Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion
Excerpts from Peter Rundle's message of Mon Aug 03 08:29:57 +1000 2009: Hi All, I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Linux (Ubuntu). I don't like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a lot of CPU and I really don't like their interface. The player is just a boring old rectangular box and I don't want to see half my music listed as Track x unknown of unknown. What ever happened to X-amp? It had really cool interface (like the nautilus shell) and had a simple play list display by filename. It used to run great on machines from five years ago and left plenty of CPU. Rhythumbox on the other hand went AWOL just now nearly locking up my machine which is some fan-dangled multi-core multi-Gigahertz processor. Suggestions anyone? Thanks Pete mpd is very good. It's a server and there are all manner of clients that you can use to access it ranging from the command line (good for mapping to keys in the WM) to gui. It can also be used over the network if needs be. rgh -- 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: appaling wireless performance [update]
Well I finally got my PCMCIA (Netgear WG511T) back and tried it. Lo and behold it works like a charm, I get a sustained rate of about 2.7MB/sec so it would seem that it really does matter what devices are talking to each other. Thanks to all who responded. rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [im]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] appaling wireless performance
I've got a D-Link dir-300 flashed with dd-wrt (v24) and my network performance is shocking. If I transfer a file to another machine, scp reports 2 MB per second which steadily drops until I get down to about 200 KB per second at which stage it will vary from 200KB/sec up to about 450KB/sec. If I'm logged into another machine it feels much like a 9600 modem so I assume the latencies are very high as well. iwlist scan reports signal quality is 95/100 and I'm about 1.5 metres from the base station. There are no other networks that I can see that occupy the same channel and there is no other equipment that transmits on the same band. On other networks I can sustain at least 2MB/sec Does anyone have any idea as to what might be going on here or at least where to start looking? rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [im]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- 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] Spider a website
Excerpts from Peter Rundle's message of Tue Jun 03 14:20:08 +1000 2008: I'm looking for some recommendations for a *simple* Linux based tool to spider a web site and pull the content back into plain html files, images, js, css etc. I have a site written in PHP which needs to be hosted temporarily on a server which is incapable (read only does static content). This is not a problem from a temp presentation point of view as the default values for each page will suffice. So I'm just looking for a tool which will quickly pull the real site (on my home php capable server) into a directory that I can zip and send to the internet addressable server. I know there's a lot of code out there, I'm asking for recommendations. wget can do that. Use the recurse option. rgh TIA's Pete -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] key bindings
Ever since I upgraded to hardy (I had so many problems with hardy I went back to debian -- arr, life's good) some of my sawfish keybindings are simply ignored. It seems like something else is interpreting them but I can't find out what. Is there any way that I can find out what is interpreting them? rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- 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] Distro for Media Centre
Excerpts from Kyle's message of Thu May 22 09:54:40 +1000 2008: Hi Folks, I've got a superfluous PC I'd like to turn into a media centre and am wondering which distribution is best suited to that end. Can I have some opinions pls? I'm running Ubuntu Hardy with mythbuntu and it works pretty well. It's not the most stable piece of software I've ever used but it does work well. rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- 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] search engine for company network (OT)
Excerpts from Sebastian Spiess's message of Wed May 14 07:10:01 +1000 2008: hi all, I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby :-) On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots of folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in project folders and has reoccurring folder structures and file names. We are working hard on giving it more and clearer structure but sometimes it is still hard to find some files. I want to suggest to install a search engine which will index our existing files so that employees can crawl quickly though projects history. I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and google desktop but are there open source engines which can be run on a server so that many can connect to it and search? Sadly we are relying on MS office (2001), AutoCAD (R16 to 2008) and other proprietary software in our daily work so those kind of files would need to be indexed. Does anyone has a idea, something I could investigate further? a software name? Hutch/solr might be a good fit. There's quite a good overview of both here: http://www.danielnaber.de/publications/jazoon07_naber.pdf rgh cheers, seb -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Compiz
I'm thinking about making the switch to compiz from sawfish but there is one thing left stopping me: can you can configure so that it doesn't raise the window when you move it? rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Bi-directional ssh
Is it possible to use ssh as a type of dynamic vpn so that when I connect to a remote machine the remote machine has access to the initiating machine? rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum !DSPAM:4807159a198721784069284! -- 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] Bi-directional ssh
Excerpts from Jeff Waugh's message of Thu Apr 17 19:58:57 +1000 2008: quote who=Richard Heycock Is it possible to use ssh as a type of dynamic vpn so that when I connect to a remote machine the remote machine has access to the initiating machine? See the man page section for the -R option to map a remote port to a local port. It complements the -L option, which does the opposite. I don't believe there's a reverse analogue to the -D option though (SOCKS proxy through the remote end), so you're stuck with port mapping. You can also do sick stuff like ppp-over-ssh. Or sensible stuff like OpenVPN. I was hoping to avoid using OpenVPN I use that in lots of places as it is and given that I only need this for deployment it seemed like overkill. rgh :-) - Jeff -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum !DSPAM:480737c5198721863999174! -- 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] looking for a command to composite sequentially numbered files
Excerpts from Alex Samad's message of Mon Apr 14 07:13:12 +1000 2008:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:24:50AM +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:
Hi all,
[snip]
$ for i in `seq 1 999`;do j=`printf %04d $i`; composite -compose atop
bubbles.png 0*.png image$j.png; done
but I get the following error:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
works here
for i in `seq 1 999`;do echo j=`printf %04d $i`; echo composite -compose
atop bubbles.png 0*.png image$j.png; done | head
j=0001
composite -compose atop bubbles.png 0*.png image0067.png
j=0002
composite -compos
or:
seq 1 999 | xargs -n1 -i composite -compose atop bubbles.png 0*.png
image$(printf '%04d' {}).png
The -t option to xargs will give you a verbose option
rgh
I know I'm complete crap at this stuff...but...well, I'm complete crap.
Just trying to work it out really :))
Any assistance would be most appreciated.
Regards,
Patrick
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[SLUG] openvz and openvpn
I'm trying to get openvpn working on an openvz vps. I've gone through the instructions as laid out in the wiki: http://wiki.openvz.org/VPN_via_the_TUN/TAP_device but to sadly to no avail. But I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/incontext-server.conf Sat Mar 15 11:39:28 2008 OpenVPN 2.1_rc7 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Feb 20 2008 Sat Mar 15 11:39:28 2008 TUN/TAP device tun1 opened Sat Mar 15 11:39:28 2008 Note: Cannot set tx queue length on tun1: Operation not permitted (errno=1) Sat Mar 15 11:39:28 2008 ifconfig tun1 172.8.41.1 pointopoint 172.8.41.2 mtu 1500 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device tun1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device tun1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFMTU: No such device Sat Mar 15 11:39:28 2008 Linux ifconfig failed: shell command exited with error status: 1 Sat Mar 15 11:39:28 2008 Exiting If anyone can shed some light on this I would be truely grateful. rgh -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum !DSPAM:47dbb5e893542940412775! -- 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] ADSL modem and half bridge mode
Excerpts from Erik de Castro Lopo's message of Thu Feb 28 00:13:17 +1100 2008: Hi all, I'm trying to set up my adsl modem in half bridge mode and its almost working. The problem is that when it comes up it doesn't set the default route. I have successfully set it manually, but I can't figure out how to make if automatic. Firmware upgrade. rgh Anyone have any clues? Cheers, Erik -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum !DSPAM:47c5dbb6117611990117984! -- 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] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
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Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
Excerpts from Kristian Erik Hermansen's message of Tue Jan 22 05:24:39 +1100 2008: On Jan 21, 2008 5:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive Have you considered OGG instead of MP3? Check out dir2ogg in Ubuntu if so... $ sudo aptitude install dir2ogg $ dir2ogg -d -r -f -g -v /path/to/my/music Umm, that's worth knowing about. rgh 1. Converting the wma to mp3 2. Removing the wma after converting dir2ogg can help you .. see above 3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory Another fun way (be careful)... find /path/to/my/music -name desktop.ini | while read line; do rm -i $line; done -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- 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 filesystem
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:51:08PM +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 2:35 PM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am going to be working on some large files (~5G) and I was in the process of making some room with lvm, did the formatting as ext3 and thought maybe there is a better fs for the job. These are video file that I will be working on. Just wondering what other people used for large size file partitions, should I just stick to ext3 ? I've been reading a little about XFS lately. I haven't used it yet, but it certainly seems to have some quite nice features and is geared for large files and filesystems. I've been using xfs for years and it works well. You probably want to use a UPS though because if a process is writing a file and power is lost the file will be converted to nulls. It's a fine filesystem though. rgh Sam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- 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] Installing Linux
Try booting a live cd and make sure that works. rgh On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:41:42PM +1100, Mervyn wrote: *Problem with Loading Linux* I profess my ignorance when it comes to computer complexities, although I do teach other “oldies” how to use computers. I am having problems loading Linux onto one of my computers. I purchased a new computer and decided to dual boot the old computer to use to receive emails etc. on the Linux OS. I cannot get it to work. I have dual booted other computers; My new computer and the laptop have Win XP and SUSE Linux. I have resurrected a Celeron 700 and installed Ubuntu on one drive and Win Me and SUSE on the other drive On the problem computer, I now cannot even install Linux as a stand alone OS. Ubuntu stops loading early, SUSE appears to load but will not start The Linux loader will allow me to select windows which will boot successfully, but the Linux will not complete the boot up. At one stage even the Windows would not boot and I had to invoke the”FIXMBR” command from windows recovery, I suspect this may have contributed to my problem, Any suggestions? Regards, Mervyn Crawford -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] xterm fonts
Does anyone know how to set up a proper bold font in xterm? I've got a low res screen so I've got everything as small as possible but bold fonts in xterm are pretty much unreadable. I can get a decent bold font if I use eterm but I don't know how to find out which font eterm uses. rgh -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others -- Oscar Wilde Richard Heycock Blog: http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] MySQL Consultant
Hi, Does anyone know a good mysql consultant? rgh -- Richard Heycock Senior Software Engineer Mooter Media Sydney, Australia http://www.mootermedia.com/ Level 1, 12 Help Street Chatswood, NSW 2067 Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9325 5905 Fax: +61 (0)2 9325 5950 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail transmission may contain confidential or legally privileged information that is intended only for the individual or entity named in the e-mail address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance upon the contents of the e-mail is strictly prohibited If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please reply to the sender, so that Mooter Media can arrange for proper delivery, and then please delete the message from your inbox. Thank you. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] apache2 rewriting
I've got a copy of mediawiki running in apache2 at /wiki. What I want to do is to set up a virtualhost called wiki and lose the /wiki eg http://thor/wiki -- http://wiki Can anyone tell me how to do this? I've tried using mod_rewrite but I I've been going round in circles (literally) trying to fix this. thanks rgh -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others -- Oscar Wilde Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- 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] cfengine DNS
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:36 +1000, David Kempe wrote: Richard Heycock wrote: I'm trying to set cfengine to copy a file from one host to itself and I keep getting the error Server returned error: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name. Which it seems is due to me not having reverse mapping on my DNS server. it seems the short answer is no. google says: http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Cfengine_Protocol The thing is I've already copied the public keys over. From Reverse DNS Lookup: ... If the server already has the public key of the client, then it is not necessary to do the reverse DNS lookup, since the validity of the client's identification will be revealed during the challenge-response section of the authentication protocol. The server public is in ppkeys on the client and the client public key is on the server. They won't even come anywhere close to talking to each other if there not. In addition to this I've set up the reverse mappings in my dns server and it still doesn't work. There seems to be nothing I can do to make it work. Thanks for the site, though, it looks pretty good. I think it's time to get on the cfengine mailing list. rgh for a simple DNS solution, dnsmasq might give you pretty easy forward and reverse for your needs. dave !DSPAM:42dce61f190551942928804! -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others -- Oscar Wilde Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cfengine DNS
I'm trying to set cfengine to copy a file from one host to itself and I keep getting the error Server returned error: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name. Which it seems is due to me not having reverse mapping on my DNS server. Now give that this is a very small home network and I don't particularly want to have set up reverse mappings, is it possible to use cfengine without a DNS server at all? I tried using /etc/hosts but that didn't work. I've also tried setting SkipVerify = ( ip addr ) on the server and SkipIdentify = ( true ) on the client and still doesn't insert swear word of you choice work! Anyone? Please. rgh -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others -- Oscar Wilde Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- 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] ssh and X forwarding woes.
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:17, Jan Schmidt wrote: quote who=Richard Heycock Can anyone shed any light on this as I am going completely mad! Make sure that xbase-clients is installed on the machine you're ssh'ing into - xauth is required on the destination machine. Hurrah it works! Thanks for that. rgh J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H.L. Mencken -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. -- Yogi Berra Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- 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 and X forwarding woes.
Hi, I have a few woes with regards to X11 forwarding over ssh. I have two machines one debian testing and one debian unstable. I have exactly the same sshd_config yet I one will allow me to tunnel X11 (unstable) and the other won't (testing). I have turned maximum debug on the machine that doesn't work and there is no mention of X11 unlike the other which clearly indicates that it is setting up X11 forwarding. I have checked the permission in both /etc/ssh and ~/.ssh and both are the same. I have my private/public keys set up and I can log into both machines without entering a password or a pass phrase(I'm using ssh-agent). Can anyone shed any light on this as I am going completely mad! rgh -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. -- Yogi Berra Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mini ide lead (OT)
Does anyone know where I can get a mini ide to mini ide cable (it's for an alpha multia)? Thanks rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Visit to Australia
Hi, I don't know if anyone has heard of Lustre (http://www.clusterfs.com/lustre.html); it is a high performance, open source, clustering filesystem for linux. Phil Schwan from Clusterfs is to visit Australia on business and will have an evening free in which he is prepared to give a talk and a QA on lustre. It will be a fairly informal affair but I think a very informative one. Due to Phil's schedule the date is not fixed and is not likely to be until much nearer the date. Please let me know if anyone is interested and I will organise a room. rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] flyer package for latex
Does anyone know a latex package for generating flyers? rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?
I've been very impressed with my ASUS L3800. It has been my main development machine for since last November without any problems at all. The display is fantastic (1400x1050) and overall it is fast. I run debian unstable which installs without issue. I've even got GNU/hurd running on it (I haven't got X working though). The only thing I haven't got running is the modem which is lin modem but I think this is because I run 2.5/2.6 kernels (which by the way works very well and I haven't had one crash since about March), I *think* you can get the modem running with 2.4 kernel. If you are running a 2.4 kernel you may have to download the alsa patch to get sound working -- this just works with 2.5/2.6. rgh On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:29, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of convincing the boss that I need a laptop for work purposes. Looks like Im doing well, so Ill probably be looking at which one to get over the next few weeks. Ive installed on a few laptops before (old and new) so Im familiar with the kind of issues that I could face and how to get around some of them, but Im wondering if any of the manufactures tend to be more or less Linux friendly than the others. Im sure most of their support teams will fob me off, the instant I mention Linux (or any other OS), but there may be some that are willing to give me the information I need in my efforts to resolve something. God forbid there may even be one that provides Linux drivers Then again maybe not! Cheers. Eddie. ~~~ Im online, therefore I am! ~~~ _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] OT mergeant and oracle
Has anyone had any joy running mergeant with Oracle? The gnome-db web site says that it supports Oracle but I haven't had much joy. I'm running debian unstable. Thanks rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] [OT] mergeant and oracle
Has anyone had any joy running mergeant with Oracle? The gnome-db web site says that it supports Oracle but I haven't had much joy. I'm running debian unstable. Thanks rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks. ;)
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 17:56, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, Just reading over Johns png images of http://members.microsoft.com/partner/training/learningcenter/default.aspx you may access the content of these two Linux Courses at www.jon.fl.net.au/linux/linux_1.tar.gz and www.jon.fl.net.au/linux/linux_2.tar.gz I read... - Linux has had more vulnerabilities during 2002 than all versions of Microsoft OSs combined - Linux and Solaris have significantly more CERT advisories in 2002 than all Microsoft software combined There are no specific references to backup these statements - just general refs at the end of the section. Whats the real situation? Certainly I saw that SP$ for Win 2000 that I have at work has hundreds of security pathches listed for that so how are they juggling figures to come out with statements like that? You might want to read http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html. rgh -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Reply-To:?
Why is that this list doesn't have the 'Reply-To:' header field set? It would make life much easier, it's a pain in the arse to reply to reply to a list without cc'ing the original sender. Is there a reason for this? am I missing something? rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Reply-To:?
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:15, Tony Green wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:07, Richard Heycock wrote: Why is that this list doesn't have the 'Reply-To:' header field set? It would make life much easier, it's a pain in the arse to reply to reply to a list without cc'ing the original sender. Is there a reason for this? am I missing something? http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html point taken. rgh And let's take it to slug-chat if that doesn't answer it. greeno -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] debian apt and jdk
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:42, Robert Tillsley wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2003 19:38, Robert Tillsley wrote: Hi guys I am trying to work out how to get a copy of the jdk for my woody system so that I can fix some dependancy issues and hopefully eventually get a gui up. I have the basic woody cd and mirror.aarnet.edu.au as sources, however when I try to install something it asks for jdk 1.1.8 from the ibm site, which doesn't work. So I'm thinking, perhaps I can use another version or I can add another source. Does anyone know another ftp server out there that has the imb 1.1.8 jdk? Regards Rob T One other thing, will applications care what sort of jdk is installed. Oh yes! The current version of Java is 1.4.1 (1.4.2 if you use a beta) which is very different from 1.1.8 (which was the last 1.1 release). When version 1.2 was released, the whole platform was renamed java 2, hence J2EE. But they still kept the same release numbers so for example 1.2, 1.3 1.4 are all java 2. To recapitulate; if something requires java 1.4 there's no way that it'll work on 1.1 or quite possibly on anything before it. Considering that Java licensing doesn't play nice with Debian I never use apt to install java. It doesn't really need it (and before you flame me I think apt is one of the best tools I've used), all that needs to done to install Java is to download the release from sun, run (it's a shell script) in the target directory and set JAVA_HOME, PATH and MANPATH and that's about it. I've had more problems than I care to mention trying to get apt and Java working together. rgh Rob T -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Distros Versions for Sun Hardware
Debain it's the only way...
If your after reliability I would strongly recommen ddebian, it may be
slightly more difficult to install (though I have to say I don't think
its any harder to install than say redhat a few years ago, which was the
last time I installed a redhat box) but it's definitely worth it.
rgh
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:38, Terry Collins wrote:
I have a Sun Sparcstation 10 (Solaris 8) and a Sun Sparcclassic (RH6.2)
that I want to move into a new DMZ.
So I'm looking for recommendations for distros versions of Linux that
are best for their new role. Are any sparc linux suitable?
Gui's are irrelevant as I want to run a http and smtp servers and prefer
text configs.
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Re: [SLUG] LILO problems
I've found the best way is use a separate partition for the kernel and grub (I'd steer clear of lilo if I were you, grub is so much better -- if you've ever used openboot on a sun box, grub is more like this than lilo). You can then boot from which ever partition you like without having to worry about which parition is bootable. But I don't run windows :-) rgh On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 14:46, Carl G Lewis wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 15:58, Geoff Howell wrote: 6. Reinstalled Win2k 7. No LILO! I haven't been able to get LILO installed and working since - at the moment I don't get a LILO prompt, my computer boots straight into windows unless I boot from a floppy, but this is a pain as I need to eject it every time I want to boot into Windows. Since reinstalling W2K, what have you tried to do to get lilo working? It's been a while since I used lilo, as Redhat has used the vastly superior GRUB bootloader for ages. Anyway, I thought the preferred method for setting up dual boot machines these days was to use the W2K bootloader, and I have had success doing it this way in the past, eg see this page: http://classes.csumb.edu/CST/CST434-01/world/DualBoot.html good luck. -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem... cont
Thanks to all for the advice but I decided to cut my loses and re-install. Not to say I'm not a little distressed about this -- it's the first time I've never been able to recover sigh. Best I take a mondo image :-) Just to let you know what finally led to my decision: I posted a message to the reiserfs and got a reply (from Oleg Drokin at namesys) suggesting that I try reiserfsck --rebuild-sb which I did this looked promising but I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree it aborted saying that there was no metadata. I then mkfs'ed the partition and did what I *thought* I did only this time it didn't destroy my partition. The only thing I can think of here is that grub did something unusual (unlikely) or I did something else (most likely). Given that I don't have a heavily modified system I just thought I'd cut my loses. I've still got the image of the partition so I might have a bit of a play at some stage -- I'll post a message if I have any joy. rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Richard Heycock wrote: Hi, I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on my root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have wreaked it. Ouch. If I run file -s /dev/hda5 I now get 'x86 boot sector' instead of 'ReiserFS V3.6 block...' and I can no longer mount it. When the machine tries to boot it loads the kernel (from /dev/hda6) but when it comes to mount the root partition it kernel panics as it cannot mountthe filesystem. I know at least some of the data is on the partition (`less /dev/hda5`). I'm guessing that grub-install has overwritten N number of bytes at the beginning of the partition but beyond that I'm at a complete loss at what to do. Your probably not in too bad shape. The boot sector is just a single Arr nice to hear some positive thoughts :-) I've only been met with stoney silence on other lists (debian-users and reiserfs), though I'm told there are these things called time zones... sector, and the rest of the drive should be untouched. The trick is recovering that first sector. When you say sector do you mean the sector as in the disc drive or something else? Your basic tool for moving stuff around is dd which you can use to copy just the first sector from one file (ie probably a device file) to another. I don't know the details of ReiserFS. There's a good chance though that the first sector contains only really generic stuff, and/or there are backups stored elsewhere on the device. You might even find it's as easy as copying the first sector (only) from a healthy ReiserFS file system to your damaged one. There's nothing on that sector you're trying to save, so just give it a whirl, but DONT MOUNT THE FILE SYSTEM IN OTHER THAN READ ONLY MODE until you're pretty sure its OK, and then consider copying the most important files out of the file system when it becomes accessible. The first thing I did was to dd the entire partition on to another partition so I've got some scope for experiment. I've dd'ed the first 512 bytes from a healthy reiserfs partition but without success. I also tried to 'strace grub-install' to see how much data was being copied to the disc but I got an error message (something about the bios) but I am trying to do this from within Knoppix so things are unlikely to be the same. If it's not so happily simple and the first sector contains the root of your file system, device parameters or something similar, then the place to get help is probably a developers list for the ReiserFS file system. I posted a message to this list but I haven't heard anything back yet, I'll wait and see what happens this evening. I'm in a bit of a panic at the moment so I'm trying everything I can think of! rgh Andrew -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. --- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem
Hi, I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on my root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have wreaked it. If I run file -s /dev/hda5 I now get 'x86 boot sector' instead of 'ReiserFS V3.6 block...' and I can no longer mount it. When the machine tries to boot it loads the kernel (from /dev/hda6) but when it comes to mount the root partition it kernel panics as it cannot mountthe filesystem. I know at least some of the data is on the partition (`less /dev/hda5`). I'm guessing that grub-install has overwritten N number of bytes at the beginning of the partition but beyond that I'm at a complete loss at what to do. Help! Thanks rgh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
