[Hampshire] Meeting venue 16th Jan - Register and MAC(s) - reminder

2010-01-15 Thread Damian Brasher
(Reminder) For security reasons I have maintained a register, since Jan 09, of regular attendees and new attendees of the BaB meetings held at Southampton University. All attendees, both HLUG members and non-members, must provide their name to security upon entry. Security guards usually occupy

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-15 Thread Stephen Pelc
Oops. Next time, you might want to stage the upgrade, test your packages still build and then do it on the live system. So you have to have two boxes every time you upgrade? This is a good thing (TM)? Do you have some error messages though? It might just be trivial. The BUILDROOT macro

[Hampshire] Timetable for tomorrows talks

2010-01-15 Thread Roger Munford
I would be grateful so that I can organise the family day around it. Thanks Roger -- 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] Packaging help needed

2010-01-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2010/1/15 Stephen Pelc step...@mpeforth.com: Our users don't want to have to edit repository lists. They want download, install, run. We try to provide what real users want. Sysadmins are not real users. It is not an admin task. You just put the download url in a different place. In the

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
Stephen Pelc wrote: You can only improve something by acknowledging what's wrong with it. When dealing with free, open source software coded largely by volunteers you can take it a stage further - you can get involved and fix it. Sean -- And I've made disapointment My very best friend

Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?

2010-01-15 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Looks like I cannot attend now, sorry to any CA cert assurers who were going to bring paperwork for me. I was also going to bring the SheevaPlug [1] in too. Maybe next time. Have fun! [1] http://www.newit.co.uk/ - note the new model with an eSATA interface. -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-15 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Sean Gibbins wrote: Stephen Pelc wrote: You can only improve something by acknowledging what's wrong with it. When dealing with free, open source software coded largely by volunteers you can take it a stage further - you can get involved and fix it. Sorry but this is where it gets flame

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
Jacqui Caren-home wrote: Sean Gibbins wrote: Stephen Pelc wrote: You can only improve something by acknowledging what's wrong with it. When dealing with free, open source software coded largely by volunteers you can take it a stage further - you can get involved and fix

Re: [Hampshire] Timetable for tomorrows talks

2010-01-15 Thread Adam John Trickett
On Friday 15 Jan 2010 17:43:02 Damian Brasher wrote: Hi Roger I would be grateful so that I can organise the family day around it. Usually this information is located on the main website: http://hants.lug.org.uk it may appear later? It's appearing now...

Re: [Hampshire] Motorola Milestone (Was:[OT]ish ipod software)

2010-01-15 Thread Russell Morris
This is probably a discussion that should be left to die, don't you think? 2010/1/15 Keith Edmunds k...@midnighthax.com On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:10:46 +, li...@retrochoons.co.uk said: allow me to clarify that in no uncertain terms. I complained about one of those usual asshole type