Well, Microshaft has gone and done it
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_sues_TomTom_over_patents_in_case_with_Linux_subplot_40305732.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/
Right,
time to get the beer in and settle down to watch the sparks fly
Stephen D
Phillip Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:06 +, Simon Capstick wrote:
>> Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through
>> with this one?
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm
>>
>> Simon
>
> You must have missed this bit :
>
> "Open source softw
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:40:48PM +, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:23:29 + (GMT), gor...@gscott.co.uk said:
>
> > There seem to be a few X-based tools around that I guess are friendlier,
> > but then I didn't install X on the box .. it's a server.
>
> Try phpldapadmin -
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:23:29 + (GMT), gor...@gscott.co.uk said:
> There seem to be a few X-based tools around that I guess are friendlier,
> but then I didn't install X on the box .. it's a server.
Try phpldapadmin - it's a pretty good, and extensible, web interface to
LDAP.
Keith
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:23:29PM +, Gordon Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Hugo Mills wrote:
>
> >Samba: Your guess is as good as mine for how to make it work.
> > Samba and I aren't on speaking terms, and haven't been for some
> > time. :)
>
> Yes, well, I had Samba working fine on
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:25:14PM +, trotter wrote:
> Interesting. its the first player i have
> noticed that does high def mkv file
> format which is the high def equivalent of divx
I think you're confusing container formats and video formats.
MKV is not a video format, and neith
At 22:28 25/02/2009, you wrote:
>Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> >
> >> Take a look at Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/
> >>
> >> I think that will satisfy your tech requirements regarding video but
> >> unsure of NFS support. I recal
Hi Guys,
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Hugo Mills wrote:
>Samba: Your guess is as good as mine for how to make it work.
> Samba and I aren't on speaking terms, and haven't been for some
> time. :)
Yes, well, I had Samba working fine on the present old fileserver, than
it suddenly stopped talking and
At 20:33 25/02/2009, you wrote:
>At 17:25 25/02/2009, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday 25 February 2009, trotter wrote:
> > > At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
> >
> > > Does either clonezilla or partimage support HFS+ the mac journaling
> > > filesystem? It would reduce the file size of the image a lot if
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:28:34PM +, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> >
> >> Take a look at Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/
> >>
> >> I think that will satisfy your tech requirements regarding video but
>
Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
>
>> Take a look at Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/
>>
>> I think that will satisfy your tech requirements regarding video but
>> unsure of NFS support. I recall the reviews praising it's lack of
>> noi
Hey Everyone,
I've got an xbox that is sitting around not doing much so I thought I might
like to have it set up as a server. I'd like to run Apache, MySQL, PHP (for
playing around with stuff) but I'd like to keep the media centre
functionality too. What is particularly important is that I'd still
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 17:05:57 + (+), Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Well I think it's certainly helped quite a bit. Not perfect, but then
> apart from me who is :-)
Bah! Spoke too soon, 11 pages spammed :( I've turned on another
anti-spam feature now. As usual, yell if you have problems.
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:11:25 +, xendis...@gmail.com said:
> I have a strange problem, I have three folders on an ext.USB hard disk
> which is formatted to ext3 and I share via Samba
What does the share stanza look like in smb.conf?
What is the output of the 'mount' command?
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At 17:25 25/02/2009, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 25 February 2009, trotter wrote:
> > At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
>
> > Does either clonezilla or partimage support HFS+ the mac journaling
> > filesystem? It would reduce the file size of the image a lot if it does.
>
>According to their website it
I have a strange problem, I have three folders on an ext.USB hard disk which is
formatted to ext3 and I share via Samba for some windows PC's on my network.
Now all the users can see shares and access read and write to them without a
problem. The problem is is that when they save to the samba s
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
> machines. At the moment I just randomly copy stuff between machines
> that I think is important. I have a dual booting laptop
> (Windows+Ubuntu) a Desktop (Ubuntu) and my noddy home server w
On Wednesday 25 February 2009, trotter wrote:
> At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
> Does either clonezilla or partimage support HFS+ the mac journaling
> filesystem? It would reduce the file size of the image a lot if it does.
According to their website it does yes. [1], Had a bit of a look at it a
At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:03 +, Rob Malpass wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Sorry - but if a newbie question - but do people have a favourite
> > drive imaging program?
> >
> > I'm looking for something to take an image of both my NASses (is that
> > how to spell the
Hi Philip,
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:33:04PM +, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> All I worry about is a drive failure. It has happened before, and will
> happen again. I don't need to be able to go back X number of days for
> a previous version of Y or recover deleted Z.
If you don't care about the po
2009/2/25 Simon Capstick :
> Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with
> this one?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm
>
> Simon
Looks good to me; it's one more tool for those of us trying to get
FOSS into schools etc. I loved the bizarre government dou
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:06 +, Simon Capstick wrote:
> Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with
> this one?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm
>
> Simon
You must have missed this bit :
"Open source software will be adopted "when it delivers be
Rik wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:28 +, Gordon Scott wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I've just started setting up a home server on a nive little ITX box,
>> based upon Ubuntu-server Intrepid Ibex.
>>
>> But .. the setup might make sense for a server farm, but for a small
>> three/four machine ne
Rik wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:03 +, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Sorry - but if a newbie question - but do people have a favourite
>> drive imaging program?
>>
>> I'm looking for something to take an image of both my NASses (is that
>> how to spell the plural?!) which can happ
Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with
this one?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm
Simon
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2009/2/25 James Courtier-Dutton :
> I did an in place upgrade. I wanted the ext4 feature for a new HD I was
> adding.
> Intrepid lets me format an ext4 partition, but not actually mount it!!!
>
ext4 support isn't in intrepid (8.10) - so I'm not entirely surprised.
ext4 was finalised about a week
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> I remember seeing a simple device that would allow USB hard drives to
> be connected. This is the sort of thing that I had in mind, but
> wondered if anybody had any experience with something like this a bit
> more recently.
>
I have been using a Linksys NSLU2 for several
> I know that many are amazed at how slack some peoples backups are, and
> I know that my current situation is among them. However, in my
> defence, my computer is more a toy than a business tool. My life would
> not grind to a halt should all my computers go up in a puff of smoke.
>
> That said, I
2009/2/25 Stephen Nelson-Smith :
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Philip Stubbs wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
>> machines.
>
> Jolly good. Now let's define what that means - what failure scenarios
> are you trying to prepare for?
- Original Message -
From: "Philip Stubbs"
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List"
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:07 AM
Subject: [Hampshire] Cheap and Easy NAS
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
> machines. At the moment I just rand
2009/2/24 Alan Pope :
>
> That said I have it running on my daily use laptop.
>
> Which CD did you try to install from? An alpha or a daily image? Or
> did you try an in place upgrade?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
I did an in place upgrade. I wanted the ext4 feature for a new HD I was adding.
Intrepid lets
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
> machines.
Jolly good. Now let's define what that means - what failure scenarios
are you trying to prepare for? For example, do you care about your
data i
2009/2/25 Philip Stubbs :
> I could simply plug an external USB drive into the server, and back up
> to that. However, I understand that it would be better to keep it
> separate, and therefore I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion
> for a simple device that I could attach to my network that I
Hi Everyone,
It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
machines. At the moment I just randomly copy stuff between machines
that I think is important. I have a dual booting laptop
(Windows+Ubuntu) a Desktop (Ubuntu) and my noddy home server which
runs Debian.
I could simply
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