[SLUG] Migrating from LVM to a plain old disk
Hi, I want to migrate away from a LVM Volume Group (2 disks) to a single plain old disk (500G). Back story: A couple years I thought I might have to learn about LVM. So I created a Volume Group using the Debian installer and have never done anything else. My ideal solution (I think) is if there is a device I can `dd` from, and I can just set the destination disk as a non LVM'd disk. Some output: # vgdisplay File descriptor 4 (/dev/urandom) leaked on vgdisplay invocation. Parent PID 4932: bash --- Volume group --- VG Name erupt System ID Formatlvm2 Metadata Areas2 Metadata Sequence No 4 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV0 Cur LV3 Open LV 2 Max PV0 Cur PV2 Act PV2 VG Size 146.71 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 37557 Alloc PE / Size 37557 / 146.71 GiB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID hrlysx-65nB-56Yt-VwUv-cC5O-wJIr-vjz4Jx # pvscan File descriptor 4 (/dev/urandom) leaked on pvscan invocation. Parent PID 4932: bash PV /dev/sdb2 VG erupt lvm2 [36.79 GiB / 0free] PV /dev/sdc2 VG erupt lvm2 [109.92 GiB / 0free] Total: 2 [146.71 GiB] / in use: 2 [146.71 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] Is this asking to much? -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux video editors - any good ?
From reading Planet Gnome PiTiVi is in active development. Though I have never used it. http://www.pitivi.org/ In 2009 I 'edited' a 2 minute video in Kino. It was first and only attempt at video editing. Though I manage to overlay some text along side an PNG and apply a blur effect for a few seconds. A little bit of back and fourth, but a good learning experience. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Patrick Elliott-Brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: Rod wrote Cc: Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:44:44 +1100 Subject: [SLUG] Linux video editors - any good ? I need to edit and format videos for uploading to UTube, on Linux, preferably using a free program (no budget !). I last tried this on Linux a few years ago and encountered so many bugs and limitations with Kino, Kdenlive and LIVES that I gave up and used a cheap proprietary Windows program. Is there any fully-usable free Linux editor yet ? thanks Rod Hi Rod, If you have a quick look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepTD2_3e7Ulist=UUsA22G-Vg4Jexx-0W_SRyTgindex=6feature=plcp Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8j3e10Q1Zwlist=UUsA22G-Vg4Jexx-0W_SRyTgindex=9feature=plcp Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrdQ7LFwAUlist=UUsA22G-Vg4Jexx-0W_SRyTgindex=10feature=plcp You'll find some videos edited with a combination of KDEnlive, GIMP and SMILE and a program I cant remember (I'm in Fiji on hols - good excuse I know :)) I find that I need a combination of applications to get some effects I want. Then again there's not really any individual program within the propriety world that does it all either :) I've found no general issues with KDEnlive so am curious as to what issues you came across. When I get back (10 days) I'll be more than happy to correspond more frequently to help out. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Free to good home: Dell PowerEdge 2450 server
Hi, I have an old Dell 2RU PowerEdge 2450 server. 866Mhz CPU. 1.5G RAM. 4x9.8G SCSI disks. I'd like to pass to someone rather then adding to land fill. It's throwing a RAID controller error at the moment, but it was originally working. It came with 2x9.8G disk, I then doubled that and RAIDed it. Also comes with a PS2 KVM. At the time I couldn't get Ubuntu to install, but CentOS was running fine. I bought it from a Grays auction for $200 a number of years ago. Pick up from Oatley. Happy to answer any questions on or off the list. Let me know if this isn't appropriate list talk. -- Simon Males -- 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] Ubuntu 11.10
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Henare Degan henare.de...@gmail.com wrote: In all seriousness it's been OK fighting^Wusing it today but that's because I'm not using advanced features like two whole monitors. Since it took Linux about 10 years to get multi-monitor working last time I'm guessing it'll be another 10 until Unity sorts that out too. My colleague had a new install of 11.04 for about two weeks and upgraded to 11.10 yesterday, on new T-Series Lenovo laptop. Multiple monitors seem to just work. -- Simon Males -- 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] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 July 2011 17:57, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 July 2011 17:23, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: * Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: +1 for ddrescue works well. On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks. On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, Simon Maless...@sime.net.au wrote: I've found that myrescue is better than ddrescue, especially with corrupted devices. It has options for exponential backoff of corrupted sections, retries, etc sudo aptitude install myrescue Are you sure you are comparing to the GNU version of ddrescue? Be aware that there is a confusing none-GNU ddrescue which might be a bit simplistic. exponential backoff etc sound like the features of GNU ddrescue I used to help a friend in need. (together with following advise from SLUG to put the disk in the fridge every now and then to help it stay up for longer, it was at the top of the summer hit too). Here is a comparison of the various *rescue tools someone ran a couple of years ago: http://gumptravels.blogspot.com/2009/09/ddrescue-ddrescue-gddrescue-gnuddrescue.html I have tried GNU ddrescue but the drive fails all to often. The block device disappears and I have not worked out a sure fire way of bringing it back online other then a reboot. Power cycling the device (attached via USB) or restarting udev doesn't assist either. Eventually the device becomes available, but there is a lot of twiddling of thumbs. The photos where the main priority, and I manage to source them by mounting the device read only and using rsync to restart the copy once the drive comes back online. I managed to get a lot less error rates by copying smaller files, so I skipped *.MOV and *.AVI patterns with --exclude. If I could tell the linux or the USB system not to offline an erroring device I believe that would help. The above blog post provided me with an idea to issue hdparm options which may assist a failing drive. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Regenerate OpenSSH host keys on cloned/replica server
I feel that it's best/better practice to regenerate OpenSSH host keys on a clonsed/replica server. The closest thing to a reason I have is that keys are meant to be unique? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-regenerate-openssh-host-keys/ Is my logic in check? -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Installing Quake 3
Hello, Quake 3 has being around for more then ten years. I bought an off the shelf copy many moons ago and played successfully on Linux. What is the recommend install process these days? I'm on Debain testing and there is a quake3 package, though one seems to need to use game-data-packager to build a quake3-data package. I can't figure my way around game-data-packager. Reading the source the utility expects the pak0.pk3 file to be lowercase it it isn't on the CD, but easily fixed. The best I can get is: $ game-data-packager quake3 --mountpoint ~/Desktop/Quake3 cp: omitting directory `/home/sime/Desktop/Quake3' -- Simon Males -- 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] Log for timed out SSH connections
I bet whatever device is doing NAT or firewalling on the outside of your network is dropping the idle connection I would take the conntrack line of thought as Daniel suggests. Leading on from that: Simon, did you change your router as a result of the connection change? Yes that's right. There is new hardware between my desktop and the Internet. Specifically a Cisco SRP 521W. On client side I've added this to ssh_config (~/.ssh/config): Host * ServerAliveInterval 15 ServerAliveCountMax 3 Seems to be holding. Thanks for your help Slug. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Log for timed out SSH connections
Hello! We have just switched Internet connections (from ADSL2 to [SH/B]DSL) and I'm finding that SSH connections to the Internet are timing out. Normally SSH sessions could be open all day. I've logged a fault with the provider and they are looking into it. I'm wondering if I can get some timings from SSH to look for any patterns. Though a timed out session and a nicely exited one look all the same in auth.log Mar 21 15:20:56 host sshd[4387]: Accepted publickey for root from x.x.x.x port 64211 ssh2 Mar 21 15:20:56 host sshd[4387]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Mar 21 15:31:55 host sshd[4387]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user root Anyone dabbled in something like this? -- Simon Males -- 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] Marvell PHY plus forcedeth: no gigabit?
Try another cable? Specifically, try a CAT 6 cable. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Debian/Ubuntu way of having multiple memcached daemon's
Hi all, Using apt-get, you can automagically install memcached. It's great as it starts a daemon and that daemon will start on boot. Though for Christmas I need two daemons running on different ports: 11211 and 11212. I've duplicated the following files and tweaked them, so a second daemon can start. /etc/init.d/memcached - /etc/init.d/memcached_11212 /etc/memcached.conf - /etc/memcached_11212.conf /usr/share/memcached/scripts/start-memcached - /usr/local/share/memcached/scripts/start-memcached Using update-rc.d the above daemon starts on boot as well (great). Now if memcached has a security update, apt-get will restart the original packaged daemon, not my second instance. How can I make my second instance upgrade friendly? Disclaimer: My new found obsession is upgrade friendliness, so my intentions are not strictly memcached related, but it's the simplest example I can think of. Cheers. -- Simon Males -- 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] Debian/Ubuntu way of having multiple memcached daemon's
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3 ... must not overwrite or otherwise mangle the user's configuration without asking ... In short, your locally changed config file should be safe. If you're using a for of debian that does not adhere to this policy, then all bets are off (I'm not aware of any distro ignoring this policy). Sorry I need to be a little specific. After a memcached upgrade, dpkg will (to the best of my knowledge) perform something like the following: /etc/init.d/memcached restart Is it possible to convince dpkg to perform a similar action on my own init.d script?: /etc/init.d/memcached_11212 restart I feel like I'm am stepping close to the territory of building my own packages. -- Simon Males -- 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 4.0
Hi Peter, It's been a while since I've run a development version / non packaged version of Firefox but I've quickly tested the following method which serviced me for a number of years. Please note this does not 'install' Firefox. I'm basically doing the Windows equivalent of unzipping an archive and running the executable. 1. Download Firefox 4.0 beta: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/ 1.1. Close you existing Firefox browser window 2. Extract it. 3. Open the extracted 'firefox' directory. 4. Execute the 'firefox' shell script. i.e. Double click it (you might have to hit click 'run' in Gnome). Steps 2, 3 and 4 can be either performed from the GUI or command line. Once your happy its working, you can create shortcuts / application launches on your desktop so you don't have to navigate to the 'firefox' directory each time. Hope that's clear enough. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Peter Rundle pe...@aerodonetix.com.au wrote: Hi Sluggers, does anyone on this list, who isn't running the latest version of Ubuntu and doesn't re-build their Linux desktop every second day and therefore doesn't have add-apt-repository and ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa or whatever the hell is that on their box, had any success in finding links to instructions as to how to install Firefox 4.0 beta for normal users? (People still using Jaunty for example). TIA's Pete P.S yes I'm frustrated and exasperated with Linux and no I can no longer be bothered to try to keep up with the insane rate at which the community changes things. I'm sure there are a million arguments as to why the accelerator pedal would be better if it was on the left but it's not, it's on the right so just leave it there otherwise you will just leave a whole bunch of users behind who will then go back to that other operating system. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males -- 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] WordPress sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 May 2010 15:48, Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org wrote: quote who=justin randell was it a desire to use a non-file based store and an aversion to using custom session handlers? was it a desire to control the strength of the cookie hash? Without getting into WordPress or the session storage options it provides - In principle I'd prefer none-file-based permanent session store simply to allow multiple front server to share the load of serving any session from any server. This usually leads to client-server style databases or things like memcachedb in redundant configuration. This is the exact problem I came across recently when developing a Wordpress extension. Coming from Drupal land I thought sessions would be stored in the DB out of the box. But alas there is more code to write... though I haven't looked if an appropriate plugin exists. -- Simon Males -- 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] System admin graphing tools
http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ (Language Perl) Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and what just happened to kill our performance? problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. I actively use munin and it is a great historical analysis tool. Great availability of plugins as well. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Push cron and system E-Mails to RSS (email2rss?)
Hello, I'm interested to hear how system administrators handle the plethora of E-Mails servers tend to generate. Especially ones with various cron jobs. Is the typically practice to add .forwards and consume the reports with the rest of your E-Mail? How about an pushing them to a RSS feed which isn't as intrusive ? I'll occasionally jump onto the system and run mail/mutt and wish I never did. -- Simon Males -- 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] GPS data logger
I use cotoGPS on the Palm which does all that, logging at user defined frequency, it also has a java desktop component that allows to do various stuff with the data, including KMLs I actually have a Android phone and ran with that. There are a quite a few GPS logging/mapping applications in the Android Marketplace. They are all a lot of fun and its where I got the interest from. Though I don't like running with my/a phone. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] GPS data logger
I'm hoping to buy a GPS data logger that I can take running with me. My main concern is for it to plug and play with Linux. I've managed to find two such devices on eBay that support linux. I expect these devices to be popular with photographers. Any sluggers use them? -- Simon Males -- 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] pps presentation for the web, is flash the go ?
basically, it's a set of, well, slides (some with photos), would flash be the best way to have that web viewable ? You could convert it to PDF using OpenOffice.org OOo may be able to convert it to a set of HTML pages as well. I'd say flash. Nothing against OOo, you can even use to export a SWF as well! Or online services such as Google Docs and Slide Share: http://docs.google.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/ Having a PDF/HTML or even PPS/ODP option will allow presentation to be indexed by search engines. I'd say presentations and video are the only things I don't mind being in flash. Everything else is just cruft! -- Simon Males -- 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] website or browser bug?
The print stylesheet is all wrong, basically culling everything. A way around this would be to delete the print stylesheet in Firebug (simplest solution I can think of). Download/isntall Firebug extension. Restart Firefox. Tools Firebug Open Firebug In Firebug select HTML tab. In the HTML expand the following elements: html head In head find the following element and right click Delete Element: link media=print type=text/css rel=stylesheet href=../_stylesheet/subpages_print.css/ Then you should be able to print (that particular page your working on). Might be a simpler way, but its what first comes to mind. I'm trying to print this page out. http://www.sbr.gov.au/content/accounting_bookkeeping_and_tax_professionals_taxonomy_2.htm I've tried various browsers on Ubuntu Hardy (firefox, epiphany, galeon, konqueror...) plus firefox on Fedora Core 6. They all suffer the same issue which can be demonstrated by going to print preview. All I get is the url text. It seems to render on screen just fine. I've also turned off java javascript in to see if that would do it. This is just one of the pages we want to be able to print and look at from this site. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 3.0 Download Day
Hi Guys, Firefox 3.0 is coming out tomorrow. The 18th here is the 17th in the USA, which is global download day for the Firefox 3.0 launch. Mozilla is attempting to win a Guiness Book of World Records entry for the most downloads in one day. So far, 1.4 million have pledged. More here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ Ditch Internet Explorer and get Firefox :) It also a good time to spread Firefox awareness to others. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2571283860/ (print and pin it up at your work place). It makes web developers jobs easier and able to offer a richer Internet experience. -- Simon Males -- 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] DST in debain
Make sure your /etc/timezone is actually set to Australia/Sydney. One of my machines did the wrong thing because it was set to 'User defined' -- perhaps the result of an errant upgrade? I've certainly not set it myself. Anyway, that might be the problem... sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Same happened to me this morning on my Debian Lenny desktop. On boot I sync with time.optusnet.com.au, which brought me back an hour. Then I used GNOME's gui magic time zone selecter to actually set Australia/Sydney. -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 trunk builds with ActionMonkey: JavaScript with JIT
For those who don't know, Action Monkey [2] is the new JavaScript runtime for Mozilla. It is an amalgamation of the existing SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime [3] and Adobe's Tamarin ECMA script Virtual Machine [4]. What this basically all means for users is that the first time you visit a JavaScript heavy website, that code gets compiled down and cached so that every time you visit the same page the load and execution of that page is a _lot_ faster. Its seriously cool shit. Cool! I misunderstood the Adobe/Mozilla announcement and thought that the Tamarin project was going to provide Mozilla browsers with Adobe Flash support from its core. Presented on a FSF friendly license. I like the sound of this, increasing the speed of JS is good news. Older systems I find struggle with Ajax heavy sites. As the builds are label with a Firefox 4.0, is this the obvious target release of Action Monkey? -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] phpBB and spam
I run a forum using phpBB and have it so new members must be approved by the admin, so as to stop porn spammers. This was perfect for the first couple of months, but now I get up to 20 membership applications a day that are just spam. I have to look through them to make sure there are no legitimate entries and this is becoming a major pain. Can anyone tell me how I could possibly stop the spam, I was even happy to stop applications and just add people myself, but it doesn't seem to be an option in the admin panel. I really don't know anything about phpBB other than how to set it up. I've had really good experience with Photo-Recognition Visual Confirmation module/plugin, which we nicknamed Kitty Captcha: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=15t=472754st=0sk=tsd=a It displays by default 20 pictures of animals or cars. The user has to select which pictures are animals. I modified it to output only four pictures so the user wouldn't get bored. phpBB has a new version (3.0) which has a new captcha on registration. Not sure if spammers have found a way around it yet. My colleagues has determined that one of the easiest ways of defending against spam on web applications is just to step away from the default. For example by installing a non standard module/plugin. There is no way a spammer will be able to compensate for all plugins. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [Fwd: Give One Get One starts today!]
For those interested in the OLPC project, there is a limited public release kicking off. You pay for two, donating one and the second is for a child you know. Unfortunately it's available only for US and Canadian buyers. So if you have US/CAN contacts or a forwarding address the best time would be now! Of course Linux users want to get there hands on it for the hack value. By actually purchasing two, you feel only half as bad. Original Message Subject: Give One Get One starts today! Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:02:25 PST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - One Laptop per Child Give One Get One starts today! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From all of us at One Laptop per Child, thank you for your interest in our mission. Today marks the first day of our limited-time Give One Get One program. Starting today, when you donate an XO laptop to a child in the developing world, you'll receive one for the child in your life. The price for the two laptops will be $399, $200 of which is tax-deductible. Additionally, T-Mobile is offering donors one year of complimentary access to T-Mobile HotSpot locations throughout the United States, which can be used from any Wi-Fi-capable device, including the XO laptop. Please visit www.laptopgiving.org to participate in Give One Get One and discover more about the revolutionary XO laptop. You can also donate by calling toll-free 1-877-70-LAPTOP (1-877-705-2786). This is the only time we're making the XO laptop available to the public and quantities are limited, so early purchasers have a better chance of receiving their XO laptops by the holidays. Once again, thank you. We sincerely hope you'll join our growing community of people working to create a connected, educated, enlightened future for the world's most essential resource - it's children. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux Car PC / MP3 Player
Hello I really want to listen to podcasts in my car. The ideal situation would be to have the audio system be able to download the podcasts feeds via WiFi. Avoiding the need for sneakernetting a portable device of some sort. So has anyone built an old laptop or small form factor PC into there car? PS Something that just popped into mind was the new iPod Touch has WiFi, as does a Mac Mini. -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Mac Mini (hardware) alternative
Glen Turner wrote: I'm hoping that moving video mode setting into the kernel will remove the last BIOS dependency, thus allowing the kernel to boot using EFI and use the entire disk for Linux. Glen, is that a foreseeable feature/change in the Linux kernel? Or is it something that would on benefit Mac Mini users. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Mac Mini (hardware) alternative
Hi All, This evening I was given a demonstration of the (intel) Mac Mini. Very impressive price point for quite a bit of hardware. Has anyone purchased an equivalent system in regards to size and price? My initial thinking was that there would be a truck load of Mac Mini clones with similar specs, but the mini-itx and shuttle systems float around $1000. -- Simon Males -- 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 pausing
Consider which plugin's you have, both Flash and Java? I hate flash as it is system intensive. I do use an extension call FlashBlock which allows me start Flash animations on demand. Also you mentioned the nVidia card, you didn't say if your using the proprietary driver. I find much better 2D performance when it is installed. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Sound in Ubuntu
Do it from outside the Operating System. Disable it in BIOS. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] KHTML version of Safari 3 ?
Question: Which KHTML release is Safari using? Is there an about:buildconfig equivalent ? Rant: I think that it's great that Safari to coming to Windows. From a technical point it mean's that the Konqueror's KHTML engine has been ported to Windows. It will also help in web development. Because the closest I got to testing Safari in a Windows development environment was running a VMWare instance of Linux with Konqueror. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Remotely executing scheduled tasks using samba
Basically yeah. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dean Hamstead wrote: like say? ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /path/somescript.sh Dean Simon Males wrote: Hello all, Earlier today I found out that Windows Scheduled Tasks can be executed remotely from another Windows system using schtasks.exe with the following syntax: schtasks /Run /TN Backups /S remote_system_name This is actually quite cool. Though I need to do this from a Linux system. Has anyone used schtasks from a Linux system? Or know about MS-RPC (which I guess is doing the ground work). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Remotely executing scheduled tasks using samba
Hello all, Earlier today I found out that Windows Scheduled Tasks can be executed remotely from another Windows system using schtasks.exe with the following syntax: schtasks /Run /TN Backups /S remote_system_name This is actually quite cool. Though I need to do this from a Linux system. Has anyone used schtasks from a Linux system? Or know about MS-RPC (which I guess is doing the ground work). -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?
Sonia Hamilton wrote: Here's a question for the Drupal experts on the list... I've got an existing Drupal site I've developed (www.example.com, say). I want to add an online store to it using os-commerce [1], under www.example.com/store. How do I get Drupal to ignore URLs under www.example.com/store and pass them thru to os-commerce? Would I being looking to make settings changes in Apache or Drupal? [1] http://www.oscommerce.com/ I believe you need to put some sort of omit statement in the .htaccess or make your own .htaccess in /store. My host produces stat's in /stats, but I can access it directly via /stats/index.html so I didn't really need to investigate it further. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] PHP include path Q
Voytek Eymont wrote: as I'm migrating the old server, I'm looking at various settings; on the 'old' server, I had all php includes on a separate path (and, a modified php include path to match): /home/php/dommain.tld with the web root like: /home/domain.tld/www just thinking, is there really any benefit in having php includes outside of the web root...? One reason I have heard is to have DB passwords outside the web root, just in case permissions go all weird and are being openly displayed on the interweb. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Gnash or Flash
Adobe/Macromedia Flash doesn't have 64Bit support. As for Gnash (never used it) but you mentioned it has an external player. With an extension can you play embedded flash to the player of you choice. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/ After installing flash remains to be embedded, you have to set it to play on an external player. Hi, Since moving to my AMD64 based machine I have changed my Ubuntu to the 64 bit version. My problem is that I can no longer see flash in web pages. There appears to be no way to get a 64 bit flash 9 player or plugin and using nspluginwrapper -i (directory)/libflashplayer.so with either Flash 7 or 9 gets the same result: nspluginwrapper: libflashplayer.so is not a valid NPAPI plugin I have been able to install gnash as a stand alone but don't know how to install it as a plugin. I tried setting it as an external player but no luck. I have spent a great deal of time googling for an answer, but no useable result. Any clues would be appreciated. Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link
Been there. rm link No trailing slash. I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -f link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -rf link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rmdir link/ rmdir: link/: Not a directory $ rm -rf link/. rm: cannot remove `.' or `..' Of course I could go 'rm -rf dir' but how do I find the name 'dir' from the symbolic link name 'link'. Cheers. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote:
Been there.
rm link
No trailing slash.
No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link.
Thanks anyway.
Got a bit to excited.
rm -ri `ls -l link | awk -F' ' {'print $11'}`
To dynamify it, I present to you rmlinkdir.sh.
Before you use it, wait for the sluggers to respond and say they an
utility already exists or that it's insecure (like not exiting when no
argument was given).
I must be missing something simple.
$ mkdir dir
$ ln -s dir link
$ rm link/
rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory
$ rm -f link/
rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory
$ rm -rf link/
rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory
$ rmdir link/
rmdir: link/: Not a directory
$ rm -rf link/.
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
Of course I could go 'rm -rf dir' but how do I find the name 'dir'
from the symbolic link name 'link'.
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Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?
An ATA lets u use existing telephones, if you have some that you currently like. For a single line in house something like the sipura 3000 is simple and small and easy Ken I use an ATA: Linksys PAP2 (which has now been superseded with a model that has the same features as a Sipura 3000). When I did have a go at Asterisk I found it quite tiresome tinkering with a web interface. As error messages are quite discreet and don't really help you with solving the problem (in my case learning Asterisk). Recommended in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (now know as something else) that it's quite handy to use a soft phone when playing with Asterisk, purely for testing. Once it's working configure the IP Phone/ATA. Now I just use MyNetFone: http://www.myfone.com.au/ -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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?
I hate flash, the following extension minimizes the pain. It will only start a flash script if you click on it. So essentially it's an ad blocker, but doing away with crappy flash navigation menu's. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] My father wants an inexpensive computer
Stephen Black wrote: My fathter wants an inexpensive computer which will connect to an ADSL broadband connection, He also wants to do video editing so it has to have some reasonable specs. Where can I get an inexpensive (I think it will have to be Linux) computer? Or how can I get some broadband connectivity on 8 year old x86 architecture? (even if it's not Linux Compatable) See your local computer store for an inexpensive computer. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?
I assisted my cousin (never used a computer before mid 30's y.o. builder) with his Windows install and it has OpenOffice.org and Firefox. Whilst installing these I introduced the concept of open source. He was receptive in regards to not having to pay for software. Because he had just shelled out for a new Dell system with Windows XP, he couldn't conceive paying for anything else along with the monthly Internet bill. But here the eldest child started school and I couldn't support child with educational aid. In June/July this year I was in Germany and my cousin purchased a new computer. Being unable to source a copy of Windows XP within an reasonable amount of time, I installed Ubuntu*. Living with for about a month I was able to provide 24/7 support (European key bindings and all (made easier with LANG=)). They were able to download pictures from there camera's, IM with Gaim, and be pirates with gtk-gnutella. Also burning CD's within known was easy. But installing applications wasn't obvious, and whilst I was away in another part of Europe Windows was installed. Since though my cousin says there nothing comes close to what gtk-gnutella was on Linux. In these cases I couldn't support them if they had Linux, because I made the choice for them. IMO it would be different if they wanted to learn about alternatives. * Easy to source a distribution in Germany, they have 10+ Linux magazines. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] asterisk sms?
I've pondered similar thoughts, but got stuck on the following question to which the search engine oracle wasn't able to assist in: Does asterisk support/integrate with PCI SIM card interfaces? -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] external players in Firefox 2.0
Perhaps a FF extension may do the trick ? http://membres.lycos.fr/sethnakht (Looks like a spam URL, but theres the mozilla.org page) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/ -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zhasper wrote: Possibly a man who replies to himself is more worthy of contempt, I'm not sure.. In short, after more discussion with Ashley, I've realised that that dialog doesn't help. As Ashley said, it lets you change existing mappings but not add new ones; and the dialog Firefox presents merely tells you what app it's about to use, it doesn't allow you to choose anything. I'm stuck, anyone else got ideas? On 11/2/06, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open the prefences dialog, go to Content click Manage at the bottom of the dialog. On 11/2/06, Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In my earlier version of firefox I was able to go to tools and select the bottom link that let me tell the browser what external program it should use to play certain files. This link is no longer there and manage file types only allows changes to a few types it does not allow the adding of them. My problem is that I want to stream an mms radio stream (which works with vlc) but the browser only gives me the option to use totem (which doesn't work) or cancel. How do I change this? Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NSLU2 Stories
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. I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Whats the go with motherboards?
Stephen Black wrote: I purchased an Asrock 775I915P-SATA2 motherboard and a Pentium D 805 for my new Linux computer. But I heard that the Asrock 775I915P-SATA2 doesn't support a Pentium D even though it fits into the socket. So I am asking is this true? If it is true then what boards will work with the Pentium D 805 (and Linux too)? If I have to buy a new board I would like to probably like to spend a little more than I did last time Regarding what fits what is best put towards your local computer shop techie. I no longer keep up to date with mobo's, sockets and what fits what anymore. Because the local guy deals with it on a daily basis. Though the Linux related questions are asked elsewhere. I do not need Crossfore or SLI Over clocking could be good (although running Linux it's going to fly!) Im thinking that an intel 965 chipset could be good One thing that I recommend you research is whether the SATA chipset is supported by your flavor of Linux. The last 12 months of distro/linux development has most of the bases covered, but its a road block that I've been stuck behind. For a hardware driven community, try Overclockers Australia or Atomic (MPC). -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Graphics card problem with Ubuntu
Looks like you'll need to install the proprietary ATI drivers. http://www.ati.com/online/customercareportal/linux.html -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ashley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using SuSE 10.1 I was easily able to get my old ATI 7500 card (32Mb)to work properly. Since moving to Ubuntu 6.06 I have been unable to get any reasonable speed out of it. I grabbed my daughter's old 9200 ATI (126Mb)and tried that and I still am unable to get games such as Chromium (I use it to check my card) to work properly - the frame rate is so slow that it takes about four seconds for the ship to respond to a mouse movement. Under SuSE (with the older card) it was smooth and fast to respond, under Ubuntu I can get neither card to work properly. Is there some way to set the card up so that it works? Is ther a graphical tool to set up the video in Debian/Ubuntu- I can't find one. TIA Ashley -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFPLacgu0BrMM6usYRAk3vAJ9ZtJUCHu/fnWwOfdIA5iv6TGqZpwCfRONS T6cXSZWbd8re+kGq+EMVpN0= =DmwU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] suse
Hello Joachim! Great to hear that your trying to migrate your school to Linux. Now about the applications you require: Flash Editor There's tool called Flash for Linux[1], but it's still in development and from what I can see development has halted (thus not all that good in your case). Personally I'm against encouraging school children to use it due to it's heavy proprietary nature. A good and _complex_ animation package is Blender[2]. Although not embeddable into websites, if that is your intention. Website design. Nvu[3], the website is pretty informative about it's features. CAD Qcad[4], simple CAD program. You'll find a number of sluggers have or do work with schools as well, so your not alone! [1] http://f4l.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://blender.org/ [3] http://nvu.com/index.php [4] http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Note that all of the above software is available on Linux and Windows, so students can use them freely at home. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joachim Herrmann wrote: Hi slugs, I am in the process of (hopefully) converting our school from winxp to Novell and suse. Found out about you at the Moodle conference; - can you help with advice about useful apps? We need a good Flash editor, website design, CAD program, - things schools need. My school phone and email are 4757 2253 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Joachim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] New St George HTML based online banking interface
When logging in, you'll have the option of going to the Java based interface or the new (HTML) interface. Posting this as some time ago Sluggers were having issues with the Java interface. http://www.stgeorge.com.au/ -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Has anyone tried Asterisk?
I would like to use my desktops as phones. That means that my PCs (both windows and Linux) and Notebook Pro will need to be able to answer the call and allow us to talk back. Is what I am planning possible? Not a problem at all. The setup for this can be quite involved - your best bet would be going with a dedicated Asterisk distribution such as Trixbox. It will install a Redhat based OS on a machine (wiping everything else!) with all the asterisk goodies you'll need to get started. www.trixbox.org has all the goodies. BB Ditto what BB said but using Desktops as phone's is bad. The use of VoIP should be transparent. Get dedicated VoIP handsets or the cheaper option is to get an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter). Which allows you to use a normal handset. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Sendmail, clamav-milter, spamass-milter on FC3
Usually it's CPU hungry, can you see *milter* in top ? -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just done an install of the subject packages on a border mail server receiving mail from the Internet and passing it onto an internal Lotus Domino mail server. I can see the clamav milter working because it's activity is being logged, but I can't see spamass-milter doing any logging. Are there any clue as to where to look, or how to test, it's efficacy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Online Photo Printing
If there a local online print company that has developed a photo upload utility for Linux that sits outside the browser. Doesn't matter if it's Java based or not. I recall reading in APC a company developing a photo upload Unix/Mac client, as at the time APC was reviewing photo printing sites. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Google Desktop Type Service For Linux Server?
Server is running samba on Debian etch and has a seperate partiition for office files which the owner wants to be able to index and search 'Google Style' Doodle just entered Debian etch. http://gnunet.org/doodle/ The above site has links to similar search/indexing technologies such as swish-e and swish++. http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/doodle http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/doodled Let us know how you go, would be quite interesting. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Rotating images according to exif data
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 ? -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] shared calendaring
ashley maher wrote: G'day, At a meeting tonight I was asked about shared calendaring on linux that plays well with outlook. Going through the slug mailing list archives looks like this gets asked regularly. I did some googling based on previous answers. I thought worth asking again. What are people using at the moment in this situation? I simply know this tool exists, my boss wanted me to demo it to him but my test machine at the time was underspec of the installer (512MB). http://www.scalix.com/ Enterprise Email and Calendaring on Linux -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Open Networks iConnectAccess621 under Linux
Tom Massey wrote: Morning, Does anybody have any information about whether this ADSL router works with Linux? From my reading, it seems that it would work fine, just plug into the Ethernet port and use the web interface to configure rather than the Windows software, but I don't know enough about the beasts to be sure. Never heard of this hardware. But any thing with a web interface is usually Linux friendly. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Open Networks iConnectAccess621 under Linux
The Web interface in my old D-Link DSL-302G ADSL modem/router only works with IE. All other Web browsers get a blank page or fail to authenticate properly. I have no idea how they managed to pull that off - it feels almost deliberate. To change the settings, I had to either reboot to Windows (which I am loathe to do) or run IE through WINE. I was able to duplicate this behaviour on several units. D-Link assured me that the modem is OS independent, but despite my complaining they never fixed this issue. For this reason and a few others (for one, their support is appalling), I have sworn never to purchase a D-Link product ever again. Companies who don't treat their customers with respect deserve no respect from me. I've actually from across a similar situation. The Netcomm NB3 modem web page configuration page takes a long time to load in anything other than IE. Even for Firefox on Windows. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Distribution with maintained 2.4 kernel
Evening slugs, I'm in a bit of bind, in attempting to install Linux on a laptop (prior installation was Mandrake 9), I have come to the conclusion that that the 2.6 kernel will not play nicely with it. Specifically is has a USB keyboard which I believe is not abiding by some USB standard. The closest thing to a maintained 2.4 kernel distribution I've found is Debian Sarge. Fedora 3 would be of being the preferred choice, but no luck in finding any prebuilt 2.4 kernels. Ubuntu has had nothing but 2.6 kernels, but I see Dapper has 2.4 kernel in its universe repository but I do not know if that is going to be available when it goes Gold. I haven't had any further distribution experience of late, so treading on new ground. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] bittorrent clients
cmyers wrote: Just asking some advice on what BT clients you guys use? I have tried Azuerus and found it so slow it was a joke. So I thought I would throw the question out to see what people recommend. Bittornado. Have been using it since it entered Debian. Simple, nothing fancy to look at. I also tried Gnome BitTorrent Downloader, and it couldn't really impress me in the five minutes I spent playing with it. Bittornado was the first time I used BitTorrents, and it keeps me happily up to date with Stargate episodes :) -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Maintained 2.4 kernel
Matthew Hannigan wrote: It'd be nice to find the real problem. It's unusual for the kernel to lose support of a particular device, and they'd probably want to know about it. Simply I can say that Fedora 3 and Ubuntu didn't work. Debian played nicely with the keyboard, but not the touchpad. I was working with a much more experienced system administrator and she spent a lot of the time trying to unload HID modules. Further the System Rescue CD (Gentoo based, but such a useful disk) worked fine, but I noted that it didn't load any USB modules. The SA suggested that the laptop didn't have a proper implementation of USB on the keyboard, as the USB hub worked fine. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rpc.statd clients
I'm after a maintained lightweight rpc.statd client like xmeter or pref. Or least source a version that can be built with a modern compiler. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Hunting an IP Address.
Start off with abuse@ispname.com.au If no luck, contact whoever deals with there TIO complaints. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: Hi All I have a customer who has had something rather villifying written about them on their own Messageboard and they want to persue it legally. They have asked me to chase down the IP Address and I'm not suer where to start. I know the IP, 210.50.159.126 I assume this will have been assigned to a User by an ISP How do I find that out? Then I will contact the ISP and, with legal help and advice of course, try and find the User who was assigned that address at the time of the writing. If any slugers out tthere can point me in the direction of where to start I would be most appreciative. Regards Kev - Kevin Fitzgerald TCG TECHNOLOGIES Skype: kevtcg MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0412 404 002 Web: www.tcgtech.com.au -- 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] Gnome Stock Ticker
Leslie Katz wrote: I want to use the above applet. I've been able to get it to work showing only the All-Ords. However, when I add any new symbol, that new symbol doesn't work--all I get scrolling by is the All-Ords, working properly, followed by the new symbol, say ^AGL.AX, showing a price of 00.00 and saying no change. Is anyone else using this applet with multiple symbols they've inserted (as opposed to the default ones) or will it not do that? I got it to work without the carrot. '^' -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Documentation writing
What are the concepts behind documentation 'schemes' such as DocBook. Being non binary does it make self CVS'able ? Currently there is a whole stack of old documentation in DOC format which is not really maintainable in my eyes. Essentially I looking for a quick theory dive into writing and maintaining documentation. Cheers. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] FC4 with GCC3
Can I install Fedora 3 gcc binaries on Fedora 4 (essentially replace gcc 4 with 3)? -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support, Creative Computing www.CreativeComputing.com.au -- 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] Recommanded webcam in Australia?
If you search on ebay for `usb web cam led` you'll see a common list of no name webcams. I bought one of these (though not off eBay). As off 1/10/05 there was Linux support, which I had been holding onto for a couple of months. The quality is only decent in the day light (I couldn't get it working in windows so couldn't compare the quality). They are dirt cheap, so I believe they are worth it to play around with. Potentially the quality will improve as the drivers are reviewed. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Penedo wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a good usb 2 webcam supported by Linux. I found the page at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=9 but so far couldn't find any USB 2 webcam in the stores except for something on eBay which looks similar to the Apple webcams and which doesn't provide any details about its specifications. Can anyone recommand a good camera I can buy in Australia and is well supported with Linux 2.6 (Debian)? I intend to use it for very long distance video conferencing with Windows XP, in case this affects my options. Thanks, -P -- 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] First time installing application.
Open the terminal. Type: chmod +x Desktop/filename.bin enter Desktop/filename.bin enter Then it will install. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] john gibbons wrote: I am running Ubuntu and have just downloaded an application from an outside source but do not know how to install it. It sits on the desktop. The file finishes with .bin. Clicking yields a message which tells me to 'rename the file to the correct extension for shell script'. I do not know how to or what happens after that. Help would be appreciated. John. -- 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] RedHat at UOW
Robert Barnett wrote: Hi, I have a colleague from Uppsala University, Sweden. He uses ITK/VTK for data processing and manipulation of Medical Images. He currently has a post-doc position which is shared between UOW and a Sydney hospital. He's informed me that UOW would not let him use his RedHat (Fedora Core 3) machine on the campus network because they only allow for approved OSes to connect to the network. /me UOW student I'm guessing that he wishes to install Fedora on an UOW supplied machine? If he brought his own hardware he could connect wirelessly assuming he doesn't need any specific networked resources (though printing could be a difficultly). I believe academics are (maybe were) allowed to connect there laptops via ethernet. Further, the 3rd year Computer Science project lab use to have Fedora 2 or 3. Personally I would take it higher than the ITS department. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] toshiba laptop disable screensaver
Don't know about fedora, but is it using Xscreensaver ? Thinking back to the last time I used KDE, I think you should be able to find a preference in kcontrol (Got the same lappy, but it shouldn't make a difference). -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Del wrote: Hi, This is a question that probably has a really obvious answer that I'm just not finding. How do I completely and totally disable the screensaver that kicks in on KDE / Fedora Core 3 on my Toshiba laptop (M2, nVidia chipset if that makes a difference)? I use it to watch movies a lot and despite the fact that I tell mplayer to disable the screensaver, and despite that I have disabled it in the KDE control panel, it still kicks in every few minutes. Any clues as to where I should go looking? -- 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] no en_AU while installing Ubuntu
The locales package has it. usr/share/i18n/locales/en_AU -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick Croft wrote: I'm just installing Ubuntu on my powerbook. The language-pack-en(-base) has influenced the generation of locales to include en_ZA, and surprisingly en_NZ and even en_HK. I can understand the African locales being included automatically. But considering the input from Australia, it seems odd that en_AU was left out. Not a big worry, just worth a comment. Nick -- 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 with WPA
I use a prism54-based pcmcia wireless card which works fine with the access point when used with WEP. The prism54 driver doesn't have full WPA support. http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/README?view=markup -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] CMS for Debian sarge
yosep kasim wrote: Dear Slugger is there any CMS that is shipped within 14 Debian Sarge CD :) since i could find one many thanks How did you look ? $ apt-cache search cms Turns out 25 results, then buy looking up each package individually you'll get a decent list: bamboo, dacode, med-cms, plone, zope Searching for wiki will give you even more results. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 problems on vaio ubuntu intel 2200BG
Nothing that I know of. Most cards _don't_ have very good support in Linux, particularly the 802.11g cards, so some of the features like tell me all the access points in range don't really work. $ sudo iwlist ethX scan -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
GPL ADSL modems was Re: [SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers
Voytek Eymont wrote: I've just set up a DLink G604, I was pleasantly surprised to find the box had a GPL licence inluded inside. I am being one of those computer friends and setting up ADSL for a friend. I want to get him a single port ethernet modem which is based on GPL, so (planning ahead) one day when it is no longer in use he'll likely give to me to 'play with'. Benefit being that I could load custom firmware and hack it until I'm old and grey. I know the some Dlink (above) and Linksys mutli port router wireless use some version of Linux... but I need a single port modem. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cpu usage spikes on almost vanilla kernel
I managed to successfully compile myself a useful kernel version 2.6.11.10. It was vanilla but it has been patched with 2.1.8 Suspend2 patches to get the suspend to disk functionality. Using the Debian Sarge issue kernel (2.6.8) CPU usage is relative to application usage. I only notice such activity due to the gnome system monitor applet I love watching- showing usage as regularly accruing spikes. The only low level change I have made apart from changing the kernel I have lowered swappiness[1] (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) to 10. Could it be that the Debian patched kernel do something to aviod this? [1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 PS Can you consider a vanilla kernel with suspend2 choc chip vanilla ? -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] Telephone recording?
I work in a telco call centre, when we do voice recordings (i.e. not the whole call) we have the device below attached. http://www.trillium.com.au/products-rapd.php We have Windows desktops, but from I understand it has both audio in and out, meaning you can record and play to the other party audio. So not really software dependent. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] VoIP for home use
I need some advise regarding Australian VoIP providers. I've spent a good couple hours researching. Eventually I will go to a hardware solution but I wish to try a software solution first (softphone). So initially I wish only to be able to make outgoing calls, thus incoming calls do no interest me. Codecs: It seems that a lot of local providers are using the patented codec G729 (which isn't all that fun to any GNU lover). I found one provider offering G711 but that uses 64kbps of bandwidth. There is quite a considerable group on Whirlpool discussing VoIP in general but only a handful of Linux users apart from the Asterisk administrators. I tracked down a thread of kphone users using VoIP provided by OzTell and ATP. OzTell mentions on there website that gnomemeeting if the preferred Linux client- but there are a lot of negative comments about the service. Essentially my simplest question is, has anyone connected to the local VoIP provider with Gnomemeeting, or any other Linux app ? Next- of the hardware available, is there any that is based on GNU/Linux like the Linksys WRT54G. Or basically is not platform dependent for configuration i.e. has a web interface. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] X on laptop going nuts
See the following link to paint the picture. This would only happen when logging out of X to shutdown. The machine is then unresponsive and the only was to shut it down is to kill the power. Further at times booting on battery power, X would not start and the system again is unresponsive, but the screen would only be blank. Finally, this was not occuring when I first purchased the laptop. Personally I believe it to be an XF86Config-4 issue. Software: Debian Sarge, Linux 2.6.8, nVidia binary drivers. http://anticd.org/~sime/laptop_screen.JPG http://anticd.org/~sime/XF86Config-4 -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] Buying a Printer
Richard Neal wrote: Hai I was just wondering if anyone has recently bought a printer to run on Linux. Im after a laser printer (nothing fancy) to works with the CUPS print server. Yes I know there are websites that list printers that work with Linux but some Ive found don't work that well or not at all, and some work great. So whats a good new laser printer thats just does black and white prints. Just bought a Brother HL-5170DN, there are two models below this, one without network, followed by another without duplexer. Linux support is good, brother even has linux support pages (which didn't really help me) and a mailbox where you can send linux related questions to. Setup was easy with the footmatic-gui. You just need the CD to copy the PPD file across. Just before reading my emails tonight I gave the printer its first real big job, with mixed results: NB i am not a printer guru and recently a laser virgin. I have a bunch of JPEG's that I needed to print and a 25 page OOo document. JPEG's were first using GQview, it printed 2 of them and then stoped. The printer itself wasn't complaining, foomatic-gui doesn't say jack about printer status so I resulted back the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631/). It gave me the following error: Call timed out: server did not respond after 1 milliseconds closing remote file _stdin_ I cancelled all jobs and restarted, all CGview jobs were pumping out the same error, eventually I tried the OOo document which went through fine (never had a problem with OOo). For the JPEG's I tried The GIMP which printed the image followed by some sort sytax on extra pages. In the end gThumb managed to print the remaining images without complaining. The above happened on a wireless laptop, AFAIK it's an client issue, nothing to do with the printer. I haven't yet been able to get the duplex working but have gotten to the point where the printer takes the page back in but doesn't print anything on the other side. Further it would result in missing prints, i.e. no page 2, 4 and 6 (which should of been on the back of the pages 1, 3 and 5). The only problem I have with the printer itself is that it curles paper. For less then 5 page jobs its not all that much of an issue, but like my 25 document it becomes really difficult to sit the pages squarely together for a decent stable job. It makes the output tray over flow and messy. Although while attempting to duplex, the pages seemed to be ironed out and do not curl at all. Linux printing link: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5170DN Good luck! -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] Exporting FS over USB
Given that I had the right cable, I wish to be able to export a directory over USB (laptop), then be able to mount it on another PC as an external hard drive (desktop). Practically, I am thinking more along the lines of taking my Linux laptop to any windows machine, plugging it in and being recognised as a simply flash/external hard drive type device. P.S. Does anyone have a copy of Freespace 2 they wish to depart with ? -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] XFree86 not actioning: Option DPMS
Trying to get my laptop to turn off the screen after a certain amount of time. In XFree86-4 I have the configuration of enabling DPMS and then using one of its features: Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 28-50 VertRefresh 43-75 Option DPMS-- Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 28-50 Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 43-75 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Generic Mouse Option OffTime1 -- EndSection When I log in and run `xset -q` it tells me that DPMS is off. I am running Nvidia drivers as well. Running `xset +dpms ; xset dpms 0 0 60` works fine. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] RIP LinMagAU
We all know that LinMagAU stop publishing some time ago, and now the domain has been hijacked. Does anyone have the editions in one big tar ? I would really like to seem the articles appear online in one shape or form again, rather then mold away digitally. Ultimate goal would be to push it to the debain archives in the same way the Linux Gazette is. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] St George banking (again...)
I've searched the slug archives, lot's of (justified) kvetching but I couldn't find a solution. I've looked at [1], installed prefbar [2], tried every agent string. I'm running Ubuntu Warty, I've got SunJava 1.5 installed. Warty's build of Firefox is 0.9, try downloading the official .tar.gz [1.0.1] build of FF and running that locally. Don't know if it makes a different but I also export $JAVA_HOME: JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.5.0 -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] Operating System
Ray McFadyen wrote: Dear Sydney Linux, I am a member of a small computer club and we have some computers which need operating systems. The memory is 32MB so the installation must be small. I cannot understand why most of the Linux systems need so much memory. I have an old Win3.1 which runs Microsoft Word with Exel and Powerpoint plus other programs and runs well with 4MB. Because you comparison is wrong, you are comparing an OS that was design for systems made 10 years ago that was developed 10 years ago. Try installing Windows XP on those systems and you'll understand my point. i.e. a recent OS on an not so recent system. Is a Linux core the basic program which would allow small programs to be installed? I would expect a simple Java program could make a good desktop. Or even a HTML page could be used. The impression is that all the Linux programs are directed towards business application. And are the discs available at a City store. Lots of big programs such as Redhat. What you'll need is a slightly speciallised Linux Distribution that is designed for lower end systems. RedHat can do this, it will require you not to install the standard packages (applications). You'll need someone onlist to recommend a lowend distribution that is easy as Win3.1 to install. If you going to install RedHat again yourself, remove all listed packages, and select for the desktop: IceWM, and word processing: AbiWord. That should get you started. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] mobile phone for the linux user
A lot of mobiles these days have the ability to store quite a decent amount of data. Be that pictures or musak. Are there any phones out there that would mount with mount(8)? The alternative is to pop out the internal SD memory card and mount it with any USB reader. A growing number of phones are based on Linux, but it doesn't increase the desktop Linux support. I have noted that these have RealPlayer installed, I need to know if mini-realplay supports OGG ? There is a lot of documentation to get any USB or IrDa capable phone to act as a modem, but doesn't really interest me. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] SB Live and Alsa
I am trying to get 5.1 digital sounds out of my linux box, but I have so many sliders in alsa mixer and they all seem to do strange things, but I can't seem to get 5.1 to my amp. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emu10k1/emu-tools-0.9.4.tar.gz?download Once compiled: $ emu-config -d -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] SB Live and Alsa
Thing I read about this slider is it is for certain types of sound blasters and which dual use a port for digital and analogue. seems to make no difference weather it is on or off on my card ! When I run emu-config -d, analog is still pumping. It didn't with 2.4 kernels. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] St George Internet Banking
I´ve got Mozilla 1.7.3-0.2.0 (from Fedora Core 2) and Blackdown Java 1.4.2-01 installed. I use official Firefox 1.0 and Sun Java 1.5 with no spoofing. My actual UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] blacklisting hotplug modules
I have just found out how to suppress the shpchp and pciehp FAIL messages during bootup (by simply jaming them in /etc/hotplug/blacklist). I would like to know which actual hardware is shpchp and pciehp trying to load... so I can make mental note if I ever come across such hardware. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] St George internet banking on linux
Okay, It might be just me. Are you getting the exact problem as the post on the 23rd of October... blank login screen ? http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/10/msg00526.html You fail to mention what you have tried: Marek did you try setting the user agent to Windows (as which has been beaten to death on this list). I used to have to do this. Basically I do what DaZZa mentioned, as I don't have to change anything any more. Make sure you have JVM 1.5 installed and bank away (Mozilla suite and Firefox). -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] Small Linux distro
Dean Hamstead wrote: blackbox was a very nice lite window manager It is, but due to its right click to do anything design, I dont really think it is suited a laptop (same for Window Maker). I ran a similar spec machine with the same amount of ram on knoppix. I flagged it to use IceWM as the desktop, and I had spare one meg of ram ! :) (to be honest I didn't check if it was chaching the memory). -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] USB2 speed gain
How can I be ensure that I have got the USB2 speed gain. I pluged a friends hard drive based mp3 player to move files across. The files were moving in normal USBv1 speed. I mounted it as normal.. the only thing I can think if it the mounting. Below is from /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbvfatnoauto,user,rw 0 0 -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla
This is absolutely killing me. Everytime I visit whitepages.com.au I see Applet v51 starting and I cannot type anything in the whole browser for like 30 seconds. Both Firefox and Mozilla nightlies. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla
David Kempe wrote: Simon Males wrote: This is absolutely killing me. Everytime I visit whitepages.com.au I see Applet v51 starting and I cannot type anything in the whole browser for like 30 seconds. Both Firefox and Mozilla nightlies. its java I think. you could disable it - there was a text based whitepages, not sure of the url -its much faster dave There actually two, annoying slow one, and the clean one, I thought they killed the clean one. Bad: http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/search/search_text.jhtml Good: http://text.whitepages.com.au/pages_t/schs_t.htm Thanks. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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 PCMCIA cards - recommendations
I used to use a Linksys WPC11 card (I think that is what it was). Frankly I was underwhelmed by it. I think it was prism, but I'm not sure (I'm sure someone here will know about it). My current laptop has an Atheros wireless card built in to it and it's been working superbly pretty much since day 1. The drivers are proprietary, but available at no cost and quite stable and functional. You have a prism2 card, which is basically 802.11b only. Prism2 cards have the best support for WPA on linux. Using the hostap drivers that is. Not they same type of card Simon Wong is asking about. I've not tried the sniffing etc, so I'm afraid I can't comment on that. Is there an easy way for me to test that? Install kismet, and you'll have to give kismet.conf a quick hack. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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 PCMCIA cards - recommendations
Simon Wong wrote: I've decided to upgrade my wireless pcmcia card to something *really* well supported under Linux. Its like looking for the digital holy grail. It seems that the Prism chipsets are very well developed so after perusing the Prism54 supported cards list (http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php?sort_by=success_cnt) it seems that the Netgear Wg511 and the 3com OfficeConnect 11g are the pick of the bunch. Got a Netgear WG511, because I basically visited the same page. I want something that will do 128bit WEP, WPA (for when it's supported and yes, I will use a *real* VPN later). Can't wait till WPA support hits the streets, so I can finally WiFi at uni in linux. It would be great to have something that allows you to set it up as an AP and to sniff air traffic for testing work. Prism2/2.5/3 cards are the one for that. Using hostap drivers, with the hostapd service. Does anyone have any experience with these cards or another on the list? Yeah its pretty good, but I keep hitting this bug. http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87 -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.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] sydney gps maps
Are there any free Sydney GPS maps ? Also which commercial mapping software have compatible maps for GPSDrive. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] Quick Gimp Q.
Use dynamic shortcuts (i stuck this on linmagau.org before it died). Main Window Preferences Interface Select 'Use dynamic keyboard shortcuts'. Then in your image window, hold your cursor over View Zoom Zoom In While the cursor is hovering, press '=', done. The shortcut is updated. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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] HELP!!!
When I am at home I connect my laptop to a Benq FP731 LCD (17 Flat Screen) monitor. When I press Fn + F8 to view my laptop via my Benq monitor I get no response from the monitor. There is no real easy way for a novice user. Turn your lappy off, plug in the vga, then turn on the lappy. Lappy should be blank, with output on screen. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- 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 Mandrake
I am using 2.6 kernel. but the drivers I am using is the ndiswrapper. Don't think any of the windows drivers support monitor mode. NDIS drivers are not really the best for sniffing. I also know zero about the TI chipset. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
