Re: PHP documentation
If you're a debian/ubuntu user manually install the phpdoc package from sarge ? Roy Britten wrote: I'm working on a PHP app running on a server running an older version of PHP (4.1.something IIRC). My google foo has failed me and I can't locate PHP documentation for anything but the latest release. Does the list's collective wisdom know where copies of the PHP documentation for older versions can be found? Manually filtering out everything since 5.x is a trial. Thanks, Roy.
RE: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Do you need to reserve seats/space or is it first come first seated etc? -Original Message- From: Rik Tindall [mailto:a...@infohelp.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 4:31 pm To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk Thanks Roger, Confirming this event now. Yes, it's an inimitable performance that RMS always gives.. Roger Searle wrote: Having heard RMS speak last year, I would highly recommend this event to everyone. I hadn't known too much about his philosophies or technical background, nor had I paid too much attention to free or Free or GNU/Linux etc. I spent a little time investigating prior to his speech last year and am much wiser for having done so. He is an excellent speaker, intelligent, eloquent, entertaining, and of course is a geek of the most high order (and I'm far from being worthy). I'm putting next Tuesday in my calendar now. Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk + topic to be defined soon. -- Kind regards, Rik Tindall ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz **
Re: Backing up server?
I would also like to point out you should *never* backup SQL databases via file method while running. You either have to shut down the SQL server and backup the files, or use another tool such as mysqldump/pg_dump/etc. to dump the live data. You should know that tar will not get other important things such as partition table and boot sector. You could add a (dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mybootsec.dd bs=512 count=1) and then add /tmp/mybootsec.dd to your tar. An even better way would be to use sfdisk and dump the partition table to a file. Then it can be restored on a different sized disk. Be aware that tar does not support ACL (Access Control Lists), so if you're using them, then you need to use fgetacl and dump a list. Or can use enhanced star. I would also recommend you avoid grabbing the dynamic system directories such as /proc, /dev, /sys, and /dev/shm. A little known and seldom used feature of GNU/tar is incremental backup feature, (-g) that is very helpful. One final note about direct filesystem access. In Linux, not everything you see is the current state of the OS. For example, if service X opens a data file, and something deletes that file, it will be missing on the filesystem to all new processes. But the original service X can continue to use it and run as if it wasn't ever deleted as long as it doesn't close the file handle. This can cause consistency problems if the backup is on a running server. Safest method is to shut down the service, backup, then start again. But that may not be an option for you. You can use dd for entire disk backup as well. However, this doen't lock the disk from use on a running system. (dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/smbmount/serverbackup.dd) I'd highly recommend a gzipped pipe if you are sending over a network or on USB drive as throughput is an issue. (dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -9 /mnt/smbmount/serverbackup.dd.gz) As a bonus, if you wipe your free space with zeros before this, then gzip will compress all free space out of the backup and save a lot of room. This may seem like a lot of information, but use what fits your needs. If you have SQL databases, go for the *dump commands. If you're just grabbing user data, then tar/rsync are good tools. If you want an easy system backups, try using a program such as BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ cheers sV On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nzwrote: Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 02/10/09 16:53: First question – is it right that ‘tar’ does not need to run using ‘sudo’, as in it can still access all the files? Wrong - tar is a running process that has the same file access as the user it runs as. If you run it as root, you can read all files. If it runs as a user, it can only read the files they'd have access to. If you're starting it from cron, its likely you're running as root. Secondly, does it backup all open files as well? (in windows ntbackup use to choke on open files) Depends... a file that is opened read/write should be skipped, but a file opened read-only will backup okay. And this brings me to the other type of backup ... windows backups Firstly you need to decide what you require from the machine if it was rogered. 1 User data 2 email 3 sql databases 4 /etc 5 /root 6 /usr/local 7 /opt plus a list of installed packages, and anything else critical. OR you can do some kind of rsync backup to another machine with a large drive and use that to restore. RAID1 is good, and disks are cheap enough these days. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Thanks Roger, Confirming this event now. Yes, it's an inimitable performance that RMS always gives.. Roger Searle wrote: Having heard RMS speak last year, I would highly recommend this event to everyone. I hadn't known too much about his philosophies or technical background, nor had I paid too much attention to free or Free or GNU/Linux etc. I spent a little time investigating prior to his speech last year and am much wiser for having done so. He is an excellent speaker, intelligent, eloquent, entertaining, and of course is a geek of the most high order (and I'm far from being worthy). I'm putting next Tuesday in my calendar now. Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk + topic to be defined soon. -- Kind regards, Rik Tindall
Re: Backing up server?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 02/10/09 16:53: First question – is it right that ‘tar’ does not need to run using ‘sudo’, as in it can still access all the files? Wrong - tar is a running process that has the same file access as the user it runs as. If you run it as root, you can read all files. If it runs as a user, it can only read the files they'd have access to. If you're starting it from cron, its likely you're running as root. Secondly, does it backup all open files as well? (in windows ntbackup use to choke on open files) Depends... a file that is opened read/write should be skipped, but a file opened read-only will backup okay. And this brings me to the other type of backup ... windows backups Firstly you need to decide what you require from the machine if it was rogered. 1 User data 2 email 3 sql databases 4 /etc 5 /root 6 /usr/local 7 /opt plus a list of installed packages, and anything else critical. OR you can do some kind of rsync backup to another machine with a large drive and use that to restore. RAID1 is good, and disks are cheap enough these days. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October, ~7.30pm. what do you mean extra RMS is a keynote speaker at Chch Town Hall, 1pm 12 October: http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/index.html On Saturday morning he told Kim Hill that he tries to have his hosts allow for public access to such speeches - for admission, check with LIANZA?
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
David Merrick wrote: A pity about the time. As A1 is a big lecture theatre you could sneek in the back stairs without causing too much interruption True. http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/theuni/maps/ Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk More tour info: http://info541.sim.vuw.ac.nz/blogs/rms-2009-new-zealand-visit-schedule/ http://www.iscr.co.nz/n526.html http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/speakers.html http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday with Kim Hill 8am - Midday, Audio from Saturday, 03 October 2009 Richard Stallman: digital freedoms http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/sat/2009/10/03/richard_stallman_digital_freedoms Software freedom activist and developer, visiting here for events including delivering the keynote address on copyright vs community at the LIANZA conference. (duration: 39'23) Download: Ogg Vorbis http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091003-0905-Richard_Stallman_digital_freedoms.ogg
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Hi CLUGees, Is there anyone subscribed here who is university-based? Assistance is required to arrange a meeting space for a talk that Richard Stallman is offering to do here in Christchurch, three weeks from tonight. Or at CPIT, or any other locale suggestions? Cheers, Rik is there any update on this talk?
Backing up server?
Hi all, I've been playing with our Ubuntu server this afternoon, checking out how to back up the system to a windows share. I've got that going using tar and smbmount. First question - is it right that 'tar' does not need to run using 'sudo', as in it can still access all the files? Secondly, does it backup all open files as well? (in windows ntbackup use to choke on open files) And this brings me to the other type of backup On our windows servers we use backup software that utilises the windows 'Volume Shadow Copy' service to take 'snapshots' of the entire disk at one point in time. These backups are sector based disk images. Before the snapshot is taken databases are blocked for writes and buffers written to disk so as they are in a consistent state on disk for when snapshot is taken. Once the snapshot is taken (about 10 seconds), the disk and databases are returned to normal operation and the backup proceeds against the snapshot (while the backup is happening, if disk changes occur the volume shadow service points the backup to a copy of how the disk was at the snapshot time, not what it has become now). On Linux - I see there are equivalent types of backup to a point in time, does anyone have any recommendations? ( I found this one: 'Hot Copy (hcp)' [http://www.softarea51.com/linux/System_Utilities/File_Disk_Management/R eview-Hot_Copy_hcp_for_Linux.html] but maybe there are others that are better?). By the way - I won't see any replies until Monday now as off home - thanks for your opinions. Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Tim Buchanan wrote: 'fraid so. Hi all, Just tuned in halfway thru this conversation, is this at Cant Uni? Cheers Tim On 10/6/09, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: David Merrick wrote: A pity about the time. As A1 is a big lecture theatre you could sneek in the back stairs without causing too much interruption True. http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/theuni/maps/ Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk More tour info: http://info541.sim.vuw.ac.nz/blogs/rms-2009-new-zealand-visit-schedule/ http://www.iscr.co.nz/n526.html http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/speakers.html http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday with Kim Hill 8am - Midday, Audio from Saturday, 03 October 2009 Richard Stallman: digital freedoms http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/sat/2009/10/03/richard_stallman_ digital_freedoms Software freedom activist and developer, visiting here for events including delivering the keynote address on copyright vs community at the LIANZA conference. (duration: 39'23) Download: Ogg Vorbis http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091003-0905-Richard_Stallman_digi tal_freedoms.ogg -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Thanks Roger, Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk + topic to be defined soon. Shame whoever is organising these things doesn't seem to realise that some people work until 5.00pm It's end-of-term, so the place shuts down after we leave.. Also, it's an official CompSci Seminar now, which resolves quite a few issues. I hope people can get along to most of this long session (and still have their evening free). These are the finalised details going into publicity from today: Event Name: A free digital society To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War on Sharing. Bio: Richard Stallman Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Try this email address Richard Lobb richard.l...@canterbury.ac.nz, lecturer at Cant University Computer Science or this one comp...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Cheers dave On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Hi CLUGees, Is there anyone subscribed here who is university-based? Assistance is required to arrange a meeting space for a talk that Richard Stallman is offering to do here in Christchurch, three weeks from tonight. Or at CPIT, or any other locale suggestions? Cheers, Rik is there any update on this talk? -- David Merrick merrick...@gmail.com Ph 03 3423 121 Cell 027 3089 169
PHP documentation
I'm working on a PHP app running on a server running an older version of PHP (4.1.something IIRC). My google foo has failed me and I can't locate PHP documentation for anything but the latest release. Does the list's collective wisdom know where copies of the PHP documentation for older versions can be found? Manually filtering out everything since 5.x is a trial. Thanks, Roy.
Re: Maybe OT - printing aerial photos
On 30/09/2009, goldedge golde...@clear.net.nz wrote: Hi Nick, there's an add in for firefox that lets you select and capture the portion of the screen that you want to copy rather than the whole screen, sorry I don't have the name to hand at the moment (screen snip or similar), you'll need to search the firefox extensions. It works well and may do what you want. Screen Grab http://www.screengrab.org/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146 It's a good tool. :)
konqueror - saving column widths
Hi, using konqueror 4.3.1 for file management, I can set up and save various profiles, containing multiple tabs, with various columns added or removed from the details view etc. However I can't find any way to save the width of these columns. Does anyone know how to go about doing this so that it is retained in a profile? Drawn a blank so far with google. Cheers, Roger
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October, ~7.30pm. Woops. Another possible time would be 5pm to 7pm. We should know tomorrow.
Re: xubuntu loading desktop problems
cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l Rik Tindall wrote: Hi Victor, T e o D wrote: I got a problem when I am trying to start up my Xubuntu machine.. Which version are you running? e.g. is it 9.04? Regards, Rik
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
is there any update on this talk? And do you need any help with anything?
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Thanks Roger, Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk + topic to be defined soon. Shame whoever is organising these things doesn't seem to realise that some people work until 5.00pm
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Hi all, Just tuned in halfway thru this conversation, is this at Cant Uni? Cheers Tim On 10/6/09, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: David Merrick wrote: A pity about the time. As A1 is a big lecture theatre you could sneek in the back stairs without causing too much interruption True. http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/theuni/maps/ Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk More tour info: http://info541.sim.vuw.ac.nz/blogs/rms-2009-new-zealand-visit-schedule/ http://www.iscr.co.nz/n526.html http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/speakers.html http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday with Kim Hill 8am - Midday, Audio from Saturday, 03 October 2009 Richard Stallman: digital freedoms http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/sat/2009/10/03/richard_stallman_digital_freedoms Software freedom activist and developer, visiting here for events including delivering the keynote address on copyright vs community at the LIANZA conference. (duration: 39'23) Download: Ogg Vorbis http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091003-0905-Richard_Stallman_digital_freedoms.ogg
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Having heard RMS speak last year, I would highly recommend this event to everyone. I hadn't known too much about his philosophies or technical background, nor had I paid too much attention to free or Free or GNU/Linux etc. I spent a little time investigating prior to his speech last year and am much wiser for having done so. He is an excellent speaker, intelligent, eloquent, entertaining, and of course is a geek of the most high order (and I'm far from being worthy). I'm putting next Tuesday in my calendar now. Cheers, Roger Rik Tindall wrote: Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October, ~7.30pm. Woops. Another possible time would be 5pm to 7pm. We should know tomorrow.
Re: xubuntu loading desktop problems
Hi Victor, T e o D wrote: I got a problem when I am trying to start up my Xubuntu machine.. Which version are you running? e.g. is it 9.04? Regards, Rik
FOSS users meet Weds 7 Oct
What: Free Open-Source Software user group Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based tuition Where: South Learning Centre, South Library, 66 Colombo St, Beckenham (use rear door) When: Wednesday 7 Oct, 7.30pm-9.30pm, = 1st Weds monthly Cheers, Rik
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Payne, Owen wrote: Do you need to reserve seats/space or is it first come first seated etc? The latter. 320 capacity. A few seats spare last year. Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk
Re: Backing up server?
Solor Vox wrote: I would also like to point out you should *never* backup SQL databases via file method while running. You either have to shut down the SQL server and backup the files, or use another tool such as mysqldump/pg_dump/etc. to dump the live data. Nice MySQL Backup script. http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ This may seem like a lot of information, but use what fits your needs. If you have SQL databases, go for the *dump commands. If you're just grabbing user data, then tar/rsync are good tools. If you want an easy system backups, try using a program such as BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ cheers sV I have been using Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/en/) but I have been hearing a lot about BackupPC recently. Bacula has a lot of features, and can run scripts such as the one above before backing up, but you need to restore from the command line - which some people don't like. I have recovered so infrequently I don't remember the command. BackupPC appears to have a much nicer and useful GUI. don
Re: PHP documentation
Try http://nz.php.net/docs.php in documentation changelog. PHP should be the same wether you are using Linux or windows On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a PHP app running on a server running an older version of PHP (4.1.something IIRC). My google foo has failed me and I can't locate PHP documentation for anything but the latest release. Does the list's collective wisdom know where copies of the PHP documentation for older versions can be found? Manually filtering out everything since 5.x is a trial. Thanks, Roy. -- David Merrick merrick...@gmail.com Ph 03 3423 121 Cell 027 3089 169
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
A pity about the time. As A1 is a big lecture theatre you could sneek in the back stairs without causing too much interruption On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Thanks Roger, Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk + topic to be defined soon. Shame whoever is organising these things doesn't seem to realise that some people work until 5.00pm -- David Merrick merrick...@gmail.com Ph 03 3423 121 Cell 027 3089 169
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
Thanks David, Nick and Don. Emailing for use of UoC space now. Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October, ~7.30pm. Cheers, Rik David Merrick wrote: Try this email address Richard Lobb richard.l...@canterbury.ac.nz, lecturer at Cant University Computer Science or this one comp...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Cheers dave On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Is there anyone subscribed here who is university-based? Assistance is required to arrange a meeting space for a talk that Richard Stallman is offering to do here in Christchurch, three weeks from tonight is there any update on this talk?
Kiwi PyCon Media Statement - How a programming language is changing the Web
NEW ZEALAND PYTHON USER GROUP Media Statement October 5, 2009 IMMEDIATE RELEASE How a programming language is changing the Web The main keynote speaker at Kiwi PyCon 2009, Joel Burton, an internationally recognised trainer and presenter, will explain how the programming language Python is becoming the language of choice for developing websites due to its simplicity and flexibility. The conference will be held at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator in Christchurch on November 7th and 8th. Other tracks at the conference will include: GUI, Science Math, Game, and Applications. The conference will also have a dedicated Web track, which will include presentations about many Python web technologies, such as: Django, Twisted, Zope 3, Grok, and Plone. The conference has attracted a lot of interest from many universities throughout the country and staff and students from Auckland, Massey, Canterbury, and Otago universities will be presenting regarding how they've used Python in their research. “As Christchurch has the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of New Zealand, its been really great to see a number of electronics companies in Christchurch support the event”, said Tim Knapp, the conference Director. Tait Electronics, a radio communications manufacturer, is a Gold sponsor for the event. “The positive response we've received from the IT community in New Zealand has been really encouraging” commented Mr. Knapp. “Really, no matter what industry your business is in, this conference will be of benefit to you.” Registration closes on October 23rd and registrations are limited. For more information visit nz.pycon.org. ---Ends--- For media or conference enquiries please contact: Tim Knapp, NZ Python User Group Vice President and Event Director Phone: 021 156 6405 Email: kiwipy...@nzpug.org Website: nz.pycon.org
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Thanks David, Nick and Don. Emailing for use of UoC space now. Will confirm once we're ready to spread the word, but the RMS Ch-ch extra speaking date will be: Tues 13 October, ~7.30pm. Cheers, Rik what do you mean extra David Merrick wrote: Try this email address Richard Lobb richard.l...@canterbury.ac.nz, lecturer at Cant University Computer Science or this one comp...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Cheers dave On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: Is there anyone subscribed here who is university-based? Assistance is required to arrange a meeting space for a talk that Richard Stallman is offering to do here in Christchurch, three weeks from tonight is there any update on this talk?
Re: xubuntu loading desktop problems
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:34:15 +1300, T e o D liasi...@xtra.co.nz wrote: cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) was released on April 19th, 2007 and is no longer supported. It is recommended to upgrade to the current version of Ubuntu. - http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty Can you download and burn off 9.04 from here? - http://www.xubuntu.org/get
mailing list problems...
I've just received, in one lump, the last few days posts to the list... 23 emails. Does the list owner read the list, and can he tell me what's happening? Cheers, Steve
Re: PHP documentation
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a PHP app running on a server running an older version of PHP (4.1.something IIRC) I'm guessing its intentional. Its a ReallyBadIdea™ developing *new *PHP apps in a version of PHP that is now 1. Note-worthily old. 2. Officially unsupported. 3. No longer supported by any of the major players ( by this I mean varying PHP libraries ) For the love of sanity for yourself and your peers, do please seek out migrating to the Lastest And Greatest and Least Vulnerable PHP 5.3. You'll really thank yourself later. -- Kent
Re: PHP documentation
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 02:14 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: For the love of sanity for yourself and your peers, do please seek out migrating to the Lastest And Greatest and Least Vulnerable PHP 5.3. You'll really thank yourself later. Given that CentOS 5 delivers 5.1.6, and even Ubuntu 9.04 only delivers 5.2.6, I beg to differ. Not much point developing code you can't deploy anywhere (: Steve
Re: PHP documentation
I'm guessing its intentional. Its a ReallyBadIdea™ developing new PHP apps in a version of PHP that is now Agreed, however this is just maintenance and extension of an existing app, and For the love of sanity for yourself and your peers, do please seek out migrating to the Lastest And Greatest and Least Vulnerable PHP 5.3. oh, if only I had the option. It's neither my app nor my server, so for now I'm stuck with what I've got. The good news is that most of the servers we work with are reasonably up-to-date. Cheers, Roy.
Re: PHP documentation
On Thu, October 8, 2009 03:01, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 02:14 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: For the love of sanity for yourself and your peers, do please seek out migrating to the Lastest And Greatest and Least Vulnerable PHP 5.3. You'll really thank yourself later. Given that CentOS 5 delivers 5.1.6, and even Ubuntu 9.04 only delivers 5.2.6, I beg to differ. Not much point developing code you can't deploy anywhere (: With PHP it's more a case of not much point developing code you *shouldn't* deploy anywhere. :) A
Re: PHP documentation
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:35 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote: eploy anywhere (: With PHP it's more a case of not much point developing code you *shouldn't* deploy anywhere. :) A Behave (: -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: PhotoRec - A story with a happy ending
On Thu, October 8, 2009 13:30, Douglas Royds wrote: My partner had accidentally deleted a wanted photograph from her camera. Enter PhotoRec: snip That'll be handy to remember! I wonder, would it be possible to 'dd' the contents of the filestore and run PhotoRec on the dd image? This would guard against possible further damage to the filestore, and also allow many different tools to be applied to the 'original' data. Anyway, glad to hear it was a successful outcome. Andrew
