[SLUG] Ethernet over Power device needs good home
Found beside Foreshore Road, one Pro.2 IPP200. No cables or packaging. Seems to be in good condition. Would be of most use to someone who already has a pair. Reply off-list. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Can banks handle daylight saving?
From the Westpac site this evening: Online Banking will be unavailable from 02:50 am Sydney time for 1 hour 25 minutes on Sunday 1 April 2012 due to scheduled maintenance. Meanwhile, NAB says: Due to scheduled maintenance Internet Banking will be unavailable on Sunday 1 April from 1AM-5AM AEDT. We discussed this before. Looks like banks still haven't worked out how to handle changing timezones. And NAB doesn't understand that there simply won't be 5AM AEDT on 1 April. Jim Donovan -- 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] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570
If it's not a silly question, what cable is the monitor connected with? If it's a VGA cable, the computer may not know what monitor you have. Jim Donovan It seems to only do generic card and 1024x768 whereas it should do 1920x1080 Anyway any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Traffic control
Recently my ISP discontinued the ADSL plan I was on and put me on another plan with three times the bandwidth. This is fine however one of the kids likes watching YouTube and can now chew up a month's data in a few days. I have warned him. I can let him do it and see how he feels about dropping back to dial-up speed but the whole family will suffer with him. Or can I slow down his machine's consumption? One way of doing this might be to run tc(2) on his machine however the doco hasn't been updated since 2.4 and doesn't seem to make much sense. Has anyone experience of doing policing with tc(2), iptables(8) or anything else? Or could I alter said son's machine's routing to use as gateway another machine running something to slow data down. Any suggestions, please? Jim Donovan P.S. Not relevant to my problem however you sometimes see plans in which you can burn a month's data in a few minutes. Why do people sign up for trash like that? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Exigent closed following RAID crash?
Exigent used to offer Linux virtual servers for $8/month. They had a RAID array fail late in July and I don't know how much they lost on it. Does anyone know whether they're still in business? Their website http://www.exigent.com.au is still there but live chat to their support team doesn't work nor do they answer tickets. Their phone is still connected but you don't get to a human operator. Thanks, Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] decent hardware shop around Sydney
For hardware, I'd recommend Skycomp. Their shop is at 301 Castlereagh St (former EMI studio) but their big feature is their website on which you can identify motherboards etc. that best meet your needs. Dunno about software shops. Andrew wrote: Since I'm gonna be a hack for sometime could someone point me in the direction of a good software(linux)/hardware shop in Sydney, preferably on the Northside. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] webhost needed with ssh access
Can someone recommend a host that allows ssh access (and perl and email), please? It's for a small website. I've been using Smartyhost but their ssh server is being retired and not replaced. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Hourly rate for short-term PHP work
The matter of pay rates came up a week or so ago. How about $25-30/hour for an experienced PHP developer - see http://www.seek.com.au/job/19910204 I hope that's not indicative of where the market's headed. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Server licences
A client who needs a server on which to run a Linux system. She reports that both Dell and HP in their quotes for supplying a suitable box insist that licences are required before the server can be connected to another computer. Apparently different licences are needed for terminal servers, whatever that may be, and virtualisation servers. Can anyone explain what these licences are about, please? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Optus broadband stick
I have been lent a Huawei mobile HSPA USB stick which is supposed to have 5 months' worth of unlimited data on it via Optus GSM. I had a look; it is a hybrid device which wants you to run its install.exe before first use. Can it be used on Linux somehow, please? What sort of data speeds might it get in good areas? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Browsers for banking
I fiddled with about:config to prevent ANZ internet banking from opening a window fullscreen, as they do. Have you tried Opera? For Nat Aust Bank, it forestalls the fullscreen nonsense (my screen is 1920x1080) and lessens the number of times the tab key must be hit to log on. Westpac is more tractable. Commonwealth opens extra windows but only logs off in one of them; you have to close the others by hand. Not that they will work after logoff but it's lousy security. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Long lines in /var/log/httpd/access_log
A few lines like this have appeared this week; what do they mean, please? Jim Donovan 67.70.87.182 - - [28/Oct/2010:14:06:59 +1100] GET /documents/url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoNSUhEUgAAADgOCAYAAAB6pd%2buAXNSR0IArs4c6QZiS0dEAP8A%2fwD%2foL2nkwlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAd0SU1FB9oGAhENK17O5ogZdEVYdENvbW1lbnQAQ3JlYXRlZCB3aXRoIEdJTVBXgQ4XAAAD6UlEQVRIx82WXWxTdRjGf6fndO3adbZ0VLoP9gFMXZQFNgSWDEkEYtSQkNVg4o2JH9NGJTMk6k01vTIhXshFzTCKE5NFORoXXDBs4nTMZHMzSETHDKyQyb7Xbu36dc7p8aaQZm5GNzd8rk7evOf%2fz%2fM%2bz%2f99X4E1htcn68v5742mffVRJd19uucqH539lSq3yKuHtlDmkPj99aPYe39kfRoMOqgCJHSdJNRL3AEE%2fB7h3xZFgO6JuRQdl6PE8zfRPzlF71CEojoXFc%2b9SPy3KxjCc%2bgCpIE0IilB65YWHFQBfAbUZEIDQGPA7xngDsNgMpFUY0Q0ESHHhKbkM3A9yoFqDceGQpTijWjhXxCAtC6gCWk0BAwLzqkAQsC6TJVDGcKrZdeDXp%2fcvki8zeuTH8uO6ehYzRJumxEUBUkyMa%2baUDWBVDLNnJJgNE9ixGZiOlckaQAVAWmBdTqBzqxQJ%2fD2KgrTCDzq9clywO%2fxZMi1AgcBBbhNPhyJ47TlsGuzjaHRSRRdoKq8AF3XOdvZw1BMQneUMl9iZN4eo3AmRWVwFulvqusAngBOryLBY0AcaPD65LeAFPAk0BLwe57OTnz3i4sc3ruFx2s24MwzoWgaW4tNnPn0JLt37KJ2zwGMgk5X3zd8ONJOX7mGvcK5OEGvT94HNGcs2rjSzrhUU! wn4PV1AV4bcm5nwkYDfc3xhbs%2bVWQZH%2btlekc%2fDtRupKrub1uYT7NhWw9bde%2fl2REUSRR56pJT0lxofhM8xaheXVPA1oDPg9zT%2bExmsDqF8hUqmlvi%2bDUs6RWhW5Ov%2bKaxmK5XFLkIzIe7f%2fiBtwypPVZqIRWJ8Ny6x09OEJJs5rrTxn4yJY00NwRU0mtaMLY9kyL3n9clVAb%2fnley8wnyBkkIHrgILm925JGPTJONRDHqaHDQmx2a4Ph4hpFkpcZqZmBhHtbI4wYDfs3%2bNhn5bpqG03LKl1ydXAS97fXJ%2b9jv0Hq6lyK5C%2fBJ6PEjyj2nW2VQGLw5gLKqn92YSxWgjbrRy89ogVosFoyT%2bZUzcurjD65M71oDjCeDzbCIZ5VqAk9mJm9w5zAdPkRx%2bB3H6Y3Kj7TxQMkzLqfe5V71GvttFiduOa3aQc58E6JseJJXSEVhjeH2yvpxN5qVnygj%2fdJQCWxjBAOm0gVRC5MLPdoZnt2F3rsdisTAV7MBlusT3oVK6TOriCv4fIZnsSDlu1IQRNWVGV83kYKFuZzX7PQ1MFOg0j53nh%2bg8qpLg2eogeyJ53JFddDkLtyiZ6%2b%2b674Vu5cZXiIkJdAEMjnvIqzjEjVCS7rmrhOwC0Vwn58fqkIIXeL72Mn8CJn6UfKGeNt4ASUVORK5CYII%3d) HTTP/1.1 404 1791 http://www.aptnsw.org.au/documents/lrtprocon.html; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; eSobiSubscriber 2.0.4.16; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .! NET4.0C; AskTB5.6) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] librt.so
All, Where can I find source of this shared object, please? I can not see it in the source RPM of glibc nor does Google have anything to say about it. If you compile something thus: gcc -o xyz xyz.c -lrt you invoke it. I need some way of setting the RTC on an ARM9 system which seems to rely on uclibc however that is a severely cut-down version of glibc. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] RRDtool efficiency
Daniel Pitman said [in the context of Centos updating] That will not help unless you rebuild Cacti to use the older version of RRDTool. (Also, are you /sure/ it is RRDTool and not something else in the Cacti stack that causes the performance problems? RRDTool is crazy-efficient, so I wouldn't pick it as the first point to suspect. OTOH, if you measured it and found it was the cause then you measured it and all. I used to work for an organisation with over 100,000 RRDB files, each updated every five minutes. It struck me that we could save many gigabytes of disc, and probably quite a lot of I-O, if the basic data storage type was float rather than double. We had absolutely no use for either the extra precision nor the extra range of double. I emailed Tobi Oetiker saying so and he replied that no-one had ever thought of that. AFAIK, there's still no way round using double. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Aldi notebook
Aldi are offering the Medion Akoya E1222 10 notebook for $389 (Win 7 Starter installed) plus $69 for an external DVD drive. Also see http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/notebooks/medion/akoya_e1222/352359 Has anyone tried it, please? Starter does not permit DVD playback - see http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windows7/archive/2009/05/29/let-s-talk-about-windows-7-starter.aspx - so there's another reason to add Ubuntu or similar. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Serial write problem
I have been working with a single-board computer (TS-7250, using the built-in linux) which, about three times per second, sends 8-byte messages out through COM2 to another device. Very occasionally (it can go 20 hours without failing) a message doesn't all get transmitted. Only 7 of the eight bytes get sent. On these occasions, the status returned by write(2) is Resource temporarily unavailable. It seems reasonable to try another write(2) to transmit the eighth byte. However, it crashes without returning. We tried with COM1 and the same thing happened. This is illogical - we are not using handshaking and the UART has no way of knowing what is going on at the other end of the line or even whether there is anything there. I have dumped termios and the control registers immediately before the crash; no corruption or other abnormality is evident. Before I try a different linux (cut-down debian Potato is available), does anyone have any simpler suggestions? Thanks, Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] MYOB/POS etc
Not directly apropos the recent emails, but did you know that there are websites offering on-line MYOB, apparently with the data all held on the web host. I'm under pressure to move a community group's financial records from a system based on local ascii files to a package online MYOB. Would that be even worse than local MYOB? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Surveillance camera in car
Having been the target of a road-rage attack recently (driver behind chucked a rock at me) I can see the value of having front and rear cameras recording. They're actually pretty affordable these days (see http://www.etronixmart.com/vosonic-gv6330-vehicle-safeguard-night-vision-car-video-camera-p-516.html?osCsid=a075cabb7bdc23a203f9e79fbc0dcc78 ). However I was thinking of something more durable: * front camera mounted on the driver's sunshade, able to be aimed by hand if desired * rear camera on the parcels shelf, protected from overhead sunshine * single-board computer somewhere, receiving the pix, cropping them and recording them onto a 80GiB disc drive * little screen visible to the driver, usually showing the rear view [handy for parking] * some sort of control switch for e.g. temporarily increasing the normal recording rate from 1 frame/second to perhaps 4 frames/second if the driver desires The TS-7250 looks suitable (http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250) but the only cameras I've found have composite video output e.g. Jaycar's QC3491. Can anyone suggest hardware suitable for such a setup, please? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?
I noticed the following on the Commonwealth netbank site this morning: NetBank, Mobile Banking and Telephone Banking will be unavailable between 2am and 5am EST on Sunday 4 April 2010 to allow for the changeover from Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time to Australian Eastern Standard time. Please take this timeframe into consideration when completing your banking. For updates during this change, please visit: www.commbank.com.au/update. Please press NEXT to access NetBank. Assuming it wasn't an April Fool joke, perhaps it means their databases use local time and the logic won't permit transactions to be entered out of order such as might appear to be if one happened just before the changeover time and another less than an hour later. How quaint! I remember hearing once that Commonwealth Bank servers were always rebooted on Sundays so they'd be less likely to go down during the week. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday
I had port 22 open for a few hours yesterday but closed it when I noticed the following. He was evidently working from a list; most intruders seem content to try a few password guesses for root/guest/mysql etc. Many of his usernames seem pretty unlikely. Perhaps I should set up a honeypot account with audible alarm so I could see what he was upt to. Here are the first couple of lines he logged, followed by `uniq -c` of the rest. Jim Donovan = Aug 13 14:43:14 phenom sshd[4919]: Did not receive identification string from 122.225.38.45 14:53:47 phenom sshd[5252]: Invalid user roto from 122.225.38.45 1 thx1138 1 0123456789 1 root123 1 r00t 1 toor 1 toor123 1 t00r 1 acces 1 access 1 acc3ss 1 acc3s 1 acce$$ 1 acce55 1 tomcat 1 tomcat1 1 tomcat2 1 tomcat3 1 tomcat4 1 tomcat5 1 tomcat6 1 ginger 1 sexcrime 1 sexcr1me 1 aabbcc 1 aassdd 1 1122 1 112233 1 123234 1 12321 1 1234321 1 123234 1 11223344 1 qqwwee 1 qq 1 aa 1 ss 1 dd 1 ff 1 ee 1 xx 1 zz 1 mandrake 1 starwars 1 jupiter 1 saturn 1 121212 1 123123123 1 test 1 testpass 1 passtest 1 l3tm31n 1 131313 1 marcus 1 654321 1 987654321 1 87654321 1 7654321 1 54321 1 4321 1 321 1 21 1 changeme 1 redhat 1 r3dh4t 1 redhat 1 redh4t 1 12345678 1 sugipulaba 1 maciek 1 123456 1 12345 1 maciek123 1 marco 1 marco123 1 123456 1 marcos 1 12345 1 123456 1 marcos123 1 mko123 1 mko 1 123456 1 12345 1 richard123 1 richard 1 r1chard 1 123456 1 12345 1 pablo 1 pablo123 1 123456 1 12345 1 14:58:33 1 12345 1 123456 1 euser123 1 john 1 john123kelvin 1 sherlock 1 walker 1 boss 1 may 1 ewa 2 john 4 michael 3 user 4 cgi 1 vince 1 jonathan 1 neo 1 thebest 5 payala 1 grupo2 1 grupo 1 grupo1 1 estudiante 2 grupo 1 greg 1 gregory 1 greg 1 selena 1 matti 1 mom 1 user4 1 harvey 1 takada 1 user1 1 user2 2 user3 1 alliance 1 clinic 1 asians 1 imaging 3 ginger 4 c00per 2 c00p3r 1 c00per 1 c00p3r 2 cOOper 1 cOOPer 1 cOOper 1 cOOp3r 4 stuart 1 erika 3 cvs 5 postgres 5 webmail 2 falko 1 tsunami 1 swsoft 1 madams 1 jodie 1 jemma 1 hannah 2 renee 2 madams 4 site 5 info 2 com1 1 chinon 1 nathalie 1 catherine 1 pascaln 1 eve 1 cebron 1 almir 1 celinepc 1 celine 1 lecunff 1 jeanata 1 techno 1 gchristoche 1 christoche 1 lgmarc 1 agilbert 1 amark 1 domin 1 annick 1 zimmermann 1 avrille 1 stock3 1 stock 1 stock2 1 stock1 1 squirrelmail 1 agathe 1 depsite 1 cai 1 bouygtel 1 parade 1 kenyan 1 cholet 1 fabrice 1 stephanecs 1 ted 1 teddy 1 bear 1 bea 1 dave 5 sysadmin 2 vnc 6 db2inst1 6 db2fenc1 6 dasusr1 5 ims_omu 3 BMU_HSS 3 HSS_OFFLINE 3 oms_ftp 5 chenjie 1 jinhan 1 jaime 1 kiyoko 2 lcadmin 1 aj 1 finance 1 malisa 1 jacky 1 aircop 1 jang 1 iring 1 supermbox 1 netinfo 1 investor 1 epaper 1 chkengine 1 hostmaster 1 aj 1 torrent 1 adminmak 1 link 1 jankm 1 thostr 1 asbjorno 1 pra1 1 pra 1 bestcoach3 1 fair 1 fairplay 1 steam 1 desktop 1 andy 1 cruise 1 cruise2 1 sun1 1 sun 1 free1 1 free 1 florida1 2 group1 2 group 2 group1 3 group 1 mima 1 underglam 1 sendys 1 yeti 1 tactika 1 balfego 1 fosk2 1 rafelc43 1 pratsub 1 membres 1 estudi3 1 cubic 1 cmt 1 rafelcodina 1 martori 1 novartis 1 clients 1 lacer 1 bayvit 1 explore 1 mqeurope 1 albacete 1 jep 1 clientes 1 cronovideo 1 espeleoleg 1 miquel 1 mnm 1 ere-aec 1 ftpadmin 1 admin 1 psaftp
[SLUG] Unwanted laptop wanted
For use by an invalid, I'd like to buy an old laptop at the right price. It need only be capable of running Firefox so the patient can browse websites and hotmail. It needn't have a hard drive as it could be booted with a Knoppix CDROM. It needn't have a fresh power battery as it could be run from the plugpack. It should have USB so we could give it a mouse and a 802.11g adaptor. It should also have a working NIC. If you reply, please indicate where I can collect it from you. Jim Donovan -- 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: splitting mailboxes
Have you tried csplit(1) - set pattern to '^From ' and stand back. You'll have to deal with an empty file before the first item. You say they're sequential so no further processing is required to separate old ones. Note that many spams have crazy Date values. Jim Donovan I have a mailbox with approximately 50,000 emails; when I tried to age the emails with archivemail, archivemail or some part of it couldn't quite cope with size/volume/some unknown aspect, and, 'crashed' on this mailbox perhaps as a result of that, I now have some 50,000 email files sequentaily date/time stamped, some, there is no way of sorting on file date/time stamp (that I can see) I think... that failed procedure might have also duplicated? triplicated? quadrupled? mail volume... the mail headers do have correct date/time how can I copy say the last 7 days worth of emails from the files? like, if date in the header=last 7 days, copy this file from here to there -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ssh logins (ctd)
122.116.243.233 has been hitting me today, apparently from Taiwan. I blackholed him by hand. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Monitor reliability vs. videocard reliability
Hi, One of the kids got enthusiastic and thumped the table our PC is on. Now, every month or so, the video fails. Eventually it comes back on (could be next day). Meanwhile, everything else keeps working AFAIK. It's a BenQ monitor connected by DVI but by the time you replace the DVI cable with VGA it works again. Machine and monitor are both about 18 months old. Because of the location, swapping cards, monitors or anything else would be a nuisance. My feeling is that the intermittent fault is more likely to be in the monitor. Comments, please? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Choosing a sensible host
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. Can anyone suggest a better host which also allows SSH logins? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ETSI
If you don't know what ETSI and HI2 are, stop. If you do, have you ever seen anything for catching the handshake packets emitted by HI2 and decoding them? What was it written in? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] problem with Mandrake 8 httpd
Hi, We've got Mandrake working but the www server won't display included images. However, we know it can reach and serve the images because it does if you get them explicitly one at a time. I can't find how they turned this facililty off; is it something in httpd.conf, please? - Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
