[Hampshire] Lucid - startup scripts

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all Can anyone tell me where to put a script which I need to run once gnome has initialised? Essentially my problem is as follows: Not sure if they've fixed it yet but lucid had a problem with wheel mice where when browsing in Firefox (not sure if other browsers were affected) if you

Re: [Hampshire] Lucid - startup scripts

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Liddell
On 23/10/11 11:12, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all SNIP So could someone please suggest where I put this? Presume I can't just put it in the Session thing in Gnome because it needs su permission to run? Couldn't you create a /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf file and put options psmouse rate=100

[Hampshire] In need of a project

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all Can anyone suggest a good Linux project? I have 4 boxes, three of which are reasonably specced but I've not done much with them (apart from the usual emails/web etc) since I had them all running the lam-mpi [1] software a while back. Things I've thought of are: * Getting

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-10-23 Thread john lewis
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:45:06 +0100 Jan Henkins j...@henkins.za.net wrote: Please consider submitting a bug report[*], or try to see if other Debian users are experiencing the same problem. If something irritates us, we have to let the developers know about it. Sending email works now and

Re: [Hampshire] In need of a project

2011-10-23 Thread Jan Henkins
How about OpenStack? http://openstack.org TL;DR: It's a way to be even more cloudy than Amazon EC2! :-) But seriously, it's a good business tool for companies of any size. On Sun, October 23, 2011 11:47, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all Can anyone suggest a good Linux project? I have 4

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-23 Thread Victor Churchill
Absolutely none of my business but the request sparked a bit of curiosity in me as to what one might want a few floppy disk drive for. I wondered if it might be a project like this ;-) http://www.howtogeek.com/news/floppy-drives-play-the-imperial-march-video/6806/ -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-23 Thread Jan Henkins
Excellent! Symphony No. 1024 The Floppy! :-) -- Regards, Jan Henkins James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 October 2011 13:21, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely none of my business but the request sparked a bit of curiosity in me as to what one might want a

Re: [Hampshire] In need of a project

2011-10-23 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
Multi-player, AI chess? (or any other game) You've got plently of computing power, so how about making the board 3D? (or making the game more complex in some other way). Possibly, some form of massive network simulation? Gateways are fairly simple to setup and test, firewalling just adds