[Hampshire] Vodafone USB dongle and wvdial

2012-12-17 Thread NeilS
Hello everyone, Does anyone the list have any experience with the Vodafone pay-monthly dongle and the wvdial package? Before I sign up for one, was it straightforward to get working or are there any show stoppers? For what its worth, I want to use it for a remote monitoring station which will be

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

2012-11-09 Thread NeilS
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012, at 08:52 PM, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: The Hauppauge PCTV Systems DVB-T2 290e nanoStick HD is apparently supported in Linux on 3.0 Kernel and above. It's also not so expensive on Amazon and other online retailers. Questions: 1) Do these kind of devices actually work?

Re: [Hampshire] Relative performance on curent AMD and Intel chips

2012-06-05 Thread NeilS
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012, at 04:41 PM, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Either later this year or next year I may replace my 7 year old desktop systems. They are currently running first generation single-core AMD64 processors with 2 GiB of RAM. Times clearly have moved on and I am well aware that

Re: [Hampshire] Another iptables question

2012-02-02 Thread NeilS
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 01:03 AM, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: the reverse of a DNAT (which is Destination NAT), is SNAT (Source NAT), e.g. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport $TCP_PORT -j SNAT --to-source your.host.ip.address Excellent! Thanks very much for the reply, that seems to

Re: [Hampshire] All in one wifi printer/scanners

2012-02-01 Thread NeilS
Can anyone confirm if they are using something similar? Or does anyone have any other recommendations? Printing volume is pretty low and mainly just text so I wouldn't be averse to spending a bit more on a laser as that avoids the problem of ink cartridges drying out... I have a HP

[Hampshire] Another iptables question

2012-02-01 Thread NeilS
Hello Everyone, This is probably quite a simple question compared to the last similar thread. I'm a bit out of my comfort zone, so I wonder if someone can assist. I am trying to get a server to route a TCP connection to a specific destination port between networks. One is a physical network,

Re: [Hampshire] NAS reommendations

2011-06-27 Thread NeilS
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:18 +0100, Peter Andrijeczko peter.andrijec...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Yep, there was a cost element to it but it was mainly about trying to reduce heat output in my study which toasts during the warmer months! :-) Peter You shouldn't forget to factor the running

Re: [Hampshire] NAS reommendations

2011-06-27 Thread NeilS
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:22 +0100, Keith Edmunds k...@midnighthax.com wrote: Typo, I think: there are 8760 (ish) hours in a year, so each kilowatt (not watt) required equates to 8760kWh per year. Oops! Well spotted. Forgot the decimal point. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

2011-06-23 Thread NeilS
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:12 +0100, Benjie Gillam ben...@jemjie.com wrote: is an unprivileged port (1024) so if you shut down sshd you should be able to run nc -v -l -p on the server. Then from another computer/device run I'm no expert, but shouldn't that be `nc -vl ` to set up