[SLUG] videos in Hardy Heron

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Allen
I recently upgraded from Dapper Drake to Hardy Heron. Since then I have not been able to see any videos. I always get an error message to say the appropriate plug in for Totem is not installed. I had a similar issue in Dapper Drake but followed advice about installing Easyubuntu which

Re: [SLUG] videos in Hardy Heron

2008-10-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently upgraded from Dapper Drake to Hardy Heron. Since then I have not been able to see any videos. I always get an error message to say the appropriate plug in for Totem is not installed. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats Also

[SLUG] Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hmmm.. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/2125233from=rss found this from the web page that I just created... http://www.sheflug.org.uk/news -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops

2008-10-15 Thread Martin Visser
I read The Australian article yesterday, and while certainly promising, it also is very indefinite. In typical Slashdot fashion the could and considered in the original article become will on Slashdot On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Richard Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm..

[SLUG] Re: Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Martin In typical Slashdot fashion the could and considered in the original article become will on Slashdot Yes. Seems like the sort of thing that an American writer would do ;) I've written for three Linux magazines and I always try to make sure that I'm using the right past or future

Re: [SLUG] managing a adaptec 1430sa

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Cockburn
Hi Alex, I have a similar model, and I just use the ASM [Adaptec Storage Manager] (?) from adaptec. Seems to work pretty well. G 2008/10/10 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I was wondering if any one out there uses one of these to do hardware raid. I thought I might set it up in raid10

Re: [SLUG] Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops

2008-10-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Martin Visser I read The Australian article yesterday, and while certainly promising, it also is very indefinite. In typical Slashdot fashion the could and considered in the original article become will on Slashdot A few other words I would use to describe DET's interest in Linux

[SLUG] copying files by email header date, file date stamp same

2008-10-15 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a mailbox with approximately 50,000 emails; when I tried to age the emails with archivemail, archivemail or some part of it couldn't quite cope with size/volume/some unknown aspect, and, 'crashed' on this mailbox perhaps as a result of that, I now have some 50,000 email files sequentaily

[SLUG] re: splitting mailboxes

2008-10-15 Thread Jim Donovan
Have you tried csplit(1) - set pattern to '^From ' and stand back. You'll have to deal with an empty file before the first item. You say they're sequential so no further processing is required to separate old ones. Note that many spams have crazy Date values. Jim Donovan I have a mailbox

Re: [SLUG] re: splitting mailboxes

2008-10-15 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, October 16, 2008 1:39 pm, Jim Donovan wrote: Have you tried csplit(1) - set pattern to '^From ' and stand back. You'll have to deal with an empty file before the first item. You say they're sequential so no further processing is required to separate old ones. Note that many spams

Re: [SLUG] re: splitting mailboxes

2008-10-15 Thread Tony Sceats
something like ORIG_DATE=`date -d 7 days ago +%s` for mail in `find /path/to/mail/dir -type f` do DATE_STRING=`grep -m1 ^Date $mail | cut -d: -f 2-` MAIL_DATE=`date -d $DATE_STRING +%s` if [ $MAIL_DATE -gt $ORIG_DATE ] then mv $mail /some/path fi done no

[SLUG] Penetration testing tools?

2008-10-15 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I need to find tools to run penetration testing on our external web interfaces (a web application and an HTTP-based data interface). The idea is to be able to run automatic tests on new releases before deployment. Stress is on automatic. Has anyone here got good experience with such