Re: [Hampshire] 32- or 64-bit distro?

2010-05-05 Thread john
Hi Chris I have tried both 32 bit and 64 bit 10.04. The 64 bit has less programs than the 32 bit. The grub on the 10.04 is painful. It is grub 2. I convert movie avi to a tighter format. The 64 bit is faster doing this task and it can multitask better. On the beta 10.4 it ran virtualbox 32

Re: [Hampshire] 32- or 64-bit distro?

2010-05-05 Thread Vic
> Unless you run a large database or something just stick with > 32-bit It might also be useful if you're planning on playing any virtualisation games. My 64-bit machine will run 32-bit guests, but my 32-bit ones won't run 64-bit guests. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk W

Re: [Hampshire] 32- or 64-bit distro?

2010-05-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I run 64-bit and have no problems. However, what are you going to gain? Unless you run a large database or something just stick with 32-bit (which is a darn sight more memory efficient too - all my VMs are 32-bit and they run in much less RAM than the 64-bit ones). FWIW I ran 64-bit because I wa

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Important news : 15th May BaB @ Nokia Farnborough

2010-05-05 Thread robert.beattie
Hello fellow Hamp'ers, Yes, there is a Surrey LUG meeting at Nokia, Farnborough, on May 15th. Feel free to come along. As usual please send me your name, car reg, next of kin incl tel no. so that security stay happy. :) Please subject the email "Linux meeting" Cheers all, Bob.

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Important news

2010-05-05 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
On Tuesday 04 May 2010, captain haddock wrote: > Hello Everybody, > a) Does anyone on this list work for the University of Southampton and > would be willing to allow us into the rooms 5 or 6 times per year? I know > it's an ask but if there is anyone it would make a lot of penguins happy. > I jo

Re: [Hampshire] Lucid quirks

2010-05-05 Thread Adam Sweet
Paul Tansom wrote: > OK, not necessarily just Lucid, but things have changed with my upgrade. I'll > quickly work through a bit of history in case it helps. I'm basically curious > to know how the default behaviour of the desktop should be so I know what the > actual quirks are! This is on an HP Mi

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** Hugo Mills [2010-05-05 16:55]: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, John Lewis wrote: > > I don't understand the DNS system at all other than a need to put some > > nameservers into /etc/resolv.conf (or equivalent) and didn't realise > > until this problem came up that startx.co.uk neede

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, John Lewis wrote: > I don't understand the DNS system at all other than a need to put some > nameservers into /etc/resolv.conf (or equivalent) and didn't realise > until this problem came up that startx.co.uk needed the *.myth.co.uk > servers The DNS is

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** john lewis [2010-05-05 14:07]: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 12:30:48 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, john lewis wrote: > > > Is there any way I can get startx.co.uk recognised by some other > > > nameserver(s)? > > > > I think you'll need to get > > > > R

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread john lewis
On Wed, 5 May 2010 16:16:16 +0100 Hugo Mills wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:04:42PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > In the mean time, find out what your IP address is for startx.co.uk, > > and let your wife type the IP address into the web browser instead > > of the name. > >Not

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread john lewis
On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:22:56 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hi John, > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:03:13PM +0100, john lewis wrote: > > In the meantime none of my 'clients' can connect with my database > > and since one of those is my wife I am in bother ;-( > > Get her to connect by IP or point ano

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:04:42PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > In the mean time, find out what your IP address is for startx.co.uk, > and let your wife type the IP address into the web browser instead of > the name. Note that this will only work if startx is the only (or at least the

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 5 May 2010 13:04, john lewis wrote: > > I don't understand the DNS system at all other than a need to put some > nameservers into /etc/resolv.conf (or equivalent) and didn't realise > until this problem came up that startx.co.uk needed the *.myth.co.uk > servers > The DNS system is a distribut

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:03:13PM +0100, john lewis wrote: > In the meantime none of my 'clients' can connect with my database > and since one of those is my wife I am in bother ;-( Get her to connect by IP or point another domain at it? Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread john lewis
On Wed, 5 May 2010 12:30:48 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hi John, > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, john lewis wrote: > > Is there any way I can get startx.co.uk recognised by some other > > nameserver(s)? > > I think you'll need to get > > Registrar: > Abscissa.com Limit

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, john lewis wrote: > Is there any way I can get startx.co.uk recognised by some other > nameserver(s)? I think you'll need to get Registrar: Abscissa.com Limited [Tag = MYTH] URL: http://www.myth.co.uk to change the nameserv

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread john lewis
> On Wed, 5 May 2010 11:22:00 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +0100, john lewis wrote: > > > startx.co.uk ("John Lewis Trading As:") is delegated to two > > > nameservers, however both delegated nameservers are missing in the > > > zone > > >

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread john lewis
On Wed, 5 May 2010 11:22:00 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hi John, > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +0100, john lewis wrote: > > startx.co.uk ("John Lewis Trading As:") is delegated to two > > nameservers, however both delegated nameservers are missing in the > > zone > > I like using Squishy

[Hampshire] Lucid quirks

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
OK, not necessarily just Lucid, but things have changed with my upgrade. I'll quickly work through a bit of history in case it helps. I'm basically curious to know how the default behaviour of the desktop should be so I know what the actual quirks are! This is on an HP Mini 2133 in case it is relev

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +0100, john lewis wrote: > startx.co.uk ("John Lewis Trading As:") is delegated to two > nameservers, however both delegated nameservers are missing in the zone I like using Squishywishywoo for checking out DNS issues: http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** Kelly Dunlop [2010-05-05 11:06]: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +0100, john lewis wrote: > > Until yesterday (evening?) we were able to connect to our Geneweb > > database at http://startx.co.uk:2317/Kingsclere without any problems. > > > > Just before 9 pm last evening my wife told me s

Re: [Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread Kelly Dunlop
Hello John, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +0100, john lewis wrote: > Until yesterday (evening?) we were able to connect to our Geneweb > database at http://startx.co.uk:2317/Kingsclere without any problems. > > Just before 9 pm last evening my wife told me she could no longer > connect to t

[Hampshire] problems with accessing startx.co.uk

2010-05-05 Thread john lewis
Until yesterday (evening?) we were able to connect to our Geneweb database at http://startx.co.uk:2317/Kingsclere without any problems. Just before 9 pm last evening my wife told me she could no longer connect to that URL and was getting a message about 'unable to connect to server' I was at th

Re: [Hampshire] 32- or 64-bit distro?

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Smith
Hi all, Thanks for all the advice. I think I will go with the 64-bit system after all. :) Chris -- Chris Smith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: