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Martin

Dorkbot crew will have a look this evening.

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Don't specify font sizes on the web in pixels. A pixel doesn't correspond to anything useful, how big it is depends on the monitor and resolution, and some browsers (IE6 and IE7 particularly I think) will refuse to resize text with an explicit pixel size. Specifying in points is theoretically better...

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This didn't happen, mainly on account of the July events book not existing when I first proposed it and being full of other stuff by the time I got back to it.

But I've got it sitting about on DVD if you fancy putting it on sometime.

Martin

First I've heard of it actually but I've been way too busy so happy to step back.

The darkroom@theforest.org.uk emails are still coming to me (and being forwarded back out to Dandolo too from my account) - Milk, could you change that over?

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thankyou!

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When does our current license run out?

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In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, I'd like to show this film in the cafe on 20th July. There are a lot of documentaries about the moon landings. You've probably seen a few on the telly. They show all the stock footage and narrate it with tedious details about how much ...

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I haven't seen a forest soldering iron for a long time.

We have one in the dorkbot toolbox which you can use if it's urgent but it is NOT to disappear into the black hole of forest tools.

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Excellent, thanks Lynne!

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Fucked for me too, yeah.

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Due to ongoing spam problems, registering new users on the BB is currently disabled until we can sort out a good way to prevent spammers from registering accounts.

If you want an account, please ask an existing member to post in this thread or PM me and we'll sort it out.

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Apparently it's okay to run the computers and printer in the action room now.

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Mike, you're too quick for me.

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Feel free to move it to the darkroom! I'm out of town just now but can have a look at it soon.

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Last seen abandoned and unloved in the workshop.

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Sadly, the BB control panel doesn't have a "from orbit" tickybox for deleting users. Perhaps we should file this as a bug.

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Nuke 'em.

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which Tesco?

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I was at 25C3. Missed the call-in, but I've spoken to many of the people involved before. I'm on the mailing list now.

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Ah, I remember why we didn't upgrade. Kamikaze is stable on the OpenWRT side but the X-Wrt web interface hadn't quite caught up. They have a build now for 8.09RC1, precompiled images here: http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaze/8.09_RC1/brcm47xx/default/ Backup the configuration from the current s...

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The ssh login details are the same as for the web interface.

We were sticking with White Russian while Kamikaze stabilised. If it sounds like it's up to scratch now, we could upgrade.

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Same person. Seems she's not disgusted enough to stop coming in, then!

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Key fob.

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No... is the day getting confused with the year for you somehow? The first couple were posted on the 5th, the second two on the 8th?

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Is there a "forest network for dummies" document anywhere? No, but here's a quick summary: The WRT54G router is the brains of the operation. It is running OpenWRT with the X-Wrt web frontend - see documentation at those sites for details on the software. We are currently running version 0.9 ("White...

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Our previous wireless router is still in the action room, I think. It's a D-Link DSL-604+. What you'd probably want to do is set that up with the old connection settings (SSID "forest", unencrypted), have it do DHCP+NAT on that wireless network, and assign it a static IP on the wire. Then, on the WR...

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Assuming the partition table is readable, it's easier to mount later by loopback if you do things per-partition. So for each partition: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/path/to/image-file-partition-1 Then, to mount read-only on loopback: mkdir /mnt/partition-1 mount -o ro,loop /path/to/image-file-partition-1 /mn...

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If any of the drives is thought to be dying, then there may be a limited opportunity to get stuff off it before it goes completely. I would suggest that instead of just firing it up and searching around for the files you want, you prepare a second disk with enough space to copy everything, and then ...

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The computer itself was set up as a recording/editing etc machine for the cave.

The original two hard drives, with whatever treasures still on them, were stashed away in the old office.

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Using the height to show the winning margin is a nice idea, but it's still largely the more populous counties (those with a major city in them) that show up rather than the ones with the biggest percentage margin. Here's some maps that have been adjusted for the population density, and also with col...

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Gandhi wrote:how dare you pass the buck!!!

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Sorted, but whoever wrote the forum software really should be ashamed. It doesn't handle summer time itself, you have to manually go and change the setting twice a year!

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Done. Thanks for all your hard work.

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My guess is that the cafe-front room partition is a supporting wall & knocking it through would thus be a big job, even aside from any planning issues due to the building's status.

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Word filters removed, since they were pretty lame and will only fuel spark's conspiracy theories.

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There was at one point a forest guitar. It eventually got fucked or stolen, as is the way of all things here. If we bought a new thing every time the old one got broken the forest would go bankrupt in a month. Hence, we wind up with only the stuff that's utterly essential on a day-to-day basis. Othe...

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Hi all, Many of you have caught a glimpse by now of what the Dorkbot group have been doing with the church organ upstairs, but for those that haven't, the secret is now out: it's come to life and plays all by itself. http://dorkbot.noodlefactory.co.uk/wiki/WaldFlote has all the details & videos. It'...

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Done.

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I know next to nothing about the current website setup so no, but hopefully one of the others in this thread may be able to sort it out.

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Milk, the list of articles is public, but the articles themselves are locked for me.

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OK. What I changed was to make the ADSL modem into straight PPPoA - PPPoE bridge again, so that all the clever stuff is done on the WRT54G router. Before, it was sometimes getting into the situation where the modem lost the connection, the router lost its DHCP lease and then didn't get a new one for...

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James - was that before or after my last message on this thread?

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prawn cocktail = the bomb.

The day they brought out prawn cocktail pringles was very nearly the end of the universe.

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I've tweaked some stuff, might be more reliable now.

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Chris, The problem is that there's no list of stuff that must be on the website, so there's no way to get it "finished". Meanwhile as long as the old site is up, people will keep adding stuff to that which will then be missing from the new site, making getting it ready an endless task. At some stage...

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I may or may not be able to come. But anyway, as I said the other day I'm with James on this - get it live ASAP and then it'll get sorted out quickly enough. The basic what-is-forest info is already there. That and upcoming events are the two crucial things as I see it. Copy the latest forest progra...

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Thanks beev, I was getting tired of clicking on the tiny little yellow box!

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Hi folks, my diary says tonight is an artist facilities meeting. I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to make Thursday meetings any more, and therefore will need to step down as darkroom liason to the AF WG, and by extension I suppose to the FWG. But here's a thread for you to post agenda items. On t...

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I'd be wary of this. 1. Windows only. Not even Mac support, let alone Linux. 2. It's not actually a scanner. Inside it's a cheap digital camera with a cheap lens, aimed at the slide/negative with a light behind it. You can achieve the same thing for a lot less by screwing a good old fashioned slide ...

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Pogo hasn't been seen posting on here since January, but it might be worth sending him a message, his username is just 'pogo'. I had a look at how the zoomify thing works, the images it's using are here: http://www.theforest.org.uk/zoomify/magdasTable/TileGroup0/ Each file is part of a sort of jigsa...

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