Re: [SLUG] keyboard layouts
You may find it useful to grab the colemak layout files from colemak.com and see how they've done it. Colemak is available from the menu in Hardy, but before then you needed to do things manually. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:07 PM, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought an ASUS laptop which has some strange keyboard configurations. How do you customise the keyboard layout in Hardy? The system preferences tool only does specific pre-ordained layouts like Dvorak etc. I want to make keys do odd things (eg, the enter key to become a period... it makes sense when you see the layout) What I need is a tool or config file to make any given key do exactly what *I* want it to do. thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive
A friend at work has installed Ubuntu (hardy heron) on an Asus EEE pc. When he plugs in a in a USB flash drive, he gets an error message explaining that he need SU rights to do this. this surprises me because I have no trouble on my machine. I said he should see what happens if he logs in as root. He knows nothing about root and certainly does not know root's password. I said he should remember being prompted for this in the install. no. In the install, he created a login only for himself (which works) except that he cannot use his USB flash drive. The system is clearly trying to mount the drive when it is plugged in. It just thinks the that access rights do not allow it. Any suggestions? (remember that he does not know root's password) Chris Allen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive
2008/9/22 Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A friend at work has installed Ubuntu (hardy heron) on an Asus EEE pc. When he plugs in a in a USB flash drive, he gets an error message explaining that he need SU rights to do this. this surprises me because I have no trouble on my machine. I said he should see what happens if he logs in as root. He knows nothing about root and certainly does not know root's password. I said he should remember being prompted for this in the install. no. In the install, he created a login only for himself (which works) except that he cannot use his USB flash drive. The system is clearly trying to mount the drive when it is plugged in. It just thinks the that access rights do not allow it. Any suggestions? (remember that he does not know root's password) By default Ubuntu does not prompt for nor set the root password and instead uses `sudo`. If you find a need to use `su` you can either set the password using `sudo passwd` or use `sudo -i`. While there is the brute force solution above, it sounds like there is a separate issue, because as you said, it usually just works. One possible issue may be his account privileges. While the sole account that Ubuntu creates _should_ be an administrator, it might be worth checking it. Go to: System-Administration-Users and Groups-(username)-Properties-User Privileges Make sure that 'Access external storage devies automatically' is ticked. To change these options you need to click 'Unlock' and enter the user's password (uses gksudo). IIRC in the older versions (pre Hardy) you are prompted before the User settings app will open. Hope this helps, cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host
Jim Donovan wrote: Can anyone suggest a better host which also allows SSH logins? Quadra Hosting have Australian servers, nice value plans, and in my experience, zero noticeable downtime. SSH access with a bash shell is available, you just need to fill in a form. Their servers do however run FreeBSD, not Linux. Then again, if you want security and stability, maybe thats a good thing ducks :-) http://www.quadrahosting.com.au/hosting/unix.html cheers danm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive
Brief howto . to enable sudo for a non priveleged user you will need to 1/ edit /etc/sudoers (you need root passwd to do so) 2/ you will need to boot in safe mode (runlevel 1) from grub create a root password as below: #passwd 3/ add a line to /etc/sudoers ( run visudo) as below: your_username ALL=(ALL) ALL 4/ reboot prepend sudo to all priveleged system commands. You may need this explained in more detail ( as very brief). Cheers Roger -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive
2008/9/22 R.G.Salisbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brief howto . to enable sudo for a non priveleged user you will need to 1/ edit /etc/sudoers (you need root passwd to do so) 2/ you will need to boot in safe mode (runlevel 1) from grub create a root password as below: #passwd 3/ add a line to /etc/sudoers ( run visudo) as below: your_username ALL=(ALL) ALL 4/ reboot prepend sudo to all priveleged system commands. You may need this explained in more detail ( as very brief). Cheers Roger Hey, Ubuntu by default has '%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL' in sudoers so if you're not already in the admin group then simply running `adduser username admin` from the safemode described above would fix that. Though, during installation the first user created should be added to the admin group and given privileges for devices by default. cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host
If bargain-basement is the goer, try www.memebot.com --- website is free up to 30M space, 100MB/month. An additional $20US fee enables ssh for a year, and ups the data allowance to 300MB/month. If you want your own domain name, you can use their DNS, also included in the price. CGI is available, as is SSI and SMX. You get what you pay for, of course; I've found until recently they've been very reliable, but currently my site is down :-( -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Choosing a sensible host
On Sep 22, 11:57 am, Jim Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run a site with about 20MB of files and a finite amount of traffic. We've been using a $100/100MB plan with Smartyhost which gives us SSH access and a linux server. Unfortunately, smarty's service seems to be falling off. They keep trying to move us to a server which does not allow SSH logins. And they seem unable to keep our webstats running. Interesting. I've been using vigabyte (vigabyte.com) for a VPS [1] - they're part of the smartyhost group. I haven't used them heavily but nothing bad for the year I've been on them. Service is a bit slow and I had to spend an initial session disabling and uninstalling unwanted software on my server. Smartyhost has now become part of MYOB which makes me a little nervous. (This is all vps, not shared hosting so you need to do root admin stuff and your own web server, web stats ...) Other VPS's: web24.com.au - surprisingly good service, confusing setup but fast. Network or performance is a bit suspect which is something I'd like to see improve. They use openvz/virtuozzo/container-style virtualisation. In US, slicehost.com is good. vpsfarm.com seems like good value at half the price of slicehost for 1gb ram (disk and bandwidth are different) but I haven't tried them. Always looking for more aussie vps providers... Regards, Daniel [1] $49/month for 256RAM - I think they're vmware/esx based, but they have some spin about being able to quickly expand ram and possibly disk with minimal downtime. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
