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System Recovery
by Steve Fosdick 01 May '09

01 May '09

I recently had a request from a friend to get his Windows PC working because it gets stuck at some point in the boot process. Assuming he wants to keep his data and the manufacturer have not had the foresight to create OS and data partitions it seems to me there are these options for this kind of task: 1. Obtain windows specific recovery tools to try to fix the boot problem without destroying the data. 2. Copy the data from the hard disk to somewhere else, re-install and then put the data back. For the second option again I can see two possibilities: 1. Take out the hard disk, mount it in a machine that works and copy the files onto the working machine's hard disk. 2. Boot a Live CD on the broken machine and copy the files over the network to a working machine. Of the above two I have done number one, moving the hard disk, before and it is usually pretty straightforward but in this case the broken machine is a laptop so I don't know what luck I'd have trying to mount the hard disk in a desktop machine. So, I'm contemplating the second option and I'd like to know, please, if anyone has any favourites or recommendations of live CDs that are good for this purpose or any other ideas or suggestions. Steve.

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Syleham Location Info
by Steve Fosdick 01 May '09

01 May '09

Does anyone have either house number or the co-ordinates (either national grid or long/lat) of the village hall at Syleham, please? Steve.

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Redhat 6.0 discs
by Adam Bower 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi all, As part of the wanting to get a machine up and running with redhat 6.0 on it for Alug 10.0 I've come across a small problem... that being nowhere i can find on the Interwebbytubez seems to have a .iso of it. Can anybody help at all? Looking in the back of the bits cupboard etc. would be much appreciated if someone can find a (working) copy! I also find it a bit scary to see how much of this what I assume people think of as "boring legacy crap" is no longer available for download. I wonder if in the future it will be interesting for computing archaeology students? Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Syleham lift
by Wayne Stallwood 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I am travelling from Bury St Edmunds to the Syleham meet and intend to be there for the full duration. If you need a lift and are on route..or can be collected from somewhere that doesn't require a major deviation, then I currently have 3 spare seats (four if you all get on really well and don't bring too much kit) Send me a mail off list if you need picking up and I will see what I can do.

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Samsung phones and Linux
by Mark Rogers 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I'm considering upgrading my mobile. Having been with Nokia for most of my mobile life, I'm getting frustrated with their phones firmware (great when you first use them, but like Windows they just get slower and slower with use; it now takes me several seconds to open the Messaging application on my N82). And I've never had any real joy connecting the Nokia to my Linux box. I'm considering Samsung phones (in particular the Pixon) but have never used Samsung before. Can anyone give me any advice as to how well I'll be able to connect my phone to my Linux box? Googling for "Linux Samsung Pixon" got me nowhere (nothing relevant, not even people trying, never mind succeeding or failing!) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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OT: Are there any Bluetooth gurus here - bluetooth question
by Chris G 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Are there any bluetooth gurus here? First:- Can anyone tell me where I might find a bluetooth FAQ of any sort which might tell me something useful about how bluetooth devices interconnect (or don't)? The 'official' http://www.bluetooth.com site is pretty useless - or at least I can't get any useful information out of it. Second:- Is there such a thing as a bluetooth 'pseudo phone' that will connect by bluetooth to a device (such as a headset) that is expecting a bluetooth phone to connect to it? I wan't to send and receive audio to/from a bluetooth headset but the headset will only pair with a bluetooth phone. The second question is the reason for the first really, I was trying to find out the answer for myself but without much luck. I *think* I have got as far as understanding that there are different types of bluetooth device and there are defined protocols for them to talk to each other but I can't find out what types there are and what will talk to what. -- Chris Green

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Ubuntu & Xubuntu Questions.
by Simon Royal 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi I am a Mac user with an interest in Linux. I have a PowerBook G4 867Mhz with 1GB of RAM, so am looking at the PowerPC ports of Ubuntu. I spoke to a couple of people that said the latest version - 9.04 - doesn't run too well on machines under 1Ghz, so was looking at Xubuntu which is better suited for older machines. It says it will run on G3 with 128MB of RAM comfortably - making it probably pretty quick on a machine with mid range G4 with 1GB. Has anyone used Xubuntu? Does it differ much to Ubuntu apart from using the XFE desktop environment? Does the latest 9.04 support Broadcom based Airport Extreme cards - I have a Buffalo card which OSX picks up as an AE card. Secondly, I'd like some booting advice. I am triple booting OS9, OSX Tiger and OSX Leopard at the moment and was looking to maybe quad boot - so I would need to resize some of the partitions. Or I might just install it where the Tiger partition is. Does the Xubuntu installer cater for multi booting with OSX? Is there an option to select which OS is the default to boot into. I had Ubuntu 6 and Tiger on a PowerBook G3 before and could never get Yaboot to select OSX by default. Any help would be grateful. Simon Royal --- Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on 'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 & 9.2.2...)

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JOB: Permanent Statistical Programmer | LOCATION: London, England, UK
by jt＠camalyn.org 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

JOB: Permanent Stats Programmer LOCATION: London, England, UK Hi List, I'm working with a business in London that are looking to hire a permanent programmer with experience of working on developing either mathematical or numerical programs. You need to have experience of both scripting (R would be very applicable!) and also compiled languages. Experience of using MySQL or similar would be preferential too. Please email me using james(a)camalyn.org if you have any questions or if you would like to discuss this opportunity further. Thanks, JAMES >> to learn more about Camalyn please visit http://www.camalyn.org

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a wiki page for netbooks that are available in the uk
by Albert Vilella 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi all, Does anybody know if there is a page somewhere with updated models and prices for all netbooks available in the UK? If not, where would people expect this page to be? Wikipedia? Albert.

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Re: [ALUG] Redhat 6.0 discs
by Bev Nicolson 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

<<If anyone starts up an archive, I've also got Mandrake 7.0 :) Tony>> And I've got SUSE 8.2. Not /that/ old but still. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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