Re: [Hampshire] FAT32 problems

2010-03-06 Thread Chris Simmonds
because they do a lot of regular short writes. To test this theory, try it with a new USB flash stick. HTH, Chris. -- Chris Simmonds 2net Limited ch...@2net.co.uk http://www.2net.co.uk/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Tomorrow at IBM Hursley

2010-02-05 Thread Chris Simmonds
just let me know what you want to talk about and I will get it on the schedule [1] Anton [1] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?6February2010 -- Chris Simmonds 2net Limited ch...@2net.co.uk http://www.2net.co.uk/ -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] 06 February at IBM Hursley

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Simmonds
of devices that have Linux inside them. The vast majority of people in this country use Linux every single day, even if they don't realise it. Bye for now, Chris. -- Chris Simmonds 2net Limited ch...@2net.co.uk http://www.2net.co.uk/ -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Motorola Milestone (Was:[OT]ish ipod software)

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Simmonds
with it. The N900 is an open platform and so is hackable. The Others are nice phones, but apart from running Andriod apps you can't do that much with them. Except use them as phones, of course :-). Chris. -- Chris Simmonds 2net Limited ch...@2net.co.uk http://www.2net.co.uk

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Simmonds
own comments here) or Linux. Which is the cheapest and most cross platform? Which one do you think handset manufacturers will adopt? Bye for now, Chris Simmonds [1] http://www.limofoundation.org/ [2] http://www.embedded-europe.com/220100741 -- Chris Simmonds 2net Limited ch

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Simmonds
Chris Dennis wrote: Chris Simmonds wrote: Final comment: whether it is Android or not, the future of mobile devices is Linux. When you think about it, there are only a few options: Symbian (only for Nokia - who seem to be moving towards Linux anyhow - see the N900 and similar), Mac OS X

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Simmonds
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/9/25 Chris Simmonds ch...@2net.co.uk: Final comment: whether it is Android or not, the future of mobile devices is Linux. When you think about it, there are only a few options: Symbian (only for Nokia - who seem to be moving towards Linux anyhow - see the N900

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Simmonds
Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:15:18 +0100 (+0100), Chris Simmonds wrote: One option I have considered is using, say, MySQL with one master node replicating to all the others and some mechanism to elect a new master if the original went down. But, that sounds messy

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Simmonds
Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:13:45PM +0100, Chris Simmonds wrote: Hi and thanks to everyone who replied. I'm busy researching some possibilities at the moment. However, just to clarify, the issue is high availability among the 50 or so nodes so that any node can go down

[Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Simmonds
Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down and be brought back on line again without impacting the others. The amount

Re: [Hampshire] Troubleshooting Memory Leak

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Simmonds
which of the caches is being added to. Chris Simmonds -- 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 --