Re: Can someone tell me why...
Daniel Hill wrote: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Jack_(plugin) Ooh, i can has cheezburger? Thanks Daniel, i'll give it a whorl. Cheers, Rex
Re: Can someone tell me why...
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Kerry Mayes wrote: As a gnome user, I just use exaile. Probably doesn't meet Rex' exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes My exacting standards are 1) doesn't crash, or if it only infrequently does, reloads its playlist near where it was. 2) Proper jack output (no new jack source at the end of each song). That's it, qjackctl and jack-rack take care of the rest (they too are unreliable, qjackctl moreso). Cheers, Rex
Re: Can someone tell me why...
Nick Rout wrote: Thats been coming for a long long time. Doesn't make it any better. xmms was a great piece of software. In what way does audacious suck? It's unreliable (crashes and doesn't reload playlist) and when using a jack source as its output, it randomly decides to create another instance when the song changes, so i'm replumbing jack all the time. Those are the main suck points. No, i can't use alsa or pulse or any of the other outputs, my open baffle desktop speakers need shelving EQ, for which i'm using jack-rack. Yeah, OK, i'm an unreformed ex-audio geek. Rex
Re: Can someone tell me why...
Daniel Hill wrote: Like how Amarok 2 sucks compared to Amarok 1.4? If you say so. I haven't liked amarok whenever i've fired it up. have you tried all the xmms2 front ends? Yes, all very underbaked. Maybe there are more now, or the ones i've tried have had more work. If i had time i'd volunteer to maintain xmms. Oh well. Cheers, Rex
Re: Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?
Phill Coxon wrote: If I visit examplesite.com (standard port 80) I'll go to the live interent site. But if I visit examplesite.com:81 I'll be redirected to the local development virtual site running on my local computer. Probably can't be done but thought I'd ask and see what suggestions you guys can come up with. Hey! this is *nix you are talking about. Of course it can be done. You'll be wanting to read the '-R' section of the ssh man page. Something along the lines of (as root) ssh -R 81:127.0.0.1:80 examplesite.com Oh and that other problem you were having with too many open conenctions.. sshfs. Cheers Mate. Rex
Can someone tell me why...
xmms went away and it's replacement, audacious, sux soo much it isn't funny. xmms2 is a music server, and nothing like xmms. Rex
Re: Kubuntu help please
Phill Coxon wrote: The main reason I've been using KUbuntu is for sftp: access in konqueror so I can copy and edit files on remote sites live. I'm guessing Nautalis must do the same thing these days - can anyone confirm? Yep. Cheers, Rex
Re: debugging gdm session errors
Kerry Mayes wrote: Don't get me wrong, on the three machines that are working Jaunty is great. stepwise improvements on many small items. A good upgrade, in the main, I would have said. I've got an acer aspire one here running jaunty. It's a vast improvement over the hacked up version of fedora that was there. Anyway, what was the last thing in that error file? You might also try logging in using failsafe and into a terminal, type gnome-session. Cheers, Rex
Re: debugging gdm session errors
Kerry Mayes wrote: I can ctrl+alt+F1 to get a terminal screen and I can log in via ssh. What's in ~/.xsession-errors ? Cheers, Rex
Re: Jaunty won't run with new kernel
Gauland, Michael wrote: I've upgraded from Ubuntu 'Intrepid' to 'Jaunty', and can't boot with the new (2.6.28-11) kernel, though the old one (2.6.27-13) still boots. With the new kernel, I can go to 'rescue mode', but not do a full boot. The last message is about starting 'wicd', though if I disable wicd the system still fails to boot. Boot using the old kernel. Compare the output from these 2 commands. dpkg -l | fgrep 2.6.28 dpkg -l | fgrep 2.6.27 Still no joy? what is the output of update-grub? STILL no joy? look in /etc/rc2.d for the script that runs *after* wicd (they are run in ascii string order), chuck an exit 0 at the top of it. OK, that's enuf for now. Cheers, Rex
Re: Gnome convert
yuri wrote: Maybe one day I'll learn emacs Heh, i tried once, years ago. It drove me spare. It always reminded me of HAL9000. You really didn't want that buffer did you? I'm sorry, i can't do that Dave. If your speaking java, it's worthwhile using eclipse, otherwise stick with vim (apparently it's crunchy). Rex
Re: USB turntables, anyone?
Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2009/2/2 Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz: Yes, my turntable's part of a single-unit stereo outfit. So, presumably it hasn't got a line output socket? Or even a headphone socket. Rex
Re: Something for .bashrc file
Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a little something to slip into a friend's .bashrc file when
they're not looking ...
export PS1='C:${PWD//\//\\\}'
Hmmm, amusing. Note to self - never let this guy near my lappie ;-)
Question: if he does this to a friend - what happens to the people this
guy does not like?
stty intr ^M
B^)
Rex
Re: *buntu images
Robert Fisher wrote: Well I am on the opposite side of town to Dave so if I am closer and anyone would like any of:- And i have mythbuntu 8.10 Alternate for AMD64 if anyone is up Murchison way (an hour south of Nelson). Cheers, Rex
Re: CentOS noob
Steve Holdoway wrote: Does it *really* make that much of a difference??? I mean practically. They all provide you with a linux platform for you to play on ( or, if you're that way inclined, to be paid to play on... I didn't say that out load did I? ). I see the use of a KDE or Gnome gui as being a far bigger difference. See, i said it was flamebait. :) Does it make that much of a difference? For a general purpose DB/web etc server, not really. As long as the community/company keep updating or backporting fixes and the documentation is up to scratch, then no. Desktops or embedded machines are a whole `nother ball of wax. I've just picked up an Acer Aspire One. It's running a flavour of Fedora. It's taken me hours of messing about to make the wireless connection reliable, the RJ45 ethernet connection fixed IP, install gnome, wine, kernel modules for usb/serial converters, nfs, ... that should have been there but were missing and more. I still haven't figured out what keeps clobbering /etc/hosts, it's probably that stupid network manager thing. I wish _that_ came with ubuntu installed. Rex
Re: CentOS noob
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: On Friday 10 October 2008, Roy Britten wrote: broken links and rather a lot of unnecessary cruft. sounds like CentOS in a nutshell. /flamebait The amount of time before re-installing/swapping with debian is exactly proportional to the amount of frustration you will get from it. yum is no substitute for apt*, package dependencies on files were always a bad idea and messing about with an old rpm based distro is more than merely annoying. There, _THAT_ is flamebait. Rex
Re: screensaver on my tosh...
Steve Holdoway wrote: I've just upgraded my old Tosh lappie to Ubuntu HH. After leaving it to it's own devices for a while, it looks like the screensaver ( or some other kind of power management ) has kicked in, and the screen is blank. And is obstinately staying that way, no matter what I do. If I press the power button, I'm rewarded by a flash of disk activity, but that's as far as it goes! Any idea how to bring it back to life, other than holding the power button in for 5 seconds to crash it??? so acpid is probably still alive. If you can't ssh in, you can try to raise some skinny elephants. OK, i'll be explicit. altSysReqRtake control of keyboard back from X altSysReqS Sync (flush data to disk) I like to try an altsysk (sends a kill to the current virtual console), sometime it works. altsyse tErminate (send SIGTERM to all processes), wait a bit now altsysi kIll (send SIGKILL to all processes), altsysu Unmount (remount all filesystems read-only) altsysb reBoot Cheers, Rex
Re: Happy Hardy Heron discovery of the Day - Alpine
Roger Searle wrote: Do you also have the libflash-mozplugin package installed? Roger Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, On Sat, 3 May 2008, Rex Johnston wrote: Derek Smithies wrote: I have just updated two machines at home to HH. Now, some of the neopet pages and games don't work. You have to download the lastest shockwave player, and the links don't work. It is not clear where to go in synaptic to get the right package. The mozilla plugin installer don't know where to find the plugin... Oh, one machine is a 64 bit box with nvidia. # apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree Package: flashplugin-nonfree yes. Already installed. Derek. This is all i have... $ dpkg -l | fgrep flash ii flashblock 1.3.9a-0ubuntu1 mozilla extension that replaces flash plugin ii flashplugin-nonfree9.0.124.0ubuntu2 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer and about:plugins tells me Shockwave Flash File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124 MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl Yes $ locate npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Youtube works fine. Cheers, Rex
Re: Happy Hardy Heron discovery of the Day - Alpine
Derek Smithies wrote: I have just updated two machines at home to HH. Now, some of the neopet pages and games don't work. You have to download the lastest shockwave player, and the links don't work. It is not clear where to go in synaptic to get the right package. The mozilla plugin installer don't know where to find the plugin... Oh, one machine is a 64 bit box with nvidia. # apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree Package: flashplugin-nonfree Priority: optional Section: multiverse/web Installed-Size: 164 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: amd64 Version: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 Replaces: flashplugin ( 6) Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, fontconfig, libatk1.0-0, libc6, libcairo2, libexpat1, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0, libice6, libpango1.0-0, libpng12-0, libsm6, libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1, libxdmcp6, libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, libxt6, nspluginwrapper (= 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1), wget, zlib1g Suggests: firefox, firefox-3.0, konqueror-nsplugins, libflashsupport, msttcorefonts, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, x-ttcidfont-conf, xfs (= 1:1.0.1-5), xulrunner-1.9 Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin ( 6), xfs ( 1:1.0.1-5) Filename: pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.124.0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 18692 MD5sum: 9a7d3e9b9f0135d5274ccb3cd264b638 SHA1: 500c2ead62d9dac4618736da46bb69d66ee7d509 SHA256: bf12dfd85fefb2db1c86de40aeebd74d5a19d2a28e1cf1fe376036d4caa7c26c Description: Adobe Flash Player plugin installer This package will download the Flash Player from Adobe. It is a Netscape/Mozilla type plugin. Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla can use the Flash plugin. This package currently supports the following browsers: Mozilla, Mozilla-Firefox, Firefox, Iceweasel, and Iceape. Also Galeon and Epiphany can use the Flash plugin. Konqueror can also use the Flash plugin if konqueror-nsplugins is installed. . WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe flash plugin to be downloaded from www.adobe.com. The distribution license of the Adobe flash plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu package implies that you have accepted the terms of that license. . Homepage: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashPlayer9 Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384, 92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115 Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Player (installer) Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Origin: Ubuntu Cheers, Rex
Re: Happy Hardy Heron discovery of the Day - Alpine
Steve Holdoway wrote: I would be interested to see if you find yourseld in the situation where you can still move the mouse, but have completerly lost the ability to interace with the computer. At this point, I've found the only recourse is the reset button on my system): Yep. Been there done that. You'll have to raise some skinny elephants :) Cheers, Rex
Re: Help with shell scripting
You are better off doing this... ping -c 1 $SYNHOST if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then ... fi Cheers, Rex Kerry Mayes wrote: I'm having difficulty with the following script: SYNHOST=caalt04 if echo `ping -c 1 $SYNHOST` | grep -q 1 received; then echo 'Synergy connected'; ssh -2 -f -N -L 24800:$SYNHOST:24800 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; synergyc localhost; else echo 'Synergy NOT connected'; fi I'm getting the error that then is not being found. This script was working before I pulled caalt04 out as a variable. But I tidied up things at the same time, so may have messed it up somewhere else. Background: I learn languages by pinching other people's code. This is based on some stuff I pinched from someone and I sometime leave options in that don't need to be there. Any help appreciated.
Re: Ubuntu Mirrors...
John Carter wrote: The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down Not for me. Cheers, Rex
Re: Burning a vcd
Barry wrote: vcdimager -t vcd2 -l Muddleton-4 -c Muddleton.cue -b Muddleton.bin muddleton-4.mpg cdrdao write --device 1.0.0 Muddleton.cue Looks like you have 2 commands in there. Try splitting off cdrdao ... into a separate command. Cheers, Rex
Re: Burning a vcd
Christopher Sawtell wrote: vcdimager -t vcd2 -l Muddleton-4 -c Muddleton.cue -b Muddleton.bin muddleton-4.mpg cdrdao write --device 1.0.0 Muddleton.cue Looks like you have 2 commands in there. Try splitting off cdrdao ... into a separate command. He's not forgotten the pipe sign symbol '|' immediately to the left of cdrao has he? I could be wrong, but i don't think so. It's been years since i used vcdimager. I use devede these days. Cheers, Rex
Re: Any guru near Governers Bay?
Steve Holdoway wrote: This site does have a UPS - a small one, but it couldn't provide protection against this spike. As most can handle about 50,000V, that's a bit scary! We could do with someone (Volker?) to explain the physics of the problem... I can have a stab at it. 50,000 volts isn't that scary, most MOVs will absorb that at long as the spike duration is short, as will the Class X2 caps. A simple isolation transformer will again absorb much of that spike too. Even the simple inductance of a long line will blunt the spike, BUT, a switchmode supply can self destruct in such a way as to pass that spike right through. The transformer has little core metal and is designed to operate at high frequencies, reacting to the fast rise time of the spike, passing it on. Cheers, Rex
Any guru near Governers Bay?
Oh dear, Yesterday a truck took out a powerpole in said area, out goes the power and down goes the server(s). Unfortunately, on boot up, we now get just L 99 99 99 etc. According to lilo's man page, it's an invalid second stage index sector. I'm not currently in Chch, so i'm asking if anyone who is comfortable booting off a CD drive, mounting the drive, chrooting into it and rewriting the MBR, is able to visit a children's home in the area. It's their mail and file server, it runs Mandrake 10. TIA, Rex
Re: Any guru near Governers Bay?
Steve Holdoway wrote: lilo -M /dev/XXX mbr you will need to confirm that XXX is hda1 from the person who installed Linux on the machine. Unfortunately, that's not me. I inherited it. It will likely be /dev/sda, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. That's what I'm going to do. As not that many distros use lilo any more, I'll be chrooting to the old system first. After fscking it all of course (: Let's hope it's a quickie, and back to the GBI for dinner and a pint (: Hope so. Cheers, Rex PS, what's up with the list? My first message more than an hour to go through, your one just minutes.
Re: Sun Buys MySQL...
Steve Holdoway wrote: wonder what's going to happen on the database front? Massive new interest in postgres I hope! That would be nice. Using postgresql after a bout of putting up with MySQL is like a breath of fresh air. Rex
Re: Acer laptop pre-loaded with Ubuntu 7.10 in New Zealand
Josh James wrote: did any one see this the DSE website doesn't say that it has ubuntu it's kinda cheap whats the rest of you guys thoughts. No stock in the South Island :( Rex
Re: shell script error
Kerry Mayes wrote: The following shell script is producing an error saying that basename is not found: try which basename in Ubuntu it is part of coreutils. Cheers, Rex
Re: simulating a slow internet connection
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, November 22, 2007 6:30 pm, Vik Olliver wrote: I use it to stop my wget's saturating slow links. Vik :v) On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:25 +1300, Rex Johnston wrote: I've always meant to have a play with 'trickle'. also its slightly concerning that trickle doesn't seem to have been updated since 2003. The system interface is fairly stable. Why change something that is finished? Cheers, Rex
Re: simulating a slow internet connection
Matthew Whiting wrote: I'm trying to suss a way to simulate a slow internet connection. I've always meant to have a play with 'trickle'. Cheers, Rex
Re: simulating a slow internet connection
Christopher Sawtell wrote: http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/62/Traffic_Shaping_With_Trickle.pdf Hmm, LD_PRELOAD. Very good. I use it to stop my wget's saturating slow links. wget has an option '--limit-rate=' scp has a '-l' option. Cheers, Rex
Re: When the damn Yankee's attack. Tales of ssh
John Carter wrote: So I wanted to take some work home... This is, perhaps, the root of the problem. So scp does well, let me set that up. Open up port 22 pinhole in the Never use port 22. Ever. Note 1. The ip address changes surprisingly often! The telco is doing way more work than it needs to. Or you have a lousy line, or your modem is not flash, or, or ... Note 2. Having kiddies in the house means some usernames have less good passwords. So I dug and dug through the config to explicitly only enable access to my own personal username. Set up another user with the same homedir, UID and GID as yours (make sure it appears AFTER the real one). Make the login name obscure, the password even more obscure and choose a random high numbered port. Some swine is doing a brute force attack on my sshd This has been going on for years. It's definitely a `bot, as it can cause a significant jump in traffic (and your bill). Cheers, Rex
Re: sandboxes
Aidan Gauland wrote: What should I use if I had a program (for Linux, not Winblows) that I wanted to run, but did not trust fully? Such as a web browser plug-in installer, like the Flash installer, something did not come from my distribution's software repository. I tried chroot, but it didn't run like I thought it would, and does not seem to be what it's intended for. Like apparmor? Cheers, Rex
Re: OT: so, you're a geek?
Roy Britten wrote: I see that Telogis is using the geeky Google challenge method to attract employees to its NZ subsidiary. http://telogis.co.nz/ The page source isn't so encouraging, though. I saw that too. The code (once you fix it) produces an array of chars like 'geekjob'. I'm sorry, but anyone who could produce such twisted and broken code is probably best avoided. Besides, it's all windoze AFAICT. Rex
Re: OT - linux scanner USB cable plug causing sparks?
Phill Coxon wrote: When plugging the usb cable in I bumped the end of the cable against the metal plate on the back of my computer and noticed a small spark. Is the scanner double insulated? You are probably seeing leakage current, the usb cable will ground the scanner. Poor form, but it probably won't hurt anyone. Cheers, Rex
Re: OT - linux scanner USB cable plug causing sparks?
Phill Coxon wrote: When plugging the usb cable in I bumped the end of the cable against the metal plate on the back of my computer and noticed a small spark. Is the scanner double insulated? You are probably seeing leakage current, the usb cable will ground the scanner. Poor form, but it probably won't hurt anyone. Cheers, Rex
Re: Virus Software Advice
Steve Holdoway wrote: Try clamav.net. Build from source, and use clamscan to check the relevant directory. It'll take a bit of reading to get it working and up-to-date, but certainly not more than an hour... (sudo) clamscan -r --bell -i / will display all infected files, and ring the bell when it finds one, too! Steve On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:06:56 +1200 Kerry Nisbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm doing some work for a company which runs a community sever running Fedora Core 2. Now one page of one site is getting injected with a virus which when viewed one a windows box running up to date virus software gives us a warning about a JS/Downloader_BC2 virus detected and then IE crashes. We are after some advice on virus scanning software for FC2 to pick this problem. Thanks, Kerry I don't think this is what he wants. It reads like he wants some sort of javascript disinfecting web proxy. Not sure. Rex
Re: Replacement for MS Exchange
Cam Mckenzie wrote: Scalix Is quite good, It has Native Outlook Usage built in (Hence Native) Not quite native. It uses a mapi connector, and you are only allow to define 25 premium users (free community edition), and you can't connect the MAPI connector to a non premium user account. Of course the rest can connect as IMAP, but the contacts, tasks etc come through oddly. The web client is pretty good. An outlook user will find it familiar. The documentation, whilst reasonably complete, is lets say, incohesive. Backups are odd, you can't easily separate data out, so need to use something like imapsync, or fetchmail to back up mail. Trying to back up the rest is puzzling. You'd better stick to the recommended distro, i installed it on a 64 bit debian etch machine and i'd have to say, it was painful. I'm left with an undebugable error in a 15Gb 'Bulletin Board'. It says Invalid Direct Reference via the MAPI interface (not IMAP, nor webmail). The connector isn't open source, debug files are useless and no-one has answered my query on their forum yet. /gripe So, yeah, OK but not great. Not quite sure if it's really primetime yet. Rex
Re: Parts to give away
Don Gould wrote: Last year I need some, this year I've got them coming out my ears... If anyones needing an extra one, then please yell. Will you hear, with monitors in your ears? :Q Rex
Re: Debian 3.1 timezone update
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I can't find an update for the libc6 package (which contains the timezone files) in my usual sources for Debian 3.1. Where do I need to be looking for this? I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be an update for this, as it would turn that particular product effectively into a paperweight in about 3 weeks (well in NZ and a few other places). Package: tzdata ... Description: Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data This package contains data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving rules Cheers, Rex
Re: How not to design any UI...
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:29:36 +1200, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did the box say anything about automated toast spreading? Dunno, i tried reading FTM, but the chenglish gave me a headache. :) Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: How not to design any UI...
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:49:01 +1200, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes saying RTFM isn't enough... http://xkcd.com/293/ Spooky. I just brought a new toaster. Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: chroot to 64 bit...
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:31:40 +1200, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to chroot to a 64 bit boot partition from a 32 bit host? I've just upgraded the motherboard/cpu/memory on this machine and it crashes on boot. Pain... who needs it? I'd think you are SOL unless you happen to have a 32 bit lib/bin etc and can set $PATH, $LD_... Good luck. Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: Test your C knowledge here.
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:28:35 +1200, Derek Smithies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2[abcde] === abcde[2] == 'c' Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: Hardware graphics acceleration
On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:32:02 +1200, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not currently benefiting from hardware graphics acceleration, and sadly have no idea what to do to enable it. The Q965 chipset seems to be pretty new and my google-fu has failed me. Suggestions, including you should have googled for you idiot welcomed. man i810 Cheers, Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: Hardware graphics acceleration
On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:17:23 +1200, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/05/07, Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should check the kernel log to see if it has recognized your hardware and initialized correctly. lspci -v -v does that correspond to what you have installed? Then, look in the Xorg.log in /var/log to see if you're using the correct driver for your video card (i.e. it hasn't fallen back to vesa or something), and that DRI initialized correctly. (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so Make sure you haven't got DRI disabled in xorg.conf. Section Module ... Loaddri ... EndSection Bios settings? Have you got enough ram set aside as video ram? Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: Hardware graphics acceleration
Hi Roy, Using these drivers? http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html Rex PS, i haven't. -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: [Pythonesque Troll] Last word on name change
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:46:41 +1200, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that's THG. :-) A chocolate fish to first person who can guess the sound clip which plays when I receive an email message. t-twang, Message for you Sir. Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: [Pythonesque Troll] Last word on name change
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:20:42 +1200, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: t-twang, Message for you Sir. Bingo! I've got an sound clip of Oh i see you've got the machine that goes PING somewhere around here (see other thread). Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.
Re: OT: IP controlled power switch?
Jim Cheetham wrote: I'd like to be able to switch the power on and off remotely. So I'm looking for a networked power management switch ... Jaycar have one, CAT. NO. KV3595 Rex
Re: How much X to install for X11 forwarding?
Carl Cerecke wrote: I wouldn't mind occasionally running X window programs on my headless server via ssh with X11Forwarding. How much of X do I need installed on the (Ubuntu 6.06) server in order for sshd to get set up the dummy X server for port forwarding? Umm, none. Just ssh -X into your box and run your programs. They'll talk to the X server running on your workstation. Any version of ssh that understands -X will set up the proxy. Cheers, Rex
Re: How much X to install for X11 forwarding?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The X clients will need to have certain elements of X (libraries) on the same machine in order to run. And unless he's totally broken his package manager, they'll be there after he installs his X clients (unless they are statically linked, in which case, they won't, but he won't need them). Cheers, Rex
Re: Debian's md5sum
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: That's the GNU one. What does dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum say on your system please? I would like to know the simplest and official way to get that version. here is mine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date | md5sum 7435da3ab23db914519315e55b4e5cb7 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S `which md5sum` dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -p dpkg Package: dpkg Essential: yes Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 5636 Origin: debian Maintainer: Dpkg Development debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org Architecture: i386 Version: 1.10.28 Replaces: dpkg-doc-ja, dpkg-static, manpages-de (= 0.4-3) Pre-Depends: dselect, libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-21) Conflicts: sysvinit ( 2.82-1), dpkg-iasearch ( 0.11), dpkg-static, dpkg-dev ( 1.10) Size: 1892234 Description: Package maintenance system for Debian This package contains the programs which handle the installation and removal of packages on your system. . The primary interface for the dpkg suite is the `dselect' program; a more low-level and less user-friendly interface is available in the form of the `dpkg' command. . In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one. Cheers, Rex
Re: mouse pointer speed
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Any other avenue which can be persued? 'xset' is what you are after. Both KDE Gnome have interfaces which control this. Cheers, Rex
Re: mouse pointer speed
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: 'xset' is what you are after. Both KDE Gnome have interfaces which control this. man xset m The m option controls the mouse parameters. The parameters for the mouse are `acceleration' and `threshold'. No, not what I'm after. I want to make the pointer cover less distance when moved slowly, not cover more distance when moved fast. One being the converse of the other... What are the current settings? Already at 1/1 ? Cheers, Rex
Re: mouse pointer speed
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Was 20/10 6, setting it to 1/10 60 disables acceleration but doesn't make it slower. There seems to be some base speed which is proving difficult to reduce. This base speed has probably also to do with the mouse itself (like outputting X pulses per distance). It's hardly ideal, but how does xset m 1/10 1 work? What sort of mouse is this? Cheers, Rex
Re: Evolution
Reg wrote: When I recently reinstalled Open Suse I decided to give Gnome a try as opposed to KDE. In doing so I ended up with Evolution as my mailer which I quite like so at this stage I see no need to change from that. Only problem is that more often than not when I close it, it won't restart unless I reboot the computer. It is also the only program doing this, other programs fire up fine. Is this a common problem? How might I fix this? I've tried and tried to like Evolution, but always there is a show stopper. The last time i tried it wouldn't display mail in the root of an IMAP store. It doesn't shut down properly, and requires a series of annoying kills to get it going again. It doesn't like having the internet connection broken and gets very unresponsive. It certainly has great promise, but unfortunately, that's all. Use Thunderbird (or like me SeaMonkey), an F or a down arrow will go to the next message. Cheers, Rex
Re: The perennial top vs bottom posting debate.
Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: Volker promotes bottom posting while I contend that the benefit of TOP postings is that for everyone who has read it at least once before, we don't have to scroll through all that verbiage to see the new content. Actually, quite a few (me included) *hadn't* read it before. We may, in fact not be all that interested in reading it, and you've given it to us anyway. We may only be interested in what *you* have to say, and would like it to be put in context. If we want further input, we can read the prior messages, this *is* a mailing list after all. (As long as the top post is comprehensible standalone without the quote) The quoted content below is provided for the few who didn't read the last email in this thread. You increase readability by splitting up your reply into relevant paragraphs. Without this, your whole reply has been devalued by forcing me to read all of which you are replying to, and trying to work out your point. It becomes a real pain to scan through a thread if one has to scroll to the bottom to see the new content. Did you get to this line? Yes, but you need to work on trimming your replies. Rex
Re: OT - the noise
Roger Searle wrote: totally ot... wtf? everyone heard it? what was it? I looked around, couldn't see any smoke plumes. Nothing has appeared on geonet yet. shrug Rex
Re: Issue with journal corruption on ext3
Davidson, Brett (Managed Services) wrote: Anyone confronted the issue where a machine lost power and both the journal and ext filesystem underneath have errors? err, no. To fix the ext3 filesystem, fsck normally applies the journal first but as that's also corrupt, things don't play. what does tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev/ do? It appears that the journal starts at block 0 and debugfs won't let you touch block 0 so I can't just remove the inode and/or the journal file. hmm. could be fubar. Cheers, Rex
Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd
Hi all,
Had a fun time yesterday afternoon trying to make one machine supervise the
shutdown of another.
The situation is this...
UPS, serial connection to server A, has server A and server B connected to
power outlets.
The UPS in question will only talk to OpenUPSmartd, which is a single machine
daemon, and the
documentation suggests that it is compatible with pretty much everything,
however, the site
suggested (www.ups-software-download.com) has a pretty woeful selection of
software, and i
didn't like the look of the linux version.
Anyway, OpenUPSmartd is the software you want. Missing is a startup script...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/init.d/openupsmartd
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
set -e
case $1 in
start)
test -x /usr/local/bin/openupsmartd || exit 0
nohup /usr/local/bin/openupsmartd /var/log/openupsmartd.out 21
;;
stop)
killall openupsmartd
;;
esac
You'll know it's working fine when you see this in syslog
Sep 6 12:41:59 serverA openupsmartd: IN:234.40V, FAULT:233.90V, OUT:231.30V,
LOAD:13.00% ^I^I^I INFREQ:50.00hz, BATT:27.70V, TEMP:25.
00C, FLAGS 1001 ^I^I^I ( FLAG_BEEPER FLAG_STANDBY )
Now, this has to control 2 machines, not just this one...
link the configuration file from where it installs it to where it expects it
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 31 Aug 15 13:44 /etc/openupsmart.conf
- /usr/local/etc/openupsmart.conf
and edit thus...
use_syslog=y
shutdown_command=/root/scripts/start_shutdown
restore_command=/root/scripts/stop_shutdown
serverA:~/scripts# cat start_shutdown
#!/bin/bash
nohup /sbin/shutdown -h +4 /dev/null /dev/null 21
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root/scripts/start_shutdown
serverA:~/scripts# cat stop_shutdown
#!/bin/bash
nohup /sbin/shutdown -c /dev/null /dev/null 21
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root/scripts/stop_shutdown
Now you need to set up an rsa key on serverB so that serverA can connect via
ssh without a password.
There are numerous places this is described, i set up 2 accounts, shutdown and
noshutdown,
the first to initiate the shutdown of serverB, the second to stop it when/if
the power is restored.
It's easier to grep for events in the log file this way.
Once done, you need these on serverB
serverB:~/scripts# cat start_shutdown
#!/bin/bash
nohup /sbin/shutdown -h +3
serverB:~/scripts# cat stop_shutdown
#!/bin/bash
nohup /sbin/shutdown -c
Now create a shutdown group, make sure that shutdown (noshutdown) are by
default that group,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id
uid=1130(shutdown) gid=1044(shutdown) groups=1044(shutdown)
and alter the permissions on /sbin/shutdown so it looks like this...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /sbin/shutdown
-rwsr-x---1 root shutdown17388 Sep 5 15:00 /sbin/shutdown
(that's 4750, NOT 4755)
make sure that only shutdown (noshutdown) are in this group.
Now comes the tricky bit.
When shutdown is called with a delay, it creates a file called /etc/nologin
which contains
the text displayed before the ssh daemon kicks you off. If you have a later
version of sysvinit,
you can modify /etc/pam.d/ssh to stop this behaviour. Earlier versions of sshd
have this built in,
and non-defeatable. The upshot of this nasty behaviour is that once shutdown
is called on serverB,
serverA can't log back in to stop this shutdown when/if power is restored.
What to do?
I used apt-src to install sysvinit tools and edited
src/shutdown.c like this...
/* Give warnings on regular intervals and finally shutdown. */
if (wt 15 !needwarning(wt)) warn(wt);
while(wt) {
if (wt = 5 !didnolog) {
// donologin(wt);
didnolog++;
}
if (needwarning(wt)) warn(wt);
hardsleep(60);
wt--;
}
before installing.
Cheers, Rex
Re: Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd
Andrew Errington wrote: snip I have to ask, why not use 'nut' (Network UPS Tools)? `cos it doesn't talk the protocol... :( Rex
Re: naming computers
John Carter wrote: Trouble is, most people (mistakenly) think I'm keen on cricket. Sorry about that. I never had that problem. Computer names should be humourous and memorable, and with appropriate alias in DNS for specific functionality. eg. mailhost, newshost, cvshost, ... Couldn't agree more. Cheers, Rex
Re: Desktops through the ages
Nick Rout wrote: Did anyone here besides me actually use KDE 1.x? I tried, but next to GNUstep it was pretty ugly, and compared with enlightenment, it was just a joke. In fact, even next to CDE it was average looking. Pretty snappy now tho`. Cheers, Rex
Re: Tool to
Steve Holdoway wrote: k9copy's pretty good ( having problems with either 16:9 or 4:3 atm, can't remember which ), but tbh I still use DVshrink, copy to linux and then k3b to rebuild and burn the iso (: I use dvdbackup. DVDshrink works under wine (apparently, i've not managed to get it to open up the disk structure). Cheers, Rex
Re: Brushing up on vim skills
Glynn Foster wrote:
set matchpairs+=:
Awesome, didn't know that one. The vim help files aren't organised in the most
logical
manner.
Keep track of where you were
In normal mode, you can leave a mark at any cursor position. Just type mchar.
For example,
mh
Then to go back to that mark, you type a backtick: `same char
That is
`h
Or, to go to the start of the line containing the mark, type a single quote
'same char
'h
If you use a lowercase letter, the mark is per-buffer. If you use an uppercase
letter, the mark is global. You can see all marks you've set by typing
:marks
Copying delimited objects
=
To copy the entire {} block the cursor is in: yab or ya{
To copy the entire [] delimited text the cursor is in: ya[
To copy the entire () delimited text the cursor is in: ya(
You can combine these 2.
Set the cursor somewhere, drop a mark (i.e. ma), then shift cursor somewhere
else yank it
(i.e. y`a, or more usefully, ay`a, yank into buffer a, all from current position to mark
a).
This is very useful when editing multiple, similar files (when code re-use
isn't perhaps as good
as it could be). aP or ap to paste buffer a back. I believe there are 27
buffers, more than
enough.
My personal ~/.vimrc file contains -
set textwidth=80
set softtabstop=4
set expandtab
set shiftround
I like
set sm
set ts=4
set sw=4
set ai
map! {{ { ^M}^[O
set backupdir=~/tmp
and a bunch of other code formatting macros.
Cheers, Rex
[Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: Brushing up on vim skills]
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Re: make all o's please...
Don Gould wrote: Does anyone know how to force make to recompile all the .o files? Without reviewing your makefile, i can only guess. try make clean make Cheers, Rex
Re: Addressbook etc import - Thunderbird from Mozilla
Rik Tindall wrote: Wouldn't you know it, Mozilla suite retains a right to exist, now titled SeaMonkey. I've used SeaMonkey (hah - it thinks i've spelt that wrong..)for a while now, and it's great. Two things will keep me using it. 1) It's memory footprint is smaller than Firefox + Thunderbird, and my laptop can't cope with the latter. 2) Right click on URL in email - Open in new Tab. Cheers, Rex
Re: Addressbook etc import - Thunderbird from Mozilla
Rik Tindall wrote: But I shall review http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ once the Ubuntu package becomes available, thanks Rex. Who knows? - It might just retain the ~/.mozilla/* filesystem layout. It does. Cheers, Rex
Re: Javascript strikes again.
Steve Holdoway wrote: For all of you feeling safe behind your firewall, looks like we're all in for a hard time. I think the picture isn't as black as painted, but this is only the beginning. And you thought ActiveX was bad... Steve http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6099891.html?tag=nl.e589 That's the flakiest script i've seen in a while. In moz* removing javascript's ability to 'Change Images' completely stumps it. Rex
Re: Isaac Writes (the hard stuff) - ONCS
Don Gould wrote: In a script, how do I see the parameters that are being passed in? in a shell, type man bash There, that should keep you quiet for a while Rex
Re: CLUG web server changes
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:18:18 +1200 Don Gould wrote: or just update the pip capacity until it's just not an issue anymore, remember it's also impacting on their systems. Cheers Don pardon my ignorance, what is the pip capacity Don't you know anything Nick? It's how big the inside of your fruit is ;^) Rex
Re: CLUG web server changes [WOT]
Nick Rout wrote: I have two clues - my TV has PIP capacity, = picture in picture. Plastic Irrigation Pipe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIP has a few interesting entries, none of which seem to to fit. I have a dog called Pip, and as a result of the little white hairs that appear on every item of furniture and clothing I own, I have almost exhausted my capacity to put up with her... Perhaps you need to go onto the next plan? http://www.shoof.co.nz/catalogue/photos/669.jpg Cheers, Rex
Re: GooglEarth4Linux
John Carter wrote: Somehow missed the announcement for this. http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth for Linux Anyone else get this http://www.sclnz.com/sc.jpg sort of behaviour? (random chopped up images) Cheers, Rex
Re: GooglEarth4Linux
John Carter wrote: Then a crash screen SNIP /home/johnc/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17RenderContextImpl18requireDXOGLSwitchERK7QStringS4_+0x183d) ^^^ I knew it... :) Do no evil my a$$ Cheers, Rex
Re: N to N-1 NFS Mesh
John Carter wrote: I actually have about 20 developers in this cluster, so has anyone ever done 20x19 = 380 NFS cross mounts? It's a *really* bad idea to cross mount volumes. Why don't you have 20 exports on a file server, each client can have 19 mount points, and rsync the local home back to the server. Or upgrade to Gigabit ethernet. For various reasons, which are far far too long winded to go into here, most of the developers _also_ have Win2K boxes. Political reasons no doubt. Cheers, Rex
Re: any nfs gurus out there??
Neil Stockbridge wrote: i'm shooting from the hip a bit here and i've not tried this out but isn't NFS managed by portmap? portmap has a -i option that binds portmap only to the specified address. is that option any good? No. If the portmapper isn't contactable on 127.0.0.1, nfs doesn't start. If it is, it starts listening on all interfaces. NFS is protected by tcpwrappers, and while you can't stop it binding to all interfaces, you can configure it to reject all connections on a certain interface. Have a look at man hosts.allow and scroll down to SERVER ENDPOINT PATTERNS Either that or you could use iptables. Cheers, Rex
Re: C For Loop
Dale DuRose wrote:
#include stdio.h
int main(){
int i;
for(i = 4; i; i--){
printf(%d\n, i);
}
}
output is:
4
3
2
1
So thats four loops the statement is false when i is 0.
C doesn't have a boolean type. Have a look in a header file and you'll see
#define TRUE 1
#define FALSE 0
In reality, 0 is false, non-zero is true.
You'll see this all over the place, like
if( !strchr( haystack, needle ) )
...
Cheers, Rex
Re: C For Loop
Steve Holdoway wrote:
In reality, 0 is false, non-zero is true.
That's not strictly true. Or at least didn't used to be
Huh?
A quick google reveals
http://www.phim.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/CONCEPT/true_false.html
Those who indent as follows...
for ( initial configuration,...; End conditon; iteration action,... ) {
do something...
}
are adopting a method designed to save paper on a hardcopy teletype, so beware!
Ugh! Makes for unreadable code. Why do they teach this?
C bodger since 1984. KR rules!
Beat me by a year!
Cheers, Rex
Re: Command line WAS How to reset the dns cache?
Roy Britten wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:00 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
sudo find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l eth1
sudo find /etc -type f -exec grep -l eth1 \{\} \;
cuts down on typing :)
There shouldn't be any pipes in /etc (not true of /var), so in this case
sudo fgrep -rl eth1 /etc
would suffice.
:)
Cheers, Rex
Re: Suggessted Linux workgroup server
Jim Cheetham wrote: On the other hand, I've yet to see any USB2 hotswap under Linux work reliably - sooner or later the machine hangs, or the disks don't mount, sometimes they don't release their previous hold over sda, and get mounted as sdb, etc, etc. I can backup (!) this assertion. I've had nothing but trouble trying to get a USB2 backup solution working nicely. It's a great idea, but i ended up crashing a file server many times, and creating some interesting filename munging scripts to make the interesting filenames people call things fit onto a FAT32 fs, which then proceeded to lunch itself anyway when i grew above a certain size. I ended up grabbing an old machine, naming it 'backuphost', inserting a USB2 card, installing Ubuntu on it, nfs mounting the server and reformatting the USB drive with reiserfs. The problem with mounting as sda, next as sdb, etc seems to have gone away. Works OK now, cross fingers. Cheers, Rex
Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format
Nick Rout wrote: /home seems to have wasted quite a lot of space. There is about 60k of real files in there (from setting up one user, nick, and having a little bit of history etc). However df -h shows: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 257G 129M 244G 1% /home Have a play with tune2fs, Nick. df is reporting what is available to a normal user, which doesn't include reserved blocks. Cheers, Rex
Re: Eclipse, anyone?
Isaac Devine wrote: I personally use eclipse for Java,Ruby,C++ and to a limited extent shell-scripts (when they are part of a larger project). Eclipse beats hands-down any other ide for Java and is one of the best for C++. Agreed. You need a grunty machine tho`. Your eclipse experience is mainly determined by the quality of the plugins you choose. In my case the Ruby plugin is fairly mediocore and the eclipse-darcs(a SCM) plugin is far from finished. I haven't heard of either good or bad experiences for php however. I have tried it. Less than a year ago it sucked. I just use (g)vim now. Cheers, Rex
Re: apache 2 bandwidth control
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Is there some not too time-consuming way to restrict apache 2 total bandwidth dependent on URL and user-agent? Total traffic is easy to control with iptables, but that's not what I'm after. Ok, is there *any* way? Not really, did you find this? http://www.topology.org/src/bwshare/README.html or this http://www.kefk.net/Linux/Administration/Networking/Traffic.Shaping/index.asp noting the reference to libapache-mod-iptos ? Cheers, Rex
Re: xmms not able to seek in mp3's
Nick Rout wrote: I found the answer, disable the mad mp3 (libxmmsmad.so) decoder and make sure you have the xmms-mpg123 (libmpg123.so) decoder plugin enabled. worked fine after that change. The settings are in options|preferences (ctrl-p). Baby out with the bathwater methinks. Disable the Parse XING headers in the plugin configuration. Cheers, Rex
Re: lucent agere winmodem setup probs
Matthew Whiting wrote: Struggling a little with getting my Lucent Agere winmodem up and running under Ubuntu 5.04 - maybe I should have purchased a different modem afterall. Ah well. Always get a serial modem. I say ALWAYS GET A SERIAL MODEM. It doesn't make much messing around and frustration to equal the extra expense of a UART and some trivial DSP. Looked for the appropriate binary for a driver on http://ltmodem.heby.de/ but couldn't see it. Yep, I guess I could compile from source. However, saw ubuntu-ltmodem-2.6.10-5-386_8.31a13_i386.deb listed on http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/ which seems a reasonable match with my kernel version, etc. However, I can't for the life of me find one of the package dependencies - kernel-kbuild-3.6 doesn't seem to be in the ubuntu repositories. However over in debian land... [rex]# apt-cache show kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 Package: kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 1736 Maintainer: Debian kernel team debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Architecture: i386 Version: 2.6.8-2 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4) Filename: pool/main/k/kernel-kbuild-2.6-3/kernel-kbuild-2.6-3_2.6.8-2_i386.deb Size: 362926 MD5sum: 322ddf6a4a43cb6515a8811f4e6a460d Description: Linux kernel 2.6 kbuild tools This package provides kbuild tools for Linux kernel 2.6. It is used together with the kernel-headers packages to build out-of-tree kernel modules. [rex]# apt-cache showpkg kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 Package: kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 Versions: 2.6.8-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.jetstreamgames.co.nz_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.jetstreamgames.co.nz_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) Reverse Depends: kernel-headers-2.6.8-2,kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 kernel-headers-2.6.11-9,kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 kernel-headers-2.6.11-1,kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 kernel-headers-2.6.8-2,kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 kernel-headers-2.6.8-11,kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 Dependencies: 2.6.8-2 - libc6 (2 2.3.2.ds1-4) Provides: 2.6.8-2 - Reverse Provides: Cheers, Rex
Re: tvtuner problems
Nick Rout wrote: [2] 3204 Running tvtime 0.9.12. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml Is the next bit relevant? what has wine to do with it? whay are you loading wine? [EMAIL PROTECTED] barry]# wine: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: DI_TomsMoComp.dll. wine: Looked in .:/usr/share/tvtime:/usr/lib/win32:../data:./data wine: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: DI_GreedyH.dll. wine: Looked in .:/usr/share/tvtime:/usr/lib/win32:../data:./data videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Input/output error (0). videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Input/output error (0). videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Input/output error (0). tvtime uses dscaler libs which are win32 only at this stage. Looks like tvtime install is borked to me. Cheers, Rex
Re: tvtuner problems
Nick Rout wrote: Not on my system it doesn't. It seems to have been removed in 0.9.13 - time flies like an arrow (1) I believe that tvtime should still run, but anyway xawtv is the best way to test one of these cards. Sure is, or one of the other default install tv programs. Cheers, Rex 1) fruit flies like a banana.
Re: Embedded Linux
Nick Rout wrote: oh and of course the nslu2 i referred to earlier, $160NZ odd for a capable little embedded linux box with a big hacker developer userbase, sweet IMHO. Boots from flash. Where would i get one from? Looks bloody good to me. Cheers, Rex
Re: Embedded Linux
Nick Rout wrote: oh and of course the nslu2 i referred to earlier, $160NZ odd for a capable little embedded linux box with a big hacker developer userbase, sweet IMHO. Boots from flash. Where would i get one from? Looks bloody good to me. http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=nslu2+site%3A.nz (nothing personal, I always wanted to send a link to that site.) Yes, very helpful. Thanks a bunch. In order... $744, Eeek, Oh the Super size me option, don't want that. $189.35, by itself. $191, that can't be the one. $200, nope $190, still $30 off. I take it your guess of $160 was rough... Anyway, i want one to control IR devices. I have a heat pump that is singularly stupid and needs a helping hand. Anyone done that before and have a recipie, or do i need to break out the soldering iron. Yes Nick, i've seen www.nslu2-linux.org too. This http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6152296875.html piqued my interest. Cheers, Rex
Re: Error trying to 'make' K3b
david merriman wrote: /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -o libk3bmaddecoder.la -rpath /usr/lib/kde3 -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib/qt3//lib -L/usr/X11R6/libk3bmad.lo k3bmaddecoder.lo -lkdecore -lmad -L/usr/local/lib -ltag ../../../libk3b/libk3b.la -lm -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib/qt3//lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib g++: /usr/lib/libtag.so: No such file or directory Have a closer look at it. Is it a symbolic link to a file that is missing? I have a /usr/lib/libtag.so.1, but no /usr/lib/libtag.so [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ldconfig -p | fgrep libtag libtag.so.1 (libc6) = /usr/lib/libtag.so.1 Other than that, the command, while being unneccessarily repetitive, looks fine Cheers, Rex
[WWOT] anyone familiar with Cold Fusion?
Feel like some work? Initally fixing a few bits, but i'd like to migrate these sites to linux eventually, well, soon actually (there, some relevence). Email me direct, Cheers, Rex
DLink 504G
If you have one of these ADSL modems, change your admin password now. Don't delay, right now. The web page admin interface is available externally. Cheers, Rex
Re: OT Digital audio cables
Nick Rout wrote: I want to connect my linux [1] media box to my amplifier via the coax digital audio out, and a dvd player via the optical digital audio out (the amp has two digital audio inputs, one coax the other optical). The cables seem rather expensive. digital coax 0.9 m, DSE item C1394 $29.00 Digital coax is an RF signal. You'll need a cable with constant 75Ohm impedance. The standard RCA connector is NOT 75Ohm, but they are available. Using a standard cable will smear the digital transitions, lowering the effective bandwidth of the cable, causing jitter to appear after the SPDIF input receiver. This jitter, if within the audio band will degrade the audio quality. That said, $29 is far far too much for a 75Ohm RCA cable (hint, a video cable is also a 75Ohm cable). digital optical 0.9m DSE item C1392 $50.00 Again, far far too much for a plastic optical cable. Anyone know of any more acceptably priced alternatives? (I have searched a number of local electronics websites, but maybe my search techniques are all wrong) http://www1.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=WQ7266CATID=keywords=opticalSPECIAL=form=KEYWORDProdCodeOnly=Keyword1=Keyword2=pageNumber=priceMin=priceMax=SUBCATID= Cheers, Rex
Re: OT firefly (tv program)
Shane wrote: And it only gets better .. they keep dropping little snippets in many of the episodes and the snippets keep adding up pity it was such a limited run on TV does someone have the videos / DVD's of it? I do, but i would encourage you to purchase it yourself from amazon. It's cheap, like $40 or something for the whole series. The reason it was axed is that there was not enough visible support. Cheers, Rex
Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros
Robert Himmelmann wrote: Now I tried emacs -d 127.0.0.1:0 on Gentoo and it gives about the same message as in SuSE. I think I have to enable TCP/IP support in the server somewhere. How can I do that? Can you see the -nolisten TCP flag in the process listing. man Xserver will tell you all about it. You need to modify the config file and remove that option. Good luck. On SuSE 9.2 i had to use a particularly nasty hack to get rid of it (involving scripts the shift statement). Good luck. Cheers, Rex
Re: cron UTC / local time
Roy Britten wrote: After a recent fresh install of Debian stable, I find that crontab entries are executed at the correct time, but in UTC, for both a normal user and for root. I'm pretty confident that on all other systems I've ever used crontab times are local. The system clock is synced to an NTP server, and date returns the correct NZST time. I couldn't see anything useful in man cron, crontab(1) and crontab(5). /etc/adjtime indicates that UTC time is kept. /etc/default/rcS contains UTC=yes. I'm all googled out. Suggestions? Both 'date' and 'cron' load the compiled timezone entry pointed to by /etc/localtime. This is a symbolic link, where does it point on your system? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 36 Jul 19 2004 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland Cheers, Rex
