Re: Just an idea...
I think it's a good idea. Are you thinking of it as an educational tool, or something more like a shell script generator from a GUI? I had a brief look around freshmeat.net and didn't see anything like this. It may be that given the familiarity with the use of the command line by Linux user, such a tool is not needed. Or it may be that nobody thought of it before. I have to say I've seen and worked with plenty of graphical tools to generate process flow and data flow from basic elements, with or without a target or specific language to generate the task in, but all had a specific purpose. Never seen something so close to the operating system as to use command line components. It may be that you have uncovered something here. On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:39 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and redirecting. At the moment I'm just in the day dream stage of development but I'm happy to start implementing if someone else is. Anyway, sorry if this is a considered a spam but I need to some how ask a largish number of people if I would be wasting my time on if I tried writing it.
plastic hard drive support for an old ibm tinkcentre
Hi, Does anyone have a spare plastic support band/thing that keeps the hard drive in place in an old IBM TinkCentre pc? To be honest I don't even know what that plastic thing looks like, and I can't even tell the exact model of the PC (I guess desktop A58 with approximation), but the inside of the PC looks exactly like in these pictures: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/51261_locatecomp.gif http://media.photobucket.com/image/ibm%20thinkcentre%20desktop%20hard% 20disk%20enclosure/spike888ph/08-Desktops/Thinkcentre%2520M50% 25208187/inside.jpg The hard disk goes under the floppy. Thanks in advance, Adrian
Re: plastic hard drive support for an old ibm tinkcentre
Thank you all. I'll give Molten Media a call tomorrow and failing that I'll try my luck with the DYI option. I'm not near that PC at the moment to check the part number. Cheers, Adrian On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:45 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 07/01/2010 04:28 PM: Does anyone have a spare plastic support band/thing that keeps the hard drive in place in an old IBM TinkCentre pc? To be honest I don't even know what that plastic thing looks like, and I can't even tell the exact model of the PC (I guess desktop A58 with approximation), but the inside of the PC looks exactly like in these pictures: It'll be a blue frame the same light blue as the other bits of trim plastic. If you buy it new would probably cost around $50. What's the IBM model and part number for the case? should be of the form -xxx and on a black sticker on the front of the case. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/51261_locatecomp.gif http://media.photobucket.com/image/ibm%20thinkcentre%20desktop%20hard%20disk%20enclosure/spike888ph/08-Desktops/Thinkcentre%2520M50%25208187/inside.jpg It'd be cheaper for you to cobble it in rather than buying the correct bracket.
Re: UBUNTU 9.10 Server Install - LVM problem?
Call it Disaster/Recovery and then the database or application backup will find its place in the bigger picture. When it comes to databases or applications, it is always a good idea to do a backup of the database or the application files using internal tools (e.g. dump command) before doing a backup at the operating system level such as volume snapshot. This way your databases remain consistent, otherwise whatever transactions not committed to disk are lost and the databases or application structures risk corrupting their integrity. For business continuity in case of unfortunate events, replication is always preferable as first line of defence to a restore from a previous clean backup - less time and work lost. If tuned and configured correctly, the replication mechanism (where available) should have little or no impact on production performance. HTH Adrian On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:19 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: I wouldn't do that with the backups personally. If you're after backing up important production databases, then I'd look at replicating them ( to another machine preferably ) as a frist line of defence. Replication gives you defence from hardware failure, the same way that RAID does. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with being a backup in the data sense. Except ... whilst over there, cold backups have no effect on live systems performance... The only effect that they have is to push back on your replication system :-) As long as the primary doesn't get excess load while waiting for the replicant to come back up, you're in business. and no matter how cumbersome they are, I reckon they should always be a part of your backup strategy (: Sure, but effectively that's what a snapshot is; if a full cold backup takes say 1 hour, with LVM snapshotting you can reduce that to a couple of seconds. Surely that's worth investigating? If you can grab a snapshot that quickly (it'll still take an hour to actually back up from there, but the DB doesn't have to know), and your production system can handle being read-only for a second or so, you can dispense with the need for a replicant in the first place. -jim
Re: Completely Offtopic: Any recommendations for computer technicians in Rangiora?
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:45 +1300, Kerry Mayes wrote: My brother in law has recently used two locals out there and I wouldn't recommend either of them. Both were quite pricey for incredibly simple things. ($200+ to remove Norton anti virus and install a replacement.) Sorry, don't know either's name. Kerry. I think I'm in the wrong business. Adrian
Re: Completely Offtopic: Any recommendations for computer technicians in Rangiora?
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 15:40 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 13/01/10 14:11: On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:45 +1300, Kerry Mayes wrote: My brother in law has recently used two locals out there and I wouldn't recommend either of them. Both were quite pricey for incredibly simple things. ($200+ to remove Norton anti virus and install a replacement.) Sorry, don't know either's name. I think I'm in the wrong business. No - there's no money in computers Everyone wants it cheap and good. I totally agree - which is why I closed my business. People seem happy to pay for a plumber or an electrician but they hate seeing a computer fixer do his work on the keyboard - they think that they should be able to do that and why should they pay good money for an expert. Nothing is more soul destroying than doing work for someone and it goes to custard. Recently I backed up data on a friend's PC to my USB portable HD, repaired the PC and a few days later went back to restore from the backup only to find the backup HD stuffed. Even a forensic expert could not recover anything. (I suspect that they had dropped the drive as it was in a different place from where I had left it but that did not help the situation.) Rob My comment was meant as a joke, however I can see now that it could also be read in a different way, and I apologies if it conveyed anything other than humor. Due to the nature of my activity, I never provided services directly to consumers (plus appalling selling skills), so I didn't break any souls. But I did charge in the past more than that per hour plus travel, accommodation and other expenses, for different projects. I had a small contribution to the inception of this document and I would recommend it to every IT professional regardless of the nature of the work provided and the target market for his or her products and services: http://www.nzcs.org.nz/files/NZCS%20Code%20of%20Practice.pdf It is a good guide on how to avoid - and deal with - situations where the profession has the potential to be seen as less than reputable, if I can use the word. It doesn't cover the moral aspect of charges, but if you follow the guidelines (e.g. 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.2), what you charge for your services will reflect the value that you provide to your clients. Adrian
Re: Wireless car in Christchurch?
Looks dodgy to a knowledgeable eye, probably is. Haven't seen the car, but if it looked suspicious enough to me, I'd call the authorities. Worst that can happen is a news snippet at 6pm saying that a car belonging to a legit organisation doing some work in town was so poorly equipped that it raised the suspicion of the tech savvy Christchurch public enough to call the police. Best case scenario you stop dead a scam in progress. On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 14:46 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote: Lee Begg wrote, On 26/11/09 13:59: Paul Swafford wrote: maybe checking for over-boosted WiFi antennae ? Or building a wireless coverage map (not necessarily WiFi)? The aerials looked like simple $10 magnetic base ones, with cables snaking loose over the roof and into a rear door. Not exactly industrial quality.
Re: linux isos on Caledonian at St Albans
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:18 +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:34:58 Wesley Parish wrote: Hi. In reply to Adrian's request for a list of the isos available on the Linux box in the St Albans community centre, here is the list of the files and directories. As you can see, in some areas it's definitely outdated. I've got the latest Ubuntu - I'll update the Ubuntu directory next week. Share and enjoy! Wesley Parish [snip massive file listing and quotations] Can somebody fill me in on what this is? I asked for it because people I work with asked me if there is a place close to home where they could get a Linux installation disk and what distros are available. I knew about this list but could not find it published anywhere so I asked Wesley to send it here. Would it be useful to put it on the Clug page? Maybe you are familiar with the history of this list, but for those who are not, from ages back when CLUG used to have a real world base at St. Albans Community Centre, and downloading gigabytes was expensive, Linux enthusiasts used to bring Linux disk images to be stored on the computers there for everyone interested to bring his or her own CD or DVD to burn the desired distro. The archive has survived the time kindly cared for by Wesley. Today the Fedora distribution was updated with the latest release, Fedora 12. HTH, Adrian
List of distros @ St. Albans
Hi, Is there a link to look at or another way to see the list of distros' images kept at St. Albans? Adrian
Constantine has arrived
Fedora 12 - code name Constantine - was released this week. I have downloaded the 32bit install and live ISO images and I am about to finish downloading the 64bit ISOs Wesley, if you don't have them yet I can bring all images on a portable hard drive to St. Albans to update the archive there whenever you have time starting early next week. Adrian
Re: Old server - free to a good home
Thank you Steve, they'll appreciate it. Adrian On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 00:07 +, Steve Brorens wrote: I'm dropping it off at Family Help Trust for Adrian tomorrow. - steve On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Steve Brorens sbror...@gmail.com wrote: IBM NETFINITY 5100 (model 8658-21y, pic at http://alege.net/servers/img/2224.jpg) Standard tower form factor, but bigger, heavier and louder than your home PC. - Hardware RAID - 4 x 9GB hotswap drives (setup as RAID5) - 2 more hotswap drive bays - 733Mhz (single processor only I think) - 2GB RAM Happily installs Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition, but will go to the dump if no-one wants it by the weekend.
Re: OTish: rhythmbox and mp3s and album recognition
I had the same problem when ripping my CD collection as mp3. I had to go afterwards and edit all tags by hand with Easytag. When I chose as target ogg format, all albums and artists were recognised. Not the genre though, and I left it as unknown being too lazy to cange that. Not sure why is this, I didn't dig further because I started to like ogg more than mp3, ogg sounds better in full ear headphones. On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 14:15 +1200, steve wrote: Can anyone help me with this one.. I've finished ripping my CD collection, and imported into rhythmbox. Unfortunately, most of the albums are coming up as Genre/Artist/Album all unknown. When I ripped the albums, I created a directory structure as follows: Artist/Album/01_track1.mp3 and so on: eg I'm currently listening to unknown by unknown, which is actually track one of Marc Cohn's debut album... $ ls -R Marc\ Cohn/ Marc Cohn/: Marc Cohn Marc Cohn/Marc Cohn: 01_Walking In Memphis.mp3 07_Saving The Best For Last.mp3 02_Ghost Train.mp3 08_Strangers In A Car.mp3 03_Silver Thunderbird.mp3 09_29 Ways.mp3 04_Dig Down Deep.mp3 10_Perfect Love.mp3 05_Walk On Water.mp3 11_True Companion.mp3 06_Miles Away.mp3 Any idea if/how I get it recognised... an index file or similar? I'd do it manually, but there's just under 10,000 tracks need doing! TIA, Steve
Re: Perl Users?
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 06:22 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: Hey, I'm bored. Any of you out there I'd love to hear about so I can stop feeling like such an alien :) ( I seriously googled, and I came up bare handed, ) Not a programmer myself, but I've used PERL in the past, mainly for data transfer and transformation. In the mid '90s was, to my knowledge, the only scripting language that could be used without much variations on VMS, NetWare/Novell, HP-UX, Solaris, ICL-NX, SCO and Win*, so I found it to be the option of choice for a data integration project. Plus it provided satisfactory connectivity layer - at the time - for most RDBMSs. Ok, maybe not for Oracle, but that was manageable through API calls. Since then I used it successfully for big chunks of the ETL component in two past data warehouse projects and just recently I used it to do a data migration for a charity organisation. Learning it was a winning bet for me because later I found it was supported - and still is, sometimes through generators - by most data integration products and ETLs, both proprietary and open source like Talend with its variation Kettle. I didn't find it hard to maintain, but the disclaimer here is that I used it almost exclusively for a single purpose - data processing - hence it wasn't hard to stick to a discipline in file organisation, coding and commenting the scripts. Adrian
Re: Nine open-source mobiles on the way
Argentina: http://www.nextel.com.ar/productos/producto_i9_equipo.php Peru http://www.movistar.com.pe/default1.aspx?id=14 for a start. I can speak (and read) Spanish so if you are interested in something in particular in South America let me know. For Brazil I can only read Portugheze and understand probably only 70%, but I can complete the rest with Google translate and other services - if I know what I'm looking for, that is. I found this page useful as a starting point: http://www.ostamyy.com/telecommunications/Argentina.htm Adrian On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 00:37 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: By the way, does anyone know the types of PDA and cellphone that are in use in Africa and India? (And for that matter, South America?) And the software they run? Thanks Wesley Parish On Wednesday 12 August 2009 13:19, Adrian Mageanu wrote: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/technology/2743757/Nine-open-source-mobile s-on-the-way The good news here - as I see it - is that the small players in the application development arena will have the support of the big guys of the likes of Vodafone. I have to say that in the past while working for a company who developed mobile apps on another platform, Vodafone was pretty supportive, providing some of their network services almost free of charge, and most important, they answered all my emails and returned almost all my phone calls (I used to co-ordinate the development process for that company). They also have several international programs whereas if they think your application is good - some tests are involved - they can promote it on various markets themselves. Never had the chance to work on mobile apps on Linux but, knowing their company culture, I think they'll be equally supportive for Linux platforms. It will be interesting to see how they will adapt to the FOSS business model. Disclaimer: I don't work for Vodafone, I don't have any business relation with them, nor do I use their services (by choice). Adrian
Re: Anyone else in Chch with broadband down?
All well here in St. Albans On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 19:18 -0700, Phill Coxon wrote: Anyone else with Telecom ADSL down in Christchurch at the moment? According to some Telecom person I spoke to somebody managed to cut a fibre optic cable on Wakrakei Road this morning at about 7:30am. We're still down in Opawa (currently using mobile broadband). Very annoying.
Nine open-source mobiles on the way
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/technology/2743757/Nine-open-source-mobiles-on-the-way The good news here - as I see it - is that the small players in the application development arena will have the support of the big guys of the likes of Vodafone. I have to say that in the past while working for a company who developed mobile apps on another platform, Vodafone was pretty supportive, providing some of their network services almost free of charge, and most important, they answered all my emails and returned almost all my phone calls (I used to co-ordinate the development process for that company). They also have several international programs whereas if they think your application is good - some tests are involved - they can promote it on various markets themselves. Never had the chance to work on mobile apps on Linux but, knowing their company culture, I think they'll be equally supportive for Linux platforms. It will be interesting to see how they will adapt to the FOSS business model. Disclaimer: I don't work for Vodafone, I don't have any business relation with them, nor do I use their services (by choice). Adrian
Re: server wanted for a good cause
Many thanks from the Family Help Trust to Roger for the monitor donated to them. Cheers, Adrian On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:14 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Thank you again from FHT and myself to Chris and Steve for their donations. As it happened, none of the PCs donated so far have a monitor. So following Steve's suggestion, I'm abusing the list again with another request, this time for one or two monitors to go along with those PCs. If you have some spare ones lying around, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Adrian On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:41 +1200, chris wrote: Would a p3 do? Chris T On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:19 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in the difficult area of child abuse prevention. They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message. What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be used as a development environment in a transitional phase. The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper. The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB and 50GB. There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users, not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too heavy. Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor, the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better. A network card is a must though. I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT). To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering the following: First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation received. Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the donor's website) for a year on their website http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site for more info. Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite impressive for a non-profit of their size. Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand over to countless of individuals and organisations every week. To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the brochures (pdf format) listed here: http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding necessary to be seen. The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport. Many thanks in advance for all potential offers. Cheers, Adrian
Re: server wanted for a good cause
Thank you again from FHT and myself to Chris and Steve for their donations. As it happened, none of the PCs donated so far have a monitor. So following Steve's suggestion, I'm abusing the list again with another request, this time for one or two monitors to go along with those PCs. If you have some spare ones lying around, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Adrian On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:41 +1200, chris wrote: Would a p3 do? Chris T On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:19 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in the difficult area of child abuse prevention. They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message. What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be used as a development environment in a transitional phase. The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper. The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB and 50GB. There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users, not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too heavy. Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor, the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better. A network card is a must though. I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT). To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering the following: First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation received. Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the donor's website) for a year on their website http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site for more info. Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite impressive for a non-profit of their size. Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand over to countless of individuals and organisations every week. To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the brochures (pdf format) listed here: http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding necessary to be seen. The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport. Many thanks in advance for all potential offers. Cheers, Adrian
Re: server wanted for a good cause
Wonderful, thank you. On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:57 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Adrian Mageanuadrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Thank you again from FHT and myself to Chris and Steve for their donations. As it happened, none of the PCs donated so far have a monitor. So following Steve's suggestion, I'm abusing the list again with another request, this time for one or two monitors to go along with those PCs. If you have some spare ones lying around, please let me know. I think we have a couple at work, I'll ask tomorrow. They are 17 inch CRT I think
Re: server wanted for a good cause
Yes, thank you. On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:34 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: would a 15 be of any use? Cheers, Roger Adrian Mageanu wrote: Thank you again from FHT and myself to Chris and Steve for their donations. As it happened, none of the PCs donated so far have a monitor. So following Steve's suggestion, I'm abusing the list again with another request, this time for one or two monitors to go along with those PCs. If you have some spare ones lying around, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Adrian On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:41 +1200, chris wrote: Would a p3 do? Chris T On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:19 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in the difficult area of child abuse prevention. They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message. What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be used as a development environment in a transitional phase. The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper. The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB and 50GB. There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users, not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too heavy. Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor, the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better. A network card is a must though. I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT). To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering the following: First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation received. Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the donor's website) for a year on their website http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site for more info. Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite impressive for a non-profit of their size. Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand over to countless of individuals and organisations every week. To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the brochures (pdf format) listed here: http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding necessary to be seen. The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport. Many thanks in advance for all potential offers. Cheers, Adrian
Re: server wanted for a good cause
Thank you Chris, we'll get in touch tomorrow Adrian On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:41 +1200, chris wrote: Would a p3 do? Chris T On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:19 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in the difficult area of child abuse prevention. They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message. What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be used as a development environment in a transitional phase. The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper. The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB and 50GB. There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users, not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too heavy. Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor, the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better. A network card is a must though. I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT). To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering the following: First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation received. Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the donor's website) for a year on their website http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site for more info. Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite impressive for a non-profit of their size. Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand over to countless of individuals and organisations every week. To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the brochures (pdf format) listed here: http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding necessary to be seen. The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport. Many thanks in advance for all potential offers. Cheers, Adrian
Re: server wanted for a good cause
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:52 +1200, steve wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:19 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. [snip] I've got a Dell Dimension 2350 2.4GHz P4 / 512MB / 30GB if it's any use. It'll run xubuntu for sure. No monitor though. Let me know if you want it... Steve Sure thing, thank you. Give a number off list where to call you tomorrow to arrange a time for pick-up Adrian
Re: server wanted for a good cause
Thank you for the lead, I'll follow it. On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:20 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: Nothing here sorry - have you tried hitting molten media up for a freebie ? Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 17/06/09 13:17: I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in the difficult area of child abuse prevention. They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message. What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be used as a development environment in a transitional phase. The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper. The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB and 50GB. There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users, not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too heavy. Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor, the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better. A network card is a must though. I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT). To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering the following: First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation received. Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the donor's website) for a year on their website http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site for more info. Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite impressive for a non-profit of their size. Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand over to countless of individuals and organisations every week. To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the brochures (pdf format) listed here: http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding necessary to be seen. The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport. Many thanks in advance for all potential offers.
server wanted for a good cause
Hi, I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of the message. Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in the difficult area of child abuse prevention. They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message. What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be used as a development environment in a transitional phase. The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper. The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB and 50GB. There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users, not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too heavy. Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor, the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better. A network card is a must though. I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT). To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering the following: First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation received. Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the donor's website) for a year on their website http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site for more info. Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite impressive for a non-profit of their size. Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand over to countless of individuals and organisations every week. To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the brochures (pdf format) listed here: http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding necessary to be seen. The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport. Many thanks in advance for all potential offers. Cheers, Adrian
Re: Have a safe trip Chris...
My thoughts and wishes too. Chris, I look forward to your posts from afar. Adrian On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 20:13 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: ...and best wishes for the future. Thanks for all you've done for us, and please keep in touch. Cheers, Steve
searching for an open source application
Hi there, I said I'll help someone I know, being more familiar than him with open source, but apparently I am a bit out of my domain here, having spent 6 hours already scouring the net to no avail. What I am looking for is an open source application that is web based, platform independent and that if it is database centric then should support either MySQL or PostgreSQL The type of project I'm after is a decision support system that also models the processes supporting those decisions. The end result is a report / document, so it should have, or be able to be integrated with, a reporting system. Final format is desirable to be PDF. The way the system should work is that it should have at its base an organisational unit that will group a set of processes. The system should be able to handle multiple such organisational units. A process will have as input a collection of variables of various types (numeric, binary, linguistic, classifications, ranges, sets, single and multi-choice selections, etc) that are associated through various rules (arithmetic, logic, aggregation, concatenation, if-then-else, simple or weighted association, etc, including user defined e.g. 2+3=6 and because I say so). The output of a process should be a set of variables having a valid combination of values - again, defined by the user. The output variables should be of types as varied as the input variables. These output variables can be part of an input set for another process. Circular references are ok if the system allows them. The variables and the association rules will be defined by the user through the web interface. The system is desired to handle an unlimited number of variables (200 - 1000) and an equally unlimited number of processes (100 - 500), preferable through a graphic interface. The end result is desired to be a set of reports, as in documents, made of templates chosen based of values of certain variables and will also contain variable values in themselves. To give you an ideea of what I'm talking about think http://software.typodemon.com/Wizard-Toolkit/ with a way more complicated story and a vastly richer set of conclusions. Is there such a project out there, or my buddy should start rolling up his sleeves (or more precisely his team's) and start programming. Thank you in anticipation, Adrian P.S. I over-used the world SHOULD as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_requirements_document but according to this convention I should have used MUST instead, to better describe what I'm talking about.
OT: I can haz cheezburger
This message's link with Linux is that the expression in the subject has been used in another thread in this list. Although in the context of it's original thread the meaning was quite obvious, I was intrigued enough by it to try to find it's origin. However Google, Wikipedia, Answer, Wolfram, all came up with a lot of references about cats (as in pet animals) and one reference to a wireless network named as such, but nothing to explain it. Andrew, where is the expression I can haz cheezburger coming from, and what is its original meaning please, so I can take it off the spot is currently occupying rent-free in my left brain hemisphere. Cheers, Adrian
Re: OT: I can haz cheezburger
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:38 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://icanhascheezburger.com/about/ Another source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 20/05/09 09:24: This message's link with Linux is that the expression in the subject has been used in another thread in this list. Although in the context of it's original thread the meaning was quite obvious, I was intrigued enough by it to try to find it's origin. However Google, Wikipedia, Answer, Wolfram, all came up with a lot of references about cats (as in pet animals) and one reference to a wireless network named as such, but nothing to explain it. Andrew, where is the expression I can haz cheezburger coming from, and what is its original meaning please, so I can take it off the spot is currently occupying rent-free in my left brain hemisphere. Thanks for this. Shows you that a little bit of digging is necessary because the answers are just below the surface. I got the first link from Google, but didn't click on About. That would have settled it. Cheers, Adrian
Re: my video card is possessed
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 16:56 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Maybe you've done this already, but just asking, did you run sensors-detect? This will make your OS aware of the available temperature sensors in your system. Adrian DISPLAY=:0 nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp My mistake, you don't need to run sensors-detect if you run the command above to get only the temperature of the video card
Re: my video card is possessed
Maybe you've done this already, but just asking, did you run sensors-detect? This will make your OS aware of the available temperature sensors in your system. Adrian On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 10:58 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Aidan Gauland wgsil...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote: Euan Clark wrote: What temperatures were you seeing? My video card doesn't seem to have temperature sensors that I can see from my OS. But I don't know how to access them, even if there are any that I can access. I forgot to mention in my last post that I put my fingers on the GPU heat-sinks after the display forze, and it did not feel hot, just luke-warm. DISPLAY=:0 nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp
Re: ms docx files
Support for .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx was included in OpenOffice starting with version 3.0 For versions 2.x.x I had some limited success in the past with the addon issued by Novell for Suse ported to Fedora which I used at the time, and still using it today. You can find the addon for download here: http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?product_id=search=Searchfamilies=3402version=date_range=keywords=sort_by=x=35y=9 A quick google search revealed several guides on how to implement the odf-converter on several distros. Here is for Fedora: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/convert-openxml-docx-etc-in-linux-using.html The comments after the article give some clues as to how to overcome potential hurdles. This is a link that may be useful for Slackware users: http://www.ihav.net/vb/technozone/open-docx-files-openoffice-org-new-linux-user-143982.html and this one for Ubuntu users: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/how-to-get-docx-working-in-linux/ If you only want to see the files, you can use the viewers provided by the software vendor available for download from their website and run under wine. Of course, best solution is to upgrade your OO to version 3. HTH, Adrian On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:41 +1200, Leif Keane wrote: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz writes: Could someone please advise what readers are available for ms docx (xml) files. open office. Leif
linux in media in a better light
Hi, I'll start by saying that my attempt to raise the profile of Linux and FOSS in the media, through a project proposal and a success story, found no undertakers. Basically what determined me to do that were several threads started in this list in reaction to dismissive articles in The Press regarding FOSS and Linux. I thought at the time that it would have been nice if instead of negative reactions to negative articles there was something positive that could be done to change the spin in the media in relation to this subject, but didn't have the physical means to propose something constructive back then. Having said that, I still believe that FOSS can make a difference and play on equal grounds with commercial software, especially in times of economic recession. To come back to the subject of this message, I think we should also make note of the positive articles that come out of the (local) media, not only critiquing those that are unfavourable. Example given is this article in The Press http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2269025/Renew-your-old-PC that offers Linux as a viable alternative for desktops and home use. I don't personally know the author of the article, but he has my tick of approval for what he wrote there. Noting that he is the same author who wrote the previously discussed articles, I welcome the change of tone and touch of objectivity. All the best, Adrian
RE: linux in media in a better light
Granted, it is not exactly what we would have expected, but I'd rather encourage what I want to see more of, rather than the contrary. The guy has the pen, the tribune, and his reasons for what he does, and I'm not sure if something can be changed there for now. The only viable alternative I can think of is to offer something news worthy or a good subject for an advertorial that will shine the proper light on things. I have to say that his view is pretty common to what I encounter in my technical endeavours around town. If the attitude in his company is such, then his writing is pretty courageous. Just a note, one cannot help but notice that he's using for his electronic publishing a medium supported by FOSS, stuff.co.nz being powered by ngineX (http://nginx.net/) Adrian On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:05 +1300, Payne, Owen wrote: I think his change in tone was a little forced as he still manages to get a bash in at The trick is finding a system that doesn't take an army of geeks to install and configure and does what you need it to do out of the box However he is still grudgingly positive about linux Of all the alternative operating systems, one stands out when it comes to great performance on lower-spec hardware - Linux. Those of you shaking your heads and turning the page, hold on. There are plenty of other options if you can't stomach Linux, but I can tell you right now they won't perform anywhere near as well as a well- tuned Linux setup, so bear with me for a moment However his tone does seem to suggest that linux is a last resort if your machine won't take xp or win98! I wonder if there would be an appetite in the local press for a true man on the street comparison of the two operating systems. From install to internet and to document production and email on both windows and linux side by side. It could be a good article in the middle of a recession. -Original Message- From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cheetham Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 2:57 pm To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: linux in media in a better light On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Example given is this article in The Press http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2269025/Renew-your-old-PC that offers Linux as a viable alternative for desktops and home use. I don't personally know the author of the article, but he has my tick of approval for what he wrote there. Noting that he is the same author who wrote the previously discussed articles, I welcome the change of tone and touch of objectivity. His advice is suspect ... find an old 98 disk and install is terrible. It's unlikely that the licensing would be valid, and Win98 is totally unsupported, and supports only outdated and insecure versions of IE. A pretty irresponsible comment. He avoids the comparison of Linux with XP/Vista, by implying that it is only worth considering if you have outdated hardware. A head-to-head comparison would be more interesting, from the perspective of improving the performance of your existing machine by switching OS. On the plus side, he has targetted pretty much the correct distributions for the hardware in question. So that's good :-) -jim ** 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: linux in media in a better light
If you mean to suggest an article based on the true man on the street comparison of the two operating systems then I vote yes. On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:11 +1300, Payne, Owen wrote: If I was to suggest this to the technology editor on the press do you think it would be OK to say that it comes from the LUG as that may carry a little more weight. Obviously if anyone disagrees then I won't. -Original Message- From: Payne, Owen [mailto:owen.pa...@ccc.govt.nz] Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 3:05 pm To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: linux in media in a better light I think his change in tone was a little forced as he still manages to get a bash in at The trick is finding a system that doesn't take an army of geeks to install and configure and does what you need it to do out of the box However he is still grudgingly positive about linux Of all the alternative operating systems, one stands out when it comes to great performance on lower-spec hardware - Linux. Those of you shaking your heads and turning the page, hold on. There are plenty of other options if you can't stomach Linux, but I can tell you right now they won't perform anywhere near as well as a well- tuned Linux setup, so bear with me for a moment However his tone does seem to suggest that linux is a last resort if your machine won't take xp or win98! I wonder if there would be an appetite in the local press for a true man on the street comparison of the two operating systems. From install to internet and to document production and email on both windows and linux side by side. It could be a good article in the middle of a recession. -Original Message- From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cheetham Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 2:57 pm To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: linux in media in a better light On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Example given is this article in The Press http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2269025/Renew-your-old-PC that offers Linux as a viable alternative for desktops and home use. I don't personally know the author of the article, but he has my tick of approval for what he wrote there. Noting that he is the same author who wrote the previously discussed articles, I welcome the change of tone and touch of objectivity. His advice is suspect ... find an old 98 disk and install is terrible. It's unlikely that the licensing would be valid, and Win98 is totally unsupported, and supports only outdated and insecure versions of IE. A pretty irresponsible comment. He avoids the comparison of Linux with XP/Vista, by implying that it is only worth considering if you have outdated hardware. A head-to-head comparison would be more interesting, from the perspective of improving the performance of your existing machine by switching OS. On the plus side, he has targetted pretty much the correct distributions for the hardware in question. So that's good :-) -jim ** 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: skype video
Not sure if related, but I had a similar problem and I found in some forums (don't remember which) this solution: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /full/path/to/skype For this you have to have v4l installed. Adrian P.S. I think I found a link, see if this helps: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=502926 On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:37 +1300, Barry Marchant wrote: anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image. If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot. All suggestions welcome TIA Barry
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Hi, I received no confirmation of the booking so far, so I will take the hint and fade quietly in the background on this subject, leaving room for other topics. To those who showed interest, both on and (mostly) off list, I'm happy to continue to talk about this. Cheers, Adrian On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:44 +1300, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Yes, business intelligence.
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
A word of caution to those thinking of using Pentaho suite: it is not suitable for a small businesses in the model promoted by the company. That model is the classic configuration for a BI component in an Enterprise Architecture - classic because during the history of DSS and BI projects this model has been proven to have the highest rate of success compared to other models, somewhere between 25% and 50% (Claudia Imhoff citing Gardner Group http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/imhoff/archives/2005/03/failure_of_data_1.php although in that article she disagrees with the figure, the commentaries tell another story). While first results with Pentaho or Mondrian may be impressive at first with an out-of-the-box configuration, it will become very costly very quickly as soon as something will change down the data flow in the operational applications, or the users will start asking for specific reports, and the cost of maintenance will immediately become prohibitive. If you think of starting towards the BI path, first make the most of what you already have. Most of business-grade open source applications, like OfBiz and SugarCRM, already have an Intelligence reporting module. Use that first and start with cleaning the data and make a habit to generate and input as much metadata (descriptors) as possible, beginning with time-stamping. Only when the existing analytical reports start loosing relevance or become too rigid, it is time to look at multidimensional reporting. Having said that, there are always exceptions and in some cases I might be wrong with this reasoning. Relation to Linux - everything I mentioned above runs better on Linux. HTH Adrian On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 00:03 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: FWIW, there's a copy of the complete (and FOSS) Pentaho Business Intelligence suite on Caledonian at St Albans. It's about a cdrom's worth of files, and it's free, so if anyone wants a copy, feel free to bring along a cdr for next meeting and burn yourself a copy. Wesley Parish On Tuesday 03 March 2009 07:44, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Yes, business intelligence. On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 06:07 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 23:15:46 Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have received significant interest off list about the proposal I made for a BI solution implementation using FOSS - both technical and non-technical questions - so I could do a short talk, 30 to 45 minutes top, about elements of BI and the role of Linux and FOSS in this space. BI? Business Intelligence?
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Hi, I can see that the enthusiasm is not too overwhelming for this subject, being only loosely related to Linux (David not included, we can talk about it off list) Nevertheless, in the absence of other topics, I can go ahead and do the talk, in which case I will need a confirmation for the booking. Otherwise I can quietly clear the scene to make room for other activities. In any case please let me know by tomorrow morning, on list preferable. Cheers, Adrian On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:15 +1300, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have received significant interest off list about the proposal I made for a BI solution implementation using FOSS - both technical and non-technical questions - so I could do a short talk, 30 to 45 minutes top, about elements of BI and the role of Linux and FOSS in this space. Cheers, Adrian On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:12 +1300, Andrew Sands wrote: What: the Canterbury Linux Users' Group's monthly meeting (for March) When: 7:30 pm Tuesday March 10th 2009 Where: St Albans Community Resource Centre, 1047 Colombo Street. ~~ Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting Questions, comments and comparisons are encouraged (as always). Main Talk Topic: Unknown - (Feel free to contribute suggestions?) And/Or possibly followed by BoF: socializing Feel free to gather with like-minded souls to mull over a discussion topic of your own choosing. Also need a volunteer tea maker. -Andrew
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Point taken :) To use a metaphor, the concept of BI is similar to a database in the sky in which you plug a crystal globe that should give a glimpse into the future and answer all the questions you did or never asked. The description is less far-fetched than one might think. I'll explain shortly why and what type of FOSS projects you can use to make the concept a reality. The term Intelligence is borrowed from the military and is used to refer to the process of gathering and evaluating of information. In the business context this can be interpreted as gathering information about self and the surrounding business environment to evaluate one's commercial and economic context. How is this achieved? By measuring several parameter values that define the business processes, called key performance indicators - KPIs - and the influencing factors that determine these values. When you are interested only in the values of the KPIs, canned analysis reports are enough. For this reporting systems like Jasper or BIRT or any visual statistical project should do the job. These reports tell you how the business is doing. However, when you want to know the factors weighing in these values, using canned reports in not enough. You need to be able to click on the value and see its composition and formula and perform such operations like drilling, decomposing, dicing and slicing (and others) in the available data. In all these operations the visual element is paramount. These are so called BI Portals that include dynamic analysis reports, dashboards, scorecards and other BI appliances. For this Pentaho is the best in my opinion, but there are other projects easier to configure and maintain like OpenDX. All these reports tell a business what it can do, when and where, to have the most effective impact in improving the activity and profitability. In analysing the history of an activity, like sales for example, you may want to know product associations, groupings, and other characteristics that can be foreseen by projecting patterns discovered in the activity's history. For this there are Data Mining tools like Weka - NZ made - packaged by Pentaho in its BI suite, RapidMiner or any other machine learning application with visual output. This is useful to show what worked best and what didn't, and how is it likely to perform in the future. These three elements, Reporting, Dynamic Analysis and Data Mining, make the crystal globe I mentioned in the beginning. What follows is the elements of the database-in-the-sky. All these KPIs are highly aggregated values and as such have to be supported by a type of data repository that can handle multiple summing and other operations on sets (tuples in multidimensional terminology) fast. This is the job of OLAP databases, of which Mondrian is the only business-grade project in the open source space I know of, but to be fair, Palo is not far behind. OLAP databases are usually fed from Data Warehouses, which are de-normalized databases that store the raw data. Here either MySQL or Postgresql are good choices. Ultimately the data in DWs is loaded from one or more operational applications - applications that serve the operations of the business, like OfBiz or SugarCRM, hence the classification - through a program called ETL, short for Extract, Transform and Load. Here Talend is the benchmark for this class of projects which also includes Camel, Palo ETL and ETL Integrator, just to name a few. Pretty much that's it, in a very simplistic way. Mind you, to have BI quality analysis, you don't always need all these programs. Disclaimer: All the programs mentioned here run on Linux. Some run only on Linux. Cheers, Adrian On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:08 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Hi, I can see that the enthusiasm is not too overwhelming for this subject, being only loosely related to Linux (David not included, we can talk about it off list) Nevertheless, in the absence of other topics, I can go ahead and do the talk, in which case I will need a confirmation for the booking. Otherwise I can quietly clear the scene to make room for other activities. In any case please let me know by tomorrow morning, on list preferable. Cheers, Adrian Perhaps if someone explained in plain language what this business intelligence software is supposed to acheive, it might appear more interesting. (Or not LOL)
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Hi, I have received significant interest off list about the proposal I made for a BI solution implementation using FOSS - both technical and non-technical questions - so I could do a short talk, 30 to 45 minutes top, about elements of BI and the role of Linux and FOSS in this space. Cheers, Adrian On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:12 +1300, Andrew Sands wrote: What: the Canterbury Linux Users' Group's monthly meeting (for March) When: 7:30 pm Tuesday March 10th 2009 Where: St Albans Community Resource Centre, 1047 Colombo Street. ~~ Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting Questions, comments and comparisons are encouraged (as always). Main Talk Topic: Unknown - (Feel free to contribute suggestions?) And/Or possibly followed by BoF: socializing Feel free to gather with like-minded souls to mull over a discussion topic of your own choosing. Also need a volunteer tea maker. -Andrew
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Yes, business intelligence. On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 06:07 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 23:15:46 Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have received significant interest off list about the proposal I made for a BI solution implementation using FOSS - both technical and non-technical questions - so I could do a short talk, 30 to 45 minutes top, about elements of BI and the role of Linux and FOSS in this space. BI? Business Intelligence?
FOSS BI Offer
Hi, Every now and then there is talk on this list about the penetration of FOSS in the corporate world. This is another one of these threads, but with a more focused objective. This message is addressed mainly to the business owners in this list who use FOSS in their company and to people working for such companies (guys, please pass this on to your manager(s)). I am offering the opportunity for a small to medium business to implement a Business Intelligence (BI) solution using FOSS. This, to my knowledge, will be a first in Canterbury, if not in New Zealand. The implementation will have an incremental approach and as the project will progress the company will see tangible results in the form of: - Cleaner data - More accurate descriptors and information - Better and more meaningful reports - Defined, formalised and timely reported KPIs - Support for pattern discovery in different aspects of the business and in business processes - Multidimensional reporting for analysis, forecasting and decision making - Analysis tools for investigating different business scenarios The aim is first and foremost to deliver a useful BI solution that will permit the company to increase its performance and profit and make significant savings. The offer can be downloaded from here (http://www.totalimex.com/FOSS_BI_Solution_Offer.pdf 76KB) It is not a for-free offer - or else will not make business sense - but it has a gratis component. I am donating 24 hours of my time to do the feasibility study and cost / benefit analysis for the project - 14-16 on site and 8-10 off-site to write the report - should it be evident that the company can really make use of such a solution, as not everyone may find it useful in their current stage. I will also directly conduct all aspects of the projects. Because I will work on it only part time, I will just charge agreed time, and that at half the market hourly rates for such projects. However I cannot promise the same for the work that will need to be outsourced or for the other members of the team, should I have to put together a team to successfully deliver the solution. As you will see in the doc when you download it, there are some strings attached and I'll put them here. To qualify for this offer the company has to: - already use at least 50% FOSS in the applications system that model and support the core business process - agree, should it be proven necessary, to invest in the required infrastructure to facilitate a successful implementation of the BI solution or parts of it - agree to periodically report on this list of successfully completed threads in the project stream with a short progress report - agree to contribute to the case study highlighting the success story at the end of the project - agree to the publishing of the sanitised version of the success story on my website - agree to have the sanitised version of the success story with the company's name mentioned in it published in the electronic and/or printed regional and national media - agree to provide references for future similar projects Also worth mentioning here is the time frame. I expect that the project will take around 6 months, but that can vary depending on multiple factors determined by the specifics of the company. First tangible benefits and measurable results will be guaranteed though in the first three weeks. At this time and with the above mentioned strings and bonuses, this is an offer for one qualifying company only, and it will be delivered on a first-qualified-come-first-served basis. This offer as it is presented now will expire on 09/03/2009 Who want to take advantage? Adrian
Re: Anyone have a copy of Fedora Core 10 already downloaded
No worries. Happy holiday! Adrian On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 22:39 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: Thanks, but I'll be in Tauranga over the Christmas-New Year period, and St Albans opens on the 12th Jan. I expect to be back by the 16th Jan. Let me knwo then and we'll sort something out. Thanks Wesley Parish On Wednesday 17 December 2008 15:47, Adrian Mageanu wrote: I have the following images downloaded: Fedora 10 i686 Live Fedora 10 source DVD Fedora 10 i386 DVD Fedora 10 source CDs Fedora 10 i386 CDs Fedora 10 i686 Live KDE I am yet to install it myself so although the check sums check I haven't verified any of the images. Which one do you want? I'll be in town Friday morning, contact me off list for details and to make a time and place to meet. Wesley, Chris, I can put these in the archive when you have time. Adrian On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:21 +1300, Payne, Owen wrote: I'm only on mobile broadband at the moment and downloading may take an excessive amount of time so wonder if anyone has any of the images already downloaded that I can get a copy of? Thanks ** 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: Anyone have a copy of Fedora Core 10 already downloaded
I have the following images downloaded: Fedora 10 i686 Live Fedora 10 source DVD Fedora 10 i386 DVD Fedora 10 source CDs Fedora 10 i386 CDs Fedora 10 i686 Live KDE I am yet to install it myself so although the check sums check I haven't verified any of the images. Which one do you want? I'll be in town Friday morning, contact me off list for details and to make a time and place to meet. Wesley, Chris, I can put these in the archive when you have time. Adrian On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:21 +1300, Payne, Owen wrote: I'm only on mobile broadband at the moment and downloading may take an excessive amount of time so wonder if anyone has any of the images already downloaded that I can get a copy of? Thanks ** 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: Redhat support subscriptions
Hi Zane, You may have gone through this exercise already, but I thought it is worth mentioning it here too, for whom may benefit from it in the future. In my experience I found that there are two main reasons a company buys external support for its systems. First reason is to plan for future development. The company providing support can investigate and give written assurance of compatibilities for future acquisitions and advise of integration and scalability issues. They can also share from other clients experience who use similar systems and/or faced similar problems. The second reason is business insurance. Having certified support is a contributing factor in saving on the business insurance premiums, especially when it comes to IT. There are other reasons too why a company may want or need support, but I think it is outside the scope of this thread to elaborate as they are not necessarily Linux related. As for troubleshooting and continuity, the rule is simple: if it is not documented the support is helpless. I had my share of experience with commercial Unix and best of breed RDBMS where even the most common restore from a previous successful backup - given as a last resolution by the highest level escalated withing support - didn't fix the problem (hint: corrupt page/block/chunk chain) For best troubleshooting and continuity support the common practice is either to hire in-house expertise, which I believe it is your company's case because they hired you - and did a good job with it I might say - or outsource the entire maintenance, with binding contractual SLAs and penalties, to a company specialised in such activity. So when qualifying companies for support, there are more factors to consider on top of the quality of their technical expertise, which may prove not to be the primary factor in their shortlisting. However, certification or vendor endorsement has to be a must. Have I gone too OT here?... Cheers, Adrian On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 14:50 +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote: I have been doing some assessment work on Redhat. AFAICT Redhat charges approx $500NZ per year per server. (that's the bare bones basic subscription) and approx $1200 per year per server for 12X5 telephone support. There's a more expensive 24X7 one as well. Does anyone on the list have any experience with Redhat's services? What I'm trying to figure out is whether it is worth my employer spending it's money on some of these subscriptions or whether we just go Centos and muddle through. I am not the world's most experienced sysadmin but I *can* usually muddle through. My experience with another supplier (which at this point will remain nameless) was appalling when I went to them for support. That was the reason we were using their distro was because it was supported but when I tried to get that support for a quite obscure problem they were hopeless and I fixed the problem myself eventually. Cheers, Zane
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
You have a point here and I am with you on this matter. Certification is a tricky subject when you consider the questions that have to be answered like: Do you need certification or endorsement? Is a partnership agreement with the vendor / developer / manufacturer enough? Is second level support acceptable? When was the certification granted? Is it up to date? Is the certification of the type needed? How many types of certifications I need for my support (e.g. operating system, database, network, etc) And the list can go on. As for Who provides the certification, start from the highest ultimate authority and inch your way down to New Zealand. Stop when the overall cost - money, time, availability, level of expertise, level of delegated authority, local industry acceptance, etc - matches your expectations. I have some experience with selection and qualification process, including for support purposes, and I may be able to give you some more hints. Contact me off list if you need more thoughts on this as this definitely goes OT now. Adrian On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 15:04 +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote: snip In this case the certification is the problem. Who does the certification? What do they use as the criteria?
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
But of course! Who better to provide expert support for a product than its owner - if this is what you meant. :) Adrian On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:45 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: 1. I hereby certify myself as a support company 2. ??? 3. Profit (: Steve
Re: devede - dvd
Click Adjust disc usage and will work. It worked for me for up to 130% space adjusted. Cheers, Adrian On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:54 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: If devede says it needs 103% of a dvd, will it fit??? Cheers, Steve
RE: OSS for Macintosh
There is a Firefox build for MacOS http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.12os=osxlang=en-GB Adrian On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 20:22 +1300, Maurice Butler wrote: First to mind is open office - check out sourceforge as well - you may find stuff of interest Free not open source google sketchup (mac versions available dependant on os version not all os10.x are compatible) SketchUp is 3D for everyone. Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, modify and share 3D models. It's easier to learn than other 3D modeling programs, which is why so many people are already using it. We designed SketchUp's simplified toolset, guided drawing system and clean look-and-feel to help you concentrate on two things: getting your work done as efficiently as possible, and having fun while you're doing it. You can choose from two versions of our software. Google SketchUp is free for anyone, and allows you to build, view and edit 3D models. Maurice -Original Message- From: Aidan Gauland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 8:09 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OSS for Macintosh Hello, The school I attend, uses almost nothing but proprietary software (on Macintosh), so I want to put together an ISO image PACKED with open source software for Mac OS X, and make it available to the other students. So I'm asking ALL of you here to tell me what open souce programs you use, ANY program. But, please, no games or amusements. Thanks, Aidan
presentation about super computing
Hi, This afternoon NZCS had Peter Helms as guest speaker giving a presentation about the Blue Fern project at Canterbury University. Peter Helms is the director of the Blue Fern project. The presentation was very interesting. There is a general knowledge that the biggest High Performance Computer (HPC) in Australasia is in Christchurch but was instructive to have an insight of what type of projects are run on it and what is it used for. It came as a surprise to me that both Blue Gene and the p575, the two super-computers that make the HPC architecture there, are running a linux kernel. Peter told me that they are keen to talk to other interested audiences about what they do there and what their plans for the future are. I will only say that they are keen to get the community involved in this project. So if there is interest from CLUG I can ask Peter or, if the interest is more technical, one of the engineers working on the project - Peter is not a technical person - to talk about what High Performance Computing is, what it is used for and how it is used at CU. Let me know what you think. There is also a site visit at CU organised for the 17th of March. Registration for this event will be required so they know numbers and more details about this event will come soon on the NZCS website, keep an eye on the Canterbury events page at http://www.nzcs.org.nz/tools/events/default.asp?SECT=canterbury Cheers, Adrian
Re: fedora 8 firewire
Nick, Spot on, as always, thank you, not sure how I missed this link. Works like a charm now, both the external disk and the video camera. Cheers, Adrian On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:38 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: googling 'fedora 8 firewire' gives a lot of info, including: http://www.kinodv.org/article/view/162/1/13/
fedora 8 firewire
Belated Happy New Year everyone. I have erased Fedora Core 6 (after a thorough backup) and just finished installing and configuring Fedora 8 using a clean install. As a side note the installation process is easier and faster compared to previous versions. There are a couple of things that are not working properly though, for me at least. The most troublesome is the firewire interface. I have two things connected to that interface that I used to use on FC 6 and don't work now: 1. External hard drive. Now the drive is recognised only if it is on at boot time. If I start it after boot, it doesn't show up in fdisk -l, hence I cannot mount it. 2. Video camera. It is not seen by any application, kino included, not even if connected and on at boot time. To start with one question at a time: 1. What do I have to do to be able to see the external firewire hard drive if I turn it on after I boot the PC 2. Is there a way to use kino with the current firewire stack? Has anyone had any success with libraw1394 from atrpms, or tried successfully other solution? Cheers, Adrian
Re: fedora 8 firewire
Thank you for directions. Your last command gave me some unusual results and after a quick google search I found this link: http://wiki.linux1394.org/JujuMigration I'm going to follow those instructions and will post the results. Cheers, Adrian On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:32 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: 1. What do I have to do to be able to see the external firewire hard drive if I turn it on after I boot the PC Ensured that the module is either loaded or compiled into the kernel? These commands:- lsmod | grep 1394 zcat /proc/config.gz | grep 1394 find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -iname '*1394*' might produce some entertaining results pertaining to the above question.
Re: Linux coverage on Stuff
Let's not forget the business uses of the applications from the Open Source space and the benefits of using them. I do not advocate the exclusive use of Open Source applications and/or servers for business, but there are cases where it makes perfect business sense. I'd mention only a few decision factors from own experience. Some of you who use Open Source in your business can add to the list: - Prototyping - I find it very useful when I have to recommend buying or not an upgrade license type for an RDBMS when dealing with relatively large volumes of data (500Gb). I use Postgresql on non-managed space to asses whether consolidation or distribution is the right answer. The argument of why not continue to use Postgresql for that particular implementation is outside the scope of this post - Add-ons - some widgets or functions are simply not there in some commercial applications and the benefit of complementing that application with snippets from the Open Source space outweighs their administration overhead caveats, if any. - Migrations - as in - the use of Open Source tools to perform a system or application migration - migrating entirely towards an Open Source system or application e.g. this year I have contributed to two ERP migrations towards SAP and J.D.Edwards using Open Source tools and worked on one OfBiz implementation migrating from a commercial ERP. In all cases I evaluated migration tools and ERPs from both the commercial and the Open Source arenas and in most cases the decision was not entirely mine as to what to use, especially in the OfBiz case where I had little input. Every decision was done on merit. Integration and Monitoring - In some cases using well established tools like CA Unicenter or BMC Patrol is simply too expensive, and I'm not talking about the license cost. In this area there is a gap in the commercial offer where medium and small environments needing good monitoring and integration solutions are missing out, and here the Open Source community has the answer. Support - this, I believe, it is the biggest myth, that the there is no support on offer for Open Source systems and applications. The argument list for pros and cons is huge from both sides. I would only say that the most common form of support, the discussion forum, whether payed for or not to become a member of, is borrowed from the open source community. For some software vendors that is the only form of support. Cost - In most cases when talking about cost, the debate revolves around the cost of licensing as in money vs free, with the derived argument of freedom of choice. For most, if not all businesses, the license cost has little impact in the decision to use one product over another. If talking only about costing, a better indicator would be TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for the projected life-time of that product. When doing this analysis for the shortlisted products, no matter if commercial or Open Source, one will notice that the sums tend to level after 1 year for small to medium environments and after 2.5 years for larger systems. When the argument is money, the killer indicator is ROI spread over the product's lifetime, where the faster the first results the better. Here commercial products have a slight advantage over Open Source ones because they tend to offer (at least the perception of) faster the first results due to their niche solution approach. Then the cost of customisation usually peaks, especially when integrating that product into the IT system. The ROI from Open Source products - as a general personal finding - is more evenly spread in time because the cost of customisation and integration tends to be proportional with the degree of change imposed by these operations. So overall, here too, the play field is even for both worlds. Documentation and Training - here the pro-commercial argument has a foothold indeed. However, this is open for debate as well, but the skills pool availability and the training on offer in the market - commercial, academic or otherwise - does have an influence in the decision to use an certain operation system or a certain application in a business. You may have noticed by now that I'm not a good writer. I don't post often and I admit I payed professionals to write my marketing materials and articles. However, the lack of professionalism in the article that is the subject of this thread needs a professional counterbalance. Professionalism aside, that article - for lack of a better description - cannot pass as entertainment due to its racist arguments and insomuch as technical journalism is an art, it is no masterpiece either. With this rather long post I thought to offer Graeme, and whom else would like to contribute to a response to that article, a list of points of view from a different perspective to complement the list of traditional uses of Open Source. Adrian On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 23:19 +1300, Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote: Hi I
Re: trouble w/ mySql
It depends what you want to do after you connect. For admin purposes I use MySQL Administrator. You can take it from here: http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/administrator/ I got mine from the Fedora repos, I suspect it is in Suse repos as well, although I cannot tell you which one. To browse the data use MySQL Query Browser http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/query-browser/ (or repos), the Administrator has problems when inspecting data in large tables. If the installation is new, there shouldn't be a root password. Adrian On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:32 +1300, Gabriella Turek wrote: I am using SuSe 10.1 at work, and it comes with mySql installed and running. The trouble is I have no idea how to connect to it. Obviously the grant tables were initialized at installation time, but I have no clue what's in them. root is not allowed in w/o a password, and the password does not seem to be my root password. Hum Any ideas? Gaby
Re: US web sites unreachable
Had the same problem too all weekend, could not access my servers (email, internet, ssh) in US at all. It came back up just an hour ago. Adrian On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 02:29 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Drummond wrote: I have been having trouble connecting to US based web sites today. Has the Southern Cross cable been rammed by a sardine, or has Telecom redeployed the technicians responsible for Xtra-Yahoo to international networks? Cheers Ross Drummond __ NOD32 2497 (20070901) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Yeah xtra's DNS servers are a bit meh .. had that issue yesterday too I went to another computer at a different location and everything works fine. Must be a local issue. I will investigate further. Cheers Ross Drummond
Re: XTRA Broadband dead (again)
This may be old news for some for Firefox users: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/24/changinguseragent.html Does achieve the same results. On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:29 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:10, barry wrote: I was using konqueror 3.5.5. Went to drop down menu, Settings -- Configure Konqueror -- Browser Identification and unckecked 'Send Identification'. Cheers Ross Drummond
Re: Fedora 7 dvd image checksum
To conclude this thread, I couldn't do much with bittorent trying to repair the file. Most probably it was me not knowing how to do it, how to sort out the directory structure. So I armed myself with patience and resorted to a full bittorent download. With xtra took me two weeks at speeds between 1 and 54 KB/s, they manage P2P traffic. The end result is a clean copy of the Fedora 7 dvd. Thank you all for help and suggestions. Adrian On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:28 +1200, Kim Robertson wrote: Hi, One thing you could try is using bittorrent to finish the file.. When I have got a corrupt file in the past I used bittorrent by getting the .torrent then forcing a recheck of downloaded file. Saved me re-downloading a big file and repaired the corrupt parts. As the blocks (often 256k - 2MB) are all checked individually so corrupt ones are found. From Kim On 8/08/2007, at 11:57 AM, Adrian Mageanu wrote: No worries Steve, thanks for that. I'll try another download and give it a go. I suspect in my case it was xtra, it is cutting me off every couple of hours or so, I'll have to pick a moment of the day when the speed is good enough to finish the download in two hours and start immediately after an interruption. I'll let you know if I manage a clean copy. Cheers, Adrian On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 07:38 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, my FC7 dvd image is corrupt as well. The best I can offer is an FC7 live cd.OR FC5 or FC6 dvd (: Steve On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:57:34 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check I've still got one, and get back to you... \ On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:41:57 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok if I'll come by tomorrow to pick it up? I'm kind of nervous to install it from my copy. Adrian On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:14:46 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the dvd iso image for Fedora 7 from one of the mirrors listed in here http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ Fedora/7/ When burning the dvd though, k3b told me that the image's check sum didn't match the checksum in the image. Anyone else experienced something similar with this particular iso image? Adrian I think I've got a copy at work if you want another... it installed fine. Steve
Re: CLUG Funds and SFD donation (was something else)
Count me in with $25 Adrian On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:21 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Don Gould wrote: David Kirk wrote: ...there must be better uses for this money than donating it to the Press. I agree. Some posters put up around the place and flyers would have just as much impact. ~$20 can go a long way. Who is the target market? There must be better ways we can get to the limited number of people that come to these things. 10c Cheers Don How about a pledge system? Rik needs $300-400 - say $350.00 (don't forget he is feeding in other money too). How about we aim to contribute up to half of the $350.00 from CLUG funds and half from pledges, dollar for dollar. So if we get $175 in pledges CLUG contributes $175, and the target is met. If we get $200 in pledges CLUG contributes $150 to make up to the target. If we only get $100 in pledges CLUG only contributes the same, ie $100. I'll start by pledging $25.00, and I 'll fix up a page on the wiki for pledges to be recorded, once a couple of other people have supported the idea.
Re: Fedora 7 dvd image checksum
Ok if I'll come by tomorrow to pick it up? I'm kind of nervous to install it from my copy. Adrian On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:14:46 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the dvd iso image for Fedora 7 from one of the mirrors listed in here http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/ When burning the dvd though, k3b told me that the image's check sum didn't match the checksum in the image. Anyone else experienced something similar with this particular iso image? Adrian I think I've got a copy at work if you want another... it installed fine. Steve
Re: Fedora 7 dvd image checksum
No worries Steve, thanks for that. I'll try another download and give it a go. I suspect in my case it was xtra, it is cutting me off every couple of hours or so, I'll have to pick a moment of the day when the speed is good enough to finish the download in two hours and start immediately after an interruption. I'll let you know if I manage a clean copy. Cheers, Adrian On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 07:38 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, my FC7 dvd image is corrupt as well. The best I can offer is an FC7 live cd.OR FC5 or FC6 dvd (: Steve On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:57:34 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check I've still got one, and get back to you... \ On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:41:57 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok if I'll come by tomorrow to pick it up? I'm kind of nervous to install it from my copy. Adrian On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:14:46 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the dvd iso image for Fedora 7 from one of the mirrors listed in here http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/ When burning the dvd though, k3b told me that the image's check sum didn't match the checksum in the image. Anyone else experienced something similar with this particular iso image? Adrian I think I've got a copy at work if you want another... it installed fine. Steve
Re: Fedora 7 dvd image checksum
Good point, I'll try this one, thanks. I hope the corruption is not big, otherwise bittorent with xtra takes ages. The odd thing is that the dvd burned ok and I can see the directory structures and read files from it. Cheers, Adrian On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:28 +1200, Kim Robertson wrote: Hi, One thing you could try is using bittorrent to finish the file.. When I have got a corrupt file in the past I used bittorrent by getting the .torrent then forcing a recheck of downloaded file. Saved me re-downloading a big file and repaired the corrupt parts. As the blocks (often 256k - 2MB) are all checked individually so corrupt ones are found. From Kim On 8/08/2007, at 11:57 AM, Adrian Mageanu wrote: No worries Steve, thanks for that. I'll try another download and give it a go. I suspect in my case it was xtra, it is cutting me off every couple of hours or so, I'll have to pick a moment of the day when the speed is good enough to finish the download in two hours and start immediately after an interruption. I'll let you know if I manage a clean copy. Cheers, Adrian On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 07:38 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, my FC7 dvd image is corrupt as well. The best I can offer is an FC7 live cd.OR FC5 or FC6 dvd (: Steve On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:57:34 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check I've still got one, and get back to you... \ On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:41:57 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok if I'll come by tomorrow to pick it up? I'm kind of nervous to install it from my copy. Adrian On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:14:46 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the dvd iso image for Fedora 7 from one of the mirrors listed in here http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ Fedora/7/ When burning the dvd though, k3b told me that the image's check sum didn't match the checksum in the image. Anyone else experienced something similar with this particular iso image? Adrian I think I've got a copy at work if you want another... it installed fine. Steve
Re: Holidays with linux? Share your gems!
Installed Beryl on FC6 (): one of the best eye-candy desktops I've ever seen. Also tried Sun's Looking Glass (http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/index.xml), I'll give it some time though for when will become stable. On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:09 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: How did everyone go away from their desktops and favourite OS? Did everyone get frustrated by the in-law's windows box? Anyone have any linux related gems to share? I got by taking my freeBSD laptop and both brothers-in-law had (wide open) wireless access points. Once I figured that i just had to turn WEP off I was away laughing! Even managed to install a whole heap of software when needed. At one point my sister-in-law wanted to transfer her photos from a canon camera to a computer, and then to a flash thumbdrive, to make room for more pics on the camera card. Could she do it on the local windows box? No way, despite the locals having a very similar camera - no drivers for the slightly earlier model of camera. No card reader. Never mind, just plug the camera's USB cable into my freebsd laptop, install gphoto2 and it was sorted. One place I visited for a couple of days I didn't have my lappie, so tried to do various things on the in-house windows machine, but my brother-in-law was hovering as I was about to install putty/pscp. Bugger. Luckily his Italian son-in-law had a Mac Powerbook with a very odd keyboard, and I was able to ssh/scp to my hearts content - well until the tide came in enough to swim. And the linux related gem? Well the gentoo penguins at Kelly Tarltons of course! Hope everyone had a good Xmas/New Year.
Re: Holidays with linux? Share your gems!
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 23:20 +, Jim Cheetham wrote: Received a Logitech Communicate STX webcam; only supported under Windows :-( camac drivers for OSX work, but don't provide any picture controls to make up for the overexposed default. May have to give it back :-( I have the same webcam and is running ok for me, including USB sound, under FC6 Try gspcav1 from http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html -jim Adrian
Re: wireless ferrari
The laptop is running beautifully FC5. The card is not supported officially. I thought ndiswrapper is a safer solution. Cheers, Adrian. On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:58:54 +1200 Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi I bought my daughter a second hand ferrari amd 2500+ XP with wireless: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci | grep -i wireless 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) I think there is support for that card in the kernel now! The configuration is ndiswrapper and NetworkManager for easy switching connections. ndiswrapper is configured ok, or so I think based on this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:home Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462 GHz Cell: YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 With NetworkManager applet I can configure the wireless connection and the connection is established (100%). However the connection is lost as soon as I reboot the laptop and I cannot connect to the router to go on the net. This is what I get from ifconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:169.254.129.38 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: ::xxx:::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:918 (918.0 b) Interrupt:11 Memory:d0004000-d0006000 Where could that IP address come from? Link local address provided when there is no address available from dhcp - google zeroconf. It is not a real IP address, it is reserved for just this sort of thing. The router is set as DHCP server but the range is wrong. The wireless card is ok, I could connect to the router and browse the net while M$XP was installed on it. ndiswrapper is installed from source according to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation and all verifications passed. Or so I think. The router is using for wireless 802.11/g with WPA-TSK / TKIP Any clues? seems to me that ndiswrapper id not properly starting on reboot. You don't mention a distro (I think) Cheers, Adrian
RE: wireless ferrari
Any idea how can I make it do it? On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:13 +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: That IP is a random one from a range allocated for self-autoconfiguring machines. Basically your laptop is not getting an IP from a DHCP server. -Original Message- From: Adrian Mageanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 9 June 2006 2:59 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: wireless ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:169.254.129.38 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: ::xxx:::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:918 (918.0 b) Interrupt:11 Memory:d0004000-d0006000 Where could that IP address come from? The router is set as DHCP server but the range is wrong.
Re: wireless ferrari
Sorry, now I read the until end. How can I check this? seems to me that ndiswrapper id not properly starting on reboot. You don't mention a distro (I think) Cheers, Adrian
Re: wireless ferrari
Yes, it is supported actually in 2.6.17.rc2 from www.kernel.org but this kernel version is not yet released for FC5. And as Steve said a bit earlier it is quite cumbersome to install it. Anyway, I have an update: it works. I don't know how and why, but after a couple of reboots without the wired cable plugged in now I set the wireless network parameters in the NetworkManager applet and works. I still have to set it every time though and Keyring is asking me every time for the password. How can I make it be persistent? Cheers, Adrian. On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:44 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:29:07 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:19:00 +1200 Adrian Mageanu wrote: The laptop is running beautifully FC5. The card is not supported officially. I thought ndiswrapper is a safer solution. Cheers, Adrian. Yes it is, you just need a recent kernel. Actually I might have to take that back! Can't find the little bugger. I got my info from here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx but maybe dapper has a patched kernel, as I cannot find the driver in my 2.6.16 source
Re: cisco help
I'm replying to my message to send a big Thanks to all who helped me on and especially off the list. I have it working now. Thank you guys, Adrian On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 23:15 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Did I mention help will be rewarded? Say the price and have to be able to issue an invoice. Adrian. On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:03 +1200, Dan Coe wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote: Anyone knows how to configure a cisco 877w? I have one and strugle to connect it to slingshot. Help appreciated, thanks in advance. Adrian Check out http://www.ifm.net.nz/cookbooks/adsl.html Fantastic routers. Dan Coe
Re: cisco help
Did I mention help will be rewarded? Say the price and have to be able to issue an invoice. Adrian. On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:03 +1200, Dan Coe wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote: Anyone knows how to configure a cisco 877w? I have one and strugle to connect it to slingshot. Help appreciated, thanks in advance. Adrian Check out http://www.ifm.net.nz/cookbooks/adsl.html Fantastic routers. Dan Coe
cisco help
Anyone knows how to configure a cisco 877w? I have one and strugle to connect it to slingshot. Help appreciated, thanks in advance. Adrian
Re: cisco help
Connecting with the old D-Link works ok, no problems with connectivity. This 877w is a new toy I don't know how to play with. Cheers, Adrian On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:32 +1200, Andy Leach wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote: Anyone knows how to configure a cisco 877w? I have one and strugle to connect it to slingshot. Help appreciated, thanks in advance. Adrian Can't help you with your kit, but I use slingshot dialup and had trouble with their authentication server about an hour or so ago - seems to have cleared now. Cheers, Andy
Re: cisco help
Checked. Problem is I'm not familiar with ios. The wizard I ran it from a M$ box. Didn't help much. Looks like ios is the way. On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:38 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, hit send prematurely. Have you looked on the cisco site? There is a huge amount of information there if you can find it. Also, they often have (M$) wizards to set these things up ( I don't think there's too much you can actually configure on these things! ). Steve On Fri, 19 May 2006 16:35:56 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Connecting with the old D-Link works ok, no problems with connectivity. This 877w is a new toy I don't know how to play with. Cheers, Adrian On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:32 +1200, Andy Leach wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote: Anyone knows how to configure a cisco 877w? I have one and strugle to connect it to slingshot. Help appreciated, thanks in advance. Adrian Can't help you with your kit, but I use slingshot dialup and had trouble with their authentication server about an hour or so ago - seems to have cleared now. Cheers, Andy
Re: cisco help
Thanks but tried, doesn't work. It may be me, but loading that config file didn't help. Cheers, Adrian On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:03 +1200, Dan Coe wrote: Adrian Mageanu wrote: Anyone knows how to configure a cisco 877w? I have one and strugle to connect it to slingshot. Help appreciated, thanks in advance. Adrian Check out http://www.ifm.net.nz/cookbooks/adsl.html Fantastic routers. Dan Coe
Re: Sendmail hangs FC4 (for a while) during bootup
Don't trust Gnome here. Nor KDE for that matter. Go directly into the configuration file, with a text editor preferable, and do the work there. Do you run a DNS server? I had the same problem and eventually I had to disable the sendmail process at boot. One reason it hangs I've been told is that it looks for a DNS server and cannot find it. Hence I don't run/use a DNS server I figured I don't need a sendmail server anyway. I'm in the process of upgrading to FC5 myself, too many discrepancies between the front end and the back end in FC4. BTW how fast is the Network Admin tool saving the configuration on your box? Adrian On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:54 +1200, Andrew Packer wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:07 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:58, Andrew Packer wrote: /etc/hosts looks like this: ABC.DEF.1.3 marian ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew 127.0.0.1 logcabinlocalhost (Sorry to be coy with the ABC.DEF, but I don't know whether it is considered bad form to post one's internal network addresses on a public forum.) Logcabin's non-loopback address is ABC.DEF.1.4. Could you tell us what happens if you change /etc/hosts to:- 127.0.0.1 localhost ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew ABC.DEF.1.3 marian ABC.DEF.1.4 logcabin I think that that will fix your problem. Sorry, I left something out that I had put into my original message (that the list server bounced because I sent it from the wrong account). I had actually done almost what you've suggested: given the name logcabin and the alias localhost to both 127.0.0.1 and ABC.DEF.1.4. Or I had tried. Each time I added the 127.0.0.1 line, the ABC.DEF.1.4 line disappeared, and vice-versa. I just gave it another stab, calling 127.0.0.1 localhost and ABC.DEF.1.4 logcabin, but the Gnome Network Administration Tool (system-config-network) wouldn't retain more than three lines. I hand-edited the /etc/hosts file with 127.0.0.1 as localhost and ABC.DEF.1.4 as logcabin, rebooted: same hangup. I changed the 127.0.0.1 line to read 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost, rebooted: same hangup. I've made sure the 127.0.0.1 line is the first line in /etc/hosts. I note that what the Gnome Network Admin. Tool reports in its Hosts tab doesn't agree with /etc/hosts (and /etc/hosts is not being changed by the system), so from where is the GNAT getting its information? And why should a dodgy GUI tool matter anyway? (At this point my brain is threatening industrial action, so I'll look at the machine again in the morning.) Thank you for the assistance. =Andrew
Re: meeting talks - offer
Very intersted in the second point please. On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:50 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I would like to offer to give the following presentations / talks at a CLUG meeting, if there's interest: 1) Presentation of SUSE Linux 10.1 Half an hour should be more than plenty, i.e. it would be good for a shared evening. 2) Digital photo handling under Linux What to do with your photos: transfer to computer, scanning, organisation, editing, color management, sharing, web presentation, backup, archive, printing. Plus anything else requested beforehand, so I have time to research it. I would like to cover the whole range from beginner to advanced, and in some detail, so that everyone can take something of practical use home. That means an hour wouldn't really be enough, so it's probably more suited to cover a whole evening. The emphasis is on doing, not fiddling to make things work. The latter is out of scope, and much of it is better suited for the list. I'll bring suitable hardware for demonstrating. Who's interested, in either or both? Comments? Volker
Re: On the other side...
About fifteen years ago when NT was just emerging on the back of DEC collapse I said at a geeks' conference: M$ has still a long way to go until becomes a unix system. Although is getting closer by the year, it is still true. Adrian On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:47 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote: Some interesting developments on 'the other side'... POWERSHELL (aka Monad, MSH) - See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell for an intro. Very strong *nix flavour, and Exchange12 administration GUI's will be built upon this - ie the CLI comes first, and the GUI sits on top in classic *nix fashion. Beta versions can be downloaded and played with now - it won't be shipped for a while yet (it's not in Vista) UNIX IN WINDOWS - Windows Server 2003 now ships with a full Unix sub-system, including gcc and tons of other GNU and GPL stuff: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/unixcomponents/webinstall. mspx#EKB LINUX LAB - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/aug05/08-10OpenSourceLa b.mspx PORT25 - http://port25.technet.com ...people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab LINUX CONFERENCES - 'Softie giving a keynote at Linuxworld - http://www.idgworldexpo.com/download/bh.mp3 WINDOWLESS WINDOWS - The next version of Windows Server (Longhorn) will have a GUI-less version, aimed at the same people who run their *nix systems X11-less, called Server Core see: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en -us/Srvcore/srvcore/portal.asp So, quite different approach from the rants and antagonism of the past. My reading is that they've now got lots people on board with strong *nix backgrounds and are pushing really hard to capture the big Unix sites, before they all go Linux. Most of this stuff is quite foreign to the normal Windows user/administrator, but potentially re-assuring to Unix admins. - steve = This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc Cube Server
Re: virus scanners and other security tools
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/ For home use is free. Adrian On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 09:07 +1200, Bernard wrote: What virus scanners or other security tools such as firewalls etc do people use (if any) with linux? Ta Bernard
Re: SysAdmin wanted
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060418 Fedora/1.0.8-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.8 with Macromedia Flash Plugin 7.0.63 The plugin is from http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/ kept up to date in yum(ex) Works. No errors. Chris is right, it is against the law to make any reference to age, gender, etc. But I can relate to Carl too. When I need to hire someone (which I just did, the latest two months ago) I know what I want and the type of audience I want to have. And I have to make the most of my add to be catchy enough to reach it and attract what I see might be the right person for the team. If Carl wants someone young and enthusiast what I read is that he doesn't necessarily needs experience and he is also prepared to offer flexible hours (see how early young people get up in the morning, especially on Mondays). He is also prepared to take the risk that comes with lack of experience and youth. What I read there is opportunity to grow for a recent graduate with as little as under 3 years industry experience with a passion for computers and the linux virus in him/her, the Gentoo strain in this case. I may add that like with everything else, you don't always get what you want, nor what you need. But if you don't ask for it, in the nicest possible way you can of course, you don't get it at all. And not always the person that best fits the initial profile gets the job either. Probably this is why his posting in this list. Where best to find the most infected audience with the right bug? Adrian On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:02 +1200, Carl Bowden wrote: On 20/04/2006, at 5:31 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thursday 20 April 2006 08:07, Carl Bowden wrote: We are looking for a Linux (Gentoo mainly) system admin Most members know my details, so I'll be brief. First compiled a program:- 1969 First typed 'vi' and expected to see an editor:- 1988 First serious use of SYSVR3:- 1992 or was it 1993, First install of Gentoo:- Version 1.2 Windows knowledge:- Zero However, seeing as you have your index page forwarding to:- http://www.e2-media.co.nz/flash.html which displays as a plain dark blue motionless background in a standards conforming browser, you'd better know that I'll probably not want to work Would you mind telling me what the browser is? (I appreciate it may be 'standards' confirming, but is the flash plugin?) what I'm more interested is why the detect has not bounced you either full-time or permanently in that kind of intellectual surroundings. well, for now, just the user-agent signature of your browser will greatly improve your 'suroundings' btw, the use of any wording which infers that there an age range within which an offer of employment for the prospective employee will be made is against the law. I sincerely apologise if you felt I implied the 'age' was in reference to the position, it was merely a refection of the people we currently employ -- CS ta Carl.
FC5 / FC4 install CD/DVD
For who's interested I can offer at the next meeting the installation kit for Fedora Core 4 5 on CDs or for FC5 only on DVD. FC5: 6 CDs, 5 install + 1 rescue or 1 DVD FC4: 5 CDs, 4 install + 1 rescue Let me know who what please so I can burn them in time. Cheers, Adrian
Re: Have you spare time today help with Ubuntu 5.10 configure Burwood Parklands area
I don't know who Andrew is either but I can certainly sympathise with him. Wait until you start getting a lot of phone calls with most unusual requests for contributions, special offers, market surveys and other weird stuff. Or when you come home from work just to find your voice mailbox full of unwanted promotions for things you never asked for. Worst if you have answering machine with limited capacity. Then you'll understand that it's not paranoia, it is just common sense. True, most of us are listed in white pages but why make it easier for phone spammers or marketers? Adrian On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 18:18 +1200, Don Gould wrote: Andrew who are you? What have you got to hid at your house from the rest of us? My address and phone details are in the white pages. This guys trying to get linux up and running with a modem and printer... It's attitude like yours that grows paranoiya. While I respect your right to privacy, I would like to think that others would respect it by not just showing up uninvited... (and no, that's not a hint at Rik who did show up yesterday after trying a number of times to ring me and finding my woosh phone still crashes every so often :-) He was more than welcome, as is any fellow geek! :). Cheers Don Andrew Errington wrote: No, no, NO! This is not a good idea. Personal information like this should be emailed to named and known individuals only. This list is a public forum, visible to *anyone* and archived on the Internet for eternity. Of course, if you know all that and still wish to do it then go ahead. Andy
Re: Meeting Reminder tonight
Nick, I'd say you managed more than getting your act together. Last night I captured moving pictures from my digital video camera for the first time under linux. Didn't think it would be such a piece of cake. Cheers, Adrian On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:32 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: St Albans Multimedia Presented by me, if I get my act together.
cisco vpn help
Hi, A bit of help please: I use cisco vpn from here http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/vpn/client/4_6/uglinsol/index.htm to connect to a remote network. It used to work ok until I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp.i686 Although the documentation says that the cisco client does not work with SMP kernels, I had no problem runing it on all previous kernel versions from 2.6.11-1.1369 through 2.6.15-1.1833, all SMP versions. The workaround is I boot the box in the previous kernel and works. What is different in the latest kernel release from the previous? Is there a way to fix this? Other than the above mentioned. Thanks in advance. Adrian
Re: cisco vpn help
Thanks Hadley, Indeed you need a license to work with it, the admin from the remote network provided it for me part of my contract with them. Yes, it does need a compilation against kernel sources but during the un-install / install process required by every kernel upgrade I had no compilation error. The service component starts ok but the client part doesn't want to connect to the remote router. The answer is: Initializing the VPN connection. Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client Reason: Failed to establish a VPN connection. There are no new notification messages at this time. And no more log entries. On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:54 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 21:41, Adrian Mageanu wrote: I use cisco vpn from here http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/vpn/client/4_6/uglinsol/ind ex.htm to connect to a remote network. It used to work ok until I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp.i686 Although the documentation says that the cisco client does not work with SMP kernels, I had no problem runing it on all previous kernel versions from 2.6.11-1.1369 through 2.6.15-1.1833, all SMP versions. The workaround is I boot the box in the previous kernel and works. What is different in the latest kernel release from the previous? Is there a way to fix this? Other than the above mentioned. I see that that client involves a loadable module. I can't find the license so don't know whether it is proprietary or not. If it is the following might relate. On Arch Linux (which is quite bleeding edge) recently the Intel modem drivers (intel536ep and intel537) stopped working due to a change in the kernel regarding loading non-GPL modules. I can't find a lot about it on the web but this was the reason quoted on the list The drivers no longer compile against 2.6.16, as the serial interface in 2.6.16, only links with drivers distributed under the GPL. Since then the kernel change has been reversed and the modules work again. Maybe this relates to your problem? hads
Re: Update on Gentoo Mini-Installfest
Hi guys, Sorry to disappoint, I just received news today from one of my clients that will make my presence impossible to this event, with all my regrets. I'll talk to you later on today at the meeting. Adrian On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 21:31 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: OK we now have four definites (Ross D, Adrian M, Bruce's son, Simon K) and a maybe (Yuri deG). Attached is a largely empty pdfexport of a spreadsheet with the kind of info we need. Please let me have the missing details asap. If I don't have the details, then the likely consequence is that the correct files will not be downloaded for you. The last column is for info on winmodems or other hardware that you think may require a special drivers. In my humble opinion the best way to install gentoo in a group situation like this is to install binaries. I know that gentoo is source compiled, optimised blah blah, but you aren't going to get a full desktop installed in 6 hours or so compiling all of kde or gnome. Trust me in this, getting a complete binary system will be over in a few hours and then you can recompile with different use flags or other optimisations at your leisure. You will have a working system, with a modern desktop. The rest is at your leisure. Those are my thoughts on it anyway, and its the reason we need to know your hardware details.
Re: [OT] Re:Thanks Chris and Zane for a fantastic presentation - questions...
One can export the data fairly easy by using a utility called BCP (bulk copy) called in a script that iterates thrhough the system tables to get all table names and use each name as parameter. In V.2000 is much easier to get the list of tables name from a database. If it is data schema to be dumped as a script the mechanism is the same in V.2000 as in V6.5. Why would you want to this is another story. None of these are suitable for porting the database to another RDBMS. Not even to re-create the same database to another installation of MSSQL. Nor are they suitable for documenting the schema. On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:33 +1200, Don Gould wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:28, Zane Gilmore wrote: Don Gould wrote: It's not that hard to get data out of mssql really is it? That wasn't my point. It's a databse of course one can get data out of it. My point was that you can't easily dump a MS-SQL database into SQL script form. MS only provides the means of dumping to some unreadable file format that only MS-SQL can read. Hence enhancing their lock-in. AFAICS Ok, I'm confused... In version 6.5 it was easy enough to just dump a script. Fairly dumb I agree, if you can't can't do that in the current versions. Oh well not to worry, just another reason to use FLOSS :) Cheers Don
Re: Thanks Chris and Zane for a fantastic presentation - questions...L
From experience I found the that the best way to preserve the knowledge and to document it when designing an application or a database alone is to use a CASE. Better still use a CASE that can use as targets multiple platforms This way the documentation of different aspects of the schema if we talk about databases is independent of what platform you use to implement you project. This documentation can then be embedded in the schema at generation time. A good CASE can also reverse engineer a database schema and the documentation embedded in it (field descriptions, clear text constraints, comments within the code, etc) They can also generate the scripts to export/import data in tables. I've seen good examples of FLOSS projects that can be used as CASE tools in previous messages in this forum, tools that can be used against both commercial and non-commercial RDBMS engines. Most of the time you'll find that finding your way through a data schema that has little documentation embedded in it is fairly easy and is the least of your problems when dealing with debugging, developing or porting the database. This is not to say that documenting your code is not a good practice. By far a documented schema is preferable to a non-documented one. On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:01 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Friday 17 March 2006 11:21, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:32:04 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 16:04, Roy Britten wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:54 +1300, Don Gould wrote: Is there any kind of gui tools that you know of for postgres? pgAdmin III http://www.pgadmin.org/ Also you could use the sql:// protocol in Konqueror. imho using these click and point gui tools is a somewhat hazardous exercise, because they don't, as a general rule, conveniently save a .sql source code file from which you can rebuild the database from scratch. Yes but at any stage you can dump the database generating scripts - wel you can in mysql, I assume you can in postgresql too. Yes you can do that in PostgreSQL, but you then lose all and every syllable of documentation you have put in the sql source code file. I may be a traditionalist, but I recon that if you are trying to build a project or product which has a life, rather than a quick fix for some immediate problem, then it's essential to have source code that's understandable and usable by other people.
Re: Gentoo Mini-Installfest
I intend to. Please refresh my memory: where and what time is it going to take place? Adrian On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 14:34 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On 3/13/06, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Sawtell, Nick Rout and I are about to host the third In Robert's Garage Gentoo Mini-Installfest. The date is April 1st - no this is not a joke. As always, if you plan to attend you need to do some reading so that you know what you are in for and feel familiar with the instructions which can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml You also need to post the specifications of your hardware and list the essential programmes you would like to have installed. A point to consider is that, unless there are only three punters, then you will not get one-on-one assistance but if the instructions all make sense to you and your hardware is of a reasonable spec then you can expect to finish the day with at least a base system up and running by the time we buy the take-away curries for dinner. can we have some feedback on who might be attending this?
Re: Thanks Chris and Zane for a fantastic presentation - questions...
About PostgreSQL limitations see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item4.4 I have to say though that long before you reach these limits you run into other problems, most of them related to performance and volume management. In the end a database centric app is as good as the time of response when you ask for a piece of data. The shorter the time the better the app. Now Zane, this will be another interesting follow-up: Administration My appreciation too for the quality of both presentations. Thanks Chris and Zane. Adrian On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:54 +1300, Don Gould wrote: Chris - your effort was very worth while! I have used the ctrl-r function to help me sort out a problem I had on my machine just last night. I recalled that Wilber had fixed the problem for me before and the solution was in the root.history. Zane - Have you played with SAPDB? Is there any kind of gui tools that you know of for postgres? What size of database have you seen postgress used up to? Are you planning a follow up? I'd like to see php code examples of it being used - connection, open dataset, close dataset, cleanup, usual boaring stuff. Again thanks for putting in all the hard work! Having done a presentation myself recently I know just how much work goes in to these things!!! Cheers Don
Re: Thanks Chris and Zane for a fantastic presentation - questions...
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:32 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 16:04, Roy Britten wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:54 +1300, Don Gould wrote: Is there any kind of gui tools that you know of for postgres? pgAdmin III http://www.pgadmin.org/ Also you could use the sql:// protocol in Konqueror. imho using these click and point gui tools is a somewhat hazardous exercise, because they don't, as a general rule, conveniently save a .sql source code file from which you can rebuild the database from scratch. In my experience, depending on the scope of the exercise, GUI tools are always useful. They are productivity tools. You want to finish your work and give results as quickly as possible no matter if you are a database developer, admin or analyst. They are also good learning tools. You may not want every bit of work you've done to be saved. Only the end result matters when you're satisfied that you created something useful worth re-using later. Then you want to script the database, the scripts to initialise default values in different tables, administration, analysis and discovery scripts. And a backup eventually with your test data and parameters. Here almost all GUI tools offer scripting options to help with this. At the end of the day they are only script generators with nice colored pictures. Cheers, Adrian
Re: umbrello Unified Modelling Language diagram program
These are good for development. For admin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin Works with PostgreSQL too. Also http://sourceforge.net/projects/quantum worth looking into if you use Java. On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:27 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 11:05, Ross Drummond wrote: Here is a link to the unbrello UML program that was mentioned at last nights meeting; http://uml.sourceforge.net/index.php See also: http://argouml.tigris.org/
Re: OTish
I use ANTEC. I have in it 4xHDD, 1xFloppy, 1xDVD and 5 bays free. It is a tower case. On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:50 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Can anyone recommend a 3 or 4U rackmount case/supplier that'll take 4 hard disks and a DVD? I can only get Advantech, and they only do 3 disks?
