[Linux-users] Free printer

[Ross Drummond]

I have a network(Ethernet) colour laser printer to give away to a good home.

It is a Brother HL-3150CDN series Printer.

It does PostScript so will work with Linux.

The black toner cartridge is full and the colour cartridges are 
approximately 30% full


Email or ring if you are interested

Please note I live in Ashburton.

Cheers Ross
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[Linux-users] Can Linux help me win Lotto?

[Ross Drummond]

When choosing Loto numbers I will have quirks such as avoiding an 
unlucky number which will tilt the advantage towards the objective 
impartiality of the Lotto bouncing balls. Could Linux help?


I only bet the minimum amount which means I can not buy a lucky dip 
ticket with the numbers chosen for me at random.


My solution;
For Lotto numbers

shuf --input-range=1-40 --head-count=6 | sort -n

For Powerball numbers

shuf --input-range=1-10 --head-count=4

Am I writing this from the deck of a super yacht? No, but Linux gives me 
randomness which evens up the odds a little bit.


Remember the more you gamble the arithmetic grinds you into dust.


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Re: [Linux-users] please SUBSCRIBE me to this mailing list

[Ross Drummond]

If your email post is not rejected by the list server you must already
be a subscriber to the list. 

The link to the list info page may help you. 

Cheers Ross Drummond 

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Re: [Linux-users] Tickets now available!

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I've booked my ticket.

I look forward to meeting many old GLUGers who attend.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:08:18 +1300
Steven Sykes  wrote:

> The linux.conf.au 2019 team are pleased to announce that Early Bird 
> tickets are now available!
> 
> Early Bird tickets will be available until the 31st of October or
> until our initial allocation runs out.
> 
> Early Bird pricing is as follows:
> Professional: $899 ($200 discount on regular price)
> Hobbyist: $399 ($150 discount on regular price)
> 
> Prices are in New Zealand dollars.
> 
> For more information visit: https://linux.conf.au/
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> Steven Sykes, Lisa Sands and the rest of the linux.conf.au 2019 team.
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[Linux-users] LaTeX on Windows - recommendations

[Ross Drummond]

I want recommendation for an editor - IDE for LaTeX on Windows.

In Linux I use Kile along with Okular. Okular has this great feature
where it automaticly updates the DVI when it is changed.

It would be great if such a feature was available on the other OS.

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Re: [Linux-users] Horse

[Ross Drummond]

I have a bash script installed on Horse that I sometimes need access to
when I am out and about.

Also useful in testing which ports are open on your world network
interface.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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<rob...@fisher.net.nz> wrote:

> I have been cleaning up my password database and found horse.
> I was pleasantly surprised that I could still log into it.
> Thanks Craig.
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Re: [Linux-users] Dual booting on modern computers with linux and windows 10 with uefi

[Ross Drummond]

Jims suggestion about virtualisation may not be only option. Microsoft
is doing things with Linux that may surprise you.

This You Tube video from a recent Microsoft conference in Australia is
very enlightening;

WIN321b - 30 Tips and Tricks for Managing and Running
Ubuntu/Bash/Windows Subsystem... (Orin Thomas) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-uo7Hd2cU=112=PLz6RgUKX11CWgU0IfWRYgl37ZNJv1e9uG

Cheers Ross Drummond

PS. It doesn't end there, Microsoft are talking about adding an openSSH
client in PowerShell.

On Sat, 27 May 2017
15:55:50 +1200 j.vi...@snap.net.nz wrote:

>  
> 
> Thread about dual booting

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Re: [Linux-users] Funny X behavour

[Ross Drummond]

 

The Xorg log file is a good place to start looking for problems


/var/log/Xorg.0.log 

Cheers Ross Drummond 

On 09.05.2017 16:32,
Barry wrote: 

> Barry asking about X errors.
> 
> Barry
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[Linux-users] Be a Linux secret squirrel

[Ross Drummond]

Want to play with Linux, be a secret squirrel, and get paid.

The GCSB are advertising for a Linux systems administrator.

I would apply but would fail the vetting process. I have said some
unkind things about NZ's three letter agencies and it is probably all
in a one of their dossiers.

Unfortunately it seems like a work in basement rather than
walking into a casino and ordering a Martini, shaken not stirred, type
of job.

Go to;

https://www.nzic.govt.nz/beyondordinary/vacancies

Choose GCSB from the agency search box

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Re: [Linux-users] startup woes

[Ross Drummond]

 

I understand you are a Mageia distro user Barry. 

According to the
link below Mageia 5 installs Grub2-efi by default. Could it be that
Grub2-efi is having problems with older Grub2-mbr boot method used in
older OS installations or your hardware does not have have the efi bios
feature? 

Is the tool grub-mkconfig avaliable? if so run 'grub-mkconfig
-o test.txt' them examine test.txt to see if it has worked as you
intend. 

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Grub2-efi_and_Mageia 

Cheers Ross
Drummond 

On 23.01.2017 19:36, Barry wrote: 

> Hi All, the heading
understates my problem - I can no longer boot my 
> desktop!!!
> 
>
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[Linux-users] Discovery of global IPv6 address

[Ross Drummond]

The problem is I want to discover the global Ipv6 address of hosts on
my LAN knowing the MAC address of each host.

Feeding the MAC address to the program ipv6calc to get the link local
address works fine but when I use this address with ping6 and its
discovery arguments I fail.

An example;

ping6 -I eth0 -N ipv6-global fe80::3631:::

>From the ping6 man page;

-N nodeinfo_option

  ping6 only.  Send ICMPv6 Node Information Queries(RFC4620), instead of  Echo  
Request.   CAP_NET_RAW
capability  is required.

  help   Show help for NI support.

  name   Queries for Node Names.

  ipv6   Queries for IPv6 Addresses. There are several IPv6
  specific flags.

 ipv6-global
Request IPv6 global-scope addresses.

 ipv6-sitelocal
Request IPv6 site-local addresses.

 ipv6-linklocal
Request IPv6 link-local addresses.

 ipv6-all
Request IPv6 addresses on other interfaces.

What am I doing wrong, is their another method of discovering the Ipv6
global address of a host on your LAN?

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] Joining Horse

[Ross Drummond]

Replying to my own post.

You do not have to repeat this process for every Windows box. Once you
have done the key file conversion process you can copy the correctly
formatted file to your other Windows boxes.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016
12:02:01 +1200 Ross Drummond <r...@ashburton.co.nz> wrote:

> Stuff about joining Horse from windows boxes
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[Linux-users] Joining Horse

[Ross Drummond]

Criggie has set up a ssh server called horse for use by CLUG members. I
find it a useful service and recommend it.

Joining is not straightforward as Criggie requires you to generate a
private-public key pair for authentication. It may seem an intimidating
process at fist glance but OpenSSH the most widely used implementation
provides a tool called ssh-keygen to generate these keys. There are
good step by step tutorials available on the web.

You may also wish to connect to the SSH server using the open source
client PuTTY on windows boxes.

Rather than bombarding Criggie with separate keys for each of your
windows boxes you can export your private key for PuTTY to use on its
box.

There is file format incomparability problem when using a ssh-keygen
key on PuTTY but it can be resolved by reading the instructions in the
PuTTY help file

Find the instructions by following this path in the help file;

Help --> Contents -->

Using public keys for SSH authentication -->

Using PuTTYgen the PuTTY key generator -->

Dealing with private keys in other formats.

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Re: [Linux-users] Horse

[Ross Drummond]

I use horse occasionally to run a script. Horse is the only publicly
accessible  ssh server I can connect to. Bonus I can connect over IPV6.

I have been in the process of porting the script over to Windows
PowerShell. This will prompt me to get a move on.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Sat, 06 Aug 2016 21:09:12 +1200 criggie
<crig...@criggie.org.nz> wrote:

> I'm migrating it to new hardware at this time, but it looks like noone
> has logged in for a very long time.
> 
> Straw poll - do we still need this box?
> 
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[Linux-users] Best laTeX tool Was: Document generation

[Ross Drummond]

My favourite tool for wrangling LaTeX is the KDE application Kile.

It has tab completion built-in templates syntax highlighting and
contextual help.

My work flow is create the LaTeX source in the Kile editor, then CTRL +
S to save changes and then ALT + 2 to run the LaTeX executable.

A bonus is if you have the output DVI file open in Okular it will
automaticly update your changes.

I use the article document class and Kile as a tool to generate customer
contracts.

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[Linux-users] CLUG domain and web site

[Ross Drummond]

I have discussed these issues with Chris Hellyar. We have agreed;

Chris will take over responsibility for the domain clug.org.nz when the
current registration expires in August.

Chris will host the CLUG web site into which he will add some
enhancements. He will do this on a "when time permits" basis but
probably in two weeks time.

There has been discussion on the list about reimbursing me the fees
that I have paid for the renewal of domain registration I do
not want to be paid. I was happy to pay it and don't want to to be
reimbursed.

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Re: [Linux-users] Data cable

[Ross Drummond]

 

I am trying to avoid cable spaghetti under desks and in cabinets.
You suggestion that the most economic solution is to buy patch leads and
chop them to length sounds good to me. 

Cheers Ross Drummond 

On
06.03.2016 14:45, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: 

> On Sun 06 Mar 2016 13:45:34
NZDT +1300, Ross Drummond wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know of someone in
Christchurch(1) who is willing to sell lengths of coloured cable without
requiring the purchase of a whole box?
> 
> Easy. A number of places
sell the Dynamix patch leads covering the
> rainbow. Cut off the plugs,
crimp on new ones[1]. This is the cheapest
> option. Buy longer lengths
to save. I assume you know the difference
> between solid core and
stranded cables, they require different crimp
> connections.
> 
> Online
you could try
> http://www.cablesdirect.co.nz/catalog/entry?entry=126
[1]
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Volker
> 
> [1] In most cases, this is daft, as the
made-up cable is cheaper than
> what you could buy the components for
(unless you're in high numbers),
> never mind fluffing about and getting
a result with inferior
> reliability, so presumably you have a special
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[Linux-users] Data cable

[Ross Drummond]

 

I want to create some patch leads attaching the RJ45 connectors
myself. 

It would be nice if I could use different colours but
electrical wholesalers around here say "you can have any colour you like
as long as it is blue". 

Does anyone know of someone in Christchurch(1)
who is willing to sell lengths of coloured cable without requiring the
purchase of a whole box? 

Cheers Ross Drummond 

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Re: [Linux-users] Dealing with M$ "GPT protected partition"

[Ross Drummond]

 

What about using the diskpart shell that comes with XP to create
your ntfs partition then trying to find out if your Linux operating
system can use it. Lots of help on Google about using diskpart. 

Cheers
Ross Drummond 

On 28.02.2016 12:50, Peter Simmonds wrote: 

> stuff
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[Linux-users] Forwarding gui applications over LAN using X - problems

[Ross Drummond]

I use the built in ability of windowing applications to be available
on different hosts on my LAN using the X windows client server-model and
network transparency.

Often distributions as a security measure modify
the /etc/X11/init/xserverrc file which starts X by appending "-nolisten
TCP" to the exec line.

I upgraded xorg-server to version 1.17.4. Prior to this upgrade to
enable network transparency I edited the xserverrc file by deleting any
references to "-nolisten TCP"

After the upgrade this method of enabling network transparency no longer
worked. After delving into the depths of the freedesktop.org mail
archives I discovered that you need need to explicitly append the
following to the exec line to get network transparency working;

-listen TCP

Posted to the list so you do not have to repeat my pain.

Cheers Ross Drummond

PS The approved way of forwarding X windows is to do it using SSH. I
only use X forwarding occasionally on my LAN so I reckon the security
provided by SSH is overkill for my situation.
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Re: [Linux-users] Permissions: root access but can't write to file?

[Ross Drummond]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:21:31 +1300
Eliot Blennerhassett <ewb...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Thread about controling fan speed on Netgear NAS.

Does the file /etc/sysctl.conf exist and does it contain any of the
values you were trying to write in your file?

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Re: [Linux-users] How do you partition disks bigger than 2 terabyte?

[Ross Drummond]

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:05:23 +1200
Julian Visch  wrote:

> Bought myself a 4 terabyte hard drive and discovered that partition
> tools seem to stop at 2 terabyte, any way I can get the rest of the
> drive seen? I noticed that windows have option to convert to GBT disk
> but I get the impression that it makes in unbootable which defeats
> the purpose of me buying it.
> 
> Thanks for any advice or tips you can provide
> Julian
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Re: [Linux-users] setting the root password

[Ross Drummond]

Run the following command in a terminal;

sudo passwd -aS

Read the man page for passwd especially the section explaining the
section explaining the output of the -S command.

If you are satisfied their is no password already set then run this
command;

sudo passwd root

This will prompt you to enter a password and the confirm it. You
should the be able to change you login to root by issuing the su (switch
user) command.

Be aware this an off label method for Ubuntu, you should prefer the
sudo method when doing stuff that requires root.

Cheers Ross Drummond


On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:28:27 +1200
Davin Pearson davin.pear...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have recently purchased a laptop and have installed Lubunti
 GNU/Linux onto it.
 
 I created a user called davin and a user called www for everyday
 use.
 
 I need root access to do a chmod on /var/www/html
 
 How do I go about setting the root password?
 
 I can access commands like apt-get install apache2 from the davin
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Re: [Linux-users] Trouble with Wireless internet under GNU/Linux

[Ross Drummond]

gparted will do this for you, it is available in most distributions;

http://gparted.org/

Another option is to use the Microsoft tools.

In Windows click on the start button, type diskmgmt.msc in the run
box and hit Enter(you will need to be logged in as an Administrator)

In the window that appears select the partition you wish to resize.
Right click and a resize option will appear in the right click menu.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Fri, 08 May
2015 15:25:18 +1200 Davin Pearson davin.pear...@gmail.com wrote:

 Which flavour of GNU/Linux supports resizing Windows partitions.
 
 I am familiar with lubuntu
 
 I am running a dual boot system with a P.C. Tower case and two hard
 drives.
 
 I am thinking about buying a laptop with a single hard drive and
 therefore I will need to either re-size the windows partition or
 install GNU/Linux and then
 reinstall Windows 8 off of a CD-ROM.
 

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[Linux-users] OFF TOPIC IOS developer

[Ross Drummond]

Is there an iOS app developer on the list, or alternatively a
recommendation you can pass on?

The app will take user input and behind the scenes perform date
arithmetic and floating point calculations.

This is a paid gig.

Please contact me off list.

Cheers Ross Drummond

Relevance to Linux; hardly any at all.
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Re: [Linux-users] Printing over ipv6

[Ross Drummond]

I need a favour. Can someone who has a Mac or a Macbook and prints to
a network printer using IPV6 bust open the /etc/cups/printers.conf file
and tell me what DeviceURI line in the file looks like.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:54:26 +1300
Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz wrote:

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Re: [Linux-users] IPv6

[Ross Drummond]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:59:24 +1300
C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:

Stuff about IPV6
 
 

Top tip, when using ssh over IPV6 on a LAN you need to specify the
interface, like;

ssh -6 fe80::3b9c:xxx:xxx:xxx%eth0

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[Linux-users] Live DVD Macbook

[Ross Drummond]

I am trying to get a Linux live DVD to boot on an Apple Mac Book.

The suggestions made by Google do not work.

Any hints?

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Re: [Linux-users] Kile on live DVD

[Ross Drummond]

I have found the live DVD with the Kile LaTeX IDE on it. It is one of
the Fedora Spin series.

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/scientific-kde/

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:06:07 +1200
Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote:

 I want a live DVD with the KDE program Kile which is an integrated
 development environment for creating LaTeX documents.
 
 Does anyone know of a live DVD(or CD) with Kile?
 
 Cheers Ross Drummond

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[Linux-users] Kile on live DVD

[Ross Drummond]

I want a live DVD with the KDE program Kile which is an integrated
development environment for creating LaTeX documents.

Does anyone know of a live DVD(or CD) with Kile?

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[Linux-users] IPv6 address method

[Ross Drummond]

I see Craig has set-up the horse ssh server otherwise known as
'shell.clug.org.nz' as IPv6 capable.

On doing a dig lookup on the  record of the above I see the
address is;

2400:6900::1:3825::2

This looks like a specially chosen address and not one generated by the
default method of using the computer interfaces MAC address.

Craig, howdya du dat?

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Re: [Linux-users] This drives me mad!

[Ross Drummond]

Someone with at least five years experience in Windows Server 2012 would be a 
shoo-in for that job.

Visualising those in the recruitment industry as gibbering baboons helps you 
mentally prepare for dealing with them.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Steve Holdoway wrote:
 TM Ad today:
 
 Job Title: Linux Consultant
 
 The Role: Maintain Linux  Windows Enterprise Environments
 
 800 Windows and 130 linux servers.
 
 WTF?
 
 Steve

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Re: [Linux-users] House / Garage ethernet wiring

[Ross Drummond]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, C. Falconer wrote:
 stuff about cable to garage.

I asked a professional cable installer about this.

He said that if it was a small run and you were doing it yourself cockies 
water trough alkathene pipe was fine. He said that you definitely needed to 
use gel filled cable. It was likely over time for your conduit to become water 
logged and it was inevitable your cable would be damaged by small nicks during 
installation. Gel would prevent any moisture entering these small nicks from 
travelling along inside the outer sheath of the cable to a weak spot.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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[Linux-users] Flakey VDSL modem; Was Telstra cable connections in Chch

[Ross Drummond]

Is the cause unstable mains power at your house with micro outages making the 
modem reboot?

Do you notice light fliker? Does running it off a backup power supply make any 
diference?

Cheers Ross Drummond
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Re: [Linux-users] Email client - OUTCOME

[Ross Drummond]

Thank you to those who offered advice.

I took the procrastinate option. I masked recent versions Kmail and installed 
an older known-good version(1.13.7).

Unless Kmail stabilises I have only put off the day of reckoning.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013, Ross Drummond wrote:
 I am setting up a new box with KDE as a desktop.
 
 I have used Kmail as my mail client and have been happy with it.
 
 On advise I have frozen Kmail to version 1.13 as newer versions are
 regarded as unstable and the Akonadi server hard dependency even more so.
 
 Any advice on whether I should persist with Kmail or change to whatever you
 recommend.
 
 My needs are simple MailDir, pop, and the ability to have several email
 accounts.
 
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[Linux-users] Top posting

[Ross Drummond]

I am bucking the orthodxy regarding top posting.

I recently sent a reply to a person who uses a smart phone for emails. When 
asked if he had recievied my reply he said no, the email he got from me wes a 
bounce of his original email. Further faffing about established that the 
original email text in the reply had taken up all the screen, the text of my 
reply needed to be flicked up to be read.

To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting.

DISCUSS

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[Linux-users] Renewal of CLUG domain registration - A thanks to our sponsor

[Ross Drummond]

Previously Discount Domains have sponsored the registration of the domain 
clug.org.nz.

I am pleased to tell you that they have agreed to continue this sponsorship 
for a further year.

Discount Domains[1] are a domain name registrar located in Christchurch who 
provide an easy to use on line interface for the registration of domains. 
Domains offered are sub-domains of the dot nz domain and com org net and info 
top level domains.

An associated company Digiweb[2] provides web hosting and email management 
solutions from premises located in Christchurch.

Subscribers to this list contemplating using the services provided by Discount 
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[Linux-users] Job opoutunity for C Sawtel?

[Ross Drummond]

Item from The Register web site about the difficulties faced by a nuclear 
power plant in Canada recuiting PDP-11 programmers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/

This could be Chris's big chance, especially when he tells them he has a PDP 
machine in the corner of his room.

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Re: [Linux-users] Ubuntu 13.04 M/B suggestions?

[Ross Drummond]

On Thu, 30 May 2013, Chris Hellyar wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 Quick trivia..  My main desktop at home has a Geforce 7025 (nvidia)
 graphics card on the board and with each successive upgrade of Ubuntu
 it's got less stable video wise and it's finally thrown in the towel

 
 Cheers, Chris H.
 
I realise that your problems are most likely hardware based given the machines 
other issues but does using the nouveau open source driver rather than the 
closed nvidia drivers give a different result.

A look through /va  r/log/Xorg-*.log may be usefull.

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Re: [Linux-users] Ubuntu 13.04 M/B suggestions?

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On Thu, 30 May 2013, Ross Drummond wrote:
 
 A look through /var/log/Xorg-*.log may be usefull.
 
 Cheers Ross Drummond

Drat! gremlins, should be;

/var/log/Xorg.*.log

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Re: [Linux-users] DSL Modems and rural lines

[Ross Drummond]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013, Mayes, Kerry wrote:
 Hi guys
 
 Stuff about a modem locking up and wonders if a draytek modem will help
 
 Kerry.
 
I have what my ISP describes as the one of the noisiest lines in the town.

I connected a Draytek ADSL modem to my line which resulted frequent 
disconnects and hangs.

It worked fine in other locations where I connected it.

I had to revert to the previous old Dick Smith modem.

My advise would be to ask arround for discarded old modems that you can borrow 
to test.

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Re: [Linux-users] There are none so blind as cannot see...

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On Fri, 04 Jan 2013, Nick Rout wrote:
 I have been cursing and swearing at my laptop for about 45 minutes here,
 wondering why when I grep multiple files the filename is not given in the
 answer (as should be the default when grepping multiple files). It didn't
 seem to matter if I added -H or any other tricks from man grep. Google
 didn't help.
 
 Then I altered the viewing angle slightly and noticed that the filenames
 were being reported back, in a purple that is very close the to the black
 background in my xterm.
 
 D'oh!
 A solution that may suit;

 alias=grep --color=never

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Re: [Linux-users] wifi woes

[Ross Drummond]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Nick Rout wrote:
 On Dec 29, 2012 2:08 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
  On 26/12/12 18:19, Nick Rout wrote:

 
 Do you have another ethernet device after you modprobed the driver?
 

The command ifconfig -a will show all interfaces availiable including ones 
that are down.

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Re: [Linux-users] wifi advice sought

[Ross Drummond]

On Thu, 08 Nov 2012, Barry wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 She has asked if I can reposition my box elsewhere in the house away
 from the cable  modem.
 
 This will require a wifi system being installed. I think I need a
 wireless modem, and a wifi card to insert into the box. This is a common
 setup for most of you but I have no experience in this area.
 The modem supplied by Telstra is a Surfboard with 1 ethernet port and 1
 usb port.
 
 Advice on what I need will be appreciated.
 
 TIA
 
 Barry

I understand that you are in the currentley in the process of earthquake 
repairs. If you are contemplating new layout for bradband connections and data 
within the house now is ideal time to do something as the builders are likely 
taking off wallboards and doing stuff in the roof and underneath the house.

Installing conduit and flushboxes while the wallboard is off is orders of 
magnitude easier.

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[Linux-users] Draytek Vigor WAS ADSL wrt recommendations

[Ross Drummond]

I purchased a Draytek Vigour 2710e and it refused to connect with ADSL.

According to the ISP my copper line was was one of the noisiest they had 
encountered in an urban area

The Draytek has been deployed around friends and relatives with no problems, 
so it must have been a line noise issue.

I have been forced the rely on an early vanilla Dick Smith ADSL modem that I 
brought second hand from Nick Rout.

I am in a Chorus area for fibre roll-out. On the Chorus web site the 
deployment map puts me in a we will get around to you eventually area. 

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[Linux-users] Wicked data centre news item and images

[Ross Drummond]

Go to;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2219188/Inside-internet-Google-gives-unique-look-inside-vast-data-centres-power-online-world.html

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Re: [Linux-users] WAS Chit chat Re: Testing List - please delete NOW Evolution connection

[Ross Drummond]

Maybe this will help;

https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, chris wrote:
 
 Which is my issue.  I am on dial up, and I cannot get Evolution to go on
 line at all. As you say areal PITA.
 Also my tux skills are not good enough yet to know what I have to do to
 get it working.
 All help gratefully received.
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Re: [Linux-users] Error copying large file to ntfs formatted usb drive?

[Ross Drummond]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
 thanks for the suggestions.
 
 The filesystem on the usb hard drive does not have a 2GB limit - it
 already has several backup image files well over 100GB each.
 
 I tried the system rescue cd, it gave a similar error of cp: failed to
 extend './filename' : Input/output error.
 

Only a suggestion but why not try this from a terminal usin cp with the -v  
or--verbose option enabled to see if you get more informative error output.

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[Linux-users] Renewal of CLUG domain registration - A thanks to our sponsor

[Ross Drummond]

Previously Discount Domains have sponsored the registration of the domain 
clug.org.nz.

I am pleased to tell you that they have agreed to continue this sponsorship 
for a further year.

I would like to thank Robert Rolls from Discount Domains for his assistance 
with the sponsorship.

Discount Domains[1] are a domain name registrar located in Christchurch who 
provide an easy to use on line interface for the registration of domains. 
Domains offered are sub-domains of the dot nz domain and com org net and info 
top level domains.

An associated company Digiweb[2] provides web hosting and email management 
solutions from premises located in Christchurch.

Subscribers to this list contemplating using the services provided by Discount 
Domains or Digiweb are requested to give them their favourable consideration.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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[Linux-users] Android applications

[Ross Drummond]

Are there any experienced Android developers on this list?

I am looking into commisioning the development of an in-house app for a 
business.

No problems paying for this.

Please contact me off list.

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Re: [Linux-users] A new acronym to hate: UEFI

[Ross Drummond]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, John Carter wrote:
 Spotted any Billyware on a USB stick lately?
 
 There isn't even a CD that comes with these machines. Just a fancy
 microsoft sticker on the underside.
 
 So if that partition goes, my only copy of windows goes with it.
 
Their will be an option to create a system recovery disc for the computer in 
Windows somewhwhere.

Warning: The system recovery disc will probably harm your Linux installation 
if you are dual booting.

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[Linux-users] UEFI v Coreboot

[Ross Drummond]

It seems the carefree days of purchasing any cheap PC from a big box retailer 
and inserting a Linux install disc into the DVD drive are over.

One alternative if you are building your own or are purhasing a build to your 
specifications is to use Coreboot compatable systems.

http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

There seems to be plenty of choices in their motherboard compatability list

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Re: [Linux-users] A new acronym to hate: UEFI

[Ross Drummond]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, John Carter wrote:
 Not that the old one was lovable BIOS, was a kludgy kludge pasted on
 top of a badly kludged kludge.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
 
 Either way UEFI is what is standing between me and a brand new dual booting
 Asus 1215B netbook.
 
 Of tuppence I'd blast away the Windows 7 partition, but my Glorious
 Overlady, She Who Must Be Obeyed wants me to keep it.
 
 Sigh! Not having much luck with Oneiric Ocelot amd64... I can install and
 run Oneiric trivially, the blinking UEFI boot code merely insists on
 booting windows and only windows.
 
 Downloading a daily build of Precise Pangolin now and will give that a try.

Boot Windows as an administrator user, type compmgmt.msc into the search box 
in the windows menu. A window should open , choose Disk Management from the 
left hand panel.

This should display the partitions on your hard srive. If your version of 
windows is using UEFI you should have a small patition at the start of the 
disk marked as SYTEM_DRV partition.

This is where UEFI lives. On no account should you blow away this partition 
witout knowing exactley what you are doing. Romoving this partition will most 
likely brick your computer

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Re: [Linux-users] A new acronym to hate: UEFI

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, yuri wrote:

 If what Ross says is correct, then replacing the drive would require
 returning the computer to the manufacturer. If the warrantee is
 expired, that could prove very expensive. Yet another reason to hate
 UEFI - if this is correct.
 
 Yuri

I haven't actually wrangled with UEFI and Linux so what I am telling you is 
all book learning.

From the Wikipedia page;

UEFI does not rely on a working boot sector only, but needs a special 
partition table referring to a special partition containing a specially 
located file with a standardized name depending on the actual architecture to 
boot (\EFI\BOOT\boot[architecture name].efi).

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Re: [Linux-users] A new acronym to hate: UEFI

[Ross Drummond]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, John Carter wrote:
 Alas, all indications from what I can see in front of me indicate that You
 and Ross are indeed correct.
 
 Carter's Law of Marketing in Action: Once a company reaches a certain size,
 all it's marketing efforts become concentrated on making their customers
 hate them.
 
Some motherboards have the option of enabling legacy boot mode which I 
understand means old style MBR boot loading. Check your bios set up munu or 
motherboard documentation.

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Re: [Linux-users] help with wget / curl to download a site that includes images stored on Amazon S3?

[Ross Drummond]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012, Phill Coxon wrote:
 Hi there.
 
 I want to download a copy of a small site so I have the layout / design
 to use as a source of ideas for a similar project I'm going to create in
 the near future.
 
 The reason I want to capture it locally is that it's for a short term
 event (ending in two days) and the site may go offline or change after
 that. It would be great to have a copy of it as it is now.
 
 I'm trying to use  wget to mirror the site but all of the site images
 are cached on Amazon S3 and wget will not download them as local copies.
 
 The site is: http://paleosummit.com
 
 Any suggestions on how to use wget or curl to download the images stored
 on Amazon S3 with links updated for local storage / viewing?
 
 Thanks!

Please refer to the following options in the wget man page;

--convert-links

--page-requisites

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Re: [Linux-users] Eee PC video fail

[Ross Drummond]

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012, Aidan Gauland wrote:
 On 03/03/12 14:58, Kent Fredric wrote:
  What GPU is it, sounds like a driver-missmatch issue.
 
 The model is 1015BX, and the GPU is an AMD Radeon HD 6250.
 As root use;

lspci -k

to find if a driver module has been loaded.

Here is the output for my eeepc which is an older model with an Intel video 
GDU.

lspci -k -s 00:02

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1252
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML 
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1252

As you can see I have the i915 kernel module loaded.

Cheers Ross Drummond

PS Excellent choice of PC. I like mine for its low real estate foorprint, 
quietness and low power consumption.

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Re: [Linux-users] Is anyone out there?

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On Thu, 01 Mar 2012, Nick Rout wrote:
 Is this list still around?

me+

Off topic observation: As a *nix command line user I find myself in difficulty 
when using Windows PowerShell.

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Re: [Linux-users] Pet Peeve

[Ross Drummond]

My form of entertainment is when you buy a computer or some peripheral and 
they try to up-sell you an anti-virus program.

I pretend to be interested and ask them if they have a Linux version.

My pet peeve is web pages that have many hundreds of images in them. Haven't 
they heard of CSS?

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Nick Rout wrote:
 
 LOL it makes you wonder how these people get trained (or not).
 
 I often feel like interrupting when I hear shop assistants talking to
 complete strangers. However the few times I have, it leads to a whole
 afternoon of discussion, I just keep quiet now.
 
 Often what I want to say is you can get that for 2/3 of the price at
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[Linux-users] Piping sound around a network

[Ross Drummond]

I have succeeded in sending application windows around my LAN using X windows.

It works well but where there is sound associated with this window, kmplayer 
for example, I have not been able to get the audio to work.

Is there some some standard way to send audio from an application around a 
network?

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Re: [Linux-users] Changing the resolution on PDF's

[Ross Drummond]

On Sat, 01 Oct 2011, Steve Holdoway wrote:
 On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 02:58 -0500, ke...@manukadesign.co.nz wrote:
  Stuff about setting DPI in a PDF
  
  Thanks
  Kerry
 
 PDF is an object oriented format, containing fonts, text, images, and so
 on. Because of this, your question is rather more complex than at first
 sight...

What Steve said. All you are likely to change in the PDF is the line of code 
that instructs the printer how densely to slapp on the ink.

If you are using ghostscript to generate the PDF's it may pay to use the 
following option;

-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen

to see if this makes a difference.

More at;

http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm

Alternatevely you may wish to change the DefaultResolution value in the 
ghostpdf.ppd file.

I hve not tested these solutions myself,so they should be regarded as 
suggestions which may or may not work. Let us know how you get on.

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[Linux-users] Renewal of CLUG domain registration

[Ross Drummond]

Previously Discount Domains have sponsored the registration of the domain 
clug.org.nz.

I am pleased to tell you that they have agreed to continue this sponsorship 
for a further year.

I would like to thank Hamish from Discount Domains for his assistance with the 
sponsorship.

Discount Domains[1] are a domain name registrar located in Christchurch who 
provide an easy to use on line interface for the registration of domains. 
Domains offered are sub-domains of the dot nz domain and com org net and info 
top level domains.

An associated company Digiweb[2] provides web hosting and email management 
solutions from premises located in Christchurch.

Subscribers to this list contemplating using the services provided by Discount 
Domains or Digiweb are requested to give them their favourable consideration.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] pfsense on Alix board

[Ross Drummond]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Robert Fisher wrote:
 On 22/07/11 11:36, Hadley Rich wrote:
  I can probably pop pfSense onto a CF card for people here if they need.
 
 And he did. I am very impressed with Hadley's service. I ordered the
 stuff late yesterday afternoon and now I have a Celeron Tower to give
 away (complete with 2 NIC's and IPCop working.

Can you elaborate what hardware you are running PfSense on?

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[Linux-users] World IPv6 day tomorrow

[Ross Drummond]

Tomorrow Wed 8th June is world Ipv6 day.

Anybody doing anything to participate in this event?

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Re: [Linux-users] time stamp in bash script

[Ross Drummond]

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jim Cheetham and others wrote:
 Discussion about time taken for a process.

You guys are reinventing the wheel. Go to;

http://directory.fsf.org/project/time/

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Re: [Linux-users] time stamp in bash script

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On Tue, 24 May 2011, Ross Drummond wrote:
 On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jim Cheetham and others wrote:
  Discussion about time taken for a process.
 
 You guys are reinventing the wheel. Go to;
 
 http://directory.fsf.org/project/time/
 
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Oops I re-read Jim's post. He has already suggested using time.

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Re: [Linux-users] IPv6 over 6to4 tunnel

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On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:40:10 +1200, Col col...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 15/05/11 11:28, Ross Drummond wrote:
 I finally succeeded in getting a 6to4 tunnel set up on one of my Linux
 boxes.


 Cheers Ross Drummond

 
 How well does that configuration score on the ipv6 test?
 http://test-ipv6.com/
 
 I'm finding programs ( eg firefox, thunderbird, ssh ) doing dns lookups 
 for both v4  v6 addresses, and preferring the v6 address if it exists.
 
 Col.
 

Results for test-ipv6.com;

Your IPv6 address on the public internet appears to be
2002:6f45:faxx::1110:692x:xx
Your IPv6 service appears to be: 6to4

Test with IPv4 DNS record ok (0.597s) using ipv4

Test with IPv6 DNS record ok (0.552s) using ipv6 6to4

Test with Dual Stack DNS recordn  ok (0.570s) using ipv4

Test for Dual Stack DNS and large packet ok (0.411s) using ipv4

Test IPv4 without DNS ok (0.379s) using ipv4

Test IPv6 without DNS ok (0.380s) using ipv6 6to4

Test IPv6 large packet timeout (15.024s)

Test if your ISP's DNS server uses IPv6 bad (0.263s)

1/10for your IPv4 stability and readiness, when publishers offer both
IPv4 and IPv6
1/10for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced
to
go IPv6 only

Curiously the test would not run in Konqueror but worked fine in Firefox.

Cheers Ross Drummond

Note Ipv6 address mangled for security purposes.

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Re: [Linux-users] paradise passwords

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On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Barry wrote:
 Robert Fisher wrote:
  On 17/04/11 15:10, Barry wrote:
  Hi all,
  
  I have a website at 'homepages.paradise.net.nz/barry-m' which I wish to
  update. It has not been accessed by me for some years but can be readily
  viewed. I now wish to update it using ftp (gftp) but all attempts fail
  with the password being rejected.
 
What error code is the FTP server returning?

A comparison with the codes on this site will help narrow down the cause of 
your login rejection.

http://www.theegglestongroup.com/writing/ftp_error_codes.php

Some FTP clients may hide the code so you may need to use the BSD ftp command 
line program. If it is not installed on your Linux box try a Windows one. All 
Windows versions I have come across include the BSD client.

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Re: [Linux-users] paradise passwords

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On  Apr 2011, Barry wrote:
  I have a website at 'homepages.paradise.net.nz/barry-m' which I wish
 to update. It has not been accessed by me for some years but can be
 readily viewed. 

 I now wish to update it using ftp (gftp) but all attempts
 fail with the password being rejected.

A solution to the brain fade problem when attempting to connect with little 
used ftp sites is to have a dot netrc file in your home directory.

It stores URL's logins and passwords, your ftp client should search for this 
file and if it finds a matching URL automagicly transmit your login and 
password.

Teh Google suggests that gftp supports this file.

Warning: The netrc file stores your login and password in plain text, so you 
need to be comfortable with the lack of security in this file.

My computer has a man page for the netrc file format.

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[Linux-users] File system on external hard drive

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Can anyone recommend a file system for an external hard drive that can used on 
either XP OSX or Linux

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[Linux-users] CD with videos of keynote speakers from LCA2011 to give away

[Ross Drummond]

Jim Cheetham was kind enough to give me a CD with videos of keynote speakers 
at Linux Conf Australia 2011. I am interest in passing it on to someone.

The videos are in Ogg Theora format and include some interesting observations 
about the challenges in the IPV6 transition.

I will forward the CD to the first person who emails me off-list with a postal 
address.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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[Linux-users] To ubsubscribe from mailing list

[Ross Drummond]

The is a mailto; link in the headers of emails on the list.

Dig out an email sent to you at your old address, you may need to go to 'view 
source' in your mail client if that has hidden the email headers.

Or alternatively go to this page and follow the unsubscribe instructions at 
the bottom of the page;

http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Please note that both these methods require the From Address to be the email 
address which you subscribed to the list on.

Cheers Ross Drummond

PS It is a statement of the bleedin obvious that it is easier to cancel your 
old list subscription while your old email address is still active.

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[Linux-users] The Tux search and rescue squad

[Ross Drummond]

There are going to be a lot of dead and dying computers in Christchurch. They 
either had a brick drop on them or took a swan dive onto the floor.

It will become necessary in a lot of circumstances to transfer files from one 
hard drive to another. But never fear Tux has a solution underneath his 
flipper.

Use SystemRescueCD[1] in either its live CD or bootable USB versions,

and follow these instructions for using netcat[2] and tar to do high volume 
file transfers across a network;

http://www.kevinhatfield.org/?p=423

Cheers Ross Drummond

[1] http://www.sysresccd.org/

[2] called nc in some distributions

PS. This solution will work on NTFS partitions but will cause an error message 
when files are opened on the new computer. Googling the error message will 
provide a solution.

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Re: [Linux-users] LCA2011 videos ...

[Ross Drummond]

On Thursday 10 February 2011, Jim Cheetham wrote:
 How about a social CLUG meeting at the Twisted Hop, Wednesday 16th? If
 Nick can make it I could get my old film scanner back too! Someone can
 bring along a HDD and grab the collection for further onwards
 distribution around the LUG (yes, the licenses are all good, mostly
 CC-BY-SA with a couple of CC-BY-NC in the mix)
 
 -jim

I'm keen, Chris is as well. What time were you planning to grace us with your 
appearance?

Cheers Ross Drummond

PS. Any person attending who can share with me their method for setting up a 
6to4 tunnel should have a chat with me.

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Re: [Linux-users] Thunderbird time zone issue

[Ross Drummond]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Carl Turney wrote:
 Thunderbird time-stamps and sorts it in 
 the Inbox at HIS time, not our local time (the one true real time, as 
 all Kiwis know).

To check to see if your time zone is set correctly run these commands from a 
prompt;

TZ=Pacific/Auckland date

date

The times should be the same.

A good permanent solution is to set up you Linux box to query a Net Time 
Protocol server. Most ISP's have one, and your computer clock will be very 
accurate.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] corrupted PNG files coming out of cacti/apache

[Ross Drummond]

On Monday 22 November 2010, C. Falconer wrote:
 Hi all.   I've had a problem for the past couple of months and its not
 obvious what's at fault.   I'm reasonably sure its not rrdtool though.
 

Just wondering if wget is getting confused as to whether it is dealing with a 
text or binary file.

Test using ftp, once normally and then again after instructing your client to 
use binary transfer.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] tty1...6 font back to 80x25 and tty-jumping lockups

[Ross Drummond]

On Friday 19 November 2010, Carl Turney wrote:
 tty1 to 6 (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc.) gives me a much smaller font (i.e. more
 lines and chars) than the traditional 80x25 per screen.  Nice for you
 young folks, but hurts my eyes.  Anyone know how to set it back?
 
 Have tried finding a file called /etc/TextConfig but not there.  (May be
 associated with some add-on that tweaks the max out of graphics cards.)

Try editing /etc/conf.d/consolefont

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] Printing at UoC from CLI

[Ross Drummond]

Normally if the printer supports Post Script you would point Cups to the 
relevant PPD file and tell cups the printers ip address.

However I don't think you will find things so simple. The printer is probably 
configured to deny connection attempts from the wilds of the internet and the 
university will also require user authentication and page accounting.

Apple computers also use Cups as their printing environment so asking how 
users with Apple computers print may yield some useful information.

You should be able to use lpr when logged onto the universities Linux system.
lpstat -a should tell you what printers are available.

On a related tangent, when I want to print something from the shell on a 
postscript printer I pipe the command output to encsript and then pipe that 
output to lpr. Man enscript for all the gory details.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Friday 12 November 2010, Aidan Gauland wrote:
 Hello fellow CLUGgers,
 
 Does anyone here happen to know how to print, from the command line,
 to the printers at University of Canterbury (while on campus, of
 course)?  At home, I use lpr to send PostScript to the shared printer
 on my mum's iMac (I'll try to get her on Haiku when it's past Alpha),
 but that, unlike the printers at UoC, requires no authentication.
 I've just been scp-ing my files from my laptop to my home directory on
 the CS department's Linux-system, and then logging into Linux from the
 labs, opening the file in Evince, and printing it from there.  Rather
 cumbersome process, so I'd really like to just print directly from my
 laptop.  (I haven't asked the ICT dept. about this, because I have
 little confidence in their willingness to support UNIX users since the
 switch to Outlook Live.)
 
 Thanks,
 Aidan


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[Linux-users] Archive of this list

[Ross Drummond]

Archives of postings to this list are available online;

1. From October 2010, maintained by the list provider The University of 
Canterbury.

http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/pipermail/linux-users/

2. From December 2000, by Mike Beattie.[1]

http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/

Thanks to the University and Mike for providing this resource.

Cheers Ross Drummond

[2] Mike also provides an archive of the Dunedin Linux Users list. 

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Re: [Linux-users] Multi-port network card on Linux

[Ross Drummond]

On Wednesday 20 October 2010, C. Falconer wrote:
 Why do you want many different NICs?   The modern way to do segmentation 
 is a managed ethernet switch with a fat pipe to servers/firewalls.

I was planning to use the box as a firewall router running pfsense.

Our local lines company is planning (Govt support dependent) to install a 
fiber to the premises network in Ashburton.

The optical network terminator that they will use will probably be a dumb 
appliance, so you will need something between your local LAN and the nasty 
wider world. A pfsense box with this card can be used as a dual purpose router 
and firewall.

If it is going to be used as a pfsense box why am I mucking around with Linux 
and not FreeBSD? The answer is that I am not familiar with FreeBSD and am far 
more comfortable with Linux especially if low level debugging is required.

When I am happy with what I know about this card, Linux can be wiped and 
pfsense installed.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] webcam stuck on 160x120

[Ross Drummond]

On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Nick Rout wrote:
 How do you tell which is connected to where?

lsusb -t

From the man page;

-t Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] Quake

[Ross Drummond]

On Saturday 04 September 2010, Jim Cheetham wrote:
 Hi CLUG people, I hope that you are all OK and haven't suffered too
 much with the recent quakes.
 
 -jim
 
Was woken by the rumble and shake here in Ashburton.

No power loss, not even a flicker, all other services including Internet are OK 
and no visible property damage.

Cheers Ross Drummond

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[Linux-users] I gave away my ssh password

[Ross Drummond]

I was using ssh to connect to Craigs horse server.

I miss typed the URL of this server which took me to another unknown ssh 
server which prompted me for a login and password before refusing me a login.

Fortunately I was able to get hold of Craig and get the password changed right 
away.

I have found a solution which reduces the risk of miss typing the ssh servers 
URL.

Create a file, ~/.sss/config and add the following stanza;

Hosthorse
HostNameshell.clug.org.nz
Port22
Userme

Now when I wish to connect to horse I just type 'ssh horse'

More info from;

http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/08/six-things-i-wish-mom-told-me-about-ssh/

or

man ssh_config

Cheers Ross Drummond

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Re: [Linux-users] I gave away my ssh password

[Ross Drummond]

On Thursday 02 September 2010, Ross Drummond wrote:
 Create a file, ~/.sss/config and add the following stanza;

That should be;

~/.ssh/config

Sorry

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