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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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.
--
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!!!
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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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
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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