connecting to wrong remote desktop

2010-07-27 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I have a puzzling situation with connecting to a remote desktop on a local network. 3 (k)ubuntu boxes - mercury (lucid - a desktop machine), jupiter (8.04.4 LTS) and neptune (a virtual machine under VMWare Server 2 running on jupiter). Name resolution is via an IPCop box static lease

Re: connecting to wrong remote desktop

2010-07-27 Thread Roger Searle
...@yahoo.com mailto:alister_ni...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, How have you set up the virtual nics on the VMWare server? sounds like you might want to look there unless IPcop is messing with it. cheers Alister --- On *Tue, 7/27/10, Roger Searle /ro...@stepahead.org.nz mailto:ro...@stepahead.org.nz

Re: connecting to wrong remote desktop

2010-07-27 Thread Roger Searle
On 28/07/10 12:43, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Roger Searlero...@stepahead.org.nz wrote: vmware server was originally configured with bridged networking, and I didn't configure NAT or host-only. For the guest machine neptune that is being incorrectly connected to,

Re: connecting to wrong remote desktop - SOLVED

2010-07-27 Thread Roger Searle
while I had been seeing the issue. Thanks to everyone for their replies. Roger On 28/07/10 12:17, Roger Searle wrote: vmware server was originally configured with bridged networking, and I didn't configure NAT or host-only. For the guest machine neptune that is being incorrectly connected

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-28 Thread Roger Searle
On 26/06/10 4:50 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Don Robertsond...@robertson.net.nz wrote: On 16/06/10 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: Just no output on either device. Can anyone point me to a decent, up to date ( this is ubuntu 9.10 ) troubleshooting guide.

Fwd: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

2010-04-29 Thread Roger Searle
To: ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support). This release incorporates the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition. The Server Edition can be used on physical servers, on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), and on

Re: link local wiki link in firefox

2010-02-03 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: sudo apt-get install apache2 ( approximately ), and adjust the document root to point to the local folder containing the wiki. Then the wiki will be available at http://jupiter Which is what I do (: Thanks for all of yesterday's replies, seeing the apache it works page was

Re: link local wiki link in firefox

2010-02-03 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: You're using name based virtual hosting... bet you didn't know that! it's fair to say (and probably obvious) there is not much i do know about apache config... To do this ( bear with me as every distro does this in different files this is a hardy install. ) 1. You need a

Re: link local wiki link in firefox

2010-02-03 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:31 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Browsing to http://jupiter/policymanual/index.html returns I think this is the bit that's tripping you up... you need to have created a DNS entry for policymanual to use name based reporting. To access

link local wiki link in firefox

2010-02-02 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I have mediawiki running and want to link to an html file sitting on a different machine, I have resolved this for windows machines running both IE and Firefox (which requires the LinkLocal add-on to get working) yet not managed to figure out the right syntax on linux clients generally

Re: link local wiki link in firefox

2010-02-02 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 15:12 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I have mediawiki running and want to link to an html file sitting on a different machine, I have resolved this for windows machines running both IE and Firefox (which requires the LinkLocal add-on to get working) yet

vodafone traffic issue?

2010-01-26 Thread Roger Searle
Hi there, anyone else experiencing chronically slow internet this morning? On vodahug here in Stanmore Road, and only getting partial connectivity - some sites load but only very slowly, others not at all. Can't check the vodafone site for issues (been transferring data for that page for the

Re: Where have you seen linux today?

2010-01-17 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: I went into specsavers the other day to get a copy of an invoice for my insurance company. Sat down at computer with assistant and she went through several screens, it soon became apparent that she was not using windows. Invoice info etc was all via a browser (firefox) and

Re: Gnome or KDE

2010-01-17 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: I am think of changing my main PC to Gnome but thought first I might canvas the list for reasons why I should (or should not) change. I do not want personal preferences (for example I currently prefer KDE probably because I am more used to it). How about posting short pros

Re: Netbook recommendations?

2010-01-13 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: Is the wireless working at all? wicd will list available networks and signal strengths. +1 for wicd. I replaced the wireless on my Acer One with it ( ubuntu karmic ), and I can now connect with reliability, and see new wireless networks. However, if the wireless stack isn't

Re: power board issue

2009-12-23 Thread Roger Searle
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Wed 23 Dec 2009 08:14:07 NZDT +1300, chris wrote: Problem is this. The computer and monitor work correctly when plugged directly into the wall socket. However, if plugged into a power board, they will not boot. Dude, 1) Unplug the power board 2) Make

Re: Point-in-Time Backup and Restore - any gotchas?

2009-12-22 Thread Roger Searle
Bryce Stenberg wrote: # do the backup to removable drive rdiff-backup -b -v2 --print-statistics --exclude-sockets --exclude /mnt/hrnzlx02/rootsnapshot/tmp --exclude /mnt/hrnzlx02/rootsnapshot/media --exclude /mnt/hrnzlx02/rootsnapshot/proc --exclude /mnt/hrnzlx02/rootsnapshot/mnt

Re: openvpn - client not connecting SOLVED

2009-12-03 Thread Roger Searle
. Roger Roger Searle wrote: The server can accept connections - from the local network anyway, where from a client I get Initialization Sequence Completed, see the network appear in ifconfig and can ping the server. So the issue is with either the router or the IPCop box (as in, how I have

Re: openvpn - client not connecting

2009-11-22 Thread Roger Searle
will investigate further. For unrelated reason, the server box is about to be rebuilt in the next few days so I may have to park this project temporarily and effectively start over, however this has certainly been a useful exercise (for me) to this point. Thanks for all the replies. Roger Roger

Re: openvpn - client not connecting

2009-11-20 Thread Roger Searle
Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed It is a networking problem somewhere along the line. Is the OpenVPN server recognising the clients

Re: openvpn - client not connecting

2009-11-19 Thread Roger Searle
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 22:20 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed It is a networking

Re: openvpn - client not connecting

2009-11-19 Thread Roger Searle
. ( and ensure /var/log/openvpn exists! ) On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:18 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 22:20 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network

Re: openvpn - client not connecting

2009-11-19 Thread Roger Searle
Would any IPCop gurus be able to confirm the correct way to configure, or of confirming/testing, so that I know outgoing UDP/1194 is allowed? I have a port forwarding rule as follows - is this all I need: Protocol UDP, Alias IP = Default IP, Source port 1194, Destination IP 10.2.1.201,

Re: VMware opinion, was Re: Karmic Koala 64bit and VMWare Server

2009-11-02 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:12:32 Roger Searle wrote: I must have crossed the right fingers, and can report successfully getting vmware-server to install, mouse included, via the following. So did you upgrade the VMWare Tools to get your mouse working correctly

Re: VMware opinion, was Re: Karmic Koala 64bit and VMWare Server

2009-11-02 Thread Roger Searle
Unrelated to vmware or nvidia driver issues mentioned this week, this same box now has a fresh install of KK and I'm about to try installing running VMWare Server via essentially the same method (assuming it fails on building modules as I expect it will) once again and will report back

Re: New CPU and M/Board

2009-11-01 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:35 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:25 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote: I'd say go for an Intel rather than an Nvidia. No end of grief with Nvidia drivers under Ubuntu. I've not had problems with the Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu myself.

Re: VMware opinion, was Re: Karmic Koala 64bit and VMWare Server

2009-11-01 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: Craig Falconer wrote: From my point of view, VMware has really lost the plot in keeping up with new kernels etc. I think you are right. I got it installed but could not get the mouse working correctly even after updating VMWare Tools. I must have crossed the right

Re: New CPU and M/Board

2009-11-01 Thread Roger Searle
Vik Olliver wrote: On 02/11/09 Roger Searle wrote: My previous endless/frequent nvidia grief came to an end at Intrepid and a reinstall (rather than upgrade) and has just worked ever since. Tried a dist-upgrade to Karmic yet? Vik :v) A couple of upgrades so far, issues yes

Re: karmic upgrade broken name resolution

2009-10-31 Thread Roger Searle
correctly 32bit would play the tvnz video but is ok with tv3. Roger Searle wrote: Hi, following an upgrade to Karmic last night, . Last time I did the upgrade I had some problems too. I cannot remember what they were but a clean install fixed them. This time I went for a clean install

Re: karmic upgrade broken name resolution

2009-10-31 Thread Roger Searle
SOLVED. Booting from a live CD shows the same symptoms. Running apt-get update returned: [connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (1.0.0.0)] [connecting to security.ubuntu and stalls. Google knows lots about this, often suggesting the issue is actually with buggy dns code being returned by a router.

karmic upgrade broken name resolution

2009-10-30 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, following an upgrade to Karmic last night, I have no name resolution to the interweb. LAN functions are fine, samba shares good, can ping other machines, router, gateway, and can ping paradise/TCL name servers and can ping www.google.com by name so have a degree of name resolution. I can see

Re: failed raid1 drive

2009-10-28 Thread Roger Searle
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 --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 mdadm

Re: failed raid1 drive

2009-10-28 Thread Roger Searle
Roger Searle wrote, On 29/10/09 10:47: From my reading of man mdadm, it suggests doing a fail and remove of the faulty drive, possibly at the same time as adding a new device, like: mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 Is this a good process to follow

Re: failed raid1 drive

2009-10-22 Thread Roger Searle
. It could work for another 10 years or it could fail tomorrow... who would know. steve wrote, On 22/10/09 16:26: On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:00 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I noticed by chance that I have a failed drive in a raid1 array on a file server that I need to replace, and seeking some

konqueror - saving column widths

2009-10-07 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, using konqueror 4.3.1 for file management, I can set up and save various profiles, containing multiple tabs, with various columns added or removed from the details view etc. However I can't find any way to save the width of these columns. Does anyone know how to go about doing this so

Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk

2009-10-07 Thread Roger Searle
Having heard RMS speak last year, I would highly recommend this event to everyone. I hadn't known too much about his philosophies or technical background, nor had I paid too much attention to free or Free or GNU/Linux etc. I spent a little time investigating prior to his speech last year and

Re: Security, to much of it.

2009-09-30 Thread Roger Searle
Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:00:11 Roger Searle wrote: seems almost silly to suggest, but just in case, here goes... http://www.clarkconnect.com/help/ ? and http://www.clarkconnect.com/help/pdf/CC-Quickstart.pdf ? The either the quick start guide is out of date

Re: Security, to much of it.

2009-09-29 Thread Roger Searle
seems almost silly to suggest, but just in case, here goes... http://www.clarkconnect.com/help/ ? and http://www.clarkconnect.com/help/pdf/CC-Quickstart.pdf ? Cheers, Roger Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I'm currently building a firewall box for my parents but I have run into the issue that it's

Re: prevent local login, retain file access on network

2009-09-24 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:38 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I have a kubuntu 8.04 LTS machine acting as a file server (samba) for our network with various users / permissions set up. Given that from time to time I use the machine for the odd desktop-related task or to do

Re: prevent local login, retain file access on network

2009-09-24 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Roger Searle ro...@stepahead.org.nz wrote: steve wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:38 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I have a kubuntu 8.04 LTS machine acting as a file server (samba) for our network with various users

Software Freedom Day on National Radio this morning

2009-09-23 Thread Roger Searle
Good morning, I happened to hear that the National radio station is having a spot on Software Freedom Day this morning, I didn't hear the actual time but believe (from a bit before and a bit after) it will be at 11am. Thought this might be of interest to many around the country and hope this

Re: OT, Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch

2009-09-23 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: Which'll have nothing to do with the odd MP living over here, in which way is he/she odd? or is it just the usual given their occupation . . .

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Roger Searle
Were you using vmware, when configuring via the vmware-config.pl command, you would get what I believe you are looking for by choosing host only as the network type. This (first result in google for vmware-config network options) might be of interest:

Re: Pronounce sudo

2009-09-09 Thread Roger Searle
Craig Falconer wrote: Mind you - we normally type these commands, or read them. Very rarely do we say them out loud. Others in the same region: fsck fissik/eff ess check/eff sik gccgee sea sea / ? sshess ess aitch / shhh / shoosh wgetdoubleyou get / wuh-get straceess-strace /

Re: Pronounce sudo

2009-09-09 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Roger Searle ro...@stepahead.org.nz mailto:ro...@stepahead.org.nz wrote: Craig Falconer wrote: Mind you - we normally type these commands, or read them. Very rarely do we say them out loud. Others in the same

Re: Hi all

2009-09-07 Thread Roger Searle
Hi sV, The CLUG monthly meetings are currently in recess, you may like to check out the GNUz list and their meetings which I believe is monthly on the first Wednesday (and announcements generally made on this list too). http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz Regards Roger Solor

Re: Tri-boot system?

2009-09-03 Thread Roger Searle
steve wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:59 +1200, Mike Gauland wrote: As always, be paranoid when selecting the partition to install on, And back up any data you are particularly fond of to another machine (or removeable drive/disk/stick) before you start - just in case. Playing with

Re: Bits

2009-09-01 Thread Roger Searle
Aidan Gauland wrote: Hello, I now have a 64-bit machine. As we are still in transition between 32 and 64 bit machines, it can be a bit of a nuisance. I haven't figured out how to run closed-source programs that were built for 32-bit Linux (or ZSNES, for that matter). How do I *easily*

Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-26 Thread Roger Searle
If you are fairly consistently having issues where you weren't before with the previous power supply and would like to test for a few days via a spare 400W one I have sitting under my desk then feel free to get in touch and collect. 250W is rather small . . . Roger Daniel Hill wrote:

Re: s3cmd --configure - verifying encryption fails

2009-07-28 Thread Roger Searle
to exist as outlined here: http://sharp.hall.name/2008/12/encrypted-offsite-backup-with-encfs-amazon-s3-and-s3cmd/ Cheers, Roger Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I have a successful S3 sync backup functioning which I can script and run via cron, with a series of commands such as: s3cmd sync ./ --delete

Re: s3cmd --configure - verifying encryption fails

2009-07-27 Thread Roger Searle
ok i feel sick right now . . . not my best work, telling the world my secret key. the old one, that is. so if i get zero replies to my original post i understand why.

Re: s3cmd --configure - verifying encryption fails

2009-07-27 Thread Roger Searle
Craig Falconer wrote: Roger Searle wrote, On 28/07/09 15:53: ok i feel sick right now . . . not my best work, telling the world my secret key. the old one, that is. so if i get zero replies to my original post i understand why. So you'll be updating that PDQ if you haven't already

Re: Motherboards that play nicely with Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Roger Searle
start a new message, not hijack one on a totally different subject, and provide a little more info, for example what distro are you using, what issue you are experiencing and what have you tried to resolve it? and before you send it, check your reply-to address, it is currently set to go to

Re: server wanted for a good cause

2009-06-18 Thread Roger Searle
would a 15 be of any use? Cheers, Roger Adrian Mageanu wrote: Thank you again from FHT and myself to Chris and Steve for their donations. As it happened, none of the PCs donated so far have a monitor. So following Steve's suggestion, I'm abusing the list again with another request, this time

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Roger Searle
Roy Britten wrote: 2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com: Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: Isn't that the adsl modem doled out free/cheap by telecom? I guess you get what you pay for :) not sure, i don't use them, particularly those things with USB ports - aren't they often dynalink things? anyway the one here has 4 ethernet ports, they are commonplace (so others

Re: light scribe

2009-05-14 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I am thinking of making use of light scribe Lightscribe works just fine under Linux with the only downside being that the software available is fairly basic: http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx seems i strike out due to using a 64bit distro (and synaptic shows no

Re: light scribe

2009-05-14 Thread Roger Searle
Phill Coxon wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 05:51 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: 4L-cli enumerate does not show this particular drive to be one capable of light scribe, I'll be trying the same thing on another box and maybe swapping round drives later today and looking forward to seeing

light scribe

2009-05-13 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I am thinking of making use of light scribe to label some CDs for a project I am working on, and wondering if anyone on the list has experience with doing this in linux, which I don't recall ever seen mentioned on any lugs. Goes without saying there is the need for drives and disks

Re: light scribe

2009-05-13 Thread Roger Searle
Phill Coxon wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:46 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I am thinking of making use of light scribe to label some CDs for a project I am working on, and wondering if anyone on the list has experience with doing this in linux, which I don't recall ever seen mentioned

OT - 2 crt monitors to give away

2009-05-04 Thread Roger Searle
refer $SUBJECT - going to Molten Media at the end of the week if not gone by then. Can deliver to destinations vaguely between the central city and the north or west. Cheers, Roger

Re: kde4 - numlock on

2009-04-30 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: On Thursday 30 April 2009 21:43:57 Roger Searle wrote: Maybe there is another way, I've not found anything in System Settings - personally I always want the numlock keys on. This is about as easy as it gets: ro...@gemini:~$ sudo apt-get install numlockx ro...@gemini

kde4 - numlock on

2009-04-30 Thread Roger Searle
Maybe there is another way, I've not found anything in System Settings - personally I always want the numlock keys on. This is about as easy as it gets: ro...@gemini:~$ sudo apt-get install numlockx ro...@gemini:~$ numlockx on Cheers, Roger

Re: kde4 desktop widgets position

2009-04-29 Thread Roger Searle
where they get positioned until logging out and back in. I can consistently reproduce and rectify this behaviour. Cheers, Roger Roger Searle wrote: Thanks for all the replies - this problem has gone away following a restart of the machine. Cheers, Roger Lee Begg wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr

Re: kde4 desktop widgets position

2009-04-26 Thread Roger Searle
Thanks for all the replies - this problem has gone away following a restart of the machine. Cheers, Roger Lee Begg wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:28:15 Roger Searle wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: Roger Searle wrote: Hi, having added some widgets to a Jaunty KDE4 desktop, I'm

jaunty and vmware server 2

2009-04-26 Thread Roger Searle
Hi there, just wondering if anyone who has moved to jaunty is successfully running vmware server 2? I've got a work machine I'd like to migrate that MUST have it running. Been caught out by this in the past . . . Cheers, Roger

kde4 desktop widgets position

2009-04-25 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, having added some widgets to a Jaunty KDE4 desktop, I'm attempting to move them to a sensible area on the screen - and actually be able to view them without one covering another. I have selected unlock widgets and drag one to a new location, however within a few seconds they move

Re: kde4 desktop widgets position

2009-04-25 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: Roger Searle wrote: Hi, having added some widgets to a Jaunty KDE4 desktop, I'm attempting to move them to a sensible area on the screen - and actually be able to view them without one covering another. I have selected unlock widgets and drag one to a new location

apache and mailman migration

2009-03-12 Thread Roger Searle
Greetings, I am assisting in a server migration project - the lead technical guru is keen to have the likes of myself assisting and reducing his significant workload (on other projects). I'm researching correct migration of data and configuration files for various services that will be

Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm

2009-03-05 Thread Roger Searle
Apologies for replying this late to this thread - however I personally intended attending next Tuesday to hear about this topic. Cheers, Roger Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I received no confirmation of the booking so far, so I will take the hint and fade quietly in the background on this

Re: Kubuntu - good bad and ugly

2009-02-20 Thread Roger Searle
4.0 was really should have been another beta, while it was nice eye candy it was significantly lacking in configuration options compared to 3.5, plus was frequently unstable. 4.1 could be considered a first release though the update to 4.2 from what I read has finally got it to where 4.0

wireless connecting - network manager problem?

2009-02-19 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced increasing problems getting the wireless connection to connect. This is an ubuntu 8.04 with gnome, network manager 0.6.6. Only changes have been any updates via apt-get update/upgrade. Connections are to 2 separate wrt54gl routers (home,

wireless connecting - network manager problem?

2009-02-19 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced increasing problems getting the wireless connection to connect. This is an ubuntu 8.04 with gnome, network manager 0.6.6. Only changes have been any updates via apt-get update/upgrade. Connections are to 2 separate wrt54gl routers (home, work),

Re: wireless connecting - network manager problem?

2009-02-19 Thread Roger Searle
This is also the experience I'm having with 8.04 - so is not limited to 8.10. Unfortunately this could end up being a show stopper if it gets worse, not sure I can have ethernet cables across the lounge for too long (waf), hopefully jaunty has it sorted. btw are others seeing list weirdness

Re: wireless connecting - network manager problem?

2009-02-19 Thread Roger Searle
if the exact same issues persist with the new hardware (everything else is the same). A On Fri, February 20, 2009 11:09, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced increasing problems getting the wireless connection to connect. This is an ubuntu 8.04 with gnome

Re: Ubuntu apt-get issue

2009-01-26 Thread Roger Searle
I have on numerous occasions seen similar errors which all seem to resolve themselves by retrying in a day or so. Unless the error relates to a corrupt downloaded package which is resolved by removing from the cache and retrying. Which doesn't appear to be the issue you're seeing here.

Re: ubuntu wireless with aes

2009-01-25 Thread Roger Searle
time to move on to the next thing! Cheers, Roger Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Roger Searle ro...@stepahead.org.nz wrote: Comments on TKIP+AES vs TKIP vs AES alone would also be welcome, since perhaps TKIP+AES is generally very adequate, being more than TKIP alone

ubuntu wireless with aes

2009-01-22 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I'm looking for list wisdom/experience on making wireless connections using wpa2 with AES. ubuntu 8.04, lspci says the network controller is Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG, connecting to a wrt54gl. I am successful with network manager if encryption is TKIP+AES, but as soon as I attempt AES

Re: Unable to boot

2009-01-12 Thread Roger Searle
And if you can't recover those installs, when you decide to reinstall, you will be able to retain your /home partition and should have all your settings and documents still there. It's been a while since I did it with SuSE and others particularly Volker may fill in more details for you, I do

Re: window title bars disappear

2009-01-07 Thread Roger Searle
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:18:20 Roger Searle wrote: Good morning, on a random basis, not too frequently, and unrelated to anything I can put my finger on, the title bars of all windows on my gnome desktop (ubuntu 8.10) are missing. This will happen

window title bars disappear

2009-01-06 Thread Roger Searle
Good morning, on a random basis, not too frequently, and unrelated to anything I can put my finger on, the title bars of all windows on my gnome desktop (ubuntu 8.10) are missing. This will happen on logging in, I can't say if logging out and back in, or restarting X prior to logging back in

Re: window title bars disappear

2009-01-06 Thread Roger Searle
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:18:20 Roger Searle wrote: Good morning, on a random basis, not too frequently, and unrelated to anything I can put my finger on, the title bars of all windows on my gnome desktop (ubuntu 8.10) are missing. This will happen

Re: stumped - window size

2008-12-30 Thread Roger Searle
This was an odd, one-off thing it would seem, I'm no clearer about what caused it, resolved an apt-get purge of firefox, also needed to delete the profile. Then reinstalled. Once I got my bookmarks back (the file is now places.sqlite in v3, not bookmarks.html) all is good now... Merry New

gnome file managers, workspaces and windows

2008-12-02 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, as a recent convert to gnome I'm still learning the best way (or where) to set up my desktop. A feature of KDE i enjoyed was the ability to customise and save or force window sizes and positions on the screen. This could be accessed by right clicking on the title bar of any window. Is

Re: just to show it's not just redhat...

2008-11-26 Thread Roger Searle
Kerry wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 15:07 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: It's astounding how many problems people on 64bit architectures seem to get when they're trying to use codecs and Flash, etc. Sad that the state of the art is so far behind. We've had 64bit OSs for quite a while now, and

Re: just to show it's not just redhat...

2008-11-26 Thread Roger Searle
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:33:10 +1300 (NZDT) Derek Smithies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only time when you have a noticable (or significant) advantage for 64 bit is when you have large files of data to process. There was a time when I was processing gigabyte sized tcp

vmware server on intrepid

2008-11-25 Thread Roger Searle
2008/11/21 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That and vmware-server not working with the current kernel is a show stopper with intrepid for me. Cheers, Roger Then Kerry said: I have vmware server working under intrepid, both server and desktop. What issues are you having? An installation

Re: gnome panels

2008-11-23 Thread Roger Searle
, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 6:04:57 am Roger Searle wrote: That and vmware-server not working with the current kernel is a show stopper with intrepid for me. VMWare server 2 works for me on 2.6.27-1

Re: ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-22 Thread Roger Searle
I'm a little puzzled by your email and it seems to me that more info is needed. Do you have a bunch of computers you want to network and so are interested in setting up a (static) numbering scheme? Presumably those computers do not connect to the internet, because if they do there must be a

Re: gnome panels

2008-11-21 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 6:04:57 am Roger Searle wrote: That and vmware-server not working with the current kernel is a show stopper with intrepid for me. VMWare server 2 works for me on 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp What version does Intrepid have? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gnome panels

2008-11-20 Thread Roger Searle
Vik Olliver wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:58 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: Thanks to the buggy nature of KDE4 on my home workstation, I have made the move to gnome, and I like! I've been having a good little look and play around with it but have some unsolved mysteries I'm hoping to get

openvpn presentation

2008-11-20 Thread Roger Searle
Hi Steve, could you send me your openvpn presentation from last week? Presumably that means off-list given (as I understand it) the no attachments policy of this list. I'm very keen on getting it set up when I have a chance. Cheers, Roger

Re: gnome panels

2008-11-20 Thread Roger Searle
Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2008/11/21 Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 09:54 +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote: So what, exactly, is wrong with KDE4? I have not tried it yet but have heard that it is quite good-looking Except for the system tray, [ ... ]

gnome panels

2008-11-19 Thread Roger Searle
Thanks to the buggy nature of KDE4 on my home workstation, I have made the move to gnome, and I like! I've been having a good little look and play around with it but have some unsolved mysteries I'm hoping to get assistance with. Question 1. Changed my work desktop too, and am fortunate to

Re: gnome panels

2008-11-19 Thread Roger Searle
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:58:09 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made the move to gnome, Question 1. Changed my work desktop too, and am fortunate to have dual screens. The panels only span across a single screen, can a single one be made

Fwd: CLUG problems...please help

2008-11-19 Thread Roger Searle
Original Message Subject:CLUG problems...please help Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:45 +1300 From: Gauland, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger, Sorry to trouble you, but I’ve been unable to post to the CLUG list, though I seem to be receiving messages just fine. When

wiki error uploading files

2008-11-16 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to upload files to the wiki - slides from last week's presentation. It's an OpenOffice odp file and I get: Only files with the extension 7z, avi, bmp, bz2, c, cfg, diff, doc, gif, h, ini, jpeg, jpg, kmz, mp3, patch, pdf, png, ppt, rar, tar, tar.gz, txt, xls,

Re: Backup options

2008-11-16 Thread Roger Searle
I'd like to do one of those +1 responses to the 2 points mentioned by Derek, however given it's importance, I'll do: +2. bold, larger font, upper case etc. I practice what is preached at work but can't claim the same at home - with regards to the frequency with which I test those backups.

Re: virtualbox

2008-11-15 Thread Roger Searle
Try an uninstall via sudo vmware-uninstall.pl first, then reinstall. Worked fine for me on HH, both 32 and 64 bit. Cheers, Roger Steve Holdoway wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:56:16 +1300 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got vm server 2.0 Version OS i'm running is 8.04.1 - Kubuntu Kernel

Re: Newest Penguinista

2008-11-15 Thread Roger Searle
Vik Olliver wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:43 +1300, yuri wrote: On 2008-11-15 at 14:53 the newest Penguinista arrived: Marijke Aroha Anne de Groot 3.47kg (don't ask about lbs and Ozes - ~$ man units) Mother and baby are both happy. I reckon she'll probably chose kwrite over both vi and

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