From les.pritchard at gmail.com Fri Mar 7 22:39:40 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:39:40 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Linux Fast Boot Message-ID: Interesting piece of hardware.... http://www.linux.com/feature/128004 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuart.james.burns at gmail.com Mon Mar 10 10:07:45 2008 From: stuart.james.burns at gmail.com (Stuart Burns) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:07:45 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Request for Memory module Message-ID: Hi Everyone, I know its a long ask but does anyone have any 128MB ECC PC133 modules that are surplus to requirements. If so, please let me know. Thanks Stuart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From les.pritchard at gmail.com Mon Mar 24 17:57:21 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:57:21 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Your help required! Message-ID: Hi all, I'm involved in a project with a local charity that is aiming to improve the standard of living for visually impaired people with technology. One part of the project has been to create a best practice guide for organisations to create fully accessible websites based on a CMS. We have chosen Joomla for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because it is Open Source. The charity is currently developing their own website as an example of a fully accessible website and we're looking for some volunteers to donate a little bit of their time and skills to the project. The site is structured in a modular format and we need various modules developing. All of these modules are reasonably simple, but will help build a good example of a website that is open to all. All work will be released as Open Source code and will also be included with the best practice guide (which will be freely available) so it can help others create their sites. On a side note, it will also help promote Open Source software to organisations that may not have previously considered it. The project is going to be presented to a variety of companies, technical and non-technical and will be receiving some media publicity. Anyone who helps develop a module will receive full credit on the website. So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate some time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact with me and I'll provide you with some more information. Thanks! Les -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From smedley358 at btinternet.com Mon Mar 24 20:47:24 2008 From: smedley358 at btinternet.com (Richard Smedley) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:47:24 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Your help required! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1206391889.29498.6.camel@localhost> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:57 +0000, Les Pritchard wrote: > So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate > some time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact > with me and I'll provide you with some more information. Hello Les, While I'm more Python+Plone myself, I'm on at least one list where help may be found. Do you mind your e-mail being forwarded? Cheers, - Richard From dh at iucr.org Mon Mar 24 23:18:55 2008 From: dh at iucr.org (David Holden) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:18:55 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Your help required! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200803242318.47178.dh@iucr.org> On Monday 24 March 2008, Les Pritchard wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm involved in a project with a local charity that is aiming to improve > the standard of living for visually impaired people with technology. One > part of the project has been to create a best practice guide for > organisations to create fully accessible websites based on a CMS. We have > chosen Joomla for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because it is > Open Source. > Just curious, why Joomla? as opposed to Drupal, CMS, modx.... Dave. > The charity is currently developing their own website as an example of a > fully accessible website and we're looking for some volunteers to donate a > little bit of their time and skills to the project. The site is structured > in a modular format and we need various modules developing. All of these > modules are reasonably simple, but will help build a good example of a > website that is open to all. > > All work will be released as Open Source code and will also be included > with the best practice guide (which will be freely available) so it can > help others create their sites. On a side note, it will also help promote > Open Source software to organisations that may not have previously > considered it. The project is going to be presented to a variety of > companies, technical and non-technical and will be receiving some media > publicity. Anyone who helps develop a module will receive full credit on > the website. > > So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate some > time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact with me and > I'll provide you with some more information. > > Thanks! > > Les -- Dr. David Holden. See: regarding Word or PowerPoint. GPG key available on request. ------------------------------------------------------------- From les.pritchard at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 01:20:20 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:20:20 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Your help required! In-Reply-To: <1206391889.29498.6.camel@localhost> References: <1206391889.29498.6.camel@localhost> Message-ID: Hi Richard, Yes, thanks that would be really good. It would also be useful to get your thoughts on building similar sites in Plone. Whilst Joomla has been chosen for this project, I'd like to have some material on other CMSs. Thanks Les On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Richard Smedley wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:57 +0000, Les Pritchard wrote: > > So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate > > some time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact > > with me and I'll provide you with some more information. > > Hello Les, > > While I'm more Python+Plone myself, I'm on at least one list > where help may be found. Do you mind your e-mail being > forwarded? > > Cheers, > > - Richard > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chester mailing list > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From les.pritchard at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 01:31:07 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:31:07 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] LUG Meet on Thursday Message-ID: Whilst I'm emailing the list, I thought I'd send a quick reminder that we have the monthly LUG meet this Thursday at 7pm in the Old King's Head. There are a few potential events / ideas for the LUG to get involved with so we can chat about them on Thursday. See you there Les -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From les.pritchard at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 12:41:33 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:41:33 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Your help required! In-Reply-To: <200803251025.26875.dh@iucr.org> References: <200803242318.47178.dh@iucr.org> <200803251025.26875.dh@iucr.org> Message-ID: Yes documentation seems to be the problem that comes up with a lot of these products. Especially because each one has their own way of doing things that is normally not obvious at first. I spent a bit of time setting up a site with Drupal, tweaking it and finding out where all the options were. Then I made the mistake of upgrading the box and I ended up back at square 1. Thanks for that link, I'll have a play with that CMS. Les On 3/25/08, David Holden wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Les Pritchard wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > It was a few reasons, we wanted a popular CMS with a good set of > features > > and we'd had some good feedback from some people who use screen readers > > that Joomla sites as standard worked well. Also, the sysadmin who'll be > > maintaining it seems to like it - so that's always good! > > > > As I said in the other email to Richard, although we're primarily > looking > > at Joomla, if we can build information on other CMSs that will be really > > good. > > > > Thanks > > > > Les > > > > Hi Les, > > We've been looking at a few, I think the main problem we've found is > poor > documentation (OS'es bane). With regard to Joomla, I think we discounted > this > because it did not easily to +2 levels of categorization. > > > > > sysadmin who'll be > > maintaining it seems to like it > > > this overides most things. > > The person who will be doing the most work with whatever we go with is > taken > by mysource matrix http://matrix.squiz.net, it has very good > documentation, > however it is licensed it two way, there is the open source version and a > comercially supported version. > > Dave. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:18 PM, David Holden wrote: > > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Les Pritchard wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm involved in a project with a local charity that is aiming to > > > > improve the standard of living for visually impaired people with > > > > technology. > > > > > > One > > > > > > > part of the project has been to create a best practice guide for > > > > organisations to create fully accessible websites based on a > CMS. We > > > > > > have > > > > > > > chosen Joomla for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because > it > > > > > > is > > > > > > > Open Source. > > > > > > Just curious, why Joomla? as opposed to Drupal, CMS, modx.... > > > > > > Dave. > > > > > > > The charity is currently developing their own website as an example > of > > > > a fully accessible website and we're looking for some volunteers to > > > > donate > > > > > > a > > > > > > > little bit of their time and skills to the project. The site is > > > > > > structured > > > > > > > in a modular format and we need various modules developing. All of > > > > > > these > > > > > > > modules are reasonably simple, but will help build a good example of > a > > > > website that is open to all. > > > > > > > > All work will be released as Open Source code and will also be > included > > > > with the best practice guide (which will be freely available) so it > can > > > > help others create their sites. On a side note, it will also help > > > > > > promote > > > > > > > Open Source software to organisations that may not have previously > > > > considered it. The project is going to be presented to a variety of > > > > companies, technical and non-technical and will be receiving some > media > > > > publicity. Anyone who helps develop a module will receive full > credit > > > > on the website. > > > > > > > > So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate > > > > some time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact > > > > with me > > > > > > and > > > > > > > I'll provide you with some more information. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Les > > > > > > -- > > > Dr. David Holden. > > > > > > See: > > > regarding Word or PowerPoint. GPG key available on request. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > > Dr. David Holden. > > See: > regarding Word or PowerPoint. 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URL: From rcgibson at talktalk.net Tue Mar 25 22:46:47 2008 From: rcgibson at talktalk.net (Roger Gibson) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:46:47 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Free stuff! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47E980C4.6000907@talktalk.net> Hi Stuart, a couple of dial up modem cards if suitable would be very useful. Boxes don't often come with them these days, and with flaky broadband, dial up is often useful to bridge the gap. I'm hoping to come Thursday, if only to be told what a pillock I am for inflicting an MS server on a charity, but if I miss, I see David Holden quite a bit, so he could pass a couple on. Roger Stuart Burns said the following on 25/03/2008 22:18: > Does anyone require a celeron 1.2 GHZ (May be 1.8 can't remember) > with ~384MB RAM. Can also throw in a 20 GB HDD if anyone wants it. Got > a case too, it's a beater but it works. If not, no probs, off to the > recycling it goes. > > Got a few PCMCIA good Xircom 10/100 MB/56K modem network cards. Again, > anyone wants one, let me know. > > Stu > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Chester mailing list > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From les.pritchard at gmail.com Thu Mar 27 16:57:25 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:57:25 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Reminder: Meet tonight Message-ID: Hi all, Just a reminder that the March LUG meeting is tonight at 7pm in the Old King's Head. If you're new to the meets and can't find us in the pub, give me a ring on 07905 957838. See you there Les -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fixitkwiknow at supanet.com Thu Mar 27 22:54:31 2008 From: fixitkwiknow at supanet.com (Brian Lees) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:54:31 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Reminder: Meet tonight In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47EC259A.8030304@supanet.com> Thanks for the reminder, Les. I've been suffering since monday with some viral infection which started out with cold symptoms but is now in the stomach. So I decided to do everyone a favour and NOT attend. BUT.....I could not locate the OLD King's Head in either the Chester telephone book nor the Chester & North Wales Yellow Pages. I think there was a King's Head in the Broughton area but nothing else. Can you provide me with an address for future use? Thanks, Brian Lees. Les Pritchard wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a reminder that the March LUG meeting is tonight at 7pm in the > Old King's Head. If you're new to the meets and can't find us in the > pub, give me a ring on 07905 957838. > > See you there > > Les > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Chester mailing list > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.0/1344 - Release Date: 26/03/2008 08:52 > From les.pritchard at gmail.com Fri Mar 28 00:08:50 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:08:50 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Reminder: Meet tonight In-Reply-To: <47EC259A.8030304@supanet.com> References: <47EC259A.8030304@supanet.com> Message-ID: Hi Brian, Thanks for sparing us from the bugs! The pub is on Lower Bridge Street; full details below. Hopefully we'll see you next month. Les 48-50 Lower Bridge St Chester, CH1 1RS 01244 324855‎ On 3/27/08, Brian Lees wrote: > > Thanks for the reminder, Les. I've been suffering since monday with some > viral infection which started out with cold symptoms but is now in the > stomach. So I decided to do everyone a favour and NOT attend. > BUT.....I could not locate the OLD King's Head in either the Chester > telephone book nor the Chester & North Wales Yellow Pages. I think > there was a King's Head in the Broughton area but nothing else. Can you > provide me with an address for future use? > Thanks, > > Brian Lees. > > Les Pritchard wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just a reminder that the March LUG meeting is tonight at 7pm in the > > Old King's Head. If you're new to the meets and can't find us in the > > pub, give me a ring on 07905 957838. > > > > See you there > > > > Les > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Chester mailing list > > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG. > > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.0/1344 - Release Date: > 26/03/2008 08:52 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chester mailing list > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Regards Stuart On 29/03/2008, George Vincent wrote: > > Hi > > You got rid of this yet? > > I'm involved in Wrexham freecycle and Freeconomy Wrexham and know two or > three people who build new machines from old to give away on the free > networks, so I'd be happy to pass the stuff onto them if that's any help. > > Cheers > > Genny > > --- On *Tue, 25/3/08, Stuart Burns * wrote: > > From: Stuart Burns > Subject: [Chester LUG] Free stuff! > To: "chester" > Date: Tuesday, 25 March, 2008, 10:18 PM > > Does anyone require a celeron 1.2 GHZ (May be 1.8 can't remember) with > ~384MB RAM. Can also throw in a 20 GB HDD if anyone wants it. Got a case > too, it's a beater but it works. If not, no probs, off to the recycling it > goes. > > Got a few PCMCIA good Xircom 10/100 MB/56K modem network cards. Again, > anyone wants one, let me know. > > Stu > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chester mailing list > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > > > ------------------------------ > Yahoo! for Good helps you make a difference > _______________________________________________ > Chester mailing list > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From les.pritchard at gmail.com Sun Mar 30 21:27:02 2008 From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:27:02 -0000 Subject: [Chester LUG] Always nice to see... Message-ID: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/29/ubuntu_left_standing/ The fact that OS X lost out to Vista is also pretty funny! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: