[Dorset] OT Software work

2014-05-30 Thread TimA
Hi I have some software contract work coming up. It will involve detailed reviewing and testing of a small number of functions written in C. We're in Poole but some can be done remotely. If anyone is interested please contact me off-list. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday,

Re: [Dorset] OT Software work

2014-06-02 Thread TimA
Hi All Thanks to all those who responded, I think this is now covered. Tim On 30/05/14 08:31, TimA wrote: Hi I have some software contract work coming up. It will involve detailed reviewing and testing of a small number of functions written in C. We're in Poole but some can be done rem

Re: [Dorset] Xubuntu, what should I do

2014-06-04 Thread TimA
Hi Tim On 03/06/14 21:37, Tim wrote: I installed a fresh copy of Xubuntu 14:04, since installing I have had issues with python related programs not launching (although they did at first), sound issue (gstreamer plugin missing, but does not say what plugin) Installing a new music player resolves

Re: [Dorset] Xubuntu, what should I do

2014-06-11 Thread TimA
Hi Tim On 10/06/14 22:45, Tim wrote: On 04/06/14 17:44, Tim wrote: Hi TimA I did try Debian a while ago but I just could not get XFCE running nicely compared to other distro's, I also tried Mint XFCE while that was nice I just got lost in a maze of different updates. I only ended up

Re: [Dorset] Xubuntu, what should I do

2014-06-12 Thread TimA
Hi Tim On 11/06/14 22:28, Tim wrote: I used to run Debian a while ago with KDE 2 & 3 and then came back and tried Debian and XFCE 4.8 but I keep finding Debian to be to prim and proper (it must be open and free, while agree in principle but not to the extreme that Debian does), I found that De

Re: [Dorset] Has something changed with Debian Desktops?

2014-07-14 Thread TimA
Hi Victor On 14/07/14 15:48, Victor Churchill wrote: I recently did a Debian istalll onto a machine which had previously been struggling with Ubuntu. lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy) Release: 7.5 Codename: wheezy I

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread TimA
Hi Terry On 18/07/14 14:47, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I can use tools available in Linux to convert a PDF file to MS Word .doc or .docx format (or even to LibreOffice .odt)? Closest I'm aware of is pdftotext (also pdf2text, pdf2txt etc). But of course you'll lose the format

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread TimA
Hi Tim On 29/07/14 13:19, Tim Waugh wrote: Hello! Does anyone have a floppy disk drive I could borrow? I finally get around to investigating some old floppy disks of mine only to realise it must have been years ago that I got rid of the last disk drive I had! Just to add to the offers, I hav

Re: [Dorset] Should of done a backup

2014-08-14 Thread TimA
Hi Tim On 14/08/14 08:04, Ken Hutton wrote: You can clone the disk yourself if you have a new drive e.g.: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc Or create an image on a larger disk e.g.: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/newdisk/image dd does a low level copy so it should copy the partition table and any recoverabl

Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

2014-09-30 Thread TimA
Hi Terry On 30/09/14 14:05, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: Hi, Our company has a presence in several European countries and our collective bosses would like to set up a Corporate Social Network based on Linux servers and Clients running on Windows hardware. The system would have to be private

[Dorset] Multiple commands in bash

2015-03-12 Thread TimA
Hi I'd like to run multiple commands in Bash: patch -m but for audit purposes I'd like each command in the list to be echoed as run, even better I'd like the Bash prompt to appear too in front of each line. I know that as an alternative I can put the commands in a script with #!/bin/bash -v

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread TimA
Hi John On 20/04/15 13:14, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: Using the RDP server on Linux doesn't really gain you much over VNC (other than making it easier for Windows clients to connect). The best thing about RDP on Windows is that it hooks the graphics layer to send drawing primitives and instructi

Re: [Dorset] DLUG Website - Media File Uploads

2015-06-04 Thread TimA
Hi Terry On 04/06/15 09:56, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, Can anyone get the Media Files upload tool to work? I think this is a long-standing problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/dorset%40mailman.lug.org.uk/msg02597.html Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-06-02 20:00 Me

[Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

2015-07-01 Thread TimA
Hi Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded running on a Debian 8 (Jessie) amd64 machine. Compiler is 32-bit: $ file /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc: ELF

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

2015-07-01 Thread TimA
es, I saw that but it's a step removed from the base release and I need to get the 32-bit libs installed anyway for other compilers which are not available in 64-bit. Cheers Tim On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 12:15 TimA wrote: Hi Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from https://launchp

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

2015-07-01 Thread TimA
On 01/07/15 12:12, TimA wrote: Hi Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded running on a Debian 8 (Jessie) amd64 machine. Compiler is 32-bit: $ file /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

2015-07-01 Thread TimA
Hi Ralph On 01/07/15 14:54, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, $ readelf -d /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc Dynamic section at offset 0xb20a4 contains 26 entries: TagType Name/Value 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared

Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

2015-07-02 Thread TimA
Hi Ralph On 01/07/15 16:26, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, BTW, there's also ldd(1) which shows how the file's needs are met. Yes, but not if the target is 32-bit on a 64-bit system :) Hmm, odd. Does here AFAICS. $ uname -m x86_64 $ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux

[Dorset] XDMCP connection problem

2015-09-07 Thread TimA
Hi I connect to local machines (called fleet and golux) using XDMCP (using Xephyr on a laptop) but am just getting a black screen since upgrading my laptop to Debian Jessie. Xephyr -query fleet :1 Xephyr -query golux :1 give black screen. I can connect to the laptop XDMCP server fine: Xeph

Re: [Dorset] XDMCP connection problem

2015-09-07 Thread TimA
Hi Bit more info below: On 07/09/15 10:32, TimA wrote: Hi I connect to local machines (called fleet and golux) using XDMCP (using Xephyr on a laptop) but am just getting a black screen since upgrading my laptop to Debian Jessie. Xephyr -query fleet :1 Xephyr -query golux :1 give black

Re: [Dorset] XDMCP connection problem

2015-09-08 Thread TimA
On 07/09/15 20:44, Peter Merchant wrote: On 07/09/15 19:52, Tim Allen wrote: Problem was eth0 was manually configured in /etc/network/interfaces, wlan0 was configured by network manager. Removing manual eth0 config (which previously worked in Wheezy) fixed the problem. Tim I have seen this