Re: [Hampshire] rsync

2012-11-10 Thread Rob Malpass
From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Michael James Daffin Sent: 05 November 2012 19:43 To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] rsync Opps yes sorry, but if you want to sync /mnt/foo/ with /mnt/goo

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Full Circle Podcast
Adam, you can get pretty much all of them to work in the current kernel; I keep resurrecting my ancient standard def Freecom USB stick on various antique machines: http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/how-to-freecom-dvb-t-resurrected-again-pt1/

[Hampshire] For anyone still on UBUNTU 10.04.x

2012-11-10 Thread Leszek Kobiernicki 1
Dear all KSPLICE delivered a number of bug-fixes to UBUNTU 10.04 with revisions, which resulted in nearly double the prior optimal throughput on copying archives over to external housing devices Fantastic work. Back-maintaining a seasoned, high-usability, easily-configurable distro, is truly

Re: [Hampshire] For anyone still on UBUNTU 10.04.x

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 10 November 2012 10:52:26 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: Fantastic work.  Back-maintaining a seasoned, high-usability, easily-configurable distro, is truly praiseworthy 10.04 is an LTS version, surely? So support is guaranteed for 3 years, is it not? Some Ubuntu fan, please correct

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Mike Dwerryhouse
On Friday 09 November 2012 20:52:54 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: our TV is still ye olde CRT. I though I was the last person in the country to go digital Although I bought a digital TV several months ago, I still have a 28 widescreen CRT TV waiting for me to take it to the council dump - it weighs

Re: [Hampshire] For anyone still on UBUNTU 10.04.x

2012-11-10 Thread Tim
On 10/11/12 10:59, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2012 10:52:26 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: Fantastic work. Back-maintaining a seasoned, high-usability, easily-configurable distro, is truly praiseworthy 10.04 is an LTS version, surely? So support is guaranteed for 3 years, is it not?

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 10 Nov 2012, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: On Friday 09 November 2012 20:52:54 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: our TV is still ye olde CRT. I though I was the last person in the country to go digital Actually we almost never used the TV in analogue mode at all. We use to live in the

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Friday 09 Nov 2012, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, Every now and then I think I may get a DVB tuner for my computer. Now that Hannington has been upgraded to HD I could even watch/record stuff in HD (in theory) on my computer - our TV is still ye olde CRT. The Hauppauge PCTV Systems

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Anton Piatek
I don't think you need quad core. My dual core Asus at3 ion mobo with cpu does hd playback (no idea of the codec) but it also has a nvidia gpu builtin with hardware acceleration. I would always recommend hardware accelerated decoding over more cpy power (not sure if extra cores really help here)

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-10 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 10 Nov 2012, Anton Piatek wrote: I don't think you need quad core. My dual core Asus at3 ion mobo with cpu does hd playback (no idea of the codec) but it also has a nvidia gpu builtin with hardware acceleration. I'm not buying specifically for the video, I was just thinking of

Re: [Hampshire] For anyone still on UBUNTU 10.04.x

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 10 November 2012 13:26:33 Tim wrote: On 10/11/12 10:59, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2012 10:52:26 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: Fantastic work. Back-maintaining a seasoned, high-usability, easily-configurable distro, is truly praiseworthy 10.04 is an LTS version,

Re: [Hampshire] For anyone still on UBUNTU 10.04.x

2012-11-10 Thread Dave Walker
On 10 November 2012 15:05, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2012 13:26:33 Tim wrote: On 10/11/12 10:59, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2012 10:52:26 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: Fantastic work. Back-maintaining a seasoned, high-usability, easily-configurable