On Mon, July 5, 2010 20:32, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Hello,
I would like to get a handheld scanner for academic research (i.e.
digitising required reading for uni classes). Can anyone recommend
any models (and tell of any to avoid)? I have given myself a headache
searching, and handhelds seem
On Mon, July 5, 2010 12:31, Nick Rout wrote:
There is a pub night once a month on the 17th. Usually at the Twisted Hop.
I don't know if anyone actually attends?
Usually only two or three of us are there. I wouldn't call it a CLUG
meeting so much as get out of the house night.
sV
On Thu, July 1, 2010 16:28, Adrian Mageanu wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have a spare plastic support band/thing that keeps the hard
drive in place in an old IBM TinkCentre pc?
Have you given Molten Media a ring? ( http://www.molten.org.nz/ )
Cheers,
sV
On 2 June 2010 10:31, Jim Cheetham j...@gonzul.net wrote:
If you are the owner of the computer in question and you are
competant, there is no reason at all not to use root all the time.
Just set your uid to 0 and be done with it. I'm as serious with that
comment as I am with writing passwords
On 31 May 2010 20:31, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
And it's the very first thing I always fix on those systems, as I refuse
to be forced to prefix everything I do with sudo.
$ sudo su -
#
=)
sV
On 31 May 2010 21:44, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
Even though you lose the accountability of the sudo log, it still does
add extra protection of not being to remotely log in as root, and
there's no password, no certificate to enable it if/when you get there.
If all you're
On 24 May 2010 16:12, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
I just got sent the following email from Telecom:
we're sorry that we cannot continue to provide a plan with no monthly data
allowance.
Seems to me that we (as consumers) would have to pay a early contract
termination fee if we backed out of
If you haven't seen this already, Telecom is pulling their Big Time
(unlimited) data plan. Existing customers will be given notice and
have to find something new.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5objectid=10646147
and
Are you going to have a tux on the table? =)
sV
On 17 May 2010 10:51, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
Greets to CLUGgers,
It's the 17th today, so it's a gathering at the Twisted Hop.
Tux and I be there from approx 7:00.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
On 24 April 2010 20:08, Phill Coxon phi...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
A.
Not on this drive - it's a WD3200AAKS-0 Cavier Blue 320G. But I do have
a Green drive for backups so I'll be looking at that more closely.
Thanks!
By the way,
Some of the slowdown could be due to a workaround in Ubuntu
On 25 April 2010 13:37, Wayne Rooney wroo...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
I wasn't using Ubuntu and I wasn't using ext4.
My reply was to Phil, who is running Ubuntu. And while the workaround
was for ext4, it will effect other things since calling fsync will
cause all data to be written to disk.
sV
On 25 April 2010 16:47, Phill Coxon phi...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
The old drive is running ext3 so that's not it.
I'm also installing the new drive with ext3 for the time being.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Yes, I remember you saying that. But I was pointing out that while
the workaround
Hi Phill,
You can use ionice -c 3 (idle) to reduce load of command, and with -p
of an existing pid. However, I'd recommend that you check your dmesg
/ logs for drive errors. Sounds like it might be a drive going bad.
If your drive supports SMART, check using the smart tools. Finally,
if all
Hi Paul,
Logwatch might be of some help here. It's designed to report those
types of things in a summary, but you can change the detail level to
get more out of the report. Most settings will be installed in
/etc/logwatch.conf and /etc/logwatch(.d) or similar. And it's just a
set of perl
Hey all,
I'm going to warn you beforehand and say that this message is
technical and academic discussions of the inner-workings of md-RAID
and file systems. If you haven't had your morning coffee or don't
want a headache, please stop reading now. :)
If you're still here, I've been trying to
Hi Steve,
1. I wouldn't touch ext4 for this.
Why?
2. What about reiser4?
Reiser is much better for smaller files, where ext4 (extents) and xfs
are much better for larger files like I'm using.
3. PARTITIONING! Having just lived through it, watch out for the newer
( WD only?? ) disks with
On 9 April 2010 10:07, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
I note that most* of these NAS boxes use xfs, although that is the only
file system that has completely blown up in my face in the last 10
years!
Steve
* OK, I've only seen about half a dozen of them (:
Have to admit that
Hi Bryce,
My experience with RAID is all from windows - but it may translate to
Linux.
I would have ask why not use Hardware RAID (unless not available) so in
the OS all your dealing with is a single disk setup rather than all this
software RAID complication?
As a side note on the Informix
On 9 April 2010 10:58, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
You state this as fact... I find it strange, both from theory and
experience. A random, fairly recent article ( yeah, it's not brilliant,
but... )
http://www.myhostnews.com/2008/09/optimizing-raid-performance-bencmarks/
On 9 April 2010 11:07, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Nice - I saw somewhere that the likelyhood of losing a second drive
increases exponentially once one has failed or started erroring.
One way to reduce that risk is to assemble the raid on drives of different
brands/models
On 9 April 2010 11:20, Hadley Rich h...@nice.net.nz wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:17 +1200, Solor Vox wrote:
Geez, you'd think I posted about using a windows box or something, so
many people going after the thing I didn't ask. O.o
You'd think you weren't grateful for the help either.
Sorry
I have two Asus eee boxes, the Eee PC 1000 (not HA) and EB1012 tv frontend
box for mythtv. I highly recommend you go with a SSD model for both battery
life and durability of the system. I remember reading that there was a high
rate of failure for the standard hard drive models. SSD model has
Only one thing to say about that...
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxb4hyZ9pM1qb1o1fo1_500.jpg
And it speaks for itself.
sV
On 7 April 2010 13:32, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Have we eliminated all the Apple fanboys ? Noone has mentioned the ipad at
all. Rather
I'd suggest using a udev rule that runs simple script to enable/disable your
tty. All you'd need to do is match your modem in a udev rule and call a
script to change your inittab.
That way it only runs if/when the modem is plugged-in.
Cheers,
sV
On 29 March 2010 11:10, Tom Munro Glass
Ok guys,
I was there at 7:20 last night. Asked around, and everyone looked at me
like a crazy man when I asked about Linux. Unless I missed it, at least one
person was going to be early having a bite to eat.
You guys met at the Twisted Hop, on Poplar St, right?
sV
That is a bad idea to kill the session of either of those DE. (Desktop
Environment, not just Window Managers)
The problem is (gnome|kde)-session is the parent that spawns all
sub-processes, including metacity/compiz/etc WM that you want to replace.
Furthermore, the login manager, usualy gdm,
your usb drive won't work nicely without
gnome/dbus/etc.
Cheers,
sV
On 17 February 2010 07:48, Aidan Gauland aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote:
Solor Vox wrote:
The problem is (gnome|kde)-session is the parent that spawns all
sub-processes, including metacity/compiz/etc WM that you want
Hi guys,
My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of
recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain.
I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web
site. Virtual private servers are great, UML/xen/etc, but often a bit
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
Hey Kevin,
I have the Telecom that stick and it does work on Linux. But one
small problem is that by default, it is configured to be a usb storage
device so that drivers are automatically loaded first. Then the
drivers (windows) switch the mode to usb modem. You need to switch it
into modem
Homebank works well for me. Had to have something that the wife could
use, and gnucash was a bit much. It works with qif exports from our
bank as well.
http://homebank.free.fr/
It's already in most distro's as well.
sV
On 12/2/09, Robert Fisher rob...@fisher.net.nz wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
According to RFC, your MTA (Mail transfers agent) should have replied with
ELHO FQDN, instead it said localhost.
554 5.7.1 localhost: Helo command rejected: You are not me
The mail server was correct in closing the connection, although it should
have given you an error after the ELHO. What
I would also like to point out you should *never* backup SQL databases via
file method while running. You either have to shut down the SQL server and
backup the files, or use another tool such as mysqldump/pg_dump/etc. to dump
the live data.
You should know that tar will not get other important
Hi all,
Just wondering if you guys had any local meetings? I read in the archives
that you had talked about it... but that was back in May and I didn't see
any final decisions on it.
Looking for something in the CHCH area.
sV
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