twice in a row but I didn't realise exactly the
question. As before I've got a PS3 working quite nicely.
The main script I use is included below. It produces some large files but
it does work on the PS3. I've had this working up to 720p content just
fine so I
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:04:17 -, Terry Coles
wrote:
> It's not that the file wouldn't play on the PS3; I couldn't even add it
> to
> the list of videos for streaming in MediaTomb. Is there a way to do
> this in the shell instead of through a browser so I can see the error
> codes?
th
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:16:59 -, Sean Gibbins
wrote:
> Good luck with that Terry, both genuinely and also in that slightly
> sarcastic tone that suggests you are peeing in the wind.
I don't think a campaign can ever be dropped because its not likely to do
much.
> It's a good thing that y
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:30 -, Dominic Lonsdale
wrote:
> I will continue to allow FON on my router. It costs me nothing, it does
> not cause interference
I hate to sound quite so down and out - but if I were to leech your
connection and run a torrent through *YOUR* line. Then it will be
Interesting I'm running some tests on my windows virtual machines
Internet Explorer 6 on XP with a completely default install was unique
Internet Explorer 7 on Vista with a completely default install was unique
Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 shared its fingerprint with one other
user.
It poss
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:38:29 -, Dominic Lonsdale
wrote:
> The torrent running FON user will have signed on to the BT FON
> connection using his BT log-in and will be identifiable as a seperate
> entity.
Aah - I apologise for my naivety on the BT FON system. That could well be
enough to s
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:03 -, Victor Churchill
wrote:
> Being as the service is 'free'
I don't think cost has ever been his problem. I can see his point, your
not locking yourself into 'their' technology but your also giving them
your data. At least opening your business accounts in
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:35:31 -, Tim Allen
wrote:
> I can live without the drive, so would be grateful for adviceon how I
> can prevent the kernel autodetecting the drive.
To walk into the obvious door. Why can't you unplug the drive? Or just
disable it in the BIOS?
Rob
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:54 -, Peter Harris
wrote:
> It does not appear in the applications menu and I
> can't find a way of starting it.
You don't 'start' any of the Tex packages per-se. You invoke them into
your Tex source.
Like you don't 'run' certain development packages but compil
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:04:15 -, Terry Coles
wrote:
> I think what the OP wants to do is paste his formulae into OOo and have
> it display them in some way. I can't see how to do it, but I feel as if
> there should be a way.
Unfortunately for this instance, the use of formula in TeX is
There are also very strict demands on peoples providing copy written
content. Rules have loosely been written in to protect sites such as
Youtube and Google.
Unfortunatly the whole bill has been poorly put together by politicians
with little or no technological experience and the protection
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:51:30 -, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
wrote:
> must have struck the organisers as a bad idea
> why organise something at a time guaranteed to
> undermine that?
I don't wish to theorise or run conspiracies up but this seems to be
exactly the point. To stop the whole p
That code includes a Javascript file in the webpage for the browser to
download and add to the local JS name space.
Given its an empty file (not verified personally) I'd suggest its a form
of tracking. The people who own that domain will watch every access
attempt on the file and log it. The
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:55:59 +0100, David Stanton
wrote:
>>> The problem is their site (such as it is) is registered at the moment
>>> in the name of the web designers who alone can edit it.
>>
>> If they control the domain name, they can make the address record for
>> that domain point to anot
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:44:58 +0100, David Stanton
wrote:
> This hardly seems something a ethical web designer would do without at
> the very least explaining it to and discussing it with their clients (my
> friends), who not being IT aware, wouldn't look at the source code and
> know anything u
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:28:28 +0100, David Stanton
wrote:
> The site is up and running. I've copied the html code using ctrl-U
> facility on Firefox. There doesn't seem to be anything else untoward on
> it and no other scripts - that is except for spelling and other sloppy
> mistakes, besides a
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:33:05 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> I realise that British justice is nowhere near as unjust as the US
> variety,
It seems our current governing parties are envious though.
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If page changes when viewed - are there differences if you 'log in' then
it must be running some background code.
There will be some code running behind that form - though it would be a
quick job to re-create it so I wouldn't worry too much.
Just to clarify - the php code runs on the server a
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:58 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> people who illegally download buy more music legally than those whodon't.
*clearly* those people would spend even more if they weren't downloading
illegally.
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:36:44 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> I'm not sure if you left out the sarcasm tags or whether you really
> believe
Apologies - I did leave off the sarcasm tags.
I think the 'trialing' is one aspect of the 'pirates'. The other is that
those are the people who are 'into'
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:11:48 +0100, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
wrote:
> Thats essentially what DRM is. As it's already been proven, it is
> entirely ineffective. However, if they were free, time limited full
> songs would be a nice way of doing publicity and try before you buy.
My personal op
Hey,
Sadly not sure if I'll make another - I've now moved up to Wiltshire.
One of the reasons you wouldn't have any students last night is its
dissertation season on the computing course. We're getting into the last 6
weeks of the project so I think most people will be bunkering down to the
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:36:46 +0100, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Well Kim, This sounds negative. What sort of venue would you suggest in
> order to entice you to attend meetings?
I'm probably speaking out of turn here - just send a shaddup my way if I
am.
I think me and Terry have spoken in the
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:33:03 +0100, Ralph Corderoy
wrote:
> Yes, back when installing Linux could be a chore, and we had Bournemouth
> Uni access, folks used to take their hardware along to get problems
> looked at.
There have been times recently where I've felt that would be helpful.
> Sound
You wont hear me saying no if I can make it on the date/time arranged
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:54:32 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke
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> We should post on Wilts LUG once decided. They are forever trying
> (unsuccessfully) to organise a SW Wilts meeting, and Blandford will be
> closer for some than Swindon, where the only meets are at the moment.
> In fact, I'm in W
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:38:23 +0100, Peter Merchant
wrote:
> Which is the easitest to set up and use, or can anyone recomment
> another? I am a Kubuntu user.
Either minicom or the old trusty cu.
I think cu is pretty much out of service in the Linux world though. Go
with minicom.
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On Thu, 13 May 2010 10:26:50 +0100, Ralph Corderoy
wrote:
> Easy drive from Dorchester, easy to find, parking on-site.
Not too bad coming down from north Wiltshire.
> Plush compared to our normal dens.
We did look something out of place ;)
> I noticed the price difference, but then W'spoons
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:09:30 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> Also- I finally managed to set up folder-sharing on VirtualBox.
> It depends on having the guest extensions installed, which means a crap
> screen resolution, but it is the only way I know.
Hello Simon,
Just noticed this. In theory
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:38:34 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> From this, I suspect that the problem isn't anything to do with bash,
> but with whatever it is that makes the link between Konsole and bash.
The first thing I would try is checking what shell is being fired up by
the other terminal
On Sun, 16 May 2010 11:09:26 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand this; are you suggesting that bash might be
> locked? I thought you could run as many instances of bash as you wanted?
Correct - I was implying that you may not have been using bash on the
virtual console. Y
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In general this should be very good news. In practice I'm not so convinced.
As yet I can't see the downside for the 'general' person. Ask me again in
5 years time.
One fishy element is MS being heavely financially invested in h264 and the
MPEG-LA, it makes little sense for them to turn their
Hmm - the first thought is puppy might not be an ideal 'demonstration'
linux for someone fresh. Though its designed to be 'easy', its primary
purpose it to be small. Small might work but isn't feature rich.
However, choice has been made now so I wont go on.
Apparenly puppy has a linux-firewal
On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:18:50 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
> I wouldn't say he is fresh; he's been playing with Linux for some time
> and liked Puppy because it is so light.
Aah OK. It seemed he was new to Linux and I was worried may have made the
wrong choice. I'm not convinced I'd use puppy
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:05:14 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> It's going on nicely, as smooth as Ubuntu in every respect so far.
Not someone who plays .mp3s regularly then ;)
As a Fedora user I would advise and 'desktop' system has the RPM Fusion
repository installed rpmfusion.org . The stan
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:42:17 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
I tend to use this guide on fresh installs
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f12.html sadly [s]he has not
released a F13 version as yet. Hopefully it will arrive soon. If your
careful you should be able to follow the F1
On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:56:57 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
wrote:
> But I still think that Ubuntu is better. Consumers want to compute, not
> sit an exam.
True - though the F/OSS pushers would reply with those steps should not be
needed.
Hopefully updates arn't too bad with Presto enabled ;) - tho
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:10:29 +0100, Andrew Drapper
wrote:
> 1. I have in the past had a number of pre-installed pc with XP, but
> only restore CD's I can probably find the COA Is there anyway to use
> these?
The likely-hood is these keys are for an OEM (Original Equipment
Manufacturer)
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:04:48 +0100, Andrew Drapper
wrote:
> Nothing seams to work now. I can not see why Ubuntu do not have a symple
> GUI interface as part of System/Preferences/Display where you can put in
> a
> custom resolution.
A year ago I would have been the first to complain about
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:35 +0100, Gemma wrote:
Oooh ! gee thanks Peter, I'll bear that in mind, before I reminisce
again.
HA! - I have a lecturer who feels forth is the best thing since sliced
bread. Still works regularly on interpreters and is still convinced I
should be writing progr
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:45:08 +0100, Peter Merchant
wrote:
Who's That? You can reply off line if you would rather not name names.
His name is Peter Knaggs - I'm fairly sure he would be happy having his
name associated with Forth in any way.
A quick Google of him shows up much on Forth in
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:40:15 +0100, Peter Merchant
wrote:
OK, I thought that he had gone in the last round of cost cuttings.
Yeah he went. Shame, he was a good lecturer. Sadly not someone many wanted
to work alongside.
Hes currently in Exeter lecturing.
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TPB is currently under attack from every angle. There are several
worldwide governments after their demise, including a recent legal ruling
suing their ISP for 50,000 euro every day they remain up. TPB is currently
moving servers again.
I can't see TPB making that in donations daily - maybe
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:01:29 +0100, jr wrote:
rsync, scheduled via cron.
Or for true backups - rsnapshot
Honestly just set the thing up and let it manage hourly, daily, weekly,
monthly whatever rsynced and hard-linked backups.
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On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:09:51 +0100, Peter Merchant
wrote:
Thanks, Terry, but it is this last stage that gives the grief. k3b
collects all the files and folders that I want, but has a -known-
problem when it starts to write to a disk. I have used it before for
cutting ISOs out to disk as distr
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:39:05 +0100, Dan Dart
wrote:
Looks like either the format is incompatible (vastly differing
versions of glibc?) or the file was transferred in ascii mode when it
should have been transferred in binary mode. Take a look at your
settings on the FTP programs.
I would sta
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:38:38 +0100, Peter Merchant
wrote:
is this the ex- Mountbatten Arms?
Correct
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:30:38 +0100, Dominic Lonsdale
wrote:
Can a CPU overheat so quickly ( after about 10 seconds) ?
Test it -- take the heat-sink off your desktop and see how long it lasts.
Given its also got time to boot into memtest etc. I'd say yeah they'll
easily get hot enough to
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:29:47 +0100, Terry Coles
wrote:
OK. I've fixed it. I took the Windows approach; I uninstalled it and
re- installed it. I vaguely remember uninstalling something this
morning, which took out some KDE dependencies. I suspect that one of
those wasrelated. Anyway,
neric codec packs
in my opinion)
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