Re: [Hampshire] Introductions
Hi Tim, On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 at 04:59:58PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > > I'm moving to Southampton on Wednesday, so I think you're my new local > LUG? :) > > My free software efforts go mostly towards Debian at the moment, but I > sometimes make random upstream contributions as well. I like GNOME, but > am using awesome on my eeepc for now. And I tend to use emacs. > Something to alienate almost everyone there, surely. > > I'm about to start as a perl developer for SmoothWall, having been > working as a consultant sysadmin/developer for credativ in Rugby, > Warwickshire for the last couple of years. > > I see there's a meeting at IBM Hursley next month - it's been a while > since I last visited there, so I hope I can make it. Welcome to the LUG, it's a bit quiet on the list at the moment as everyone is on holiday and such. I look forward to seeing you at Hursley in September. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I am not a PC - I am a free man! -- anon -- 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] Deploying a Rails application
Hi Chris, > I have a VPS I'd like to deploy it on running Debian Etch, which already > has Apache2 installed and serving other static pages. If you want to keep your Apache2, I'd recommend using ModProxy and Mongrel. For scaling purposes, it's normal to use several Mongrel instances, but to make that work, you need ModProxyBalancer, which comes with Apache 2.2. A common way to install Rails and Mongrel is via RubyGems, but I'd have thought the version of RubyGems available on Etch might be a bit old. Perhaps there's a decent backport. Let me know if you need more detail or explanation. Best, S. -- Stephen Nelson-Smith Technical Director Atalanta Systems Ltd www.atalanta-systems.com -- 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] [Job] Registry Manager at Taunton's College
The post of Registry Manager at Taunton's College is currently being advertised. The post also covers management of the IT strategy and technical infrastructure, which includes SUSE and Ubuntu Linux systems. For more details please see the website: http://www.tauntons.ac.uk/contentThreeColumn.aspx?contentid=23 Application closing dates is 1st September 2009. Thanks, Tony -- 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] Introductions
Tim,
Welcome to the Lug.
An Emacs users eh?
Working on Smoothwall?
I expect that you might get asked to speak to the Lug on it at some
point in the future.
If they'd release an eeeBox sized system with TWO Nics's I would buy one
in a shot and probably run Smoothwall on it.
Glad to have you around.
Stephen D
{Fedora User}
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Re: [Hampshire] Introductions
Hello! > I'm moving to Southampton on Wednesday, so I think you're my new local > LUG? :) Hoorah! > My free software efforts go mostly towards Debian Hoorah! > I tend to use emacs. Hoorah! > I'm about to start as a perl developer And you were doing so well. > I see there's a meeting at IBM Hursley next month - it's been a while > since I last visited there, so I hope I can make it. We might try to make that one too :)> > See you, Welcome! S. -- Stephen Nelson-Smith Technical Director Atalanta Systems Ltd www.atalanta-systems.com -- 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] [Job] Registry Manager at Taunton's College
Tony Whitmore wrote: > The post of Registry Manager at Taunton's College is currently being > advertised. The post also covers management of the IT strategy and > technical infrastructure, which includes SUSE and Ubuntu Linux systems. For > more details please see the website: > > http://www.tauntons.ac.uk/contentThreeColumn.aspx?contentid=23 > > Application closing dates is 1st September 2009. Congrats on your job move/promotion! Jacqui -- 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] Firewall machines, was: Introductions
2009/8/18 Stephen Davies : > If they'd release an eeeBox sized system with TWO Nics's I would buy one > in a shot and probably run Smoothwall on it. > I have a viglen PC which I wanted to use as a smoothwall / ipcop gateway machine but with only one ethernet port that's a bit tricky. I tried a really cheapo ethernet usb device but it could only sustain around 6Mb/s. This wouldn't be a problem if I was on my old ADSL line which maxed at about 2Mb/s, however with 20Mb/s cable this became a bottleneck :) I contacted the author of the driver who said it wasn't a driver limitation but that the chip used in the device was not capable of higher throughput. One of the guys in the LUGRadio community mentioned the Apple USB to Ethernet device and how it worked well under Linux. So I found a vendor selling them cheap (they're not actually that expensive at full price) and he's right, it just works. I did a couple of speed tests and it managed 78.3 Mb/s which should see me through until Virgin Media finally move to 100Mb/s cable :) According to dmesg it's... [55520.035401] eth1: register 'asix' at usb-:00:1d.7-7, ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet, 00:1f:f4:fd:7c:2b http://bit.ly/cUW0T - amazon link to device. Amusingly on the packaging it says "Compatible only with MacBook Air computers". I beg to differ. 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 --
Re: [Hampshire] Firewall machines, was: Introductions
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:56:23PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/8/18 Stephen Davies : > > If they'd release an eeeBox sized system with TWO Nics's I would buy one > > in a shot and probably run Smoothwall on it. > > > > I have a viglen PC which I wanted to use as a smoothwall / ipcop > gateway machine but with only one ethernet port that's a bit tricky. For a firewall here, I use one of these: http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12372 It's a Lex NEO, with four 10/100 ethernet ports and two PCMCIA slots (although I don't use the latter). It runs Debian, with a compact flash card for the filesystem. I use my own hand-rolled firewall scripts, but I'm sure it would handle any other distribution. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Some days, it's just not worth gnawing through the straps. --- 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 --
