Re: [Scottish] Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Colin McKinnon
Mark Robinson wrote: Talking of debian, there are a number of things that I'm not sure about/haven't had time to investigate... Don't know about Debian, but 1) What firewall packages are people using Firestarter - simple enough for me to understand and seeems reasonably secure. 2)

Re: [Scottish] When and where are the meetings?

2002-11-14 Thread Colin McKinnon
Ben Thorp wrote: Welcome. The meetings are on the last Thursday of the month, beginning at 7.30pm in the CIS Staff Room on the 11th floor of some big Strathclyde Uni building. I think there is a map on the website http://www.scotlug.org.uk At 9.00pm we 'retire' to the Counting House on George

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Colin McKinnon
David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: I've been doing a bit of searching around of late to see if there are useful Linux-based tools that I could use in order to help writing the site, using 'templates' (ie, common themes for pages, including basic layout, navigation bars, etc, such that I can

[Scottish] Site management - was HTML templating software?

2002-12-04 Thread Colin McKinnon
Elwell, AD (Andrew) wrote: Previously I'd used wwwsync (http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/wwwsync/) A new one on me - I'll need to take a look. I wrote a small program to do the same thing (update a remote site via FTP) which is now relatively stable and polished, you can find it at:

Re: [Scottish] This Mailing List

2002-12-06 Thread Colin McKinnon
willie fleming wrote: I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. I don't really feel overwhelmed by mailings. I like the mix. and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc A taste of things to come, Willie? Colin

[Scottish] Any jobs going?

2002-12-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, Guess I'm looking for a new job. Anyone know who is recruiting Linux / Unix / NT systems managers? Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] OT Printer Spares

2002-12-17 Thread Colin McKinnon
Gavin McCord wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:35, Graeme Boyd wrote: I've got an Epson Stylus Photo 700 which is not printing as well as it used to. I think the problem may lie with the belt which seems to slip occasionally. Does anyone know where I might purchase a new belt for this

Re: [Scottish] Debian: leafnode 1.9.27 keeps re-fetching all newsgroupsfrom remote news-server(s)

2003-01-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: My version doesn't have a config directive for expiring the group list. Does fetchnews know it should get a complete listing regularly? ## timeout_active determines how many days fetch will wait before re-reading## the whole active file. The

Re: [Scottish] anybody good with nfs?

2003-01-15 Thread Colin McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I should perhaps have mentioned that rpcinfo -p includes: snip 153 tcp 1025 mountd 132 udp 2049 nfs 133 udp 2049 nfs 1000211 udp 1026 nlockmgr 1000213 udp 1026 nlockmgr 1000214 udp

Re: [Scottish] anybody good with nfs?

2003-01-17 Thread Colin McKinnon
Paul Millar wrote: What's in /var/log/messages on the server (I guess the client says permission denied). The server usually says why its denied a request. Thanks Paul. I think I've solved it - although the systems were happy to negotiate most file operations across nfs without the

Re: [Scottish] Network speed testing

2003-01-17 Thread Colin McKinnon
Allan Whiteford wrote: ftp a big file and sit with a stopwatch. Thanks, Allan Experience suggests that this is not such a bad idea. Both FTP and SMB transfers seem to have relatively low overhead. For the best possible result, try with lots of different sizes and extrapolate a little.

[Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Colin McKinnon
Guess who got root-kitted last week. In my defence it was only a 1 month old vulnerability in a service which is normally firewalled (mod_ssl) on my home PC and I did know about it within 4 hours. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Previously

Re: [Scottish] Certification Centres

2003-02-07 Thread Colin McKinnon
Ben Thorp wrote: Cardonald College in the centre of Glasgow does the exams, so I'll be going down that route I think. Hardly the centre, but it does have a good train service! I used to work there - they were big on Microsoft - tried to convert to the one true path to enlightenment - looks

Re: [Scottish] Scottish User Group

2003-02-24 Thread Colin McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any of you know if the meet is ok for this Thursday in the usual place (as advertised on the website for the LUG). Yes, details sent off list. Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Scottish] Sharing a Linux Proxy Server across networks

2003-02-24 Thread Colin McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yup.. each subnet would need to be isolated except for the proxy.. in terms of clients on each sub.. a max of 3 at any one time and once in place they will remain static.. i would propose to put them on the same ethernet segment unless this is not such a good idea..

[Scottish] Re: OT Slashdot fresh meet?

2003-03-07 Thread Colin McKinnon
Colin McKinnon wrote: Hi all, A bit OT (and sorry if this is common knowledge anyway - been out of circulation lately) ... you've seen the website, bought the book and read the T-shirtnow experience it first-hand. The Slashdot meet up is coming to Glasgow. http

Re: [Scottish] Need advice on setting up a Mandrake/Debian home network

2003-03-11 Thread Colin McKinnon
David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: Is DNSCache easy to set up? So easy even I could do it ;). Yes, it just serves up whats in the /etc/hosts file when you're offline, when you're online it does proper lookup forwarding to your DIAL-up ISPs DNS. umm, security through obscurity (as not

Re: [Scottish] How to avoid symlinks spiralling out of control?

2003-03-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: Hmm, I thought I'd be clever and try to backup my critical (but not secret) config files onto my webspace. I use sitecopy to update my website, which is nice and easy and just (usually) does the right thing for uploading only files which have changed locally.

Re: [Scottish] How to avoid symlinks spiralling out of control?

2003-03-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: Within /etc/apache/, there is a symlink conf - ./ and when sitecopy encounters this, it just keeps looping around here, creating nested 'conf' directories for some reason. For a very good reason - it is following the symlink. This

Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:56, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote: wee question (to replace the pin-drop jokes :-) ) : program in C under Unix. Is there any way to get the time in tenth or hundredth of seconds ? Or to phrase it differently : i need a random number

Re: [Scottish] FW: VPN

2003-03-21 Thread Colin McKinnon
ray wrote: Hi Keith; I've never setup a VPN before but am I right in thinking that all that's needed is the right software and two static ip addresses With a 'nix box at each end that's about it. It gets a little more complicated if one of the gateways is MS or Cisco. Most Linux distros

Re: [Scottish] ....and speaking about Thursday....

2003-03-26 Thread Colin McKinnon
] Sent: 25 March 2003 19:23 To: Slug Subject: Re: [Scottish] and speaking about Thursday On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:35, Colin McKinnon wrote: Do we have a feature presentation? Supporting act? Unusual and grotesque sideshows? (if not I might be forced into doing a five minute slot on IDS

[Scottish] Stuff for sale

2003-03-27 Thread Colin McKinnon
As you've probably heard me moaning about, my employer is going belly up. As such there is a lot of computer equipment on sale at negotiable prices. There are a handful of servers, hubs, laser printers, dot matrix printers and a couple of poster printers. There are also a lot of dumb terminals

Re: [Scottish] Desperately seeking PGP 2.6.3i

2003-05-29 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:25, John Barton wrote: Can anyone point me at a location to download the RPM of PGP 2.6.3i. IIRC PGP is (sorry, was) a commercial product, so its unlikely you'll get a free download of it - have you tried contacting Sun (whom now own Cobalt). Having said that there

[Scottish] Linux videophones

2003-06-01 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi All, Sorry I missed the fun on Thursday - working hard at my new job :D and various other commitments meant I couldn't fit it in! Yes, I've found gainful employment - thanks to all for the encouragement and support. But down to business - I've bitten the bullet and deleted RedHat from my

Re: [Scottish] Software RAID LVM

2003-06-15 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 15 June 2003 14:00, Craig Perry wrote: It will have 2x 60Gb and 1x4Gb drive to begin with, but this will be extended at a later date as needs increase/cash flow starts flowing again. I will add PCI IDE controllers to accomodate the extra drives. The 4Gb drive will have probably

Re: [Scottish] Internal HTTP server

2003-07-13 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 12 July 2003 22:51, Phil Deane wrote: The love playing online games on Nick Jr (http://www.nickjr.co.uk) which are mainly java based games. They wont have access to the net from their room(1. because I dont want them to have access and 2. My computer is downstairs and running

[Scottish] Poisoned Spam

2003-07-15 Thread Colin McKinnon
Is it just me? I've been responsible for the care and feeding of a lot of mailboxes. I've seen SMTP queues stalled, and lots of messages bounced due to bad formatting. But until this week I never had trouble getting mail out of a POP3 mailbox. In the last week, I've had _three_ mailboxes

Re: [Scottish] Poisoned Spam

2003-07-18 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 00:09, Kyle Gordon wrote: I've seen this happen twice in the past 4 months. Don't know if it's Just got another one. Grrr! A quick check on Google for 501 Bad address syntax and the first match was routed through the same server as that below. Looking at the message,

Re: [Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question

2003-08-26 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Monday 25 August 2003 22:15, neil sinclair wrote: Anyway, passwd -S says fiona PS 08/25/2003 1 30 10 5 I tried passwd -u fiona, but I got the message Cannot unlock the password for fiona! Maybe 'cos its not locked (passwd -S would report L instead of P). Looks like my man pages a re a

Re: [Scottish] Time - The Missing Frontier (Sorry for the Star Trek Reference)

2003-08-28 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 21:44, Phil Deane wrote: Hello Folks I have a bit of a problem. My system is loosing time. Maybe its being kdnapped by aliens? But the other night I left it in Linux and the next day I noticed the clock was out by about 8 mins. (not the first time it has been

[Scottish] Really trivial problem

2003-10-01 Thread Colin McKinnon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Having managed for years to keep my computers quiet and reasonably happy, I plugged some speakers into my desktop last night and discovered internet radio and xmms. But here is the rubwhen I browse the stations available at

Re: [Scottish] Epson EPL5700L

2003-10-30 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:45, Kyle Gordon wrote: Has anyone had any success in getting the Epson EPL5700L (that 'L' suffix is the important bit) working on Linux through CUPS? I know that the printer requires data in its own special 'EPL' format, but I'm not sure how CUPS handles the

Re: [Scottish] Onboard LAN

2003-11-22 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:11, Janice wrote: Hi again, Think I have made a big mistake. Does the following mean that I don't have the kernel source installed? [EMAIL PROTECTED] janice]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13 kernel-2.4.20-6 IIRC you would expect to see a:

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG

2003-12-11 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 11 December 2003 10:03, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:10, Ian Ruffell wrote: Just for clarification: it's more a case of persuading folk like the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to shift off MS; not to mention encouraging similar

[Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

2004-01-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
...off my laptop, that is. After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. Obviously there's not a lot of free

Re: [Scottish] Help - Need some good arguments

2004-02-09 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Monday 09 February 2004 13:01, Paxton, Darren wrote: What about also demonstrating compatibility with MS systems, potentially things like OpenOffice and the like. I know this is a big sticking point of a lot of organisations considering a switch. From: Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant

Re: [Scottish] Local news server

2004-02-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 19 February 2004 21:18, Ritchie Logan wrote: I got hold of a Toshiba Magnia SG20 internet appliance, which is essentially a legacy free PC running Red Hat 7.3. My intention is, to turn this thing on in the evening, and let it mirror a number of newsgroups for access via clients on

Re: [Scottish] email server testing

2004-03-05 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 05 March 2004 13:21, Mark Robinson wrote: Hello slug, Can anyone recommend simple benchmarking software for mail servers? Not aware of any, but assuming you can feed the beast fast enough, and your feeding process doesn't hog a lot of resources you could easily see when it

Re: [Scottish] email server testing

2004-03-07 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 05 March 2004 22:36, Allan Bruce wrote: Slightly updated. If the selected user was the one that disconnected, the old one would talk to no-one as you noticed, this one puts the selection back to broadcast + Attachment ABDCClient.zip containing WinClient.exe / chimeup.wav /

Re: [Scottish] SPAM - PC for sale

2004-04-14 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 14:28, Willie wrote: Colin, if this is still available, I'll have it for my mother-in-law. Ive got plenty 15 monitors, thanks :-) Your onany offers / worthy causes for monitors anybody? C. ___ Scottish mailing list

[Scottish] Monitor + other bits going....

2004-04-22 Thread Colin McKinnon
Last call for 15 Compaq monitor, £10 Also looking to offload IBM 300GL and bits to build a AMD K6/266 minitower both free to good home. Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Anybody know a good text editor which can run in a browser

2004-05-17 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 16 May 2004 21:31, Ewan wrote: Colin McKinnon wrote: The subject says it all really - I want to be able to edit some text (code actually) from a browser and post the data back to the server. I guess this is the kind of thing which Java should be good for but typing 'Java code

[Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, Something is producing rather a lot of load on some of my boxes. Idle time stays high (95%) and the swap isn't getting used but there seems to be a lot of disk i/o. Can anybody suggest anything useful for tracking down the problem? Is iohog available on Linux (haven't found it

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 00:41, Kyle Gordon wrote: Could be updatedb running, if you have slocate or locate installed. Usually if the box is quiet, and something is thrashing the disk, then you can spot it with 'top'. Failing that, you could try lsof, netstat, vmstat, sar. On Monday 19 July

Re: [Scottish] Date/Time on emails, etc.

2004-07-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 12:33, Ben Thorp wrote: /me apt-get install's ntp-simple: So how come your reply was before Colin's post (BTW maybe some folk out there are still using dial-up) Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processes....

2004-07-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 17:13, Paul Millar wrote: For a cause, obviously something's thrashing the disk. That might be a badly configured machine, or (playing devil's advocate) it might be the disk controller not working properly: you might want to check that your disks are using DMA

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-21 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:42, ray wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: I did find what looks like a good guide to performance tuning at: http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html I liked this tip - Is that the excuse for a big chunk of your server room

[Scottish] Shameless Spam - Computer Forensics Conference

2004-08-11 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi All, A friend of mine is organizing a conference in Monaco on Computer Forensics (http://www.ecce-conference.com/). I'll be trying to talk my boss into paying for me to go - although I don't hold out much hope :( C. ___ Scottish mailing list

[Scottish] Slightly OT: audio connections

2004-08-28 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, This started off as a Linux question. Anybody came across digital audio connectors using a 9-pin mini din connector? (looks like it's laid out for 10 pins but pin 3 on the last row is missing). The amp on my DVD/surround sound box only has this for an input. Any Linux supported

Re: [Scottish] Slightly OT: audio connections

2004-08-31 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:10, ray wrote: These are used by some video cards and also cheap speakers from the likes of the Trust brand. I haven't come across them being used for digital audio (where I have seen 4-pin S-DIF and optical connectors), only analogue. They used to be used by

[Scottish] Re: wifi blues

2004-10-25 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:25, I wrote: Everything is now working well except for my WiFi card; a Linksys WMP-11 (the early one that worked with Linux) which SuSE installed a prism2 driver for. Problem solved - weird combination of overzealous firewall on new box + misreporting of signal

Re: [Scottish] Linux distro for mum?

2004-11-03 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 16:13, M. Hasan Vazir wrote: I have installed Ubuntu, painless install and very fast, but gnome only. On the web, visiting web sites with java, flash and streaming audio/video will need some configuration. I haven't been able to sort some of it. Suse on the other

Re: [Scottish] Problem resolving local network PC names to IP addresses

2004-11-12 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 12 November 2004 14:36, Andy Potter wrote: I have a small home network consisting of a mixture of Linux and Windows PC's that are supplied with IP addresses from a Belkin F5D7630-4A ADSL Modem Wireless Router via DHCP. How can I get the local PC's to 'see' each other by hostname

Re: [Scottish] Xp Dual boot

2004-11-17 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 04:54, William Anderson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] He runs XP2 as his main OS abut has disk space to spare. Is there any problem in repartitioning and reformating some odf that space and Dual booting? Does NTFS object? I did this with knoppix

[Scottish] OT: Desperately seeking Claris

2004-11-23 Thread Colin McKinnon
No he covets, that's his nature. And how do we begin to covet Claris? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer. ...in a sequitor to the discussion on computers for mothers, I'm desperately trying to track down a copy of Claris Works for Windows. My mother had been using Claris

Re: [Scottish] LDAP

2005-01-26 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to set up LDAP to: - replace NIS/AutoFS; http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html (great stuff) and They supply the migration tools which OpenLdap endorse. I needed to do a lot of

Re: [Scottish] Good Live Disk for ...

2005-02-05 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 05 February 2005 01:22, Colin Speirs wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 14:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a contractor who would like to try Linux and see if it suits him, but so far the Live CDs I've punted his way haven't been successful

Re: [Scottish] Good Live Disk for ...

2005-02-05 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 05 February 2005 20:37, William Anderson wrote: Colin McKinnon wrote: [snip] erk. Not a USB one? (they don't even work very well with MS-Windows). It is possible to get them to work with Linux but last time I looked it seemed a bit of a struggle. IIRC SuSE is better than

Re: [Scottish] Sorting out our new computer with Linux

2005-03-14 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:52, John McCreadie wrote: Dear Sirs, ...err...Sirs?...Scotlug users?? Relax John, it's a bit less formal round here. But politeness is always welcome. We bought a new computer with: Athlon 64bit 3500 SO939 MSI K8N SLI Platinum (SO939) 2No Kingston 512MB PC3200

Re: [Scottish] New to the group...

2005-03-27 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 25 March 2005 16:20, somarouthu venkata raja sekhar wrote: Hi everyone...I am raj n I am new to this group. I am a student at edinburgh uni n interested in understanding n writing code for linux. can some one help me out with some advice becoz thers lot of books n stuff available on

[Scottish] please break my software!

2005-10-08 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, I've just uploaded a new release of my pet project PfP Studio to Sourceforge. (It's a PHP thingy for developing forms). I'd welcome any feedback on your experiences with it. http://pfp-studio.sourceforge.net/ TIA, Colin McKinnon

Re: [Scottish] Website changes

2005-11-02 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 15:41, Alistair J Ross wrote: I like the fact that you also have a very active irc community. I would like to see CGI::Irc working again (or something similar), because it's my only way onto IRC between the hours of Mon-Fri 9am-7pm snip ---[ Web

Re: [Scottish] Open Source Business

2005-11-04 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 03 November 2005 20:11, William Anderson wrote: Peter George wrote: That aside, it would be interesting to hear who's doing what anyway. lo pete, I think several people wo have contributed fixes back to projects. I think it's kind of nice when someone else fixes your bugs for

Re: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3

2006-01-02 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi Robert, On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:54, Robert Barbour wrote: The only indication I can find that the USB port is detected is when I go into system information and it tells me the name of the memory stick - presumably this is the 'volume label' allocated by the friend who provided the

Re: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3

2006-01-08 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:46, Robert Barbour wrote: The memory stick is easily read by a dell laptop and the files copied etc. (The files in question were written to the stick by an apple laptop.) OK - so the device seems to be working properly. Suse machine is now putting another icon

Re: [Scottish] Re: [edlug] KDE's Akademy in Scotland

2006-01-13 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 13 January 2006 17:29, Willie Fleming wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 14:30, Catriona Anand wrote: Well this just arrived in my Inbox this afternoon - anybody else just receiving this now or is it old news? erm I only just got it too - and I can't seem to find Jonathon's email.

Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation

2006-01-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 20 January 2006 07:21, Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? I've not done a 9-10 upgrade. I've done a few 8.0-8.2 and 8.2 -9.0 all of which were painless but I know

[Scottish] Anybody know how to tweak network in SuSE

2006-01-29 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi All, Does anybody know where I setup TCP Window scaling in SuSE 9.3 (2.6 kernel). I've just switched from 2 to 8 and it makes a BIG difference. I know I can echo 8 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale but I'll never remember to do that every time I switch on my pooter. TIA, C.

Re: [Scottish] Anybody know how to tweak network in SuSE

2006-01-30 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Monday 30 January 2006 08:08, Kevin McDermott wrote: Hi Colin, Alternatively, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add: net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale = 8 That's the bunny! I'll get the first round when you make it back to civillization Kevin. C. ___

[Scottish] Network notwork

2006-01-30 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, Obviously my last question just wasn't tough enoughso, this time for a bonus ball... What would cause *lots* of DUP ACKs / Retransmits on a LFN? (10 Mb internet connection, lots of clients at site connecting. 80% + of packets going out to remote server are DUP ACK, 80% + of inward

Re: [Scottish] Network notwork

2006-01-31 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:17, Craig Perry wrote: Basically losing like 2% of packets, equated to a drop of 50%-60% in throughput which i thought was rather insane but hey... It was reasonably similar symptoms in that there were *shedloads* of duplicate ACKs, because the network was

Re: [Scottish] SuSe 10 Installation

2006-02-25 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:24, Robert Barbour wrote: I tried 'sax2 -l' and got sax2 running properly, so far so good! I tried setting 640x480 at 60 Hz, but still got the out of range message. Maybe a bit low for a modern monitor. Common ones to start with are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[Scottish] File access monitoring

2006-04-26 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, I'm currently trying to solve a problem that someone else out there may have come across. I'm trying to figure out a way of monitoring file access - no, that's not exactly true - I'm trying to find code which will notify my program when there is file access. I came across Dazuko, but

[Scottish] 419 revenge

2006-08-08 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, ISR discussing 419 scams at the Counting House last month - here's the the details of how someone scammed the scammers - enjoy: http://forum.419eater.com/john_boko.htm C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Scottish] sounds blues

2006-08-16 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help with my current problems. My main box is currently running SuSE9.3 and up until recently the only time I wanted it to make noises, amarok, xmms and xine were all I needed and worked quite well. Recently I've wanted to get started using other stuff butI

Re: [Scottish] sounds blues

2006-08-17 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 17 August 2001 12:52, Joste Bowen wrote: If I start up in 5 and login to a KDE desktop, amarok works (but it always starts up artsd which runs at s illy priority and eats all my CPU). If I kill off artsd, I get noises from speaker-test. Thier is an option in KDE somewhere to not

Re: [Scottish] OT: laptops for charity

2006-09-14 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Monday 11 September 2006 21:03, Georgia Thomson wrote: Hi, I've been roped into helping a local charity try to get a good deal on 4 laptops for general use. Hi Georgia, For general good value and a reasonable level of service, I'd recommend Euro PC in Cardonald (www.europc.co.uk). I've

[Scottish] How to upload PDF to Scotlug Wiki

2006-10-30 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, After numberous (well, 2 actually) requests for copies of the slides from my talk, I've just tried to upload the PDF file to the Scotlug Wiki - but it only seems to like image files. If anybody has access to upload it - its at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/colin.mckinnon/IDS.pdf and

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-22 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:17, Ben Thorp wrote: I will give this a try. SInce I have you online perhaps you can help with another problem. Whenever I attempt activate an application like Kate from the prompt using sudo kate I receive an error unable to connect to X server. That's

Re: [Scottish] Simple questions from a simpleton....

2007-01-02 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:49, Phil Deane wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 11:56, babaguy wrote: Also, in your experience, is Konqueror recognised by most UK web hosting co's. as a browser useable for updating/uploading stuff to one'/s web site? (I have UK Web Solutions Direct hosting

Re: [Scottish] mod_proxy with a dash of mod_rewrite

2007-01-15 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:11, Gary Hendricks wrote: I have been struggling a wee while with something. Here is the scenario: ---|FW|---|web1|---|web2| I have a normal webserver on web1 that serves general pages. The web2 is an internal webserver that serves all kinds of media with

[Scottish] New software tip for web programmers

2007-02-22 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, A long time ago someone suggested we have a 'my favourite tool' spot at the talks or on email...whatever. If you develop websites and haven't already heard of it, check out firebug (a Firefox extension) - I've ditched my Firefox Web Developer and Tamper Data extensions for it. You can

Re: [Scottish] Linux stuff...

2007-02-24 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:37, babaguy wrote: I don't know if my last e-mail got through or not, It got here. If I could be bothered reading the headers I'd work out when - let me know if its a big problem. I was asking any advice anyone might have for a decent Anti-virus software

Re: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:47, Phillip Bennett wrote: snip elaborate background However, now I can't su to root. It gives me a 'wrong password' error. Fortunately, I can still use 'sudo su -' to get root. What makes you think you've not just forgotten the password? Have you tried logging

Re: [Scottish] netstat not reporting connection.

2007-07-21 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 20 July 2007 01:53, donothing successfully wrote: Help! I think I've got a rootkit. I'm running ubuntu dapper behind a D-link DI-604 broadband router. iftop and tcpdump are reporting connections to 172.21.*.* ip addresses. Which wikipedia and whois tell me are on a private

Re: [Scottish] Virtual machines

2007-07-29 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 26 July 2007 14:58, Phillip Bennett wrote: What I'm thinking of is running our backup server in a VM instead of an actual machine. Excuse me for being dim, but unless you eed to need to run different OS on each server, what do you gain by doing this? C.

[Scottish] How nerdy are you?

2007-08-02 Thread Colin McKinnon
This may amuse. http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php (I'm not saying what I scored). C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] isp and linux

2007-08-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:12, Claudio Calvelli wrote: I have used Linux (and in fact, RISC-OS) successfully on connections supplied BT, Pipex and Tiscali, using an ADSL-Ethernet router. Personally I thought Pipex was probably the best of the three. I don't doubt that, but Pipex is in

[Scottish] Linux hardware for £5?

2007-08-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
A brand new box running (uc)linux for less than £5 ? http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3727270.htm?storeId=10001referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fstatic%2FProduct%2FpartNumber%2F3727270.htmjspStoreDir=argosreferrer=COJUNSID=1 It really does run uclinux

Re: [Scottish] Software for digital camera output

2007-12-01 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 30 November 2007 17:24, John Gordon Ollason wrote: I am thinking of buying a digital camera. I have had a look around the various specs and everything seems to come with its own Mac/PC software. I have found it perfectly straightforward to plug my wife's Olympus camera into the USB

Re: [Scottish] several linux problems

2007-12-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:49, Kyle Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007 14:22:23 Richard Wright wrote: Hi, I've got a few problems I was wondering if anyone could help with? The hardware is a toshiba laptop from 2000 with 1.2ghz, 512m ram, 20gb hdd, a dial up pci card and a

[Scottish] Holy 3D batman!

2007-12-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
don't have to have the very latest in 3D hardware to get some very impressive results. Merry Xmas everybody, Colin McKinnon ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Intercommunication between Document formats

2008-02-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 07 February 2008 13:10, John Seago wrote: I have had occasion to respond to a public Consultation for the Scottish Governement, Using 'Slackware 12.0' and 'Open Office 2.3 Wrtiter', having submitted my response I got this reply Unfortunately we were unable to open your response

Re: [Scottish] RAID Setup[Scanned]

2008-04-09 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 10:58, Phillip Bennett wrote: Tim, The point of the ATA over Ethernet was to allow more than one machine to access the storage at a time and without the hassle of NFS or samba. erm, OK. Are you suggesting that a region of disk be shared because that's a real can

Re: [Scottish] RAID Setup

2008-04-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:59, Phillip Bennett wrote: What do you mean by 'fencing solution'? I'm looking to only store data there that can be read/written to by multiple servers. Shouldn't the filesystem (GFS) take care of this? The data doesn't have to be fenced, it just has to be

[Scottish] Bluetooth woes

2008-06-02 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi All, I recently bought myself a whole PC (having owned the previous one for about 10 years, replacing the mobo and the memory a few times, the hard disks a couple of times) and had all sorts of grief getting openSuse to get on with the hardware. Eventually we came to a compromise -

Re: [Scottish] Bluetooth woes

2008-06-03 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 08:10:53 am Gary Hendricks wrote: It is not just Cr^H^HBlackberry that is having issues. Nokia too. I am not in the Cr^H^HBlackberry clan, but others at the office were lamenting the issues as well. Thanks Gary - it's very reassuring two know it's not me - and saves

Re: [Scottish] Linux Laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Sunday 15 June 2008 07:15:25 pm John¹ wrote: My Daughter has moved into a cottage of her own, tomorrow the phone will be connected, and as last Thursday was her birthday I have offered to buy her a laptop and router, (this latter dependent on broadband being available in her village outside

[Scottish] All Stock must go (says SWMBO) - some more

2009-02-21 Thread colin . mckinnon
On Saturday 21 February 2009 04:02:19 pm Colin McKinnon wrote: Hi all, snip Open to offers on everything. AMD Athlon 1800 PC - the PSU blew up - not sure about Mobo CPU copndition but modders case and cables all OK. Includes CD writer - £5 Joystick - £2 May also have some meory kicking

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