[Hampshire] Hardware Fault?

2010-02-02 Thread john lewis
I have been running an old Dell Optiflex GX110 (with original 512 Meg of memory) as a backup system for a year or more without any problems, for some reason it rebooted itself last week and failed to restart. OS is Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel. 80 gig hard drive with three partitions / and

[Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
If there are any Debian developers who wouldn't mind signing my GPG key I'd really appreciate it. It's a tad frustrating not being able to contribute (long story). Cheers, Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-02 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:40:17AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: If there are any Debian developers who wouldn't mind signing my GPG key I'd really appreciate it. It's a tad frustrating not being able to contribute (long story). Sure, where are you based? I live in Reading. --

Re: [Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:02:20 + (+), Simon Huggins wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:40:17AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: If there are any Debian developers who wouldn't mind signing my GPG key I'd really appreciate it. It's a tad frustrating not being able to contribute

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

2010-02-02 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 at 10:14:47AM +, Victor Churchill wrote: On 1 February 2010 22:11, Hants LUG Chairman adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, For those not going to FOSDEM we have the privilege of visiting IBM Hursley again next Saturday (06 Feb 2010). Looking forward to it.

Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-02-02 Thread Antony
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: Is there an 'approved' method for separating a big aluminium heatsink from a processor, to which it is attached as though superglued? Clamp the heatsink in a vice, protect the CPU and use a scalpel or craft knife blade to remove any actual glue and to wedge the

Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-02-02 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 2 February 2010 11:45, Antony a...@f2s.com wrote: Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: Is there an 'approved' method for separating a big aluminium heatsink from a processor, to which it is attached as though superglued? Clamp the heatsink in a vice, protect the CPU and use a scalpel or craft

[Hampshire] Recommendations for a Window Capture Utility anyone?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Davies
I'm looking for a screen capture utility that can capture just a visible window. There are several around BUT (and this seems to be the show stopper) It must run on SLES and RHEL I have a big training doc to write and I don't fancy editing some 100+ images just to remove all the bits I don't

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for a Window Capture Utility anyone?

2010-02-02 Thread Alan Pope
On 2 February 2010 12:31, Stephen Davies stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk wrote: I'm looking for a screen capture utility that can capture just a visible window. It must run on SLES and RHEL Alt+PrtScr ? That seems to work on Ubuntu, so I assume it's a GNOME thing. Cheers, Al. --

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for a Window Capture Utility anyone?

2010-02-02 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:31:35PM +, Stephen Davies wrote: I'm looking for a screen capture utility that can capture just a visible window. There are several around BUT (and this seems to be the show stopper) It must run on SLES and RHEL I have a big training doc to write and I

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for a Window Capture Utility anyone?

2010-02-02 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:38:01PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: $ scrot -s Then click on the window you want to snapshot. Add -b if you want the window frame as well. I forgot to say that I haven't checked whether this is available pre-packaged on SLES and RHEL. However, it's pretty basic,

Re: [Hampshire] Hardware Fault?

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Dennis
john lewis wrote: I have been running an old Dell Optiflex GX110 (with original 512 Meg of memory) as a backup system for a year or more without any problems, for some reason it rebooted itself last week and failed to restart. OS is Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel. 80 gig hard drive with

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Dennis
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:21:29AM +, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: We have again been invited to IBM and so our next meeting on the 6th of February will be at IBM Hursley Labs. I wish I could be there, but other plans have been made (some nonsense about a wedding anniversary grumble,

Re: [Hampshire] Hardware Fault?

2010-02-02 Thread john lewis
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:07:09 + Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: Eventually I found the the bios had reset the hard disk setting from the original 80 gig to 10 Gig so grub wouldn't start. If BIOS settings are changing randomly on an old PC, I would immediately suspect

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for a Window Capture Utility anyone?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Davies
Hugo, Thanks for the info. I've got scrot running on RHEL 4 5 after finding the dependencies. I've yet to try SLES though. Stephen D -- 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

[Hampshire] blank CD cases if anyone wants them

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I've 600 spare blank CD cases if anyone would like some on Saturday just shout. Packs of 25 (or 100). My old (old old) employer was throwing them out as the version of their software on it was outdated. I might try Freeagle in a while thinking about it. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux

Re: [Hampshire] Allegations made by LinuxLearner (Was: Re: stuart biggs added you as a business connection on Plaxo)

2010-02-02 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Andy Smith wrote: Hello, In general I have no interest in responding to LinuxLearner's trolling, but he has made some accusations which I feel I need to set straight for the record. This is a publicly archived mailing list and his unfortunate post may be stumbled upon by anyone. Andy I

Re: [Hampshire] Allegations made by LinuxLearner (Was: Re: stuart biggs added you as a business connection on Plaxo)

2010-02-02 Thread LinuxLearner
Andy Smith wrote: Hello, In general I have no interest in responding to LinuxLearner's trolling, but he has made some accusations which I feel I need to set straight for the record. This is a publicly archived mailing list and his unfortunate post may be stumbled upon by anyone. Thanks

[Hampshire] Duplex unit for HP 3100,3200,3300,8200 printer

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I forgot who kindly donated this to the LUG, however it should be for a HP 3100,3200,3300,8200 printer IIRC. part number is SG79C210NH If you let me know before Saturday I'll bring it along. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu,

[Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters

2010-02-02 Thread Lisi
This has suddenly become urgent, so I am asking for help at an earlier stage than I intended. :-( And you lot seem to know everything about everything. I need to try and get a voice distorter to lower the pitch of my voice. And I need to get it in the next ten days. Moreover, I was only

Re: [Hampshire] Hardware Fault?

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Chivers
hda: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33 Does it have an 80-wire cable? Have you tried reseating the drive cable? Dunno what sort of cable it is other than it looks like all other drive cables I have seen (apart from more modern

[Hampshire] Best (!) GUI toolkit

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi folks, I'd like to put a GUI wrapper round a few bits of command line magic to make them easier to use. I don't need anything very complex, but I've really moved beyond zenity. What would the next (small) step up be? TIA, Peter -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Best (!) GUI toolkit

2010-02-02 Thread Alan Pope
2010/2/2 Peter Salisbury peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net: I don't need anything very complex, but I've really moved beyond zenity. What would the next (small) step up be? quickly :) http://launchpad.net/quickly https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly Takes away lots of the faff to getting

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters

2010-02-02 Thread Clive Woodfine
On 2 February 2010 17:01, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote: This has suddenly become urgent, so I am asking for help at an earlier stage than I intended. :-(  And you lot seem to know everything about everything. I need to try and get a voice distorter to lower the pitch of my voice.  And I

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters

2010-02-02 Thread Dee Earley
On 02/02/2010 17:01, Lisi wrote: If anyone knows of a joke one that would do that, without sounding too silly, that would be great. But googling only offers joke ones, with a written description of what the sound is like, which is not really indicative enough; professional ones, which are

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters

2010-02-02 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:41:11 Clive Woodfine wrote: On 2 February 2010 17:01, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote: This has suddenly become urgent, so I am asking for help at an earlier stage than I intended. :-(  And you lot seem to know everything about everything. I need to try

Re: [Hampshire] Best (!) GUI toolkit

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 2 February 2010 19:47, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2010/2/2 Peter Salisbury peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net: I don't need anything very complex, but I've really moved beyond zenity. What would the next (small) step up be? quickly :) http://launchpad.net/quickly

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters

2010-02-02 Thread brian
Something like this no good ?? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Telephone-Cell-Phone-Fun-Spy-Equipment-Voice-Changer_W0QQitemZ220542562402QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item33595c7062 Brian On Tue 02/02/10 10:31 PM , Lisi hants...@googlemail.com sent: On Tuesday 02 February 2010