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or
man ssh_config
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Create a file, ~/.sss/config and add the following stanza;
That should be;
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On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Nick Rout wrote:
How do you tell which is connected to where?
lsusb -t
From the man page;
-t Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree.
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about this card, Linux can be wiped and
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[2] Mike also provides an archive of the Dunedin Linux Users list.
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-a should tell you what printers are available.
On a related tangent, when I want to print something from the shell on a
postscript printer I pipe the command output to encsript and then pipe that
output to lpr. Man enscript for all the gory details.
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On Friday 12 November 2010
/etc/TextConfig but not there. (May be
associated with some add-on that tweaks the max out of graphics cards.)
Try editing /etc/conf.d/consolefont
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Test using ftp, once normally and then again after instructing your client to
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The times should be the same.
A good permanent solution is to set up you Linux box to query a Net Time
Protocol server. Most ISP's have one, and your computer clock will be very
accurate.
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, the licenses are all good, mostly
CC-BY-SA with a couple of CC-BY-NC in the mix)
-jim
I'm keen, Chris is as well. What time were you planning to grace us with your
appearance?
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PS. Any person attending who can share with me their method for setting up a
6to4 tunnel should have
of the page;
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Please note that both these methods require the From Address to be the email
address which you subscribed to the list on.
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PS It is a statement of the bleedin obvious that it is easier to cancel your
old
flipper.
Use SystemRescueCD[1] in either its live CD or bootable USB versions,
and follow these instructions for using netcat[2] and tar to do high volume
file transfers across a network;
http://www.kevinhatfield.org/?p=423
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[2] called nc
to the first person who emails me off-list with a postal
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Can anyone recommend a file system for an external hard drive that can used on
either XP OSX or Linux
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the code so you may need to use the BSD ftp command
line program. If it is not installed on your Linux box try a Windows one. All
Windows versions I have come across include the BSD client.
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Google suggests that gftp supports this file.
Warning: The netrc file stores your login and password in plain text, so you
need to be comfortable with the lack of security in this file.
My computer has a man page for the netrc file format.
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On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:40:10 +1200, Col col...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/05/11 11:28, Ross Drummond wrote:
I finally succeeded in getting a 6to4 tunnel set up on one of my Linux
boxes.
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How well does that configuration score on the ipv6 test?
http://test-ipv6.com
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jim Cheetham and others wrote:
Discussion about time taken for a process.
You guys are reinventing the wheel. Go to;
http://directory.fsf.org/project/time/
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On Tue, 24 May 2011, Ross Drummond wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jim Cheetham and others wrote:
Discussion about time taken for a process.
You guys are reinventing the wheel. Go to;
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Tomorrow Wed 8th June is world Ipv6 day.
Anybody doing anything to participate in this event?
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away (complete with 2 NIC's and IPCop working.
Can you elaborate what hardware you are running PfSense on?
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Nick Rout wrote:
LOL it makes you wonder how these people get trained (or not).
I often feel like interrupting when I hear shop assistants talking to
complete strangers. However the few times I have, it leads to a whole
afternoon of discussion, I just
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012, Nick Rout wrote:
Is this list still around?
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Off topic observation: As a *nix command line user I find myself in difficulty
when using Windows PowerShell.
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controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1252
As you can see I have the i915 kernel module loaded.
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PS Excellent choice of PC. I like mine for its low real estate
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Any suggestions on how to use wget or curl to download the images stored
on Amazon S3 with links updated for local storage / viewing?
Thanks!
Please refer to the following options in the wget man page;
--convert-links
--page-requisites
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this partition will most
likely brick your computer
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on the actual architecture to
boot (\EFI\BOOT\boot[architecture name].efi).
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hate them.
Some motherboards have the option of enabling legacy boot mode which I
understand means old style MBR boot loading. Check your bios set up munu or
motherboard documentation.
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a system recovery disc for the computer in
Windows somewhwhere.
Warning: The system recovery disc will probably harm your Linux installation
if you are dual booting.
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There seems to be plenty of choices in their motherboard compatability list
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Are there any experienced Android developers on this list?
I am looking into commisioning the development of an in-house app for a
business.
No problems paying for this.
Please contact me off list.
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' : Input/output error.
Only a suggestion but why not try this from a terminal usin cp with the -v
or--verbose option enabled to see if you get more informative error output.
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Maybe this will help;
https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, chris wrote:
Which is my issue. I am on dial up, and I cannot get Evolution to go on
line at all. As you say areal PITA.
Also my tux skills are not
Go to;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2219188/Inside-internet-Google-gives-unique-look-inside-vast-data-centres-power-online-world.html
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have been forced the rely on an early vanilla Dick Smith ADSL modem that I
brought second hand from Nick Rout.
I am in a Chorus area for fibre roll-out. On the Chorus web site the
deployment map puts me in a we will get around to you eventually area.
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and hangs.
It worked fine in other locations where I connected it.
I had to revert to the previous old Dick Smith modem.
My advise would be to ask arround for discarded old modems that you can borrow
to test.
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that your problems are most likely hardware based given the machines
other issues but does using the nouveau open source driver rather than the
closed nvidia drivers give a different result.
A look through /va r/log/Xorg-*.log may be usefull.
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On Thu, 30 May 2013, Ross Drummond wrote:
A look through /var/log/Xorg-*.log may be usefull.
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Drat! gremlins, should be;
/var/log/Xorg.*.log
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Thank you to those who offered advice.
I took the procrastinate option. I masked recent versions Kmail and installed
an older known-good version(1.13.7).
Unless Kmail stabilises I have only put off the day of reckoning.
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On Fri, 06 Sep 2013, Ross Drummond wrote:
I am
text in the reply had taken up all the screen, the text of my
reply needed to be flicked up to be read.
To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting.
DISCUSS
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Is the cause unstable mains power at your house with micro outages making the
modem reboot?
Do you notice light fliker? Does running it off a backup power supply make any
diference?
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. It was likely over time for your conduit to become water
logged and it was inevitable your cable would be damaged by small nicks during
installation. Gel would prevent any moisture entering these small nicks from
travelling along inside the outer sheath of the cable to a weak spot.
Cheers Ross
Someone with at least five years experience in Windows Server 2012 would be a
shoo-in for that job.
Visualising those in the recruitment industry as gibbering baboons helps you
mentally prepare for dealing with them.
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Steve Holdoway wrote:
TM Ad today
of using the computer interfaces MAC address.
Craig, howdya du dat?
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I want a live DVD with the KDE program Kile which is an integrated
development environment for creating LaTeX documents.
Does anyone know of a live DVD(or CD) with Kile?
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I have found the live DVD with the Kile LaTeX IDE on it. It is one of
the Fedora Spin series.
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/scientific-kde/
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Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote:
I want a live DVD with the KDE program Kile which
I am trying to get a Linux live DVD to boot on an Apple Mac Book.
The suggestions made by Google do not work.
Any hints?
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C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Stuff about IPV6
Top tip, when using ssh over IPV6 on a LAN you need to specify the
interface, like;
ssh -6 fe80::3b9c:xxx:xxx:xxx%eth0
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I need a favour. Can someone who has a Mac or a Macbook and prints to
a network printer using IPV6 bust open the /etc/cups/printers.conf file
and tell me what DeviceURI line in the file looks like.
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:54:26 +1300
Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz wrote
Is there an iOS app developer on the list, or alternatively a
recommendation you can pass on?
The app will take user input and behind the scenes perform date
arithmetic and floating point calculations.
This is a paid gig.
Please contact me off list.
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Relevance to Linux
that appears select the partition you wish to resize.
Right click and a resize option will appear in the right click menu.
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2015 15:25:18 +1200 Davin Pearson davin.pear...@gmail.com wrote:
Which flavour of GNU/Linux supports resizing Windows partitions.
I am familiar
to enter a password and the confirm it. You
should the be able to change you login to root by issuing the su (switch
user) command.
Be aware this an off label method for Ubuntu, you should prefer the
sudo method when doing stuff that requires root.
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:21:31 +1300
Eliot Blennerhassett <ewb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thread about controling fan speed on Netgear NAS.
Does the file /etc/sysctl.conf exist and does it contain any of the
values you were trying to write in your file?
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http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:05:23 +1200
Julian Visch wrote:
> Bought myself a 4 terabyte hard drive and discovered that partition
> tools seem to stop at 2 terabyte, any way I can get the rest of
ving into the depths of the freedesktop.org mail
archives I discovered that you need need to explicitly append the
following to the exec line to get network transparency working;
-listen TCP
Posted to the list so you do not have to repeat my pain.
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PS The approved way of forwardin
rmits" basis but
probably in two weeks time.
There has been discussion on the list about reimbursing me the fees
that I have paid for the renewal of domain registration I do
not want to be paid. I was happy to pay it and don't want to to be
reimbursed.
Cheers Ros
What about using the diskpart shell that comes with XP to create
your ntfs partition then trying to find out if your Linux operating
system can use it. Lots of help on Google about using diskpart.
Cheers
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On 28.02.2016 12:50, Peter Simmonds wrote:
> stuff
about creating n
I am trying to avoid cable spaghetti under desks and in cabinets.
You suggestion that the most economic solution is to buy patch leads and
chop them to length sounds good to me.
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On
06.03.2016 14:45, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Sun 06 Mar 2016 13:45:34
NZDT +1300, R
is willing to sell lengths of coloured cable without requiring the
purchase of a whole box?
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is if you have the output DVI file open in Okular it will
automaticly update your changes.
I use the article document class and Kile as a tool to generate customer
contracts.
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I use horse occasionally to run a script. Horse is the only publicly
accessible ssh server I can connect to. Bonus I can connect over IPV6.
I have been in the process of porting the script over to Windows
PowerShell. This will prompt me to get a move on.
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On Sat, 06 Aug
in the help file;
Help --> Contents -->
Using public keys for SSH authentication -->
Using PuTTYgen the PuTTY key generator -->
Dealing with private keys in other formats.
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Replying to my own post.
You do not have to repeat this process for every Windows box. Once you
have done the key file conversion process you can copy the correctly
formatted file to your other Windows boxes.
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On Mon, 08 Aug 2016
12:02:01 +1200 Ross Drummond &l
?
Is the tool grub-mkconfig avaliable? if so run 'grub-mkconfig
-o test.txt' them examine test.txt to see if it has worked as you
intend.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Grub2-efi_and_Mageia
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On 23.01.2017 19:36, Barry wrote:
> Hi All, the heading
understates my problem - I
.
Unfortunately it seems like a work in basement rather than
walking into a casino and ordering a Martini, shaken not stirred, type
of job.
Go to;
https://www.nzic.govt.nz/beyondordinary/vacancies
Choose GCSB from the agency search box
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hod of discovering the Ipv6
global address of a host on your LAN?
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The Xorg log file is a good place to start looking for problems
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
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On 09.05.2017 16:32,
Barry wrote:
> Barry asking about X errors.
>
> Barry
>
>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-uo7Hd2cU=112=PLz6RgUKX11CWgU0IfWRYgl37ZNJv1e9uG
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PS. It doesn't end there, Microsoft are talking about adding an openSSH
client in PowerShell.
On Sat, 27 May 2017
15:55:50 +1200 j.vi...@snap.net.nz wrote:
>
>
&g
I have a bash script installed on Horse that I sometimes need access to
when I am out and about.
Also useful in testing which ports are open on your world network
interface.
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:09:23 +1200 Robert Fisher
<rob...@fisher.net.nz> wrote:
> I
I want recommendation for an editor - IDE for LaTeX on Windows.
In Linux I use Kile along with Okular. Okular has this great feature
where it automaticly updates the DVI when it is changed.
It would be great if such a feature was available on the other OS.
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I've booked my ticket.
I look forward to meeting many old GLUGers who attend.
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:08:18 +1300
Steven Sykes wrote:
> The linux.conf.au 2019 team are pleased to announce that Early Bird
> tickets are now available!
>
> Early
If your email post is not rejected by the list server you must already
be a subscriber to the list.
The link to the list info page may help you.
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On 11.11.2019 06:57, Davin Pearson wrote:
> --
>
> Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin.
> Davin Pearson
the odds a little bit.
Remember the more you gamble the arithmetic grinds you into dust.
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