to cobble it in rather than buying the correct
bracket.
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Interestingly - some KVM switches support dual monitors now.
Another option is to buy a new separate monitor and lose the KVM switch
completely - probably quite similar costs.
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Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM:
... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly?
Now I have that damn nursery song in my head... over and over.
Thanks, Steve.
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with specific firewall rules.
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-can-eat connection for double-digits/month.
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Screen, XP Home (OS Pre-installed)
I second this - those are good enough and cheap enough so that it pays
for itself if it lasts more than 18 months. And generally the
ex-corporate ones have had an easy life.
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better in a 64 bit kernel.
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not have DSL by choice. Ever.
My folks got a linksys WAG54G2 - new about $150 at the time. Does
everything and has fair wireless range despite having no external
aerials. Probably you'd get an 802.11N variant nowdays.
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phone?
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://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11866
$2 USD each, free shipping.
I'm going to buy a couple dozen for our new office cell phones.
If you're leery about buying from an asian place over the web please let
me know and I'll get a couple spares.
The downside is shipping can be several weeks.
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exceptions which are raid5. For them,
we found the defaults is good enough unless you push numbers right
out to the ends, where performance drops off massively.
Even the default settings should be enough to saturate gig ethernet.
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. Then again...
that seagate firmware bug last year affected many models/sizes
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similar.
So you'd get all 6 TB of storage, but with no protection.
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it fantastic - go for it.
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the ipad
at all. Rather spendy, but looks very pretty.
No idea if you can get to terminal.app still.
And thats a BSDish not linux.
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Craig Falconer wrote, On 07/04/10 13:33:
Robert Fisher wrote, On 07/04/10 12:23:
I looked at netbooks but in the end bought a ex lease Dell D420 from
laptop universe. Reasons:
I have had an ex lease Dell D410 for ages and like it for the same
reasons
Nick mentioned.
Have we eliminated all
/
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, something like:
init 1
mkdir /home/var
rsync -avH /var /home/var
mv /var /var.old
ln -s /home/var /var
reboot
In the future use PVs and create enough space for what you need, with
some spare extents for adding to LVs later, if needed.
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hard for you with LVM already in use.
Run pvdisplay and look for Free PE If you have some then its easy.
Else you'll have to free some space. What filesystem is /home ? I
understand ext2 and ext3 can be shrunk but xfs and jfs cannot. No idea
about ext4.
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from the sheer age of the original.
Disks were much smaller and having a separate disk for /usr /home /var
and mail was much more likely.
We've just taken that restriction and called it a feature.
LVM is one way around this, now that disks have got much larger.
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Roy Britten wrote, On 29/03/10 23:31:
The image was created on the same machine with no real problems.
So what created the image? I'm guessing its a map.
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it to split it ?
Can you just print the 6 original pieces ?
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...
I know it might be considered a bit analogue, but have you thought about
buying the printed topomap for the area?
mapworld in 255 Manchester Street (0800 627 967) should have what you need.
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Tom Munro Glass wrote, On 29/03/10 11:11:
Mar 28 22:56:50 localhost init: Id ACM0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Your problem is that init is bringing up the process and failing. Not
that its logging too much.
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Tom Munro Glass wrote, On 29/03/10 11:24:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:19:33 Craig Falconer wrote:
Tom Munro Glass wrote, On 29/03/10 11:11:
Mar 28 22:56:50 localhost init: Id ACM0 respawning too fast: disabled
for 5 minutes
Your problem is that init is bringing up the process and failing
soon.
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gets a vodem/aircard/t3g card.
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run as
screen -d -m /opt/WebShell/webshell.py
Source is in /usr/src/WebShell*
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.
Or you could install linux on your desktop.
Or look at your aliases once logged in... perhaps you don't want colour
ls listings.
Like good open source - theres five different ways for you to go :)
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like they were going out of fashion.
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it,
and the hole keeps filling with water.
They have pumps in the truck for that, and spanky wee tents to keep the
rain off.
I'd be more worried about the lead and tar sheathe they use to
waterproof the bundles. Using a gas blowtorch to soften the lead and
make it watertight again...
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-- anywhere anywhere
...
Or if this is something you'll do more in the future then look at a
proper VPN setup.
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Steve Holdoway wrote, On 05/03/10 11:17:
What do people recommend? I'm sick of gtwitter crashing for no apparent
reason! Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit platform...
nothing.
Twitter is so insanely pointless.
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with RCA connectors.
A couple months later I needed a spare cable to run composite video to a
projector - grabbed this and it worked perfectly.
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/2009-August/015729.html
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there is an opt out .. its called find another provider ..
I guess the next question is who?
Craig Falconer wrote:
Paul Swafford wrote, On 04/03/10 11:50:
I've started working more from home lately .. sadly I'm on Telecom DSL
I've noticed a lot of caching going on .. particularly (but not only)
when
the house again.
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://www.cdlnz.com/index.html?do=viewproductcode=RJ-45%20SRID=2689415
DYNAMIX RJ-45 8P8C Modular Plug (Round, Solid) - 50 micron
25 cents each ++
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.asp
That one even measures token ring round-trip time and corrupt packet
generation. Its worth around $25k.
And, heres the hit, can someone in ChCh lend me one?
Of course!
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.
After that, all the updated versions should work much better.
vsftp is 2.2.2-3
openssh is 1:5.3p1-1
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, but I'd perform a dist-upgrade to etch, then to stable
if you're going that route.
But, tbh, I'd do a clean install of lenny (stable) in preference.
Yes quite right - and if the new box is 64 bit capable, just do that
from the start.
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for fear of breaking
who-knows-what
Please tell me this box is not facing the internet.
You're just asking for a security compromise running a distro that old.
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have a windows 2000 server on the net, and a fedora core
3 server doing critical stuff for a corporate.
You do have backups, right Glenn ?
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Aidan Gauland wrote, On 26/02/10 21:41:
I'm glad to see the labs have Emacs 23 this year. I love Emacs.
Dunno why - vi is everywhere, emacs isn't.
Even if you hate it, you still have to know how to use it.
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network.
Better check the aup.
I vaguely remember running afterstep as a window manager on the old sun
3/50. I had the binary statically compiled in my home directory and it
worked fairly well. Depends how much of your profile is automatically
generated. (mush!)
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for the next user.
I guess a terminal server environment isn't appropriate ?
If you want to do things that don't effect other users, and improve
your learning... that is what the department wants you to do.
That's not what you said back then!
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local wireless networks (but not mine) and
it connects up fine at other wireless hotspots etc.
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motherboard, get a PCI SATA card and shove all those drives in one
box, and maybe a couple more besides.
Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this?
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. Also
Liebert are excellent.
Dynamix is fine for a low-end UPS, and in their favour they use alarm
SLA batteries which are reasonably cheap. Brand name UPSs use whacky
battery packs that cost a significant amount.
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and their desire to integrate to a specific framework.
I'm sure it'll resolve in time though. Or fork.
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, either an SSD or HDD. This
is a 1.8 form factor thing, and price spy is not helping me.
Neither is google.
Can someone recommend a place where I can find a 1.8 SSD or HDD, or
a google search term that it actually useful?
Christopher Sawtell
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to be a gamer (or so he says)
Perhaps its age / dress / mannerisms / conversations about frag rounds
and the best strategy for placing snoods.
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-as presently.
http://forum.vodafone.co.nz/forum/8-network-issues/ says nothing since
Jan 25th.
Ya gets whats ya pays for
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interfaces that are up.
dmesg | grep -i ethshould give some kind of hints
lspci | grep -i eth also should suggest something useful
Is the onboard NIC disabled in the BIOS ?
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alter or delete.
Oh yeah that's probably most likely.
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posting short pros and cons to start a discussion?
twm and a bunch of xterms - what more do you want ?
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they can do
for me.
Nothing is more soul destroying than doing work for someone and it goes
to custard.
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Brett Davidson wrote, On 13/01/10 12:40:
My Aunt lives out there and I'm a little too busy to fix her Windows
machine at present.
Get it on topic = give her a linux box :)
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line up with total list membership in the year.
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term.
I do miss some of those more... amusing posts.
BTW-today alone, we've doubled the number of list messages in this year.
...and that makes this thread a meta-meta-topic?
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one port plugged.
Even if laptop is running off its own battery.
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-%Td %TT %p\n | sort -r | head
Newest files
%Ta Day of week as well
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- there's no pole mounted camera or anything, and I
didn't get close enough to see the driver or any gear inside.
I'm curious enough to order the carjam report and see who owns it.
Anyone know any more than that?
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. Not exactly
industrial quality.
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splitter, or 802.11 wireless messing with a 2.4 GHz
cordless phone.
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.
And a lot of it comes down to your budget.
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CPUs have it yet.
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Roger Searle wrote, On 29/10/09 10:47:
Craig Falconer wrote:
Then two ways to progress
0Boot in single user mode
1Add one new drive to the machine, partition it with similar but
larger partitions as appropriate.
2Then use
mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdb4
mdadm
and/or how to fix the problem.
Sounds like udev is doing it wrong. You could twiddle udev, or add the
user that cups runs as, to the group which owns /dev/lp0 and then gets
affected by the group ( middle 6) in the permissions, rather than the
world permissions.
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Is this a good process to follow or is it redundant/unnecessary?
Craig Falconer wrote:
Sounds silly actually - remove the only good drive as you add the
blank one?
Perhaps I have confused things by quoting that line direct from the man
page rather than changing to reflect my actual devices
Nick Rout wrote, On 22/10/09 15:50:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Craig Falconer
cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Phill Coxon wrote, On 22/10/09 14:33:
I woke up to an automated email saying that we'd blown our 40Gb xtra
ADSL traffic quota for the month and were now paying 2c / MB etc
blocks [2/1] [U_]
md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
1951808 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
19534912 blocks [2/1] [U_]
unused devices: none
Cheers,
Roger
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:02-Oct-2010 18:03:30 UTC
The current owner of the domain has listed his full contact details
though, which isn't normal. Perhaps you could give him a call and ask
about it :-)
To misquote... A domain is for life, not one renewal cycle.
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steve wrote, On 16/10/09 13:43:
Has anyone played with this? It's my understanding that I just need to
be able to talk pppoe on the ethernet uplink, and all will be well?
Yes - its nice.
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Kerry wrote, On 13/10/09 19:25:
I hope this isn't an example of their service, I've just signed up with them.
No - they're pretty stable normally, so whatever blew up must have been
major.
They've been a bit laggier than xtra DSL is the only gripe.
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/usr/local
7 /opt
plus a list of installed packages, and anything else critical.
OR you can do some kind of rsync backup to another machine with a large
drive and use that to restore.
RAID1 is good, and disks are cheap enough these days.
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, but everything
on my home network is fine.
Yeah - no egress filtering... so anyone on your network can be going out
without question. Might be okay for a home network... maybe.
You can't assume there's nothing dodgy on your LAN.
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what you want.
Regards
Michael
Link to linux? Lets put it this way, I don't want an IE solution :)
Nick.
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-meter measured a solid 1.5 Amps of
power when it was running, and 0.5 Amps even when it was totally off.
That's a lot of power - I think it was $30 a month when running 24/7.
My comparison my desktop uses ~0.3 amps, and my atom laptop is about
0.12 amps.
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statement modified - Server class gear uses lots of power
(more than modern PCs) and costs a fair bit to run.
Gosh - I have a mad urge to go watch some muppets episodes now
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stick, so
that you're not tied down to a specific location/property.
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a day.
If you are still unsure - get a 2talk free account - allows you to make
15 minutes/month of voip calls for nothing. And you can get a softphone
for linux or windows so there's no hardware costs to trial.
Of course if your DSL is ratelimited then voip will be pretty terrible.
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Daniel Hill wrote, On 24/09/09 09:48:
Recomended Naked DSL provider? I found http://www.xnet.co.nz/fusion/
but it's bundle only
I can't make any recommendations as I use cable.
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Nick Rout wrote, On 24/09/09 12:25:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Craig Falconer
cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Daniel Hill wrote, On 24/09/09 09:48:
Recomended Naked DSL provider? I found http://www.xnet.co.nz/fusion/
but it's bundle only
I can't make any recommendations as I use cable
to somewhere like
2talk for $cheap. Specially if you'll be calling the UK a lot.
Feel free to email me off list for more info
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Maurice
-Original Message-
From: ke...@katipo.net.nz [mailto:ke...@katipo.net.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 2:02 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:59:09 +1200, Craig Falconer
cfalco
the home LV has 2 segments - it has already been expanded once.
Note also that LVM is not RAID. LVM provides only convenience, and no
additional reliability in itself.
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. Shouldn't have to do anything with bootloaders though.
Another option... even with 9.25GB +17ishGB is only adding 26GB. Add
another drive for $150ish and get another 1TB.
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consider?
Try an atom board with a CF card or a netboot, and run something like
Thinstation, which is a bootable linux install.
I've used RDP or firefox but not together. Might be good to try.
http://www.thinstation.org/
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steve wrote, On 16/09/09 09:18:
Alternatively ( SIMPLEST SOLUTION! ), mounting the spare 9GB as /var
or /usr and copying the stuff over may give you enough space... copy,
then remove when happy! - you'll need a live CD to do that.
Excellent solution - I agree with Steve.
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not work
the same image file opens without problems under qemu-0.9
Any ideas appreciated, thanks
Does virt-manager tell you anything more helpful? What about /var/log/ ?
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.
Agreed - and they're quite cheap, and good for DLink devices that cook
their own PSUs after a couple years.
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elinks
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.
...Just did a retest and got 47.9/1.86 Mbit. Yay for the internet.
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to 33.6
http://www.modemsite.com/56K/x2-linklimit.asp might help.
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