Re: This years format.
I shall not be eating but will pop in briefly and say hello. About 7.30 is it? I am hoping to have a bite to eat, and will be there a bit earlier than that. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher. On 17/02/2010, Tom Smithsnake...@xtra.co.nz wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 00:45 +1300, Roy Britten wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:25:23PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Unfortunately illness at home is going to stop me from coming into town tomorrow evening. Sorry to hear that. All the best to the patient for a quick recovery. +1 All the best for a speedy recovery Could someone have a pint of twisted ankle on my behalf?? Will do. Cheers, Roy. About 7.30 is it?? sorry I searched through the posts but only recognised the day. If you see a guy with a guiding cane that looks lost that is going to probably be me. Cheers Tom
Re: This years format.
Someone did. 7:30pm from Tom and a bit earlier from Chris. ;-) Well for god's sake can someone nominate a time?? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Brett Davidsonbr...@net24.co.nz wrote: I shall not be eating but will pop in briefly and say hello. About 7.30 is it? I am hoping to have a bite to eat, and will be there a bit earlier than that. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher. On 17/02/2010, Tom Smithsnake...@xtra.co.nzwrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 00:45 +1300, Roy Britten wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:25:23PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Unfortunately illness at home is going to stop me from coming into town tomorrow evening. Sorry to hear that. All the best to the patient for a quick recovery. +1 All the best for a speedy recovery Could someone have a pint of twisted ankle on my behalf?? Will do. Cheers, Roy. About 7.30 is it?? sorry I searched through the posts but only recognised the day. If you see a guy with a guiding cane that looks lost that is going to probably be me. Cheers Tom -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup / VPS This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: This years format.
My wife has been purchasing and I have just been instructed to pick up said item so my arrival timing will be very fluid. :-) I would imagine I could get there by 7pm however. That sound like a good time? On 17/02/2010 3:31 p.m., Nick Rout wrote: Well for god's sake can someone nominate a time?? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Brett Davidsonbr...@net24.co.nz wrote: I shall not be eating but will pop in briefly and say hello. About 7.30 is it? I am hoping to have a bite to eat, and will be there a bit earlier than that. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher. On 17/02/2010, Tom Smithsnake...@xtra.co.nzwrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 00:45 +1300, Roy Britten wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:25:23PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Unfortunately illness at home is going to stop me from coming into town tomorrow evening. Sorry to hear that. All the best to the patient for a quick recovery. +1 All the best for a speedy recovery Could someone have a pint of twisted ankle on my behalf?? Will do. Cheers, Roy. About 7.30 is it?? sorry I searched through the posts but only recognised the day. If you see a guy with a guiding cane that looks lost that is going to probably be me. Cheers Tom -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup / VPS This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Completely Offtopic: Any recommendations for computer technicians in Rangiora?
My Aunt lives out there and I'm a little too busy to fix her Windows machine at present.
Re: Completely Offtopic: Any recommendations for computer technicians in Rangiora?
On 13/01/2010 1:07 p.m., Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2010/1/13 Brett Davidson br...@net24.co.nz My Aunt lives out there and I'm a little too busy to fix her Windows machine at present. What appears to be wrong with it? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell Sounds more hardware related than software - video card / monitor.
Re: Software Freedom Day 09
Andrew Errington wrote: On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:54, Rik Tindall wrote: Greetings, Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS) is in its fifth year, and of celebration locally. Arr! Shiver me timbers! That tharr Software Freedom Day be clashin' wi' International Talk Like a Pirate Day[1]. Remember to give a hearty avast! as you hand out free Linux CDs! A [1] http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Yer wanna give oot a closed-source AV solution for Linux? [2] Brat. [2][ www.avast.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4435 (20090917) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Re: Web Site Slow to Start
David Kirk wrote: Hey guys. I have installed Trac on Ubuntu 9.04 Server. I'm using Apache2 and mod_python to connect to Trac and it's connecting to our Active Directory to authenticate users. It seems to work pretty fast when I'm using it, but if I leave it for a while and come back to it, the first time I request a page there is almost a 10 second delay. How do I find out where this delay is coming from? I'm guessing that if I don't use it for a while then the authentication times out and it needs to reauthenticate to AD in the background, but how do I prove that (and hopefully speed it up)? I can't see the authentication in any of the logs. Check the timeout of the worker process. -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4385 (20090831) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Re: Have a safe trip Chris...
Steve Holdoway wrote: ...and best wishes for the future. Thanks for all you've done for us, and please keep in touch. Cheers, Steve I would like to add my best wishes as well. Thanks for everything Chris and keep in touch! Brett. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4145 (20090610) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:46:17 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: There is a box on the side of the house, and two coax cables come out. I'd like to disconnect the second cable and run another one to the cupboard but I am damned if I can get the cover off. Heh, I'd like to know too. The key for it has the same shape as a socket from the usual socket sets, except it is square, not hexagonal. In fact it looks very identical to those old square-socket-on-a-handle keys railwaymen carried to open all the doors passengers aren't usually supposed to go into. For the SaturnTelstraClear(TM) box I think the major difference is that the key is also somehow magnetic. This pulls a couple of levers inside the grey box out of the way which then allows the square bolt to turn. Can anyone confirm this kind of principle being used? Secondly I assume this is the same cable as one would use for a sky dish? (I have plenty of rg6) Yes it's RG6, but DO NOT USE JUST ANY RG6. Make sure you get sky-rated good-quality stuff, not the cheapest DSE/jayjunk stuff. Otherwise, you will be degrading the signal for yourself and everyone else in the street, and the excuse for fiddling with the operator's network sounds better if you can at least say you did it semi-competently... Volker Never needed to get inside their distribution box. Did look over tech's shoulder when we moved in though. There were numerous connections inside the house and the tech used an industrial looking rf-splitter (sorry - never took notice of the type) to reroute the cables to where I wanted them. Later I moved wanted some connectivity at another location and I did this myself, ensuring I removed the old cable so the number of connections to the splitter remained the same. All worked well. -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup / VPS This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4139 (20090608) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Re: uses for old computers
Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, So what do you do with the old computers that one tends to acquire? They are old so the hardware is borderline for reliability, so there is not much point in putting lots of time in them to making them do big important jobs. An old computer as a fileserver - will work, but when it fails the blood pressure goes up (the kids want their videos to watch) and it is not good. The WAF is poor - they don't seem to appreciate when their videos are not available fileserver yes, maybe. Bit limited on ram, so is a bit slow. firewall - yes, the throughtput is low cause ADSL is quite slow. But I only need 1 firewall and I have lots of the old computers. On the old computers, the harddrive is often thefirst thing to go, so maybe a liveCD running some application is the way to go. Yes - but what? As a book end - well, it is a bit big for this.. Hmm, - two computers + some planks of wood and we have a respectable shelf.. Just a bit big. What about a really exotic use? Some custom software, custom hardware, use the computer power supply and we could have a really high speed battery charger.. ---Does anyone know of such a project ?--- Ahh. A teaching tool. Yes, - show kids how they work - pull it apart. Remove cover on the hard drive, and scratch the platter as it it attempts to start up. Makes a horrible sound, but the kids see that when the disk surface is scratched, the computer cannot even begin the boot process.. Install win98 on it, and run all the old games which are still available. Yes, but it is of questionable legality to install pirated win98 isos. Comment?? Derek. P.S. In fact, the most common use for old computers is to take up space in the garage. Most old computers make excellent heaters. The older the better in this regard! :-)
Re: Home Automation Dealers in Chch?
This approach interests me. I gather then that you run the Arduinos locally in each room/area with sensors attached to these and then use Zigbee and/or ethernet to connect the Arduinos back to your Linux server. What software are you running on the Linux server? For that matter, what software are you running on the Arduinos? :-) Running wires etc is all old hat. I had not thought about electrically isolating various areas and to be honest, I'm not even sure what that means. To do true isolation I would need to run 1:1 transformers or equivalent devices. I'm sure the comments here do not espouse that even if that would truly isolate areas from each other. Unfortunately, WAF needs to be factored in. She's not really into tinkering as much as I. :-) And I to no longer have as much free time for this as I used to. :-( I can't see why I can't run a commercial protocol and/or my own protocols alongside each other. It all appears to be Ethernet-based these days. Hadley Rich wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:25:40 Brett Davidson wrote: Tie in to Linux - I would prefer that this be Linux (via embedded or not) control as I want as little proprietary content as possible. As of late I've been playing with sensors and control here. I've been using Arduino boards for input/output and Zigbee wireless or ethernet as communication back to a Linux server for smarts. Using various devices such as PIR/temperature/current/switches as sensors and this morning I've received some solid state relays to do some switching of mains devices. Still very much in the tinkering phase. I also looked at CBUS, KNX and the ELK M1 briefly but like you wanted something more open and also like to do things myself. hads -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup / VPS This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Home Automation Dealers in Chch?
A long long time ago (in a galaxy near us however) Andrew Errington and John Carter corresponded about Home Automation in Christchurch. Andrew appeared to use dedicated microcontroller chips and John was pondering about X10 at that time (July 2007). I am building a new house at present and am looking at what control systems are out there worth considering implementing as this will help me what and where I should pre-wire and where I can use IR or bluetooth, etc. I want to do it all - switch audio/video along with control of appliances and monitoring of energy usage, etc. There's CBus, Qnet, Emax, and a whole host of others with wildly optimistic promises hence I wondered what (if any) experience people on this list had in the real word. Tie in to Linux - I would prefer that this be Linux (via embedded or not) control as I want as little proprietary content as possible. Cheers, Brett.
Re: Something for .bashrc file
Try unlink /
Works instantly - if you pull the plug out you MAY get some data back
with rm. :-)
chris wrote:
rm / ?
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 11:25 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a little something to slip into a friend's .bashrc file when
they're not looking ...
export PS1='C:${PWD//\//\\\}'
Hmmm, amusing. Note to self - never let this guy near my lappie ;-)
Question: if he does this to a friend - what happens to the people this
guy does not like?
Derek
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Re: OT: Google street view live in NZ
Sometimes I LIKE living in a private lane. :-) Christopher Sawtell wrote: _NOT_ cool at all! Damned nosey parkers, aren't we allowed _any_ privacy any more. Three cheers for big garden-trees. 2008/12/2 David Linton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HA Cool! shame my street isnt on there yet! but the road going into it is on there!
Re: just to show it's not just redhat...
Steve Holdoway wrote: ... dpkg hell??? Hardy 64 bit. apt-get install mencoder mplayer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libamrnb3 libamrwb3 Suggested packages: libdvdcss mplayer-doc w32codecs ladspa-sdk The following NEW packages will be installed: libamrnb3 libamrwb3 The following packages will be upgraded: mencoder mplayer 2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8061kB of archives. After this operation, 618kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n apt-get install mencoder mplayer libdvdcss w32codecs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libdvdcss is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package libdvdcss has no installation candidate [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install mencoder mplayer w32codecs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source You've just got to laugh (: Steve Not dpkg hell. Just that Ubuntu do not include proprietary software in their repos. Add the medibuntu repo to the sources.list and you'll be fine. Cheers, Brat.
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
dave wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 23:34:02 Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2008/11/4 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Funnily enough, the one time support would have been welcome (this issue took months to resolve) both Oracle NZ and RedHat were absolutely useless. Wandering through source code eventually highlighted the issue which was resolved quite effectively once the cause was found. Yes, I think that is my experience too. If you are a reasonably knowledgeable sysadmin or whatever, any support you want is going to be for a relatively obscure problem which is unlikely to be something a phone-support person is able to deal with. You might also care to consider one of the *BSDs. FreeBSD is _very_ stable for server use. if so then OpenBSD would be even better wouldn't (I mean it's the server version so to speak) FreeBSD is the desktop version so to speak i mean. eg netbsd = network server, OpenBSD = web server, FreeBSD = desktop etc. I stand to be corrected on this tho. dave. Similar code - different foci. PcBSD is the desktop version. Nice but I still prefer Linux. FreeBSD is the server version. I run this both at work and home for my servers. OpenBSD is the paranoically secure version. Never needed this. hth Brett.
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similar code - different foci. PcBSD is the desktop version. Nice but I still prefer Linux. FreeBSD is the server version. I run this both at work and home for my servers. OpenBSD is the paranoically secure version. Never needed this. hth Brett. Getting rather OT but freebsd on its own works fine as a desktop. PCBSD screws it up by trying to introduce a packaging system which is ultimately at odds with the underlying portage system. (IMHO) Agree with you there.
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:46:22 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PcBSD is the desktop version. Nice but I still prefer Linux. FreeBSD is the server version. I run this both at work and home for my servers. OpenBSD is the paranoically secure version. Never needed this. hth Brett. There is, of course the basic question as to whether the applications that run on redhat can be ported to *BSD, and what application support could be available for that... Steve I've run Linux apps (including Oracle) quite happily on FreeBSD using FreeBSD Linux emulation. Better to use the native FreeBSD version if it's available however. :-) There are a LOT of apps that are native to FreeBSD. As far as support goes, well, that brings up back to the Original Topic, doesn't it? No company I know of supports all hardware/software variants that their code might be running on/under. What I find more interesting is which companies actually provide a good level of support for the combinations they purport to support! :-) Brat.
Re: [OT] Telstra Clear cable usage meter unobtainable?
Nick Rout wrote: Anyone else having problems with this page: http://telstraclear.co.nz/customer-zone/internet-usage-meters/usagemeter/ which is pointed to here http://telstraclear.co.nz/customer-zone/internet-usage-meters/ Been down for me all day. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3584 (20081105) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Use this link - https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/tools/usagemeter/index.cfm?s=t
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
That's leaving aside the point of whether the certification means anything anyway! :-) Even my RHCE (remaining on topic), which is by far the most real-world cert I have sat, does not test your skills beyond a good sysadmin level. Adrian Mageanu wrote: 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
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 My experience is that the support contract is not worth the paper it'll be printed on. Mind you, that was two years ago but I doubt much will have changed. All of my issues with RH I have managed to solve myself though to be fair, when the boss is breathing down your neck when a system is down you tend to work much harder and faster than any support rep ever will. Funnily enough, the one time support would have been welcome (this issue took months to resolve) both Oracle NZ and RedHat were absolutely useless. Wandering through source code eventually highlighted the issue which was resolved quite effectively once the cause was found. As such I would use Centos. Cheers, Brett. (RHCE)
Re: I'm getting hammered... what should I do about it?
From the subject line, my first thought was lay off the booze. ;-) After reading, my second thought was to learn how to read snort if you're going to use it. That way you'll know that it is DNS traffic and (depending on if you are running a DNS server or not) what to do about it. The what to do about it thought was you should just block it with a firewall - the traffic is insignificant. :-)
Re: Slightly OT: ADSL routers...
Chris Hellyar wrote: Hi folks.. Yuri is right, I've got a mail server, web server, asterisk box and shell box which all have seperate IP's (on two subnets) which hang off different inbound ports. The 504T did have the ability to do it with the old firmware, but I patched it to support ADSL2 and it put the 'upgrade' gave a new interface where you have to add the internal servers to a list of 'Lan Servers' which can only be on the same subnet as the internal of the router, and then add the virtual servers by port o one of the 'Lan Server' addresses.. So it can only port forward to one internal IP, and not on the LAN behind the pfsense box, only on the pfsense box itself, which of course I can port forward on, but I'm using the system for testing some stateless UDP stuff that dosn't like multiple NAT hops... Anyway, I've got around the problem for the moment, by using a borrowed Cisco 800 in half-bridge mode, and putting the external IP on the pfsense WAN port. Thinking about it a bit more I could have just used the 'dmz' setting in the 504T to route all inbound traffic to the pfsense and nat it from there, but I might fall on the too-much-nat sword. I might give that a go tomorrow night when I've finished the current testing process. H, or I should just buy one of these Cisco units. Not cheap, but a far better device than any of the consumer junk out there. Might have to wait for Xmas on that... The other thing I might look at is using a decent quality modem (Linksys AM300?) in half-bridge mode, which would do the same as the cisco for 1/8th the price.. Cheers, Me. I'd use Pfsense for everything and just use a bridge/half-bridge router. Well, that's what I do , anyway. -) Any brand has it's bad apples so not sure I could recommend one over any other. The benefit of Linksys is that if you don't like the firmware, you can always download another. (OpenWRT being one I used in the past) Cheers, Brat.
Re: CherryPal
Gabriella Turek wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/cherrypal/ http://72.51.37.17/ It does not mention anywhere on their site that it runs ads while software is loading from Amazon's SS3 service. Hardly open, let alone fair. Brat.
Re: CherryPal
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: It does not mention anywhere on their site that it runs ads while software is loading from Amazon's SS3 service. Hardly open, let alone fair. Ah, that explains the business model Call me old fashioned, but the idea of having all my stuff and software beyond my control somewhere out there (in the US gov't jurisdiction no less!) does not give me any warm and fuzzies Well, that's pretty much the definition of in the cloud; Google and Amazon are the two best-known application providers at the moment, I guess Hotmail was the first and some people like Yahoo ... not open, but not unfair. However, the running adverts part is *not* a required part of in-the-cloud, and it's a business model that has been tried many many times, with things like free ISPs, as well as most websites. I wonder if you could install adblocker software on the local part of the CherryPal? -jim The whole thing is run from Firefox (no OS interaction) so I'm sure some extensions will be made that will do this... :-) Whether or not extensions are allowed to be installed or not is another question that will need to be answered once the product is actually released. Brat. -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz http://www.net24.co.nz -- // domains / email / web hosting / data backup / vps This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.
Yes - most likely. Completely OT now but that site is less useful to me by the day. I want to sell my old leather lounge suite but I'm not allowed to advertise contact details so people can come and look at it. Who would buy a lounge suite without physically looking at it? Jim Cheetham wrote: I presume that TradeMe don't like being used to organise off-site selling. i.e. they wouldn't get a cut of the final sale price of the phone, therefore the listing violated their Terms Conditions. I'd expect that the account that listed it was disabled now, too. -jim On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Brenda Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Withdrawn by the administrator wtf? On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:12:12 Francis White wrote: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Mobile-phones/Vodafone-network/Other/ auction-164652052.htm Found that on trademe. Thought it might be interesting for someone. -- Regards, Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz http://www.net24.co.nz -- // domains / email / web hosting / data backup / vps This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Linux duplex syndrome
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:38:06 +1200 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While perusing the MySQL Documentation http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/communication-errors.html I came across reference to a Linux duplex syndrome. The writer complains Many Linux Ethernet drivers have this bug. Would anyone care to comment and/or help me understand what they're on about? Thanks, Roy. I hope this is long sorted now, but there was a time where the Cisco IOS / catalyst switches wouldn't autonegociate properly - and end up in a state where performance was absolutely terrible. This wasn't limited to linux servers though - sounds a bit FUDdish to me - as I had the same problems on slowlaris as well. IIRC, we're talking 2000/2001 here. We just used to force the switch ports to full duplex, and do the same with the ethernet ports on the servers. Steve That was because Sun, in all their wisdom, decided to prioritise 100BaseT4 ahead of 100BaseT in the negotiation order. Cisco talks 100BaseT4 as well so they set themselves up happily on that and, as a result, didn't chat to anyone else. (or to each other that well as 100BaseT4 users 4 pairs to talk rather than the now-standard 2 pairs of 100BaseT). When you forced the negotiation you forced 100BaseT-FullDuplex and surprise, surprise, it all worked! :-) Brat.
Re: Updating ubuntu for openssl/openssh vulnerabilities
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:08:48 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:12:19 +1200 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/14 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyway I am trying to update a system remotely (over ssh of course, how ironic). The openssh-client and -server updates don't seem to get applied: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: openssh-client openssh-server 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Any idea why not? aptitude does much the same. This is on hardy, with no changes to the default sources.list. do you need sudo apt-get dist-upgrade No, that is intended upgrade to a new distro - gutsy to hardy for example. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] No its also useful where a new dependency is introduced (as in here where there is a new dependency on openssh-blacklist). see also here http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/69 And indeed I have lost connectivity and will fix it tonight. Never mind if I cannot log in I suppose no-one else can either :-) so in short the way to update openssh-* is to use dist-upgrade which will install the new dependency. Interesting. I just did exactly as I suggested, whilst ssh'd back in to my pc from my server - so ssh out then back in - and had no connectivity problems at all. I do just use password authentication here though. This fubar seems to have rocked confidence in debian, but perhaps thats another discussion. Also explains why I'm getting so many brute force breakin attempts on my servers... picked a good time to be out of the office again! Steve Note doing an apt-get upgrade alone won't fix this - you need to regenerate all your SSH keys (user host) SSL certificates that have been created using this library as well. Be a little careful of just hitting apt-get dist-upgrade or you may be locked out of your boxes (openssh-blacklist gets installed and will block insecure keys). begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: A quick quiz for fun
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Delio Brignoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your score: 100 out of 100. oh dear, I am not sure it is a good thing! Yep, 100 for me too ... but I must admit that I guessed (correctly) the month Linux was released. So I only really deserve 90 :-) -jim Hehe. Same. :-) -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Tuesday night meeting...
What's this meeting about anyway? Brat. Zane Gilmore wrote: David, you are a gentleman and a scholar :-) Thank you, Zane David Lowe wrote: I can bring a projector; sorry no screen but the wall is good ;-) - David -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:45 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Tuesday night meeting... Ahem, I appear to have done it again. excuseThis job was really given to me at the worst possible time /excuse If anybody has access to one I would appreciate it if you could bring a projector tomorrow. However I will attempt to get a hold of one that I think may do the job. With chagrin, Zane Don Gould wrote: Is someone bringing a projector and screen tomorrow? (Zane :) Cheers Don begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Tuesday night meeting...
That narrows it down somewhat but for a forgetful type could you remind me of what you were going to present last month? :-) Don Gould wrote: the plan is my presentation that we didn't do last month. Got my laptop stolen so I have to try and redo it this afternoon Brett Davidson wrote: What's this meeting about anyway? Brat. Zane Gilmore wrote: David, you are a gentleman and a scholar :-) Thank you, Zane David Lowe wrote: I can bring a projector; sorry no screen but the wall is good ;-) - David -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:45 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Tuesday night meeting... Ahem, I appear to have done it again. excuseThis job was really given to me at the worst possible time /excuse If anybody has access to one I would appreciate it if you could bring a projector tomorrow. However I will attempt to get a hold of one that I think may do the job. With chagrin, Zane Don Gould wrote: Is someone bringing a projector and screen tomorrow? (Zane :) Cheers Don -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Tuesday night meeting...
Ah - thanks. Don Gould wrote: Home networking Brett Davidson wrote: That narrows it down somewhat but for a forgetful type could you remind me of what you were going to present last month? :-) Don Gould wrote: the plan is my presentation that we didn't do last month. Got my laptop stolen so I have to try and redo it this afternoon Brett Davidson wrote: What's this meeting about anyway? Brat. Zane Gilmore wrote: David, you are a gentleman and a scholar :-) Thank you, Zane David Lowe wrote: I can bring a projector; sorry no screen but the wall is good ;-) - David -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:45 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Tuesday night meeting... Ahem, I appear to have done it again. excuseThis job was really given to me at the worst possible time /excuse If anybody has access to one I would appreciate it if you could bring a projector tomorrow. However I will attempt to get a hold of one that I think may do the job. With chagrin, Zane Don Gould wrote: Is someone bringing a projector and screen tomorrow? (Zane :) Cheers Don -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Meal prior to tonights CLUG meeting
Loverly. Ta muchly. After attempting to rehabilitate my dodgy knee via the gym, I'll be there. Brat. Christopher Sawtell wrote: I have booked a table. On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An informal group of us will be having a meal at an adjacent restaurant prior to this evenings meeting. Please feel free to join us at approx 6:00PM. Sema's Thai Cuisine 76 Edgeware Road Cnr. Sherbourne Street Edgeware Road St Albans Cheers Ross Drummond begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: The Linux Distro A
Howdy Chris. Are you talking about ALinux (http://www.alinux.tv/) or summat completely different? begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Kernel 2.6.25 has just been released.
CANbus is now implemented for those electronic geeks amongst us! LatencyTop is an interesting idea, too. Full information on changes in this release are here : http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_25 Brat. begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard
Am about to embark on the ambitious project of getting LinuxMediaCentre going...
Anyone else been here before me? Refer to http://linuxmce.org if you are at all interested. (I'm sure those who have tried this will not need their memory refreshed). Rationale is that I am interested in almost all aspects except Asterisk of this project. Brat. begin:vcard fn:Brett Davidson n:Davidson;Brett org:Net24 Limited;Network Operations adr:;;404 Barbadoes Street;Christchurch;;8041;New Zealand email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Engineer tel;work:+64 3 962 9518 tel;cell:+64 21 868 137 note:CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, SCSA x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.net24.co.nz version:2.1 end:vcard Protected by Net24 Fortigate Anti-virus system
Re: OT: web hosting recommendations?
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:26:33 +1300 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy should also tell us what he's doing and what he wants. There are ppl here who would anti up some space in some cases. A colleague is looking for some commercial hosting options. Cheers, Roy. If that's the case, then it may well pay to be in the US. We are in Asia after all, and that's where all the spam comes from. Unfortunately, a lot of US businesses think that way, which is why all our servers are in New Jersey. Steve Huh? Spam stays within regional boundaries? If you are not charged differently for international traffic (a practise still continued here by some ISP's) then maybe the US would be better. The main reasons for staying local are : Local Support Speed Regulatory compliance NZ will never be cost-effective compared to the US - different economies of scale. Brat.
How did last night's meeting go?
I'm curious., I had a work function I needed to attend otherwise I would have been there... Cheers, Brett.
Re: Cross-compiling hosted on Linux
something like this together, esp as all the parts might not yet be available. Volker -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Cross-compiling hosted on Linux
Even better! :-) Nick Rout wrote: Actually the Mac has its own ports system which would be a far better way to go. http://www.macports.org/ On Mon, February 11, 2008 10:14 am, Brett Davidson wrote: Actually Aidan, you might want to reconsider your question. If I understand correctly, what you want to do is get a program you know that runs on Linux to run on MacOSX. ;-) What you might want to consider is whether the FreeBSD (what Mac's Darwin is based on) ports tree has the program you want in it already. Use the command line on the Mac to grab down the ports tree and then see if you can run make on it. (You'll need to install compilation software on the MAC but then you'll need to do that anyway with your original idea). Hey presto - new app installed correctly with no fluffing about with cross-compiling! If you want further help, email me off list. Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
OT: Recommendations for Linux-skilled business' wanted for support of various Linux distros and (predominantly) web-hosting applications.
My employer dropped me a comment that we should find a business we could recommend our customers too for support of our Linux-based Virtual Private Servers. (We don't have enough resources to do this properly, ourselves). We are however, keen for our customers to use Linux and as such, I am interested in hearing both recommendations and expressions of interest from those on this list (or anyone else) whom you think could fit this role. :-) Here is a brief overview of the sort of skills required (this is not the job description) : Our VPS' support Ubuntu, Debian, Centos and Suse distros and we have all in use at present. Post-install package management knowledge is very important. Also useful would be skills in web-hosting configuration (Ruby/Php/MySQL,Apache, etc) as that is what most of our customers are using these VPS' for. Web-design is not part of the scope but if the business has these skills as well, then they might be able to obtain more work. :-) They will need well-honed patience and communication skills as many of our customers are not computer-savvy. Please direct your recommendations and/or any other comments to me, offlist. Cheers, Brett. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Can anyone help me understand how the Debian package repository system is arranged?
I am trying to point some servers at both old and new Debian 4 repositories but don't know how these are defined :-( Cheers, Brett.
Re: What the... home educational software at $6,000 a throw?
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote: Found their site... ...I think. http://www.advancedlearning.co.nz/ ...links straight through to an Australian site with a home page full of dud links (e.g. about us) GKW Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote: Hi Am I reading this right? Consumer home learning software for $6,000? See this, in stuff: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4326092a13.html Has anyone heard or or seen the software by Advanced Learning Limited? They don't even have a webpage. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Could also be this crowd... http://www.learnmaths.com.au/nz.php -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Apache. Was: Re: Wiki Software
Ever checked out lightspeed or lightttpd? Apache is somewhat bloated these days. Brett. Steve Holdoway wrote: Me too. The only problems I've ever had with it have been self inflicted (: Steve On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:28:31 +1300 Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did apache do to annoy everyone? Or are we severly skimping on hardware spec? On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 00:55 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: In fact, I'd be happy moving off apache entirely :-) I'll second that. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: The Linux/Unix Distro Archive is up and running.
Christopher Sawtell wrote: I added PC-BSD-1.4.1 yesterday. This is the simplest install ever! _BUT_ FreeBSD and descendants, of which PC-BSD is one, have the disadvantage that there is no native FlashPlayer-9 for them, and Google says that Adobe seems to be completely mute on the subject. Somebody is reported to have fixed up a kludge using I.E. and Wine, but I know nothing about that. Similarly I have not tried its abilities with WinModems Otherwise this seems to be a superb Unix implementation. The second CD has the I18N stuff and the KDE applications, and Firefox on it, so you need both CDs unless you are happy with a pretty emasculated install Actually, Chris, with xBSD, you really only need the install CD. It's easier (not to mention more uptodate) to just use the Ports system to get all of that stuff. Some people have also managed to kludge Flash using the inbuilt Linux emulation but as I don't run a graphical head on my FreeBSD box I can't comment. Cheers, Brat.
Re: Meeting Topics
Well, that's that then. He's confirmed. I only hope he isn't scared off now. :-) *Brat.* Don Gould wrote: +1 Nick Rout wrote: John, welcome aboard. Chris Sawtell has indicated that he can't cope with the role of meeting co-ordinator much longer. He has a lot on his plate (I'm sure he won't mind me saying that on list as he has referred to it several times). I have done some meeting co-ordination in the past but find myself too busy these days. Subject to anyone else having a major objection - how would you like the job? Regards, Nick. On Thu, November 15, 2007 10:26 am, John Hyde wrote: Hello I am John - I came along to the Tuesday meeting for the first time. I enjoyed the preso and found it very informative - big thanks to Brett.. I have some ideas for future meetings - please kick these around and let me know what you all think. 1) A pub quiz. I will organise the questions - I can do this for the December mtng if people want this. We split into teams and write down answers to the questions. The questions will be a mixture of geeky, plus general knowledge plus celebrity trivia. A bit of fun, really. 2) Mini presentations by members. Maybe 3 or 4 presos of 15-20 minutes each. Topics to be something that the member has done recently, or a topic the member has some special skill or interest in. The main point is that preparing for a short preso is less of a worry / burden than doing the full thing and more ppl can volunteer. One other idea is to publicise the CLUG a bit more. Is there any central geek events in CHCH type of website ? If not then I will start one. There actually are about 1 event per week of a geeky nature, believe it or not. Kind regards John Hyde -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Meeting Topics
Indeed! I did talk about the time-honoured process of being volunteered on Tuesday. :-) Brat. Nick Rout wrote: Reminds me of those old movies (or was it Dad's Army?) where they say all volunteers for the suicide mission take one step forward - everyone except the fall guy steps backward one step :-) On Thu, November 15, 2007 2:51 pm, Brett Davidson wrote: Well, that's that then. He's confirmed. I only hope he isn't scared off now. :-) *Brat.* Don Gould wrote: +1 Nick Rout wrote: John, welcome aboard. Chris Sawtell has indicated that he can't cope with the role of meeting co-ordinator much longer. He has a lot on his plate (I'm sure he won't mind me saying that on list as he has referred to it several times). I have done some meeting co-ordination in the past but find myself too busy these days. Subject to anyone else having a major objection - how would you like the job? Regards, Nick. On Thu, November 15, 2007 10:26 am, John Hyde wrote: Hello I am John - I came along to the Tuesday meeting for the first time. I enjoyed the preso and found it very informative - big thanks to Brett.. I have some ideas for future meetings - please kick these around and let me know what you all think. 1) A pub quiz. I will organise the questions - I can do this for the December mtng if people want this. We split into teams and write down answers to the questions. The questions will be a mixture of geeky, plus general knowledge plus celebrity trivia. A bit of fun, really. 2) Mini presentations by members. Maybe 3 or 4 presos of 15-20 minutes each. Topics to be something that the member has done recently, or a topic the member has some special skill or interest in. The main point is that preparing for a short preso is less of a worry / burden than doing the full thing and more ppl can volunteer. One other idea is to publicise the CLUG a bit more. Is there any central geek events in CHCH type of website ? If not then I will start one.. There actually are about 1 event per week of a geeky nature, believe it or not. Kind regards John Hyde
Re: === Meeting Tuesday 13 November 2007 - That's Tomorrow! ===
H So far on my list of goodies to talk about is : Basic LAMP config (Very basic - use your package manager!) Basic Security options and links - Time for free chat on this as this was somewhat missing in my last chat! I'm not the best PHP programmer out there so comments from the floor gratefully accepted! :-) Backing up and restoring MySQL with simple examples. Proxy servers and why you might want to use one in this age of broadband data usage charging (squid being covered in particular in transparent, auth and manually configured modes. I do talk about reverse proxying but won't go into it much unless people want this on the night). Dansguardian as an example of how to use Squid to enforce parental filtering on web traffic. That about covers it so far but I can make adjustments to the talk if anyone wishes for anything in particular Brat. Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings to CLUGgers, The November meeting is tomorrow Tuesday 13 November 2007. Brett Davidson will be continuing his exposition on setting up the Apache Web Server. I belive he is going to be talking about how to set it up the PHP scripting language to interface to databases. ( Brett: You may wish to expandthat bald sentence ) The Distro Archive is now more or less functional. If you want a CD or DVD just ask. A light supper will be served consisting of Tea or Instant Coffee and a Biscuit will be served during the course of the evening. Future Meetings:- The December Meeting slot is still open for a willing speaker, or we could enjoy an evening in a suitable public house such as the Twisted Hop in Poplar Street. No Meeting in January. Most folks are away. Last but not least:- There has to be a $2.00 minimum entrance fee to pay for the hire of the hall and supper. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Feisty to Gutsy upgrade : Notes to self...
Smooth upgrade from my end - then again I was only upgrading my son's box and the only thing I had to do was disable the Dansguardian/Squid proxy settings before I upgraded... Brat. Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote: Hi I am also having problems with two screens. I have tried the Nvidia configuration tool to no effect. Any information on fixing this would be welcome. Graphics did slow down but only after I started randomly switching on Compiz effects. The Shift Switcher doesn't like the water drops effect! Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward lyndon sutherland wrote: Hi, Kerry Mayes wrote: 1. smbfs is uninstalled and not replaced. Easy fixed. Didn't happen to me, things keep right on keeping on. 2. VMware Server from the feisty repos has not been upgraded. Only solution was to uninstall and install from a download from vmware. Relatively easily fixed. Workstation also is broken, well the version I was running. I found a patch that does overcome the problem which was mentioned on the Ubuntu forums. Not liking the patch much I downloaded the latest version of workstation and it installed fine. 3. Dual screens - not working. Hmmm. There's a gui now, so theoretically no need to start editing the xorg.conf file. No luck. Google for the answers. There are now two ways of doing this. The gui way uses xinerama. The manual way uses xrandr. Aargh! Feisty was very kind to me over this - by turning off xinerama my two screens came up as two desktops - very handy. Gusty initialises one desktop and leaves the other blank. bugger! Much more research required. And as I'm trying to work in between trying different ideas, I find that the graphics performance has slowed to a crawl. It take 20 - 30 seconds to redraw a table in a word processor. I use only a single screen but haven't encountered any issues with graphics performance. I use an old Ti4200 and have Compiz installed and a number of visual effects enabled, as snappy as Feisty on which I was using Beryl. The upgrade automatically swapped Beryl for Compiz and did take a little figuring. Cheers L -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re:
Christopher Sawtell wrote: It's actually several list members. I have very gratefully received many gigabytes on DVDs and CDs from several traffic volume donors. All I have done is a bit of talking, a lot of typing, and a some nicely exercising leg-work. All we need now is, for members to demonstate that it's all been worthwhile, by voting with their feet and getting distros from the archive, which I will be maintaining for at least 6 months. We do realize that folks with good broadband connections and large volume caps don't really need to be involved. It's specifically aimed at people who are on dial-up access or who have tiny volume caps imposed on them by fiat. p.s. If list members with big pipes could get the 'Gutsy Gibbon' release version in a co-ordinated way when he breaks out of his zoo in a few days time, that would be most appreciated. I shall be grabbing that when it arrives... This coming Tuesday lunchtime I shall pop down and transfer the stuff across... Brat.
Re: Trouble booting Fedora
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 10/11/07, Davin Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I purchased a copy of Fedora from the CLUG meeting last Tuesday but it hanged for 12 hours with the same message: Making post installation changes. It'd be interesting to know which version of Fedora did that? Also what kind of hardware were you installing it onto? The progress bar appears to be about 98% complete at which point it made not further progresss so I chose to reboot it, and it then brought up a GRUB prompt and was not able to boot. Should I dump Fedora and get ubuntu.com to send me a copy of unbuntu Linux? I'd suggest that you wait a week until the final 'Gutsy Gibbon' release comes out. It's currently at the release candidate stage. See:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyReleaseSchedule I'm 100% sure somebody will be getting it off the 'Net, and it will be available from our Linux archive the week after next. This is what the members of the CLUG advised me on last Tuesday's meeting. or should I go back to Red Hat version 9? Although it is about five years old, at least it managed to install correctly. imho, you'd be better off sticking with the distribution with which you are familiar, and install the current version of the Red Hat clone called CentOS. http://www.centos.org/ http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-April/013660.html Has anybody got CentOS-5 they can share? I've got Centos 5 in both x86 and x64 versions. Brat.
Re: Trouble booting Fedora
If I dropped down there one lunchtime with the ISO's, how would I get them on? Can the Windows software make ISO's from the CD's or do I need to bring down these ISO's on a USB drive? Brat. Christopher Sawtell wrote: Has anybody got CentOS-5 they can share? I've got Centos 5 in both x86 and x64 versions. Please could you make a copy of the x86 version available to the archive? -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: sandboxes
Aidan Gauland wrote: Hmmm... I just realised that I didn't explicitly say that I only want to cage the installer, not the actual plug-in. I will probably try gnash at some point, but for now I don't want to bother. Mostly I was asking out of curiosity. I would simply want to be able to run an installer without having to worry about it messing with my files without asking for confirmation. A live CD, or an emulator would, I think, be overkill for this. -Aidan If you want overkill you could always try SELInux or Apparmour. These would do what you wanted. (After some configuration). Brat.
Thank you, Caleb, for an informative session on Blender.
You've inspired me to go back and take another look at it. The quick-guide info alone was well worth attending for, let alone the rendering/animating demos you gave. Thanks, Brett.
Re: apache talk presentation
Brett Davidson wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: ( Brett used my ThinkPad for the presentation. ) http://berty.dyndns.org/Apache Configuration.pdf I'm posting because I know Brett is currently overwhelmed by other matters On 9/14/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brett, I'd really like to get hold of a copy of the presentation you gave this week, I'm keen to make use of a lot of the material you talked about. Cheers, Roger I'll be updating this sometime over the next week and will put the finished version up online then. (Want to make some of the commands safe and also want to expound on what certificates are/can do as this was of some confusion to folks on the night). Brat. Hi peoples. I have available an updated PDF file on the talk I gave which I will send to whomever volunteers to place this on the wiki. Send an email to me off-list. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: List of 35 Free and Open Source Linux and Unix distributions
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets CLUGgers, Here's the list of some 35 Free and Open Source Linux and Unix distributions available to members at our meeting venue. Do please use this resource - if you don't use it, you'll lose it. http://berty.dyndns.org/NN_Images.txt Many thanks to the traffic volume donors. You know who you are. If somebody would be kind enough to upload this text file to the CLUG Wiki I would be very grateful. E OE If you find an error or have a suggestion as to content please let me know. Have thrown this up just now. (Hasty edit so if someone wishes to tidy this that would be grand. I may look at what's available on the Wiki to make the content more presentable when I get a free moment). Concentrating on getting Dansguardian configured at present; an excellent program if you have young children who want to get on the internet. Can't speak highly enough of this. After that (son's birthday is this Saturday and an internet-connected computer is the major present), I really should tidy up that Apache presentation and push that up to the wiki. :-) I'll have a look at home; I've got GoodCopy/Bad Copy, a couple of other Videos and numerous other oddball distros (Sabayon at least) to throw on the end of that list somewhere on my NAS box... Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Good article for people who like Innovation in Software to read
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070919214307459 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070919214307459 Cheers, Brat.
Re: OT: Anyone know of web-based task management software that can escalate missed tasks via email?
Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: A friend wants this for his business. I'd like to find a FOSS version if possible but anything that will do the job will be acceptable. :-) Can you expand just a little on what you mean by task management. Have a look at Eventum. Has a web interface, but can also be operated mostly by email. It can be set to send out various alerts by email. Its more oriented towards software support. http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Maybe over the top for your needs. I have had it installed here in the past, now we have it hosted elsewhere another one to look at is http://www.dotproject.net/ , again maybe OTT for what you want. BTW these are both LAMP app examples (as mentioned/requested in another thread) -- Eliot Thanks for all the suggestions. Decided it would be easier to just write what I want myself. :-) Brat.
Re: apache talk presentation
Christopher Sawtell wrote: ( Brett used my ThinkPad for the presentation. ) http://berty.dyndns.org/Apache Configuration.pdf I'm posting because I know Brett is currently overwhelmed by other matters On 9/14/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brett, I'd really like to get hold of a copy of the presentation you gave this week, I'm keen to make use of a lot of the material you talked about. Cheers, Roger I'll be updating this sometime over the next week and will put the finished version up online then. (Want to make some of the commands safe and also want to expound on what certificates are/can do as this was of some confusion to folks on the night). Brat.
The demise of public/private key encryption gets closer...
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/09/how-quantum-computer-factorises-numbers.html -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
OT: Anyone know of web-based task management software that can escalate missed tasks via email?
A friend wants this for his business. I'd like to find a FOSS version if possible but anything that will do the job will be acceptable. :-)
Re: OT: Anyone know of web-based task management software that can escalate missed tasks via email?
Don Gould wrote: How hard would it be to automate a cron job to review all the tasks in the database every 10 minutes and send out an email? Do you really need to be looking for the best FOSS task management software and then consider how to mod it to your requirement? I've never used a web based solution in anger, but I thought this was an interesting thread, not sure why you think it's OT. If you find something FOSS you like and would like some help adding automated emails, then yell out, not sure how much I can offer, but I'd like to help. Cheers Don It appears there is nothing out there that can do this so I'm going to have to grab an open-source app and tweak it somewhat. Nothing is hard, Don, except that, without actually trying some of these packages, I have no idea of whether the data in the database will be stored in such a way as to make such a review possible. And while that only increases the difficulty somewhat, I really can't be bothered trying to wrangle with bad code. Most task-management software I've looked at today seems to assume that tasks are a daily affair and the time of day is of no importance. As that is a fundamental difference compared to the software I require, it may be easier to write from scratch, rather than try and bend ill-fitting code to my dastardly purposes. I don't want to install/support a full project-management solution yet it appears that these sorts of apps are the only ones that include time of day information. Blah. Will download and take a look at some of the more complicated task managers and see if the code is well-formed enough to easily tweak. Cheers, Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Next LAMP talk in November : Discussion on topics people would like to look at.
snipping out all bar the essentials DonGould Can you show us how to use Open Office Base as the database for a php site? ChristopherSawtell Are you able to compare MysSQL with the other SQL driven databases? I will cover the various MAJOR database options one could use to connect with Apache/PHP and why you would choose one over the other. As such, OpenOfficeBase, as good as it is for a standalone office-type database system, will be shown as being an inferior choice for a web-based backend. DonGouldHow much resource do I need to run LAMP for xxx? No. There are too many xxx applications out there for this to be useful and, as resource depends on usage, too many variables to make this meaningful even if we did concentrate on a few apps. DonGouldWhat do you do to make tune it so it runs quickly? Tips and tricks to making the first page display fast? I could cover some basic tuning however this is more likely to be a constraint of the xxx app you use rather than something inherent in the system itself. If you hand-code there are LOTS of optimisations one could implement but these would be, by their nature, outside of a generic talk on performance. DonGouldWhy would I want to run LAMP on Windows? What are the differences between windows and linux installs - this would be useful and interesting to know because ppl make their apps on their Windows laptop and then deploy to their isp. Are people going to come unstuck? Hehe. You COULD run LAMP on windows. However, as Lamp stands for Linux-Apache-Mysql-Php, you would need virtualisation software in order for this to work. :-) Now, you CAN run Apache on Windows but you would be better served with IIS as Apache's abilities are somewhat constrained due to Windows, itself. Hmm, covering those differences could be useful, I guess. SteveHoldawayHow about certificates, ssl, and the like? I was feeling a bit light-headed last night ( joke - extraction time ): ) so missed what was covered. I did cover this in brief and will be altering the slides a little, based on some feedback from Volker on the night. (Why they're not on the wiki yet). SteveHoldaway Also, covering how to secure your server now it's published on the internet may be a good idea too (: I covered basic authentication but yes, I am planning on give more depth on this in the talk in November. It's VERY important! I threw that presentation together in a hurry, and as such, am interested in what I missed, so it will be more polished, next time. I will endeavour to flesh out some more on certificates in general, since these are poorly understood in general, and will alter some commands so they will be more safe on the slides before I present them on the wiki. This will not happen until next week as my son's musical is on tonight, I have a networking case study and exam studies to undertake for a test on Monday (which I have barely looked at so far), and my wife's parents arrive unto the country for an extended stay with us on Monday morning. :-) Chairs, Brett.
Re: PPC Live CD
He won't be able to build gcc if he has a vanilla OS-X installation. However, go here young man... http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/compiler/ and http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html These will provide basic Apple cc tools which will then let you compile gcc. (what the over-bloated Xcode is based on, anyway). Note the following : This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The cctools-590.36 package referenced from http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html will not work on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0). Have fun! Brat. Steve Holdoway wrote: Alternatively, download the relevant version of gcc - from gcc.gnu.org if all else fails? Steve PS. Ne hijaquez pas. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:23:41 +1200 Jamie McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have recently become frustrated with Macs for programming on. I do programming in school for ICT, and I refuse to download nearly a gig of software just to get Apple's Xcode. All I wanted was to compile a bit of C! Installing Linux is not an option; the teacher is a big Mac fanboy. SOo.. I need a Live CD that I can boot into, hopefully with some basic development tools included, and save my source code to a USB key to work on again. Can anyone reccommend a suitable distro that runs on PPC? -- Jamie McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Anyone know how to extract Teletext info via a MythTV box?
Seems like it should be possible... Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Tech bookstore in Chch?
Stein Magne Bjorklund wrote: Hi As new citizen of Christcurch I was looking for programming, and tech-stuff books in the varies bookstore I happened to sumbeleupon. Little - none books did I find. Is there an special bookstore (Not the XX-rated) in Christchurch that I have not found, or are you all ordering on line? -- SMB I tend to use safari.oreilly.com now as I got tired of buying books that went out of date faster than I could read them. :-) Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Tech bookstore in Chch?
Christopher Sawtell wrote: I tend to use safari.oreilly.com now as I got tired of buying books that went out of date faster than I could read them. :-) And if you get yourself a library card and a PIN number you can access a fairly large subset of the safari bookshelf over the WWW for free. True. However, I find that when I want to know something I want to know it right then. I also want to know about the version of the software I'm trying to get working; not one a few versions back. I quite often find that in pursuing a particular avenue I need to learn something about a related system; something extremely easy to call up on Safari. And, perhaps the most important reason, I've convinced my employer to pay for a subscription. :-) Brat.
Re: annoying sound
Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds. This makes listening to music impossible. Can anyone think of a way of tracking down it's source? Cheers, Zane I am assuming that you've stopped playing the music and confirmed that it is your computer making the sound rather than a portend of an expensive plumbing bill? ;-)
Re: annoying sound
Zane Gilmore wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2007 2:27 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds. This makes listening to music impossible. Can anyone think of a way of tracking down it's source? Cheers, Zane what are you listening on? computer? ipod/mp3 player? you have the band in your office? Assuming computer, does it make the same sound using different player software? Yes on my desktop computer running Kubuntu and some very hungry scripts. As it turned out one of the scripts I had written to do some DB manipulation finished what it was doing then the dripping tap stopped. My script was using all of the CPU it could get it hands on and was using hundreds of megs of RAM. When it finished so did the dripping tap... spooky The script had nothing to do with the sound system it was just a Python script. I don't have much of a clue what the hell it could have been... maybe some sort of resource alert? It was very irritating Zane Was your script doing lots of context switches or interrupts?
Re: == Upcoming Meeting Subjects ==
Christopher Sawtell wrote: So that folks can plan ahead I here is the current schedule:- 14th. August 2007 - Social cum fixups evening. ( If somebody has something dear to their hearts on which ) ( they would like to expound I'd like to hear from them ) 11th. September 2007 - Brett Davidson -- Installing and configuring the Apache Web server. Part One. 9th. October 2007 - Caleb Sawtell-- Blender3D modeller demonstration. 13th. November 2007 - So far it appears there is reason enough for me to present part 2 of Installing and configuring the Apache Web Server. Comments? 11th December 2007- Social Evening at $(HOSTELRY_OF_CHOICE) 8th January 2008- No meeting 12th February 2008 - Julia and Yuri de Groot -- Why we use Linux. ( Essentially an outreach program for new members ) ( If anybody else would like to talk on their favourite GUI application then please advise me. ) Brat.
Re: == Upcoming Meeting Subjects ==
Doesn't matter to me. The attendees might welcome the break! :-) Brat. Christopher Sawtell wrote: If you'd like it, we'd be happy to swap you and Caleb so you could have consecutive meetings. On 7/13/07, Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: So that folks can plan ahead, here is the current schedule:- 14th. August 2007 - Social cum fixups evening. ( If somebody has something dear to their hearts on which ) ( they would like to expound I'd like to hear from them ) 11th. September 2007 - Brett Davidson -- Installing and configuring the Apache Web server. Part One. 9th. October 2007 - Caleb Sawtell-- Blender3D modeller demonstration. 13th. November 2007 - So far it appears there is reason enough for me to present part 2 of Installing and configuring the Apache Web Server. Comments? 11th December 2007- Social Evening at $(HOSTELRY_OF_CHOICE) 8th January 2008- No meeting 12th February 2008 - Julia and Yuri de Groot -- Why we use Linux. ( Essentially an outreach program for new members ) ( If anybody else would like to talk on their favourite GUI application then please advise me. ) Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: realtime bus timetable information on Linux
You mean apart from the instructions given? ;-) Obtain your stop number from the sign at the bus stop, or use your computer to obtain the stop number from the Metro Christchurch web site (http://metroinfo.org.nz). Enter the bus stop number on the Select Bus Stop page and view the estimated bus arrival times, which are calculated from the current bus locations. Bookmark any Estimated Arrivals page to speed up future access. Nick Rout wrote: Fantastic. Is there a list or reference to bus stop numbers online. If I am sitting in my office I don't want to go down to the bus stop to look at the number... On Fri, July 13, 2007 9:34 am, Carl Cerecke wrote: Hi, This relates to the discussion in May regarding the inability of Linux (and often Windows) to work with the SVG-based realtime bus timetable information on the metroinfo.org.nz website. For individual bus stops, if you know the 5-digit bus stop number, you can use: http://rtt.metroinfo.org.nz/RTT/Public/Mobile/PlatformET.aspx?PlatformNumber=37347 for bus stop 37347 (City Exchange platform D). Most bus stops have a white sign with the 5 digit number busstop id in black. Cheers, Carl. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: For my sins, I'm going to give a little chat on configuring Apacheinthe near future...
Hehe. mod_rewrite is a topic in and of itself... and pointless without a good working knowledge of regular expression handling. Yes. I'm sure I could fill up the talk with outlining just the location and permissions of Apache Configuration files. It also doesn't help that the conf directories (and their contents) change markedly between different versions of Apache (let alone different distros) either. :-( If you think it worth it, I could split the talk into two; a basic Apache configuration chat and a then more complete chat outlining integration with MySQL/PHP/Ruby/etc. That would then permit time for the comments to/from the audience that always happen when one presents only their own preferred methods to do something. :-) It seems that SSL/Certificates (a whole new level in which to get things wrong) and reverse-proxies would be topics worth dicscussing. Would a split like this be more useful to people? Brett. John Carter wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Brett Davidson wrote: Please bear in mind that there is a limit to how much depth one can go into in a single night and that I am not the complete repository of all Apache knowledge so I'm trying to get some feedback on what you guys/gals want to know! I'll admit the bit of the Apache config manual's that made most sense to me is the quotes in the mod_rewrite manual... http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/ ``The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.'' -- Brian Behlendorf Apache Group `` Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo.'' -- Brian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been configuring Apache since some of the earliest versions... And with each new version of each new distro I'm impressed by the number of new ways and the number of new levels that things can get screwed up Just talking about the orthogonal levels at which things can get screwed up... * Cabling Connectors * Hardware * IP and Routing * firewall * Network startup * Server startups * File system mounts, directory and file permissions (from the perspective of the httpd user). * Apache config * Apache config directory permissions. * Apache client allow deny permissions. * Dbase access authentication (username/password client/host). * Dbase itself * Cgi scripts going screwy. * ... All doable and I've done it many times I'm just always impressed at how many different levels it can go cockeye. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: For my sins, I'm going to give a little chat on configuring Apacheinthe near future...
You want to cover the gentoo stuff? I know nothing of gentoo and don't want to show any more ignorance than I already possess. And I'm lazy and can't be bothered to research it. :-) Nick Rout wrote: The split sounds sensible. You could fill a talk with the different places that different distros (and different versions of different distros) put the config files, the docroot and so on. Worthy of investigation is gentoo's system of handling virtual hosts, with a defined set of commands applicable to any web based suite, to automatically install to various virtual host situations. On Thu, July 12, 2007 11:07 am, Brett Davidson wrote: Hehe. mod_rewrite is a topic in and of itself... and pointless without a good working knowledge of regular expression handling. Yes. I'm sure I could fill up the talk with outlining just the location and permissions of Apache Configuration files. It also doesn't help that the conf directories (and their contents) change markedly between different versions of Apache (let alone different distros) either. :-( If you think it worth it, I could split the talk into two; a basic Apache configuration chat and a then more complete chat outlining integration with MySQL/PHP/Ruby/etc. That would then permit time for the comments to/from the audience that always happen when one presents only their own preferred methods to do something. :-) It seems that SSL/Certificates (a whole new level in which to get things wrong) and reverse-proxies would be topics worth dicscussing. Would a split like this be more useful to people? Brett. John Carter wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Brett Davidson wrote: Please bear in mind that there is a limit to how much depth one can go into in a single night and that I am not the complete repository of all Apache knowledge so I'm trying to get some feedback on what you guys/gals want to know! I'll admit the bit of the Apache config manual's that made most sense to me is the quotes in the mod_rewrite manual... http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/ ``The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.'' -- Brian Behlendorf Apache Group `` Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo.'' -- Brian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been configuring Apache since some of the earliest versions... And with each new version of each new distro I'm impressed by the number of new ways and the number of new levels that things can get screwed up Just talking about the orthogonal levels at which things can get screwed up... * Cabling Connectors * Hardware * IP and Routing * firewall * Network startup * Server startups * File system mounts, directory and file permissions (from the perspective of the httpd user). * Apache config * Apache config directory permissions. * Apache client allow deny permissions. * Dbase access authentication (username/password client/host). * Dbase itself * Cgi scripts going screwy. * ... All doable and I've done it many times I'm just always impressed at how many different levels it can go cockeye. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
For my sins, I'm going to give a little chat on configuring Apache in the near future...
What do people want to hear about the beast? After Zane's talk last night, I was thinking along the lines of a generic LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-Php) configuration so I'd be discussing : - The pros and cons of getting PHP on top of Apache via mod_php, suexec and phpexec. - A generic chat on securing Apache in relation to the above methods. This may involve a brief discussion on the differences you may find between hosting your own webserver and using shared-hosting, if anyone would find that useful. - Would there be any call for discussing SSL installations and/or certificates in general? - Any other questions/answers, etc, such as configuring Virtual hosts, or other such topics? Please bear in mind that there is a limit to how much depth one can go into in a single night and that I am not the complete repository of all Apache knowledge so I'm trying to get some feedback on what you guys/gals want to know! Brett.
Re: For my sins, I'm going to give a little chat on configuring Apache in the near future...
Brett Davidson wrote: What do people want to hear about the beast? After Zane's talk last night, I was thinking along the lines of a generic LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-Php) configuration so I'd be discussing : - The pros and cons of getting PHP on top of Apache via mod_php, suexec and phpexec. - A generic chat on securing Apache in relation to the above methods. This may involve a brief discussion on the differences you may find between hosting your own webserver and using shared-hosting, if anyone would find that useful. - Would there be any call for discussing SSL installations and/or certificates in general? - Any other questions/answers, etc, such as configuring Virtual hosts, or other such topics? Please bear in mind that there is a limit to how much depth one can go into in a single night and that I am not the complete repository of all Apache knowledge so I'm trying to get some feedback on what you guys/gals want to know! Brett. I've had one person's feedback indicating an interest in SSL and Virtual Hosts. The topic of Apache based reverse proxies was also raised - any interest in this? (Squid we'll leave for another day, eh?). Brett.
Re: For my sins, I'm going to give a little chat on configuring Apache in the near future...
Roy Britten wrote: Hi Brett, On 11/07/07, Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people want to hear about the beast? - Any other questions/answers, etc, such as configuring Virtual hosts, or other such topics? A brief coverage of the difference between 1.x and Apache 2, and migrating from one to the other, would be useful for me. Cheers, Roy. Having done that some time ago I can comment on it - anyone else find that a useful topic? Brett.
Re: Anyone going to the Caledonian?
Zane Gilmore wrote: I am considering going to the Caledonian before the meeting but if no-one else is I'll just eat a burger in the car Is there anyone else going there tonight? I'll be there... -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: new recipient address?
Filter on the Reply-To field. ALWAYS works.
Brat.
Chris AKA personthingy wrote:
I think i'd be less confused if i saw an unexpected vogon constructor fleet.
Quite simply, i look at the script below and think, What The Photon is that?
I'm a computer user, not a programmer.
If you don't mind i'll hang the basic rule, and do what almost always works
for me, that being filtering on to in this case.
Out of KMails filter options, to seemed to be the most consistent in this
case, apart from when things got tweaked/upgraded recently, but even so, that
was just 10(?) messages that flew into my inbox out of several thousand, so
i'll consider that a good enough strike rate not to write off to filtering
yet.
For the record, i usually filter on from and drop frequent emailers messages
into designated folders, leaving the inbox for messages that are unexpected,
BCC addressed, or one offs.
I only use to in this case, because it's a list that has ever varying
senders and subjects, but has (had) a 100% constant recipient.
:)
On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:20, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Is this a permanent change, and do i therefore need to change my filter
settings or no?
My procmail filter coped just fine. The basic rule is: *never* filter on
To:, simply because it doesn't work. If your filter is intelligent and
examines both to: and cc: when the sender uses cc: to you, you're lucky,
but it'll never work if the sender uses bcc:.
Here's my procmail snippet:
# CLUG
:0
* ^Comments: University of Canterbury Linux Users
* 1^0 ^TOlinux-users@(|(it|its|cantva|csc).)canterbury.ac.nz
* 1^0 ^List-Subscribe:
*mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* -0^0 .
{
# PLONKers
#:0
#* ^From:.* [...]
#/dev/null
# save what's left
:0:
$THISLISTS/Linux-users-Chch-List
}
Oops so I am filtering on to:, but it's an alternative. The only other
headers
one can filter on are comment: and list-subscribe:. Before someone
points out that there is list-unsubscribe: too, that's not going to be
any more stable than list-subscribe.
Volker
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Re: Out of network ports - what to do?
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:47:12 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 1:14 pm, David Kirk wrote: Robert's point about only being able to daisy chain up to 2 switches is incorrect. No I said 3 (three) but I cannot find documentation to back up what I had thought. Our network has at least 10 switches all linked together with redundant links. I think the following is OK.. P SSwitch2Switch3 R W---Switch4Switch5 IISwitch6Switch7 M T---Switch8Switch9 A C---Switch10--Switch11 R H---Switch12--Switch13 Y but not S---Sw2--Sw3-Sw5Sw6--Sw7Sw8--Sw9-Sw10 W---Switch4 I T C H Happy to be corrected though as it could make life easier at times. Where is Michael Moffat? (He works at Allied Tellyson) Rob I think you're confusing best practices with actually supported. Obviously the available bandwidth plummets with each switch, but networking limits revolve around cable, not equipment ( eg max cat 5 run = 100m - but you can run 200m if there's a switch in the middle, etc ) to the best of my knowledge. Steve Steve Yup. The next limit after that comes from the infamous 543 rule. You can have 5 segments of cable seperated by 4 pieces of equipment of which ONLY 3 segments are allowed to have other devices (that is, other than the interconnecting segment devices) on them. The reason for all of this is, as Steve says, cable-related. The total maximum length of cable must allow a packet to make a complete round trip of the entire network within the lifetime of that packet else network collisions can't be detected. (Yup, even in the days of switches, we're still constrained by collisions). Brat. -- -- -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9511 -- // domain names / email hosting / web hosting // our reputation for reliability precedes us
Re: Out of network ports - what to do?
Brett Davidson wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:47:12 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 1:14 pm, David Kirk wrote: Robert's point about only being able to daisy chain up to 2 switches is incorrect. No I said 3 (three) but I cannot find documentation to back up what I had thought. Our network has at least 10 switches all linked together with redundant links. I think the following is OK.. P SSwitch2Switch3 R W---Switch4Switch5 IISwitch6Switch7 M T---Switch8Switch9 A C---Switch10--Switch11 R H---Switch12--Switch13 Y but not S---Sw2--Sw3-Sw5Sw6--Sw7Sw8--Sw9-Sw10 W---Switch4 I T C H Happy to be corrected though as it could make life easier at times. Where is Michael Moffat? (He works at Allied Tellyson) Rob I think you're confusing best practices with actually supported. Obviously the available bandwidth plummets with each switch, but networking limits revolve around cable, not equipment ( eg max cat 5 run = 100m - but you can run 200m if there's a switch in the middle, etc ) to the best of my knowledge. Steve Steve Yup. The next limit after that comes from the infamous 543 rule. You can have 5 segments of cable seperated by 4 pieces of equipment of which ONLY 3 segments are allowed to have other devices (that is, other than the interconnecting segment devices) on them. The reason for all of this is, as Steve says, cable-related. The total maximum length of cable must allow a packet to make a complete round trip of the entire network within the lifetime of that packet else network collisions can't be detected. (Yup, even in the days of switches, we're still constrained by collisions). Brat. A diagram... Switch Switch ---Switch Switch ||| | | | P P P P P P C C C C CC This is good. Switch Switch ---Switch Switch || | | | | P P P P P P C C C C CC So is this. Any combination that breaks the rules is not HOWEVER you can get around this if you are using shorter lengths of cable. (This rule was devised for the maximum permissable cable lengths of 100m. (including patch leads). Cheers, Brat. -- -- -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9511 -- // domain names / email hosting / web hosting // our reputation for reliability precedes us
Re: Favourite online C resources
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm sure that this question has been posted previously, but I reckon it's safe to assume that the answer will not be perennially the same. I want to check out some C programming resources, but I do not necessarily want to learn how to programme. I'd like to be able to look at source code from time to time and have some clue of what it's about (and hack it). So, I don't really want to buy a book, I thought that there must be some decent online resources / tutorials that people on this list have found useful (and would recommend). I've got a fairly handy bash / TCL / PHP knowledge and done a little Python, so I'm not starting from scratch. I could probably foobar my way through a job interview. TIA, Michael. I learnt C from a very splendid chap called Christopher Sawtell whilst he still had Gerty...he put the resultant notes up on the web somewhere... Ah - here they are... http://www.fi.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/OTHER/newzealand.html Cheers, Brett. -- -- -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9511 -- // domain names / email hosting / web hosting // our reputation for reliability precedes us
Re: PFSense
Mike Pearce wrote: Anyone had experience setting PFSense up with multipule networks? Had an hour spare to have a play and have a box up and running with 5 networks cards. 1 to WAN 4 x LAN 3 for the people I share the connection with. 1 for a wireless Router Currently looks like I can only set up one LAN. Mike You can only set up one LAN connection as labelled. However you can have as many Optional interfaces as you have network cards and these can be firewalled however you want. I have a setup at home running with the equivalent of three LANS and a WAN plus a DMZ for my webserver. Cheers, Brat.
RE: online photo storage sites
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Mayes Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 10:50 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT: online photo storage sites Does anyone know of an online photo storage site that would allow an upload of 300 pics at once? i have used photobucket in a limited way, but to upload in bulk you have to use their special browser i.e. not linux based (ooh, back on topic!) I have these photos I took at a recent family wedding and would like the rest of the family to have access to see if they want me to send them some full size versions. I used gThumb to rename and resize them all to something a little larger than thumb nails and am ready to go! Kerry. I host my own for this reason. I use Gallery Version 2 software which also allows me to create multilingual comments. Brat.
RE: Obsolete chips
-Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 3:12 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT: Obsolete chips Hello, Very much OT, but does anyone have any 8251 USART chips from the 80s? New or pulled would be fine I think. I'm looking for one, ideally two. Thanks in advance, Andrew You want me to canabalise a perfectly working XT? ;-) Brat
RE: Obsolete chips
-Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 4:14 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Obsolete chips You want me to canabalise a perfectly working XT? ;-) No, but you could take apart a *broken* XT. Um, that you own. =;^) A Sorry Andrew, but I don't own any broken gear! :-) I might possibly have an old serial card lying around however...will check when I get home.
RE: Obsolete chips
-Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 4:25 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Obsolete chips On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:21, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 4:14 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Obsolete chips You want me to canabalise a perfectly working XT? ;-) No, but you could take apart a *broken* XT. Um, that you own. =;^) A Sorry Andrew, but I don't own any broken gear! :-) I might possibly have an old serial card lying around however...will check when I get home. What sort of geek are you? I have a ton of broken gear that, er, is, um, bound to come in useful sometime (can't find any 8251s though). Anyway, thanks for looking. You are looking for 8251 8251A 82C51 etc. Thanks, A I'm a geek that fixes any broken gear he might have. Hence no broken gear. However, I'm also a hoarder so I keep parts that MAY be useful in the future - like old ISA serial cards. :-) I'm aware of what you want; having used the same many moons ago in similar projects. Brat.
RE: Real-Time 'bus timetable
Adobe SVG support works well using Firefox under FreeBSD - have not tried it on other browser/OS combinations. There is no source of course (it IS an Adobe product afterall) so you have your choice of a Linux 7.1 binary (if you download it from their site) or whatever libsvg and app support your particular flavour of Linux supports. I am about to install Mepis for my other half so will let you know if that works after the weekend. -- -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9511 -- // domain names / email hosting / web hosting // our reputation for reliability precedes us -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2007 3:25 p.m. To: CLUG mailing list Subject: Real-Time 'bus timetable Greets CLOGgers. Has anybody got the realtime 'bus times thingie at:- http://www.metroinfo.org.nz/realtime_map.html to work using one of our browsers? TIA -- CS
OT: Looking at hiring helpdesk staff
We're looking at hiring an additional helpdesk person for our Web-hosting company. Good phone manner and English writing skills required. Would be good if person understood DNS but this can be taught to the right person. Both Unix (Linux and/or FreeBSD) and Windows skills would also be great. Would ideally suit a person already working in an ISP helpdesk who wants more variety and challenge. If you know of any people starting out in the industry that would suit this role please get them to email an application to : Lee Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Brett.
Anyone setup postfix in a clustered environment?
If so, I'd be interested to hear of your experiences before I head down that path... Cheers, Brett.
RE: OT - printer to give away
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2007 9:35 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT - printer to give away On Tue, March 20, 2007 8:50 am, Roger Searle wrote: However the total cost of ownership will not be zero. Kyocera FS1900. Usually prints with the grey smears indicative of the worn drum which needs to be replaced, cost is around $600 +GST. Aside from that it functions perfectly and been properly maintained. Has second paper tray, duplex unit, USB/parallel/network connections, I have the driver/utility disks - the manuals are hiding from me right now but are somewhere. Originally cost us around $2,000 with all the extras, is no low end printer. We got 75,000 pages out of it (then got a big photocopier/printer/scanner/coffeemaker thing) so drum cost adds just under a cent a sheet. Looks like this (imagine the extra paper tray and duplex unit which sit underneath making it taller by about another 50%): http://www.amatteroffax.com/itempagey_INVID_706738_d_FS-1900.htm http://ca.kyoceramita.com/KMCAGlobalpub/jsp/Kyocera/products_printers_de tails.jsp?pid=5043 Will give it to a community group or under resourced organisation, if you support one who may be interested please contact me off list with a sentence or 2 about them. Sorry, I can tell you zero about linux compatability. Cheers, Roger www.linuxprinting.org has a pretty good database of what works and what doesn't. In this case: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Kyocera-FS-1900 It does seem to work if it is a FS-1900. However one of the pages you pointed to is for an FS-19000 (note the extra 0). Also the linuxprinting page says Very low per-page expenses due to the permanent photo-conductor drum. Only consumables are toner and paper. Whereas you say it needs a drum. Nick the confused, but who has too many printers himself! -- Nick Rout Ah - that would be the permanent, as in we didn't design it to be easily replaced, permanent drum.
RE: sabayon 3.3
What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett.
RE: sabayon 3.3
Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett. Eye candy mainly. It was originally built on gentoo, but I think it's strayed somewhat. Whether that's a good thing is more flamewar fodder (: Steve Ah - bummer - guess I'll have to look into that straying aspect later to get more of an idea... What Eye candy does it have that you can't add yourself? Brat.
Mediaserver was RE: sabayon 3.3
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett. Its a precompiled gentoo system with good support for the latest X frills like AIGLX, Beryl etc. It is installable to the hard drive, you may or may not like the theme, its all orange and black. It is runnable as a live dvd if you want to try it out. Advantages: all the support etc of gentoo. All the flexibility of gentoo. Precompiled for quick install. Lots of apps. Disadvantages: all the flexibility of gentoo. -- Nick Rout LOL! OK - I understand now! I might give it a whirl in May when I get back from holiday. (Two weeks to go!) I want an eyecandy distro for my next home project of a home media server. The box needs to be quiet as it'll be in the lounge. Haven't decided yet if I make that box the media server itself or have it as a front-end connecting to a mediaserver box sitting in the computer room. The main constraint is that She who must be obeyed's fashion sense dictates that the lounge box be pretty or else hidden behind the TV so I will need a wireless controller of some sort. I could make one (would need to be rf) but it would be easier to use an existing controller - evan a game one would suffice if it looked good enough. (Wife Constraint again). Wife likes the idea of a Mac-mini for looks and ease (also comes with a wireless controller) but the inbuilt software only plays proprietary media. No RAID either so this could only be a front end. VLC (runs on almost any OS and plays almost anything) is not pretty but works well. MediaPortal is pretty for an O/S solution but only works on MS-Windows OS's. :-( Works with almost any form of RF controller though, including game ones. Tversity requires an additional front-end to be useful and appears to be optimised for embedded front-end systems. The Unreal Server is somewhat limited in abilities. Firefly is a bit too immature as yet. Anyone else got some options/ideas? Brett.
RE: LAST NIGHTS MEETING
I could host it. I have bandwidth (and disk) to spare at present. I'd want to organise a subdomain off mine that it could live on but otherwise that's fine by me. Brett. -- -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9511 -- // domain names / email hosting / web hosting // our reputation for reliability precedes us -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheetham Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 8:51 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING I have an audio transcript of the evening with which I should do something - a pod cast or similar ? or just an mp3 ? what would be most consumable by the masses ? Well, an Ogg format would be ideal for our pursuit of Open Standards of course. Failing that, an mp3 file (probably with a very low bitrate; I doubt the raw source is of studio quality) might be nice. People with bandwidth limits might want to comment about hosting it, though - the wiki particularly wouldn't be keen on seeing 100+ downloads of a 30MB file ... Are there any audio hosting services like YouTube out there? -jim
RE: Alcatel Speedtouch Pro (ADSL Router)
That's called bridging. Works very well. If only I could get my cable modem to operate that way - have you tried, Volker? Brett. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 March 2007 3:56 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Alcatel Speedtouch Pro (ADSL Router) On Mon, March 12, 2007 3:43 pm, Kerry Mayes wrote: On 12/03/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have one some where... Yes, i got this out of the box at the bottom of the cupboard with all those odd bits and pieces! It was probably $500 when I originally bought it. you'd need to operate in half bridge mode I think... thou not sure if the router does that. I don't know what you mean by half-bridge mode? Though, I'm confused, what are you trying to do exactly? You want the live IP on your machine? I think I understand the question (!) yes, I want it to act as an ADSL modem and have the live IP available to the firewall (PFSense, I'm hoping). I ran one of these like that until, oh, September last year. I used ipcop and set the pptp setup from that. I don't remember all the details, it just went like that for years. Just thinking as I type, I think the Home is the device that I had, and the one you have needed some tweaking for it to work like the Home, or something like that. I'll see if I can find some notes somewhere. -- Nick Rout
RE: Microsoft's dirty tricks archive
Hell - maybe I should host it... :-) Brat. I'll take a look at it tonight... :-) -Original Message- From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 12:23 p.m. To: Canterbury Linux Users Group Subject: Microsoft's dirty tricks archive I noticed this on The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/microsoft_archive_goes_torrent/ Is anyone in CLUG downloading it, for archival purposes? (It would be nice if the U of C would put it on the ftp servers, but we must be serious ... it would only aid quality research into matters such as anti-competition law, IPR, research and development, etc ... and run the risk of embarrassing Microsoft. Quality research versus embarrassing a potential sugar daddy ... let's toss a coin, shall we? ;) Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: internet use
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Christopher D Maher wrote: Hi, I'm so curious as to what suscribers to this list use the internet for. Personally I read news (saves buying newspapers), reading IT geeky stuff, downloading a bit of music and communication through email/IM. Also banking and remnants of business. Any other ideas? All that plus: emerging programs, I like being on the bleeding edge. getting interesting and informative TV programs ( TVNZ has long since forgotton the meaning of either 'interesting or informative' ) I'm also on about half a dozen e-mail lists. All of the above plus being able to work from home at a reasonable speed; video conferencing with family, travel planning, etc... Brat.
RE: Ubuntu Acroread Tip for the Day
Adobe has sucked big time since V7.0.5. No matter the platform. Brat. -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 2:47 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Ubuntu Acroread Tip for the Day Adobe Acroread 7.0.8 is buggy. It sits there chewing up 100% CPU. The obvious solution is to upgrade to Acroreader 7.0.9 except. It doesn't work! If you run the browser plugin the browser locks up. if you run it from the command line it emits and endless stream of... expr: syntax error Solution: su cd /tmp wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch cd /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin patch -b /tmp/acroread.patch John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
RE: Remotely on topic....
-Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 16 February 2007 11:27 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Remotely on topic On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:19:32 +1300 (NZDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a place that is completely wrong, about 2 blocks out. (wunderbar in Lyttelton) - is there a way to move a place? Where did you want to move the Wunderbar to... Guatemala or somewhere further away??? (: Steve 200 metres south? ;-)
