Re: [Hampshire] Linux compatible cameras

2013-06-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 16/06/13 11:37, Keith Edmunds wrote: Bit too high-end for Mummy (and it bit bloody expensive for son!) Bit too expensive for me too - I was fortunate enough to receive it as a gift! ;-) I bought a Canon Ixus 127 HS for Caroline and it is superb - she is a bit of a technophobe and gets on

Re: [Hampshire] Linux compatible cameras

2013-06-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 16/06/13 10:58, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: I'm not sure if I understand 'Linux compatible' in this context. Surely the compatibility is not a function of the camera? Agreed, but I think I know what Keith is driving at; I suspect that he wants his mum to plug in the camera and for an applica

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG membership

2013-06-12 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 12/06/13 16:02, john lewis wrote: I have reluctantly decided to cease memebrship of HantsLUG. It is unlikely I will be able to visit any meeting in the future and I don't contribute much to the mailing list either these days. I have enjoyed being a member and would like to say a big thank you

Re: [Hampshire] Windows 8 + Dual Booting

2013-04-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 14/04/13 19:55, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: For a free, non-commercial, home-use version, go http://neosmart.net/Download/Register/1 Thanks Les! Indeed, thanks all for your input. Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@

Re: [Hampshire] re Windows 8 + Dual Booting

2013-04-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 14/04/13 13:35, Stephen Davies wrote: Shame on you. No one in their right mind does that. :) Take the time to go to Novatech and see what they have to offer. Fair point Steve, although in my defence I was only doing that while Caroline was ogling fridges in Currys (which shares the same p

[Hampshire] Windows 8 + Dual Booting

2013-04-13 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Folks, My daughter's 21st is nearly upon us and she has told us that she would like a new laptop. We were idly browsing some in PC World today and it became apparent that they were all shipping with Windows 8. Ellen is a Linux Mint user and would like to continue to use it on her new l

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 22:38, john lewis wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:07:09 + Sean Gibbins wrote: I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand. There w

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 17:22, Victor Churchill wrote: I'd concur with all the comments above. Loved Cryptonomicon, and also the Baroque Cycle, in differnet ways. I actually thought REAMDE, whilst being a good romp, was a bit flat in comparison; devent yarn but did not have the depth and the quasi-fracta

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 13:10, Imran Chaudhry wrote: The author in question is a pretty tech-savvy and generally smart guy, hence the question, but I shouldn't have doubted my intuition on that one. At a guess, some newish Neal Stephenson novel? /me currently reading Cryptonomicon on and off. Correct on

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 09:55, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: On 15/03/13 08:54, Sean Gibbins wrote: Okay, a bit off the wall this, but does Tor require a reboot, or indeed many reboots, to install it under Linux? A virtual pat on the back to anyone who can identify why I might be asking this question, with

[Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
Okay, a bit off the wall this, but does Tor require a reboot, or indeed many reboots, to install it under Linux? A virtual pat on the back to anyone who can identify why I might be asking this question, with the clue that it doesn't relate to any real-world Tor installation! Sean -- music,

[Hampshire] Steam

2013-02-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Folks, Coming in on the periphery of the Linux vs. Microsoft desktop debate is the news that Steam is now available for Linux: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/ Now, my gaming days are long gone but I have just installed the client - and will probably uninstall it later i

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/02/13 23:15, LUG wrote: We are going to be driving to Scotland to visit the in-laws in summer and accompanying us will be our (by then) year old son. Year old - that's a typo, right Keith? Because I can't imagine any child of a year old being entertained by a gadget for long. We drove

Re: [Hampshire] Scamming call

2013-01-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 25/01/13 21:53, Roger Munford wrote: I think that a BT armed response service could be quite popular. I don't trust BT to provide me with broadband Roger, I'm not sure I want to even contemplate them handling national security! Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.f

Re: [Hampshire] Scamming call

2013-01-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 25/01/13 19:12, Keith Edmunds wrote: I suspect that they are offered a job [[...] and take it with no >questions asked That is their choice and their responsibility. It doesn't excuse them being dishonest. That's a very selective interpretation of my reply Keith. It is possible that they a

Re: [Hampshire] Scamming call

2013-01-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 25/01/13 17:21, Tony Wood wrote: Have I got this right, Victor: you feel sorry for those knowingly making dishonest cold calls to con the public? I'm not entirely sure that the drones are dishonest. I suspect that they are offered a job cold-calling and installing software with little know

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations - Windows AV

2013-01-20 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 20/01/13 11:48, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all I think the time is fast approaching where I will have to buy some form of internet security tool for my W7 box. At present I use free stuff (ZoneAlarm) but this is now not as good as once it was. For example once upon a time, if a process ask

Re: [Hampshire] Stuff for sale

2013-01-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 31/12/12 13:01, Ally Biggs wrote: I also have a google nexus 7 for sale, 16 gig version, restored to original settings complete with box, charger currently out of stock of google play Looking for £99 have original receipt item is still under warranty If at first you don't succeed... ;-) Is

Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

2012-12-13 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 14/12/12 07:30, Anton Piatek wrote: I find it more amusing that they think this will solve anything. I guess it depends upon what you are trying to solve Anton. For instance, if you are trying to solve a lack of tax money in corporate/private hands then I imagine the the projected £1.8b (w

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-13 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 13/12/12 10:22, Alan Pope wrote: I don't see the shopping lens going away in 13.04, I don't see it being made opt-in and I don't see us ripping it out of 12.10. I find it incredibly disappointing but unsurprising that someone like RMS takes to the airwaves to tell people to shun us. He's e

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity

2012-12-04 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 04/12/12 16:38, Mihai Badea wrote: I reverted to KDE. I have 4.8.5 from Ubuntu 12.10 LTS. Me, I've gone all Lubuntu 12.10 and am mightily relieved, having tried the Unity thing for several months and never really felt comfortable with it. I considered Xubuntu as I'd used it previously, b

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu 12.04 Server Issue [SOLVED]

2012-10-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Everyone, Just a quick line to tidy this up. First though, thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions. It was following up on these that led me to a workaround, if not a solution as such. Working on the basis that the GRUB install might have defaulted to the wrong drive I decided to

Re: [Hampshire] Audio collection to mp3

2012-10-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/10/12 14:30, Alex Dicks wrote: I'm too lazy to have bothered to write a script to do this. I have my ripped music saved as FLAC, and use SoundConverter to compress them into more portable formats as required. It's clever enough to spawn multiple threads and

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu 12.04 Server Issue

2012-10-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 17/10/12 16:01, Mihai Badea wrote: If you managed to boot that means grub can work, no matter what distro you use. So you should at least be able to boot to grub menu. I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server myself on an ASRock ION 330. Perhaps it was something you forgot (such as grub not installed i

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu 12.04 Server Issue

2012-10-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 17/10/12 13:29, Michael James Daffin wrote: I had a similar problem a while ago, my computer would not boot past the POST screen after installing Linux. I eventually narrowed down the problem to the computer would not boot with a gpt partition table on any of the drives. One thing you mi

[Hampshire] Ubuntu 12.04 Server Issue

2012-10-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Folks, I got it into my head to install Ubuntu 12.04 Server AMD64 on machine I ciobbled together from an ASRock A330GC mini-itx motherboard, 2GB Kingston RAM, a 500GB Samsung SATA hard drive and a Lian Li mini-itx case. Before I go on, it's possibly worth mentioning that all of this kit ra

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-WEB] Developing the HantsLUG website

2012-10-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 16/10/12 09:19, Philip Stubbs wrote: How does moving from Website Engine A to Website Engine B generate fresh >content? In my experience it results in a small bump in website activity >then as excitement about the new system fades, it falls back to the current >state, no activity besides when

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini [SOLVED]

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 19/09/12 12:23, Sean Gibbins wrote: Question: I am not particularly concerned about keeping OS X on this machine, so if I proceed to install Ubuntu does it know what to do with regard to setting up yaboot or whatever mechanism it is that will allow it to boot back into Ubuntu afterwards

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 19/09/12 11:50, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 18/09/12 22:40, Martin N wrote: Mac mini G4 have optical drives seem to lose their cd reading booting abilities before the DVD goes. If you can burn a cd ISO on to a dvd you may have more luck. I may indeed Martin! I've just booted into the D

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/09/12 22:40, Martin N wrote: Mac mini G4 have optical drives seem to lose their cd reading booting abilities before the DVD goes. If you can burn a cd ISO on to a dvd you may have more luck. I may indeed Martin! I've just booted into the Debian PPC disc using this advice, now to try U

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/09/12 22:40, Martin N wrote: Lo, At 18:48 18/09/2012, you wrote: Hi Folks, I am trying to install Ubuntu Linux (or any other flavour of Linux - I'm fairly agnostic in this regard) on a G4 Mac Mini. However, I am struggling to get past the first hurdle, which is to get anything other

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/09/12 21:36, Vic wrote: I have both that and the Debian port, but as I say lack the ability to >boot off of the CD/DVD drive, which fails to respond when I press c at >the boot noise (as most guides seems state it should)3 It's a couple of years since I put Linux on my G4, so I don't remem

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/09/12 21:20, c...@spamcop.net wrote: I've found Macs can be a bit finicky about keyboards. The pre-boot stuff probably won't work at all with a wireless keyboard, and it might be worth trying a couple of different keyboards. Chris Hi Chris, That occurred to me so I have tried my L

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/09/12 20:46, Jan Henkins wrote: As far as I can tell, there is a G4 PowerPC version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS available. Otherwise you could look at Debian. There's a 12.04 LTS PowerPC version available too Jan. I have both that and the Debian port, but as I say lack the ability to boot off

Re: [Hampshire] Fwd: Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/09/12 20:09, Victor Churchill wrote: I forwarded this query on to a mate who "does" Macs. With apologies to those who don't like top-posting and weird formatting, , this is his reply (mildly redacted).. This came up on the LUG list and I wondered if you might know anything about this, or

[Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

2012-09-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Folks, I am trying to install Ubuntu Linux (or any other flavour of Linux - I'm fairly agnostic in this regard) on a G4 Mac Mini. However, I am struggling to get past the first hurdle, which is to get anything other than Mac OS X booting when I start it up! I have tried pressing c with t

Re: [Hampshire] Xsane + Ubuntu 12.04

2012-09-04 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/09/12 20:24, Alan Pope wrote: I suspect you mean "Unity", Ubiquity is the installer. Correct. I've been away from Ubuntu for a wee while and am not familiar with the various components. Menus are revealed by pushing the mouse to the top of the screen, pressing and holding ALT, or pr

[Hampshire] Xsane + Ubuntu 12.04

2012-09-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Folks, Having decided once more to try and get my head around the new user interface I seem to have hit my first roadblock. Basically, having dismissed the preview window for Xsane I can find no way of reinstating it, as to do this I would normally use the menus which Ubiquity hides unles

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Universal Car Chargers

2012-08-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/08/12 11:00, john lewis wrote: But a bit chunky for backpacking/wilderness camping. My petrol fueled stove is a quarter the size, but it did mean having to carry a sigg fuel bottle as well. Finding somewhere to purchase small quantities of unleaded fuel gave us problems when backpacking in

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Universal Car Chargers

2012-08-07 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 07/08/12 21:51, Samuel Penn wrote: And then there's this: http://www.biolitestove.com/campstove/camp-overview/features/ That looks interesting! Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Universal Car Chargers

2012-08-07 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 07/08/12 21:19, c...@spamcop.net wrote: That should be fine. I prefer one of those, than having dedicated car chargers for every gadget. Actually, are you anywhere near Andover? If it's only for a couple of weeks' holiday, and you're nearby, you can borrow mine - although, as I said, it do

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Universal Car Chargers

2012-08-07 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 07/08/12 21:05, c...@spamcop.net wrote: Two things: do check the load your gadgets will put on it - I've seen laptop PSUs pushing over a 100 watts these days. Also, powering it with cigarette lighter plug, usually you can't get the full wattage. For the full wattage, you have to use the batt

Re: [Hampshire] Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 v. old Gnome/KDE on 10.04.x

2012-07-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/07/12 09:58, Andy Smith wrote: If Unity can't be made to work for you, I honestly think that there are so many other more productive things to do about it than just complain that it happened too fast and there is no choice. Or simply switch across to Xubuntu, which is precisely what I did

Re: [Hampshire] Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 v. old Gnome/KDE on 10.04.x

2012-07-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 02/07/12 17:42, Andy Smith wrote: If you look at Gnome 3, it's all different to Gnome 2 also. I would say that this is a dramatic change forced upon almost all Linux desktop users. Change isn't the problem Andy, on the contrary I welcome it, it's the pace of change and the accompanying lack

Re: [Hampshire] Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 v. old Gnome/KDE on 10.04.x

2012-07-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 02/07/12 13:19, john lewis wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:18:10 +0100 Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: I contend that the underlying strategic vision is flawed. It is we, all the end users, who ought to be acquiring/gaining ever greater empowerment, in transparency of our use of the software. I

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 25/06/12 08:57, Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jun 25 at 08:30, Sean Gibbins wrote: ... When the NB200 was connected to the mains via its charger a very audible high-pitched whine would be introduced to the recording. However, by doing the recording on battery power and the whine disappeared

[Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
Morning All! This is an interesting issue that has recently reared its ugly head again in a slightly different form. Originally it manifested on my Toshiba NB200 running Xubuntu 11.04 through to 12.04 (and may have been present with Puppy LInux on the same hardware - I can't remember if that

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Microphones for a PPC Mac Mini

2012-06-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 16/06/12 13:02, Martin N wrote: An email group on google groups is fairly busy for ppc Macs its g3-5-l...@googlegroups.com You should be able to get more information there. Thanks Martin, I will give them a go! Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Microphones for a PPC Mac Mini

2012-06-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 16/06/12 10:51, Vic wrote: > I recently grabbed one of Stephen Davies' PPC Mac Minis for my son, who > sings in a couple of choirs and would like to record his voice at home > using Garageband. If he's serious about singing, you should really consider getting a decent microphone. Don't wor

[Hampshire] [OT] Microphones for a PPC Mac Mini

2012-06-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
Morning All, I recently grabbed one of Stephen Davies' PPC Mac Minis for my son, who sings in a couple of choirs and would like to record his voice at home using Garageband. He knows little about the recording process and I know considerably less (!), so we are both a little stumped when it

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Revo 3600 + Xubuntu 12.04 + Panasonic Viera 32" TV

2012-06-13 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 09/06/12 08:04, Benjie Gillam wrote: For my TV (an LG) I had to change the aspect ratio setting to "Just Scan", which I could do from the quick menu. There was also a setting in the ATI Control Panel that came with the proprietary fglrx (or whatever it's called) drivers called "overscan" whi

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Revo 3600 + Xubuntu 12.04 + Panasonic Viera 32" TV

2012-06-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/06/12 21:00, Michael Pavling wrote: Are you using the VGA or HDMI connection to your telly? HDMI Michael, and it seems that, according to the TV manual, the instructions for altering the horizontal and vertical position of the desktop only apply to VGA connections unfortunately. I thi

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Revo 3600 + Xubuntu 12.04 + Panasonic Viera 32" TV

2012-06-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/06/12 20:49, Sean Gibbins wrote: My pessimism aside though, if anyone has any thoughts on how I might adjust the desktop in a little, please feel free to share them! Having surprised myself and found the fine manual it appears that such adjustments are possible, so now all I need to do

[Hampshire] Acer Revo 3600 + Xubuntu 12.04 + Panasonic Viera 32" TV

2012-06-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi folks On a whim I fired up the Revo 3600 (running 64-bit Xubuntu 12.04) today and plugged it in to the HDMI socket of the LCD TV. Up popped a lovely sharp 1920x1080 desktop with just one small snag - the desktop appears to extend just under the bezel of the TV on all edges, which means th

[Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-27 Thread Sean Gibbins
Rather topically, this popped up as I browsed The Independent's Web site this morning: http://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-7785164.html I like the bit in the "What's The Law?" section where it says 'To find out more about the law, click here', and doesn't offer a link to click

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 26/05/12 08:55, Brad Rogers wrote: So, it's an ill-considered, poorly executed, impossible to police law. You'd think it was one of ours, not pan-European. Good point Brad, although the thing I have noticed with these 'ill-considered and poorly executed laws' is that they often turn out to

Re: [Hampshire] Quiet and cool PC running?

2012-05-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 01/05/12 22:43, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: That one looks interesting. There are some other (more monolithic) blocks with larger fans. The reason for looking to large diameter fans is to move the same amount of air with much reduced noise. There are some very detailed explanations of why this ha

[Hampshire] [For Sale] CIT 850W Black Edition PSU

2012-04-29 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi fellow luggers, CIT 850W Black Edition PSU 12cm Dual 12v CE PFC Model 850UB http://www.ebuyer.com/191844-cit-850w-black-edition-psu-12cm-dual-12v-ce-pfc-model-850ub-psucit850ub I bought the above PSU to see if it would assist me in unlocking additional cores on my AMD CPU, and as such op

Re: [Hampshire] Netbooks

2012-04-24 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 24/04/12 19:08, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: Tough Decision but there can only be one! Okay, seeing as I have both here I can add a little more information - the build quality, the keyboard and battery life of the NB200 is far and away better than the Aspire One. Sean -- music, film, comics

Re: [Hampshire] Netbooks

2012-04-24 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 23/04/12 20:18, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: Hey chaps! Would any of you happen to know about cheap netbooks? My Toshiba NB200 is great and currently dual-boots Win 7 and Xubuntu 12.04b. It wasn't cheap at the time but I would imagine it would be possible to find a decent second-hand one now.

Re: [Hampshire] crippled system - is there any hope.

2012-04-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/04/12 00:52, Mike Burrows wrote: I didn't backup the system because I was only using the box as a file server and I have the files duplicated elsewhere. In that case it sounds like another way to fix this is to rebuild from scratch with the version of Debian you were aiming for when the

Re: [Hampshire] Custom-built PCs

2012-04-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 02/04/12 10:34, Ian Park wrote: Does anyone know of a similar company they'd trust to do a decent job of building a similar system but with a more up-to-date (spelled f - a - s - t - e - r!) processor etc? A friend of mine has had a couple of best-of-breed gaming beasts built by Simon at

Re: [Hampshire] An introduction, a blag and well a bit of general chit chat

2012-03-24 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 24/03/12 10:28, Bryn Jones wrote: I failed miserably to reply off list This is true... but I think you got away with it Bryn! :-) Seriously, there was nothing too inflammatory in the last post and I agree with some of the points you made or alluded to regarding Jamies. I am guessing

Re: [Hampshire] An introduction, a blag and well a bit of general chit chat

2012-03-24 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 23/03/12 23:55, Bryn wrote: Hi Bryn, Welcome to the list! Any questions/comments send away!! Well, the first thing that occurred to me reading your post was that you were going to end up being associated with Jamies [1]. However, since it seems not, it's perhaps worth mentioning that t

Re: [Hampshire] Dying HDDs

2012-02-06 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 06/02/12 20:13, Anton Piatek wrote: I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap end. Ooh, you don't want to make statements like that Anton - you're just begging for a multiple PSU failure event by putting that in writing! :-) Seriously though, I have had tw

Re: [Hampshire] Defective laptop

2012-02-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 05/02/12 13:48, Jon Wilks wrote: I have an Acer 8730ZG laptop that is about 2 years old but is no longer working and I am after some ideas as to what to do with it as it is not economic to repair it. It is basically dead (power light goes on when plugged in but pressing power switch does noth

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

2012-01-31 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 31/01/12 20:58, LUG address wrote: Thanks to all for the advice, I went for the HP (currently available from Ryman for £50 if anyone else is looking for one). Arrived today and was setup in about 10 minutes, wireless printing and scanning both working very well so far... Sorry, I've been a

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags

2012-01-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/01/12 11:20, Rob Malpass wrote: Email is great - but by goodness things can escalate out of hand - and that is not a backhanded criticism of anyone on this list - just meant to show that even the "greatest" of us can have a barney over email. If you read other articles it seems that AC go

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags

2012-01-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/01/12 11:03, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:10:24 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said: Is it just me or was there more by way of hardcore Linux posts pinging back and forth in those days, too? It's not just you. I think the big difference is Ubuntu: before it was available,

[Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags (was: Re: Help! I'm buying a laptop.)

2012-01-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/01/12 01:22, Vic wrote: Now now ladies this is a LUG, not a whores handbag club :-P Aw, crap. Am I in the wrong place again? I suspect it's more a case of Ian not having been around in the good old days when the handbags really did fly when threads periodically degenerated into full on

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 14/01/12 18:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said: It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat. I enjoy a drink as much as most other people, but I take responsibility for my actions. You, on the other hand, are asking othe

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Ocelot - pointer disappears when over icon

2011-11-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 16/11/11 21:07, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: This fixed my icons in unity. Linux Mint Debian Edition fixed mine! :-P Seriously, I tried it (Ubuntu 11.10) twice on my desktop and simply couldn't get on with it - although I don't struggle with it on my laptop. Sean -- music, film, comics,

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-10 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 10/11/11 19:32, Rob Malpass wrote: Do graphics cards require separate power nowadays? Most modern cards with any serious amount of grunt do, but it's generally in the form of a molex connector, the sort that typically goes into a DVD RW or IDE hard drive. It's possible the card will work

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Linux distro recommendations

2011-10-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 29/10/11 16:09, Paul Tansom wrote: I think the changes to Unity in 11.10 are a positive move, but for me it is still seriously lacking in basic functionality. Hi Paul, I've been with Ubuntu in one form or another on and off since the first public release, and I'm not sure I agree with you.

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 17/10/11 22:55, alan c wrote: I think it would surely work better if it had a metal pyramid shape built over it? Only if the metal pyramid was inscribed with the correct hieroglyphs, otherwise you're wasting your time. Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbi

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu and Intel H61 chipset

2011-10-10 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 10/10/11 22:49, john lewis wrote: I had no problems with buying a Novatech "bundle" when I upgraded my system a few years back. I went for an AMD processor and a built in video and picked one that was 'Debian compatible' (of course, me being me!) It's been a good few years since I have encou

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/10/11 21:01, Philip Stubbs wrote: My main gripe with these smart phones is they eat batteries. Charging every day is a must if you actually want to use the bits that makes a smart phone smart. Agreed. I bought an after market add on battery to replace my dying HTC effort. It's twice the

Re: [Hampshire] Smartphones

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/10/11 17:24, Paul Tansom wrote: Has anyone any experience of these? My experience of the Wildfire (original, not 'S') is that it is indeed a bit slow, especially where multitasking is concerned. Another consideration is the screen size and resolution, which is relatively small and low

Re: [Hampshire] PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS EMAIL!!!!

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/10/11 10:16, Peter Andrijeczko wrote: It was nothing more than a Halloween party invitation! :-) Crikey, you wouldn't want us lot turning up at your Halloween party - far too scary! Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Please post to: Hamp

Re: [Hampshire] PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS EMAIL!!!!

2011-10-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 02/10/11 10:45, Peter Andrijeczko wrote: All Please ignore my stupid, stupid mistake in sending the previous email to the mailing list! Blame the silly Gmail web interface! Sorry about that! Either it's traversing the Internet a lot slower than this one, been held up for moderation some

Re: [Hampshire] Pointing device for arthritic hands

2011-09-27 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 27/09/11 20:09, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: If it's of any help, I have found the Lenovo A6010 mouse, together with a gel-pad mouse mat (available from most good £pound shops) help enormously with the kind of 'hand fatigue' which crept up on me a few years back There's a crude Web-relat

Re: [Hampshire] distro boot order in grub 1

2011-08-07 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 07/08/11 11:21, Alan Pope wrote: On 7 August 2011 10:00, Benjamin Ashton wrote: Can any of you kind knowledgeable people tell me how to change which is the default distro with Grub version 1? I've got Mint and Ubuntu, with Ubuntu as default, but I want it to be Mint. Depends on the versi

Re: [Hampshire] distro boot order in grub 1

2011-08-07 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 07/08/11 10:00, Benjamin Ashton wrote: Can any of you kind knowledgeable people tell me how to change which is the default distro with Grub version 1? I've got Mint and Ubuntu, with Ubuntu as default, but I want it to be Mint. IIRC it is something along the lines of changing the value of

[Hampshire] [For Sale] Shuttle XPC SB75S

2011-08-01 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Folks, Before I bung this on ebay I thought I'd offer it up here. The summary specification is as follows: - Pentium 4 2.8MHz Hyperthreading CPU (effectively Dual Core) - 2GB PC3200 DDR RAM - Samsung DVD-R/RW - MSI nVidia NX7600 512Mb AGP Graphics Card (note - no hard drive, although that is

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop batteries

2011-07-28 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 28/07/11 15:18, Brian Chivers wrote: If it does it might be like a couple of Dell's I've looked at. If the centre pin doesn't make contact with the charging socket the laptop won't charge, it'll still work on mains as the main 19volts or so is carried on the inside & outside on the outer par

Re: [Hampshire] Asus EeePad Transformer

2011-06-12 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 12/06/11 18:57, Samuel Penn wrote: > If you have a small form factor device, it's a lot more accurate and > usable than a 'mouse touch pad' or cursor keys. You mentioned the mouse touch pad there but I think you might have got away with it! :-) Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and

Re: [Hampshire] Printer problem

2011-05-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 14/05/11 21:40, Tim wrote: > I can print from gedit and Thunderbird (there > might be more not tired all yet) but I can't print from Libre Office > or Adobe Acrobat. Hmm... do I recall having to define a printer within Open Office as a separate exercise to defining one to the system? It's been

Re: [Hampshire] [Wanted] AMD Socket 939 X2 Processor

2011-05-10 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 10/05/11 20:04, Tim wrote: > Can't help directly, but I did see the other day that Jamies has an > e-bay site now, I think you will find them fairly reliable?? Oh okay, I'll check it out. I must admit I've not had a lot of luck with Jamie's in the past, but I would imagine my needs are far mor

[Hampshire] [Wanted] AMD Socket 939 X2 Processor

2011-05-10 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi All, First up this isn't a scrounge as such - I am willing to pay a reasonable price if the goods fit the bill. Also, I know these CPUs are available on eBay, but I'd rather buy from someone I know if possible, hence this request. Basically a (skint) mate's PC has gone belly up and I have scr

Re: [Hampshire] Free to a good home (again)

2011-05-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 02/05/11 12:08, Chris Dennis wrote: > I've heard of people jumping up and down on their laptops, but for > different reasons and with different results. A mate at work sat on his Dell D610, which radically altered it cosmetically - he's a big bloke - but didn't seem to impede its functionality

Re: [Hampshire] Toshiba N200 Netbook + ALPS Glidepoint

2011-04-13 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 13/04/11 15:21, Joe Wrigley wrote: I'm not sure what that tells me, and since neither system has an xorg.conf I'm not sure where the touchpad is configured - presumably on the fly. Is this of any use? I was going to suggest that you needed to create something hal-related but I'm not very fami

Re: [Hampshire] Toshiba N200 Netbook + ALPS Glidepoint

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 05/04/11 13:27, Sean Gibbins wrote: > > Looking at the Xorg log with 'grep 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint' > /var/log/Xorg.0.log' [in LMDE] I see the following: > > (II) config/udev: Adding input device AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint > (/dev/input/event8) >

Re: [Hampshire] Toshiba N200 Netbook + ALPS Glidepoint

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 05/04/11 14:35, john lewis wrote: >> I guess I need to find out where the configuration for UNE resides so >> > that I can bung it in the relevant place in LMDE. Anyone out there >> > got an idea where to start? > touchpads are an abomination, forget it and use a proper mouse. I have > a cute l

Re: [Hampshire] Toshiba N200 Netbook + ALPS Glidepoint

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 05/04/11 15:04, Neil Stainton wrote: >> This is evidently a configuration issue, as having run up Ubuntu Netbook >> > Edition it works out of the box. >> > >> > Looking at the Xorg log with 'grep 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint' >> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log' I see the following: > I'm not an expert but

[Hampshire] Toshiba N200 Netbook + ALPS Glidepoint

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi All, I've just bought a Toshiba N200 netbook off a friend. Having wiped Windows 7 and Windows XP from it I have installed Linux Mint Debian Edition on it. There are a couple of niggly little issues that are holding me back from a 100% successful install, namely (1) the speakers do not work

Re: [Hampshire] Domestic ADSL ISPs

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 05/04/11 00:35, Martin N wrote: > It would be good to know how talk talk handle the MAC code? transfer > to another > ISP. I heard a while ago that talk talk are poor at cooperating with ISP > switch overs away from them. > > I dont want to be without broadband for weeks or maybe months just >

Re: [Hampshire] How to make linux server accessible via hostname on home LAN

2011-03-20 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 19/03/11 23:54, Robin Wilson wrote: > Also, my network is running a mix of linux, OS X and Windows clients, and I > assume /etc/hosts doesn't exist on Windows. Hi Robin. Not that it helps you much, but actually it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file) Sean -- music, film, comics

Re: [Hampshire] Basic Linux Training

2011-03-19 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/03/11 08:36, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2011 07:56:38 Sean Gibbins wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm not sure how newsworthy this is, but since the question of basic >> Linux training courses that crops up from time to time I thought I'd >>

[Hampshire] Basic Linux Training

2011-03-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi All, I'm not sure how newsworthy this is, but since the question of basic Linux training courses that crops up from time to time I thought I'd pass it on. It appears that the Open University are now offering a module that explores the basics of Linux system administration, and that can provide

Re: [Hampshire] Suggestion for low-power file server to run at home

2011-03-12 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 12/03/11 17:54, Andy Smith wrote: > I've bought one of these too (but it's still in its box). It sounds > much more suitable for the task at hand; while you *can* attach USB > storage to little things like GuruPlugs, I can't really think of > that as a file server. > > I prefer my data to be on

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