Re: [Hampshire] What do *you* put in /etc/hostname on Debian?

2010-04-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:07:15 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: > For those of you adminstering Debian or Ubuntu, given a FQDN of > "foo.example.com", what would *you* put in the /etc/hostname, > /etc/hosts and /etc/mailname files? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 foo.example

Re: [Hampshire] Basic drawing programme to design roof extension

2010-04-15 Thread Dr Adam J Trickett
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 at 01:29:41PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > On 14 April 2010 11:11, Roger Munford > wrote: > > > > John, you will be pleased to know that the command line is there and you > > do use it a lot when entering exact measurements. If you need an > > interesting project to g

[Hampshire] OpenDNS benefits

2010-04-15 Thread trotter
Lo, I have been trying OpenDNS and have noticed similar services while googling. I have it setup now but was wondering if anybody else had tried other services and has any comments on whether they are faster more reliable or have better privacy policies? thanks Martin N Running MorphOS v2.4 on

Re: [Hampshire] Basic drawing programme to design roof extension

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 15/04/2010 13:29, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I think the payback period for PVs in the UK is something like 30 > years due to the lack of sunlight in the UK. > I think, due to wear and tear, the PV would have to be replaced before > 30 years, so using PVs in the UK does not give you any TCO

Re: [Hampshire] SheevaPlugs and offshoots.

2010-04-15 Thread Dr Adam J Trickett
Hi, On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 at 10:30:50AM +0100, Clive Woodfine wrote: > There has been some discussion lately about SheevaPlugs. Does anyone > have any comments on using this device or their derivatives? Or better > still willing to give a talk at the next Southampton BaB. I have been > looking at th

[Hampshire] DSI space invaders blogged by SourceForge's Lee Schlesinger

2010-04-15 Thread Damian Brasher
Great news, DSI space invaders blogged by SourceForge's Lee Schlesinger https://sourceforge.net/blog/dsi-space-invaders-lives-again/ Thanks to certain members for you feedback which helped, Cheers Damian -- w: http://www.diaser.org.uk - Geo-data redundancy long-term archive system (WAN vault

Re: [Hampshire] Basic drawing programme to design roof extension

2010-04-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14 April 2010 11:11, Roger Munford wrote: > > John, you will be pleased to know that the command line is there and you > do use it a lot when entering exact measurements. If you need an > interesting project to get stuck into, think about putting solar PV > panels on you roof. > It looks like a

[Hampshire] SheevaPlugs and offshoots.

2010-04-15 Thread Clive Woodfine
There has been some discussion lately about SheevaPlugs. Does anyone have any comments on using this device or their derivatives? Or better still willing to give a talk at the next Southampton BaB. I have been looking at the TonidoPlug which is reasonably priced and can be used for storage on the L

Re: [Hampshire] Basic drawing programme to design roof extension

2010-04-15 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 14 April 2010 13:24, john lewis wrote: > Plotters are great fun to watch all the black lines were drawn first, > the black pen is then parked, the head selects the next colour, say > red, then all the lines in that colour are drawn and so on. Yay! I used to love playing with an A0 pen plotter.