Re: [Hampshire] Code base and Emergency Data Laws

2014-07-17 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 09:07 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have a friend who is in the Police and they explained to me what DRIP/RIPA is. 1) There are no triggers. 2) Police make a request to the phone company with a search key of say phone number. They can then get a report of

[Hampshire] Code base and Emergency Data Laws

2014-07-16 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Emergency data laws, when I upload new code to open source game codebase i.e. file bombs.c will it trigger an alert? I recently updated and added quite a lot of new code to http://sourceforge.net/p/dspaceinvadors/code/HEAD/tree/dsi/ I sent some of the below to my local (Labour) MP asking

Re: [Hampshire] C development

2014-06-26 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 16:04 +0100, Roger Munford wrote: On 13/06/14 08:34, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Then, if you wish to re-implement your program natively, then some things I would do: 1) You won't need assembler any more. 2) Separate out data collection and data visualization into

[Hampshire] Kit for sale

2014-06-05 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Two items in an EBay lot, strictly auction only, you might be interested in: - Mini ITX Case and Gigabyte Motherboard, Onboard Intel Atom 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, starting @ £24.99 item No. 161328137144 http://goo.gl/IlJh6J - Cisco Linksys Wireless-N Home ADSL2+ Modem Router, starting @ £5.25 item

Re: [Hampshire] Dropbox alternative

2013-01-06 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 14:44 +, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:47:55PM +, Simon Whitehead wrote: Isnt this a job for FTP for example Filezilla?? Only if you live in 1996. :) I tried an experimental community project in 2001 and it felt outdated. SFTP or

Re: [Hampshire] Feel the Heat from Fedora 17b

2012-05-29 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 09:42 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/12 21:45, Damian L Brasher wrote: Side note: A you can alien the rpm for Debian based distros. Here is one ready rolled - not recently tested http://sourceforge.net/projects

[Hampshire] Feel the Heat from Fedora 17b

2012-05-27 Thread Damian L Brasher
Evening I have been working with a sponsor from Germany to get this game into Fedora. It's a 5 minute fix - fast paced arcade game. Here is the recent tweet log: - Successful testing of Space Invader #Game DSI #Fedora 17b by the developer maintainer. Screenshot http://goo.gl/0K58m #Arcade

[Hampshire] NetBook repairs - workshop for BaB 5th May?

2012-04-12 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi List I am trying to repair my Acer One Aspire - ZG5. I think is is worth repairing; the screen is nice and with an extra long life battery it provides up to 8 hours wireless browsing. The Intel PATA SSD 8GB hard drive stopped working, the memory would no longer hold data reliably. I did some

Re: [Hampshire] Looking for a Perl IDE

2012-03-10 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 19:26 +, Anton Piatek wrote: EPIC for eclipse can do the perl debugger, however I have never done much with it. ... and Perl::Critic to measure code against Perl Best Practices (Standards and Styles for Developing Maintainable Code) by Damian Conway, published by

[Hampshire] [OT] A parody of a popular office cartoon

2012-03-08 Thread Damian L Brasher
A parody of a popular office cartoon - probably a 'bit niche' ;~} http://goo.gl/Sv7s0 Damian -- Interlinux Engineering Foundation http://www.interlinux.org.uk Central, non-trading, administration, governance and dissemination of foundation intellectual property and know-how. GPG 945F8E45

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG Website

2012-02-20 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 18:58 +, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: (*) Not FAT, but you should be able to see that it's sitting down because it's really too stuffed to stand up. Think bean bag here. A beard (trimmed) wouldn't hurt :~} A slight smile, or even deadpan, might be nice. Some relation to

Re: [Hampshire] Dying HDDs

2012-02-06 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 20:13 +, Anton Piatek wrote: I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap end. Probably for the best, in general. Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are normally pretty obvious. And the price of disks is

[Hampshire] [OT] Funny ...

2012-02-03 Thread Damian L Brasher
A marvellous quote from television this evening - ... and then the human race invented the visibility jacket ! Damian -- Social Networking Without The Need For Time Travel Public domain ebook - no registration required. Please 'Like' if you like ... DamiansSocialNetworkingRuleBook

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone familiar with Grub2?

2012-01-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Vic On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 18:07 +, Vic wrote: I've just had a rather problematic upgrade to Fedora 16 on a test machine. Now I can't boot it. Do you mind describing in a little more detail, the other issues? I'm planning some Fedora upgrades myself. Thank you, Damian --

[Hampshire] Open source communities survival during economic change

2012-01-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Community I have become increasingly aware during the past three years, how the existence of open source software is being taken for granted - on a number of levels. Many industry sectors are turning to open source as a cheap alternative to proprietary solutions. This makes a huge amount of

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] December Meeting and AGM

2011-11-26 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Andy, On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 19:28 +, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:50:28PM +, Adam John Trickett wrote: Chris Denis and Damian Brasher volunteered them selves and Ian Brazier is willing remain Treasurer. I am therefore asking them if they are willing to remain

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-10-18 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi John On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 14:57 +0100, john lewis wrote: I logged out and restarted with gnome 3, First impressions - UGH! I guess I can get used to the changes but I'm not a happy bunny ;-( I started using Fedora 15 in June, with Gnome 3. The visual appeal is immediate. Very clean

Re: [Hampshire] Chaos is here! - Mira fractal generator for Linux (C and SDL)

2011-10-18 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 18:29 +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: Displays a selection of pretty dust type mira fractals one after the other in colour rather like a slide show; 800x600. This simple fractal demonstration uses the SDL graphics library and the dust type fractal algorithm, mira. I

[Hampshire] Chaos is here! - Mira fractal generator for Linux (C and SDL)

2011-10-17 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Group Back in the days, yet another little project I have unearthed for IEF consolidation and marketing multiplier purposes - here is a little mira fractal generator for Linux (C and SDL, 300 lines). It's only rough but works well and is pretty. Recently modernised and licensed and available

[Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Damian L Brasher
Dennis Ritchie, dies aged 70 True vision, really amazing. I would like to have met Dennis Ritchie. He has left the human race with a lot of good stuff to use :) http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0328230/dennis-ritchie-creator-of-c-programming-language-passed-away

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs

2011-10-12 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi John On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 19:51 +0100, john lewis wrote: On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:39:10 +0100 Damian L Brasher l...@interlinux.org.uk wrote: Thank you for some fun, a few years ago, playing with a Mac Mini for a few months until it found a more appreciative home. It seems I am going

Re: [Hampshire] getting organised for a mac mini: was [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs

2011-10-12 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi John On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 13:13 +0100, john lewis wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:36:54 +0100 Damian L Brasher l...@interlinux.org.uk wrote: That sounds like a good plan. They are quiet and great for a small server. Well almost the EeePC is fine but the Vaio is running Squeeze

[Hampshire] [OT] In memory of Steve Jobs

2011-10-09 Thread Damian L Brasher
more regularly. This was partly due to long hours coding more lines than I ought to have done. But I have slowed down now. I have also cut out cheese, butter and chocolate. Good luck - and I hope you replace your figure head soon, otherwise you will lose business. Kind Regards Damian L Brasher

Re: [Hampshire] Data Destruction

2011-10-07 Thread Damian L Brasher
Good morning group, On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 09:05 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 6 October 2011 18:46, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi all Yes this old chestnut again. Like most of us I guess, I have quite a few old hdds and we're now in chuck away mood.

Re: [Hampshire] remote assistance software for blind users.

2011-10-07 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:28 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: My mum phones me when she needs help. I just go to my computer and do this:- vncviewer -via mumsmachine.dyndns.org localhost This sets up an SSH tunnel to her computer and then connects to the vnc server on her pc and prompts me for

Re: [Hampshire] Data Destruction

2011-10-06 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 18:46 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: Essentially without a safe data shredding program, I'm going to use truecrypt to create an encrypted partition over whatever data was there beforehand. AFAIK this must overwrite what was there with a blank drive (not just a new partition

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-27 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 14:08 +0100, Vic wrote: Seems like I am going to be suffering with Arthritic hands from here on in. Yay! :-( Don't sweat it too much. I went round the Beaulieu Auto Jumble the other week. A full day of walking around on uneven ground. My hips complained mightily the

[Hampshire] [OT] Test message

2011-09-27 Thread Damian L Brasher
Test message - To check a resolved issue with TLS and authentication with SMTP server which caused duplicates to be sent from mailclient. (Eliminated: replaced hard drive and upgraded evolution). Damian -- Interlinux Engineering Foundation http://www.interlinux.org.uk Central, non-trading,

Re: [Hampshire] Committee Elections 2011

2011-09-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 13:55 +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, It's that time of year again, when we must elect a new committee. At the moment Adrian has indicated his intention to stand down from the LUG committee and I also wish to stand down as Chair though I'm willing to remain on

Re: [Hampshire] Committee Elections 2011

2011-09-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 13:55 +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, It's that time of year again, when we must elect a new committee. At the moment Adrian has indicated his intention to stand down from the LUG committee and I also wish to stand down as Chair though I'm willing to remain on

Re: [Hampshire] Committee Elections 2011

2011-09-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
(Apologies for duplicates - I think either my Evolution mail client is broken or my hard-drive is about to fail, it's a bit louder than usual). Damian On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 12:29 +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 13:55 +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, It's

Re: [Hampshire] Committee Elections 2011

2011-09-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:01 +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote: On 22.09.2011 12:58, Damian L Brasher wrote: (Apologies for duplicates - I think either my Evolution mail client is broken or my hard-drive is about to fail, it's a bit louder than usual). It's because you had the LUG's mailman

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-07 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 03:57 +, Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:11:39PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: As a sys admin, depending on the scope of your responsibilities, it is sometimes necessary to diagnose DDoS - distributed denial of service - attacks and attempt resolve

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-06 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 19:26 +0100, Freaky Clown wrote: fact I was present only the other day during a conference where such a new tool was demonstrated to effectively take down a powerful webserver with a single IP with a 3g dongle, thankfully as yet this tool remains in teh hands of

Re: [Hampshire] New Member

2011-09-05 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 19:57 +0100, James Bensley wrote: Hi Luggers, I'm new to HantsLUG ... Welcome! Damian -- Interlinux Engineering Foundation http://www.interlinux.org.uk Central, non-trading, administration, governance and dissemination of foundation intellectual property and know-how.

[Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-05 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi List As a sys admin, depending on the scope of your responsibilities, it is sometimes necessary to diagnose DDoS - distributed denial of service - attacks and attempt resolve them. This is a simple script I use to check apache logs for signs of website DDoS, [1]walk-through below:

[Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-05 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi List As a sys admin, depending on the scope of your responsibilities, it is sometimes necessary to diagnose DDoS - distributed denial of service - attacks and attempt resolve them. This is a simple script I use to check apache logs for signs of website DDoS, [1]walk-through below:

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-05 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:40 +, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:11:39PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: What general growing problems do systems engineers face in the future? I think that there are a lot more options for scaling these days, but the challenges

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-05 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 16:58 +0100, James Bensley wrote: Hi Damian, I like your script for pulling out IPs and counting their entries, works just fine on my dev machine, but I don't see how it could be practically used. Looking at the number of times alone one IP has accesses your site is

Re: [Hampshire] error competition

2011-08-22 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 10:21 +0100, Edward Beckmann wrote: Hi All As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing typos or human errors. Examples could be: No systems administrators should be

Re: [Hampshire] Zentyal Manuals for sale

2011-08-17 Thread Damian L Brasher
Bumping this one with some qualifying information as I didn't have time before: On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:25 +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: Hi Group I am selling Zentyal manuals on EBay. I have nine of them and selling in auction sequentially, so if you are interested in a few weeks

[Hampshire] [OT] Free kit

2011-08-17 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi For Oct or Nov (AGM?) meeting I have some kit to distribute: *Cisco 1701 DSL route 10/100 Ethernet - fully working order *Belkin UPS F6C350uSER-SB (will probably need a new battery) *Belkin Ethernet Bridge F5D7330 *Cisco 1548M router *Vanilla colored PS2 keyboard *Odds and ends - whatnot

[Hampshire] Zentyal Manuals for sale

2011-08-08 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi Group I am selling Zentyal manuals on EBay. I have nine of them and selling in auction sequentially, so if you are interested in a few weeks there is likely to be one for sale. May 2011 English edition - unused and in perfect condition. Besides being a full guide to learn Linux-based network

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Small biz lunch or coffee

2010-11-16 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 16/11/10 13:11, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: FSB and others do organise this sort of event - I live way too far away to be able to make it but the boss lives in fittleworth - much closer to you. Thanks, noted. Damian -- DIASER-Pro EBBS-Programme http://bit.ly/aZKlgX -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meet - 11th Sept - Hursley

2010-09-12 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 11/09/10 23:44, Damian L Brasher wrote: I'll make them available to the talkers tomorrow night converted from the JVC 'mpeg' proprietary format to an AVI container using the MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid) and MP3 codecs. Change in format - ready in a few hours and I have setup SFTP accounts

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

2010-09-12 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 12/09/10 13:02, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, I'd like to thank the Anton and the other IBMers for hosting us yesterday. I'd next like to thank all our speakers for their efforts. Finally I'd like to thank the people who made it to the meeting! Ashwin has arranged our next meeting at

Re: [Hampshire] Camcorder stand for BaB tomorrow

2010-09-11 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 10/09/10 20:04, Tony Whitmore wrote: Laura is one of the on duty IBMers tomorrow, so I'll give her a tripod to bring along. I don't have a pan and tilt head, only stills ones, but it'll do. Thanks Tony. -- http://interlinux.co.uk - Zentyal bronze partners DIASER RoadMap

Re: [Hampshire] Camcorder stand for BaB tomorrow

2010-09-11 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 10/09/10 18:52, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: I can't supply any kit, but am happy to be videoed giving the talk. If I could have a copy of the video for my site that would be great! Sure:) -- http://interlinux.co.uk - Zentyal bronze partners DIASER RoadMap http://bit.ly/1Vtdp5 -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meet - 11th Sept - Hursley

2010-09-11 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 11/09/10 18:44, Anton Piatek wrote: Thanks to all that came today, and a special thanks to all those that presented. If I could ask those who presenter to add a link to their slides on the wiki page as several people who couldn't make it have already asked about the talks

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meet - 11th Sept - Hursley

2010-09-06 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 03/09/10 17:36, Anton Piatek1 wrote: Hi all, As you know the next Hants LUG meeting is at IBM Hursley Labs on Sat the 11th Sept. Details of the day (times to arrive) and how to get there are being put up at http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HursleyLabs but are also below for your

Re: [Hampshire] Scanner recommendations

2010-09-03 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 30/08/10 12:07, Keith Edmunds wrote: Thanks everyone: plenty of food for thought there, and hopefully Mummy will soon have a scanner. Recommended if you like folk/fusion type music are Mumford and Sons http://www.mumfordandsons.com -- Damian -- http://interlinux.co.uk - Zentyal bronze

Re: [Hampshire] Scanner recommendations

2010-09-03 Thread Damian L Brasher
On 03/09/10 15:20, Lisi wrote: Damian, I'm sorry to be thick, but what is the connection between folk/fusion type music and makes of scanner?? Well there isn't much of one except the word Mum. Just an obtuse, Friday, friendly music recommendation:) I'm not trying to be clever or catch