Well, we have to remember that they are a charity and exist to raise
funds for the service they provide to their users. I am guessing they
also have costs and obligations to uphold in disposing of the junk
they
cannot use too.
Sean
Perhaps, but I would doubt I'm the only one who, when
Perhaps, but I would doubt I'm the only one who, when faced with options
a) transport kit to a location and then pay to have it reused or b)
chuck it in the bin as household waste as part of my council tax, will
lean heavily towards the lower cost option.
Yep. I think quite a lot of kit will
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 00:11:54 Lisi wrote:
On Monday 29 June 2009 23:47:15 john wrote:
I have looked at what jamies sell. Myself I find the computers they sell
overpriced. If I find this how many others find this?
A number of people who wanted to get rid of old computers have been
2009/7/1 Lisi hants...@googlemail.com:
I didn't realise that Jamie's now charges to accept everything. That does
rather change things. :-(
I thought they only charged to accept stuff from companies, not individuals?
Cheers,
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Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
2009/6/28 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk:
I had read about the Debian decision not to include firmware in
kernels but didn't really expect my ancient advansys scsi card to
fall foul of this.
You could of course
Perhaps we should have a kit up for grabs page on the Wiki?
Vic.
I second that proposal.
Chris.
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are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and kpdf
acroread is currently unusable due to a series of dependency problems
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(1) A package failed to install. Trying to
recover: Setting up ia32-apt-get
(18) ... gpg: no default
On 01/07/09 12:02, john lewis wrote:
are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and kpdf
evince?
it's the default GNOME pdf (and ps) reader
Stuart
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2009/7/1 Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com:
On 01/07/09 12:02, john lewis wrote:
are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and kpdf
evince?
it's the default GNOME pdf (and ps) reader
G!
Run away! Run and hide!
Cue John telling us
On 01/07/09 12:04, Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
Cue John telling us all how rubbish and bloated GNOME is :)
Well, he'd be fairly accurate.
But tbh, if he was running kpdf he faces the
same issues :)
/me runs evince quite happily on the fluxbox desktop. Not worried about
disk space, so the gnome libs
2009/7/1 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk:
regrettably I still got an error when I tried booting the 2.6.30
kernel this morning
failed to load image advansys/mcode.bin err-2
Interesting, my brain is telling me -2 is file not found, but I may be
wrong on that. Where exactly did you plop
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:04:15 +0100
Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
2009/7/1 Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com:
On 01/07/09 12:02, john lewis wrote:
are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and
kpdf
evince?
it's the default GNOME pdf (and ps) reader
xpdf doesn't seem to have a search function but does show the indexes to
those pdf files, kpdf has a search function but doesn't show the
Hmm mine does. Click on the binocular button in the bottom bar.
Confusing icon but it does the job.
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Yes, I'm back on the list (and living in Hampshire again!).
I was pretty impressed with Okular under kde4 and Debian SID. I don't know
Okular's history (could be a new version of KPDF) but it looked pretty good
to me.
It depends what you are trying to do. Are you editing PDFs? or reading PDFs?
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:05:53 +0100
Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com wrote:
On 01/07/09 12:04, Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
Cue John telling us all how rubbish and bloated GNOME is :)
Well, he'd be fairly accurate.
But tbh, if he was running kpdf he faces the
same issues :)
Indeed! but I
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:18:35 +0100
Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
2009/7/1 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk:
regrettably I still got an error when I tried booting the 2.6.30
kernel this morning
failed to load image advansys/mcode.bin err-2
Interesting, my brain is telling me -2
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:22:33 +0100
Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote:
xpdf doesn't seem to have a search function but does show the
indexes to those pdf files, kpdf has a search function but doesn't
show the
Hmm mine does. Click on the binocular button in the bottom bar.
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:02:18 +0100, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk
wrote:
are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and kpdf
Check out these:
http://pdfreaders.org/
Tony
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Timothy Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote:
Yes, I'm back on the list (and living in Hampshire again!).
I was pretty impressed with Okular under kde4 and Debian SID. I don't
know Okular's history (could be a new version of KPDF) but it looked
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:33:59 +0100
john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
benden:/home/jayell# ls /lib/firmware
3com advansys dabusb e100 kaweth matrox r128 radeon tehuti
benden:/home/jayell# ls /lib/firmware/advansys
3550.bin 38C0800.bin 38C1600.bin mcode.bin
On Ubuntu
2009/7/1 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk:
Hi Alan
regrettably I still got an error when I tried booting the 2.6.30
kernel this morning
failed to load image advansys/mcode.bin err-2
Bit of a shame that the kernel does not output the full path in that message!
I seem to remember that
Hmm mine does. Click on the binocular button in the bottom bar.
Confusing icon but it does the job.
Too late for kpdf, it has gone into never never land!
Uhm I was talking about xpdf
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On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:43:30 +0100
Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:02:18 +0100, john lewis
johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and
kpdf
Check out these:
http://pdfreaders.org/
Thanks Tony,
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:00:20 +0100
James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/1 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk:
Hi Alan
regrettably I still got an error when I tried booting the 2.6.30
kernel this morning
failed to load image advansys/mcode.bin err-2
Bit of
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:16:37 +0100
Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote:
Hmm mine does. Click on the binocular button in the bottom bar.
Confusing icon but it does the job.
Too late for kpdf, it has gone into never never land!
Uhm I was talking about xpdf
sorry Bob, misread
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:04 +0100
Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com wrote:
On 01/07/09 12:02, john lewis wrote:
are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and
kpdf
evince?
it's the default GNOME pdf (and ps) reader
Thanks Stuart, it still doesn't use tabs but it
2009/7/1 john j...@jesoftware.freeserve.co.uk:
On Wednesday 01 July 2009 11:51:34 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
Perhaps we should have a kit up for grabs page on the Wiki?
Vic.
I second that proposal.
Chris.
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
Perhaps we should have a kit up for grabs page on the Wiki?
Vic.
I second that proposal.
Doing my best Popey impression... It *is* a wiki
:)
Andy
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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:51:46AM +0100, Vic wrote:
There's always Freecycle - although most of the kit on there is simply
unusably old.
And many Freecycle people are as kooky as the folks running it. :(
Have you tried Chavcycle? Simply attach a note saying £10 o.n.o
and leave it at the
Right...
Well it wasn't the power supply. Nice shiney new PSU with more power than
the old one, and it is still behaving the same.
Booting gets further depending on how many peripherals are connected,
without anything other than display and keyboard it will boot, but even
just connecting the
Hi, I have recently been trying to copy off 400gb of data from a seagate
barracuda 500gb drive partition formatted as Ext3. After messing with my
Linux system (ubuntu 8 at the time) I noticed that DMA was not enabled on my
DVD-RW or the VIA RAID card. I am trying to copy the data to a USB2 HDD
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