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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Devolo Powerline Adapter - Noisy ? (Kyriakos Sideris)
2. Graphics designer/s wanted (Sebastian)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:12:59 +0000
From: Kyriakos Sideris <k.sideris@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Devolo Powerline Adapter - Noisy ?
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On 27 November 2013 10:54, James Womack <5inowsy1maiq@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/11/13 09:54, Andrew McLean wrote:
> > Recently started using a Devolo 500Duo+ PLA in the Living Room, with
> > another
> > next to the router upstairs.
> > They work OK, but certain members of the family are complaining about
> > a high-piched noise coming from it (no, we don't have a dog...!).
> >
> > Has anyone here experience this ? Do they normally make a noise, or is
> > this
> > unit faulty ? I myself can hear a very high-piched noise which comes
> > and goes
> > with the traffic (indicated by the green LED), which is presumably a
> > magnetostrictive effect, but I realise such noises can be hard to deal
> > with.
> > I realise that in an office environment there's too much noise from
> > everything
> > else for this to be noticeable, but it's different at home (we hope).
> >
> > They're the first PLAs I've tried, so I've nothing to compare them with.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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> I don't use PLAs, but I am someone who can hear quite high pitched
> noises and can attest to how annoying they can be. Consistent high
> pitched noises from electronics (such as those emitted by CRTs) are not
> so problematic for me, but irregular noises can be very annoying indeed.
> I used to have an Asus EeePC 701 which emitted high pitched squeals
> under load. My wife could not hear it, so was puzzled by my annoyance!
>
> My suspicion would be that the noise is not something common to all
> PLAs, and possibly not even to all PLAs of the model you describe. In my
> experience, the amount of noise emitted from devices varies from unit to
> unit. One unit may emit very quietly, while another identical unit can
> be annoyingly loud.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
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I was recently researching powerlan adapter's and I remember that this
gentleman had the same problem you are describing:

http://amzn.to/IjuY1t

According to him, Devolo mailed me to say this is not normal...

Cheers,
Kyriakos
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:38:43 +0000
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: [bristol] Graphics designer/s wanted
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Hi

We are having issues in the (non-profit 100% community volunteers
driven) Mageia project, when it comes to getting artwork proposals for
the next release Mageia 4. I thought that if I emailed about that to
this mailing list, that maybe at least a few of you, would be interested
in making some proposals for the default background, (and even if you
don't use the distro yourself). or that some of you may know of someone
else who would probably be.

The default background must be a design, and photos can't be used as the
default background, with all Mageia artwork having to be licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license it, and only
artwork that people have created them selves is allowed, and they must
be able to confirm that they made it themselves. For additional
backgrounds photo's are allowed.

To be honest time really is on the verge of running out for new Mageia 4
default background proposals, hence this email. Without new artwork
the Mageia 3 artwork will be used in Mageia 4 as well it seems, and
personally I would like for the next release to have new artwork.

For the proposals I would suggest going with a blue colour scheme and
making a similar design as the default backgrounds of Mageia 3 or Mageia
2, or even old Mandriva releases such as the Mandriva 2010 series before
the Mageia fork.

If you are interested in helping out with this, please reply back to
this email on list or off list as soon as possible, and thank you in
advanced for any help with this.

http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/09/09/help-make-mageia-4-beautiful/

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Artwork_guidelines

Regards

Sebastian



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