Re: [SLUG] Microtouch USB touch screen X/Y axis swapped

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:33:33PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: If that still sucks you'll need to swap the axises in X11 as the input layer doesn't allow such niceness. I've found the evtest program (download latest from)

Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories

2006-10-30 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:22:27PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. It also runs L4 quite nicley; if you're looking for a challenge you could shadow the advanced

Re: [SLUG] Some Thoughts Regarding Spam

2006-11-05 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:40:14AM +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote: There is also another new one (which is present on a number of mailing lists) that commences with an image. The only ones spamassassin has missed for me lately is a bunch of stock scam image based ones with random text. I heartily

Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package

2006-11-06 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:09:34PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: I would like to know how to create a Debian package that consists of one file, not generated by source. I have tried using a Makefile that just copies files and running it with CheckInstall, but have failed to get it to recognise

Re: [SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:02:07AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I am sure someone has thought about this. Yes, I know Shehjar (cc'd) has thought about it an implemented a version; I'm sure he'd love to talk about it :) -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] NSLU2 USB Power/Serial Port Board

2006-11-08 Thread Ian Wienand
Hi, A few of the smart cookies at ERTOS/UNSW have designed a great little add-on board for the Linksys NSLU2 (also known as a Slug -- http://www.nslu2-linux.org/). It gives you a serial port, a remote reset and allows the device to be powered over USB -- and it all fits inside the standard case!

Re: [SLUG] Error in executing mount command

2006-11-28 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:18:41PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: mount -o loop /home/leslie/Desktop/sdb.img /mnt/directory mount: you must specify the filesystem type The file system probably starts after the partition table in your dump of the disk. Try mounting it with an one block offset, e.g.

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:24:01PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour? No, but I bet the strace/ltrace output would give a good clue as to where the problem was happening. -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:54:08AM +1100, Visser, Martin wrote: Having two near equal sized competitors in the CPU market ensures that progress is aggressively pursued. If by size you mean performance, maybe, but IIRC Intel still produces something close to 80% of the x86 market. -i -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Help with strace - WinDev HyperFile Server

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:45:08AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: Can anyone shed a glimmer of light on what the strace trace means? clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7da9928) = 19927 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

Re: [SLUG] tidy/lint for Apache httpd.conf?

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:51:24PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Anyone seen a 'tidy/lint' like program similar to tidy [1] for cleaning up/indenting Apache httpd.conf files? Try opening it in emacs apache mode (if it doesn't already, type M-x apache-mode) then indent all lines with M-C-\ -i --

Re: [SLUG] switching debian architecture in place?

2007-11-14 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:47:11PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Is there a way to switch over to amd64 system without re-installing the system from scratch? I'm happy to be proved wrong but I think a re-install would be much easier. If I had to do it, I would probably use debootstrap to create a

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34:02AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: No sir! But shell usually wins. On my 1 GHz / 1 GB powerbook, the python one-liner I just submitted runs 5 x faster than the original. I think C usually wins, the version below is 25 times faster than the python version (from

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:51:34PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Here's one in lex; ripped off from the flex info page. I'd be interested in its performance compared to straight C. No doubt worse, just curious how much worse. Similar to the Python version [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-20 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:22:49PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I love Ians posts only because he includes L1 and L2 cache hits in every one. If only you would share the command that gave you these numbers. The numbers come from the CPU performance counters. I use the perfmon tools [1] to

Re: [SLUG] USB speakers play everything but web served files

2008-03-04 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:13:41PM +1100, Mark wrote: I assume I am missing some iceweasel plug in, but everything seems to be there any pointers? If you see the video then you've got the flash plugin installed OK. You might like to try installing the pulseaudio sound server (if it's not

Re: [SLUG] Filesystem which allows online fsck?

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a Linux filesystem which allows online fsck on a disk that is currently mounted read/write? I remember ChunkFS talking about this: http://www.valhenson.org/chunkfs/ Maybe you could take a LVM

Re: [SLUG] olympics viewing

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Luke Vanderfluit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a site where I can watch the olympics using a linux (non-windows) codec? As much as flash is a Linux codec, you could try the instructions for viewing on Youtube at [1] [1]

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:50:52AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've never seen IOWAIT for NFS client traffic (ie, traffic from an NFS client talking to an NFS server) but who knows, this is linux.. I would say this doesn't count to iowait either; see fs/nfs/pagelist.c:nfs_wait_on_request() -- it

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu gcc version problem

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:38:15PM +1100, david wrote: When I run vmware-config.pl I get the following warning message: Your kernel was built with gcc version 4.2.3, while you are trying to use /usr/bin/gcc version 4.2.4. What version am I running? Should I care? vmware-config.pl gives dire

Re: [SLUG] Issues creating/imporing vms with ESXi

2009-04-15 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:13:42AM +0800, Hongduc Nguyen wrote: By any chance has anyone encountered the error message 'A general system error occurred - Internal error' during the creation/import of a VM via the VMware infastructure client? This type of question is best asked on the VMware

Re: [SLUG] Error in Time() command

2010-05-26 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:02 AM, tenz...@iinet.net.au tenz...@iinet.net.au wrote: I'm seeking a preferably citeable reference to the amount of error in the returned result from a Time() command. I want to be able to quote the level of error in timing the execution speed of my project. A

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