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- Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:05 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: computer network issues - café to action room
- Replies: 25
- Views: 34015
Re: computer network issues - café to action room
Dorkbot crew will have a look this evening.
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:43 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: website magnification
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10888
Re: website magnification
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...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:34 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Film night Monday 20th July - In the Shadow of the Moon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6800
Re: Film night Monday 20th July - In the Shadow of the Moon
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.
But I've got it sitting about on DVD if you fancy putting it on sometime.
- Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:52 am
- Forum: Facilities
- Topic: NEW DARKROOM MANAGER
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10327
Re: NEW DARKROOM MANAGER
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?
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?
- Thu May 28, 2009 9:11 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: bb issue since upgrade?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17861
Re: bb issue since upgrade?
thankyou!
- Thu May 28, 2009 8:55 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: change the film night
- Replies: 18
- Views: 22495
Re: change the film night
When does our current license run out?
- Wed May 20, 2009 2:42 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Film night Monday 20th July - In the Shadow of the Moon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6800
Film night Monday 20th July - In the Shadow of the Moon
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 ...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:41 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: soldering iron and solder
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7357
Re: soldering iron and solder
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.
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.
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:42 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Dark room temporarily out of use
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8116
Re: Dark room temporarily out of use
Excellent, thanks Lynne!
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:49 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: bb issue since upgrade?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17861
Re: bb issue since upgrade?
Fucked for me too, yeah.
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:16 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: BB self-registration temporarily disabled -UPDATE Re-enabled
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8826
BB self-registration temporarily disabled -UPDATE Re-enabled
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.
If you want an account, please ask an existing member to post in this thread or PM me and we'll sort it out.
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:55 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: OAK is cunted
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8264
Re: OAK is cunted
Apparently it's okay to run the computers and printer in the action room now.
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:43 pm
- Forum: Facilities
- Topic: donated photography equipment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9101
Re: donated photography equipment
Mike, you're too quick for me.
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:42 pm
- Forum: Facilities
- Topic: donated photography equipment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9101
Re: donated photography equipment
Feel free to move it to the darkroom! I'm out of town just now but can have a look at it soon.
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:32 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Slushie machine is go go go
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17972
Re: Slushie machine is go go go
Last seen abandoned and unloved in the workshop.
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:00 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Inactive users
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9501
Re: Inactive users
Sadly, the BB control panel doesn't have a "from orbit" tickybox for deleting users. Perhaps we should file this as a bug.
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:18 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Inactive users
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9501
Re: Inactive users
Nuke 'em.
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:17 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Guys: 3 energy saving bulbs for 88p in total!!!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4798
Re: Guys: 3 energy saving bulbs for 88p in total!!!!
which Tesco?
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:33 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: hackerspaces call-in
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10280
Re: hackerspaces call-in
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.
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:19 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Network Security
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29076
Re: Network Security
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...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:08 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Network Security
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29076
Re: Network Security
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.
We were sticking with White Russian while Kamikaze stabilised. If it sounds like it's up to scratch now, we could upgrade.
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:14 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: good one
- Replies: 30
- Views: 27291
Re: good one
Same person. Seems she's not disgusted enough to stop coming in, then!
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:24 pm
- Forum: Facilities
- Topic: both cave keys missing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16980
Re: both cave keys missing
Key fob.
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:30 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: bb dates got fucked
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6891
Re: bb dates got fucked
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?
- Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:36 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Network Security
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29076
Re: Network Security
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...
- Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:52 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Network Security
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29076
Re: Network Security
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...
- Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:02 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Where is stuff from Old Bluey?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 34988
Re: Where is stuff from Old Bluey?
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...
- Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:33 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Where is stuff from Old Bluey?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 34988
Re: Where is stuff from Old Bluey?
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 ...
- Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:19 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Where is stuff from Old Bluey?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 34988
Re: Where is stuff from Old Bluey?
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.
The original two hard drives, with whatever treasures still on them, were stashed away in the old office.
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:41 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: US elections
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7217
Re: US elections
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...
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:19 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: phpBB2 to phpBB3 move, a.k.a upgrading the bb.
- Replies: 70
- Views: 91066
Re: phpBB2 to phpBB3 move, a.k.a upgrading the bb.
Gandhi wrote:how dare you pass the buck!!!
- Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:51 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: phpBB2 to phpBB3 move, a.k.a upgrading the bb.
- Replies: 70
- Views: 91066
Re: phpBB2 to phpBB3 move, a.k.a upgrading the bb.
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!
- Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:42 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: quitting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5030
Re: quitting
Done. Thanks for all your hard work.
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:59 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 52745
Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?
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.
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:04 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: The bigger picture
- Replies: 106
- Views: 90597
Re: The bigger picture
Word filters removed, since they were pretty lame and will only fuel spark's conspiracy theories.
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:44 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: The bigger picture
- Replies: 106
- Views: 90597
Re: The bigger picture
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...
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:57 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Project Waldflote: what Dorkbot have been doing to the organ
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4610
Project Waldflote: what Dorkbot have been doing to the organ
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'...
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:22 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: allowed file extensions on the bb
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4688
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:16 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: website lockdown!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11980
Re: website lockdown!
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.
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:54 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: website lockdown!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11980
Re: website lockdown!
Milk, the list of articles is public, but the articles themselves are locked for me.
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:44 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: internet down again.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9670
Re: internet down again.
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...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:29 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: internet down again.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9670
Re: internet down again.
James - was that before or after my last message on this thread?
- Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:24 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Forest Programme 6th-12th October
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8129
Re: Forest Programme 6th-12th October
prawn cocktail = the bomb.
The day they brought out prawn cocktail pringles was very nearly the end of the universe.
The day they brought out prawn cocktail pringles was very nearly the end of the universe.
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:08 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: internet down again.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9670
Re: internet down again.
I've tweaked some stuff, might be more reliable now.
- Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:03 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: web team meeting, monday 6th
- Replies: 29
- Views: 42384
Re: web team meeting, monday 6th
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...
- Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:10 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: web team meeting, monday 6th
- Replies: 29
- Views: 42384
Re: web team meeting, monday 6th
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...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:23 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: phpBB2 to phpBB3 move, a.k.a upgrading the bb.
- Replies: 70
- Views: 91066
Re: phpBB2 to phpBB3 move, a.k.a upgrading the bb.
Thanks beev, I was getting tired of clicking on the tiny little yellow box!
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:43 am
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Artist Facilities WG meeting, Thursday 2nd October 2008
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7561
Artist Facilities WG meeting, Thursday 2nd October 2008
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...
- Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:34 pm
- Forum: Facilities
- Topic: USB Negative Scanner
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7957
Re: USB Negative Scanner
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 ...
- Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:16 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: table picture
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5217
Re: table picture
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...