Re: [SLUG] Linux Exchange Alternative

2014-01-30 Thread Grant Street
On 31/01/14 08:38, Tom Worthington wrote: On 30/01/14 14:40, David Lyon wrote: ... Lightning Calendar ... runs inside Thunderbird ... Yes, I find with Lightning and LookOut installed in Thunderbird, I can cope in a Microsoft world. what's even better is using the Exchange EWS Provider

Re: [SLUG] Linux apps and mapped network drives

2012-06-21 Thread Grant Street
My Guess would be that the LibreOffice and thunderbird is using a different file browser eg nautilus rather than dolphin. The share that you mapped in Dolphin looks like it is only availible in dolphin. To check this from the command line run mount and look for a smb mount. This command would

Re: [SLUG] Inverting network interfaces

2012-05-21 Thread Grant Street
Couple of things here 1 modprobe config file (location depends on distro) Make sure you set the driver to the correct device 2 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* Match the DEVICE= and HWADDR= lines listed in these files with those listed in modprobe config file. My advice would be to

[SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Grant Street
Hello I have some desktop linux machines that have periods of extremely high system time (30-90%) with no obvious cause. The users see it as a hang or a freeze to the point of 10sec for a key press to register. it comes and goes seemingly randomly but only lasts max about 1-2 min. What I'm

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Grant Street
16 core, 12-24G memory running centos 6.1 On 09/05/12 10:08, David Lyon wrote: Are they dual core ? Do they have a sheetload of memory ? I found ubuntu got slower and slower till I got in newer hardware. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] Force mounting usb storage read only

2012-04-03 Thread Grant Street
Hello All Before I post to the Centos list I was wondering if you all had any ideas. Due to compliance requirements we are looking to be able to force mounting of usb drives to be read only. We originally thought of black listing the usb-storage kernel modules. Although it is very simple to

Re: : [SLUG] Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Grant Street
I have ordered one from the Australian distributor. Not sure yet probably xbmc Grant On 06/03/12 10:17, Michael Fox wrote: Hello All, Been a long time since I got back on the list. Anyone ordered a Raspberry Pi? Curious to see what folks that get one end up doing with it. When I saw them

Re: [SLUG] Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-01 Thread Grant Street
The big thing is that it is essentially a small computer that is good enough to run quake, decodes h.264 etc This means it opens up a whole lot to software/OS tinkers. They are able to create their own devices/projects with limited funds ~$40 and limited electronics knowledge. eg They

Re: [SLUG] mkdir

2012-02-13 Thread Grant Street
On 14/02/12 10:26, Cal Edwards wrote: Hi. I want to create directories and files under a specific directory with specific ownerships and permissions. The problem is that I create directories in a hierarchy of images from digital cameras. My family members need to be able to access those across

Re: [SLUG] Subscription-based netfiltering (parentally speaking)

2011-06-21 Thread Grant Street
to add to it for personal choice; - effectively contribute Ability to IP (or MAC) restrict it's use; - so it's only him and not us. I know of Dansguard, but AFAIA, that is a host-based solution. What else is there pls? -- Grant Street Senior Systems Engineer T: +61 2 9383 4800 (main) T: +61 2

Re: [SLUG] Email Client

2011-06-13 Thread Grant Street
Daryl Thompson wrote: I have been using evolution for years now and its been OK but now i want to know is there a better email client then evolution, that do you think of Thunderbirds? I use thunderbird v3 every day a few things that you'll probably want... * Lightning to give you inbuilt

Re: [SLUG] New Laptop Problems

2011-06-02 Thread Grant Street
know these are the problems on gets when buying the latest hardware. Thanks in advance Bill - very frustrated. -- Grant Street Senior Systems Engineer T: +61 2 9383 4800 (main) T: +61 2 938 34882 (direct) F: +61 2 9383 4801 (fax) Animal Logic *See our latest work at http

Re: [SLUG] Value of Red Hat certification ?

2011-01-03 Thread Grant Street
Hi There are other certification bodies such as LPI. The course are cheaper and done through tafe I think. You may get more mileage with experience rather than courses. Try to get as much hands on as possible by volunteering, being mentored, talking. Chat to your local friendly sysadmin :-)

Re: [SLUG] Virtualisation and DRBD

2010-08-24 Thread Grant Street
It depends on your level of availability. you can achieve 98% percent with Virtualised solutions and live migration or vmotion. This means migrating a functioning virtual server from one physical server to another with no outage. You just need some shared storage that has suitable raid levels

Re: [SLUG] System admin graphing tools

2010-02-25 Thread Grant Street
Have a look at zenoss It's nagios and munin in one. It does the alerting, threshholds, recovery actions and graphing all in one. Can monitor windo$e, vmware and talks nagios plugin format as well. Grant Ken Foskey wrote: We all know we should do it. Provide a monitoring system to see

Re: [SLUG] MythTV hardware advice sought

2009-11-15 Thread Grant Street
I have never used nor affiliated with them but someone pointed me their way when I was thinking about a mythtv box and was worried about months of hardware research/cross checking/pricing etc There is a open platform called Dragon http://mythic.tv/index.php/dragon-v2-0.html and a company in Aus

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]

2008-10-08 Thread Grant Street
or server. NFS is not a linux machine so visibility is not allways the best. Grant Daniel Pittman wrote: Grant Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for some doco? I don't know of any, but ... I'm finding it hard to get a definition

[SLUG] IOWait definition

2008-10-07 Thread Grant Street
Hello I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for some doco? I'm finding it hard to get a definition of what constitutes IOWait. I know that IOwait is CPU time waiting for IO to happen to physical local disks, but I'm unsure about the following scenarios and if they

[SLUG] tuning a maximum load

2008-08-24 Thread Grant Street
Hello I have a problem where I am running thirdparty software sporadically my machine(s) get into a state where they are responsive to pings but not ssh or a local console. I suspect that it is generating a very high load but there is now way to confirm what is going on. I am thinking of

RE: [SLUG] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Anyone listen to JJJ - MyDoom linked to Linux users]

2004-01-29 Thread Grant Street
to. Yes the current status of the court case may not have been up to date or to the minute... Come on... these guys are reporters reporting to the masses. They did say allegedly and it is a fact that there is a court case going on or the last time I looked... Maybe it's changed since then. Grant Street

[SLUG] OT Unused sealed QIC cartridges bound for the bin

2003-11-02 Thread Grant Street
Hello We have about 15 BASF EXTRA 6150 Data cartridge (620 ft. density 12.500 ftpi) cartridges wrapped in plastic never been used looking for a new home. Free if you pick them up from Rosebery. Contact me off list. Grant -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

RE: [SLUG] gnome2 features I would like to see.

2003-01-05 Thread Grant Street
Ken There is a feature in gnome that says If a launched app does not open in X secs it's probably gone awol so kill it This is a problem on slower machines or when your machine is under load. There is a way to turn it off, I think it has been covered before try the archives or some one else may

RE: [SLUG] Help with a laptop please

2002-08-01 Thread Grant Street
John You may be better off looking for info on the chipsets rather than the whole notebook. So find some indepth techinal info on the laptop. The main downer is normally the video card. If your distro doesn't support it or it's variants getting the latest xfree86 source and compiling it normally

RE: [SLUG] Testing if password is valid

2002-07-23 Thread Grant Street
Is this in Linux itself? (Do you want to check the passwd or shadow file?) What do you define as a valid password? Yes in Linux. Ok example, lets say there is a user on the system called kevin (in your honour ;-) and he has a password that is encrypted in the shadow file. Now this

RE: [SLUG] newbie to Linux

2002-04-18 Thread Grant Street
Hi Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of different stuff, the upshot was that most say you can't, and one guy said you can,

RE: [SLUG] seeking Aust. GST accounting software under Linux

2002-02-12 Thread Grant Street
There is a little known Australian company that have financial software called Century Software. They have have clients in Australia, NZ, and SE Asia. It's a nice Graphical App that can run using X11, or Java, and it's also very scalable. They had a version called foxonlinux that was specially

RE: [SLUG] seeking Aust. GST accounting software under Linux

2002-02-12 Thread Grant Street
There is a little known Australian company that have financial software called Century Software. They have have clients in Australia, NZ, and SE Asia. Forgot URL http://www.centurysoftware.com.au :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] a pop keep on server mail client

2001-09-23 Thread Grant Street
Hello all I am fairly new to using linux for peronal email stuff but: I have a laptop(low powered) that I want to access my my mail from the ISP's pop3 server but leave it there so that It can be downloaded on to the main workstation(windose :-( ). But also be able to send some mail as well.

[SLUG] small or floppy distro with nfsd

2001-06-24 Thread Grant Street
Hello all I have after much angst been able to install debian onto my libretto 50CT. This was with the help of a friends machine with nfsd. But now I want to update/add/remove packages and I don't have another nix machine at home. But I do have a doze box. I don't want to repartition at this

[SLUG] WM and setups for small screens

2001-06-07 Thread Grant Street
Hello all I have a librett0 50ct (p70 32mb ram 700mb disk 640X480 size of VHS cassette) I am wondering if any one has any experience in setting up WM fonts etc for a small screen and still make it run, look and function OK. I was thinking about ICE for it compatability and small foot print.

RE: [SLUG] Laptops

2001-04-05 Thread Grant Street
I have not tried this but, apparently the floppy works at boot but is not supported in linux by default very hard to find, but would be very usefull, there is a site which has drivers for the floppy drive under linux. These may be mirrored elsewhere but lat time I looked I could not find it.

[SLUG] [OT] MS' plan to kill off Linux Web servers

2001-03-28 Thread Grant Street
WinXP Blade: MS' plan to kill off Linux Web servers By: John Lettice Posted: 27/03/2001 at 21:33 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17927.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

2001-03-22 Thread Grant Street
Hello I printed out the mouse mat, but the cursor doesn't move when I move the mouse. I used Sun's optical mice about 5-6 years ago, so I'm refering to technology from way back when. From memory the mouse mats were a grid on a shiny metal pad. They depended on these mats, and would not work