Re: [Hampshire] "Linux Admin IQ Test"
Victor Churchill wrote: > A link to this popped up on the Dorset list : > > http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php > > well, it's a bit of fun. > (I got 75) > > Much to my own surprise, I got 95, with a few guesses and no cheating. The only wrong answer was the distro "odd one out". MikeD -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] BBC downloads on linux - what do you use?
Hi All simple one, really. A while back people discussed how they recorded stuff from the BBC, and the simplest answer I found was to just use Sound Recorder that is bundled with Ubuntu (gnome-sound-recorder). Launch, select 'capture' and press the record button. I want to subscribe to some podcasts and wonder what people use. BBC offers feeds for itunes, zencast and zune and feeds for yahoo and goodle. Having no experience at all what do you suggest? All I want is for the things to appear once published, and for the option to play them on the PC! Thanks Ed -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] BBC downloads on linux - what do you use?
I use Rhythmbox for my podcasts. Just copy and paste the 'feed URL' : e.g. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/analysis/rss.xml For iPlayer I use a handy script called get_iplayer. And if you're running Ubuntu Intrepid, there's a built in script in totem, which I believe includes content such as the podcasts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/research_on_bbc_content_for_gn.html Greg. On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Ed Beckmann - gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > simple one, really. A while back people discussed how they recorded > stuff from the BBC, and the simplest answer I found was to just use > Sound Recorder that is bundled with Ubuntu (gnome-sound-recorder). > Launch, select 'capture' and press the record button. > > I want to subscribe to some podcasts and wonder what people use. BBC > offers feeds for itunes, zencast and zune and feeds for yahoo and > goodle. Having no experience at all what do you suggest? All I want is > for the things to appear once published, and for the option to play them > on the PC! > > Thanks > > Ed > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -- > -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] "Linux Admin IQ Test"
At 17:08 08/11/2008, you wrote: >hi >Got 75 >not bad for a newbie huh? Yeah not bad. I got 65 with a lot of educated guesses since I dont use linux that much. Martin N -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] "Linux Admin IQ Test"
90% for me. First wrong answer as I didn't read the question correctly. Second was the same. Pah. Time to get some new glasses methinks. Stephen D -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Clarkconnect Gateway 4.3 & Horde webmail
> > > Im guessing that once setup right. Id write an email as normal, send to > > my clarkconnect / horde box, which will send on the email itself. So > > rather than send the email direct myself to smtp.ntlworld.com Id send it > > to something like smtp.clarkconnect.lan, and would pull emails from > > pop.clarkconnect.com rather than pop.ntlworld.com. Or would I use imap ? > > Personally, I'd use IMAP, otherwise you may as well just use the NTL > servers. > > James > Ive now setup clarkconnect with flexshare account, which then allows me to setup email. Ive got horde webmail working, it pulls my emails from NTL, and I can slso send from horde. But now Im being thick. Im having problems getting Evolution to connect to my clarkconnect box. Ive changed settings and it goes through the motions of connecting, but it doesnt retrieve emails that I know are waiting. Wondered if someone could slap me with a baseball bat, and push me in the right direction ?? I know that (i think) imap has to map server folders and be connected to the server. Is this correct ? Thanks Phillip -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] "Linux Admin IQ Test"
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 06:01:48 + (+), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Victor Churchill > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A link to this popped up on the Dorset list : > > > > http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php Damn. 95%. Darn trick question (which I personally think is wrong anyhow). Adrian -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] BBC downloads on linux - what do you use?
2008/11/9 Ed Beckmann - gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I want to subscribe to some podcasts and wonder what people use. BBC > offers feeds for itunes, zencast and zune and feeds for yahoo and > goodle. Having no experience at all what do you suggest? All I want is > for the things to appear once published, and for the option to play them > on the PC! > Rhythmbox, the default audio player in Ubuntu, can download podcasts. To add a BBC podcast: Music -> New podcast feed and copy and paste the contents of the Feed URL box from the BBC page for the podcast you are interested in. I use Amarok to download podcasts, purely because I already used it to manage my music collection and it is convenient to use one application to transfer both music and podcasts to my portable audio player. I wouldn't recommend it in your case, as adding new podcasts is not quite as easy as in Rhythmbox and it will require a large number of KDE dependencies to install. Cheers, Graham -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Posting to usenet
This seems like such a simple problem but I am having trouble posting to linux.debian.user. and googling hasn't helped me figure out why. I understood linux.debian.user to be a non-moderated list where anyone can post. However all the messages I have sent never appear. I am using Thunderbird. I subscribed to eu.usenet-news.net http://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=faq by buying a block quota and use this to read newsgroups. I previously thought it was because my ISP (Newnet) might be blocking it (their newsgroup service was poor) and I left it alone for a while, but I have recently moved to using Bethere as my ISP (part of O2) and still no joy. I can post to news.grc.com and terabyteunlimited.com. What simple checks can I have overlooked in my ignorance? I know Bethere block port 25 so you have to use their own smtp server but I don't see this as a problem. Any clues would be greatly appreciated. Russell -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Posting to usenet
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:48:16PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: > This seems like such a simple problem but I am having trouble posting to > linux.debian.user. and googling hasn't helped me figure out why. I > understood linux.debian.user to be a non-moderated list where anyone can > post. However all the messages I have sent never appear. linux.debian.user is actually the debian-user mailing list (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/) gatewayed to a newsgroup. Although it is possible to create bidirectional e-mail/usenet gateways, I'm not sure that this works in this case. I'd suggest sending your message directly to the list address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew McDonald E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/andrew/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs
2008/11/9 Keith Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If the appropriate solution seem seems to be to use more than five or so > drives an any one RAID array then I'd venture to suggest the solution is > incorrect. Anyone contemplating using 20 (or 11) drives in one array is > either doing it deliberately for some specific reason or doesn't > understand the implications of what they are doing. Having large numbers of drives provides greater I/O throughput by increasing the number of spindles on your array. However, there are caveats. It is advisable to use RAID-6 or some other technology which uses multiple parity drives to reduce the risk of data loss due to multiple drive failures and to also keep hot spares online. I've used this on Netapp filers, which use a proprietary double-parity version of RAID-4. A 14 disk enclosure can give you 11 data disks, 2 parity and 1 hot spare and this is a pretty standard configuration. Some sites do apparently use multiple enclosure arrays. I'd think long and hard before doing this on a Linux system without the level of engineering support that Netapp provides though. To return to the original point: RAID-1 in the Linux kernel is cheap, > reliable and effective. If RAID-5 is required, a dedicated h/w controller > that provides true RAID is the best solution. Of course there are other > ways of doing things. > In the ideal world where your Linux boxes all use exactly the same RAID controller I would agree with you. Linux software RAID does have some advantages over hardware controllers in my view, in that it is always possible to: - Configure software RAID from a running Linux OS - Detect disk failures from a running Linux OS - Remove the drives from one Linux system and re-assemble the array in another Linux system More importantly, all these tasks can be automated easily - since the commands are the same no matter what hardware is used - within automated build system (Kickstart followed by puppet in my case) and no manual intervention is required. This is a definite benefit in a large server farm managed by a relatively small team. For these reasons, I am considering simply ignoring the hardware RAID controllers in the servers at work and using software RAID throughout. As you say, there are other ways of doing things, but those are my thoughts based on managing ~100 physical Linux hosts. Cheers, Graham -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs
Chris Aitken wrote: > System MTBF = component MTBF/n > where n is # of components. > > So for a component with MTBF of 50k hrs a 2 disk (RAID-1) system has > an MTBF of 25k hours, and a 3 disk (RAID-5) system has an MTBF of > ~16.7k hrs. > > During rebuilts the above RAID-1 has an MTBF of 50 k hrs again, and > the above RAID-5 has 25k hour MTBF. > But failures per usable byte of memory are worse for RAID-1. If you have 100GB disks and want a Terabyte of usable storage, you'd need 20 disks in RAID-1 (MTBF 2.5k hours, using the above figures), but only 11 in RAID-5 (MTBF 4.55k hours). Even better, get RAID-5 double parity, you need 12 disks, but you can survive 2 of them failing (MTBF 8.33k hours). Simon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Clarkconnect Gateway 4.3 & Horde webmail
Phillip Chandler wrote: > Ive now setup clarkconnect with flexshare account, which then allows me > to setup email. Ive got horde webmail working, it pulls my emails from > NTL, and I can slso send from horde. Flexshare is for allowing you to email attachments to an address and have them out in a folder for you, it has nothing to do with retrieving mail. > But now Im being thick. Im having problems getting Evolution to connect > to my clarkconnect box. Ive changed settings and it goes through the > motions of connecting, but it doesnt retrieve emails that I know are > waiting. Should simply be a case of setting up the account using the same username and password you use for Horde. I've not really used Evolution so I'm not sure if it's doing something slightly different to Thunderbird. James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs
If the appropriate solution seem seems to be to use more than five or so drives an any one RAID array then I'd venture to suggest the solution is incorrect. Anyone contemplating using 20 (or 11) drives in one array is either doing it deliberately for some specific reason or doesn't understand the implications of what they are doing. To return to the original point: RAID-1 in the Linux kernel is cheap, reliable and effective. If RAID-5 is required, a dedicated h/w controller that provides true RAID is the best solution. Of course there are other ways of doing things. Keith -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] BBC downloads on linux - what do you use?
2008/11/9 Graham Bleach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I want to subscribe to some podcasts and wonder what people use. BBC >> offers feeds for itunes, zencast and zune and feeds for yahoo and >> goodle. Having no experience at all what do you suggest? All I want is >> for the things to appear once published, and for the option to play them >> on the PC! > > Rhythmbox, the default audio player in Ubuntu, can download podcasts. To add > a BBC podcast: Music -> New podcast feed and copy and paste the contents of > the Feed URL box from the BBC page for the podcast you are interested in. > Even easier than that Rhythmbox respects iTunes links so even if you're on linux you can click the funky itsp:// links and Rhythmbox should be able to figure it out. Personally I use hpodder (command line tool) to download audio podcasts and Miro to do all my video ones. I like to keep audio and video podcasts apart because my mp3 player only does audio ones, and I use Miro to watch video ones. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
