Re: [Hampshire] Latitude C840 keyboard

On Monday 09 April 2012 20:50:35 hants...@googlemail.com wrote: > I am on the hunt for a Dell Latitude C840 keyboard. I could obviously try > eBay, but my experience of getting electronic/computing bits for eBay does > not inspire me with confidence. I have wasted my money on duds more often > th

Re: [Hampshire] Domain type authentication using Linux as "domain" server

On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:37:41 +0100, Ally Biggs wrote: Idiots guide to LDAP, Samba and Getting your windows boxes to behave with Linux. Does such a thing exist? I the problem with documentation I have read I'm not being funny but usually it's over complicated jargon, doesn't get to the point it's u

Re: [Hampshire] Transaction based upgrades.

On 08/04/12 11:40, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, After reading the "crippled system" thread, I think it might be a good idea if Linux was able to do transaction based upgrades. Sounds wonderful. What I'd also like would be an 'undo' facility for apt (i.e. .deb-based) changes. cheers Ch

Re: [Hampshire] Transaction based upgrades.

> What I'd also like would be an 'undo' facility for apt (i.e. .deb-based) > changes. I'm rather surprised it hasn't been copied over yet. Yum has had a "rollback" command for some while. Apt usually has almost identical functionality... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk We

Re: [Hampshire] Transaction based upgrades.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/12 11:40, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > After reading the "crippled system" thread, I think it might be a > good idea if Linux was able to do transaction based upgrades. The "do-release-upgrade" tool in Ubuntu has for some time had a 'sandbo

[Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

Hi Guys, Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell me? I am 13 if that helps. Cheers, Dominic Rodriguez. -- 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] HantsLUG Meetings Question

On 10 April 2012 19:02, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell > me? I am 13 if that helps. > > I sincerely hope not! I'm 70, but I'm delighted to see younger enthusiasts at these meetings! The more, the merrier! Chris. -

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

On 10/04/12 19:43, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: On 10 April 2012 19:02, Dominic Rodriguez > wrote: Hi Guys, Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell me? I am 13 if that helps. I sincerely hope not! I'm 70, but I'm deli

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

> > On 10 April 2012 19:02, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell >> me? I am 13 if that helps. >> >> I sincerely hope not! I'm 70, but I'm delighted to see younger > enthusiasts at these meetings! The more, the merr

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

I took my son Ross to the last HantsLug meeting and he is 9. Jon On Apr 10, 2012 7:03 PM, "Dominic Rodriguez" wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell > me? I am 13 if that helps. > > Cheers, > Dominic Rodriguez. > > > -- > Please post to: H

[Hampshire] Meeting Talks

Howdy all, There was a surryLUG post recently about the next bring-a-box meeting, which led me to cruise the surreyLUG site. There I saw they have two things; The first is a page of requested talks, where users can vote for talks they want to hear about, and submit topics. The second was on the

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Talks

I wouldn't mind listening to a talk on setting up a Linux domain controller Sent from my iPhone On 10 Apr 2012, at 20:37, "James Bensley" wrote: > Howdy all, > > There was a surryLUG post recently about the next bring-a-box meeting, which > led me to cruise the surreyLUG site. There I saw the

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Talks

I'll happily offer a talk on HPC and clusters for CPU intensive tasks, at our May meeting. Cheers, Tim B. On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012 20:37:15 James Bensley wrote: > Howdy all, > > There was a surryLUG post recently about the next bring-a-box meeting, > which led me to cruise the surreyLUG site. T

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

On Tuesday 10 April 2012 20:16:26 Jon Wilks wrote: > I took my son Ross to the last HantsLug meeting and he is 9. > > Jon > > On Apr 10, 2012 7:03 PM, "Dominic Rodriguez" wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell > > me? I am 13 if that h

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Talks

Hi Ally, When you say "Linux domain controller" do you mean something akin to a Linux equivalent of a Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controller? Tim, Awesome, one audience member, right here! Ultimately where I'd like to go with his is if the talker where happy to, record the talks and host

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

On 10/04/12 19:02, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: Hi Guys, Is there a minimum age limit for HantsLUG meetings? If so, could you tell me? I am 13 if that helps. I think we should encourage people of all ages to get involved, but (with my boring hat on) we must make sure we don't run foul of any ted

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Talks

On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:20:46 James Bensley wrote: > Ultimately where I'd like to go with his is if the talker where happy > to, record the talks and host them on line, to form a community > lectures page for the wiki, with an archive of the talks. This used to be done almost always. Has the

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

I have recently (well, few months ago) got involved in STEM (essentially, professional engineers helping out schools with extra-curricular educational stuff). So I have had some (very, very limited) exposure to the world of rules and regs regarding young and/or vulnerable people (and that could

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

On Tuesday 10 April 2012 22:08:10 Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > However, if the previously unsupervised youngster is in the company > of a responsible adult (trusted by both youngster and parents), then I > don't think there would be a problem I think that you would find that there would. Parents ru

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Meetings Question

On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012 22:22:19 hants...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2012 22:08:10 Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > > However, if the previously unsupervised youngster is in the company > > > > of a responsible adult (trusted by both youngster and parents), then I > > don't think there w

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Talks

On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012, James Bensley wrote: > Howdy all, > > The second was on the bring-a-box page people can offer to give a talk at > these meets, and fill in the days schedule. > > SurreyLUG is a bit too far from me, so I'm a hantsLUG goer only (well soon, > still waiting to go to my first m