Re: [SLUG] Weird nslookup problem - Apologies

2014-10-29 Thread Ken Foskey
Your mail provider might be locking on ip address. One 'client' i have if they mistype a password 3 times it locks the ip address. Easy to do when a phone polls every 5 minutes. Contact your mail provider and ask if your ip address is blocked On 30 October 2014 7:15:12 AM AEDT, Ben

Re: [SLUG] Weird traceroute problem.

2014-10-28 Thread Ken Foskey
I use server that locks by ip address after 3 failed password attempts. Does not time out really anoying when you set up a new device and cannot remember password. Contact you email provider On 29 October 2014 7:54:48 AM AEDT, Ben donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, last week one of my

Re: [SLUG] Internet at 500m

2014-05-22 Thread Ken Foskey
There is a reflector that uses tin foil and catdboard to focus the signal. Uses a hyperbola like head lights First thing is to get a good wireless first. I had a wrt54g and it was excellent everything since has been rubbish and I did my research. Sydney wireless was getting up to 2 klm for

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Apache limits on number of files in a directory

2012-04-03 Thread Ken Foskey
-Original Message- From: Marghanita da Cruz Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:31 PM To: slug Subject: [SLUG] Linux and Apache limits on number of files in a directory Hi All, Does anyone know what the limit is on the number of files in Linux Directories and Apache Directories? Also,

[SLUG] Raspberry power supply

2012-03-01 Thread Ken Foskey
Does anyone know about the power supply requirements of this thing. I am thinking of putting one in as a thin client. A cheap TV and one of these, no fans. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Talk on programming principles

2012-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
This is a 54 minute talk on principles of programming.An interesting insight and some really cool toys that the presenter shows you along the way. Well worth a watch. http://vimeo.com/36579366 Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Traffic control

2012-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
Simple approach is to add youtube.com into the hosts file at 8:00 at night and remove it at 9:00am not shaping but easy to do. I have also implemented squid and this has some real shaping potential. Slowing him down on youtube will reduce his consumption. -Original Message-

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
I owned an IPhone for a number of years and recently got a android galaxy II. First comment is that they are all slippery suckers. 16 year old has destroyed a number of phones just by dropping them out of his pockets. Deep pockets are a must (that is literal). Look after them and don't

Re: [SLUG] Time to close down the coder's list?

2012-01-31 Thread Ken Foskey
I agree not all grear ideas work.  i asked for it On the move Original message Subject: [SLUG] Time to close down the coder's list? From: Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com To: commit...@slug.org.au,slug@slug.org.au CC: Hi all, I was one of the people who

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Can someone run through Unity at Slug in detail as a talk. This new interface certainly needs a sales pitch for me. I switched without problems from KDE to Gnome, Windows XP to Windows 7 so why do I need help to work with Unity yet it is 'better'. Ken Jeremy said... That’s because the

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With 11.10 the only

Re: [SLUG] X11 forwarding

2011-10-03 Thread Ken Foskey
Not an answer but... One thing to remember is that server and client in X11 is the reverse of what you think. The server is the screen and the client is the application. ssh forward the X11 across the link then it comes out on the other side. ssh generates a dummy 'x11 server' on the

Re: [SLUG] Multifunction printers vs dedicated sheet-feed scanners?

2011-09-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 10:45 +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: i worked at a mortgage lender years back and one of the departments had these expensive scanners because they would scan piles of 20+ page contracts all day with lightening speed. Expensive scanners tend not to skew the pages when feeding

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

2011-08-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:55 +1000, onlyjob wrote: Hi Steven, Sorry for this enormous delay with reply and thank you for detailed answer. Suse, RedHat, Debian and Ubuntu. I have used them all, all quite good and the code base is pretty much the same. What I prefer is different to what you

Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:04 +1000, DaZZa wrote: Hi. I'm looking for something that can take a text file and convert it into HTML, possible with some highlighting. I've got some routers reporting to my syslog server on a Linux box, but I want to be able to do a quick scan for bad things

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL download speed/settings

2011-05-11 Thread Ken Foskey
So I can totally remove the filter if only adsl connected? Phone is on another socket on same line Ken Foskey-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] ADSL download speed/settings.

2011-05-10 Thread Ken Foskey
Yes your lead from socket to Adam is a huge problem. Removing a lead like that made a huge difference for me Ken Foskey On 11/05/2011, at 7:13 AM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 2:00 am, Jeremy Visser wrote: gonzo01 said: Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5 Line

Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

2011-05-09 Thread Ken Foskey
Interesting, Seems to be trying to run the command as one thing. so a file named 'ccc lots of spaces with your IP address'.How are you starting this and are you quoting it? Exec takes an argument which is the filename to run and then extra args for the program started. -Original

Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

2011-05-08 Thread Ken Foskey
Tmp has special permissions only the person that created it can delete it and generally global write is not enabled Clan up the tmp file reliably and you should have no problems. The is also a make temp call that gives you a reliably unique filename Ken Foskey On 09/05/2011, at 9:59 AM

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

2011-04-15 Thread Ken Foskey
The apt version will overwrite the cpan version. (not always). Cpan will report one version and and apt another which can get confusing. I have mixed apt and cpan to correct versions of software and when I update it is generally to the version that works for me anyway Ken Foskey On 15/04

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

2011-04-14 Thread Ken Foskey
Force it then use clan to upgrade it. When it updates through the pm next it will overwrite because the pm does not know about your manual update Ken Foskey On 14/04/2011, at 1:41 PM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Thu, April 14, 2011 9:31 am, John Clarke wrote: On Wed, Apr 13

Re: [SLUG] If we 'delete' SLUG as it stands:

2011-03-02 Thread Ken Foskey
So you are saying that slug.org.au continues. It is just the 'owner' swaps to LCA. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu

2011-03-02 Thread Ken Foskey
For the record. I upgraded to ubuntu 10.10 and solr worked correctly Ken Foskey On 24/02/2011, at 1:34 PM, Matthew Hannigan m...@zip.com.au wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:44:02AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:16:35PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I have installed

[SLUG] HTML 5 talk tonight

2011-02-25 Thread Ken Foskey
As always worth the trip to listen to Silvia. Great talk. Best hint of night is caniuse.com. Talks about compatabilty Ken Foskey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu

2011-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
I am very frustrated. I have installed solr Jetty on Ubuntu and when it starts in jetty with 'java -jar start.jar it responds and has a solr directory. Does not work cleanly because it cannot find javac. I want this to autostart, '/etc/init.d/jetty start' issued.It starts on port

Re: [SLUG] linked in - please block

2010-12-23 Thread Ken Foskey
I was there for that discussion. That does not cover what is in my opinion spam. Facebook and linkedin have their place but not in the context of this list. Ken Foskey Ps: I use facebook and linkedin regularly. On 23/12/2010, at 12:54 PM, James Polley jamezpol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue

RE: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

2010-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
This is a guess... Have you tried vlc with the Mozilla plugin option? -Original Message- From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au [mailto:slug-boun...@slug.org.au] On Behalf Of Amos Shapira Sent: Sunday, 19 September 2010 4:58 PM To: slug Subject: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

Re: [SLUG] MySQL Mono

2010-08-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:13 +1000, Chris Allen wrote: I'd like to start learning MySQL and MONO for some serious development. As yet, neither are installed on my system (Ubuntu 10.4) Can any one recommend good books / courses (in Sydney) for learning both of these? Chris Allen I have

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p? -- thanks for suggestions

2010-08-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 06:08 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: To the community. Jon's experience probably really demonstrates why Linux isn't going to go mainstream anytime soon. While I would say 90% of people are going to have hardware that just works with the most current release of most

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Re: Discussion about SLUG meetings and format

2010-07-31 Thread Ken Foskey
Reply stripped. Andrew, I have to say that your reply was little to do with the direct offer of help. As a long term member of slug your reply does not represent my views in any way. Your reply seems at odds to Open Source principals talking of contractors, etc. (Yes we all have to eat but

Re: [SLUG] middle button copy/paste fails

2010-07-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 13:39 +1000, david wrote: I'm used to selecting text and then pasting using the emulated middle mouse button on a two button mouse. This works most of the time but occasionally stops working and worse, it does unpredictable things until re-boot, which is truly

RE: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-13 Thread Ken Foskey
/pg=.*/ But also I think is a special char (no?) that means put the matched bit back, though is that only on the replace side? (my question relates strictly to the matching side). Yes the ampersand is special, it represents the complete matched string on the replace. s/pg=.*/\/ As

Re: [SLUG] Error in Time() command

2010-05-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 17:02 +0800, tenz...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi everyone, 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. While I

Re: [SLUG] MYOB/POS etc

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:07 +1000, Jim Donovan wrote: Not directly apropos the recent emails, but did you know that there are websites offering on-line MYOB, apparently with the data all held on the web host. I'm under pressure to move a community group's financial records from a system based

[SLUG] web dav setup

2010-05-13 Thread Ken Foskey
I need to set up a simple read only webdav. No security. I installed the dav_fs and it starts but I cannot browse to the machine. Location /books DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All /Location Anyone got any hints. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Karmic: synaptic v apt-get

2010-03-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:55 +1100, david wrote: I want to install kdenlive. The repository version is deprecated and the latest is available from ppa.launchpad.net synaptic and apt-get operate off the same data. It may be that you have not done an update after updating the repository list.

Re: [SLUG] Fedora KDE audio capture problem

2010-03-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 00:22 +0100, steven bellens wrote: Hey Daryl, probably something similar here, however the solution you suggest doesn't have the right result here. I created this file with your suggested settings, but still I'm unable to get any input from my microphone. Any

[SLUG] System admin graphing tools

2010-02-25 Thread Ken Foskey
We all know we should do it. Provide a monitoring system to see how our system loads are going. I have a couple of links that look interesting: http://flapjack-project.com/ It is local so goes first :-) Flapjack is a scalable and distributed monitoring system. It natively talks the Nagios

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:11 +1100, meryl wrote: I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. ... When I mark samba for removal no other files on this list are marked. So is just marking samba for

Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:49 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm back on Debian Lenny now, so can't confirm any of this. Anyway, it seems funny that it would work on your computer but not the DVD player. Brings to mind. Check the quality of the DVD media. Sometimes crappy DVD's will not read

Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? How long is a piece of string. For Uni tutoring / lectures I favour weight versus performance. If we are talking about throwing graphics on a screen anything can do that. I have done full

Re: [SLUG] Adjusting volume on bluetooth headset

2010-02-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:54 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: Thats because ALSA bluetooth support is via an alsa plugin provided by the bluez package, as all audio goes via the bluez stack. This question springs to mind. Is there a bluez management tool? (I don't have bluetooth...) -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Mentoring

2010-02-16 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 12:58 +1100, John Nielsen wrote: Hi All I'm aware that this a little off topic...I have started a Diploma in Website development at Ultimo TAFE. I am finding it somewhat challenging especially with all the HTML coding to some extent as I am totally new to that and the

Re: [SLUG] Fosdem

2010-02-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:08 +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Probably the best of the whole bunch was Andrew Tanenbaum talking about Minix 3 Wasn't he the one that did the talk in LinuxConf 2006? I remember a rant about kernel programming that pretty much fell flat to a linux audience. --

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:04 +1100, James Gray wrote: On 13/02/2010, at 11:42 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: I use a simpler approach and to some extent more flexible. I create a script in a known directory, for example /usr/sbin/run_copy.sh. I then only authorise the admin group to run only

Re: [SLUG] Earliest open source?

2010-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 09:05 +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: What's the earliest reference to open source anyone knows? I found this in a 1965 paper: How like Unix does the following story sound? Open Source (not as a name) existed in IBM in the old mainframe systems. Systems Programmers, who are

[SLUG] Hot computer

2010-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 08:43 +0800, james wrote: On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:25:18 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: [snip] The computer was warm enough to keep your coffee warm, so there is still an issue. I am not going to get aircon any time soon. I was reading that you can use air

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 16:22 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 15:37 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I have done this using sudo. I write a script on the called machine, sign on as my user and run the script using sudo which I authorise (very specifically) to root without password

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:31 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: - I will try and clean the heatsink on the Nvidia without removing it and no worry too much. Cleaning the Nvidia 8800GT was easier than I thought. I needed those small screwdrivers you use for glasses. The plastic cowling is secured by 7

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:24 +1100, James Gray wrote: Hi All, I've googled this one for a while and can't find any examples of people doing *system* file sync with rsync. So I thought I'd throw it out to the collective wisdom of SLUG. Here's the full story. We have a SuSE-based

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit.

2010-02-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:37 +1100, Josh Smith wrote: Those of you who are running 64 bit versions of Ubuntu . . are there any pitfalls? Any problems with applications? Speed? Ubuntu 64 bit, about 2 years on the computer with upgrades. Speed is awesome. Might just because my hardware so much

Re: [SLUG] no speaker sound

2010-02-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 02:14 +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote: I brought a Compaq Presario CQ61-214TU and install Fedora 12. I have no Speaker Sound, i do have sound when i plug in a head set or external speaker. I have not tested the HDMI output yet as i don't have access to a DH TV with HDMI.

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:24 +1100, Mark Walkom wrote: Well the grease is needed as it facilitates a higher efficiency of heat transfer from the chip to the heatsink. Is this a laptop or a desktop PC? What are the CPU and GPU chips? Desktop. The CPU fan has been removed and replaced twice.

Re: [SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:17 +0800, james wrote: Wunz upon a tyme ANZ would accept IE for internet banking and they told me that their app worked with IE only. Fiddling with about:config I had firefox (or whatever it used to be) ID as IE on Winders. And the app worked. When confronted by

[SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-01 Thread Ken Foskey
My computer crashed today and I have finally apt-get install sensors-applet I found out that my temperature is exceeding 80 on both CPUs under load and is always sitting at 76 for the GPU I have pulled off and cleaned the fan for the CPU but I have not done anything about the grease. Will

Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD

2010-01-21 Thread Ken Foskey
Simply create a new partition and copy the contents. Use cp -r / path /mounted/new/path/ If you have to use dd then create a partition exactly the same size then gparted can grow it afterwards Ken Foskey On the move On 20/01/2010, at 2:00 PM, Mike Andy beatbreake...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [SLUG] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.

2010-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 08:22 +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: Hi Sluggers, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I have a PHP web-site running on Apache and Linux. A PHP routine produces a page that is sent back to the browser, but then it has some house-keeping to do which takes

Re: [SLUG] NTP Issues

2010-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 09:43 +1100, Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, Having a bit of an issue at the moment with NTP. Server has been running for nigh on 2-3 years now. NTP was always running and always perfect. Recently had a truck take out power lines in the street and no power for 3-4 hours.

Re: [SLUG] Text/Html decoder plugin for Fedora 11

2010-01-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 03:19 -0800, Neville Gittens wrote: Hi, I would like some guidance regarding this text/html decoder plugin that is required for me to play film trailers on apple website also you tube. there error comes up and I can't seem to find the right application. As I am

Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:33 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Do you run Skype? If so - turn off its Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer level. Not that it's the only issue but maybe. Skype did have that option but it was not started anyway. Resetting it did not solve the problem.

[SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Foskey
It is not the kernel sound works perfectly after bringing up sound volume. I am running 2.6.31-15-generic by the way. I found some forum posts but these don't make a lot of sense, talking about init.d which runs alsactl. This appears to be related. But it is not about startup and shutdown and

Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:13 -0600, Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Have you tried to save your current ALSA settings manually? sudo alsactl store The start up scripts should pick up these settings at boot time or you could restore them with sudo alsactl restore Tried this, no difference. It is

[SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-02 Thread Ken Foskey
whenever I sign onto Ubuntu Karmic the sound level is zero and I have to raise the volume. This is an upgraded system, I cannot find right google juice to find answer. Work around to force 100% in start up also accepted. I have an external volume control anyway. Any hints on solving this one.

Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:09 +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: How do other people deal with these weird documents? Is there an easy way to view or convert them (NOT using Gnome or OpenOffice or other heavyweight GUI tools)? Unfortunately Word is not a specification just a jungle of data that has

[SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Ken Foskey
My computer is too noisy. It is not graphics because it is not used much and when it does there is enough background noise. It is the power supply and cpu fan that kicks in with cron at 2 am in the morning. I was thinking about adding fluid cooling, is this worth it or else can I where can

Re: [SLUG] Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread foskey
Also the constraining factor would be the network speed coming in so the actual speed of the hardware would probably not affect it that much. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:10 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one. The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice. Brother has an aspire running Linux for wife.Works well from what I can see. It is not exactly stressed though, would not

[SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different types of USB port? Ta

Re: [SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:33 +1000, David Gillies wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now

Re: [SLUG] security monitor with webcam

2009-05-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 16:44 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: I was racking my brain trying to remember the applications name when what should come up on lxer.com?: ZoneMinder http://www.zoneminder.com/ I'd read about this a while ago. It seemed quite good. I haven't used it though.

[SLUG] webcam woes Jaunty

2009-05-21 Thread Ken Foskey
There is a problem with Jaunty and webcams that I have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libv4l/+bug/359045 Webcams will occasionally work. There is also a Kernel bug that crops up because of something with cheese: cheese: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x8004 Googling led

[SLUG] security monitor with webcam

2009-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
My flats have had a series of fires (BY Idiots) and I want to hook up a webcam and record all the comings and goings from the building. Fortunately I can do this from my kitchen window. Is there a way to snapshot every second and discard any significant duplicate pictures, pictures would

Re: [SLUG] cannot boot Ubuntu with bios raid setting

2009-05-14 Thread foskey
Quoting Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au: Hi Ken, after you set the raid setting, don't you have to then configure a logical drive? what sort of machine is it? server? HP? also usually when you set it to raid it does not matter what the SCSI drive ID is as the raid controller

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-14 Thread foskey
Quoting Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au: On Thu, May 14, 2009, fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: Still working on this, the whole thing appeared to lock up and we have rebooted.We have now replaced a drive in the raid and hopefully this will work better. Of course this is going to take

[SLUG] LVM

2009-05-14 Thread foskey
Quoting Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com: 2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I am now going to LVM my home system. I'm planning to do this as well. I was thinking back to Mary's backup post last year and thinking if I could do

[SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-13 Thread Ken Foskey
I have a very large xfs file system that is corrupt and there is an IO error in the middle of the file system, xfs_repair crashes. A bit of reading and I have a solution, just thought I would put it out there in case I have forgotten something. Booting xeon server with 32 bit Ubuntu live CD.

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-13 Thread Ken Foskey
NEWSERVER PORT on new server: nc -l PORT | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 Also I'm not sure how the LVM is going to interact because I don't tend to use LVM on my production servers with XFS On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ken Foskey fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-13 Thread foskey
Problem dd sat and looped on a single point last night. I have downloaded a statically linked version of dd_rescue and I am now trying this. Fingers crossed. ssh r...@server '/root/dd_rescue /dev/vg1/lv1 -' | cat /dev/vg1/lv1 It is coming up with this error though: dd_rescue:

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-13 Thread foskey
Quoting Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au: And what is being logged in dmesg? Your kernel should be spewing a whole lot of error messages if your physical media is returning errors. Still working on this, the whole thing appeared to lock up and we have rebooted.We have now replaced a

[SLUG] cannot boot Ubuntu with bios raid setting

2009-05-13 Thread foskey
I have a machine with 6 Harddrives sda = sdf and when I install Ubuntu desktop it will not boot. There is a bios setting for raid and if we set this on we see all 6 harddrives but the install will not boot. If we set it to not raid we see 4 harddrives and it will boot. Any suggestions? Ta

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

2009-05-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:01 +1000, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Just found my own answer. I still had the old libswfdecmozilla plugin loaded so it was trying to display the flash. Removed the link and it now works EXCEPT for the sound. Heracles

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

2009-05-04 Thread foskey
Quoting Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net: More seriously, none of the free Flash replacements worked correctly outside of the Firefox environment when I last tested them, which was very disappointing. Flash crashes in Firefox occasionally and gives up on some of my son's flash games which

[SLUG] interesting gnome trick

2009-04-30 Thread Ken Foskey
Found a trick today by accident. Put your mouse over the bottom bar, the one with the list of open windows, eg evolution and firefox.Use the scroll wheel to bring to the foreground the different applications. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:10 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net writes: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 15:25 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Out of curiosity, what number of users are you considering real users here? I agree with what you are saying, but you

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 18:39 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Not sure it makes too much sense to review your life's work on Daniel's very literal argumentation... :-) My response was to Rob wanting millions of users. My work on OpenOffice is not any better in numbers than my corporate work. I worked

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:32 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Morgan Storey Uhh Darwin ports... it basically gives you apt-get for mac. I am not a fan of macs but I am pretty sure it has been around for a while: http://darwinports.com/ That's an add-on, not a core part of the

Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor

2009-04-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:07 +1000, david wrote: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed.

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:19 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: There was a really good document on why a stable ABI for a library is important and how to achieve it but I cannot find it right now.For example when you add a parameter to function X you create another function Y with the original

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:40 +1000, Daniel Bush wrote: I sometimes think the converse can also be true at times - speaking from very modest experience. In the first instance, the client/boss asks offhandedly: Can you make this small change? and it ends up being a rewrite of your life's work or

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:55 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Daniel Pittman Experimenting is fun. Reality is hard. I notice you omitted the section of my email where, indeed, I note that this is from practical experience. Sorry, but ROX and GNUstep are experimentations. They

Re: [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem

2009-04-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:54 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Anybody knows what this might be? Based on Debian but hopefully it wont be too far wrong. Before you start a new X look at the ~/.xsession_errors file and see if anything is there. Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and finally look in

Re: [SLUG] Latest or recommended ways to display Gnome Desktop from Windows boxes.

2009-03-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:01 +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I have an open X server at home and I simply run X on my windows desktop to get into it: cygwin X -query myserver Pretty simple, very insecure it is reliant on network security. So I would need

Re: [SLUG] Latest or recommended ways to display Gnome Desktop from Windows boxes.

2009-03-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:19 +1100, Michael Lake wrote: I can run though things like xterms and from those run the Gimp from the remote machine. Works very well and is not slow. I just have to work out how to run a Gnome session so the users on the Windows machine locally can see the

Re: [SLUG] Latest or recommended ways to display Gnome Desktop from Windows boxes.

2009-03-18 Thread Ken Foskey
I have an open X server at home and I simply run X on my windows desktop to get into it: cygwin X -query myserver Pretty simple, very insecure it is reliant on network security. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

2009-03-11 Thread Ken Foskey
I got bugzilla working OK.For the record I had to create a link, this was missing /usr/share/bugzilla3/web/ /var/www/bugzilla3 I then had to hack out security from the scripts to configure it then reinstate it. Not sure what I did wrong in the set up. I got this error attempt to

Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

2009-03-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:23 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: The biggest thing, though, is for you to identify what you actually want to achieve with this. Without knowing that there are some very different options available, and probably only some will help you. Multiple clients, different

[SLUG] bugzilla setup

2009-03-10 Thread Ken Foskey
I am trying to get bugzilla3 working on my ubuntu server and it looks awful. Is there a CSS that needs to be installed to make it look nice? Is there a better very simple web based bug tracking that I should be using? Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Downloading files with .asc extention.

2009-03-09 Thread Ken Foskey
I recall vaguely that there is a file that lists extensions and the filetypes associated with them. You could look for that and modify it. Ken On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 07:09 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I've got a pair of files on my website:

[SLUG] Why would nautilus be using 50%

2009-02-12 Thread Ken Foskey
My system has begun pausing badly today and Nautilus is running 4 Gig virtual and 1 gig real, this would seem to be part of the problem. There is nothing really obvious on top. Any suggestions? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Why would nautilus be using 50%

2009-02-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:17 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: My system has begun pausing badly today and Nautilus is running 4 Gig virtual and 1 gig real, this would seem to be part of the problem. There is nothing really obvious on top. Any suggestions? I ended up rebooting and everything

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