rivals to flash in such genuinely useful domains
as...
http://www.swivel.com
http://www.gapminder.org/
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A bloke here is going to set up a Linux based school network in
Pakistan, but needs to do a dry run here to make sure he has
everything right before he goes.
Anybody got a spare Pentium 4 grade PC he can borrow for 2 weeks?
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it does a nice text-only links like rendering of
html, so thats OK. Which means it's more than usually pointless to
send me viral / viral infected / joke / chain emails... All the hearts and
puppies and blinking stars just get dropped out. :-)
Sigh! Happy me. I like alpine.
John Carter
... you can do both. Get silly
Human Resources Happy Making Qualification _and_ ride the wave of
embedded devices in everything.
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...you know you're a Linux Geek when ...
...you have the ogg's from Battle for Wesnoth (svn latest) on your mp3
player, just 'cos you like the music.
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up, or firefox has grown additional features that render
them obsolete.
The UI change on firefox 3 is a bit of a shock, but you rapidly grow
to like it.
All in all, I have no substantive issues to report, just nicer /
slicker better.
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:04:01 +1000 (EST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Never knew Little River was in a different time zone as well!
Yip by about twenty years! :-)
(I'm snarky because I'm jealous... Little River is a lovely place)
John Carter
/showthread.php?t=771541
Hmm. Not quite enough info to even corner which thing is doing it.
Try dig out and post all vaguely relevant bits of /var/log/boot or the
output of dmesg.
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Hmm. Ok, you right, not even at a point where you can get dmesg to run
That workaround looks like one to try At least get you booted and
able to pull in any fixes.
Good luck.
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about and had forgotten what the config on it was.
That freaked out the update-manager.
So I removed that package and reran the update-manager, completed the
update and restarted.
And things seem to carry on OK.
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of the pre-release
you install will be exactly the ones in the released version, and
update-manager will in a gentile manner, cough the rest of them on
to your disk a day or so later.
2008/4/23 John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
They are slowly getting this release thing down pat.
I now have
not to
respond with IP addresses, but merely an offer of a bootfile, that the
operator at the laptop end can choose from.
Sigh! Now if I can only work out what that is...
I love having wireshark (on a minihub) :-))
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enforcing copyright over audiobooks? That's
just plain sick. This civilization is sick.
Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to make up something using embedded
Linux, festival and sox. I mean the UI needs to be hideously simple.
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a
year for a subscription is hopeless.
And they're still hung up on the delivered to your door thing. They are
still hung up on the notion that books are something physical and
bound by copyright.
If they just unlock the library doors... so many other options would
present themselves.
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and it survives (sometimes), but
CD's get pretty bad with the find out which way is up by feel approach.
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/ tracepath facilities. Network topology discovery
seems to have become a quaint hobby of yesteryear. I miss it.
I'm probing from Tait Electronics, I have no idea even who our ISP is
these days.
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/ Thu, 18 Oct
2007 11:27:55 UTC
567 http://nz2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:27:55 UTC
454 http://ftp.netspace.net.au/pub/ubuntu/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:27:55 UTC
Attached is the script I used
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Rex Johnston wrote:
John Carter wrote:
The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down
Not for me.
Grimace...
I suspect it's our peerless national telecommunications economy at
work.
Either way, I've moved to nz2 and that seems to going fine.
John Carter
.
The only question is whether you'll get the best answer here!
If you don't, other excellent resources are the gcc-help mailing list
and www.linuxquestions.org
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to be more standardised).
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to get crisped if you ask there
about using gcc rather than writing gcc.)
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will only ever use sshfs
or fish.
Smb doesn't have the NFS probs either so could be better.
If I remember correctly this is why they came up with
yellowpagesah no, that name was already booked so they renamed
it to nis.
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factoids that slipped by somewhen I wasn't paying attention.
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my hair out... cant
figure out why it works on one machine and not another...
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screwy. (Didn't actually delete soemstuff I requested.)
* madman - Ubuntu feisty fawn version barfed and died on strange id3 tags.
* I can't remember why I gave up on Juk Kyamo...
Note 6. It seems to switch itself off every now and then for no good reason.
John Carter
| xargs -P 2 -n 1 zgrep -i 'some keyphrase'
Hmm. That's creating hundreds of setups and tear downs for zgrep. How about...
find ~/oldmail -type f | xargs -P 2 -n 5 zgrep -i 'some keyphrase'
Yip. Good balance. Both cores busy full time on useful work.
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.
.
#
Aha! There it is!
So let's try...
# rmmod sr_mod
And bang udev decides it needs sr_mod to handle this device and pulls
it in again... it sees the blank disk, I burn the disk and off we go
without a reboot.
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was required.
Udev had automagically and instantly seen to the reinsertion.
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that has strict egress
filtering in place.
Cheers, Me.
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Douglas Royds wrote:
Grumpy. Rude. Funny:
http://nick.hates-software.com/
I hope he has a really big bottle of industrial strength Mylanta or
equivalent stomach soother.
He has a rough life ahead of him.
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somewhere, if we knew we could fix it. Ask
strace.
I don't understand the initialization sequence, mmaps and what
libraries are being used. Watch things in strace... Wow! Do you learn
a lot.
There is a matching one at the libc level called ltrace.
Say man strace to know more.
John Carter
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 11:02 AM, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To handle the info flood I have my nifty grace script...
Nice script :-)
And much less work than switching to an OS like Solaris or IIRC
FreeBSD, who have Dtrace instead :-)
Hmm, thanks
.
Imagine every smart NZ bloke and blokess having a recentish Jamendo
torrent mirror
(Some of Ehma's stuff on http://www.jamendo.org is my favourite.)
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odds on it comes off your own disk. Cute.
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lolling about in some of the bays on Godley head.
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Roy Britten wrote:
Does anyone have experience with touchscreen monitors? We're wanting
to acquire some (~10 for the first batch) for some kiosks we're
building.
I want I drool I desire
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/
John Carter
It may be a bit of overkill for the task in hand, but by far the best
diff tool out there for Linux systems is meld.
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Ah! But Ruby has Turtles all the way down...
Have a Good Christmas!
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ps:
Python
to experiment and work
out which was optimal.. but that Worked for Me at least Once)
Then
sudo mount -o loop a.iso /mnt
xine file:///mnt
And I can watch the ending of Full Metal Alchemist...
A rather good series actually.
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, John Carter wrote:
ddrescue -r 20 -v /dev/hdd a.iso a.log
sudo mount -o loop a.iso /mnt
xine file:///mnt
Oh yes. Nearly forgot...
You need to recover the valuable 7Gb of disk space this procedure
steals from you
So after watching the DVD
sudo umount /mnt
rm
and understanding.
ObLinux bit Sort of like MSWindows vs Linux really.
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, although I occasionally use
kmlxeditor which has a nice XPATH url bar like thing.
Other handy tools are xmlstarlet for doing minitransforms.
REXML is a native ruby api for throwing xml around.
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Tue 27 Nov 2007 13:37:50 NZDT +1300, John Carter wrote:
ubuntu of late. Debian has ported all their startup stuff to pure
sh, so they have switched to /bin/sh === /bin/dash because it's
faster than bash so Ubuntu/Debian boots faster.
Do you
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Comments?
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you?
ie. _Never_ choose use a password again. ie. _Never_ something like
ch3rry always Always use a passphrase. An easy to remember phrase
from which you take something like the first character of each word.
I'm a lumber jack and I'm OK == IaljaI0K
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--
Maybe I'll also forward all incoming tcp's ports apart from the one I'm
using for ssh to the tarpit.
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, John Carter wrote:
The fiesty to Gutsy ubuntu upgrade is a nightmare in the presence of
* Poxy Firewalls
* apt-cacher
With one or none of those things and I think things would have gone
well.
Ok. It's not so hard
The problem is update-manager attempts to guess
screen real estate I
lost when all this windowsy rubbish came in.
Hmm. Perhaps I can set my colour scheme to back ye olde nice gloomy
green screen...
Hmm. That menu bar and the mini buffer line on emacs aren't doing
anything useful right now... I wonder if I can clobber them too?
John Carter
emacs
cd emacs
./configure --with-gtk --program-suffix=-cvs
make bootstrap
su
make install
emacs-cvs
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left control key has been totally rubbed out
by my little finger.
If my little finger was fubared, then I'd be in deep doo-doo.
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unimagined purposes.
I wish filelight / gdmap did that.
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/
Of course ...
du -akx ~ | sort -n | less
Is ugly, but effective.
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connection to handle the transition.
Note 3 Apparently my problem arose when telecom moved my line to a
new chunk of equipment in preparation for rolling out
ADSL2. ie. Expect ADSL2 within the next 6 months or so, buy only ADSL2
ready modems.
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think you have just touched on the point that worries me most
I'm not in the least bit convinced that the securocrats regards
themselves as having masters, political or otherwise...
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...
I think tonight, if I haven't got through by then
I'm going to be sorely tempted have fun with a ruby script and the
festival speech synthesizer.
Any suggestions for humourous voice robot like things for it to say...
Computer's are just so very very patient.
John Carter
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Fri 24 Aug 2007 14:26:11 NZST +1200, John Carter wrote:
Help me understand a minor point here, please. You are no doubt
intelligent. Exactly why are you with xtra?
Paradise dial up was spotty a year or five ago, so I dumped them
like a dog with mange)
If it's not in a company press release... it can't be happening. :-(
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Carter wrote:
What is needed is a If you have this situation, use one of these guide.
Absolutely correct.
So what are the situations?
Old / low spec box to act as...
* thin client.
* router / firewall
Secure distro
telecom fault report system?
Anyhoo it estimate's it will be over an hour before I can get through
to a real human...
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, spyware
and pop-ups.
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it
explains...
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of a very slow 'net link, even though I heartily commend it to
those with a fast link.
What is needed is a If you have this situation, use one of these guide.
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I love the Linux commmand line.
I use it in preference to any gui and I thrive.
how ever I'm not blind to certain shortcomings that sometimes,
ahh, penetrate the senses.
Sometimes saying RTFM isn't enough...
http://xkcd.com/293/
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spreading?
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. Finally we are going to send Neo
1973 out by UPS, one by one. Want more good news? Yes, all of you can
take advantage from the shipping rate. No matter where...
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/ better? Given
that microcontrollers with all the interfaces + ram + flash you
require are under a dollar a piece, X10 seems unreasonably expensive.
Thanks,
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All of the above... but controlled from Linux PC.
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a component that will a) match an electrical mechanical
spec, b) has a known price c) is in stock.
It all just seems to be way harder than it should be.
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of your starting salary.
I'm not sure what proportion of the agency fee they pay me... I
suspect it is a significant chunk.
Anyone tracking Linux hiring trends in NZ?
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2007-07-12T09:18:34+1200, John Carter wrote:
Ah, I always confuse the names of these two packages. I was referring to
procps.
That's the fun thing about FOSS, it advances on such a wide front,
that there are always new bits appearing someplace
the resource consumption of
two algorithms.
At one stage in the history of me /usr/bin/time was the really quick
and nifty way of doing that. Alas, I need to find others. So anything
more specific on those good tools you mention?
Thanks!
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(username/password client/host).
* Dbase itself
* Cgi scripts going screwy.
* ...
All doable and I've done it many times
I'm just always impressed at how many different levels it can go cockeye.
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(bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
That really doesn't look right. Way too many zeroes everywhere.
Any idea what to use instead?
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to stderr
Shouldn't be too hard. I'd write it myself in 5 minutes 'cept I'd feel
a damn fool. This must exist on my system somewhere already...
Surely!
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2007-07-10T12:04:45+1200, John Carter wrote:
/usr/bin/time -v ls /dev/null
[...]
That really
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, John Carter wrote:
I suspect all the info is there in /proc/self/status
All I need is a wee wrapper, let's for arguments sake call statusWrap that...
statusWrap command
* Looks up command on path.
* forks execs it.
* Somehow catches the exit and before /proc/pid/status
:
CapEff:
Cpus_allowed: 03
Mems_allowed: 1
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introduced a number of the more powerful and handy
ruby libraries around.
If you are fairly new to ruby, this book will certainly help you grok
some of the really handy idioms of ruby.
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), in true
open-source spirit!
Hmm. One solution would be to hack the gsource for ld-linux.so
That'd work very well.
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interest. I get a hiring bonus if they hire you,
I get to have more Linux friendly geeks in the company...and
Canterbury Linux User Group grows bigger. :-)
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it. If it doesn't it says, Oh dear. This one wasn't actually for me. I
better be gnice and exec that interpreter and feed it this script...
All in all, you can tell I have a had rather exotic and frustrating
day or three.
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Kerry Mayes wrote:
Does anyone know of an online or downloadable reference for gdb (gnome
debugger)? On the level of gdb for dummies.
You may find ddd useful. It's a gui wrapper around gdb. (BTW, its Gnu
DeBugger, not Gnome)
John Carter
times. So if it
recommends Christopher's works for your stage of development, I'd go
with thatbut bookmark the Faq.
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:15:41 +1200 (NZST)
John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Alas, when I began I used the Vax C and Borland Turbo C reference
manuals. I don't believe they are online, I don't know.
... bad memories of writing interfaces
evil today... my tail just fuzzes all over...
The New C Standard: An Economic and Cultural Commentary by Derek M Jones.
http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbook.html
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...
http://c-faq.com/resources/tutorials.html
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, John Carter: Did you ever work for the NZPO?
No.
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/
I can has cheezburger seems to be ground zero for these things...
http://icanhascheezburger.com
with
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/17/excuse-me-2/
being most appropriate all links in this conversation.
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see a night of happy computations and analyses of Zipf
Distributions coming up...(I have a small theory...)
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their market penetration in NZ?
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IN-gnuz
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from
1000 objects.
Regards,
Chris
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Install beep package from synaptic...
Alert yourself to a command that takes a long time has completed...
make ; beep
Alert yourself when something noxious appears in a log file..
tail -f /var/log/xferlog | grep --line-buffered 'passwd' | \
beep -f 1000 -r 5 -s
John
) and into ram.
You can get the compiler and the linker to assign functions to
specific sections. For example we assign the part of the flash drivers
that write to flash to be loaded into ram at boot time. Why? Because
we can't execute code out of flash when we are busy writing to it!
John
official replaces my standard
du -akx . | sort -n hogs
trick for finding disk hogs.
firelight has pwetty pwetty visualization RadialMap.
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of implies sweet
defenseless thing that the Hero rescues.
PJ, may be sweet for all I know, (she wisely keeps herself very
private), but I wouldn't say defenseless. She has more legal teeth
than a crocodile.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
More of the same M$ FUD, or are we heading for Patent Law Armageddon
Now
And what should our response in NZ be?
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