Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Windows

2010-08-06 Thread Russell Morris
I've always got on with Seagate, because they'll take just my opinion that it's defective, and replace. On 6 August 2010 02:31, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote: Hi Keith, On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:24:37PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: We contacted WD support to find out which version

Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Windows

2010-08-06 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:31:51 +, a...@strugglers.net said: Are they requiring you to run those diagnostics to RMA the drives, or is it just something you wanted to do for more info? I don't know, I haven't tried to return one yet. I'm not 100% sure it's even faulty, but there were some

[Hampshire] [OT] C cross-compile Makefile.am

2010-08-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi I have two Makefile.am(s) that work for the Linux build of an application but not the equivalent M$ build: /svnroot/sources/Makefile.am INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(srcdir) bin_PROGRAMS = DSI DSI_CFLAGS = -DDSI_DIR=\$(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)\ \

[Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

2010-08-06 Thread Benjamin Ashton
Hi, If anyone is willing then I could do with some help. Our version of linux sort-of works but is also really annoying and seems to fail on some of the basics. Any attempts that I've made putting on a different distro usually end in failure. We live up near Southampton University. If

Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Johnson
Hi Ben, On Friday 06 Aug 2010 14:38:56 Benjamin Ashton wrote: Hi, If anyone is willing then I could do with some help. Our version of linux sort-of works but is also really annoying and seems to fail on some of the basics. Any attempts that I've made putting on a different distro usually

Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Burrows
Hi Ben. I live overseas so can't help physically but I remember my early days with Debian (ask Hugo :) Keep plugging away its worth it in then end. You have my moral support anyway. Great help Huh? Kind regards Mike Hi, If anyone is willing then I could do with some help. Our version of

Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Burrows
oops sorry about the top post :( -- 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] Slight Plea For Help

2010-08-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Philip Stubbs wrote: Hi Ben, I can't come round, I am afraid. Actually, I could but not now. Also, I have learnt that I am a rubbish teacher. Anyhow, in case nobody else can help in person, here are a few questions that would help the good folk here guide you a little. * Are you currently