I definitely find Monday, Wednesday and Thursday better than Friday (and Tuesday).
Cheers
Zenaan
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:18:39AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
When should the next meeting date be? Our January meeting
was held on Monday 22nd as a convenient way to get a few
speakers from
Hi, I am registered under two different email addresses - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and this one [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please remove this one, ie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to save the redundancy.
Thanks heaps
Zen
_
Get Your Private, Free
Wasn't aware such a movement was underway but this sounds extremely positive
and worthwhile.
Lots of "moral support" to you!
Cheers
Zen
- Original Message -
From: "Ron Skeoch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001
I'd like to be a Debian maintainer for one small(ish) package to lift my
contribution level.
I would be most interested in hearing such a talk.
Cheers
Zen
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:58:53PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
Okay, I finally got around to it. I've found a venue that suited my
Yes, the GLUG has arrived - well, at least as a thought :)
For those with a passion for Free Software, a take-no-prisoners approach
to Free software or a deep empathy with freedom, and GNU's version of
free as it relates to software, well our time has come gather, organise
and socialise.
Right
... Storm Truppen ...
Be afraid. Be very afraid!
Where was I? SLUG is a group for everyone; I don't think that there would be
much demand for what you are asking. Just enjoy what we've got.
Try telling that to RMS :)
cheers
zen
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1) ISP Upstreams who provide rebranding (must include ADSL).
2) Info on ISP backoffice software as well (radius server, etc). I found
eg. http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/Linux-ISP-HOWTO.html but it's from
1995!
Did give me a good start to
Is it possible to have a null cipher for ssh/scp?
On occasion I'm on my LAN, behind a firewall/router etc, and need to
copy a few hundred megs or gigs between boxes.
In this environment, I simply want maximum xfer rate, and minimum CPU
use. I simply want to copy the files across, and have no
Does anyone have experience in making any USB dialup modem work?
(Specifically, although it matters not, Netcomm Rave III.)
The question is, what is the /dev/??? device for the serial/ modem
port?
TIA
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Please respect the
Anyone know what the magical google search should be to figure out how
to read the apache2-doc docs on my local webserver?
Each HTML file has various versions named *.lang where lang is two
char language code, and the links point to the filename without the lang
extension, which is REALLY
The only thing I miss from gnome-terminal is its word-selection regex -
double click selects a full package name for example, whereas xterm,
when I double click, the word boundary appears to be the dashes in the
package name, which isn't so useful.
Thanks in advance
Zen
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Can one run two or more firefox instances such that each instance is in
an entirely separate address space?
Eg, can I copy a firefox executable?
I shouldn't have to set up a separate browser (eg. galeon) unless I
actually want that browser, but occasionally I've been in a situation
where I want
Hi, an association I am associated with has recently purchased a 5-year
e-commerce hosting account with Melbourne-IT.
They provide (by way of referral) an $1800 basic e-commerce website.
What recommendations are there for providors of such a site - we need it in
the next week (or two max),
Hi, an association I am associated with has recently purchased a 5-year
e-commerce hosting account with Melbourne-IT.
They provide (by way of referral) an $1800 basic e-commerce website.
What recommendations are there for providors of such a site - we need it in
the next week (or two max),
Hi, can anyone explain what these packets coming from my wireless router
are? These are the lines from tshark:
0.00 Netgear_a0:1a:fc - IntelCor_80:3f:54 LLC I, N(R)=0, N(S)=0;
DSAP NULL LSAP Individual, SSAP NULL LSAP Command
and from tcpdump:
12:23:12.489965 00:14:6c:a0:1a:fc (oui Unknown)
Any idea why I'm getting these, and how to stop them?:
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] find
/var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin
+$(/usr/share/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm
/bin/sh: /usr/share/php5/maxlifetime: Permission denied
find: invalid argument
Hi, I would like to mirror debian stable testing unstable, main universe
and source for all, and ubuntu similarly, and for i386, amd64 and ppc.
I'm moving around a lot - no fixed place to live at, and sometimes no
internet at all, and of course find myself setting up other people's
machines etc.
Hi, I have a Ubuntu binary mirror (and medibuntu binary/source), and am
getting a couple of openmoko freerunners in the next Aus group buy, for
friends who are interested in them (so am I of course).
There is a debian for openmoko repository on the way:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
Would anyone who is with vehicle, like to cheauffer Richard Stallman
to the Blue Mountains, from City, tomorrow, or possibly Monday,
bearing in mind that he is due to speak at UNSW early Monday evening,
at 5:30 for 6pm start. ?
cheers
zenaan
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Would anyone who is with vehicle, like to cheauffer Richard Stallman
to the Blue Mountains, from City, tomorrow, or possibly Monday,
bearing in mind that he is due to speak at UNSW early Monday evening,
at 5:30 for 6pm start.
, Zenaan Harkness zen...@gmail.com wrote:
Would anyone who is with vehicle, like to cheauffer Richard Stallman
to the Blue Mountains, from City, tomorrow, or possibly Monday,
bearing in mind that he is due to speak at UNSW early Monday evening,
at 5:30 for 6pm start. ?
cheers
zenaan
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If I want to dynamically create loop devices, how would I dynamically
create loop device minor numbers in some way, from a shell script,
eg.:
# setup:
UNIQUE_NAME=unique_login_name
LOOP_DEV=/dev/loop/$UNIQUE_NAME
MINOR_NUMBER=some_hash_or_what_???
mknod $LOOP_DEV b 7 $MINOR_NUMBER
chown
Great!
I was unfamiliar with readlink's ability. That'll work well.
Thanks
Zen
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM, John Ferlito jo...@inodes.org wrote:
How about just using symlinks instead.
eg
# creation
UNIQUE_NAME=unique_login_name
MY_LOOP_DEV=/dev/loop/$UNIQUE_NAME
# Setup loop device and grab it's name
LOOP_DEV=`sudo losetup --show --find
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au wrote:
The horrible, O(n) way is to just to loop over 0 .. n, see if it doesn't
exist, if it doesn't then create and use it.
It's slow, it's racy (ie, don't run the script without locking :-) but
it's a traditional UNIX way
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
So, my question is, can a printer that only requires a PPD file
give me feedback like presence, paper status etc or do I need
to write a CUPS backend driver to get those features.
I've used a HP T522.ppd USB
(Finally figured out gmail's email alias can be set as default, so my
addy just changed.)
Hi, I have my first program to publish, and would like a little feedback.
zchroot is a bash script to work with encrypted chroot-in-a-file chroots.
--help output is at end of this email.
Right now zchroot
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
Zenaan Harkness wrote:
From memory it
told me ink levels and only required a t522.ppd.
Thanks that is a data point.
It is however quite conceivable that my memory is faulty. So the
datapoint may say more
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:59:03PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
*) Should I post zchroot here, plain or zipped?
It is 551 lines, zenlib.sh is 157, and zchroot.conf is 66 lines.
Maybe upload it somewhere and post a URL
OK, finally bit the bullet and got my vps working. All future updates
shall be via my website.
zchroot can now be found here (a slightly updated version too):
http://soulsound.net/
cheers
zen
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and get hold of something like an IBM T40 or X40. As long as it has
2Gb of RAM. Cost about $160. Ebay also do a CD based manual for
...
Other than that Advent or Dell. I've burnt out several Advent
laptops. All of them were good.
If new, anyone interested in a group purchase?
We are
I had this working 3 weeks or so ago, but can't figure out what's gone
wrong.
# debmirror --nosource --nocleanup --exclude-deb-section=games --verbose
--progress --arch=amd64 --section=main --dist=squeeze --host=
ftp.iinet.net.au --method=http --root=pub/debian/debian
/public/debian-target
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 18:06, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes:
I had this working 3 weeks or so ago, but can't figure out what's gone
wrong.
At a guess the key changed; I know they were rotating the Debian archive
keys,
though I
BTW, I've run an strace -f, and the trustedkeys.gpg file _is_ being
opened by gpgv, and yet spitting out this error can't find public
key.
What gives?
I feel like I'm missing something really really basic.
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Ahh, now I remember, I symlinked my various mirrors intoto /public/,
so now I have to give a target directory by including the trailing /,
or it sees only the symlink. Time to put a readlink -f in my lib...
solved.
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Hey sluggers, do you have experience of any problems using gpg's
--disable-dsa2 option?
gnupg 1.4.6 is what I am using (Ubuntu 8.04), although later today I
should have a chroot for Ubuntu 10.04 if that makes any difference.
--disable-dsa2
Enables new-style DSA keys which
2010/10/21 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:58:32AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Hey sluggers, do you have experience of any problems using gpg's
--disable-dsa2 option?
...
I guess your key ID is AA41E5E0:
http://pgp.net.nz:11371/pks/lookup?op
Is it possible to disable SHA1 and 3DES entirely? Ie:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 15:28, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
2010/10/21 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org:
To migrate your WoT, see:
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/48
Note also that gpg displays
2010/10/21 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org:
You could see the instructions about creating a strong 4096 bits RSA key
at:
http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html
Found another gpg subkey/ sub-key tutorial which is a very easy read:
in this case and I have the download on the desktop --- it's a .tgz file
--- is there an apt-get command 9or variation) that will install it?
A .tgz is not a .deb.
apt-get, even dpkg (lower level) work with .deb files.
If you cannot find a .deb, even for a different debian variant (eg
Ubuntu,
-- the use of apt-get for
software installation/upgrades is deprecated. aptitude has numerous
advantages, including more advanced dependency handling and a
OK, I wanted to know. HAD to know! Here's my googling results:
This page:
Magic Recipe: there have been numerous replies
Where man cmd-name is a learn to fish kind of magic recipie :)
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work in a git repo if you want that just ask.
$ zchroot --help
zchroot 0.2.5
Copyright (C) 2010 Zenaan Harkness.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
ZBASE: /home/justa
Next meeting is listed as August.
Eventually, via the wiki, I found a link to http://slug.eventbrite.com/
This was quite frustrating in the meantime though - checking all the
slug event pages, different calendar views etc., refreshing in case
my cache settings were skewif.
At the very least, a
Eventually, via the wiki, I found a link to http://slug.eventbrite.com/
That link uses the term preceded at least twice:
# Format: Main talk, preceded by social lightning talks
Should that actually say followed by?
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Create and work with loopback mounted, luks encrypted, file based chroot
guests.
OK, I finally determined why schroot was not doing as I wanted, and
why zchroot does:
On reading schroot's /etc/schroot/setup.d/05file, I determine:
- schroot's file chroot type means a temporarily zipped file
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 18:57, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
Ahh, now I remember, I symlinked my various mirrors intoto /public/,
so now I have to give a target directory by including the trailing /,
or it sees only the symlink. Time to put a readlink -f in my lib...
solved
This has stumped me for a few days now.
When I chroot into my chroot dir, I am always started at the / (root)
directory.
Just this morning I re-read the bash man page, and finally inserted
cd $HOME at the start of /etc/profile.
Is there a more elegant way? Eg, should I be trying to run
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:48, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes:
This has stumped me for a few days now. When I chroot into my chroot dir, I
am always started at the / (root) directory.
Uh-huh.
Just this morning I re-read the bash man page
I just noticed that on my centos system, /sbin doesn't seem to be 'on
executable' path, I need to prefix with '/sbin/':
...
what do I need to fix ?
edit ~/.bashrc
At end of file add:
PATH=/sbin:$PATH
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 13:07, Robert W robertw...@gmail.com wrote:
If I use DD to back up my USB drive to a file, should I expect the checksum
of the image file created to be the same as the checksum produced by the
device (for instance, /dev/sdb)?
I've been getting different checksums and I
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 17:26, Minh Van Le mva...@tpg.com.au wrote:
How do I establish a connection where the localhost IP are both in the
Local Address and Foreign Address columns of netstat ?
Eg.,
=
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 02:42, Minh Van Le mva...@tpg.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:04 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 17:26, Minh Van Le mva...@tpg.com.au wrote:
How do I establish a connection where the localhost IP are both in the
Local Address and Foreign
Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
running at max resolution of 1920x1200?
Or otherwise how can I calculate such a modeline from the monitor specs?
I've tried the 1920x1200 modelines from mythtv.org, which has
modelines for a Dell 2405FPW.
My laptop can drive the
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 15:59, Mark Pearson
ma...@nucmed.crg.cs.nsw.gov.au wrote:
I have the same monitor and struck the same problems. They all went away
when I by chance used a dual-dvi cable ie. one that does not have any pins
missing in the connector.
The Dell 700m laptop I have, has a VGA
bump :)
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From: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net
Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:10
Subject: Modeline for DELL U2410, 1920x1200 ?
To: SLUG slug@slug.org.au
Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
running at max resolution
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:34, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote:
Zenaan Harkness said:
Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
running at max resolution of 1920x1200?
Or otherwise how can I calculate such a modeline from the monitor specs?
$ gtf 1920 1200 50
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:23, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
The laptop has a divided hard drive: Windows7 and Ubuntu.
I recently added a printer. To the Windows section. Installed drivers to
this section
I’d like to access the printer from the Ubuntu part of the hard drive.
So. Do I
Hi, I feel imbecilic, because this is not making sense to me.
Static ip, resolvconf installed, I even went so far as to purge
uninstall dhcp3-client, and yet:
on each reboot, resolv.conf comes up empty (no nameservers).
SSH is working.
Evironment:
Ubuntu 10.04 server, running in a vmware
Adding the following line to /etc/rc.local is a solution to this
problem, but seems ridiculously clunky:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Surely there's something more elegant?
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On 2011-07-01, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote:
I believe you can specify a nameserver in interfaces in 10.04
check out man resolvconf
On 07/01/2011 02:00 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Hi, I feel imbecilic, because this is not making sense to me.
Static ip, resolvconf
Of course. Remove resolvconf. That's the obvious - I knew I was
missing something obvious. On my laptop, resolvconf facilitates
bringing eth devices up and down in different networks, but that's not
needed for a server. Somehow had it in my mind that resolvconf was
needed to update resolv.conf.
I
On 2011-07-02, Erwin Mueller erwin.muel...@deventm.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 30, 2011 06:00:33 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Static ip, resolvconf installed, I even went so far as to purge
uninstall dhcp3-client, and yet:
on each reboot, resolv.conf comes up empty (no nameservers).
You
I like the idea of a git - backed wiki. Gives a version controlled,
robust data store. I often find the comparison tables on wikipedia to
be very useful, for many types of software.
goo dluck
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The most important app to me is that Libre app. Called Freedom or
something... not sure what others call it sometimes.
If you so insist on a self-centered reason: there's that big brouhaha
what, just December or something (can someone remember the name
please)? about that key-logging binary blob
On 2012-02-03, Rod Butcher rbutc...@hyenainternet.com wrote:
I'm not at the cutting edge, I just need to have a smartphone that can
do most things and is open-source without participating in holy wars.
Can you clarify your comments ?
thanks
Rod
On 02/03/12 14:30, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
The most
Slashdot daily newsletter has changed, to my dissatisfaction. There
must be others who are experiencing this...
Is there an aggregator or a greasemonkey-for-email type thing, so I
can get my daily email fix with the old style each-full-story and get
rid of italics?
TIA
Zen
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Tuxtagently and without being rude or stirring flames in any way utter
crap.
Really?? Doesn't seem gentle and without being rude. Just stating you
are not rude does not make it so.
Well said.
If anyone has any suggestions on motherboards I would love to hear from
you.
Very appropriate
If anyone has any suggestions on motherboards I would love to hear from
you.
Very appropriate question for the list. Glad you asked it.
BTW, the tower is not so dark either :)
Let's continue having fun, with freedom,
We've installed a 1000 or more boards, in groups so say 100 different
glusterfs
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Getting_started_rrqsg
http://www.gluster.org/
:)
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On 11/24/13, Jiří Baum j...@baum.com.au wrote:
I need to rename 100,448 files in bzr, but running bzr mv 100,448
times is taking too long. Anybody know if there's some sort of
multi-move?
I only know git sorry. If there is any similarity, then some
assumptions needs to be provided by you, eg
On 11/26/13, Jiří Baum j...@baum.com.au wrote:
Jiří:
I need to rename 100,448 files in bzr, but running bzr mv 100,448
times is taking too long. Anybody know if there's some sort of
multi-move?
Zenaan:
I only know git sorry. If there is any similarity, then some
assumptions needs to be
On 12/4/13, Matt Hope matt.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Random tips:
cp -t argument sometimes useful
rsync -avu src/ host://dest/ might be preferable
when find's -print0 also use:
[e]grep's -z and -Z (or -zZ) options
xarg's -0 option
Something I cut and pasted off the internet years ago:
Way to
On 5/22/14, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote:
I was wondering what is the best (as in most efficient method) for doing
an automated, scheduled recursive search and DEL exercise. The scheduled
part is just a cron job, no problem. But what's the most efficient
method to loop a given structure and
Thought of the day.
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From: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 07:39:06 +1000
Subject: any going to Nepal?
To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org
To help establish new mobile base stations, internet network, etc?
Ham radios are being used right
FYI
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From: Zenaan Harkness
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:50:48 +1000
Subject: 8TiB HDD, 10^14 bit error rate, approaching certainty of
error for each drive of data read
To: d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Seems ZFS' and BTRFS' time has come. ZFS
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