Re: [Hampshire] Basic Linux Training

2011-03-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/03/11 08:36, Lisi wrote: On Friday 18 March 2011 07:56:38 Sean Gibbins wrote: Hi All, I'm not sure how newsworthy this is, but since the question of basic Linux training courses that crops up from time to time I thought I'd pass it on. It appears that the Open University are now

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Lunar anomaly

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Dennis
On 19/03/11 03:03, Hugo Mills wrote: ...This means that the moon would have to be 6% larger, linearly(*). The moon's semi-major axis is 384000km(**), and its mean radius is 1700km(**). With those figures, its visible disc will be something on the order of 0.00885 radians across, or about 0.51�

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
Hi, I am pleased to announce that thanks to Chris Malton we now have two meetings booked at the University, Saturday 02 April and 07 May. Chris hopes to be there with a few other students from ECS so I hope this is the start of a stable relationship with the University. Because of building

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Stuart Biggs
is this Southampton university ? From: Hants LUG Chairman adam.trick...@iredale.net To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampsh...@lists.lug.org.uk Sent: Sat, 19 March, 2011 17:52:52 Subject: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings Hi, I am pleased to announce that thanks

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Clive Woodfine
Good news. Well done Adam. Clive On 19 March 2011 13:52, Hants LUG Chairman adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: Hi, I am pleased to announce that thanks to Chris Malton we now have two meetings booked at the University, Saturday 02 April and 07 May. Chris hopes to be there with a few other

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Malton
Yes - Southampton University. Chris Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Stuart Biggs smbi...@yahoo.co.uk To: chair...@hantslug.org.uk, Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings Date: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 18:07 is this Southampton

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Stuart Biggs wrote: is this Southampton university ? Yes, I should have made that clear. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK My organ doesn't work properly and emits strange burning smells -- seen on Usenet -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2011-03-19 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Clive Woodfine wrote: Good news. Well done Adam. Chris is the one to thank, he is the one who is letting us in. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Windows has detected: unknown device, and is installing drivers for it. -- Microsoft Windows -- Please post

[Hampshire] Mains power switches

2011-03-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, Does anyone know of any devices that contain the following: 1) Ethernet over Mains Power cables. 2) Switches mains on/off via controls sent over TCP/IP. 3) That fit in a wall socket. Nice to have: 1) Monitors the power usage. 2) Has low power mode whereby, it can respond to wake on LAN

[Hampshire] How to make linux server accessible via hostname on home LAN

2011-03-19 Thread Robin Wilson
Hi everyone, Thanks to the useful replies I got from this mailing list about setting up a home server, I now have a nice new server that I've been configuring today :-) Everything is going really well, I just have one question. I have a home network running from an off-the-shelf broadband