[Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10

2009-10-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. ATB, Peter

Re: [Hampshire] This weeks microMart

2009-10-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Peter Salisbury wrote: > 2009/10/30 Sean Gibbins : > >> Stephen Rowles wrote: >> >>> Apart from the fact that being something to do with IT our government >>> would screw it up, I think that this would be a very good idea. >>> >> Okay, let's just do it and no one mention a word to th

Re: [Hampshire] This weeks microMart

2009-10-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/10/30 Sean Gibbins : > Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Apart from the fact that being something to do with IT our government >> would screw it up, I think that this would be a very good idea. > > Okay, let's just do it and no one mention a word to the government! > > Now then, which distro should we

Re: [Hampshire] This weeks microMart

2009-10-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
Stephen Rowles wrote: > Apart from the fact that being something to do with IT our government > would screw it up, I think that this would be a very good idea. Okay, let's just do it and no one mention a word to the government! Now then, which distro should we use as a basis for this venture? :

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disks and LVM

2009-10-30 Thread Vic
> What I was wondering is: is it possible to get LVM > to not split individual files across physical volumes. If you want to be certain not to split anything between disks, create a separate volume group for each physical disk you add. This does prevent you creating volumes that are larger than a

Re: [Hampshire] This weeks microMart

2009-10-30 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 10/29/2009 07:49 PM, Dee Earley wrote: > On 29/10/2009 12:57, Stephen Davies wrote: > >> Has an interesting article asking the question >> >> Should the UK have its own Linux Distro. >> > Why? > > Apart from the fact that being something to do with IT our government would screw it

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disks and LVM

2009-10-30 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:30:16 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said: > if I used a > RAID 1 device (e.g. md0) as a physical volume for LVM, and one of the > disks in md0 went down, would LVM carry on regardless while I replace > the disk? Yes. You do, however, need some way of knowing that one of the