Re: [Hampshire] What is granola?

2010-06-06 Thread Mat Grove
Yes, I played with it too, and although I can't really comment on the effectiveness of the software, the team behind it seemed pretty good - well, Mat did anyway! :) How does it compare to the acpi-cpufreq driver with ondemand and cpuidle (which I believe are the LessWatts.org

Re: [Hampshire] Free stuff

2010-06-05 Thread Mat Grove
On 06/05/10 14:33, Victor Churchill wrote: Sorry not to get to see you today Mat all, I have a house viewer this afternoon and am tidying up myself so bunking off from that and then coming back home with yet more oddssods would not be well received ;-) Thank you to all the people who took

[Hampshire] Free stuff

2010-06-04 Thread Mat Grove
No calling dibs, first to get to it takes it. All free to a good home. I will accept Egyptian Pounds and US Dollars if you have any. Bringing the lot with me tomorrow to the LUG meeting. In no particular order: 2 Shelf speakers HiFi separate CD player HiFi seperate AMP Mini ITX mobo with CPU

[Hampshire] Computer stuff free to a good home

2010-06-03 Thread Mat Grove
Hi, I have been living in America for a while now and am purging everything left in England including all of my computers and geek stuff. I am going to bring the whole lot to the LUG meeting on Saturday, it's all free to a good home. The more you take the better. Also will be nice to see you

Re: [Hampshire] Bad Karma

2009-10-28 Thread Mat Grove
Stephen Davies wrote: Sean, Whats with this my bad. We are NOT AMERICANS... I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way down on the list of annoyingizations of the language :) Mat -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] PXE booting problem

2009-06-26 Thread Mat Grove
Mat Grove wrote: We are having trouble with PXE booting our servers that are running Debian Squeeze/Sid. The servers have AMD Opteron 1218 on a supermicro H8SMU motherboard using the nVidia MCP55 Pro chipset. Debian Squeeze/Sid is fully up to date on these machines. http

[Hampshire] PXE booting problem

2009-06-25 Thread Mat Grove
Hi guys, We are having trouble with PXE booting our servers that are running Debian Squeeze/Sid. The servers have AMD Opteron 1218 on a supermicro H8SMU motherboard using the nVidia MCP55 Pro chipset. Debian Squeeze/Sid is fully up to date on these machines. The problem we are running into

Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 28, Issue 21

2009-02-19 Thread Mat Grove
john lewis wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:39:24 + Stephen Davies stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk wrote: Unfortunately it is not my choice...It is the customers who (bangs head against a brickwall) thinks that LINUX == Ubuntu and only Ubuntu by h**l - what is the world

[Hampshire] Distros of old

2009-02-07 Thread Mat Grove
Old reviews of the distros from 9 years ago: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/archives-best-distros-2000 Of the memories it brought back, RPM dependency hell was the only one that didn't make me smile. Mat -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction

2009-01-08 Thread Mat Grove
Victor Churchill wrote: So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid (infra paranoid?) - I keep my disk platters as coasters. They soon collect enough scratches from tea/coffee mugs that re reading them would be non trivial. This is also my approach. The magnets are fun to play with

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction

2009-01-08 Thread Mat Grove
Victor Churchill wrote: So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid (infra paranoid?) - I keep my disk platters as coasters. They soon collect enough scratches from tea/coffee mugs that re reading them would be non trivial. This is also my approach. The magnets are fun to play with

Re: [Hampshire] Suggestions for replacement motherboard

2008-10-10 Thread Mat Grove
Paul Stimpson wrote: Motherboard integrated graphics generally give distinctly second rate performance. Do you have any PCI cards you need to bring across? If not I would give serious thought to a PCIexpress mobo. You'll be able to get a PCIexpress graphics card then which will outperform