Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2019-11-06 Thread Peter Salisbury via Hampshire
We use an HP X576dw in the church office with a continuous ink system. Not a cheap printer to buy (though bizarrely we had a buy one get one free offer!) but virtually free to run on a CISS and, having a stationery pagewide head, it prints as fast as it can feed the paper through. Works over the LA

Re: [Hampshire] re new linux

2018-04-19 Thread Peter Salisbury via Hampshire
Any news about the licensing? On 19 April 2018 at 00:55, john via Hampshire wrote: > hi > > For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of > Linux. > > http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4?r=US&IR=T > > thought this may create inte

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Cheer

2017-12-19 Thread Peter Salisbury via Hampshire
s Best wishes, Peter On 17 December 2017 at 11:27, Gareth wrote: > It makes me happy that the vicar of Lymington is an open source fan :-) > makes me glad I am on this list! > > Happy Christmas everyone :-) > > Gareth > > > On 16 Dec 2017 8:06 p.m., "Peter Salis

Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Cheer

2017-12-16 Thread Peter Salisbury via Hampshire
wishes, peterthevicar Peter Salisbury, Vicar of Lymington On 12 December 2017 at 20:17, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: > I found myself in Lymington the other evening with a couple of hours to pass > whilst waiting for my wife. > > As luck would have it, they were switching on the Chri

[Hampshire] Making MEGA back up your files instead of syncing them

2015-01-23 Thread Peter Salisbury
I've migrated from Wuala to MEGA and missed Wuala's ability to have a one-way sync of my files (which they called a "Backup"). This means that if you accidentally damage things when looking at files on line the changes aren't unleashed on your home PC. MEGA only offers a full two-way sync. One way

Re: [Hampshire] Might ring a bell

2015-01-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
How did they find out about me? On 12 January 2015 at 10:21, Roger Munford wrote: > http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2015/01/10/courage-award-for- > man-who-threw-out-old-computer-cables/ > > Happy New Year > > Roger > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailma

Re: [Hampshire] Wuala stopping its free service

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Salisbury
be time to move on again. Plan B is simply to pay Wuala for what I currently get free, but I do HATE it when a company promises you something and then reneges on it. ATB, Peter On 28 October 2014 18:13, David Wills wrote: > Is hosting your own owncloud an option? > > On 27 Oct 2014

[Hampshire] Wuala stopping its free service

2014-10-27 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi there, Cloud storage recommendations. I just had the distressing notification that Wuala is stopping its free cloud storage service at the end of the year. Is it best to switch to a paid service with Wuala or is there another service you'd recommend? It needs to work with Linux and Android. I

[Hampshire] Adding page numbers to PDF files

2014-04-10 Thread Peter Salisbury
I stitched together a whole lot of PDF files and wanted the resulting conglomeration to have a new page numbering system. I assumed it would be easy to do but sadly it doesn't seem to be. In the end I created a simple shell script to do the job using a few tricks I learnt for the purpose. Here it i

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel suspend problem with i915 module

2014-01-26 Thread Peter Salisbury
filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1272945 Now back to kernel 3.9.9 so I can use suspend! Best wishes, Peter On 22 January 2014 10:20, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 20 January 2014 15:48, Peter Salisbury > wrote: >> 3.2 (12.04 precise) YES >&

[Hampshire] Kernel suspend problem with i915 module

2014-01-20 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi, I have a Toshiba Portege r200 which has stopped being able to resume from suspend in xubuntu. I went through the kernels at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ to find when it stopped working and got these results: 3.2 (12.04 precise) YES 3.6.3 (12.10 quantal) YES 3.9.0 (13.04 rari

Re: [Hampshire] [OT]New phone idea

2013-09-14 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 14 September 2013 08:30, Tim wrote: > > As some of you like your non-mainstream phones thought you might be > interested in this > > http://phoneblocks.com/ > > Tim > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LU

Re: [Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck

2013-05-14 Thread Peter Salisbury
Thanks for the warning: what are the symptoms of failure do you know? ATB, Peter On 14 May 2013 16:57, Martin N wrote: > Hello, > > > At 22:14 13/05/2013, you wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Just to resurrect this thread and let you know what happened. >> >> I tried rsyncing the contents of my s

Re: [Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck

2013-05-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
reliability is a problem, but I figure that keeping my precious data on the original spinning medium lessens the impact of SSD failure (plus everything is kept backed up to another disk and to Wuala anyway). CONCLUSION: £40 well spent!! HTH, Peter On 14 March 2013 22:39, Peter Salisbury wrote

Re: [Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck

2013-03-14 Thread Peter Salisbury
Well I've been looking at iotop when things are lagging and there isn't really anything surprising going on. I do have a couple of things causing a fairly constant low level of disk activity (around 1% iowait) which are java (for Wuala cloud storage) and jbd2 (the ext4 filing system house keeping d

Re: [Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck

2013-03-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
gt; > Alan Pope wrote: > >>On 07/03/13 22:44, Peter Salisbury wrote: >>> PS I have a USB adapter on order from China for a 32Gig UDMA CF card >>I >>> have. Thought I might try it as an SSD! >>> >> > > I wouldn't be surprised if this com

[Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi, ** DETAILS I use an Acer Aspire Revo R3700 for my main PC (dual core 1.8Gig, 2Gig memory, WD3200BEVT 320Gig SATA HDD) I'm running xubuntu 12.10 at the moment. It's very slow to do some things (e.g. shut down chrome or the Gimp) and the xfce disk monitor shows the disk as 100% 'busy' but har

Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

2013-02-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
A fun at-home project to amaze yourself and friends is to download XAMPP[1] and use it to run a Drupal[2] CMS web-site on an ageing laptop. Amazing! Good preparation for the sort of thing you mention. ATB, Peter [1] http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html [2] http://drupal.org/ On 13 February

Re: [Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC

2013-01-08 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 8 January 2013 20:10, Alan Pope wrote: > On 07/01/13 13:59, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> >> Regarding Blu-Ray, I just find it frustrating. >> MakeMKV can be used, but it uses illegal blu ray keys, so you might as >> well just use illegal blu ray keys anyway. Google the VideoLan project >> to

Re: [Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC

2013-01-07 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 7 January 2013 08:41, Michael Pavling wrote: > On 7 January 2013 01:34, p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk > wrote: >> >> one might consider buying a copy of MakeMKV for Linux. It costs about £50. >> That would allow the lucky owner to rip the content of the BluRay to their >> hard drive as an unencryp

[Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC

2013-01-06 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi there, I'm looking for help selecting hardware for an HTPC and I know there are a few experts on this list. I bought a Freeview HD PVR with Blu-ray disk for Christmas but it's going back! I'm so used to the superb community produced interface of our existing Topfield PVR that I simply can't put

Re: [Hampshire] Dropbox alternative

2012-12-19 Thread Peter Salisbury
wuala works well for me On 19 December 2012 21:35, Richard Mace wrote: > Try SpiderOak.com > > 100% secure and works great! > > Richard > > > On 19 December 2012 21:28, Dr A. J. Trickett > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> A friend is looking for something like Dropbox but it can't be Dropbox as >> i

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity - Dash - context lists

2012-10-01 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 28 September 2012 10:42, Gordon Scott wrote: > > Putting my present frustration with Unity into context, I'm a person who > on first setting up any OS immediately turns off all the distractions > from and obstructions to efficiency, like slide-out menus (I don't want > to wait for those .. I wa

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-10 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 9 December 2011 17:55, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > On 4 December 2011 21:40, John Cooper wrote: >> 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 ke

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-03 Thread Peter Salisbury
I use an HTC Hero with a 528 MHz processor. Near unusable in its original software it was given a new lease of life by rooting it and installing a custom ROM. I actually use an older version of Android (2.2) by choice as it's memory demands are lower. Android is a sort of Java VM with the same hung

Re: [Hampshire] Easy to use CMS ? (was:Computer-Related Charitable Work)

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Salisbury
Just beware that Drupal needs quite recent versions of things, and one or two unusual access permissions, so we've certainly had issues in the past. Nothing that can't be sorted with a good host, but impossible with some of the budget lot with automated support. ATB, Peter On 24 June 2011 09:43, V

Re: [Hampshire] Easy to use CMS ? (was:Computer-Related Charitable Work)

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Salisbury
hosters will support Drupal now, but I should really start > looking into it. > > Regards > > Peter > > On 24 June 2011 09:10, Peter Salisbury > wrote: >> >> We use Drupal for our church web site www.lymingtonchurch.org see the >> Technical link for deta

Re: [Hampshire] Easy to use CMS ? (was:Computer-Related Charitable Work)

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Salisbury
We use Drupal for our church web site www.lymingtonchurch.org see the Technical link for details. It's easy to set up as long as your host supports the versions of php and MySQL that it needs and you can make it as complex or simple as you like. Our non-computer administrator finds it very easy to

Re: [Hampshire] Wireless Repeaters

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Salisbury
We use a wireless repeater (Edimax) here. It has a different ESSID but all the other parameters must be the same as the original transmitter (took me ages to work that one out!). The ESSID can be the same too but I like to be able to choose which box I connect to. The one problem we have is that yo

Re: [Hampshire] Any grep gurus here?

2011-03-06 Thread Peter Salisbury
Put the parenthesis in square brackets to indicate it's a single character? HTH Peter On 6 Mar 2011 17:42, "Vic" wrote: > > Hi All. > > I need some help with regexes in grep. > > I'm trying to search for a pattern along the lines of: > > foo(bar > > Note that there is no closing bracket. > > Like

Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice & MS fonts...

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi Vic, I really wonder if this is a compatibility issue with the printer rather than the font. If the metrics for the font are slightly off in the printer and Word is using the printer metrics but OOo is using the font file's metrics that could account for the problem. To see if that's it you can

Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware Problem

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 4 March 2010 16:40, Jim Kissel wrote: > Jacqui Caren-home wrote: >> I was in a discussion with someone on a spam list about the definition of >> "old school" and I suggested that anyone who remembers a time before SMTP >> was de-facto should not be called old school but "old gits" and yes that

Re: [Hampshire] Basic CAD software?

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 17 February 2010 14:35, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:19:05PM +0000, Peter Salisbury wrote: >> On 17 February 2010 13:26, Victor Churchill >> wrote: >> > That's very neat Hugo. When Steve posted I thought about suggesting >> > 'gim

Re: [Hampshire] Basic CAD software?

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 17 February 2010 13:26, Victor Churchill wrote: > On 17 February 2010 12:04, Hugo Mills wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:49:49AM +, Steve wrote: >>> Hi List, >>> >>> Could anyone point me in the direct of some software that would allow me >>> to import a digital photo (JPEG), draw some

Re: [Hampshire] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 15 February 2010 15:09, Philip Stubbs wrote: > At work we have a Microsoft Windows setup. I have to have Windows as > my main operating system. However, I do have VirtualBox running with > Ubuntu so that I can do some useful stuff. > > My problem is accessing the files on the network. I have th

Re: [Hampshire] Best (!) GUI toolkit

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 2 February 2010 19:47, Alan Pope wrote: > 2010/2/2 Peter Salisbury : >> I don't need anything very complex, but I've really moved beyond >> zenity. What would the next (small) step up be? >> > > quickly :) > > http://launchpad.net/quickly > https

[Hampshire] Best (!) GUI toolkit

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi folks, I'd like to put a GUI wrapper round a few bits of command line magic to make them easier to use. I don't need anything very complex, but I've really moved beyond zenity. What would the next (small) step up be? TIA, Peter -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Python multiplicaton

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Salisbury
These things are usually rounding errors from the underlying binary representation. OTOH I have version 2.5.4 and I get the answer 22.8! HTH, Peter 2010/1/14 Owain Clarke : > Could anyone explain to me why 3*7.6 gives me 22.797? I have > Python 2.5.2 > > Cheers > > Owain Clarke > > > -

[Hampshire] Fwd: udev device browser script

2010-01-10 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi, I developed this little script for looking through the udev device database and thought it might be of interest to others. There's probably a much easier way of doing it, but it was fun anyway! Excuse the HTML post, I thought it might prevent line wrapping. ATB, Peter #!/bin/bash # Allows b

Re: [Hampshire] cron riddle

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/11/13 Chris Dennis : > Peter Salisbury wrote: >> >> Use anacron? From the man page: >> >> Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a frequency >> specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume that the machine >> is running

Re: [Hampshire] cron riddle

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/11/13 Chris Dennis : > I'd like to run rsnapshot daily, weekly, and four-weekly (as opposed to > monthly, which would happen after either four or five weekly runs). > > Is there a way to get cron to run a job four-weekly?  Google hasn't been > any help. > > Someone suggested > > 30 3 * * Fri/4

[Hampshire] [OT] Law of unintended consequences

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Salisbury
Sometimes it's better NOT to plaster your brand advertising over everything! Here's a recent email I received: - Hi, If you got an email from me yesterday where the subject was my name with a little smiley face next to it don't trust it. Don't open it ju

Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/10/31 Chris Aitken : >> Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old >> Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen >> space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good >> too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pr

[Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10

2009-10-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. ATB, Peter

Re: [Hampshire] This weeks microMart

2009-10-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/10/30 Sean Gibbins : > Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Apart from the fact that being something to do with IT our government >> would screw it up, I think that this would be a very good idea. > > Okay, let's just do it and no one mention a word to the government! > > Now then, which distro should we

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/10/20 Leo : > Peter Salisbury wrote: >> There are a few different ways that shutdown happens depending on what >> you have installed. The normal with a modern install is via scripts in >> /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux which all have self-explanatory names and >> simpl

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Salisbury
There are a few different ways that shutdown happens depending on what you have installed. The normal with a modern install is via scripts in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux which all have self-explanatory names and simple contents. All the default shutdown script does is call "shutdown -h now". HTH, P

Re: [Hampshire] LCD Monitor repair

2009-09-28 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/9/28 Matthew Daubney : > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:46 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: >> A while ago, i bought a cheap LCD monitor. Except for the one dead >> pixel, the picture is fine for my needs. The only problem is it makes >> a noise. A really irritating high pitched whine. If I grip the case

Re: [Hampshire] Graphics Tablets

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/5/14 Richard Danter : > Hi folks, > > Looking for a recommendation for a graphics tablet for use with Linux > (Ubuntu 8.04 & 9.04). > > This is for work and my colleagues are using Wacom Bamboo tablets(*) > but of course they all use Windoze. I could chose another make/model > if it cost about

Re: [Hampshire] [Fwd: [Peterboro] Free .PDF of Linux Format magazine] (fwd)

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/3/5 Jacqui Caren : > Victor Churchill wrote: >> Oh. I had thought "GCE" was now out of use. I did recently do a GCSE > >  From BBC news site. >  - some private schools are dropping GCSE and using iGCSE. > The GCSE is mostly (class,home)work based - the iGCSE being mostly exam based. > > The th

Re: [Hampshire] Where to buy electronics/computer stuff online?

2009-02-28 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/2/27 Stuart Matheson : > Hi All, > > Sorry if this has already been discussed to death previously, if so please > point me in the direction of that thread! > > I'm looking to buy some things for my linux laptop - tv tuner card, > microSDHC card with SD adapter, extra RAM and possibly even a US

Re: [Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/2/25 Simon Capstick : > Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with > this one? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm > > Simon Looks good to me; it's one more tool for those of us trying to get FOSS into schools etc. I loved the bizarre government dou

Re: [Hampshire] Wireless network problem

2009-02-07 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/2/6 Tim : > > I have a strange wireless problem which I hope somebody can help me with. I am > running Mepis 8 RC2 (which is based on Debian Lenny). I am using an Acer > laptop which has the Intel 2200BG wireless interface which is seen as eth0 > and a Broadcom Nextreme ethernet interface whic

Re: [Hampshire] Streaming video

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/1/26 Brian Chivers : > Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ? What I'd like to be > able to do is stream TV > shows that I've recorded in avi / xvid format to Windows workstations > connected to projectors so > staff can view fullscreen what they've requested to be recorded.

Re: [Hampshire] language en_US.UTF-8 does not exist

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/1/21 B STEVENS : > unfortunately not, peter. > > the dialogue box contains the message "language en_US.UTF-8 does not exist; > using system default" a "stop" sign and an "ok" button. > > i'll keep scouring the webs for a solution. > > thanks for your response :-) > > regards > > bryan While

Re: [Hampshire] language en_US.UTF-8 does not exist

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/1/20 B STEVENS : > hi all > > the subject is the message i get when i log into debian. > > i've typed "locale" and get the following output: > > $ locale > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UT

Re: [Hampshire] Problems building new PC

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/1/17 Paul Stimpson : > Another thought going on from Gully's... > > Is there a 4-pin power cable for the mobo in addition to the big one? Have > you connected it? > > Is the PSU man enough for the job? > > Cheers, > Paul. > Sent from my BlackBerry(R) wireless device > -- Thanks for the sugge

[Hampshire] Problems building new PC

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Salisbury
Help! I'm putting together a PC for a friend and it won't work. It was a bare bones case+mb to which I added RAM, CPU, HDD - sim,ple, I told him, I've done this hundreds of times. Spoke too soon... At first it would power up, say the RAM was OK, beep and display the 'Press Del to enter setup' mes

Re: [Hampshire] Moving Thunderbird

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/1/15 Paul Stimpson : > Hi, > > I just installed Kubuntu Intrepid on my spare hard drive. I'm trying to move > all my Thunderbird mailboxes and settings over from FC10. I copied the > .thunderbird directory over by dragging it onto my Truecrypt-encrypted > external drive then booted the Kubu

Re: [Hampshire] APIC, interrupts and wired NIC

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/12/30 Nick Chalk : > Peter Salisbury wrote: >> I'm installing a Debian distro on a Fujitsu >> LifeBook which has a built in 10/100 NIC using >> the e100 module. All seems well except that I >> can't get more than about 50k throughput. When I >> inv

[Hampshire] APIC, interrupts and wired NIC

2008-12-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi, I'm installing a Debian distro on a Fujitsu LifeBook which has a built in 10/100 NIC using the e100 module. All seems well except that I can't get more than about 50k throughput. When I investigated, the 'overruns' count in ifconfig was steadily mounting which indicates the machine wasn't resp

[Hampshire] APIC, interrupts and wired NIC

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Salisbury
I'm installing a Debian distro on a Fujitsu LifeBook which has a built in 10/100 NIC using the e100 module. All seems well except that I can't get more than about 50k throughput. When I investigated, the 'overruns' count in ifconfig was steadily mounting which indicates the machine wasn't respondin

Re: [Hampshire] Cardbus USB 2 cards

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/12/5 Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Does anyone know if a cardbus USB 2.0 card is likely >> to work OK? > > There's always a risk if you don't know the chipset - but I've never had a > problem. > > One problem you probably will face is the amount of current you can source > from the new ports -

[Hampshire] Cardbus USB 2 cards

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
My ancient ThinkPad is perfectly OK for most things (I use xfce from Debian unstable) but only has USB 1.1, so getting data in and out is a tedious process. Does anyone know if a cardbus USB 2.0 card is likely to work OK? There are plenty on eBay for about £7 which seems a reasonable price for a fa

Re: [Hampshire] Vista versus Ubuntu

2008-11-28 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/11/28 Samuel Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 22:57:22 Peter Salisbury wrote: >> The other truly awe inspiring thing is how incredibly slowly Vista >> runs on a quite powerful laptop with 1GB RAM. > > That doesn't look like a 'qu

[Hampshire] Vista versus Ubuntu

2008-11-27 Thread Peter Salisbury
I've had an interesting time this afternoon. I took delivery of a laptop (HP Compaq 6720s [1]) for a colleague and wanted to make sure it worked before passing it on. It had Windows Vista Home Basic installed. When I switched it on it had to finish the install of Vista, e.g. setting the locale etc

Re: [Hampshire] Hidden folder

2008-11-27 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/11/27 Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 21:35:52 Peter Salisbury wrote: >> 2008/11/27 Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I have a hidden folder in my home folder called .thumbnail, within this >> > folder there are two other folde

Re: [Hampshire] Hidden folder

2008-11-27 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/11/27 Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a hidden folder in my home folder called .thumbnail, within this folder > there are two other folders called large and normal. As the name suggests it > holds thumbnail pictures of pictures I guess I have opened on my system. Now > this folder currentl

Re: [Hampshire] Decisions, decisions... KDE3, KDE4 or Gnome?

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/11/11 Richard Danter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > First, please let just me say that I do not want to start yet another > Holy Desktop War. > > As you all probably know, Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 is out. Until now I have > mainly been running Kubuntu because I like the KDE3 desktop and have >

[Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera

2008-11-04 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/11/4 Brian Chivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been asked to setup a camera over looking our College's playing field to > capture an image every > 30 minutes so we can see how much it is being used. > > I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to use > and a video

Re: [Hampshire] Wireless bridging

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/22 Roger Munford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to link a single PC in an outbuilding to an office 80 meters > away. Uninterrupted sight. I have tried it with a pair of Develo > homeplugs but they couldn't connect. I am quite sure that they were on > the same electrical circuit but the

Re: [Hampshire] OT: Part-P rant

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/21 Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 13:49:10 +0100, Wayne Lee wrote: > >> > At one point I was using a steam engine to open my curtains, but >> > more for novelty than for practicality. >> >> Some people have far too much spare time. > > I was challenged to demonst

Re: [Hampshire] Timer Program

2008-10-17 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/17 Stephen Nelson-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know if any of you are aware of the minuteur program for OSX. > It's a simple countdown timer with a pleasant interface, which starts > from a defined amount of time and counts down. When it gets to the > end it either rings a bell, or

[Hampshire] Why I love Open Source

2008-10-17 Thread Peter Salisbury
Hi, I thought I'd share this real life example of why Open Source is so fantastic. This sort of thing means far more to me than merely being free. Here's what happened: I lost a file. I knew it was there in my PC somewhere, but I had no idea what it was called, only a couple of key words it's text

Re: [Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Salisbury
>> >> I particularly like /usr/share/images/grub/Lake_mapourika_NZ.tga > > I want to see the messages scrolling past on the rare occasions I > reboot, gives me a feeling of confidence that things are going right. > Boot splashimages are tooo windows-like for me. > Oh it's OK, it's just on the scre

Re: [Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/15 john lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:17:02 +0100 > "Peter Salisbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> It is in Debian. The Debian system has a transition state which is to >> chain-load grub2 from grub1 by adding an entr

[Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Quoting Peter Salisbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 2008/10/13 trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 8< > > Debian rather than Suse, but I had trouble with an upgrade involving > > grub where I had the old grub inst

Re: [Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating

2008-10-13 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/13 trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have built a new PC and I am trying to get suse 10.3 installed. > > The install process goes fine but on reboot I find grub has not been > changed to "suse grub" ie the green splash and its boot options. > > I still see the syllable os installe

Re: [Hampshire] Music software Recommendations

2008-10-08 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/8 Rob Malpass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all > > Just mucking about really I thought I might turn my hand to some music - > haven't done so since way back on the Amiga more years ago than I care to > remember. The tool of choice then was something called protracker - > anybody know what I

Re: [Hampshire] Conflicting packages

2008-10-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/4 B STEVENS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All > > I want to install Wine but I get an error. > > In Synaptic: > > wine: > Depends: libldap2 (>=2.1.17-1) but it is not installable. > > I'm assuming (dangerous!) that the conflict is with libldap-2.4-2 but when I > try to remove it, another 187 p

Re: [Hampshire] Cannot boot from ide HDD when slave attached

2008-10-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have a gigabyte ga-ep35c-ds3r motherboard with version F2 award bios and I > want to have 2 ide hard drives connected at the same time to the single and > only > ide connector. > > The problem is that the seagate master will boot only on its own. > Wh

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Election results

2008-10-05 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/4 Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 04 October 2008 21:33:44 Hugo Mills wrote: >>After holding the elections at today's AGM, I can tell you all that >> your HantsLUG committee for next year are: >> >> Adam Trickett as Chairman >> Ian Brazier as Treasurer >> Alan Pope as Hostmaster

Re: [Hampshire] Thunderbird Crashes on Ubuntu Hardy and won't restart

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/10/1 Jack Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems to have started happening after the latest package updates. The > machine has been in use since constantly, and thunderbird was kept > running. However, I came back to the machine this morning and found > T_Bird gone. Tried restarting, get the g

[Hampshire] extracting .exe file for NDISwrapper

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/9/30 john lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:57:52 +0100 > john lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > I have solved the problem for now though - I went out yesterday and > bought an EeePC 900 :-) That connects to my local WAP when I have it > running and tries to conne

Re: [Hampshire] Openmoko (was USB Bluetooth adapter)

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/9/30 Jon Levell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Victor Churchill wrote: > > [Openmoko FreeRunner] >>> That looks fantastic. I'd love to have a play - are they around in the UK? > > I have one (I've been meaning to appear at my first HantsLUG meeting > for sometime - I've been lurking on this list for a

Re: [Hampshire] Openmoko (was USB Bluetooth adapter)

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/9/30 Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:07:53AM +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote: >> Tell me about it! That's why I still use a second hand Treo 650 - the >> Palm OS has its faults, but as an open standard with proper >> development tools

Re: [Hampshire] USB Bluetooth adapter

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/9/30 Paul Tansom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can anyone recommend a Linux compatible USB Bluetooth 2 adapter? I'm > looking to connect up my Bluetooth headset to use with my VOIP and Skype > accounts, but haven't had a huge amount of success narrowing down the > field. There is information via Goog

Re: [Hampshire] extracting .exe file for NDISwrapper

2008-09-27 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/9/26 john lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:42:09 +0100 > "Peter Salisbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My notes on using the rt2500 card, dating back to the old days >> before an official package, are at: > > I bought an

Re: [Hampshire] AGM Apologies

2008-09-25 Thread Peter Salisbury
2008/9/24 Tony Whitmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:01:32 +0100, "Ciemon Dunville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Adrian, and the rest of the committee, >> >> I find myself unable to attend the AGM this year due to work >> commitments. Please accept my apologies. > > Likewise f