Re: [Hampshire] Deploying a Rails application

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Smith
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Phusion Passenger is excellent. I didn't suggest it because in my head it's connected with Ruby Enterprise, and that was an extra thing to get running on an oldish VPS. Have a look at brightbox.net for some prepackaged stuff. You get get passenger up and

Re: [Hampshire] Sheeva PlugComputer anyone?

2009-08-27 Thread Jack Knight
Imran Chaudhry wrote: Hi, just wondering if anyone has one of these? Yep - arrived last week, but had no chance yet to fiddle with it in earnest though :^( http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Main_Page The guy who produced a debian installer for NSLU2 has produced a Debian Lenny

Re: [Hampshire] Sheeva PlugComputer anyone?

2009-08-27 Thread Bond, Peter
I want to buy but I'm a bit put off by stories of being charged high import duty. However I heard that the senders state a lower value to mitigate this. Also known as fraud. Not wise to mess with HMRC. Peter ** This

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:06:05 +0100, li...@fractal.me.uk said: anyone could recommend a make that works easily and well with Linux http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Lists many printers and exactly how well they work with Linux. -- Keith Edmunds

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Ian Park
Leo wrote: I'm thinking of getting a printer and was just wondering if anyone could recommend a make that works easily and well with Linux (Ubuntu). Thanks, Leo I have a Brother HL-5270DN - Postscript emulation, automatic double-sided printing and an Ethernet interface - works fine on my

Re: [Hampshire] Sheeva PlugComputer anyone?

2009-08-27 Thread Graeme Hilton
2009/8/27 Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com: Hi, just wondering if anyone has one of these? http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Main_Page interesting points: - an SD wi-fi card *should* work with it. - the CPU has been compared in performance to a P3 800Mhz - It comes with Ubuntu

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Clive Woodfine
2009/8/27 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk: I'm thinking of getting a printer and was just wondering if anyone could recommend a make that works easily and well with Linux (Ubuntu). Thanks, Leo All HP's have worked for me. Clive Woodfine -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

[Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Leo
I'm thinking of getting a printer and was just wondering if anyone could recommend a make that works easily and well with Linux (Ubuntu). Thanks, Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Leo
Thank you for the quick come back. It appears as though the Canon I was looking at is probably not the best choice so now I'm thinking a HP Deskjet 6940 (although it appears to have been around a while!). Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/8/27 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk: Thank you for the quick come back. It appears as though the Canon I was looking at is probably not the best choice so now I'm thinking a HP Deskjet 6940 (although it appears to have been around a while!). I have a 6310 which is a printer/scanner/copier/fax

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2009-08-27 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:55:05 Leo wrote: It appears as though the Canon I was looking at is probably not the best choice I have tried to install Canons that other people already owned. The experience can best be summed up with Ouch! so now I'm thinking a HP Deskjet 6940 In addition