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Today's Topics:

1. Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game) (Katie Dumont)
2. Re: Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game) (d.hockin)
3. Re: Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game) (Alex Butcher)
4. Re: The Advent laptop (d.hockin)
5. Re: Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game) (d.hockin)
6. Re: Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users (Bob Ham)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 22:50:14 +0100
From: Katie Dumont <hifromkatie@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)
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The Bluetooth keyboards we had at the lug meeting are on sale again. now
down to ?6.99 in Argos, a whole pound cheaper than when I got ours.

Thought there might be people who are interested in getting one:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/learn-with-pok-mon-typing-adventure-for-6-99-argos-includes-wireless-bluetooth-keyboard-1945383

Katie
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:16:31 +0100
From: "d.hockin" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Katie Dumont
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:50 PM
Subject: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)


>The Bluetooth keyboards we had at the lug meeting are on sale again. now
>down to ?6.99 in Argos, a whole pound cheaper than when I got ours.
>Thought there might be people who are interested in getting one:
>http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/learn-with-pok-mon-typing-adventure-for-6-99-argos-includes-wireless-bluetooth-keyboard-1945383
>Katie


That itself is a fair old drop from the one I bought last year for my phone
from ebay ~?10!

The thing that amazes me, is that some of the keys are marked for the US
market, but just after its switched on, it changes to the UK key use! So,
does my phone (Samsung Galaxy ) do the switch, or the keyboard's software?

Dave (Posset)




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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:22:28 +0100 (BST)
From: Alex Butcher <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Katie Dumont wrote:

> The Bluetooth keyboards we had at the lug meeting are on sale again. now
> down to ?6.99 in Argos, a whole pound cheaper than when I got ours.
>
> Thought there might be people who are interested in getting one:
>
> http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/learn-with-pok-mon-typing-adventure-for-6-9
> 9-argos-includes-wireless-bluetooth-keyboard-1945383
>
> Katie

Thanks for the heads-up; duly put one on reserve for collection.

Before I do so, however, how well do they work with Android devices? You
(or Nathan) mentioned a US key layout, any missing keys (e.g. home, back,
task switch)?

Best Regards,
Alex

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:22:33 +0100
From: "d.hockin" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] The Advent laptop
Message-ID: <24F39D4DF26948C095502BA1E1E9FB10@DAVE3>
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Thanks, Amias.

Suse IS now running dual with XP, with many thanks to Chris for his efforts
on Saturday - we ran out of time on the battery power, but it was successful
once back home on mains power.

Just have the problem of not downloading updates, as there's currently a
glitch in that, and I'm waiting for news on that front :)
All else seems to running fine.

I will have to take a look at the virtualbox business. I wonder if the
limited amount of ram in the laptop could cope?

By comparison with the neat notebooks many had with them, my "ageing" but
much-loved laptop looked quite a huge dinosaur!

With 3 new heads and 4 new handles - the old axe is as (almost) as good as
new! That applies to me as well as the pc....but no new heads for me, yet!

Thank you to everyone on Saturday who showed interest.

Dave (Posset)


----- Original Message -----
From: Amias Channer
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [bristol] The Advent laptop

>Hello Dave,

>ISTR there was a guide in the previous linux voice [1] that covered how to
>take an image of an existing xp setup and run in virtualbox.
>Passthrough usb should easily be able to cope with photography interfaces.

>maybe Ben E knows about how to get hold of back issues

>This way you can try all sorts of things but keeping your XP installation
>safe in a VM with snapshots and backups , you can also firewall it safely
>via linux or better still don't allow it any net >access at all.

>Dual boot is a world of pain and something i'm very glad i left behind ,
>most of us have done this so bare that in mind when asking for help on dual
>boot - its tricky , horrible and unnecessary so >you should be very very
>very grateful if anyone helps you with it because its the Linux equivalent
>of mucking out a horse shed.

>Personally i don't think meets should be for fixing stuff , really you
>should pay people for that because its how most of us earn our living.

>Cheers
>Amias

[1] linux voice is an excellent read i would heartily recommend a
subscription , beats linux format by miles :)



>>On 28 June 2014 18:22, d.hockin <d.hockin@btinternet.com> wrote:

>>Chris! Good news!!!

>>There just wasn't enough power left to run the disk drive and the pc!
>>That's why it was beeping and shutting down so fast :)

>>Luckily too, the disk left inside there, when I fired the pc up, was the
>>boot recovery one, and Suse got under way. I swapped it for the LXF one,
>>and it went well until Firefox crashed!

>>So I'm back on XP for this email, and I'll take a look shortly at the BIOS
>>via f2 to see if its still expecting your memory stick, and then let it do
>>all the umpteen updates and downloads that >>expect are waiting in the
>>wings....

>>Keeping my fingers crossed that it will work - but a least Grub fired up
>>OK, and its 3 choices - Suse, XP and I forget what was the 3rd(!) -
>>certainly fired up Suse and XP.

>>Many thanks for you considerable efforts. I had to leave KT as I'd lost
>>all trace of hearing in the high noise level, and that guy opposite had
>>taken over Dave, so he wasn't going to be of any >>help to us there and
>>then.

>>Best wishes,

>>Dave.
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:27:53 +0100
From: "d.hockin" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)
Message-ID: <10D81594C348447B9F6F3C77D0A3D684@DAVE3>
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Alex,

My Bluetooth keyboard works fine with my Galaxy2 phone, provided I don't
type too fast.
It switches to UK keyboard automatically - somehow!

I haven't tried ALL the keys - "home, task switch"? Never even heard of
them!
And there are plenty of others I'd never use...

Dave (Posset)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Butcher" <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)


> On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Katie Dumont wrote:
>
>> The Bluetooth keyboards we had at the lug meeting are on sale again. now
>> down to ?6.99 in Argos, a whole pound cheaper than when I got ours.
>>
>> Thought there might be people who are interested in getting one:
>>
>> http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/learn-with-pok-mon-typing-adventure-for-6-9
>> 9-argos-includes-wireless-bluetooth-keyboard-1945383
>>
>> Katie
>
> Thanks for the heads-up; duly put one on reserve for collection.
>
> Before I do so, however, how well do they work with Android devices? You
> (or Nathan) mentioned a US key layout, any missing keys (e.g. home, back,
> task switch)?
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex


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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:10:07 +0000
From: Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net>
To: <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users
Message-ID: <311da8fabb384ab5341706354f0593a5@settrans.net>
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On 2014-06-20 21:32, Bob Ham wrote:

> I
> just got off the phone with my parents as their computer is having
> trouble in that it keeps locking up (requiring a hard reset)

> I Love My PC, a shop on Gloucester Road

> So, is there anyone here who might be able to help me and my
> parents? :-)


As a post-script to this call for help, there are people at the
aforementioned shop who provide support for GNU/Linux so my parents are
having their problems sorted.

However, I received no responses regarding commercial support from this
list, which is disappointing. I was labouring under the impression from
the times I came to meetings, that there were a number of professionals
offering support for GNU/Linux in the LUG. I specifically recall
Assursys but looking at their website, it appears they are no longer
trading. Alas. Is this decline a consequence of the state of the
economy, I wonder?

--
Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }



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