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2005-11-12 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Greetings, I have just undertaken a big upgrade of my PC: new motherboard, more RAM, and decided to upgrade the operating system from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora Core 4. Everything seems to have worked except for one oddity. Both Mozilla and Opera load pages very erratically, sometimes quickly,

[Scottish] Fedora 4 Core and browsers problem

2005-11-15 Thread John Gordon Ollason
://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8007.htm Should you consider going the firefox route (I'd recommend it) there's an extension called Fasterfox I found recently and I get very fast responses. Cheers, Colin John Gordon Ollason wrote: Greetings, I have just undertaken a big upgrade of my PC: new motherboard, more

[Scottish] Re: Apache weirdness

2006-06-01 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Thanks to everybody who has replied. You have given me a lot to think about. When (if) I get it fixed would people be interested in the hearing about it? Best wishes John O. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Scottish] Re: Apache weirdness

2006-06-01 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Further to my last posting. It was a confusion of paths. One line modified in the script and everything works as it ought to. Thanks again for all the input which focussed my mind. If you are interested in working site the url is http://ccgi.houseofdeer.plus.net/connexion It was designed

[Scottish] Re: Apache weirdness

2006-06-03 Thread John Gordon Ollason
: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:28:51 +0100 From: William Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Re: Apache weirdness To: SLUG-list scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 John Gordon Ollason wrote: Further to my last posting

[Scottish] Re. Apache Weirdness

2006-06-09 Thread John Gordon Ollason
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[Scottish] I have a virus

2007-04-23 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Greetings, I received a panic phone call yesterday evening from somebody who told me that she had sent me an e-mail with a virus attached. I had received the e-mail, and opened the attachment, a .DOC file, with OpenOffice 2.0 working under Fedora Core 4. Can I have harmed my system by

[Scottish] Re: I have a virus.

2007-04-24 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Thanks to everybody who provided advice. I am reassured. Best wishes, John O. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] Recommended Web hosting

2007-07-28 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Hi, I have been asked to put up a website for a voluntary organization, and I am looking around for an economical hosting service that supports cgi-bin scripting in PERL, and ideally, remote login so that I can do simple administration using the host system. I haven't had to do this

[Scottish] The following e-mail was misidentified as spam by the ferocious spam-detector

2007-09-11 Thread John Gordon Ollason
. John Ollason --- Forwarded message --- From: John Gordon Ollason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Cc: Subject: Strange Perl problem: tie Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:54:15 +0100 Greetings, In order to minimise the maintenance of a website I set up a configuration file

[Scottish] Re: Advice needed about A Perl/Apache interaction

2007-09-12 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Thanks for the suggestions, everybody. The $! variable was the key: 'Permission denied'. So I used chmod to search systematically through permissions and the tie works with $chmod **6 configdata $chmod **7 configdata (*=0--7) and this strikes me as insecure especially as on another server

[Scottish] Software for digital camera output

2007-11-30 Thread John Gordon Ollason
I am thinking of buying a digital camera. I have had a look around the various specs and everything seems to come with its own Mac/PC software. I have found it perfectly straightforward to plug my wife's Olympus camera into the USB port of my Iyonix---Gotta have it to use Techwriter...---and

[Scottish] BBC iPlayer for Macintosh but not for linux, for a long time, if ever . . .

2008-02-09 Thread John Gordon Ollason
The BBC has announced that the iPlayer will soon be available for Macs. So MS and Apple are catered for, but not Open Source. I don't know if the BBC's charter as a public broadcaster is broken by the decision to limit its output to equipment made only by particular suppliers, but if it is

[Scottish] Fraudulent Internet use of my debit card

2008-07-17 Thread John Gordon Ollason
I suppose it's inevitable, but my bank statement came back this month and somebody had spent £3000 of my money purchasing stuff on my debit card using the Internet. In the last 6 months the only other purchase I made on the Internet was to Amazon UK. What is the likelihood that I have

[Scottish] Linux installation gotchas

2008-07-24 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Greetings, I first installed Redhat 5.2, upgraded to 7.3 painlessly, to Fedora 4 with a little more pain. In this time, the installation has become pretty scungy with useless software, forgotten hacks, and symbolic links scattered about the place. My system is set up on two scsi disks.

[Scottish] Hosting recommendations

2008-11-27 Thread John Gordon Ollason
I have been a client of Hosting Scotland for a while and have been very pleased with the service they provide for two websites I am responsible for. Sadly they are shutting down and I need to migrate to another hosting company. I would like to move somewhere that is reasonably programmer

Re: [Scottish] Hosting recommendations

2008-12-10 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Thanks to everybody who replied to my request for hosting recommendations. Things are more or less moved now. John O. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

[Scottish] Hardware recommendations?

2009-09-07 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Greetings, My aged system is due to be replaced. I should like to find a supplier of linux friendly hardware who would sell me a system without Windows. Can anybody recommend a local supplier in the Aberdeen area, or nearby? Thanks, John O. ___

[Scottish] Security breach

2011-07-04 Thread John Gordon Ollason
Greetings, I received e-mail from the ISP that hosts my websites that my shell account had been used in a security breach. I have had a superificial check of my files, and can't find anything altered. What checks ought I to do to insure the integrity of my files? And what harm could my

[Scottish] Router suitable for a small home network

2013-12-08 Thread John Gordon Ollason
I have a small domestic network comprising my linux box (wired), my wife's PC (wireless), an Iyonix (a computer that nobody has ever heard of) (wired), the tv (wired) a RaspberryPi (wired), and a network printer (wireless). I am connecting to a bog-standard dsl broadband ISP. On Thursday