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VCF - Bletchley Hotel / [Ips]: Peter Jennings walk
by samwise 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Following up from last night's discussions, the Peter Jennings ghost walk (which they proudly proclaim has been featured on GMTV!) round Ipswich is on the first Thursday of each month from the Tourist Information Centre, St. Stephens Lane and costs about a fiver, I think. If enough ppl contact me off-list, I'll see if a date can be agreed upon. Also, for those who expressed interest in the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park, here's the link to the The Campanile Hotel which has a … [View More]

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MySQL BETWEEN
by James Bensley 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

SELECT blah, blah, blah FROM tblBlah WHERE date_entered BETWEEN '01/01/2010' AND '20/01/2010' This will select records from my table who's date_entered field is from 01/01/2010 and 19/01/2010. This is because the BETWEEN command seems to go UP TO the day specified but not inclusive. So I thought I would just add +1 on to the data submitted from the PHP search page which works just great except for when you put 31 in as the day of the month, (so say we search from 01/01/2010 to 31/01/2010) it … [View More]

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raw printing, yet again
by Peter Alcibiades 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

OK, following or trying to follow, Wayne's advice, I am attempting to use lp -d star temprint.txt. to print to a raw printer. It does not work. My user account is in the lp group, the printer is set up as raw in cups, and it is named star. When I do lpstat -P star all the jobs have piled up there one after the other, and can be cleared by lprm. There are no failure messages however. I have tried lp -P star -o raw But it seems to not recognize the raw option and to only expect … [View More]

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I was thinking about going tonight
by Ian Porter 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Just wondering who else is going ?

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VNC problem
by Torben Stones 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

I'm having an interesting but very annoying problem. I have set up xtightvncserver (client) on one machine in listen mode, and then use x11vnc (server) on another machine. I connect the server to the viewer using the -connect argument. This works fine, as I can see the servers desktop on the client box as expected. Now I change my routers firewall rules to forward port 5500 to the client, and then try to connect the server to the client, again using the -connect argument, but this time … [View More]

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back this Monday 15th March, at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich. It's directly … [View More]

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OT: GPU fans
by Mark Rogers 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

The fan on the cheap PCI-X graphics card in my Linux box is failing. It's a little (40mm I think) fan mounted into the heatsink. Does anyone know if these can be replaced? It may only be a cheap card but it still seems silly having to pay for a new card just because the fan is dying! Or is there any way to rejuvenate a fan? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Recommendations: Linux Small Form Factor PC
by samwise 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, I'm considering building a small form factor PC to live under and output through my HD TV, primarily for running SDL games initially and I expect I'll stick some form of 64-bit Debian on it. I'm thinking a Mini-ITX size would be about right - something that will fit comfortably under the TV, but doesn't need to be too small. I'd like to stick in a pretty big hard drive (> 1 TB) and probably 4GB RAM at least. Graphics wise, I've had issues getting the official Nvidia binary drivers in … [View More]

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Samba share permissions
by Maz Walker 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

I meant to send this to the list but sent it to mark by mistake, sorry! Been lurking for a while so I guess this is hello! > Is there a better way for me to be connecting to the Linux-based server so > that I can access the same files that the Windows users are using through a > mounted share? Yes, the way we do it at work is like this [sharename] force group sambafiles force user sambafiles path = /where/it/is create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 writable = yes write list = @… [View More]

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server startup
by Peter Alcibiades 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Thanks to Mick for offline help. Meanwhile, can I ask for help on something which is so simple no-one seems to write about it? I have installed minimal debian, and then added the requisite stuff for nfs and cherokee and SSH. I'm fine with configuring both of them through the command line, and then in the cherokee case login in and using a web browser. Vi or emacs it will never be, but nano is fine. The command line in general is fine. Its just I never set up a server before. The … [View More]

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