Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random
Yeah I have seen that happen as well. Its typically something easy to test so give it a try. (ie swap PSU with another box) Heracles wrote: Hi Elliot, I may be way off here, but I had the same problem a while ago. It turned out that the power supply had a fault which started as random and then eventually the machine would not boot; whenever something caused a spike like when a HDD firing up it couldn't cope. It was hard to diagnose. I fixed the problem by getting a better quality power supply. Heracles elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I have Mythbuntu running on a 3Ghz P4 1.5G RAM, 500G HDD, two PVR-150 video cards and a 128mb nVidia card. On the odd occasion the machine decides to reboot, for no particular reason. Tonight, for instance, my wife was watching the ABC and the machine just borked and rebooted. She wasn't 'doing' anything and the machine was doing nothing but showing the TV...no additional work. It's done this irregularly (eg. not every day and not at the same time) and I can't work out a pattern. Last week I had serious problems getting it to stay alive for more than 10 minutes. I finally replaced the BIOS battery and it was fine. Can anyone suggest something I should look at? Thanks in advance. Regards, Patrick -- 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] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]
Kyle == Kyle k...@attitia.com writes: Kyle If I switch off ipv6, will that help? If you don't have a complete ipv6 stack, turn it off. Most machines will try to talk with an ipv6 server if it's advertised --- and if your remote host doesn't have full connectivity, it'll attempt the connexion, time out, then do the real one. Does wireshark show this? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] LinuxChix/AussieDevChix meeting in Sydney, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Jan 30, 5:30pm
Aussie(Linux)Chix and AussieDevChix will have their regular joint meeting in Sydney before the Sydney Linux User Group meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 27th February 2009 Time: 5:30-6:15pm Location: Lindt Chocolat Cafe, Shop 104-105, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour Directions: The Lindt Cafe is on the ground floor of the Cockle Bay Wharf building, between the two halves. Look for the fountain, or alternatively look right under the Blackbird Cafe. Map: http://tinyurl.com/2vdgch RSVP: rsvp.syd...@au.linuxchix.org Can men come? Men may come as the guest of a woman attendee. Note that this is not a LinuxChix-wide policy, it is specific to these pre-SLUG meetups. If you RSVP, we can send you a mobile number to call if you can't find us. Afterwards we will go to the SLUG meeting together. See http://www.slug.org.au/node/111 for more details about the SLUG meeting. The Chix meetings in Sydney are organised by Sydney members of AussieChix, the Australian LinuxChix chapter. See http://au.linuxchix.org/ for more about AussieChix. - Melissa http://www.meldraweb.com http://www.geekosophical.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OLPC hackfest this weekend
Hi all, Just a quick reminder about the monthly OLPC hacking this weekend. Location will be confirmed by Wednesday, so check out the wiki page for the event here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Friends/SydneyUG See you all there! Bring your laptops, and add any projects you want to work on to the wiki page. Cheers, Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] volunteers
Every year SCLUG (www.sclug.asn.au) does an installfest for the Uni of Wollongong first year computing students. This year that day will be Saturday 21/3/09. We are lucky enough to have several people from SLUG come and give us a hand each year. So this is the annual broadcast asking for volunteers to help this year. There are two sessions for the installfest. Morning and afternoon. If you can help in either or both most appreciated and welcome. (More details off list) Please email me off list those who can help out. Please note this is a customised installfest for the Uni so we used a derived ubuntu distro that fits the Uni's lab computers. Regards, Ashley Maher signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]
Well done Michael! As I indicated earlier in my post, many issues with slow application performance these days are due to waiting for either unanswered queries or getting wrong answers. The quick check of raw throughput (your 10MB transfer in a *blip* proved that) can help you concentrate on the real problem. If you were using a wireshark to look at you application flow you would have seen the IPv6 query going out (but not getting an answer) and then a followup with a working IPv4 query and then a quick response. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote: ... OK!!! That is indeed what it does Michael, when it doesn't timeout. I had previously read up on F'Fox and turned on the various turbocharging options, but hadn't thought of ipv6. So I changed network.dns.disableIPv6 to true on the hosts behind the switch and Wow! That's a bit more like what I might expect. ipv6 has always been a bit of a black box I've tried to avoid as long as possible. Guess I need to start reading up on it. Or disabling it! Allow me here to thank each and every one of you that have put up with my ignorance to assist in debugging this issue. I'm not convinced that's all there is to it just yet. For instance, the Linux box is still an order of magnitude faster to load a page, network.dns.disableIPv6 is true by default in T'Bird on the hosts which still timeout on initial connection and all hosts are only using the linux box itself as name server. But where we are now will go a long way to dispersing aggravation in the local browsing community. Thanks again. ipv6 . mumble, groan, must read . pain in th. mumble, groan, ipv6 Kind Regards Kyle Michael Chesterton wrote: Does it sit there for 11 seconds, then load all of a sudden, or does it start loading right from the start? I'm wondering if firefox is doing IPv6 lookups and failing. If you want to test, disable IPv6 in firefox (about:config) or use the same nameservers as the linux router -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SAGE-AU'2009 Call for presentations
Dear Sydney LUG members, Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested. 17th Annual System Administrators' Conference (SAGE-AU 2009) The System Administrators' Guild of Australia Gold Coast, 10-14th August 2009 SAGE-AU was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues. Our yearly conference provides a forum for System Administrators of all platforms and levels of experience to gather together and share their experiences. Further it provides an excellent opportunity to meet and network with acknowledged experts in the field. SAGE-AU 2009 will be held in the Gold Coast from the 10th-14th August. The theme this year is Internet Content Filtering, and talks or tutorials covering this or related fields are particularly welcomed. Training Program: 10th - 12th August SAGE-AU 2009 will include three days of training sessions of both 3 hours and 6 hours duration. Previous years have included tutorials on topics such as: * Management practices for System Administrators * Disaster recovery and high availability * Computer and network security * High performance * Networking * Cross platform interoperability For more details and to submit your proposal(s), visit our Call for Technical Presentations. http://www.sage-au.org.au//x/cgAG Technical Program: 14th - 15th August - Due to the huge success of last year's change in format, this year again there will be two parallel streams of talks running. If your job includes looking after systems, networks, or machines for which you are not the sole-user, we'd love to hear you speak! Previous years have included talks on topics such as: * Selling yourself/your team * Successful negotiation * Disasters recovered * Security issues * Tools, tricks and tips * Standards For more details and to submit your proposal(s), visit our Call for Technical Presentations. http://www.sage-au.org.au//x/cgAG If you have any questions or require assistance with your submission, please don't hesitate to ask! SAGE-AU 2009 Gold Coast --- Call for Papers/Tutorials Issued 23rd February 2009 Proposals Due 30th March 2009 Provisional Notification 27th April 2009 Draft Paper/Tutorials Due 1st June 2009 Confirmed Acceptance and Contracts15th June 2009 Final Paper/Tutorial Materials Due13th July 2009 For all information, contacts and updates, see the SAGE-AU conference web site at http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: 3 Wireless Broadband on 901 EEEpc
Richard Hayes nada at nada.com.au writes: I have purchased a 3 wireless broadband using a Huawei 160G (replaces E220) USB modem, I can not connect. The systems has EEEbuntu 2.0 standard (EEEbix??) installed http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/824630.html Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0 Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1, IP, 3netaccess Modem Type = Huaweu E220 Baud = 921600 New PPPD = yes Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 ISDN = 0 Phone = *99# Stupid Mode = true Username = a Password = a I see no reason why it should not work. Im using 3 wirless but on Debian. I have attached my conf below. Try : 1. using my Init 3 and see, but the only diff is im setting CFUN=1 which should not be the cause anyway as I understand it. 2. FlowControl=NOFLOW, this is mine: (wvdial.conf) -- Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 115200 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 Init3 = AT+CFUN=1;+CGDCONT=1,IP,3netaccess Area Code = Phone = *99# Username = user Password = pass Ask Password = 0 Dial Command = ATD FlowControl=NOFLOW Stupid Mode = 1 Force Address = Idle Seconds = 3000 DialMessage1 = DialMessage2 = ISDN = 0 Auto DNS = 1 -- Hope this helps *On the funny side of things, I was told by the shop to forget about Linux, just use Vista. I came home, and it worked under Linux instantly. Vista still does not connect :) regards Erle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
