At 11:44 17/11/2010, you wrote:
some weeks back there was a discussion about
e-readers and at the time I hadn't any plans to
get one. I knew I'd not go down the kindle route
as I don't like amazons policies, mainly the
fact they don't really let you own the books you have 'purchased'
yes a
At 11:44 17/11/2010, you wrote:
some weeks back there was a discussion about
e-readers and at the time I hadn't any plans to
get one. I knew I'd not go down the kindle route
as I don't like amazons policies, mainly the
fact they don't really let you own the books you have 'purchased'
yes a
At 23:11 15/11/2010, you wrote:
On 15/11/10 22:51, alan c wrote:
I happen to be using UKOnline ISP and have just discovered they are
being shut down by their now owner, SKY.
Thanks for that -- I've got an elderly friend who will need help in
transferring from UKOnline to something else.
Lo,
At 22:15 16/11/2010, you wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:38:48 +
trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
I have all my email on there and it looks like my email address will
be invalid from January.
I will need to change all my yahoo group subscriptions as well as
tell friends.
Am
Lo,
At 22:17 16/11/2010, you wrote:
Hi trotter,
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:38:48PM +, trotter wrote:
On 15/11/10 22:51, alan c wrote:
I happen to be using UKOnline ISP and have just discovered they are
being shut down by their now owner, SKY.
[...]
Holy mackerel !
I have all my
At 18:34 07/11/2010, you wrote:
On 6 November 2010 16:59, trotter
mailto:m.nutt...@ukonline.co.ukm.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
Surprisingly a on-line Linux questionnaire recommended SuSE or fedora but i
thought they were heavy distros.
Fedora have an LXDE based spin:
http
At 13:37 06/11/2010, you wrote:
http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/netbooks/308465-five-best-linux-netbook-oses-for-now
They mention Puppy in there, which is a great OS but a bit of an
acquired taste. However, depending on what hardware you are thinking of
installing on, there is
it on.
What sort of processor does it have?
I have a 1ghz single core processor and 512meg of ram.
Martin N
On Saturday 06 Nov 2010, trotter wrote:
At 13:37 06/11/2010, you wrote:
http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/netbooks/308465-five-best-linux
-netbook-oses-for-now
Lo,
At 19:02 06/11/2010, you wrote:
On 06/11/10 17:20, trotter wrote:
Lo,
At 17:13 06/11/2010, you wrote:
I'm currently running openSUSE 11.2 on an Acer Aspire One D150-Bw
10.1-inch
Netbook, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD and it's fine, everything works I don't
find it
slow. I'll be putting 11.3
Lo,
Are there any other notebook remix editions of any Linux distro
other than ubuntu?
A quick google just shows ubuntu.
Martin N
Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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Lo,
At 10:31 23/10/2010, you wrote:
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:21:46 +0100, h...@3720.co.uk said:
if someone applied for job with these either of certifications would it
standout to you?
It would be of some interest, and may swing the balance in favour of
offering an interview. It would have
At 14:36 23/10/2010, you wrote:
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:30:17 +0100, m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk said:
It would be interesting if you could copy n paste some common errors in
the applying email. I have noticed since i graduated my English has been
getting steadily worse. Its a case of if you
At 15:03 30/09/2010, you wrote:
On 30 September 2010 02:34, trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
At 15:09 29/09/2010, you wrote:
I am starting by testing the power supply. I have a PC/SPS Tester I,
but have never used it. Before I blow myself, my computer or the
house sky-high I
At 15:09 29/09/2010, you wrote:
I am starting by testing the power supply. I have a PC/SPS Tester I,
but have never used it. Before I blow myself, my computer or the
house sky-high I would be grateful for some advice.
Firstly - the risks are vanishingly small. All the high voltages will
At 14:40 13/09/2010, you wrote:
On 12 September 2010 22:35, trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
Is there a feature in the 350 that you are looking for?
Haven't heard about it and most features seem to be present in the 505
including a SD card slot.
It has a touch screen. Unlike the older
Lo,
At 22:24 12/09/2010, you wrote:
I would be interested in peoples thoughts on ereaders.
so would I :)
Ever since I first read about eink displays, I have been fascinated.
Recently, the price has dropped to a point where I am seriously
tempted, but I have a problem.
Likewise the older
At 10:20 29/07/2010, you wrote:
UK ISP TalkTalk Monitoring its Customers Online Activity Without Consent
This, if true, would seem to be yet another clear breach of the Regulatory
of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. But good luck trying to get that
enforced - the police have been singularly
UK ISP TalkTalk Monitoring its Customers Online Activity Without Consent
http://bit.ly/bVeCWE (ISPreview)
from--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator
Has anyone else come across this story?
As a pipex customer it looks like I am being monitored and I am wondering
if the only way to stop it is to use
At 22:29 22/06/2010, you wrote:
I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo ThinkPad SL510. General googling
indicates linux should work ok with it. However; I was wondering if
anyone had any good or bad experience with Lenovo laptops and linux?
Lenovo thinkpads usually work well with Linux hence a Linux
Hello,
Does anyone use the KDE apps in windows package manager in XP?
The
whttp://ktorrent.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=3741start=0sid=949379baad4b711336d4f736be2f8f0dindows
package manager
doesn'thttp://ktorrent.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=3741start=0sid=949379baad4b711336d4f736be2f8f0d
At 11:18 22/05/2010, you wrote:
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:09:13PM +0100, Leo wrote:
Freeview has been playing up recently on both my digibox and computer.
Essentially I've lost about half the channels. Although they don't seem
to be frequency specific: so I can still get BBC3, but not BBC4.
At 23:22 22/05/2010, you wrote:
At 11:18 22/05/2010, you wrote:
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:09:13PM +0100, Leo wrote:
Freeview has been playing up recently on both my digibox and computer.
Essentially I've lost about half the channels. Although they don't seem
to be frequency specific: so
At 13:51 18/05/2010, you wrote:
Hi Chris,
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:50:12PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
I've just been to a client who suddenly lost access to various websites
including www.hants.gov.uk
It turns out that TalkTalk have assigned to her router an IP address
like 2.97.x.x,
At 22:22 20/05/2010, you wrote:
Hi trotter,
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:42:06PM +, trotter wrote:
At 13:51 18/05/2010, you wrote:
I come across this all the time. HCC are running what networky types
call a bogon filter. An outdated bogon filter is worse than no bogon
filter at all
At 20:12 18/05/2010, you wrote:
My laptop hardrive is faulty, does anyone have a spare/old one I can
have/buy
Second-hand HDDs are usually a bad investment - they have a limited
lifespan, so if someone else has taken one out of service, it's probably
used up quite a bit of that life...
A
At 17:44 04/05/2010, you wrote:
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:14:36PM +0100, Russell Morris wrote:
Yup, Adobe's x64 flash player works really well, I've not
encountered anyone
who has had a problem with it. Before it was around, problems galore!
I've had nothing but crashing Firefox and
At 13:04 16/04/2010, you wrote:
The main downside of OpenDNS (and many similar services) is that
nonexistent domains resolve to one of their ad servers.
You can turn that off - but IMO, you shouldn't have to.
But we're all Linux geeks here - why not just run your own resolver? It's
dead
At 09:02 16/04/2010, you wrote:
On 15 April 2010 16:31, trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
I have been trying OpenDNS and have noticed similar services while
googling.
I have it setup now but was wondering if anybody else had tried other
services and has any comments on whether
At 15:43 16/04/2010, you wrote:
Running my own resolver would require a PC up 24/7 wouldn't it?
No. Why would it?
There's no need to run a resolver when you haven't got any clients needing
resolution...
Ok thanks.
So you have noticed an improvement in how quick a websites starts to
Lo,
I have been trying OpenDNS and have noticed similar services while
googling.
I have it setup now but was wondering if anybody else had tried other
services and has any comments on whether they are faster more reliable
or have better privacy policies?
thanks
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.4
At 10:11 31/03/2010, you wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:17:41AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
The laptop has the Vista license key on the bottom, so I am figuring
that if I can obtain some install media, I could still use the key
that came with the laptop.
I just need the correct
At 09:21 31/03/2010, you wrote:
On 31 March 2010 00:15, Isaac Close isaaccl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello,
Sometimes I am confronted with a computer that refuses to install
or run windows without crashing badly at every attempt, yet the
machine will happily run linux without problems.
At 16:31 16/03/2010, you wrote:
On 16/03/2010 16:27, Ian Park wrote:
I'm looking around for a phone to replace my current model, a Sony
Ericsson v630i. I'd like one with a keyboard a la Blackberry; it's
also important for me that I can use it as a modem for my laptop
netbook (both of which
At 14:46 11/03/2010, you wrote:
Andy Random wrote:
Any suggestions?
I've been contemplating one of these:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735
It plays just about every file format you'd want to play (inc. mp3s avis
oggs and flacs), and it will stream across the network or
At 19:19 15/03/2010, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
At 14:46 11/03/2010, you wrote:
Andy Random wrote:
Any suggestions?
I've been contemplating one of these:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735
It plays just about every file format you'd want to play (inc. mp3s
At 09:10 04/02/2010, you wrote:
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
After the power supply to my house destroying the PSUs of my computers
three times now, I would like to get a UPS.
Does anyone have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power supply) that is surplus
to their requirements?
I have two
At 14:15 05/10/2009, you wrote:
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:05:55PM +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote:
2009/10/5 Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk:
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:46:35AM -0400, Andy Random wrote:
Reviving this thread briefly, I'm surprised I've not seen any mention of
the Palm Pre
At 16:25 26/09/2009, you wrote:
2009/9/26 Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com:
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
...
Conclusion: A 3G phone should still be able to fall back to do
GSM based GPRS.
Thanks for that James.
Is GPRS unusably slow for things like GPS (where the relevant bit of
At 11:51 23/09/2009, you wrote:
When only two parts of three turned up from Lambdatek, I was expecting
a battle, but no, a human being went and sorted it out and explained
where the foul up happened (which I always appreciate).
So -1 + 1 = 0 for me. Unfortunately these days 0 is rather a good
At 21:29 31/07/2009, you wrote:
I've had colleagues with Windows-based smart phones, blackberries and
I-phones. Personally I prefer the I-phone (oooh, Tim being pro-Apple... how
often does that happen?) from a set-up point of view, and those who have had
them seem very happy with them.
The gripe
At 16:39 05/12/2008, you wrote:
2008/12/5 Paul Stimpson
mailto:p...@stimpsonfamily.co.ukp...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk
Hi,
I've seen cards similar that have a socket for
an external PSU to power the devices. Have you seen any like this?
I would ask the manufacturer is it does have a
current
At 18:45 21/07/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
I was thinking if someone could suggest a LiveCD distribution
that has a good
reputation for a wide range of device detection.
Generally speaking the more modern the distribution the better compatibility
it is likely to provide. Also more
Hello,
I work in a computer workshop and often get PCs in with weird windows install
problems.
I was thinking if someone could suggest a LiveCD distribution that has a good
reputation for a wide range of device detection. Then i would have a
cd that could
proove that the hardware was working
At 23:16 20/07/2009, you wrote:
On Monday 20 July 2009 23:05:47 James Ashburner wrote:
trotter wrote:
Hello,
I work in a computer workshop and often get PCs in with weird windows
install problems.
I was thinking if someone could suggest a LiveCD distribution that has a
good
At 13:26 24/06/2009, you wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:36:11 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton
james.dut...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot see any good reason for going with DAB is the sound quality is
worse!
Not everyone thinks like that though. The success of MP3 over CD as a
distribution format is
At 13:03 24/06/2009, you wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 12:36 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
From reading the DAB standards, European Standard 201 980, it seems
quite clear that the audio quality of DAB, or DAB+ for that matter is
worse than the old FM.
It uses 12kHz or 24kHz sampling
At 12:38 24/06/2009, you wrote:
2009/6/24 James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com:
From reading the DAB standards, European Standard 201 980, it seems
quite clear that the audio quality of DAB, or DAB+ for that matter is
worse than the old FM.
It uses 12kHz or 24kHz sampling when we
Some interesting stuff about FM turn off.
Apologies for not sending a newsletter for a
long time, but as you'll no doubt have heard the
BBC bullies are trying to force DAB upon us (the
BBC lobbied the Government to set an early FM
switch-off date, so the Government merely did
what the BBC
At 06:51 18/06/2009, you wrote:
IIRC Germany are binning DAB due to poor uptake and quality. That
said, most of the cars I've hired in Germany have had DAB radios in them.
Yes they are going to use DAB + instead.
Apparently only the uk and finland? (or some other country near
there) are using
Hello,
I heard this on radio 4 news yesterday.
I have not heard it anywhere else though and was wondering if anyone else had
come across it?
Unfortunately DAB radio is pretty poor using old musicam mp2 leaving FM
sounding better than the newer technology.
Martin N
Owner of the bwfc
At 22:38 17/06/2009, you wrote:
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 22:28:10 trotter wrote:
I have not heard it anywhere else though and was wondering if anyone else
had come across it?
I heard it too, and I have heard it elsewhere. So all our radios
will need to
be junked, including car radios
At 22:44 17/06/2009, you wrote:
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 22:28:10 trotter wrote:
Hello,
I heard this on radio 4 news yesterday.
I have not heard it anywhere else though and was wondering if anyone else
had come across it?
Unfortunately DAB radio is pretty poor using old musicam mp2
At 22:52 17/06/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
Hello,
I heard this on radio 4 news yesterday.
I have not heard it anywhere else though and was wondering if
anyone else had
come across it?
It's one of the proposals in the government's new Digital Britain
paper (along with 2Mbps
At 22:56 17/06/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
Hello,
I heard this on radio 4 news yesterday.
I have not heard it anywhere else though and
was wondering if anyone else had
come across it?
Unfortunately DAB radio is pretty poor using old musicam mp2 leaving FM
sounding better
At 21:28 15/06/2009, you wrote:
Roger Munford wrote:
I have a PC (6 months old) which dual boots windows XP with Ubuntu which
is used by the family. My son switched off the power before Windows shut
down and it doesn't boot anymore. Ubuntu is unaffected and so I don't
believe that any
At 12:05 07/05/2009, you wrote:
Hi,
There is already lots of data regarding backup media like CDs, DVDs,
Tapes etc.
The best being off-site network backup to a remote backup facility.
I cannot find anything on usb flash disks.
Does anyone know how long data will last on a usb flash disk if I
At 23:31 18/04/2009, you wrote:
[1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
nice one, will.
i love the idea of having a basic installation then choosing which
apps you require... i don't need 3 web browsers, 7 email clients and
19 text editors.
in fact, i like this idea so much, i've registered on
At 23:04 13/04/2009, you wrote:
I have looked at the thread last year about which router people recommended,
but would be grateful if people felt able to comment on these - or add any
others that I ought to have included. I would be grateful for both
favourable and unfavourable feedback. I am
At 11:22 13/04/2009, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What is a Shuttle PC?
Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
I've done
At 13:28 13/04/2009, you wrote:
2009/4/13 john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk:
*Sun version 'cos I've had module-mismatch errors trying to use the
Debian sid version. Everytime there is a kernel update (a fairly
frequent occurrence with sid) I'd get errors next time I tried to
start XP.
At 18:41 30/03/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote:
Hi All,
A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered
this issue or at least something similar.
Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to a Pro-Ject
Phono Box
At 20:26 30/03/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
At 18:41 30/03/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote:
Hi All,
A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered
this issue or at least something similar.
Basically I have a Pro-ject
The record company released MiniDisc were awful i would agree.
The recording side got good around version 4.5 of ATRAC earlier versions
were poorer. Cumulating in full Cd quality with HiMD and so no compression.
I don't know what you mean with the screws falling out of the media as none
of my
Hello,
I was looking at this motherboard:
http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/sam.phphttp://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/sam.php
How well do people think this will work with debian lenny?
It will be used as a standard desktop ie internet wordprocessing so theres
nothing to heavy cpu wise.
Yes
Lo,
Since some have been talking about netbooks heres one that arrived on offer
in a flyer email today.
oyyy.co.uk have been ok service wise although i havent sent anything back to
test them.
2Asus EEE PC 900A
8.9 Notebook
RRP:£268.40
Only £209.24
Inc VAT
Martin N
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At 08:05 26/02/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
Where did you buy it from?
Hi Martin,
I bought it through Amazon, from a reseller called SpecialTech [1],
although I must confess I thought it was coming from Amazon directly and
was a little perturbed (as an Amazon seller with a 100% rating
At 15:09 26/02/2009, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
Sounds good.
Looking at the amazons 2 pages of reviews it does seem to be well liked
however there seems to be a problem with the hdmi socket not being
very well made. Did you notice anything with that socket or were you using
the other
At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:03 +, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
Sorry - but if a newbie question - but do people have a favourite
drive imaging program?
I'm looking for something to take an image of both my NASses (is that
how to spell the plural?!)
At 17:25 25/02/2009, you wrote:
On Wednesday 25 February 2009, trotter wrote:
At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
Does either clonezilla or partimage support HFS+ the mac journaling
filesystem? It would reduce the file size of the image a lot if it does.
According to their website it does yes
At 20:33 25/02/2009, you wrote:
At 17:25 25/02/2009, you wrote:
On Wednesday 25 February 2009, trotter wrote:
At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:
Does either clonezilla or partimage support HFS+ the mac journaling
filesystem? It would reduce the file size of the image a lot if it does
At 22:28 25/02/2009, you wrote:
Hugo Mills wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
Take a look at Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/
I think that will satisfy your tech requirements regarding video but
unsure of NFS support. I recall the reviews
At 00:06 06/01/2009, you wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:02:47AM +, trotter wrote:
At 21:06 05/01/2009, you wrote:
Thanks James - that solved it.
I found that the /boot in /etc/fstab was commented out, but I checked in
cfdisk and I definitely did have a boot partition. I
At 23:01 03/12/2008, you wrote:
2008/12/3 Bob Jelf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
on Wed 03 December 2008 21:28 Rob wrote
Part of the problem is the only cable I have that has connectors for both
has no ridge in the centre so I don't know whether I'm alligning it
correctly.
You will find that
At 12:05 01/12/2008, you wrote:
That router is the last piece of kit they're selling in here. Shame, I
used to think they were a decent company.
After their traffic hijacking stunt? There's no way I'd buy Belkin now.
It might have been 5 years ago, but that sort of thing is plain
At 20:28 25/11/2008, you wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:20, Clive Woodfine wrote:
I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop
which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under
Linux?
FTDI[1] sell a wide variety of USB to serial cables with all manner
of
At 17:08 08/11/2008, you wrote:
hi
Got 75
not bad for a newbie huh?
Yeah not bad.
I got 65 with a lot of educated guesses since
I dont use linux that much.
Martin N
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At 13:19 30/10/2008, you wrote:
Phillip Chandler wrote:
Hi Paul.
Have you consider PCLinuxOS ? The 2007 version is rock solid with KDE,
but there is now a 2009 version out, still in Beta but starting to look
good.
Texstar (who is the main person on the distro) came from Mandriva, so
At 16:33 30/10/2008, you wrote:
trotter wrote:
the minime link was down for me yesterday
Does anyone else have a different a different sources as the
ones i googled
refered to pclinuxos website.
Martin N
http://dl.btjunkie.org/torrent/pclinuxos-minime-2008
At 22:27 10/10/2008, you wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:42:03 +0100
David Rozzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I bought this [1] Barebones bundle from Novatech almost 2 weeks ago,
not had any issues with it, installed Opensuse11.0 64bit on it
without any problems at all. It uses the MSI
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