[SLUG] Syncable wiki?
Hi folks, I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I and others in my family want to keep track of. However, there are times when various family members are away, when they want to be able to access the wiki, update it, etc., without network access -- essentially, to carry around a syncable copy of the wiki on a laptop, PDA or phone. Does anyone know of any such software? Linux of course, and preferably PalmOS as well but that's not essential. I'm using Moin at present, but it shouldn't be too hard to migrate to something else if the featureset is right. It's mostly hyperlinked multi-lingual text with a few diagrams. Peter C -- 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] Syncable wiki?
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 19:14 +1100, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Does anyone know of any such software? Linux of course, and preferably PalmOS as well but that's not essential. ikiwiki is the most mature such thing I know of. -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] RAID Woes - Expanding Storage
You'd probably be best off finding the largest directories (eg user's $HOME) and moving that onto the mirrored TB drives, and go from there. 2009/11/3 Nigel Allen d...@edrs.com.au Hi All I'm trying to assist a client who is running out of space. They have an HP DL360G4 with 2 x 160GB Maxtor SATA drives. they want us to replace them with 2 x 1TB Seagate drives. They are currently running everything (apart from /boot) from the root partition and are sitting on around 97% full. The problem is their current disk set up. First disk looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 19216 154248097+ fd Linux raid autodetect While the second looks like this: Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 254 2040223+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb2 255 19457 154248097+ fd Linux raid autodetect As you can guess, /boot is on /dev/sda1 and root is on the linux raid partition (RAID 1). The RAID looks like this: mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Fri Nov 11 11:37:46 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 154248000 (147.10 GiB 157.95 GB) Device Size : 154248000 (147.10 GiB 157.95 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Nov 3 16:40:57 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 034603b7:67d1a2c7:35610b04:82f5961d Events : 0.2957028 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 820 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 181 active sync /dev/sdb2 What is the best way to replace these and allow for expansion later? Given that I'll end up with 2 x 1TB and 2 x 160GB drives, it would have been fantastic to use them all with boot, swap and root mirrored at device level but the bloody stupid DL360 only has space for 2 x sata drives in total, internally. Added complication is that it is a fairly mission critical system so whatever we do we have to do it soon and have it back up the next morning. What sayest the collective consciousness of the SLUG? With Thanks and Regards Nigel. -- 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
Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?
The slug wiki (horrendous as it is) is DokuWiki, which amongst its other features, stores all its data in plain text files on disk, which makes it amenable to all the usual tools for dealing with textual content - eg, stick it inside bzr, people can check it out, take a copy with them, and merge changes when they get home. As the files are plain-text, they should be somewhat readable on a PDA... http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki for more details. The next nearest thing I know of (aside from ikiwiki, which I hadn't heard of till Rob mentioned it) is TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/) - it's a self-hosting wiki-in-a-file where all the code to make the wiki work is in javascript inside the file. It's portable, bzr might work to merge changes (I don't know, haven't tried, don't know enough about its innards). It definitely makes it easy to take a copy with you on a thumb drive or similar, but I don't know how all the JS is going to render on a small screen. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Hi folks, I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I and others in my family want to keep track of. However, there are times when various family members are away, when they want to be able to access the wiki, update it, etc., without network access -- essentially, to carry around a syncable copy of the wiki on a laptop, PDA or phone. Does anyone know of any such software? Linux of course, and preferably PalmOS as well but that's not essential. I'm using Moin at present, but it shouldn't be too hard to migrate to something else if the featureset is right. It's mostly hyperlinked multi-lingual text with a few diagrams. Peter C -- 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] Ubuntu Server LTS
Hi all, I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a server). Im now slowly being won over with others telling me how successful their ubuntu server installs have been, so now Im considering using ubuntu server edition. My question is .. the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? install 9.04 and upgrade, install last LTS (I think 8.10 ??) and upgrade, install last LTS and dont upgrade or go my traditional route and use Centos or Debian. I really hope this does not become a distro flame war, its really not intended (or wanted), just some idea's and hopefully experience. Unless people have specific reasons they would not use Ubuntu on a server, I am more interested in hearing thoughts on the Ubuntu upgrade path rather than using a different distro (unless of course it is justified, not just distro preference). Thanks Tuxta __ Get more done like never before with Yahoo!7 Mail. Learn more: http://au.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ -- 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] Ubuntu Server LTS
I'm using Ubuntu Hardy on servers (one mail, one web/database/dns of mine, plus one fileserver run by my son-in-law) and we have not found the need to upgrade. I'm waiting for the next LTS. I don't think this is viable on desktop but on server I think it's more than desirable. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. A little bird told me that the latest Ubuntu does ext4 by default (is this so? should you care?) so that may be a factor for you. Changing filesystems is probably something you would rather avoid. Ironically, I started using Ubuntu because I like the Debian paradigm but didn't want to wait so long for upgrades! Except for the PulseAudio debacle (see previous thread) I have had no real reason to dislike Ubuntu. Naturally PulseAudio doesn't relate to servers. OTOH, I haven't used Redhat since V.7 so maybe it's much better than Debian now.. who knows? It strikes me that Distros are like modern cars.. they all work pretty well and they are all pretty reliable, but that's just an impression I have. Steven Tucker wrote: Hi all, I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a server). Im now slowly being won over with others telling me how successful their ubuntu server installs have been, so now Im considering using ubuntu server edition. My question is .. the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? install 9.04 and upgrade, install last LTS (I think 8.10 ??) and upgrade, install last LTS and dont upgrade or go my traditional route and use Centos or Debian. I really hope this does not become a distro flame war, its really not intended (or wanted), just some idea's and hopefully experience. Unless people have specific reasons they would not use Ubuntu on a server, I am more interested in hearing thoughts on the Ubuntu upgrade path rather than using a different distro (unless of course it is justified, not just distro preference). Thanks Tuxta __ Get more done like never before with Yahoo!7 Mail. Learn more: http://au.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ -- 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] Syncable wiki?
2009/11/3 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Hi folks, I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I and others in my family want to keep track of. However, there are times when various family members are away, when they want to be able to access the wiki, update it, etc., without network access -- essentially, to carry around a syncable copy of the wiki on a laptop, PDA or phone. Does anyone know of any such software? Linux of course, and preferably PalmOS as well but that's not essential. I'm using Moin at present, but it shouldn't be too hard to migrate to something else if the featureset is right. It's mostly hyperlinked multi-lingual text with a few diagrams. I use Tomboy[0] to maintain all of my notes. I sync it via plain ol' ssh to a server at home. Other ways to sync include WebDAV and local folders (combine with something like DropBox). If you also want Web access, there's Snowy[1], which you can either host yourself or via a service like Ubuntu One[2]. I prefer the speed and convenience of a desktop application, but it's good to know that there's a Web-based front-end too. Note: Tomboy uses Mono. If that bothers you for whatever reason (legal, resource usage, etc.) you can try another implementation such as gnote[3] or Conboy[4]. [0] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/ [1] http://live.gnome.org/Snowy [2] https://one.ubuntu.com/ [3] http://live.gnome.org/Gnote [4] http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/conboy/ -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- 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] Port forwarding weirdities
There is a known bug in openwrt, at least on the 2.4 kernel. The bug is that ... After some period time, forwarding a port from X to Y will break :) (forwarding will go screwy ). (where X / Y are different port numbers) You can forward from Y to Y reliably or should at least should be able too ;) 2009/11/3 Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:37 +1100, Ishwor Gurung wrote: What about just dumping NAT table i.e., without the grep magic foo? Sure. I've attached an `iptables -t nat -L` from working, and broken. (Not sure if such attachments are allowed on this list, but I have seen some pretty hideous top-posting on this list that is much worse than a couple of KB of text attachments.) What's weird is that the line that should make all the difference (the last line in both attachments) doesn't change at all. At time of writing, the brokenness is sending traffic from port 1240 to port 81 instead of 80. (Has now been ports 82 and 95 in the past.) The only differences between the two dumps are that Transmission doesn't have one of its UDP port forwards for some reason, our (dynamic) WAN IP has changed, and I pulled another port forward that I wasn't using. Given that it has been working and broken without much change, I cannot put my finger on what it is. I think it could be a bug in OpenWRT. What specific revision is it? I'm running Kamikaze 8.09.1, r16278. -- 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
Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 22:00 +1100, db wrote: There is a known bug in openwrt, at least on the 2.4 kernel. The bug is that ... After some period time, forwarding a port from X to Y will break :) [citation needed] Do you have a link I could follow up on that with? My Google-Fu has failed me (otherwise I wouldn't be having this problem :)). signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Ubuntu Server LTS
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:40 +1100, david wrote: A little bird told me that the latest Ubuntu does ext4 by default (is this so? should you care?) so that may be a factor for you. Changing filesystems is probably something you would rather avoid. An upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (ext3) to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will in all likelihood continue to use the existing filesystems as ext3, and not 'upgrade' them to ext4. There are two upgrade paths to 10.04 LTS: from 8.04, and from 9.10. If it were me, I'd deploy with 9.10, and upgrade from there when 10.04 comes out. Why? I don't have a scientific reason for it, but a step from 9.10 to 10.04 will be more 'incremental' than from 8.04 to 10.04. Take ext4 for example. 9.10 uses ext4 by default, so there will be no worries there. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Port forwarding weirdities
Hi Jeremy, 2009/11/3 Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:37 +1100, Ishwor Gurung wrote: What about just dumping NAT table i.e., without the grep magic foo? Sure. I've attached an `iptables -t nat -L` from working, and broken. [...] What's weird is that the line that should make all the difference (the last line in both attachments) doesn't change at all. At time of writing, the brokenness is sending traffic from port 1240 to port 81 instead of 80. (Has now been ports 82 and 95 in the past.) This is sad. Indeed sad. The only differences between the two dumps are that Transmission doesn't have one of its UDP port forwards for some reason, our (dynamic) WAN IP has changed, and I pulled another port forward that I wasn't using. Given that it has been working and broken without much change, I cannot put my finger on what it is. Hrmm. Try patching it against r17555 and see how it goes - https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/17555. There are a bunch of fixes in r16278 plus try disable QOS'ing packets (seems to be the common wisdom of the ticket discussion) I think it could be a bug in OpenWRT. What specific revision is it? I'm running Kamikaze 8.09.1, r16278. Isn't that the stock one? This is quiet interesting https://dev.openwrt.org/roadmap says pptp nat conntrack removed, cause of dnat off-by-one port forwarding bug (r17555). But in your case though its definitely _more_ than off-by-one port fwd in the dnat. hrmm. I feel this is a definitely a bug. File a bug report I'd say (which is rather another question. _Why_ on earth wouldn't you file a bug report?) I mentioned in my previous post that I don't have my wrt with me atm so proceed with caution. These were the summary of latest patches by agb so far- 606-netfilter_NETMAP.patch 5.6 KB 17555 8 weeks agb: merge r17552 to 8.09 [generic-2.4] remove nat pptp conntracking patch // 610-netfilter_connbytes.patch 17.0 KB 17555 8 weeks agb: merge r17552 to 8.09 [generic-2.4] remove nat pptp conntracking patch // 613-netfilter_nat_h323.patch 26.8 KB 17555 8 weeks agb: merge r17552 to 8.09 [generic-2.4] remove nat pptp conntracking patch Sorry can't be of much help. I don't have time nor energy to write a patch. -- Regards, Ishwor Gurung -- 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] Port forwarding weirdities
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 23:34 +1100, Ishwor Gurung wrote: Hrmm. Try patching it against r17555 and see how it goes - https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/17555. There are a bunch of fixes in r16278 plus try disable QOS'ing packets (seems to be the common wisdom of the ticket discussion) Aha. Found the ticket here after looking based on those keywords: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2558 Cool, looks like it is my issue after all. So it's a bug in one of their kernel patches. Hmmph -- I guess I'm glad it's found, although they certainly took their sweet time. And I can't disable QOS, otherwise VoIP is unusable here. Apparently the fix is going into Kamikaze 8.09.2, so I'm happy about that. Some people in the ticket mention that same port -- same port forwards don't stuff up, so I think I'll just do a 1240 -- 1240 forward until 8.09.2 is released. Thanks for the pointers everyone! Looks like this is 'resolved', despite not being 'fixed' yet. :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] RAID Woes - Expanding Storage
Nigel Allen wrote: Hi All I'm trying to assist a client who is running out of space. They have an HP DL360G4 with 2 x 160GB Maxtor SATA drives. they want us to replace them with 2 x 1TB Seagate drives. They are currently running everything (apart from /boot) from the root partition and are sitting on around 97% full. The problem is their current disk set up. First disk looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 19216 154248097+ fd Linux raid autodetect While the second looks like this: Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 254 2040223+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb2 255 19457 154248097+ fd Linux raid autodetect As you can guess, /boot is on /dev/sda1 and root is on the linux raid partition (RAID 1). The RAID looks like this: mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Fri Nov 11 11:37:46 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 154248000 (147.10 GiB 157.95 GB) Device Size : 154248000 (147.10 GiB 157.95 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Nov 3 16:40:57 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 034603b7:67d1a2c7:35610b04:82f5961d Events : 0.2957028 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 820 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 181 active sync /dev/sdb2 What is the best way to replace these and allow for expansion later? Given that I'll end up with 2 x 1TB and 2 x 160GB drives, it would have been fantastic to use them all with boot, swap and root mirrored at device level but the bloody stupid DL360 only has space for 2 x sata drives in total, internally. Added complication is that it is a fairly mission critical system so whatever we do we have to do it soon and have it back up the next morning. What sayest the collective consciousness of the SLUG? With Thanks and Regards Nigel. nothing nice will come of raid on 2 disks with regards expansion ;- you need raid 5 to expand the raid array natively (ie add more disks for larger sizes) otherwise you could do something with LVM but I'm not a fan. For my clients I set them up with /boot and / as raid 1, you can boot grub off raid 1 without a problem. then you have identical images on both drives. you can then online expand the array (if you swap to larger disks). there is a tutorial somewhere but basically (from memory) fail disk b, pull it from the system put new 1Tb disk in, partition it for arrays, (with the full size) add them to the running array, let it sync (remember that last step,its really important ;-) fail disk A, and repeat then expand the file system to fill the available space in the raid partition. I have successfully done it once or twice with non hot swap drives, total downtime was about 20 minutes whilst I swapped drives, all the sizing and syncing was done on-line. -- 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] Ubuntu Server LTS
Steven Tucker wrote: Hi all, I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a server). Im now slowly being won over with others telling me how successful their ubuntu server installs have been, so now Im considering using ubuntu server edition. My question is .. the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? install 9.04 and upgrade, install last LTS (I think 8.10 ??) and upgrade, install last LTS and dont upgrade or go my traditional route and use Centos or Debian. I really hope this does not become a distro flame war, its really not intended (or wanted), just some idea's and hopefully experience. Unless people have specific reasons they would not use Ubuntu on a server, I am more interested in hearing thoughts on the Ubuntu upgrade path rather than using a different distro (unless of course it is justified, not just distro preference). Thanks Tuxta yeah go 9.10, it seems pretty spiffy from a desktop POV. I have found ubuntu server upgrades to be much nicer than the average desktop upgrade, I spose there is less stuff on a server and hence less to go wrong. I wouldn't be too worried about tracking the current release on a server, give it a month or two after release to make sure any kinks are worked out and go for it ;- But then I have only updated as needed for hardware support and feature additions, like somebody said if it ain't broke. -- 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] Syncable wiki?
James == James Polley s...@zhasper.com writes: James The slug wiki (horrendous as it is) is DokuWiki, which amongst James its other features, stores all its data in plain text files on James disk, which makes it amenable to all the usual tools for James dealing with textual content - eg, stick it inside bzr, people James can check it out, take a copy with them, and merge changes when James they get home. James As the files are plain-text, they should be somewhat readable James on a PDA... There are other plain-text wikis, including some with a git or mercurial back-end. http://www.wikimatrix.org/ gives a list of 8: Foswiki, Git-Wiki, Hatta, ikiwiki, KeheiWiki, MoniWiki, PodWiki and TWiki. But just because they use a git or other RCS for a backend, doesn't mean that the Wiki can be worked on from opposite sides of a firewall and then merged easily when the mobile device moves back inside the firewall. Nor does it mean that the WiKi can easily be used on a low-powered device (functions needed there are multi-lingual searching, viewing, editing, syncing of *parts* of the WiKi, according to access controls) Peter C -- 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] Ubuntu Server LTS
Steven Tucker wrote: My question is .. the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? install 9.04 and upgrade That was suppose to be 9.10, latest version, then upgrade to 10.04 Tuxta -- 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] Syncable wiki?
Sridhar == Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes: Sridhar 2009/11/3 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Hi folks, I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I and others in my family want to keep track of. However, there are times when various family members are away, when they want to be able to access the wiki, update it, etc., without network access -- essentially, to carry around a syncable copy of the wiki on a laptop, PDA or phone. Sridhar I use Tomboy[0] to maintain all of my notes. I sync it via Sridhar plain ol' ssh to a server at home. Other ways to sync include Sridhar WebDAV and local folders (combine with something like Sridhar DropBox). Will this work with multiple off-line updates by different people? And, yes, Mono is a bit too much of a resource hog to run on my laptop. Peter C -- 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] Journalist doesn't like Windows -- must have missed out on the freebies?
2009/11/4 jon jonjer...@optusnet.com.au Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. Some of the commentators are putting forward a case for Linux. This is Charlie Brooker who is a _hilarious_ writer for the Grauniad. He normally writes about television. He wrote the Big Brother zombie miniseries Dead Set (SBS next Monday night -- it's AWESOME). All round very sharp, very funny guy. Take everything he says with a big sack of salt. On the issue of the Windows 7 party videos, seen the spoof? Host Your Own Windows 7 BitTorrent Party http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ef83afc272/hosting-your-windows-7-torrenting-party -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- 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] Ubuntu Server LTS
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 20:49:58 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a server). Im now slowly being won over with others telling me how successful their ubuntu server installs have been, so now Im considering using ubuntu server edition. My question is .. the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? install 9.04 and upgrade, install last LTS (I think 8.10 ??) and upgrade, install last LTS and dont upgrade or go my traditional route and use Centos or Debian. I really hope this does not become a distro flame war, its really not intended (or wanted), just some idea's and hopefully experience. Unless people have specific reasons they would not use Ubuntu on a server, I am more interested in hearing thoughts on the Ubuntu upgrade path rather than using a different distro (unless of course it is justified, not just distro preference). I ran my server (LAMP Mail and DNS) on ubuntu for a couple of years without problems and with quite positive impressions. Eventually I needed new compiler and qt4 support for my mythtv and at that time I let my preference for yast prevail. The advantage of LTS was a quite nice LTS-LTS++ upgrade where as upgrading version to version was much more iffy - sometimes OK, not always So if you were going ubuntu i'd install the last lts then upgrade and not 9.10 to next LTS. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Journalist doesn't like Windows -- must have missed out on the freebies?
In today's SMH, taken from the Guardian: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/better-the-broken-windows-than-life-with-the-mac-monks-20091103-huew.html Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. Some of the commentators are putting forward a case for Linux. Jon. -- 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] Syncable wiki?
2009/11/4 Peter Chubb pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Sridhar == Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes: Sridhar 2009/11/3 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Hi folks, I run a family wiki inside my firewall, that contains stuff that I and others in my family want to keep track of. However, there are times when various family members are away, when they want to be able to access the wiki, update it, etc., without network access -- essentially, to carry around a syncable copy of the wiki on a laptop, PDA or phone. Sridhar I use Tomboy[0] to maintain all of my notes. I sync it via Sridhar plain ol' ssh to a server at home. Other ways to sync include Sridhar WebDAV and local folders (combine with something like Sridhar DropBox). Will this work with multiple off-line updates by different people? It could be better, but depending on your circumstances it might be enough. When synchronising, it can overwrite your local change with the server's copy or rename your local copy to notename (old), after which you can manually merge the two together. You can make it ask for each conflict or set a default. And, yes, Mono is a bit too much of a resource hog to run on my laptop. You can try Gnote then. It's a clone written in C. Fedora include it by default. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
