Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu server 10.04 annoyance(s)

2011-05-09 Thread Simon Reap
On 09/05/2011 03:32, Isaac Close wrote: 1) user password has a maximum of 8 characters, i've tried to change this with passwd but it wont let me. (IMHO this is absolutely ridiculous and should NEVER EVER be allowed on a production server). I've got 10.4.1 on my MPC-L, and it happily takes

Re: [Hampshire] ref new topic

2011-05-09 Thread Jack Knight
On 9 May 2011 04:10, Stuart Biggs smbi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi I am running ubuntu 11.10 and having great difficulty with my printer, I can get ubuntu to see and recognise it but actually getting it to print is a different topic all together. 11.10? Wow, can I have a ride in your tardis

Re: [Hampshire] ref new topic

2011-05-09 Thread Stuart Biggs
opps yeah ubuntu 11.04 - well its  a nice release anyway - quick compared to windows 7 on higher spec systems!! From: Jack Knight j...@pobox.com To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 8:08:46 Subject: Re:

[Hampshire] When is it necessary to reboot

2011-05-09 Thread john lewis
Running Debian sid means the I get fairly frequent kernel updates, mostly 'point' upgrades. I'm reluctant to reboot un-necessarily but do reboot when it is a major change (like when it went from 2.6.37 to 2.6.38) but should I also reboot on the more minor upgrades? Incidentally I was surprised

Re: [Hampshire] When is it necessary to reboot

2011-05-09 Thread Jack Knight
On 9 May 2011 09:12, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote: Running Debian sid means the I get fairly frequent kernel updates, mostly 'point' upgrades. I'm reluctant to reboot un-necessarily but do reboot when it is a major change (like when it went from 2.6.37 to 2.6.38) but should I

Re: [Hampshire] ref new topic

2011-05-09 Thread RobinT Catling
Canon Pixma hardware and drivers are notoriously buggy and uncooperative under Linux in my experience of three of them and gets worse the cheaper the model. That said advice here is good, be persistent (although I eventually had to plug my last one into a Windows VM!). Rgds RC Robin Catling

Re: [Hampshire] ref new topic

2011-05-09 Thread Stuart Biggs
HI Jack Just to let you know I downloaded the device driver and installed and I did a quick test print - it appears to be working fine so thanks for the help. Stuart Biggs From: Jack Knight j...@pobox.com To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List

[Hampshire] www.servercircle.com

2011-05-09 Thread Peter George
Hello Hampshire Linux folk, I'd just like to publicise a project a couple of us EdLuggers have been working on, which may be of interest to you Linux server hackers out there; - Server Circle - ask and answer server questions www.servercircle.com Server Circle - Ask experts technical questions

Re: [Hampshire] Linux meeting : 14 May 2011 : Nokia Southwood

2011-05-09 Thread Tony Wood
Hi Bob Tony Wood HV06PKX Jean Wood, 01252 549884 Tony Wood (from Linux Netbook) On 09/05/11 13:10, robert.beat...@nokia.com wrote: Hi LUGers, Those wishing to come along this Saturday (@ Nokia Southwood - See Surrey LUG for details), please send me your name, car reg and next-of-kin

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-09 Thread Paul Tansom
** Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk [2011-05-07 09:50]: Moving house shortly which means, for the first time, I have to have my father in law on my network. Now while he's no hacker, he is fond of fiddling and has managed to crash his (Windows) machine so badly over the years that

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-09 Thread Vic
If you connect the 'internet' side to the ADSL router you effectively put anything connected directly to the ADSL router into a sort of DMZ (sort of since it is still firewalled as normal, so not really a proper DMZ) with a separate IP address range that is firewalled off from the rest of

[Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a strange problem... I have a machine which acts as a login node for a downstream network. This machine repeats the NIS server capabilities of the master (upstream) server. It should also provide correct NIS usernames, groups and passwords. Here's the problem: Users

Re: [Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities

2011-05-09 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Tim, This sounds like a PAM issue. Have a look at how things are stacked, since it is very order-sensitive. -- Regards, Jan Henkins Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I have a strange problem... I have a machine which acts as a login node for a

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-09 Thread Benjie Gillam
Eclipse used to do multiple IP addresses, I don't know if your ISP does. If so, you could do this with 3 devices: ADSL router and 2x ethernet routers, then you set up 2x standard NAT one on each IP address. That'll safely separate the networks. Benjie. On 9 May 2011 16:43, Vic l...@beer.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Timestamps on photos

2011-05-09 Thread Leo
Thank you both for your responses. I'll have to have another look around in digikam, as I didn't see functionality that would do this last time I looked. Either that or I'll go for the scripting approach. Perhaps time to dabble in Python or Perl. Leo On 06/05/11 12:07, Joe Wrigley wrote:

Re: [Hampshire] Kmail

2011-05-09 Thread Leo
Hmmm, OK. I've never managed to get this to work, hence why I was asking about the subscriptions. Leo On 04/05/11 07:33, David Webb (NOC) wrote: Does anyone use Kmail? If so can you explain to me what Servside subscription and Local subscription are on an IMAP account? Despite much googling I

Re: [Hampshire] Kmail

2011-05-09 Thread Leo
OK. I wasn't aware there were server subscriptions, but that certainly makes sense. I wonder what sort of subscription Thunderbird uses for IMAP then, as I haven't seen the option for server or local in it. Yeah, I should test it really. Although I'm still amazed at how little documentation I

Re: [Hampshire] Timestamps on photos

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Penn
Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote: Thank you both for your responses. I'll have to have another look around in digikam, as I didn't see functionality that would do this last time I looked. Either that or I'll go for the scripting approach. Perhaps time to dabble in Python or Perl.

Re: [Hampshire] Timestamps on photos

2011-05-09 Thread Leo
And it's in the ubuntu repositories - how did I manage to miss that!? I'll give that a go then thank you before I resort to scripting. Leo On 09/05/11 19:53, Samuel Penn wrote: Leoli...@fractal.me.uk wrote: Thank you both for your responses. I'll have to have another look around in

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-09 Thread Paul Tansom
** Vic l...@beer.org.uk [2011-05-09 16:44]: If you connect the 'internet' side to the ADSL router you effectively put anything connected directly to the ADSL router into a sort of DMZ (sort of since it is still firewalled as normal, so not really a proper DMZ) with a separate IP