From johnnie.ingram at moviestorm.co.uk Mon Mar 8 13:04:26 2010 From: johnnie.ingram at moviestorm.co.uk (Johnnie Ingram) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:04:26 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected Message-ID: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well. I hit a weird problem on my main linux box over the weekend. I'm hoping it'll turn out to be one of those problems with an embarrassingly obvious answer, but so far it's got me baffled. Here's the situation: My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday, everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought. I unplugged the keyboard. I plugged it into three seperate laptops (Linux Mint 8, Windows Vista, and some mad Puppy derivative that I'd forgotten I'd even installed). Keyboard worked fine in all three. I tried some other USB peripherals in the USB port on my main machine normally used for my keyboard. All seemed to work fine, so the USB port wasn't dead. Just in case, I tried the keyboard in 3 other USB slots. Still didn't work. "Right", I thought, "Dodgy keyboard. Best get another." So, I've just been out and bought a cheap USB keyboard from Argos. Plugged it in, still no functioning keyboard. I grabbed an old ubuntu live install disk and booted that up in my main machine. It worked, including the keyboard. So. What's going wrong? I should point out that the keyboard fails at GRUB, long before we even get to an OS. There's something deep going on. Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment. Johnnie - -- ___________________ Johnnie Ingram Product Manager Moviestorm Ltd ___________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkuU58IACgkQ4J4LFInQ/fOb5wCggjXS06E3M9Fkj7nT6X6vNISB /0AAn2Tb0jU18TFHUXp2c4s81QH3PuCL =VSay -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: johnnie_ingram.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 336 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100308/3a6f4fd9/attachment.vcf From wawrzek at gmail.com Fri Mar 12 01:03:30 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:03:30 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian Message-ID: Hi, By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it doesn't reinstall a missing file. Any ideas what to do? Wawrzek PS. The OS is Debian 5.0 Lenny. -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From dom at latter.org Tue Mar 16 17:22:28 2010 From: dom at latter.org (dom at latter.org) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:28 +0100 Subject: Using upstream kernels... In-Reply-To: <4B75A8B6.1010106@latter.org> References: <4B75A8B6.1010106@latter.org> Message-ID: <4B9FB044.206@latter.org> dom at latter.org wrote: > I've compiled and booted it, but networking doesn't work. Further > investigation reveals that there's only about seven modules, and the > kernel config is set to build everything into the kernel. But > surprisingly the custom kernel isn't *that* much bigger than a > typical Ubuntu one: > 3968128 2010-02-08 17:14 bzImage-2.6.32.custom > 3491824 2010-01-28 04:29 vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic If there's any interest here, some kernel sizes and initramdisk sizes. This is on Ubuntu 9.04, 32 bit intel chip. First entry is current up-to-date official distro kernel, second is the "official" 2.6.32 kernel, third is the one I rolled myself. vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic - 3491824 vmlinuz-2.6.32-02063208-generic - 3999264 vmlinuz-2.6.32.8 - 3257600 initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic - 7561214 initrd.img-2.6.32-02063208-generic - 8334989 initrd-2.6.32.8.img - 3541259 From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:09:12 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:09:12 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay Message-ID: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? The March archive has three messages which I have not received. http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-March/thread.html I recall this happened before but I don't remember if it was fixed or not. Tom From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:10:51 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:51 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Message-ID: <20100318101051.GM28750@weber> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:09:12AM +0000, Tom Ellis wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? > > The March archive has three messages which I have not received. > > http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-March/thread.html NB, the most recent message I recieved at the time of writing is the following: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-February/007923.html So I'm getting a delay of about a month! From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:16:17 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:16:17 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote: > By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' > rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried > reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it > doesn't reinstall a missing file. Perhaps use dpkg-deb -x to extract the contents of the CUPS .deb, and then copy the file over by hand. From gareth.pullen at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 11:21:38 2010 From: gareth.pullen at gmail.com (Gareth Pullen) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:21:38 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies if someone's already responded but this just popped into my inbox. dpkg-reconfigure should do what you want. - "dpkg-reconfigure cups", it'll replace the config file for you. Gareth. 2010/3/12 Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski > Hi, > > By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' > rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried > reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it > doesn't reinstall a missing file. > > Any ideas what to do? > > Wawrzek > PS. The OS is Debian 5.0 Lenny. > > -- > Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN > Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com > PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name > MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl > _______________________________________________ > CLUG mailing list > clug at cambridge-lug.org > Website: http://www.cambridge-lug.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100318/f7cc15ba/attachment.html From refulgent120 at googlemail.com Thu Mar 18 11:24:35 2010 From: refulgent120 at googlemail.com (Bev Nicolson) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:24:35 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Message-ID: <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered through. Bev. On 18 March 2010 10:09, Tom Ellis wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? > From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:38:39 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:39 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:24:35AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote: > I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered through. Well, looks like they've all arrived now! These severe delays seem to happen occasionally on this list. From mauro.ciaccio at camtechnet.info Thu Mar 18 11:56:17 2010 From: mauro.ciaccio at camtechnet.info (Mauro Ciaccio) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:56:17 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> Message-ID: <4e8cd0351003180356s4fb8eee3l8a6a5f6ff648e2e8@mail.gmail.com> Same for me - I haven't received mails for weeks On 18 March 2010 10:38, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:24:35AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote: > > I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered > through. > > Well, looks like they've all arrived now! These severe delays seem to > happen > occasionally on this list. > _______________________________________________ > CLUG mailing list > clug at cambridge-lug.org > Website: http://www.cambridge-lug.org > -- Mauro Ciaccio CamTechNet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cambridge Jobs, Events, Groups, Companies - All in one place! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ web: www.camtechnet.info blog: camtechnet.wordpress.com twitter: @camtechnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Growing the Cambridge Technology Community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100318/b944f8e5/attachment.htm From wawrzek at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 12:02:50 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:02:50 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> References: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> Message-ID: On 18 March 2010 10:16, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote: >> By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' >> rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried >> reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it >> doesn't reinstall a missing file. I see there were probably some delay in sending this mail. Finally I found that following to reinstall missing files from Debian package. dpkg --install --force-confmiss package-x.y.deb Thanks for all suggestion, Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From wawrzek at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 12:13:02 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:13:02 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected In-Reply-To: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> References: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> Message-ID: On 8 March 2010 12:04, Johnnie Ingram wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well. > [..] > > My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday, > everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of > the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I > switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not > responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought. > It's old, but Could you reach BIOS setting using that keyboard? Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk Fri Mar 19 18:26:35 2010 From: paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk (Paul M) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:35 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected In-Reply-To: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> References: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> Message-ID: <4BA3B3CB.10205@mansfield.co.uk> On 08/03/10 12:04, Johnnie Ingram wrote: > Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed > solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment. have you got USB/PS2 keyboard emulation on in the bios which might be affecting it? it's all I can think of. can you try a PS2 keyboard? if you SSH in, can you tail /var/log/messages or dmesg | tail whilst un/re-plugging USB keyboard? From clug at gasops.co.uk Thu Mar 25 11:11:05 2010 From: clug at gasops.co.uk (Shanks) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:11:05 +0000 Subject: Maintain Auto-Responder Remotely Message-ID: <4BAB36B9.9050601@gasops.co.uk> What is the preferred way to allows Windows-people to be able to turn their .procmailrc on and off without them knowing what they're really doing, and also being able to upload an autoreply text file into their home directory. I don't want to allows shell access and/or require them to have any Linux knowledge but I don't want to have to get them to email me their autoreply and for me to have to set it up each time. ta From ejlilley at gmail.com Sat Mar 27 00:29:38 2010 From: ejlilley at gmail.com (Edward Lilley) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:29:38 +0000 Subject: F/OSS Questionnaire Message-ID: Hello list members. I am doing a school (HRSFC) project on free/open source software, and as 'primary' research I'm getting a handful of random techy people to fill in the following questionnaire -- I would be everlastingly grateful if a few people could spare 90 seconds or so fillling it in and emailing the answers back to me (off-list, so less spam &c.) (just delete the answers in square brackets that do not apply to you) 1- What age range do you fall into? [0 - 16] [17-24] [25-40] [41-60] [61+] 2- In what areas do you use Free/Open Source software? (select all that apply, including entities which may be your clients regarding F/OSS) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 3- Where do you think F/OSS is most important at the present in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 4- Where do you think F/OSS will be most important in 10 years' time in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 5- Where do you think F/OSS is most important at the present in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 6- Where do you think F/OSS will be most important in 10 years' time in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 7- What do you think would further adoption of F/OSS in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Lobbying by the electorate] [Lobbying by corporations] [Government-funded initiatives] [Changes to the laws on copyright] [Allow growth to continue at current rate] 8- What do you think would further adoption of F/OSS in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Lobbying by the electorate] [Lobbying by corporations] [Government-funded initiatives] [Changes to the laws on copyright] [Allow growth to continue at current rate] -- Edward Lilley http://blog.ugnus.uk.eu.org -- http://www.ugnus.uk.eu.org/~edward/ From johnnie.ingram at moviestorm.co.uk Mon Mar 8 13:04:26 2010 From: johnnie.ingram at moviestorm.co.uk (Johnnie Ingram) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:04:26 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected Message-ID: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well. I hit a weird problem on my main linux box over the weekend. I'm hoping it'll turn out to be one of those problems with an embarrassingly obvious answer, but so far it's got me baffled. Here's the situation: My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday, everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought. I unplugged the keyboard. I plugged it into three seperate laptops (Linux Mint 8, Windows Vista, and some mad Puppy derivative that I'd forgotten I'd even installed). Keyboard worked fine in all three. I tried some other USB peripherals in the USB port on my main machine normally used for my keyboard. All seemed to work fine, so the USB port wasn't dead. Just in case, I tried the keyboard in 3 other USB slots. Still didn't work. "Right", I thought, "Dodgy keyboard. Best get another." So, I've just been out and bought a cheap USB keyboard from Argos. Plugged it in, still no functioning keyboard. I grabbed an old ubuntu live install disk and booted that up in my main machine. It worked, including the keyboard. So. What's going wrong? I should point out that the keyboard fails at GRUB, long before we even get to an OS. There's something deep going on. Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment. Johnnie - -- ___________________ Johnnie Ingram Product Manager Moviestorm Ltd ___________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkuU58IACgkQ4J4LFInQ/fOb5wCggjXS06E3M9Fkj7nT6X6vNISB /0AAn2Tb0jU18TFHUXp2c4s81QH3PuCL =VSay -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The OS is Debian 5.0 Lenny. -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From dom at latter.org Tue Mar 16 17:22:28 2010 From: dom at latter.org (dom at latter.org) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:28 +0100 Subject: Using upstream kernels... In-Reply-To: <4B75A8B6.1010106@latter.org> References: <4B75A8B6.1010106@latter.org> Message-ID: <4B9FB044.206@latter.org> dom at latter.org wrote: > I've compiled and booted it, but networking doesn't work. Further > investigation reveals that there's only about seven modules, and the > kernel config is set to build everything into the kernel. But > surprisingly the custom kernel isn't *that* much bigger than a > typical Ubuntu one: > 3968128 2010-02-08 17:14 bzImage-2.6.32.custom > 3491824 2010-01-28 04:29 vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic If there's any interest here, some kernel sizes and initramdisk sizes. This is on Ubuntu 9.04, 32 bit intel chip. First entry is current up-to-date official distro kernel, second is the "official" 2.6.32 kernel, third is the one I rolled myself. vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic - 3491824 vmlinuz-2.6.32-02063208-generic - 3999264 vmlinuz-2.6.32.8 - 3257600 initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic - 7561214 initrd.img-2.6.32-02063208-generic - 8334989 initrd-2.6.32.8.img - 3541259 From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:09:12 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:09:12 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay Message-ID: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? The March archive has three messages which I have not received. http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-March/thread.html I recall this happened before but I don't remember if it was fixed or not. Tom From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:10:51 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:51 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Message-ID: <20100318101051.GM28750@weber> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:09:12AM +0000, Tom Ellis wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? > > The March archive has three messages which I have not received. > > http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-March/thread.html NB, the most recent message I recieved at the time of writing is the following: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-February/007923.html So I'm getting a delay of about a month! From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:16:17 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:16:17 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote: > By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' > rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried > reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it > doesn't reinstall a missing file. Perhaps use dpkg-deb -x to extract the contents of the CUPS .deb, and then copy the file over by hand. From gareth.pullen at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 11:21:38 2010 From: gareth.pullen at gmail.com (Gareth Pullen) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:21:38 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies if someone's already responded but this just popped into my inbox. dpkg-reconfigure should do what you want. - "dpkg-reconfigure cups", it'll replace the config file for you. Gareth. 2010/3/12 Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski > Hi, > > By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' > rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried > reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it > doesn't reinstall a missing file. > > Any ideas what to do? > > Wawrzek > PS. The OS is Debian 5.0 Lenny. > > -- > Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN > Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com > PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name > MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl > _______________________________________________ > CLUG mailing list > clug at cambridge-lug.org > Website: http://www.cambridge-lug.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100318/f7cc15ba/attachment.htm From refulgent120 at googlemail.com Thu Mar 18 11:24:35 2010 From: refulgent120 at googlemail.com (Bev Nicolson) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:24:35 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Message-ID: <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered through. Bev. On 18 March 2010 10:09, Tom Ellis wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? > From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:38:39 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:39 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:24:35AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote: > I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered through. Well, looks like they've all arrived now! These severe delays seem to happen occasionally on this list. From mauro.ciaccio at camtechnet.info Thu Mar 18 11:56:17 2010 From: mauro.ciaccio at camtechnet.info (Mauro Ciaccio) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:56:17 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> Message-ID: <4e8cd0351003180356s4fb8eee3l8a6a5f6ff648e2e8@mail.gmail.com> Same for me - I haven't received mails for weeks On 18 March 2010 10:38, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:24:35AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote: > > I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered > through. > > Well, looks like they've all arrived now! These severe delays seem to > happen > occasionally on this list. > _______________________________________________ > CLUG mailing list > clug at cambridge-lug.org > Website: http://www.cambridge-lug.org > -- Mauro Ciaccio CamTechNet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cambridge Jobs, Events, Groups, Companies - All in one place! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ web: www.camtechnet.info blog: camtechnet.wordpress.com twitter: @camtechnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Growing the Cambridge Technology Community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100318/b944f8e5/attachment-0002.htm From wawrzek at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 12:02:50 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:02:50 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> References: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> Message-ID: On 18 March 2010 10:16, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote: >> By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' >> rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried >> reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it >> doesn't reinstall a missing file. I see there were probably some delay in sending this mail. Finally I found that following to reinstall missing files from Debian package. dpkg --install --force-confmiss package-x.y.deb Thanks for all suggestion, Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From wawrzek at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 12:13:02 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:13:02 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected In-Reply-To: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> References: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> Message-ID: On 8 March 2010 12:04, Johnnie Ingram wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well. > [..] > > My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday, > everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of > the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I > switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not > responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought. > It's old, but Could you reach BIOS setting using that keyboard? Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk Fri Mar 19 18:26:35 2010 From: paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk (Paul M) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:35 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected In-Reply-To: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> References: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> Message-ID: <4BA3B3CB.10205@mansfield.co.uk> On 08/03/10 12:04, Johnnie Ingram wrote: > Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed > solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment. have you got USB/PS2 keyboard emulation on in the bios which might be affecting it? it's all I can think of. can you try a PS2 keyboard? if you SSH in, can you tail /var/log/messages or dmesg | tail whilst un/re-plugging USB keyboard? From clug at gasops.co.uk Thu Mar 25 11:11:05 2010 From: clug at gasops.co.uk (Shanks) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:11:05 +0000 Subject: Maintain Auto-Responder Remotely Message-ID: <4BAB36B9.9050601@gasops.co.uk> What is the preferred way to allows Windows-people to be able to turn their .procmailrc on and off without them knowing what they're really doing, and also being able to upload an autoreply text file into their home directory. I don't want to allows shell access and/or require them to have any Linux knowledge but I don't want to have to get them to email me their autoreply and for me to have to set it up each time. ta From ejlilley at gmail.com Sat Mar 27 00:29:38 2010 From: ejlilley at gmail.com (Edward Lilley) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:29:38 +0000 Subject: F/OSS Questionnaire Message-ID: Hello list members. I am doing a school (HRSFC) project on free/open source software, and as 'primary' research I'm getting a handful of random techy people to fill in the following questionnaire -- I would be everlastingly grateful if a few people could spare 90 seconds or so fillling it in and emailing the answers back to me (off-list, so less spam &c.) (just delete the answers in square brackets that do not apply to you) 1- What age range do you fall into? [0 - 16] [17-24] [25-40] [41-60] [61+] 2- In what areas do you use Free/Open Source software? (select all that apply, including entities which may be your clients regarding F/OSS) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 3- Where do you think F/OSS is most important at the present in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 4- Where do you think F/OSS will be most important in 10 years' time in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 5- Where do you think F/OSS is most important at the present in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 6- Where do you think F/OSS will be most important in 10 years' time in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 7- What do you think would further adoption of F/OSS in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Lobbying by the electorate] [Lobbying by corporations] [Government-funded initiatives] [Changes to the laws on copyright] [Allow growth to continue at current rate] 8- What do you think would further adoption of F/OSS in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Lobbying by the electorate] [Lobbying by corporations] [Government-funded initiatives] [Changes to the laws on copyright] [Allow growth to continue at current rate] -- Edward Lilley http://blog.ugnus.uk.eu.org -- http://www.ugnus.uk.eu.org/~edward/ From johnnie.ingram at moviestorm.co.uk Mon Mar 8 13:04:26 2010 From: johnnie.ingram at moviestorm.co.uk (Johnnie Ingram) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:04:26 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected Message-ID: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well. I hit a weird problem on my main linux box over the weekend. I'm hoping it'll turn out to be one of those problems with an embarrassingly obvious answer, but so far it's got me baffled. Here's the situation: My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday, everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought. I unplugged the keyboard. I plugged it into three seperate laptops (Linux Mint 8, Windows Vista, and some mad Puppy derivative that I'd forgotten I'd even installed). Keyboard worked fine in all three. I tried some other USB peripherals in the USB port on my main machine normally used for my keyboard. All seemed to work fine, so the USB port wasn't dead. Just in case, I tried the keyboard in 3 other USB slots. Still didn't work. "Right", I thought, "Dodgy keyboard. Best get another." So, I've just been out and bought a cheap USB keyboard from Argos. Plugged it in, still no functioning keyboard. I grabbed an old ubuntu live install disk and booted that up in my main machine. It worked, including the keyboard. So. What's going wrong? I should point out that the keyboard fails at GRUB, long before we even get to an OS. There's something deep going on. Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment. Johnnie - -- ___________________ Johnnie Ingram Product Manager Moviestorm Ltd ___________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkuU58IACgkQ4J4LFInQ/fOb5wCggjXS06E3M9Fkj7nT6X6vNISB /0AAn2Tb0jU18TFHUXp2c4s81QH3PuCL =VSay -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The OS is Debian 5.0 Lenny. -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From dom at latter.org Tue Mar 16 17:22:28 2010 From: dom at latter.org (dom at latter.org) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:28 +0100 Subject: Using upstream kernels... In-Reply-To: <4B75A8B6.1010106@latter.org> References: <4B75A8B6.1010106@latter.org> Message-ID: <4B9FB044.206@latter.org> dom at latter.org wrote: > I've compiled and booted it, but networking doesn't work. Further > investigation reveals that there's only about seven modules, and the > kernel config is set to build everything into the kernel. But > surprisingly the custom kernel isn't *that* much bigger than a > typical Ubuntu one: > 3968128 2010-02-08 17:14 bzImage-2.6.32.custom > 3491824 2010-01-28 04:29 vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic If there's any interest here, some kernel sizes and initramdisk sizes. This is on Ubuntu 9.04, 32 bit intel chip. First entry is current up-to-date official distro kernel, second is the "official" 2.6.32 kernel, third is the one I rolled myself. vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic - 3491824 vmlinuz-2.6.32-02063208-generic - 3999264 vmlinuz-2.6.32.8 - 3257600 initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic - 7561214 initrd.img-2.6.32-02063208-generic - 8334989 initrd-2.6.32.8.img - 3541259 From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:09:12 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:09:12 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay Message-ID: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? The March archive has three messages which I have not received. http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-March/thread.html I recall this happened before but I don't remember if it was fixed or not. Tom From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:10:51 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:51 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Message-ID: <20100318101051.GM28750@weber> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:09:12AM +0000, Tom Ellis wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? > > The March archive has three messages which I have not received. > > http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-March/thread.html NB, the most recent message I recieved at the time of writing is the following: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2010-February/007923.html So I'm getting a delay of about a month! From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:16:17 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:16:17 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote: > By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' > rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried > reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it > doesn't reinstall a missing file. Perhaps use dpkg-deb -x to extract the contents of the CUPS .deb, and then copy the file over by hand. From gareth.pullen at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 11:21:38 2010 From: gareth.pullen at gmail.com (Gareth Pullen) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:21:38 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies if someone's already responded but this just popped into my inbox. dpkg-reconfigure should do what you want. - "dpkg-reconfigure cups", it'll replace the config file for you. Gareth. 2010/3/12 Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski > Hi, > > By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' > rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried > reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it > doesn't reinstall a missing file. > > Any ideas what to do? > > Wawrzek > PS. The OS is Debian 5.0 Lenny. > > -- > Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN > Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com > PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name > MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl > _______________________________________________ > CLUG mailing list > clug at cambridge-lug.org > Website: http://www.cambridge-lug.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100318/f7cc15ba/attachment-0001.htm From refulgent120 at googlemail.com Thu Mar 18 11:24:35 2010 From: refulgent120 at googlemail.com (Bev Nicolson) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:24:35 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> Message-ID: <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered through. Bev. On 18 March 2010 10:09, Tom Ellis wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the mailing list delaying posts again? > From tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk Thu Mar 18 11:38:39 2010 From: tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk (Tom Ellis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:39 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:24:35AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote: > I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered through. Well, looks like they've all arrived now! These severe delays seem to happen occasionally on this list. From mauro.ciaccio at camtechnet.info Thu Mar 18 11:56:17 2010 From: mauro.ciaccio at camtechnet.info (Mauro Ciaccio) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:56:17 +0000 Subject: Mailing list delay In-Reply-To: <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> References: <20100318100912.GL28750@weber> <704fdd421003180324v6ae3de46wf405fddfda13081b@mail.gmail.com> <20100318103839.GQ28750@weber> Message-ID: <4e8cd0351003180356s4fb8eee3l8a6a5f6ff648e2e8@mail.gmail.com> Same for me - I haven't received mails for weeks On 18 March 2010 10:38, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:24:35AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote: > > I am too. I checked the archive and those have only just filtered > through. > > Well, looks like they've all arrived now! These severe delays seem to > happen > occasionally on this list. > _______________________________________________ > CLUG mailing list > clug at cambridge-lug.org > Website: http://www.cambridge-lug.org > -- Mauro Ciaccio CamTechNet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cambridge Jobs, Events, Groups, Companies - All in one place! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ web: www.camtechnet.info blog: camtechnet.wordpress.com twitter: @camtechnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Growing the Cambridge Technology Community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/attachments/20100318/b944f8e5/attachment-0003.htm From wawrzek at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 12:02:50 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:02:50 +0000 Subject: How to refresh package in Debian In-Reply-To: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> References: <20100318101617.GN28750@weber> Message-ID: On 18 March 2010 10:16, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote: >> By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>' >> rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried >> reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it >> doesn't reinstall a missing file. I see there were probably some delay in sending this mail. Finally I found that following to reinstall missing files from Debian package. dpkg --install --force-confmiss package-x.y.deb Thanks for all suggestion, Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From wawrzek at gmail.com Thu Mar 18 12:13:02 2010 From: wawrzek at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Wawrzyniec_Niewodnicza=C5=84ski?=) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:13:02 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected In-Reply-To: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> References: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> Message-ID: On 8 March 2010 12:04, Johnnie Ingram wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well. > [..] > > My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday, > everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of > the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I > switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not > responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought. > It's old, but Could you reach BIOS setting using that keyboard? Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza?ski vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek at gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek at jabber.wroc.pl From paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk Fri Mar 19 18:26:35 2010 From: paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk (Paul M) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:35 +0000 Subject: Keyboard not detected In-Reply-To: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> References: <4B94E7CA.90803@moviestorm.co.uk> Message-ID: <4BA3B3CB.10205@mansfield.co.uk> On 08/03/10 12:04, Johnnie Ingram wrote: > Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed > solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment. have you got USB/PS2 keyboard emulation on in the bios which might be affecting it? it's all I can think of. can you try a PS2 keyboard? if you SSH in, can you tail /var/log/messages or dmesg | tail whilst un/re-plugging USB keyboard? From clug at gasops.co.uk Thu Mar 25 11:11:05 2010 From: clug at gasops.co.uk (Shanks) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:11:05 +0000 Subject: Maintain Auto-Responder Remotely Message-ID: <4BAB36B9.9050601@gasops.co.uk> What is the preferred way to allows Windows-people to be able to turn their .procmailrc on and off without them knowing what they're really doing, and also being able to upload an autoreply text file into their home directory. I don't want to allows shell access and/or require them to have any Linux knowledge but I don't want to have to get them to email me their autoreply and for me to have to set it up each time. ta From ejlilley at gmail.com Sat Mar 27 00:29:38 2010 From: ejlilley at gmail.com (Edward Lilley) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:29:38 +0000 Subject: F/OSS Questionnaire Message-ID: Hello list members. I am doing a school (HRSFC) project on free/open source software, and as 'primary' research I'm getting a handful of random techy people to fill in the following questionnaire -- I would be everlastingly grateful if a few people could spare 90 seconds or so fillling it in and emailing the answers back to me (off-list, so less spam &c.) (just delete the answers in square brackets that do not apply to you) 1- What age range do you fall into? [0 - 16] [17-24] [25-40] [41-60] [61+] 2- In what areas do you use Free/Open Source software? (select all that apply, including entities which may be your clients regarding F/OSS) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 3- Where do you think F/OSS is most important at the present in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 4- Where do you think F/OSS will be most important in 10 years' time in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 5- Where do you think F/OSS is most important at the present in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 6- Where do you think F/OSS will be most important in 10 years' time in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Home/Consumer] [Small/Medium sized business] [Large corporation] [Charity] [Government] [Academic/Research] 7- What do you think would further adoption of F/OSS in developed countries? (select all that apply) [Lobbying by the electorate] [Lobbying by corporations] [Government-funded initiatives] [Changes to the laws on copyright] [Allow growth to continue at current rate] 8- What do you think would further adoption of F/OSS in developing countries? (select all that apply) [Lobbying by the electorate] [Lobbying by corporations] [Government-funded initiatives] [Changes to the laws on copyright] [Allow growth to continue at current rate] -- Edward Lilley http://blog.ugnus.uk.eu.org -- http://www.ugnus.uk.eu.org/~edward/