[SLUG] Reminder: Sydney Python Meetup, This Thursday July 5
Hi everyone, A quick reminder that our July meeting is this Thursday. 6:15 (for 6:30 start) - 8:30PM Century Software 165 Walker Street North Sydney We will have two presentations: 1. Tim Churches will talk about the NetEpi Project, which is a set of open-source,network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice (http://sourceforge.net/projects/netepi) written in Python. 2. Nigel Tao will talk about Gnome Deskbar Applet We also have 2 lightning talks. You can still book a lightning talk spot via this link: http://groups.google.com/group/sydneypython/web/Lighting%20Talks%202007-07-05 The room has limited capacity but there are a few spots left. To attend this meeting you must RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will send details of access to the venue tomorrow. Regards Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Possible BIOS problem
Hi Howard, have you tried to reset bios to factory default? Ive also seen before on a machine that had the bios selecting whether it was going to boot from a PCI video or AGP. If set incorrectly you saw the Bios on one screen and then the operating system on the other... same symptoms you see except the operating system starting. Until the OS finds both and you have a dual screen. So the bios might be set to go to the other card even though it is physically not present. Stick another video card in and see or reset to factory default perhaps. However the factory default might be for a video card you don't have. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] HDD, new motherboard
Hi SLUG, I have a strange question. Background: Last week my father in-law was having computer problems (as usual), anyway, through a course of different problems; PSU and graphics card. The computer guy offered to replace the MB? Very strange, for FREE! After that he got it home, plugged it in and pop! another PSU, fried the MB and apparently the MB. So he now has a new: MB PSU Graphics Card TV Tuner Card My Father in law has a lot of software and important files that he really can't afford to loose or go through re-installing programs. The guy told him a story that in windoze XP you can not just put an old HDD onto a new MB? I offered to call the guy, as I had done this many times when I was a sys admin at my last place of work. So, I called the guy, and we exchanged in professional dialogue and things didn't turn out too well. Anyway, I have since found out that he was right! (I am eating humble pie..large portion) and find this absolutely ridiculous. Somy question is. What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot up? Thanks Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. F. W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard
Hi Scott, I did exactly that with Ubuntu 6.10 a little while back. I replaced a basic AMD 2400+ and MB with a 64 bit AMD 3300+ and had no problems at all. I used the same video card in both instances, so if you are also changing the video card you may have to reinstall your nvidia drivers (if it is an nvidia card and you use the proprietary drivers) but other than that all should be fine. Heracles Scott Waller wrote: Hi SLUG, I have a strange question. Background: Last week my father in-law was having computer problems (as usual), anyway, through a course of different problems; PSU and graphics card. The computer guy offered to replace the MB? Very strange, for FREE! After that he got it home, plugged it in and pop! another PSU, fried the MB and apparently the MB. So he now has a new: MB PSU Graphics Card TV Tuner Card My Father in law has a lot of software and important files that he really can't afford to loose or go through re-installing programs. The guy told him a story that in windoze XP you can not just put an old HDD onto a new MB? I offered to call the guy, as I had done this many times when I was a sys admin at my last place of work. So, I called the guy, and we exchanged in professional dialogue and things didn't turn out too well. Anyway, I have since found out that he was right! (I am eating humble pie..large portion) and find this absolutely ridiculous. Somy question is. What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot up? Thanks Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. F. W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] removing duplicate files
I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate leaves. The command rm -r junkfile does not work, saying: cannot lstat 'junkfile' I even seeded the root of this tree with one of these files but still the rm command did not recurse. I know the command rm -rf * would get rid of these files with colateral damage. What am I missing please? Thanks Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard
My Father in law has a lot of software and important files that he really can't afford to loose or go through re-installing programs. The guy told him a story that in windoze XP you can not just put an old HDD onto a new MB? I offered to call the guy, as I had done this many times when I was a sys admin at my last place of work. So, I called the guy, and we exchanged in professional dialogue and things didn't turn out too well. Anyway, I have since found out that he was right! (I am eating humble pie..large portion) and find this absolutely ridiculous. Somy question is. What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot up? I posted recently on the same question to this list and was told it would almost certainly work OK. I backed everything up with Mondo then with trepidation changed motherboards I had to do some dancing with fstab. The fstab problem might not effect everyone - I had one sata plus one ide HDD and that was interesting, but nothing monumental. I also had some fun with eth0/eth3 (why 3?) which caused some oddities with dhcp-server. I think if there had been only one drive, it would have been pretty much a straight swap. Oh.. and the reason for the change in my case was to go to pci-e graphics, so dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver came into play. In other words, it works well for Ubuntu, but be ready for some tuning. I could boot into a perfectly usable console first try. OTOH, OS X will boot on anything from anything! Why aren't they all THAT easy! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 20:24 +1000, Scott Waller wrote: What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot up? Would it be better to install the drive in a USB case, build a new computer mount eh USB drive and pull down the data off it. There are sometimes conflicts with old hard drives with new ones, causing them to corrupt the signals and therefore the data. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] New message
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Re: [SLUG] What plug is that
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:17:26 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: There used to be a web site that told you the wiring for various plug and connectors. Does anyone have it bookmarked? Is pinouts.ru what you're thinking of? Cheers, John -- If they're going to make up their own alphabet, play them at their own game: g as in gnat, k as in knife, m as in mnemonic, h as in honour, p as in pneumoconiosis... -- Gary Wolf Barnes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files
On 03/07/07, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate leaves. The command rm -r junkfile does not work, saying: cannot lstat 'junkfile' Does it give any more information in the error message? Usually such errors are followed by the exact system call error string. An exact copy/paste of the output would help. I suspect maybe the file name is specified incorrectly. I even seeded the root of this tree with one of these files but still the rm command did not recurse. I'm not sure what you mean by seeded. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ISP Rebranding/ Wholesaleing question
Hi, I'm looking for some information on starting an ISP: 1) ISP Upstreams who provide rebranding (must include ADSL). 2) Info on ISP backoffice software as well (radius server, etc). I found eg. http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/Linux-ISP-HOWTO.html but it's from 1995! Did give me a good start to reading though... I've been doing a lot of reading on software required - dns, email, control panel, etc. Happy for recommendations. 3) Is there a forum - physical gathering slug-like forum - for small to medium ISPs, in Sydney? 4) Recommended online community for small/med ISPs? PS: I spoke to someone last Friday night, I think John - I discovered Sat night that my mailbox was full, unfortunate events... it's emptied, although Godaddy's IP addresses are right now RTBLed (couldn't post this email to slug), so hopefully gmail might work... Thanks in advance Zen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
