Re: [Hampshire] Tape drives - one can't read from t'other!

2024-10-09 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
commands like you have above. With the problems you are seeing with your tape drives, I suggest you send them to get serviced. A service is generally good for 1 year. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/

Re: [Hampshire] More Tape Weirdness - or Inexperience!

2024-10-08 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 13:17, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi all > > > > OK – I’m not having much luck with these tape backups – a 20Tb HDD is looking > very favourable right now but I’ll press on for the moment… > > > > Does anyone know why a (LTO4) drive would report a tape being full

Re: [Hampshire] Tape drives - one can't read from t'other!

2024-10-04 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
blem. Keep in mind that tape media deteriorates over time, so make new duplicates over time. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] SMPT Authentification Methods for Hotmail

2024-10-01 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
er, so it can display the redirected web page and take the username/pass input. thunderbird has implemented the web page, that pops up the first time you restart thunderbird after configuring it for oauth2. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https:/

Re: [Hampshire] Security compromise in liblzma/OpenSSH daemon

2024-04-01 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
ther activity it needs to do. Some install scripts are more complex, e.g. postgresql, that needs to add postgresql user etc. and maybe auto update the database schema. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/li

Re: [Hampshire] Unsubscribe

2023-12-18 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 10:09, Tony Whitmore via Hampshire wrote: > 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 > -- Just a sugg

Re: [Hampshire] Using NFS root with raspberry pi.

2023-10-10 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 13:04, Tom Gamble via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi, > > On my Raspberry Pis I’ve had a few issues with SD Cards failing so thought > there would be some mileage in using an NFS root. So if an SD card fails I > can just pop a new card in and my root fs will still be good. > Hi

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT VOIP

2023-09-15 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
of the new ones just use 3G/4G instead of the old BT line. So, in summary, look at what he is paying per month at the moment, and see if there is something cheaper out there now. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

[Hampshire] Fwd: JOB | Startup in London, UK (Blockchain, Cryptocurrency)

2023-07-14 Thread James Tobin via Hampshire
quot; they are fully committed to reciprocating and adding value to you as well Consequently, I had hoped that some members of this list may like to discuss further. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com" Kind regards, James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.l

[Hampshire] JOB | sysadmin/infra engineer (UK/Singapore)

2023-06-12 Thread James Tobin via Hampshire
ct is completed. Consequently I had hoped that some members of this group may like to discuss. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ha

Re: [Hampshire] How to connect Android phone to Debian system

2023-05-23 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 12:50, Artur Łądka via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > According to Debian article (https://wiki.debian.org/mtp) 1.1.18 libmtp > is required to access Moto G phones, while current package in all Debian > releases is 1.1.17-3 - this might be source of your

Re: [Hampshire] How to connect Android phone to Debian system

2023-04-29 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
using something like: rsync -avpP "/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=SAMSUNG_SAMSUNG_Android_3300f4501b3f7353/" mtp-mum With the hex chars at the end being taken from the properties in file manager. For me the hex chars happened to be the serial number of the phone. (note I randomly typed so

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry PI projects for children?

2023-04-22 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
ands to get past all the obstacles. i.e. forward 10, left 4, forward 12, right 6 etc. It raised quite a high level of interest and fun and laughter for all the children. Note, allow for quite a few bits to get broken along the way. There were about 9 teams of children on the day, so some friendly c

[Hampshire] JOB | On Premises Cloud Engineer (UK)

2023-03-31 Thread James Tobin via Hampshire
esses; moving away from virtual machines. I had hoped that some members of this list may like to discuss further. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/m

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
ot be immediate, it will get slow first and then eventually lock up. So at least some metrics are written before the lock up. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

2023-03-06 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
the output > between wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works. Any ideas anyone? > > Cheers > Rob > > > Hi, VLC should work, but if it does not, you could always try "xine" or "xine-ui". I wrote a lot of the DVD playing features in xine, so I know it shou

Re: [Hampshire] Compiling from source

2023-02-18 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
iling the Elkulator there. If it helps, I find the error messages output from CLANG/LLVM/LLD more concise than GCC/LD, so it might be easier to understand what is wrong using CLANG to compile the program than GCC. While (1) is potentially relatively easy to fix, (2) requires a deeper understa

Re: [Hampshire] raspberry pi and educational software

2022-03-14 Thread James Kissel via Hampshire
ad of very slim continental plug sockets that would look great in a Swedish house but they are so hard to fit that they were just hanging off the walls. What they needed was something much more bulky with big screws  and room to bend cables around. Something to last. James, the story about solder

Re: [Hampshire] raspberry pi and educational software

2022-03-14 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
; As you observed, they had managed to teach the students with just one PC. The main limitations in these remote areas is POWER Only if they have enough power, is it worth adding more screens and other electronic equipment. You still need a screen and keyboard to program a Raspberry Pi. I have used a

Re: [Hampshire] mounting a logical volume

2022-02-25 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 12:24, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > > James Dutton said: > > But this link gives you the instructions to follow. > > Essentially it sounds like the old disk used an older OS version. > > From looking

Re: [Hampshire] mounting a logical volume

2022-02-19 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
that the instructions will update the VG to work with a modern OS. After doing that vgck, you will probably not be able to place the disk back in the old machine and it work, if the old machine is still around. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] mounting a logical volume

2022-02-16 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
Hi, Just in case, I would like to point out that Joseph B email contains incorrect instructions. mkfs on /dev/sde5 will cause problems. LVM has 3 levels. 1) Physical Volume. the "pv" 2) Volume Ground. the "vg" 3) Logical Volume. the "lv" If you have defined some LVM partitions, then the command

Re: [Hampshire] Home router with DMZ - any suggestions

2021-04-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
sical connection and speed. Kind Regards James On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 15:45, A. J. Trickett via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi, > > In the near future I'm hoping to get FTTP. The roll out in France > is fibre to the actual house with a single RG45 Gig-E connection > from the media conve

Re: [Hampshire] Large Backup for long term storage

2021-04-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
. Kind Regards James On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 12:23, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I’ll spare you all the detail but I need to backup 16Tb to some sort of > archive – i.e. unlikely to ever need it in a hurry. I know 16Tb is a lot > for a “home” si

Re: [Hampshire] 8% Packet loss due to ethernet cable

2021-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
, it might fall back to 100 or 10Mbps. If you were sending a lot of data across the link, you might start to see packet loss due to congestion if you were only getting 100Mbps when you expected 1000Mbps. Ethernet cable testers are not expensive. You could find out what was wrong with the cabl

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop

2021-01-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
probably not going to make much difference for MATLAB, because the disk will be the limiting factor. The GPU is probably not important, but if you ever wish to install Linux on it, I would avoid NVIDIA GPUs. Go for AMD or Intel graphics on the laptop. Kind Regards James On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 10

Re: [Hampshire] Rails 101

2021-01-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
separately. I don't know what the second hand price is for rails. Kind Regards James On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 13:24, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Keeping this as short as possible: Do rackmount server rails “come with” the > server or with the cabin

Re: [Hampshire] General advice sought

2021-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
t has nice looking web interfaces, and also a mobile app. I have previously tried domogik. https://github.com/domogik/domogik But I found domogik rather unstable. openhab has been very stable and useful. I have not tried other home automation systems. Kind Regards James On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 at 13

Re: [Hampshire] Compiling old source

2020-10-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ int tapelcount,tapellatch,pps; int intone=0; -gzFile *uef; +gzFile uef; int cswena; int inchunk=0,chunkid=0,chunklen=0; @@ -256,6 +256,6 @@ if (uef) { gzclose(uef); - uef=(gzFile *)NULL; + uef=(gzFile )NULL; } } Tell me if this helped. Kind Regards James

Re: [Hampshire] [Hardware] Mouse lag intermittant

2020-07-10 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
at coincides with disk accesses. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG - virtual meet May 16th

2020-05-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
ted. Kind Regards James On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 17:10, Tony Wood via Surrey wrote: > > Nice to see you all this afternoon and thank you all for your help with > my strange (intermittent) boot issue. > > It does seem that none of us had problems with 'jit.si' compa

Re: [Hampshire] web browser recommendation

2020-05-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
e ancient and it will still work) 4) Manually compile/install all the newer libs needed by the latest browsers. Linux handles versioning of libs well, so you can have two versions of libgdm1 installed at the same time. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Detect USB or SATA drive

2020-04-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
ou could try: hdparm -i /dev/sda (Change sda for each device) This will give output like: Model=M4-CT512M4SSD1, FwRev=070H, SerialNo=12310911C3A4 You could then look at the actual HDD to see which serial number each on is. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lu

Re: [Hampshire] Is root mounted twice

2020-04-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
in the logs, but replacing the SD card fixed the problem. In general, when you see the errors you are seeing, it is likely to have mounted the device read-only, which it why you cannot edit it. SSD and flash disks etc. have a common failure mode, where they go read-only when they fail. 8 g

Re: [Hampshire] file transfer, Android to Ubuntu

2020-04-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
kily they are the pictures I take, which is all it need. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

[Hampshire] JOB | PHP developer (Windsor, UK)

2019-11-05 Thread james tobin via Hampshire
Hello, we are looking to hire a PHP developer to work on a startup project for us. We are interested to hear from those junior and experienced. You can reach me using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/m

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu and i386

2019-07-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
Hi, I seems they have thought better of it after all. We still need that 32bit goodness! http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-Takes-A-U-Turn-with-32-Bit-Support Kind Regards James On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 12:30, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > I have heard th

[Hampshire] Ubuntu and i386

2019-06-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
Hi, I have heard that Ubuntu is dropping i386. Does this mean 32bit programs will stop running. A lot of wine games are still 32bit so that could be a problem for some. Kind regards Jamed -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Hampshire] Grouping Files for backup

2019-05-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
Hi, Tar already has such a feature. A long time ago, it would have needed to spread data across backup tapes. look at the man page for tag for something like --multi-volume. Kind Regards James On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 12:12, Rob Malpass via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

Re: [Hampshire] 9-pin dot matrix printing - golden oldie

2019-03-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
hat the driver name is called. You will probably need to power cycle the printer to get it out of graphics mode. James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] On the scroung: Working 20-120Gb IDE HDD

2019-02-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
rry Pi as a net-boot server, put it in a box, and you will have a solution the same size as a 3.5 IDE HDD. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] VGA to HDMI in low res modes (Clever Video box required)

2019-01-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 12:28, Rob Malpass via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > *From:* Hampshire [mailto:hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] *On > Behalf Of *James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire > *Sent:* 25 January 2019 23:54 > *To:* Hamps

Re: [Hampshire] VGA to HDMI in low res modes (Clever Video box required)

2019-01-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
Hi, Another option could be a VGA to USB capture. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphan-DVI2USB-3-0-External-VGA-DVI-HDMI-Video-Capture-Encoder/303037962609?hash=item468e785971:g:I18AAOSw-GNcR2EG:rk:6:pf:0 You capture the video on another PC that has proper HDMI output. I don't know if the above wor

Re: [Hampshire] Document Management Systems

2018-11-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
wing which went with which. Then you can decide what to do with them. Maybe OCR them into text, that can then be indexed in Elastic Search. This will make finding the documents you need easier. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mai

Re: [Hampshire] [Golden Oldies] Solaris Boot Order

2018-08-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
board. There is a key combination that works, but I don't remember exactly what it is. When connected to the serial port, it is sending a "break" signal that does it. I would try using the Left-CTRL, Right-CTRL or ALT or ALT-GR in place of the STOP key. Kind Regards

Re: [Hampshire] Webcam that works well with Debian Stable

2018-07-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, 12:33 Artur Łądka via Hampshire, < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > I checked what guvcview is, and it seems like something we tested. C920 > was working in some GTK+ app, which COULD BE guvcview - in this app you > can adjust some settings to make it working, but when st

Re: [Hampshire] Software RAID1 install problems

2018-05-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
f (grub/bios boot), and then 1GB for the /boot partition. I don't know what the minimal you can get away with is, but 1GB from 4TB is minimal in my book. Then mirror the rest for RAID1. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.

Re: [Hampshire] libgtk-1.2.so.0

2018-05-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
On 14 May 2018 at 12:18, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > >> It is not actively developed any more, so might be difficult to get going. >> Do you really have to use moonlight? > > Good question. The capability I am looking for is to create a 3d object > and tile an image on to the surface t

Re: [Hampshire] libgtk-1.2.so.0

2018-05-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
o get going. Do you really have to use moonlight? Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Windows problem

2018-01-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
revent using a global temp folder and enforce the temp folder being created in the user's home folder. It might be better to change your program's behaviour so that any files it needs to create are put in the user's home folder. Kind regards James -- Please post to: Hampshir

Re: [Hampshire] How to de-install non-free Radeon drivers without uninstalling all of X.org

2017-07-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
ich kernel module is currently loaded and being used, so you can check if the blacklist has worked or not. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu libncurses5

2017-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
Hi Try doing ldd filename And post the output here. Where filename is your app. James On 1 Jun 2017 12:20, "Peter Alefounder via Hampshire" < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > I have recently acquired a laptop running Ubuntu. > > There is a specific text editor

Re: [Hampshire] USB devices power down

2017-05-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
on when power is supplied. Maybe the icybox is similar. I have to press the power button to switch them on after a power cut. James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi based Air quality monitoring project

2017-05-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
ng your own business. They should be able to cover all the questions you have and its free advice!!! Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] DAT as a backup medium

2017-04-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
forgotten where everything is. Some data I have, that I really never wish to ever loose, I just post it to the internet somewhere, and it never gets forgotten!!! Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] HDDs and UUID

2017-02-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
least you have not destroyed it, and can place it back in the old caddy and carry on. The UUID refers to the actual physical DISK, and not any wires, or containers, or port you plug it into. So, if you move a disk from one machine to another, change ports, containers, the UUID stays the same. Kind Re

Re: [Hampshire] How to get a laptop with Linux?

2016-11-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
On 3 November 2016 at 17:58, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these > days? Various web searches haven't helped me much. Some sites say > it's better to get one running Windows, then install Linux. > Howe

Re: [Hampshire] Kitchen project

2016-07-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
ey break or technology changes. So, it is quite easy to change a mains socket for a PoE socket if I so wish. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Bluetooth repeater over ethernet?

2016-05-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
Hi. Bluetooth has quality of service constraints that would probably break down over longer distances, or when sent down ethernet. That is probably why you cannot find bluetooth extenders. The trick would be to try and extend the cable before it becomes bluetooth. I.e. long cable -> bluetooth Inst

Re: [Hampshire] IGMP protocol with BT home hubs

2016-03-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
multicast. Kind regards James On 6 Mar 2016 18:42, "Roger Munford" wrote: > I have a problem with a new, complex system for managing ethernet > connected solar inverters and the problem may well be down to missing > multicasts from a BT home hub. > > The German manufacturer

Re: [Hampshire] Job search

2016-01-04 Thread James Bensley
At the very least, say what kind of work you are interested in? James. -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] NTFS and Linux

2015-12-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
of a physical firewall. >> Anywhere separated is better than having both copies in the same >> building. Garden shed, friendly neighbour, even an outside tool storage >> chest. Linux is brilliant in that you can recycle old PCs for jobs like >> this. Try St. James if you have

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] 4TB drives and LVM?

2015-11-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 6 Nov 2015 14:54, "Andy Random" wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does anybody have a link to a good guide on setting up 2 x 4TB drives with LVM to give a single ~ 8TB partition? > Another alternative is to use btrfs filesystem. It can span disks. Spanning disks does double the failure rate, as either hdd

Re: [Hampshire] Linux equivalent of DPAPI

2015-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
and not run any services on it apart from the credit card access api and no web browsers. Kind regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Remote access to mySQL

2015-09-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Are you getting connection refused when you telnet to port 3306 ? On 25 September 2015 at 10:50, Roger Munford wrote: > Samuel, > > Thank you very much for this information. I followed it both with the > troublesome connection and a well behaved connection and they both worked > exactly as you d

[Hampshire] Hard drives for sale

2015-03-26 Thread James Bensley
cling. Cheers, James. -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Alternatives to TrueCrypt?

2015-03-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
password in GRUB, and then GRUB decrypts the boot partition in order to find the linux kernel. Then the kernel loads in the normal way, with the entire disk being encrypted apart from the boot sectors. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mai

Re: [Hampshire] UK digital skills report

2015-02-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
then a review cycle to correct any wrong assumptions. What is missing is the AI to read and understand my spreadsheet or document like a developer would. I.e. Read a document that is not written in source code, and be able to understand it as well as if they were reading source code, even i

[Hampshire] [OT] Amazon.co.uk down.

2014-11-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, Its black Friday, and guess what Amazon.co.uk web site is down. Showing the following text: We're sorry An error occurred when we tried to process your request. We're working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly. Please note that if you were trying to place an order, it will not h

[Hampshire] Linux Systems Administrator, Surrey

2014-09-18 Thread James Bensley
with your applications or any questions you have about the role or company. I know there is no salary range on that job description which everyone loves to complain about. I didn't write it but it’s obviously going to depending on the candidate - bottom line is if you have the skills you&

Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

2014-07-29 Thread James Bensley
On 29 July 2014 14:32, Gordon Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 13:50 +0100, James Bensley wrote: >> All ADSL providers lease the copper pairs to the end site from BT >> Openreach, > > With the probable exception of lines in Kingston-upon-Hull, where they > have the

Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering

2014-07-29 Thread James Bensley
ess both also rent the pairs from BT Openreach. Ultimately they all belong to the BT Group Plc but just to be clear, everyone on ADSL is at the mercy of Openreach :) I hope that brightened your day ;) Cheers, James. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interfac

Re: [Hampshire] Code base and Emergency Data Laws

2014-07-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 17 July 2014 13:16, Damian L Brasher wrote: > 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)

Re: [Hampshire] Code base and Emergency Data Laws

2014-07-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
If you are particularly interested in what they can ask for, google for RDHI (Retained Data Handover Interface) , it is an ETSI standard and lists all the request types used by RIPA. Summary: I don't think anything has changed since the year 2000. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] C development

2014-06-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 26 June 2014 08:22, Damian L Brasher wrote: > Roger, James, do either of you use Doxygen, or similar? Can you > recommend an efficient way to use such a tool? > > I want to maintain some documentation; graphical visualisation to > present the C code base structure and runtime

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Network testing tool

2014-06-19 Thread James Bensley
://www.amazon.com/Smartronix-Linkcheck-Ethernet-Tester/dp/B000RGI6R6 I used to use a better one than that though but I can't remember what it is called nor find it via sporadic googling. Ah, here it is!: http://www.psiber.com/en/home/products/network-tester/lanmaster-25.html Cheers, James. -- P

Re: [Hampshire] C development

2014-06-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 13 June 2014 06:55, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > On 12 June 2014 18:56, Roger Munford wrote: >> 100 years ago I wrote a data logging programme for DOS which ran on a Sharp >> pocket PC. It was written in C and assembler. I now have a need for this >> programme and wo

Re: [Hampshire] C development

2014-06-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
database in between, or it the data rates are too high, use CSV files. 3) There are many data visualization programs already out there, you might not have to do any work in this area. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] Raspberry Pi and Solar Chargers

2014-06-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
that. Kind Regards James -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Free Original Xbox

2014-06-01 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, The xBox original is now gone too. Cheers, James. -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Free Xbox 360

2014-06-01 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, This xBox 360 is now gone. Cheers, James. -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Free Wii

2014-06-01 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, Sorry for the long delay I was away this weekend without email access (when I expected to have it) - The Wii is gone now - I haven't emailed you saying you're the winnerYou weren't the winner :) Thanks for helping me fine a good home for it. James. -- Please pos

Re: [Hampshire] Free Original Xbox

2014-05-30 Thread James Bensley
On 30 May 2014 16:39, Freaky Clown wrote: > im tempted to say the surrey and hampshire hackspace might be interested in > this kinda kit, would make a lovely MAME base at least! If someone from the hackspace can contact me and tell me they can genuinly use it, I'll glady drop it off to someone?

[Hampshire] Free Wii

2014-05-30 Thread James Bensley
hat one to so you could play games from an SDCARD (these consoles have SDCARD readers built in). It can be collected from Southampton (or I can deliver it to you in Southampton) or in Reigate or Leatherhead, I am circulating between those locations regularly. Cheers, James. -- Pl

[Hampshire] Free Xbox 360

2014-05-30 Thread James Bensley
I can deliver it to you in Southampton) or in Reigate or Leatherhead, I am circulating between those locations regularly. Cheers, James. -- 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 --

[Hampshire] Free Original Xbox

2014-05-30 Thread James Bensley
now? So if you’re into that, its free. I have more stuff I haven’t unboxed as yet. It can be collected from Southampton (or I can deliver it to you in Southampton) or in Reigate or Leather, I am circulating between though locations regularly. Cheers, James. -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

2014-04-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Ethernet. 5) Fastest CPU/GPU possible while still having silence. Using GPU for video decode/acceleration is normally less power hungry than a CPU doing the video decode/acceleration. Kind Regards James On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm putting m

Re: [Hampshire] LibreOffice not working over SSH for one user but not another

2014-04-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On Apr 26, 2014 3:21 PM, "Dr A. J. Trickett" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a strange one for you. > > On box "F" the local user "V" can run LibreOffice (Debian stable) without a > problem. > > If user "A" SSH into the box "F" from "W" or "M" and runs any LibreOffice > application back down the tunnel

Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

2014-04-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
server? Is there > anything else I could consider? > Hi, After checking the fan is running, clean it of dust. The most likely problem is replace the thermal paste between cpu and heatsink. It fixed an old system i once had. James. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Inter

Re: [Hampshire] Free PCs

2014-03-13 Thread James Bensley
s but you were quicker than me. Many thanks all for helping send this stuff to a good home. Kind regards, James. -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] Free PCs

2014-03-12 Thread James Bensley
To follow up my previous email, the Adaptec card is one of these; http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/sata/sataii/aar-1430sa/ First come first serve on everything as it's all free there can't be a highest bidder. Cheers, James. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

[Hampshire] Free PCs

2014-03-12 Thread James Bensley
oving so it all needs to go ASAP! I won't be giving away parts of the PCs as I'm in a rush to get rid of them, they must go whole. Cheers, James. -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] PCI SATA controller

2014-02-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11 February 2014 22:58, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: > Hi, > > Before I buy a new one, does anyone have a PCI (not PCIe) bus, SATA controller > card I could put in an old PC to allow it to take SATA hard disks instead of > the tiny PATA disk it currently has in, that they no longer need...? > > It'

Re: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-10 Thread James Bensley
Hi Clive, You can ignore these from a threat perspective. People from all over the world are scanning the entire Internet all the time. That is just a part of daily life on the Internet. Cheers, James. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] 'Killed' response when running program from command-line

2014-01-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
with a special maths lib to ensure the accuracy of the results. The algorithm was taking data in from 150 data streams, doing its calculations and producing results in real time. It was working on streams of global positioning data, and endevouring to detect positioning errors in the data streams.

[Hampshire] 2x Network Engineers in Sothampton

2014-01-08 Thread James Bensley
el free to contact me directly off list if you have any questions about company life and I will do my best to assist. Kind regards, -- James Bensley -- 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 --

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] upcoming meetings

2013-12-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 19 December 2013 16:20, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > I tried registering at: > http://hantslug.org.uk/wp/wp-login.php?checkemail=registered > > Waited 3 minutes now, still no password emailed to me. > So, it is completely impossible to register a new user on the

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] upcoming meetings

2013-12-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I tried registering at: http://hantslug.org.uk/wp/wp-login.php?checkemail=registered Waited 3 minutes now, still no password emailed to me. So, it is completely impossible to register a new user on the site. Not much good really. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] upcoming meetings

2013-12-18 Thread James Bensley
Hi Tim, I won't be able to make the next meeting, 1st Feb, but the next month in March I can. Going to Bletchly park that month sounds like a great idea to me, I'm game for it! Out of curiosity, does HantsLUG have a Facebook page, a event could be created for it? Cheers, James.

Re: [Hampshire] audio CDs - KDE

2013-12-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
I use rhythmbox for music. It does CD import. I.e. You put an Audio CD in and it adds it to your local music library so you can play it even after the CD is removed. On 16 December 2013 12:26, Peter Alefounder wrote: > > > Adam Trickett said: >> Always used KDE on Debian and never had a problem

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