Re: [Hampshire] Is root mounted twice

[Mike Burrows via Hampshire]

On 4/4/20 4:17 PM, Gareth Evans via Hampshire wrote:

Some potential things to check here too

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71520


Thanks John & Gareth.

Sorry, I should have said that I had tried this advice in this post and 
actually freed up some space. However, when I reboot the settings in 
/etc/network/interfaces get overwritten. I have posted in the Pi forums 
too. Waiting on a reply.


Back to the question though. Does this indicate that root is mounted 
twice and/or is root using twice the disk space it needs?


Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs  3.5G  3.1G  192M  95% /
/dev/root   3.5G  3.1G  192M  95% /

TIA

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[Hampshire] Is root mounted twice

[Mike Burrows via Hampshire]

Hello Folks.

Its been many years since I have posted to this list. (i wonder if Hugo 
is still around). I do however still subscribe and follow the threads 
with interest from far off Alabama. Keep up the good work and stay safe.


I have a quick question. My rpi is giving me root is full errors and 
wont accept configuration edits. This is the output from df:


pi@raspi ~ $ df -h
Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs  3.5G  3.1G  194M  95% /
/dev/root   3.5G  3.1G  194M  95% /
devtmpfs    460M  4.0K  460M   1% /dev
tmpfs    93M  284K   93M   1% /run
tmpfs   5.0M 0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs   186M 0  186M   0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1   56M   20M   37M  35% /boot
tmpfs   186M 0  186M   0% /tmp

its an 8 gig card.

Is this showing root mounted twice or perhaps...could somebody help me 
understand the first two lines please?



TIA

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Jessie upgrade question.

[Mike Burrows]

On 12/18/15 3:30 PM, Lisi wrote:

On Friday 18 December 2015 20:13:44 Mike Burrows wrote:

Hello Folks.

I have just down what I think was a successful upgrade to jessie but
lsb_release -a is still reporting a squeeze system. What might I be
missing please?

Did you go straight from Squeeze to Jessie?

Lisi


Hi Lisi.

No ma'am. Followed the release notes to go from squeeze to wheezy, then 
wheezy to jessie


That said. I am not sure that even the first upgrade happened because...

In both cases, the apt-get upgrade finishes with a bunch of high to low 
warnings about packages. I think these are the change logs. Are they and 
does this mean the upgrade hasn't worked? This is the first one on the list:


mysql-5.5 (5.5.33+dfsg-0+wheezy1) wheezy-security; urgency=high

  mysql-server-5.5 ships with the upstream mysql_install_db script which
  creates a database "test" and sets up permissions that allow anonymous
  access, without a password, from localhost to the "test" database and
  any databases starting with "test_" that users might have created
  after installing mysql-server.


This is the code before the change logs are read:

290 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 830 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/154 MB of archives.
After this operation, 13.5 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y


I tried to start over and this is my current sources.list

#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main


Thanks for the help so far.

Mike

PS If I wasn't in Alabama, I would bring the box tomorrow :)





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[Hampshire] Jessie upgrade question.

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

I have just down what I think was a successful upgrade to jessie but 
lsb_release -a is still reporting a squeeze system. What might I be 
missing please?


TIA
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Re: [Hampshire] raspberry pi ssh port change.

[Mike Burrows]

On 9/9/15 11:02 AM, Steve Miller wrote:

> port line in ssh_config

That's the config file for ssh, the client. If you want to change the 
port that the server is running on you need to make the change in 
sshd_config.


Cheers, Steve
--- Original Message 

I knew that, not!

Thanks Steve :)


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[Hampshire] raspberry pi ssh port change.

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.

I have uncommeted and changed the port line in ssh_config to port =, 
ie changed from 22. Or so i thought. However, when i try and remote in using


ssh -p  pi@ the connection is refused but when i leave 
out the -p  it works.


what am i missing please?

btw, if any of the Hants LUG where/are involved with raspberry pi's, 
thanks for all you do.


kind regards
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[Hampshire] Cant ping.

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

Not sure how i did it but instead of upgrading a Debian package i 
managed to remove virtually every package that was installed and now am 
back to shell and x wont start. Anyhow before I tackle that, I need 
networking and though i have statically configured eth0 all i can ping 
is loopback.


Other clients on the segment are networking fine. I cannot even ping one 
of those that is on the same switch under the desk.


Network was fine before the "crash".

Any idea whats up please?

TIA
Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] W7 wired client cant map to XP Pro share, wireless clients can

[Mike Burrows]

I am managing a network which is setup with several wireless W7
clients connecting via a Netgear R6300 to an XP Pro hosted share
as well as one W7 wired client.

The wireless clients can "see" the XP Pro machine in their network
window and can map to a shared folder and work just fine. The
wired client however, cannot. It can however ping the XP Pro
machine using its IP address and name.

Any clues please?


Does this help:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/enable-disable-network-discovery#1TC=windows-7


Rgds

Peter.



Thx Peter. :) Network discovery is on.

Judging by google-land this isn't a new or an infrequent problem. None 
of the fixes out there that I have found seem to help. Boy I wish all 
the servers out there were Linux ones.


Could there be a difference in the router between the way it handles 
requests of wired and wireless clients?
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[Hampshire] [OT] W7 wired client cant map to XP Pro share, wireless clients can

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

I am managing a network which is setup with several wireless W7 clients 
connecting via a Netgear R6300 to an XP Pro hosted share as well as one 
W7 wired client.


The wireless clients can "see" the XP Pro machine in their network 
window and can map to a shared folder and work just fine. The wired 
client however, cannot. It can however ping the XP Pro machine using its 
IP address and name.


Any clues please?

TIA
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Re: [Hampshire] Laptop and TV

[Mike Burrows]

On 10/26/13, 7:07 PM, Leo wrote:


Perhaps I should also have added this problem occurs before X starts. 
I.e. the first time I connected the TV I could see the boot process 
messages on it. However, now even those don't show up.



Certainly not wishing to insult your intelligence but have you tried 
plugging something else in the TV, verifying the cable is still good 
etc. etc. In my experience working as a techie at my church, if it 
worked before and you didn't change anything and the house wasn't struck 
by lightening (I live in Alabama, happens a lot :) ) then its normally a 
simple explanation.


Kind regards
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Re: [Hampshire] flashplayer install

[Mike Burrows]

I just did (as root):

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree



That did it :)






Thanks for all the help

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Re: [Hampshire] flashplayer install

[Mike Burrows]

Some stuff here might be useful: https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer 
Possibly see if you can force a reinstall with the 
update-flashplugin-nonfree utility? Maybe without the browser 
running Chris
Thanks Chris. Could you please post the command line code for aptitude 
please? I couldn't find a package that related to that mentioned on the 
debian page, when i tried this a few days ago.


I have contrib non-free in my sources.list

Kind regards
Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] flashplayer install

[Mike Burrows]

On 10/26/2013 10:18 AM, Chris Liddell wrote:

Possibly pointing out the obvious, but did you restart the browser after
flash installed? I always seem to forget that myself!

Chris


:) Yep ( actually rebooted the box :$ )

Mike

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[Hampshire] flashplayer install

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

Putting together a Squeeze box and trying to configure iplayer. I have 
it "apparently" streaming in that embedded content is loading but the 
'loading...' message isnt clearing and no sound is coming out.


The flash-player download is producing a file association problem with 
regards to Apt. I have found many refs in google land and tried the 
"fixes" with no luck. Could somebody please post a few pointers on how 
to get apt plugin to work with iceweasel/firefox?


TIA
Mike


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[Hampshire] [OT] Timeshifted streaming video playback

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

Does anybody know of a solution to recording say a webinar and then 
playing it back time-delayed while the broadcast is still running? Much 
like we do with regular TV using our DVR's.


TIA
Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] HP Ubuntu All-in-one

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 03/06/2013 01:16 PM, Samuel Penn wrote:
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 12:58:33 +, James Courtier-Dutton 
 wrote:

On 6 March 2013 12:56, Samuel Penn  wrote:

Shame it's rubbish.

20″ HD+ widescreen WLED (1600 x 900)

Laptops are bad enough, but why did anything think that such a low
resolution on a desktop was a good idea?


I agree. It seems strange that the resolution on phones is getting so
good, and the resolution on laptops and desktops is getting worse?
With your 10Mega Pixel cameras, surely you need laptop and desktop
screens being much better than they see to be right now.


Just this second got around to read Linus' comments about the new Google
Chromebook. 13" screen, with a resolution of 2560 x 1700.

That's a decent resolution (and it's even 4:3, for those who don't like
widescreen). Since Linus wants to get one, probably won't be long before
full Linux is running on it.

You can already do that, with some tinkering - you have to put in 
developer mode

first, to be able to boot something other than signed  Chrome OS.

I found an account somewhere by someone who put Mint on it. It needs drivers
for the trackpad and touchscreen, which are available but aren't in the 
distros yet.




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Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 02/13/2013 04:31 PM, Ally Biggs wrote:

Do you guys ever think there will be a day that Linux will be as popular as 
Windows in the desktop market.

Not going to happen


Personally I can't see this happening anytime soon. This isn't a personal 
attack on Linux just want to get some thoughts and inspiration.

I use both Windows and Linux have a strong interest in both but currently am 
having a tug of war with my thought patterns career wise. The majority of my 
thoughts are saying focus on learning Linux starting with Linux+ with the 
eventual aim of going for the RHCSE. The other half is saying go down the 
Microsoft route taking a client exam and going for the server 2012 admin certs.
There are other Linux certifications. LPI is the other one that comes to 
mind, but RH seems to be the most recognised.


Has anyone been in a similar situation?
I would say that I enjoy Linux more the whole Open source ethos, I actually 
feel like I am learning when using the cli as opposed to clicking my way 
through the GUI in Windows.

Making the transition from Windows to Linux was challenging initially I 
probably will continue to learn Linux (Redhat, Debian) for server related tasks 
and use Win 7 for client tasks

The thing which bothers me though about Linux ok it's free and if you have the 
skills you can do great things but why isn't it being adopted more for everyday 
use. Also why don't the developers standardise a distribution for the home user 
i.e same package manager and packages.
1. Why does everybody have the "must use Windows" urge? Default choice, 
what they use at work, what their friends / family use. It feels like a 
safe choice. Anything else is for geeks.
 Also alien mind control. Have you seen Men in Black? Steve 
Balmer, huh? Not much of a disguise etc. 
2. Why don't developers standardise? It's not the nature of free 
software. Nobody in charge. Everybody has their own ideas of how to do 
stuff. I wouldn't have it any other way.


The problem with desktop Linux I think is when the shit hits the fan and 
something needs to be configured or a driver needs to be added your average 
user isn't going to want to sit typing commands in a terminal or spending hours 
finding the solution into a community.

The other problem I found is the community alot of people expect you to be some 
kind of command line genius who is capable of reciting the whole encyclopaedia 
of man pages. So when you ask for help or guidance you often get a dismissive 
response.

Documentation is horrendous aswell especially if you are making the transition 
from Windows. Pick up a starting to learn Linux book and a couple of pages in 
you end up with the worlds worst headache.

So how did you guys learn Linux?
Has anyone else made the transition from Windows? Or what are the key areas to 
focus on to develop a good foundation. Need some inspiration if I go down the 
Linux route would I be missing out on much? Please help me resolve the tug of 
war it is driving me mad :)
Most people learned by using it, bit by bit. Try different distros. Try 
different desktop environments


You can't learn everything at once - figure out how to do things that 
interest you, so software related to music, graphics, games, or whatever.


Use the command line, you'll get used to it. I'm constantly frustrated 
when GUI tools don't work the way I want them to. Shell scripts are 
amazingly useful for odd admin jobs.


Sent from my iPhone



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Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners *OT*

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 11/12/2012 08:28 PM, Tony Wood wrote:

On 10/11/12 13:20, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote:

On Friday 09 November 2012 20:52:54 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:

our TV is still ye olde CRT.

I though I was the last person in the country to go digital

Although I bought a digital TV several months ago, I still have a 28" 
widescreen

CRT TV waiting for me to take it to the council dump - it weighs 48kg

Mike Dwerryhouse



Same here.
I split our 28" CRT TV into parts to take it to the council recycling 
depot.

Couldn't lift the whole thing into the boot.


Now there's an idea

I'll try that

MikeD

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Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On Friday 09 November 2012 20:52:54 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:

our TV is still ye olde CRT.

I though I was the last person in the country to go digital

Although I bought a digital TV several months ago, I still have a 28" widescreen
CRT TV waiting for me to take it to the council dump - it weighs 48kg

Mike Dwerryhouse


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Re: [Hampshire] upnp

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 10/24/2012 06:35 PM, Anton Piatek wrote:


Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, 
sadly my tv isn't networked.


Anton


I tried DLNA with my TV once. I installed a package called serviio,
to make the PC into a media server. I don't remember the setup
details, but I don't think it was difficult.

It all worked fairly smoothly. The only drawback was that the GUI
on the TV was fairly primitive. I now use a media PC connected
directly to the TV via HDMI.

MikeD

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[Hampshire] vlc audio and video streaming.

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

I have a satisfactory video stream running on a somewhat under powered 
squeeze box, with v4l taking its input from the installed Hauppauge 
card. However, I cannot get the audio to stream. Does anybody know where 
VLC gets its audio from when streaming video please? In other words, is 
v4l looking to the TV card for audio or do i need to configure vlc to 
take audio from the sound card?


TIA
Mike




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Re: [Hampshire] Multiple gateways, multiple interfaces...

[Mike Burrows]

On 10/19/12 9:48 AM, Vic wrote:

Hi All.

I've got a network problem I don't know how to solve. Hopefully, one of
the gurus here knows the answer...

I've got two network interfaces (one is actually virtual, but I don't
think that matters). I want to have two IP addresses (one on each i/f),
and have each interface be associated with itsown gateway.

In other words, I want traffic originating from my address 1 to go via
gateway 1, and traffic from my address 2 to go via gateway 2.

I'm not clear on how to do this; source-based routing seems to be the
idea, but I've not managed to make it work yet.

Has anyone done this?

Thanks!

Yes, iirc I used Guide Dog, ( 
http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidedog/)  coz I am not good at 
command line stuff.


hth

Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] Spinning rust

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

Other than Novatech any other local firms to look at to buy disks from?




depends on where you live and what you call local.
I generally go to a small place in Waterlooville called
1st'n 2nd in the Brambles Business Park.  I go there
because I can walk there at lunchtime and talk to the guy.

There is also Refresh Computers at Purbrook.
I haven't bought anything there recently but reports
from others have been OK.

FWIW I haven't had any problems with HDDs for a few years now.
(A risky thing to say?)

MikeD


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Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 06/25/2012 03:31 PM, Gordon Scott wrote:

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:11 +0100, john lewis wrote:

My wife was recently given a Toshiba Keyboard EZ-200 that has no
built-in recording facility. Only outputs are headphone and midi.

Is it possible to link this keyboard to a PC so she could record any
mind-blowing compositions she might come up with?

There are a number of MIDI->USB devices available and Linux supports
generic USB-MIDI, so in principle it should work OK. I _suspect_ that
most will work 'out of the box', but as usual it's sensible to try and
prove that.

The cheapest two from DV247.com both claim 'class compliant' or 'no
drivers needed for Windows/OSX'
http://www.dv247.com/computer-hardware/icon-midiport-usb-midi-interface--79115
http://www.dv247.com/cables/esi-midimate-ii-cable-style-usb-2-0-midi-interface--65367

If you have a sound card with a 5-pin DIN, it may support MIDI that way,
too.

There are lots of MIDI players, though it isn't always so easy to get
them working properly, owing I think to some flux between Jack and Alsa.

Of course the sounds vary as you're recording the commands, not the
audio.

BTW, I use "PianoTeq Play",which is a good piano modeller and runs on
Linux. Needs a reasonably quick CPU to avoid drop-outs. Commercial, but
low cost and very convincing.
http://www.pianoteq.com/

G.


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I have a couple of M-Audio midi keyboards and a Roland digital piano,
All work out of the box with Linux, via USB-midi. The research I did
when buying these suggested that most midi keyboards are class
compliant and work with Linux. I haven't tried midi via a dedicated
midi lead, but I gather that usually works too.

I also use Pianoteq - I have the standard version - Pianoteq Play
wasn't out when I bought it. Pianoteq has a record button, you
don't need any extra software to record from it.

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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Microphones for a PPC Mac Mini

[Mike Burrows]

On 6/19/12 5:42 AM, Full Circle Podcast wrote:
Behringer C-1 USB cartoid condenser mic: 
http://www.dv247.com/microphones/behringer-c-1-condenser-microphone--28184


Very affordable, good sound. All our shows recorded on it. Picks up a 
bit more background hiss than I'd like, but I'm picky. Nice Radio 4 
ambiance at £33.99.


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RC

Robin Catling
Full Circle Podcast




I guess we should make the point that this mic will need phantom power?

R
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Re: [Hampshire] DVD Ripping

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 04/25/2012 06:36 PM, Jonathan Hudson wrote:

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:55:48 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:


I want a simple program to turn a DVD into a video file - purely for
personal use - need the space in the living room - I'm not doing anything
knowingly nefarious here.   For the moment, let's not concentrate on which
format and therefore which codec.   For what should be not far short of a
simple job - I'm coming up against all sorts of weirdness trying to do it
either free or with Linux or both.



Surely there must be a simple program out there to rip DVDs easily.   Any
ideas anyone?

Handbrake. Never fails me.

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I also use Handbrake. You need libdvdcss as well to rip commercial DVDs.
This is usually in a separate repository for whichever distro

Handbrake can produce mp4s or MKVs, with multiple audio tracks
(different languages for example) and subtitles.

Since you mentioned codecs, this would usually be H264 / x264 for
video and a choice of AAC or AC3 for audio. AAC is probably better.

MikeD

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Re: [Hampshire] crippled system - is there any hope.

[Mike Burrows]

Is there anything i can do to roll back to my earlier version please?

Restore from the backup you made before upgrading? [:-)]


Hi Keith I didn't backup the system because I was only using the box as 
a file server and I have the files duplicated elsewhere.


Correct me if I am wrong, I do not believe I have upgraded the kernel, 
simply various packages to "squeeze". Otherwise the udev wouldn't have 
issue the warning would it? Anyhow, I am confident enough to give your 
method a try.




What I would caution, though, is this: before following any advice, either
from me or anyone else, make sure you either a) understand what the advice
is telling you to do or b) are prepared to lose all your data, system
configuration, etc.
Thanks also for the advice. You make the same point as Mr. 
Courtier-Dutton though somewhat more tactfully. :)

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] crippled system - is there any hope.

[Mike Burrows]

[snip]


Make sure you understand what you are doing next time, and do not 
blindly follow instructions you find on Google.




Is there anything i can do to roll back to my earlier version
please? Done a spot of googling but cant really find a way to go
back to my previous udev.

TIA
Mike



[snip]

Hello James.

Thanks for the advice. Incidentally if you read my post closely, you 
will note that the googling was an attempt to seek a solution after 
completing the upgrade. To be clear,  the warning message during the 
upgrade of udev suggested possible not definite instability issues so I 
chose to not heed the package maintainers warning. oh well.


Kind regards
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[Hampshire] crippled system - is there any hope.

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.

Went ahead a did an upgrade on my lenny box ignoring the dire warning 
about udev and an incompatible kernel. Needless to say the system will 
now not boot past udevadm.


Is there anything i can do to roll back to my earlier version please? 
Done a spot of googling but cant really find a way to go back to my 
previous udev.


TIA
Mike




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Re: [Hampshire] Adobe Flash

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 02/25/2012 07:45 PM, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:

On Wednesday 22 Feb 2012, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:

I figure I'll be the first to mention it:
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chrome-only-future-for-Flash-on-Linu
x-1440104.html

What is your take on this development? will anyone be converting to
Chrome from another browser because of this? it is a good/bad thing?

My annoyance here is the same as my annoyance with Silverlight - video
sites (netflix et al) are finding more and more ways to prevent access
from our favourite OS because of the Movie/TV studio requirement for
DRM on all streams. With flash leaving the playing field, we're losing
the last remaining compatible solution that the studios may have
agreed to a video site using.

I'm not worried at the moment.

1) Adobe said they will support Flash for 5 years, which I don't believe but
two years is probably more reaslistic and better than nothing.

2) Flash is on it's way out, so by the time they drop support for Flash off
Mozilla it won't matter.

3) There is plenty of time for Mozilla to pick up support for the new Google
style plug-in if it's usful for them to do.

It's one reason to avoind proprietary stuff where you have no control if they
suddenly decide (for what ever reason) to pull the plug.


The most common speculation around  is that Flash will be replaced by
HTML 5.  The lack of Flash on iOS seems to have given this a push. There
is therefore an argument going on about DRM on HTML 5 embedded
video. Google, Microsoft and Netflix have put forward a proposal for
this which some bloke from W3C hates. I don't have a link for this
to hand at present.

HTML5 video already works on Linux in Firefox and Chrome - I
occasionally get this from YouTube - I notice because FlashBlock doesn't
kick in, and it just plays the video. What HTML 5 DRM will do is probably:
annoy lots of people
fail to protect their content
fail to work in all browsers
produce several Firefox plug-ins to rip it

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Re: [Hampshire] VDSL equipment

[Mike Austin]

>>Is there a set top box out there that basically does the job of a TiVO or
BT
homehub/infinitiy/whateveritscalled but is not tied to a particular ISP?<<

Rob,

If you are just after freeview TV, the ability to record, and stream content
such as iPlayer, there are several DVRs out there that will do the job with
a BT Infinity connection.  If they are DLNA certified they can also be used
to stream content from PCs and NAS drives.  I am using TVmobili to watch
content from my lady's PC in Egham.  She has the BT Infinity installation.
That required me to set up port forwarding in her homehub.

As far as I can determine by looking through all the config settings of the
homehub, you can substitute your own router attached to the BT modem.

Two of the best DVRs are made by Humax and Sony.  If you are using an older
TV, not all DVRs have SCART.

I have a TIVO box connected to my Virgin Cable installation.  It is very
good, but I have yet to crack controlling it using my slingbox.  I spent
nine years living in Cyprus, so obtaining UK TV was a challenge - I
installed a 4.2 metre dish on our building but had the backup of using my UK
based slingbox when the signal faded.

I am off to the ski slopes shortly, and access my slingbox from Switzerland
as most hotels have limited UK TV.
I can access it from my Galaxy S11.

Hope this helps,

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] VDSL equipment

[Mike Austin]

I have experience of both the Virgin Media cable broadband and BT Infinity,
which my lady has at her home.  It is worth explaining the difference to
help understand their use.

In both cases the fibre optic cable is fed to a box in the street somewhere
near your home.  With Virgin, the broadband signal is fed to the house via a
coaxial cable with separate phone line.  In my case the coaxial cable also
supplies my television signal.

In the case of the BT Infinity connection, a two core copper cable is fed to
the house and carries your telephone and broadband data.

The standard installation involves replacing your primary telephone socket
at the first point of entry of the BT line into your home.  The new face
socket has a VDSL outlet to the modem, and a standard telephone outlet. BT
provided a Homehub router wired to the modem. Any telephone extensions are
fed from the new box and do not require a separate filter.  You are then
faced with a choice of using wireless or powerline plugs if your desktop is
elsewhere.  

Incidentally, some of the latest powerline plugs include wireless
capability.  Since I run three WAPs in my own home, on different channels
with different SSIDs, they could have been useful.

In reality, you can move the new telephone socket to a more convenient point
in your home if you have suitable wiring already installed, as most homes
should.  The installation engineer may baulk at this as they prefer not to
use your existing wiring.

If anyone wants me to explain the procedure, I will do a follow up.

Mike



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Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

[Mike Austin]

Perhaps this thread should become "What's In A Name?".  Words often change
their usage and, therefore, meaning.  50 years ago the word gay had a
different meaning than now.  Google used to be just the name of a search
engine, but now it is also used as a verb.

When I started computing PC stood for Personal Computer.  These days it is
largely used to describe a computer running Windows.

While the purist may seek to clearly define Linux, it has come to be
recognised as any operating system using the Linux Kernel.  There is one
exception that I will come to shortly.

Several members of my PC-answers group look upon me as a geek as I have
moved to a Linux OS.  This geek image is quite common among those who have
never used Linux.  Just today, one of the members of my PC group wrote
"Being somewhat risk averse stops me from spending all my time getting
buried into 'Linux' and alternative technology"

Interestingly, the person who wrote that is having an issue accessing his IP
security cameras from his Asus Transformer which, as we know, uses the Linux
Kernel!  So, Android users are not in the geek category.

Few, if any, of my PC group would join a LUG as they are perceived as geeky.
I created my Linux-answers group to act as a halfway house as they
experiment with the use of a Linux distro.  I recommend they use Mint as a
starter.

I will create guides with screenshots to post on our associated Google site
to assist them.  Hopefully, those of you who have joined will find the time
to add your knowledge to help others.

Happy New Year,

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers,

[Mike Austin]

I am staggered that the choice of the name of my group should cause so much
comment.  Perhaps I should ask the editors of Linux Format magazine to be
more specific about their content.

Perhaps I should also contact Amadeus, one of the major players in the
travel industry, to ask what they mean by the statement " Airline IT systems
and transactions business company Amadeus yesterday announced it will
completely migrate its commercial airline transaction processing systems
onto Linux by 2012, saying proprietary platforms were "very limiting" and
criticised the lack of open standards in the industry."

Since the name of the group is also the email address -
linux-answ...@googlegroups.com - I attempted to keep it as short as I could.

Fortunately the several members of this LUG who have already joined
understand my intent.

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[Hampshire] Linux Answers

[Mike Austin]

I have to apologise for not being very active in the group, but I have had a
very busy year after I recovered from a very nasty illness.  I intend to
attend some meetings next year, as I am not that far away in Port Solent.

You may recall my mentioning, in previous posts, that I run an online group
called PC-answers which is primarily for Windoze users.  I have been helping
several of the members kick the "Windows Addiction" and take the plunge into
the world of Linux.
 
As a result, I have created another group called Linux-answers.  The format
is somewhat different to our Lug as the membership is worldwide, members may
post in HTML to include screenshots to help newbies, and attachments such as
pdf files are permitted.  Members can also choose how to receive posts to
the group e.g. all mail, abridged mail, or weekly digests.

The principal objective is to help newbies, so the content will not be as
high-tech as on our group - initially anyway.

Should anyone be interested, you can apply to join at
http://groups.google.com/group/linux-answers

Season's greetings,

Mike




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Re: [Hampshire] Rusty on building a PC

[Mike Austin]

>> Out of interest while on the subject, can anyone recommend a good
keyboard vendor? <<

Bob,

The best keyboard/mouse I have ever used is the Logitech Wireless Desktop
MK710.

It comes with a 3 year battery and ON/OFF switches if leaving for long
periods.

Not cheap, but quality never is.

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 11/10/2011 06:41 PM, Rob Malpass wrote:


Hi all

My "mean machine" arrived today (Intel i7 2600, 8Gb DDR3) barebones 
and I need to build it.   The thing is, I'm seeing a huge bundle of 
unfamiliar connectors - can anyone help?


My main concern is keyboard and mouse - there's only one ps2 on the 
back of the mobo.   I can think of 2 solutions:


1) Buy a ps2 female to usb male and use my ps2 mouse with that.   [In 
fact it'll be connected to my kvm]   The only thing I'm worried about 
here is whether the mouse will be correctly detected.


2) As I'm chucking out the Mac mini I bought 5 years ago and basically 
never used, it so happens that I have an existing 2 ps2 female to 1 
usb male adapter.   Is this any better than 1) above.






Cheers

Rob


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On the easier subject of USB / PS2 connectors, my experience has been that
ps2 to USB adaptors work for meece and not for keyboards.  This is limited
to a few systems and a few keyboards, so it may not be universal. I am
currently using a 2 x ps2 to USB adaptor such as you describe but only
the mouse is connected through it.

I sometimes see a delay of several seconds in the mouse becoming
usable after KVM switchover, so the arrangement isn't ideal.

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Re: [Hampshire] KVM and Num lock problem

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 11/05/2011 12:26 PM, Edward Beckmann wrote:

Hi

I run Mint LXDE and fluxbox, and my KVM switches both need Scroll Lock 
down arrow, down arrow or Scroll Lock up arrow, up arrow to switch.


I guess the triggers are built into the switch, but though I'd mention it.

Good luck

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I've used a few KVMs in different jobs, and have one here at home.
It's always been double scroll-lock then up or down arrow to switch.

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Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 60, Issue 5

[Mike]

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> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:13:11 +0100
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> I'm on Vodafone and had a Google Nexus One (which I've kept to use with PAYG
> and as an audiobook player) but recently had the option of a free upgrade so
> went for the HTC Desire Z - the only thing that swung it for me was the
> pull-out keyboard which I use with the Android ConnectBot SSH client for
> remote SSH access to my home Linux systems. I also plan on installing VNC on
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> On 4 October 2011 11:04, Jan Henkins  wrote:
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>> Hello Paul, Ian and all,
>> 
>> On Mon, October 3, 2011 23:34, Ian Grody wrote:
>>> The ZTE Blade (Orange San Francisco) is a far better choice than the
>>> Wildfire
>>> S. Same specs, but has a 640x480 screen and better display overall. Even
>>> if you do get one locked to orange, there are free aps on Android Market
>>> that will work out your SIM unlock code easy peasy.
>> 
>> I have this phone, and I have to say that even though it is by no means
>> "perfect", it is certainly one of the most impressive phones I have had. I
>> had the pleasure of using an HTC Desire for a week, and it really sets the
>> bar. As far as I'm concerned, the Desire is the bare minimum one should
>> want in the medium to high-end smartphone. Anything equal to or better
>> than the Desire will make you smile! :-)
>> 
>> Back to the OSF (ZTE Blade). I have to say that in comparison to the
>> Wildfire S, it's not neccessarily "better". The HTC just oozes quality and
>> solidness, whereas the OSF is plasticky. The OSF's buttons is also not
>> it's best feature. The "Back" button doubles as the indicator, and the
>> little arrow graphic is so small that you won't notice the flashing red or
>> green LED, unless it's really dark.
>> 
>> You might think that I'm unloading a huge indictment against the OSF, but
>> really I'm not! :-) Even though the phone itself has these shortages,
>> there are major plusses that pulls it into a class of it's own:
>> 
>> * It has the biggest screen in it's price-class (?89-?99 brand new,
>> depending on where you buy it)
>> * It is one of the prime Android hacking platforms available today. You
>> have a broad choice of Android distros you can load on this phone
>> * Battery life, depending on your Android distro, is actually quite good
>> for a smartphone. I almost get 48 hours on a charge with light usage,
>> which goes down to 16-20 hours with heavy usage.
>> * Even though the CPU is rated at 600MHz, it is overclockable. My current
>> distro (Ginger Stir Fry [1]) overclocks to just below 900MHz on demand,
>> which makes the phone really nice to use. OK, it's not a 1.2GHz dual-core
>> monster, but for what I need it is perfectly acceptable. There is another
>> Android distro called Monfro CAE [2], which apparently is quite a bit
>> better on this front, but reportedly at the cost of some battery life.
>> 
>> 
>> Links:
>> 
>> [1] Ginger Stir Fry:
>> 
>> http://android.modaco.com/topic/342009-romgen2zte-gingerbread-ginger-stir-fry/
>> 
>> [2] Monfro CAE:
>> http://android.modaco.com/topic/346475-monfro-cae-zte-leak-234-v31/
>> 
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Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

yes.

Please post your configuration file here, plus the output of...
id ftp
ps -ef | grep [v]sftpd
ls -la /home/ftp

Without that information we are just guessing.

Anonymous users should be chrooted into the home directory of the 'ftp'
user.

for more information you can also set these parameters
dual_log_enable=YES
log_ftp_protocol=YES
and restart the service. Then show us your logs.

Regards,

Stuart


Hi Stuart. thanks for adding this advice. The anonymous user is already 
limited to /home/ftp as root. I am guessing the install does that by 
default. "id ftp" returns:


testermike@eddie:~$ sudo id ftp
uid=111(ftp) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup)
testermike@eddie:~$

however when i chowned the /home/ftp directory to nogroup the system 
reported nogroup as invalid. Any how i wont bore you with the logs 
because I am wondering why I am bothering with anonymous at all. The FTP 
server will be hanging off a church network and I am thinking it only 
makes sense to allow access to known users anyway.


would you all agree?

TIA
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Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

On 9/14/11 11:10 AM, Ian Grody wrote:

On Wednesday 14 September 2011 02:50:48 Mike Burrows wrote:

The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't
have to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just
make the folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod
g+w /home/ftp Either UID or GID writable will work, but if the folder is
owned by your user too, you may just want to make the folder that vsftp
writeable to group.


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Try another ftpd?

ProFTPd or NCFTPd

I honestly am shot for ideas


Hey Ian. You have helped immensely so far. What would help me is if you 
could explain the various components of the output of lsof and how they 
relate to the ftp users, ftp and nobody, that it is reporting.


Thanks much

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Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't 
have to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just 
make the folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod 
g+w /home/ftp Either UID or GID writable will work, but if the folder is 
owned by your user too, you may just want to make the folder that vsftp 
writeable to group.

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OK so I am still trying to achieve anonymous download. Here is some of 
the output from lsof -i


vsftpd 14795 root 3u IPv4 35342 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN)
vsftpd 14797 nobody 0u IPv4 35343 TCP 
eddie.steele.net:ftp->dynamic-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXXC.knology.net:X 
(ESTABLISHED)
vsftpd 14799 ftp 0u IPv4 35343 TCP 
eddie.steele.net:ftp->dynamic-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.knology.net:X 
(ESTABLISHED)


I change the onership of /home/ftp to both nobody and ftp changing the 
group permissions to g+w in both cases and although I can connect to the 
ftp anonymously, classicftp cannot download a file. It reports "cannot 
open file:filename". I even added a group ftp and changed the group of 
/home/ftp from root to ftp. In that case I could not connect to the 
server at all:(


any more thoughts?

TIA
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Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, 
doesn't have
to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just 
make the
folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod g+w 
/home/ftp


Either UID or GID writable will work, but if the folder is owned by 
your user

too, you may just want to make the folder that vsftp writeable to group.


Most if not all the files associated with vsftpd seems to be root/root. 
Did I screw up the install?


-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1392 2008-02-01 19:30 AUDIT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2908 2008-02-01 19:30 BENCHMARKS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1046 2008-02-01 19:30 BUGS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4142 2011-03-25 14:10 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  828 2011-03-25 14:10 copyright
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2011-09-08 22:45 EXAMPLE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4697 2008-02-01 19:30 FAQ.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1361 2008-02-11 22:42 README

btw, what do you mean by ..."vsftp user is vsftp"? Who is the vsftp 
user, the anonymous person logging in?


Cheers
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Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

As an addition the anonymous user cant download files, regardless of the
/home/ftp folder permissions. :(


The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't have
to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just make the
folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod g+w /home/ftp

Either UID or GID writable will work, but if the folder is owned by your user
too, you may just want to make the folder that vsftp writeable to group.


Thanks for the tips. Haven't had a chance to try this yet but I will. As 
a more general thought...I am going to use this server to allow 
volunteers at my church to access media for of site slide prep. Given 
there are only a handful, would it not be simpler a maybe safer to give 
them accounts on the ftp server and have them login securely?


TIA
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

I am messing with the above on my home Ubuntu Hardy Server. When I 
first set up the ftp server I could login anonymously but could not 
upload. Makes sense as the permissions on the default /home/ftp 
directory have to be changed. So per the advice chmodded them to 777. 
But then when I logout I cannot log back in. Changing permissions to 
755 allows the login again but then I cannot upload!



I should add that I had changed vsftpd.conf to allow anon upload.

As an addition the anonymous user cant download files, regardless of the 
/home/ftp folder permissions. :(


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[Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.

I am messing with the above on my home Ubuntu Hardy Server. When I first 
set up the ftp server I could login anonymously but could not upload. 
Makes sense as the permissions on the default /home/ftp directory have 
to be changed. So per the advice chmodded them to 777. But then when I 
logout I cannot log back in. Changing permissions to 755 allows the 
login again but then I cannot upload!


Any ideas whats going on?

TIA
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Re: [Hampshire] Kindle and Calibre

[Mike Austin]

> I recommend the binary install.

> I don't. I use the one from my distro's repository (binary or source,
depending on what you want to do).

Vic,

It depends what Distro version you use.  The latest version of Calibre is
not available in the package manager of Ubuntu 10.4 LTS 64 BIT.  It offers
version 0.6.42

By using the Binary install I have version 0.8.17

Mike




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[Hampshire] Kindle and Calibre

[Mike Austin]

Kindle e-reader and Calibre are an excellent combination.  Although I do not
own an e-reader device, such as a Kindle, I use my desktop and notebook,
which both run Linux, and Android tablet.  
On the Linux machines I run Kindle for Windows in a "Bottle of Crossover
Wine".

I also run Calibre for Linux.  By configuring Kindle to share the data
folder used by Calibre, I have the full benefit of both applications.

You can obtain Calibre for Linux at http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux 

I recommend the binary install.

I will bring my notebook to a future meeting if anyone wants a demo.

Mike


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[Hampshire] Loss of computer or Smartphone

[Mike Austin]

Those of you concerned about loss of a computer or Smartphone should visit

http://preyproject.com/download 

Mike


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[Hampshire] Backup solution - SDLT worth it?

[Mike Austin]

Hi Rob,

Have you considered a RAID 1 configuration with two 2TB drives.  I am
presently running two 1TB drives using software RAID and Ubuntu 10.4.  This
allows me to have other operating systems e.g. XP, on other hard drives.

If you have a motherboard with hardware RAID support in the BIOS, it is
easier to setup than software RAID.  However, Ubuntu have dropped hardware
RAID support with 11.04.

Obviously if you are concerned about loss of your computer, then RAID is not
the best option.

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Batteries

[Mike Austin]

A member of my PC-answers Google group is an expert in repairing laptops.
It might be worth making contact with him before splashing the cash.

Nick's address is  n...@reflowrepairs.com

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Strange Shell Prompt.

[Mike Burrows]

On 7/5/11 9:42 AM, Benjie Gillam wrote:
My guess is that his iPad used your IP address beforehand and 
requested 'johnrs-ipad' be it's hostname during the DHCP request a 
while back. When your MacBook did a DHCP request, the server recycled 
the old iPad record without properly cleaning it first.


Benjie.

On 5 July 2011 15:28, Mike Burrows <mailto:testerm...@knology.net>> wrote:


Hello folks.
I am connecting to the LAN at work from my macbook. When I open a
terminal i get this message:

Last login: Tue Jul  5 09:19:23 on ttys000
johnrs-ipad:~ testermike$

We do have a John R at work and he does have an ipad. However I
can't understand why its reporting my macbook as his ipad.



Yes that makes sense. What has peeked my interest is that clients, can 
connect to a 'network drive' for the PCs or 'server' for the macs but it 
takes a while before the connections are established. Then if you 
navigate away from the share and then go back to it, say in windows 
explorer, it takes even longer to establish the connection again and 
sometimes wont at all.


could it be that this dns oddity is causing the domain controller to 
lose track of its clients?


Cheers
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[Hampshire] [OT] Strange Shell Prompt.

[Mike Burrows]

Hello folks.
I am connecting to the LAN at work from my macbook. When I open a 
terminal i get this message:


Last login: Tue Jul  5 09:19:23 on ttys000
johnrs-ipad:~ testermike$

We do have a John R at work and he does have an ipad. However I can't 
understand why its reporting my macbook as his ipad.


Thoughts?

TIA
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Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

after all that, I think the problem was I embarrassingly forgot to 
restart the daemon :)


Thanks again to all.

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Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Mike, you've got some useful stuff to try from others in the thread.


When you're changing sshd_config you're restarting sshd afterwards?

>From an Internet-based Linux host, does "nc some.dyndns.org 
<http://some.dyndns.org> " produce an openssh banner?


My next steps would be ssh -v on client side and a simultaneous 
multitail on /var/log/auth.log on the server.


When running Internet-facing ssh it would be prudent to look into 
running some means of defence against the inevitable intrusion 
attempts. Look at DenyHosts and fail2ban - both are packages in 
Ubuntu/Debian.


Security through obscurity may be scoffed at but imho it's a good way 
to counter unstructured attacks.


Thanks Imran and to others for the great advice. I will be going through 
all the posts. However, what I would really like to understand is why 
does simply changing the port number and nothing else render the server 
inaccessible?


Kind regards
Mike
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Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

On 6/23/11 11:12 AM, Benjie Gillam wrote:
Can you ssh -p  from another computer/device on your LAN? (You may 
need to use your internal IP address to do so.) If so then you at 
least know SSH is working. If not, then I'd use netcat.



No.  I have the same problem whether I use the external Dyndns address 
of home network or staying within the LAN and using the ip address of 
the server running ssh.


Cheers
Mike

PS. I am thinking it would be a whole lot simpler to learn how to do key 
based logins and stick with port 22 :)


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Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

On 6/22/11 11:32 AM, Peter Andrijeczko wrote:

Mike

It's definitely not a BT Home Hub 2 is it? Those are the exact 
symptoms of what I get with the known bug I mentioned earlier.



nope its a linksys router BEFW11S4.

Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

On 6/23/11 12:01 AM, Bob Dunlop wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 22 at 11:18, Mike Burrows wrote:
...

ssh -p  testerm...@some.dyndns.org

I get an error that the connection was reset by peer and I cannot ssh in.

...

- use the shell script mentioned before i get this error:

nodename nor servname provided, or not known

The nature of the error has changed completely.
What shell script ?  I've not seen it mentioned before ?
Is it not handling the ssh parameters correctly ?

yes.. sorry Bob :( I guess I got myself muddled. The latest error is 
what I get after I change the port in ssh_config and the port forwarding 
in the router. Using the


shh -p  testermike@..

is the above the correct syntax for a non standard port?

The answer to your other question is no (i think:) the server did have 
guard dog running but I thought it was disabled. I will check. That said 
wouldn't it block the successful port 22 logins as well? The only other 
"firewall" is the NAT functionality in the linksys router. Again that 
lets port 22 through.


Thanks again
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Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

However, when i change the port to  (changing the router of course)
and repeat using

ssh -p  testerm...@some.dyndns.org

I get an error that the connection was reset by peer and I cannot ssh in.

What am I not doing please?

If you haven't solved it yet, try running the ssh client with -v. If
that doesn't help, try running the sshd in the foreground with -d.

Cheers,
Andy

No not solved yet. What is confusing me is I can log in perfectly well 
using port 22 but when I do the following:


- change the port to listen on in sshd_config to some other random port 
number ;-)
- open port forwarding in the router for that port, to the server 
running the ssh daemon

- use the shell script mentioned before i get this error:

nodename nor servname provided, or not known

what else needs changing to allow the use of a non-standard port?

TIA
Mike


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[Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

[Mike Burrows]

Hi folks.

I can ssh into my debian machine on port 22 (with that port forwarded on 
my router) using


ssh testerm...@some.dyndns.org

However, when i change the port to  (changing the router of course) 
and repeat using


ssh -p  testerm...@some.dyndns.org

I get an error that the connection was reset by peer and I cannot ssh in.

What am I not doing please?

TIA
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] [OT} weird web behaviour

[Mike Burrows]

On 6/17/11 2:04 AM, Vic wrote:

what am i missing about static v's DHCP?

There's really only one way to find that out - you have to capture some
packets...

Vic.

actually what i meant was, I thought that DHCP just gave out the IP 
addresses for its client computers. I guess I hadn't thought about the 
routing of packets to the clients it is managing. More reading required :)


cheers
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Re: [Hampshire] [OT} weird web behaviour

[Mike Burrows]

I've seen something similar in the past. Some routers simply don't NAT

packets for addresses they haven't handed out via DHCP. I guess it's some
sort of half-arsed attempt at security by the router manufacturer, but
I've yet to see such behaviour fix more problems than it creates...

I suppose that would make sense to me if all websites were blocked to 
clients with static IPs but when most pages get through its really odd. 
what am i missing about static v's DHCP?


Cheers
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[Hampshire] [OT} weird web behaviour

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.
Connecting a Mac Book to my home wireless network. The IPs of all the 
clients are static and the ISP DNS Servers are configured "in all the 
right places". However... a select few websites will not load unless 
DHCP is enabled (for the LAN) on the router just downstream of the cable 
modem (I'm in the US) and the mac book uses DHCP to obtain its IP address.


Why is this, anybody know?

TIA
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] Wireless Repeaters

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Rob.

I have a Linksys wrt 54 and wap54 acting in the mode i think you are trying


However, and I believe this may be crucial, I have not found anywhere 
how to set this up on its own.   For example, with it configured, I 
would guess I need to unplug it, relocate it such it's equidistant 
between the wireless router and the client machine, plug it in to the 
power (no LAN cable) and all will be well.   Is this not so?


The wap54 is connected to the LAN. (configured as you describe) the wrt 
is connected to an xbox :) via an ethernet cable all devices are on the 
same ip address scheme and mask. No DHCP running


2) The device has several "modes" of which I've set it to Wireless 
Repeater and configured it with exactly the same parameters (same 
name, channel, SSID, pre-shared key) etc as the wireless router.   Is 
this right or should I have called it mynet2 which extends mynet as 
opposed to mynet (mynet being the name of the original wifi network)?


I use the same SSID for all devices. Its puzzled me because you cant 
tell if a device is connecting to the WAP or WRT. Doesn't seem toeffect 
the price of chips tho'.


3) As it wasn't working, I recently reconnected it up in the study via 
lan cable and was dismayed to see it asking me to go through the 
wizard.   I would presume that all the time it had been relocated 
without the LAN cable, it had been wanting this too - am I wrong?



Not sure about this one


4) I guess in summary my question is: do wireless repeaters require a 
cabled connection to the LAN or do they take the existing wifi 
connection and boost it?   This is what I asked of the Novatech 
employee before buying it and he was convinced it would do the trick - 
but then again I guess he was a salesman!



I would say a 40 quid one would need LAN

The Linksys website has some good info on setting up this sort of thing. 
sorry I am at work and dont have the link :(


Any advice very welcome.


HTH
Mike
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[Hampshire] FW: Home network cabling

[Mike Austin]

In my last home, an apartment in Cyprus, I went to the trouble of feeding
150 metres of Cat5 cable through the building to connect the three other
flats to my system. I my UK home I have resorted to Devolo Powerline
adapters.  I have two feeding switches - 8 and 5 port - while the fourth
feeds a Belkin wireless access point and a 1watt amplifier to the external
directional aerial.

This gives me a hotspot for access across the marina by my yachtie mates.
It runs on its own SSID and channel, independent of the host router and is
configured for access by MAC address approval.

I would need a special reason to go for the CAT5 wired option havng
experienced using Powerline Adapters.

Mike
Apprentice DROID


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[Hampshire] Video not supported by Ubuntu Server 11.04

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.
I have Installed the subject software on a Dell Power Edge the "fell off 
the back..."


I have set it up as a RAID 1. However, Grub cant support the older video 
card (at least I think thats the issue) and despite trying to get into 
grub on boot and change some settings (per some google posts) I haven't 
been able to display grub. Also when running in rescue mode using the 
"ash" shell. I cannot find grub at all. it is supposed to be in 
/etc/default but aint.


Any help would be gratefully received.

Kind regards
Mike

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[Hampshire] FW: Kindle in Linux Ubuntu

[Mike Austin]

I do not own or intend to buy a Kindle.  However, there is a certain
attraction to the use of some e-books.  I particularly wanted a book on
music which contains many links to the pieces of music/opera referred to in
the book.

As you probably know, there is currently no Kindle application for Linux,
other than Android.

Using Crossover WINE I have Kindle PC for Windows working on my Asus
Netbook, Desktop and Macbook Pro, all running Ubuntu 11.04.  My Macbook Pro
has a non reflective, backlit screen (and keyboard) making reading text very
easy, even without my reading glasses.

Mike


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[Hampshire] Dual Boot using Raid 1

[Mike Austin]

Although Ubuntu is my primary OS, I still need to use XP for some of my
media software for which there is no Linux equivalent or will not run in
Crossover WINE.  The software is required for some of my media hardware e.g.
I have three Slingboxes and a Pinnacle Media streamer on my network. One
Slingbox controls my VirginMedia TIVO box while the other two are for access
by friends and family outside the UK, giving them Freeview TV.  My Broadband
has a 5MB upload speed so streaming quality is very good.

My dual boot desktop has dedicated HDs for XP and Ubuntu, with other drives
storing backup and media data files.

Following an upgrade of my desktop motherboard etc, I wish to create a dual
boot system using 2 identical 1TB drives in Raid 1 (mirrored) configuration.
I believe that I cannot have XP and Ubuntu on the same master drive, but
will need to have XP on a 3rd drive.  I can have 6 SATA devices on my
motherboard, so 5 HDs.

Another problem is that I want the media files used by the XP applications
to be on the Raid drives, as a backup, on a NTFS partition.

The use of RAID could be a discussion item at the LUG meeting on Saturday.
See you there - I'll be the one with the Macbook Pro!

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Wireless repeater / bridge

[Mike Austin]

Further to my previous post, it is worth expanding on the advantages of
using Wireless Access Points v Range Extenders.

Range Extenders are co-dependant on the host router.  They must use the same
SSID, password and frequency (channel) as the router.

As Vic said "WiFi is necessarily half-duplex in operation, so every time you
have to re-transmit a packet, you're halving your data rate. Add a few
repeaters, and things can end up at a crawl..."

That is my experience too.  When I first installed the dual mode Belkin
WAP/Range Extenders, I used them in extender mode.

When I added Powerline Adapters to my network, I reconfigured the Belkins as
WAPs.

WAPs are inter-dependant of the host router and can use different SSIDs,
passwords and frequencies.  On the subject of frequencies, most people do
not bother to change the default channel of their router.  This can lead to
overcrowding of the channels in the 2.4 GHz frequency range.

Before setting up a wireless network, it is worth scanning for all the SSIDs
in range and noting the channels being used.  Then you can select channels
that are free of traffic.

If you are intending to use your network over a wide area it is worth
looking at http://www.wifi-antennas.co.uk/

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Wireless repeater / bridge

[Mike Austin]

>>... it's time to build some wireless access points / repeaters!  I have a
few laptops kicking about, with wireless cards, so I figured I could dot
these about and build a wireless network that way!<<


Stephen,

Another approach to extend wireless coverage is to use Wireless Access
points.  I gave up with Netgear Wireless Extenders and now use Belkin
F5D7132UK Wireless Access Points that also double as Range Extenders.

Using Powerline Network adapters I can place these WAPS wherever I have a
power outlet and set up a Wireless Access point.  Unlike Range Extenders, I
can use different SSIDs for each WAP - I have three.

While discussing Powerline Adapters - I use Devolo - you can add a switch to
each adapter to increase the number of wired devices - I have 13.  You will
read that the Powerline Adapters cannot be used with power extension leads.
However, all of mine do so but they will not work via a surge protector.

To recap, each of my WAPs connects to a Powerline Adapter via a switch.  I
have two 5 port and one 8 port switches.  Novatech sell a 5 port switch for
around £11.

One of the WAPs is connected to a 1 watt amplifier and external aerial to
give me coverage accross the marina where I live.

For good measure, I have a Janus High Power 802.11 b/g/n USB Adapter.  This
works out of the box with the latest Linux kernel (unlike Windoze) and gives
extended range and signal strength when plugged into my notebook or netbook.

My three storey home has electric heating in all ceilings and the matting
reduces the range between floors.

I hope this is useful to you and other members.

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

[Mike Burrows]

I think the mount options are typically "user,noauto" so it doesn't auto mount
until requested but when it is requested the user who mounts it owns it and
can mount/umount it in the first place.

On a modern Debian system with a full-fat desktop I think this is
automatically taken care for you.

Reading some of the bumph, it looks like one has a choice between auto 
and noauto and so as I am using the external hhd as a samba share for 
windows clients on the network. If a device is set to mount auto at 
boot, dose that mean it will always mount as root even if you 
subsequently un-mount it and remount as non root?


Cheers for the guidance so far.

Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

[Mike Burrows]

On 3/23/2011 10:04 AM, bryan hunt wrote:

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 09:46 -0500, Mike Burrows wrote:

Hi Folks.

I have a western digital hard drive attached to a usb port on my deb
box. It mounts automagically on boot and I can access the file structure
and read/write files from a windows samba client. However, when working
on the Deb box I found the non-root users only had read permissions. So
I changed the ownership of the device (which is mounted as
/media/mybook) to my non-root user. Still cannot write to the external
drive.

Interestingly the mount point shows linked to /dev/sda1 when the
properties of the device are checked. However, when I look in /dev the
fdd1 is mapped to sda1??

What have I got wrong on the Deb box please?

TIA
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Test it locally

sudo mkdir /tmp/extdrive

#this means mount the block device /dev/sda1 at location /tmp/extdrive,
#read-write permissions with user id of 900
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/extdrive -o rw,uid=900

#Same thing but with your own uid, backticks mean run this command + get
#the result..
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/extdrive -o rw,uid=`id -u`

Changing ownership or permissions of the /dev block device is not the
solution.



Well I modified the above to:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/mybook -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000


ls -l /media/mybook - shows all the files and folders on the external hard 
drive listed as  non root user and group.

However, trying to modify files in the non-root gui isn't possible and user 
1000 only has read permissions

can't help thinking there is a better way of doing this in fstab...

Where am I going wrong please?

TIA
Mike





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[Hampshire] External Drive Permissions.

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.

I have a western digital hard drive attached to a usb port on my deb 
box. It mounts automagically on boot and I can access the file structure 
and read/write files from a windows samba client. However, when working 
on the Deb box I found the non-root users only had read permissions. So 
I changed the ownership of the device (which is mounted as 
/media/mybook) to my non-root user. Still cannot write to the external 
drive.


Interestingly the mount point shows linked to /dev/sda1 when the 
properties of the device are checked. However, when I look in /dev the 
fdd1 is mapped to sda1??


What have I got wrong on the Deb box please?

TIA
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] OT: Space station and shuttle visible this evening

[Mike Burrows]

Whoa!! That was absolutely fantastic to see!! I was expecting one
light (I just assumed they'd be docked)... not two chasing each other
across the sky :-)

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ahead of the ATV I think it was, coming up for its first docking or 
maybe close pass. anyhow, there was three in a row that evening :) If 
you really want to waste some time, mess about with this really cool (if 
you like that kind of thing) software. If you haven't already that is.


http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/download.php

Shane its only doze tho'.

God Bless
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Re: [Hampshire] OT: Space station and shuttle visible this evening

[Mike Burrows]

On 3/7/2011 6:14 AM, Tony Wood wrote:
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_Kingdom®ion=England&city=Farnborough 



Hope the sky is clear for you. :) There will be some long faces here in 
huntsville when discovery lands I'm sure.


Mike

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[Hampshire] Dual boot Raid 1

[Mike Austin]

I am about to embark setting up RAID 1 (mirroring) with two identical 1TB
drives on my newly upgraded desktop.  Although it is a bit more fiddly using
Linux, it would not normally be a problem.

However, I run a dual boot desktop with XP.  I cannot see that I can do so
having both Ubuntu and XP on the same master 1TB drive.

In the past I have run dual boot using separate drives and think this is my
only solution.

As I can run up to six SATA drives, that is no problem  My plan is to
install XP on its own drive.  Then I install Ubuntu as a dual boot setup on
one of the 1TB drives and configure RAID 1 at the same time.

Any thoughts from some of you?

I would prefer just using the two drives as Ubuntu shares data files, which
I would like mirrored, with XP.  I need XP for some of my media applications
as there is no Linux equivalent and they will not run in WINE, even the
latest version.

Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Introduction

[Mike Austin]

>> I am currently trying to install V.Box on Ubuntu 10.10 and keep getting
the re-install option, I can't see that I have missed any of the
pre-requisites and I would like a pointer as to a likely direction for
trouble shooting.<<

Mike,

The simplest method is to download the appropriate package from the
Virtualbox site - in your case Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat") 32 bit.

When you install the package, and installation is complete, you will again
see the option to install - ignore it and close.

You should then see the Vbox icon in System Tools

Using Synaptic, check to see that DKMS is installed, if not do so, to ensure
that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp)
are properly updated if the Linux kernel version changes during the next
apt-get upgrade. For Debian it is available in Lenny backports and in the
normal repository for Squeeze and later. The dkms package can be installed
through the Synaptic Package manager or through the following command:

sudo apt-get install dkms

The main issue you may have is adding USB2 support for guest operating
systems - Ubuntu is the host.  You can download the extension pack from the
VirtualBox Homepage.  You may need to read up on support for USB 2.0
devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards.

I installed Vbox for Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit a couple of days ago.  You need to
think about how much of your 2GB RAM you assign to your guest OS.  If you
are installing XP you should get away with 512 for basic use.  I am
fortunate to have a desktop with 6GB RAM.

Good luck,

Mike




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[Hampshire] Mobile Technology

[Mike Austin]

I have been using a Google mobile phone since they were first available in
the US - now sold in the UK as the Nexus One.  You will be aware that the
operating system, Android, is a Linux system created by Google and now the
most popular OS for small screen smartphones.  I am running the latest
version, Android Gingerbread.  You may not be aware of Android Honeycomb,
which has developed for the new generation of Tablets and Netbooks.  I have
been reviewing the recently unveiled range of Asus netbooks and tablets
which use Android Honeycomb - impressive. As users become more familiar with
Android - often not realising they are using Linux - they will want the same
features on their PCs.  Google intend to develop a Linux Distro for desktop
PCs.  That is when Linux will gain a real increase in usage by the general
public.

Today's Smartphone is really a mini computer with mobile phone capability. 

Yesterday I tested an interesting use of technology with the Android app,
"Latitude".  I drove from Portsmouth to Egham, Nr Windsor.  Before leaving I
sent an email invitation for the owner of the house to track my progress on
the internet.

With the GPS of my mobile sending my position, she could monitor my progress
on Google maps. The end result was a freshly boiled kettle on my arrival -
too early for a G&T.

Using my mobile, I have just checked in for my BA flight to Zurich tomorrow.
Furthermore I have downloaded my boarding pass which, using its barcode,
will take me through the various formalities before boarding the aircraft.

While skiing in Wengen, I will make use of the hotel's wifi to run Skype on
my mobile - my account gives me free calls to UK landlines.

In the mornings I am able to watch the BBC News and UK TV on my mobile, from
a Slingbox in my UK home.  I can also use the SKY1 app to view Sky TV
schedules and send a signal to my Sky receiver to record programmes I wish
to watch on my return.

I forgot - I can also use my Smartphone as a mobile!!

Mike
Member - Free Software Foundation






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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Blatant Self-publicising :)

[Mike Burrows]

On 3/3/2011 1:14 PM, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 19:13, Jim Kissel  wrote:

Whatever you do, don't wear a loud shirt in a built-up area.  I did once,
but I think I got away.

loud-speakers in a shirt, now there's a good idea! *wanders off
listening to loud music playing from his breast*

:) Accepting that there might be a different level of sensitivity 
between the US and the UK in the area of admitting ones credentials when 
job hunting, the question still stands. Please let me know off list if a 
person in Huntsville AL. would fit their particular company's vision.


Kind regards
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Blatant Self-publicising :)

[Mike Burrows]

On 3/3/2011 11:50 AM, Jim Kissel wrote:

Mike Burrows wrote:

Hello Folks.

If I may hi-jack the list for a personal cause. I am "between 
opportunities" here in sunny Alabama and would just like advertise my 
availability to any of the companies that are "represented" by list 
members, that have a desired to move into the US market but I the 
current climate, cannot justify the expense of placing folks 
overseas. I can provide a representation/presence for them. I have a 
British Top Secret security clearance and am a retire Royal Navy pilot.
If you do have any UK clearance, you must have signed section 2 of the 
Official Secrets Act, in which case you must be aware that it is an 
offense under Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act, to disclose to 
anyone not specifically authorized under Section 2 of the Official 
Secrets Act, that you have signed Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act.
BTY, wearing a loud shirt in a built-up area is an offense under 
Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act.


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No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3479 - Release Date: 03/03/11



wow! thanks for the heads up Jim.  Pretend i never said it :)

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[Hampshire] [OT] Blatant Self-publicising :)

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

If I may hi-jack the list for a personal cause. I am "between 
opportunities" here in sunny Alabama and would just like advertise my 
availability to any of the companies that are "represented" by list 
members, that have a desired to move into the US market but I the 
current climate, cannot justify the expense of placing folks overseas. I 
can provide a representation/presence for them. I have a British Top 
Secret security clearance and am a retire Royal Navy pilot.


Please let me know off list if anybody has any thoughts or advice on my 
situation.


Thanks and kind regards
Mike Burrows

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[Hampshire] [OT] Wireless Network slowness.

[Mike Burrows]

Hi folks.

I have a WAP54G acting as a Wireless Repeater. The other end of the 
"connection" is a WRT54G connected to an XBox. When the WRT is connected 
to the network, with or without the XBox streaming, the download speed 
(according to www.speakeasy.net) is about 1/3 of the speed of when the 
WRT54 is disconnected.


in this configuration, I am not sure to which wireless receiver, client 
pc's are connecting. Indeed, I don't know how clients decide between the 
WAP and the WRT when both are in range.


Any illumination would be gratefully recieved.

TIA
Mike

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[Hampshire] Introduction

[Mike McCarthy]

I am a new return to Linux, having run into too many issues a few years 
ago I gave up. However I have recently discovered Ubuntu 10.10 and 
started a course as a mature student at Farnborough Tech that includes 
modules on UNIX so I am back.
I am currently trying to install V.Box on Ubuntu 10.10 and keep getting 
the re-install option, I cant see that I have missed any of the 
pre-requisites and I would like a pointer as to a likely direction for 
trouble shooting. More than happy to supply more info but which.

Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit
V.Box4
Dual Core athlon cpu
2Mb RAM
8600GT gc

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Re: [Hampshire] Crossover

[Mike Austin]

>>Would your system allow me to use Movie Maker on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine,
do you think?<<

Hi Tony,

I have just checked on the Crossover site and Movie Maker is not known to
work in Crossover.  I do not have the knowledge to suggest a Linux
alternative.

I spend quite a chunk of my time helping Windoze addicts break their habit,
but it is a powerful drug, particularly if used over a long period.  Both
Crossover and Virtualbox helped me recover!

That is why I have given my grand-daughters old notebooks running Edubuntu
with the Quimo desktop.  The trick is to get them early before the Windoze
addiction takes hold.

Mike


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[Hampshire] Network Scanner

[Mike Austin]

One MSW application that I really miss is Network Magic, as I currently have
12 wired and 3 wireless devices on my home network.  I have been searching
for a Linux equivalent and this is the best I have tried.  AutoScan-Network
a cross platform application designed to explore and to manage your network.
Entire subnets can be scanned simultaneously without human intervention. It
features OS detection, automatic network discovery, VNC Client, Ssh client.


 

You can download AustoScan from  https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoscan/
or http://autoscan-network.com/

 

If you use the Linux version, the  extracted  installation file is
"AutoScan-Network-Linux-1.50.sh".  With an .sh file, click on it and choose
"Run In Terminal".

 

Mike

 

 

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[Hampshire] Crossover

[Mike Austin]

>>How are you running Outlook 2007, I do not understand? Using Crossover or
Wine or what?<<

 

I have used WINE but Crossover is worth paying for, as a contribution is
made to the WINE project.  I have tested all the possible Linux email
clients, but none of them matches Outlook for my needs. One aspect I
particularly like is the single .pst file which I keep in Dropbox.  This
enables me to switch computers and carry on using my Outlook once Dropbox
has synchronised my .pst file. As an example, I have just rebooted my
desktop into XP as I need to run a windows application that will not run in
Crossover.  This time I am posting this from Outlook 2007 in XP.

 

The only slight drawback is copying and pasting text between a Linux app and
a Windows app running in Crossover - you have to keep both apps open or you
lose the clipboard.

 

I run several MSW apps in Crossover as the Linux equivalents do not suit my
needs e.g. Quicken 2004.  I also run IE7 which I need for a few sites, as IE
Tab for Firefox does not work in Linux.

 

I have recently returned to living in the UK - Port Solent - and will get to
a meeting when the ski season finishes.  Incidentally, I am the founder of
http://groups.google.com/group/ <http://groups.google.com/group/pc-answers>
pc-answers  which has a worldwide membership of 110.  However, most of the
members are MSW users while a few of us also use Linux and Mac OSX.  One
members runs a Hackintosh - non Apple hardware but Mac OSX.

 

I run a dual boot of XP and Macbuntu on my Macbook Pro notebook. One member
suggested that my Macbook has an identity crisis!

 

Mike

 

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[Hampshire] Libre Office

[Mike Austin]

If you use Ubuntu-Tweak which you can obtain from your package manager, you
can configure your installation for Libre Office, amongst other things.
Ubuntu will then replace Open Office with Libre Office.  Libre Office is
likely to become the defacto standard for many distros.

This post is written with Outlook 2007 in Ubuntu 10.10 with the Macbuntu
desktop.  I run the same setup on my Macbook Pro - really confuses MAC OSX
users.

 

Mike

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[Hampshire] Icecast Streaming

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

Had some success with live streaming and thanks for the posts last year. 
However, have hit a problem with VLC and icecast2. I currently have 
icecast2 installed and running on an ubuntu server with a VLC client 
running on a Lenny box on the same network. I can play an mp3 on the 
lenny box using VLC but as soon as I check the settings box in the 'file 
open' window, VLC refuses to play the file and hence there is no stream 
to the icecast2 server.


Has anybody had and fixed this?

Could somebody supply a sample mrl for VLC that works with icecast2.

Also, the shout module is not installed on the ubuntu box. Is that a 
problem for my setup?


TIA
Mike
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[Hampshire] shout module.

[Mike Burrows]

Hi folks.

I am messing with icecast2 and vlc and it would seem the shout module is 
not installed. Can anybody provide any help on how to install this 
module. So far the only reference i can find about this is at


http://en.flossmanuals.net/VLC/print

and all it says is:

"The important part of the above output is the access_output_shout 
IceCAST output. This means you have the right module available for 
streaming to an Icecast Server. If you don't have this module you are 
going to have to read up on how to install it"


unfortunately it doesn't offer any resources where you can read up about it!

Any help would be gratefully received.

Mike

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[Hampshire] Live Streaming

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.

Switched e-mail accounts so resending this one.


Thanks for all the posts so far on live streaming. I currently have icecast2 
installed and
running on an ubuntu server with a VLC client running on a Lenny box on
the same network. I can play an mp3 on the lenny box using VLC but as
soon as I check the settings box in the 'file open' window, VLC refuses
to play the file and hence there is no stream to the icecast2 server.

Has anybody had and fixed this?

Could somebody supply a sample mrl for VLC that works with icecast2.

Since first posting this I can now get vlc to play with the stream "settings" 
check box checked.
However, only when the "play locally" check box as well as the "http" check box 
is checked under the stream configuration window.

Still can't remote stream from the icecast server :(

TIA
Mike



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[Hampshire] Test.

[Mike Burrows]

Sorry for the random pot - haven't seen much for a day or two and wanted 
to check I haven't messed up my account


Happy New Year all.

Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] Live streaming

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Folks.

Thanks for all the posts so far. I currently have icecast2 installed and 
running on an ubuntu server with a VLC client running on a Lenny box on 
the same network. I can play an mp3 on the lenny box using VLC but as 
soon as I check the settings box in the 'file open' window, VLC refuses 
to play the file and hence there is no stream to the icecast2 server.


Has anybody had and fixed this?

Could somebody supply a sample mrl for VLC that works with icecast2.

TIA
Mike

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[Hampshire] Live streaming

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

Has anybody out there any experience on streaming live audio using 
shoutcast. I can stream an mp3 file from my linux box using shoutcast 
but I am at a dead end on how to convert and stream a live feed. Kinda 
like the beeb for example.


I feel I am just not googling for the right thing.

TIA
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] Any SANE experts?

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 10/08/2010 03:41 PM, e-mail bob.jelf wrote:


Hi Vic
I Use Avasys Image Scan Mentioned by John cooper in his reply. It 
works perfectly with my Epson v200. Maybe there's a version of this 
that will work with your Epson.

Bob Jelf


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The iscan package should contain both the Image Scan application and the
driver package - essentially the file epkowa.conf. The latter is put into
/etc/sane.d. An edit of /etc/sane.d/dll.conf may be required. Quite how this
works depends on your package manager - I use Slackware so I usually
end up doing it by hand.

Using this driver, you should be able to use xscanimage or XSane as well
as Image Scan.

MikeD
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Re: [Hampshire] Network Attached Server/Domain Controller.

[Mike Burrows]

 On 9/22/10 6:10 AM, Vic wrote:

keeping off the raid plan atm.

I would recommend you return to it once you initial problems are resolved.


Have a more basic problem.although I can
ping the server I cannot log onto the share. it is on the same subnet as
the aforementioned home file server and using a very similar smb.conf
file yet I cannot map to it. short of posting my .conf file can anybody
think what might be wrong please?

Check your firewall settings. That's the most common problem, IME.
Wireshark will tell you what is going on.

Vic.





Hello folks.

Thanks for the support (again :). I am not sure what the cure was. I 
think having the samba password correctly populated. Interestingly, the 
samba docs suggested that the users should be identical to their doze 
accounts, but that didn't seem to be the case when we tried a trial 
deployment at a friends house. He simply had to map the NAS using the 
samba account details.


Thanks again
Mike

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Re: [Hampshire] Network Attached Server/Domain Controller.

[Mike Burrows]

 On 9/21/10 12:00 PM, Vic wrote:

I only have
experience with debian and then mainly through GUIs, which rules out other
distros and also Ubuntu server (don't have time to learn how to set samba
up using command line).

Install Webmin. That will save you loads of time. But don't dish out
credentials to anyone you don't trust completely, and don't use it to set
up sendmail.


However, I note that the box comprises two 40
gig sata drives. Question... is it worth/simple to raid it in ubuntu or
debian?

It's very easy. If the data is important, it's worthwhile doing it.

If it were my box, I'd also run LVM.

Vic.





keeping off the raid plan atm. Have a more basic problem.although I can ping 
the server I cannot log onto the share. it is on the same subnet as the 
aforementioned home file server and using a very similar smb.conf file yet I 
cannot map to it. short of posting my .conf file can anybody think what might 
be wrong please?


TIA
Mike


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Re: [Hampshire] Scanner recommendations

[Mike Dwerryhouse]

On 08/29/2010 11:20 AM, Keith Edmunds wrote:

Can anyone recommend a scanner suitable for a non-techy Ubuntu user?

Thanks,
Keith

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Scanners are generally supported by the SANE project. I would guess that
Ubuntu uses this too. They have a list of supported scanners.

http://www.sane-project.org/

The last time I looked at this I had great difficulty finding a model on 
sale

which was supported by SANE. Most supported scanners in the list are
either obsolete or very rare.

However, most Epson scanners (at least the last time I looked) are supported
by Avasys drivers. This is probably you best chance at getting support for a
current model.

http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/

Although they have their own tool (Image Scan!) I use it with xsane.
Installation depends on distro - I haven't used it with  Ubuntu. There 
are deb

files and a pdf document on the site.

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Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

[Mike Burrows]

oops sorry about the top post :(

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Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help

[Mike Burrows]

Hi Ben.

I live overseas so can't help physically but I remember my early days 
with Debian (ask Hugo :) Keep plugging away its worth it in then end.  
You have my moral support anyway.  Great help Huh?


Kind regards
Mike

Hi,

If anyone is willing then I could do with some help.  Our version of 
linux sort-of works but is also really annoying and seems to fail on 
some of the basics.  Any attempts that I've made putting on a 
different distro usually end in failure. 




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[Hampshire] Key board mapping.

[Mike Burrows]

Hello Folks.

I have just upgraded to Lenny.  I believe I am using a US keyboard at 
least it has a $ sign above the four and no gbp sign anywhere. :)  When 
I boot to command line the pipe symbol (shift \) on my key board appears 
as a tilde. The tilde symbol doesn't work at all, in fact causes the 
machine to beep and none of the other keys are mapped to |.  Does 
anybody know a hack/setting that sets the keyboard mapping during the 
boot process before the xserver boots please.


TIA
Mike

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