k, then Python or Perl,
depending which language has, in my opinion(tm), the nicer fit to the
task. My web stuff is mostly perl, though.
ATB,
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play.
Of course it doesn't claim to be a _real_ PC :-) though it _does_
actually do something useful.
It _has_ struggled a bit with code bloat.
It won't run an on-topic OS.
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larifies that I was
largely right. Also, it looks the the planning documents may be
downloaded from the site FoC.
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Win
Hi
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> 2008/10/26 Gordon Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> >
> > Haiku: Tragic Irony 5
> >Imagined Life Without Walls 7
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level assembler.
A bad algorithm of course, can blow performance right out of the window!
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Windows Crash to Floor.
by 70mm high and should be close to silent. Use flash drives and
it will _be_ silent.
A vendor nobody's mentioned is http://www.itxwarehouse.co.uk. They seem
to have a good range of stuff at competitive prices and they're in
Poole, so within striking distance if one wants.
HTH,
G
Hi sean,
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Gordon Scott wrote:
> >
> > A vendor nobody's mentioned is http://www.itxwarehouse.co.uk. They seem
> > to have a good range of stuff at competitive prices and they're in
> > Poole, so within striking
hard
driving the big display anythink like brightly enough. Mine has an
electronic viewfinder on which the resolution is low but normally
adequate when on autofocus, giving an SLR-type behaviour in a compact
camera.
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Peter Alefounder wrote:
>
> Gordon Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2. At least 10 megapixels.
> >
> > It seems this is not necessarily a good thing.
>
> Maybe so... but that is what I want. Some old documents can be
> quite ha
R that's no longer fashionable but still
offers 10M. Maybe ebay or a 2nd hand camera shop is the place to go.
One other thought. It's _possible_ that resolution cf detail resolving
ability might be better in monochrome.
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er the 'memory' problems
of NiCd and possibly NiMH. Personally I'd get the Li-ions is they're
available, for the convenience and non-memory. They can be quite
pricy, though.
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M$ have been running that campaign for some time on their website.
People really do seem to put themselves on the website as "I'm a PC".
That's _way_ beyond sad!
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Chris Dennis wrote:
> > Virgin unveils next generation
> Did nobody get the religious reference then?
I certainly did and LOLed. My wife didn't. Curious.
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bandoned any attempt at compliance syn
proper helpful responses to my bounces about 5 years ago when my
mailserver finally collapsed under the overload.
Sadly the spammers have wrecked the original reliability of email.
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to
shut things down cleanly. Hm, these days I'd probably cut the power :-(
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Windows Crash to Floor.
Linux ..
Samba. I'm not convinced, and it seems grotesquely complex and
arcane to manage the way they advise.
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fically because I've been considering a
Squeezebox(TM). Any related advice or thoughts appreciated. One of the
reasons is that in Basingstoke, Radio Solent is a bit distant, so the
plan was to stream both the Beeb, some distant streamed stuff (Africa,
South Ame
re(tm) themselves to NFS, but I may just ignore the paranoia.
Thanks both Hugo and Keith for ldap tool suggestions. I _will_ have a
look at those before I decide whether to commit ldap/slapd to /dev/null
or some equivalent.
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My Toto .. it looks like we're back home in Kansas.
or .. I've been away from the list a long, long time.
Hopefully I'm back.
I just looked through the archives for backups and found this recent-ish
thread. Having just split off a company from a larger one, with a brand
new IT infrastructur
ot to get it working.
A number of the guys at Novatech run Linux and, whilst Novatech "don't
support Linux", they can often be quite helpful. They always first give
the party line, but once they believe you're competent, they'll often
give useful hints about
hat rsync was probably as good a choice as any.
BackupPC looks like a good pre-packaging of rsync et al.
> Contact me offlist if you want more info.
Thanks. I'll try not to, but will if I get too confused.
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hange the energy consumed.
My favourite scam was "choose the gender of your child by taking the
blue pills or the pink pills".
"100% refund if not completely satisfied."
Absolutely brilliant :-)
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that are proper slippery :->
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d of consequence from a mistake seems crazy.
I did once, in the days when root's home directory was '/', do
rm -rf ~
instead of
rm -rf .
and wondered why it was taking so long.
Bad day at the office :-(
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ve it a try. Adobe is the bunch I
hate. Seems like 50 different EULAs `available' for anything.
I could be dead before I've read them all.
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t, or I know they can offer co-location.
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(*) because I have their 'backup' option bundled free by my ISP.
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completely constipated. (Admittedly with SA as a script on an old
machine, the compiled version solved that).
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m to quite get there.
Does anyone know where I can find a guide that works?
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short order before it even gets to
> SpamAssassin :-)
I now let my ISP do most of it.
Seems to work OK as I lose little I expect, and I see little I don't
expect.
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7;t be faulted. But you'd usually end up with
> someone else "dealing"[2] with the ticket...
My one guy parted company with his previous ISP, so I followed him to
his new start-up.
> [2] And I use the word quite wrongly, of course.
[Grin] was there a touch of irony in that,
company and they don't understand anything except Windoze
and maybe some Mac. They're pretty good at what they do, but I get
'rabbits in the headlights' looks if I mention Linux. I have been
looking at putting in a Linux box alongside and doing IPsec rather than
ppt
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all the feedback.
On 17/11/2011 18:37, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
I would make sure the company put in a purpose built VPN gateway so
that people can connect with normal VPN clients, such as CISCO,
JUNIPER, Checkpoint etc.
There are very cheap VPN boxes out there from abou
On 18/11/2011 10:20, Chris Malton wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:50:38 +, Gordon Scott wrote:
I'm not sure which model our router is, I'll check next time I'm in
the office (or maybe 'phone and ask), but it's definitely a Draytek
Vigor with WiFi and three aerials, w
On 18/11/2011 16:20, Vic wrote:
OpenVPN has a lot to recommend it. But the first question I would ask is
this: what, exactly, are you trying to enable with this tunnel?
With hindsight I should have said at the start, but I thought the VPN
should be a relatively minor issue.
The company for w
, but next year the
number base will be thirty (or 0x1E if I _really_ want to confuse :-)
Of course, once you're comfortable with the general principle, you can
overlook the maths. Who needs it .. trust me, I'm 21, really!
ATB,
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t backups to a different PC that _will_ go to a
brick outbuilding when I get the networking sorted.
It's worth considering a cloud service for this, though with a CAD
package I use, I found the upload to cloud getting left too far behind
my work and gave it up (With hindsight, that&
y line" is that they do not support Linux, though in my
experience, there is more Linux expertise there (support line, anyway),
than they'll publicly admit. If I need advise, I usually open with
something like "I know you don't support Linux, but I wondered i
dn't get precious about it, though. IIRC it's a Celeron M single
core, and by current standards very slow.
It's main use now is on my boat as a navigation planner, and also to run
Pianoteq, so I can have Yamaha and Steinway Grand pianos on board :-)
I'll match y
s the PC's clock or the both the
clock and the crystal oscillator. In the days when I was dial-up
connected, rather than broadband, I used to use Chrony, which definitely
slews the crystal, though it's raison d'etre is occasional-onluy
connection.
http://chrony.tuxfami
Sunday).
>
> I just thought I'd share that.
>
I'd like to be encouraged that that looks more like perl than asp,
except that it obviously isn't working. :-(
Your core dump is important to us...
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well, of course, that you should always
back up your data. :->
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d on only one machine, raid or not.
Personally I don't like my data in only one building.
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te, or reject the
maintainer's file and put in your own version.
I rather guess you already knew all that, though.
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FWIW, I put together a Linux server using a fanless mini-itx board and
2.5" discs. The case fan is set to come on with the CPU above something
like 60 or 70 and sometimes comes on on very warm days. It's still quiet
them, but otherwise it's brilliantly quite.
I did it a couple of years ago when at
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On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:03 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I find a big sticker right next to the power button saying "DO NOT
> SWITCH OFF. Talk to XYZ first." seems to work quite well.
> It improves the user interface of the power button.
It does, but...
Hm, in a past life we used to do
How about rsh/ssh or similar & shutdown.
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The heat-pipe types are particularly effective, and yes, the Zalman's
are good.
These people have a wide range, including both heat-pipe and water coolers.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 20:53 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> Heh. If you think the CPU fan is the loudest noise, you haven't heard
> a gaming rig with 4 GPUs... :-) The loudest noise in my study (which has
> three running computers in it) is my GF's video cards in the next room.
Gaming rig? ... Obviou
Hi Sean,
I strongly second the view that a decent condenser mike is the way to go
in studio, with an external pop shield, suspension cradle and some kind
of noise+reverb reduction, either one of the dedicated surrounds, or
something hacked up with a frame and some blankets. Controlling
extraneous
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:33 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> A tablet is easy to keep in the living room, where it can be easily
> accessed.
As an in-between, maybe a tablet could talk to a PC server, e.g., via
web browser etc., though that may create as many problems as it solves.
Touch screens
On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 14:11 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> Saying that they're toys is an objective statement, which is why I'm
> saying you're wrong.
Hm. Actually, I think 'it's a toy' is a subjective statement, though not
necessarily derogatory or pejorative.
I think of cars or trucks for track d
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 12:49 +0100, Vic wrote:
> > I need the dog! The tail is cute, but so what?
>
> The tail can be had for about 60 quid. Have both :-)
I guess if one wants one without the other one needs a docking
station :->
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On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:11 +0100, john lewis wrote:
> My wife was recently given a Toshiba Keyboard EZ-200 that has no
> built-in recording facility. Only outputs are headphone and midi.
>
> Is it possible to link this keyboard to a PC so she could record any
> mind-blowing compositions she might
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:49 +0100, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote:
> I have a couple of M-Audio midi keyboards and a Roland digital piano,
> All work out of the box with Linux, via USB-midi. The research I did
> when buying these suggested that most midi keyboards are class
> compliant and work with Linux
On 04/07/2012 23:34, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
On 04/07/12 10:19, Alan Pope wrote:
Mark Shuttleworth:
It was tough to lead ( snip ) We had done very well just shipping the
best of FLOSS, but it clearly wasn't enough. ( snip ) we found
industry politics blocked us ( snip )
So, now we know why
Hi Alan,
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:28 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 05/07/12 11:16, Gordon Scott wrote:
> > Not so long ago the login screen had an 'desktop chooser' option on it,
> > so if you preferred a different WM than the 'standard', you just chose
> &g
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 21:40 +0100, Gordon Scott wrote:
> > No, it hasn't. The option to select which desktop to use at logon time
> > is there and always has been in every release.
> I'd never, ever, noticed any of it, presumably because when they appear,
> I'm
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 12:15 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I finally got around to making a simple intro to the Unity desktop. Some
> of you may find it useful for other new users. Feedback welcome.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA9EHaNc2VI
>
> Cheers,
Hi Alan,
Thanks for making and
On 08/08/2012 07:27, Vic wrote:
The 12v laptop power is also more efficient. Fewer power conversion steps.
No, that's not true.
All these PSUs are switch-mode; their efficiency is dictated by the design
and the selection of components.
It is true.
If you use a 240V intermediate stage, you ha
On 08/08/2012 09:23, Vic wrote:
So you don't use a 240V intermediate stage. You have a single
conversion from Vin to Vout. That only gets complicated if you haev to
cope with variable conditions, such that you can't say for all
situations whether Vin > Vout or Vin < Vout; that might involve a
On 08/08/2012 11:04, Vic wrote:
The original url showed a 12V to 240V converter.
The conversation had moved to a PSU that has dual 240VAC or 12VDC inputs.
The claim was that the 12V input is more efficient. It is not.
Oh I see.
I'd read through the mails a couple of times, but had failed to
re
On 08/08/2012 16:58, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 8 August 2012 07:54, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
I seem to have been misunderstood here.
I think we both misunderstood Vic, who has a laptop PSU capable of both
12V and 240V input (probably also 90V...265V).
I've never knowingly seen one o
Sometimes to use Windows, so I dual boot this machine.
I notice that very often when I boot to Windows it does a whole bunch of
updates and then reboots.
Back to Linux, of course.
I feel sure Micro$oft are trying to tell me something :-)
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Hi Guys,
I'm trying Unity in an attempt to get to work sensibly with it, but at
present it's driving me mad.
Hopefully someone can please help me deal with some of the worst
irritations before I throw the whole thing out. I've been web searching,
but can't yet find answer to any of this.
H
Hi Alan,
Well that helps a bit, thanks, though I'm still stuck on a number of these.
On 27/09/12 19:41, Alan Pope wrote:
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I turn off transparency on the Dash?
I hate transparency at the best of times, but the Dash
seems particu
Hi Alan,
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 09:40 +0100, alan c wrote:
> On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
> > How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
> >In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
> >with top-level he
On 28/09/2012 10:05, Simon Reap wrote:
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like "Graphics", "Programming" and so on.
On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 15:37 +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> On 28 September 2012 10:42, Gordon Scott wrote:
> >
> does
> > what I ask with question, tantrums or flourishes.
That should, of course, have read 'without' as you realised.
> Me too - for me the only
On 02/10/2012 06:36, Vic wrote:
But it is the case that upstream is not developing it anymore, isn't
it?
Yes. Spookily enough, that doesn't cause it to fail instantly.
So not so much Gnome 2 then, as Gnome Twain :-)
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On 01/10/2012 21:36, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/10/12 21:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
Can anyone say if 'upgrading' from 10.04 to 12.04 would result in a
default switch to Unity?
It will.
Frankly that is alarming, but also as I suspected, and precisely why I
have not upgraded.
Have yo
On 02/10/12 16:06, Alan Pope wrote:
On 02/10/12 11:42, Gordon Scott wrote:
At this moment, Unity feels a little like Ubuntu
threw a grenade into the mix. Yes, I know it's been around a year or
so, but I ditched it back then as too profound a change. I'm trying to
prepare for
My struggle with Unity continues :-/
Can anyone tell me how to get a samba drive on my server mounted on my
new PC with Unity, such that I can write to it and so it mounts
automatically? Searches in the Dash for Samba, smb, map, mount, drive,
window, even nfs all come up with usually nothing,
On 07/10/2012 15:47, Alan Pope wrote:
On 07/10/12 16:16, Gordon Scott wrote:
My struggle with Unity continues :-/
This is not really a Unity issue.
Um, OK, though as I say, it's there and working on gnome-fallback.
Michael's method of using the File menu appears to pop up the
On 07/10/12 16:45, Michael Pavling wrote:
In Unity, I open the home folder, click "file | connect to server",
then enter my authentication details. Once done, and the share (or
whatever sub-folder I want to have quick access to) is shown, I press
"crtl-d" to bookmark it, and then next time I ca
I've made some progress on the following, though it's a bit patchy...
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like "Graphics
Hi Guys,
I have a strange behaviour that's recently started with .ogg and
YouTube. Maybe other formats.
When I play, the sound has the foreground vocal missing.
Background music is present, though often sounds 'odd' to a greater or
lesser extent, chorus vocals on songs are often there, there are
Hi Guys,
Well, curious.
I'm using headphones, so little of the suggestions appeared to apply.
However I went into the "Sound Preferences" to see what I could find
that might relate.
Pretty much everything looked sensible with the possible exception of
->Output "Output Connector" which offered "
It isn't just me.
I've been trying to warm to Unity and had pretty much given up.
I'd set-up my wife's account in Unity to see how a less computer-savvy
person gets on with the interface.
She does just mail, web, and very occasional WP, so nothing special.
Today she rebelled and declared it
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 11:48 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 08/11/12 22:37, Gordon Scott wrote:
> > For her also, menus on the screen top-bar were so counter-intuitive that
> > she thought they'd been removed.
> >
>
> Are you aware of the HUD? You press alt then sea
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 13:04 +, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> I miss focus follows mouse, but not so much that I'd enable it on Unity :)
I use it fairly extensively and hate being without it .. on Windows, for
example.
> I have switched to a Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard with built in touchpoint
> (nippl
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 16:53 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 09/11/12 14:30, Gordon Scott wrote:
> > But I keep hitting my hand on the door whenever I try to change gear.
>
> Hah! I do that driving in the US too!
You have to start worrying about that in the US ..
They're all a
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 18:20 +, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> On Friday 09 Nov 2012 14:30:41 Gordon Scott wrote:
> > Those touchpoint things seem quite good for normal mouse work, any idea
> > if they're really workable for heavier graphics stuff, specifically
> > PCB-CAD
Hi Guys,
On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 11:22 +, Gordon Scott wrote:
> I do agree that phasing might be the problem, though I'm not wholly
> convinced of that as some solo piano music sounded pretty much normal,
> though that was .mp3, which _might_ have been different.
The problem
This time it's OK after I select hardware "Analogue Surround 4.0 output"
No idea for how long.
The headphone socket just went US, too. so I think I'll just give it up
on this PC.
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On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:06 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
> Since this seems to be getting a bit frivolous, I favour the startup
> option that says 'Enter password or this machine will self destruct
> in: and the big red flashing "04:59" .."04:58".. "04:57"..
I seem to remember in "Mission Impo
On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 11:55 +, Rob Malpass wrote:
> I'm quite sure I was taught that what I was
> doing was right - but the trusty OED can't be contradicted.
You will very definitely be neither the first nor last person who was
taught something wrongly.
I can remember a couple of disputes wit
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 11:42 +, Full Circle Podcast wrote:
>
> Aerials are the problem wherever you are with these USB devices; such
> low power. The supplied aerials (length of wire with a bit of coat
> hanger on the end) mostly useless. A mains powered booster box might
> help you standard i
On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 17:23 +, Chris Dennis wrote:
> On 22/11/12 15:33, john lewis wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 +
> > john lewis wrote:
> >
> >> which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s)
> >
> > That is what the 504T says but it must be wrong!
> >
> Not ne
On 26/11/2012 16:51, Benjie Gillam wrote:
On 26 Nov 2012, at 16:45, Lisi wrote:
I can't be the only person
who takes one look at some websites, says well, if they don't want me, then I
don't want them - and surfs away without looking.
Sight issues aside, I do that to websites that overly use Fl
On 11/12/2012 16:26, john wrote:
Hi
I have just read this
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
concerning Ubuntu spyware. I thought others in the LUG may be interested.
When I first read that I thought it was just Richard Stallman going off
on one of his "software must be f
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 10:06 +, Anton Piatek wrote:
> Canonical is a company and has a right to turn a profit. It also pays
> developers, so needs to fund that somehow.
Indeed.
> Unless you are prepared to start donating to Canonical, this seems
> like a reasonable way to make some money.
Pe
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 07:27 +, Anton Piatek wrote:
> I notice you use Gmail. Are you not more worried about what google
> does with that massive wealth of personal data (all your mail)?
And Google most definitely does scan gmail and use the content!
Of that I have no doubt.
G.
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On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 10:09 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> In light of that, it seems a little naive to assume that any other
> government would not do the same if they thought they could get away
> with it. So just assume that multiple governments read all the
> emails you send - it might be easier.
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 14:53 +, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2012 10:28:46 Gordon Scott wrote:
> > Maybe I'll start encrypting all my email.
> > Then they'd just get bored and ignore it :-)
>
> Or use their draconian powers (already enshrined in law?) t
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 16:24 +, Tim wrote:
> I agree with Peter, it is better install on a fresh clean partition
> rather than to upgrade an existing installation.
Ditto.
I have to say though, that until recently I've only _seen_ upgrade and
OEM copies, no retail copies. DABS now have the la
On 28/12/12 21:44, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Doesn't Bill Gates reply to emails sent to "g...@heaven.com" ;-)
Good grief, no!
Why else would he employ 'familiars' :->
G.
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On 07/01/13 01:34, p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk wrote:
havinf finally given up on my raspberry Pi as not man enough for the job
:-)
What's bad about it? The fan in the case is noisy (I will be voiding
my warranty and replacing mine with a ball bearing fan for a quiet life).
I had a case from
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