On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Carl Turney c.tur...@orcon.net.nz wrote:
By the way...
http://clug.net.nz/index.php/Helpers
Comes up with a brief script/program, instead of anything resembling a web
page.
clug.net.nz used to refer to the Canterbury Linux Users Group, but
they lapsed the
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
No no no! Skype is evil and nasty and CLOSED.
Apart from the fact that it is proprietary software, what is evil and
nasty about it?
...
to
http://www.gadgetsdna.com/motorola-droid-x-vs-iphone-4-vs-htc-droid-incredible-vs-evo-4g-vs-nexus-one/4191/
might make a good read ...
-jim
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Hill daniel.h...@orcon.net.nz wrote:
On 06/07/10 15:45, Rik Tindall wrote:
Some local *nix users meet on the first Wednesday of each month (i.e.
tomorrow) at 7.30pm-9.30pm in the South Learning Centre at South Library on
Colombo Street in Beckenham
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:53 PM, max podolian max.podol...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried with different variations of Stupid Mode and +MS. Whatever I
do I get No Carrier error. Any suggestions?
Connect directly to the modem with something like minicom and see if
it's responding dialling manually
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Solor Vox solor...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2010 10:31, Jim Cheetham j...@gonzul.net wrote:
If you are the owner of the computer in question and you are
competant, there is no reason at all not to use root all the time.
Just set your uid to 0 and be done
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE)
peter.glassenb...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Like Volker, I have yet to be convinced of the point of typing
sudo in front of all the commands I want to run as root.
When it becomes reflex, you are going to make the same mistakes
as if you
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
By generic I don't just mean desktop centered with no paradigm shifting
technologies. I mean a system that aims to have as few original contributions
as possible and have a complete out-of-the-box set of programs
NZRS are testing the ability of your DNS to work with names in
māori.nz (i.e. spelt correctly with the macron on the a) -- please
read the message below visit http://www.te-reo.maori.dns.net.nz to
enable them to test.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Sebastian Castro
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Craig Falconer
cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
True flat-rate starts at $1k/month. There will not be a real domestic
all-you-can-eat connection for double-digits/month.
That may be true in most of NZ, and it's probably related to the
physical infrastructure
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John mall...@actrix.co.nz wrote:
But any way what I am wondering is it the telstra sight that is blocking
things. Or is it an overseas sight. and also If it is a NZ sight that
is blocking. Are they allowed to do that.
they can do whatever they like, there are
http://christchurch.events.geek.nz/ is now online, aggregating various
tech things happening around the city. If someone wants to become
organised enough to add CLUG get-togethers to the list, this is a good
place to list them :-)
-jim
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Aidan Gauland
aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote:
Does anyone know how large the download is, and if they allow continuing
interrupted downloads?
World of Goo : 66MB
Gish: 55MB
Lugaru: 36MB
Aquaria: 210MB
Penumbra: 300MB
Interrupted download test with wget -c ...
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote:
1. Economy - can be new / 'on special' or ex-lease.
Trademe or an auctioneer ... new machines are $1000+ in general.
2. Wireless that goes (bluetooth too? - have yet to cross that bridge).
Wireless is important; check the
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Robert Fisher rob...@fisher.net.nz wrote:
4. Low data quantity needs mean that any other modern hardware spec will
probably suit ok.
Modern (not modem)
Mmm, perhaps I should choose a better font if I'm going to start
shrinking text down to where I can no
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
We used to run a wiki, but that sort of died. Maybe now that there are
no longer regular meetings it maay be of more use.
http://wiki.linux.net.nz/CLUG
http://wiki.linux.net.nz/TitleSearch?s=laptop
It may be worth
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
'mplayer -vo null file.avi' plays the sound track ok.
'mplayer -vo x11 file.avi' plays the sound and video ok.
'mplayer -vo xv file.avi' locks up keyboard, no mouse, mplayer screen but no
image. Had to restart X (from xterm
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
avi files from my camera, VOB, wmv. Not sure on how to check for installed
video codecs. I seem to remember a package for microsoft codecs,do I need
it??
The filename extension normally indicates what container the video
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on
where to search next for a cure to my problem.
*any* movie? What codecs are you trying? Perhaps you're trying to play
something you don't have any support
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Paul Swafford
yom...@chch.planet.co.nz wrote:
basically what I'd like is to extract date / time / ip address from the log
where a user has made a failed attempt.
This is what I have tried... but its a bit too much info ..
grep authentication failure
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a largish (~12000 pixels square) image that I want to print at
...
It would be wonderful if someone has already produced a tool that
takes an image and paginates it into, say, PDFs at a defined
resolution. My
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 March 2010 20:12, Jim Cheetham j...@gonzul.net wrote:
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately I suspect that uploading my 67MB
It's downloadable and installable. It's written
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Craig Falconer
cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 19/03/10 15:11:
I need a good SSH client to use on my windows machine.
PuTTY. It works, its free, and it works.
Agreed. But it's just a terminal emulator.
Or you could install cygwin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
no - still being prompted for a password...
Steve, I hope you're testing with ssh -v so you can see all the
methods the ssh server is advertising.
Rob, I hope you've set PasswordAuthentication no in
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Derek Smithies de...@indranet.co.nz wrote:
In addition to the deny hosts approach, I would move the ssh port to
somewhere else.
...
yes yes, this is security by obscurity, (which is a poor form security), but
You are right that it cuts down attacks, because
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
For a couple of weeks away, I wouldn't bother with the obscurity bit in
that way, rather just disable root login so they have to guess the user
account and password before denyhosts closes them out.
Things that are
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 11:17 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
and a key is around 700 typeable characters ... set up keys, not
passwords!
... or passphrases, not passwords?
Well, you probably should be using passphrases
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a command I can run or file to edit that
can tell the installer to now put the root file system on /dev/sda5 (the
logical volume I just formatted) so as the installation can proceed?
With LVM
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
I wouldn't do that with the backups personally. If you're after backing
up important production databases, then I'd look at replicating them
( to another machine preferably ) as a frist line of defence.
Replication
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
What do people recommend? I'm sick of gtwitter crashing for no apparent
reason! Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit platform...
What, besides just not twittering? Or using a open platform like identi.ca?
Personally I just hook it up
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Glenn Cogle gco...@gmail.com wrote:
A backup isn't a backup unless it can be restored from.
On that subject, because of O'Reilley's current 3-for-2 book deal, I
just refreshed my 11 year old copy of Unix Backup Recovery with
the newer Backup Recovery, which
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Glenn Cogle gco...@gmail.com wrote:
Box is backed up to tape 5 nights/week. I like backups - they help me
sleep.
I used to sleep because of backups ... but now I sleep because restore works.
You are testing restore regularly I hope ... :-|
-jim
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip
pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2
Nice, thanks!
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Andrew Sands and...@theatrix.org.nz wrote:
Anyone have any thoughts on how I might implement a GUI message-of-the-day.
Write a small pop-up application that uses zenity to display an info box ...
zenity --info --text=$(cat /etc/motd)
Call it from each user's
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
After restoring the only thing not going seems to be my network connection.
In my /etc/network/interfaces I still have the lines:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Your new network interface is probably eth1, and eth0 is
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:59 AM, steve st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
I've had a personal request from a client who wants to set up a website
for the family - just to let them share photos, etc privately...
If it's private, you don't have to worry about security so much
(depending on how you
2010/1/5 Paul Swafford yom...@chch.planet.co.nz:
sendmail (qmail) will send a php generated email to gmail and a number of
other similar services .. but not to ISP email address.
Your starter for 10 is why?
Insufficient data.
How about showing the log entries relevant to the outbound
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tom Smith snake...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
In the process of learning, I am going to ask the ignorant question. If
mail is rejected from non-subscribers, how will subscription requests be
handled by mailman?
Messages that are intended to go to everyone on the list
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
I just bought myself another USB external hard drive and this one like the
last one I bought has at the end that plugs into the PC a double USB end.
Now I was wondering if plugging in both of these plugs affects the speed
that data
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:22 PM, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
Firewalls leak tiny bits of info at the mac level, even if they
reject everything at the IP level.
That's probably because the 'firewall' employed by Linux/OpenWRT is
called 'IP Tables', and has to receive an IP packet in
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anybody got Skype ( ver. 2.1.0.47 ) video to work on (K)ubuntu Kosmic
Koala ( or what ever it is that they are callling the 9.10 version - I
forget ) ?
My logitech webcam used to work with earlier Kubuntus, but
I'd guess that the original domain referenced has expired, and that a
domain squatter has purchased it ...
Domain ID:D157250839-LROR
Domain Name:BEGINNINGRUBY.ORG
Created On:02-Oct-2009 18:03:30 UTC
Last Updated On:02-Oct-2009 18:04:47 UTC
Expiration Date:02-Oct-2010 18:03:30 UTC
The current
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Kent Fredrickentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
And to borrow from Rogers question, how do you all pronounce usr .
user with low inflection, as opposed to User with a high
inflection at the beginning to denote the capital.
But in all cases where strictly unambiguous
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Roger Searlero...@stepahead.org.nz wrote:
So to borrow Robert's question from this morning, how would people say the
folder /etc out loud?
E T C ... so /etc/hosts becomes E T C hosts
-jim
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Kerryke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
Hi I'm keen on taking a look at Ruby on Rails and am after some linux specific
real world tutorials ie no hello world type tuts.
There's not much linux-specific stuff in Ruby on Rails, to be honest.
Just run the webrick server
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Robert Fisherrob...@fisher.net.nz wrote:
So how should it be pronounced?
soo-doo or soo-dough
S U do
Which is correct - I will dough this job / I will do this job ?
Next question - su fred is S U fred / Sue fred ?
-jim
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Bryce Stenbergbr...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
This is have it set to use DHCP to get network address etc, but if no dhcp
server is found within the timeout then set it to an already set manual
configuration instead.
Does anyone know if this is possible under Ubuntu
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Douglas Roydsdouglas.ro...@tait.co.nz wrote:
Limit the length of the displayed path in the Bash prompt.
...
1. Trim the path to the last 30 characters, and cut off a partial
leading directory name
2. Just display the last three directory names in the
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Barry Marchantbarr...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having trouble with it
hogging cpu usage, in excess of 95% at times, and being unable to scroll the
site because the scrollbar is locked up. Last time i tried over
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Robert Macdonaldrob...@tmail.com wrote:
how do i put on abod e flash player on my computer
Generally, just balancing it on top of the case works well, but be
careful not to bump into it or it may fall off.
-jim
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Craig
Falconercfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
X-Mailer: Danger Service
Looks like there's a ColdFusion application doing some sort of email
to blog conversion for the T-Mobile sidekick phone, judging by
conversation on
There is a lot documentation for Ubuntu ... for example this page may help ...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How_to_dual-boot_Ubuntu_and_XP_after_installing_them_separately_on_two_HDs
-jim
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Bryce Stenbergbr...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
Yes - that let me partition my empty drive - but nowhere could I find a
way of selecting this drive for the install.
-bryce.
The install goes on to whichever partition gets used as /. Tell one
of these partitions that you
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Volker
Kuhlmannlist0...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Any disk with bad sectors within warranty goes back to maker. Period.
Agreed, I received two 750GBs about three months ago (with consecutive
serial numbers, sadly) and one has failed already, been straight back
to
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Hadley Richh...@nice.net.nz wrote:
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 22:08 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Please tell me they weren't wd greens. I've had a 1TB fail within 5
minutes... in fact I've had more fail this year than in the last 10.
Always interesting. I've had
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Steve Holdowayst...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 07:19 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
SAMSUNG HD753LJ s/n S13UJ1NQB01779 was the one that failed. Failure
was more than just the filesystem, I was unable to read or write to
the partition table
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Josh James josh.westac...@gmail.com wrote:
hey guys do u think this is good news or bad news?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/26/microsoft_new_zealand/
There has been a lot of discussion about the G2009 process over on the
NZOSS OpenChat mailing list, if
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jim Cheetham j...@gonzul.net wrote:
I'm planning to shut down[2] the CLUG wiki.
This action has now been completed. Useful CLUG content has been
migrated to http://wiki.linux.net.nz/CLUG.
For anyone who cares, the phpwiki dumps of the last state of the old
wiki
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
By all means feel very free to re-start the monthly meetings.
...
Be warned however that finding competent free of charge orators who live
nearby and know about any of the subject matter below is like finding a
In recent years, pretty much the sole use of the CLUG wiki has been to
keep track of meetings and sometimes resources for those meetings.
Given that meetings are currently on a significant hiatus, and that
the bulk of the technical content of the CLUG wiki is already on
wiki.linux.net.nz[1], I'm
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:56 PM, David Lowe da...@thistledown.co.nz wrote:
I just wanted to say that the value of these threads far outweighs any
response to the OP.
Excellent to hear -- in many ways that is the whole reason we have a
mailing list in the first place, and why even a
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Julian Warwick Bethell
jwbeth...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Can you help me setting up a DMZ
Is this still not working for you? You're thread-jumping, too.
Please read http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and possibly
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
technical details, but I was at a place once where there was a leaking
electric fence and for some reason made the showers taps electrocute you. I
really don't like the idea of that messing with computers.
Somebody
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
So what do you do with the old computers that one tends to acquire?
Counterstrike server!
People still play Counterstrike?
No, which is why an old computer makes a good Counterstrike server ... (*cough*)
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
Thanks for that Eliot.
I finally got it work, once I'd added a mtools.conf file - good tip :)
Seconded -- the .mtoolsrc comment was a handy reminder for me to find
properly rename a pendrive filesystem that I was otherwise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote:
Does the group have any suggestions for what to run on a USB stick as a live
Linux system?
Ubuntu -- 9.04 (and possibly earlier) has a menu option
System|Administration|USB Startup Disk Creator that puts a bootable
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Christopher Sawtell
csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
There is also the matter of a few ( hundred ? ) dollars in a bank
account for which I am the legal entity.
IIRC there were three signatories for the account; you, Nick Rout and
David Kirk. If that's correct, then
2009/4/20 Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz:
Lots of Cat6 to everywhere.
Put in draw wires for future use.
Run some 100 mm conduit to every building on the property.
And photograph all the rooms to see where the cable runs are, before
putting up the gib boards. Keep a printout of these
2009/4/20 Hadley Rich h...@nice.net.nz:
equipment directly onto 802.11*.
Except if you want to take advantage of PoE :)
Two words - Nikola Tesla
Stand well back ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEG-1iYpgKUfeature=PlayListp=8CA8FCF8FF240590playnext=1playnext_from=PLindex=16
-jim
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Matthew Whiting whit...@riseup.net wrote:
ATDT087300777
CONNECT 5
*** IHUG ***
*** Unauthroised Access Prohibited ***
I know I'm not being
On 4/1/09, Douglas Royds douglas.ro...@tait.co.nz wrote:
Anyone have any experience with Subversion web-apps, such as SVN::Web,
ViewVC, or WebSVN? Any recommendations or warnings?
Possibly not quite what you had in mind, but I use Trac as a read-only
web front-end. Nothing else seems to come
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Douglas Royds douglas.ro...@tait.co.nz wrote:
Jim Cheetham wrote:
Possibly not quite what you had in mind, but I use Trac as a read-only
I hadn't considered trac. It does indeed have a good web front-end (though
no better than ViewVC or SVN::Web), but also
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Adrian Mageanu
adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote:
Example given is this article in The Press
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2269025/Renew-your-old-PC
that offers Linux as a viable alternative for desktops and home use.
I don't personally know the
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Vik Olliver v...@olliver.family.gen.nz
wrote:
On 13/03/09 David Lowe wrote:
I've been using an eee box for three months as a desktop at home.
I had to upgrade mine to 2GiB RAM, but other than that it is handling my
RepRap work (much big Java apps) very well.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Geoff and Jude Marks
jgma...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
can anyone help out in suggesting the best social networking site for
a community youth group in New Zealand.
I don't understand the scope of the question; do you want a site that
can be used to create your own
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
This is IMHO the problem when operating system tasks (networking) are
handed off to some desktop app.
I sort-of agree. I tend to define my most common wireless network in
the OS (/etc/network/interfaces under Debian*ix), as
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Chris Downie 9...@xnet.co.nz wrote:
Long story short, many years ago I had several caps left over from a job
so I had them embroidered with Tux and CLUG. In the process of moving
houses they disappeared, presumed thrown out. I found them Yesterday.
Free to
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Andrew Sands and...@theatrix.org.nz wrote:
Is this discussion actually current because I followed the link to the
archives and became really confused.
Probably not current, but still relevant.
Has the wiki been moved, relocated, stopped or killed and I've
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Zane Gilmore gilmo...@crop.cri.nz wrote:
Although I like the idea of getting together for a geeky chin-wag over a
few beers,
I think that we can put together a few talks.
Speaking as a now-DunLUG pubgoer, I can say that the planned technical
content is very low
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?
What are you protecting against? What devices are you going to connect
to
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Craig Falconer
cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Script some kind of bulk wget, feed the image to an OCR program, store the
output in a database and write a web frontend to search it.
Then you can never share this, because it would be redistribution of
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Stephen Irons
stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz wrote:
I am busy setting up an automatic mail retrieval system at home. It will
collect email from a number of different remote POP mailboxes and deliver it
to the appropriate local users.
Well, that's three different
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
I'd leave the last job, Mail Delivery, to a specialist MDA tool, such
as a proper mail server like postfix. Run it so it's listening only to
localhost, and tell getmail to submit the messages it has collected
over
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu
navdeepsinghsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like your help in blocking some websites like YouTube and Bebo from
our staff computer. We have an old Compaq running Ubuntu 8.10.
...
What do you guys recommend. All help will be appreciated.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Bernard Frankpitt
frankp...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
In the end I went for the cable modem option: It is the option offered by
my Telstra, and I already have a cable connected to my house.
...
When you go to a broadband connection, the ISP controls both sides of
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you notice that they appear to have blured people out?
Yes, but I've already managed to positively identify one family member
(mowing his front lawn at the time) and both of my cars parked at the
house I used to own at the time ...
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:38:06 +1300
Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not dpkg hell. Just that Ubuntu do not include proprietary software in
their repos.
Add the medibuntu repo to the sources.list and you'll be
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
specify. I've never quite understood why anyone would go out to program
in a low level when the same job can be achieved easier and more
reliably with a higher language. There are several other firewall rule
generators
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it broken? or disabled? or am I bringing up the whole future of the
clug wiki discussion?
Currently semi-broken, as the server does not have permission to write
to the upload directory. I don't intend to change this in
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Wesley Parish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
treating all mail messages like any other ordinary downloads, and making it
possible to halt and restart them - for New Zealand-quality copper networks.
Use a webmail interface?
Many people choose to send each file to their gmail account :-)
Currently offering 7GB, for free, for email only.
There are also scripts around to treat it as a filesystem ...
It probably breaches their terms conditions, but in practice they're
unlikely to care.
For bonus points, encrypt them
Remember that the Subject line is going to be your primary index
method. Give them all a prefix to indicate file storage (so you can
filter them later) and an indicator of contents.
If possible, when constructing the mail message, make the body of the
email be the table of contents of the tar
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trouble is that encryption is a red-rag to a bull wrt the TLAs and
would definitely get them 'over excited'.
Seriously, what practical difference does that make? What does it even mean?
Either the TLAs do deep packet
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using kde, running on mains power, Display power control not enabled,
blank screen saver selected set to start after 500 mins (over 8 hrs)
What have i missed which is permitting screen blanking
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's all packaged with clark connect and seems to be working ok. It's got
preaty flash stuff that shows me I've got over 80k hits from one IP alone in
the last day.
I've emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if they can block the
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My concern is a disk giving out and the system going down.
In which case I need the whole system RAID1 not just the user data.
Well, you can restore the OS from an install CD easily enough, and as
long as you've got a list of
foremost.sf.net will do data carving and help you out.
See http://tommix.net/.vee/1223326892.2008-10-06T21:01:32.html for a
link to a decent article.
-jim
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I deleted a file on a cf card without copying it. I have dd
Cacti and Nagios would be good mid-level tools, but try GroundWork for
a full bundle.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Maurice Butler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I have started a new job with 100's of computers, switches and routers.
I was looking at net-SNMP and MRTG to monitor the
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which at the bottom says install mailx (Postfix) and configure the
commands.cfg file, which is straight forward by itself. However I thought
I'd pause at this point and seek list wisdom on the approach from here. Is
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The generic Linux info pages on the CLUG wiki should be contributed to
the WLUG wiki directly (they use a similar license).
Current progress -- I looked through the
http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GeneralLinux index page
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