Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Victor Churchill
2008/12/5 Dr Adam J Trickett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't have to stop my business anymore because the computer needs constant rebooting That one is open to being parsed the wrong way -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

[Hampshire] Fedora 10 upgrade woes

2008-12-05 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I've just upgraded my Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 using the upgrade option from the DVD image. Now I imagine that Fedora 8 to 10 is not really the supported or intended upgrade path, but I was left with a system that would boot but I couldn't log in to X or even run yum or rpm to try and sort

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Dr Adam J Trickett
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 at 09:24:59AM +, Victor Churchill wrote: 2008/12/5 Dr Adam J Trickett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't have to stop my business anymore because the computer needs constant rebooting That one is open to being parsed the wrong way Which is why I don't have a job in

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/5 Dr Adam J Trickett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Though for my sins I was forced into the marketing department at work for 12 months - which I can only describe as the worst job I've ever done. Haha, another statement open to mis-interpretation :) Cheers, Al. -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Dr Adam J Trickett
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 at 11:06:11AM +, Alan Pope wrote: 2008/12/5 Dr Adam J Trickett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Though for my sins I was forced into the marketing department at work for 12 months - which I can only describe as the worst job I've ever done. Haha, another statement open to

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Stephen Rowles
Out of interest, does anyone know where the TV license issue stands on browsing the BBC's website and using the iPlayer? Presumably iPlayer is recorded TV programs and therefore a license is required? http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/charge Interesting wording though:

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Victor Churchill
2008/12/5 Stephen Rowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC does not charge you to use BBC iPlayer, nor does the current version require a television licence This is [OT] but irresistible to point out : The referenced page says quote The BBC does not charge you to use BBC iPlayer, nor does the

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/5 Stephen Rowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC does not charge you to use BBC iPlayer, nor does the current version require a television licence Which I guess means they reserve the right to change that to require a license in the future as only the *current* version requires no license.

[Hampshire] Cardbus USB 2 cards

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
My ancient ThinkPad is perfectly OK for most things (I use xfce from Debian unstable) but only has USB 1.1, so getting data in and out is a tedious process. Does anyone know if a cardbus USB 2.0 card is likely to work OK? There are plenty on eBay for about £7 which seems a reasonable price for a

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Richard Danter
2008/12/5 Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 Stephen Rowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC does not charge you to use BBC iPlayer, nor does the current version require a television licence Which I guess means they reserve the right to change that to require a license in the future as only

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/5 Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One thing that annoys me a little is that much of the media, specially the live media like news24, can only be viewed if you are connecting from a UK IP address. Get a UK proxy, or run one on a machine at home and proxy everything through that.

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Richard Danter
2008/12/5 Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 Stephen Rowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC does not charge you to use BBC iPlayer, nor does the current version require a television licence Which I guess means they reserve the right to change that

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread Richard Danter
2008/12/5 Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One thing that annoys me a little is that much of the media, specially the live media like news24, can only be viewed if you are connecting from a UK IP address. Get a UK proxy, or run one on a machine at

Re: [Hampshire] Cardbus USB 2 cards

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I've seen cards similar that have a socket for an external PSU to power the devices. Have you seen any like this? I would ask the manufacturer is it does have a current limiter as a blown voltage regulator is very bad news. Cheers, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Re: [Hampshire] Cardbus USB 2 cards

2008-12-05 Thread Vic
I've seen cards similar that have a socket for an external PSU to power the devices. Have you seen any like this? Yes, I've got one. Never actually plugged anything into it, though. I would ask the manufacturer is it does have a current limiter as a blown voltage regulator is very bad news.

Re: [Hampshire] Fedora 10 upgrade woes

2008-12-05 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Rowles wrote: Hi all, I've just upgraded my Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 using the upgrade option from the DVD image. Now I imagine that Fedora 8 to 10 is not really the supported or intended upgrade path, but I was left with a system that would boot but I couldn't log in to X or even