[Dorset] Linux defragmentation

2013-12-20 Thread p.lane
ments about the partition for optimal function and retrieval. Does anyone know if various Linux distro's have similar functionality? thanks. -- P.Lane Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-01-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ N

Re: [Dorset] Router IP addressing

2013-10-22 Thread p.lane
nk, not a broadcast network which bridges a subnet. It links a machine with a single IP address to another machine with a single IP address, each of which has an interface route to the other end of the link. -- P.Lane Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 Meet

Re: [Dorset] OT: Networking through VMs

2013-10-03 Thread p.lane
. Terry. Are there DNS issues? local host file of the Linux m/c, VM names missing? - Add name, fully qualified name, correct IP addr etc. File & Print sharing needs to be opened on the VM firewall. Cheers, Phil. -- P.Lane Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 M

Re: [Dorset] Web Kiosk OS

2013-09-27 Thread p.lane
buntu base would be preferred as my limited Linux ability is from that family of OS's. Can anybody offer any guidance?? Tim Here's a reasonable Linux based guide.found it on the web. http://it.oscarmcmaster.org/howto-s/setting-up-a-kiosk-machine -- P.Lane Poole Dorset

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread p.lane
anyone buys a laptop with win 8 pre-installedAren't MS bios-locking vendors' hardware to toWin 8? -- P.Lane Poole Dorset -- 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

Re: [Dorset] [dotdorset] Feedback needed on Beach Labs

2013-07-15 Thread p.lane
ch is at the stage where I require some ideas and seed funding to progress. -- P.Lane Poole Dorset -- 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

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

2013-06-20 Thread p.lane
NIX and again, simple to use and a pleasant user experience with a short learning curve. Better throughput is acheived with ESXi but it is more of a complicated process. For desktops, V'Box is great. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesda

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

2013-06-20 Thread p.lane
chieve? Access to what storage and where? Cheers, Ralph. Samba is an excellent tool, controllable from the Linux side and simple to set up and manage. I recommend it. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-07-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Link

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-10 Thread p.lane
ifically - e.g. ncsize for the DNLC, nrnodes for NFS inode count, etc. Turning the wick up on maxusers will change sizing for the whole system and could easily result in negative performance gains. cheers --justin -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesd

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-09 Thread p.lane
ystem. The impact of fiddling with it is potentially large. Much better to find the more specific tunable for the thing you want to change. cheers, --justin "p.lane" wrote: On 07/05/2013 18:46, p.lane wrote: On 07/05/2013 15:42, C A Wills wrote: Hi Bob Thanks for the info but using d

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-07 Thread p.lane
On 07/05/2013 18:46, p.lane wrote: On 07/05/2013 15:42, C A Wills wrote: Hi Bob Thanks for the info but using df -i only lists info of the laptop I'm using although the remote partition is 'mounted' on the desktop and I can 'see' the files on it in Nautilus. The o

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-07 Thread p.lane
es. A reboot is required. The system will recompute the size of the inode cache. Not sure how this translates to Linux, but is worth a search. bon chance. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-05-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 469, Issue 1

2013-01-24 Thread p.lane
much more secure than you know what! -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- 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

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 469, Issue 1

2013-01-24 Thread p.lane
Darpanet, was created my the US military to communicate with all of its main sites around the country...but then you all knew that...history lesson over. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn

Re: [Dorset] The Latest Linux Powered Device

2013-01-24 Thread p.lane
On 14/01/2013 21:30, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 14/01/13 16:33, p.lane wrote: Add some servos to move the rifle and you have the ultimate in safe sniping. Now there's an oxymoron if ever I heard one! On a more serious note, is no one else troubled that arguably one of the most co

Re: [Dorset] The Latest Linux Powered Device

2013-01-14 Thread p.lane
rifle but does it turn a novice into a sniper? Only one high-probability shot required. RMS'll be along shortly, annoyed it's not GUN/Linux. :-) Cheers, Ralph. Add some servos to move the rifle and you have the ultimate in safe sniping. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset

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

2013-01-01 Thread p.lane
lier to use and has found threats that the paid for products didn't. There is a Linux version available, but not yet Android. As an aside, I also use Kaspersky TDS killer ( a standalone) and ComboFix. Be careful with the latter. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bourn

Re: [Dorset] in interactive bash

2012-11-27 Thread p.lane
Bash_%28Unix_shell%29 -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- 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] Scripting / Python books?

2012-09-17 Thread p.lane
t has served me well. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread p.lane
Compilation / Interpretation tools and I couldn't find any, (but I only looked quite quickly). Good luck to your grandson Clive. And Perl is also platform agnostic. Phil. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedI

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread p.lane
Compilation / Interpretation tools and I couldn't find any, (but I only looked quite quickly). Good luck to your grandson Clive. The reason I say Perl is because I see so many vacanices for LAMP developers, so more of an interesting career than 'merely' programming, leading into

Re: [Dorset] Best starter programming language

2012-09-15 Thread p.lane
//dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue Perl, Perl and more Perl...then Python. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http:

Re: [Dorset] Where the log entry

2012-09-11 Thread p.lane
Phil -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- 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 Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] ext2-3-4 on Win

2012-07-09 Thread p.lane
to get your data, you need to do the following: ]# mount -o loop -t ext3 /mnt/ntfs/ext_data/ext3.img /mnt/ext Here you can access your data inside the /mnt/ext directory. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] New member

2012-07-04 Thread p.lane
tary format & even tho they say LINUX compatible, I know they are not LINUX friendly. BTW all, being a sys admin and having worked with a number of large scale RAID detups - EMC & Netapps etc & Sun DiskSuite, if anyone is interested, I'll post a RAID fyi. Phil. -- P.Lane

Re: [Dorset] Network error on boot

2012-06-28 Thread p.lane
ling 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 Have you tried commenting out the boot config in - /etc/network/interfaces to bypass the network connect hang? Phil. -- P

Re: [Dorset] Network error on boot

2012-06-28 Thread p.lane
to copy a file onto your system. Do any of you guys use this Linux utility to boot from if you get problems - systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso If you can't find it on the web, It's a 400MB file so can't attach it here. Will ftp to anyone who would like to try it.. I won't do it here

Re: [Dorset] How to delete an e-mail account in Thuderbird

2012-06-28 Thread p.lane
he account. Thunderbird > Edit > Account Settings > [select account name] > Remove account (button bottom of screen). Phil. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

Re: [Dorset] Made me laugh

2012-06-22 Thread p.lane
is cheap. try not to go there. + you just know where they are made...In the 60's & early 70's it was known as 'Jap crap'. Now it's 'cheap as china.' -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd Poole Dorset -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 20:00 Meets, Mail

Re: [Dorset] Hi all, just joined......

2012-06-18 Thread p.lane
On 17/06/2012 09:12, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 15 Jun 2012 12:45:36 p.lane wrote: Found the group today, so I've joined up& linked to LinkedIN. I've added to the members page so do have a read. Please fell free to contact me with anything social or professional. Talk about a

Re: [Dorset] Hi all, just joined......

2012-06-18 Thread p.lane
On 16/06/2012 17:33, Tim wrote: On 15/06/12 12:45, p.lane wrote: Hi all @ DLug. Found the group today, so I've joined up & linked to LinkedIN. I've added to the members page so do have a read. Please fell free to contact me with anything social or professional. Thanks. Welcome t

[Dorset] Hi all, just joined......

2012-06-16 Thread p.lane
Hi all @ DLug. Found the group today, so I've joined up & linked to LinkedIN. I've added to the members page so do have a read. Please fell free to contact me with anything social or professional. Thanks. -- P.Lane CEO Lectrics Ltd 19 Brampton Rd Poole Dorset Home - 01202 677401