Re: [SLUG] Gutsy cdrom boot problems.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to boot a machine with the Gutsy boot cdrom and it hangs. The last line is: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: It seems the cs is pcmcia related but I've tried booting with nopcmcia and pcmcia=off but neither helped. Anyone have any idea hot I can boot and avoid this cd driver? You need to blacklist the module. I found the following reference that may help: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg351306.html Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Ahead warp factor one, Mr. Sulu. Cheers, Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - The worst thing about productivity tools is that there's always something in them that makes you less productive -- Chris Alfred Dec 15, 1997 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Multimedia keys and keyboard repeat
Hi all, I have an annoying issue that I'm trying to get my mind around... I have recently purchased a laptop I have the multimedia keys working, but when I press the buttons there is a keyboard repeating problem. I press play/pause and the audio player rapidly toggles between play and pause. I figured out a hack. I run the keytouchd app and kill it. The keyboard repeating problem goes away. My questions are: 1. Is there a command like xmodmap to control key repeats for specific keys? 2. What does keytouchd do to stop multimedia keys repeating? Thanks -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Michael: Hi. I'm Michael Jackson, from The Jacksons. Homer: I'm Homer Simpson, from the Simpsons. Stark Raving Dad signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] Latex question: chapter style
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nick Croft wrote:
Hi
I'm using latex to (re-)produce a technical manual which is typeset
in a compact format, and I wish to keep close to the original
formatting.
The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify
any of the available packages to reproduce it.
So far I've resorted to formatting the chapter heading in-line, as it
occurs, rather that using a LaTeX technique.
The look of the chapter heading is such that the 'chaptername' and
'chapternumber' in \small size, to the left, and the 'chaptertitle'
is centered, in \LARGE small caps and bold.
I believe you need to use the titlesec package. Here is the code that
I used to colourise the section and subsection commands:
\titleformat*{\section}{\Large\bf\color{clrheadings}}
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\large\bf\color{clrheadings}}
This is the documentation on the package:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/titlesec.pdf
Now when you use \section or \subsection then they will use the
perscribed style you defined.
This is a good faq that I use regarding your question:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=secthead
Or in general look at for future questions:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
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Re: [SLUG] GanttPV?
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Peter Hardy wrote: Just wondering if anybody's got any opinions about GanttPV ( http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/ )? I'm particularly interested in how well this integrates with MS Project, as well as how easy it is for Project users to switch. The article I found GanttPV through ( http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/01/30-essential-pieces-of-free -and-open-software-for-windows ) seems adamant that it's a Project killer. But I'd like to hear some other opinions. -- Pete I have good experiences with TaskJuggler http://www.taskjuggler.org/. It is a paradigm shift in project management software that would appeal to Developers who like text editing and don't like using the mouse. -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Uh, so. Let's have a conversation. Uh, I think we'll find that we have very little in common. -- Homer Simpson The Last Temptation of Homer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] Wireless Broadband for Linux
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Bryce Robilliard wrote: I was wondering if the SLUG knew of any ISPs that support the use of a wireless broadband service for Linux, or if there were any drivers out there for the various USB, PCMCIA and ExpressCard devices for the wireless broadband services. Most of it works. In my day job, we have used : - The about to be terminated Telstra EVDO network. - The current Telstra NextG network. - Unwired. - A couple of other local services whose names I forget. - A couple of services in the US. I would recommend 3's HSPDA service. There are a few SLUG people who use this service including myself. They have a really good offer at the moment $29 for 1GB per month or $49 for 2GB.. I think they are giving the USB modem away free as well with a 24month contract. Very competative with wired ADSL service with better ping times, download speeds and download quota with $29 plan. I easily get 2Mbit/s downloads and sometimes even quicker. 100 ms ping times to my home ADSL2+ account and they have good coverage within capital cities. Works a treat with linux. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Do you know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had the whole universe, I'd give it to you, Janice. When I see you, I feel like I'm hungry all over. Do you know how that feels? -- Charlie Evans, Charlie X, stardate 1535.8 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] DNS app
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Michael Kedzierski wrote: On 6/14/07, Max Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing a long struggle with Bind, I wonder if there is another dns program that is good enough to make it worthwhile starting over? I can make it do my bidding, but a lot of argument takes place first. Otherwise, is the Bind module in Webmin okay? I run maradns on my server - other than that, dnsmasq is a good choice for small/home networks (dnsmasq reads your hosts file, and proxies/caches other requestions, and also does dhcp). I can also attest to dnsmasq. dnsmasq also returns the address of hosts that were given addresses through dhcp, which is quite useful. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Zapp: Now that's a wave of destruction that's easy on the eyes. -- 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] Locking network interface number to specific MAC address
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I have a motherboard with two identical (apart from the MAC addresses
of course) ethernet interfaces. The two MAC addresses are
consectutively numbered; XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:35.
On most reboots, the interface with the 34 MAC address becomes eth2
and the other becomes eth3, but very occasionally they get swapped
around which rather screws things up.
Is there any way to lock a MAC address to an interface name?
Hi Eric,
You probably need to write a udev rule to specify the kernel interface.
Don't know how to write a udev rule? Have a look here:
http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Rule would look like...
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34,
NAME=eth2
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:35,
NAME=eth3
I have gentoo and udev-104-r12 does this automatically, so if a device
is used for the first time, the udev rules get created automatically
and the so the interface name for the device doesn't change across
reboots. I've just copied the rules generated.
Cheers,
Erik
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How bare the pathway down this mountain.
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Re: [SLUG] Open source groupware solutions
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Peter Hardy wrote: Hey hey. I'd like something that can share contacts / calendars / tasks across a fairly mixed environment - evolution, thunderbird and sunbird/lightning on Windows and Linux, and Outlook 2k3. We initially considered just exporting calendars to a WebDAV share. This seems to be a workable solution, but I have my doubts about how well a .htaccess scheme to allow access would scale to an office of around 40 users. On a similar note, CalDAV or GroupDAV look like attractive solutions to drop in to an existing environment as well. But from some brief googling, it seems that Outlook support for either of these protocols are limited at best. Has anybody had any success syncing Outlook with one of these servers? Have you considered using a hosted service like Google calendar? Google calendar can be synchronised with your desktop applications using GSyncDaemon which is a java application that works well with Windows and Linux. It has a Windows installer, but I have mine working with Gentoo Linux, but I had to install the app without a Gentoo package. I don't know if there are any packages for other distros. I use GooSync hosted service to sync my Google calendar with my phone using SyncML protocol. I would say Google calendar is good for small to medium size companies and I don't know if Google calendar scale well within an organisational so you may consider hosting something yourself using eGroupware or phpGroupware. It seems that eGroupware has better support and eGroupware allows you to sync calendar to mobile phones and pda through SyncML protocol. I have done preliminary research on these applications so I don't know how well they work. I've also looked at Scalix in the best, and like what I see. My only issue with it so far is that I'd prefer to keep my existing mail infrastructure. Is it possible for it to co-exist with an existing IMAP service? I'm not sure how phpGroupware or eGroupware works with existing IMAP infrastructure. -- Pete Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Alcazar: Leela, this must all be very confusing. Leela: A little. That's why I've decided to hurt you until you explain it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: recommended internet wireless (was: [SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?)
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:52:40AM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: Up our way (Mid North Coast) the response has been universal -- NextG is crap. Most who were coerced by Telstra into converting their mobiles are trying to convert back to CDMA. But, since Telstra hasn't listened to customers for three-quarters of a century, they are getting nowhere. Well, I want it mainly for Sydney use and very occasionally outside Sydney (and I could use internet cafes), so I might look at other solutions. Anyone got any thumbs up/down on wireless internet services for Linux (eg unwired.com.au, iBurst)? By far the best value and service stability (compared to unwired) I have found is with 3. $49.95 for 1GB of downloads on a HDPSA connection. Good coverage and linux compatible (2.6.19 kernel onwards however simple patch needed to identify card for previous versions of kernel). Fast connection, I got over 2MB/s with a broadband test. 3 also gives the modem away free if you have a 2 year contract or you pay $10 per month for modem on 1 year contract. I got recommended the service from a SLUG member. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Bender: Tell the Donbot I'm quitting organized crime. From now on I'll stick to the regular kind. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech, not free beer. pgpgA446dX7IV.pgp Description: 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] Two CUPS questions
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Leslie Katz wrote: I hope to get a Canon PIXMA MP160 all-in-one printing with a computer running Damn Small Linux (“DSL”) and CUPS. Right now, I have access to neither the computer nor the printer, but hope to get guidance in advance about the matter. Last weekend, in the absence of the computer running DSL and CUPS, I was able to get the MP160 printing with a computer running Fedora Core 3 and CUPS. I did that by installing two RPMs supplied by Canon, which it said were for Fedora Core 6. Among the installed files from the two RPMs were: (1) a .ppd file; (2) a filter file; and (3) a backend file. The .ppd file included a line referring to the filter file. I have two questions: 1. Is there any chance that by copying all three of the files I’ve mentioned to the appropriate directories on the computer running DSL, I could get the MP160 to print with that computer? 2. If not, could I edit the .ppd file to remove the reference to the filter file and copy only the edited .ppd file to the computer running DSL, relying on the fact that default CUPS filter and backend files are already on that computer? Try the foomatic debian packages, which have a compilation of ppd files as well gimp-print and guten-print drivers from linuxprinting.org ... I'm not sure how the foomatic thing works, but I know that when I installed it, I had a heap of printer drivers ready for use. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- The sight of death frightens them [Earthers]. -- Kras the Klingon, Friday's Child, stardate 3497.2 Thanks for reading, Leslie -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyers' tumblelog about things (some legal, some not) you might otherwise have missed pgpf5U75QMgmY.pgp Description: 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] Academic research software
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote: snip Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ KBibTeX specifically targets the bibliography features of LaTeX: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27421 More user friendly? How so if Kile requires the user to learn LaTeX markup language before they can produce a document? LyX enables a user to produce a document without having to learn LaTeX. This is avoids the significant and extra LaTeX learning curve. LaTeX markup language is really easy to use, but when it comes to changing the default layout, it gets complicated. LaTeX markup is far superior when you have repetitive patterns that you need to use. Personally I use latex-suite in vim than the GUI based Kile. And VIM has a far steeper learning curve than LaTeX. But like learning to Touch Type, the learning curve of Vim is well worth it. If you have a aptitude for programming then definitely learn LaTeX. Here is a link to a really good LaTeX FAQ that teaches you to do stuff that will be hard to find otherwise... http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved worldview centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these desert dwellers seem brutish . . . just as outsiders appear to them. -- PARDOT KYNES, The People of Arrakis pgpvSuLh1GEAg.pgp Description: 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] Academic research software
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:11:57 +1100 Joseph Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote: snip Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ KBibTeX specifically targets the bibliography features of LaTeX: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27421 More user friendly? How so if Kile requires the user to learn LaTeX markup language before they can produce a document? LyX enables a user to produce a document without having to learn LaTeX. This is avoids the significant and extra LaTeX learning curve. LaTeX markup language is really easy to use, but when it comes to changing the default layout, it gets complicated. LaTeX markup is far superior when you have repetitive patterns that you need to use. Personally I use latex-suite in vim than the GUI based Kile. And VIM has a far steeper learning curve than LaTeX. But like learning to Touch Type, the learning curve of Vim is well worth it. This is true, but in my experience it is not always on the point. Some people are simply put off by having the markup visible on screen. I don't know why this is so, but I have seen it in experienced as well as inexperienced users. There is something about having a footnote in the middle of a paragraph that freaks them out. True... LaTeX editing is a paradigm shift that may be too great for some people. Fair enough. This is where LyX is great alternative because it is a WYSIWYG editor that works with a simple but effective text file format that is human editable. Cheers, Alan If you have a aptitude for programming then definitely learn LaTeX. Here is a link to a really good LaTeX FAQ that teaches you to do stuff that will be hard to find otherwise... http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved worldview centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these desert dwellers seem brutish . . . just as outsiders appear to them. -- PARDOT KYNES, The People of Arrakis -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Tonight's special, blackened leftovers pgpu34PbkCVNu.pgp Description: 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] Vista preview on Seven Sunrise
Does Vista suffer from the time from installation - speed problem. That is does Vista run slower the longer you have it installed on your machine? On Monday 29 January 2007 07:53, Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just watched a preview of Vista on the Seven Sunrise program and all I can say is: Wow!! I get a new looking desktop with pretty, scrolling preview panes of the processes that are running. I can organise my photos - wasn't I able to do that before? I can organise my music and I can download the CD covers so that it all looks like a record store. Didn't anyone think to ask about DRM? ...and it's all available at Hardly Normal's at midnight. One question was whether it's reliable - well it has been out there with 5M users in test - I'm one who downloaded a pre-RC1 and found that it wouldn't load in VMware. So, get to Hardly Normal at midnight and shell out your $199 for the upgrade - what version upgrade is that? ...and keep a spare grand or so handy when you find it won't run on your current hardware. OK, Seven Sunrise is light on anyway, but this is ridiculous... -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. pgpOcOE6tSTv5.pgp Description: 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] firefox 2.0, flash 9 and fc 5
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 09:40, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I'm having plenty of probs with flash under firefox. When Adobe released the stable version of 9 in January, I thought my woes would be over but no. Having the flash plugin in my plugins directory for firefox 2.0 causes the browser to freeze. Is anyone having these probs too? No... Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Stock answer is the run firefox with the -ProfileManager option. This will allow you to create a fresh new profile. If you still are having problems with a fresh profile then there is definitely a problem with your firefox and/or flash installation. Regards Joseph pgpv8qV0A6HpY.pgp Description: 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] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?
Hi Greg, The NSLU2 is a device from Linksys that is Linux based that was originally designed to share a USB drive over a network. It uses less than 10W. It is eminently hackable. My one is running Debian, but you have so much options with this device. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Regards Joseph On Sunday 07 January 2007 16:16, Greg Wright wrote: Hi All, Sorry I do not post much, but I do have a question that I would like to ask here... I have used a mixed network for my own use for years, primarily I always had Linux doing the grunt work for web services serving, but I also always had windows boxes, the problem is, as the network grows or as I replaced PC's, I always kept the old boxes on the network, needless to say a while ago I started looking for ways to save power space and reduce heat build up - my work area was like a sauna at one point :) Anyway, to cut to the chase, I still need a box to do authentication and to act as a domain controller, but I would rather use a cheap dislkless device that sleeps when not called upon, does anyone know of a device like this ? or if I must use a PC, is there a CD or say USB key Linux distro that can be cut down to just Samba ? I have a couple of Nettel ne2520 embedded devices if somone wants to hack one to do what I want, they can have the other. Thanks in advance. -- Greg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.
Hi All, There is a good value networking kit comming up on Thursday 11th at Aldi stores. For under $40 you get: - 50m of Cat 5e UTP network cable - 1 pair of tongs (I think they mean crimp tool) - 20 RJ45 connectors - 50 cable holders for wall mounting - 1 wall outlet with 2 sockets - 2 wall outlets with 1 socket - 1 tool to remove isolation on the cable Regards Joseph -- 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] wifi extra range needed
I got a nice $12 30cm wok that gives me 15dB+ (I confirmed this by measuring signal strength without and without wok). I used a $28 Shintaro branded USB device which uses the rt73 chipset supported by the rt2x00 driver. Apparently the driver supports master mode (but I couldn't get it to work). Debian testing and unstable versions of the driver works alright on my NSLU2 device, but not a hundred percent stable. Gentoo uses the CVS version at the time you install the driver, and some days it works some days it doesn't, other times it doesn't. Ralink have their own GPL'd version of the driver, but I haven't tested because you need to patch wpa_supplicant to use the Ralink version of the driver. I found using the Windows driver on the CD worked perfectly with ndiswrapper v1.32 (including measuring signal strength). I haven't tried it with Debian testing or unstable versions of ndiswrapper. Funny thing is that my acer laptop has a Signal Up technology that gives the in-built wifi heaps better signal reception than the best I could get out of my wokfi (by about 5dB). On Friday 05 January 2007 00:37, david wrote: I've got a line of site between AP and laptop in buildings about 150 metres apart. Even when I tried dangling my lappie out the window I got no joy :( Even if that had worked, it would have been tricky holding my T30 in one hand 3 stories up while typing with the other. [1] I've checked google... lots of advice about using woks and steamers as parabolic reflectors for USB wifi's [2], and even some custom made doodads. It doesn't seem such a long range. Any suggestions? I'm presently using a netgear router/AP (not sure what model) at one end and a netgear wg511t pcmcia at the other end. On the same topic, does anyone know if it makes a difference which way you point the access point's fold out antenna? Should you point it AT the target, or side on to the target, or does it make no difference? Or should I place a direction-finding wok behind it! Linux related: If i have to get a USB wifi adaptor to fit the directional wok (as suggested by a couple of sites), are there any recommended? Many thanks David. [1] I tried walking between the buildings - the signal runs out about 10 metres short :( although it's possibly unusable before that. [2] suggested gadgets I've read about so far: fold out vegetable strainer, metal gauze chip strainer, wok, folded cardboard lined with kitchen foil. Lots of blog comments about how it *sounds* like a good idea, but not much saying hey, I tried it and it works -- 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] Computer keeps turning itself off.
try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points to see what temperature the computer will turn off at and cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature to see the temperature the computer is currently at... That's interesting, I didn't know about those, though I do have a temp monitor on my lappy screen. Any ideas on how to tweak them as I see the critical temp is set at 109C and the other temps at 108C, and during the recent hot weather with no room aircond when running Winders under VMware it would occasionally shut down - yes the CPU fan is running. If I understand what you are saying correctly, I believe you are asking if you could tweak the trip points. The short answer is no, if your computer is overheating, it is overheating. But if you have a problem with your computer overheating, you could use cpufreqd to slow the CPU down if the temperature goes above a certain temperature. That would have an effect of cooling down the machine a bit. You also could use the on-demand governor that automatically switches your CPU from a slow to faster speed based on the demand on the CPU. Since your computer's CPU wouldn't be running at 100% all of the time, this would have a significant cooling effect. This again can be setup with cpufreqd. I use cpufreqd on all my laptops, because I had a problem with one laptop overheating when I was compiling. Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. Regards Joseph -- 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] Computer keeps turning itself off.
What type of cpu does your laptop have? On Thursday 04 January 2007 05:17, Howard Lowndes wrote: Sadly I now discover that my lappy is not capable of cpu speed control :( Joseph Goncalves wrote: try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points to see what temperature the computer will turn off at and cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature to see the temperature the computer is currently at... That's interesting, I didn't know about those, though I do have a temp monitor on my lappy screen. Any ideas on how to tweak them as I see the critical temp is set at 109C and the other temps at 108C, and during the recent hot weather with no room aircond when running Winders under VMware it would occasionally shut down - yes the CPU fan is running. If I understand what you are saying correctly, I believe you are asking if you could tweak the trip points. The short answer is no, if your computer is overheating, it is overheating. But if you have a problem with your computer overheating, you could use cpufreqd to slow the CPU down if the temperature goes above a certain temperature. That would have an effect of cooling down the machine a bit. You also could use the on-demand governor that automatically switches your CPU from a slow to faster speed based on the demand on the CPU. Since your computer's CPU wouldn't be running at 100% all of the time, this would have a significant cooling effect. This again can be setup with cpufreqd. I use cpufreqd on all my laptops, because I had a problem with one laptop overheating when I was compiling. Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. Regards Joseph -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- 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] Computer keeps turning itself off.
Have a look at the modules in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq. One of these are bound to expose control of your cpu's speed over /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/. cpuspeed, powernowd, cpufreqd, etc all pretty much do the same thing in this sys folder to control your cpu's speed given battery, AC, temperature, etc. states. The cpufreq_ondemand, cpufreq_conservative, cpufreq_powersave are frequency governors that set the cpu frequency between the scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq values of this sys folder. My guess for the Celeron would be the ACPI Processor P-States driver. but if this doesn't work then one of the Intel speedstep drivers may work. If you get this working you could easily double the battery life of your laptop and probably make it run quieter. On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:06, Howard Lowndes wrote: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.50GHz stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 2493.933 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr bogomips: 4989.96 I tried running: service cpuspeed start but it fails to run. When I look at the script it's doing a grep for est in the flags field, which is not found and hence cpuspeed fails. I notice that /etc/cpuspeed.conf doesn't have $DRIVER defined. The likely drivers that I can find are: # ll /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/ total 56 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 15608 Nov 11 06:57 cpufreq_conservative.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14252 Nov 11 06:57 cpufreq_ondemand.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 7860 Nov 11 06:57 cpufreq_powersave.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13336 Nov 11 06:57 cpufreq_stats.ko Any ideas? Joseph Goncalves wrote: What type of cpu does your laptop have? On Thursday 04 January 2007 05:17, Howard Lowndes wrote: Sadly I now discover that my lappy is not capable of cpu speed control :( Joseph Goncalves wrote: try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points to see what temperature the computer will turn off at and cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature to see the temperature the computer is currently at... That's interesting, I didn't know about those, though I do have a temp monitor on my lappy screen. Any ideas on how to tweak them as I see the critical temp is set at 109C and the other temps at 108C, and during the recent hot weather with no room aircond when running Winders under VMware it would occasionally shut down - yes the CPU fan is running. If I understand what you are saying correctly, I believe you are asking if you could tweak the trip points. The short answer is no, if your computer is overheating, it is overheating. But if you have a problem with your computer overheating, you could use cpufreqd to slow the CPU down if the temperature goes above a certain temperature. That would have an effect of cooling down the machine a bit. You also could use the on-demand governor that automatically switches your CPU from a slow to faster speed based on the demand on the CPU. Since your computer's CPU wouldn't be running at 100% all of the time, this would have a significant cooling effect. This again can be setup with cpufreqd. I use cpufreqd on all my laptops, because I had a problem with one laptop overheating when I was compiling. Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. Regards Joseph -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- 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] Computer keeps turning itself off.
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:32, Penedo wrote: On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. My first suspicion in such cases is the hardware - is the computer cooled well enough? Does the CPU fan work and seats well on the CPU? If you have sensors then maybe install lm-sensors (possibly with some GUI front-end) and see whether everything is ok. try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points to see what temperature the computer will turn off at and cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature to see the temperature the computer is currently at... Regards Joseph -- 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] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?
On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:39, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:26:07PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What is the best way to backgrade Firefox to version 1.5 in Ubuntu Edgy? I've done some more playing this. I backgraded to Firefox 1.5, still got the problems, worked out it was the flash plugin causing Firefox to crash. I'm now back to version 2 without flash - no great loss :-) You probably facing the problem the flash plug-in is having with the composite extension. You can use the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 environment variable as a work around to the problem. Here is a reference to the problem I Googled: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911 Regards Joseph -- 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] editing iptables on Centos
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:18, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Sat, December 23, 2006 2:44 pm, donohueb wrote: you may prefer to manually write iptables, however I use a nice front end called guarddog. Ben thanks, I'd prefer to use some utility, but, I only have ssh access; is there something that will run over ssh ? otherwise I'm stuck with editing the conf files I like shorewall. It takes away the risk of writing dud rules and is easy yet powerful to configure. Regards Joseph -- 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] Suspend and IR
On Friday 03 November 2006 13:54, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have gentoo running MythTV, I would like to build suspend into the kernel and use the USB IR to start up the system. Is this possible? Or do I have to use some sleep function that is only actioned when using the power button on the remote control? This is what I found http://markh.de/wakeonlirc/ I don't use this so I can't vouch for it. I have a Libretto laptop that is my always on computer and my MythTV box that is turned on by WakeOnLan events. The Libretto is connected to the LIRC device and the MythTV box uses LIRC through the LAN. When the power button is pressed on the Libretto, a WakeOnLan event is sent to the MythTV box. Regards Joseph -- 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] NSLU2 Stories
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G. You can get Debian installed on the NSLU2 too (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/) I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. I haven't found a real need for it yet. I have read about people who have installed Music Player Daemon on it to make it a little music player device. Regards Joseph -- 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] NSLU2 Stories
On Monday 30 October 2006 10:04, Joseph Goncalves wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G. You can get Debian installed on the NSLU2 too (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/) I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. I haven't found a real need for it yet. I have read about people who have installed Music Player Daemon on it to make it a little music player device. I have a crazy idea and would like to gage some expert opinion. How about making using number of NSLU2 devices as a distributed file system server using the Coda or AFS distributed file systems? I'm wondering how reliable and fast this would be compared to a centralised computer with a software based raid array or equivalent (with LVM2). I would anticipate that Coda or AFS would take care of the replication and load balancing across the NSLU2 based nodes and would anticipate that over a 100M ethernet that say 4 or 5 devices would perform quite nicely and reliably, but am open to see what other people would say about this because I have no experience with AFS or Coda. What benchmarks should I use to test this out? Regards Joseph -- 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] dvb-t
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:40, Jon Wilson wrote: Anyone use a USB digital TV device with any success? I have a MythTV setup with two DVB-T cards: A TwinHaun and Avermedia card. Both are BT878 based. But they have different tuner chips. From what I have read and experienced the TwinHaun card tuner is much worst that the Avermedia tuner. But this is not a problem for me because both have mostly flawless picture even though the TwinHaun has 30% reception quality (as shown by MythTV) and Avermedia has 97%. My Avermedia card is giving me more problems because it has a bad antennae connection so sometimes I have a recording that is trashed and the TwinHaun card has a better antennae connection. I'm looking for something that (a) works with a Linux MythTV setup (for a PVR) and (b) can be plugged into my Mac for simple portable Ashes watching action this summer (not much else worth watching ). The Compro U500's seem sensibly priced ($99), but I'm unsure about what chipset they have in them. Maybe you can convince your computer retailer to give you a trial. I did this with a card I bought and got a refund. As long as you ask before hand and the product is not shrink wrapped you may be able to return it or exchange it. Regards Joseph -- 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] IPv6
Hi Martin, While in some respect, I share your sentiments (in wanting to get people to think about the move to IPv6) I still think you are way too early. I have been doing network designs and consulting for a the very biggest corporate and government bodies for the last 18 years or so. I have been watching IPv6 as it began its gestation about 10-12 years ago. But guess what - I see almost *no* interest from even the largest of end-user enterprises. Only large software (read Microsoft) and networking companies (read Cisco) have made any sort of effort to promote. While it is built into the core of most current OSes and the higher-end network equipment - that really is about it. I did a quick Google in an attempt to find the benefits that IPv6 has over IPv4. There does not seem to be a killer app for IPv6. The thing that impressed me is the ability for a IPv6 node to be mobile and maybe with the prevalence of wireless ISPs IPv6 will become a reality. I also read that IPv6 is more efficient to route, so what does that mean in percentage terms? Do you think it will be a good idea to start IPv6 networks from the ground up, instead of starting with IPv4 and upgrading to IPv6? It only will really become meaningful when it becomes the default option from the major ISPs and carriers for the carriage of IP traffic. And even then I would suspect that for the most part, end-users will be able to choose to be shielded from the intricacies of IPv6. End-users for the most part use domain names so this wouldn't change. Even in the briefest look around, you will realise how far away real-world adoption really is. Most configuration dialogues and web forms today still try to parse/display an IP address as a dotted quad (eg 1.2.3.4). That is, they ignore the IPv6 format of IP addresses. The other simple matter is that I would wager that if you took 10 experienced (10+ years) network engineers and ask them about IPv6 and what it is about and have they even played with it, 9 of them would probably have told you about the huge new size of the address space, but the need for it has been pretty well removed with private IP address space (10.x.x.x etc) and NAT, and no they haven't played with it. IMHO it really still is only of real interest to propeller heads (myself included). From what I read, IPv6 has been rethought and re-engineered so that it just works a lot better. On the other hand I do believe it will come into play at some stage (because as Vint Cerf once said - every light buld will need an IP address in the future) but my current hunch is that it might be at least 5 years before any credible moves need to be made (by us end users). Maybe ubiquitous wireless mesh networks might do the trick... I'm happy to be contradicted. I'm not really contradicting, just wanted some peoples thoughts on the matter, because I have been ignorant. Regards Joseph -- 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] Rotating images according to exif data
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 09:07, Simon Males wrote: I have a stack of photo's from my digital camera and many of then need to be rotated. Is there a tool that will go through a directory of images dig up exif data (using say extract) and rotate it respectively with imagemagik ? With Konqueror you can right click on an image, select Actions-Transform Image-Rotate Image. It works well when you have image previews as the file icons because you can easily see the images that need rotating and rotate all in one operation. Regards Joseph -- 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] database schema tools
On Sunday 01 October 2006 08:43, ashley maher wrote: I'm working on a large database. I have the schema. Does anybody know a good FOSS tool to take the schema text file (mysql) and produce a nice diagramme from it? Not related to your question but interesting to know anyway... phpmyadmin has a javascript applet to create simple schema diagrams. Regards Joseph -- 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] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?
There is a good reason to get a PTY Limited company in that is says LIMITED. In short it means that if you do something WRONG they can only sue the COMPANY for every cent it has. Leaving YOU with your house and car and other possessions intact. If you only have a business name and you do something WRONG then they can not only sue every cent from your BUSINESS but ALSO every cent YOU own INCLUDING your house and car and other possessions. We are not talking about deliberate wrongdoing here just stuffing up. So it's more expensive for a PTY Limited company but you have that protection. The company is treated like an individual and the company cops the flack. Not you. Your choice. Is it worth the risk in these litigious days? Doesn't professional insurance cover and Director liability blur the line so that for small operations Sole Trader business option is appropriate and for larger operations Company option is appropriate? -- Joey -- 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] k7-smp kernel and ndiswrapper
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] For me the easiest way was a pcmcia wireless card that did work, abandoning the onboard one. So for me it would be easy: SMP K7 (with slight advantages over 1386) + NVIDIA 64 (again grin you need the kernel headers to build this) and an external wireless card. Why not get a new MiniPCI card? I replaced a BCM card with an ipw2200 card and it works fine using native drivers. Regards Joseph -- 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] print image across multiple pages?
Does anyone know of a convenient way of printing a large image across multiple pages (on a standard A4 printer)? I've tried the various dialogs in GIMP, etc, and drawn a blank. I know that KDE has it as one of the tabs in the print dialog but I never got it to work. There is a utility called poster that is part of the psutils package. I did a quick Google search using the keywords linux poster postscript print and here is a random result... http://www.hermann-uwe.de/tips-and-tricks/print-multiple-pages-on-one-sheet Good luck -- Joseph -- 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] print image across multiple pages?
On Friday 25 August 2006 00:03, Joseph Goncalves wrote: Does anyone know of a convenient way of printing a large image across multiple pages (on a standard A4 printer)? I've tried the various dialogs in GIMP, etc, and drawn a blank. I know that KDE has it as one of the tabs in the print dialog but I never got it to work. There is a utility called poster that is part of the psutils package. I did a quick Google search using the keywords linux poster postscript print and here is a random result... http://www.hermann-uwe.de/tips-and-tricks/print-multiple-pages-on-one -sheet Apologies but poster is not part of psutils, the article refers to psnup of psutils. But poster is located at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/poster.html and is a standalone application. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Working PCI wireless [Was: [SLUG] PCI Wireless cards]
On 5/30/06, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Oh, that's neat. IIRC, the driver supports master mode. Ralink did a great job in releasing their drivers under the GPL.[1] Cool! Can anyone recommend a rt2500 minipci a/b/g card, too? :-) http://ralink.rapla.net/ gives you a nice list of their chips in different form factors. Either the Gigabyte or Billionton would be your best bet, as I haven't heard of any of the other brands. MegaPC has the MSI MP54G2 for $38.50 (The site even has a link referring to linux drivers): http://www.megapc.com.au/product_details_and_order.php?select_part_indx=3284 Does anyone know of a place where I can a rt2500 minipci based card cheaper (any brand will do)? Thanks Joey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wifi hotspots
Hi Slugs, Does anyone know about how wifi hotspots at internet cafes and restaurants operate and what I need installed on my computer in order to access the wifi hotspots. Are the hotspots encrypted? Do they use a VPN tunnel? Do they block ports? Do you get a non rfc-1918 address? So far I have wpa_supplicant and a working wifi card (ipw2200 based) with the right drivers and am quite comfortable about configuring wpa_supplicant with the configuration file, wpa_cli and wpa_gui. Some FAQ site said that usually it involves connecting to the access point, using the browser to view information for free AP or put credit card information for non-free APs before accessing the internet. My guess is that I register the AP with wpa_gui without any encription, wait for a connection, make sure that the wireless interface is configured with dhcp then browse to site given by operators. My mac-address will be then registered as being able to access the internet, then I access the internet. Anyone care to share their experiences? Regards Joseph -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
