Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.10 -> 17.04 Update/Upgrade Issue

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Looks like you added a ppa once for kokoto-java and that ppa no longer
exists, or at least doesn't have any packages/release information for
Ubuntu Yakkety. You can figure out what you installed from that PPA via the
Ubuntu Software Centre:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/5976/how-can-i-list-all-packages-ive-installed-from-a-particular-repository

If you haven't installed anything, or don't care about the software you did
install (in which case you can uninstall it to be safer), you can remove
that ppa ( https://askubuntu.com/questions/307/how-can-ppas-be-removed )
and upgrade just fine. In fact, usually the GUI updater disables PPAs
anyway, so you'll just be doing that step yourself manually.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 at 10:21 Terry Coles  wrote:

> On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:16:02 BST you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My copy of Kubuntu 16.10 (and earlier versions) has always had an issue
> with
> > the graphical update tool (it never notices that there are any).  This
> is a
> > known bug which the Kubuntu team seem unable to fix (they did once then
> > changed the updater and broke it again).
> >
> > As a result of this, I have been in the habit of running the 'sudo
> apt-get
> > update' / 'sudo apt- get distro-upgrade' combo on a routine basis.  Since
> > 17.04 was released I get the following at the end of the apt-get update
> > stage of the process:
> >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> >
> > I've searched the Kubuntu Forums and found nothing.  Has anyone else seen
> > this?  What does it mean?
> >
> > I'm loathe to go for a full upgrade while I'm getting this message.
>
>
> H.  What happened to the messages.  Second try.
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: The repository '
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/kokoto-java/omgubuntu-stuff/ubuntu
> yakkety Release' does not have a Release file.
> N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
> potentially dangerous to use.
> N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
> details.
> E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kokoto-java/omgubuntu-stuff/
> ubuntu/dists/yakkety/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> 
> 404  Not Found
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
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Re: [Dorset] Making a Python File Available for Download

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I'd grep your webserver config files for any mentions of ".py" and comment
out the offending (and related) lines. I imagine that for some reason it's
configured to serve .py files as cgi scripts, rather than serving them as
text/plain.

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 at 17:44 Terry Coles  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been building a small repository of software and documentation on my
> website, but keep getting an error when I try to download a Python file:
>
> 
> Internal Server Error
>
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to
> complete your request.
>
> Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the
> error
> occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
>
> More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
>
> Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
> ErrorDocument to handle the request.
> 
>
> I'm assuming that the error is because the server is trying to execute the
> script instead of making it available because I am able to download all the
> other files that I've put up there.
>
> Is there any way that I can do this without renaming the file to something
> other than filename.py?
>
> I suppose if all else fails I could compress it.
>
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Re: [Dorset] 32-bit libs on amd64 Debian

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Not an answer to your question, but I'm curious, is there a reason you need
the 32bit version? Why not just use the 64-bit one they link from that very
page? https://launchpad.net/~terry.guo/+archive/ubuntu/gcc-arm-embedded

On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 12:15 TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:

 Hi

 Trying to get arm embedded cross compiler from
 https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded running on a Debian 8 (Jessie)
 amd64 machine.

 Compiler is 32-bit:

 $ file /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
 /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc: ELF
 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
 linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped

 and needs these libs:

 $ readelf -d /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q2/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc

 Dynamic section at offset 0xb20a4 contains 26 entries:
TagType Name/Value
   0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6]
   0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
   0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [ld-linux.so.2]

 So add i386 architecture

 dpkg --add-architechture i386
 apt-get update

 apt-get install ia32-libs

 to discover that this package no longer present in Jessie.


 $ apt-get install libc-bin:i386

 apt-get install libc-bin:i386
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following extra packages will be installed:
gcc-4.9-base:i386 libattr1:i386 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386
 libcap2:i386 libgcc1:i386
 Suggested packages:
glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
libc-bin
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-4.9-base:i386 libattr1:i386 libc-bin:i386 libc6:i386
 libc6-i686:i386 libcap2:i386 libgcc1:i386
 WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
 This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
libc-bin
 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 Need to get 6,610 kB of archives.
 After this operation, 12.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
 You are about to do something potentially harmful.
 To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

 Don't think I want to go there! So question is what's the correct way to
 install 32-bit libs multiarch on the latest Debian/Ubuntu?


 Cheers

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Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Possibly you might need to delete the ~/.get_iplayer folder it creates. The
one created by the previous apt installed version might be causing issues?

On Wed, 27 May 2015 01:32 Andrew zil...@ziltro.com wrote:

 On 26/05/15 22:14, Peter Merchant wrote:
  peterm@peterm-34204H:~/Software$ ./get_iplayer -u
  peterm@peterm-34204H:~/Software$ sh ./get_iplayer
 
  first time it tells me it is there, and repeat says not found. Hmm.

 I don't think you want to run it with 'sh'.

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Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Version 2.86 in the Ubuntu repository is out of date, the version on github
is 2.92 so there might have been new changes to fix the issues you're seeing

On Mon, 25 May 2015 at 09:33 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:

 On Sunday 24 May 2015 21:39:40 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
  Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote:
   You could always try https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer
   instead.
 
  That's what I use, and quite a few others I know.

 Ralph,

 Have you used this recently?  I remember using this some years ago, but
 then
 started having problems, so I gave up.  I just installed it again (it's in
 the
 Ubuntu repository as 'get-iplayer') and this is what I got:

 First a raw search:


 terry@BEIGE:~$ get_iplayer
 get_iplayer v2.86, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
 --warranty.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
 certain
   conditions; use --conditions for details.

 Matches:
 1:  BBC iPlayer Feeds - -, BBC News, HD,Highlights,Popular,
 default,audiodescribed,signed,

 INFO: 1 Matching Programmes


 Apparently only one feed.  I then tried recording:

 terry@BEIGE:~$ get_iplayer --get 1
 get_iplayer v2.86, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
 --warranty.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
 certain
   conditions; use --conditions for details.

 Matches:
 1:  BBC iPlayer Feeds - -, BBC News, HD,Highlights,Popular,
 default,audiodescribed,signed,

 INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
 ERROR: No PID for index Unknown (try using --type option ?)

 According to the Wiki and the man page it's expecting the Index number from
 the search.  I only get one and it doesn't work, so what am I doing
 wrong?  I
 tried the search using --type, but I only get the same answer.

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Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

I installed the script as described here:
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/manual

Running it the first time with no arguments, downloaded some plugins as you
described, running it again like so:

./get_iplayer apollo

Printed out a whole load info whilst getting TV index feeds, then finished
with 3 matches, like so:
Matches:
838: Live at the Apollo: Series 9 - Episode 1, BBC One, Comedy,Standup,
default
839: Live at the Apollo: Series 9 - Episode 2, BBC One, Comedy,Standup,
default
840: Live at the Apollo: Series 9 - Episode 3, BBC One, Comedy,Standup,
default

Running the following:

./get_iplayer 838 --get

Began downloading the episode




On Mon, 25 May 2015 at 09:59 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:

 On Monday 25 May 2015 08:39:43 Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote:
  Version 2.86 in the Ubuntu repository is out of date, the version on
 github
  is 2.92 so there might have been new changes to fix the issues you're
 seeing

 OK.  I uninstalled V 2.86, downloaded the latest version, made it
 executable
 and ran it as:

 terry@BEIGE:~$ ./get_iplayer

 On first execution, it installed some plugins and on the second it gave
 exactly
 the same result as V 2.86.

 What do others get, when they type 'get_iplayer' for a simple search?

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Re: [Dorset] BBC iPlayer downloads

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Get what to work? Is this something built in to iPlayer? It's probably
using Adobe Air/Flash or some other proprietary thing that doesn't work
under Linux. You could always try https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer
instead.

On Sun, 24 May 2015 at 20:37 Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:

 Hi, Has anyone  any idea how to get this to work on Linux? It's
 available for M$ and Mac.

 I am on kubuntu 14.04.

 Cheers,

 Peter

 PS, I haven't tried Wine yet.

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Re: [Dorset] Dealing with dynamic IP addresses

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Off the top of my head, I think what you can do is something like this:

1) Set up your own nameserver or use one of the various nameserver services
out there like pointhq.com that have an API for remotely managing and
updating your DNS records.
2) Set up your DNS records yourself on this new nameserver. Set your
share.gemmill.name DNS record to have a low TTL.
3) Have 1and1 set the nameservers for your domain to be your new
nameserver.
4) Write a script on your owncloud server that remotely updates the DNS
record for share.gemmill.name to point to the correct IP every so often.

Not exactly simple, and there are a bunch of different moving parts here,
plus messing up your domain handling means no more website/email/etc until
it's fixed. It also relies on 1and1 actually allowing you to use your own
nameserver with your domain.

On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 11:43 Graeme Gemmill gra...@gemmill.name wrote:

 Can someone give help/advice on the following problem relating to
 dynamic IP addresses?
 I have a PC on my LAN with Owncloud installed. (It's a fun product - it
 solved a problem with sharing a calendar between 2 PCs immediately,
 whereas I couldn't get DaviCal to work at all).
 I have a domain, gemmill.name, and I have created a sub-domain,
 share.gemmill.name.
 I want family and friends to be able to type www.share.gemmill.name and
 get access to Owncloud.
 My router can do port-forwarding but my external IP address is dynamic.
 I've heard about an organisation called NoIP.com. I can down-load a bit
 of their software that monitors the current IP address the rouuter's
 connected to. The problem is they want to associate it with one of their
 domain names; the default is ggemmill.ddns.net and there are many
 options, but gemmill.name doesn't figure among them!
 So: is there a way to make ggemmill.ddns.net equivalent to
 share.gemmill.name?
 (I don't know if it's relevant, but the gemmill.name domain is managed
 by 1and1.co.uk who also provide my IMAP mail service; the actual ISP
 provider is talktalk. Perhaps the answer is to transfer management to
 NoIP.com, but I'm happy with 1and1).
 TIA
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Re: [Dorset] Multiple commands in bash

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Not sure if this is what you want, but something like the following might
work. It doesn't do the bash prompt since there is not way of getting the
current prompt output reliably, but if you just want a fake one for display
purposes, you could hard code it into the script. Also, it doesn't check
the exit codes and abort early, as the  would do, but that's easy enough
to add in.

#!/bin/bash

COMMANDS=()
COMMANDS[0]=echo 1
COMMANDS[1]=echo 2
COMMANDS[2]=echo 3

for ((i = 0; i  ${#COMMANDS[@]}; i++)) ; do
echo ${COMMANDS[$i]}
${COMMANDS[$i]}
done

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 at 14:13 TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:

 Hi

 I'd like to run multiple commands in Bash:

 patch -m patchfile  hg diff  cd dir  make -s

 but for audit purposes I'd like each command in the list to be echoed as
 run, even better I'd like the Bash prompt to appear too in front of each
 line.

 I know that as an alternative I can put the commands in a script with
 #!/bin/bash -v to get the first requirement.

 Cheers

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Re: [Dorset] Social Networking in a Corporate Environment

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

If they already use Microsoft Office (and especially if they already
subscribe to Office 365) then Yammer is a service that is specifically
designed to be a corporate social network at the Office 365 Mid-Size
Business tier. I've never used it though and naturally it's a service, not
something you can run yourself on your own hardware.

I've had some brief exposure to Atlassians Confluence software, which you
can buy to self-host or pay for monthly per user as a service and it seems
pretty good, though like all things it has a bit of a learning curve. I've
only barely used it though, so can't say much about it other than people I
work with have given it very high praise. It's probably better if you buy
into the rest of Atlassian's suite of tools like Jira and Hipchat, etc but
by itself I don't imagine it's too bad.

Speaking of Hipchat, that might actually fit the bill. It's basically an
IRC style private chatroom client, but depending on the plans you get (and
you can even use it for free with unlimited users if I recall) when you
attach images or files to messages, they stay in the system so they can be
referred back to, at least for a time. If what they need is something more
real-time rather than a long-term document storage/sharing system, then
that might work out well for them. I use hipchat extensively at work for
communicating with my team, sharing files, talking to clients, holding
meetings, etc and find I rarely use anything else for sharing things,
getting feedback or collaborating on projects. I can highly recommend it,
and since you can trial it for free, if it sounds like it might fit the
bill, I'd encourage you to investigate it. We also use their dev API to
feed in info from our various monitoring tools for servers, software
builds, support tickets, etc so it acts a company-wide notification system
as well as shared communications platform.



On 30 September 2014 15:12, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
 wrote:



  On 30 September 2014 at 14:33 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk
 wrote:
 
 
  Hi Terry,
 
   I believe that the management are not really sure what they want in
   terms of functionality so are looking for suggestions. We have
   discussed this locally
 
  What's the nature of the information you want to share? Considered blog
  posts? One-line QA? A curated resource of information?

 That's part of the problem; they're not really sure.  I think it might
 function
 as a newsletter in some scenarios, but with the ability to accept comments,
 where appropriate.  In other scenarios, it might be used to seed ideas,
 with
 inline drawings / photographs, etc to really get over the message.  The
 key I
 think is engagement.  When Groklaw was at it height it was generating
 hundreds
 of responses to each article, with ideas flying thick and fast.  I don't
 believe
 a mailing list (as suggested elsewhere) will work like that for people who
 aren't necessarily technical, whereas an active blog or Facebook type
 solution
 might, because of the multimedia element.

 As a bonus, it might also be useful to have the ability to collaborate on
 documents etc.

 I think we are looking for suggestions to see what might be the most
 attractive.
  Does anyone have any experience of Corporate Social Networks (linux based
 or
 otherwise)?

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Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

You can try pdftohtml[1] to get it into HTML format, from there it should
be easier to convert into a document format you want using something like
pandoc[2].

[1]: http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
[2]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html


On 18 July 2014 14:47, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:

 Hi,

 Does anyone know how I can use tools available in Linux to convert a PDF
 file
 to MS Word .doc or .docx format (or even to LibreOffice .odt)?

 I thought I could do it using LibreOffice, but it reads the PDF content as
 if it
 is a series of graphical objects with text labels.  As a consequence, I can
 only save it as .odg or export it to a graphical format.

 The problem is that we have a number of specifications in PDF format.  We
 need
 to get them into an editable form (preferably word) because they need
 translating.

 At work I tried the real thing (Adobe Writer), but it seriously mangles the
 format, even when it works.

 The originals seem to have been created using a number of different tools;
 some
 were created in MS Word 2010, some PDFCreator (presumably from a Word
 Source,
 some with Acrobat Distiller and some by conversion from Postscript.  Adobe
 Writer was only able to save three out of five documents and they were not
 very
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Re: [Dorset] Has something changed with Debian Desktops?

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

You could try and use the MATE desktop,  which is a fork of the old Gnome2
desktop http://mate-desktop.org
On 14 Jul 2014 16:14, TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:

 Hi Victor


 On 14/07/14 15:48, Victor Churchill wrote:

 I recently did a Debian istalll onto a machine which had previously been
 struggling with Ubuntu.

 lsb_release -a
 No LSB modules are available.
 Distributor ID: Debian
 Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)
 Release: 7.5
 Codename: wheezy


 I have an older machine which I installed Debian onto a while ago, running
 6.0.7 squeeze.

 For both installations I don't believe I did anything out of the ordinary.

 On the Squeeze machine I have a 'nice', useable desktop with familiar
 panel
 and menus (1).

 On the Wheezy I have something that looks more like the new Ubuntu that I
 was running away from, when I log in with a 'Gnome Classic' desktop (2).
 When I log in with regular 'Gnome' session selected it's abominable (3,4).

 Is there something I need to do to get a good old Gnome 2-ish desktop like
 I have on Squeeze?


 Wheezy went to Gnome 3. XFCE is pretty close in appearance to Gnome 2 and
 can be installed instead of Gnome (advanced install options if I remember
 correctly). I migrated all my machines to XFCE when Wheezy came along. It's
 lean and quick.

 Cheers

 Tim



  1: Squeeze desktop
 http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/
 SqueezeDesktop_zps0970bde2.png.html

 2. Wheezy 'Classic'
 http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/
 WheezyDesktop1_zpsf7cc4643.png.html

 3. Wheezy Gnome with illegible panel - Radio Gnome Invisible B-(
 http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/
 Screenshotfrom2014-07-09183526_zps64093321.png.html

 4. What I got on a Gnome session screenshot when all I could see was
 plain blue
 http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/
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Re: [Dorset] Linux defragmentation

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My understanding is that the functionality is built into the filesystem
(and the filesystem drivers, naturally), so any distro that uses
filesystems that support that functionality by default will support that,
as long as your partitions are formatted to that filesystem.
Most distros use ext3 or ext4 by default, which has defrag built-in. They
wont magically make an external FAT32 formatted drive you happen to plug in
become defragged though, for example.


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 Knowledgable peeps.
 Is it necessary to defrag Linux based partitions?
 I was taught that defragging UNIX partitions wasn't ever necessary because
 UNIX 'conspired to defragment'.
 ie from the outset of creating data, semi-smart data handling routines
 logically distributed file fragments about the partition for optimal
 function and retrieval.
 Does anyone know if various Linux distro's have similar functionality?
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Re: [Dorset] NVidia graphics help please

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It looks like you've got the newer version of the nvidia drivers which do
not support the card you are using any more. According to the errors in
that log, you need use the older, legacy package found here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.23-driver.html if you
are running 32bit or here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-96.43.23-driver.html if
you are running 64bit.

I'm not sure if kubuntu includes packages for those older nvidia drivers
(which you should use if they do) but if they don't, downloading and
installing the appropriate package should provide you with the correct
driver version for your card.


On 6 December 2013 14:21, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote:

 Hi, I could do with some help. I recently installed a new Nvidia card and
 was able to get it working with a good resolution  by trying to replace the
 'nouveau' driver with the appropriate nvidia legacy driver. Then one day
 about a week ago after some kubuntu 13.10 updates it reverted to 1280x1024
 which gives me quite a funny fat screen. I have tried all sort of things to
 get in back, but at one stage got it to 640x480.

 I cannot seem to get it working properly. This is what I just found in
 dmesg.


 [   28.523214] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this
 system is
 [   28.523214] NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy
 drivers. Please
 [   28.523214] NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
 more
 [   28.523214] NVRM:  information.  The 304.88 NVIDIA driver will ignore
 [   28.523214] NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
 [   28.523240] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
 [   28.652919] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this
 system is
 [   28.652919] NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy
 drivers. Please
 [   28.652919] NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
 more
 [   28.652919] NVRM:  information.  The 304.88 NVIDIA driver will ignore
 [   28.652919] NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
 [   28.652941] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!

 lspci shows the nvidia card installed.

 Can anyone give me any hints about what I do now?

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Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

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Re: sqlite, there are a bunch of separate GUI tools available, from Firefox
plugins to things like sqliteman, though to be fair you'll still need SQL
knowledge for doing anything useful.


On 1 November 2013 09:41, Ken Hutton kehut...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Firebird is probably in your Linux distro's package manager. That would
 probably be the best place to install it from. l haven't used it myself
 though so I don't know how well it would meet your needs.

 It might also be worth considering sqlite. It doesn't have the graphical
 interface you are looking for but sql is quite easy to learn.  Especially
 with the clear diagrams on the sqlite web site. And sqlite stores a
 database in a single file with no need to setup a db server.
 On 31 Oct 2013 22:00, David Smith david.sm...@aic.co.uk wrote:

  This may be outside what DLUG normally discusses. If so please say and I
  will look elsewhere.
  I am looking for free software to run under Linux to implement a small
  database. A free version of MS Access would be ideal! Access is part of
 MS
  Office professional and allows you to create and run SQL queries by point
  and click rather than needing to know SQL syntax. My database would live
 on
  one pc - no separation of server and client.
 
  Initially I thought Open Office/Libre Office Base would do the trick, but
  it only supports select queries, not Update queries, make table queries
  etc. Access allows data to be imported from a .csv file into a data
 table,
  and exported to .csv. In Base you have to cut and paste between
 spreadsheet
  and table table or query - unless of course you write VBA modules which
 is
  the hard way of doing things.
 
  I have tried downloading a version of Firebird but don't know what to do
  next. I cannot even find an install program.
 
  Any ideas?
 
  thanks
 
  David
 
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Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Oh, regarding firebird, I find on my ubuntu box that:

sudo aptitude install flamerobin

Installs firebird and a GUI client called flamerobin, if you've got a
preference for firebird over sqlite.


On 1 November 2013 12:48, David Smith david.sm...@aic.co.uk wrote:


 On Friday, November 01, 2013 11:01 AM Simon P Smith wrote

  At the risk of being burnt at the stake :-)


  Many good suggestions in this thread but let me throw up one more...


  You said free software.  Whilst I use postgres and MySQL extensively
 some clients
 are M$ shops and so the database must reside on MSSQL.  There is a an
 SQLExpress
 version of this which includes the GUI management tools and database
 back-end
 which I use for portability testing.  It is free as a download from M$.


 Thanks Simon. I have no moral objection to your suggestion, provided M$ do
 not gain, but I will try SQlite first.

 And thanks Ralph for your weblink.

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Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Some browsers do expose an API allowing these things, but my point is more
that I'm not convinced they provide anything that allows someone to add in
support for other languages that is useful in anyway beyond simple toys.
Regarding Python in the browser, this site has some useful info:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebBrowserProgramming

I'm wondering as to _why_ you even want to run scripts in another language
client-side. Any such language would (assuming the browser support API also
sandboxes it's code) be limited to only effecting changes in the browser
environment, so there isn't really any utility to using another language
over javascript. If you want to be able to run scripts that do other things
outside of that sandbox (such as a script that runs an application on the
user's computer and displays it's output in the browser), then there are a
whole bunch of security implications there which need to be considered.


On 25 October 2013 14:26, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:

 Hi Terry,

  Terry Coles wrote:
   I understand that all browsers speak Javascript,

 Except those that don't, e.g. lynx(1).  :-)

   so a page containing js, just gets executed.  What if the script is
   written in PERL, PHP or even TCL or Python?  Presumably the page
   includes a mime type, but how does the browser know what package to
   use to execute the code.

 Well, the browser has a list of MIME types and how to handle them for
 other things, e.g. audio formats.  You can edit it to use external
 programs, for example.

 But are you getting confused between code that's shipped as part of, or
 referenced by, a HTML web page and code that responds to a HTTP request
 from a browser on the server?  That back-end code can be written in
 anything and the browser doesn't know or care.

 Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote:
  Most browsers just fail if you use any language other than javascript.

 There's a version of Chromium that supports Dart natively AIUI.  For
 other browsers, you load some Javascript that can handle the Dart.


 https://www.dartlang.org/docs/tutorials/connect-dart-html/#about-html-code

 script type=application/dart src=mini.dart/script
 script src=packages/browser/dart.js/script

  I'm not entirely sure browsers even expose a useful enough API to be
  able to develop a useful plugin to do that.

 I think they do?  I've vague recollections of being able to add a Python
 interpreter to Internet Explorer some years ago when web scripting
 languages first made an appearance.

 Cheers, Ralph.

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Re: [Dorset] Replacement for Gimp

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

paint.net seems to be popular http://www.getpaint.net/


On 17 November 2012 22:20, Clive A Wills cawi...@talktalk.net wrote:

 Another request for info please.
 My son needs to square crop 9 photo's before getting them printed 'as one'
 onto canvas, the completed group of 3x3 photo's will then be saved as one
 JPG for Jessops to print.
 He does not have any reasonable editing software so I suggested 'Gimp for
 M$ W**', but this version of Gimp has been stopped by the project as they
 do not have any suitable programmers to rectify the back-log of faults!!
 He'd prefer not to use a Web based programme as he needs to work 'out of
 site' of his wife.

 Can anyone suggest a suitable free M$ photo editing programme please, (I'm
 well out of touch with M$ now).

 If all else fails he'll have to come here and use my Linux laptop with
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Re: [Dorset] nvidia drivers

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Don't use the 295.40 version of the official nvidia drivers as they
can cause serious graphical corruption and crashes due to a bug,
especially on older cards ( reference:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTA4ODc ). I'm
running on the beta drivers and those seem to work fine through on my
dual 1080p monitors at work.

On 24 September 2012 11:01, Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
 On 24/09/12 10:42, gladelands wrote:

 Hi all,

 Has anybody had experience of using nvidia graphics cards with widescreen
 (1920 x 1024) monitors under Linux?

 I have downloaded nvidias own driver file but it has to run with X window
 turned off.

 Before I try this is there anything that anybody knows that I should NOT
 do whilst trying this?

 Regards

 George

 PS this is a rescued windows machine that I got REALLY cheap



 Hi George,

 A few of questions:

 1. What distro are you using?
 2. What card have you got?
 3. What monitor(s) are we talking about?

 With regard to (1), if you are using any of the Ubuntu variants installing
 nVidia drivers is a fairly trivial thing to do, as indeed is the
 configuration of most graphics cards and monitors.

 With regard to (2), if the machine was that cheap you might find the
 graphics card/chip lacks the necessary oomph in terms of GPU and memory to
 make this a viable proposition.

 As for things to avoid, I think the days are gone when you could drive a
 monitor too hard and damage it, unless of course you are using old CRTs, in
 which case you might want to wait for a bit more input from someone who
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Re: [Dorset] Which distro would you install?

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

I never use the packages for eclipse and instead download the latest tarball
and run it from my homedir. Most ide packages suck whatever distro I've
found.
 Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
 Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!

 I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
 As soon as they are I use them full time. And make sure everything is
 fixed before release day (submitting bug reports etc) THEN being
 confident of being able to use the stable system.

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Re: [Dorset] Automate script

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

On 9 September 2010 18:34, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote:


 I have a script that lives in a folder called /backup I start from the cli
 by
 changing to the backup folder and then typing

 ./day4

 I want to automate this but the schedule program does allow me to quote a
 start
 up folder so when I type

  /backup/day4
 or
 /backup/./day4

 It fails to run,

 What do I need to do to make it run from the schedule program??

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If you're scheduling from cron, you should just be able to run the script
like: cd /backup  ./day4

Ideally though, if your script needs the current directory to be the same
directory that's contains the script, it might be worth putting a command to
switch to the scripts directory in the script itself.

Assuming it's a bash script:

cd `dirname $0`

should switch to the directory when inserted at the top of the script, in
which case you can just call the script file by it's full path.

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Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu One

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

The stuff I downloaded wasn't copyprotected but I agree its an arse to find.
In fact, the whole rhythmic integration and download process is awfully
flaky. I had to manually download each file from my ubuntu one share because
the syncing was awful.

On 11 Jul 2010 18:30, Simon Oapos;Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com
wrote:

Avoid Ubuntu One at all costs.
The music is copy protected and impossible to find on your computer.
They've just tried to turn Rhythmbox into i-Tunes.
Simono


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Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill

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On 3 April 2010 13:49, Peter Washington pugwash1...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On 1 April 2010 17:36, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
  On Thursday 01 Apr 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
  On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:58 +0100, Terry Coles 
 d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
  wrote:
   people who illegally download buy more music legally than those
 whodon't.
 
  *clearly* those people would spend even more if they weren't downloading
  illegally.
 
  I'm not sure if you left out the sarcasm tags or whether you really
 believe
  that.  The theory is that illegal downloading is like payola without the
  bribes; people download music to see if they like it, they then go out to
 buy
  the music when they've selected what they want from all the ones that
 they've
  downloaded.  People who don't illegally download on the other hand, are
 more
  cautious when buying because they don't know if they will like the music
 or
  not.
 
  If the theory is correct, then I would say that it's the modern
 equivalent of
  going into the local record shop and asking them to play a record before
 you
  buy it.

 That sounds about right to me Terry, so surely the solution for the
 music industry is obvious ... Time Limited Downloads.

 By this I mean a new file format that plays an embedded MP3, (or
 whatever), and kills / cripples itself after a pre-defined time, say a
 day or a week.  If the user goes on to buy the item online, it should
 be possible to detect somehow that they had downloaded the Time
 Limited version and they could be given a discount on the full version
 as a reward for being legitimate.

 That would provide exactly the style of Try before you Buy that the
 theory says is happening, and would provide a whole host of new sales
 opportunities for the industry to boot !


Thats essentially what DRM is. As it's already been proven, it is entirely
ineffective. However, if they were free, time limited full songs would be a
nice way of doing publicity and try before you buy. It will never happen
though because the DRM will be broken and everyone knows this.


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Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

2010/1/18 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk

 On Monday 18 Jan 2010, Dan Dart wrote:
  The audio may be in an unrecognised format. Have you tried -ao mp3lame
  in mencoder?

 But unrecognised by what?  Will that encoding provide an audio stream that
 is
 recognised by the PS3; remember the original encoding worked fine on the
 Linux
 box.

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Have you looked at HandBrake ( http://handbrake.fr )? I believe it has an
encoding preset specifically for the PS3.



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[Dorset] Server sell off

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

Hi everyone,

My new employer is selling off a lot of servers and I thought people might
be interested. More info can be found here:

http://forums.multiplay.co.uk/trading-post/72647-multiplay-server-sell-off

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Re: [Dorset] Scripting assistance please

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I think you might be a bit buggered here as the test is a flash file and I'm
not sure there is a way to tell it's loaded, start it and then tell it's
finished in an automated way, short of writing a program to screenshot the
screen periodically and then look for a segment in the image to indicate the
correct state, etc, etc.

On Aug 17, 2009 9:00 AM, Peter Merchant mercha...@onetel.com wrote:

Hi, I am wondering if anyone can give me advice on how to set up
scripting to access the web.

What I am trying to accomplish is to run a speedtest  at a specific time
every day. The data that I have collected over many months has been at
random times whenever I felt like it. Can I automate this? I am using
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ , running the test three times, and
downloading a csv file  from the history tab, which I incorporate into
my Excel file on speedtest results.

First step, figure out how to use a script to run a browser to access
this page.

2. How to start the test.

3. Do I need a wait in there?

4. Repeat three times.

5. Access the History tab

6. Download the .csv file and append it to my Excel file.

7. fit it into cron.

I have done simple scripting in the past but nothing this advanced.

The book on unix with a chapter on scripting that I pulled off the shelf
is dated 2000, so not much use.

Thanks for any guidance.

Peter M.



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Re: [Dorset] help in sorting files for duplicates

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

I knocked this up which may be of use (it symlinks dups to the originals,
but it's easy enough to mod). It recognises symlinks as being different from
files too.

On Jul 23, 2009 6:50 PM, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:


Hi Peter,

 My thoughts were to do an 'Ls -something' piped into a file, then 
perhaps if I could do a sort ...
What do you mean by `duplicate'?  If you mean you want to group all
files called `foo' together, regardless of their possible differing size
or content then

   find foo bar -type f -printf '%h %f\n' |
   rev | sort | rev |
   uniq -f 1 -D

will list the directory path and filename for all files under `foo' and
`bar' that occur more than once by name, e.g. README is a prime
contender.

It won't work well with paths or filenames with spaces in or other weird
characters, but then that's why you shouldn't have them.  :-)

On the other hand, if you want to find files that almost certainly have
the same content regardless of their file name then

   find foo bar -type f -print0 |
   xargs -r0 sha1sum |
   sort | uniq -D -w 40

lists those.  Note, it won't realise that two files may be hard or
symbolically linked together.

Cheers,


Ralph.

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Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

[Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell]

2009/6/24 John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net:


 Ralph Corderoy wrote:

 That matches what I've heard.  Mono may exist but writing cross-platform
 GUIs with it without reverting to (the non-MS) Gtk+ or similar isn't
 practical given its level of support for Windows' APIs on Linux.  So if
 folks are effectively writing Linux-only apps then they're just choosing
 a programming language and libraries;  it just happens to be one
 originating at Microsoft.  The long-term risk is that support for it may
 wither as enthusiasm for trying to keep up with Microsoft wanes.


 GTK+ is available for Windows AFAIK.  I've certainly run GTK apps on
 Windows (Dia, Gimp) which involves installing GTK libraries for
 Windows.  I'm wondering now if any cross-platform GTK/Mono/.NET apps
 already exist!


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I believe that Banshee, which I think is a mono app, is available
under OSX now and might be coming to Windows. I think Tomboy, the note
taking app is in the same position as well.

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