RE: Another old SCSI request
i will dig it out tomorrow and post the details -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawt...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 5:58 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Another old SCSI request Could you tell us about the scanner please? On 3 June 2010 17:53, Maurice Butler likema...@quicksilver.net.nz wrote: Hi, I have got a couple of compaq/hp dlts that's are se, may even be able to find a couple of tapes for them. Also got a scanner that's about 8 years old - never been out of the box in garage if you are interested. Maurice -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:an...@bluewatersys.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 1:12 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Another old SCSI request Hello, A few months ago I asked on this list if anyone had any older SCSI gear. I received some responses and am now sorted on that front. However now I am on the look-out for some older SCSI differential (HVD) equipment. Either a hard disk or a tape drive would be perfect, but failing that I'd accept any HVD device at all. Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me off-list if you do. I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing. Regards, Andre -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
RE: Another old SCSI request
-Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawt...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 5:58 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Another old SCSI request Could you tell us about the scanner please? It is a Mustek Paragon 1200 III SP Plus with PCI scsi card Scan speed 1.5ms/line Scan Area 21.6x29.2 Scan mode colour 36bit internal gray mode 12bit Internal Scan method single pass Resolution 600 X1200 dpi Maurice
RE: Another old SCSI request
Hi, I have got a couple of compaq/hp dlts that's are se, may even be able to find a couple of tapes for them. Also got a scanner that's about 8 years old - never been out of the box in garage if you are interested. Maurice -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:an...@bluewatersys.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 1:12 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Another old SCSI request Hello, A few months ago I asked on this list if anyone had any older SCSI gear. I received some responses and am now sorted on that front. However now I am on the look-out for some older SCSI differential (HVD) equipment. Either a hard disk or a tape drive would be perfect, but failing that I'd accept any HVD device at all. Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me off-list if you do. I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing. Regards, Andre
RE: OT: Laptop power supply
If it is a standard two wire brik one of the same voltage and at least the same amps will be fine. If the wire between the brick and the laptop is the only bit damage a person handy with a soldering iron would be able to sort it for you. After market relacements on trademe are about $90 Maurice -Original Message- From: Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) [mailto:peter.glassenb...@canterbury.ac.nz] Sent: Friday, 28 May 2010 3:46 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: Laptop power supply On 28/05/10 14:31, Roy Britten wrote: The power supply for SWMBO's Compaq Presario laptop has a failure in the low-voltage cord (the one that runs from the brick to the laptop). Molten Media Computer Broker apparently can't supply a replacement. If anyone on list could offer a replacement (for purchase or loan) SWMBO would be overjoyed. Replies best off-list, methinks. You may now return to your on-topic lives. Not sure if we may have one or not... but a reply to on-list as we had an experience that almost went sour... Laptop power unit died. Borrowed another power unit from same brand with same voltage specs..(not same model) I think it worked for the recharge... but when it was returned it failed to charge the original owners laptop. Kept giving errors. It came right after a day. The Hardware experts here said that mixing power blocks between modern laptops is dangerous(for your laptop) in that they have extra circuitry to help the charge the battery. They vary between brands and even within a brand. You should get a replacement for the same MODEL .. not just the same BRAND. Pete (Just passing on warning as was described to me... excuse E OE) -- --- Peter Glassenbury Computer Science department p...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nzUniversity of Canterbury +64 3 3642987 ext 7762New Zealand
RE: cable testing?
Check that you are wiring both ends to the same standard - A or B not one of each - It does pays to check the obvious somes times(says he who spend 2 hours fault finding a blown fuse) Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2010 9:49 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: cable testing? I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them, unsuccessfully at present. Will a cable tester help me? I suspect that each time I put a plug on the end one or more of the wires is in the wrong place, or not quite long enough to make the connection. Coupled with this I am only 90% sure which cable end is which at the switch end (ie the centre of the star), having failed to mark them. Is there some sort of cable tester that can, eg, tell me what wires are right and what are wrong, and which end of the cable is wired wrong? And, heres the hit, can someone in ChCh lend me one? Desperate and frustrated in Linwood. N
RE: cable testing?
Most of the electrical wholesalers stock satelite, audio, network gear now days Maurice -Original Message- From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 8:48 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: cable testing? On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:43 +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Dad (who has been doing this as a living since I was born) says to talk to Shane at Rexel. Yeah, I buy all that sort of stuff off Rexel too. hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware Supplier
RE: Shared access folders in Ubuntu Karmic for Music and the like?
I created a directory in my /home called shared Created a group called localshare Added all the user to this Change the permissions on the /home/shared directory so localshare group had rights Create symbolic links for the users that don't know there away around Learn lots in the process and wonder why they don't do it for you as a matter of course Maurice -Original Message- From: Andrew Sands [mailto:and...@theatrix.org.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:43 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz; nz...@linux.net.nz Subject: Shared access folders in Ubuntu Karmic for Music and the like? Anyone, Even though I do know that drive space is cheap, I'd like to try and implement univerally shared folders for Music, Pictures and Videos on my recently installed Ubuntu Karmic. My search queries via Google only found references to people sharing via samba and not on the local machine. Any pointers to where I could look would be appreciated. regards, Andrew
RE: Volunteer
Try ring around the schools -Original Message- From: Solor Vox [mailto:solor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 29 January 2010 10:37 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Volunteer Hello everyone, Since I've been out of work for a few months, I decided to look for some IT related volunteer opportunities. However, I've spent the better part of a day looking around CHCH. It seems the libraries don't take volunteers, universities have no openings, and the volunteer centre had nothing either. Wouldn't have thought it would be hard to find people looking for help in IT. Just figures as when I'm employed, people are always asking for me to fix things for them on my own time. So does anyone need, or know someone who needs IT help? (some examples below) Still looking for work so my schedule is very open at the moment. Linux (of course) almost all distributions, DOS, Win 3.x-Vista (not used w7 yet thankfully) IT security iptables/snort/nmap/nessus/kismet/pen testing/wireless audits Apache/PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS Samba/LDAP/Bind Hardware desktops/servers/upgrades/repairs/etc. Networking 10Base2, 10BaseT, UTP, Fibre, switches, routers, etc. Some patches to C/C++ code Sysadmin/bash Beta testing (Microsoft [yeah I know everyone is, but I was closed beta tester], Blizzard, and others) Cheers, sV
RE: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
Hi, After spending today testing at work I have suddenly become a fan of LVM that gets around this problem http://linuxbsdos.com/2008/11/11/lvm-configuration-in-ubuntu-810/ All my futher installs (home work) are going to be using LVM including some servers we are setting up Maurice -Original Message- From: ke...@katipo.net.nz [mailto:ke...@katipo.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 2:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:59:09 +1200, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote: steve wrote, On 16/09/09 09:18: Alternatively ( SIMPLEST SOLUTION! ), mounting the spare 9GB as /var or /usr and copying the stuff over may give you enough space... copy, then remove when happy! - you'll need a live CD to do that. Excellent solution - I agree with Steve. Thanks for all your pointers, I think I'll go for the solution below for now, then get a 1T HD soonish Sorry for double posting, my hosting provider was having some issues last night and I assumed my first post got lost in the void. Regards, Kerry
RE: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
LVM achives the fact you create small partions - the size you need at the time of the install, leaving spare space that you can allocate to partions as required. The partions can be formated to what ever your favourate file system. This is a better link as it explains the history and the benfits http://linuxbsdos.com/2008/09/24/the-benefits-of-using-linux-logical-volume- manager/ don't like articles that don't state what they are trying achieve or what LVM does Will bear you point in mind in future Maurice
RE: resizing a full partition
Hi, The linux swap is miles to big. This is what I would do. 1. backup - data etc 2. boot off life cd or usb 3. may need to turn swap off on harddisk if live cd use it (swapoff /dev/sda7) 4. reduce the swap partion(create new partion - 1Gb, delete old partion - miles to big anyway) towards the fat partion and leave the free space towards the /home (could turn swap backon - swapon //dev/sda?) 5. reduce/move(create new partion, copy the data, delete old partion) the home partion towards the swap 6. grow the home partion 7. update /etc/fstab on your orginal installation to reflect new partion numbers if they have changed 8. reboot The alternative is to see how big some of the directories are in the root partion create a partion in the spare space for the biggest directory and relocate that directory there, effectively freeing space in the root partion. Some distros install files for application and updates can grow quite large over a period of time and need the dead wood cleaned out. Have fun Maurice -Original Message- From: Kerry [mailto:ke...@katipo.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 7:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: resizing a full partition Hi all, I've nearly run out of disk space on the root partition of my Kubuntu 9.04 machine. I have around 10G of unallocated space at the end of my drive and I am wondering how I can safely allocate some of this space to root? I've taken a screenshot of the partition on gparted and you can check that our here: http://manukadesign.co.nz/assets/Images/screen_shot_gparted.png I've had a pit of a google but all info seemed to be a few years old Thanks in advance, Kerry
RE: measurement software for electrical networks?
Hi Wesley, Have you tried forcing your modem to a fixed speed like 33k so it is not always trying to auonegiate a faster speed and forgetting to actually transfer data? I tend to do this for my rural friends who are still on dialup - not the sort thing you would expect in the city Maurice -Original Message- From: Wesley Parish [mailto:wes.par...@paradise.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 8:48 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: measurement software for electrical networks? Well, for what it's worth, it's not getting any better; and I have disproved a couple of contentions of the amateurs I've talked to so far at Telecom and Paradise.net.nz - I've used the second jackpoint in the flat, and it's still falling over like a drunk with half a keg of vodka inside of him; and I've just upgraded the PC - and the connection's still falling over like aforementioned drunk. I'm starting to think I deserve broadband purely on the demerits of Telecom's performance, as compensation for Telecom's lack thereof. At any rate, having to open ten tabs of slashdot to guarantee getting even one, is a bit much. And if I have to use a 526k DSL thingee to solve the problems with a dial-up connection - at a measly 5k6 (if I'm lucky) - perhaps the problem isn't with me. On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could use to get hard copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet connection via Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute to a quarter of an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide to start a class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the general public, and having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - when Telecom's lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of punishing people for preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art of punishing them for using Telecom. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
RE: Anyone else in Chch with broadband down?
on xtra adsl in central city and don't seem to be affected. One of the secretaries complained about 9.00 am that the internet wasn't working but it came right almost straight away (so could have been some other problem like xtra's c**p dns service. That's why opendns is so popular
RE: Linux and ModBus
I have writtern modbus driver for in the past(1990s) a Fisher Paykel PSC2, PLC with a serial port. The protocal is very easy with a 16 bit CRC. It is still used by some weather station stuff etc. Snached from automation.com November 2, 2007 - NORTH HILLS, CA - A white paper, titled Using MODBUS for Process Control and Automation, is available for download from Moore Industries. The non-commercial white paper, written by Vince Marchant, a senior application engineer at Moore Industries, describes how Modbus works, and how it can be used in new and legacy process control and automation systems. The white paper can be downloaded directly from: www.miinet.com/whatsnew/articles/Using_MODBUS_for_Process_Control_and_Automa tion.pdf. The white paper explains that MODBUS is the most popular industrial protocol being used today, for good reasons. It is simple, inexpensive, universal and easy to use. Even though MODBUS has been around since the past century - nearly 30 years - almost all major industrial instrumentation and automation equipment vendors continue to support it in new products. Although new analyzers, flowmeters and PLCs may have a wireless, Ethernet or fieldbus interface, MODBUS is still the protocol that most vendors choose to implement in new and old devices. The white paper notes that another advantage of MODBUS is that it can run over virtually all communication media, including twisted pair wires, wireless, fiber optics, Ethernet, telephone modems, cell phones and microwave. This means that a MODBUS connection can be established in a new or existing plant fairly easily. In fact, one growing application for MODBUS is providing digital communications in older plants, using existing twisted pair wiring. Maurice Butler -Original Message- From: yuri [mailto:yur...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 8:59 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Linux and ModBus Does anyone on this list know anything about controlling ModBus relay boards from a linux box?
RE: iptables...
Does anyone have any simple rules out there to enable the following:
eth0 local
eth1 dmz
eth2 internet
all local can see dmz and internet
all dmz can see only internet
Have a look at ipcop's tables - these are from my box - been messed by
addons
Maurice
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: rc.firewall,v 1.7.2.24 2007/11/17 08:12:29 owes Exp $
#
eval $(/usr/local/bin/readhash /var/ipcop/ppp/settings)
eval $(/usr/local/bin/readhash /var/ipcop/ethernet/settings)
if [ -f /var/ipcop/red/iface ]; then
IFACE=`/bin/cat /var/ipcop/red/iface 2 /dev/null | /usr/bin/tr -d
'\012'`
fi
if [ -f /var/ipcop/red/device ]; then
DEVICE=`/bin/cat /var/ipcop/red/device 2 /dev/null | /usr/bin/tr -d
'\012'`
fi
iptables_init() {
# Flush all rules and delete all custom chains
/sbin/iptables -F
/sbin/iptables -t nat -F
/sbin/iptables -t mangle -F
/sbin/iptables -X
/sbin/iptables -t nat -X
/sbin/iptables -t mangle -X
# Set up policies
/sbin/iptables -P INPUT DROP
/sbin/iptables -P FORWARD DROP
/sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
# Empty LOG_DROP and LOG_REJECT chains
/sbin/iptables -N LOG_DROP
/sbin/iptables -A LOG_DROP -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
/sbin/iptables -A LOG_DROP -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -N LOG_REJECT
/sbin/iptables -A LOG_REJECT -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
/sbin/iptables -A LOG_REJECT -j REJECT
# This chain will log, then DROPs packets with certain bad
combinations
# of flags might indicate a port-scan attempt (xmas, null, etc)
/sbin/iptables -N PSCAN
/sbin/iptables -A PSCAN -p tcp -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
--log-prefix TCP Scan?
/sbin/iptables -A PSCAN -p udp -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
--log-prefix UDP Scan?
/sbin/iptables -A PSCAN -p icmp -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
--log-prefix ICMP Scan?
/sbin/iptables -A PSCAN -f -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
--log-prefix FRAG Scan?
/sbin/iptables -A PSCAN -j DROP
# New tcp packets without SYN set - could well be an obscure type of
port scan
# that's not covered above, may just be a broken windows machine
/sbin/iptables -N NEWNOTSYN
/sbin/iptables -A NEWNOTSYN -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG
--log-prefix NEW not SYN?
/sbin/iptables -A NEWNOTSYN -j DROP
# Chain to contain all the rules relating to bad TCP flags
/sbin/iptables -N BADTCP
# Disallow packets frequently used by port-scanners
# nmap xmas
/sbin/iptables -A BADTCP -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL FIN,URG,PSH -j
PSCAN
# Null
/sbin/iptables -A BADTCP -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL NONE -j PSCAN
# FIN
/sbin/iptables -A BADTCP -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL FIN -j PSCAN
# SYN/RST (also catches xmas variants that set SYN+RST+...)
/sbin/iptables -A BADTCP -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN,RST -j PSCAN
# SYN/FIN (QueSO or nmap OS probe)
/sbin/iptables -A BADTCP -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,FIN SYN,FIN -j PSCAN
# NEW TCP without SYN
/sbin/iptables -A BADTCP -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j
NEWNOTSYN
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j BADTCP
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j BADTCP
}
iptables_red() {
/sbin/iptables -F REDINPUT
/sbin/iptables -F REDFORWARD
/sbin/iptables -t nat -F REDNAT
# PPPoE / PPTP Device
if [ $IFACE != ]; then
# PPPoE / PPTP
if [ $DEVICE != ]; then
/sbin/iptables -A REDINPUT -i $DEVICE -j ACCEPT
fi
if [ $RED_TYPE == PPTP -o $RED_TYPE == PPPOE ]; then
if [ $RED_DEV != ]; then
/sbin/iptables -A REDINPUT -i $RED_DEV -j
ACCEPT
fi
fi
fi
# PPTP over DHCP
if [ $DEVICE != -a $TYPE == PPTP -a $METHOD == DHCP ];
then
/sbin/iptables -A REDINPUT -p tcp --source-port 67
--destination-port 68 -i $DEVICE -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A REDINPUT -p udp --source-port 67
--destination-port 68 -i $DEVICE -j ACCEPT
fi
# Orange pinholes
if [ $ORANGE_DEV != ]; then
# This rule enables a host on ORANGE network to connect to
the outside
# (only if we have a red connection)
if [ $IFACE != ]; then
/sbin/iptables -A REDFORWARD -i $ORANGE_DEV -p tcp
-o $IFACE -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A REDFORWARD -i $ORANGE_DEV -p udp
-o $IFACE -j ACCEPT
fi
fi
if [ $IFACE != -a -f /var/ipcop/red/active ]; then
# DHCP
if [ $RED_DEV != -a $RED_TYPE == DHCP ]; then
/sbin/iptables -A
Ubuntu server 8.10 and via processor
hi, This was the plan Hardware EPIA-EK motherboard with 1 Gb VIA Luke CoreFusion Processor, 1 Gb Ram, two network ports, sata, ide, usb, etc 120 Gb hard disk Digium tdp400p Software Ubuntu server 8.10 (because quite a few here use ubuntu, looked like it would meet my requirements) hosting virtual machines with Ipcop, Astrix, lamp Problem installs but does not boot as it comes up with 'kernel requires pae cx8' known issue but not mention in minimum hardware requirements do it persevere with ubuntu or look at something else Maurice Still trying to ween off windows
RE: Ubuntu server 8.10 and via processor
I have a licence for vmware (work supplied for testing and experimenting). I was going to look at options once I got the system to boot and test the hardware ($200 all up on trademe so far). Maurice Butler -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 November 2008 8:05 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Ubuntu server 8.10 and via processor ... you're not trying to use xen are you? tbh you really haven't got enough grunt for virtual servers ): On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:54:42 +1300 Maurice Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, This was the plan Hardware EPIA-EK motherboard with 1 Gb VIA Luke CoreFusion Processor, 1 Gb Ram, two network ports, sata, ide, usb, etc 120 Gb hard disk Digium tdp400p Software Ubuntu server 8.10 (because quite a few here use ubuntu, looked like it would meet my requirements) hosting virtual machines with Ipcop, Astrix, lamp Problem installs but does not boot as it comes up with 'kernel requires pae cx8' known issue but not mention in minimum hardware requirements do it persevere with ubuntu or look at something else Maurice Still trying to ween off windows -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: laptop blanking
What have i missed which is permitting screen blanking TIA Barry Check bios settings - sometimes they over ride other settings Maurice
RE: The Gooey Kbuntu Mess...
-Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:36 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: The Gooey Kbuntu Mess... Don: IMHO FWIW, building a Linux from scratch [1] or a Gentoo system [2] would be a very worthwhile exercise for you to do. [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ [2] http://www.gentoo.org/ It would, I'm sure, be a very educational exercise for all of the rest of us too. :-) -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell Do you really what a not stop commentry for the days it will take don together? Maurice - still lurking - just putting my 2c in
network monitoring SNMP
Hi all, I have started a new job with 100's of computers, switches and routers. I was looking at net-SNMP and MRTG to monitor the switches and routers for traffic and cpu utilisation. Any suggestions of anything else I should evaluate ? Thanks Maurice
RE: OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me!
-Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:05 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me! On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Steve Holdoway wrote: But don't you miss Fortran 2 - computed gotos, no block ifs? I once wrote a little program to number my punched cards in cols 73-80 with the first 4 letters of the function and then a number. I got smacked when the function in question was called analysis... State Machines are the embedded development flavour of the month? year? (god forbid) decade? but are nothing more than multi-threaded tangle of computed goto's with a roll your own scheduler in drag. :-)) Embedded developers have realised it is the way to avoid most of the evils spagetti code and why Control Data Corp has implemeted state machines in hardware AMD2900 microcode for the CDC480(AN/AYK-480) over 20years ago, and I have been using state machines in industrial automation for 20 years. The CDC480 (AN/AYK-480) was the US Navy standard airbourne computer from the mid 70's used in F16 F18 and NZ Orions Maurice
RE: Dick Smiths $34 mp3 players linux music sorters.
For a start www.s1mp3.de/tools.s1fwx.html Most of them have z80 with dsp Have customised my sons with password on boot Maurice -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 1:53 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Dick Smiths $34 mp3 players linux music sorters. So I've bought one of these cheapy $34.XXc 1gb MP3 players from Dick Smiths Note 1. They also play OGGs! Great. Note 2. I don't know whether they is some unicode or whatever in the ID3 Tags of some of the creative commons licensed stuff I download from http://www.jamendo.com... but the name display tends to be a bit screwy for quite a few songs. Note 3. It refuses to play some files saying error file. Curiously enough the madman music sorter also died trying to cope with some of these files. The Ubuntu bug report says it barfs on corrupt ID3 tags. Anyone know of a ID3 tag sanitizer? Note 4. Sometimes the gadget barfs so hard as to shuts down. Anyone know of a firmware upgrade out there? The dse site didn't seem to have one. Note 5. Any suggestions for music sorters / play sync packages for linux? So far I have... * Rhythmbox - Good.. Except the move to trash seems screwy. (Didn't actually delete soemstuff I requested.) * madman - Ubuntu feisty fawn version barfed and died on strange id3 tags. * I can't remember why I gave up on Juk Kyamo... Note 6. It seems to switch itself off every now and then for no good reason. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
RE: OSS for Macintosh
I have yet to find open source cad program that actual works - lots of half bake demos that you can not save work with, or just not usable. It is a school and with school budgets so a free alternative is a start. Maurice -Original Message- From: Vik Olliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 8:47 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: OSS for Macintosh Not only is Sketchup closed and proprietary, but its file formats are also closed and proprietary. I cannot see any reason to promote it in an Open Source environment. Vik :v)
RE: OSS for Macintosh
First to mind is open office - check out sourceforge as well - you may find stuff of interest Free not open source google sketchup (mac versions available dependant on os version not all os10.x are compatible) SketchUp is 3D for everyone. Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, modify and share 3D models. It's easier to learn than other 3D modeling programs, which is why so many people are already using it. We designed SketchUp's simplified toolset, guided drawing system and clean look-and-feel to help you concentrate on two things: getting your work done as efficiently as possible, and having fun while you're doing it. You can choose from two versions of our software. Google SketchUp is free for anyone, and allows you to build, view and edit 3D models. Maurice -Original Message- From: Aidan Gauland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 8:09 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OSS for Macintosh Hello, The school I attend, uses almost nothing but proprietary software (on Macintosh), so I want to put together an ISO image PACKED with open source software for Mac OS X, and make it available to the other students. So I'm asking ALL of you here to tell me what open souce programs you use, ANY program. But, please, no games or amusements. Thanks, Aidan
RE: OSS for Macintosh
First up from a google search http://www.google.com/search?q=open+sourcebtnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dmac=Search+Mac +Sites was http://www.opensourcemac.org/ Maurice -Original Message- From: Aidan Gauland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 8:09 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OSS for Macintosh Hello, The school I attend, uses almost nothing but proprietary software (on Macintosh), so I want to put together an ISO image PACKED with open source software for Mac OS X, and make it available to the other students. So I'm asking ALL of you here to tell me what open souce programs you use, ANY program. But, please, no games or amusements. Thanks, Aidan
RE: Linux for OOLLLLLDD PCs
Or http://www.ipcop.org/1.4.0/en/install/html/decide-installation-media.html#cr eating-floppy-disks from ipcop cd -Original Message- From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 12 October 2007 8:45 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Linux for OOLDD PCs On Friday 12 October 2007 12:41, Aidan Gauland wrote: I have a very very very old PC--I'm serious, this thing only has about 64 MB of RAM, and a 100 MHz Pentium CPU, and a BIOS that can only boot from a hard drive or a floppy drive Using a floppy disk with Smart Boot Manager on it, you can boot a computer from a CD even if the BIOS doesn't support booting from a CD. Works on 486's even. http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ Wayne
RE: eBay: Phishers getting better organised, using Linux
Thanks Steve Which is why I posted the link here to get a balance view because the rootkit did not ring true I still only play with linux - and working on making the big jump from billy ware later this year - new pc - new operating system - linux of some flavour Currently running ipcop firewall and gentoo with samba for file server. Need to drop the windows 2k server and my desktop. Maurice -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2007 10:05 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: eBay: Phishers getting better organised, using Linux On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:41:18 +1300 Maurice Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EBAY: PHISHERS GETTING BETTER ORGANISED, USING LINUX http://s0.tx.co.nz/at/tep34n736205j130069i181588f2c285953a4t9s4z The vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected Microsoft boxes, says CISO This is, of course, b*ll*x. None of the linux boxes are rootkitted at all. The way that they work is to add a subdirectory to the existing url with their code. The usual way they get in - ftp logins aren't encrypted, so sniffing will work easily - and of course many people use ftp ( dreamweaver, etc ) to maintain their sites. The reason that linux is hit hardest: the equivalent hardware can support orders of magnitude more websites using linux/apache when compared to windows/iis - so of course they'll be using linux. It's the mom'n'pop websites that're being targeted by this kind of scam, and they just can't really be expected to be aware of this kind of attack. I wish our press actually knew what they were talking about at times ): Steve
Thank goodness for open source
Microsoft becoming 'software police,' say users Revocation of Australian software program's digital certificate prompts accusations http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/098FC3312E81D386CC25732F00709C49
RE: Advice on building PC?
Hi, Those that want reliable computers - and minimal warranty claims - the one and only pc I assembled without strap (working at home and they were all else were) had problems six months down the track when the on sound failed (got lazy and fitted sound card) then an other 9 months later the network port. I have been putting together and upgrading computers since the apple II and apple II clones - it is esential for reliablity. Maurice -Original Message- From: Christopher D Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 3 August 2007 3:51 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Advice on building PC? Does anybody actually use anti static wrist straps? CM Entrepreneur Pieroth Wine Executive XBox 360 freak! www.myspace.com/agent_mcgee -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Sent: 8/3/07 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Advice on building PC? On 8/2/07, Gauland, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fifteen-year-old son's running Ubuntu on a old eMac, and would like to switch to an x86 machine. He wants to roll his own, rather than purchase a ready-built machine. This isn't something I've ever done, so I'm looking for advice on going about this. IMHO, others may disagree, The best bang-for-buck is probably found by buying an ~3 year old ex-lease machine, and then adding a bigger disk, should that be desired. Sorry, but while the 'buy a kit of parts' has educational value, it's not necessarily more economical. If you go the assemble yourself route, remember that the value of an anti-static wrist strap exceeds its price by at lease two orders of magnitude. Should he buy a second-hand machine to start with, so he test each component as he upgrades it? What does he need to consider to be sure he can upgrade everything easily? It depends on the budget more than anything, can you mention a vague figure? Just don't buy a totally non-mainstream machine. Asus make good motherboards which run Linux well, as do many other manufacturers. The You get what you pay for rule applies. nVidea video cards go better under Linux than ATI ones.
RE: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux
Remember what maxwell smart looked like with his shoe to his ear, the combined phone organisers work about just as well. The phones are not the best phones - poor reception bulky and hard to use, the organisers are comprisied because of the phone functions and not as good as a stand alone organiser. Most of the ones I have looked at still don't ring loud enough for the noise levels that I have to work with. (one of the telecom phone / organisers if you download a loud ring tone and use it - heaven forbid - the speaker blows) Maurice -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Mayes Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2007 5:16 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux I'm wanting to pressure my work to get me a better organiser (my Palm Tungsten T is getting a bit long in the tooth). Key thing is that it has to be easy to sync with my Evolution on my Ubuntu laptop. I'm considering a phone / organiser combined. Any one have any recommendations? (Or should avoids) Kerry.
RE: Real-Time 'bus timetable
windoze xp 2002 sp2 IE7 broken -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2007 7:43 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Real-Time 'bus timetable On Thursday 03 May 2007 19:26:05 Kerry Mayes wrote: But SVG doesn't seem to work under Feisty either. At least, it won't run that site that started this thread. Well, looks as if were SOL with it on Linux. Has anybody got the motivation to see if it works with I.E under Windows or Mac O/S X? Particularly Safari, 'cos if it does, That might give the Konq bods some urge to get it to go with Konquie. Here's the URL again:- http://www.metroinfo.org.nz/realtime_map.html -- CS
RE: DRM terminal stages?
Note this is USA which is a little more relaxed than NZ CRIMINALISING THE CONSUMER Apr 27th 2007 Where digital rights went wrong IS IT legal to make a copy of that DVD you've just bought so the family can watch it around the home or in the car? In one of the most watched copyright cases in recent years, a judge in northern California ruled last month that copying DVDs for personal use was legal, given the terms of the industry's licence and the way the copies were made. The wider implication of the ruling remains clouded-not least because the DVD Copy Control Association, the loser in the case, has 60 days to appeal. But whatever the video industry may like to think, the writing is on the wall for copy protection. Copyright is a tricky thing. It protects only the way that an author, designer, photographer, film-maker or composer has expressed himself. It does not cover the ideas or the factual information conveyed in the work. What constitutes fair use or an infringement is trickier still. Much depends on the purpose and character of the borrowed material's use. Limited reproduction for the purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research is considered fair game. But the wholesale repackaging of the content for commercial use is a flagrant infringement. In America, the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 made it legal for people to record copyrighted radio broadcasts for personal use. But while the act said nothing about making digital recordings, ripping copyrighted music tracks off CDs and storing them on an iPod has become an everyday occurrence. Despite the number of iTunes downloaded for a fee, Apple would be in trouble if people were prevented from transferring legitimately owned CDs to their iPods. The software Apple gives away to iPod customers is designed to let them do just that. Most people think it ludicrous that they can't do the same with the DVDs they own. Now it seems, despite squeals from the movie industry, the law is finally moving in the video fan's favour. The issue in the recent case was whether Kaleidescape, a maker of digital jukeboxes that store a person's video and music collections and distribute the entertainment around the home, had breached the terms of the DVD Content Control Association's CSS (content scrambling system) licence. A Kaleidescape server stores digital content ripped from CDs and DVDs on its hard drive. The content is then encrypted and fed to various screens and speakers around the home by a secure cable. Kaleidescape claimed that content distributed this way was even safer than it was on the original polycarbonate disks. The judge not only agreed, but couldn't find any breach of the copy-protection licence either. If the case ends there, to all intents and purposes the notion of fair use would appear to apply to DVDs as well as CDs. The movie industry, which nowadays depends as much on DVD sales as on box-office receipts, still seems to think that making life difficult for its customers is a recipe for success. After likewise shooting itself in the foot for ages, the record industry is now falling over itself to abandon DRM (digital rights management) on CDs. A number of online music stores such as eMusic, Audio Lunchbox and Anthology have given up using DRM altogether. In a recent survey by Jupiter Research, two out of three music industry executives in Europe reckoned that dropping DRM would improve sales. The latest music publisher to do so is EMI, which announced in January that it had stopped producing CDs with DRM protection. The costs of DRM, it declared, do not measure up to the results. In an open letter entitled Thoughts on Music, even Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic boss and chief evangelist, recently called for the elimination of DRM. From this month, Apple's iTunes will sell EMI's highest quality recordings (those with sampling rates of 256 kilobits per second) without DRM for a small premium. Belatedly, music executives have come to realise that DRM simply doesn't work. It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated. All it does is make life difficult for paying customers, while having little or no effect on clandestine copying plants that churn out pirate copies. Now the copy protection on DVDs is proving just as easy to bypass. The biggest flop has been the CSS technology featured in the recent Kaleidescape case. It was first cracked back in 1999 by a Norwegian programmer called Jon Lech Johansen, who showed, in a few short lines of elegant code called DeCSS, just how trivial such lauded protection systems really were. Since then, even the DRM used to protect the new high-definition video disks (the Blu-ray format from the Sony camp and its HD-DVD rival from the Toshiba alliance) have been cracked wide open. While most of today's DRM schemes that come embedded on CDs and DVDs are likely to disappear over the next year
RE: DRM terminal stages?
At least I acknowledged the source, and intellectual property rights :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheetham Sent: Monday, 30 April 2007 9:12 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: DRM terminal stages? On 30/04/07, Maurice Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CRIMINALISING THE CONSUMER Lesson number one - how to criminalise a consumer :- - COPYRIGHT - This e-mail message and Economist articles linked from it are copyright (c) 2007 The Economist Newspaper Group Limited. All rights reserved. Breach copyright. -jim
DRM terminal stages?
Hi Confused Linux/Unix Geeks, It looks like this is starting to die a natural death. http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/techview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=90 96421fsrc=nwl Maurice - lurking wondering whats wrong with clug
RE: Which distro ? [Long]
Hi Don, You forgot drm Maurice - who has be trapped by lookout oops, outlook and delphi Do you wish to play movies and music that you have purchased on your computer? Vista - no if billy thinks you have stolen it or you use a program that someone may be able to make a copy Linux - tba Do you care about money * Must have zero cost * I'll spend a little if it seems worthwhile * I'll pay anything to make my life easier Do other users care about freedom and cost * have they even thought about them
RE: OT: Hardware help (Athlon socket 939)
I second that most modern motherboards will not do anything without good(working) ram Maurice -Original Message- From: Ben Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 2:50 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: Hardware help (Athlon socket 939) On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:48:53 +1300, Andrew Errington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:46, you wrote: Try briefly shorting the two pins on the motherboard that are connected to the power switch... a screwdriver works well. Ah, do you suspect the power switch itself? A Also Try the ram. Thanks, Ben Devine
RE: dumb like me...?
I joined the list after failed attempts of trying teach myself. Mandrake installs went alright but had problems trying to do more. Since installed gentoo a number of times and got Linux from scratch install working. Installed, modified ipcop and had patches for addons incorporated in the source. My work pc's are windoze like this one, my play ones are Linux. Next big step is buy a new 64 bit processor, lots of ram and install Linux, vmware or similar, run windoze in a window and make a full migration to Linux base. Rnzaf Avionics trained with NZCE Telecoms worked in Instrument/Electrical , 80's maintained airborne mini computers to component level, wrote and worked extensively with asm and fault find using amd2900 micro code. Worked in industrial automation since 90's - programming PLC's and PC(turbo pascal now delphi). Maurice -Original Message- From: TH CD Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:05 p.m. To: CLUGList Subject: dumb like me...? Is there ANYONE else on this list who does not have an in depth knowledge of Linux but is subcribed 'coz they like reading it and they're interested in getting into Linux? Can everyone that wants to let me know their technical background...just out of interest sake? Me-I've dabbled with Java, C++ and Visual Basic for a few years on Windows. I did a polytech course in Australia through TAFE on programming, now I'm just a bumb who studies at Massey extramurally who's interested in web oriented databases and Linux. Chris Maher.
RE: Threads - was Re: === 2007 Meetings ===
I have programmed with threads for years on the dark side, key points are - very steep learning curve - program has to be designed before writing - potential dead locks have to be identified before coding - timeout mechinism to over come unexpected deadlocks with logging to simplify debugging and head scratching - local and global variables and methods of accessing the same need to be clearly defined - cannot multi thread naturally single threaded processes like reading a keyboard with a user don't laugh took ages to work out what was going on between two separate modules when they were merged into a single program. - most library code is not writen to be multithreaded included so called multithread libraries - database access can be very problematic as connection count can get out of hand very quickly, most database are accessed using libraries - see above Maurice I like ... a folk definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and to expect the results to be different. By this definition, we in fact require that programmers of multithreaded systems be insane. Were they sane, they could not understand their programs. Roy.
RE: Modem Strings
Hi Alan, Great perseverance try commenting out one or the other and see what happens - ie so you can identify which line is causing the problem - could be as simple as a non printing character that has accidently ended up in a line. The pid is a processIdentifier - every running process is alocated a pid - with out knowing the name of the process it is almost meanless. Out of interest from the command line run ps -A And you will see every process running on your box Maurice -Original Message- From: Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 August 2006 5:55 p.m. To: Linux Group Subject: re:Modem Strings Double checked both secrets and all lines other than the log in name and password line are commented out. Now both the lcp-max-configure and lcp-max failure lines were commented out I removed the comment and inserted both and left at the default value which is 10 for both. tried a call with wvdial immediately after connect it crashed out with an error 2 if it means anything it said Pid of 5484 and second go was Pid of 6050 Now I am assuming that as I altered nothing eles these two lcp commands must be clashing with each other or some other command that is already in the options file to produce the error 2 Alan
RE: Gentoo - PCBSD. OT?
I've never seen the point in religious wars on distros or OS types. I see software as a tool - one tool does not suit every job - it is a case of selecting the best tool for the job that you want - use the wrong tool and the chances are you will end up with skinned knuckles or job not done Maurice
RE: Desktops through the ages
I stand corrected about the 64 Meg - indivual chips in dip sockets -Original Message- From: Reg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 6:00 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Desktops through the ages Someone said: . Orginal ibm pc had floppy disk 64meg ram optional cassette drive 82 Um I doubt it was 64meg of RAM at that stage more like 64k surely ? I have a vague notion BG was quoted once as saying who would ever need more than 1 meg of RAM Well he sure was wrong about that !
RE: Desktops through the ages
Hi, Orginal ibm pc had floppy disk 64meg ram optional cassette drive 82 keyboard, XT bios change, harddisk 10 ro 20mb? AT bios change to 286 processor, second interrupt controller, RTC, hard disk, new keyboard, colour option From memory (I have lost my IBM hardware manual with the bios listings) Maurice -Original Message- From: Andrew Packer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 11:28 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Desktops through the ages On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 15:33 +1200, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:39:39 +1200 Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote: If anyone knows where to get an IBM PC, I would be very interested for our museum (at the University) Seems we missed out when getting started as most people have thrown them away I think I have an XT or AT in storage, but I think that was a little later. I got it from a friend a few years ago for the 5 1/2 inch floppy drive which i needed in order to access one or two disks of a very old software product. You are welcome to it anyway. We have the AT (which was the 286)... It was the XT (I think) snip The XT was a successor to the original IBM PC. It still had an 8088 processor, but the power supply had been beefed up (to 200? watts from the original PC's 65 watts), the keyboard layout changed, and there may have been some other tweaks. =Andrew
RE: Vt6421 pci card
Hi all, I found http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_SATA and worke though it and sata portion listed in dmesg not pata. Tried turning on a couple of defines in libata.h but this did not help Maurice snip from dmesg input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 hda: QUANTUM KATANA, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdd: SONY CDU4811, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 20159282 sectors (10321 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=1/16/63, UDMA(33) hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda5 hda6 hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_via :00:09.0: version 1.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:09.0[A] - Link [LNKB] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 sata_via :00:09.0: routed to hard irq line 5 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD400 ctl 0xD40A bmdma 0xE400 irq 5 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xD80A bmdma 0xE408 irq 5 ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi0 : sata_via ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi1 : sata_via ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized /snip
RE: Real Nwebie
Hi, QTParted - edits the partion - on ntfs it does not resize the file system so it gets broken. Maurice -Original Message- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 August 2006 2:02 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Real Nwebie On Friday 11 August 2006 10:41 pm, Alan wrote: Had another play with the Mepis Disk this evening, and made VERY slight progress. Well this morning, before basketball and bowls, Alan and I installed a 10Gb drive into his computer, partitioned it with a Fat32 partition and then installed Mepis. The LiveCD seemed to boot fine with Alan's hardware if he selected old hardware or if we used a PS2 keyboard rather than the USB one. We could not use QTParted to resize the NTFS partition - I have not had time to research whether this is normal or a problem with his drive. Any comments? His hardware was auto-detected, including his modem so hopefully, in the fullness of time Alan will report back that he has a working Linux desktop. And yes Rik, at this time in the morning I can report that I have had a few little tipples. Goodnight all, Rob
RE: Real Nwebie
The version on mephis is then an old version - that's what I did my testing with -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 August 2006 11:16 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Real Nwebie On Sunday 13 August 2006 08:36, Maurice Butler wrote: Hi, QTParted - edits the partion - on ntfs it does not resize the file system so it gets broken. There are recent versions of QTParted which work properly. See also:- http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html The best way to install both Linux and Windows is to partition the drive into two Win95 partitions ( perhaps using your Linux partitioner ). Install windows on to the first one. Then remove the second Win95 partition from the table and install Linux into the space. There are now programs available for both Windows and Linux which will allow access to data of the other O/S. The traditonal small FAT32 post-box partition is now no longer needed. Maurice -Original Message- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 August 2006 2:02 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Real Nwebie On Friday 11 August 2006 10:41 pm, Alan wrote: Had another play with the Mepis Disk this evening, and made VERY slight progress. Well this morning, before basketball and bowls, Alan and I installed a 10Gb drive into his computer, partitioned it with a Fat32 partition and then installed Mepis. The LiveCD seemed to boot fine with Alan's hardware if he selected old hardware or if we used a PS2 keyboard rather than the USB one. We could not use QTParted to resize the NTFS partition - I have not had time to research whether this is normal or a problem with his drive. Any comments? His hardware was auto-detected, including his modem so hopefully, in the fullness of time Alan will report back that he has a working Linux desktop. And yes Rik, at this time in the morning I can report that I have had a few little tipples. Goodnight all, Rob -- CS
RE: Real Newbie
Hi, Better searching still go www.google.co.nz/linux and google narrows it search to linux friendy sites Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2006 7:52 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Real Newbie On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:36:20 +1200 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will no doubt be lots of questions firing once I have them installed and playing as my knowledge in that direction is very very low. I am also a Radio Amateur as you can probably tell by the email address, and unfortunately I dont think many of the programs I am currently using run on Linux, so will need the Windows environment to keep them running. Windows is Windows, and Linux is Linux. There is a system around which allow _some_ Windows programs to run in Linux. You might care to try out your ham radio programs in the Wine windows emulator running on Linux. http://www.winehq.org/ There are plenty of ham radio apps for linux. Alan, you will need to learn how much use google is. If you google ham radio linux there are lots of links for you to look up. If you find some software you want to try, let us know befoe you try to install it because there are some traps for new players :-)
RE: dvd rom problems
Title: Message Hi, have you tried booting a bootable cd on it ? this will rule out anything with your linux configuration Maurice -Original Message-From: Matthew Whiting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 3:02 p.m.To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nzSubject: Re: dvd rom problemsthe results of my trying again mounting the cdrom...[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrommount: special device /dev/hdc does not existprob just take it in and see if can get it looked at under warranty but any further suggestions appreciated...thanks mkdir /mnt/cdrom try again On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:37:49 +1200 Matthew Whiting wrote: Try using Konqueror or Nautilus to mount or play the disks and see if it works. Or in console 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom' etc. Cheers, gave that a stab and this was the result - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist
Vt6421 pci card
Hi all, I have just tried installing this card and I am a we bit lost. I have got gentoo up and running on the motherboard ide. The bios does recognise large hard disks so I have fitted the dse xh8269 card with the vt6421 and connected a 160Gb pata disk. A couple of hints required as to what this device will show up as ie /dev/hd? Or /dev/sd? and anything I need to tweek in the kernel. I have an old snap server that is almost dead and are going to replace with this box running samba. Thanks Maurice
RE: OT WinME Firewall
No possibly - was ME stands for Microsoft Experimental - beta test program for XP - and was the worse Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 10:15 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT WinME Firewall On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:30:22 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 August 2006 7:48 pm, Rik Tindall wrote: Can anyone recommend a beer-free firewall for WinME? Burn it (WinME) and install Linux (there - is that back on topic?) Rob WinME is possibly the worst edition of windows ever.
Time zone
Hi all, Simple if you know but I don't Whats best NZ or pacific/auckland for time zone? And for my edification why? Maurice
RE: HELP RFC Community Node Network...
Title: Message hi, with the sea level currently rising at 1.5mm per year how viable is south bank? what happens if you live next door to someonewho has imported cordless phone that kills your wireless connection and you don't have the tools to locate it? what happens if you kill someone elses home wireless network because you are on the same or adjacent channel? what happens if someone starts welding near the main feed into the mesh? Maurice some background reading http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=articlearticleid=CA629312spacedesc=features http://www.seattlewireless.net/MeshNetwork -Original Message-From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 1:02 p.m.To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nzSubject: HELP RFC Community Node Network... The relivance to linux in this post it that I propose to build 30 Debian 3.1 boxes to power this project... http://www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz/content/view/38/31/ In posting this information at this point, I'm looking for a bit of peer review. Are the costings right? Is there anything really obvious that I've over looked? Is there a better way to get high speed data to these people? TIA Cheers Don
RE: CLUG web server changes
Many moons ago it was peripheral interchange program the copy command on cpm -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:29 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: CLUG web server changes On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:18:18 +1200 Don Gould wrote: or just update the pip capacity until it's just not an issue anymore, remember it's also impacting on their systems. Cheers Don pardon my ignorance, what is the pip capacity -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gentoo dhcpcd error netmount was not started
Hi Ross, Is this from the live install cd or after you installed? If it is the install cd it has not recognised your network card - try another. If it is after you have installed it, and you used the graphical installer, it has failed to install load the module for your network card. This will require you to manually configure the kernel, compile kernel and modules, install. Maurice -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 2:33 p.m. To: CLUG mailing list Subject: gentoo dhcpcd error netmount was not started I am setting up a new Gentoo computer. I am having problems getting dhcpcd to work. Here is the output; Starting eth0 Bringing up eth0 dhcp Running dhcpcd ... ERROR : Problem starting needed services netmount was not started Running this gives similar error output; /etc/init.d/netmount start Any suggestions Cheers Ross Drummond
RE: Open Suse Now wont install
Hi, That almost sound like ram pci or agp card problems - try reseating the ram, pci agp cards then run memtest86 for 24hrs Maurice -Original Message- From: Reg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2006 10:51 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Open Suse Now wont install Volker Kuhlmann said: Be more specific. You used to be able to get the CD's boot menu when booting from CD, but no longer? [---] No I could get as far as the boot menu fine, but when I selected install it compiled the kernal 100%, but then the screen went blank, I even left it for a couple of hrs while I did something else to make sure it was not just slow at doing what it was. [---] I have eliminated a hard drive problem as I tried another drive on another controller with the same result. Hardware error in any case. Yes actually it's looking like that Maybe the mother board or something :-( going from bad to worse now I think the computer won't even get as far as cmos now its just putting out long beeps with pauses between, mind you that computer did that once b4 many months back after being shifted, but it came right, maybe something is loose or it has a dry joint or something, either way looks like my linux project is down the tubes or at least on hold for now :-( Thanks all for helpful comments. Kind Regards Reg
RE: 10 Mbit Cable erratic
Quicksilver Hot News 27/04/06 Broadband Speed Issues Quicksilver's Helpdesk is currently fielding a number of complaints regarding Broadband speed issues. We'd like to apologise for any inconvenience, and take this opportunity to assure our customers that we are doing everything possible to improve this situation. Recent tests carried out by Quicksilver and other industry players have shown the current major speed constraint lies in the Telecom DSL backhaul network, and the ratios at which Telecom provisions the ATM pipe to the ISP (24kbps per user). This is affecting the whole industry. There are additionally some network upgrades in progress internally at Quicksilver, to meet forecasted demand for the new broadband plans. This includes additional international bandwidth being added in the next few days, new L2TP Network Server (LNS) infrastructure, to allow loadsharing and future scalability, and a request to Telecom to increase the PVC link. Currently Telecom allocate an average 24kbps per customer (this applies to all ISPs except Xtra), and this is creating congestion on many ISP networks, including Quicksilver's. We must stress to customers experiencing problems, that while we are performing network upgrades, this may not resolve the speed problems for all customers. We are continuing to lobby Telecom to improve the contention ratios, and increase the backhaul bandwidth above the current 24kbps per customer. We are currently receiving reports from our own users, as well as those on other wholesale Broadband ISP networks, that actual download speeds are variable from exchange to exchange. Our current understanding is that Telecom have removed the previous 50:1 contention ration (subscriber ratio) on DSL exchanges, and now will not commit to a contention ratio. A recent figure given by Telecom was that across the country, there is an 'average' ratio of 33:1. This leads us to believe that there are many Telecom DSL exchanges which are currently at much higher contention ratios, leading to a degradation of service for many broadband users on popular exchanges. Quicksilver is working with a number of other wholesale Broadband ISP's, through the ISPANZ group, to lobby Telecom and the Government for further action to improve the Broadband situation. Again, we ask for your understanding as we upgrade our network, and work with Telecom and ISPANZ to improve the current broadband situation in NZ. -Original Message- From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 2:05 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: 10 Mbit Cable erratic True - but I don't really care about speeds at 0300. I care about speeds from 0800 to 1600. It was just a hey what do other cable users see Mind you, 73% of 10 Mbit is still better than 39% of 2 Mbit :) YAY for telecom -Original Message- From: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 2:01 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: 10 Mbit Cable erratic On May 17, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Craig FALCONER wrote: We get 90% of our upload speed, and anything from 18% to 74% of our download. Going by the times shown in your listing, other people are likely to be using the cable at the same time (unless you're a BOFH), which may interfere with the test. Conditions on the wider internet might affect it as well, depending on the path between you and the nzdsl site. What happens if you run two tests from different sites at the same time? I just ran the test and got 770/119kbps on an up to 2M/128k DSL line, which is actually a little slower than my previous attempts. In my case the limit is probably due to the length and condition of copper between here and the exchange. I guess there'd be little point in me buying a faster connection! I'm not really sure why all those ISPs want access to the local loop in that state ;) - Dave
Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install
Hi,
I am setting up a samba server to replace my snap 2000 server but have run
into this problem trying to rebuild the system to use the new flags
Thanks
Maurice
make.conf
CFLAGS=-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -fstack-check
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
MAKEOPTS=
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=
USE=-X -gtk -gnome -kde -alsa apache2 kerberos xml acl crypt cups ldap pam
readline python oav libclamav samba
emerge.log
1147737767: emerge (22 of 22) sys-apps/busybox-1.1.0 to /
1147737767: === (22 of 22) Cleaning
(sys-apps/busybox-1.1.0::/usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-1.1.0.ebuild)
1147737771: === (22 of 22) Compiling/Merging
(sys-apps/busybox-1.1.0::/usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-1.1.0.ebuild)
1147737922: *** terminating.
I can find the log with the compiler message heres what I wrote down
/var/tmp/portage/busybox-1.1.0/work/busybox-1.1.0/coreutils/mv.c in function
mv_main:
/var/tmp/portage/busybox-1.1.0/work/busybox-1.1.0/coreutils/mv.c : 129 :
error : label 'RET_1' used before containing container
RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install
Thanks - I have created /etc/portage/package.mask with busybox But now I have been looking at busybox I probably don't need it The processor celeron 300 so things take a while Maurice -Original Message- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 8:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install On Tuesday 16 May 2006 7:53 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: it might be worth trying ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 for this emerge. Gentoo are very cautious/tardy about getting packages into the stable set. I run with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in make.conf and find that I get fewer problems than with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=. However, note that I'd never recommend hard masked unless you are the package developer. I only use masked packages if I really need them (by adding them to package.keywords. This is from my make.conf.. # Advanced Masking # # # Gentoo is using a new masking system to allow for easier stability testing # on packages. KEYWORDS are used in ebuilds to mask and unmask packages based # on the platform they are set for. A special form has been added that # indicates packages and revisions that are expected to work, but have not yet # been approved for the stable set. '~arch' is a superset of 'arch' which # includes the unstable, in testing, packages. Users of the 'x86' architecture # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages. # '~ppc', '~sparc' are the unstable KEYWORDS for their respective platforms. # # Please note that this is not for development, alpha, beta, nor cvs release # packages. Broken packages will not be added to testing and should not be # requested to be added. Alternative routes are available to developers # for experimental packages, and it is at their discretion to use them. # # DO NOT PUT ANYTHING BUT YOUR SPECIFIC ~ARCHITECTURE IN THE LIST. # IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF YOUR ARCH, OR THE IMPLICATIONS, DO NOT MODIFY THIS. # #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~arch #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86
RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install
archival/libunarchive/archive_xread_all.o CC archival/libunarchive/archive_xread_all_eof.o CC archival/libunarchive/check_header_gzip.o CC archival/libunarchive/data_align.o CC archival/libunarchive/data_extract_all.o CC archival/libunarchive/data_extract_to_buffer.o CC archival/libunarchive/data_extract_to_stdout.o CC archival/libunarchive/data_skip.o CC archival/libunarchive/decompress_bunzip2.o CC archival/libunarchive/decompress_uncompress.o CC archival/libunarchive/decompress_unlzma.o CC archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.o CC archival/libunarchive/filter_accept_all.o CC archival/libunarchive/filter_accept_list.o CC archival/libunarchive/filter_accept_list_reassign.o CC archival/libunarchive/filter_accept_reject_list.o CC archival/libunarchive/find_list_entry.o CC archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.o CC archival/libunarchive/get_header_cpio.o CC archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.o CC archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar_bz2.o CC archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar_gz.o CC archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar_lzma.o CC archival/libunarchive/header_list.o CC archival/libunarchive/header_skip.o CC archival/libunarchive/header_verbose_list.o CC archival/libunarchive/init_handle.o CC archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.o CC archival/libunarchive/seek_by_char.o CC archival/libunarchive/seek_by_jump.o CC archival/libunarchive/unpack_ar_archive.o AR cru archival/libunarchive/libunarchive.a CC coreutils/basename.o CC coreutils/cal.o CC coreutils/cat.o CC coreutils/chgrp.o CC coreutils/chmod.o CC coreutils/chown.o CC coreutils/chroot.o CC coreutils/cmp.o CC coreutils/comm.o CC coreutils/cp.o CC coreutils/cut.o CC coreutils/date.o CC coreutils/dd.o CC coreutils/df.o CC coreutils/dirname.o CC coreutils/dos2unix.o CC coreutils/du.o CC coreutils/echo.o CC coreutils/env.o CC coreutils/expr.o CC coreutils/false.o CC coreutils/head.o CC coreutils/hostid.o CC coreutils/id.o CC coreutils/install.o CC coreutils/length.o CC coreutils/ln.o CC coreutils/ls.o CC coreutils/md5_sha1_sum.o CC coreutils/mkdir.o CC coreutils/mkfifo.o CC coreutils/mknod.o CC coreutils/mv.o /var/tmp/portage/busybox-1.1.2/work/busybox-1.1.2/coreutils/mv.c: In function `mv_main': /var/tmp/portage/busybox-1.1.2/work/busybox-1.1.2/coreutils/mv.c:129: error: label 'RET_1' used before containing binding contour make: *** [/var/tmp/portage/busybox-1.1.2/work/busybox-1.1.2/coreutils/mv.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/busybox-1.1.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 129, Exitcode 2 !!! build failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. jbod ~ # emerge --update busybox busybox.log -Original Message- From: Maurice Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 10:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install Thanks - I have created /etc/portage/package.mask with busybox But now I have been looking at busybox I probably don't need it The processor celeron 300 so things take a while Maurice -Original Message- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 8:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install On Tuesday 16 May 2006 7:53 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: it might be worth trying ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 for this emerge. Gentoo are very cautious/tardy about getting packages into the stable set. I run with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in make.conf and find that I get fewer problems than with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=. However, note that I'd never recommend hard masked unless you are the package developer. I only use masked packages if I really need them (by adding them to package.keywords. This is from my make.conf.. # Advanced Masking # # # Gentoo is using a new masking system to allow for easier stability testing # on packages. KEYWORDS are used in ebuilds to mask and unmask packages based # on the platform they are set for. A special form has been added that # indicates packages and revisions that are expected to work, but have not yet # been approved for the stable set. '~arch' is a superset of 'arch' which # includes the unstable, in testing, packages. Users of the 'x86' architecture # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages. # '~ppc', '~sparc' are the unstable KEYWORDS for their respective platforms. # # Please note that this is not for development, alpha, beta, nor cvs release # packages. Broken packages will not be added to testing and should not be # requested to be added. Alternative routes are available to developers # for experimental packages, and it is at their discretion to use them. # # DO NOT PUT ANYTHING BUT YOUR SPECIFIC ~ARCHITECTURE IN THE LIST. # IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF YOUR ARCH, OR THE IMPLICATIONS, DO NOT MODIFY
RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install
That's what was on the system - I tried installing with the graphical installer but it blew up when it got to compile the kernel, so I finished it manually. Busybox was already there. Looks like it is compiling now since I took out -fstack-check from the cflags Most of the linux boxes I have setup I do not have any x windows on them and the graphical install looks like it insists on one. Looks like I will have to use the command line and do it similar to 2005.x - at least that worked reliably. Then next machine will be this one with gentoo vmware and windoze relegated to a window Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 10:19 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install Why do you want busybox? This doesn't look like an embedded system to me? On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:15:44 +1200 Maurice Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There must be something with my setup busybox-1.1.2 failed with the same error
RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install
Confirmed bug. it is definitely -fstack-check in cflags -Original Message- From: Maurice Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 10:51 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install That's what was on the system - I tried installing with the graphical installer but it blew up when it got to compile the kernel, so I finished it manually. Busybox was already there. Looks like it is compiling now since I took out -fstack-check from the cflags Most of the linux boxes I have setup I do not have any x windows on them and the graphical install looks like it insists on one. Looks like I will have to use the command line and do it similar to 2005.x - at least that worked reliably. Then next machine will be this one with gentoo vmware and windoze relegated to a window Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 10:19 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install Why do you want busybox? This doesn't look like an embedded system to me? On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:15:44 +1200 Maurice Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There must be something with my setup busybox-1.1.2 failed with the same error
RE: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install
Thanks for that will try it next time -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:32 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Gentoo 2006.0 emerge -nuD Failed on new install On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:50, Maurice Butler wrote: Most of the linux boxes I have setup I do not have any x windows on them and the graphical install looks like it insists on one. Looks like I will have to use the command line and do it similar to 2005.x - at least that worked reliably. To run a non graphical install type 'gentoo nox' when the you are prompted to select the installer kernel. When the install CD presents you with a command prompt type 'installer' for a curses[1] based install configuration. Cheers Ross Drummond [1] Similar to the kernel make menuconfig curses dialogues you may be more familiar with PS: My spell checker has a dirty mind. Unknown word: nuD replace with: nude
RE: video card advice
Hi, A temporary fix is to peel the sticker of the fan and put a drop of light oil (sewing machine not anything for a car) to get it going again until you get a replacement. At the worst you could use crc - only works for a month before you have to do it again. Maurice -Original Message- From: Roger Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 May 2006 6:27 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: video card advice I'll be in the market for a video card as soon as my budget allows, following on from discovering the fan on it does zero rpm on a good day - this being the likely source of lockups (interestingly this seldom happens when booted into linux). I recall plenty of discussion on the list about supported and less supported cards and chipsets. I have no wish to be responsible for a list war, simply want to be sure that I buy the best option with linux in mind. My needs and requirements are fairly modest, while I like games seldom have the time - I don't need the very best in performance, this being supported by the fact that my budget will reach to maybe a couple of hundred dollars at most. What models, chipsets, features should I look out for? Avoid? Cheers, Roger
RE: OT PC100 ram
The number of physical ic's on a stick - four chips = high 16 (8 per side)= low Maurice -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 1:44 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT PC100 ram http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=oplex_upgrade message.id=15703 says that high density memory should not be used. How do I tell high density from low density memory? Cheers Ross Drummond
RE: virus scanners and other security tools
Firewall Ipcop with advproxy and urlfilter addons Windoze machines norton, etrust(not good), avast, avg Linux (gentoo) no requirement at this stage as easy to update to keep ahead of security alerts Maurice -Original Message- From: Bernard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 9:07 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: virus scanners and other security tools What virus scanners or other security tools such as firewalls etc do people use (if any) with linux? Ta Bernard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/322 - Release Date: 4/22/2006
Acer servers now available with suse
http://www.acer.com.au/acw/acw060310.pdf Maurice
RE: Recommendations for a possible Linux convert - MS$Tax
Apple who's applications are fast becoming as reliable as the dark side. Bleeding edge intel duo 1. Install ms office (2003 cd) trash all the fonts 2. ms office only runs as administrator that installed it or the first user that runs it - all other users crashes, 3. on random machines use safari goto www.google.co.nz start typing in the form after 1 or 2 characters safari locks up then crashes - I want to send an error report please type what you were doing. (firefox works fine) 4. itunes randomly crashes even after latest patches 5. updates just as thick and fast as the dark side 6. documentation is called google 7. need to goto the command prompt to correct permissions on multiple objects as users, even with parential controls still can trash a machine (they might not be able to modify something but the still have delete rights - doh!!) Note currently users are authenticated against active directory on win2k box (still testing the gentoo replacement) Maurice - try sorting school computer lab with 25 apples that replaced acorns (a piece of great british engineering with real software - my son could not believe how similar the user interface was when I had them running side by side) -Original Message- From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:36 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Recommendations for a possible Linux convert - MS$Tax On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Oh, yes. Apple. Who open-sourced their entire underlying OS. Them. Oh yeah, and a fat lot of good it is doing you. It might be true that it's doing *you* no good -- that's no excuse for effectively saying that Apple don't release Open Source. There are enough useful arguments against closed/DRM stuff without having to overstate the case and loose track of the objective truth. In many ways it's worse that a company that obviously understands Open licensing on one hand is attacking it on the other; but the world is not a black-and-white place. -jim
RE: Recommendations for a possible Linux convert - MS$Tax
Yes - it is the academic licence - there is a later version of the cd that does not change the major version number but fixes the problems - found by accident as red and mickysoft point the finger at each other. Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2006 8:18 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Recommendations for a possible Linux convert - MS$Tax On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:47:17 +1200 Maurice Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. ms office only runs as administrator that installed it or the first user that runs it - all other users crashes do said other users have a license?
RE: Outlook style stationary image for background on emails
Hi, If you are that parnoid then you need to look at tempest[1] harding so your pc does not radiate what you see and type for the world to see Maurice [1] TEMPEST testing fundamentally ensures that no unintentional electromagnetic influenced emissions are generated from cryptographic (usually abbreviated to 'CRYPTO') and other equipment processing classified information. Naturally, unauthorised or uncontrolled access of third parties to data and information or its intentional destruction becomes a high priority issue for defence and indeed some civil operations. -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 18 March 2006 12:30 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Outlook style stationary image for background on emails Hence why I don't even bother... I've had people ask me about pgp before and wondered if it was really worth it... if you've got the ability to intercept my mail in the first place then chances are that you've also got the ability to be watching while I type it... No way. To watch what you type someone would have to be in or close by your house. Somehow I doubt the NSA will be doing that, and the local spooks mighn't be so serious about world domination. Encrypting your email keeps it safe from the ISPs and the hobby hackers - definitely worth doing for trade secrets. And while the NSA may be capable of breaking gpg emails, the cost of doing so is probably still so high that they don't do it routinely for every email passing through. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
RE: hard drive just died
Hi, the freeze is an urban myth and causes more problems than it solves due to condensation and other bits moving out of tolerance. Recovery depends on what type the failure is i.e. Mechanical - Plater motor, head servo, bearings Electronics - cct board failure or worse head crash. if the disk is runable with out I agree with dd the whole lot else where. The less you run the disk before recovering the data the better. Maurice -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2006 8:45 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: hard drive just died Leave it in the freezer overnight, and then try and dd the whole disk contents somewhere else. If you're short of spare disks, let me know, I van certainly lend you 40+GB. My commiserations, Steve On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:26:37 +1300 (NZDT) Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to recover the data? Is there any Open Source tool for recovering it to a temporary location? (The only things I am even moderately pleased about is that I burnt a cdrom of one of my projects, so I've got that at the very least. And it's still within warranty.) Thanks very much for all and any help you can give me. 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: OTish: ISPs
Hi, baycity.co.nz also sell it to farmers and any one else that can afford the setup cost ($600 dollars+) they have mainly move to satellite Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2006 9:25 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OTish: ISPs On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:23:05 +1300 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BCL already have a broadband offering. http://www.bclnz.co.nz/index.php/pi_pageid/23 Cheers John the only one of their retailers who i could find prices for was iconz: Plan Data Allowance Monthly Fee Excess Data 128/256Kbps 1GB $105.00 13c/MB 128/256Kbps 2GB $115.00 13c/MB 128/256Kbps 5GB $196.90 13c/MB 128/512Kbps 1GB $145.00 13c/MB 128/512Kbps 2GB $155.00 13c/MB 128/512Kbps 5GB $247.50 13c/MB Fixed 512Kbps - POA - Not broadband, not cheap, maybe acceptable if you had no other alternative.
RE: Grub booting raid 1
Hi Volker, If software raid, the problem is grub expects to find the boot drive on the primary drive to load the raid drivers. If the primary drive fails you need pull the secondary drive and place it in the primary position. The only way around this would be to have a second entry to allow booting off the secondary drive. If it is hardware raid then there should not be a problem . Maurice -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 27 December 2005 6:33 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Grub booting raid 1 Does anyone have a (tried) config file for grub booting a raid1 software raid /dev/md0, which does all(!) of the following: * The raid level is raid1 * Linux root fs is /dev/md0 * /boot is on /dev/md0 * bootloader is grub * Taking either disk out still results in a booting system The last point is the critical one. Google isn't a lot of help on this, there's truckloads of info on the first 4 points which however are a nobrainer in yast (read: click on raid1). When taking the first disk out the system no longer boots (grub menu load failure), but I'm not sure that's because I selected something stupid in yast after install, and before I get into a boot/remove/add/disk/grub/remove orgie I thought I'd ask... Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
RE: photo printing
Hi, cheapest option is put all the photos you want printed on to cd, by themselves, goto your local photo shop and ask them to print them all. should cost about 35 cents each and save you lots of grief. A lot of the digital cameras the aspect ratio of the camera is different to a 6x4 print so some cropping is required. Maurice (who owned a photo shop for a few years :-)) -Original Message- From: Timothy Pick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2005 10:58 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: photo printing Hi all, I'm wanting to do some photo printing from gnome. I have: HP deskjet 5160 cups setup and printing some photo paper (a4 and 6x4) some photos I've had one go with a 6x4 but the photo came out with funny (large,off centre) borders and half off the page :( I can choose the right paper size in CUPS manager (either localhost:631 or using gnome-cups-manager) but I can't see any applications that respect/reflect this setup. Has anyone had any luck with this kind of task? Oh, I'm on freebsd but I'm hoping the same rules apply -- they seem to with most other things. I've had a look at gnomephotoprinter -- won't let me choose a paper size. eye of gnome image viewer -- crashes when I click print. gthumb image viewer -- looks like it's going to allocate about half the 6x4 page as margins. I'd like some click-n-go interface eventually since I'm not the only one who uses this computer (although I am in charge and I can do anythin I like), but I'm not against some CLI magic to get the job done as a once off -- grandparents have been asking for an up to date photo of us since about March! I don't want to waste much more photo paper!
RE: photo printing
Hi, Digitalmax was advertising a promo and Jumbo in Christchurch, if you hit them up. Maurice -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2005 1:46 p.m. To: Clug Subject: Re: photo printing cheapest option is put all the photos you want printed on to cd, by flash stick themselves, goto your local photo shop and ask them to print them all. Ack. Printing your own photos in the typical small sizes is economically insane. Apart from issues of paper size, image position, scaling etc you are facing serious issues of colour control. At the minimum you would need a 6-ink colour photo printer, not one of those cheap colour office jobs, or the shop prints will be better. If you want bigger, like A4, the shop prices are cheeky and you can try a home brew, but expect that to cost not less than $4 per page, not counting the stuffed up ones, in paper and ink. should cost about 35 cents each and save you lots of grief. Now what I really want to know is where you get them printed for 35¢? The cheapest I've seen is 60¢. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
Be thankful for linux
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RE: Recommendations for PC Speakers
Hi David, Check out genius hf2 1250w (18watts rms per speaker) they have got the nod of approval from the music teachers at Geraldine High School. http://www.dove.co.nz/products/Genius/Speakers/mm1290.htm Retail around $100 Maurice -Original Message- From: david merriman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:45 a.m. To: CLUG Subject: OT: Recommendations for PC Speakers Hi there, I'm looking to replace my pc's aging 4.1 speakers with something bright, shiny and new, and wondered if anyone could recommend some decent speakers for a reasonable price. I'd read good things about the TDK Tremor series when they came out a year or two back, but I haven't kept up with the current state of play. I've got a SoundBlaster Live! Value card with both front and rear speaker outputs, but I don't want or need any more than a 2.1 system this time around, as I never watch movies or play games, so surround sound is a waste of money. I play the occasional mp3, but I'm more concerned about music composition and playback, so decent sound is a must. Thanks for any ideas :-) . David -- The dragon cast his wet, rheumy eyes, heavy-lidded with misery, over his kingdom-a malodorous, rot-ridden swamp, with moss cloaking brooding, gloomy cypresses, tree trunks like decayed teeth rising from stagnant ponds, creatures with mildewed fur and scales whom the meanest roadside zoo would have rejected--and hoped the antidepressants would kick in soon.
RE: AUI to 10baseT adapter
Hi It also pays to earth one and only one of the terminators. Maurice -Original Message- From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 1 October 2005 8:51 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: AUI to 10baseT adapter That will do me nicely - I must have a hub somewhere with coax on it still. If there's only two devices on a piece of 10base2, do you still need the T connectors and terminators? Memory fails me on that one... -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 September 2005 4:24 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: AUI to 10baseT adapter I might have some cable and t pieces lying around. Also thick to 10base-2? Steve On Fri, September 30, 2005 4:15 pm, Craig FALCONER wrote: Does anyone have one of these floating about spare? I've got an old sparc IPC (major thanks to Shane) I'd like to get on the network, and it only has AUI ethernet. -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
Citrix replacement
Hi all, A local school I work at has had the citrix server die (motherboard). The only use it gets is to supply word and firefox for a lot of acorn NC's etc. The teachers concern with the classes that it being used in would be happy with open office (it is already on a number of PC) and firefox. the os is not important just having decent browser and useful word processor are the main considerations. Is there a linux alternative that i could deploy instead of citrix with a client for the acorn NC's? Thanks Maurice
RE: Citrix replacement
It does not run x but debian supports the arm processor Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 7:17 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Citrix replacement Does the Acorn NC run X? If so it is relatively trivial. Take a look at ltsp.org and k12ltsp.org On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 17:59 +1200, Maurice Butler wrote: Hi all, A local school I work at has had the citrix server die (motherboard). The only use it gets is to supply word and firefox for a lot of acorn NC's etc. The teachers concern with the classes that it being used in would be happy with open office (it is already on a number of PC) and firefox. the os is not important just having decent browser and useful word processor are the main considerations. Is there a linux alternative that i could deploy instead of citrix with a client for the acorn NC's? Thanks Maurice -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Database choice?
Steve Holdoway tickled the keyboard with ... what's the betting that developers are massively in favour of them??? There is an ANSI/ISO standard for SQL stored procedures called SQL/PSM (Persistent Stored Modules) which was standardised in 1996. However, only DB2 and the new MySQL 5 beta support it, largely because they added stored procedures and triggers to their products quite late relative to the other vendors. Everyone else does there own thing, as a result unless you make a very big commitment to one database a lot of developers avoid them and write a middle layer between the app and the database. Currently I am trying to port an interbase-v5 app to informix and oracle 7. It has been a handful trying to get as much code to be common across the three then the rest in to the middle layer. The store procedures can also be used to hide differences between database as well, but as a lot stored procedures are compiled code running in the database it is possible to bring the whole thing crashing down around your ears. Not a good look a 24x7 manufacturing environment. Maurice -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2005 7:17 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Database choice? Timothy Pick wrote: - stored procedure support. Stored procedures are little programs that can be run as database queries that can be useful for standardising writes and complicated reads. Not to start a war but there is a school of thought that stored procs suck. Google for it and you'll find a host of debates on the issue... ... what's the betting that developers are massively in favour of them???
RE: Database choice?
steves tickling of the keyboard produced Oracle 7 has been dead for YEARS! Why on earth bother porting to it. I'd go no further back than 8.1.7.4 as an absolute, when one of the biggest companies in NZ use it as there standard and you either work with or don't work Maurice ps not i did not say they were the smartest
RE: ADSL link problems
I have been told the wiring at the exchange just involves put a patch cord in the right place so what is hard? Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:25 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: ADSL link problems On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:24:58 +1200 Carl Cerecke wrote: I gave up and booked in a $150 visit for today to install a splitter. Just got a ring from a Telecom tech now. The idiot who did it cocked up the wiring at the exchange, apparently. He's fixed it. Will try again this evening. Ahh so we weren't mad after all! We all anticipate a burst of posting from you this evening. -- Nick Rout
RE: ADSL link problems
The problem with adsl connections is a recurring one. All it takes is some checking - very simple to do at the completion to see that it is working as expected. Even the best can make an error, but the error rate is reduced significantly by checking what you have done - a lot like proof reading - you know what you want to write but does it read that way. Maurice -Original Message- From: Derek Smithies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 3:38 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: ADSL link problems Hi, The problem here is:: drawing conclusions based on a simple model of the system
RE: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 4:50 p.m. To: it always pay to download the latest drivers and firmware from the makers site as what is in the box is normally out of date. Subject: Re: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:55:10 +1200 Bjorn Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That firmware is for the WRT54G not the WAG54G True and BEWARE, not all liksys products have decent firmware, I personally tested a combo model (not the WRT54G but I cannot recall which one) that was shipped to our office and it would CRASH upon portscan attempt with nmap, needless to say it was useless. it always pay to download the latest drivers and firmware from the makers site as what is in the box is normally out of date. Maurice
RE: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux
Hi, I had a nightmare with the netgear stuff about 12 months ago. I couldn't get wep or wpa working even when using netgear cards and access point. changed the access point to linksys and away went problems maurice From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 12:49 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux I'm looking at buying one of these modem/switch/wireless combos. I'm looking for recommendations. I want reliability and works-with-linux So far, the choices are: Linksys WAG54G Dynalink RTA770W Dynalink Z660-HW Netgear DG834G They are all about the same price. Cheers, Carl.
RE: For those worried about their kids accessing the internet!
The performance hit you get is because you need more ram with DG - at least 128M with adsl. I have been using http://www.advproxy.net/ and http://www.urlfilter.net/ and the performance has been great on AMD k6-400 with 128M. The only thing I had to do was add my own category for game sites and allowing access at certain times for my children. and avoid http://urlblacklist.com/ as the big list is too big and badly sorted. Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:10 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: For those worried about their kids accessing the internet! Well my son is 9 and very computer savvy, so I set about finding a solution to him stumbling on stuff I'd rather he didn't see. I had seen and heard of dansguardian before, but last time I looked it seemed to be a pain to set up, and my ipcop box was underpowered. Roll on a couple of years and it is really easy to set up on ipcop. You *will* need an ipcop box that is gruntier than just required for your standard firewall. My ipcop box is 350 MHz with 64 M RAM. If you have ipcop you should be updated to version 1.4.6. If you aren't, you have more to worry about than your kids' browsing habit. Go to http://firewalladdons.sf.net and download vers 2.3 of the addons server, and install it in accordance with the instructions. (actually the instructions on the web site are a bit poor so here goes: download addons-2.3-CLI-b1.tar.gz to your desktop machine. Its quite small. scp it to your ipcop box like: scp -P 222 addons-2.3-CLI-b1.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ log into your ipcop box with ssh and then run: rm -Rf /addons tar vxzf addons-2.3-CLI-b1.tar.gz -C / cd /addons ./addoncfg -u (ignore errors about missing files/dirs) ./addoncfg -i you will now have an extra tab called addons in the ipcop web gui. Next download the Cop Plus addon from http://copplus.home.att.net/ The current version is Copplus-2.0-GUI-b2.tar.gz There is a current problem with the link on the firewalladdons site - it points to the B1 version, not the B2 version. It's about 9MB. Now go to the addons page in the ipcop gui, where it says Install new addon you need to browse to the file you just downloaded. Once you have done that click upload and the file will upload to the ipcop box and install. It will work straight away. Go to a any box on your lan and try to browse to an obviously bad page like www.porn.com and see what happens :-) There are some more notes on setting up authenticated proxying (so you can ban/allow/log by username) and other options here: http://firewalladdons.sourceforge.net/cop.html By default it is set up to ban only porn/adult stuff. There are heaps of other categories to play around with too. Be aware that when you change something and need to restart dansguardian, all web access is blocked for about 5 minutes as it restarts. I will check my usage graphs after a day or so and see how much extra cpu and memory it is using. At the moment it looks like not much cpu but about 80% more ram in use. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ISA riser card
Hi, I don't like your chances. The standards for the two bus systems are very different. It would be like trying to fill your diesel car with petrol. Looks alright until you turn it on then bang. Maurice -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2005 3:52 p.m. To: CLUG mailing list Subject: ISA riser card A hardware question. I have a Dell PC with a PCI riser card. Can I swap it with an ISA riser card recovered from a DEC 486? Will it just work, or will I have to use special chants and incantations? Cheers Ross Drummond
RE: help desk system for gentoo
Hi, Just building up a gentoo box to play with mantis and rt ticket systems that appears to be a close match than bugzilla. Thanks for the offer Maurice -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 9:27 p.m. To: Clug Subject: Re: help desk system for gentoo Maurice, I have done a Bugzilla installation and can give you some pointers on how to go about it if you want. The thing to remember about bugzilla is that it is not helpdesk software. Bugzilla is primarily designed to accept notifications of bugs and feature requests in software from users then record and track the progress of their resolution. Software to accept and record requests for help and support from users is really a quite different thing. What you want in that sort of system is: - some means of looking for trends and ongoing problems. This can lead to bug/feature requests but it is not the same. - Hardware tracking/ inventory - Support knowledgebase - other stuff not in Bugzilla So my recommendation is not to use Bugzilla unless it is for bug/software issue tracking. Don't get me wrong, Bugzilla is one of the best at what it does. But that is not helpdesk software. Maurice Butler wrote: Hi, I have just started managing a network for a large organisation that is about to get bigger. All ready running Linux, Mac (os x), windoze. Currently the IT request are written into an exercise book - when it can be found. I would like something like bugzilla to track the request, provide feedback to users and track time spent servicing request etc. See above prob' not a good fit. However because it is OSS you could modify it to fit :-) Essential that authentication be able to tie into ldap so users logged on the network can use the system transparently. Bugzilla will do that nicely. I have it authenticating against a M$ AD server. Thanks Maurice
RE: Nick's MythTV presentation
Dove electronics wholesale the shuttle range and have the dynalink tv card - you will need to find some one with an account www.dove.co.nz Maurice -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:49 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Nick's MythTV presentation I for one was thoroughly impressed with Nick's MythTV presentation last night. Was that the presentation, the presented software, or both? ;-))) (I'd say both.) What I'd be interested in is some actual pricing, and where to get the TV card and somewhat non-standard PC items from. The TV cards don't seem to be as cheap - Hauppage PVR-150MCE (the non-remote less-feature OEM version) $190 or the full one $240, PVR500 $330. Any better source? What's a good source in town for the mini-ITX stuff? And it needs to take a standard-size 5.25 optical drive or it's not much good. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
help desk system for gentoo
Hi, I have just started managing a network for a large organisation that is about to get bigger. All ready running Linux, Mac (os x), windoze. Currently the IT request are written into an exercise book - when it can be found. I would like something like bugzilla to track the request, provide feedback to users and track time spent servicing request etc. Essential that authentication be able to tie into ldap so users logged on the network can use the system transparently. Thanks Maurice
RE: help desk system for gentoo
thanks Andre, searching I also found rt and rtir at http://www.bestpractical.com/products.html now to spend time downloading, looking and comparing Maurice -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2005 2:27 p.m. To: Clug Subject: Re: help desk system for gentoo If you're looking for a simple bug tracking system, try out mantis http://www.mantisbt.org/. I don't thinkg it does time tracking, but it does all the other stuff (including ldap authentication), and is certainly very easy to setup. Andre On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 14:19 +1200, Maurice Butler wrote: Hi, I have just started managing a network for a large organisation that is about to get bigger. All ready running Linux, Mac (os x), windoze. Currently the IT request are written into an exercise book - when it can be found. I would like something like bugzilla to track the request, provide feedback to users and track time spent servicing request etc. Essential that authentication be able to tie into ldap so users logged on the network can use the system transparently. Thanks Maurice -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solutions Centre Andre Renaud Bluewater Systems Ltd Phone: +64 3 3779127 (Aus 1 800 148 751)Level 17, 119 Armagh St Fax: +64 3 3779135PO Box 13889 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christchurch Web: http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand
RE: [OT] Public Liability - was Re: telecom outage - Some history
Hi, Years ago my brother got across Europe on a south island passport (on of the ones that where around in the 80's) Maurice -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 24 June 2005 3:45 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: [OT] Public Liability - was Re: telecom outage - Some history On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Shane wrote: Any takers to help organise a letter, partition...? Now there's a notion, perhaps it was a just typo and not a notion, but it triggers distant memories none the less... There is a small fishing and tourism town near Capetown in South Africa called Houtbay. During the Apartheid Era, as a semi-serious protest come public relations stunt, they ceremonially cut the telephone cable to Pretoria and printed their own passports. As far as I know they didn't actually cut the real cable, just symbolically. And the passports? As far as I know several blokes are trying to see how far around the world they can get on a Houtbay passport! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later. From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
Forcing disk check on reboot
Hi all, running e2fsck -n -f on my ipcop box I hav problems on the root drive. how do i force it to fix the disk on the next reboot. Maurice [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs1.1G 194M 846M 19% / /dev/root 1.1G 194M 846M 19% / /dev/harddisk1 16M 3.8M 12M 25% /boot /dev/harddisk23.0G 158M 2.7G 6% /var/log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # e2fsck -n -f /dev/root e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Warning! /dev/root is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Block bitmap differences: +136190 -136193 Fix? no /dev/root: ** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ** /dev/root: 5578/136800 files (0.3% non-contiguous), 53863/273105 blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #
RE: Forcing disk check on reboot
Hi, I pulled it out and put it in my gentoo box, fixed it up and put it back. Things still aren't right - think I have a problem on the motherboard so sorting thought the grave yard to find another suitable box. It is not a ram problem as I tested it with memtest86 (off the gentoo cd), may be this is why it was traded in. Maurice -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 2:44 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Forcing disk check on reboot On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:00, Steve Holdoway wrote: man tune2fs There is a bit more to it than that. You cannot do a repairing file check on a mounted filesystem. Doing so will kill off the data set with a fair degree of certainty, so the only safe way to do so is to boot the machine using different root and boot partitions. Toms root and boot. ( Floppy ) http://www.toms.net/rb/ 0r BG-Rescue ( Two floppies, but imho better than Tom's because chroot works ) http://www.giannone.de But apparently NZ is not the only country in the world where back-hoe diggers occasionally have intimate, earthy, and catastrophic relationships with fibre cables :-) so I've put the diskette images here:- http://shell.clug.net.nz:8080/~chris/ Not the latest, but good enough. Or Knoppix ( CDROM ) Download per BitTorrent: http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ 3.9 is out! On Tue, June 21, 2005 12:47 pm, Maurice Butler said: Hi all, running e2fsck -n -f on my ipcop box I hav problems on the root drive. how do i force it to fix the disk on the next reboot. Maurice [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs1.1G 194M 846M 19% / /dev/root 1.1G 194M 846M 19% / /dev/harddisk1 16M 3.8M 12M 25% /boot /dev/harddisk23.0G 158M 2.7G 6% /var/log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # e2fsck -n -f /dev/root e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Warning! /dev/root is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Block bitmap differences: +136190 -136193 Fix? no /dev/root: ** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ** /dev/root: 5578/136800 files (0.3% non-contiguous), 53863/273105 blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #
RE: Gmail invitation
2 that I have used mail.com yahoo.com Maurice -Original Message- From: Robert Himmelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 7:51 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Gmail invitation I only use GMail except for mailing lists and big files (10Mb). The latter problem might be connected with my being on 56k. Could someone please give me the names of some other free providers? I am collecting mail-adresses. Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:16, Robert Himmelmann wrote: There must be a few more options than GMail. Yes there are but I took the advice and used Gmail. I does seem quite good and it was not too hard to set up Kmail to use the Gmail account, especially when I found my typo. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ... -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Setting up new network
Hi, After having a great time with gentoo I think I am ready to set up a new network for my home business. At the moment everything is ad hock. Some pointers are required if I should use MS active directory or openLDAP. If I use openLDAP how to I glue the windows machines to it ? I have == 1 x win2000 server (MS SQL 2000 Borland Star Team) 1 x win xp pro work station used for software development (Delphi) 1 x win xp pro work station used for admin, email 1 x win xp home pc used by son for games, music 1 x win 2000 laptop used on site occasionally at home 1 x snap server (box of disks shared) to be replaced 1 x ipcop 1.4.6 firewall To add == 1 x gentoo with mail (instead of exchange - would like some of the features of exchange ie checking mail on any pc, with folders - IMAP), web server (apache for internal use at this stage), ftp 1 x gentoo samba file server (to replace snap server) with variety of SQL servers (mySQL etc) for testing applications Maurice
RE: Setting up new network
Nick said: I am lazy and simply manage all users (such as they are) to have the same username and password on each windows and linux box. It is a pain frankly and I should a play with ldap. That is what I am looking at moving away from Maurice
RE: Setting up new network
-Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 May 2005 12:43 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Setting up new network On Fri, May 27, 2005 11:48 am, Nick Rout said: hmmm this might be useful: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Implement_Samba_as_your_PDC On Fri, 27 May 2005 11:42:09 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2005 11:29:07 +1200 Maurice Butler (Like Magic) wrote: [how do i make openldap work] The problem is that a samba server can never act as a controller in an active directory environment. the PDC that you create is NT4 compliant, which hamstrings all the wonderful features of win 2000 ( cough! ) How about a radical solution... make win 2000 your domain controller, and then authenticate against it? I think you'll find it simpler, and will make more business sense unless you're looking at dropping all windoze development. interesting concept - will have to do some research on that one As for the network... I'd use IPCop for all of it! You *must* implement a DMZ, and use it religously for a) sons strange surfing tendencies and b) unsanitary laptops. With Nicks help ( especially the bit where he kept telling me it could be done! ), I found that you can control an adsl router, making that side simpler to maintain. blue not wireless but for son and laptop As for your new gentoo machine(s)... I'd probably just get the one for all of your requirements. I can give you plenty of help in getting a decent mail server enabled - along with great anti spam and antivirus support on the server side (: . that would be great - i could get most things installed and the finsih the setup later Unless you're throwing huge amounts of data around, supporting a website requires little horsepower, and with the help of IPCop/dynamic dns server, can be an easy way to showcase your ideas ( if only at 128kb! ), better than lugging loads of kit around and you know it works before you leave the office. 28kb typical - being trying since christmas to get something faster but telecom always seem to have a reason not to connect adsl after lots of delays the target this time is the 30th The other side of this is that once you've got your desktops running linux and providing the usual office functions but authenticating off a M$ domain server, you can go out and flog a real alternative! Cheers, Steve. -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
RE: gimp
The network sections assumes that it works from the live disc - if it doesn't then you have to do a stage 3 install. then try and get it going - the 2005.0 instructions left out the bit about modules (now rectified). At this point the where you have finial got your network card working the some of the instructions you need are back at the original set-up instruction of livecd. Portions of the instructions are in the wrong section. The wireless section has a lot of info that applies to all the networking. Maurice -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 7:09 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: RE: gimp On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:16 +1200, Maurice Butler (Like Magic) wrote: The documentation is a shambles in regard to networking aprdon? in what respect? - I have managed to get part of it changed and are currently working on getting some more cleaned up. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gimp
I have been installing gentoo 2005.0 from the manual on a number of machines. (slowly replacing windoze servers -nt3.5/4/2000) There is a couple of issues dependant on hardware. You can have a very smooth ride if the live disc recognises all your hardware. If not the going gets tough - especially with the networking - yet to have it working during the install but have managed to get it working after. The documentation is a shambles in regard to networking - I have managed to get part of it changed and are currently working on getting some more cleaned up. Maurice -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 4:32 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: gimp Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: I think that's a bit harsh, Douglas. I think of gimp as the gentoo of the imageing arena. = I think that is a bit harsh Steve. I think that the Gentoo Docs are probably amongst the best of any distro. About 6 months ago, I sat down to install gentoo using only the resources available on that site. Even ardent admirers like Nick agreed that this is impossible to do. The docs missed out too many really important things - just took them for granted. ( and pointing out alternative third party resources is missing the point ). This is the point I'm trying to make. Cheers, Steve
RE: gimp
Red eye reduction - the quickest and most effective is select the red area of the eyes and desaturation (remove the colour). This leaves the eye very close to natural - last 20 years in the photo lab we had a fine tipped green felt pen (indelible) that we when over the red eyes with on the prints. Maurice -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 4:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: gimp Nick Rout wrote: One thing people perhaps have to get used to with open source software is not only the different programming and distribution models, but the vastly different support models. You won't just pop into Paper Plus and buy a Dummies book for anything and everything. Grokking the GIMP is in fact that book. It's good, it's in the Chch Public Library, and it's available for free on-line (free beer)! Volker Kuhlmann wrote: You appear to be unhappy because there is no working point-and-shoot solution for colour temperature. You are very likely right. I have equally not found a working point-and-shoot red-eye reduction, or certainly, none that satisfies me. So I just use the GIMP to do both red-eye and colour correction myself. It isn't difficult. I would expect a functional pick white-type colour correction function without any question in any decent photo editor. Using the existing colour correction tools isn't difficult, but somehow the results are not good. Probably part of it is my fault, but I didn't find a set of operations which gibe acceptible results, after several tries. I agree. Better scripts - more point-and-shoot - would certainly help the GIMP a lot. By the way, I'd also quite like a decent red-eye plug-in, while you're at it. There's a tutorial on that on gimpguru.org, which at first glance seems a superb teaching site. However you can't compare a white balance correction (simple algorithm taking about 2 simple parameters) with red eye removal (more complicated algorithm with a select-region problem), which I therefore wouldn't lump under basic functionality. Mightily handy though if it was there and worked... I'd really just like a point-and-shoot script that sets up the channels and brushes for the user, so that they can wave the brush over the affected eyes. No need for complete automation. Such a script wouldn't be complicated, but is currently at position #649 on my list of things to do. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. ===
