[Hampshire] It's Debian, Jim, but not as we know it

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello folks Just in case you haven't stumbled across this: http://preview.tinyurl.com/7hv6t3d Another toy that I want for my birthday... cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mai

Re: [Hampshire] Server log viewer

2012-04-02 Thread Leo
Thanks, I'll take a look. On 01/04/12 21:10, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: Leo I use Logwatch which fulfills my needs. I set it up as a cronjob and read it when I get up at last. Works a charm. Cheers Dominic On Apr 1, 2012 5:52 PM, "Leo" mailto:li...@fractal.me.uk>> wrote: I currently run

Re: [Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

2012-04-02 Thread Ally Biggs
Can't go wrong with the intel i5-2500k will handle any game you throw at it, can clock it up to 4.5ghz on stock no need for the i7 when you can do this, use the money you would of saved and get a decent graphics card. I haven't had good experiences of Amds latest offerings especially the bulldoz

Re: [Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

2012-04-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 02/04/12 10:34, Ian Park wrote: Does anyone know of a similar company they'd trust to do a decent job of building a similar system but with a more up-to-date (spelled f - a - s - t - e - r!) processor etc? A friend of mine has had a couple of best-of-breed gaming beasts built by Simon at

[Hampshire] Ubuntu 12.04 release party

2012-04-02 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. It's nearly that time of year again. We're releasing Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) - the Precise Pangolin on 26th April (at an unspecified time) and as is customary would like to celebrate this with booze and chatting. We're having our release party

Re: [Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

2012-04-02 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I would commend Novatech.co.uk to you :-) Best regards, Paul. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Ian Park wrote: A few years back, on a recommendation from someone on this list (sorry, can't remember who), I bought a custom-built PC from a company cal

[Hampshire] Fwd: [Southampton-pm] Initial meet-up: Wed 4th April, 8pm, Platform Tavern

2012-04-02 Thread Imran Chaudhry
An friend of mine is attempting to revive the local Southampton.pm Perl Mongers group - please see below for more info. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Retout Date: 30 March 2012 09:37 Subject: [Southampton-pm] Initial meet-up: Wed 4th April, 8pm, Platform Tavern To: southampton

Re: [Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

2012-04-02 Thread I Close
On 04/02/12 09:34, Ian Park wrote: A few years back, on a recommendation from someone on this list (sorry, can't remember who), I bought a custom-built PC from a company called Vadim. At the time I bought it, it was pretty high spec: 2x 2GHz dual core Opteron CPUs, 4GB RAM, 640MB RAM on the gra

[Hampshire] iptables quick question...

2012-04-02 Thread I Close
Hello all, Just a quick question, am reading through the documentation on netfilter, and I am in a bit of a hurry. So far I am under the impression that fragmented packets are re-assembled *before* they are -j QUEUE'd. Do you know of any difference ? many thanks, Isaac -- Please post to

[Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Park
A few years back, on a recommendation from someone on this list (sorry, can't remember who), I bought a custom-built PC from a company called Vadim. At the time I bought it, it was pretty high spec: 2x 2GHz dual core Opteron CPUs, 4GB RAM, 640MB RAM on the graphics card, 150GB + 2x 320GB hard d

Re: [Hampshire] Portable linux firewall

2012-04-02 Thread Dominic Rodriguez
Chris, Am I correct in understanding that you want a program like GUFU or Firestarter but with location ability to change the settings depending where you are? This does sound like a good project to me and may be useful to new user of Ubuntu or Linux coming from the-os-that-we-shall-not-speak-of.