Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-25 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Sun, Oct 23 at 07:06, James Bensley wrote: Although, thanks to Chris' generous donation, as I only had one drive to hand, I was able to work out how to have multiple drives running from the same single threaded controller (in my case my Arduino Duemilanove, ATmega328). You can

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

2011-10-25 Thread Benjie Gillam
TestDisk does exactly that - it scans the whole disk looking for pieces of data that look like they were JPG images (or whatever you're searching for - it has a bunch of prebuilt filters) - which is why I recommended it. However different filesystems lay out files in different places - e.g. at

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

2011-10-25 Thread Kerwin Khu
Another vote for TestDisk, or to be more specific it's companion program PhotoRec[1]. It's a very handy tool for those oh moments. It claims support for Mac OS X and HFS+, so I guess there's no need for special mount commands. [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Regards, Kerwin

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

2011-10-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 25 October 2011 14:01, Kerwin Khu kerwin@gmail.com wrote: Another vote for TestDisk, or to be more specific it's companion program PhotoRec[1]. It's a very handy tool for those oh moments. It claims support for Mac OS X and HFS+, so I guess there's no need for special mount

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

2011-10-25 Thread john lewis
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:17:34 +0100 James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: It is times like this that I wish this was IBM OS/2. I think it was called HPFS. (High Performance File System) OS/2 was excellent, easily customisable by 3rd parties and only let down by IBM not

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

2011-10-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 25 October 2011 15:57, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:17:34 +0100 James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: It is times like this that I wish this was IBM OS/2. I think it was called HPFS.  (High Performance File System) OS/2 was excellent,

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

2011-10-25 Thread Gordon Scott
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 23:37 +0100, Vic wrote: I'm curious how this happened. Obviously the poor guy made a mistake, but even then this seems an extraordinary sequence to happen without some alarms going off. The tools on OSX aren't great. Using the installation disk as a rescue disk

[Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello folks Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store something of the order of 20GB of email (with big attachments). The companies I've looked at so far limit mailboxes to about 2GB. cheers Chris

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 21:03:27 Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store something of the order of 20GB of email (with big attachments). The companies I've

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Vic
Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store something of the order of 20GB of email (with big attachments). As Tim said, you should do this yourself. A commercial provider is likely to be expensive.

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Ian Grody
Indeed, best to run your own. If you want it simple to setup, check out SME Server http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page Ian Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: Hello folks Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 21:11:17 Tim Brocklehurst wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2011 21:03:27 Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store something of the order

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Vic
I would be happy to talk you through the setup. Whatever you do, don't use mbox... Vic. -- 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] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Benjie Gillam
Mailgun.net may be of interest, plus as a bonus you can do all sorts of funky API based things with your email. Disclaimer: I have not used them for personal email hosting, only mail sending. Disclosure: They're a fellow YCombinator company (same batch) -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Gordon Scott
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 21:03 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store something of the order of 20GB of email (with big attachments). You could try

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 22:47:38 Vic wrote: I would be happy to talk you through the setup. Whatever you do, don't use mbox... Vic. Heaven forbid! Maildir all the way! Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter openDynamics - Open-source Vessel Motions Calculation Lead

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Dennis
On 10/25/2011 10:21 PM, Vic wrote: Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store something of the order of 20GB of email (with big attachments). As Tim said, you should do this yourself. A commercial