[Linux-users] Anyone using voyage-one asterisk?

2010-10-02 Thread Chris Hellyar
This is possibly a bit of a stretch, but thought I'd try my luck Is anyone using Voyage-one asterisk dsitro (or asterisk-gui / Asterisk 1.6.2) with a 2Talk iax trunk? I've just set it up on a SBC to replace my aging trixbox and I'm getting an error with inbound calls over iax: [Oct 2

Re: [Linux-users] Want an 802.11b/g modem for Ubuntu 10.4

2010-10-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
If your the only person on the wifi you could use a bridge. Other than that it sounds like your option is an Alix or similar SBC running as a client on the wifi with a nat router running on it so your pc is a client on a different subnet. I assume you're quite a distance from the adsl/wifi

[Linux-users] Re: ADSL modem (pppoe) for pfsens e.. (solved)

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Hellyar
Just FYI, for completeness of thread and all that.. Decided to get one of the Draytek's from young Hadley, and will slap it on the end of an Alix box running pfsense and see how it goes. Cheers, him. -Original Message- From: Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz Sent: Thursday, 14 October

Re: [Linux-users] corrupted PNG files coming out of cacti/apache

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Hellyar
Mimetype settings on the box not right for .png? Addtype in a .htaccess file typo'd ? Any web apps installed on the box that might have added custom config into /etc/apache2/conf.d ? Modules enabled? : mem_cache cache deflate All can affect stuff going out Just throwing some stuff out

Re: [Linux-users] corrupted PNG files coming out of cacti/apache

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Hellyar
. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz Sent: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010 09:56 To: Canterbury Linux Users Group linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: [Linux-users] corrupted PNG files coming out of cacti/apache Chris Hellyar wrote, On 11/23/2010 08:27 PM: Use fiddler to access one of the pages

[Linux-users] Re: Unintended insult over GNU/LINUX vs certain distros?

2011-01-19 Thread Chris Hellyar
Not being picky, but... UNIX is often written that way because that's what the trademark is... Brian Kernighan originally called it Unics, which was a pun acronym based on Multics which came before it. It was renamed Unix at some point and then got capitalised when the trademark was applied

Re: [Linux-users] OT: Any CLUGgers need RW help after Quake 2.0?

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi All... We only had minor damage out at home this time around, but work faired somewhat worse being in Ferrymead. Had a shocker of an afternoon, although obviously not as bad as some.. On the CLUG member front, anyone heard from Criggie? Someone was looking for him on Twitter on Wednesday.

Re: [Linux-users] World IPv6 day tomorrow

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Hellyar
Attend a memorial for IPV4. :-) On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 17:47 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: Tomorrow Wed 8th June is world Ipv6 day. Anybody doing anything to participate in this event? Cheers Ross Drummond ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: [Linux-users] State of 64 bit flash?

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Hellyar
Flash 'just worked' on my 64bit 1104 install, which is sorta how it should be.. Chromium and virtualbox we won't go into, and as for transcode... -Original Message- From: yuri yur...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 12 June, 2011 16:58 To: CLUG linux-us...@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject:

Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi, Up until recently I'd have said Evo, but since updating to 1104 I've had some pain for some reason. I connect to an SSL/TLS imap service (rackspace, can't say enough good thing's about em) and after some patches about a week ago Evolution on my main desktop refused to access the email. I

Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hurro, I'd have to echo this, with my own customers, my 'real' job and my private email. Folks with email hosted with big cloud providers (google, rackspace and Microsoft Azure) all had their email. In-house and small ISP's locally had issues or no email at all after 222. In the weeks

Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 27/06/11 16:17, Phill Coxon wrote: On 27/06/11 16:16, yuri wrote: This can be mitigated by using a provider that has at least one data centre mirroring your data in NZ. Ideally a local provider which mirrors your data across 3 data centres in 3 cities across the country. Is there a list

Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 27/06/11 20:12, Jim Cheetham wrote: If your cloud provider doesn't feel you need to know something, they won't tell you. You don't get message logs. You can't call them for help. You have no effective guarantee of service, because you can't measure them in the first place. Um. The

Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 27/06/11 21:22, Robert Fisher wrote: I wonder why people mistrust Google but trust other companies. Has Google been unreliable? Have they had privacy concerns? (or just paranoia?) Is it just that they are big? I don't want a slanging match, I just want to know. I took the plunge to use

Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 27/06/11 22:27, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 27 Jun 2011 21:18:40 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: No problem, understood, which is why I didn't complain. Question though: any imap service available for reasonable prices? Dare I ask, from a trustworthy company? I would be genuinely

Re: [Linux-users] CherryPal

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
, Chris Hellyar wrote: Urrr, OK, I've got a power hungry mini-ITX setup. The only one I've currently got is an early VIA board with a laptop drive that is doing 210ma on the mains side of the powersupply = 50W Still, I think the Alix boards are a better solution for routers/firewalls than

Re: [Linux-users] pfsense on Alix board

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Hellyar
2 votes for Nicegear... I used a 3D2, or a 2D3? it's not on the site any longer, Hadyn had them on special last year... Got the case Wifi card for it as well. Card is a Lexar 66x 1G CF card and wrote it using a Sandisk 12-in-1 reader. My generic Chinese job failed to make it bootable for

Re: [Linux-users] pfsense on Alix board

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 22/07/11 11:36, Hadley Rich wrote: It's Hadley :) Thanks for the mentions guys. You sure you didn't change your name? :-) ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: [Linux-users] pfsense on Alix board

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 23/07/11 17:42, Robert Fisher wrote: On 23/07/11 17:33, Ross Drummond wrote: Can you elaborate what hardware you are running PfSense on? Actually Hadley upgraded me to http://pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm ??? You personally? Wouldn't it be more convenient if he upgraded the alix board. Not

Re: [Linux-users] Max file size on FAT32

2011-09-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 20/09/11 21:07, yuri wrote: Have you tried an external drive formatted with something other than FAT32? For Linux-- Windows portability you could try NTFS, or for Linux only use your favourite FS. What's the max filesize for NTFS? Depends on the version of NTFS doesn't it? /me initiates

Re: [Linux-users] OT: Leaving CLUG and left NZ

2011-09-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 21/09/11 11:04, Christopher Sawtell wrote: you loud and clear on the issues around the business culture. There is definitely something broken although I'm part of the problem so I can't put my finger on it. :-) (Yes, I can see the emoticon, but there is always truth lurking

Re: [Linux-users] Connecting to unsecured wifi?

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
What distro? Ubuntu 1104 'just works' at McDonalds Sydneham for me... On 27/09/11 13:48, Michael Gauland wrote: I've been unable to establish a connection to free wifi services at McDonalds or the Rangiora library (these are the only unsecured services I've tried). I can connect to my home

Re: [Linux-users] Piping sound around a network

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Hellyar
icecast? -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 15:04 To: Canterbury Linux Users Group linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: [Linux-users] Piping sound around a network I have succeeded in sending application windows around

Re: [Linux-users] Pinch zooming in Firefox

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, Works on my acer laptop, but not my old tosh. Also works in chrome on the new one. I assume it's a function of the touch pad supporting multi-touch as well as the app. I'm currently booted into windows 7 on the Acer and it works in IE, Chrome and Firefox, as well as thunderbird, so

[Linux-users] WD-TV Live + Linux NAS / server.

2012-03-31 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi folks... Trivia question of sorts... Our trusty Dlink media player died last week during the lightening storm, and I need to look a new one before I get lynched by the kids. I skipped though the manual on the Western Digital site and it mentions NFS shares. Just wondering if anyone is

Re: [Linux-users] does this mean what I think it means?

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
Loopy loopy... :-) On 26/09/2012 10:52 p.m., Don Robertson wrote: tracepath 210.48.109.8 1: sovan.lan 0.202ms pmtu 1500 1: dsldevice.lan21.285ms 1: dsldevice.lan

Re: [Linux-users] Reballing or reflowing BGA?

2012-11-22 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hurro, I've used the toasteroven + thermocouple sensor method to reflow existing boards a couple of times, but a whole laptop board could be problematic as some components on the board may not be up for the high temperature... Is the video section on a separate daughter board? I can lend

Re: [Linux-users] Usb/serial adapter

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Hellyar
The DSE ones use the FTDIR or FTDI or FTIR chipsets.. The one that works with everything. $45 from memory so not the cheapest but I've got a couple of them and they've always just worked with *oze, osX and *ix. On 16/01/13 11:35, Nick Rout wrote: What are people using these days? Prefer

Re: [Linux-users] DSL Modems and rural lines

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Hellyar
West Melton is a shocker if you're on the WM exchange apparently. 500-600kb/s down is not uncommon, as the contention rate is too high. We have a staff member out there and after much trying and complaining to our company rep with Telecom we got exactly no-where. A wee while after that I

[Linux-users] re-building Raid 5 array...

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi folks.. Got a bit of a conundrum... A friend has (had) a nas box that failed a drive in a raid 5 array during expansion of the array from 3 to 4 drives. The drive that failed was the 'new' one.. I've got the three drives here, and managed to get mdadm to create the array using: mdadm

Re: [Linux-users] re-building Raid 5 array...

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
inspiration from Mr Google. :-) Cheers, Chris H. On 14/02/2013 3:00 p.m., C. Falconer wrote: Chris Hellyar wrote, On 14/02/13 14:03: Hi folks.. Got a bit of a conundrum... A friend has (had) a nas box that failed a drive in a raid 5 array during expansion of the array from 3 to 4 drives. The drive

[Linux-users] Ubuntu 13.04 M/B suggestions?

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi folks, Quick trivia.. My main desktop at home has a Geforce 7025 (nvidia) graphics card on the board and with each successive upgrade of Ubuntu it's got less stable video wise and it's finally thrown in the towel after the 13.04 update. Not so much Ubuntu's fault, it's developed some

Re: [Linux-users] Ubuntu 13.04 M/B suggestions?

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
future either way. Cheers, Chris H. On 30/05/13 11:25, Ross Drummond wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013, Chris Hellyar wrote: Hi folks, Quick trivia.. My main desktop at home has a Geforce 7025 (nvidia) graphics card on the board and with each successive upgrade of Ubuntu it's got less stable video

Re: [Linux-users] House / Garage ethernet wiring

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
Per Rob's comment, bigger pipe. 40mm with 10 cat 5 runs will be very difficult to get any more cable into later on if you want to. And the cars wire/rope should be tough so it doesn't snap the first time you use it!  Coordinate the pipe install with the folks doing the slab for the garage,

Re: [Linux-users] site support documentation softrware

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Hellyar
If you're looking for swiss-army sledgehammer GLPI is a do-all option that we use at work. A bit of a high config overhead, but will do all sorts of stuff. Cheers, Chris H. On 04/02/14 08:39, Steve Holdoway wrote: Folks, I have a need for input on what software I should use to document the

[Linux-users] OSS on National radio...

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
For those not glued to telly tonight: There's a show coming up on the national program before 9 about open source software, missed the exact time sorry... Not sure the angle, but the announcer mentioned Ubuntu so one assumes it's linuxy. :-) Cheers, Chris H.

Re: [Linux-users] OSS on National radio...

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
on /Uruguay/ On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz mailto:ch...@trash.co.nz wrote: For those not glued to telly tonight: There's a show coming up on the national program before 9 about open source software, missed the exact time sorry... Not sure

Re: [Linux-users] OSS on National radio...

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
Starting after the music that's on now... On 13/03/14 20:24, Steve Brorens wrote: Umm, looking at the schedule I see a program on /Uruguay/ On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz mailto:ch...@trash.co.nz wrote: For those not glued to telly tonight

[Linux-users] Fwd: Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Hellyar
Interesting... One assumes they were struggling to compete with the big players in the market.. Cheers, Chris H. Original Message Subject:Ubuntu One file services Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:05:56 -0400 From: Ubuntu One nore...@one.ubuntu.com To:

Re: [Linux-users] Heart Bleed bug

2014-04-08 Thread Chris Hellyar
'Urro, Per the other comments, it is serious if you're administrating public facing kit using things that rely on the openssl/ssh/tls. Not a big deal for most end users. Debian had patches out as of sometime today, a couple of boxes I updated fist thing got new versions of openssl / open

Re: [Linux-users] usb

2014-04-16 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho... The older white Hauwei ones work fine with Linux, but I've had variable luck with newer USB modems.. These days I WiFi tether to my iPhone.. Works with Androids as well I believe although not tried it myself. Just get a decent data plan and you're cooking. (Assuming it's a

Re: [Linux-users] usb

2014-04-17 Thread Chris Hellyar
I can see you now in court... Waving around a dongle on the end of a 5m cable, asking the judge to hold it above his head. Just a bit to the right, too far.. Back a bit! :-) On 17/04/14 18:20, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz

Re: [Linux-users] Heart Bleed bug

2014-04-19 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Steve... Not really related to the heartbleed issue, but about apache SSL protocol settings.. Have you had any issues with disabling ssl 2/3 ? I've never managed to get qualsys to give me better than an 'A-' and still keep support for older IE7/8 and early android 2.x mobile devices

Re: [Linux-users] Heart Bleed bug

2014-04-21 Thread Chris Hellyar
That's OK, I have a healthy dose of paranoia every now and then. :-) The main thing that worries me with SSL tuning is what devices you're knocking off, rather than how secure it all is. Commercial imperatives and all that. Some of the stuff I look after still has 20-30% traffic from win XP

[Linux-users] Advanced Linux Programming e-book.

2014-04-21 Thread Chris Hellyar
Just saw this on g+: http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder/ If you need a bed-time read. :-) Cheers, Chris H. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: [Linux-users] Time recording software...

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Hellyar
'Urro, In a total co-incidence of sorts as I'm currently self-unemployed and needed a time collection tool as well. :-) I installed a copy of Kimai on a cloud box and have found it's excellent for tracking time against customers/projects/tasks.. I'm generating manual invoices anyway, so

Re: [Linux-users] Strange debianism FYI.

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Hellyar
That is actually kinda useful, I think. Errr. Not? :-) On 20/09/14 11:26, C. Falconer wrote: I typoed an apt-get command, and left a hyphen on the end of a package name. Curiously it didn't complain package not found Instead it offered to remove that package. # apt-get install vim-

[Linux-users] PCI / PCIe USB 3 card..

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hurro folks.. Random Q: for the weekend.. Got a M/B without USB 3 I'd like to stick a card in. Anyone bought one recently? Chipsets to avoid? Emotional outbursts? Cheers, Me. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz

Re: [Linux-users] A collection of Haiku

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Hellyar
In my working life Many Unixes I've used Linux is the best ( Which is not strictly true, I prefer solaris really, but it had too many syllables) -Original Message- From: Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 23 September, 2014 14:32 To: Canterbury Linux Users Group

Re: [Linux-users] A collection of Haiku

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Hellyar
2014 22:21, Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz wrote: Back to Debian for stability I crave farewell, Ubuntu. (made the shift with my last rebuild, happy camper now..) On 24/09/2014, at 9:55 pm, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:40 PM, David Lowe da...@thistledown.co.nz

[Linux-users] Bash Haiku...

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Hellyar
Internet anyway. I think that covers 99% of the *ix hosting these days? On 25/09/14 16:01, Chris Hellyar wrote: On servers remote in Datacenters, lights out. Debian Makes sense. On Desktops deployed Surfing the great unknown Ubuntu's at home. For uptime you care five nines the contract denotes

Re: [Linux-users] Bash Haiku...

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
yeah ,but you’d have to say it’s got a nicer ring to it than heartbleed… On 25/09/2014, at 5:48 pm, Douglas Royds douglas.ro...@taitradio.com wrote: Oh no, it has a click-bait name already: Shellshock On 25 September 2014 17:00, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: So bash is

[Linux-users] shell shock, one more time..

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
0918 this morning Debian released a patch for the patch. :-) For those not watching this is great viewing. It's also quite scary how easy it was to build an exploit for this one. It took me about 15 minutes last night to build a shell script that could exploit a bash script on a remote

Re: [Linux-users] shell shock, one more time..

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
/smartos) are 24 hours behind as usual. Solaris if you've not paid up support you wont get it for a few days, or have to go from source. BSD are smugly keeping up to date as usual. :-) Cheers, Chris H. On 26/09/14 10:06, C. Falconer wrote: Chris Hellyar wrote, On 26/09/14 09:42: 0918

Re: [Linux-users] shell shock, one more time..

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 26/09/14 11:22, Steve Holdoway wrote: so... a2dismod cgi on your deb/ubuntu boxes with apache, and whatever the equiv. is on RH, can't think of it for the mo.. That will fix that vector. Or just upgrade to nginx... well, there is that... :-) I was a bit resistant but I'm warming to it.

Re: [Linux-users] shell shock, one more time..

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
, Kent Fredric wrote: On 26 September 2014 12:06, Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz mailto:ch...@trash.co.nz wrote: While I don't disagree with the statement that any execution environment can be used to get the result from the flawed version of bash, the remote exploit is via apache/cgi

Re: [Linux-users] Highish end VPS providers in Christchurch???

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Hellyar
market to keep ahead of, and these are my current favourites. We should set up a freelance SysAdmin group (: Steve On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 17:01 +1300, Chris Hellyar wrote: Do you mean with a datacentre in CHCH, or just a phone number? CCL infrastructure as a service and compared to off-shore

Re: [Linux-users] Highish end VPS providers in Christchurch???

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Hellyar
ROFL... Since when did a question posed on this list need to be legitimate?? :-) On 13/02/15 15:54, C. Falconer wrote: Can you do the same traceroute with ipv6 please? (legitimate question btw) ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: [Linux-users] Highish end VPS providers in Christchurch???

2015-02-11 Thread Chris Hellyar
Do you mean with a datacentre in CHCH, or just a phone number? CCL infrastructure as a service and compared to off-shore offerings would probably be at the highish end price wise. Other than that I don't know of any actually in CHCH that I'd consider high end. Maybe Snap? If you just

[Linux-users] IPv6 on catalyst reply...

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Hellyar
FYI: as this was partially what lead ot the IP6v Thread. Catalyst don't support public IPv6 yet, and they're waiting for openstack to fully support it by the sounds of it. Unsure about that as I know of another openstack based VPS provider who does IPv6, possibly a risk-averse approach and

Re: [Linux-users] Highish end VPS providers in Christchurch???

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Hellyar
-Original Message- From: Derek Smithies derek.smith...@gmail.com because I'm sure IPv4 will be around in the public IP space for years. Really? I thought the trend in IT was for (almost) all predictions to be proved wrong. Me thinks that the avalanche of shifting to IPv6 is

Re: [Linux-users] Highish end VPS providers in Christchurch???

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Hellyar
I've recently come across some providers who charge more for accessing their API's via IPv4 and a one who does v6 only, so the drift is gaining momentum. Certainly not the doom-and-gloom rapid migration and breaking of things that was predicted a few years ago but at some stage in the next

Re: [Linux-users] IPv6

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Hellyar
On a machine with both v4 and v6 I'm guessing?  I've had some weird along a similar line with ssl connections (starttls) for other services on multi homed stuff, but not specifically ssh... Original message From: Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz Date:16/02/2015 18:31

Re: [Linux-users] Printing over ipv6

2015-02-28 Thread Chris Hellyar
'Urro.. Did both workstation and printer pick up link-local addresses? (fe80:*) Is the workstation running any ip6tables rules? As a very broad statement, for local network stuff ipv6 has 'just worked' for me so far, so it's down to the basics.. You can ping, but can you telnet to port 9100

Re: [Linux-users] Apache PHP frustration

2015-05-07 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Barry... What distro? Change your ?phpinfo ? to be: ?php phpinfo(); ? If that dunnae work, some more detail on distro etc and I'm sure we can get you working quickly. Cheers, Chris H. On 07/05/15 20:54, Barry wrote: Hi all, After trying for abt 3 weeks to get php running I am just

Re: [Linux-users] Apache PHP frustration

2015-05-07 Thread Chris Hellyar
‘c drive’? What is the heresy? On 8/05/2015, at 7:07 am, David Merrick merrick...@gmail.com wrote: Try downloading lamp on c drive should solve most problems. Cheers Dave On 7/05/2015 8:54 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz mailto:barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi all, After trying

Re: [Linux-users] Apache PHP frustration

2015-05-08 Thread Chris Hellyar
is not very 'standard'. I don't know of a distro that puts them in /etc, they should be in /lib or /usr/lib (or /opt/local/lib if it's Solaris ) I wasn't trying to start a distro-war. :-) Cheers, Chris H. On 09/05/15 08:45, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 07 May 2015 21:50:59 NZST +1200, Chris

Re: [Linux-users] Spark SMTP port

2015-05-16 Thread Chris Hellyar
By default Spark/Xtra block it both ways. Been that way for at least a year? Might be longer, I can’t remember.. You have to ring the help desk an ask for it to be unblocked, and switch to using a username/password in your router.. Cheers, Chris H. On 16/05/2015, at 2:51 pm, Volker

Re: [Linux-users] PHP problems

2015-06-13 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Barry… When you say that it shows tagged entries correctly, accept the ?php one… Do you mean it’s showing your PHP source code after the ?php tag? Cheers, Chris H. On 13/06/2015, at 22:48, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi All, can you please help me to get php code recognized

Re: [Linux-users] PHP problems

2015-06-18 Thread Chris Hellyar
Do you need to a2enmod mod_php or similar? no such file found in this distro. From browsing I gather this is similar to mod_rewrite (am I correct?) which is apparently built in and is not in httpd.conf a2enmod is a command (script). You'd use it to enable / disable modules in

Re: [Linux-users] Building a Raspberry Pi compatible .deb package without a Raspberry Pi

2015-05-31 Thread Chris Hellyar
Why not just down load raspian, m mount the image and copy out the kernel? You'll need the image anyway.  I'm running a couple of pis here,  as a fire wall,  and nas / media server, I could just email you the files, but that seems kinda silly. :-) The raspian repo seems to be fairly complete

Re: [Linux-users] Setting up mysql.

2015-05-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Barry… I know I’m gonna regret this as soon as I ask it… What distro??? Getting mysql to work on yum/apt based distros has been as simple as yum/apt-get install mysql-server for a few years now, so I’m not even sure where to start with your question… :-) Cheers, Chris H. On 29/05/2015,

Re: [Linux-users] PATA drives - 80/40G

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, I'm not sure of the model yet, at this stage all I know is that it's 6 cabinets with digital on some of them. That means it's not a minivax but other than that I'm in a hold loop waiting for a date next month to go and take a look. :-) I worked on a PDP11 micro that was failing with

Re: [Linux-users] PATA drives - 80/40G

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Hellyar
to be my first Vax encounter. :-) On 18/08/15 22:24, Kent Fredric wrote: On 18 August 2015 at 22:20, Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz wrote: Xenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix Really? Or same name different thing? ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: [Linux-users] PATA drives - 80/40G

2015-08-17 Thread Chris Hellyar
Does it have to be PC/i386 stuff? I'll be helping a firm pull out some old DEC hardware next month.. Serious big-iron they are going to have to pay to get taken away if you're really keen. It's not been powered on since about 1990, and you'll need a truck. :-) On 17/08/15 18:57, Peter

Re: [Linux-users] PATA drives - 80/40G

2015-08-17 Thread Chris Hellyar
scrub does it for me, not heard of dban before, will 'ave to have a look... Anyway, spare drives I have, first in first served: PATA: 1x WD400, 40G 2x Maxtor 20.4Gb (20G? is that even a thing? :) ) 1x Hitachi Deskstar 82.3Gb SATA: (Turns out two were not as old as the others!) 1x Hitachi

Re: [Linux-users] Data security and privacy (Re: PATA drives - 80/40G)

2015-08-21 Thread Chris Hellyar
Indeed... But if I were to use a shotgun for that I'd probably shoot the whole box instead you might recall. :-) Cheers, the other Chris. On 20/08/15 17:49, Chris wrote: On 19/08/15 13:55, Chris Hellyar wrote: In the past I’ve found the .22 off-hand at about 50m to be both challenging

Re: [Linux-users] Data security and privacy (Re: PATA drives - 80/40G)

2015-08-23 Thread Chris Hellyar
/etc/network/interfaces is the file for most stuff on Debian style distros... And the other files in that folder... -Original Message- From: Chris che...@gmail.com On 22/08/15 00:11, Chris Hellyar wrote: By the way, can you point me to where Debian Distro's keep there net work

Re: [Linux-users] Data security and privacy (Re: PATA drives - 80/40G)

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Hellyar
In the past I’ve found the .22 off-hand at about 50m to be both challenging and fun. ( But possibly not practical, or legal in an urban environment!. YMMV! ) :-) On 19/08/2015, at 13:48, steve st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: Blowtorch is better... and more fun. On 19/08/15 11:16, Derek

Re: [Linux-users] Reliable way of determining CHS info from Compact flash card

2015-07-19 Thread Chris Hellyar
Sorry, I didn’t get past Amiga 1200.. You’ve got one that works still? (Can’t help with the query, although I know CF cards look like an IDE device so one assumes normal tools like HDparm etc would report correctly?) On 19/07/2015, at 19:47, Peter Simmonds peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Linux-users] Head -> Wall. USB3.

2015-11-08 Thread Chris Hellyar
;list0...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > On Mon 09 Nov 2015 19:33:02 NZDT +1300, Chris Hellyar wrote: > >> I’ve got an NEC upd720200 based PCIe USB3 card in my Desktop… > > Good. It should work then. Oops... ___ Linux-users mailing list Linu

[Linux-users] Head -> Wall. USB3.

2015-11-08 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi folks. ;-) Bit of an annoyance problem for today… I’ve got an NEC upd720200 based PCIe USB3 card in my Desktop… I just upgraded to Debian 8 (From 7) and thought it might magically start working, but to no avail… It’s still a paperweight. All of the good gen says firmware update but I

Re: [Linux-users] ipv6 and kvm guests...

2015-08-31 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Steve... I'd love to help, but I'm not sure what the problem is. :-) Is this all on a private network, or is the centos on the public 'net and you want to route from your client to the 'net without natting it? On 31/08/15 15:37, steve wrote: Hi folks, I'm playing with use of pagespeed

[Linux-users] PATA drives new years special. :-)

2016-01-02 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, Following on from my clean-out last year of smallish PATA drives I've just been doing a clean out of bits & bobs and have some larger ones spare now.. 3x WD5000AAKB 500Gb's and 1x Samsung SP1313N 160GB They're going for the same price as the last.. ie: Free, first in first served.

[Linux-users] Ian of Debian passes away...

2015-12-31 Thread Chris Hellyar
I totally missed this bit of news, silly season and all that, it happened on Monday.. per: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ Happy new year folks, sorry to be sharing a wet blanket at this

Re: [Linux-users] PATA drives new years special. :-)

2016-01-09 Thread Chris Hellyar
I did wonder when I saw ‘secure’ and ‘email’ on the same line, but figured Peter meant he was using PGP. (which is again not secure once the other person gets it, they can just forward it on, or have an automatic rule that posts it to every social media site in creation. :-) ) I’ve just this

Re: [Linux-users] Dolphin file manager problem

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Barry... Switch to Gnome? :-) But seriously... I had this problem on a debian/kde a wee while ago and after a bit of googling found some threads suggesting it was a regression issue in a new/current version and no real fix... (The right-button option was also missing) In the end I

Re: [Linux-users] Help

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
http://www.sentora.org/ I use this for one customer who wanted a control panel but had no money to spend on one of the commercial options, and I would now recommend it ahead of cpanel/plesk etc, although I do not use a control panel on any of my own servers now as it's not the market I'm in. I

Re: [Linux-users] Help

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Julian, Jokes about caps aside. If you are seriously considering setting up a hosting business look at wholesaling someone else's hosting service rather than running the servers / infrastructure yourself. Unless you have a good niche customer base you can charge for support / development

Re: [Linux-users] Help

2016-06-06 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi Julian... You're missing the important details.. cloud/colo/public/private natted network etc... There are 100's of things that stop FTP working but you're asking very broad questions. So we can help: What FTP server? What FTP client? If it's a cloud box, what provider? (Makes a huge

Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help

2016-05-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
On 29/05/16 21:33, Steve holdoway wrote: > I won't ever recommend Rackspace though. Interesting you'd say that... I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but I got burnt last year when their cloud platform dropped a group of servers into the bit bucket along with the

Re: [Linux-users] Help

2016-05-30 Thread Chris Hellyar
ing and I am using a domain and I > have sftp setup but it won't let me connect with the Host domain? > > > > -Original Message- > From: linux-users-boun...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz > [mailto:linux-users-boun...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Chris > Hellyar >

Re: [Linux-users] Help

2016-05-31 Thread Chris Hellyar
a hosting business... Cheers, Chris H. On 31/05/16 16:41, Julian wrote: > I can connect through the ip but not domain name > > -Original Message- > From: linux-users-boun...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz > [mailto:linux-users-boun...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Chris &

Re: [Linux-users] Help

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
Are you looking to provide hosting for other people, or just for a single site / server setup? If you're just running one server/site there's a lot to be said for configuring everything manually... If you want to host for other people sentora is not bad in the open source space and supports

Re: [Linux-users] CLUG Bank Account

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
the now famous 'there is no club' post to the list from Carl.. http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0301/msg00416.html So obviously the site had not caught up. :-) Enjoy, Chris H. On 28/05/16 01:21, Chris Hellyar wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm going to restore the circa 2003 ins

Re: [Linux-users] CLUG Bank Account

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi folks I'm going to restore the circa 2003 install fest website for a laugh with a bit of new no-clug content to explain what it is. ( I kept a copy, dunno why. ;-) ) The grey-beards will remember that was on linuxnut.co.nz, we moved to clug.org.nz in 2004 I think? The whois suggests august

Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help

2016-05-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
ackspace. Was: Help On Sun 29 May 2016 21:49:07 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but I > got burnt last year when their cloud platform dropped a group of servers > into the bit bucket along with the snapshots not bein

Re: [Linux-users] AWStats

2016-05-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
y Linux Users Group <linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help On Sun 29 May 2016 21:49:07 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but > I got burnt last year when their

Re: [Linux-users] Datacenter in a box. was: Re: Dual booting Windows 10 with Linux Mint

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Hellyar
tached storage and a xeon/i7 but it's a nice geeky option for light processor loads ans saving a few $ on power every month. :-) Cheers, Chris H. sdb,c and d are the On 28/06/16 11:47, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Mon 27 Jun 2016 22:17:34 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > > Wow I'm impre

Re: [Linux-users] Dual booting Windows 10 with Linux Mint

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Hellyar
That ticket was closed 7 months ago? >From the user manual, supported host OS: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#hostossupport Windows 10 RTM build 10240 (32-bit and 64-bit) I have VB running on windows 10, and windows 10 running in VB on a mac. No issues either way. (Apart from

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