Re: [Hampshire] Laptop batteries

2011-07-28 Thread Brian Chivers
is carried on the inside & outside on the outer part of the connector. Do you have another PSU you can try to rule that out ?? Brian On 27/07/2011 09:21, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Peter, Just a word of warning... My last work laptop was a Dell D620 which experienced what sounds like identical ch

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Chivers
On 26/10/2010 20:50, John Cooper wrote: On 26/10/10 19:42, Brian Chivers wrote: I've done LPIC-1 already and found it really interesting & hard as it dealt with stuff I don't use that much like kernel & x.org config I'll let you know what the the LPIC-2 is like as I'

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-26 Thread Brian Chivers
ealt with stuff I don't use that much like kernel & x.org config I'll let you know what the the LPIC-2 is like as I'm doing it next week on a 6 day residential course with firebrand training. Brian -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https:

Re: [Hampshire] jaunty boot procedure

2010-02-24 Thread Brian Chivers
t; password=secret > if you need a domain logon, set the username entry to > username=mydomain\me > > Simon > Sorry if this has been said before but could you not use autofs (http://www.greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html) ?? I use it for mounting firewire & usb drives that we us

Re: [Hampshire] Upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.x.x LTS when it ships

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Chivers
On 22/02/2010 12:44, John Cooper wrote: > On 22/02/10 12:07, Brian Chivers wrote: >> As some of you will know I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu from mostly RH / >> CentOS. I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.10 in our virtual >> environment and will soon be bringing

[Hampshire] Upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.x.x LTS when it ships

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Chivers
tuff like MySQL, Apache, PHP & bits like that, nothing too custom ? Thoughts please :-) Brian Portmsouth College The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] UPS wanted

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Chivers
Jacqui Caren-home wrote: > Brian Chivers wrote: > >> I've had about 10 from Jamie's and just changed the batteries & away >> they go :-) >> > > Where do you get the batts from - last time I looked for UPS batts > it was only slightly more ex

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] UPS wanted

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Chivers
? > > Kind Regards > > James > Contact Jamie's Computer Society as they often have some. I'd advise getting an APC or Belkin one if you can as they're really easy to replace the batteries if need. I've had about 10 from Jamie's

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters

2010-02-02 Thread brian
Something like this no good ?? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Telephone-Cell-Phone-Fun-Spy-Equipment-Voice-Changer_W0QQitemZ220542562402QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item33595c7062 Brian On Tue 02/02/10 10:31 PM , Lisi hants...@googlemail.com sent: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:41

Re: [Hampshire] Hardware Fault?

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Chivers
ally see connected to cd roms. If you'd like a new lead drop me you snail mail address off list & I'll stick one in the post to you. Brian The views expressed here are my own and n

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-26 Thread Brian Chivers
manage users" > instead of deciding on OpenLDAP from the start, but OpenLDAP > is the only option I'm aware of that is commonly supported. > > How about something like this https://gna.org/projects/smbldap-tools/ I use it with LAM (http://www.ldap-account-manager.o

[Hampshire] Ubuntu - bridging networks & network cards

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Chivers
gured. I have looked at loads on setting up the bridging but only on single cards not multiples so if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very appreciative. Thanks Brian Chivers # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activ

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread Brian Chivers
com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.html > > > I use autofs for things like usb & firewire drives on our backup server (uses rsync). I've set it up so the drive is unmounted after 30 secs if it's not in use so this might help http://www.autofs.org/ It

Re: [Hampshire] Disk mounting screws

2009-08-01 Thread Brian Chivers
;ve bought them before, but I can't remember > where from. > > Thanks, > Keith > > If you're close to Portsmouth try CP Fastenings in southsea, only problem is that there website is down at the mo :-( Brian http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.moz

Re: [Hampshire] Centos 5 / yum not expanding $releasever

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Chivers
this before but I have several CentOS5 servers so if you'd like me to send you any of the repos files just ask and I'll send them across so you can compare them. Brian The

Re: [Hampshire] fstab & UUID - sanity check

2009-07-17 Thread Brian Chivers
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/7/17 Brian Chivers : > >> I'll explain I have a machine that I use to rsync stuff to with an external >> firewire drive & I just >> rebooted with it connected & / when from sda5 to sdb5 and the others map & >> this cause

[Hampshire] fstab & UUID - sanity check

2009-07-17 Thread Brian Chivers
time0 2 /dev/sda2 /home ext3relatime0 2 /dev/sda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /home/rsync/extra_drive ext3 su

Re: [Hampshire] Testing iSCSI performance

2009-05-27 Thread Brian Chivers
Philip Stubbs wrote: > 2009/5/27 Brian Chivers : > >> I used the bon_csv2html2 script to generate some tables and combined them >> into the page below. The >> first two tables are from the same machine & the second is one of our main >> servers which has a

Re: [Hampshire] Testing iSCSI performance

2009-05-27 Thread Brian Chivers
Simon Capstick wrote: > Brian Chivers wrote: >> Simon Capstick wrote: >>> Brian Chivers wrote: >>>> I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together >>>> with iSCSI on gigabit >>>> ethernet. I'd like to te

Re: [Hampshire] Testing iSCSI performance

2009-05-27 Thread Brian Chivers
Simon Capstick wrote: > Brian Chivers wrote: >> I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together with >> iSCSI on gigabit >> ethernet. I'd like to test the filesystem performance, the iSCSI target is >> an OpenFiler box & the >>

[Hampshire] Testing iSCSI performance

2009-05-26 Thread Brian Chivers
e got any recommendation for testing software or has anyone played around with this sort of setup? I've looked at Iozone and it looks very good but a little too complicated for me at the moment at this early stage.

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendation on Virtualisation books

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Chivers
Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun Apr 12, 2009 at 21:21:26 +0100, Brian Chivers wrote: > > >> I'm starting to look at virtualisation but I know very little about it. >> I've read a bit about Xen & KVM and have had several companies visit >> College drumming

[Hampshire] Recommendation on Virtualisation books

2009-04-12 Thread Brian Chivers
open source but I need to read more about this as it'll be for "business critical" systems so stability, flexibility and easy management will be very important. Can anyone recommend a good book / books for me to start me

Re: [Hampshire] Dell poweredge Perc4e/Di (LSI) SCSI

2009-03-12 Thread Brian Chivers
then but the box runs fine & installed OK with Etch. I also have one with Smoothwall Advanced Server & this would throw up the error but the box works fine so was naughty & ignored it. The Cent

Re: [Hampshire] Home server

2009-02-25 Thread Brian Chivers
> > I've got a few Samba & LDAP servers running here, if you like I can send you over my smb.conf files for you to have a look at. I have to admit that I cheap with the simple ones & install Webmin and use this to setup Samba etc but the bigger ones with Ldap slaves etc

Re: [Hampshire] Drive Imaging

2009-02-25 Thread Brian Chivers
- > > > I'll second the vote for Clonezilla :-) I used it to image the 40 Aspire One's I had for college. If you're thinking of setting up a clonezilla server make sure

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Video senders

2009-02-16 Thread Brian Chivers
et some 10m composite cable - expensive - but cheaper > than a digisender. Have a look @ Solent Cables (http://www.solentcables.co.uk/acatalog/audio-composite-video-cables.html) £16.99 and if you're in or near Portsmouth you can phone ahead & pop in & collect Brian -

Re: [Hampshire] Linux & Active Directory

2009-02-08 Thread Brian Chivers
his might be of some help http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Technical:ADIntegration I used one of the script from the k12 group to setup my first OpenLDAP / Samba3 server, they are a very friendly & knowledgeable group (a bit like here *grin*) Brian -

Re: [Hampshire] A little help with php / mysql

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Chivers
('%s','%s','%s','%s','%s','%s')", mysql_real_escape_string($channel), mysql_real_escape_string($starttime), mysql_real_escape_string($title),

Re: [Hampshire] A little help with php / mysql

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Chivers
John Cooper wrote: > Brian Chivers wrote: >> I'm trying to insert the text below into a mysql table but it's complaining, >> I think it's the ' >> that's causing the problem. > >> mysql_query(INSERT INTO stream (channel, starttime, title,

Re: [Hampshire] A little help with php / mysql

2009-02-04 Thread Brian Chivers
Hugo Mills wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:02:14PM +0000, Brian Chivers wrote: > >> I'm trying to insert the text below into a mysql table but it's complaining, >> I think it's the ' >> that's causing the problem. >> >> childre

Re: [Hampshire] A little help with php / mysql

2009-02-04 Thread Brian Chivers
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/2/4 Chris Smith : >> Brian Chivers wrote: >>> mysql_query(INSERT INTO stream (channel, starttime, title, >>> description, genre, filename) VALUES >>> ('$channel','$starttime','$title','$description'

[Hampshire] A little help with php / mysql

2009-02-04 Thread Brian Chivers
x27;)); All the other fields work OK & if I remove the ' from $genre it works OK. Did think about doing a search & replace before I insert but I'd have to do it on the other fields as well so I'd like to be able to solve it another way :-) Thanks Brian

Re: [Hampshire] Streaming video

2009-01-31 Thread Brian Chivers
Stephen Rowles wrote: >> On Mon, January 26, 2009 15:48, Brian Chivers wrote: >> >>> Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ? >>> >> Yep, I do it all the time, however... >> >> >>> What I'd like to

Re: [Hampshire] Streaming video

2009-01-26 Thread Brian Chivers
Peter Salisbury wrote: > 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 pr

[Hampshire] Streaming video

2009-01-26 Thread Brian Chivers
ed @ VLC and have it sort of working but the embedding into a page is causing problems. I don't really want them to have to download the whole program before it starts as happens if you just embed the file into a webpage. Any pointers

Re: [Hampshire] BETT 2009 Educational Show

2009-01-05 Thread Brian Chivers
> > Alan. > > I'll keep and eye open for you as I'm going on the Wednesday Brian The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the views of

[Hampshire] Cloning Acer Aspire Ones'

2008-11-28 Thread Brian Chivers
gratefully received :-) Brian Portsmouth College The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the views of Portsmouth College -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.

Re: [Hampshire] PC turns itself off after a few minutes

2008-11-22 Thread Brian Chivers
7;ve lost loads of machines at work because of this, both motherboard & PSU's have been affected :-( Brian The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the views o

Re: [Hampshire] mod_rewrite

2008-11-21 Thread Brian Chivers
Chris Dennis wrote: > Brian Chivers wrote: >> Keith Edmunds wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:52:23 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>> >>> >>>> RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^([^/\\]+)?/?$' >>>> >

Re: [Hampshire] mod_rewrite

2008-11-20 Thread Brian Chivers
wrote the software & ask them if they've got a work around as I don't really know how it all works together and the php files are all Zend encoded :-/ Brian The views expressed

Re: [Hampshire] mod_rewrite

2008-11-20 Thread Brian Chivers
\\]+)?/?$' I'll have to have a read on the apache site later when I'm feeling more with it :-( Brian The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the

[Hampshire] mod_rewrite

2008-11-20 Thread Brian Chivers
ewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L,QSA] So from what I can understand if you call www.brian.co.uk/brian it actually calls www.brian.co.uk/user.php?username=brian or what ever variable is set as $1, I'm not sure what the L,QSA mean but I could google that bit :-) Now this works fin

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] CD device with mono audio out

2008-11-07 Thread Brian Chivers
one of the connectors will line up. It's a nasty hack and you might loose some quality but for a phone system I doubt you're worried about stereo seperation :-) Brian The views expresse

Re: [Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Chivers
Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/11/4 Brian Chivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to use >> and a video input card >> (not sure if it linux compatible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) but >> I&#x

[Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Chivers
patible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) but I'm not sure what software to use to do this. Not worried about motion sensing just need a jpg or something every X minutes Does anyone do this ? Any ideas or pointer where to start. Thanks Brian C

[Hampshire] Help with php-ldap

2008-10-29 Thread Brian Chivers
Has anyone done anything with php-ldap ?? I'm trying to write a php script that will return the users with there gidNumber but what I have doesn't return the gidNumber. I can post my script so far if it helps. Thanks Brian Chivers Portsmou

[Hampshire] The CodeWeavers Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge

2008-10-28 Thread Brian Chivers
Not sure if this is of interest to anyone :-) http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/free/ The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the views of Portsmouth College -

Re: [Hampshire] BIOS password

2008-10-26 Thread Brian Chivers
cer aspire 7720g backdoor password > > It may turn up some good stuff :) > > Cheers, > Paul. > Check that it hasn't chopped off the end of the password. I have a couple of machine that I can't use bios passwords l

Re: [Hampshire] Samba + ldap

2008-10-23 Thread Brian Chivers
ire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -- > > Sorry about the slow reply, just catching up on emails. I have several servers running CentOS5 with Samba & Ldap, a great place to start is t

Re: [Hampshire] help needed to diagnose computer problem

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Chivers
john lewis wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:19:46 +0100 > Brian Chivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Have a look at the capacitors on the motherboard & make sure none of >> them a bulging on top as this causes problems such as you've >> descri

Re: [Hampshire] Suggestions for replacement motherboard

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Chivers
d can recommend it? > > I've been really happy with the few Intel motherboards I've had for core 2 duo's. Seem very stable even running XP and quite cheap :-) If you'd like more info let me know & I'll dig out the info on Monday . Brian ---

Re: [Hampshire] help needed to diagnose computer problem

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Chivers
line vendor I think. > > Suggestions as to likely cause of powering off are welcome. > > Have a look at the capacitors on the motherboard & make sure none of them a bulging on top as this causes problems such as you've described. Brian -