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Re: [ALUG] Up for grabs...
by Montmorency 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, at 12:00 pm, main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:27:45 +0100 > From: Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Up for grabs... > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Message-ID: <4C1E4181.8040108(a)digimatic.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 20/06/10 16:28, Bellphegore wrote: >> Flexible, roll-up, rubber, USB keyboard. >> >> Red (in case that matters). >> >> Say, and it's yours at the next pub-meet. >> > > (holds up hand) > > Me me me, I might even buy you a pint :) > OK.... katsmeat montmorency(a)ukfsn.org bellphegore(a)nerdshack.com

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Arduino Help
by James Bensley 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Is my Arduino duffed or me? Started a new project today, hooked up a 16x2 LCD, and a potentiometer. To start with the screen is simply displaying the reading from the pot with analogRead("PotPinNumber") but its fluctuating like mad: Here is a video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgEm7czlUVg YT has cut eh quality so it isn't very clear!), to start with I have turned the pot to max and you can see the fluctuation in the reading, then I unplug the pot from the analog input so it should be reading nothing but it drops to about 450 and fluctuates around there when surely it should drop to 0 (mystery voltage from somewhere perhaps?), then I plug the pot back in the analog input and you can see it go back up and fluctuate. This is the case irrelevant of which port the pot is plugged into and weather it is plugged in or not it still reads something? Is the Arduino dead or am I dead? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand trinary, those who don't understand trinary and those who don't understand trinary.

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Locating duplicate images (fslint?)
by Mark Rogers 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

I have an "images" directory with several subdirectories (and sub-sub-directories), one of them called "products". Pretty much every image in the "products" directory is a duplicate of an image in the parent "images" directory or one of its other subdirectories, although with a different filename (binary contents will be the same, and there's a good chance that the timestamp will also be the same although this is not guaranteed). I want to locate the duplicates, and remove them - the ones I must keep are the ones in the "products" subdirectory. Ideally I'd like to move the duplicates into a temporary directory (retaining their sub-directory paths) rather than delete them in case I need to restore them, but deletion wouldn't be too bad (I can take backups first, although it's on a hosted server and the "images" directory is 1.1G, with free space on the server a little less than that, so just duplicating the directory won't be as easy as it might sound - the lack of free space is one of the main reasons I need to do this!). Oh, and there are some sub-directories I'd like to exclude. So: Which tools should I look at? fslint springs to mind but I've never really used it in anger and the documentation seems a bit vague. The GUI option is out because there's no X on the server. Are there other, better (more appropriate) tools? -- 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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Up for grabs...
by Bellphegore 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Flexible, roll-up, rubber, USB keyboard. Red (in case that matters). Say, and it's yours at the next pub-meet. Bellphegore bellphegore(a)nerdshack.com montmorency(a)ukfsn.org

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Any git users here?
by Jenny Hopkins 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Hullo, Does anyone use GIT? I want to know if one can use git-archive to retrieve a tarball snapshot of head revision at or before an instructed date. Google is not being my friend. Thanks, Jenny

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HOWTO: Getting started with OpenVPN
by Martin A. Brooks 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

I wanted an OpenVPN server, but didn't want to mess around with client certificates. It took me more googling than I liked to figure it out, so I wrote the procedure down: http://hinterlands.org/wiki/index.php/OpenVPNQuickstart

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DropBox Wont Install
by Simon Royal 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi I use DropBox to backup my pictures. I have used it for years and think it is brilliant. I sync my pictures folder across different machines including my iBook G3 and my XP partition on my ThinkPad. I had it also installed under Xubuntu on my ThinkPad, however I cannot get it to work under Ubuntu. I installed the package from the Ubuntu Softwre Centre, that went fine. The first you run it it has to download the daemon and that is where it goes wrong. It is very slow downloading it and then it sits at 91% and doesnt move. Any ideas? I tried Googling the problem but I couldn't find any answers. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Ubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Ubuntu Start Up Sound All Of A Sudden
by Simon Royal 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi As you probably know I have finally gotten sound working on my ThinkPad. I got audio CDs working, MP3s working and web sounds like YouTube. I have had it working for about a week and it has been fine. However, this morning I turned on my machine, booted it, installed the updates Update Manager told me to and rebooted. On reboot, I heard for the first time ever on this machine the Ubuntu start up chime. I've not changed any of the settings apart from installing the updates, and my sound voulme has always been up full.Just curious to why it has suddenly started. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Ubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

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Signal to switch GNOME "workspaces"
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi Folks, I run GNOME with 20 "workspaces", between which I normally switch using keys Ctrl+Alt+<arrow key>. I'm looking for a way to get an application (or script) to send a signal to the display manager such that the display would switch automatically switch from whatever "workspace" it is in to some other designated one (i.e. so that I don't have to use the keys -- it would be under program control). By the way: I'm not sure which "display manager" programme looks after switching between "desktops" -- is it gdm, metacity, or what? With thanks for any suggestions, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 18-Jun-10 Time: 09:47:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Ubuntu Update Manager Oddness
by Simon Royal 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi. Im running the latest Ubuntu. Update Manager popped up saying I had 80 updates. So I thought ok, ill update. I clicked the Install Updates button and it asked for my password. I typed it in and it did nothing. It just went back to the update screen. After a couple of days of trying I realised I was typing the wrong password in and once I typed the right one in it worked fine. My point is, it never told me I had typed the wrong password in, which I thought was very stupid. I use very old hardware and sometimes Ubuntu doesnt play right because I am using it on such under powered hardware and at first I thought that was the problem. Simon --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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