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Spreading the word
by Chris Penston 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Hi everybody, I don't post that much from here in lonely Lynn but I just thought I'd let you know about a little Xmas success story that occurred this year. You might remember me mentioning my 83 year old mother who unknowingly uses Ubuntu for her computing needs (and incidentally now wouldn't be without her Android tablet). Well, cash being tight, I decided to take a chance with a present for my 3 year old nice by putting Qimo for kids on a 10 year old laptop and see what happened. Needless to say it was a great success. I received a text from her mum on boxing day, telling me she thought the present was "a stroke of genius" as Ellie hasn't stopped playing with her 'pooter' since and won't be parted from it. So a big thank you to the wonderful Linux community for the fantastic work that you all do for making one little girl's Xmas so special. Happy New Year to you all. Chris

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Auto dating?
by Chris Walker 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

I guess that I am like many others who use dates to file emails. So I have folders inside Sylpheed and Claws like ALUG->2013-December and so on. But of course we're nearing a year end. Is there any way to automate the creation of directories and filters for email programs? I've looked online and see something similar for Thunderbird but not for Claws and Sylpheed. Does anybody have any ideas about the best way to do this? Or is it best to do it manually?

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Cross platform calendar syncing
by Chris Walker 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

I've just bought myself a new phone to replace my ageing Nokia N900 and now want to migrate the 6 calendars I have on that to the new phone. But while I'm doing that, I thought I ought to find a way to sync them with a desktop calendar, or some other calendar and that's the purpose of this mail. I was confused by the URL of this - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Radicale/ to imagine that it ran on a Raspberry Pi but is it a practical proposition to run something like Radicale on a Pi so that I can sync calendars from for example, a Blackberry Playbook, the N900, this 'ere linux box, a Windows machine and my new phone which is a Jolla device? Or should I think of something else, which doesn't necessarily have to run on a Pi?

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Re: [ALUG] Wifi and network monitoring
by mark fernandes 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Greenfield mode on Virgin routers discussed here (basically router then only supports n - no a/b/g) http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Up-to-30Mb-Setup-Equipment/Greenfield-m… HTH, Mark

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server load issues
by Jenny Hopkins 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hullo there, I'm troubleshooting a debian server that is intermittently freezing up and consuming 100% cpu. The problems began about five days ago. At around this time two things changed: exim configuration, and a related server IP (where this server sends on some of its mail). There have also been various package upgrades. The changes to exim were minimal - change of relay address, so are likely to be unrelated, but thought I'd better mention them. Munin shows a grapical report of the load here: http://aleph1.co.uk/munin/aleph1.co.uk/stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk/load.html The strange thing is how it was spiking like mad on the 12/13th then calmed down for a few days until yesterday. I can't seem to isolate any particular process on the server when this happens. Restarting various services can bring it down, but there is no indication that these processes are going particularly mad beforehand. I can't find anything in the server logs reporting anything unusual amiss. There seems to be plenty memory and swap space on the system. I've been running htop and trying to catch what starts the freezing, but it seems different every time - a process will show it is using 100% CPU, then htop itself goes sluggish with lag and when it next shows something there are several processes using 100% CPU in a queue. It can then take up to two minutes to type a command into an ssh terminal. iotop doesn't show anything significant either. Unfortunately these tools are also subject to lag so are probably not showing the current state at time of freeze anyway. I've tried running tools like iostat, but fail miserably to understand the resulting jumble of numbers. If anyone can point me to better diagnostic tools, or give any hint of where to look for the culprit of this behaviour, I'd be most grateful. Cheers, Jenny

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Mulberry Tree ALUG
by samwise 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

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 today, 16th December, at 20:00: The Mulberry Tree 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 225776 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA WWW: https://www.facebook.com/MULBERRYHOSPITALITY The Mulberry Tree, previously known as The Milestone Beer House, is a grade 2 listed building in the centre of Ipswich. It is located at the intersection between Woodbridge Road and the A1156, across the road from the old Odeon cinema and not far from the Regent Theatre. It re-opened on Thursday March 29th 2012 after a major refurbishment, under its original name of The Mulberry House and has already begun to regain a good reputation for its selection of beers and ales. It has a sizeable car park to the rear of the building. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Cheers, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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On-line backups
by Laurie Brown 14 Dec '13

14 Dec '13

Hi folks, Does anyone on the list have any recommendations for secure, reasonably-priced on-line backup services that are Linux-friendly? Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie(a)brownowl.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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Force quit command?
by Bev Nicolson 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

The force quit applet on the panel freezes everything so I've ditched that but Libre Office is still unresponsive having tried to open a .docx file. I've tried killall -9 in Terminal but it doesn't recognise that. What's the command now? TIA. Bev (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.)

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Re: [ALUG] Fwd: Re: ALUG Posting Etiquette - was Cross-platform text file processing tools
by Steve Engledow 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

On 05/12/13 12:20, mbm wrote: > Me too. But can we add "Please avoid top posting" > > Mick :-) > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse both brevity > and top posting. > ----------------------------------------------------- And sigs that present lame excuses for doing so? ;) Steve

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HTOP help
by Bev Nicolson 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

I get the impression that it takes longer for this machine to boot than it used to when I had to use Windows because I was still unsure how to install Ubtunu. Advised that HTOP would be a good choice I have installed it. Now, how do I use? Can someone explain it to me? What would a problem figure be for example, and how would I deal with it? Ta. Bev.

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