Well, this is a simple issue.
When you check 3D support in Vbox, with the VirtualGuestTools that
need to be compiled inside the guest, should simply be recompiled when
3D is checked. DO NOT check 2D as that seems a windows only thing.
Another cause is how much RAM you allocate to your video
Ooops.
There may be /some/ options. If you are able to single user (by-passing
a lot of normal boot procedure) are able to manually bring up network
interfaces, you may be able to edit the version pulled by apt in
/etc/apt/sources.list (or .d variety) and downgrade.
It may also be simply
With all due respect, LDAP is nice and all and is quite versatile and
useful etc etc etc.
However, as much I am a hardcore BSD/Linux user, m$ active directory
excretes all over LDAP many, many fold, as hard as it is for me to admit
this. I wont go into all the technicals, using Linux for LDAP
I use a mix of logcheck for system logs; can be output to a file on a
www or via email, munin for pretty graphs on stats of all kinds,
geolyzer (webalyzer with geopip support) to report on squid httpd,
all of this is wondered together with a simple shell script as CGI on
the httpd.
I've been using it for years. Flown a boeing from new york to london.
Hardware wise it's always been quite intense. nVidia GPU's however has
always surpassed it's need. I still play it sometimes today on a netbook
PC. Dual core AMD w/ ATI 9000 series mobile graphics. Joystick I've
used was
On 25/02/2012 18:19, Paul Tansom wrote:
** Chris Denniscgden...@btinternet.com [2012-02-25 14:43]:
Thanks for all the replies.
I've just scored a D-Link DIR-615 router on eBay for £10, which I'll use
for messing about with OpenWRT. If that doesn't work, the Linksys
E-series look promising.
Another way is to use a livecd to run fsck on the drive.
fsck -y -c /dev/locationofdrivePartition
-c will also run a simple read-test on sectors of the drive, in case there are
'bad-sectors' - This will take a wee while. -y will just answer yes to any and
all questions (which may be
Depends how the error occurred.
Clone the data than run a fsck -cc it will count how many fubars it detects.
I have drives 8 years + old that are still going strong, with a couple with
patched out areas from when a computer had the power removed abruptly. No more
pending failures or errors
The feature you are looking for is static port mapping. Ive never used linux
box for natting so anyone who knows iptables will help.
Sent from an HTC Mobile. Expect worse typos and grammar
James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I understand how to do network address and
another way is to do 1:1 NAT if u have multiple WAN IPs or remove NAT
altogether.
NAT is not security.
Sent from an HTC Mobile. Expect worse typos and grammar
Ian Grody l...@grody.me.uk wrote:
The feature you are looking for is static port mapping. Ive never used linux
box for natting so
On Tuesday 24 January 2012 18:15:06 James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience of both ntp and ptp ?
Which is likely to be better (keep them synced to the best accuracy
and lowest variance) at syncing three PCs on a LAN without a switch
that supports ptp?
My understanding
a wealth of benefits over NTP mind, but looks to be more
geared toward cluster computing.
Ian
On Tuesday 24 January 2012 18:53:03 Ian Grody wrote:
On Tuesday 24 January 2012 18:15:06 James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience of both ntp and ptp ?
Which is likely
Neither on my Debian, Gentoo or Ubuntu box.
However, I use xscreensaver to lock my screen on all of the above.
On Thursday 19 January 2012 09:30:44 Freaky Clown wrote:
I dont normally let out stuff like this, but thought you lot should known.
So far confirmed with:
Gentoo
Fedora
Quite clearly an idiots mishap of not checking config files that may have been
changed from updated packages.
Admin error.
I even installed these dists in a vbox to try, editing the xorg files manually
and non fell victim to this attack.
RTFM maybe?
/flame
Ian
On Thursday 19 January 2012
I've found novatech in portsmouth that a few of their floor staff are versed on
Linux. Two years ago when I bought one their branded no-name laptops they had
fedora, mandriva and Ubuntu live CDs for those few of us that wanted to poke.
They won't let you use your own firestick etc. In case it
On Saturday 14 January 2012 10:09:44 t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote:
AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430
Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core)
a
Radeon 65xx series GPU. These tend to be pretty purdy, even my 5400
mobile GPU
is quite nice.
Now now ladies this is a LUG, not a whores handbag club :-P
Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
On 14/01/12 18:35, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said:
It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat.
I enjoy a drink as
AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430
Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core) a
Radeon 65xx series GPU. These tend to be pretty purdy, even my 5400 mobile GPU
is quite nice.
The ASUS is dual core, 4 threads per-core @2.4GHz can turbo upto 3GHz. It
even supports
On Sunday 01 January 2012 11:03:03 Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
I think I'm going to take the plunge with Zen's Fibre Active package.
I've done a lot of reading but I can't find anywhere answers to my key
questions - grateful if anyone can fill in the gaps:
1) Starting at the
You say developed, was this not an issue before?
It would be best to attempt to replicate from another OS. If you are fancy
enough to have an Android device, androvnc and connectbot (ssh client) are
free to download and test with.
Ian
On Saturday 10 December 2011 19:06:24 Rob Malpass wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2011 09:28:41 Edward Beckmann wrote:
Hi
I want to listen to a webex webinar session and also record it, but am
struggling to find a recent posting on forums about what to record with.
Anyone had success with this please?
Currently on ubuntu 10.04 netbook, mint 9
On Saturday 03 December 2011 12:10:40 Vic wrote:
Hi All.
We're having real problems becoming quorate at the AGM - if anyone is
planning to come, please do so :-)
Vic.
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On Thursday 01 December 2011 22:28:54 Steven Swann wrote:
Hello All,
Just a quick email to register my intent to come along to the meeting
this Saturday. This will be my first meet with any LUG so I'm not really
too sure what to expect.
A little about me: I have been using Linux for the
On Wednesday 30 November 2011 20:58:22 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
Hi,
Some time ago I mentioned I was changing phone company and ISP.
For the record BT terminated my account correctly on the day I changed to
the PhoneCoop.
TalkTalk are still billing me 4 months after they stopped
I dont partake in many of the LUGs, not as much as I'd like, but I'd be up for
general officer / promoter etc. try to get people up for giving talks. Not
sure how good I'd be at it, but never know until you try eh?
On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:50:28 Adam John Trickett wrote:
Hello,
You
Looks good Tim :-)
On Tuesday 15 November 2011 20:49:43 Tim wrote:
Testing to see if I can post yet.
Sorry to bother anybody
Tim
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Try a freebsd to mount it. Linux hfs+ has always been flakey
James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was intending to do some file recovery on a friends Mac OS X laptop.
Plan was as follows:
1) take a dd image of the laptop hard disk. (worked fine, remove HD
from laptop,
Acpi bug probably. Does halt do the same?
Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote:
My server (Debian stable) has developed a habit of sometimes restarting
rather than shutting down when I run
shutdown -h now
Has anyone else seen this, as Googling and looking at logs has got me
nothing so far.
Thanks,
vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and
/etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you
adduser you get to choose what shell
Owain Clarke simb...@cooptel.net wrote:
On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote:
The shell for each user is defined
Indeed, best to run your own. If you want it simple to setup, check out SME
Server http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
Ian
Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hello folks
Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service
with lots of room? i.e. multiple
On Monday 17 October 2011 15:06:37 Philip Stubbs wrote:
Can anybody tell me how this works:-
http://www.bluecarbon.com/how-it-works.html
Nah, it's for real.. Ask RedSquare Services... They seemed to have gotten very
embarrassed when I asked them about it
Remember, Blue is the new Green -
to drop like a lead
balloon when your line resyncs and keeps you and a much slower rate than your
sync speed, sometimes forcing a 20Meg synched line to work at 2/3Meg. Then
spend weeks for it to come back to real-life.
Martin N
At 18:45 07/10/2011, Ian Grody wrote:
Seconded. BE ADSL lines
Annex A upto 16 down and _1_.3 up sorry
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Seconded. BE ADSL lines are less prone to BT provided ones. No DLM for one.
James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote:
I would vote for Be here or Andrews and Arnolds over a Be line.
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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.
Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote:
Hi all
Yes this old
(1) battery life, which is an industry wide problem,
so pick up a spare battery from Amazon, and (2) not enough internal
storage - you can indeed add a microsd but not all apps can use it.
Battery life is a tad terrible yea, but running CM7 i get the whole day out of
it most of the time. For
The ZTE Blade (Orange San Francisco) is a far better choice than the Wildfire
S. Same specs, but has a 640x480 screen and better display overall. Even if
you do get one locked to orange, there are free aps on Android Market that
will work out your SIM unlock code easy peasy.
I use an HTC
KDEnlive, Pitivi and Kino are what i mostly use.
There are a few more, Open Movie Editor and Openshot Video Editor. Stopmotion
too. GIMP also has a GAP (Gimp Animation Plugin) which can assist with adding
funky artwork to clips.
On Thursday 29 September 2011 14:12:54 Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
Some a little OT..
ATX Case w/ Motherboard CPU+HS+FAN (intel celeron 3GHz, ATI mobo) - No
memory, HDD or PSU.
VHF/UHF Antenna (Biconical like) - Used on old Kenwood R5000 rig (not
included)
Sony VAIO laptop (not working (BIOS issue). Good working screen battery,
keyboard is shot mind. CPU
Im more surprised people don't use google.
Took me two mins to concoct MakeMKV and DumpHD. The latter actually working.
Blueray playback linux
I dont watch much movies, just use the drive for backups. But thought heck to
it!
DumpHD even provide a lengthy list of keys to use to decrypt your
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 15:09:57 Ian Park wrote:
I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an
old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from
Jamie's. I started with Smoothwall v2.0, and added extra RAM when I
upgraded to Smoothwall v3.0;
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 02:50:48 Mike Burrows wrote:
The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't
have to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just
make the folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod
g+w /home/ftp
You can get AP's that cleverly talk to one another and adjust themselves to
their environment. I have seen them in other equipment too, Firetide being the
one I remember most. They are really designed for large setups, hospitals,
campus, large venues in fields or what not with hundreds of
On Sunday 11 September 2011 16:46:50 Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
For reasons of speed, I've not had chance to google this thoroughly so I do
apologise if this is a well known bug - well 2 bugs actually...
I'm running Ubuntu natty inside Virtualbox (host is Windows 7 fwiw). 2
On Friday 09 September 2011 05:32:47 Mike Burrows wrote:
I am messing with the above on my home Ubuntu Hardy Server. When I
first set up the ftp server I could login anonymously but could not
upload. Makes sense as the permissions on the default /home/ftp
directory have to be changed. So
On Friday 09 September 2011 18:45:16 Mike Burrows wrote:
The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder,
doesn't have
to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just
make the
folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod g+w
Hey
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 18:30:48 Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
A simple question: What is a firewall server? I've not heard of this
term before.
Is it:
a) A pretty low spec server that's not got much processing power beyond
that required to run ipcop or something
Turn off your router wait it out. Most ISP's will disconnect your session in
event of dDoS anyway.
Unless, the dDoS is not saturating all your available bandwidth, you just make
sure your firewalls and hosts do not send ICMP Port/Dest/Host/Net Unreachable
or TCP resets. Blackhole everything
On Monday 05 September 2011 17:51:47 Andy Smith wrote:
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
Setting no read/write/exec perms on all files and subdirs in a certain folder
on a shared user system...
root@local: chmod -R 000 /
instead of,
chmod -R 000 ./
it took a while to get it all back running!
On Friday 19 August 2011 10:21:06 Edward Beckmann wrote:
Hi All
As it's friday and
pfSense m0n0wall both have VERY capable captive portals.
Both free/opensource downloads.
These are FreeBSD based firewall/router distros. pfSense 2.0 has a superior
captive portal to 1.2.3 more features.
I have never used m0n0walls, but have heard it is good. pfSense's i can vouch
for and
I use an LTO-2 half height, it's a SAS (serial attached SCSI) effort but only
seems to manage 400GB a go (uncompressed).. However, they are relatively fast
and can manage around 80TB/hr transfers, it reckons more but with my hardware
complement this is what I achieve.
Some of these are quite
On Thursday 14 July 2011 12:19:59 Chris Dennis wrote:
Hello folks
I find myself being tempted away from the reliable plainness of
UKFSN/Entanet broadband towards the glossy excitement of BT broadband.
For these reasons:
* I need a new wifi router anyway, and I'll get a free one with BT.
Which router is it?
Usually mapping WAN: to LAN:22 is should automatically remap the returns
packets. Not sure if your particular router needs an additional firewall rule,
most automatically do so per-mapping.
You could always change the sshd to too! :-)
Ian
On Wednesday 22 June
Hey Rob,
On Sunday 19 June 2011 12:15:23 Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
Can anyone recommend a (preferred) distance learning course on networking /
telecomms? I simply can't find anything at the OU that fits the bill - if
anyone knows a good one please let me know. Please excuse the
Hi Rob,
You would usually run independent cables from each ethernet socket. These then
connect into a central hub or switch, or similar.
Drilling as few holes as possible is always the best practice. It all depends
how your house is constructed on what would be the easiest way to do it. If
Your safest bet would be a routerboard, either the 750G or the 450G.
http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=194 is probably the best place to get
them from.
As I understand it, version 5 of RouterOS supports mini-jumbos over PPP,
allowing full 1500 MTU frame, yes, over PPPoE :-) (1508)
They
Hey all,
I have a new project plan coming up but am in dia need for reliable FreeBSD
VPS. I have found switchlink, who so far seem reliable. Google yields little
results would love to hear from anyone who may be fortunate enough to know
of places that are reliable.
Xen HVM is preferred and
If you have a relatively powerful spare PC, use pfSense. This has AV proxy,
Snort w/ ET THREATS standard rules (VPS if you pay snort for them). It also
supports a wealth of other things not found in SOHO routers, or router
distros.
You can easily firewall, segregate, bridge or whatever into
On Saturday 07 May 2011 12:41:55 Ian Grody wrote:
If you have a relatively powerful spare PC, use pfSense.
By this, I use a P3 533MHz w/ runs snort and av proxy fine. This box handles 34
users at any one time too! :-)
This has AV proxy,
Snort w/ ET THREATS standard rules (VPS if you pay
Another option is to use 5Ghz wifi. There is much less noise far more
bandwidth on the spectrum. Plus on Band B 5Ghz, you can kick out upto 1W
EIR, which can range pants loads more than 2.4Ghz. 5Ghz also permeates
walls large obstructions better. It would however mean refitting
everything that
LCN... (formerly Telivo) The only ones I stick with now. Good pricing,
excellent control panel, does all the trimmings you need (DNS
management / email web forwarding, GLUE, multiple profiles for RIPE
etc.) Not sure they accept Paypal though...
Never had to contact them for support either, so
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 09:06 +, john lewis wrote:
I was using Gallery2 on my original VPS running on lenny which I'd
installed from the sid repo.
Gallery2 hasn't even made it into testing, or rather it did but was
withdrawn for some reason so isn't likely to get into squeeze any time
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