Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-02-02 Thread Antony
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: Is there an 'approved' method for separating a big aluminium heatsink from a processor, to which it is attached as though superglued? Clamp the heatsink in a vice, protect the CPU and use a scalpel or craft knife blade to remove any actual glue and to wedge the

Re: [Hampshire] stuart biggs added you as a business connection on Plaxo

2010-02-01 Thread Antony
LinuxLearner wrote: Which in my view is most probably a breach of Data Protection Act provisions. e.g. I get regular 'invites' from Facebook, though I have never given Facebook consent to email me (nor ever given anyone I know consent to give Facebook my email). This infuriates me, no

Re: [Hampshire] Krfb (VNC) remote connect nightmare with screensaver *solved*

2009-11-27 Thread Antony
Stephen Rowles wrote: I'm running Fedora 11 and trying to allow remote access to my machine via Krfb - I need to get this working so I can work from home tomorrow! If I'd know it was going to be difficult I would have started earlier :(. I rather foolishly assumed that because Krfb came

Re: [Hampshire] Scrounge for 200-pin SODIMM RAM

2009-10-28 Thread Antony
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Before a colleague at work buys new RAM for his Tosh A110-233 notebook I thought I'd ask, does anyone have any spare 200-pin DDR2 PC2 notebook ram going free or cheap? Similar question here except for regular DDR (aka DDR1): my Thinkpad X40 takes PC-2700 / DDR 333

Re: [Hampshire] OT: TRIAC circuit question

2009-06-24 Thread Antony
Bond, Peter wrote: snip http://www.st.com/stonline/books/pdf/docs/3566.pdf Thanks for all the replies, which have led me to this detailed tutorial www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/HBD855-D.PDF and an offer to eyeball a design if I can come up with one :-) Anthony -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] OT: TRIAC circuit question

2009-06-22 Thread Antony
Anthony wrote: You can get DIY circular saws with built in soft start [1] but not stand alone starters for older tools. ?After lining up the saw guide on the workpiece I want to slot the saw into the guide, then switch on without it jolting out of alignment. ?It might be time to break out

[Hampshire] OT: TRIAC circuit question

2009-06-18 Thread Antony
across a circuit that does something like that? Apologies for list abuse but I've Googled MAO without success. All suggestions gratefully received (except Buy a new saw, obviously). Antony [1] eBay.co.uk item 400054540068 [2] http://www.quasarelectronics.com/kit-files/electronic-kit/3019.pdf

[Hampshire] Desktop tricks (was: Legal DVD ripping)

2009-06-09 Thread Antony
Simon Reap wrote: Rob Malpass wrote: 2) Is there a way I can scroll around my own desktop if this sort of thing happens again? To be clear, what has happened here is that, running in the 14 point font which I must observe with my eyes, the window is bigger than the desktop.

[Hampshire] Recovering flash (was: Flash memory performance timing)

2009-03-11 Thread Antony
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:04:02 +, Antony said: I'm trying to check the raw speeds of a few SD cards, partly to choose the fastest for the camera and partly out of curiosity as some are unbranded. [snip] r...@pc5:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=10 bs=1M oflag=dsync Oops... expect

Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34

2009-01-01 Thread Antony
Stephen Davies wrote: Did you try the archive on the Royal Institution web site? http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContentid=1882 Nice, thanks, although I'm only getting 12 second 'intros' and have mailed website support to ask for a fix - fingers crossed. Another lister has

Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34

2008-12-31 Thread Antony
Stephen Davies wrote: The downside is that now I'll have to think of something else to do from the 1st. Honest suggestions welcome? Several Hants and Surrey listers have raised pretty much the issue that is eloquently put here:

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS

2008-12-23 Thread Antony
From: Paul Stimpson That's what I was thinking too but the machine is a dual core 2.4 and the 2 cores are alternating between 43% and 57% (one on each then swapping). I assume that random generation is a compute-bound activity so if that was the bottleneck I would have expected near on 100%

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS

2008-12-22 Thread Antony
Vic wrote: I got a howto online with the steps to configure the last version of Ubuntu for LUKS LVM. One of the things it tells you to do is a dd /dev/urandom /dev/sda5 to fill the LVM group with random noise before creating the groups. I have started this but I'm only getting 1.7MBps so

Re: [Hampshire] IBM X41 recovery CDs

2008-12-04 Thread Antony
Dean Earley wrote: Does anyone here have a set of IBM X41 recovery CDs that I could use? I've recently had a hard disk die, taking its recovery partition with it... :) Failing that, is there any known way to reset the supervisor password? According to this [1] the SVP is stored in eeprom