Re: [SLUG] slug Digest, Vol 117, Issue 1
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Re: [SLUG] Disabling HDMI sound
Hi, It seems this motherboard has Realtek ALC887-VD2 audio codec. Check mb's docs if it's true and then google for drivers/advise for Ubuntu. Google brings to me this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2209364 You may find some others as well. On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Patrick Elliott-Brennan < m...@elliott-brennan.id.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > My new machine has an ASUS motherboard: > > H170M-E D3 > > > and an AMD Radeon R7 360 video card. > > > I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 > > > I am getting no sound through the motherboard's onboard sound card. > > I get sound over HDMI and fortunately my monitor has an HDMI port AND > built in speakers. However these are no-where near as good as my > desktop speakers. > > The only option in the BIOS is HD Audio Controller (enable/disable). > However nothing I change here has any effect. > > In the GUI the onboard sound is greyed out. Alsamixer shows HDMI sound > only. The desktop GUI shows only HDMI. > > aplay -l shows only the HDMI sound. > > I have tried a number of things including > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I have added > > snd_hda_intel > > and adding a line in GRUB > radeon.audio=1 and using 0 as well. > > I have found another possible solution here: > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ > > Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters > > Option: radeon.audio > Value:: 0,1 > Default Value: 0 > Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio > > My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to > add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what? > > Any help would be most appreciated. Without the onboard sound card I'm > stuck with the crappy monitor speakers and cannot use headphones nor > use a microphone for video conferencing etc. > > 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 > -- http://www.dataparksearch.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] Disabling HDMI sound
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:28:44PM +1100, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: > I have found another possible solution here: > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ > > Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters > > Option: radeon.audio > Value:: 0,1 > Default Value: 0 > Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio > > My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to > add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what? Edit /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf options radeon audio=1 Note that my "modinfo -p radeon" shows an additional option -1 for audio: audio:Audio enable (-1 = auto, 0 = disable, 1 = enable) (int) Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- 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] Disabling HDMI sound
As a first step, Does it work using something like Knoppix? If so then this will prove not a hardware fault. Also check its not turned off in the BIOS Ben On 15/11/15 22:28, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi All, My new machine has an ASUS motherboard: H170M-E D3 and an AMD Radeon R7 360 video card. I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 I am getting no sound through the motherboard's onboard sound card. I get sound over HDMI and fortunately my monitor has an HDMI port AND built in speakers. However these are no-where near as good as my desktop speakers. The only option in the BIOS is HD Audio Controller (enable/disable). However nothing I change here has any effect. In the GUI the onboard sound is greyed out. Alsamixer shows HDMI sound only. The desktop GUI shows only HDMI. aplay -l shows only the HDMI sound. I have tried a number of things including /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I have added snd_hda_intel and adding a line in GRUB radeon.audio=1 and using 0 as well. I have found another possible solution here: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters Option: radeon.audio Value:: 0,1 Default Value: 0 Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what? Any help would be most appreciated. Without the onboard sound card I'm stuck with the crappy monitor speakers and cannot use headphones nor use a microphone for video conferencing etc. 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
[SLUG] Fw: new message
Hello! New message, please read <http://jest-rostov.ru/sense.php?i3i> James Purser -- 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 one on a Toshiba laptop.
One of these images should help: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Toshiba+Satellite+A660+keyboard=isch m On 29/09/15 17:23, William Bennett wrote: Toshiba Satellite A660 -- Marghanita da Cruz Telephone: 0414-869202 http://www.ramin.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] Disabling HDMI sound
Hi all again. First, thanks Josh for your suggestion. Sridhar suggested checking dmesg, which I found: [4.054115] snd_hda_intel :01:00.1: Handle VGA-switcheroo audio client [4.054117] snd_hda_intel :01:00.1: Force to non-snoop mode Then looking in syslog I found: Nov 16 20:41:04 patrick-desktop kernel: [4.109628] snd_hda_intel :00:1f.3: failed to add i915_bpo component master (-19) So, doing a Google I found: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2293912 Which lead to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS Which suggested: sudo apt-get install dkms followed by a visit to: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/ubuntu/alsa-daily/+packages Which is by the Ubuntu Audio Development Team Packages in “ALSA daily build snapshots” Downloading oem-audio-hda-daily-lts-vivid-dkms - 0.201509251531~ubuntu14.04.1.deb I then installed the .deb and rebooted Et voilà! Sound out of the onboard audio. Nice. Had to fiddle around with the PulseAudio settings and master controls to make everything use the onboard audio but there we are. Thought I'd post this in case anyone else experienced the same problem :) 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
[SLUG] Disabling HDMI sound
Hi All, My new machine has an ASUS motherboard: H170M-E D3 and an AMD Radeon R7 360 video card. I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 I am getting no sound through the motherboard's onboard sound card. I get sound over HDMI and fortunately my monitor has an HDMI port AND built in speakers. However these are no-where near as good as my desktop speakers. The only option in the BIOS is HD Audio Controller (enable/disable). However nothing I change here has any effect. In the GUI the onboard sound is greyed out. Alsamixer shows HDMI sound only. The desktop GUI shows only HDMI. aplay -l shows only the HDMI sound. I have tried a number of things including /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I have added snd_hda_intel and adding a line in GRUB radeon.audio=1 and using 0 as well. I have found another possible solution here: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters Option: radeon.audio Value:: 0,1 Default Value: 0 Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what? Any help would be most appreciated. Without the onboard sound card I'm stuck with the crappy monitor speakers and cannot use headphones nor use a microphone for video conferencing etc. 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
[SLUG] Fw: new message
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[SLUG] JOB | Permanent MySQL DBA (Tokyo, Hong Kong, London)
Hello, I'm working with an employer that is looking to hire a permanent MySQL database administrator for their Tokyo, Hong Kong and London offices. Consequently I had hoped that some members of this mailing list may like to discuss with me further; off-list. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fw: new message
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Re: [SLUG] Website
On 21/09/15 12:00, James Gray wrote: ... give ye olde web page a shot in the arm? ... Here is my attempt to remove the bits from the Slug website which don't work and put in simple links to the bits which do work. The result is not pretty, but at least it should work: --- Sydney Linux User Group Sydney Linux User Group The Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG) is a community of passionate freedom and technology lovers in Sydney, Australia. Join the http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Linux-User-Group/;>Slug Meetup for details of the next event, to be a sponsor, or offer a short lightning talk, or a longer presentation. Slug meets at 6pm on the last Friday, most months, at http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=enq=+48+Pirrama+Road%2C+Pyrmont%2C+au;> Google Sydney. We are one of the largest and most active of http://linux.org.au/usergroups;>Australia's users groups for the Linux free and open-source computer operating system, with a diverse membership of users, developers, sysadmins, and advocates. Also: https://www.youtube.com/user/sydneylinuxusergroup;>Videos of Slug Events https://twitter.com/slugupdates;>@slugupdates and https://twitter.com/hashtag/sydlug?src=hash;>#sydlug on Twitter mailto:slug-requ...@slug.org.au?subject=subscribe;>Join to Slug Email List --- -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- 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] slug Digest, Vol 115, Issue 3
+1 From: Marghanita da Cruz <marghan...@ramin.com.au> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:16:31 +1000 > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Website > Hi All, > > How about a hackfest of the website at the SLUG meeting on Friday evening. > > Who has the passwords? Do we have to recover them? > > Marghanita -- 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] Wiki suggestions?
I think there is an "edit source" option somewhere there, if you insist on text syntax. Personally I find its WYSIWYG interface pretty convenient, compared to the rare times that I find myself correct entries on Wikipedia. On 3 Oct 2015 6:09 pm, "James Gray" <ja...@gray.net.au> wrote: > I wouldn't describe Confluence as a true wiki any more. They ripped out the > Wiki syntax for editing while ago. The wiki syntax is still supported for > creating documents via API. Confluence is probably best described as an > "Documentation Collaboration" product now. Don't get me wrong; it's still > bloody good at what it does but it isn't a wiki in the strictest sense. If > having the ability to edit plain text offline and be able to dump it into > Confluence and have it formatted nicely, then Confluence isn't the best > option (things may have changed and happy to be corrected here!). > > I've always just ended up with MediaWIKI ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) but there are simpler options > obviously. > > Good luck with your hunt :) > > -- > James > > On 14 September 2015 at 18:22, Jonathan Molyneux < > jonat...@infinitedepth.com.au> wrote: > > > Confluence is a good start for a wiki: > > > > > https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing?_mid=206e3e3a242fb80ba4d7ba972f52c657=CIbO5Y-M9scCFYkrvQodRNoAOw#server > > > > Doesn't cost heaps and it's a solid wiki. > > > > > > On 11/09/2015 11:21 AM, DaZZa wrote: > > > >> Learned ones,. > >> > >> I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to > >> contractors semi-private documents > >> > >> I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would > >> be most excellent. > >> > >> So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. > >> > >> I'd like > >> > >> 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) > >> 2) Lightweight > >> 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have > >> to) > >> > >> It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query > >> for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. > >> > >> It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it > >> customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. > >> > >> Any suggestions? > >> > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> DaZZa > >> > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- 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
I would be happy to put something simple and functional together. Who is the contact looking after the website and the hosting currently? On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM, James Gray <ja...@gray.net.au> wrote: > Is "deterioration" a kinder way of saying "neglect"? ;) > > Well, we *can *moan and criticise, but can anyone step up and give ye olde > web page a shot in the arm? I'll bow up now as I am NOT a UI person. Hell, > anything much beyond to command line is far to fancy for my taste! Just > interested what the SLUG process is for getting the community engaged - > this is obviously something we've noticed, and don't like, so how can we > change it? > > -- > James > > On 14 September 2015 at 06:31, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I agree the site doesn't give a great shot of confidence in Linux as a > web > > server, it doesn't render any page to completion for me. > > > > There is a link to "See the code" which points to > > https://github.com/sydney-linux-user-group/slug/commits/master, where > the > > last commit happened over three years ago (29 May 2012), so perhaps it's > > just a case of deterioration more than active change. > > > > --Amos > > > > On 9 September 2015 at 23:12, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > > > > > I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site > > > into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 > > > with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) > > > I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past > the > > > front page - which is worse than useless! > > > > > > Heracles > > > > > > -- > > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- 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] slug Digest, Vol 115, Issue 1
I'd say it needs a new sponsor/organiser. I was not able to make the last meeting so wasn't able to raise the issue at the meeting. 1. Did anyone raise the issue? 2. If so, was there a resolution to the issue? Any information appreciated :) Patrick > -- Forwarded message -- > From: David <da...@kenpro.com.au> > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:36:20 +1000 > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Website > Not a great advertisement for Linux in Sydney :( > > Whoever is looking after the website, isn't. Does SLUG need a new website > sponsor? or is the organisation passed it's use by date? T'would be a pity > indeed. > > David > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Email delays [ was Re: Website ]
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:36:20AM +1000, David wrote: > Received: from slug-vm.linux.org.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by > lists.slug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5A6C51C1; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 > 16:52:07 +1000 (AEST) > X-Original-To: slug@slug.org.au > Delivered-To: slug@slug.org.au > Received: from fast.kenpro.com.au (fast.kenpro.com.au [203.23.36.9]) by > lists.slug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BA5B376B for > <slug@slug.org.au>; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:37:38 +1000 (AEST) Are there any list admins watching? Two weeks for email to get through the SLUG mail servers is maybe just a little too long ... :-p - John -- Mary had a little lamb, a little roast, a little jam, An ice-cream soda topped with fizz, Boy, how sick our Mary is. -- 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
> On 3 Oct 2015, at 10:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > > > Not a great advertisement for Linux in Sydney :( > > Whoever is looking after the website, isn't. Does SLUG need a new website > sponsor? or is the organisation passed it's use by date? T'would be a pity > indeed. > > David > > On 13/09/15 17:18, Rick Phillips wrote: >> I agree with you Heracles. In fact not one of the menu items (on the top of >> the page) works. >> >> Most pages simple tell the world that nginx is being used as the web server. >> >> A bit sad really. >> >> Regards, >> >> Rick >> >> >> On 09/09/15 23:12, Heracles wrote: >>> I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site into >>> a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 with >>> enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) >>> I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the >>> front page - which is worse than useless! >>> >>> Heracles No opinion about any local hosters but I’ve been using bluehost (http://bluehost.com) for a couple of years. At US$4/month I find their offering superb. On request (once) they provide ssh access which CLI junkies like moi find invaluable. They run CentOS James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Quick one on a Toshiba laptop.
The function keys on my Toshiba Satellite A660 are rather worn. Can anyone tell me which one takes a screenshot, please? William Bennett -- 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] Locale settings in Debian
You haven't set up your keyboard with a European mapping by any chance? If so, this might solve the problem for you: sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration Also, you might want to try launching from the command line and for a specific locale and see if it fixes anything: LANG=en_AU.utf8 google-chrome If that fixes it, then also check your locale settings in your environment (window manager et al). HTH. -- James (Apologies for any funky formatting; Gmail web interface is totally wigging out on me this afternoon!) On 15 September 2015 at 13:53, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Maybe I need to ask this on the Debian list BUT: > I have set my system to Australian English and it insists on converting > everything in Google Chrome to euros! How do I change it to display > Australian Dollars? > > Heracles > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Website
Hi All, How about a hackfest of the website at the SLUG meeting on Friday evening. Who has the passwords? Do we have to recover them? Marghanita On 14/09/15 06:31, Amos Shapira wrote: I agree the site doesn't give a great shot of confidence in Linux as a web server, it doesn't render any page to completion for me. There is a link to "See the code" which points to https://github.com/sydney-linux-user-group/slug/commits/master, where the last commit happened over three years ago (29 May 2012), so perhaps it's just a case of deterioration more than active change. --Amos On 9 September 2015 at 23:12, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the front page - which is worse than useless! Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Marghanita da Cruz Telephone: 0414-869202 http://www.ramin.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] Wiki suggestions?
On 21 September 2015 at 13:59, James Gray <ja...@gray.net.au> wrote: > I wouldn't describe Confluence as a true wiki any more. They ripped out the > Wiki syntax for editing while ago. The wiki syntax is still supported for > creating documents via API. Confluence is probably best described as an > "Documentation Collaboration" product now. Don't get me wrong; it's still > bloody good at what it does but it isn't a wiki in the strictest sense. If > having the ability to edit plain text offline and be able to dump it into > Confluence and have it formatted nicely, then Confluence isn't the best > option (things may have changed and happy to be corrected here!). We've already got a Confluence instance for the "inside" - but I (the business) don't want to put that on the Internet, as it has a lot of very proprietary information on it -and we don;t want to pay for another one - hence the search for free version for the "outside" Wiki (which will be much less detailed and simpler). > I've always just ended up with MediaWIKI > (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) but there are simpler options > obviously. I've actually got an instance of that up and running - but getting it talking to AD for authentication is proving problematic - and I don't have the resources to dig into it properly. I'll keep investigating - maybe I can find one which is point and click. :) Thanks for your input. DaZZa -- 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
The SLUG AGM must be coming up. Any nominations for committee - webmaster? Marghanita On 15/09/15 08:54, Tom Worthington wrote: On 09/09/15 23:12, Heracles wrote: ... SLUG Site, now I cant get past the front page ... On the Slug home page I see a row of menu items across the top: "Home | Events | Archives | Mailing Lists | Get the code!": http://www.slug.org.au/ Here is what happens when I select them: * Home: takes me to the same page (as expected). * Events: displays the text "SLUG Events", with a yellow rectangle below it, but no actual events. * Archives: displays the text "Welcome to nginx!" but no archives * Mailing List: displays "Welcome to nginx!" but no mailing lists. * Get the code!: takes me to GitHub with a repository of Slug stuff, but why? Below these menu items it says "Sydney Linux User Group" and there is a paragraph describing the group (which makes sense). Then below that it says "#sydlug @slugupdates both Loading tweets..." which does not make much sense. I assume these are the hastag, twitter address and a list of recent Tweets is then supposed to appear (but thankfully does not: who would want this?). Next to that is "Previously at SLUG (more on YouTube) Enabled HTML5 Video!" with a video window underneath. I have video turned off by default so thankfully nothing plays (why would I want it to?). Below that is "Attend the next meeting, Sponsor An event or SLUG as a whole, Give a talk Educate your fellows". Here is what I get when selecting each: * ATTEND: "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/data/home/runtimes/python/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 715, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~sydney-linux-user-group-hr/8.353599326443764872/events.py", line 26, in get self.redirect(event_lists.get_next_event().get_url()) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_url'" * SPONSOR: Creates an email with the address "commit...@slug.org.au=Sponsoring SLUG". I assume "Sponsoring SLUG" is supposed to be in the subject line, but is not. * GIVE A TALK: Opens a window asking for my Open Id to log into the Slug website, but why? I suggest: 1. Replace the video and the twitter feed windows with hypertext links. 2. Delete "Get the code!" 3. Get the other menu options to work. ps: I am using Firefox 40.0.3 for Linux. -- Marghanita da Cruz Telephone: 0414-869202 http://www.ramin.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] Locale settings in Debian
On 21/09/15 16:42, James Gray wrote: You haven't set up your keyboard with a European mapping by any chance? If so, this might solve the problem for you: sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration Also, you might want to try launching from the command line and for a specific locale and see if it fixes anything: LANG=en_AU.utf8 google-chrome If that fixes it, then also check your locale settings in your environment (window manager et al). HTH. -- James (Apologies for any funky formatting; Gmail web interface is totally wigging out on me this afternoon!) On 15 September 2015 at 13:53, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au <mailto:herac...@iprimus.com.au>> wrote: Maybe I need to ask this on the Debian list BUT: I have set my system to Australian English and it insists on converting everything in Google Chrome to euros! How do I change it to display Australian Dollars? Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Thanks James, but it turned out that Chrome somehow setup a currency conversion extension. Once I deactivated and removed it all works as expected. Heracles -- 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
Is "deterioration" a kinder way of saying "neglect"? ;) Well, we *can *moan and criticise, but can anyone step up and give ye olde web page a shot in the arm? I'll bow up now as I am NOT a UI person. Hell, anything much beyond to command line is far to fancy for my taste! Just interested what the SLUG process is for getting the community engaged - this is obviously something we've noticed, and don't like, so how can we change it? -- James On 14 September 2015 at 06:31, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree the site doesn't give a great shot of confidence in Linux as a web > server, it doesn't render any page to completion for me. > > There is a link to "See the code" which points to > https://github.com/sydney-linux-user-group/slug/commits/master, where the > last commit happened over three years ago (29 May 2012), so perhaps it's > just a case of deterioration more than active change. > > --Amos > > On 9 September 2015 at 23:12, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > > > I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site > > into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 > > with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) > > I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the > > front page - which is worse than useless! > > > > Heracles > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > > -- > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?
I wouldn't describe Confluence as a true wiki any more. They ripped out the Wiki syntax for editing while ago. The wiki syntax is still supported for creating documents via API. Confluence is probably best described as an "Documentation Collaboration" product now. Don't get me wrong; it's still bloody good at what it does but it isn't a wiki in the strictest sense. If having the ability to edit plain text offline and be able to dump it into Confluence and have it formatted nicely, then Confluence isn't the best option (things may have changed and happy to be corrected here!). I've always just ended up with MediaWIKI ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) but there are simpler options obviously. Good luck with your hunt :) -- James On 14 September 2015 at 18:22, Jonathan Molyneux < jonat...@infinitedepth.com.au> wrote: > Confluence is a good start for a wiki: > > https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing?_mid=206e3e3a242fb80ba4d7ba972f52c657=CIbO5Y-M9scCFYkrvQodRNoAOw#server > > Doesn't cost heaps and it's a solid wiki. > > > On 11/09/2015 11:21 AM, DaZZa wrote: > >> Learned ones,. >> >> I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to >> contractors semi-private documents >> >> I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would >> be most excellent. >> >> So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. >> >> I'd like >> >> 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) >> 2) Lightweight >> 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have >> to) >> >> It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query >> for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. >> >> It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it >> customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> DaZZa >> > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Website
Not a great advertisement for Linux in Sydney :( Whoever is looking after the website, isn't. Does SLUG need a new website sponsor? or is the organisation passed it's use by date? T'would be a pity indeed. David On 13/09/15 17:18, Rick Phillips wrote: I agree with you Heracles. In fact not one of the menu items (on the top of the page) works. Most pages simple tell the world that nginx is being used as the web server. A bit sad really. Regards, Rick On 09/09/15 23:12, Heracles wrote: I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the front page - which is worse than useless! Heracles -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- 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] problem with debian locale?
On 17/09/15 15:54, Lubos Rendek wrote:
Hi Heracles,
Did you check whether your chrome browser does not have any automatic
currency converters plugins enabled by navigating to your chrome to:
chrome://plugins/
Lubos
That was, indeed, the problem. I didn't remember loading it but I have
now removed it completely and all is well again.
Thanks Lubos
Heracles
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au
<mailto:herac...@iprimus.com.au>> wrote:
That should be LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8" which is what exists on
the system. The extra hyphen was a typo!
Sick of seeing everything translated to euros. Any clues on what
to change in my settings to get AU$.
Ashley (Heracles)
On 09/09/15 17:11, Heracles wrote:
Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux
and let it upgrade and ended up with Debian 8.
The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I
get all currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there
another setting I may have missed?
Ashley
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Re: [SLUG] problem with debian locale?
Hi Heracles, Did you check whether your chrome browser does not have any automatic currency converters plugins enabled by navigating to your chrome to: chrome://plugins/ Lubos On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > That should be LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8" which is what exists on the > system. The extra hyphen was a typo! > Sick of seeing everything translated to euros. Any clues on what to change > in my settings to get AU$. > > Ashley (Heracles) > > > > On 09/09/15 17:11, Heracles wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux and let it >> upgrade and ended up with Debian 8. >> The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I get all >> currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there another setting I may have >> missed? >> >> Ashley >> >> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wiki suggestions? (DaZZa)
I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to > contractors semi-private documents > > I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would > be most excellent. > > So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. > > I'd like > > 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) > 2) Lightweight > 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have to) > > It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query > for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. > > It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it > customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. What colour car is best? I find mediawiki easy to use, to maintain and my 5 min of fiddling painted it in a form that pleased me http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page James -- 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
I agree the site doesn't give a great shot of confidence in Linux as a web server, it doesn't render any page to completion for me. There is a link to "See the code" which points to https://github.com/sydney-linux-user-group/slug/commits/master, where the last commit happened over three years ago (29 May 2012), so perhaps it's just a case of deterioration more than active change. --Amos On 9 September 2015 at 23:12, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site > into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 > with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) > I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the > front page - which is worse than useless! > > Heracles > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ruxcon 2015 Security Conference 24-25 October
Hi, Ruxcon is Australia's premier technical computer security conference, held at the CQ Function Centre in Melbourne. Ruxcon brings together the best and the brightest security talent in the Australia-Pacific region through live presentations, activities, and demonstrations. This year we also feature a fantastic line-up with several high-profile international speakers. Ruxcon 2015 will be held on the weekend of the 24th of October to the 25th of October. Doors open at 8:00am and the first presentation commences at 9:00am. There are a limited number of tickets available and they are going very quickly. Please register via the Ruxcon website to ensure that you don't miss out: https://ruxcon.org.au/register For more information, please visit https://ruxcon.org.au/speakers 1. Paul Vixie - DNS as a Defence Vector 2. Colby Moore - Spread Spectrum Satcom Hacking 3. Team Pangu - Design, Implementation, and Bypass of the Chain-Of-Trust Model of iOS 4. Jason Geffner - VENOM 5. Andy Davis - Broadcasting Your Attack: Security Testing DAB Radio In Cars 6. Vanessa Teague - NSW iVote System: Security Failures & Flaws in a Live Online Election 7. Lyon Yang - Advanced SOHO Router Exploitation 8. Fatih Ozavci - VoIP Wars: Destroying Jar Jar Lync 9. Chris Gates - Purple Teaming: One year after going from fulltime breaker to parttime fixer 10. Richard Johnson - High Performance Fuzzing 11. Jasiel Spelman & Matt Molinyawe - Abusing Adobe Reader¹s JavaScript APIs 12. Joshua âkernelsmithâ Smith - High-Def Fuzzing: Exploring Vulnerabilities in HDMI-CEC 13. Ilja Van Sprundel - Window Driver Attack Surface: Some New Insights 14. David Jorm - SDN Security 15. Matt McCormack - Why Attackers Toolsets Do What They Do 16. Elvis Collado - Home Network Devices - The Low Hanging Fruit Of 201[5-9] 17. Vitaly Nikolenko - Practical Intel SMEP Bypass Techniques on Linux 18. Peter Fillmore - Fruit Salad, Yummy Yummy: An Analysis Of Applepay 19. Raphael Rigo - A Peek Under The Blue Coat 20. Hacked To Death - Chris Rock 8 more presentations to be announced. Training running just before Ruxcon include: * The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook - Live Edition * Advanced Infrastructure Hacking * PentesterLab's Advanced Web Hacking Events running over the weekend at Ruxcon include: * Capture The Flag Tournament (Hacking wargame) * Black Bag Competition (Break into hotel room, pick locks, crack safe, etc) * Saturday and Sunday night Ruxcon Party (Free drinks with other hackers) * Lockpick Workshop (Learn how to lockpick) * Turbo Talks (6 minute mini presentations) * Hardware Hacking Village * Discussion panel (featuring Scott Ludlam) Hope to see you there, Regards, Ruxcon 2015 Staff https://ruxcon.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ruxcon 2015 Security Conference 24-25 October
Hi, Ruxcon is Australia's premier technical computer security conference, held at the CQ Function Centre in Melbourne. Ruxcon brings together the best and the brightest security talent in the Australia-Pacific region through live presentations, activities, and demonstrations. This year we also feature a fantastic line-up with several high-profile international speakers. Ruxcon 2015 will be held on the weekend of the 24th of October to the 25th of October. Doors open at 8:00am and the first presentation commences at 9:00am. There are a limited number of tickets available and they are going very quickly. Please register via the Ruxcon website to ensure that you don't miss out: https://ruxcon.org.au/register For more information, please visit https://ruxcon.org.au/speakers 1. Paul Vixie - DNS as a Defence Vector 2. Colby Moore - Spread Spectrum Satcom Hacking 3. Team Pangu - Design, Implementation, and Bypass of the Chain-Of-Trust Model of iOS 4. Jason Geffner - VENOM 5. Andy Davis - Broadcasting Your Attack: Security Testing DAB Radio In Cars 6. Vanessa Teague - NSW iVote System: Security Failures & Flaws in a Live Online Election 7. Lyon Yang - Advanced SOHO Router Exploitation 8. Fatih Ozavci - VoIP Wars: Destroying Jar Jar Lync 9. Chris Gates - Purple Teaming: One year after going from fulltime breaker to parttime fixer 10. Richard Johnson - High Performance Fuzzing 11. Jasiel Spelman & Matt Molinyawe - Abusing Adobe Reader¹s JavaScript APIs 12. Joshua âkernelsmithâ Smith - High-Def Fuzzing: Exploring Vulnerabilities in HDMI-CEC 13. Ilja Van Sprundel - Window Driver Attack Surface: Some New Insights 14. David Jorm - SDN Security 15. Matt McCormack - Why Attackers Toolsets Do What They Do 16. Elvis Collado - Home Network Devices - The Low Hanging Fruit Of 201[5-9] 17. Vitaly Nikolenko - Practical Intel SMEP Bypass Techniques on Linux 18. Peter Fillmore - Fruit Salad, Yummy Yummy: An Analysis Of Applepay 19. Raphael Rigo - A Peek Under The Blue Coat 20. Hacked To Death - Chris Rock 8 more presentations to be announced. Training running just before Ruxcon include: * The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook - Live Edition * Advanced Infrastructure Hacking * PentesterLab's Advanced Web Hacking Events running over the weekend at Ruxcon include: * Capture The Flag Tournament (Hacking wargame) * Black Bag Competition (Break into hotel room, pick locks, crack safe, etc) * Saturday and Sunday night Ruxcon Party (Free drinks with other hackers) * Lockpick Workshop (Learn how to lockpick) * Turbo Talks (6 minute mini presentations) * Hardware Hacking Village * Discussion panel (featuring Scott Ludlam) Hope to see you there, Regards, Ruxcon 2015 Staff https://ruxcon.org.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] Wiki suggestions?
You can pay Atlassian instead... Not free, but very good: https://confluence.atlassian.com/ (go for the server version if you want to install it on one of your own linux hosts) On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:21 AM, DaZZa <dazzagi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Learned ones,. > > I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to > contractors semi-private documents > > I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would > be most excellent. > > So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. > > I'd like > > 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) > 2) Lightweight > 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have > to) > > It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query > for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. > > It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it > customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. > > Any suggestions? > > > Thanks. > > DaZZa > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?
Confluence is a good start for a wiki: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing?_mid=206e3e3a242fb80ba4d7ba972f52c657=CIbO5Y-M9scCFYkrvQodRNoAOw#server Doesn't cost heaps and it's a solid wiki. On 11/09/2015 11:21 AM, DaZZa wrote: Learned ones,. I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to contractors semi-private documents I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would be most excellent. So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. I'd like 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) 2) Lightweight 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have to) It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. Any suggestions? Thanks. DaZZa -- 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
On 09/09/15 23:12, Heracles wrote: ... SLUG Site, now I cant get past the front page ... On the Slug home page I see a row of menu items across the top: "Home | Events | Archives | Mailing Lists | Get the code!": http://www.slug.org.au/ Here is what happens when I select them: * Home: takes me to the same page (as expected). * Events: displays the text "SLUG Events", with a yellow rectangle below it, but no actual events. * Archives: displays the text "Welcome to nginx!" but no archives * Mailing List: displays "Welcome to nginx!" but no mailing lists. * Get the code!: takes me to GitHub with a repository of Slug stuff, but why? Below these menu items it says "Sydney Linux User Group" and there is a paragraph describing the group (which makes sense). Then below that it says "#sydlug @slugupdates both Loading tweets..." which does not make much sense. I assume these are the hastag, twitter address and a list of recent Tweets is then supposed to appear (but thankfully does not: who would want this?). Next to that is "Previously at SLUG (more on YouTube) Enabled HTML5 Video!" with a video window underneath. I have video turned off by default so thankfully nothing plays (why would I want it to?). Below that is "Attend the next meeting, Sponsor An event or SLUG as a whole, Give a talk Educate your fellows". Here is what I get when selecting each: * ATTEND: "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/data/home/runtimes/python/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 715, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~sydney-linux-user-group-hr/8.353599326443764872/events.py", line 26, in get self.redirect(event_lists.get_next_event().get_url()) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_url'" * SPONSOR: Creates an email with the address "commit...@slug.org.au=Sponsoring SLUG". I assume "Sponsoring SLUG" is supposed to be in the subject line, but is not. * GIVE A TALK: Opens a window asking for my Open Id to log into the Slug website, but why? I suggest: 1. Replace the video and the twitter feed windows with hypertext links. 2. Delete "Get the code!" 3. Get the other menu options to work. ps: I am using Firefox 40.0.3 for Linux. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Locale settings in Debian
Maybe I need to ask this on the Debian list BUT: I have set my system to Australian English and it insists on converting everything in Google Chrome to euros! How do I change it to display Australian Dollars? Heracles -- 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
I agree with you Heracles. In fact not one of the menu items (on the top of the page) works. Most pages simple tell the world that nginx is being used as the web server. A bit sad really. Regards, Rick On 09/09/15 23:12, Heracles wrote: I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the front page - which is worse than useless! Heracles -- 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
Looks like a generic problem, can't access much of anything. On 9 September 2015 at 23:12, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site > into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 > with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) > I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the > front page - which is worse than useless! > > Heracles > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problem with debian locale?
That should be LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8" which is what exists on the system. The extra hyphen was a typo! Sick of seeing everything translated to euros. Any clues on what to change in my settings to get AU$. Ashley (Heracles) On 09/09/15 17:11, Heracles wrote: Hi guys, I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux and let it upgrade and ended up with Debian 8. The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I get all currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there another setting I may have missed? Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wiki suggestions?
Learned ones,. I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to contractors semi-private documents I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would be most excellent. So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. I'd like 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) 2) Lightweight 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have to) It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. Any suggestions? Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Reminder : September 2015 SLUG meeting
Friday 25 September 18:00–21:00 Google offices 48 Pirrama Road Pyrmont We still have room for other lightning talks so if you have something to talk about or start a discussion on or even a question to ask please call or email rob...@smitonline.net.au 0468 306 239 Food will be at 6pm and talks usually begine at 6:30pm Main Talk Using SAMBA4 as a Active Directory domain controller. I will be talking about SAMBA4 and using it as a active directory Domain Controller. Will begin with a discussion of the basics of AD and some of the essential components like kerberos and how it works. How to find us: Oposite Star city. Front doors lock after 6 if you arive late call 0468 306 239 Details: http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Linux-User-Group/events/225240286/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Website
I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dated. (I am using Debian 8 with enlightenment e17 as a desktop.) I used to find it easy to navigate the SLUG Site, now I cant get past the front page - which is worse than useless! Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] problem with debian locale?
Hi guys, I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux and let it upgrade and ended up with Debian 8. The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I get all currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there another setting I may have missed? Ashley -- 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] mailing list archives?
HI Amos, try... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sluggers Is this what you are looking for? Ben On 10/06/15 13:05, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- 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] mailing list archives?
Hi Amos, You might need to try the way back machine. I do recall asking trove to archive the slug website - but I can't find it - might not be avail even if it is archived (there were some copyright issues surround trove's archive of websites) Marghanita On 10/06/15 13:05, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- Marghanita da Cruz Telephone: 0414-869202 http://www.ramin.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] mailing list archives?
Thanks. Not ideal (I prefer old-fashioned mail archives personally) but hopefully can serve. The web site is still broken, isn't it? On 10 June 2015 at 18:56, Ben donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: HI Amos, try... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sluggers Is this what you are looking for? Ben On 10/06/15 13:05, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- 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: 8TiB HDD, 10^14 bit error rate, approaching certainty of error for each drive of data read
say, yesterday. Might have been about 11pm. Although it's now tomorrow, so if my engineering calculations are right, that may have actually been the day before. I think I need sleep. :) Z -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mailing list archives?
Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- 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] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
Glad to hear you got your MTU issue fixed :-) Sent by Outlookhttp://taps.io/outlookmobile for Android On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:02 PM -0700, David da...@kenpro.com.aumailto:da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: It seems that an upstream supplier has made changes that specifically require an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me who the upstream supplier is, except that it isn't TPG. Go figure. On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). There are temporary work-around provided by Google to keep letting some plugins to be enabled by some sites, but they are all expected to be gone by the end of 2015 so should better find alternatives soon. As for the original question - I doubt that it's a plugin issue. It sounds more like some of the dependent resources on these pages are being blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the JavaScript console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could be misbehaving? Just for shits and giggles, I visited www.trivago.com.auhttp://www.trivago.com.au http://www.trivago.com.au and had no problem accessing it, even on my flaky home ADSL2+ line. --Amos On 8 June 2015 at 17:13, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com mailto:dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au mailto:da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com http://jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
It seems that an upstream supplier has made changes that specifically require an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me who the upstream supplier is, except that it isn't TPG. Go figure. On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). There are temporary work-around provided by Google to keep letting some plugins to be enabled by some sites, but they are all expected to be gone by the end of 2015 so should better find alternatives soon. As for the original question - I doubt that it's a plugin issue. It sounds more like some of the dependent resources on these pages are being blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the JavaScript console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could be misbehaving? Just for shits and giggles, I visited www.trivago.com.au http://www.trivago.com.au and had no problem accessing it, even on my flaky home ADSL2+ line. --Amos On 8 June 2015 at 17:13, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com mailto:dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au mailto:da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com http://jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- 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] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
tcptraceroute (or traceroute -T in some versions) could possibly expose the culprit, it's a very useful tool to have in your toolbox for such situations. On 9 June 2015 at 11:34, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: It seems that an upstream supplier has made changes that specifically require an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me who the upstream supplier is, except that it isn't TPG. Go figure. On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). There are temporary work-around provided by Google to keep letting some plugins to be enabled by some sites, but they are all expected to be gone by the end of 2015 so should better find alternatives soon. As for the original question - I doubt that it's a plugin issue. It sounds more like some of the dependent resources on these pages are being blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the JavaScript console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could be misbehaving? Just for shits and giggles, I visited www.trivago.com.au and had no problem accessing it, even on my flaky home ADSL2+ line. --Amos On 8 June 2015 at 17:13, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- David McQuire0418 310312 -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- 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] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
It smells like MTU. Run some pings and play around with the packet size to find out when it gets fragmented. From: david Sent: Monday 8 June 3:25 pm Subject: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites To: slug@slug.org.au I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
On 8 Jun 2015, at 5:13 pm, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa Amos beat me to the chase, and I think he’s on the money. Chrome is phasing our NPAPI plugins (Java, Flash and a bunch of others) and I understand Firefox is going the same way too, albeit on a slightly different schedule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI I got bitten on the arse with Java in Chrome (thanks Oracle, IBM and other dinosaurs…you suck!) so I still have to fire up Firefox until they too drop support, then I’m royally screwed. We have a very finite mix of browsers and Java versions that work with our “enterprise” data warehouse - Java 6u45 and that’s it. Yep, one version works, all others fail in subtle and/or spectacular ways at different points. Yay. Good luck. -- James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
On 8 June 2015 at 18:59, James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: As for the weird connectivity, I know TPG for a long time ran transparent proxies without really making it widely known. I’ve seen similar behaviour to that which you describe when my local Squid cache get’s it’s panties in a bunch. “squid -k restart” usually does the trick. However, before rattling TPG’s cage, maybe try flushing the browser cache and see if the problems persist. Or try using a VPN to escape the TPG cage and see if it helps? -- 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] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). There are temporary work-around provided by Google to keep letting some plugins to be enabled by some sites, but they are all expected to be gone by the end of 2015 so should better find alternatives soon. As for the original question - I doubt that it's a plugin issue. It sounds more like some of the dependent resources on these pages are being blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the JavaScript console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could be misbehaving? Just for shits and giggles, I visited www.trivago.com.au and had no problem accessing it, even on my flaky home ADSL2+ line. --Amos On 8 June 2015 at 17:13, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- 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] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
On 8 Jun 2015, at 2:10 pm, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. —8— snipped For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. FWIW, you can test the jse.trivago.com request by manually requesting (from Safari on OS X): http://jse.trivago.com/osp/v9_05_4ae/pricesearch/js/common.es5.ltr.ec.js It’s just a big JS library for hunting prices down. I had some fun messing round with the local copy, so some prices for $1000+/night hotels came up as “FREE!”…would be fun getting them to price match that :) —8— snipped again… As for the weird connectivity, I know TPG for a long time ran transparent proxies without really making it widely known. I’ve seen similar behaviour to that which you describe when my local Squid cache get’s it’s panties in a bunch. “squid -k restart” usually does the trick. However, before rattling TPG’s cage, maybe try flushing the browser cache and see if the problems persist. Good luck. -- James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- 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 to deal with Hacker Activity ?
You should be able to look in the mysql transaction log and line up any corresponding entries to timestamps and Also in the web/system log files as a very general response. Without more detail, it is still hard to say whether your problem is local or if someone is breaking the door down, but there will be a correlation between the events. rachel -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 15:20, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. We are seeing MySQL table corruption as well in a 'Session' table. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Thanks Rachel, The information you have provided is very helpful. I will look into the things you have mentioned in detail. It's a good start. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:31 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: You should be able to look in the mysql transaction log and line up any corresponding entries to timestamps and Also in the web/system log files as a very general response. Without more detail, it is still hard to say whether your problem is local or if someone is breaking the door down, but there will be a correlation between the events. rachel -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 15:20, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. We are seeing MySQL table corruption as well in a 'Session' table. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
I would start by checking the log files under /var/log and associated web db log files, especially any php logs. Copy them offline to another system and look through the date stamps to see if anything matches the problems you are experiencing. You may notice a pattern of activity that points to malicious activity. If it is file system corruption, it may be something you would have to check with the service provider, in the case they have moved the underlying infrastructure to the ext4 filesystem version that has recently been found to have a corruption issue. There are steps to forensically derive if your system has been tampered with, but if you see widespread ongoing file deletion, it is more likely something local to the system itself. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 15:06, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Files are definitely being deleted. Which log would I look in ? It's a common Linux cpanel hosting plan. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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 to deal with Hacker Activity ?
On 02/06/15 13:57, David Lyon wrote: ... steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. I used to run my own Moodle server until I found Viagra ads on it. I decided that I did not have the time needed to keep the server secure and now leave it to specialists to do. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- 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 to deal with Hacker Activity ?
If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. We are seeing MySQL table corruption as well in a 'Session' table. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- 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 to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Files are definitely being deleted. Which log would I look in ? It's a common Linux cpanel hosting plan. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 5th Gen i3
On 25 May 2015, at 10:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: On 24 May 2015, at 12:43 pm, Michael McAllister m...@michaelmcallister.org wrote: Hello, I have a D34010WYKH as my daily driver - I'm running Arch Linux and have no issues whatsoever (but my kernel is 4.0.1-1 - thanks for reminding me to update!) I'm happy to provide any info at all you need (version of packages, kernel modules etc), but I'd say it all comes down to your kernel. You could always move to Arch ;-) From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au slug-boun...@slug.org.au on behalf of James Linder j...@tigger.ws Sent: Sunday, 24 May 2015 11:29 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] 5th Gen i3 Hi I’m using 14.04 on a 5th i3 NUC. In the last 3 days I’ve had 3 crashes, at least 1 I could ssh and reboot the other 2 I could NOT ssh in. I am using USB3 connectors as that is all the NUC exposes. 14.04 is a 3.16 kernel the USB3 issues are not fixed ‘till 3.19. The graphics drivers were released by intel 17 March so not in 14.04 but vesa seems to work OK. At the mo I cannot use 15.04 (I can get it to boot n run) but the sensoray V4L drivers are BW not colour. I need the sensoray V4L. I’m trying to work out if my hardware is at fault or Broadwell+IRIS+14.04 is at fault. Any comments welcome Hi Michael just to be pedantic your NUC is a 4th gen. My 4th gen works perfectly, just the 5th Gen :-( And the latest ….53 kernel seems to work fine. …24 … …52 did not display at all ie blank screen James -- 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] 5th Gen i3
On 24 May 2015, at 12:43 pm, Michael McAllister m...@michaelmcallister.org wrote: Hello, I have a D34010WYKH as my daily driver - I'm running Arch Linux and have no issues whatsoever (but my kernel is 4.0.1-1 - thanks for reminding me to update!) I'm happy to provide any info at all you need (version of packages, kernel modules etc), but I'd say it all comes down to your kernel. You could always move to Arch ;-) From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au slug-boun...@slug.org.au on behalf of James Linder j...@tigger.ws Sent: Sunday, 24 May 2015 11:29 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] 5th Gen i3 Hi I’m using 14.04 on a 5th i3 NUC. In the last 3 days I’ve had 3 crashes, at least 1 I could ssh and reboot the other 2 I could NOT ssh in. I am using USB3 connectors as that is all the NUC exposes. 14.04 is a 3.16 kernel the USB3 issues are not fixed ‘till 3.19. The graphics drivers were released by intel 17 March so not in 14.04 but vesa seems to work OK. At the mo I cannot use 15.04 (I can get it to boot n run) but the sensoray V4L drivers are BW not colour. I need the sensoray V4L. I’m trying to work out if my hardware is at fault or Broadwell+IRIS+14.04 is at fault. Any comments welcome Hi Michael just to be pedantic your NUC is a 4th gen. My 4th gen works perfectly, just the 5th Gen :-( James -- 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] slug Digest, Vol 112, Issue 3
On 24 May 2015, at 10:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I was asked to help with 'no space on startup disk' issue, only to discover it's a Mac, I have no experience with Mac, df showed 100% utilization on built in 500gb hard drive, I've transferred some user data to external drive, now have 97% What's a minimum hard disk free space one should maintain on a Mac? Just the same as ordinary unix boxen (typically 20%) This runs OSX 10 7 5, to upgrade to Yosemite, is it just 'click and watch'? How much free space should I make before attempting upgrade? Are there any good housekeeping utilities to use, going through some apps, I've found a photo app with over 1 gb of deleted photos. (something like ccleaner ?) Any hard disk area to check for junk, like temp in windoze? Thanks for any pointers Even though apple are SHontTs and the scum of the earth to wit they DO make nice hardware and some nice SW. Timemachine is easy to use, (much much nicer than anything we’ve got). DO a timemachine backup before *anything*. WD make a USB (and USB powered) 1T ‘Passport’ $89 JB HiFi I’ve not measured but my opinion is that you need 25% free. If you told me 50% i’d not argue. If (click n watch fails) Install Yosemite - use timemachine Will install yosemite and restore your machine (almost) exactly as it was. Mail, passwords, you *may* need to enter the license key for some stuff eg MS Word Once you have a TM backup you can slash-n-burn to get 50% free, upgrade, restore. You can easily install to an external drive eg my mac mini runs on a 2G WD Passport and has another as timemachine (oh the 500G internal disk? sorta ignored). I cannot notice any degradation (but unix does do that LRU cache) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] 5th Gen i3
Hi I’m using 14.04 on a 5th i3 NUC. In the last 3 days I’ve had 3 crashes, at least 1 I could ssh and reboot the other 2 I could NOT ssh in. I am using USB3 connectors as that is all the NUC exposes. 14.04 is a 3.16 kernel the USB3 issues are not fixed ‘till 3.19. The graphics drivers were released by intel 17 March so not in 14.04 but vesa seems to work OK. At the mo I cannot use 15.04 (I can get it to boot n run) but the sensoray V4L drivers are BW not colour. I need the sensoray V4L. I’m trying to work out if my hardware is at fault or Broadwell+IRIS+14.04 is at fault. Any comments welcome James -- 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] 5th Gen i3
Hello, I have a D34010WYKH as my daily driver - I'm running Arch Linux and have no issues whatsoever (but my kernel is 4.0.1-1 - thanks for reminding me to update!) I'm happy to provide any info at all you need (version of packages, kernel modules etc), but I'd say it all comes down to your kernel. You could always move to Arch ;-) From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au slug-boun...@slug.org.au on behalf of James Linder j...@tigger.ws Sent: Sunday, 24 May 2015 11:29 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] 5th Gen i3 Hi I’m using 14.04 on a 5th i3 NUC. In the last 3 days I’ve had 3 crashes, at least 1 I could ssh and reboot the other 2 I could NOT ssh in. I am using USB3 connectors as that is all the NUC exposes. 14.04 is a 3.16 kernel the USB3 issues are not fixed ‘till 3.19. The graphics drivers were released by intel 17 March so not in 14.04 but vesa seems to work OK. At the mo I cannot use 15.04 (I can get it to boot n run) but the sensoray V4L drivers are BW not colour. I need the sensoray V4L. I’m trying to work out if my hardware is at fault or Broadwell+IRIS+14.04 is at fault. Any comments welcome James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: Mac OSX upgrade and general housekeeping
On 23 May 2015, at 12:53 pm, Voytek li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I was asked to help with 'no space on startup disk' issue, only to discover it's a Mac, I have no experience with Mac, df showed 100% utilization on built in 500gb hard drive, I've transferred some user data to external drive, now have 97% Common problem is when people turn on Time Machine, then for whatever reason don’t connect the external drive to the system for a lounge time. OS X will create a whole bunch of offline backups waiting for the next time the time machine volume is available. Here’s a good starting point: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204015 What's a minimum hard disk free space one should maintain on a Mac? I generally use a 10% rule-of-thumb regardless of the OS. Maybe a little more if you have logs and temporary data on the same volume as your startup drive. In Linux, I usually keep “/“ and “/boot” away from “/var” for instance, in which case I can comfortably maintain 10% or even less free as the data is mostly static. This runs OSX 10 7 5, to upgrade to Yosemite, is it just 'click and watch'? How much free space should I make before attempting upgrade? Not sure about inline upgrades from 10.7 straight to 10.10. You can always go to the app store, download 10.10 the run the bootable media creation utility: sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia” sage: createinstallmedia --volume path to volume to convert --applicationpath path to Install OS X Yosemite.app [--force] Arguments--volume, A path to a volume that can be unmounted and erased to create the install media. --applicationpath, A path to copy of the OS installer application to create the bootable media from. --nointeraction, Erase the disk pointed to by volume without prompting for confirmation. Example: createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app Are there any good housekeeping utilities to use, going through some apps, I've found a photo app with over 1 g of deleted photos. (something like ccleaner ?) Any hard disk area to check for junk, like temp in windoze? There’s a few around, but I found, generally speaking, OS X does a pretty good job of looking after itself. Certain applications can be big disk hogs though - iPhoto, iMovie and iTunes spring to mind. They generally have their own “deleted stuff” which if you don’t clear out in the application itself won’t be released when you empty the normal “Trash” on OS X. Having said all that, “Disk Inventory X” is a GPL tool that will show you where all the space has gone: http://www.derlien.com - check it out, it works well. As for getting rid of stuff remember OS X is a fully-fledged Unix so most of the familiar command line tools are available in a terminal :) Thanks for any pointers No worries - hope it helps :) Cheers, James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OT: Mac OSX upgrade and general housekeeping
I was asked to help with 'no space on startup disk' issue, only to discover it's a Mac, I have no experience with Mac, df showed 100% utilization on built in 500gb hard drive, I've transferred some user data to external drive, now have 97% What's a minimum hard disk free space one should maintain on a Mac? This runs OSX 10 7 5, to upgrade to Yosemite, is it just 'click and watch'? How much free space should I make before attempting upgrade? Are there any good housekeeping utilities to use, going through some apps, I've found a photo app with over 1 gb of deleted photos. (something like ccleaner ?) Any hard disk area to check for junk, like temp in windoze? Thanks for any pointers Voytek -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Breakpoint 2015 Call For Presentations
Breakpoint 2015 Call For Papers Melbourne, Australia, October 22th-23th Intercontinental Rialto http://www.ruxconbreakpoint.com .[x]. Introduction .[x]. We are pleased to announce Call For Presentations for Breakpoint 2015. Breakpoint showcases the work of expert security researchers from around the world on a wide range of topics. This conference is organised by the Ruxcon team and offers a specialised security conference to complement and lead into the larger and more casual Ruxcon weekend conference. Breakpoint caters towards security researchers and industry professionals alike, with a focus on cutting edge security research. Breakpoint presents a great opportunity for our selected speakers to receive a complimentary trip to Australia and experience both the Breakpoint and Ruxcon conferences, not to mention the great weather, parties, and friendly people. .[x]. Important Dates .[x]. May 15 - Call For Presentations Open August 30 - Call For Presentations Close October 19-21 - Breakpoint Training October 22-23 - Breakpoint Conference October 24-25 - Ruxcon Conference .[x]. Topic Scope .[x]. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Mobile Device Security o Exploitation Techniques o Reverse Engineering o Vulnerability Discovery o Rootkit Development o Malware Analysis o Code Analysis o Virtualisation, Hypervisor Security o Cloud Security o Embedded Device Security o Hardware Security o Telecommunications Security o Wireless Network Security o Web Application Security o Law Enforcement Activities o Forensics o Threat Intelligence o Incident Response .[x]. Submission Guidelines .[x]. In order for us to process your submission we will require the following information: 1. Presentation title 2. Detailed summary of your presentation material 3. Name/Nickname 4. Mobile phone number 5. Brief personal biography 6. Description of any demonstrations involved in presentation 7. Information on where the presentation material has or will be presented before Breakpoint * Preference will be given to presentations that contain original research that will be first presented at Breakpoint. * As a general guideline, Breakpoint presentations are between 45 and 60 minutes, including question time. If you have any questions about submissions, or would like to make a submission, please send an email to b...@ruxconbreakpoint.com .[x]. Speaker Benefits .[x]. Speakers at Breakpoint will be entitled to the following benefits: - A return economy airfare to Melbourne (total cost limit applies) - Three nights accommodation at the Intercontinental Rialto - Complimentary registration for Breakpoint and Ruxcon conferences - Invitation to all Breakpoint and Ruxcon parties - Unlock 'Presented on world's smallest continent' achievement * All speaker benefits apply to a single speaker per submission. .[x]. Contact .[x]. If you have any questions or inqueries, contact us at: * Email: b...@ruxconbreakpoint.com * Twitter: ruxconbpx -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Breakpoint 2015 Call For Presentations
Breakpoint 2015 Call For Papers Melbourne, Australia, October 22th-23th Intercontinental Rialto http://www.ruxconbreakpoint.com .[x]. Introduction .[x]. We are pleased to announce Call For Presentations for Breakpoint 2015. Breakpoint showcases the work of expert security researchers from around the world on a wide range of topics. This conference is organised by the Ruxcon team and offers a specialised security conference to complement and lead into the larger and more casual Ruxcon weekend conference. Breakpoint caters towards security researchers and industry professionals alike, with a focus on cutting edge security research. Breakpoint presents a great opportunity for our selected speakers to receive a complimentary trip to Australia and experience both the Breakpoint and Ruxcon conferences, not to mention the great weather, parties, and friendly people. .[x]. Important Dates .[x]. May 15 - Call For Presentations Open August 30 - Call For Presentations Close October 19-21 - Breakpoint Training October 22-23 - Breakpoint Conference October 24-25 - Ruxcon Conference .[x]. Topic Scope .[x]. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Mobile Device Security o Exploitation Techniques o Reverse Engineering o Vulnerability Discovery o Rootkit Development o Malware Analysis o Code Analysis o Virtualisation, Hypervisor Security o Cloud Security o Embedded Device Security o Hardware Security o Telecommunications Security o Wireless Network Security o Web Application Security o Law Enforcement Activities o Forensics o Threat Intelligence o Incident Response .[x]. Submission Guidelines .[x]. In order for us to process your submission we will require the following information: 1. Presentation title 2. Detailed summary of your presentation material 3. Name/Nickname 4. Mobile phone number 5. Brief personal biography 6. Description of any demonstrations involved in presentation 7. Information on where the presentation material has or will be presented before Breakpoint * Preference will be given to presentations that contain original research that will be first presented at Breakpoint. * As a general guideline, Breakpoint presentations are between 45 and 60 minutes, including question time. If you have any questions about submissions, or would like to make a submission, please send an email to b...@ruxconbreakpoint.com .[x]. Speaker Benefits .[x]. Speakers at Breakpoint will be entitled to the following benefits: - A return economy airfare to Melbourne (total cost limit applies) - Three nights accommodation at the Intercontinental Rialto - Complimentary registration for Breakpoint and Ruxcon conferences - Invitation to all Breakpoint and Ruxcon parties - Unlock 'Presented on world's smallest continent' achievement * All speaker benefits apply to a single speaker per submission. .[x]. Contact .[x]. If you have any questions or inqueries, contact us at: * Email: b...@ruxconbreakpoint.com * Twitter: ruxconbpx -- 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: any going to Nepal?
Thought of the day. -- Forwarded message -- From: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 07:39:06 +1000 Subject: any going to Nepal? To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org To help establish new mobile base stations, internet network, etc? Ham radios are being used right now, but longer term there's lots of tourist dollars that need mobile phone homes and connections, along with the rest. If you work ok with others, are able to travel and passionate for our collective future, perhaps now is a moment. I dunno where else to send this email. I tried searching for libre mobile base station (thought there was some project in that regards) but found only gnuradio. Carpe diem. -- Forwarded message -- From: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 07:40:40 +1000 Subject: Re: any going to Nepal? To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org Found it: http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/OsmocomOverview -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] CloudFormation chat before last night's SLUG talk
Hi, There was someone who talked to me about not having enough info about using AWS CloudFormation over pizza before the talk last night, but I didn't get her name before she left. If you see this - I can possibly provide you with some working examples I use at my workplace if you like. BTW - it was a very useful talk about Docker. Nothing beats hearing from someone who's actually in the trenches. It felt like I could do with a couple more hours like this :). Cheers, --Amos -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG April meeting - Docker
== April 2015 SLUG Meeting - Docker == Summary * Date: Friday, April 24, 2015, 6 p.m. * Start: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start * Format: TBA * RSVP: http://www.slug.org.au/event/4320001 * Suggest or sign up for a talk at http://www.slug.org.au/talks Details Our main talk will be Docker Update and Test Case by Robert Smit. The talk will be 2 largely independent parts. * Part 1: Docker intro on official tools (swam/compose) Docker update on new features and new tools. Swam and Compose are now official orchestration tools from Docker. Derived from Fig and other tools and designed to work with or be replaced by any of the long list of alternative tools out there. * Part 2: Docker test case performance comparison (large vs small vs traditional). Compare performance tests between traditional tomcat/java webapp and a docker contained webapp then compare one step further by having that webapp be one container per customer instead of a shared once container for 50 customers. As usual, there will also be lightning talks on the night; if you have something you want to share, something you found or used or wrote for Linux, please do put your name up on the board toward the beginning of the meeting. Location Google Sydney Level 5, Workplace 6 48 Pirrama Road Pyrmont, NSW Map: http://www.slug.org.au/map -- Getting there -- The Google office is the big black building marked Accenture opposite Star City Pirrama Road facade. If using the trains, you can go either get off at; * Town Hall station, head towards Darling Harbour, walk across the Pyrmont footbridge and then follow Pirrama Road towards Star city. * Central station, then follow the light rail instructions. If using the buses, the route 443 stops right out front of the building. If using the light rail, get off at Star City station and walk across the street. If you drive, then you can look for parking on the suburban streets around the office (or pay for parking at the Casino), and then walk from there. === Afterwards === We'll be aiming to finish by 8pm and will be heading to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (PBH) afterwards to socalise and eat dinner. The PBH is marked on the map. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG April meeting - Docker
== April 2015 SLUG Meeting - Docker == Summary * Date: Friday, April 24, 2015, 6 p.m. * Start: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start * Format: TBA * RSVP: http://www.slug.org.au/event/4320001 * Suggest or sign up for a talk at http://www.slug.org.au/talks Details Our main talk will be Docker Update and Test Case by Robert Smit. As usual, there will also be lightning talks on the night; if you have something you want to share, something you found or used or wrote for Linux, please do put your name up on the board toward the beginning of the meeting. Location Google Sydney Level 5, Workplace 6 48 Pirrama Road Pyrmont, NSW Map: http://www.slug.org.au/map -- Getting there -- The Google office is the big black building marked Accenture opposite Star City Pirrama Road facade. If using the trains, you can go either get off at; * Town Hall station, head towards Darling Harbour, walk across the Pyrmont footbridge and then follow Pirrama Road towards Star city. * Central station, then follow the light rail instructions. If using the buses, the route 443 stops right out front of the building. If using the light rail, get off at Star City station and walk across the street. If you drive, then you can look for parking on the suburban streets around the office (or pay for parking at the Casino), and then walk from there. === Afterwards === We'll be aiming to finish by 8pm and will be heading to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (PBH) afterwards to socalise and eat dinner. The PBH is marked on the map. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG April meeting - Docker
== April 2015 SLUG Meeting - Docker == Summary * Date: Friday, April 24, 2015, 6 p.m. * Start: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start * Format: TBA * RSVP: http://www.slug.org.au/event/4320001 * Suggest or sign up for a talk at http://www.slug.org.au/talks Details Our main talk will be Docker Update and Test Case by Robert Smit. As usual, there will also be lightning talks on the night; if you have something you want to share, something you found or used or wrote for Linux, please do put your name up on the board toward the beginning of the meeting. Location Google Sydney Level 5, Workplace 6 48 Pirrama Road Pyrmont, NSW Map: http://www.slug.org.au/map -- Getting there -- The Google office is the big black building marked Accenture opposite Star City Pirrama Road facade. If using the trains, you can go either get off at; * Town Hall station, head towards Darling Harbour, walk across the Pyrmont footbridge and then follow Pirrama Road towards Star city. * Central station, then follow the light rail instructions. If using the buses, the route 443 stops right out front of the building. If using the light rail, get off at Star City station and walk across the street. If you drive, then you can look for parking on the suburban streets around the office (or pay for parking at the Casino), and then walk from there. === Afterwards === We'll be aiming to finish by 8pm and will be heading to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (PBH) afterwards to socalise and eat dinner. The PBH is marked on the map. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ruxcon 2015 Call For Presentations
Ruxcon 2015 Call For Presentations Melbourne, Australia, October 24-25 CQ Function Centre http://www.ruxcon.org.au The Ruxcon team is pleased to announce the first round of Call For Presentations for Ruxcon 2015. This year the conference will take place over the weekend of the 24th and 25th of October at the CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia. The deadline for submissions is the 30th of June, 2015. .[x]. About Ruxcon .[x]. Ruxcon is ia premier technical computer security conference in the Australia. The conference aims to bring together the individual talents of the best and brightest security folk in the region, through live presentations, activities and demonstrations. The conference is held over two days in a relaxed atmosphere, allowing attendees to enjoy themselves whilst networking within the community and expanding their knowledge of security. Live presentations and activities will cover a full range of defensive and offensive security topics, varying from previously unpublished research to required reading for the security community. .[x]. Important Dates .[x]. June 30 - Call For Presentations Close October 22-23 - Breakpoint Conference October 24-25 - Ruxcon Conference .[x]. Topic Scope .[x]. o Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Mobile Device Security o Virtualization, Hypervisor, and Cloud Security o Malware Analysis o Reverse Engineering o Exploitation Techniques o Rootkit Development o Code Analysis o Forensics and Anti-Forensics o Embedded Device Security o Web Application Security o Network Traffic Analysis o Wireless Network Security o Cryptography and Cryptanalysis o Social Engineering o Law Enforcement Activities o Telecommunications Security (SS7, 3G/4G, GSM, VOIP, etc) .[x]. Submission Guidelines .[x]. In order for us to process your submission we require the following information: 1. Presentation title 2. Detailed summary of your presentation material 3. Name/Nickname 4. Mobile phone number 5. Brief personal biography 6. Description of any demonstrations involved in the presentation 7. Information on where the presentation material has or will be presented before Ruxcon To submit a presentation please use our submission form: http://goo.gl/WXNBvr * As a general guideline, Ruxcon presentations are between 45 and 60 minutes, including question time. .[x]. Contact .[x]. o Email: presentati...@ruxcon.org.au o Twitter: @ruxcon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ruxcon 2015 Call For Presentations
Ruxcon 2015 Call For Presentations Melbourne, Australia, October 24-25 CQ Function Centre http://www.ruxcon.org.au The Ruxcon team is pleased to announce the first round of Call For Presentations for Ruxcon 2015. This year the conference will take place over the weekend of the 24th and 25th of October at the CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia. The deadline for submissions is the 30th of June, 2015. .[x]. About Ruxcon .[x]. Ruxcon is ia premier technical computer security conference in the Australia. The conference aims to bring together the individual talents of the best and brightest security folk in the region, through live presentations, activities and demonstrations. The conference is held over two days in a relaxed atmosphere, allowing attendees to enjoy themselves whilst networking within the community and expanding their knowledge of security. Live presentations and activities will cover a full range of defensive and offensive security topics, varying from previously unpublished research to required reading for the security community. .[x]. Important Dates .[x]. June 30 - Call For Presentations Close October 22-23 - Breakpoint Conference October 24-25 - Ruxcon Conference .[x]. Topic Scope .[x]. o Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Mobile Device Security o Virtualization, Hypervisor, and Cloud Security o Malware Analysis o Reverse Engineering o Exploitation Techniques o Rootkit Development o Code Analysis o Forensics and Anti-Forensics o Embedded Device Security o Web Application Security o Network Traffic Analysis o Wireless Network Security o Cryptography and Cryptanalysis o Social Engineering o Law Enforcement Activities o Telecommunications Security (SS7, 3G/4G, GSM, VOIP, etc) .[x]. Submission Guidelines .[x]. In order for us to process your submission we require the following information: 1. Presentation title 2. Detailed summary of your presentation material 3. Name/Nickname 4. Mobile phone number 5. Brief personal biography 6. Description of any demonstrations involved in the presentation 7. Information on where the presentation material has or will be presented before Ruxcon To submit a presentation please use our submission form: http://goo.gl/WXNBvr * As a general guideline, Ruxcon presentations are between 45 and 60 minutes, including question time. .[x]. Contact .[x]. o Email: presentati...@ruxcon.org.au o Twitter: @ruxcon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Nouveau Firmware and Driver setup.
Last night at SLUG, Graeme was asking about a Nouveau error he was having. We discussed about firmware for Nouveau and it did appears to have some on one of my machines, maybe just used in early nouveau development? Wed Apr 30 21:18:41 2014 sys-firmware/nouveau-firmware-325.15 I now just use: Thu Feb 19 17:47:33 2015 x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau- which you can see is a Beta(unstable) install by the suffix. (this is a gentoo thing.) more info can be found here: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ I am happy with the results on my single head media box: localhost ~ # dmesg |grep -i nouv [0.899366] nouveau [ DEVICE][:02:00.0] BOOT0 : 0x0c8080a1 [0.899465] nouveau [ DEVICE][:02:00.0] Chipset: GF110 (NVC8) [0.899590] nouveau [ DEVICE][:02:00.0] Family : NVC0 [0.899698] nouveau [ VBIOS][:02:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image... [0.996419] nouveau [ VBIOS][:02:00.0] ... appears to be valid [0.996523] nouveau [ VBIOS][:02:00.0] using image from PRAMIN [0.996744] nouveau [ VBIOS][:02:00.0] BIT signature found [0.996843] nouveau [ VBIOS][:02:00.0] version 70.10.17.00.03 [1.019321] nouveau :02:00.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X [1.019328] nouveau [ PMC][:02:00.0] MSI interrupts enabled [1.019459] nouveau [ PFB][:02:00.0] RAM type: GDDR5 [1.019561] nouveau [ PFB][:02:00.0] RAM size: 1280 MiB [1.019658] nouveau [ PFB][:02:00.0]ZCOMP: 0 tags [1.021221] nouveau [VOLT][:02:00.0] GPU voltage: 913000uv [1.050574] nouveau [ PTHERM][:02:00.0] FAN control: PWM [1.050682] nouveau [ PTHERM][:02:00.0] fan management: automatic [1.050800] nouveau [ PTHERM][:02:00.0] internal sensor: yes [1.070950] nouveau [ CLK][:02:00.0] 03: core 50 MHz memory 135 MHz [1.071054] nouveau [ CLK][:02:00.0] 07: core 405 MHz memory 324 MHz [1.071193] nouveau [ CLK][:02:00.0] 0f: core 732 MHz memory 1900 MHz [1.071411] nouveau [ CLK][:02:00.0] --: core 50 MHz memory 135 MHz [1.074156] nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 1280 MiB [1.074252] nouveau [ DRM] GART: 1048576 MiB [1.074344] nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 2.0 [1.074437] nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 4.0 [1.074534] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 02000300 [1.074630] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 01000302 00020030 [1.074726] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 02: 04011380 [1.074822] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 03: 08011382 00020030 [1.074919] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 04: 02022362 00020010 [1.075015] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 1030 [1.075141] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 00010130 [1.075267] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 02: 2261 [1.080162] nouveau [ DRM] MM: using COPY0 for buffer copies [1.328603] nouveau [ DRM] allocated 1920x1080 fb: 0x6, bo 8800df8d9800 [1.328822] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device [1.417990] nouveau :02:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device [1.418017] nouveau :02:00.0: registered panic notifier [1.422560] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.2.1 20120801 for :02:00.0 on minor 0 cut from : cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep -i nouv ... [36.875] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] Setup complete [36.875] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: nouveau [36.875] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: nouveau [36.892] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Backing store enabled [36.892] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Silken mouse enabled [36.892] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [XvMC] Associated with Nouveau GeForce 8/9 Textured Video. [36.892] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [XvMC] Extension initialized. [36.892] (==) NOUVEAU(0): DPMS enabled [36.892] (II) NOUVEAU(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message. [37.364] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized nouveau [37.367] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called. . My recommendation is to use the unstable drivers but yeah, be careful. Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Recommend VPN providers and VPN modem/routers
Recommendatios and experiences ( good and bad) with VPNs please. Pref those in Sweden or the Netherlands with NO data/log retention. Ditto re VPN modem/routers. thanks -- 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] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS
1. Have you tried asking on Whirlpool forums? They got plenty of experienced people there. 2. I just started using Exigent for web hosting (not vps) and so far they are cheap and deliver. They also have VPS options. They got reports of improving over time on Whirlpool. --Amos On 25 March 2015 at 11:04, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:15:55AM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best option right now and so I am looking for recommendations. I've had good experiences with MammothVPS http://www.mammoth.net.au/ Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- 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] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS
Hi Rick, Micron21 are excellent! You can phone and talk to a human techo at the premises in Melbourne. Fast and professional. micron21.com.au I've been using their services for years. Ben On 25/03/15 10:15, Rick Phillips wrote: Hi all, I run a small hosting service for about a dozen rural based customers. I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best option right now and so I am looking for recommendations. I will need 100Gb disc space, 4 CPUs, 4Gb RAM and at least 200Gb traffic (includes in and out). The VPS will be fully managed by myself and I do require CentOS 7. Anyone with good stories? Regards, Rick -- 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] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS
On 25/03/15 10:15, Rick Phillips wrote: Hi all, I run a small hosting service for about a dozen rural based customers. I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best option right now and so I am looking for recommendations. I will need 100Gb disc space, 4 CPUs, 4Gb RAM and at least 200Gb traffic (includes in and out). The VPS will be fully managed by myself and I do require CentOS 7. Anyone with good stories? Regards, Rick I'm using binary lane and ransomit https://www.binarylane.com.au/ https://www.ransomit.com.au/ Binary lane has had a few problems in the past few months but it seems they have gotten that sorted. -- 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] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS
On 26/03/15 07:57, Jake Anderson wrote: On 25/03/15 10:15, Rick Phillips wrote: Hi all, I run a small hosting service for about a dozen rural based customers. I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best option right now and so I am looking for recommendations. I will need 100Gb disc space, 4 CPUs, 4Gb RAM and at least 200Gb traffic (includes in and out). The VPS will be fully managed by myself and I do require CentOS 7. Anyone with good stories? Regards, Rick I'm using binary lane and ransomit https://www.binarylane.com.au/ https://www.ransomit.com.au/ Binary lane has had a few problems in the past few months but it seems they have gotten that sorted. Thanks to all who have replied. I have plenty of good info to work with now. I find it better to work with info provided by people who have had or are having good experiences. Special thanks to Lubos for his links - there is some very useful stuff there. Regards, Rick -- 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 Air advice
On 24 Mar 2015, at 23:09, Voytek li...@sbt.net.au wrote: Is there any advantage in getting Apple optical drive over a third party optical drive? I solved that conundrum by not using an optical drive at all (I don’t even miss it), so I’m afraid I have no opinion there. -- 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 Air advice
On 24 March 2015 6:11:47 pm AEDT, Jeremy Visser jer...@sunriseroad.net wrote: Jeremy, Rachel, thanks for the info. after-the-fact because it is soldered to the motherboard Thanks for pointing this out. Is there any advantage in getting Apple optical drive over a third party optical drive? I had a choice between an Intel i5 or i7 when I bought mine, but I feel the i7 was a waste because the laptop overheats when doing anything CPU-intensive like encoding video, so the extra CPU grunt is not worth it in my opinion. But then again, you can't upgrade after-the-fact, so if you can afford the optional extra, go for it. Put it this way: I don't regret spending the extra money on the i7 even though I don't need it. But I do massively regret not spending the extra money on the RAM because now it is too late. -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS
Hi all, I run a small hosting service for about a dozen rural based customers. I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best option right now and so I am looking for recommendations. I will need 100Gb disc space, 4 CPUs, 4Gb RAM and at least 200Gb traffic (includes in and out). The VPS will be fully managed by myself and I do require CentOS 7. Anyone with good stories? Regards, Rick -- 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] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:15:55AM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best option right now and so I am looking for recommendations. I've had good experiences with MammothVPS http://www.mammoth.net.au/ 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] Mac Air advice
On 24/03/15 14:02, Voytek wrote: Someone had asked me for Mac Air advice, know nothing about Mac, looking on Apple site, only choices I see is faster CPU, more RAM, more storage. more RAM and more storage, yes, is it worthwhile for a faster CUP? Max out the RAM when you buy it because you cannot upgrade it after-the-fact because it is soldered to the motherboard (unlike the MacBook Pro, or most other laptops). I had a choice between an Intel i5 or i7 when I bought mine, but I feel the i7 was a waste because the laptop overheats when doing anything CPU-intensive like encoding video, so the extra CPU grunt is not worth it in my opinion. But then again, you can't upgrade after-the-fact, so if you can afford the optional extra, go for it. Put it this way: I don't regret spending the extra money on the i7 even though I don't need it. But I do massively regret not spending the extra money on the RAM because now it is too late. -- 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 Air advice
Someone had asked me for Mac Air advice, know nothing about Mac, looking on Apple site, only choices I see is faster CPU, more RAM, more storage. more RAM and more storage, yes, is it worthwhile for a faster CUP? Can Photoshop be used on Air? Anything else to get? Thanks, Voytek -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG March meeting - docker, programming
== March 2015 SLUG Meeting == Summary * Date: Friday, March 27, 2015, 6 p.m. * Start: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start * Format: TBA * RSVP: http://www.slug.org.au/event/9250001 * Suggest or sign up for a talk at http://www.slug.org.au/talks Details This month we will have two or three short talks. * A Docker-related short talk on the occasion of its 2nd birthday, by Robert Smit. * A short talk on a programming topic, carrying on from his intro to programming talk, by Jiri Baum (Note: unfortunately, the previously-announced talk has had to be cancelled. Sorry about that!) Location Google Sydney Level 5, Workplace 6 48 Pirrama Road Pyrmont, NSW Map: http://www.slug.org.au/map -- Getting there -- The Google office is the big black building marked Accenture opposite Star City Pirrama Road facade. If using the trains, you can go either get off at; * Town Hall station, head towards Darling Harbour, walk across the Pyrmont footbridge and then follow Pirrama Road towards Star city. * Central station, then follow the light rail instructions. If using the buses, the route 443 stops right out front of the building. If using the light rail, get off at Star City station and walk across the street. If you drive, then you can look for parking on the suburban streets around the office (or pay for parking at the Casino), and then walk from there. === Afterwards === We'll be aiming to finish by 8pm and will be heading to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (PBH) afterwards to socalise and eat dinner. The PBH is marked on the map. -- 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] Processing Error
On 11 Mar 2015, at 4:53 pm, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.com wrote: The command was latex root.tex The error message was ! Font TS1/cmr/m/n/12=tcrm1200 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. Presumably, I'm missing a font. Can anyone suggest a remedy, please? Not sure if this helps, but there’s a bug in mismatch that you may be hitting: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738386 Good luck! James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Processing Error
The command was latex root.tex The error message was ! Font TS1/cmr/m/n/12=tcrm1200 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. Presumably, I'm missing a font. Can anyone suggest a remedy, please? WilliamBennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn hisdiskspace quota, please try again later
I have Postfix/Dovecot with virtual domains, same setup unaltered since server was set up quite a while ago on a vm last month, added a new virtual domain, 'just like before'. but, today noticed this in the queue/log 'overdrawn his diskspace quota'[1]: user's Maildir cur has like 48,762,696 bytes (lot less than other users) tried some searches, found similar probs, but, no solution as yet any ideas ? after physically removing some emails from this user's 'cur', I re-queued 'stuck' message, it was then accepted # quota -g vmail # quota -u vmail # [1] # grep 719855FC42 /var/log/maillog Mar 3 15:20:58 emu postfix/smtpd[18535]: 719855FC42: client=mail-pa0-f51.google.com[209.85.220.51] Mar 3 15:20:58 emu postfix/cleanup[18631]: 719855FC42: message-id=54f536ad.21da440a.6572.3...@mx.google.com Mar 3 15:21:01 emu postfix/qmgr[1906]: 719855FC42: from=dso...@gmail.com, size=5487190, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 3 15:21:01 emu postfix/virtual[20248]: 719855FC42: to=a...@tld.com, relay=virtual, delay=3.5, delays=3.4/0/0/0.08, dsn=4.2.2, status=deferred (maildir delivery failed: Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn his diskspace quota, please try again later.) Mar 3 15:27:53 emu postfix/qmgr[1906]: 719855FC42: from=dso...@gmail.com, size=5487190, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 3 15:27:53 emu postfix/virtual[23352]: 719855FC42: to=a...@tld.com, relay=virtual, delay=415, delays=415/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=4.2.2, status=deferred (maildir delivery failed: Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn his diskspace quota, please try again later.) -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Change of location - SLUG Feb meeting - iSCSI
*** Please note the change of location! *** == February 2015 SLUG Meeting == Summary * Date: Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, 6 p.m. * Start: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start * RSVP: http://www.slug.org.au/event/6290001 * Suggest or sign up for a talk at http://www.slug.org.au/talks Details We'll have a presentation on iSCSI by Serge. Please note that we will once again be in the next building over. Please go to the Fairfax building and not the main Google building! Location Google Sydney Cylon Conference Room level 2, Fairfax Building 1 Darling Island Road Pyrmont, NSW Map: http://www.slug.org.au/map -- Getting there -- If using the trains, you can go either get off at; * Town Hall station, head towards Darling Harbour, walk across the Pyrmont footbridge and then follow Pirrama Road towards Star city. * Central station, then follow the light rail instructions. If using the buses, the route 443 stops right out front of the building. If using the light rail, get off at Star City station and walk across the street. If you drive, then you can look for parking on the suburban streets around the office (or pay for parking at the Casino), and then walk from there. === Afterwards === We'll be aiming to finish by 8pm and will be heading to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (PBH) afterwards to socalise and eat dinner. The PBH is marked on the map. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
