Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-01 Thread The Holy ettlz
> Then you have the move to IPV6 and I'm sure there is going to be a lot > of kit made redundant by these changes in the next few years. It'll more likely be made obsolete. ;) James -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlem

Re: [Hampshire] Can Ubuntu break the BIOS

2009-10-28 Thread The Holy ettlz
he boot process > before anything else has a chance to load. Is this a function of Ubuntu > or is his bios broken. The BIOS is either still configured incorrectly, or it has a bug, or for some reason the CD cannot be booted (broken disc and/or drive). James -- The Holy ettlz

Re: [Hampshire] Xorg is hungry today...

2009-10-06 Thread The Holy ettlz
tic is a graphical package management : program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get : command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+ Augguauuagguuah*HEADASPLODE -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PG

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop display borked.

2009-09-27 Thread The Holy ettlz
memtest86 for a few passes and see if it finds any > problems. I'm not sure memtest86+ will test shared memory that gets allocated to graphics at startup. Check the BIOS settings and make sure the amount shared is as small as possible so it'll test as much as it can. James -- The Hol

Re: [Hampshire] Open Source Camera!

2009-09-06 Thread The Holy ettlz
ent) reverse engineer it to > make the lenses work correctly. IIRC Sigma's own mount (e.g. on the SD14) uses the Canon EF *protocol* with a different physical connector. -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com

Re: [Hampshire] Open Source Camera!

2009-09-04 Thread The Holy ettlz
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:32 +0100, Stephen Davies wrote: > http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august31/levoy-opensource-camera-090109.html > > Enjoy. > > Unfortunately, it uses Canon lenses so I won't be getting one. Fortunately, it uses Canon lenses, so I might get one!

Re: [Hampshire] Web site help please

2009-07-30 Thread The Holy ettlz
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 17:54 +0100, Tim wrote: > home which can't see the web site at all, could you kind chaps (and > chappettes) > see if you can see my web site for me and let me know what DSL connection you > were using please. Working OK here (via JANET ;) ) James -

Re: [Hampshire] Scanner for Ubuntu

2009-07-13 Thread The Holy ettlz
; Mob: 07865 054 442 > > Registered no: 6461365 > VAT no: 919 7546 79 > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk >

Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome OS..?

2009-07-09 Thread The Holy ettlz
ome locked full-screen, with > everything else you require to run your machine mapped into a web > application, so your local machine is just another website. Or a perhaps port of whatever toolkit the Chrome browser uses ported to directfb or some other framebuffer driver. James -- The H

Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome OS..?

2009-07-09 Thread The Holy ettlz
commitments to developing kernel shims and binary-only drivers will not be good enough. James -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PGP key ID: 03F94B5D --- signature.asc Description: T

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] What's happened to the arXiv?

2009-07-08 Thread The Holy ettlz
and statistics. James On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:11 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/7/8 The Holy ettlz : > > Some of you out there must use the arXiv... > > If I knew what an arXiv was I might be inclined to use one :) > > > anyone know what's happened > > to a

[Hampshire] [OT] What's happened to the arXiv?

2009-07-08 Thread The Holy ettlz
Some of you out there must use the arXiv... anyone know what's happened to articles submitted after 30 Oct 2008? James -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PGP key ID: 03F

Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread The Holy ettlz
dware failure on the PC > that runs the telly during Wimbledon week! Try booting with acpi=off and see if this helps. James. -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PGP key ID: 03F94B5D ---

Re: [Hampshire] OT:Fwd: Mark Thompson on Media Show on R4 about FM switch off

2009-06-24 Thread The Holy ettlz
atio was much higher on DSPs, and an MP2 derivative was the best tradeoff between quality, bitrate and computational workload. I understand that DAB+ is supposed to be based around AAC or something and should improve sound quality somewhat. James -- The Holy ettlz

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-15 Thread The Holy ettlz
t; person. For instance, > For example I read words as a form of mnemonic image - hence I take 4 novels > into the bathroom every time I want a decent soak! leads me to wonder: Why are you soaking novels? (Sorry, the joke seemed relevant, and I couldn't re

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-08 Thread The Holy ettlz
on and then either wait on slow_path to finish or abort execution as necessary. But this assumes it's *very* cheap to start a new thread etc. James -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PGP key I

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-07 Thread The Holy ettlz
ability of can_use_fast_path? > >*shrug* Who knows? > >This is entirely hypothetical. The question came to mind while I > was looking at some code someone else had written, in Style B, where I > usually use Style A. Well beats me. Unles

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-07 Thread The Holy ettlz
27;s got to be evaluated in either route. Assume > that it's cheap compared to the cost of the slow path (otherwise it's > not worth doing the test, of course...) Hmm. I'd choose Style A since with Style B there's a chance I'd have to discard on

Re: [Hampshire] Code style

2009-06-07 Thread The Holy ettlz
slow stuff > return "slow path result" > > > Style B: > > result = "fast path result" > if !can_use_fast_path: > # do slow stuff > result = "slow path result" > return result How expensive is evaluating can_use_fast_path? James

Re: [Hampshire] kill -9 pid now working

2009-05-12 Thread The Holy ettlz
wrong, you should probably report a kernel bug. Is any part of the filesystem remote? James -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PGP key ID: 03F94B5D --- signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome Preferred Applications in Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-04-21 Thread The Holy ettlz
te your own custom rules. > > Can anyone point me to the quick fix? > > Cheers, > > Sean > > -- > The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact > mathematical design, but what's missing is

Re: [Hampshire] [hants] compression

2009-02-18 Thread The Holy ettlz
l aware of 7zip, bzip2, rzip and ofcourse gzip, but looking on > google is not putting me beyond those. > > tar very much, ^^^ return -EBADPUN; bzip2 compresses better than gzip, but in my experience LZMA (part of .7z) is better than bzip2. RAR is also very good (same order as 7z)

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone else having serious issues with Fedora 10?

2009-01-02 Thread The Holy ettlz
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 08:10 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > > Do you have the bug numbers? I'll add myself to the cc list and comment > so they have more weight. > Red Hat Bugzilla nos. 474978 and 477219. Thanks, James -- The Holy ettlz

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone else having serious issues with Fedora 10?

2009-01-01 Thread The Holy ettlz
occasions, I'd been using Xv-accelerated video playback (and using suspend/resume) on an Intel X3100 chipset. So I reckon something is amiss, perhaps either in DRI, GEM or X scribbling where it ought not. I've reported these bugs. James. -- The Holy ettlz t

Re: [Hampshire] Fedora 10: not at all glitch free audio

2008-12-08 Thread The Holy ettlz
to be certain it isn't some hangover from my old > install, but does anyone else have this problem? Check through the Bugzilla, there are loads on it skipping. Chances are your bug is already there; add your hardware data to it. Regards, James. -- The Holy ettlz

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-05 Thread The Holy ettlz
h I can only describe as the worst job > I've ever done. Is it anything like "Little Nicky"? James -- The Holy ettlz [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key ID: 03F94B5D --- signature.asc Descr

Re: [Hampshire] Linux virtual machine inside Windows

2008-12-04 Thread The Holy ettlz
machine and so make it unsafe > to do so? Depends if it can tinker around in the VM's address space. Basically, if anything manages to get its code going in Ring 0 it's goodnight Vienna. James. -- The Holy ettlz [E

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-04 Thread The Holy ettlz
nness are important values of the Free Software community and to say that the Linux virus count is "none" is simply not correct (whether "in the wild" or not). That said, personally I'd take advice from the legal experts before making any public claims about software se

Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008-12-04 Thread The Holy ettlz
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 09:10 +, Paul Stimpson wrote: > "How about viruses?" > > "None" Hmm, this isn't entirely true though, is it? There is a small ecosystem for Linux malware (cracked forum, anyone?) including a handful of v

Re: [Hampshire] First impressions of Fedora 10

2008-12-03 Thread The Holy ettlz
and my BlackBerry so the behaviour and work too"? Unfortunately, I think it will be the latter and ultimately, wpa_supplicant will have to work around this behaviour --- try filing a report to NetworkManager-list. James -- The Holy ettlz [EMAIL P

Re: [Hampshire] Belkin shame

2008-12-01 Thread The Holy ettlz
s the former two and causes them to timeout. James -- The Holy ettlz [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key ID: 03F94B5D --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: [Hampshire] First impressions of Fedora 10

2008-11-30 Thread The Holy ettlz
While we're talking of graphics on F10, does anyone know about the state of DRI2 in the intel drivers and how to enable it? Regards, James. -- The Holy ettlz [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key ID: 03F

Re: [Hampshire] Distros with LUKS out of the box

2008-11-27 Thread The Holy ettlz
sion) > so I think it'ss about time a took a rest from FC as it looks like > it's not going to work anytime soon. I can't really answer your question about LUKS support, but did you report your WPA problems to RH Bugzilla or the NetworkManager developer list? James --

Re: [Hampshire] File recovery

2008-10-29 Thread The Holy ettlz
drive but using > 100mb disks connected by USB and I am running Mepis 7 (debian etch) > > Thanks in advance > > Tim > > > GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features

Re: [Hampshire] Rolling back the years^h^h packages

2008-10-27 Thread The Holy ettlz
nd I now have an experimental nightly build of > nm on my machine which may or may not be totally functional. What is the best > way to go back to the current stock build of nm so the normal updater can go > about its business in future please? > > Thanks, > Paul. > > &g