Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off list - Re: Buying a computer suitable for Ubuntu (alan c)

2011-08-25 Thread scoundrel50a
On 25/08/11 19:26, Martin Houston wrote: I have a 10 year old IBM T23 that runs Ubuntu tolerably well even - just not HD movie playing! For a PC of any age the big secret is getting as much memory as possible. A while ago I managed to buy and extra 1G of ram for my daughters old P4 machine fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off list - Re: Buying a computer suitable for Ubuntu (alan c)

2011-08-25 Thread Martin Houston
I have a 10 year old IBM T23 that runs Ubuntu tolerably well even - just not HD movie playing! For a PC of any age the big secret is getting as much memory as possible. A while ago I managed to buy and extra 1G of ram for my daughters old P4 machine for just £6. It made a huge difference to pe

[ubuntu-uk] Software Freedom Day 2011 - help needed with joint Chelmer Lug/SosLug events

2011-08-25 Thread Martin Houston
Calling anyone with Linux experience that they don't mind sharing with the public who are within travelling distance of Southend on Sea. We have two different Shopping Centres and an Arts Centre to man on Sat 17th September. If you want to come help for the day please email me mhous...@deluxe-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:31:34 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: >> > > What sort of VPS is it, and what is the kernel that's currently installed? If it's OpenVZ it should be relatively easy to replace the kernel. My feeling is that 8.04 is getting a bit out of date especially when using virtual

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 August 2011 15:21, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:19:17 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: > >> Well it now seems that after this reboot (which was just to expand >> some disk space) my VPS time is all fubar. >> >> I set the time/date with nptdate >> >> Then repeatedly hitting date

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:19:17 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: Then repeatedly hitting date date shows the date escallating rapidly, something like an hour per second and the date shifts wildly. example after a reboot: Last login: Mon Dec 12 03:10:47 2011 from 178.78.125.61 jonr@jcrdevelopments:~

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:22:21 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: But something else I don't understand is that these emails I am sending from this server are showing the correct time...IRSSI shows the correct time... its only when I use the 'date' command I see a wrong time. -- Jon Reynolds (j0nr) http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
But something else I don't understand is that these emails I am sending from this server are showing the correct time...IRSSI shows the correct time... its only when I use the 'date' command I see a wrong time. -- Jon Reynolds (j0nr) http://www.jcrdevelopments.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:19:17 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: Well it now seems that after this reboot (which was just to expand some disk space) my VPS time is all fubar. I set the time/date with nptdate Then repeatedly hitting date date shows the date escallating rapidly, something like an hour

Re: [ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
Well it now seems that after this reboot (which was just to expand some disk space) my VPS time is all fubar. I set the time/date with nptdate Then repeatedly hitting date date shows the date escallating rapidly, something like an hour per second and the date shifts wildly. I have fed al

[ubuntu-uk] s3sync Stopped Working After Reboot

2011-08-25 Thread Jon Reynolds
Hi all, I run s3sync to do a backup from my web server to an AWS S3 bucket. This runs once a week on a cron job and has done so for many many months. I had to do a reboot on my server (VPS BTW, running 8,04 LTS) and now s3sync no longer works. The command in my backup script is this: ru