Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop? (CPK Smithies)
Downloaded SliTaz and first impression suggest that this could be a really good solution. As the iso image was<32GB it fitted nicely on those credit card CDs I had lying around. Brian M -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?
Thanks for the advise. The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old style DIMMs. I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings and saving as mp3. Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to use an old build as the latest would not go on. DSL was a right pain to install. In the end, I decided to flog the laptop to someone who only wanted an Internet browser. (The factory build disks gave MS XP Home - no updates). Linux lost this round. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] USB remounting
Found a work around, that is running 'thunar' which is a filemanager and it re-mounts the usb. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 367, Issue 5
Re: Access of TalkTalk while abroad. Personally, if I was abroad, then I would access the talktalk website and use the webmail feature. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tue or Wed 2011-02-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 365, Issue 6
I play .wmv files in Linux. As I have a Ubuntu flavour, I just did a search in the Synaptic package manager for wmv which did the plugins. (This is a common problem so there are loads of solutions out there.) Brian M 1. Re: wmv files won't play (Ralph Corderoy) -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 361, Issue 7
These comments reminds me of what 'Richie' or was in 'Kernigan', when he was given an award for his involvement with the 'C' compiler, owned up to the backdoor that he had added into the UNIX system kernel. This was propagated every time that the C compiler was re-compiled. I wonder if Microsoft Windows has code embedded in it that is already has hidden features for government use. If you haven't read the book Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, do read it, although it is a bit antiquated now, it's a good read. Brian M -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 361, Issue 5
Actually, I would think Fedora would be better in that kind of situation. I've put up with SELinux on it a few times. It's annoying, but I'll grant it does the job well. I would hate to play devils advocate but I'd be more interested in seeing the government move with someone like Red Hat and take on a support contract. At the donut they use Redhat Enterprise Brian M -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 362, Issue 4
RE: Also, it would be nice to stitch the scripts into the ISO 'off line' so to speak. I often do changes to an .iso file by mounting the file; mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt copy the folder to build folder and do the changes, the write a new disk from that folder Brian M -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 360, Issue 7
Thanks Ralph, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket That all makes sense now. I was unnecessarily concerned. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 360, Issue 6
On 26/11/10 22:13, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: lsof -i TCP:39895 Thanks guys. netstat -ape | egrep '^tcp|udp|Proto' proved useful and revealed what I would expect. 'lsof' looks a really useful command that I didn't know (or had forgotten about). The apache and mysql servers are used to host my own CMS. For file transfer to and from my systems, I use filezilla with an ssh server so windows can then access my linux systems simply. 'netstat -a' shows a lot of connected sockets which I cannot explain. (Looks like I need to read some of the RFCs out there.) Brian M -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] network problems
Seems that I may have found part of the problem. I had ktorrent running as a automatically startup application. I have also enabled my Firestarter but still find that 'netstat -a' shows a lot of connections that I cannot explain. Doing a; netstat -pta | egrep LISTEN shows; tcp0 0 linux:mysql*:* LISTEN 1408/mysqld tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 1954/apache2 tcp0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 1109/sshd tcp0 0 linux:ipp *:* LISTEN 1132/cupsd tcp0 0 *:gdomap*:* LISTEN 1489/gdomap tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh[::]:* LISTEN 1109/sshd tcp6 0 0 linux:ipp [::]:* LISTEN 1132/cupsd Which I would expect, but; netstat -a | egrep CONNECTED | wc -l Shows; 566 So my big question is what are all these connections that are established? Brian M -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 360, Issue 5
I would appreciate any advise and help on networking. (they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing). I have been running etherape and it shows that my Linux system is sending out a lot of packets to IP addresses. I do do not have anything running (that I know of) and disconnecting from the Internet shows that these connections are still shown, but they are removed after time-outs occur. Doing a 'netstat -a' shows a lot of connected states. (even tho' I have unplugged the router connection to the Internet). (I have run 'transmission' for a torrent download some time back which may be the cause of the connections, but that is not running). It would appear that somewhere, something is trying to re-establish connections to the systems out on the Internet. I would expect to have no connections, especially when I have nothing communicating to the Internet. (maybe things like the update manager). My Linux build is the Ultimate Edition 2.8 - Ubuntu 10 based) Brian M -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 360, Issue 1
On 22/11/10 19:30, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Now I want to go back to work in folder2, what the easy command to get me back there?? The easy command to go back to your previous directory is 'cd -' Brian M -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 359, Issue 4
On 18/11/10 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: The command I put in was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples You are not alone, we had a UNIX administrator do a; chown -R .* username Only to discover that it had changed all the above directories and then down. Whereas they should have typed; chown -R .[a-z]* username The saying comes to mind, measure twice, cut once. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 358, Issue 8
I have recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5740 which came with Windoz7 but had problems with the latest updates. Therefore, reloaded the disk with the latest Mint Linux 64bit and it is really good. (I spent a short time working with a local laptop repair company and found that the modern Acer systems were one of the most reliable laptops they didn't have them in for repair). I did try the Ultimate Edition 2.7 Linux which is rather nice, but had problems with flash on 64bit. I like the Window manager in Mint and the Linux is Ubuntu based. I am really pleased with this system. -- (glad to know that Andy Paterson is in your group, we used to work together) Brian M. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 358, Issue 7
RE: X.25 work. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the project names as email is so open. Just did a Google search for Chameleon TE32 and it came up with our email. Are there any members using assemble in Linux? As I rather fancy getting back into some real programming and any advise would be appreciated. Brian M -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 358, Issue 7
On 12/11/10 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: So - ?I take it you were writing Network analysis tools for X.25 at > Plessey while I was working on the network management software for the > 2500 Packet switch range? ? Didn't we have an Atlantic Research box or a > Tektronix box that also did that? I think that an old Tektronix box was being used for Wavell but when I joined the Systems team, we started using PCs. Didn't have much to do with the Packet switch other than connecting to it. The Chameleon TE32 was used as a conformance tool in the Ptarmigan Test and Trials. I really enjoyed getting into the X.25 levels 2,3 and 4 but that was back in the 90's. Did a lot of RS 232 comms software back then in DOS on the PC, hence the need for assembler, just wish that we had Linux to use. I was using Slakware Linux when it was on floppies but didn't do any programming on it then. Can't remember when I started using Linux. Did a bit of UNIX programming with ADA and C on the Sun workstations using Symicron cards. Am now only programming in for web development in PHP. Using my own CMS on www.coloursofthesea.org. We must meet up, so am looking forward to the next get together as I am in Corfe Mullen, Bmth is good. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 358, Issue 5
On 10/11/10 23:38, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Wireshark also does a display like that shown for Etherape. I shall look into that feature. So - I take it you were writing Network analysis tools for X.25 at Plessey while I was working on the network management software for the 2500 Packet switch range? Didn't we have an Atlantic Research box or a Tektronix box that also did that? Peter M. I did the conformance testing software for the Ptarmigan project at Plessey Christchurch. It resided on the Tekelec Chameleon TE32 (where I grew familiar with 'vi'). Also did some assembler TSRs for PCs (in DOS), some analysis tools for Project Wavell using Symicron hardware. Any equipment which connected to Ptarmigan had to be tested against my software. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] Remote connections to Linux systems (and LUG)
Hi all, Just joined and hope to meet up with you sometime. Saw the bit about using xrdp. I used to administer UNIX systems (Solaris and DEC Alphas) always used to use Xnest for remote connections to Linux (and other UNIX) systems. e.g. Xnest -query otherhost :1& -- Looking forward to meeting up with you. Brian Masterman (retired Network Support Engineer) -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
