Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-19 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/10/18 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:02:48 +0100 Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: What was the last flame war there about? On 18/10/2009, Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com wrote: Though I don't know how up to date it is. As an alternative you

Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Anton Piatek wrote: I guess google mail mobile defaults to top-posting... Do you think google would consider that a bug? I doubt it; you'd be surprised at how many people prefer top-posting, especially in the corporate world where it means you don't have to read/skip everything that came before

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Salisbury
There are a few different ways that shutdown happens depending on what you have installed. The normal with a modern install is via scripts in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux which all have self-explanatory names and simple contents. All the default shutdown script does is call shutdown -h now. HTH,

[Hampshire] Ubuntu - bridging networks network cards

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Chivers
I have a server that I'm going to start trialling KVM, it's running Ubuntu 9.0.4 I have KVM running OK but I'm having trouble getting my brain round how Ubuntu decides which netcard gets which ip address then how to setup bridging. The server has 6 Gb cards, two onboard(currently

[Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Damian Brasher
I have just returned from a trip which took me to Debrovnik, then to my final destination in Athens to stay with family, via Sarajevo, Belgrade and Thessaloniki. Planes, buses and trains. I took my Acer Aspire One, 110-Ab and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix to disk using the image transferred to a

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-19 Thread Damian Brasher
Hugo Mills wrote: GOs: Adrian Bridgett Rob Smith For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to usual commitments; Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and corresponding slides. Depth, time permitting, I'd also like to enhance my

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Damian Brasher wrote: Hugo Mills wrote: GOs: Adrian Bridgett Rob Smith For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to usual commitments; Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and corresponding slides. Depth, time permitting, I'd

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Dwerryhouse
Damian Brasher wrote: I have just returned from a trip which took me to Debrovnik, then to my final destination in Athens to stay with family, via Sarajevo, Belgrade and Thessaloniki. Planes, buses and trains. I took my Acer Aspire One, 110-Ab and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix to disk using

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: I have a Dell Mini 10v, which came with Ubuntu 8.04 - Dells own version (sort of a Netbook Remix, with some Yahoo branding). I thought I'd replace it as soon as it arrived, but everything works, as far as I've tried it, so it's still there. I think maybe I'll try UNR

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/10/19 Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk: Damian Brasher wrote: Hugo Mills wrote: GOs: Adrian Bridgett              Rob Smith For GO, I'd like to offer my services and stand. If elected, in addition to usual commitments; Follow up the training talk I gave in 2006 and

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:39:56PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: I tried Eeebuntu on my daughter's eeepc 700 and it was extremely sluggish, so I switched to Pupeee 4.2 and it is far more usable, pokey Is that any relation to Alan Popeee? Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills:

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Adrian Bridgett wrote: I don't know of a nice elegant way, I suspect you'll need to have a program registed with the gnome-session somehow so that instead of it saay do you want to save? it can cancel the shutdown. Thanks for that, I'll see what google can tell me about gnome-sessions.

Re: [Hampshire] UNR - out of the box on tour

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:39:56PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: I tried Eeebuntu on my daughter's eeepc 700 and it was extremely sluggish, so I switched to Pupeee 4.2 and it is far more usable, pokey Is that any relation to Alan Popeee?

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Philip Stubbs wrote: Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for years. Works fine. I suppose I was thinking that it would get in the way of the lawn mower and things, although I guess it could be buried. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Dee Earley wrote: You also want the holy grail. :) 24/7 use will require some hefty batteries and daily recharge, especially if you want to power illuminators for night time use. Wireless and PTZ would also add more load to the batteries. Simpy put, you will have to run some form of

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Leo
Peter Brooks wrote: If you could really specify what price you're talking about spending, for a single install camera it'll be best looking into something over IP and certainly power it using PoE. Sinking a stretch of network cable into the ground will be a lot less effort that messing around

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Jacqui Caren
Leo wrote: I was expecting to have to pay a couple of 100 pounds but hadn't had much luck finding something appropriate. It's actually for watching for wildlife rather than security, but, yes, it still needs to be reasonable quality. I will see what I can find about Axis. Aldi were

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Webcams

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/10/19 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk: Philip Stubbs wrote: Why not? I have had Ethernet running down my garden to my shed for years. Works fine. I suppose I was thinking that it would get in the way of the lawn mower and things, although I guess it could be buried. Leo When I was running a

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Peter B.
are you sure it is gnome shutting it down and not some power saving device ? sorry if I am stating the obvious 2009/10/19 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk Adrian Bridgett wrote: I don't know of a nice elegant way, I suspect you'll need to have a program registed with the gnome-session somehow