[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1645, Issue 1

Fri Nov 15 09:16:54 UTC 2013

A wifi pineapple sounds intriguing....

Julian
On 15 Nov 2013 00:32, "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

> Indeed nearly always busy will try & get to one of the meetings probably
> won't be till the new year...
>
> Although if I see anything I can help with on here I'm always happy to
> help...
> As I've been away for so long...
> I'm a casual user of Linux I love the network security side of Linux...
> I run Ubuntu, opensuse I also run Kali Linux which is a pentesting
> distro...
> I have 3 WiFi pineapples which I can bring along to a meeting and also a
> battery powered raspberry pi...
> If anyone is interested I'd demo as well..
>
> Catch up soon...
>
> Dave  :-)
>
>
>
> Pete <info at lifespacedesign.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Hi Dave, welcome back - hope you're thriving :)
> >Pete H@
> >
> >On 14/11/13 19:42, Julian Robbins wrote:
> >> Hi Dave
> >>
> >> Yes this is your registered email address-I didn't have to approve it
> >> first  :-)
> >>
> >> Julian
> >> On 14 Nov 2013 13:18, "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Not sure if this is my registered email address but you used to be
> able to
> >>> point the upgrade disc to itself
> >>> This would allow the install sounds like upgrade version though..
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>> Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> Its not really an answer as I don't use Windows 8, so cant help there
> too
> >>>> much .
> >>>>
> >>>> But, have you considered installing Linux as your primary os, then
> >>>> (assuming you have enough ram), using VirtualBox to install Windows 8
> on
> >>>> top on your Linux? With Virtualbox you can take whole disk snapshots
> of
> >>> the
> >>>> virtual machine, so you can for example get it set up and before you
> make
> >>> a
> >>>> major change on your virtualised Windows system, you can snapshot it
> >>>> beforehand, that way its simply to just revert a whole OS
> install/upgrade
> >>>> if required. The snaphot is just a large file in the linux
> filesystem, so
> >>>> the snapshots are entirely safe.
> >>>>
> >>>> There are other ways to do this - I use KVM, using virt-manager which
> has
> >>>> better performance but doesnt have the 3D capabilities that VirtualBox
> >>> has.
> >>>> Otherwise you could use Ghost or Clonezilla to make an image of the
> disk
> >>>> and then just copy it to another disk. As long as the disk you are
> >>>> transferring it to is bigger than the original disk it works fine.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Julian
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 13 November 2013 23:48, Sean Parry <
> sean at seanparry.free-online.co.uk
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Has anyone got any ideas on this?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just built a new Windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
> >>>>> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive.
> >>> Without
> >>>>> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So it looks as if I
> >>> might
> >>>>> end up having to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it,
> >>> with
> >>>>> Windows 8 in order to get it to load!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sean
> >>>>> On 13.11.2013 12:00, herefordshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     1. Please Miss my pen has stopped working (Steve Horsfield)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Message: 1
> >>>>>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:02:18 +0000
> >>>>>> From: Steve Horsfield <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
> >>>>>>          <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> >>>>>> Subject: [HLUG] Please Miss my pen has stopped working
> >>>>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>>>          <CAE6ab9g612-2gcWj6YAA=rtT2NJm72BFnNnwvF5s78_v97_ZfQ at mail.
> >>>>>> gmail.com>
> >>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> GIMP is glorious and buckshee, but judging from the online forums,
> >>> finding
> >>>>>> that it won't write, won't draw and won't paint for no obvious
> reason
> >>> is a
> >>>>>> fairly common occurrence. Sometimes it has something to do with its
> >>>>>> multitude of layers and the solution appears to lie in selecting
>  the
> >>>>>> right
> >>>>>> layer, but my favourite solution to the not writing, not painting,
> not
> >>>>>> drawing problem is to choose 'All' from the 'Select' menu. So often
> it
> >>>>>> works, I've no idea why.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Steve Horsfield
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I just built a new windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
> >>>>> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive.
> >>> Without
> >>>>> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So I it looks as if I
> >>> might
> >>>>> have to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it, with
> >>> Windows 8
> >>>>> in order to get it to load!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
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