[Hampshire] Mini-ITX

2008-11-07 Thread Alastair Biggs
I'm in the planning stages of a new project at home,the aim is essentially to setup a small headless server which will be hosting my cooking website / blog which will be telling the world about my cookery disasters. The server needs to be small, efficent and quiet and needs to be tucked away

Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs

2008-11-07 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, After a good read of the documentation I discovered that there are some command line utilities which I couldn't find on the driver installation disk, so I downloaded the rpm. After trying to install the storage manager (FX: Yeeks! all I wanted was the cli tools) and receiving the

Re: [Hampshire] Mini-ITX

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I have a mini-ITX box which I use as a server. It is cheap to run (only needs a tiny PSU) and installed Debian Etch with no problems. I've not used the newer Atom-based machines. I would advise caution if you decide to get an older machine second hand (as I did.) My machine has a 500MHz

Re: [Hampshire] Mini-ITX

2008-11-07 Thread Stephen Rowles
Has anyone got any Mini-ITX machines if so please list your specs included case and what the performance is like. I currently run one mini-itx machine, used to run 2 but one died :( Machines: 1) EPIA 8000, 800mhz board with a small quiet fan. Very low power but used to work reasonably well

[Hampshire] LOCALE: ja_JP.UTF-8

2008-11-07 Thread Lisi
If I set a system's locale to the above, will it not turn the whole system Japanese? At the moment I have LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, and my system is English. I had always imagined that the two facts were connected. TIA Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Bash script interruptions

2008-11-07 Thread Damian Brasher
Paul Stimpson wrote: SIGKILL - That doesn't sound a very nice way to handle a child process when its parent gets SIGINTed (Die with no chance of doing a tidy exit.) Would not a more logical thing be to send be a SIGHUP? (Your logical control terminal has gone away.) The application is being

Re: [Hampshire] Xorg.conf

2008-11-07 Thread Phillip Chandler
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 09:47 +, Victor Churchill wrote: 2008/11/7 Phillip Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All. Ive installed Debian Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 1200, with kernel 2.6.26-1-686. Im now getting an annoying problem. Every so often my xorg.conf crashed. The display starts

Re: [Hampshire] Mini-ITX

2008-11-07 Thread Tim
On Friday 07 November 2008 08:11:46 Alastair Biggs wrote: I'm in the planning stages of a new project at home,the aim is essentially to setup a small headless server which will be hosting my cooking website / blog which will be telling the world about my cookery disasters. The server needs to

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] CD device with mono audio out

2008-11-07 Thread Brian Chivers
Tim wrote: Thought I would ask the knowledgable mailing list I have to get a music playing device (prefably CD\DVD) of some form that has a mono 3.5mm output socket so that I can hook it up to a phone system. The device must also have continuous play and be able to play MP3's Does

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] CD device with mono audio out

2008-11-07 Thread Tim
On Friday 07 November 2008 20:45:21 Brian Chivers wrote: Tim wrote: Thought I would ask the knowledgable mailing list I have to get a music playing device (prefably CD\DVD) of some form that has a mono 3.5mm output socket so that I can hook it up to a phone system. The device must also

Re: [Hampshire] Mini-ITX

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon Scott
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Alastair Biggs wrote: I'm in the planning stages of a new project at home,the aim is essentially to setup a small headless server which will be hosting my cooking website / blog which will be telling the world about my cookery disasters. If you're only serving web

Re: [Hampshire] LOCALE: ja_JP.UTF-8

2008-11-07 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:09:16PM +, Lisi wrote: If I set a system's locale to the above, will it not turn the whole system Japanese? Yes. What would you expect it to do? At the moment I have LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, and my system is English. I had always imagined that the two facts