Re: plastic hard drive support for an old ibm tinkcentre
Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 07/01/2010 04:28 PM: Does anyone have a spare plastic support band/thing that keeps the hard drive in place in an old IBM TinkCentre pc? To be honest I don't even know what that plastic thing looks like, and I can't even tell the exact model of the PC (I guess desktop A58 with approximation), but the inside of the PC looks exactly like in these pictures: It'll be a blue frame the same light blue as the other bits of trim plastic. If you buy it new would probably cost around $50. What's the IBM model and part number for the case? should be of the form -xxx and on a black sticker on the front of the case. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/51261_locatecomp.gif http://media.photobucket.com/image/ibm%20thinkcentre%20desktop%20hard%20disk%20enclosure/spike888ph/08-Desktops/Thinkcentre%2520M50%25208187/inside.jpg It'd be cheaper for you to cobble it in rather than buying the correct bracket. -- Craig Falconer
Re: resolution Problem Ubuntu 10.4
chris wrote, On 06/23/2010 07:52 PM: As I needed to keep SWMBO happy I uncoupled the box from my KVM switch and set it up with the Viewsonic as a standalone system. ... Bingo, it picked up the monitor and the edid information and immediately settled onto the 1680x1050 resolution. Also in the gui, it shows the full range of resolutions, and the monitor name etc. So the problem apparently is the KVM switch. (which has not been an issue up until this release). So the KVM switch is filtering out the EDID info. Get a better KVM switch. Novaview and Rextron ones work well. A four port PS2 switch with OSD is about $200+ A four port USB switch with OSD is about $220+ 2 port ones are available, but they don't do OSD or chaining. Cables are normally extras too, in case they're a part of your existing KVM. You can get 8 and 16 port ones too, but they're getting really pricy. Interestingly - some KVM switches support dual monitors now. Another option is to buy a new separate monitor and lose the KVM switch completely - probably quite similar costs. -- Craig Falconer
Re: why oh why...
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? Now I have that damn nursery song in my head... over and over. Thanks, Steve. -- Craig Falconer
horse accounts cleanup
There are 37 accounts on horse, and 24 of them have not been used for over a year. I'm intending on deleting the old accounts sometime next week - if you want to keep it please login. Anyone who has forgotten their password please let me know too. I'm also following up on users with specific firewall rules. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Telecom kills Bigtime plan
Solor Vox wrote, On 05/21/2010 12:25 AM: 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. Big time hasn't been a valid plan since 2006/7. That's the one where they didn't admit to shaping and throttling. The replacement was called Go Large and stated that shaping would be done. Still it had a "fair use" policy. What do you guys recommend for higher (50GB+ per month) data usage in CHCH? Do any of the plans exclude data from citylink or other NZ open source mirrors? =) I suggest you look at ways to use less data. No DSL or cable plan includes any form of split routing. There was a TCL cable plan at 128K that gave a 1/10 charge for national traffic, but that was long ago. True flat-rate starts at $1k/month. There will not be a real domestic all-you-can-eat connection for double-digits/month. -- Craig Falconer
Re: laptop recommendations pls
Robert Fisher wrote, On 05/04/2010 11:56 AM: 1. Economy - can be new / 'on special' or ex-lease. I can get you a Dell Latitude D610 for less than $500 Intel T7200 Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz Processor 2GB DDR2 Ram, 80GB SATA HDD OnBoard Graphics, DVDRW Gigabit Ethernet, USB2.0, WiFi, Bluetooth 14" Screen, XP Home (OS Pre-installed) I second this - those are "good enough" and cheap enough so that it pays for itself if it lasts more than 18 months. And generally the ex-corporate ones have had an easy life. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Stopping disk I/O from massively slowing down the desktop - any suggestions?
Phill Coxon wrote, On 04/22/2010 12:27 PM: When I upgrade to 64bit with the new install I'll get use of the full 4Gb which won't hurt either. You don't require 64 bit kernels to use 4GB physical ram... you can boot a PAE kernel and it'll find the memory okay. Still a 64 bit CPU works better in a 64 bit kernel. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Connecting to a Thompson WiFi router.
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 04/14/2010 05:54 PM: Anyway what device would the list wisdom recommend? Depends on a lot of things. At work we absolutely recommend a cisco SR520, or a SR520W if you want an AP.However I realise this is outside the reach of most home users. If you find an 857 cheap then grab it (where cheap is under $hundred) Don't bother with an 837 or older, they only do ADSL1. Personally I don't mind a venerable linksys WRT54GL but its only an ethernet router, you still need a DSL modem and then you're in the realms of double NAT. ..Then again I'd not have DSL by choice. Ever. My folks got a linksys WAG54G2 - new about $150 at the time. Does everything and has fair wireless range despite having no external aerials. Probably you'd get an 802.11N variant nowdays. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Connecting to a Thompson WiFi router.
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 04/14/2010 10:51 AM: I have been trying persuade an updated to the moment Linux lappie to connect to a Thompson ADSL to WiFi router as supplied 'free' by the Telebrats. Result - Singular lack of success. It very connected occasionally, but it was a utterly hit and miss affair. War stories and the incantations for success would be most gratefully received. They're utter crap. We use them as LCD monitor stands here. At least telephone books get recycled. Is someone else in the area using the same channel? Is it near a microwave or a 2.4 GHz cordless phone? -- Craig Falconer
Re: Bluetooth dongles
Dave G wrote, On 04/10/2010 08:00 PM: I got this one from Jaycar for about 30 bucks: Jaycar Electronics Tiny Bluetooth Adaptor CAT. NO. XC4892 And this on Trademe for about $10: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11866 $2 USD each, free shipping. I'm going to buy a couple dozen for our new office cell phones. If you're leery about buying from an asian place over the web please let me know and I'll get a couple spares. The downside is shipping can be several weeks. -- Craig Falconer
Re: md RAID
Solor Vox wrote, On 04/09/2010 11:25 AM: Sorry, I didn't remember asking for help in choosing RAID type. Guess I should re-read my own message. Given some of your earlier comments - I'm guessing this is for a media PC of some description? Cos if all you're storing is broadcast TV its not really that important IMO. I've done a wee bit with mythtv, and it has a feature called Storage Pools. This allows you to set a collection of disks of any size (and quality) as One-Big-Disk but loss of one disk will not affect the rest. The other media center apps may have something similar. So you'd get all 6 TB of storage, but with no protection. -- Craig Falconer
Re: md RAID
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 04/09/2010 10:21 AM: 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? Windows software raid is arse, thats why. Linux software raid shows you all the gory detail and lets you shoot yourself quite successfully. Its much more versatile. As a side note on the Informix list I watch it is repeatedly said not to use RAID 5 if you can - explanation here: http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt 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 or different production runs. Then again... that seagate firmware bug last year affected many models/sizes -- Craig Falconer
Re: md RAID
Solor Vox wrote, On 04/09/2010 09:16 AM: So for argument's sake, lets say that of the usable 4.5TB, 4TB is for large 8GB and up files. I also plan on either ext4 or xfs. Another variable here is fsck time. We found jfs to have the most consistent fsck times (not the shortest, but never the longest) However that was for backup drives with lots of files. While this all may seem like a bit much, getting it right can mean an extra 30-50MB/s or more from the array. So, has anyone done this type of optimization? I'd really rather not spend a week(s) testing different values as 6TB arrays can take several hours to build. You've really got no option but to test. I suggest you create a test regime that creates and destroys raids, and tests them. Your tests don't need to be full sized, but you'd have to wait for the md to finish synching. We go with raid1 with some minor exceptions which are raid5. For them, we found the defaults is "good enough" unless you push numbers right out to the ends, where performance drops off massively. Even the default settings should be enough to saturate gig ethernet. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Netbook opinions?
Solor Vox wrote, On 07/04/10 13:39: Only one thing to say about that... http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxb4hyZ9pM1qb1o1fo1_500.jpg And it speaks for itself. Far too reasoned and logical. Here's something with gratuitous violence... much more fun. http://laughingsquid.com/ipad-will-it-blend/ -- Craig Falconer
Re: Netbook opinions?
Craig Falconer wrote, On 07/04/10 13:33: Robert Fisher wrote, On 07/04/10 12:23: I looked at netbooks but in the end bought a ex lease Dell D420 from laptop universe. Reasons: I have had an ex lease Dell D410 for ages and like it for the same reasons Nick mentioned. Have we eliminated all the Apple fanboys ? Noone has mentioned the ipad at all. Rather spendy, but looks very pretty. No idea if you can get to terminal.app still. And thats a BSDish not linux. Bad form replying to myself... This just arrived. Acer eMachines eM250 10.1" Atom N270 1GB 160GB XP Home 10.1" 1024x600 LED Screen, Atom N270 Processor, 1GB DDR2 Ram, 160GB SATA HDD Hard Drive, No Optical Drive, 802.11b/g, 3hr battery, 1.2Kg, eMachine webcam, XP Home, 1 Year PRR. RRP is $499 +GST http://www.dove.co.nz/jump/6545 -- Craig Falconer The Total Team - Secure Networks for Serious Business Office: 0800 888 326 / +643 974 9128 Email: workor...@totalteam.co.nz Web: http://www.totalteam.co.nz/
Re: Netbook opinions?
Robert Fisher wrote, On 07/04/10 12:23: I looked at netbooks but in the end bought a ex lease Dell D420 from laptop universe. Reasons: I have had an ex lease Dell D410 for ages and like it for the same reasons Nick mentioned. Have we eliminated all the Apple fanboys ? Noone has mentioned the ipad at all. Rather spendy, but looks very pretty. No idea if you can get to terminal.app still. And thats a BSDish not linux. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Netbook opinions?
Aidan Gauland wrote, On 07/04/10 09:13: I have a birthday coming up, and up for grabs is a netbook. I have heard good things about the Eee PC family from CLUGers a while ago, so I would like to hear any opinions on this model in particular: <http://www.enetcomputers.co.nz/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ASUS103>. (For the impatient and those confined by an over-restrictive firewall, it is listed as an "Asus EeePC 1005HA"). Any recommendations of or opinions on other models or families would be welcome, as well. I've got a 901, which is fantastic. But it has some drawbacks. * Keyboard is small - its not a desktop replacement. * Screen is fine, but some apps can put themselves (and their OK buttons) below the bottom of the screen. Not as much of a problem as it used to be with the 800x480 screens on the 700 models * CPU is "adequate" but its not a desktop replacement. * Battery life is great - five hours, more if its intermittent. * Wireless Aerial is great - I see way more SSIDs on the eee than I do on other laptops. Never tested the N wireless though. * Webcam is kinda useless - never had a purpose for it other than playing. * Bluetooth to a bunch of cell phones etc works nicely. I still end up carrying a mouse with a shortened USB cable. The touchpad is better than a 700, but its not stunning. The provided foam pouch is fine, and the PSUs are nicely small. One niggle - I swear mine reported a gigabit PCIe wired ethernet card. Then I did a BIOS upgrade and it reverted to 100 Mbit. I'd suggest the Solid State version for durability. I've got 4+8 GB onboard and a 16 GB SDHC card for stuff permanently in the slot. I dual boot XP and linux depending on the task at hand. Debian works fine for me with all hardware. Slightly bigger keyboard would make it fantastic - go for it. -- Craig Falconer
Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 01/04/10 17:44: > How desperately do you want this done? The whole partitioning scheme is designed on the assumption that no one is going to try something like this. "Designed" ? Nah - wrong word. Most of the interesting differences between unixes and other OSs come from the sheer age of the original. Disks were much smaller and having a separate disk for /usr /home /var and mail was much more likely. We've just taken that restriction and called it a feature. LVM is one way around this, now that disks have got much larger. -- Craig Falconer
Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 01/04/10 15:03: Luckily, this is all using PV's and LV's. So I'll go add another LV for /var. I was trying to get it all in one LV to simplify backup/restore procedures, but looks like it can't be done without going via a 'horrible answer' :) Actually its less hard for you with LVM already in use. Run pvdisplay and look for "Free PE" If you have some then its easy. Else you'll have to free some space. What filesystem is /home ? I understand ext2 and ext3 can be shrunk but xfs and jfs cannot. No idea about ext4. -- Craig Falconer
Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 01/04/10 14:48: I have two hard drives on this server. Everything except /home is on the first drive. /home is on the second drive, as configured during the install. (so now the bit I don’t get): I also want /var on the second drive. I want /var and /home to be on the same partition on the second drive. How do I go about that? I get confused as /home is currently the mount point for that whole partition, so how do I add /var in at that level also? In windows I’d just add or move the directories on to the second drive, not sure what to do in linux. If the home partition uses the complete second drive then you're stuffed. You'll either have to reduce the size of the sdb1 partition to provide room on sdb for sdb2, or add a third drive. You could move var into /home, but its a horrible answer. Package management can get terribly upset. As root, something like: init 1 mkdir /home/var rsync -avH /var /home/var mv /var /var.old ln -s /home/var /var reboot In the future use PVs and create enough space for what you need, with some spare extents for adding to LVs later, if needed. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Print large image across multiple sheets
Roy Britten wrote, On 29/03/10 23:57: In that case you might care to take you file to one of the sign and poster printing houses and get it professionally printed on a single piece of paper / plasstic. Ah, that was my original plan, right up to the point where I found out how much they charge... I know it might be considered a bit analogue, but have you thought about buying the printed topomap for the area? mapworld in 255 Manchester Street (0800 627 967) should have what you need. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Print large image across multiple sheets
Roy Britten wrote, On 30/03/10 10:50: Created with Image Magick from a number of TIFFs obtained from the LINZ web site (where all the new 1:50,000 series maps are available for download). I have to stitch together 6 maps to cover the tramp I'm doing later this year. So - why combine it to split it ? Can you just print the 6 original pieces ? -- Craig Falconer
Re: Print large image across multiple sheets
Roy Britten wrote, On 29/03/10 23:31: The image was created on the same machine with no real problems. So what created the image? I'm guessing its a map. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Reducing log file noise
Tom Munro Glass wrote, On 29/03/10 11:24: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:19:33 Craig Falconer wrote: Tom Munro Glass wrote, On 29/03/10 11:11: Mar 28 22:56:50 localhost init: Id "ACM0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Your problem is that init is bringing up the process and failing. Not that its logging too much. Thanks Craig - I figured that was the problem. Is there a way of making init quieter? Associated with this, is there a way of changing the disabled period from 5 minutes? I think you're patching the symptom, not the cause. init's job to to make sure certain processes are running. Perhaps udev is your answer instead of init - if the modem is found then run something, otherwise don't. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Reducing log file noise
Tom Munro Glass wrote, On 29/03/10 11:11: Mar 28 22:56:50 localhost init: Id "ACM0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Your problem is that init is bringing up the process and failing. Not that its logging too much. -- Craig Falconer
Re: horse and webshell
Tom Smith wrote, On 24/03/10 12:07: I followed this link but only got this.. must be just my system right?? shell.clug.org.nz uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed. The certificate is only valid for shell.clug.net.nz The certificate expired on 24/05/09 13:59. Yep - its a self-signed certificate. This is not a problem, but most of the web browsers will raise a warning. My problem is that I created it for shell.clug.net.nz and now we're only using clug.org.nz, and also that its expired. Point is moot given its going away soon. -- Craig Falconer
Re: horse and webshell
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 23/03/10 10:42: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:50 C. Falconer wrote: Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use of the webshell running on port 443? That webshell looks really cool! What do people use it for? Accessing horse from sites that only allow http/https access out. It was originally an ssh app for the iphone, hence the onscreen keyboard thing. Why? http requests can be transparently proxied/logged and the user has no idea or control of this. Meanwhile, https can be logged but it cannot be proxied, so while a firewall operator might see you going to https://yourbank.co.nz/accounts/balances they cannot read the page content. So, running an ssh app on that port allowed users to access horse via ssh without actually being able to connect out on port 22. If you're interested, look in /opt/WebShell on horse. Its run as screen -d -m /opt/WebShell/webshell.py Source is in /usr/src/WebShell* -- Craig Falconer
Re: horse and webshell
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 23/03/10 08:42: ... it's usual to run openvpn over udp, so shouldn't clash??? You can run openvpn with either TCP or UDP transport. My wife wants to use a wireless service that only allows port 80/tcp (transparently proxied) and port 443/tcp. Either that or she gets a vodem/aircard/t3g card. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ditto: OT: Free external 56k modem
rob...@tmail.com wrote, On 22/03/10 13:46: ...nothing? Did you leave a word out Rob? -- Craig Falconer
Re: Good SSH client for windows?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 19/03/10 15:11: I have my Ubuntu Server 9.10 up and running. I connect to it from my windows pc with a SSH client called Tunnelier (by BitVise). But the colours are no good - get a dark blue on black for directories in a listing and comments in vim - almost unreadable. I can't find any way to change these colours so... I need a good SSH client to use on my windows machine. Any recommendations? PuTTY. It works, its free, and it works. Some people use teraterm which looks terrible to me. Or you could install cygwin and compile up xterm and ssh for windows. Or you could install linux on your desktop. Or look at your aliases once logged in... perhaps you don't want colour ls listings. Like good open source - theres five different ways for you to go :) -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ditto: OT: Free external 56k modem
yuri wrote, On 17/03/10 17:16: On St Paddy's Day at 13:15, Ross Drummond wrote: no matter what conditions the copper cables submerged below the water table for 30 years or Telecoms coal fired exchange threw at it. Pity the poor cable jointer who has to dig up a cable to repair it, and the hole keeps filling with water. They have pumps in the truck for that, and spanky wee tents to keep the rain off. I'd be more worried about the lead and tar sheathe they use to waterproof the bundles. Using a gas blowtorch to soften the lead and make it watertight again... -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ditto: OT: Free external 56k modem
Ross Drummond wrote, On 17/03/10 13:15: On Wednesday 17 March 2010, you wrote: Chris Downie wrote, On 17/03/10 11:59: I too have a modem free to a good home. It's a Dynalink e-modem (1456VQE-C). Complete, in original box. Please contact me off-list if you want it. Crikey - that might class as a collectible antique by now... Specially when its in the original box still. My old ISA Dynalink modem, V1456VQH-R5-NZL, will forever hold a special place in my heart. Why? This dial up modem never disconnected, no matter what conditions the copper cables submerged below the water table for 30 years or Telecoms coal fired exchange threw at it. I used to download iso images with wget and this 56k modem. It would take three nights, downloading between bed-e-byes and sparrow fart. Likewise - my netcomm pocket rocket is safely stored 1200 baud of goodness, and it used 9V batteries like they were going out of fashion. -- Craig Falconer The Total Team - Secure Networks for Serious Business Office: 0800 888 326 / +643 974 9128 Email: workor...@totalteam.co.nz Web: http://www.totalteam.co.nz/
Re: Ditto: OT: Free external 56k modem
Chris Downie wrote, On 17/03/10 11:59: I too have a modem free to a good home. It's a Dynalink e-modem (1456VQE-C). Complete, in original box. Please contact me off-list if you want it. Crikey - that might class as a collectible antique by now... Specially when its in the original box still. -- Craig Falconer
Re: ssh testing - fail2ban
Derek Smithies wrote, On 12/03/10 10:16: yes yes, this is security by obscurity, (which is a poor form security), but it is a start in the right direction. It will cut down on the number of attacks on your box. I suggest using fail2ban or something similar. It allows 5 failed ssh connections then firewalls off that source IP for a time. Works well on horse. horse:/var/log# iptables -L Chain fail2ban-ssh (1 references) target prot opt source destination DROP all -- 203.167.214.38 anywhere DROP all -- 16.102.7.91 anywhere RETURN all -- anywhere anywhere ... Or if this is something you'll do more in the future then look at a proper VPN setup. -- Craig Falconer
Re: cable testing?
Robert Fisher wrote, On 05/03/10 14:18: Cable is actually pretty tough stuff. I once helped someone lower a hefty old wooden desk out a second-story balony and all we had was a 20 metre length of coax cable with RCA connectors. Did you use NetBui? No it was audio cable not data cable. -- Craig Falconer
Re: cable testing?
Nick Rout wrote, On 05/03/10 13:28: Now for the upstairs connection, which cable had an even harder time on the run! Cable is actually pretty tough stuff. I once helped someone lower a hefty old wooden desk out a second-story balony and all we had was a 20 metre length of coax cable with RCA connectors. A couple months later I needed a spare cable to run composite video to a projector - grabbed this and it worked perfectly. -- Craig Falconer
Re: twitter clients?
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 05/03/10 11:17: What do people recommend? I'm sick of gtwitter crashing for no apparent reason! Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit platform... nothing. Twitter is so insanely pointless. -- Craig Falconer
Re: cable testing?
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 04/03/10 14:42: > Stop - first check you have plugs that match your cable. RJ45 plugs for > solid do not work well on stranded and vice versa. How do you tell the difference? Without trying to be funny - you read the label. The actual physical difference is the shape of the cutting/gripping edge on each metal spade, and the cost is almost 1/3 more for stranded plugs. EG http://www.cdlnz.com/index.html?do=viewproduct&code=RJ-45%20R%20LD&ID=2689410 DYNAMIX RJ-45 8P8C Modular Plug (Round, Stranded) - 50 micron Latch Down Clip 40 cents each ++ http://www.cdlnz.com/index.html?do=viewproduct&code=RJ-45%20SR&ID=2689415 DYNAMIX RJ-45 8P8C Modular Plug (Round, Solid) - 50 micron 25 cents each ++ -- Craig Falconer
Re: cable testing?
Nick Rout wrote, On 04/03/10 14:28: Having now cross-examined the cable layer (she who must be skinny enough to crawl under the house) I suspect the cable may have been damaged going around some brick work and needing a damn good tug at some points. She has "volunteered" to try again [1], luckily we have plenty of cable. I will report back in due course. Stop - first check you have plugs that match your cable. RJ45 plugs for solid do not work well on stranded and vice versa. Secondly - if you fasten the new wire to the old wire and pull it through, then there's no need to go under the house again. -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT: Telecom Proxy servers?
CABLE CABLE CABLE! Or if you live in an internet-ghetto^Wnon-cabled area then you're pretty stuck with telecom DSL, whether it be xtra or wholesaled through another ISP. Some areas (mostly city) allow telstraclear DSL, but thats PPPoE and only in places they have their own copper but not coax. I've heard excellent stuff about netspeed wireless, and they have provided a decent pipe in Hoon Hay, at a location where DSL was under 2 Mbit. http://www.netspeed.net.nz/ http://www.f1.co.nz/Christchurch franchise Paul Swafford wrote, On 04/03/10 12:14: Thanks Craig .. Well there is an opt out .. its called find another provider .. I guess the next question is who? Craig Falconer wrote: Paul Swafford wrote, On 04/03/10 11:50: I've started working more from home lately .. sadly I'm on Telecom DSL I've noticed a lot of caching going on .. particularly (but not only) when I update pages on a US server. I'm constantly fed old version of these pages rather than the new page I just uploaded. .. even demanding an uncached version fails to work. Has anyone else noticed this? I guess I first noticed it about 2 or 3 months ago. Yes - domestic DSL are now being transparently proxied since August last year. There's no opt-out. http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2009-August/015729.html -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT: Telecom Proxy servers?
Paul Swafford wrote, On 04/03/10 11:50: I've started working more from home lately .. sadly I'm on Telecom DSL I've noticed a lot of caching going on .. particularly (but not only) when I update pages on a US server. I'm constantly fed old version of these pages rather than the new page I just uploaded. .. even demanding an uncached version fails to work. Has anyone else noticed this? I guess I first noticed it about 2 or 3 months ago. Yes - domestic DSL are now being transparently proxied since August last year. There's no opt-out. http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2009-August/015729.html -- Craig Falconer
Re: cable testing?
Nick Rout wrote, On 02/03/10 21:49: I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them, unsuccessfully at present. What kind of cable? Solid core or stranded? Is it fixed in the wall or is it running around the floor? 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. Easy way is to use a tone source. I have one. 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? Yes and no... Cable continuity testers are $20 to $100ish and they step across 8 or 9 pins sequentially, putting a voltage on the other wires to complete the circuit. More expensive boxes are called scanners and cost thousands - they can do things like testing all OSI layers (ie speak a full smtp session with a remote host) as well as testing actual voltages, cable lengths, noise factors, etc. We had an issue with an IBM x3350 server... loverly 1RU box with a dual core CPU, lightpath, raid, dual PSUs etc etc. Worth around $7k. It would randomly drop HD0, and possibly lock up and die. Once it completely lost both ethernet interfaces on a dual port PCIe NIC. It is dual UPSed up the wazoo. We replaced the IBM motherboard, drives three times, cables, backplane, raid controller, ethernet card, riser board etc all to no avail. Turns out that there was a POE injector up the cable, and it was putting out-of-spec voltages down the ethernet straight into the firewall. Putting a fuse in place (actually a cheapie 5 port ethernet switch as a sacrificial protection) seems to have cured the problem. So a voltage-reading scanner scope would have found that much quicker. The previous box in the same position was an IBM x306, which died in a similar but more permanent way. http://www.atecorp.com/equipment/fluke/675.asp That one even measures token ring round-trip time and corrupt packet generation. Its worth around $25k. And, heres the hit, can someone in ChCh lend me one? Of course! -- Craig Falconer
Re: chroot sftp users
Glenn Cogle wrote, On 02/03/10 16:30: Box is in DMZ behind a pretty tight firewall, so not really touching the 'net. The box can't even get out to the net (http or FTP) to do an apt-get update, which is another reason it doesn't get dist-upgraded. Okay that's not so bad. To my shame, I have a windows 2000 server on the net, and a fedora core 3 server doing critical stuff for a corporate. You do have backups, right Glenn ? -- Craig Falconer
Re: chroot sftp users
Glenn Cogle wrote, On 02/03/10 16:10: Although the hardware is meaty enough (xeon 3.6GHz, 3GbRAM) , upgrading the OS + software isn't really an option because 1. the box is owned by CompanyA, and used by CompanyB. I work for CompanyC. 2. I lack the testicular fortitude to dist-upgrade for fear of breaking who-knows-what Please tell me this box is not facing the internet. You're just asking for a security compromise running a distro that old. -- Craig Falconer
Re: chroot sftp users
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 02/03/10 09:38: I recommend you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change sarge to "stable" then do a full apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Woah there just one minute Craig. I really wouldn't skip a release when doing this. Doh - yes good point. It's long-winded, but I'd perform a dist-upgrade to etch, then to stable if you're going that route. But, tbh, I'd do a clean install of lenny (stable) in preference. Yes quite right - and if the new box is 64 bit capable, just do that from the start. -- Craig Falconer
Re: chroot sftp users
Glenn Cogle wrote, On 01/03/10 17:27: I want to chroot my sftp users to their respective home directories, but apparently this isn't the default behaviour. My server is debian 3.1, openssh 3.8.1p1 & vsftpd 2.0.3 - not exactly cutting edge, but it works. ... Interested in comments from those who have been here... I've not done this myself, but at the glacial speed of debian releases your 3.1 / sarge install dates from 2005 and probably hasn't had a security update since 2007. Try a dpkg -S openssh-blacklist and see if you're still vulnerable to that. Lenny is 5.0 and is classed as stable. I recommend you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change sarge to "stable" then do a full apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Or possibly its time for new hardware the box has to be fairly old now. To build on a newer box will be better than trying to rebuild the existing one. After that, all the updated versions should work much better. vsftp is 2.2.2-3 openssh is 1:5.3p1-1 -- Craig Falconer
Re: Filesystem and replacing .. The final word??
Aidan Gauland wrote, On 26/02/10 21:41: I'm glad to see the labs have Emacs 23 this year. I love Emacs. Dunno why - vi is everywhere, emacs isn't. Even if you hate it, you still have to know how to use it. -- CF
Re: Filesystem and replacing .. The final word??
Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote, On 17/02/10 13:13: Different folks wrote : > Lots of things... Since you are doing Computer Science and I am doing the rollout :-) I can tell you a few things... Yeah - watch out... Pete lurks here. The MINIMUM machine for unix courses is a quad core with 4Gig of memory and a 22" widescreen. (They dual boot windows) Wow - screens have got smaller since the sun days ;) Another option is some mega-fat VM servers which generates new windows machines from a template. Guest OS get destroyed when user is finished with it and a fresh one is copied for the next user. I guess a terminal server environment isn't appropriate ? > If you want to do things that don't effect other users, and improve > your learning... that is what the department wants you to do. That's not what you said back then! -- Craig Falconer
Re: Filesystem and replacing the window manager
Aidan Gauland wrote, On 16/02/10 21:01: I am about to start university next week, and I do not like either KDE or GNOME, which is all that is available in Canterbury's C.S. computer labs. I would like to put my favourite window manager on my memory stick, and run it in place of the one into which I login. This raises two problems: how do I switch window managers within an X session (without terminating the X session)? And what filesystem can I put on my memory stick that is more UNIX friendly than FAT, but that does not have the ext filesystems' problem of confusing the system that mounts it when moving between systems with different UIDs? These are, of course, not huge issues, but I would like to figure this out at some point. Buy a laptop and use that instead. You can do whatever you want on your own box. Of course, you might not be allowed to connect it to the cosc network. Better check the aup. I vaguely remember running afterstep as a window manager on the old sun 3/50. I had the binary statically compiled in my home directory and it worked fairly well. Depends how much of your profile is automatically generated. (mush!) -- Craig Falconer
Re: wifi router recommendations
You can see a bunch of other SSIDs? Perhaps they're using all available channels and your's has a lower power output? Is the aerial on okay? Dave G wrote, On 10/02/10 14:24: the eth0 ports are all working fine and I have confirmed that the wifi on my lappy is all working as I can see other local wireless networks (but not mine) and it connects up fine at other wireless hotspots etc. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Revamping my storage
You need to rate your data's importance too. Server 1 - file/etc 2x200 GB drives in a RAID1 for my important stuff 1TB for exported myth recordings (long term storage) 200 GB system drive Server 2 - mythtv and backups 500 GB for myth live recordings (expires over time) 250GB for backups 40GB system drive So while I'd like to raid everything, I can't afford that. Only the important stuff is on a raid, then backed up to another disk, which is then off-sited on a USB drive. How much important data do you have? We have been toying with freenas and openfiler lately, using iSCSI and NFS and cifs to access disks over the network. Works nicely, but its another box New drives aren't too bad these days - consider a couple of 1-2TB drives in a raid1 for all your data. Depends on budget. Nick Rout wrote, On 09/02/10 16:27: OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have: 2 compaq small form factor boxes, one freebsd and one linux, each with a 300G hard drive for videos. (PATA) 2 external usb hard drives with 300 SATA and 250G PATA respectively. (each has a brick power supply) 1 mythtv backend box in a tower with a 1TB SATA drive (for tv) and a 750G SATA drive (for videos and music) These plus a cable modem and router under the stairs contribute significantly to global warming and power consumption. I'd like to rationalise this, particularly the 2 compaq boxes and the external drives. The mythtv box I will pretty well leave alone, its working and the one mantra about mythtv is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I am wondering about turnkey NAS systems, maybe something to hold everything that's not in the myth backend box. Ignoring the operating systems that's about (300+300+300+250 = 1.15T) - so to allow headroom and avoid the same problem again later I figure something with 2-4TB would be needed. But that'll cost quite a bit I imagine, and then I'll have all those drives left over and nothing in particular to do with them unless I foolishly start down the same track again... OTOH I could resurrect a tower from the garage with an IDE motherboard, get a PCI SATA card and shove all those drives in one box, and maybe a couple more besides. Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this? -- Craig Falconer
Re: Tip O'The Day : pigz and pbzip2
Yep - I've not used pigz, but be advised that pbzip2 does not produce the same file as bzip2 with the same options. Functionally they're the same and can be treated as such, but a parallel bzipped file is a few bytes larger and has multiple "index/lookup tables" of one per core/thread. (probably have the name wrong there but you get the idea) So, md5 will be different. John Carter wrote, On 09/02/10 11:11: Multicores are becoming more and more common. Compression is still something I need to do regularly. So some new tools that combine multi-core speed up with compression. pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ubuntu karmic and Dynamix UPS-1000CL NUT setup?
steve wrote, On 03/02/10 09:35: I second this! I actually have an old APC rackmount UPS, which is on it's 3rd set of ( easy to get on Trademe ) batteries now. Celltown (colombo street) do new SLA batteries cheap. Nut *just works* to some level, and is pretty good at determining what it can and can;t do with your UPS. It's a good idea to work through all the available tests, just to give you a better sense of wellbeing. Especially if it's an old machine, which it probably is if it's serial. nut 2.4 actually lost some functionality compared to nut 2.2 - mostly around USB and their desire to integrate to a specific framework. I'm sure it'll resolve in time though. Or fork. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ubuntu karmic and Dynamix UPS-1000CL NUT setup?
Andrew Sands wrote, On 02/02/10 23:35: Anyone on list tried to connect up a Dynamix UPS-1000CL (serial version) to Ubuntu Karmic via NUT? Before I invest too much time, I'd like to hear any possible war stories? Specifically that one? no. However I've used a serial-based 1700 VA dynamix fairly well, and the more modern USB variant of the same is utter rubbish and doesn't obey USB guidelines. YMMV. However, even if you don't monitor the UPS it will still Supply Uninterrupted Power. At least until the battery gives up. APC make *damn* fine UPSs, but you pay silly money for them. Also Liebert are excellent. Dynamix is fine for a low-end UPS, and in their favour they use alarm SLA batteries which are reasonably cheap. Brand name UPSs use whacky battery packs that cost a significant amount. -- Craig Falconer
Re: 1.8" SSD or HDD wanted
I'd worry about spending that much on a laptop that's had an issue already. Try "mini PCIe SSD" Here's one still for sale for $100. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=77&topicid=41073 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Components/Hard-drives/Laptop/auction-267867445.htm $100 and it didn't sell. You could hack a USB pen drive internally, but they tend to be quite slow. http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/the-20gb-eee-pc-mod/ Or you could buy something like this http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk/32gbpatriotliteseriesasuseeepc.html http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk/16gbsupertalentsataminipciexpresseees101.html $75 US What about an SDHC card ? They're cheap and easy to fit. Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 02/02/10 15:47: Try our Jason www.flashcards.co.nz <http://www.flashcards.co.nz> he is very helpful. or http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Samsung-1-8-128GB-SSD-MMCQE28G8MUP-Lenovo-41W0518_W0QQitemZ300392014884QQihZ020QQcategoryZ11171QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D1%26ps%3D6 Starting bid is AU $280.00 On 2 February 2010 13:47, Stephen Irons <mailto:stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz>> wrote: After 7 hours in transit at Perth airport, my family was about ready to give up the ghost; the SSD in my Acer Aspire netbook did. So I now have a netbook that boots Ubuntu Netbook Remix fine from a USB flash drive, but refuses to partition the internal SSD. dmesg gives a string of errors that leads me to believe that the SSD is completely useless, although the BIOS does recognise the make and reports the serial number. I managed to get my personal data off the (EXT3 formatted) SD card onto another flash drive. But I am now looking for a replacement, either an SSD or HDD. This is a 1.8" form factor thing, and price spy is not helping me. Neither is google. Can someone recommend a place where I can find a 1.8" SSD or HDD, or a google search term that it actually useful? Christopher Sawtell -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT: Is anyone else sick of gamers?
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 29/01/10 20:35: I know that this is a very OT but is anyone else sick the assumption that all computer enthusiast are and _only_ are gamers? I'm an amateur software engineer, I dabble in 3D imaging, I just passed the LPIC 101 and people ask me for my informed opinion on computer games. If I'm really, really bored, the kind of bored that you only are when sick I'll play SuperTux. That's about it for me. Do I only get this because I'm under twenty or does it go for everyone here? No I think its just you... the only gamer here in the office isn't assumed to be a gamer (or so he says) Perhaps its age / dress / mannerisms / conversations about frag rounds and the best strategy for placing snoods. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?
Hadley Rich wrote, On 27/01/10 13:31: Or, because the NIC is a different interface e.g. eth1 and you only have eth0 specified in your interfaces config. Ubuntu will create a persistant interface name for each NIC, this uses the file; /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules which you can alter or delete. Oh yeah that's probably most likely. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 27/01/10 13:14: I've been continuing my experimentation with backup and restore using Ubuntu server 9.04. Today I restored my system to completely different hardware to see how it coped. Went from an old Intel P4 with PATA drives and 100mbps realtek network card to an Intel quad core with sata drives, nvidia graphics card and onboard 1Gbps network card. After restoring the only thing not going seems to be my network connection. In my /etc/network/interfaces I still have the lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp ifconfig only shows local loopback. I may have restored something that I shouldn't have, or missed something off? I was hoping someone could give me ideas of what to look at to locate the problem as I really haven't got my head around how linux handles things like network cards and how the drivers fit in... Sounds like you haven't got a module loaded for the NIC in the new machine. What kind of network card does it have? You might need to twiddle the contents of /etc/modules or /etc/modules.conf if the old one has been explicitly specified there. Or try doing anifconfig -a because plain ifconfig only shows interfaces that are up. dmesg | grep -i ethshould give some kind of hints lspci | grep -i eth also should suggest something useful Is the onboard NIC disabled in the BIOS ? -- Craig Falconer
Re: vodafone traffic issue?
Roger Searle wrote, On 27/01/10 11:57: Hi there, anyone else experiencing chronically slow internet this morning? On vodahug here in Stanmore Road, and only getting partial connectivity - some sites load but only very slowly, others not at all. Can't check the vodafone site for issues (been transferring data for that page for the last hour) and may have to resort to talking to a human on one of those telephone things before too much longer ;-) Yes - there's something weird going on, but they're not saying what. We have a couple of sites on vodafone DSL and they're slow-as presently. http://forum.vodafone.co.nz/forum/8-network-issues/ says nothing since Jan 25th. "Ya gets whats ya pays for" -- Craig Falconer
Re: Gnome or KDE
Robert Fisher wrote, On 18/01/10 09:59: I am think of changing my main PC to Gnome but thought first I might canvas the list for reasons why I should (or should not) change. I do not want personal preferences (for example I currently prefer KDE probably because I am more used to it). How about posting short pros and cons to start a discussion? twm and a bunch of xterms - what more do you want ? -- Craig Falconer
Re: Completely Offtopic: Any recommendations for computer technicians in Rangiora?
Brett Davidson wrote, On 13/01/10 12:40: My Aunt lives out there and I'm a little too busy to fix her Windows machine at present. Get it on topic = give her a linux box :) -- Craig Falconer The Total Team - Secure Networks for Serious Business Office: 0800 888 326 / +643 974 9128 Email: workor...@totalteam.co.nz Web: http://www.totalteam.co.nz/
Re: Completely Offtopic: Any recommendations for computer technicians in Rangiora?
Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 13/01/10 14:11: On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:45 +1300, Kerry Mayes wrote: My brother in law has recently used two locals out there and I wouldn't recommend either of them. Both were quite pricey for incredibly simple things. ($200+ to remove Norton anti virus and install a replacement.) Sorry, don't know either's name. I think I'm in the wrong business. No - there's no money in computers Everyone wants it cheap and good. Personally I charge either $30/hr or "a cup of coffee" depending on who it is etc, or sometimes I trade time against other things they can do for me. Nothing is more soul destroying than doing work for someone and it goes to custard. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Netbook recommendations?
Nick Rout wrote, On 13/01/10 11:11: On this topic, one thing I noticed most netbooks in the current market offer 1024x576 (or 600) screen resolution. However some of the newer ones offer 1366x768. Whether text is readable at that resolution is a moot (and subjective) point, but it does point the way to what the next generation of netbooks are offering. Like all tech purchases you might be annoyed if you buy the current generation only to find something better available at the same price in N months time. If you take that stance, you'll never ever upgrade because there's always something new coming. Personally I've avoided bleeding edge stuff, and waited till that tech has hit mainstream. And screen res doesn't mean smaller fonts - it means more and smaller pixels available for smoother display. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Backup wierdnesses...
steve wrote, On 06/01/10 11:39: I've got an external backup disk that I use for backup. As it's living in a primarily Microsoft desktop environment, it's formatted NTFS for easy retrieval in case of failure. /etc/fstab entry: /dev/sdc1/backupntfs-3g defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,noauto0 2 Mounts fine. /dev/sdc1 on /backup type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) Now I want to create a new directory ... mkdir -p '/backup/Wednesday/user/projects/YEAR 10/01/06 Jan 2010' mkdir: cannot create directory: `/backup/Wednesday/user/projects/YEAR 10/01/06 Jan 2010': Operation not supported Debian lenny, up to date. Any ideas?? That's weird. Is it complaining about the path? can you make those directories one at a time? Can you write to or touch any file on disk? Was it an unclean dismount earlier which left the drive needing a chkdisk/scandisk ? Look in syslog output. And the final one - can you make those directories from a windows box? -- Craig Falconer
Re: List stats
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 05/01/10 10:57: Yes, it would bit interesting to repeat the exercise when the messages are filtered through egrep -vi "vatsala|infohelp|rik". I also seem to remember a 300+ messages thread about getting a dial-up modem to go, but cannot remember a suitable egrep term. I do miss some of those more... amusing posts. BTW-today alone, we've doubled the number of list messages in this year. ...and that makes this thread a meta-meta-topic? -- Craig Falconer
List stats
For those who care YearMessages 20105 to date 20092355 20082758 20076124 200619031 200513809 200411225 20039514 Is this a sign that linux is becoming more mature, and fewer problems arise? Or was 2006 the year of the troll ? I wonder how these numbers line up with total list membership in the year. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Very OT: USB cable question
ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote, On 09/12/09 10:47: Ahh, thanks all for the replies, that makes sense. I've got a desktop that does not put out enough power on the front USB ports to run a 2.5" hard drive with one USB port connected. However the same drive works perfectly on my laptop with only one port plugged. Even if laptop is running off its own battery. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Fun with find - finding the newest files
This one cleans up sqlite databases that firefox uses.
find /home/ -name \*.sqlite -exec /usr/local/bin/clean-sqlite "{}" \;
where /usr/local/bin/clean-sqlite contains
#!/bin/tcsh
echo "VACUUM;" | /usr/bin/sqlite3 "$*"
Douglas Royds wrote, On 27/11/09 11:41:
find . -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n" | sort -r | head
Newest files
%Ta Day of week as well
--
Craig Falconer
Re: Wireless car in Christchurch?
Lee Begg wrote, On 26/11/09 13:59: Paul Swafford wrote: maybe checking for over-boosted WiFi antennae ? Or building a wireless coverage map (not necessarily WiFi)? The aerials looked like simple $10 magnetic base ones, with cables snaking loose over the roof and into a rear door. Not exactly industrial quality. -- Craig Falconer
Wireless car in Christchurch?
Does anyone know anything about a blue Nissan TIIDA with the licence plate ETS847 ? I've seen it twice now, driving around Christchurch. The odd thing is, its got about five wireless ethernet aerials on the roof, and its been going up and down random side streets. Its not a google car - there's no pole mounted camera or anything, and I didn't get close enough to see the driver or any gear inside. I'm curious enough to order the carjam report and see who owns it. Anyone know any more than that? -- Craig Falconer
Re: karmic upgrade broken name resolution
Don Robertson wrote, On 03/11/09 08:26: I often get some buzzing on the phone line when the modem is switched on. not sure if it is the phone lines or the modem. Have you had problems like that? That sounds like borked filters, or something with no filter, a reversed or broken hardwired splitter, or 802.11 wireless messing with a 2.4 GHz cordless phone. -- Craig Falconer
Re: VMware opinion, was Re: Karmic Koala 64bit and VMWare Server
Roger Searle wrote, On 02/11/09 14:12: I have zero experience with VirtualBox - can I bring in my vmware installs? No idea. I did convert horse and an XP box successfully to kvm from vmware, but I reinstalled horse to get 64 bit, and the XP box just needed a maintenance reinstall anyway. -- Craig Falconer
Re: New CPU and M/Board
steve wrote, On 02/11/09 12:21: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:05 +1300, Chris Downie wrote: Is there any combination I should steer clear off regarding Linux compatibility? My current Athlon/ASUS combination has played well for seven years but five leaking capacitors has finally done it in. I am leaning towards a dual-core Phenom II and sticking with a MB with Nvidia chipset. Should I be leaning some other way. Depends rather that you're looking to do. I think the core duo's are a better vfm at the moment, but haven't looked for 6 months or so. That's what I got... a low powered quad core to run plenty of VM's upon. Agreed - whatever you get, make sure its got VT support. Personally I'd stick with an intel E6300 or similar - go for 64 bit install with 4 GB ram minimum and it should be fine. Pretty much any motherboard works fine with linux these days. Most driver problems come with bleeding edge new stuff, or cheap nasty items. If you like the nvidia chipset then that's fine - but my preference I wouldn't care either way. However a 9400 nvidia graphics card is a nice spec and low price video card. Again that depends on your level of Open Source requirement. And a lot of it comes down to your budget. -- Craig Falconer
VMware opinion, was Re: Karmic Koala 64bit and VMWare Server
Robert Fisher wrote, On 31/10/09 20:44: Robert Fisher wrote: I have the same problem as Roger trying to install VMWare Server onto 64bit Karmic Koala (Kubuntu) /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. Googling now. Rob Found this and I think it works (visitors just arrived so not fully tested) Installation completed without errors after following this... http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategorized/vmware-server-2-0-1-installation-howto-for-karmic-koala-x86_64/ From my point of view, VMware has really lost the plot in keeping up with new kernels etc. The vmware-any-any patches have fragmented into individual efforts and it was just a nightmare to get working on any "current" kernel. Just use KVM - its absolutely stunning. Drawback is you need a CPU with VMX, and not all current CPUs have it yet. -- Craig Falconer
Re: failed raid1 drive
Roger Searle wrote, On 29/10/09 11:34: Roger Searle wrote, On 29/10/09 10:47: From my reading of man mdadm, it suggests doing a fail and remove of the faulty drive, possibly at the same time as adding a new device, like: mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 Is this a good process to follow or is it redundant/unnecessary? Craig Falconer wrote: Sounds silly actually - remove the only good drive as you add the blank one? Perhaps I have confused things by quoting that line direct from the man page rather than changing to reflect my actual devices - it is just saying that in one line you can add a new device, the example being sda1 and removing a failed one that is sdb1. I'd be adding sdd. does that sound better? The question really being more about the need to fail and remove the bad drive? You'll have to power off the box to change the drive anyway, unless you are feeling really adventurous and want to hot swap. I suggest you down the box, swap out the drive, then bring it all back up. The raid will assemble degraded and then you can go from there. -- Craig Falconer
Re: lp0 permission problems
Barry wrote, On 29/10/09 11:16: I had a problem where cups would not print to lp0. I finally solved it by changing permissions from 660 to 666. since running the print job I have rebooted and find that permissions on lp0 have reverted to 660. Can someone tell me where this is (re)set on startup and/or how to fix the problem. Sounds like udev is doing it wrong. You could twiddle udev, or add the user that cups runs as, to the group which owns /dev/lp0 and then gets affected by the group ( middle 6) in the permissions, rather than the world permissions. -- Craig Falconer
Re: failed raid1 drive
Roger Searle wrote, On 29/10/09 10:47: Craig Falconer wrote: Then two ways to progress 0Boot in single user mode 1Add one new drive to the machine, partition it with similar but larger partitions as appropriate. 2Then use mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdb4 mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sdb2 mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 sysctl -w dev.raid.speed_limit_max=999 3While this is happening run watch --int 10 cat /proc/mdstat Wait until all the drives are synched 4If you boot off this raidset you'll need to reinstall a boot loader on each drive 5Down the machine and remove the last 320 GB drive. 6Install the other new drive, then boot. 7Partition the other new drive the same as the first big drive 8Repeat steps 2 and 3 but use sda rather than sdb Once they're finished synching you can grow your filesystems to their full available space 9Do the boot loader install onto both drives again 10Then you can reboot and it should all be good. I have a new drive installed, partitioned and formatted, ready to add to the raidset, first some questions related to the above, to ease my mind before proceeding. Is it necessary to boot to single user mode (and why?) since this will make the machine unavailable to the network as a file server for the duration of the process? Machine is used solely to serve up files. Based on the time it took to re-add the drive last week, it would need to go offline for some hours, and therefore means a very late (start and) finish to a work day or needing to be at a weekend to keep it available to users during working days. You're right - single user is not necessary. The only real reason for doing that is so that files aren't changed on your only disk, and then some failure before the synch has completed. BTW I did this last night on a live box and it worked fine. From my reading of man mdadm, it suggests doing a fail and remove of the faulty drive, possibly at the same time as adding a new device, like: mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 Is this a good process to follow or is it redundant/unnecessary? Sounds silly actually - remove the only good drive as you add the blank one? Just in case I run into issues reinstalling the boot loader from a live CD, I understand that I would (as an interim measure) be able to boot the machine with a single partition marked as bootable from just the current good drive by disconnecting the new drive? As long as the good drive is bootable it will be fine. I had an issue where the boot loader was only on the second drive of a raid1, but the machine was fine until that second drive gave out. The first drive then wasn't bootable. You will want something like this for grub: # grub --batch --no-floppy then type in root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) root (hd1,0) setup (hd1) quit Finally, I'm somewhat unclear how the resulting partitions are going to work out, current failing drive is /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc holds backups, new larger drive comes up as /dev/sdd. Surely once sdb is physically removed sdc and sdd move up a letter and this messes with adding to the raid array as sdd? Or, is a better approach to do a fail & remove of the failing drive, physically remove it and put the new drive on the same sata connector? Check your dmesg output for things like md: adding sda5 ... md: sda3 has different UUID to sdb5 md: sda2 has different UUID to sdb5 md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb5 md: created md1 As long as the partition type is FD then the kernel will try to use it to assemble a raid device. -- Craig Falconer
Re: failed raid1 drive
adm running on jupiter A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md1. It could be related to component device /dev/sdb2. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md3 : active raid1 sda4[0] 290977216 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[2](F) 1951808 blocks [2/1] [U_] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] 19534912 blocks [2/1] [U_] unused devices: Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md3:jupiter Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:26:49 +1300 This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on jupiter A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md3. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md3 : active raid1 sda4[0] 290977216 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] 1951808 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] 19534912 blocks [2/1] [U_] unused devices: Cheers, Roger -- Craig Falconer The Total Team - Managed Systems Office: 0800 888 326 / +643 974 9128 Email: workor...@totalteam.co.nz Web: http://www.totalteam.co.nz/
Re: Off topic - Anyone else have Telecom broadband usage skyrocket yesterday?
Nick Rout wrote, On 22/10/09 15:50: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Craig Falconer wrote: Phill Coxon wrote, On 22/10/09 14:33: I woke up to an automated email saying that we'd blown our 40Gb xtra ADSL traffic quota for the month and were now paying 2c / MB etc. Checking our usage meter it showed we'd supposedly downloaded 9.5Gb yesterday. I don't think I've managed to downloaded 9Gb over an entire week in the past let alone in one day, so I will be submitting a complaint. Just wondering if anyone else on Xtra broadband had a massive "usage" hike yesterday? Hmmm... interesting - broadband usage meter is now offline while a problem is being fixed: "Some customers may be experiencing problems with their usage meter. Our technicians are currently working on this problem. At this stage our representatives are unable to provide any additional information. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience." Yes - their readings are screwey for the last day or so. Your best protection is to do something to record your traffic. I recommend probing your DSL router via SNMP and graphing the output in cacti. At least that gives ammunition in the event of a disagreement. http://shell.clug.org.nz:8080/rrd-cacti.png pfsense is capable of graphing its interfaces internally, but I'm not sure if that data survives a reboot. http://shell.clug.org.nz:8080/rrd-pfsense.png Aren't those rate graphs rather than total usage graphs? They may show that particular link isn't used much, but you really need the integral with respct to time to get total usage over a period. I am pretty sure an rrd tool can do this too, if fed the right info. Eyes - open them... bottom line shows 11.91 MBytes for that 3 hour window in the top of the cacti graph Likewise the pfsense rrd graphs show 12.6 MBytes in 10.4 out and 23.03 MBytes total in the 2 days graph. But you are right - the graphs are of bandwidth usage. However the only difference would be the scale and units on the vertical axis... the graph line would look exactly the same shape. Admittedly that probably wasn't the best interface to graph... should have shown my internet connections like this 5 day window..... http://shell.clug.org.nz:8080/traffic%20bytes.png -- Craig Falconer
Re: SMTP Problem
I agree with Steve - the fault is your machine saying EHLO localhost where it should say pretty much anything other than localhost. Everyone's localhost is themself. To prove it - do a manual smtp session but type in ehlo thisisatest instead to prove it to yourself. Steve Brorens wrote, On 19/10/09 05:11: Surely your EHLO is the problem. You are claiming to be "localhost" ... which isn't true from the receiving SMTPs pov - steve On Sunday, October 18, 2009, Chris Downie <9...@xnet.co.nz> wrote: was rumoured to say: As I can't even talk to smtp.wxnz.net, it's looking only to a restricted IP list, which includes yours. However, it seems to think that you're not authorised to send mail... do you need to provide any extra authentication, like logging in??? I am required to login to receive but not send (I have tried but it made no difference). -- Craig Falconer
Re: DNS-misdirection on a grand scale
Jim Cheetham wrote, On 17/10/09 21:59: I'd guess that the original domain referenced has expired, and that a domain squatter has purchased it ... Domain ID:D157250839-LROR Domain Name:BEGINNINGRUBY.ORG Created On:02-Oct-2009 18:03:30 UTC Last Updated On:02-Oct-2009 18:04:47 UTC Expiration Date:02-Oct-2010 18:03:30 UTC The current owner of the domain has listed his full contact details though, which isn't normal. Perhaps you could give him a call and ask about it :-) To misquote... "A domain is for life, not one renewal cycle." -- Craig Falconer
Re: telstra VDSL
steve wrote, On 16/10/09 13:43: Has anyone played with this? It's my understanding that I just need to be able to talk pppoe on the ethernet uplink, and all will be well? Yes - its nice. -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT: Voda outage
Kerry wrote, On 13/10/09 19:25: I hope this isn't an example of their service, I've just signed up with them. No - they're pretty stable normally, so whatever blew up must have been major. They've been a bit laggier than xtra DSL is the only gripe. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Backing up server?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 02/10/09 16:53: First question – is it right that ‘tar’ does not need to run using ‘sudo’, as in it can still access all the files? Wrong - tar is a running process that has the same file access as the user it runs as. If you run it as root, you can read all files. If it runs as a user, it can only read the files they'd have access to. If you're starting it from cron, its likely you're running as root. Secondly, does it backup all open files as well? (in windows ntbackup use to choke on open files) Depends... a file that is opened read/write should be skipped, but a file opened read-only will backup okay. And this brings me to the other type of backup ... windows backups Firstly you need to decide what you require from the machine if it was rogered. 1 User data 2 email 3 sql databases 4 /etc 5 /root 6 /usr/local 7 /opt plus a list of installed packages, and anything else critical. OR you can do some kind of rsync backup to another machine with a large drive and use that to restore. RAID1 is good, and disks are cheap enough these days. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Security, to much of it.
David Lowe wrote, On 01/10/09 14:43: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kerry Mayes <mailto:ke...@mayes.co.nz>> wrote: Whereas IPCop by default has minimal security: nothing in, anything out. Perfect for parents' network? FWIW, from my standpoint as a non-technical enthusiastic amateur, I can say that I set up an Ipcop box on an old PC over a year ago, pretty much default settings everywhere, and its been running ever since with no interference from me. I cant even remember the last time I rebooted. In fact, it was so easy i wondered if I had done it right, but everything on my home network is fine. Yeah - no egress filtering... so anyone on your network can be going out without question. Might be okay for a home network... maybe. You can't assume there's nothing dodgy on your LAN. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Maybe OT - printing aerial photos
Yep those photos are worth a phenomenal amount to license. It was quite a shock when google put fair quality photos out for free. A screen scrape is generally not going to be as good a quality as a full res version either, but could be good enough. goldedge wrote, On 30/09/09 16:21: Hi Nick, there's an add in for firefox that lets you select and capture the portion of the screen that you want to copy rather than the whole screen, sorry I don't have the name to hand at the moment (screen snip or similar), you'll need to search the firefox extensions. It works well and may do what you want. Regards Michael Link to linux? Lets put it this way, I don't want an IE solution :) Nick. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Another old server...
Nick Rout wrote, On 29/09/09 16:27: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Robert Fisher wrote: Steve Brorens wrote, On 29/09/09 13:59: Yeah I had one like that... my watt-meter measured a solid 1.5 Amps of power when it was running, and 0.5 Amps even when it was totally off. Actually a "watt-meter" measures power and is not very common. An ammeter measures current (amps). Regards A Pedant Yes but you can deduce one from the other. A N OtherPedant Hey Stadtler and Waldorf!Isn't there a TV show somewhere missing a couple of characters like you? Consider my statement modified - "Server class gear uses lots of power (more than modern PCs) and costs a fair bit to run." Gosh - I have a mad urge to go watch some muppets episodes now -- Craig Falconer
Re: Another old server...
Steve Brorens wrote, On 29/09/09 13:59: Another, but *much* nicer box. Not quite free - top bid is $1.50 at the moment! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=244793102 HP Proliant ML350 XEON Server, 6 x UltraSCSI drives, 2GB RAM, AIT tape drive etc Yeah I had one like that... my watt-meter measured a solid 1.5 Amps of power when it was running, and 0.5 Amps even when it was totally off. That's a lot of power - I think it was > $30 a month when running 24/7. My comparison my desktop uses ~0.3 amps, and my atom laptop is about 0.12 amps. -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT, Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch
Nick Rout wrote, On 24/09/09 12:25: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Craig Falconer wrote: Daniel Hill wrote, On 24/09/09 09:48: Recomended Naked DSL provider? I found http://www.xnet.co.nz/fusion/ but it's bundle only I can't make any recommendations as I use cable. So fo I. will telstra give you naked cable? *boggle* mental images. Cable is naked anyway - the phone services they offer are supplied over a separate copper pair from the coaxial cable used for cable The smallest plan you can get from Telstraclear that doesn't have a bundled phone service is 10 Gbytes at 4/2 Mbit. Any less than that, you have to get a package with a phone line... Which is another way of saying "there's not enough margin in low use data connections" -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT, Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch
Daniel Hill wrote, On 24/09/09 09:48: Recomended Naked DSL provider? I found http://www.xnet.co.nz/fusion/ but it's bundle only I can't make any recommendations as I use cable. -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT, Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch
Daniel Hill wrote, On 24/09/09 09:28: You can do VOIP to somewhere like 2talk for $cheap. I've always had A problem with the idea of running VoIP, what happens when your internet is down? how do you ring customer service? You spend some of that money you save on a cell phone call. Telecom phone = $50 a month, plus $3.95 for CID plus $10 for voicemail 2talk phone = $15 a month, includes CID and voicemail. A linksys pap2t pays for itself in only 3 months, and the increase in internet traffic is fairly small - for me its ~1GB/month but thats with a teenager on the phone 2 hours a day. If you are still unsure - get a 2talk free account - allows you to make 15 minutes/month of voip calls for nothing. And you can get a softphone for linux or windows so there's no hardware costs to trial. Of course if your DSL is ratelimited then voip will be pretty terrible. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch
Payne, Owen wrote, On 23/09/09 16:21: On a similar note and sorry to top the thread...but what are the contract terms like for broadband, are they all 12 months 24 months or are there any that offer short term, casual contracts? You could also go for a cellular device like a vodem or a t3g stick, so that you're not tied down to a specific location/property. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch
Dan Wallis wrote, On 23/09/09 13:38: I'm currently living in the UK, and am moving to Christchurch in January. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good ISP in NZ? When I was growing up (in NZ), Clear.net.nz were good, but that was back in the days of dial-up. Is the information on http://www.internetchoice.co.nz reliable? How long does it typically take to get a DSL line installed, or would you recommend going wireless? I have my own DSL router, so it'd be nice to be able to use that; although I'm yet to determine if it's 2+ ready. Apparently the DSL standards in the UK and NZ are compatible but not identical. VPI/VCI numbers are 0/100 here. Telecom will give you a free modem with a new connection, but its a ratty thomson speedtouch. Most ISPs will have some similar deal. Even if your current router is ADSL2 capable, doesn't mean your location will be. I get only 3.2 Mbit, 2 km from the city centre. Frankly I think you should find somewhere to rent short-term, in the city you're working in, while you see what's really available. Some locations have cable from telstraclear, and some are VDSL capable if theres telstraclear copper to the property. If you're central city there will be FTTH - how big are your pockets? Wireless availability depends 100% on your location. Netspeed are good in Christchurch, but they're twice the cost of DSL. DSL install is normally a couple of days - tech rocks out to the exchange or cabinet, and hooks your house pair to a DSLAM or ASAM. You get couriered a pack with a modem/filters etc. Or you can get the full install where a tech fits a hardwired filter and tests it on site. FYI - ISPs other than Xtra/Telecom can offer Naked DSL, where there is no telephone service on the wire. You can do VOIP to somewhere like 2talk for $cheap. Specially if you'll be calling the UK a lot. Feel free to email me off list for more info -- Craig Falconer
LVM was Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
Daniel Hill wrote, On 16/09/09 20:10: don't like articles that don't state what they are trying achieve or what LVM does LVM is another layer of indirection for disk storage. Allows you to expand the LV a filesystem lives on, without having to shuffle partitions on disk like the OP. Most filesystems these days support some kind of expand function. Some do it live, and some even can be shrunk. You have Physical Volumes (PV), which are one or more partitions, that are combined to form Volume Groups (VGs) and inside a PV you create Logical Volumes (or LVs). Example [r...@server ~]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 2.8G 2.1G 599M 78% / /dev/md0 97M 22M 71M 23% /boot /dev/mapper/VG00-home 157G 129G 20G 87% /home /dev/md2 5.8G 1.3G 4.3G 23% /usr /dev/md3 29G 19G 9.3G 67% /var /dev/mapper/VG00-imap 50G 16G 32G 33% /var/spool/imap [r...@swerver ~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md4 VG Name VG00 PV Size 421.95 GB / not usable 448.00 KB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 108019 Free PE 54594 Allocated PE 53425 PV UUID CLxPXr-BC7N-vv3H-vs06-UcuA-etdo-tk7DNT So there's 54594 blocks of 4MB (~220GB) which could be allocated to new LVs or appended to existing ones [r...@sever ~]# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/VG00/home VG NameVG00 LV UUID00------00 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size158.59 GB Current LE 40600 Segments 2 Allocation normal Read ahead sectors 1 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/VG00/imap VG NameVG00 LV UUID00------01 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size50.10 GB Current LE 12825 Segments 1 Allocation normal Read ahead sectors 1 Block device 253:1 Note the home LV has 2 segments - it has already been expanded once. Note also that LVM is not RAID. LVM provides only convenience, and no additional reliability in itself. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
Yes LVM would have made it easy to add space. But I doubt you can convert an existing filesystem to a LV inside a PV. I still think Steve's idea (moving /usr or /var to the space freed up by shrinking swap) would be the best fix. By all means use LVM on new installs. Maurice Butler wrote, On 16/09/09 18:12: 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 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. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
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. -- Craig Falconer
Re: Thin Client Devices
Glenn Cogle wrote, On 16/09/09 10:05: I need to purchase a bunch of thin client devices which are capable of running an RDP client, PuTTY and a web browser. Ideally they should be solid state - ie no fans or disks. Traditional WinXPe devices are painfully and unnecessarily slow. I find the same hardware running Damn Small Linux is much better. Therefore a "PC" with 256Mb flash memory, 10/100 NIC, USB or PS2 for input, and Video card and a solid state PSU would be fine. Does anybody have any recommendations for a locally available Thin Client Device or Mini PC that I should I consider? Try an atom board with a CF card or a netboot, and run something like Thinstation, which is a bootable linux install. I've used RDP or firefox but not together. Might be good to try. http://www.thinstation.org/ -- Craig Falconer
Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
Kerry wrote, On 15/09/09 20:56: 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 Disk is split into contiguous partitions. Filesystems exist over a partition. So, you're stuffed. You'd need to boot into single user mode and extend the extended partition to cover the whole space, then shuffle sda8 to the right, then delete sda7 and make a new swap partition no larger than 1GB. Then shuffle sda6 to the right, Then reboot off a rescue CD or knoppix or something, and expand the root partition. Shouldn't have to do anything with bootloaders though. Another option... even with 9.25GB +17ishGB is only adding 26GB. Add another drive for $150ish and get another 1TB. -- Craig Falconer
Re: qemu problems
Barry Marchant wrote, On 14/09/09 23:58: When I attempt to start it from a terminal all I get is "VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900'". this is the same whether or not I give it a win.img file to open. Google and the qemu wiki are not being helpful. The start instructions in qemu docs do not work the same image file opens without problems under qemu-0.9 Any ideas appreciated, thanks Does virt-manager tell you anything more helpful? What about /var/log/ ? -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT wallwarts/power adaptors
Hadley Rich wrote, On 14/09/09 11:50: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:40:58 Nick Rout wrote: Anyone know where to find a higher rated switchmode 5v ower supply? The Linksys PA100 adapter (designed for their VoIP stuff) is 2A from memory and should be the same pin type - they are all pretty standard. Agreed - and they're quite cheap, and good for DLink devices that cook their own PSUs after a couple years. -- Craig Falconer
