Re: [Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

2011-03-25 Thread Mike Burrows
I think the mount options are typically "user,noauto" so it doesn't auto mount until requested but when it is requested the user who mounts it owns it and can mount/umount it in the first place. On a modern Debian system with a full-fat desktop I think this is automatically taken care for you.

Re: [Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

2011-03-25 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Wednesday 23 Mar 2011, Mike Burrows wrote: > Hi Folks. > > I have a western digital hard drive attached to a usb port on my deb > box. It mounts automagically on boot and I can access the file structure > and read/write files from a windows samba client. However, when working > on the Deb box I

Re: [Hampshire] social networking software

2011-03-25 Thread bryan hunt
> On 28 February 2011 16:25, bryan hunt wrote: > > http://shindig.apache.org > Try out Partuza which is based on Apache Shindig . > http://code.google.com/p/partuza/ Partuza, doesn't seem to be a lot of project activity from 2009 onwards. b -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] social networking software

2011-03-25 Thread pavithran
On 28 February 2011 16:25, bryan hunt wrote: > http://shindig.apache.org Try out Partuza which is based on Apache Shindig . http://code.google.com/p/partuza/ If you are looking for a simpler easy to set up network , try elgg http://www.elgg.org/ Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://

Re: [Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

2011-03-25 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Thu, Mar 24 at 05:42, Mike Burrows wrote: ... > sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/mybook -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 ... > can't help thinking there is a better way of doing this in fstab... Well on a Gentoo box I'd put the following in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/myboot vfat noauto,user 0 0

Re: [Hampshire] Gallery software

2011-03-25 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:36:50 + Stephen Davies wrote: > As a long term Gallery user (& customiser), I thought that I should > throw in my 2p worth. > The UI for V3 is quite different from V2. Some people have > switched back to V2. > You can import many V2 customisations right into