Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?

On 05/11/12 15:46, Chris Dennis wrote: Yes. Adam had to shut down most access to the wiki because of all the spam. And my very brief reading of the MoinMoin documentation suggests that the system wasn't designed to be secure: it's open to either everyone or no-one (except for 'superusers').

Re: [Hampshire] 17in Monitors to good home

I could find a home for at least one, my daughter's PC has a horribly cracked screen where my son threw a playstation controller at it! Good excuse for me to come to Nokia on Saturday, I don't get to many LUG meets. Alan. On 10/05/11 10:34, RobinT Catling wrote: Can anyone find a use for 2 x

[Hampshire] Ubuntu UK Christmas Party

Hi all, The Ubuntu UK loco is organising a bit of a get together up in London on Tuesday 21st December at the Hub Islington from 7pm. It would be lovely to see you there. There will be wifi, but really the evening is more about the sherry and mince pies than laptops and geekyness and it total

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

Alan Bell wrote: > I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on > Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the > general election and in particular the http://votegeek.org.uk website. > At the moment it is suffering a bit of voter apathy

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

well that was fun! I was interviewed in the studio where they record the Moral Maze and other things, I don't know how much they will play and how much gets cut, but do listen out on Monday from 16:30 to 17:00 (I think my bit is right at the end) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk We

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

Samuel Penn wrote: > > > Fair enough. Though I would say that what previous MPs have > voted for is probably a good indication of how they'll behave > if they're re-elected. It doesn't make them less interesting > just because we know something about their history. > > yes, poor choice of words

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

sam wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:04:00 +0100, Alan Bell > wrote: > >> I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on >> Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the >> general election and in particular the htt

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

alan c wrote: thanks, the action plan is a reasonable start, but lacking in teeth. The current interesting documents to look at are the manifestos of the various parties, the Conservative manifesto has some interesting commitments in it. It is a big document, just search for the word "open" and

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 13/04/10 12:42, Alan Bell wrote: > >> Sean Gibbins wrote: >> >> >>> On the subject of voter apathy I would say: what's the point? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I could argue

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

Sean Gibbins wrote: > On the subject of voter apathy I would say: what's the point? > > I could argue with you about that, but frankly I can't be bothered :-) > With regard to the Digital Economy Bill I, and many others, were not > apathetic and we engaged soon after the ill-conceived bill was

Re: [Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > > > On 13 April 2010 11:04, Alan Bell <mailto:alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com>> wrote: > > > Please spare a few minutes to email your candidates and ask them all > about their position on an issue that matters to you,

[Hampshire] Radio 4 Click On

I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the general election and in particular the http://votegeek.org.uk website. At the moment it is suffering a bit of voter apathy and I don't have as many interesting

[Hampshire] Vote Geek

Hi all, with the General Election just round the corner I am putting together a little website to help organise a letter writing campaign asking the candidates what they think about the issues that matter to us. This is a project supported by the Free Software Foundation Europe amongst others. Ple

Re: [Hampshire] GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04

Vic wrote: >> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/gimp-to-be-removed-lucid.html >> GIMP won't be dropped entirely (that would be totally stupid) it's just >> not >> being installed by default. F-Spot will be installed by default. >> > > So Mono will be installed by default. That'll please a lot

Re: [Hampshire] Viglen mpc default pw?

Hugo Mills wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:42:07AM +, Alan Pope wrote: > >> 2009/10/27 : >> >>> My new mpc arrived yesterday at home. I ditched all of the pointless >>> packaging and brought the dinky white cardboard box into work to try the >>> thing out but I left the sheet of

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/9/25 Stephen Rowles : > >> showing some nice "hacks" as examples of the functionality that it has. >> It runs Firefox (Fennec) as a browser and I've seen a photo on the web >> of it running a root terminal so it should be easy to get access and >> configure / update it. >

Re: [Hampshire] Reminder Bracknell SFday Sat. Sept. 19th!

just a reminder, this is today. I am thinking of popping over in a bit, as soon as I can un-brick my OLPC. Alan. alan c wrote: > If any one is available to help, please let me know? Even if not > please visit! 10.00am - 4.00pm Bracknell Bandstand Saturday Sept. > 19th 2009 > > FYI: press release:

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

master - which then get > joined together again. On the other hand the amount of data is quite > small - maybe a thousand rows in SQL terms. Actually it doesn't have to > be SQL at all, I'm just using that as an example. > > Anyhow, thanks again. I'll post again when I

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu mirror is slow

go to system-administration-software sources In the download from dropdown select "other" press the "Select Best Server" button this will ping everything and work out which is actually closest to you You can also browse through the UK list of servers and choose one you think is closest if you want

[Hampshire] Karmic RAT Party

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicRATParty The Real Ale Train The Watercress Line is a small steam powered railway line in Hampshire. It runs from Alton Station to Alresford

Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?

I have been compiling a list of friendly vendors, you might want to take a browse through the laptop category of the Naked Computers site http://nakedcomputers.org/category/laptops/ Alan. John Cooper wrote: > Sean Gibbins wrote: > >> Victor Churchill wrote: >> >>> I have bought a coupl

Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?

It is tricky to buy computers without an operating system, it really restricts your options. I was thinking about this the other night and (with a little help on the name from Popey) decided to build a directory of vendors that will sell you a naked computer. I give you http://nakedcomputers.or

Re: [Hampshire] What is a Shuttle PC?

Rob Malpass wrote: > Thanks Al but I visit that link about once a week. I think just about > everything I've picked up on is a known bug. What I need is a dualhead > setup where the secondary monitor effectively becomes a magnified version of > whatever's underneath the pointer. > that

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] memory sticks

this bit is the speed rating: PC2-6400 PC2-5300 and the 6400 one is faster. If your computer doesn't support PC2-6400 it should just operate at 5300 speeds. In fact the 800 and the 667 is the speed in Mhz I think. Alan. Lisi wrote: > What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of two p

Re: [Hampshire] Choosing VPN routers

well one way or another there will be at least one externally addressable open port, whether that is forwarded to another device or directly serviced by the router doesn't make much difference. If you are providing a VPN for people to use from home then a PPTP or openVPN thing will be fine beca

Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Netbook

you might want to ponder a bit on the implications of an existence of a boatload of refurbs though. I think you can get the same motherboard in a slightly better bit of plastic from Elonex for £99 brand new. If you want a really cheap MIPS processor to play with then go for it. It is a sub-netb

[Hampshire] The Libertus server

://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/libertus.html http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/libertus-eruditus.html Now all we have to do is tell the world about it, without spending too much money that we don't have, any help in this task would be gratefully received. Alan. Alan Bell wrote: > We are trying out a new

Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu jaunty

I will immediately commence self flagellation using a handful of knotted USB cables for failing to JFGI. thanks! Alan. Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/2/24 Alan Bell : > >> where does one get a daily image? I tried Alpha 4 in virtualbox >> (wouldn't boot on the PC I tried it

Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu jaunty

where does one get a daily image? I tried Alpha 4 in virtualbox (wouldn't boot on the PC I tried it on - but that might be a badly burned CD) I couldn't see much obvious different to Intrepid, I couldn't even get a fancy new notification to happen, but I didn't try for more than a few minutes.

Re: [Hampshire] [hants] compression

there may be some academic projects to compress particular types of data in particularly clever ways, but you have listed all the main general purpose lossless tools. If possible you might use lossy compression, which could mean recoding image content at lower quality settings, but this really

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Coroners and Justice Bill, Clause 152

thanks, that is interesting. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmbills/009/09009.i-v.html#top section 152 begins: "After section 50 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) insert—" the whole thing appears to be a bunch of patches to existing law, section 8 being a patch for the d

Re: [Hampshire] thoughts and feedback please on our new product, the Liberatus server

Lisi wrote: > > I hope you really meant that. I have been avoiding saying anything, because > I > feared that you didn't - so read no further if you didn't really, really mean > it! > > >> we didn't want to include other people's trademarks in our model names >> (i.e. no Liberatus Moodle) so

Re: [Hampshire] thoughts and feedback please on our new product, the Liberatus server

. Thanks to your feedback we are now being less confused about the distinction between "more" and "much more" as well as improving our grammar :-) Alan. Victor Churchill wrote: > 2009/2/13 Alan Bell : > >> We are trying out a new business idea, pre-configured s

Re: [Hampshire] thoughts and feedback please on our new product, the Liberatus server

Victor Churchill wrote: > 2009/2/13 Alan Bell : > >> We are trying out a new business idea, pre-configured server appliances >> bundled with services (setup and a bit of training) >> I would like a bit of feedback on our website pages about them. >> >>

[Hampshire] thoughts and feedback please on our new product, the Liberatus server

We are trying out a new business idea, pre-configured server appliances bundled with services (setup and a bit of training) I would like a bit of feedback on our website pages about them. http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/liberatus.html We are going to set up a store for online purchases fair

Re: [Hampshire] Low capacity 2.5" IDE hardisk?

comes from a reputable/reliable source, I > gave up buying HDs at auctions/on ebay a long time ago. > >Andy > > -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7736 778908 Tel: +44 (0)8444 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name

[Hampshire] BETT 2009 Educational Show

Hi All, Every year in January 30,000 educational professionals huddle together to keep warm and look at technology in Olympia. We (The Open Learning Centre) will have a stand there this year in conjunction with Open Forum Europe, promoting the joys of Software Freedom to all who pass. here is

[Hampshire] Meatspace meetup

I am planning a little get together of Alans and others. So far Alan, Alan and possibly Alan have confirmed attendance, but the more the merrier, being called Alan is not compulsory. The venue will be the Herbert Wells pub in Woking http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/60/604/Herbert_Wells/Wo

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

Any chance of a weekday evening meeting (or daytime for that matter but I suspect evening would suit more people) from time to time. Saturdays are really not a good day for me at all. Alan. Hants LUG Chairman wrote: > Hello, > > Just a quick reminder about our next two meetings. > > Saturday 1

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

I just drew the text with a mouse in the gimp, I just had an idea of the concept and it occurred to me whilst doing it that I could reposition the finger and save myself writing a B. It really needs redoing properly, perhaps as an SVG. Anyone else want to have a crack at it? Alan. Lisi wrote:

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

I have changed the site a bit, it is now based on WordPress, the home page isn't there yet but take a look at http://donttellbill.com/test it is somewhat broken in IE at the moment but that is fixable. There is a new logo which I would be interested in comments about. Using WordPress means we ca

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > This is great! Just a couple of picky points: > > o There seems to be a question mark missing; Screen 2, if I remember > correctly. fixed > > o The English noun is 'Licence'. I suggest that you might use > 'licensing' instead. good suggestion > > We wouldn't want any

Re: [Hampshire] MS Bashing Re: Don't tell Bill

Paul Stimpson wrote: > Can it be made plain in the submission rules that the purpose of it > isn't to bash MS. I could see how anyone who is rabidly anti-Redmond > might see the name and take it as an encouragement to do so. > yes it will be. I don't mind jokes at Microsoft's expense, or the

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008 12:45:55 Mark Johnson wrote: > >> The only other suggestion I'd make is speed up some of the transitions >> between the text a bit. It takes about 7 seconds for the first text to >> appear, by which time I've lost interest. In general, I do like the gen

Re: [Hampshire] MS Bashing Re: Don't tell Bill

Simon Huggins wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:04:27AM +0000, Alan Bell wrote: > >> Anyone who wants to do some promotional activity of Free/Open Source >> software can join in. >> Design and make your own "Don't tell Bill" thing - it could be anyt

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

yes, I would agree with that, "Bill", whoever he is, should not appear in anything. In fact I think the "Bill" of this campaign doesn't have a surname and doesn't work for any particular company. He is just someone who won't be happy if he finds out people are getting Free software and enjoying

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

Mark Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008 11:03:38 Dr Adam Trickett wrote: > >> On Saturday 06 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly >>> on my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites) >>> >>

Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

Tim wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008 10:50:30 Paul Stimpson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly on >> my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites) >> >> The front page at www.donttellbill.com looks really nice. Would it be >> possibl

[Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

m with people promoting themselves as well as the project) We are making this up as we go along so if you have comments and suggestions it is likely that they will be incorporated. Alan. Daniel Pope wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:34:13AM +, Alan Bell wrote: > >> Here http://

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

Dr Adam J Trickett wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 11:35:07AM +0000, Alan Bell wrote: > >> That would make an interesting project to film for this >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase >> > > Indeed, though you may need to tweak the language

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

; "Free" > > "You tell him" > > "No, you tell him" > > (They all push the disc at each other then look at each other. One grabs the > large pot plant by the door out of its pot, > The other throws the disc in then they ram the plant back in

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:34:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > said: > > >> Kind of like the "don't tell Sid" thing that was used when Thatcher sold >> our gas. >> > > I recall it being "tell Sid" rather than "don't tell Sid" - but it was > some time ago. > you are quite

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

I did think about "don't tell Steve" but then decided it isn't about any specific Bill, just 'Bill' just like there wasn't a real Sid (I assume) Alan. Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/12/3 Alan Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> as luck would hav

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

Alan Pope wrote: > We should be looking at ways of promoting what we have, our advantages > over the competition, our strengths, not kick off knee-jerk copy-cat > reactionary marketing. The public see through that very quickly. Take > the appalling Novel "I'm Linux" adverts as a prime example of

[Hampshire] sheet fed scanners

I am getting a bit fed up of my cheap and nasty flatbed USB scanner and I wanted a sheetfed one. It seems these are scary expensive, however an 'all-in-one' printer/scanner/fax/floor cleaner thing is much more affordable. Basic requirement is scanning multiple sheets of A4 paper into SANE or so

Re: [Hampshire] Which Netbook?

well if you can wait a little while there might be a jolly good online store flogging Elonex webbooks. These are running Ubuntu and are jolly good if I say so myself. They lack 3d drivers at the moment so Compiz won't work but the hardware could do it and probably will one day. They have an 80G

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

ooh, I know what this is. You need to tell the soundcard a bit more about your speaker configuration by adding something in /etc/modprobe.d, we had this on the webbook but the other way round (the speakers wouldn't turn off when you plugged in the headphones) http://webbookblog.com/keep-the-noi

Re: [Hampshire] OLPC In Europe - At Last

It is nothing to do with recycling! the cost of the XO laptop is about $200 (yes, about twice what they were initially hoping for, partly because the dollar fell in value thanks to Bush) They are selling them on Amazon for $399 which is enough money to purchase 2 laptops. One goes to you, one g

Re: [Hampshire] Open Source ERP

OpenERP seems quite nice, as does OpenBravo. if the budget is low I would favor the smaller OpenERP, start by getting a copy of the book. http://www.openerp.com http://www.openbravo.com There is also www.gnuenterprise.org but that seems to be suffering a total existence failure at the moment.

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone got a spare laptop?

I should be able to sort you out an Elonex webbook without too much difficulty. Alan. Vic wrote: > Hi All. > > I'm on the lookout for a laptop - 1.6GHz or thereabouts should do it. > > Anyone want to part with one? I'd rather cash went here than to eBay... > > Vic. > > > > > -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Carphone Warehouse

Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 02:34:07PM +0000, Alan Bell wrote: > >> Hugo Mills wrote: >> >>> and are taking steps to bring their technical expertise in line with >>> their product range -- in the cheapest way possible. >>> &g

Re: [Hampshire] Carphone Warehouse

Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:42:22PM -, Mark Johnson wrote: > >>> Linux is still very much considered a technical O/S, and users are >>> considered to be more technically minded than average users. Im sure >>> that most windows users wouldnt know how to trouble shoot. They

Re: [Hampshire] Carphone Warehouse

Sean Gibbins wrote: > Lisi wrote: > >> On Friday I was informed by Carphone Warehouse in Petersfield that the >> Ubuntu >> Webbook has been withdrawn from sale. They even thought that they had still >> got some in the stockroom, but they are not allowed to sell them. :-( I >> had >> been

Re: [Hampshire] Carphone Warehouse

Sean Gibbins wrote: > Lisi wrote: > >> On Friday I was informed by Carphone Warehouse in Petersfield that the >> Ubuntu >> Webbook has been withdrawn from sale. They even thought that they had still >> got some in the stockroom, but they are not allowed to sell them. :-( I >> had >> been

Re: [Hampshire] Has anyone ever got pasta on their computer? And a few other things

Becky Taylor wrote: > As the title may suggest, I have - It left a big greasy mark on my > laptop screen. I'm ashamed to say my keyboard is filled with biscuit > crumbs as well... :-o > > sounds like you have been touched by His Noodly Appendage http://www.venganza.org/

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

Nick Chalk wrote: > >> They don't get the media if they order Microsoft >> products, some of the others may provide media. >> The Microsoft offerings are just download only. >> > > That's new. We received standard MS Open licences, > including huge quantities of media (all the > language packs

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

Nick Chalk wrote: >> I don't really care what price they put on the >> proprietary software, I would just not like a >> charity to look at the catalogue and get the >> impression that they had to lock themselves in. >> > > True, the advertising of Free Software is worth > the attempt. > > Cons

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

Paul Stimpson wrote: > I guess the plus point of this would be that for the cost of the media and a > disc printer (IMHO hand written labels on discs just wouldn't cut it here) > FLOSS could be put into charities' consciousness. For me the big selling > point would be that there would be no res

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

Nick Chalk wrote: > > That might be useful advertising, but I'm not sure > what level of take-up you'd get. > > I just want to see it listed as a choice. > CTX provides no technical support, so the > charities using it are likely to have professional > admins, either in-house or contracted. I do

[Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

I am interested in finding out a bit more about CTX http://www.ctxchange.org/ and how prominent their work is in the charitable sector. They provide donated hardware and proprietary software to charities and I am having an interesting email conversation with them about the possibility (or not) of i

Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm

dly at all! Alan. Simon Huggins wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:49AM +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > >> also a bit of a worry are the new little laptops which are almost >> embedded devices, they tend to run everything as root. >> > > Really? Which ones? I'm

Re: [Hampshire] help needed to diagnose computer problem

pply but need a bit more confidence as to cause before I > start ordering replacements for either. > > So far I have only found PC World & Maplins in Yeovil for obtaining > parts so will have to use an online vendor I think. > > Suggestions as to likely caus

Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm

ats Linux the same way they treated Windows, i.e. > very badly > > Though there are less problems on Mac OS and Linux than there are > on Windows, as more people migrate in, with less understanding > there will will be more problems - even though the Unix design is > super

Re: [Hampshire] New box for Virtualisation

I think you are about right in your thinking, so Ubuntu as the host OS, but what are the guest operating systems? What virtualisation software? It might be more cost effective (and possibly cooler) to go for lots of moderate processors/cores rather than a smaller number of screaming fast ones. Virt

Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Webcam..................but will it work

Cheese is also nice http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/ or apt-get cheese and you can run cheese -v from an xterm to see what is going on. Alan. Tony Whitmore wrote: > Tim wrote: > > >> 03/10/08 20:20:58 titan kernel usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca >> 03/10/08 20:20:58 titan