Re: can't change desktop wallpaper
Hi, user IDs are the same, group IDs are not. Can the ID numbers be changed? I've not yet located anything on how to do so - therefore the answer may be no or why would you want to. I guess this is not really a big deal and is no more than a distraction from work I should be doing, and given this is the only issue I currently have, will just patiently wait until there is an opportunity at some later date to try another distro or release. At which time I don't think I'll experiment with using the same /home folder, I'll set up from scratch and copy over what I want instead. Thanks for the replies! Roger yuri wrote: On 22/01/2008, Roger Searle wrote: I should add at this point that this installation of kubuntu made use of the previous SuSE home folder which basically went without any problem at all, aside from some minor reconfiguration of email etc. So this would lend support to the theory that it is a permissions thing. Are the numerical user IDs and group IDs the same under kubuntu as they were under SuSE? Just having the same name is not enough. Yuri
Re: can't change desktop wallpaper
sudo vigr sudo chgrp -R groupname /home/roger Steve On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:43:56 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, user IDs are the same, group IDs are not. Can the ID numbers be changed? I've not yet located anything on how to do so - therefore the answer may be no or why would you want to. I guess this is not really a big deal and is no more than a distraction from work I should be doing, and given this is the only issue I currently have, will just patiently wait until there is an opportunity at some later date to try another distro or release. At which time I don't think I'll experiment with using the same /home folder, I'll set up from scratch and copy over what I want instead. Thanks for the replies! Roger yuri wrote: On 22/01/2008, Roger Searle wrote: I should add at this point that this installation of kubuntu made use of the previous SuSE home folder which basically went without any problem at all, aside from some minor reconfiguration of email etc. So this would lend support to the theory that it is a permissions thing. Are the numerical user IDs and group IDs the same under kubuntu as they were under SuSE? Just having the same name is not enough. Yuri pgpA4dqfiWqMG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 10 gig of bandwidth to use up - requests?
For our collection: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download.en.php Hopefully *BSD is included in the definition of Linux? If so: ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.3/ Should we be starting to think about a Saturday afternoon to have a small InstallFest? That's not going to take up 10G so there is still volume for other requests. On 1/23/08, Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 10 gig of bandwidth to burn within 48 hours. Any linux related download requests? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: 10 gig of bandwidth to use up - requests?
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:47 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: For our collection: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download.en.php Downloaded. Hopefully *BSD is included in the definition of Linux? If so: ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.3/ On the way. All 1.9Gb Should be downloaded within the hour. Where would you like them posted to?
Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.
I'm probably too late for that what to do with 10Gb of bandwith in 48hrs thing, but as a gnice freebie for free software day How about CD's or DVD's just packed to the brim with CC licensed music? With perhaps a nifty guide for setting yourself up as an NZ local bittorrent source for them. Imagine every smart NZ bloke and blokess having a recentish Jamendo torrent mirror (Some of Ehma's stuff on http://www.jamendo.org is my favourite.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
Re: Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:44 pm, John Carter wrote: I'm probably too late for that what to do with 10Gb of bandwith in 48hrs thing, but as a gnice freebie for free software day How about CD's or DVD's just packed to the brim with CC licensed music? With perhaps a nifty guide for setting yourself up as an NZ local bittorrent source for them. Imagine every smart NZ bloke and blokess having a recentish Jamendo torrent mirror Well while you are about it how about a nifty guide on how to get good upload speeds and unlimited traffic at a reasonable price in NZ. -- Nick Rout
Re: Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:53 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:44 pm, John Carter wrote: I'm probably too late for that what to do with 10Gb of bandwith in 48hrs thing, but as a gnice freebie for free software day How about CD's or DVD's just packed to the brim with CC licensed music? With perhaps a nifty guide for setting yourself up as an NZ local bittorrent source for them. Imagine every smart NZ bloke and blokess having a recentish Jamendo torrent mirror Well while you are about it how about a nifty guide on how to get good upload speeds and unlimited traffic at a reasonable price in NZ. -- Nick Rout And the other thing is that bittorrent does not involve mirrors and there is no such thing as a torrent mirror. It involves only a tracker, and peers. There is no need of a mirror - although redundant trackers can be useful if one isn't reliable. Fast seed boxes are a definite plus, but improbable in NZ unless you really are part of the infrastructure. You can set up as many trackers for a torrent as you like. I have seen anything from 1 to about 15. Would the basics of bittorrent and a review of the available clients be a useful talk one night? Or have people pretty well got it sussed? -- Nick Rout
Re: can't change desktop wallpaper
aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice enough colour :-) it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on it but never mind, it has been an interesting exercise anyway. Cheers, Roger Steve Holdoway wrote: sudo vigr sudo chgrp -R groupname /home/roger Steve On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:43:56 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, user IDs are the same, group IDs are not. Can the ID numbers be changed? I've not yet located anything on how to do so - therefore the answer may be no or why would you want to. I guess this is not really a big deal and is no more than a distraction from work I should be doing, and given this is the only issue I currently have, will just patiently wait until there is an opportunity at some later date to try another distro or release. At which time I don't think I'll experiment with using the same /home folder, I'll set up from scratch and copy over what I want instead. Thanks for the replies! Roger yuri wrote: On 22/01/2008, Roger Searle wrote: I should add at this point that this installation of kubuntu made use of the previous SuSE home folder which basically went without any problem at all, aside from some minor reconfiguration of email etc. So this would lend support to the theory that it is a permissions thing. Are the numerical user IDs and group IDs the same under kubuntu as they were under SuSE? Just having the same name is not enough. Yuri
Re: can't change desktop wallpaper
On Wed, January 23, 2008 4:16 pm, Roger Searle wrote: aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice enough colour :-) it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on it but never mind, it has been an interesting exercise anyway. Cheers, Roger One thing that may be occurring is that another program has hold of your root window (thats essentially the background). I have seen that before although not with quite the same symptoms. ie the desktop background may in fact be under some other application. You haven't played with any of those programs that show a live view of space/the sky/the moon/your navel have you? -- Nick Rout
Re: Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Nick Rout wrote: Imagine every smart NZ bloke and blokess having a recentish Jamendo torrent mirror Well while you are about it how about a nifty guide on how to get good upload speeds and unlimited traffic at a reasonable price in NZ. And the other thing is that bittorrent does not involve mirrors and there is no such thing as a torrent mirror. It involves only a tracker, and peers. There is no need of a mirror - although redundant trackers can be useful if one isn't reliable. Fast seed boxes are a definite plus, but improbable in NZ unless you really are part of the infrastructure. You can set up as many trackers for a torrent as you like. I have seen anything from 1 to about 15. Would the basics of bittorrent and a review of the available clients be a useful talk one night? Or have people pretty well got it sussed? Sigh! Sorry, I used imprecise terminology. If many people in NZ had closish to a mirror of Jamendos albums, then the upload burden on any one of them is likely to be pretty low. The times I've been playing with torrents I seem to end up uploading and downloading from US clients anyway (and at that time I was on a plan that charged for international but not national bandwidth.) True, with torrents you don't have to have local mirrors, but handing out for free lots and lots local partial mirrors would just be a nice way of seeding NZ with Open stuff. The cute thing is you can use the Jamendo web site as a friendly browse and search front end, but when you click on torrent down load, odds on it comes off your own disk. Cute. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
Re: can't change desktop wallpaper
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, January 23, 2008 4:16 pm, Roger Searle wrote: aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice enough colour :-) it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on it but never mind, it has been an interesting exercise anyway. Cheers, Roger One thing that may be occurring is that another program has hold of your root window (thats essentially the background). I have seen that before although not with quite the same symptoms. ie the desktop background may in fact be under some other application. You haven't played with any of those programs that show a live view of space/the sky/the moon/your navel have you? no, nothing like that. i can't think of anything out of the ordinary that i'm using that would offer an explanation . . .
Re: 10 gig of bandwidth to use up - requests?
Hi I have the three FreeBSD 6.3 install disk for i386 downloaded and will send through to the archive. If you are looking at FreeBSD, as a way to using up the bandwidth, I would recommend the AMD64 version. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Phill Coxon wrote: I have 10 gig of bandwidth to burn within 48 hours. Any linux related download requests?
Re: can't change desktop wallpaper
I suspect that there is some daemon ( kde has lots ) or other running which has locked some file or other in your ~/.kde directory tree. I'd suggest logging out of your account. logging in again as root Assuming that you're on a machine over which you have full say-so as the root user. go to single user mode - telinit 1 This should kill all the daemons, but check with ps aux to see that it has, because some Linux distros are far from punctillious about it. Kill off any lingerers by hand. now to do the commands Steve suggested. sudo vigr sudo chgrp -R groupname /home/roger restart multiuser mode - telinit 5 ( the number is probably 5, but distros are not consistent. iirc Debian is 3. TAKE CARE ) grep initdefault /etc/inittab | cut -d ':' -f 2 should give you the required number Log out of root and back in again as yourself. Alternatively ( and safely ) simply reboot. If that does not work use a SystemRescueCD so that you can be absolutely certain that your files simply cannot be being locked by a process. Is an amplification of this sort of thing a possible subject for an evening's talk? On 1/23/08, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, January 23, 2008 4:16 pm, Roger Searle wrote: aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice enough colour :-) it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on it but never mind, it has been an interesting exercise anyway. Cheers, Roger One thing that may be occurring is that another program has hold of your root window (thats essentially the background). I have seen that before although not with quite the same symptoms. ie the desktop background may in fact be under some other application. You haven't played with any of those programs that show a live view of space/the sky/the moon/your navel have you? no, nothing like that. i can't think of anything out of the ordinary that i'm using that would offer an explanation . . . -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
