Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation
Patrick, You haven't mentioned the format of DVDs you're using. I believe that the general consensus is that DVD-R generally has better compatibility with DVD video players than DVD+R. It could be as simple as this. Also the semi-conductor lasers used in DVD players tend to lose power over time, and while there is compensating circuitry for this, eventually they reach the design limits. We have had a few PC-based CD/DVD-ROM drives and a regular DVD player that simply would not read marginal disks any more, despite lens cleaning. Home burned DVDs always tend to not be readable before commercial pressed media in this situation. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com -- 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] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)
On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, I didn't see your original (sans the quoted section above), but the following will probably be of interest to you: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iBook-G4-12-Inch-800-MHz-1-2-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/166/1 As for putting a SSD where an IDE currently lives, you will more than likely require an IDE-to-SATA converter unless you can find an IDE SSD! If you need the converter, you will probably run out of space :( Traditional spinning platter IDE drives are still readily available but are (in my experience) a little more expensive ($/MB) than their SATA cousinsthat whole supply/demand thing sux. Good luck, James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- 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] RAID and LVM
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve: 1) Speed 2) Reliability 3) Ease of maintenance. Anyone care to take a punt at a layout? G3 has hardware RAID doesn't it? That has one big advantage over software RAID. Ease of maintenance if one fails - you just pull it out, stick in a same drive and it does recovery. Linux need not know anything has happened. So for 2 and 3 I'd go hardware RAID. For 1. (speed) software RAID might have a slight advantage. You also get greatly improve flexibility - you don't have to mirror everything, right now. -- 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: Asus EeePC 1005HA
Jeff A quick tidbit for anyone who has acquired one of these delightful netbooks: Asus has shipped a few BIOS updates, the most recent of which has improved my wifi performance/reliability considerably. Recommended update. How did you get your machine to install the BIOS update. I've found the part about ALT + F2 to start it but can't get the machine to find the USB stick. Do I have to format the USB stick as FAT16 or is just any old file system going to work ? Richard -- 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] Re: Asus EeePC 1005HA
quote who=Richard Ibbotson How did you get your machine to install the BIOS update. I've found the part about ALT + F2 to start it but can't get the machine to find the USB stick. Do I have to format the USB stick as FAT16 or is just any old file system going to work ? FAT32 should be fine, but I think you have to give the file a special name. I have a DOS image on a USB stick, so I just used that. - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ boc i wish i could write good flames jwz boc: you can't win if you don't play -- 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] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:09:35 +1100 James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, I didn't see your original (sans the quoted section above), but the following will probably be of interest to you: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iBook-G4-12-Inch-800-MHz-1-2-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/166/1 As for putting a SSD where an IDE currently lives, you will more than likely require an IDE-to-SATA converter unless you can find an IDE SSD! If you need the converter, you will probably run out of space : ( Traditional spinning platter IDE drives are still readily available but are (in my experience) a little more expensive ($/MB) than their SATA cousinsthat whole supply/demand thing sux. Yeah, replacing the original hard drive is not complicated, but I was looking to go solid state. The machine is now underpowered, overweight and needs a memory upgrade. The reason I was asking about CF as a hard drive is this adapter which seems like it solves the space problem: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp But reasonable size CF cards aren't cheap. It doesn't make financial sense, I guess. It is an old favourite since I have written a couple of books on it, but maybe time to put it out to pasture. The basic Dell Mini 10 was on line at $400 this weekend - much lighter, much higher specs. Thanks, Alan Good luck, James -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)
Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a good data transfer program called super duper for mac, it's free and I know it works when transfering from a 250g to 500g for eg. Will transfer ur mbr etc... could suit ur needs On 22/02/2010, at 8:08, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:09:35 +1100 James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, I didn't see your original (sans the quoted section above), but the following will probably be of interest to you: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iBook-G4-12-Inch-800-MHz-1-2-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/166/1 As for putting a SSD where an IDE currently lives, you will more than likely require an IDE-to-SATA converter unless you can find an IDE SSD! If you need the converter, you will probably run out of space : ( Traditional spinning platter IDE drives are still readily available but are (in my experience) a little more expensive ($/MB) than their SATA cousinsthat whole supply/demand thing sux. Yeah, replacing the original hard drive is not complicated, but I was looking to go solid state. The machine is now underpowered, overweight and needs a memory upgrade. The reason I was asking about CF as a hard drive is this adapter which seems like it solves the space problem: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp But reasonable size CF cards aren't cheap. It doesn't make financial sense, I guess. It is an old favourite since I have written a couple of books on it, but maybe time to put it out to pasture. The basic Dell Mini 10 was on line at $400 this weekend - much lighter, much higher specs. Thanks, Alan Good luck, James -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- 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
Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:24:21 +1100 Mike beatbreake...@gmail.com wrote: Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a good data transfer program called super duper for mac, it's free and I know it works when transfering from a 250g to 500g for eg. Will transfer ur mbr etc... could suit ur needs I guess I should have made it clear that I'm running Debian on the machine. I used OS X for about a week when I bought it, but could never warm up to it. It runs Debian Lenny with the standard Gnome desktop and 512Mb of memory. Not lightning fast, but plenty good enough for the way I use it (emacs, email, web stuff). Thanks, Alan On 22/02/2010, at 8:08, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:09:35 +1100 James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, I didn't see your original (sans the quoted section above), but the following will probably be of interest to you: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iBook-G4-12-Inch-800-MHz-1-2-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/166/1 As for putting a SSD where an IDE currently lives, you will more than likely require an IDE-to-SATA converter unless you can find an IDE SSD! If you need the converter, you will probably run out of space : ( Traditional spinning platter IDE drives are still readily available but are (in my experience) a little more expensive ($/MB) than their SATA cousinsthat whole supply/demand thing sux. Yeah, replacing the original hard drive is not complicated, but I was looking to go solid state. The machine is now underpowered, overweight and needs a memory upgrade. The reason I was asking about CF as a hard drive is this adapter which seems like it solves the space problem: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp But reasonable size CF cards aren't cheap. It doesn't make financial sense, I guess. It is an old favourite since I have written a couple of books on it, but maybe time to put it out to pasture. The basic Dell Mini 10 was on line at $400 this weekend - much lighter, much higher specs. Thanks, Alan Good luck, James -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- 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] RAID and LVM
On 20/02/2010 01:00, Jake Anderson wrote: Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve: 1) Speed 2) Reliability 3) Ease of maintenance. Anyone care to take a punt at a layout? TIA Nigel. I wouldn't bother with LVM. Personally I'd set up a 3 disk raid 5 and just partition onto it directly, if you want more room (not likley with 1Tb drives) you can grow the raid 5 array rather than needing to add on another array and join it onto the end. ONly one problem there - the DL145 only take 2 x Sata drives internally. I'm having to stick in a PCI-Express card with two sata ports so I can get the new drives populated from the old (small) ones. I'd love to be able to use more than two but it's a physical limitation. Rgds Nigel. -- 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] RAID and LVM
On 21/02/2010 20:56, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve: 1) Speed 2) Reliability 3) Ease of maintenance. Anyone care to take a punt at a layout? G3 has hardware RAID doesn't it? That has one big advantage over software RAID. Ease of maintenance if one fails - you just pull it out, stick in a same drive and it does recovery. Linux need not know anything has happened. So for 2 and 3 I'd go hardware RAID. For 1. (speed) software RAID might have a slight advantage. You also get greatly improve flexibility - you don't have to mirror everything, right now. Alas - hardware raid is only available on the hot-plug machines and given that the disks are internal on this one I'm going to guess not. Even the two DL360's the customer has have a great big sticker on them that says When SATA drives are fitted, hot-plug and LED features are not currently supported :( I am planning to fit (was temporarily) an Adaptec PCI-Express card (AAR-1220SA) to the spare slot in the box box to transfer the data from the two existing (very small and very full) SATA drives to the new ones. This supports RAID thus: The Adaptec RAID 1220SA card is a two-port, PCI Express x1 controller featuring Adaptec HostRAID^(TM) - an integrated RAID technology that maximizes system performance and uptime. The Adaptec 1220SA supports up to two 3Gb/s Serial ATA drives, Native Command Queuing, and offers RAID levels 0, 1, and JBOD (individual drive). The Adaptec 48-bit logical block addressing (LBA) support enables use of disk drives exceeding 137 GB in capacity. The Adaptec 1220SA supports Windows® 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, and NetWare. This being the case, I might be tempted to leave this card in permanently for the hardware RAID features and bypass the in-built SATA controller. I suppose it will all come out on the night - in the worst case scenario I'll just chuck the old full drives back in and wait until a weekend. Rgds Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Joomla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuB0aEACgkQybPcBAs9CE9KDgCfWsNye1bfwLRpVbQaaMI+FQSi azIAn1xXH33u/+IuGPzpnPV6cP6fFnqf =F00d -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Joomla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ignore my last post. I had a brain crash ...need sugar! Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuB2LsACgkQybPcBAs9CE822ACghh2zW8zKVgjxeqhTVPbw1vob qS8AoMBDThR65CS6BMfrhlSA9f3dF7jm =k2mS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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] Joomla
On 22/02/10 11:36, Heracles wrote: How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing If it's in zip format, gunzip isn't going to unzip it. You need 'unzip' to do that. Alternatively, if it really genuinely is in gzip format, just rename it to have a .gz on the end, and it'll be happy. zip != gzip :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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: Joomla
Hi How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing You need to install unzip and p7zip sudo apt-get install p7zip-full rar arj lha unzip Should do it. Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- 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] Joomla
quote who=Heracles NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Because no one has packaged it. Probably because no one loves it. (Web stuff is fairly troublesome to package, keep updated and so on -- it ends up being easier to do it manually, sadly. Perhaps one day we'll figure this out.) - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ Patches are like Free Software love letters. -- 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] cloud / VM storage
quote who=Del I know that VPS and cloud hosting has been discussed here quite a bit, and on the basis of that discussion we've started using Linode for some virtual services, so thanks for the recommendations for them to those who posted. However storage at Linode is very expensive -- adding additional GB is around $2 per GB per month. Does anyone have a recommendation for a VM provider where the storage space is cheap, for such things as off-site backups? Linode will soon announce a large scale storage and backup product. You might be able to trial it if you ask. :-) (Extra storage is relatively expensive at Linode because you're buying more space on your host itself, rather than from an aggregated storage platform. Sure, disk is cheap, but not when you're competing for space with other VMs on a single host! The economics of storage at Linode will change once they have the new platform in place.) - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ GNOME. Vorsprung durch Einfachheit. -- 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] Joomla
On 22/02/10 12:10, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Heracles NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Because no one has packaged it. Probably because no one loves it. (Web stuff is fairly troublesome to package, keep updated and so on -- it ends up being easier to do it manually, sadly. Perhaps one day we'll figure this out.) Not to mention the fact that once it ends up in universe, it virtually never gets updated until the next Ubuntu release, which is about 6 months too late if that package has a security vulnerability. Even it were regularly updated upstream in Debian, they only sync in the beginning stages of the development cycle of each release. By the time the release comes, the Debian import process has been frozen so long, the package in question is already a revision or two out of date. I have seen exceptions to the rule — Firefox 3.5 was regularly updated in Ubuntu 9.04's universe repository, for instance. But somehow I get the feeling Joomla is a lot less important (to Ubuntu) than Firefox. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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] Joomla
Jeff Waugh wrote: Because no one has packaged it. Probably because no one loves it. Or more accurately, because noone has packaged it for Debian. The *vast* majority of stuff available for Ubuntu is available because someone packaged it for Debian. I have nothing against Ubuntu, i run it on my laptop and use it at work, I'm just interested in seeing credit going to the people who deserve it. FWIW, my dissatisfaction with the state of the GHC compiler and Haskell libraries in Ubuntu prompted me to join the debian-haskell-maintainers group. The hard work of this group (mostly not me :-)) means that GHC and Haskell libraries in Ubuntu 10.04 will likely be in a far better state than they have ever been before. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Testing glue records
Thank you all for your help. I've conceded defeat against the registrar with the glue records and I've signed up for custom DNS hosting from dyndns.com. Regards, Ashley Glenday * The time for my yearly haircut is coming around again (March 11th-13th). If anyone wants to sponsor me they can make a tax deductible donation at: http://my.imisfriendraising.com.au/personalPage.aspx?SID=91562 All money raised goes to the Leukemia Foundation. * ** I will be out of the country between 1st April and 20th April. During this time I can still be reached by email, but will be without mobile contact ** I am now offering after hours services. 7am-9am and 5pm-11pm Weekdays and all day Saturday and Sunday. The after hours number is: 02 4786 0736 New charges will apply Telephone support - $50 Remote support - $100 Onsite support - $200 p/h or part thereof On 21/02/10 01:00, Ashley Glenday wrote: Hi Marty, The domain is mobileitdept.com.au I suspected that the glue records weren't set up properly but they kept closing my ticket saying it was fine. I guess my next question should be which registrar should I use that knows how to do glue records properly? I've lodged another ticket asking them to delete the records for ns1 and ns2 because every time I try it I get an error, that's what lead me to think it could have something to do with them still being set up for the old server. Thank you all for your ongoing help. Regards, Ashley Glenday On 21/02/10 00:23, Martin Barry wrote: $quoted_author = Ashley Glenday ; Thanks John, I've tried that too, the only thing that comes up is ns3 and ns4. So the current glue is ok. Out of curiosity, could it be something to do with the fact that I used to have ns1 and ns2 set up on an old server and those records haven't been removed from the tld servers? No, otherwise you would see the old, incorrect glue. This level of DNS is something I do so infrequently I end up having to relearn it all over again. It sounds like the new glue is not set up correctly. We could be more helpful if we knew what the domain was. :-) cheers Marty attachment: ashley.vcf-- 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] Joomla
Several questions here - I've answered them separately for clarity: Q: Why is Joomla! not in the repositories? A: I think it was at one point, but I prefer to install this type of application manually - I've found that patches and critical security stuff take too long to filter through the repositories, and the manual patch process is usually a no-brainer. Q: Unknown suffix error message A: Use 'unzip' as the archive is in pkzip format not gzip. Q: How do I get a copy of Joomla! installed? A: I'm assuming you have Apache, PHP and MySQL already installed - these are pre-requisites. You've downloaded the archive - that's the first step. The brief instructions are to unzip the archive in your apache doc root directory, create a MySQL database and user and then browse to the location where you installed the archive - an installation window will be displayed and you just follow the instructions. If the above is too brief, try the instructions at http://help.joomla.org/content/category/15/99/132/ Joomla is a great CMS - stick with it and Good Luck! Regards - Peter Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuB0aEACgkQybPcBAs9CE9KDgCfWsNye1bfwLRpVbQaaMI+FQSi azIAn1xXH33u/+IuGPzpnPV6cP6fFnqf =F00d -END PGP SIGNATURE- Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2687 - Release Date: 02/14/10 07:35:00 -- 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] Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?
Alan L Tyree wrote: How well does CF work as a hard drive replacement? I see mixed comments when I googled for it. What kind of adaptive gear do you need. I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. I'll get back to you soon on this Alan. I haven't actually got it working yet. The project took a sideline because I suddenly started using the NetBook more frequently than I had before. Terry -- 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] Joomla
I'd have no idea either why it's not in the ubuntu repos, I dunno if u could add something in sources.lst ... Tho that may be changed since I used ubuntu too. Anyway I'm posting cos I stumbled on this before, http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ I think it's ubuntu based, includes joomla, mysql, and apache I think. Could be a little bloated tho, I dunno. May be an all in one fuss free solution? On 22/02/2010, at 14:24, UnclePete un...@cheerful.com wrote: Several questions here - I've answered them separately for clarity: Q: Why is Joomla! not in the repositories? A: I think it was at one point, but I prefer to install this type of application manually - I've found that patches and critical security stuff take too long to filter through the repositories, and the manual patch process is usually a no-brainer. Q: Unknown suffix error message A: Use 'unzip' as the archive is in pkzip format not gzip. Q: How do I get a copy of Joomla! installed? A: I'm assuming you have Apache, PHP and MySQL already installed - these are pre-requisites. You've downloaded the archive - that's the first step. The brief instructions are to unzip the archive in your apache doc root directory, create a MySQL database and user and then browse to the location where you installed the archive - an installation window will be displayed and you just follow the instructions. If the above is too brief, try the instructions at http://help.joomla.org/content/category/15/99/132/ Joomla is a great CMS - stick with it and Good Luck! Regards - Peter Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuB0aEACgkQybPcBAs9CE9KDgCfWsNye1bfwLRpVbQaaMI+FQSi azIAn1xXH33u/+IuGPzpnPV6cP6fFnqf =F00d -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- - Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2687 - Release Date: 02/14/10 07:35:00 -- 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
Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)
Haha sorr I didn't know I'd like to see osx run comftorably on 512mb ram! Nice well good luck with the hdd changeover On 22/02/2010, at 8:36, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:24:21 +1100 Mike beatbreake...@gmail.com wrote: Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a good data transfer program called super duper for mac, it's free and I know it works when transfering from a 250g to 500g for eg. Will transfer ur mbr etc... could suit ur needs I guess I should have made it clear that I'm running Debian on the machine. I used OS X for about a week when I bought it, but could never warm up to it. It runs Debian Lenny with the standard Gnome desktop and 512Mb of memory. Not lightning fast, but plenty good enough for the way I use it (emacs, email, web stuff). Thanks, Alan On 22/02/2010, at 8:08, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:09:35 +1100 James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, I didn't see your original (sans the quoted section above), but the following will probably be of interest to you: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iBook-G4-12-Inch-800-MHz-1-2-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/166/1 As for putting a SSD where an IDE currently lives, you will more than likely require an IDE-to-SATA converter unless you can find an IDE SSD! If you need the converter, you will probably run out of space : ( Traditional spinning platter IDE drives are still readily available but are (in my experience) a little more expensive ($/MB) than their SATA cousinsthat whole supply/demand thing sux. Yeah, replacing the original hard drive is not complicated, but I was looking to go solid state. The machine is now underpowered, overweight and needs a memory upgrade. The reason I was asking about CF as a hard drive is this adapter which seems like it solves the space problem: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp But reasonable size CF cards aren't cheap. It doesn't make financial sense, I guess. It is an old favourite since I have written a couple of books on it, but maybe time to put it out to pasture. The basic Dell Mini 10 was on line at $400 this weekend - much lighter, much higher specs. Thanks, Alan Good luck, James -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
