Re: [SLUG] Eterm/xterm and setting PROMPT_COMMAND

2006-04-11 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gillies wrote: Everything is nice and dandy except for one thing that really annoys me. When I use xterm or gnome-term, PROMPT_COMMAND happily sets the title to the hostname of whatever I'm connected to, my localhost, servers, ssh'ing

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

2006-04-11 Thread tuxta2
Julio Cesar Ody wrote: Hello all, does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts (for GNU/Linux)? What I want is the hability to broadcast my desktop via GAIM/MSN. Thanks in advance. -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody gvidcap if you use gnome is very good,

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts (for GNU/Linux)? What I want is the hability to broadcast my desktop via GAIM/MSN. I think you might mean taking your screen and encoding it into some sort of

Re: [SLUG] Automatix/EasyUbuntu and kernel upgrades

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Neal
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt simple check on the reboot to make sure the nvidia driver is

Re: [SLUG] Automatix/EasyUbuntu and kernel upgrades

2006-04-11 Thread tuxta2
Richard Neal wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt simple check on the reboot to make sure

[SLUG] kernel package management and third party modules

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:44 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt simple

[SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Howard Lowndes
...is it possible? ...what's the best way? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Eterm/xterm and setting PROMPT_COMMAND

2006-04-11 Thread jam
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've ditched gnome-terminal in favour of Eterm since Eterm is considerably faster than gnome-term (and ditched metacity and gone back to fluxbox, but that's another story). Everything is nice and dandy except for one thing that

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Howard Lowndes
Tks, that looks a good place to start... Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- Howard. LANNet

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread O Plameras
Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? ...what's the best way? Do you mean by 'tandeming' is 'redundancy' and/or location transparency and/or 'uninterrupted' file access when one server goes down ? Microsoft has DFS, IBM has TransArc which was branched to OpenAFS (www.openafs.org), CMU has

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

2006-04-11 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
I looked to xvidcap, and it apparently does the job if you want to create a recording of your desktop. But that's not what I'm looking for. I found an article that outlines a similar need: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/13/177239tid=89tid=75 I think using VNC will be the way

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Howard Lowndes
Basically I'm looking at two Xen server boxes, physically wide spread, each with multiple virtual servers, that I need to keep synchronised and monitored such that when a virtual server falls over then its compatriot on the other box gets transparently brought on line, or when a box itself

RE: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Visser, Martin
There is a good website here http://www.linuxhpc.org/ with lots of info and references. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

Re: [SLUG] kernel package management and third party modules

2006-04-11 Thread tuxta2
Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:44 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

2006-04-11 Thread Philip Greggs
On 4/6/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Philip Greggs The rumour vines says this: intending members using other distros are discouraged altogether from becoming members. The President's report was making this plain and clear - declining membership in recent years. I

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

2006-04-11 Thread James Purser
Extreme examples are codefests in Wollongong in recent times. If you remember or check the Archives, it was announced only Debian installs will be done. Leaving aside the rest of the message can I make a couple of corrections here please. Firstly it was an installfest not a code fest,

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

2006-04-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Philip Greggs I don't think this is accurate at all. Membership has been declining due to the change in demographic Demography as I understand is a basket of things like Age, Sex, Race, Education, and similar categories. This can't be correlated to decline in SLUG membership.