Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 10:48, Vic wrote: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... Okay I have a puzzle for you. Plug 56

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:06, Andy Random wrote: If it was half the price I might have considered it (though even then the kit might end up in boxes for months) but for a saving of 20-30 quid, it really isn't worth it to me. Okay how about 79 quid, including VAT and delivery. Not quite

Re: [Hampshire] Digital Cameras

Hi, I recently saw an article in a magazine about Rawtherapee ( http://www.rawtherapee.com/ ) that you might find interesting. If you get a DSLR and set it to save the files in RAW format (big memory card required - I think RAW files from my Canon EOS 350d 8MP are about 50MB) Rawtherapee can

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 at 08:35:30AM +, Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:06, Andy Random wrote: If it was half the price I might have considered it (though even then the kit might end up in boxes for months) but for a saving of 20-30 quid, it really isn't worth it to me.

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Bob Dunlop wrote: Okay how about 79 quid, including VAT and delivery. Not quite the same spec but that's what I just got a Viglen MPC-L for thanks to Alan Popes pointer to the Ubuntu podcast. Mine arrived last Thursday as it happens :) 512Mb RAM, 80G hard drive,

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

Vic wrote: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... Serial 2 USB is something I've always shyed away from. Windows or Linux

[Hampshire] Bring-a-Box meeting soon, Sat 13th December

Hello, This is your semi-automated reminder that the next joint Surrey and Hampshire LUG Bring-a-Box meeting is being held at the University of Surrey in Guildford, on Saturday 13th December.  Doors open from 11am until around 5pm.   http://www.surrey.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BringABox ===

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

Vic wrote: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... successful use of these adapters. Serial 2 USB is something I've always

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008/11/26 Andy Random [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW Bob, have you looked carefully at the mouse that came with your MPC-L? If it is the same as the one I received you may want to throw it out before it contaminates anything :) I don't mind coming out and saying I love microsoft mice. There, I said

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

Quoth Vic: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... For most of them, the INF file is all you need. The INF file

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

BTW Bob, have you looked carefully at the mouse that came with your MPC-L? If it is the same as the one I received you may want to throw it out before it contaminates anything :) I did point out the warning message to Kelly. We've left it carefully sealed in it's plastic bag so far. I have

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EEE BOX ?

2008/11/26 Bob Dunlop [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a project in mind that requires just the scroll wheel mechanism from a USB mouse so maybe it'll be a hacksaw job. Saw one somewhere on t'web (probably O'Reilly Maker pages) acting as the encoder for a weather station wind meter thing ...

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008/11/25 Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clive Woodfine wrote: I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under Linux? Hi Clive, As others have said, they all seem to work 'out of the box'. I can

[Hampshire] Virtualbox 64-bit problem

Hi all I'm going wrong somewhere trying to setup VirtualBox - can anyone help? I'm trying to get a 64-bit host running 64-bit virtual machines but I'm getting virtualbox errors along the lines of I need a amd_64 kernel but I'm only detecting an i586. Thus far I have: 1) Ensured I'm running

Re: [Hampshire] Digital Cameras

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 08:57:24 Paul Stimpson wrote: Hi, snip I think RAW files from my Canon EOS 350d 8MP are about 50MB) Rawtherapee can process them. snip I would be surprised if they are 50mb, my canon 400D 10m pixel shooting in raw and picture size vary between 8mb and 12mb per