Re: [Linux-users] CLUG Bank Account

2016-05-15 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
Don't know what we could usefully use $500 at the UC for the mailing list related things or anything related to CLUG promotion. The University will support local groups where it can because it is a social good. (we supported the NZ PyCon a little) Personally, since the money was raised in

Re: [Linux-users] This drives me mad!

2014-01-28 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
Actually This sounds like it could be the one at the University of CanterburyICTS have heaps of virtual servers and are wanting two consultants (sysadmins, systems managers or any other name you want to call it) They are job ids 2098 (windows) and 2099(linux) and I feel your first

Re: [Linux-users] Telstra cable connections in Chch

2013-11-27 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
On 28/11/13 15:37, Barry wrote: Over the last few months I have had a lot of trouble getting a connection in the evenings. Often my mail connection times out, and browser times out waiting for google or stuff.co.nz. or to access a link. If I want to send an email I have to save it for sending

Re: [Linux-users] New desktop - what's recommended?

2013-04-09 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
On 10/04/13 12:39, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Wed 10 Apr 2013 09:24:14 NZST +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: I use 32GB RAM on my ubuntu machine and can only afford two VMs running Tomcat and JBoss respectively, and both are panting when running tests. I'm seriously considering upgrading already.

[Linux-users] A performance question

2012-10-25 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
Hi all, I have had a few years sorting out hardware performance on some of our loaded linux compute servers. This one has me perplexed.. It is not too much of a worry but I would like to know why this is happening .. and if I should be worried :-) Machine (Fedora 16) is not running at peak

Re: [Linux-users] A performance question

2012-10-25 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
the processes causing the problem, strace it? Happy to have a look if you wish... it's sort of what I do for a living. Cheers, Steve ( the real WTF is fedora on a server (: ) On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 10:40 +1300, Peter Glassenbury(UoC) wrote: Hi all, I have had a few years sorting out hardware performance

Re: [Linux-users] Control-O

2012-07-03 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
On 04/07/12 16:34, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: I'm sitting here watching pages of verbose messages on an ssh session in the US. Probably because of the fact that they're all on holiday, the bandwidth is miniscule. Put me in mind

Re: [Linux-users] Has anyone got some old hubs they are no longer using?

2011-09-20 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
On 21/09/11 13:08, ant wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Peter Glassenbury(UoC) wrote: I'm on the scrounge for some old networking hubs if someone has any. I think our set has been lost in the quake shifting and storing of our building contents.. I've got a 10Mbps hub - eight RJ45 ports plus one

Re: [Linux-users] Last call for volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
Oh well, Keep us in mind if you need equipment for Linux promotions. I'll help where we can. Pete On 09/09/11 09:35, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:18:13 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Okay, I still have no clue how many people can make it to the Rangiora SFD. Right, I'll call it of for

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
As a Lurker on the list, I don't have much time to spare for this, but Computer Science department does have some machines if you need to borrow them..I've checked and it is ok for this project .. Main issue with them would be the lack of wireless..usb sticks? But they would be Core 2 Duo with