[SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread peter
Hi folks, I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I and others in my family want to keep track of. However, there are times when various family members are away, when they want to be able to access the wiki, update it, etc., without network access -- essentially,

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 19:14 +1100, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Does anyone know of any such software? Linux of course, and preferably PalmOS as well but that's not essential. ikiwiki is the most mature such thing I know of. -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [SLUG] RAID Woes - Expanding Storage

2009-11-03 Thread Mark Walkom
You'd probably be best off finding the largest directories (eg user's $HOME) and moving that onto the mirrored TB drives, and go from there. 2009/11/3 Nigel Allen d...@edrs.com.au Hi All I'm trying to assist a client who is running out of space. They have an HP DL360G4 with 2 x 160GB

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread James Polley
The slug wiki (horrendous as it is) is DokuWiki, which amongst its other features, stores all its data in plain text files on disk, which makes it amenable to all the usual tools for dealing with textual content - eg, stick it inside bzr, people can check it out, take a copy with them, and merge

[SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi all, I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a server). Im now slowly being won over with others

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-03 Thread david
I'm using Ubuntu Hardy on servers (one mail, one web/database/dns of mine, plus one fileserver run by my son-in-law) and we have not found the need to upgrade. I'm waiting for the next LTS. I don't think this is viable on desktop but on server I think it's more than desirable. If it ain't

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
2009/11/3 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Hi folks,  I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I  and others in my family want to keep track of.  However, there are  times when various family members are away, when they want to be able  to access the wiki, update it, etc.,

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-11-03 Thread db
There is a known bug in openwrt, at least on the 2.4 kernel. The bug is that ... After some period time, forwarding a port from X to Y will break :) (forwarding will go screwy ). (where X / Y are different port numbers) You can forward from Y to Y reliably or should at least should be able

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 22:00 +1100, db wrote: There is a known bug in openwrt, at least on the 2.4 kernel. The bug is that ... After some period time, forwarding a port from X to Y will break :) [citation needed] Do you have a link I could follow up on that with? My Google-Fu has failed me

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:40 +1100, david wrote: A little bird told me that the latest Ubuntu does ext4 by default (is this so? should you care?) so that may be a factor for you. Changing filesystems is probably something you would rather avoid. An upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (ext3) to Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-11-03 Thread Ishwor Gurung
Hi Jeremy, 2009/11/3 Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:37 +1100, Ishwor Gurung wrote: What about just dumping NAT table i.e., without the grep magic foo? Sure. I've attached an `iptables -t nat -L` from working, and broken. [...] What's weird is that the line that

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 23:34 +1100, Ishwor Gurung wrote: Hrmm. Try patching it against r17555 and see how it goes - https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/17555. There are a bunch of fixes in r16278 plus try disable QOS'ing packets (seems to be the common wisdom of the ticket discussion) Aha.

Re: [SLUG] RAID Woes - Expanding Storage

2009-11-03 Thread Jake Anderson
Nigel Allen wrote: Hi All I'm trying to assist a client who is running out of space. They have an HP DL360G4 with 2 x 160GB Maxtor SATA drives. they want us to replace them with 2 x 1TB Seagate drives. They are currently running everything (apart from /boot) from the root partition and are

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-03 Thread Jake Anderson
Steven Tucker wrote: Hi all, I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a server). Im now slowly being won

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Chubb
James == James Polley s...@zhasper.com writes: James The slug wiki (horrendous as it is) is DokuWiki, which amongst James its other features, stores all its data in plain text files on James disk, which makes it amenable to all the usual tools for James dealing with textual content - eg, stick

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Tucker
Steven Tucker wrote: My question is .. the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? install 9.04 and upgrade That was suppose to be 9.10, latest version, then upgrade to 10.04 Tuxta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Chubb
Sridhar == Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes: Sridhar 2009/11/3 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Hi folks,  I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I  and others in my family want to keep track of.  However, there are  times when various family members are

Re: [SLUG] Journalist doesn't like Windows -- must have missed out on the freebies?

2009-11-03 Thread Simon Rumble
2009/11/4 jon jonjer...@optusnet.com.au Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. Some of the commentators are putting forward a case for Linux. This is Charlie Brooker who is a _hilarious_ writer for the Grauniad. He normally

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-03 Thread jam
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 20:49:58 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it

[SLUG] Journalist doesn't like Windows -- must have missed out on the freebies?

2009-11-03 Thread jon
In today's SMH, taken from the Guardian: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/better-the-broken-windows-than-life-with-the-mac-monks-20091103-huew.html Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. Some of the commentators

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

2009-11-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
2009/11/4 Peter Chubb pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Sridhar == Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes: Sridhar 2009/11/3 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Hi folks,  I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I  and others in my family want to keep track of.  However,