Re: [Hampshire] Mac book repairer

2011-01-13 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, How old is it? My first guess would be a failed hard drive. Replacing them isn't easy (Apple make the machines very hard to open) and there will probably be some minor cosmetic damage if you open the case yourself. If it is the hard drive then the restore disc that came with the machine wi

[Hampshire] Mac book repairer

2011-01-13 Thread Tim
My daughter Macbook seem to have given up the ghost, while we can it to boot to the desktop 1 in 3 attempts, it is very slow. It is not helped by the fact that the optical drive is also dead (died back end of November). Can anybody suggest any thing to check (complete Mac newbie here) and does

[Hampshire] Lift

2011-01-13 Thread Adam John Trickett
Hi, Is anyone driving from Basingstoke area to the LUG meeting this Saturday? I could do with a lift as there is engineering work on the trains which will make my trip a bit more complex than usual. Thanks in advance. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK A man is known by the books he reads.

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 strangeness

2011-01-13 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:23:30PM +, Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello folks > > I've come across a problem on a friend's computer. > > The computer is fairly old (see below), running Ubuntu 10.10, with / > on a 40GB IDE drive, and /home on a 120GB Maxtor SATA drive. > > It's /home that's the pro

[Hampshire] ext4 strangeness

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello folks I've come across a problem on a friend's computer. The computer is fairly old (see below), running Ubuntu 10.10, with / on a 40GB IDE drive, and /home on a 120GB Maxtor SATA drive. It's /home that's the problem. It's on a single partition /dev/sda1, formatted as ext4. I've run

Re: [Hampshire] [sort-of-OT] Advice for (geeky) broadband provider

2011-01-13 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 13/01/2011 12:08, Peter Collins wrote: I wonder if people realise what advertised Fibre really is a lot of the time. correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it, a good percentage of the time the Fibre is only from the cabinet in the street: Virgin's service is fibre based to cabinets, a

Re: [Hampshire] [sort-of-OT] Advice for (geeky) broadband provider

2011-01-13 Thread Benjie Gillam
I'm with Virgin Media (Upper Shirley), here's my stats: [1] 50.61 down, 1.63 up, 18ms ping. It's worth pointing out that VM are already rolling out 100Mb (and are even testing 200Mb in some places) and they're also increasing the upload rate (50Mb do

Re: [Hampshire] [sort-of-OT] Advice for (geeky) broadband provider

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Collins
I wonder if people realise what advertised Fibre really is a lot of the time. correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it, a good percentage of the time the Fibre is only from the cabinet in the street: Virgin's service is fibre based to cabinets, as long as you are a cable customer, they use D