Re: [Hampshire] JOB | Permanent Linux Systems Administrator (Singapore)

2013-09-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 09:13:32AM +0100, Richard Bensley wrote: How quickly the years fly by. It seems you learnt nothing It's a two way road it seems. I have been recruited from a mailing list in the past. And I shall continue to network with and employ professionals using

Re: [Hampshire] JOB | Permanent Linux Systems Administrator (Singapore)

2013-09-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi James, On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:07:23AM +0100, jamesbto...@hushmail.com wrote: Hello, I am working with an employer that is looking to hire a permanent Linux system administrator.. How quickly the years fly by. It seems you learnt nothing since 2009 when you decided to repetitively post

Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

2013-09-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Adam, On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:58:10AM +0100, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: I've pretty much decided to get a flash drive as the root file system, my preferred bidder are currently building with Intel 335 drives. I'm not sure exactly what combination and mix to go for. I don't think the

Re: [Hampshire] Using the host file

2013-05-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Tim, On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:39:23PM +0100, Tim wrote: How can I check that the web browser is accessing the web site via the changes I made in the host file and not using the old settings? You could run tcpdump to view your outbound port 80 traffic. # tcpdump -vpn 'dst port 80' or if

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chris, On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 05:32:23PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: It may be that it doesn't have enough RAM (300MB) for Apache to run WordPress properly. Or perhaps I just haven't configured things right. I bumped the memory up a bit to 480MiB BTW. Sorry I can't offer any more just

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 05:38:55PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. pet...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100mbps for local data transfer. I think you're confusing things here. USB2 runs at up to 480Mbps raw line

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Martin, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Martin N wrote: Like this NAS: http://www.dabs.com/products/zyxel-nsa325-2-bay-power-plus-nas-diskless--1-6ghz-cpu--7Z67.html?src=2 The USB connections though i mentioned as being used to get data on to the internal HDs so I am wondering

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

2013-04-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Benjie, On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:09:58AM +0100, Benjie Gillam wrote: If anyone would be interested in hearing about how I use tmux then I'd be happy to write something up? I am more interested in why you choose tmux over screen. I use screen and am pretty happy with it, but have never

Re: [Hampshire] Windows 8 + Dual Booting

2013-04-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:36:25AM +0100, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: In 2005, advance intelligence from the business world… 2.Removal of user choice, back to manufacturer control… 3.Western nations' military were to dry-run the process… This trend is what I'm signalling. UBUNTU has

Re: [Hampshire] USB memory stick corrupted

2013-03-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Roger, On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 07:18:07PM +, Roger Munford wrote: I cannot format the disk What happens when you do try to create a filesystem on the USB device? What exact command are you typing? Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting signature.asc

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:07:09PM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand. It's annoying when that sort of thing

Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

2013-02-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 07:54:17PM +, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: However, there is good mileage in what we do at the moment, which is to use a COTS machine (laptop, desktop or whatever) and download the software we wish to use as a package, which you then install and run. This avoids

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting Talks

2013-01-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:19:22PM +, Chris Dennis wrote: Automatic account creation will not be re-enabled, because we get dozens of spammers/bots logging in and causing havoc. Please contact me at webmas...@hantslug.org.uk if you want an account on the wiki and/or the new

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-28 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:31:45AM +, Lisi wrote: You misunderstand me, Andy. I myself would benefit from fairly basic talks and generally find those I attend pretty much above my head. But it is my perception that most of you are considerably more knowledgeable than I am. I am also

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Ally, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:15:13PM +, Ally Biggs wrote: This is why I haven't attended any meets as I know I would be out of my depth. Or talks would be given on subjects I'm not interested In and would be bored senseless. Conversely I think that many people (myself included)

Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

2013-01-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Lisi, On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:48:08PM +, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2013 18:23:13 Robert Longstaff wrote: Consequently, I think it would be great if people are prepared to do intro talks on the subject (maybe advertise in advance so newbies specifically come to that

Re: [Hampshire] Suggestions for MySQL connectivity

2013-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Roger, On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:06:33PM +, Roger Munford wrote: The support told me that it was a wicked thing to do a huge security risk. Not having been involved in software for several years, I am willing to believe that it could have become a problem, but is it such a risk that

Re: [Hampshire] Devopsdays London

2013-01-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:52:46AM +, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: I think many of you already know about it, but just to be sure I thought I'd shout it out here. Definitely worth attending if you can! I don't know anything about it. Money is quite tight right now so I don't know if

Re: [Hampshire] Boot times, fsck and large disks

2012-12-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Leo, On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:08:16AM +, Leo wrote: My headless server can take a long time to boot if it decides it needs to fsck the large data disks at boot. In order to enable me to log on sooner I was thinking of disabling the auto option in fstab for them, and adding a script

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu spy program

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Lisi, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 08:59:51PM +, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2012 18:53:37 Anton Piatek wrote: Not sure if I got the url right via mobile phone but there's a post from an ex-canonical emoyee about this:

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Equality Act 2010 compliance

2012-11-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chris, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:04:25PM +, Chris Dennis wrote: One of my website clients has just received the email which is pasted below. I'm pretty sure that it's a scam -- they're just trying to scare people into using their 'intercrm' product. Regardless of whether they were

Re: [Hampshire] 8TB Cloud

2012-11-25 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:23:53AM -, Rob Malpass wrote: 1) Is SATA still the bus of choice? According to Novatech, there is now Serial attached SCSI. I don't think any of my mobos have this bus, and indeed it seems the drives sizes here are a lot smaller than I need - but is there

[Hampshire] Gnome 2 is dead (Was Re: Ubuntu Unity - Dash - context lists)

2012-10-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Vic wrote: GNOME 2 is dead. ...And looking remarkably sprightly on my Fedora 16 laptop... But it is the case that upstream is not developing it anymore, isn't it? Also I have seen the fork of Gnome classic (I forget its name now) derided

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 2 is dead (Was Re: Ubuntu Unity - Dash - context lists)

2012-10-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Ally, On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Ally Biggs wrote: Haven't the old gnome devs created mate? Ah yes, that's the one that is the fork. I've seen a few people disparage it as having too few developers, but they might be Gnome 3 fanboys I suppose.. Are people seeing that as a

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity

2012-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 08:20:56AM +0100, john lewis wrote: Apple have always adopted the attitude that their way of doing things is the only way and make it very difficult if not impossible to reconfigure the look of their OS. Is that now the route Canonical are going to follow? I

Re: [Hampshire] London Perl Workshop 2012

2012-09-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:04:27AM +0100, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: May be of interest to some. Subject: London Perl Workshop 2012 I usually try to make it. Anyone else here going? Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Correction - was:Re: [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey

2012-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Lisi, On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 04:03:54PM +0100, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: I protested because Benjie seemed to me to be aiming at poaching members from another fledgeling group. I don't find the time to attend hacker spaces very often¹, mostly because I'm not really into making

Re: [Hampshire] Flash Player on Linux

2012-07-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Ian, On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 12:14:21AM +0100, Ian wrote: Id agree. Silverlight was short lived. Yet sadly still the only way to use Netflix or LoveFilm in the browser. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting You dont have to be illiterate to use the Internet, but

Re: [Hampshire] Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 v. old Gnome/KDE on 10.04.x

2012-07-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Leszek, Please can you trim your quotes a little? There was no need to quote the full previous message (78 lines). It just means that everyone has to scroll through it to reach your text which is then hard to tell which bits (if any) you are actually replying to. On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at

Re: [Hampshire] Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 v. old Gnome/KDE on 10.04.x

2012-06-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 02:22:58AM +0100, Full Circle Podcast wrote: I use it on all my machines, I guess that makes me a dummy. We couldn't possibly comment. But then again, if you're Canonical's Product Strategy Manager, you are kind of obliged to eat your own dog food. This was

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] ISP level of tech support

2012-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:32:27PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: Slightly ot but something we all have to do at some point... I ask in all honesty - could / should any ISP have been able to do more for me in my situation? *Could* they do more? Yes. *Should* they do more? Trickier

Re: [Hampshire] rsync 101

2012-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 06:04:16PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: Running grsync in the usual way means I end up with /foo/bar/1987/fred (which is correct) but I also end up with /foo/bar/fred (which is now a duplicate - and can be deleted) What I want

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] Aldershot Hackspace?

2012-05-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:13:48PM +0100, Jan Henkins wrote: On 11/05/12 14:40, Freaky Clown wrote: Anyway a few of us folks are looking at a possibility of a Hackspace based in aldershot - working on the basis that membership would be about £20/month to start with how many people

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] Aldershot Hackspace?

2012-05-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Dominic, On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:36:11PM +0100, Dominic Rodriguez wrote: I prefer Andy's idea - Yeah I understand of the costs but even so I think we should be able to pay what we want to a minimum. Just to clarify, that is not my idea, just the way that most established hackspaces I am

Re: [Hampshire] An introduction, a blag and well a bit of general chit chat

2012-03-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:28:53AM +, Bryn Jones wrote: I failed miserably to reply off list Welcome to the list. Next time the subject of having the list set Reply-To comes up, please consider voting for do not set Reply-To. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS

Re: [Hampshire] Quick question

2012-03-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:20:12AM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: apt-file search ssl-cert-snakeoil.key might have found it, but it does not. apt-file does not appear to be as useful as it used to be. It's because ssl-cert-snakeoil.key is a generated file, created by

Re: [Hampshire] Quick question

2012-03-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:15:50PM +, Leo wrote: Can anyone with an ubuntu install tell me the owner and group of: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key $ sudo stat /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key File: `/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key' Size: 887 Blocks: 8

Re: [Hampshire] backup migrations

2012-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:34:06PM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I have looked at rsnapshot. It uses hardlinks, so if I need to copy the backup data itself, I will have to find a special copy program that preserves hard links. GNU cp, GNU tar, rsync, … I am sure they exist, but

Re: [Hampshire] simh - problem with libpcap.a

2012-02-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:54:57PM -, Rob Malpass wrote: I've gone into synaptic and installed everything I can see for libpcap but the file still hasn't appeared. This is the right procedure isn't it? What should my next move be? I've never understood libraries and

Re: [Hampshire] [Job] Linux Web/Networking Developer, Portsmouth

2012-02-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Nick, On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:05:09AM +, Nick Chalk wrote: My current employer is looking for a Linux Developer to help out with Web / Amazon EC2 / Network coding. May I repost this to linuxjobs?: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs Cheers, Andy --

Re: [Hampshire] IP address translation

2012-01-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:44:15PM +, Michael James Daffin wrote: Would it not just be easier to give the computers the 158... addresses (via dhcp or staticly)? Very common to have to do NAT like this when communicating between two networks which use the same ranges of RFC1918

Re: [Hampshire] Big storage

2011-12-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Leo, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26:54AM +, Leo wrote: As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this (assuming we're talking about RAID1 or better, rather than RAID0). It will protect against hdd failure but that's all. If the time to restore the service (e.g. by rebuilding the

Re: [Hampshire] Database design for an address book

2011-12-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chris, Thanks for taking a look. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:54:54AM +, Chris Smith wrote: On 18/12/2011 21:06, Andy Smith wrote: An address will at its simplest be a name and an entry name, so the user can distinguish different addresses from each other without having to read all

Re: [Hampshire] Linux mailing lists

2011-12-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:05:27PM -, Rob Malpass wrote: Is anyone having problems with any other Linux mailing lists at the moment? I'm subscribed to several (via another email account - not the one from which I'm sending this) and I noticed I haven't had any messages from (for

[Hampshire] Database design for an address book

2011-12-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, I thinking about adding an address book to an already-existing set of applications and am just wondering about the best database design for it. I don't do this sort of thing often and I'd like to hear others' opinions. Requirements: Assume there's an already-existing table of users.

Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Clive, On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:54:54PM +, Clive Woodfine wrote: My HP Photosmart 3300 All-in-One series has given up with Ink system failure warning error code oxc18a0401. I have searched for this but none of the solutions have worked. The printer is quite old so it is time for a

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] December Meeting and AGM

2011-11-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:50:28PM +, Adam John Trickett wrote: Chris Denis and Damian Brasher volunteered them selves and Ian Brazier is willing remain Treasurer. I am therefore asking them if they are willing to remain standing and asking for additional volunteers to complete the

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Robin, On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, Robin Wilson wrote: The following packages will be upgraded: mplayer 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 231 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,012 kB

Re: [Hampshire] Data Destruction

2011-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:41:04PM +0100, Ian Grody wrote: Most software recovery will have problems recovering data after doing a simple zeroing of a drive. Truecrypt does this prior to filling with random data and further xeroing after would give most hardware recoveries problems.

Re: [Hampshire] lurker archive broken

2011-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:38:26PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Still seems broken. I've no idea what's wrong but I've some experience with lurker so if someone wants me to have a look, get in touch.. I think I've fixed it. This email will be archived if I have. Incidentally

Re: [Hampshire] lurker archive broken

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:59:49PM +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote: On 08.09.2011 13:55, Andy Smith wrote: Not sure if whoever looks after it is aware, but http://www.hantslug.org.uk/lurker/list/hampshire.en.html seems a little broken (many links give an error) and isn't up to date.. Yeah, I just

Re: [Hampshire] Www.kernel.org down

2011-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:17:19PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Does anyone know how long this will be down for? Until they have fully audited it after the security compromise I imagine. You wouldn't want them to rush! Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please

[Hampshire] lurker archive broken

2011-09-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Not sure if whoever looks after it is aware, but http://www.hantslug.org.uk/lurker/list/hampshire.en.html seems a little broken (many links give an error) and isn't up to date.. Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:11:39PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: What general growing problems do systems engineers face in the future? I think that there are a lot more options for scaling these days, but the challenges are also different. As ever we must do more with less, which means

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

2011-09-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Benjie, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Benjie Gillam wrote: One thing to mention with IPv6 is that the namespace is /FAR/ larger than IPv4 (10^29 times as big, roughly), so internet wide scans will no longer be feasible based solely on incrementing IP addresses (they could

Re: [Hampshire] Loss of computer or Smartphone

2011-09-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mike, On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Mike Austin wrote: Those of you concerned about loss of a computer or Smartphone should visit http://preyproject.com/download I've been thinking about this, but the difficulty is that I kind of want to continue using full disk encryption.

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:08:21AM +0530, pavithran wrote: One cool thing which screen allows is to log on irc forever ! Also one of the worst things it allows us to log on irc forever ! Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] error competition

2011-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Daniel, On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:01:17PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: how about this one that I have actually performed myself: rm -rf .* the scenario was I wanted to delete all folders in a subtree including folders beginning with a dot (.) to hide them from a normal ls listing.

Re: [Hampshire] Problems with the gllug.

2011-08-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:29:06AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Is there anyone on the Hants or Surrey list that is also a gllug member that has observed similar problems? Yup, no mail since 26th July. I moaned about it on Google+ in 1st August but didn't really get any response.

Re: [Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?

2011-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 07:58:14PM +0100, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: The real question, is whether to treat the backup as a mirror, or whether to keep older versions of files for a period of time. There is no question for me: If you don't have historical copies, you don't have a backup.

Re: [Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?

2011-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:24:10PM +0100, Mike Austin wrote: If you have a motherboard with hardware RAID support in the BIOS, it is easier to setup than software RAID. Friends don't let friends use fake RAID. :) Twiddling an option in a BIOS might look easier than doing Linux md, but

Re: [Hampshire] Caching Debian and CentOS packages

2011-07-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Stephen, On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 05:21:06AM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: For Debian/Ubuntu we use apt-cacher-ng, and for CentOS we maintain a local mirror. Looking at it again for a few new clients, I'm leaning towards simply having a Squid/mod_cache setup that caters for both

Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

2011-06-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mike, On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:09:25PM -0500, Mike Burrows wrote: However, when i change the port to (changing the router of course) and repeat using ssh -p testerm...@some.dyndns.org I get an error that the connection was reset by peer and I cannot ssh in. What am I not

Re: [Hampshire] Sudo question

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Owain, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 07:36:12AM +0100, Owain Clarke wrote: %users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend Thanks, Keith, but I've done this, and it still prompts for password. I am a member of the users group. Any other ideas? Have you logged in again since you

Re: [Hampshire] Dual Boot using Raid 1

2011-05-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mike, On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:05:30AM +0100, Mike Austin wrote: [...] Following an upgrade of my desktop motherboard etc, I wish to create a dual boot system using 2 identical 1TB drives in Raid 1 (mirrored) configuration. I believe that I cannot have XP and Ubuntu on the same master

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 10:08:41AM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: He's running one W7 machine and will be connected via cable to a hub. Sounds like ipcop or something similar is the way to go - though I must admit I'm sorely tempted to get a cheap ISP and put it down our second phone

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

2011-05-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: What I want is to keep him isolated so he can't even see any network devices, printers - just let him share the connection. More info needed. How will his computer(s) connect to your LAN? Direct connection to a switch? WiFi?

Re: [Hampshire] can anyone recommend a domain registrar ?

2011-04-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Isaac, On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 01:45:22AM +0100, Isaac Close wrote: Anyway, i'm looking for a honest and reliable registrar so that I can move a handful of domains from my current registrar (that just ripped me off). Who were they and what did they do? I have a few .co.uk's and these are

Re: [Hampshire] Timestamps on photos

2011-04-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Leo, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:21:29PM +0100, Leo wrote: Having got back from holiday I've noticed that the time on my cameras was not set to the correct timezone, or set the same on each camera. Does anyone know of a way of either setting a timezone in a jpeg file (i.e. in the exif),

Re: [Hampshire] Domestic ADSL ISPs

2011-04-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:28:11PM +0100, john lewis wrote: Apart from one small niggle, the fact I have to pay extra for my wife to have a personal email address which some ISPs allow for free I believe, I am another very happy zen customer. I would recommend not hosting your email

Re: [Hampshire] [IMPORTANT] Networking for this weekend's Bring a Box meeting

2011-04-01 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:10:10PM +0100, bryan hunt wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 10:52 +, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 10:16:33AM +0100, bryan hunt wrote: At this point I personally would just prefer if you buggered off of your own accord. OK, there's been a lot

Re: [Hampshire] simple description of open source etc.

2011-03-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi bryan, On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:08:48PM +, bryan hunt wrote: Linux is a tinkerers OS. That's fine. I like it, you like it and they probably like it. Do normal people like it? Probably only if they suffer from severe social maladjustment. My girlfriend is a non-technical

Re: [Hampshire] Basic Linux Training

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:56:38AM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: The LPIC aspect of it is not straightforward, i.e. completion of the course doesn't appear to automatically provide you with certification, it seems it is something you need to optionally request through CompTIA* who are

Re: [Hampshire] obfuscated code

2011-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:49:14PM +, bryan hunt wrote: Remind me never to shop in your hardware store if this is considered easier than a one liner in Perl (or even PHP oh god it burns)! :) Perhaps I misunderstand - and please forgive me if I do. But, do you recommend he write

Re: [Hampshire] obfuscated code

2011-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
; $ echo -n 'Andy Smith' | perl -MHTML::Entities -ne 'print HTML::Entities::encode_entities_numeric($_, \x0-\xfff), \n' #x41;#x6E;#x64;#x79;#x20;#x53;#x6D;#x69;#x74;#x68; If you're using vi/vim as an editor you can replace text with the output of a command, so if you had a line like so

Re: [Hampshire] Suggestion for low-power file server to run at home

2011-03-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 08:00:05AM +, Michael Pavling wrote: For about the same price as the Guruplug, you can get an HP Microserver. Apples and oranges though, so just really an idea as a comparison: £200 with £100 cash-back

Re: [Hampshire] aliasing domains in Debian Apache2

2011-03-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:14:31PM +, john lewis wrote: I have successfully set up 3 virtual sites on my server startx.co.uk one of these is http://startx.co.uk/KingsclereHistory the content of this website was originally hosted elsewhere with the URL

Re: [Hampshire] ssh permission denied?

2011-01-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:34:36AM +, Hugo Mills wrote: It needn't be a single root-gaining attack: it could be a combination of a remote non-root attack (e.g. on apache) and a local root escalation. If this is a Debian install then the recent Exim exploit is a good candidate.

Re: [Hampshire] ssh permission denied?

2011-01-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:12:50PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote: exim4 (4.69-9+lenny1) stable-security; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team. * Fix SMTP file descriptors being leaked to processes invoked with ${run...} * Fix memory corruption issue in

[Hampshire] London Hackspace second Arduino for Beginners workshop

2011-01-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, Last time I mentioned London Hackspace's Arduino for Beginners workshop a fair few people contacted me expressing dismay that they missed it. The Hackspace is now planning a second weekend workshop and it's still £100 for 2 days (£80 for members), which is fantastic value for money. See

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Anyone stream the KT tunstall concert on Radio2 recently?

2010-12-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:20:37PM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: This is (apparently... I haven't checked) an mp3 rip of the audio: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4cq4j4 Is the above what you were looking for? Is this it: Jo Whiley presents a headline gig from KT Tunstall live at Abbey Road

Re: [Hampshire] IPV6 - was Anyone know much about IPv6 tunnels?

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 07:33:24PM +, Chris Dennis wrote: On the subject of IPV6... The end of IPV4 has been proclaimed for years, but it hasn't happened. Like a lot of scarcity issues there isn't a single day where the day before there was some, and today there's not, that being

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone know much about IPv6 tunnels?

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Vic, On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:20:24PM -, Vic wrote: The bit I was missing was my local network config - the proto-41 packets were getting to the router, but no further. The fix was just to tell aiccu where to put them - by using the local_ipv4_override parameter in the config file.

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] FOSDEM?

2010-12-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Adrian, On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:42:45PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 00:30:06 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: Hello, Anyone planning to go to FOSDEM in February 2011? Definitely looking at it yes, missed last year. Cool. I've booked Eurostar for Friday

[Hampshire] FOSDEM?

2010-12-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, Anyone planning to go to FOSDEM in February 2011? http://fosdem.org/2011/ Perhaps we can coincide our Eurostar bookings... Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Running a script that needs to do a rooty thing

2010-11-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Victor, On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:15:22PM +, Victor Churchill wrote: I have been asked to make a Perl script that does some stuff with Apache's config (adds a virtual host) and then does an apache2ctl graceful to tell Apache to re-read its config files. I concur with Dominic's

Re: [Hampshire] heads up - UK Online ISP closing January

2010-11-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi trotter, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:38:48PM +, trotter wrote: On 15/11/10 22:51, alan c wrote: I happen to be using UKOnline ISP and have just discovered they are being shut down by their now owner, SKY. [...] Holy mackerel ! I have all my email on there and it looks like my email

[Hampshire] The perils of SaaS (Was Re: Due Diligence of Service Providers)

2010-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jan, On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 04:28:14PM -, Jan Henkins wrote: I think I'm getting old, since I read this thread with a growing sense of horror. If you outsource the total gamut of your IT infrastructure in a SaaS sense (fancy name for cloud-space), are you really saving in the long

Re: [Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

2010-11-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Imran, On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:20:13PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote: The backup service providers are often US-based small businesses who outsource functions to other service providers such as Amazon Web Services. What is the best way to perform due diligence on these small companies?

[Hampshire] Noone (Was Re: Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs)

2010-10-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 05:57:35PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: As for no one or no-one or noone, my (somewhat dated) copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage suggests that no one is preferred.

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Man jailed over computer password refusal

2010-10-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Sean, On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:26:03PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: Interesting point: what if I hand over the password and it doesn't work: oh dear, I must have forgotten it officer! Is it therefore technically illegal to password protect a system and not keep a copy of the password

Re: [Hampshire] Southampton BarCamp

2010-09-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote: This BarCamp is being held in Southampton in November. I'm thinking about going, anyone else interested? http://www.eventbrite.com/event/858747537 Sure, I'll be there. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop BIOS settings

2010-08-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Sean, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:55:09AM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: I can't answer the the question as to why this is present, but I suspect that there will be something that explains the reason for this on the laptop manufacturer's Web site or in the manual. If it's anything like the

Re: [Hampshire] [Slightly OT] Arduino coding help - pointers to structs

2010-08-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Andy, On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:50:02PM -0400, Andy Random wrote: Andy - since you are a member of London Hackspace and will probably hear about it before I do, if there is another course run at a later date could you let the list (or me directly if you prefer) know about it please?

Re: [Hampshire] [Slightly OT] Arduino coding help - pointers to structs

2010-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Paul, On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:12:16PM +0100, p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk wrote: Sorry this is a bit OT but I believe there is Arduino expertise here :) I've no idea about your question, however I would like to point you towards London Hackspace (http://london.hackspace.org.uk/) where there

Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Windows

2010-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Keith, On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:24:37PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: We contacted WD support to find out which version did support those disks, and where we could download it from, and we were told: the drive is question can be tested on windows only Are they requiring you to run

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki

2010-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Adam, On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:52:18AM +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: 1) Leave as is, and hope I and a few others still have the will to keep the viagra adds to a minimum. It would be good if something was done, but if nothing can be then I think a spam-filled wiki is still better than

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Begging email

2010-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Adam, On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 02:33:54PM +0100, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, I don't suppose anyone has recently bought a digital TV or FreeView HD set- top-box recently and has a redundant FreeView set-top-box to get rid of? Will this work as one? I have a spare Grundig Sky set-top

Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:29:40PM +0100, Leo wrote: I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo ThinkPad SL510. General googling indicates linux should work ok with it. However; I was wondering if anyone had any good or bad experience with Lenovo laptops and linux? I've had two Thinkpads so far.

[Hampshire] Graphing library for arbitrary number of datasources

2010-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, I'm wanting to create historical graphs -- most likely stacked area graphs -- of some things in a database. Normally I use RRD when I want to graph things, but RRD files have a fixed number of data sources when they are created and adding data sources is a bit of a pain. This will have new

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