Yep. I will have to dig out or reset the password.
On 12 Nov 2012 22:35, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
On 12/11/12 22:20, Chris Dennis wrote:
Does anyone know who owns the @HantsLUG account on Twitter?
At a guess, that would be Daniel Pope, cc'ed in case he missed this mail
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:29:49AM +, john lewis wrote:
Thanks Tim, it was on the CD so got missed somehow when I copied the
files to my local hard drive, have now uploaded it and you can now read
all the gory details!
I occasionally use a program called linkchecker[1] to identify broken
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:19:03PM +, john lewis wrote:
The current settings are owner = remote user and group = www-data
There's no specific ownership needed as long as they are readable by the
webserver. All webservers are packaged to run as www-data on Debian iirc.
the file is located
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:36:44PM +, Simon Reap wrote:
Also, I'm a bit surprised to see your frameset commands outside the
body and /body - is that usual?
Yes, body and frameset are mutually exclusive iirc.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:20:33PM +, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
However, I'm told that if you have never used a computer in your
life the ribbon design is actually quite a good idea.
Indeed, it allows you to remember the locations of things spatially, and more
heavily used items are larger.
On 24/09/10 12:53, Edward Beckmann wrote:
It's the kind of thing that is probably an office type of trick as
opposed to learning scripts or other just for one task.
How do you know, if you don't know what the solution is?
XML isn't a format, it's a format for formats. You can encode data
On 26/07/10 09:50, Tony Whitmore wrote:
Although I was aware of the changeover, I rather assumed that all the
equivalent protection and spam prevention methods would be implemented on
the new one. Perhaps that was naive of me. As you say, the AbuseMod patches
weren't perfect they did a
On 16/07/10 03:05, Vic wrote:
I don't need debugging tools. I just avoid writing code with bugs in.
Yeah, alright Dan. I'm sure we can all take that seriously.
You seemed to take my previous tongue-in-cheek comment about the
illegibility of Perl one-liners seriously.
But seriously, I have
On 15/07/10 12:32, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I was blithely
informed that there was no problem, since I could buy a piece of
software which would turn the CSV files back the right way up.
cat flip_csv.py END
import sys
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
lines.reverse()
for l in lines:
On 15/07/10 12:49, Vic wrote:
perl -e 'print reverse ' input.csv output.csv
Yes, but because Python is more legible I stand a better chance of
understanding what it does when I come to re-read it. Not like that
gibberish.
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On 15/07/10 14:08, Vic wrote:
perl -e 'print reverse ' input.csv output.csv
Yes, but because Python is more legible I stand a better chance of
understanding what it does when I come to re-read it. Not like that
gibberish.
That's just prejudice.
Well, postjudice. I have personal experience
On 12/04/10 23:20, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
This removes the most non-standard thing we run for a far nice wiki.
I know that the horrible HTML code generated by abusemod wiki (which
we used to use) annoyed a few people too.
MoinMoin isn't great internally, actually. Externally it's clean, smart
On 11/04/10 21:47, Philip Stubbs wrote:
You are not allowed to view this page. - Not very good. It should
not require login to read the site.
Messed up the ACL on the homepage - copypasted it without thinking it through.
Fixed?
Dan
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On 23/03/10 16:02, tim.pri...@ricoh-europe.com wrote:
I will be out of the office starting 22/03/2010 and will not return until
29/03/2010.
Dear Tim Prince.
On your return from your training course, please read RFC 3834 paying
particular
attention to sections 2 and 4.
Dan
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On 24/03/10 17:41, Tim wrote:
Sorry for the OT question, if I had a 64bit OS and a 64bit SQL database
program,
will there be any serious problems if the actual data is kept on a 32bit OS
based NAS?
You mean run the database on the NAS (making it not so much a NAS as a database
server)?
On 24/03/10 19:40, Andy Smith wrote:
Database heads with storage mounted remotely off a SAN or NAS is an
extremely common setup in the real world.
I find that quite surprising. My understanding was that the syscalls (locking
and mmap) are not supported well enough enough to offer consistency
On 19/03/10 13:28, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
If I can give some general feedback in that the HantsLUG general
meeting info should be more obvious. eg. on the current site
http://hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SeminarRoom1 has info about
general meeting information like start and end times. That
A few years ago I toyed with MoinMoin as a candidate platform for upgrading the
HantsLUG wiki[1]. I wrote a converter that, to a basic level, converted the
wiki
syntax for UseMod, the current wiki software, to Moin's.
To me, HantsLUG's site is looking more and more tatty and outdated. So I've
On 10/03/10 13:08, Chris Dennis wrote:
I'm an octopus -- which probably translates as a sad loner who spends
too much time with computers :)
I'm an elephant, thought I suspect the arbitrary pigeonholing of users is a
social carrot for people to complete the experiment. Smells of false
On 08/03/10 13:19, Philip Stubbs wrote:
With such a lot being said about Python, I thought that it
would be good to use the opportunity to learn that language.
The problem was that it is so boring looking for a suitable module to
do whatever. I just know that there must be a module that will
On 08/03/10 13:42, Daniel Pope wrote:
Being productive is so bloody boring.
Sorry, just read that back, and realised I may have come across as a teeny bit
sarcastic.
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On 05/03/10 12:20, AdamC wrote:
I would really like to attend Daniel's talk on Python gaming, but
cannot as I've got other commitments. Is anyone recording it in any
way/shape/form? Even my two sons would benefit from this (they started
using pygame last summer holidays) and so it would be a
On 18/02/10 11:19, Clive Woodfine wrote:
You'll have to go through each subsystem (e.g. exim, apache, etc.) and work
out how to migrate settings from old to new.
The task of merging settings might be easier with meld or kompare.
Dan
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Do any mailserver admins have any advice about SPF? At one point I lead to
believe that SPF was very much the thing to do, but concerns were raised mainly
on the grounds that it doesn't work very well with mail forwarding and the
extensions proposed to solve that weren't in widespread use.
On 03/02/10 21:28, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
People frequently confuse SPF for some kind of anti-spam magic bullet.
I'm not confused about that. I'm specifically seeing an increase in bounces
returned to me of spam e-mail I haven't sent, which is what has brought it to
mind.
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On 31/12/09 16:52, lists wrote:
Ironically most people don't think 'wow, he's clever, he made that guy
look a fool', the tend to think 'WHAT AN ASSHAT'. Happy New Year Keith.
Don't disappear up yourself, will you ;-)
Epic lulz. Haven't had a good flamewar since that recruitment asshat spamming
On 31/10/09 20:40, Chris Aitken wrote:
I've just tried the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD, but it doesn't have the driver
for the Broadcom 4312 wifi card in my Dell D630. Strangely the driver
was there in 9.04. Sure - I could download it, but I'm in the lounge and
only have wifi access, so it's a fail
John Cooper wrote:
It is designed for education and easy learning for someone who has never
used a computer before. It is a very different interface, using a
journal to log task you do and therefore making it easy to go back to.
I have a log on my PC. It's called Recent Documents. But if my
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
If you only ever copy stuff that works, you’ll never do anything new.
That's like saying if you only ever use words that exist in the
dictionary, you'll never write a book.
I know you don't mean that but if you're going to appeal to ridicule
I'll happily throw one
Stephen Pelc wrote:
Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask!
in b4 etiquette flamewar
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Those of you who signed the petition demanding an apology for Alan
Turing may have been e-mailed about this already, but Gordon Brown has
issued an apology.
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571
Reading it I felt it diminished Turing somewhat in that the description
of his meaning to Britain
Jacqui Caren wrote:
I agree - some of the BBC backend folks seem to be very FLOSS but the
journos (well newsreaders) have no idea what they are spouting!
My take on the piece was that it's pitched in a chatty, informal style
that wastes most of the time on pleasantries, so much so that it's
john lewis wrote:
PS I have posted twice to the LUG list but it seems to have disappeared
into the great unknown so have sent direct to you
Hi, no, it did come through via the list.
If the list is otherwise working for you, it's possible your
subscription options include Mailman's not metoo
Damian Brasher wrote:
Seems to have stopped working even when I use @HantsLUG?
Accidentally killed it. My bad.
Dan
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My mother is interested in putting together a family tree. In fact, she
bought a cheap copy of Family Historian, which is a Windows program,
and entered some data. Happily this is stored in GEDCOM files which I
understand is the most portable way to store it.
I've set her up with GRAMPS which
Damian Brasher wrote:
Think I'm there, this also means you don't need to prefix HantsLUG with an @
when you post to HantsLUG, I think...
You don't need to mention HantsLUG at all. It's simply retweeting the
people it follows.
Dan
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Hugo Mills wrote:
$ dig NS baiterpowerkites.co.uk
[...]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
baiterpowerkites.co.uk. 86369 IN NS ns2.tsohost.co.uk.
baiterpowerkites.co.uk. 86369 IN NS ns1.tsohost.co.uk.
Just to nit-pick, this is not how to find out the DNS servers hosting a
domain.
Alan Pope wrote:
That's a bit cunning, yes it happens here too. Never noticed it before.
Look in about:plugins. You have the Google Update plugin installed.
Dan
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Hugo Mills wrote:
I happily thought that the ternary operator had been put to death
in Python, until I saw this little gem in some code yesterday:
(is_forward and F or B)
The perpetrator has been given a good talking-to. :)
That's become a common idiom in Python, and most
Vic wrote:
Style A has multiple returns from the function. That's one of those things
that's just fine right up until it isn't; code grows as different people
work on it, and sooner or later, you can't see both returns on the same
page. That's when mistakes happen.
Totally disagree with that.
Hugo Mills wrote:
result = 1 if test() else -1
the idea being that the difference in syntax stresses the success path
as the default with the failure path as a fallback.
Eww. That's *intensely* ugly.
I felt the same way the first time I saw it, but actually encountering
it it's really
Andy Smith wrote:
Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;)
I use killall. What's the difference?
Dan
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Steve Kemp wrote:
That's the kind of mistake you only make once ..
So that's why the manpage says Be warned that typing killall _name_ may
not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done
by a privileged user.!
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Philip Stubbs wrote:
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat
Paul Stimpson wrote:
This time Thunderbird opens with the create account wizard and totally fails
to acknowledge the contents of the .thunderbird directory. I've checked the
ownership is right. Can anyone give me a hint as to what has gone wrong?
In Ubuntu, Thunderbird is compiled to look in
Damian Brasher wrote:
CREATE DATABASE bab_register;
I always specify character set at this point. Always do
CREATE DATABASE foo DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;
and you will hit fewer character set issues along the way. For PHP I think you
may have to do 'SET NAMES utf8;' after connecting.
In
Tim wrote:
now I assume this means I make a folder called mwf in the /var/www/ folder so
that I have /var/www/mwf/Am I right??
Yes, but I don't recommend you do exactly that.
The FHS sets out what should go where on a Linux filesystem. That standard
recommends /srv/ for files that are to
Vic wrote:
The bounces will only end up going to
people that didn't send the SPAM, as From: headers are always faked,
often with real email addresses.
Strictly, bounces go to Return-Path:, not From:, though that's just as easily
forged.
That's why you *never* bounce such mail; always reject
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:49:15AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
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
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:34:13AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
Here http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/Postcards.pdf
is some sample artwork for postcards we could send to small businesses
(but I think we prefer the full colour version) let me know what you
think.
Excellent! Like the concept
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:54:07AM +, Alan Pope wrote:
In the Apple
ads the actors portray the persona of the computers themselves, not
the users. They clearly seek to show the PC as stuffy, boring,
business like, and incapable of anything fun, whereas the Mac is
young, trendy, flexible,
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:04:06PM +, Tim wrote:
I have a hidden folder in my home folder called .thumbnail, within this
folder there are two other folders called large and normal. As the name
suggests it holds thumbnail pictures of pictures I guess I have opened on
my system. Now
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:13:05PM +, Richard Danter wrote:
I swear by Picasa. Both F-Spot and Digikam desperately want to be a
Picasa, but they simply don't come even close.
I will take a look. Not going to do yet another re-org of all my photos, is
it?
No, that's another reason I
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:30:02AM -, Stephen Rowles wrote:
Things like the Hot Spot compiler in Java, which can re-optimise
byte code as the program is running depending on how its actually
being used can complicate things (ending up with Java performing
better than C in *some*
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:54:15AM +0100, Becky Taylor wrote:
What are those? Smart quotes? Em dash? I'm receiving your e-mail
marked up as
ASCII, which can't encode those characters. There must be a character set
problem somewhere along the way.
the one in the middle is a hyphen,
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