Re: [Hampshire] Private RHCA tuition required
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:04:24 +0100 "Damian Brasher" wrote: > Hi > > I am studying for an RHCA module, RH442, and due to take the exam on > Friday 18th September. > > Whilst I have self taught 80% of my IT knowledge I believe some > private tuition would be of great benefit right now due various > commitments that have built up unexpectedly recently. The best training you can get for this course would be from these guys: http://www.europe.redhat.com/training/ I suppose you might be able to find someone to tutor you privately, but unless they've recently sat the course and the exam, you're probably going to be wasting your money :( Cheers, Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] OpenVPN + TrueCrypt
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:12:15 +0100 Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > > * udev (see /etc/udev/rules.d/*) to create your own device node > > (e.g. /dev/vpn-keys), identifying the device by device ID, UUID > > or filesystem label. > > This sounds like the way to do it. Thanks for the hint. While that would solve the problem you've described, the whole solution still smells of "doing it wrong". There are specialist USB devices out there that are designed to hold secure certificates. You should really be using one of those*. Cheers, /j * although to be fair, I have no idea if OpenVPN would support these devices. I certainly hope it would, though... -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] Centos 5 / yum not expanding $releasever
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:15:04 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone ever had yum on Centos (5) stop expanding the $releasever > variable in the repo config? > > I am being asked to fix one which has just started doing this, > supposedly without anyone having done anything to make it so (no, I > don't believe that). It's actually started requesting URLs with > "%24releasever" in them now, instead of "5". I think that's because yum can't work out what $releasever is. Has someone removed the redhat-release package or something? Also make sure there's no reference to distroverpkg= in /etc/yum.conf (or if it is that it's correct - (redhat|centos)-release) Cheers, Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] Technical Customer Services Manager in Lond on
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:31:23 + James Tobin wrote: > In addition, I would be in a position > to offer any person that commences employment with this customer via > my representation a one-off payment of £500. Ha, getting desperate are we, JAMES? > Please e-mail me using jamesto...@hotmail.com to learn more. Or, ja...@camalyn.org should work just as well. Cheers, Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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 --
[Hampshire] Camalyn WAS: [OT] Nazis: was Re: JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:52:26 +0100 "Martin A. Brooks" wrote: > I don't presume to indicate what this list's admins should do but I > thought being made aware of how he deals with other lists might be of > relevance. Possibly worth posting your info to the LUGmaster list as well - I believe that JAMES inhabits many other LUG lists as well. Best way to get the info out to the people that should know, and let each LUG make up their own mind. Also, if you have a list of his email addresses, that might be a good thing to post as well (to the closed LUGmaster list, not in public) :) Cheers, /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:26:43 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Could someone enlighten me - who has called JonF (Jon Faulty?) what? > Sean was surely referring to Rik and it is jt's contributions that > have been queried, is it not? (I'm sure that someone will tell me > where I am wrong in this!) Hello - that'd be me :) Jacqui - thanks for your comments, unfortunately they seemed to come at the wrong time... I'm sitting on a train to London and I'm not sure I'll be able to get my head out of the door! ;) Lisi - See Rik's previous posting to me, asking me in no uncertain terms to "fornicate off" and "expire". Cheers, Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:54:12 +0100 Sean Gibbins wrote: > However, once people see the list as a resource to get to a target > audience I can also see it being abused. Apparently the person posting > this job has stepped on some toes in that regard and so what is needed > is a sensible dialogue to define what is allowable and what is not. Please see the GLLUG archives. It's unlikely that "JAMES" will enter into sensible dialogue, and if/when banned from the list will proceed to attempt to avoid the ban by using different email addresses. Although I do agree with your point, in principal. Just not in this instance ;) > By the way, Nazis are really bad people and I don't think Philip or > Alan could qualify as even tiny Nazis even after a lifetime of > trying. As far as I know they're both good folks who have contributed > a lot to the list and beyond over the years. +1 Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:20:09 +0100 Rik wrote: > Which brings me back to the point of little list Nazi's. Yawn - this > is all very very boring and a very poor substitute for actual > relevant list content. Godwin's Law. You fail. Thanks for playing, try harder next time. Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] Checking command existence, host OS independent way..?
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:27:28 +0100 Richard Danter wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have been using a trivial test to discover if a command is available > on a given host for some time as follows: > > [ -n "`which _command_`" ] && _do_something_with_command_ > > This works perfectly on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD but not on Solaris. > > Sun decided it would be useful if "which" returned all the places it > looked (i.e. your path) if it could not find what you were looking > for. Since the result is now not an empty string the test fails to > identify that the command was not found. I don't have a slowaris box to check, but does which return a proper status code on exit that you can check? if which ls > /dev/null 2>&1; then do stuff else yum install ls done Cheers, /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] iplayer and BBC licence fees (again)
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:04:35 - (GMT) "Vic" wrote: > I used to live in a flat with my other half. The TV licence was in her > name. I bought a STB, and filled in the appropriate documentation - > cue several threatening letters and phone calls. Even though they > knew we were in a flat, they wouldn't accept that the flat hadn't > been sub-divided into sub-flats, and thus need a licence each :-( A, er, friend of mine just gives the purchasing store details when buying TV equipment as gifts for friends/etc. as they don't understand the prospect of purchasing TV receiving equipment and not using it yourself... Cheers, /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] iplayer and BBC licence fees (again)
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:31:39 + Jacqui Caren wrote: > I am one of the hold-outs. Our TV died over a year ago and we decided > not to renew the licence. TV licencing send automated nastygrams > threating imminent court action but some nice web sites break these > letters down and explain your rights. We had the "Investigation > officer" around with his 'almost police' uniform :-) but I think two > snarling GSDs behind a child gate put paid to any the idea of forcing > entry. Same here - I don't have a TV since I moved house about 18 months ago. I have no intention of getting a TV, either. I regularly get threatening letters from the TV Licensing people, which get immediately binned :) I'm yet to have a visit from the "enforcement division" - which is a shame because I know exactly what I'm going to say to them if they ever turn up ;) > IMHO you should *NOT* stump up a fee just because some private company > threatens you for no good reason.Hell 139.50 will buy a nice new > linux PC! No, I agree - not something I'd do :) However, it would mean that the OP wouldn't need to worry about what he was watching on iPlayer. I also suspect that depending on how you phrase "I watch iPlayer" to an enforcement officer could open you up to prosecution. Some people would consider £139.50 cheap for a quiet life (but not me) ;) Cheers, /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] iplayer and BBC licence fees (again)
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:39:09 + Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello folks > > I know this was discussed last year, but a non-TV-owning client has > just asked me whether he needs a BBC licence to use iPlayer, and I > was surprised to find this page at > http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/television/iplayer.shtml which > implies that he does. It says "The TV programmes are free for UK > licence fee payers, at high quality and with no advertising." You need a TV License to watch TV programmes as they're being broadcast over the air - this means that you DON'T need one to watch iPlayer, but you DO need one to watch the "Live Streaming" bit of iPlayer (because it's simulcast). Same with any other method of simulcasting. IANAL/etc. and the TV License fee people don't tend to listen to reason (or the law, or their own guidelines, etc.) so if he's at all worried, I'd just stump up the fee. Cheers, Jon (The views in this email are my own, and do not constitute legal advice. My employer had nothing to do with the content of this email, and their views may differ from those expressed in this mail. Although, in reality they probably don't have any views on this particular subject - just don't complain to them if you don't agree with me, OK? :) -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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 --
[Hampshire] REMINDER: Surrey LUG Pub Meeting - Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th March)
Folks, A gentle reminder as I know some people tend to forget these things :) Pub meet, tomorrow night - Kings Head, Guildford: * http://www.thekingsheadpub.co.uk/ * http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1429038200 * http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.234186&mlon=-0.573793&zoom=17 Scheduled start time is 7:30pm - hope to see you all there! Cheers, Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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 --
[Hampshire] Fw: [Surrey] Return of the Surrey LUG Pub Meets
FYI folks, as I know a few Hants people are close to Guildford. Cheers, Jon Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:11:00 + From: Jon Fautley To: sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Surrey] Return of the Surrey LUG Pub Meets Afternoon all, The sun shining, the cool breeze blowing through my hair, the incessant outrage of Robert on the IRC channel... I don't know what it is, but I feel it's that time of the year when we should revive the pub meets :) For those of you that don't know, or don't remember the pub meets, they're an informal gathering of like minded folk that sit around, drink beer (or pretty much anything else the pub serves) and talk about Linux and whatever else comes up in conversation. There's a page on the wiki (http://surrey.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PubMeets) - that's about as formal as it gets :) I propose: Where: Kings Head, Guildford When : Wednesday 4th March 2009, 19:30 onwards So... who's with me? :) Cheers, Jon -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP ___ Surrey mailing list sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/surrey http://www.surrey.lug.org.uk signature.asc Description: PGP 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] Centos Kernel question
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:32:31 + Sean Gibbins wrote: > Jim Kissel wrote: > > Any offers on what the differences between el5 and el5PAE Centos > > kernels? [snip] > Looks like support for > 4GB memory: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension Correct. Not all processors have PAE support (and thus won't boot the PAE kernels), hence the two different versions. Cheers, /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: jfaut...@redhat.com Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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] Ebuyer Netbook Bargain
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:54 + Sean Gibbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I quite fancied one of these when I first saw them a few months back: > > http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145008 > > and eBuyer have just dropped the price dramatically - shame I can't > afford one - was £351, is now £194! > > There is a grumble about the 1.2 GHz VIA processor in the review, but > from Windows user who wants to run Vista and play games on it for > crying out loud! Aside from that it has got a decent 1280 x 768 WXGA > screen resolution, 120 GB hard drive, 1GB memory. Not sure which > flavour of Linux... According to that link.. SLED 10. ... and there was me just about to order one ;) Cheers, /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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 --
[Hampshire] Fw: [Surrey] Meeting at Red Hat Farnborough, November 8th
FYI, with my comments below: Just to drum home the point - you WILL NEED TO ENSURE YOU (or a member of your party) HAS A MOBILE PHONE ON THEIR PERSON! (if you're arriving after 11:30ish) While there is what appears to be a cross between a mobile phone and a doorbell outside the door, this doesn't work (never has since we moved in.. bah). We'll aim to have someone "on the door" between about 10:50 and 11:30, but outside of these hours you'll be trapped outside unless you have some sort of connection to the PSTN. Sorry, but we can't prop the doors open for security reasons :( Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:03:25 + From: Stuart Sears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Linux/Unix community List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jon Fautley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Surrey] Meeting at Red Hat Farnborough, November 8th Hi all, Just some (relatively) final info for the meeting this Saturday. 1. You'll need a pass to get into the Red Hat Offices. Currently we have about 40 of these. Should we have a massive turnout we'll need to get you to share them. Unfortunately the passes will not open the main entrance door on the ground floor, so one of us will need to be down there at the start of the meeting. I'll definitely be around before about 11! Hopefully so will Jon! Sitting in a drafty lobby for 7 hours wasn't quite what we had in mind, so there'll be a sign up with a telephone number (or two) to call if you can't get in and nobody's downstairs... one of us will come down and open up for you. No doorbells, unfortunately! 2. This will also happen if people go for a liquid (or other type of) lunch. :) 3. The offices are on the third floor - there are lifts if you need them or stairs if you are feeling energetic! turn right out of the lift or left from the stairs... Do we have any specific talks planned? As the wiki says, there are projectors and a lot of computers in our three training rooms should you need such things. Feel free to reinstall most of them (except the ones at the front - we need these left mostly alone for Monday! Although I know you will, should you unplug stuff can you please put it back when you're done... :) See you all(?) on Saturday! Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. ___ Surrey mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/surrey http://www.surrey.lug.org.uk -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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 --
[Hampshire] Broken English [WAS: Re: Remote voting at general meetings]
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:37:41 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This email originates from Steria*. It, and any attachments, may > contain confidential information and may be subject to copyright or > other intellectual property rights. It is only for the use of the > addressee(s). You may not copy, forward, disclose, save or otherwise > use it in any way if you are not the addressee(s) or responsible for > delivery. If you receive this email by mistake, please advise the > sender and cancel it immediately. Steria may monitor the content of > emails within its network to ensure compliance with its policies and > procedures. Any email is susceptible to alteration and its integrity > cannot be assured. Steria shall not be liable if the message is > altered, modified, falsified, or edited. How do you "cancel" an email? /j -- Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCDS, RHCX, RHCA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultantcell : +44 7841 558683 Global Professional Services Red Hat UK, 200 Fowler Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JP signature.asc Description: PGP 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 --
