[Hampshire] Lost sound

2010-07-16 Thread Tim
Short of rebooting my PC how can I restart the sound system on my PC? If I try to run Amarok I get the following error "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers" I get no sound out of any other sound related programs either. Th PC has been running for 22 days and sound was working ok ye

Re: [Hampshire] [OT, I suppose] Router

2010-07-16 Thread Owain Clarke
Owain Clarke wrote: I'm still working on this one (the main symptom being random outages), and have been unable to trace what the problem is.  My ISP (the Phone Coop) tell me that if they call in an Open Reach engineer and it turns out that the problem is within my property I'll be liable f

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-16 Thread Ian Park
I can second that - I use Brother HL-5270DN, which does PostScript emulation and duplex printing. Bought it through Amazon; the only small wrinkle is that it came from France, but they supplied a UK mains lead for it as well as the continental one. Ian -- Ian Park 17 Pyle Hill Newbury Berkshire

[Hampshire] ubuntu updates

2010-07-16 Thread Isaac Close
Hello there, Quick question follows, here are a number of ubuntu 9.04 machines. They all want updates. Instead of eating loads of internet bandwidth, can the updates simply be downloaded once from one machine and then installed manually on the others ? thanks in advance, Isaac. --

Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu updates

2010-07-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 16 July 2010 14:16, Jan Henkins wrote: > Hello Isaac, > > On Fri, July 16, 2010 12:46, Isaac Close wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> Quick question follows, here are a number of ubuntu 9.04 machines. They >> all want updates. >> >> Instead of eating loads of internet bandwidth, can the updates simpl

Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu updates

2010-07-16 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Isaac, On Fri, July 16, 2010 12:46, Isaac Close wrote: > Hello there, > > Quick question follows, here are a number of ubuntu 9.04 machines. They > all want updates. > > Instead of eating loads of internet bandwidth, can the updates simply be > downloaded once from one machine and then insta

[Hampshire] ubuntu updates

2010-07-16 Thread Isaac Close
Hello there, Quick question follows, here are a number of ubuntu 9.04 machines. They all want updates. Instead of eating loads of internet bandwidth, can the updates simply be downloaded once from one machine and then installed manually on the others ? thanks in advance, Isaac. --

Re: [Hampshire] apache block invalid IP address

2010-07-16 Thread John Cooper
On 16/07/10 11:49, Vic wrote: As the rest of the logs are fine my guess is the spammer is using some control character sequence which is corrupting parsing of the logs for IP address I seriously doubt that. Consider the complexity of a crafted sequence that just erases the IP address, but le

Re: [Hampshire] apache block invalid IP address

2010-07-16 Thread Vic
> As the rest of the logs are fine my guess is the spammer is using some > control character sequence which is corrupting parsing of the logs for > IP address I seriously doubt that. Consider the complexity of a crafted sequence that just erases the IP address, but leaves the rest of the log int

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-16 Thread Russell Morris
We also have some 4300n printers (and others in the series), and they've been solid; I don't think we paid half as much as £1000, though! On 16 July 2010 10:38, Paul Stimpson wrote: > Hi, > > I've used the HP Laserjet 4300n (and 4200n - the same but a little slower) > and they are excellent dev

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-16 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I've used the HP Laserjet 4300n (and 4200n - the same but a little slower) and they are excellent devices. They are fairly compact and modular so you buy the bits you need (duplexer, paper trays, stapler/stacker, trolley...) If you can find one there are preloaded ones where the model numbe

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-16 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 16 July 2010 10:19, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > I have a requirement for a Laser Duplex printer with Ethernet network > interface. > The last time I brought a printer was about 10 years ago. > The previous one was a HP LaserJet 4L. > > Does anyone have any recommendations? > > Kind

[Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I have a requirement for a Laser Duplex printer with Ethernet network interface. The last time I brought a printer was about 10 years ago. The previous one was a HP LaserJet 4L. Does anyone have any recommendations? Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Int

Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel Pope
On 16/07/10 03:05, Vic wrote: I don't need debugging tools. I just avoid writing code with bugs in. Yeah, alright Dan. I'm sure we can all take that seriously. You seemed to take my previous tongue-in-cheek comment about the illegibility of Perl one-liners seriously. But seriously, I have

Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)

2010-07-16 Thread Victor Churchill
> Actually, I have no idea what the semantics of <> are. I don't even know what > you call that syntactically - anonymous filehandle constant? Can you point me > to documentation about the semantics of that thing? Its a special case of a . perldoc perlop If a is used in a context that is look

Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)

2010-07-16 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 16 July 2010 03:05, Vic wrote: > > > I don't need debugging tools. I just avoid writing code with bugs in. > > A clear breach of the first law of programming! > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG