Re: [Hampshire] Local mail

2009-03-30 Thread Andy Random
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Leo wrote: > The second is: is it possible to get my server on my home network to > send its local mail to my desktop. Again, so I don't have to remember to > check it? Forwarding email from things like root accounts is pretty much the standard way of handling this in my ex

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread trotter
At 20:33 30/03/2009, you wrote: >Sean Gibbins wrote: > >> Then cleaning them up with disco knosti antistat fluid bath. > >> > > > > Will investigate that. > > > >http://tinyurl.com/dg4g85 > >55 quid? > >That's... ...4 new albums! > >Is it worth it Martin? Bit of a daft question as you mention it s

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread trotter
The record company released MiniDisc were awful i would agree. The recording side got good around version 4.5 of ATRAC earlier versions were poorer. Cumulating in full Cd quality with HiMD and so no compression. I don't know what you mean with the screws falling out of the media as none of my M

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread trotter
At 20:26 30/03/2009, you wrote: >trotter wrote: > > At 18:41 30/03/2009, you wrote: > > > >> trotter wrote: > >> > >>> At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote: > >>> > Hi All, > > A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered > this issue or at least something si

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread trotter
At 19:09 30/03/2009, you wrote: > > Unfortunately vinyl hardware is expensive for > > sound that is better than cd. > >Vinyl *isn't* better than CD. CD gives you much better fidelity. > >Vinyl sounds more familiar to those of us of a certain age - but that's >because we're accustomed to the lack o

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
Thanks, Clive! THAT's the sort of info. I wanted Chris. 2009/3/30 Clive Woodfine > 2009/3/30 Chris. Aubrey-Smith : > > O.K. , already! > > > > All very interesting, but I want simply to digitise my old vinyl > collection, > > to a reasonable sound quality, without spending a fortune in the

[Hampshire] Local mail

2009-03-30 Thread Leo
I've a couple of queries about local mail on Linux (the mail that things like cron jobs send) that I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on. The first is: is it possible for Thunderbird to read local mail as my googling so far indicates not. It would be very useful, as at the m

Re: [Hampshire] camaserv issue [long post sorry]

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Mike Burrows wrote: > Hi there all. > > I am following the instructions on the wiki page concerning this app. I > have run camserv /etc/camserv/camserv.cfg as root but dont see it > showing as a process. I may have a couple of issues but my first > question is: > > Should it appear after typing p

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Clive Woodfine wrote: > If you already have a turntable connected to a HiFi amp then feed its > line out to an mp3 player that has a line in socket. I use a iAudio > Cowen bought from [1]. You then have a good quality sound_file.WMA, > unfortunately Windows format, which you can listen to directly

[Hampshire] camaserv issue [long post sorry]

2009-03-30 Thread Mike Burrows
Hi there all. I am following the instructions on the wiki page concerning this app. I have run camserv /etc/camserv/camserv.cfg as root but dont see it showing as a process. I may have a couple of issues but my first question is: Should it appear after typing ps -aux? needless to say http://lo

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Clive Woodfine
2009/3/30 Chris. Aubrey-Smith : > O.K. , already! > > All very interesting, but I want simply to digitise my old vinyl collection, > to a reasonable sound quality, without spending a fortune in the process. > > How do I go about this? > > Chris. If you already have a turntable connected to a HiFi

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Sean Gibbins wrote: > > http://tinyurl.com/dg4g85 > > 55 quid? > > That's... ...4 new albums! > > Is it worth it Martin? Bit of a daft question as you mention it so i > suppose that you do! Apologies for the Unglish folks - I started out with 'Do you rate it Martin?' in my head and ended up typi

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Rik wrote: > Vinyl gives better reproduction than CD. I wish I could point to where > that is specifically defined, but in the old vinyl-v-cd wars that have > gone on over the years that always seems to emerge. Possibly something > to do with sound being analogue and vinyl being an analogue medium.

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Sean Gibbins wrote: >> Then cleaning them up with disco knosti antistat fluid bath. >> > > Will investigate that. > http://tinyurl.com/dg4g85 55 quid? That's... ...4 new albums! Is it worth it Martin? Bit of a daft question as you mention it so i suppose that you do! How long does a li

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Rik
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:16 +, Paul Stimpson wrote: > Hi, > > I got a fantastic deal from Absolut Music in Poole. It was a Tapco LinkUSB > musicians audio interface. It works with ubuntu and as far as my tests have > gone pretty good. > > It's 24 bit, bidirectional at all sampling rates b

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
trotter wrote: > At 18:41 30/03/2009, you wrote: > >> trotter wrote: >> >>> At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote: >>> Hi All, A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered this issue or at least something similar. Basically I have a Pr

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Vic wrote: >> Unfortunately vinyl hardware is expensive for >> sound that is better than cd. >> > > Vinyl *isn't* better than CD. CD gives you much better fidelity. > > Vinyl sounds more familiar to those of us of a certain age - but that's > because we're accustomed to the lack of fidelity in

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > O.K. , already! > > All very interesting, but I want simply to digitise my old vinyl > collection, to a reasonable sound quality, without spending a fortune > in the process. > > How do I go about this? I bought a Pro-ject USB phono stage for £75 (new) plus the Pro-jec

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
O.K. , already! All very interesting, but I want simply to digitise my old vinyl collection, to a reasonable sound quality, without spending a fortune in the process. How do I go about this? Chris. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I got a fantastic deal from Absolut Music in Poole. It was a Tapco LinkUSB musicians audio interface. It works with ubuntu and as far as my tests have gone pretty good. It's 24 bit, bidirectional at all sampling rates below 88kHz and unidirectional at 88 and 96kHz. has a built in mic amp

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Vic
> Unfortunately vinyl hardware is expensive for > sound that is better than cd. Vinyl *isn't* better than CD. CD gives you much better fidelity. Vinyl sounds more familiar to those of us of a certain age - but that's because we're accustomed to the lack of fidelity in the medium. Even if we pref

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread trotter
At 18:41 30/03/2009, you wrote: >trotter wrote: > > At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered > >> this issue or at least something similar. > >> > >> Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
trotter wrote: > At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered >> this issue or at least something similar. >> >> Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to a Pro-Ject >> Phono Box II USB phono stage. >>

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread trotter
At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote: >Hi All, > >A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered >this issue or at least something similar. > >Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to a Pro-Ject >Phono Box II USB phono stage. Decent beginner turntable. >It oc

Re: [Hampshire] NAS help

2009-03-30 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:30:13PM +0100, Tim wrote: > I thought I had this one beat, that was until i had to reboot my PC > today (moved it and knocked the power lead). When it rebooted I > noticed that the NAS was not mounted (it should mount from a line in > the fstab file), when I tried to do i

Re: [Hampshire] NAS help

2009-03-30 Thread Tim
(posting a second time as I have not seen it appear on then list, apologies to the list if it has been posted) I thought I had this one beat, that was until i had to reboot my PC today (moved it and knocked the power lead). When it rebooted I noticed that the NAS was not mounted (it should

[Hampshire] Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit Install On An Acer 5735z Laptop

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Afternoon All! Just a quick follow up on our efforts to install Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit on Ellen's new Acer 5735z laptop (which originally surfaced in a post about obtaining a refund from Acer for the unused Vista Basic license). Well, in short it was a very smooth install with fairly small hurdle in

Re: [Hampshire] Why to open up hardware designs

2009-03-30 Thread Damian Brasher
Damian Brasher wrote: > Hugo Mills wrote: > >> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/patentbgone_inventor_mitc.html >> > Why do you think this could not work for the likes of say Dyson? I > like/agree with the philosophy behind this though. > Hi Hugo, I'm having a tidy up and remember this stra

[Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi All, A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered this issue or at least something similar. Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to a Pro-Ject Phono Box II USB phono stage. This latter device has a USB output that shows up as a Burr-Brown USB DAC w

Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews from Apress

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Danter
2009/3/29 john : > Hi > > I would be interested in reviewing > > Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition >                Peck, Akkana > > if it covers Gimp version 2.6. I bought this book a while ago. It does not cover 2.6 except in one of the appendices. It is a very good boo

Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews from Apress

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I'd like to have a go at the Blender book if I may. Thanks, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-30 Thread Anton Piatek
I wrote a fairly long piece on my blog about software raid + lvm on my blog. You may find it useful if you are setting up raid again http://www.strangeparty.com/2008/05/24/software-raid1-and-lvm-on-debian-etch/ Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:

Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews from Apress

2009-03-30 Thread Philip Stubbs
Hi Adam, Any one of the following would be good for me. Dive Into Python 3 Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the Linux Shell Python 3 for Absolute Beginners Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional Regards, -- Philip Stubbs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk