Stephen Davies wrote:
> I'm wondering how other LUG Members would tackle the release of software
> with known bugs and would it stop you from developing software in the
> future if you had the spectre of being sued for bugss in your software.
> Remember that the Microsoft EULA makes them NOT Lia
Stephen Davies wrote:
> As someone who has been writing software professionally since 1975 the
> issue of releasing software with known problems (or items Fixed in Next
> Release) has always concerned me.
> At DEC, we used to document the 'known issues & limitations' in the
> release notes. I do
2009/8/7 Tim :
> I think the morale of this story is, take better care of your passwords and
> ensure adequate documentation!!
>
Nahh, so long as you have physical access to the machine, all bets are
off, and you can get in.
Unless of course you encrypt your filesystems and forget the key..
then
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Stephen
Davies wrote:
> At DEC, we used to document the 'known issues & limitations' in the
> release notes. I don't see much of that in the FOSS world or even with
> many of the hugely expensive commercial software packages I use of a
> daily basis.
there was a hu
On Friday 07 August 2009 09:14:38 Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Tim :
> > Can anybody point me in the direction of a set of instructions for
> > password recovery that work, I have googled but there are many but I
> > don't want to end up damaging the install trying to reset the password so
> > I am
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:01:57 +0100, si...@pseudo-anonymous.com said:
> Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
We use it at work to manage just over 100 servers and it works well. Tips?
Yes: start small. Start with something really, really simple, then slowly
build fr
Andy Random wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've procrastinated about buying a 901 all year...
>
> Finally this week after getting my annual bonus (not as good as last year,
> but in the current climate I'm not complaining) I decided I definitely
> wanted one and now it seems I've left it too late :(
>
> Mos
There is an interesting article on infoworld
http://infoworld.com/t/software-licensing/watch-out-developers-here-come-lawyers-436
about proposals to make developers liable for damages if they are caught
shipping software with bugs and not telling the user about them.
Oddly, Microsoft & 'The Linux
2009/8/7 Andy Smith :
> The free software movement has a very vocal minority of people like
> yourself who are happy to say things like the first paragraph and
> then argue endlessly about it like the second one.
So you still say that I belong to the free software movement .
No I don't I am just
Hi,
A last minute reminder:
Our August meeting will take place as a joint meeting with the Surrey LUG at
the Nokia facility in Farnborough tomorrow, Saturday 8 August from 11am.
For H&S reasons can you please email Bob first to let him know you are coming
along to the meeting. When you arrive
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:17:28PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> I believe there was a hantslug presentation about puppet a while
> back, sadly I was unable to attend and don't remember who gave it.
> Perhaps it's on the wiki?
Speaking of presentations, R.I.Pienaar (who is UK-based) recently gave a
t
Hi Simon,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Simon Strange wrote:
> I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
> interested in using puppet to control it.
>
> In the past I've used CFEngine with success, so perhaps I should stick
> to what I know. But it does seem that
Hi David,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:40:23AM +0100, David Ramsden wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> [snip]
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:57:52PM +0100, David Ramsden wrote:
> >> I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to Ubuntu. I'd
> >> like to avoid a complete re-install because:
>
Hello Pavithran,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:59:03PM +0100, pavithran wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Andy Smith :
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:24:07PM +0100, pavithran wrote:
> >> And as Linux users we ( if we have enough free software spirit
> >> ) need not give it its due by calling it respectfully with its
2009/8/7 Andy Smith :
> Hi Pavithran,
>
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:24:07PM +0100, pavithran wrote:
>> Professional or not I believe this is *linux* users group . And M$ (
>> not Microsoft) has an awesome reputation of patent allegations against
>> the Free software movement . And as Linux users w
2009/8/6 Andy Random :
>I decided I definitely
> wanted one and now it seems I've left it too late :(
Unfortunately "Yes " :(
But still you can get a second hand EEE 901 with 12 GB SSD pre loaded
with windows XP on amazon .
The happiest thing is no one is selling their Linux based EEE 901 of
20
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:40:09 +0100, john lewis
wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:34:05 +0100
> David Ramsden wrote:
>> Unfortunately the package is provided by a 3rd party vendor, via
>> their own repository.
>>
>> The latest major release of the package is Ubuntu only. I could
>> probably downloa
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:40:09AM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:34:05 +0100
> David Ramsden wrote:
> > Unfortunately the package is provided by a 3rd party vendor, via
> > their own repository.
> >
> > The latest major release of the package is Ubuntu only. I could
> > probab
2009/8/7 john lewis :
> This make me fume! Ubuntu is "supposed" to be a derivative of Debian
> and packages developed by Ubuntu developers were "supposed" to be
> compatible with the parent distro or at least passed back to Debian to
> be made compatible (/me simplifies a bit)
>
Says who?
https:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:34:05 +0100
David Ramsden wrote:
> john lewis wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:26:49 +0100
> > David Ramsden wrote:
> >
> >> Alan Pope wrote:
> >>> 2009/8/6 David Ramsden :
> I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to
> Ubuntu. I'd like to avoid
2009/8/7 David Ramsden :
> Andy Smith wrote:
> [snip]
>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:57:52PM +0100, David Ramsden wrote:
>>> I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to Ubuntu. I'd
>>> like to avoid a complete re-install because:
>>> a) The servers are all remote and in three separ
Andy Smith wrote:
[snip]
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:57:52PM +0100, David Ramsden wrote:
>> I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to Ubuntu. I'd
>> like to avoid a complete re-install because:
>>a) The servers are all remote and in three separate geographical
>> locations.
2009/8/6 Hugo Mills :
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> What I want (and maybe I'm being too exacting here) is a program for
>> Linux or indeed Windows that will just take a video DVD and dump out
>> an avi / mpg / whatever file preferably at enough res that I can
>>
john lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:26:49 +0100
> David Ramsden wrote:
>
>> Alan Pope wrote:
>>> 2009/8/6 David Ramsden :
I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to Ubuntu.
I'd like to avoid a complete re-install because:
>>> Blimey, you're brave posting "Upgrade
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:47:23AM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Alan Blanchflower :
> > Or even three.
> >
> > http://xkcd.com/214/
>
> ... which serves to illustrate that there are at most six degrees of
> separation between any two conceptual entities in a semantic database.
> (I ju
2009/8/7 Alan Blanchflower :
> Or even three.
>
> http://xkcd.com/214/
... which serves to illustrate that there are at most six degrees of
separation between any two conceptual entities in a semantic database.
(I just made that up, but it is an interesting thought... then again
the I'm Sorry I Ha
2009/8/7 Alan Pope :
> 2009/8/7 Tim :
>> Can anybody point me in the direction of a set of instructions for password
>> recovery that work, I have googled but there are many but I don't want to end
>> up damaging the install trying to reset the password so I am looking for
>> instruction that other
On Friday 07 Aug 2009 09:13:11 Simon Reap wrote:
> Victor Churchill wrote:
> > 2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles :
> >> Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
> >> read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
> >>
> >> http://www.xkcd.com/619/
> >
> > aieee! it is
2009/8/7 Tim :
> Can anybody point me in the direction of a set of instructions for password
> recovery that work, I have googled but there are many but I don't want to end
> up damaging the install trying to reset the password so I am looking for
> instruction that other have used without a proble
Victor Churchill wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles :
>
>> Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
>> read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
>>
>> http://www.xkcd.com/619/
>>
>
>
> aieee! it is impossible to read just one page of xkcd!
>
> ;-)
2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles :
> Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
> read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
>
> http://www.xkcd.com/619/
aieee! it is impossible to read just one page of xkcd!
;-)
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I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
interested in using puppet to control it.
In the past I've used CFEngine with success, so perhaps I should stick
to what I know. But it does seem that puppet offers a few nice
things, and is the new-cool. The only obvious problem is t
On 08/07/2009 08:39 AM, Tim wrote:
> I set my son up a laptop with xubuntu on it and the password I choose for root
> was not the normal one I use (because he knows that one). Now the problem is I
> can't rememebr what it was either. I want to add a couple of program and
> update
> etc. and I can'
Tim wrote:
> I set my son up a laptop with xubuntu on it and the password I choose for
> root
> was not the normal one I use (because he knows that one). Now the problem is
> I
> can't rememebr what it was either. I want to add a couple of program and
> update
> etc. and I can't now, my son i
I set my son up a laptop with xubuntu on it and the password I choose for root
was not the normal one I use (because he knows that one). Now the problem is I
can't rememebr what it was either. I want to add a couple of program and update
etc. and I can't now, my son is not setup as a sudoer use
Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
http://www.xkcd.com/619/
:)
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