Re: [Hampshire] My 2p on the GUI 'Wars'

2012-07-01 Thread John Cooper
On 01/07/12 22:19, Stephen Davies wrote: As a professional software developer who has been writing programms since the days of Card Decks, George 3 , SOFOR and paper tape, I find this latest craze on desktops (Gnome 3, Unity Windows 8) rather depressing. (Ignoring the 'touchy feely' of

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone familiar with Grub2?

2012-01-22 Thread John Cooper
What about adding the lvm to the grub2 install --modules=part_gpt lvm ext2 (from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133925 ) On 22/01/12 13:27, Vic wrote: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg grub2-install /dev/sda That fails in exactly the same way... It is clear that the lvm

Re: [Hampshire] Open source communities survival during economic change

2012-01-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/01/12 16:56, Damian L Brasher wrote: 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

Re: [Hampshire] Open source communities survival during economic change

2012-01-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/01/12 18:22, Keith Edmunds wrote:. This will make them support open source code and change the culture. It will happen! I don't see that as a logical conclusion of the first two points you make. My belief is that most organisations will put some kind of support for their Open Source

Re: [Hampshire] Open source communities survival during economic change

2012-01-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/01/12 18:55, Vic wrote: It isn't such a huge leap to move that to an open source project. It isn't for us - but I really don't think the same can be said for some of the PHBs in those companies... I was recently contracting at a large multinational. During my time there, I found that

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone familiar with Grub2?

2012-01-21 Thread John Cooper
Boot using the CD/DVD and at the linux prompt linux rescue then follow the prompts to mount the files system. Drop in to the shell chroot /mnt/sysimage mount -a ls /boot ensure it has mounted grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg grub2-install /dev/sda Have a look at

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread John Cooper
Celsius not centigrade! http://chemistry.about.com/b/2010/09/20/difference-between-celsius-and-centigrade.htm On 24/12/11 13:09, Simon Reap wrote: On 23/12/2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: Many people, I know, use Fahrenheit. But does it make sense to anybody?? Centigrade

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread John Cooper
On 24/12/11 18:37, alan c wrote: On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said: real people using GNU/Linux operating systems. Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux You are pretty well correct in this, the cause

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-04 Thread John Cooper
On 04/12/11 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine. DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host private key. MakeMKV does seem to work, but it is a binary blob and not open source and you have to pay for it past 30 days trial.

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-03 Thread John Cooper
On 03/10/11 17:24, Paul Tansom wrote: A bit of a vague subject, but I'm looking at the possibility of finally getting a smartphone and at the moment the HTC Wildfire S and the Samsung Galaxy Ace There is very little between them so I'd go for 2.3 (gingerbread) on the HTC. Ace is supposed to

Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

2011-08-29 Thread John Cooper
On 29/08/11 19:57, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:25:21 +, phillip.chand...@ntlworld.com said: Call me old fashioned, but Id rather keep all my personal stuff backed up on a usb stick. I'd probably call you naive rather than old fashioned. I'd add paranoid as well.

Re: [Hampshire] Syncing Android with Linux

2011-08-29 Thread John Cooper
On 29/08/11 20:27, e-mail phillip.chandler wrote: I'd add paranoid as well. Everytime you go on the internet your activity is logged, every email you send is stored, your mobile phone logs your location and CCTV cameras capture your image. This is the world we live in and is not

Re: [Hampshire] simple description of open source etc.

2011-03-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/03/11 09:25, Edward Beckmann wrote: Hi I often meet people with small businesses and most struggle with the concept of open source software. My simple aim is to make them aware that there are alternatives to MS and Mac for them to consider. Without wanting to debate the subtleties (open

Re: [Hampshire] simple description of open source etc.

2011-03-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/03/11 20:08, bryan hunt wrote: Please don't :-/ I just get tired of these topics coming up again and again The scenario is somewhat along these lines. I want to make money from selling open source software to a business. I'll make the profit from doing so. I'd appreciate if you

Re: [Hampshire] [off topic] Unable to submit document to govt dept

2010-11-18 Thread John Cooper
On 18/11/10 12:11, john lewis wrote: John, I'd go back and complain that they should not be forcing you to use propriety software or a format that is not compatible with Linux. I'd make the point their website/mailserver is run on Linux and their submission process is using Perl! Therefore

Re: [Hampshire] [off topic] Unable to submit document to govt dept

2010-11-17 Thread John Cooper
On 17/11/10 11:12, john lewis wrote: I needed to submit an annual return for the current year to Companies House, it is a very simple balance sheet for a dormant company. I eventually got the pdf form completed correctly using acroread on my linux system but was unable to submit the document as

Re: [Hampshire] Linux and GNU

2010-11-15 Thread John Cooper
On 11/11/10 14:38, Vic wrote: I'm not the only one. Unix and Linux Sys admin book (fourth edition) p8, saying that using the term GNU/Linux has its own political baggage It certainly has some political baggage. Most of us just ignore politics, as they rarely get code out the door. only

Re: [Hampshire] Linux and GNU

2010-11-13 Thread John Cooper
On 13/11/10 16:46, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:17:05 +, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said: But that infers GNU is more important The Linux versus GNU/Linux debate will run, and there is legitimate debate about which is correct. There should be no debate over implies versus

Re: [Hampshire] Linux and GNU

2010-11-11 Thread John Cooper
On 11/11/10 13:33, Vic wrote: The GNU/Linux debate is long settled. The proper term is GNU/Linux. Few people but Stallman really care if you just call it Linux. But getting upset because someone used the correct terminology is decidedly bizarre... I'm not the only one. Unix and Linux Sys admin

Re: [Hampshire] Linux and GNU

2010-11-11 Thread John Cooper
On 11/11/10 14:38, Vic wrote: It *is* the correct term. Your repeated assertions that you think Linux is more important than GNU are pointless; the software we both espouse comprises both Linux portions and GNU portions. Trying to redefine Linux to be more than it is is simply an exercise in

[Hampshire] Red Hat RHEL6 released

2010-11-11 Thread John Cooper
Red Hat's new RHEL6 was released yesterday, quite a low key announcement. No sign of the new courses yet but hopefully will get on one of the first. http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/ John. -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread John Cooper
On 10/11/10 18:58, Stephen Davies wrote: to all HantsLug, Many of you may well have heard of Groklaw. (http://www.groklaw.net) At least two of HantsLug members are regular contibutors. I'm one and 'Vic' is another. If you are a contributor like us then you will probably know of the award that

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread John Cooper
On 11/11/10 00:23, Vic wrote: GNU/Linux is offensive to me It shouldn't be. Linux is a kernel. To make a useful OS, you kinda need some userspace programs. That userspace is what converts Linux into GNU/Linux. If you sat it atop Hurd, it would be GNU/Hurd. Vic. And Apache converts

Re: [Hampshire] Netgear readynas duo, nfs4 and iSCSI target

2010-10-27 Thread John Cooper
On 27/10/10 22:22, Adam John Trickett wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 06:37:29 John Cooper wrote: My icybox died recently and I've just replaced it with a Netgear readynas duo 2110 1GB disc* . It runs Debian Sarge. I am really pleased with it. Very easy to configure through the web interface

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-26 Thread John Cooper
On 26/10/10 19:42, Brian Chivers wrote: I've done LPIC-1 already and found it really interesting hard as it dealt with stuff I don't use that much like kernel x.org config I'll let you know what the the LPIC-2 is like as I'm doing it next week on a 6 day residential course with firebrand

[Hampshire] Netgear readynas duo, nfs4 and iSCSI target

2010-10-26 Thread John Cooper
My icybox died recently and I've just replaced it with a Netgear readynas duo 2110 1GB disc* . It runs Debian Sarge. I am really pleased with it. Very easy to configure through the web interface, but it also has a Linux application on the CD. I tried to change the NFS mount from v3 to v4 but

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-23 Thread John Cooper
On 23/10/10 09:21, Peter Collins wrote: I have been looking at the Linux Professional Institute Certification program or maybe Ubuntu program - again I would be interested in people's thoughts on either? Hi Peter, I've just passed LPI-1 level (Junior) and will do LPIC-2 (Senior) soon. These

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-23 Thread John Cooper
On 23/10/10 09:21, Peter Collins wrote: Hi All, Sorry if this has been discussed before but I don't remember seeing anything. Is anyone a member of The Linux Foundation? does anyone have any opinions on it? Also I am thinking I might get myself a qualification, ultimately I would like to

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-23 Thread John Cooper
On 23/10/10 15:57, Peter Collins wrote: Hi all, Many thanks for the responses. Just to clarify I already work in sysadmin role for my current employer (as well as others) - it is mainly a Microsoft windows based infrastructure, however I have introduced Linux over the years in different

Re: [Hampshire] Graphics Card Fan Noise

2010-10-20 Thread John Cooper
On 20/10/10 18:49, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all Can anyone help with solving the following phenomenon? At boot, my main machine developed a low tone groaning noise - the sort that signals the fan is gunked up. After being on for about a minute - the noise goes away. I brushed it clean on Monday.

Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice MS fonts...

2010-10-18 Thread John Cooper
On 18/10/10 22:28, Vic wrote: If you can open the document in OOo, could you export as a .pdf... No, I can't. This place has a whole load of MS-Office files. I'm trying to convert them to OpenOffice. They're not technically-gifted, so any variation from what they do in MS-Office is a

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Clarifacation required

2010-10-17 Thread John Cooper
On 17/10/10 17:41, Tim wrote: I have a PC that is failing to boot, it is giving 1 long and 3 short beeps. Scott Mueller's book says for AMI BIOS POST conventional/extended memory error - clean memory contacts and reset the modules. Remove all modules except first bank. Replace the memory,

Re: [Hampshire] Any SANE experts?

2010-10-07 Thread John Cooper
On 07/10/10 23:33, Vic wrote: Hi All. I ran into a problem with SANE tonight. Now I know three fifths of nothing about scanners, so I couldn't fix this one. The machine in question is running Fedora 12 (not sure if that will turn out to be relevant). It has an Epson SX110 3-in-1 plugged in,

Re: [Hampshire] Cron script problem

2010-10-05 Thread John Cooper
On 05/10/10 18:25, Vic wrote: So my first question is, where should these 5 scripts reside (they currently live in a folder called backup in the root of the file sytem) Wherever you like. Just make sure you tell cron the full pathname to the script = ./day1 is unlikely to work, because that

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread John Cooper
On 28/09/10 10:15, Paul Tansom wrote: I must be missing something obvious on this, but I've done it before without problems and, although I've got a bit more investigating up my sleeve, this one is getting annoying! I've got a system (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server) that is running quite happily on a

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread John Cooper
On 28/09/10 20:55, john wrote: The easiest way to deal with the problem is to create a small partition on the drive which will fit s small linux distro. Install into this partition. When the small distro is running update grub. Latest Puppy should do it. This will give you the details about

Re: [Hampshire] Where to start with Python?

2010-09-17 Thread John Cooper
On 17/09/10 14:36, Andy Random wrote: Hi, No before you ask I haven't turned to the darkside and decided to learn Python :) However a friend of mines son is at uni and is struggling with Python. He has almost no programming experience to draw on and it's not a CompSci course, but there is

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu startup

2010-09-13 Thread John Cooper
On 13/09/10 22:35, Leo wrote: Does anybody know how to get ubuntu to show useful info when booting? The reason I ask is that it keeps hanging when mounting disks every few boots, but for all I know it could just be fscking them. Or failing, that is it possible to get it to keep old /var/log/boot

Re: [Hampshire] HP servers and Debian

2010-08-13 Thread John Cooper
On 13/08/10 11:54, Tim wrote: Has anybody put Debian onto a HP Pro Reliant DL120 G6 server?? Is it safe and straightforward, will it pickup the sata raid OTB?? Thanks in advance Tim -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Windows

2010-08-04 Thread John Cooper
On 04/08/10 13:24, Keith Edmunds wrote: A possibly cautionary tale. We recently purchased 2 x 2Tb Western Digital disks. Useful to know so I'll stick with Seagate. Maxtor/Seagate use a DOS .iso downloadable to test their disks. I've just tested a 1TB so I assume a 2TB would work ok. --

Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Windows

2010-08-04 Thread John Cooper
On 04/08/10 16:30, Vic wrote: Maxtor/Seagate use a DOS .iso downloadable to test their disks. They do now - but they used to ship it as a Windows .exe which uncompressed into the .iso. At the time, I couldn't find anything that would uncompress it :-( I had a long and vocal fight with

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki

2010-07-25 Thread John Cooper
On 25/07/10 11:52, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, Since the Wiki re-fresh it has been plagued with SPAM, today I've checked and nearly a dozen pages have been spammed this weekend. All I seem to do with the site is remove spam from it. Our wiki is an open site that allows any one to

Re: [Hampshire] dhcp3-relay and Windows 2003 DHCP server with Windows XP clients

2010-07-23 Thread John Cooper
On 23/07/10 09:15, Tony Whitmore wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use dhcp3-relay in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to relay requests from client system to our Windows 2003 DHCP Server. (Yes, I know, I know.) The relay works fine for Linux clients, but not so well for our Windows XP clients. Unfortunately

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-23 Thread John Cooper
On 23/07/10 10:57, Damian Brasher wrote: Sean Gibbins wrote: Anyway, my comments are coming from a good place... I know, it's just that if that if someone willing to invest does read the thread I was hoping the content would contain useful examples. -- Damian If it was so easy we

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Letter to investors

2010-07-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/07/10 13:26, Damian Brasher wrote: Hi List, Please forward if you know anyone that may be interested. More Dragons Den than spam I think. cut If X(company) are looking for another investment opportunity in the Open Source community I believe this project will yield results.

Re: [Hampshire] apache block invalid IP address

2010-07-16 Thread John Cooper
On 16/07/10 11:49, Vic wrote: As the rest of the logs are fine my guess is the spammer is using some control character sequence which is corrupting parsing of the logs for IP address I seriously doubt that. Consider the complexity of a crafted sequence that just erases the IP address, but

[Hampshire] apache block invalid IP address

2010-07-15 Thread John Cooper
Hi, I'm seeing user registration attempts on one of my forums with an IP address of . How can I block (403) either an IP address of . or an invalid IP address using the .htaccess file? . - - [01/Jul/2010:22:06:04 -0600] GET /cgi-bin/user_register.pl HTTP/1.0 200 4541

Re: [Hampshire] apache block invalid IP address

2010-07-15 Thread John Cooper
On 15/07/10 16:03, Vic wrote: It could be the spammer has a malformed request. That might be so - but wouldn't[2] give rise to what you're seeing. HTTP goes over TCP, so Apache *must* have known the IP address it was talking to when the request was made. The fact that you're not seeing

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-10 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 23:42, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 July 2010 22:10, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M This has worked

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-10 Thread John Cooper
On 10/07/10 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 10 July 2010 11:39, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: b = (int)((L-S)*512/B) where: b = File System block number B = File system block size in bytes L = LBA of bad sector S = Starting sector of partition as shown by fdisk -lu

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-10 Thread John Cooper
On 10/07/10 15:49, Vic wrote: Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Blue Serial ATA family Device Model: WDC WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 Serial Number:WD-WCAWF2693459 That drive is in warranty until 2013. If you go to the Western Digital site, you can arrange for a replacement. Vic.

Re: [Hampshire] lvm nightmare

2010-07-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 00:08, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: OK I freely admit I did not RTFM. I have a redhat (well centos5) box with a 500GB disk in I use to play with openvz store pictures on etc. centos mounts / from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 So the question is 1) is there a way to recover from

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 22:21, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:10:26 +0100, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD There are better ways...how do you store the tarballs and

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 23:42, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 July 2010 22:10, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M This has worked

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] ADSL2+ Router

2010-06-16 Thread John Cooper
On 16/06/10 11:26, David Rozzell wrote: I have done quite a bit of research but would value the LUGs input, especially first hand accounts on a UKFSN CW LLU line or of this particular router. I am currently looking at a Zyxel P660HW-T1 ADSL2+ Gateway wireless router on Amazon [1]

Re: [Hampshire] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?

2010-05-28 Thread John Cooper
On 27/05/10 16:08, Owain Clarke wrote: I wonder if, with the new government desperate to save money anywhere, there may be a bit of an open door for pushing the idea of Linux adoption? That would be the logical approach but unfortunately M$ will do what is takes like discounts to ensure

Re: [Hampshire] thanks for the distro tips

2010-04-14 Thread John Cooper
On 14/04/10 14:13, Benjamin Ashton wrote: Thanks to all who gave me advice about what light-distro to pick for our ailing computer. In the end I opted for Zenwalk as it: a) ticked all the boxes b) had the word 'Zen' in it, which made my wife laugh as she is a zen student c) had a dolphin

Re: [Hampshire] CUPS woes

2010-04-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/04/10 09:23, Samuel Penn wrote: Hi all, I've recently started having problems with my CUPS setup, and I'm somewhat unsure what has gone wrong and why, so suggestions on how best to troubleshoot (or even better, fix) greatly appreciated. I have CUPS setup on a server to print to a

Re: [Hampshire] Upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.x.x LTS when it ships

2010-02-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/02/10 12:07, Brian Chivers wrote: As some of you will know I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu from mostly RH / CentOS. I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.10 in our virtual environment and will soon be bringing some production servers on-line but the length of updates does worry me

Re: [Hampshire] Upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.x.x LTS when it ships

2010-02-22 Thread John Cooper
On 22/02/10 15:59, Tony Whitmore wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:44:39 +, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: If you still want to proceed with Ubuntu, you really need to stay with LTS versions as the upgrade will have been tested. Can you wait till April? The implication

Re: [Hampshire] Event - BCS OSSG 'Question time on Open Source'

2010-02-05 Thread John Cooper
On 05/02/10 17:17, alan c wrote: Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: This may be interesting to some people. - Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org - From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] Event - BCS OSSG 'Question time on Open Source'

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-14 Thread John Cooper
On 14/01/10 12:20, Stephen Pelc wrote: rant Linux is getting more like Windows. A development box was upgraded from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10, and now our rpm packaging scripts are broken. All updates should be tested before deploying AND have backups available to restore the original

Re: [Hampshire] NAS devices and MTU

2010-01-01 Thread John Cooper
On 01/01/10 09:22, lists wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 08:33 +, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 January 2010 01:03:50 John Cooper wrote: On 31/12/09 21:33, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 31 December 2009 16:52:15 lists wrote: [snip] Ironically most people don't think 'wow, he's clever, he made that guy

Re: [Hampshire] NAS devices and MTU

2009-12-31 Thread John Cooper
On 31/12/09 21:33, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 31 December 2009 16:52:15 lists wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 16:39 +, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:57:49 +, li...@retrochoons.co.uk said: Are you aware that 'cite a source' comes across as arrogant aggressive? No, I wasn't. I

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Open Source vendor software question

2009-12-15 Thread John Cooper
On 15/12/09 16:15, Damian Brasher wrote: Hi I need to build a simple payment system for an eBook I'm planning to release soon. I'd like the customer, after reading a preview to decide to purchase the book. I don't need a shopping cart, but will use one if inevitable, as there is only one

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-14 Thread John Cooper
On 14/12/09 21:26, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, My current Dell laptop is really getting long in the tooth (~10 years old). Novatech sell naked laptops so I don't have to pay the Windows tax on them. Has anyone used any of their recent kit, e.g X10, Xplora E16 or V13? I basically want a

Re: [Hampshire] SQL SELECT query.

2009-12-06 Thread John Cooper
On 06/12/09 19:32, Philip Stubbs wrote: Hi, I have been playing with mapnik to create some maps. It has been fun, but I am a bit lacking in Postgres SQL. Can anybody help me to adjust the following SELECT statement so that it will return a result set that consists of only one of each

Re: [Hampshire] Connect linux netbook to Mac server

2009-11-26 Thread John Cooper
On 25/11/09 15:05, Owain Clarke wrote: I don't know if anyone has experience of this, but I am working in a place with a Mac OS 10.2 server, and I am wondering about the feasibility of connecting to the server with a Linux (Ubuntu) netbook, so that I could both use files on the server and

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] OLPC XO

2009-10-24 Thread John Cooper
On 24/10/09 00:36, Daniel Pope wrote: John Cooper wrote: Mike, they are designed for primary school (small keyboard) so may not be suitable. The problem at the moment is you cannot buy them as they have withdrawn the buy one, give one programme via Amazon. This is really frustrating. The only

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] OLPC XO

2009-10-24 Thread John Cooper
On 24/10/09 12:08, Daniel Pope wrote: 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

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] OLPC XO

2009-10-24 Thread John Cooper
On 24/10/09 14:25, Daniel Pope wrote: 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

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] OLPC XO

2009-10-23 Thread John Cooper
On 23/10/09 17:32, Mike wrote: Hi John Cooper said he had a couple of XO laptops for demo. I am a secondary school governor in Basingstoke and I am very keen to get one of these laptops to look at for our Special Education Needs area. Rgds Mike McCarthy Mike

[Hampshire] OLPC XO finally deployed

2009-10-17 Thread John Cooper
After all the dirty tricks from M$ and Intel to derail the one laptop per child programme, Uruguay becomes the first country to supply a laptop to every child at primary school (362,000). This is with the Sugar interface and Fedora based Linux platform, not XP!!!

[Hampshire] Android based HTC Hero gadget of the year

2009-10-17 Thread John Cooper
I previously stated my HTC magic was the best phone I've had and its newer Hero version has won T3's gadget of the year. This is excellent news for Linux based phones and a credit to Google who are again showing how to break in to existing markets with open source software.

Re: [Hampshire] Dependency hell (Was: Re: Xorg is hungry today...)

2009-10-05 Thread John Cooper
On 05/10/09 18:21, john lewis wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:01:10 +0100 Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: No reason at all. You're just hearing complaints from people who gave up on it many years ago, and never used the more recent tooling. For the record, I'm a Debian user

Re: [Hampshire] Dependency hell (Was: Re: Xorg is hungry today...)

2009-10-05 Thread John Cooper
On 05/10/09 22:48, Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:34:44PM +0100, John Cooper wrote: Most Linux distros these days are fine for package management. Sometimes it is better/safer to re-install and the recent versions of Fedora you were basically forced too due to adopting latest

Re: [Hampshire] [OT]How should the Open Source world handle new vulnerabilities?

2009-09-28 Thread John Cooper
On 28/09/09 09:38, Damian Brasher wrote: serious security vulnerabilities. The impact on users, business's, code On a lighter educational note, I've used the possessive apostrophe for business, businesses is the correct plural. Like many of us I tend to hammer out words in a creative

Re: [Hampshire] How should the Open Source world handle new vulnerabilities?

2009-09-26 Thread John Cooper
On 26/09/09 18:43, Damian Brasher wrote: When you first see this: Linux Kernel 'sock_sendpage()' NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in an email or twitter it does not mean much at first glance. A simple model could be: 1) Security vulnerability found. 2) Developer(s) contacted

Re: [Hampshire] New Linux-based phone

2009-09-24 Thread John Cooper
On 25/09/09 00:10, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello Folks I've just stumbled across a news item[1] which mentions LiMo[2], apparently the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. Vodafone have just announced a new phone that will run LiMo; their

Re: [Hampshire] RHCE / RHCT

2009-09-18 Thread John Cooper
On 18/09/09 15:04, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: I've been toying with the idea of getting Redhat certification. I did the pre-assessment questionaires and concluded that I was pretty close to being ready to take the RHCE exam immediately, but would benefit from the fast track course. I

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread John Cooper
On 15/09/09 17:15, Chris Simmonds wrote: Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down and be brought back on line

Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth

2009-09-11 Thread John Cooper
On 11/09/09 17:19, Timothy Brocklehurst wrote: On Friday 11 September 2009 16:05:33 Roger Munford wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/ You seem surprised... Don't be. The claims are not unlike those Microsoft has made in the past no, more identical really. I

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread John Cooper
Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks I'm planning to use one or more external USB hard drives to backup a headless server running Debian. I'll probably use rsnapshot, with a script that detects for the presence of the right drive. But how can the server tell the user when it is safe to

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread John Cooper
Chris Dennis wrote: John Cooper wrote: Have a look at this USB suspend script:- http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.html That all looks very elaborate. Is it really necessary? Does this mean that good old 'umount' hasn't been working for USB

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread John Cooper
Chris Dennis wrote: John Cooper wrote: Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks I'm planning to use one or more external USB hard drives to backup a headless server running Debian. I'll probably use rsnapshot, with a script that detects for the presence of the right drive. But how can

Re: [Hampshire] pcworld southampton linux

2009-08-10 Thread John Cooper
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:26:50 +0100 Stephen Pelc step...@mpeforth.com wrote: I've never seen a Linux desktop to compare with OSX in any of its forms. Then you haven't seen baghira. http://baghira.sourceforge.net/screenies.php Vic. If you lock down Linux to a limited amount of

Re: [Hampshire] Software bugs impending liability

2009-08-07 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Davies wrote: I'm wondering how other LUG Members would tackle the release of software with known bugs and would it stop you from developing software in the future if you had the spectre of being sued for bugss in your software. Remember that the Microsoft EULA makes them NOT Liable

Re: [Hampshire] An excellent description of Windows Mobile

2009-07-31 Thread John Cooper
Samuel Penn wrote: On Friday 31 July 2009 07:22:38 Stephen Davies wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30/microsoft_mobile_bach/comments/ Warning, reading this may require you to clean your keyboard screen. couple with the release of the HTC Hero in the UK (hint, runs Android)

Re: [Hampshire] Red Hat Welcomes Microsoft's Kernel Contribution

2009-07-21 Thread John Cooper
pavithran wrote: 2009/7/21 Andy Random andy.ran...@gmail.com: As thelargest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel, Red Hat would like to acknowledge this and encourage Microsoft to continue on this path. That's quite an optimistic move by redhat , after all this shows a fall in the

Re: [Hampshire] What do you think?

2009-07-19 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Davies wrote: Conclusions. While the ambitions of those who want to relegate the command line to history are very laudable, there are many cases where it is the only place to get the job done and done with certainty. In addition to that, until Linux does not use any shell

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] MTBF

2009-07-18 Thread John Cooper
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, Take an example of a SSD Manufacturer quotes: OCZ-120GB-Solid-State-Drive: MTBF 1.5 million hours. To me that means and MTBF of 171 years abouts. So, why do OCZ only guarantee it for 2 years? It should have a lifetime guarantee, but nothing to do with

Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome OS..?

2009-07-08 Thread John Cooper
Victor Churchill wrote: 2009/7/8 Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net: Hi, It's splattered all over the Internet but Google are planning a Linux based distro called Chrome OS that will run on ARM/x86 netbooks and use it's own window manager to drive the Chrome Browsers which will be

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hello, OO is free to download and use. It's also shit. I'm not interested in 'demand a full refund' conversations - OOo, particularly the spreadsheet, has cost my company *much* more than £200.00 in lost time with its crashes and unbelievably slow performance.

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hello, The majority of people will find OO good enough to use That's just an assertion. No,it isn't. Yes it is. An assertion is: Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof. Show me the support or attempt at proof in

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-13 Thread John Cooper
Phillip Chandler wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:07 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:59:51PM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Damian Brasherl...@interlinux.co.uk wrote: Some of you may know this, anti-aliasing has been available since

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-13 Thread John Cooper
Phillip Chandler wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:38 +0100, John Cooper wrote: Don't forget you need a valid MS office license to run under Crossover and that doesn't mean just because you have the windows version you can install another in Linux. Are you happy paying £200+ for that? Yep got

[Hampshire] WiFi IP cam for cctv

2009-05-29 Thread John Cooper
Can anyone recommend a wireless IP camera that doesn't use activex and works with Linux? I've got an Edimax ICS-1500 which I can uses as a 1 frame per second jpg capture which works with Zoneminder, but I want full motion. Thanks, John. --

[Hampshire] [OT] Godwin's law

2009-05-29 Thread John Cooper
In light of recent events a colleague informed me about Goodwin's law. I thought how apt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Topfield with Linux

2009-05-24 Thread John Cooper
Damian Brasher wrote: We finally decided to take the plunge and between us bought a PVR and went for a Topfield, I am upgrading the EPG using the TAP, Topfield application system, using a window box as a quick fix for now. The EPG is hard to read and there are some much better and less

Re: [Hampshire] [OT]Topfield with Linux

2009-05-24 Thread John Cooper
Martin A. Brooks wrote: On 24/05/2009 21:08, John Cooper wrote: nearly as bad as their freeview PVR). I have a Humax 9200 BTX PVR, it's a very nice piece of kit. The only thing it's missing is network connectivity which means manually shuttling stuff off via USB if I want a copy. I

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