Re: [SLUG] Re: Kill Firefox
> It would be nice if there were a command-line arg that disables > the annoying warning on startup after a crash. This[1] seems to be what you want: 1. Go to about:config 2. Set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false Although killing the poor fox seems like an harsh way to do it, so there's probably a better way to do this. Cheers, Henare [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash -- 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] TFTP server problems.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:18, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Folks.
>
> Distro is OpenSUSE 11, X64
>
> I'm trying to get a box to allow inbound tftp connections. As far as I
> can tell, the config is right for xinet.d. Config file is as follows
>
> service tftp
> {
>socket_type = dgram
>protocol= udp
>wait= yes
>user= jffnms
>group = www
>server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
>server_args = -s /opt/jffnms/tftpd/
> }
>
> However, every time I try to connect to the tftp service, I get the
> following error in my logs
>
> Sep 24 09:18:03 fred in.tftpd[29931]: cannot set groups for user nobody
>
> I think this means the service is trying to run as user nobody -
> despite the config file telling it to run as another user.
>
> Anyone got any clue why? Or can point out what I've stuffed up?
>
> TIA
>
> DaZZa
Hi DaZZa,
Are you using YaST2 to configure this? (i.e. the TFTP and/or the
xinetd YaST modules) I ask because YaST is liable to overwrite the
config if you manually update /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and YaST reruns.
You should be in 'just works' territory if you're using YaST.
Cheers,
h
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Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 16:15, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't even know what that error means - I can only assume it's > telling me that the in.tftpd process is running as user "nobody" > despite me telling it to run as jffnms - but I'm not even 100% sure of > that. > > DaZZa > Odd. Apparently that problem is all over Google like a mad penguin's... you know the rest. This thread[0] suggests that tftpd cannot run as an arbitrary user (without providing a reason), have you tried keeping the defaults? (of running as root AFAIK). h [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=339130 -- 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] Just sharing a gotcha with "rsync" that caused me big trouble ...extra
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 16:35, James Polley wrote: > Note that blindly using *any* command, without paying attention, > without understanding what you're doing, can lead to disaster. This is > a PEBKAC, not a fault of the tool. Furthermore, rsync has airbags: -n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made Cheers, h -- 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] Sound Problem
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:04, Martin Visser wrote: > For most Linux distros and sound cards these days it should "just > work" so I imagine you must have something special. I'd say the "something special" might be the 2.4 kernel not having the drivers for the newer audio hardware? Slackware 11 can get 2.6 but maybe it's time to try 12 (with default 2.6 kernel). Cheers, h -- 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] sluggish (no pun) cursor
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 00:07, david wrote: > I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance > when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly > across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half > it's old speed. > > I've tried all the usual things wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and > kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It > doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. > Any suggestions? Hi David, Have you tried resetting the keyboard repeat rate? kbdrate should be the command you're looking for. Sane settings are (apparently) `kbdrate -r 30 -d 250`, and I think you need to run it as root (sorry can't test now). Cheers, h -- 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] Linux netbook?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 22:44, Danny Yee wrote: > Does any vendor in Australia sell Linux netbooks? The only one I can > find is the original 7" Asus EeePC - everything else seems to be XP. What kind of netbook are you looking for Danny? I did a search on a price comparison site[0] and that returned results for Acer Aspire Ones[1], 9" eeePCs[2], etc. Cheers, h [0] http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=linux&start=201&links=20&showadres=1&pos=2 [1] http://www.pcshopper.com.au/product.php?productid=51866&cat=424&page=1 [2] http://www.topcom.com.au/ProductDetails.asp?CategoryName=Notebooks&BrandName=ASUS&ProductID=6451&ProductModel=Eee%20PC%208.9 -- 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] Volume control
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 14:57, Heracles wrote: > Is this normal for Ubuntu 9.04 and if so, how can I set it up so that > volume is easily controlled from the widget directly? To set what channel the widget is changing, right click it and select Preferences and then choose Front in there. Cheers, Henare -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fwd: Melbourne’s first OpenAustralia hackfest
Hi SLUGgers, OpenAustralia will be having it's first hackfest in Melbourne in a few weeks. If you know anyone in Melbourne that is interested in open government, politics or hacking please forward them this invite. Also if anyone knows of a LUG in Melbourne that would be keen to announce it that would be great too! Cheers, Henare -- Forwarded message -- From: "Henare Degan" Date: Sep 8, 2009 9:14 PM Subject: Melbourne’s first OpenAustralia hackfest To: OpenAustralia.org, Australia’s first eDemocracy website, would like to invite its friends, fans and volunteers to its first Melbourne hackfest. The first OpenAustralia hackfest[0], held in Sydney in June, was a big success, attracting 50 volunteers. We worked on solving existing problems as well as starting new OpenAustralia projects including a mobile version of OpenAustralia. We’re happy to announce that several of the founders of OpenAustralia will be making the trip to Melbourne so you can talk to them about the project, put forward your own ideas, and get to work right away! If you’re a software hacker, you can dive in and work on bugs, pick an item from the wishlist and start creating a new feature, or work on just about anything you’d like to to improve or extend OpenAustralia. The sky’s the limit! If you’re a fan or user of OpenAustralia and you’re not technically minded, fear not! Websites don’t get better without people USING them and TESTING them to give us ideas on how to improve! If you’re a journalist or someone who really loves statistics and databases, help us by coming up with crazy searches that push the limits of what OpenAustralia can do! ThoughtWorks[1] is kindly hosting the hackfest, which kicks off at 12 noon and will go until 5pm. Please note you’ll need to bring your own laptop. A ThoughtWorks volunteer will meet hackfest attendees at 12 sharp to let them in the building, so please be on time. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested – but note that due to the size of the room, we won’t be able to accept more than 30 people for this event. RSVP[2] by Wednesday, 23 September please, so we can arrange nametags. We look forward to working with you to make our democracy a little more open! >From the OpenAustralia team. [0] http://blog.openaustralia.org/2009/06/15/inaugural-openaustralia-hackfest-was-terrific/ [1] http://www.thoughtworks.com.au/ [2] http://anyvite.com/tz0xufzhxh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OpenAustralia Hackfest - MashupAustralia Edition - 7th & 8th November
The OpenAustralia Foundation and Google invite you to this free all-weekend hacking extravaganza at the Google Sydney offices for anyone interested in creating a mashup for the MashupAustralia competition or hacking on the OpenAustralia website. OpenAustralia.org is Australia's first eDemocracy website, making it easier for people to keep track of what their representatives are saying in parliament by republishing Hansard in an easier to use form. The MashupAustralia competition[0] is a recently announced initiative of the Government 2.0 Taskforce[1], asking the community to create mashups of public sector information that has recently been released to show the benefits of open access to this data. Please see our hackfest site more information and to register! http://hackfest.openaustralia.org/ Thanks, Henare and the OpenAustralia Team Ps. Don't forget to tag your tweets, posts and photos with the OpenAustralia Hackfest tag #oahack. [0] http://mashupaustralia.org/ [1] http://gov2.net.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Free to a good home - 2x ADSL1 Modems
Hi SLUGgers, I've got 2x ADSL1 modems on my desk that are free to a good home, they're Open 501Rs and a working fine as far as I know. Pickup in Parramatta or Newtown, available as-is (i.e. you'll probably need to reset them etc.). Please email me directly if you'd like them. I'll keep them until the end of the week and then they're in the rubbish ;( Note these are ADSL *1*. Cheers, Henare -- 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: Free to a good home - 2x ADSL1 Modems
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 14:31, Henare Degan wrote: > Hi SLUGgers, > > I've got 2x ADSL1 modems on my desk that are free to a good home, > they're Open 501Rs and a working fine as far as I know. Pickup in > Parramatta or Newtown, available as-is (i.e. you'll probably need to > reset them etc.). > > Please email me directly if you'd like them. I'll keep them until the > end of the week and then they're in the rubbish ;( > > Note these are ADSL *1*. > > Cheers, > > Henare Hi all, These have now been snapped up. Cheers, Henare -- 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] Copying HDD
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:34, Heracles wrote: > Hi All, > I have a friend's HDD which has a Slackware server install. It is > essential that It stay intact but I need to clone it to another drive. > On the original drive the installer fixed the partition at 4 GB but I > wish to let it have a bit more space - say 20 GB. > Do I need to use dd or is there a simple gui way. I need to copy ALL the > files across. > > Thanks > Heracles I think you want Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/ Cheers, Henare -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OpenAustralia Hackfest - Apps4NSW edition
Hot off the press. The OpenAustralia Foundation is having another hackfest! This time to coincide with the Apps4NSW competition. It would be great to see you there. Register early so we can get numbers for some yummy catering: http://apps4nsw.eventbrite.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] HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 13:12, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Peter Eckersley of the EFF and Mike Perry of the Tor project have > written a Firefox addon to make it easier to use Google's SSL > search feature, among other mixed-mode SSL sites: > > https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/ That is _brilliant_! Their warning about it not being public and being very alpha should be heeded though :) >From the code comments in the rules... "most google international sites look like "google.fr"...some look like "google.co.jp"...and some crazy ones like "google.com.au"" Cheers, Henare -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PlanningAlerts
Hi all, Here's a few links from my talk last night about the OpenAustralia Foundation[0] site PlanningAlerts[1]. As I mentioned, our application code[2] and scraper code[3] are free software and available for your forking pleasure if you'd like to get involved[4]. A really great way to get involved, even if you have little programming experience, is to look at building a scraper for an area we're missing[5] using ScraperWiki[6]. There are excellent tutorials[7] that cover writing scrapers in Python, Ruby and PHP and you can check out scrapers already written for PlanningAlerts to see what others have done[8]. You don't need to download or set up anything to get started. If you're keen to do this, ping me an email and I can send you links to even more information and help. Thanks to everyone for the opportunity to give this talk. Cheers, Henare [0] http://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/ [1] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/ [2] https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-app [3] https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-parsers [4] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/getinvolved [5] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/about#authorities [6] http://scraperwiki.com/ [7] http://scraperwiki.com/docs/ [8] http://scraperwiki.com/tags/planningalerts -- Henare Degan e » henare.de...@gmail.com t » @henaredegan w » www.henaredegan.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] Gnome "profiles" of screen setup
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 09:54, Simon Rumble wrote: > I tend to switch my laptop between work desktop, client meetings and > travelling. Every time I come back to my work desktop I've got to open the > Monitor Preferences thing and manually re-enable the screen, then drag it > into the right position. Not very seamless. I was annoyed by this for ages too and didn't find a nice way to solve it but in the latest release of Ubuntu it's fixed. In 11.04 it seems to remember the monitor placement for the different monitors you plug in. So when I'm connected to my home monitor it correctly positions it based on the last configuration I used, for that particular monitor. It also seems to scan for newly connected monitors. I rarely need to open Display Settings any more as it detects there's a new monitor and enables it based on my last configuration before I get a chance to. Sorry this doesn't answer your question directly but hopefully someone knows what was changed in 11.04 and can give you more information. Cheers, Henare -- Henare Degan e » henare.de...@gmail.com t » @henaredegan w » www.henaredegan.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OpenAustralia Hackfest - "What are you up to next weekend?" edition
tl;dr - The OpenAustralia Foundation (Australia’s open data, open government and civic hacking charity that produces and uses free software extensively) is running a hackfest this weekend, sign up at https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/ Come and join Henare, Tim and Matthew in their basement, er.. we mean Google Sydney, for an awesome weekend of hacking. It’s all a bit last minute. What’s the worst that happens? Nobody turns up and the three of us spend the weekend hacking. That’s okay too. However, it would be much more fun if you came too! We’ve got a couple of quick talks lined up to warm you up and give you some inspiration, then a full weekend dedicated to hacking on everything OpenAustralia. Come along and learn, share and build interesting things in and around open data, open government and civic hacking. Want to reboot OpenAustralia.org by fixing the scraper? How about some finishing touches to Election Leaflets to monitor future Australian elections? Or do you want to learn how to help tens of thousands of people get PlanningAlerts by writing a simple scraper (anyone can do it!)? Then register here: https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/ This event will be hosted at Google Sydney this weekend the 10th and 11th of September, here’s our plan for the weekend: Saturday 11:30 – Doors open 12:00 – Introduction and housekeeping 12:15 – The Gears That Power the Tubes of OpenAustralia – Matthew Landauer 12:30 – An Introduction to Guerrilla Data Liberation with ScraperWiki – Henare Degan 12:45 – Let the hacking begin 18:00 – We’ll order pizzas with anyone interested 22:00 – Doors close Sunday -- 11:30 – Doors open / Let the hacking begin 16:00 – Stop hacking, start presentations – show us what you’ve build, fixed or learnt! 18:00 – Doors close, optional beers at the pub Google are kindly supplying the venue, power and WiFi so all you need to do is bring along your notebook, some snacks to keep you hacking through the day and pizza money if you’re a hungry hacker come Saturday evening. Sign up to the OpenAustralia Community mailing list if you have any questions and don’t forget to tag your tweets, photos, etc. #oahack Cheers, Henare, Matthew and Tim OpenAustralia Foundation volunteers -- 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 11.10
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 16:36, Heracles wrote: > Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems > glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have > ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With > 11.10 the only choices are unity and unity 2D. > > I guess it's time to move to try another distro. My Twitter feed has been a torrent of rage and bile since I made the mistake of thinking this was 2011 and I could safely upgrade my distro without it being a catastrophic 90s-grade failure. Ahh, that feels slightly better ;) In all seriousness it's been OK fighting^Wusing it today but that's because I'm not using "advanced" features like two whole monitors. Since it took Linux about 10 years to get multi-monitor working last time I'm guessing it'll be another 10 until Unity sorts that out too. Yours grumbly, Henare -- Henare Degan e » henare.de...@gmail.com t » @henaredegan w » www.henaredegan.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 11.10
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 23:32, Simon Males wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Henare Degan wrote: > > In all seriousness it's been OK fighting^Wusing it today but that's > > because I'm not using "advanced" features like two whole monitors. > > Since it took Linux about 10 years to get multi-monitor working last > > time I'm guessing it'll be another 10 until Unity sorts that out too. > > My colleague had a new install of 11.04 for about two weeks and > upgraded to 11.10 yesterday, on new T-Series Lenovo laptop. > > Multiple monitors seem to just work. I'm on a T-series ThinkPad too and there were simple things that just flat out didn't work after the upgrade e.g. I couldn't maximise a window, it'd just vertical maximise to one side of the screen. However, this morning things are looking really good with my multiple monitor setup and working how I would expect - I think I know why. Before the upgrade (and for some time) I've had a few bits of custom Compiz config, nothing crazy although I guess some people call wobbly windows crazy :) My hypothesis is that this custom config was interfering with Compiz/Unity and that was the source of my post upgrade woes. Why do I think this? Well yesterday I was using my notebook with no additional screen and I needed to just Get Stuff Done so I battled with Unity to try and get a working environment. This involved a bit of research and resulted in running `unity --reset`, which resets (amongst other things?) your Compiz config. Hopefully that might help others. If all else fails and you want to give Unity a red hot go, try running `unity --reset` and restarting/logging back in. Cheers, Henare -- 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 11.10
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 23:51, Jeremy Visser wrote: > I wish it was green. Have you tried openSUSE? :P -- 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] monitoring aspx website, how ?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:13, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I have userid/password to an aspx based website, > what can I use to script a login and get info or monitor for new info on a > page ? > > is wget the way to go for aspx site, or what's a good tool for that ? A wise man once said, "You are entering a world of pain my friend, a world of pain" :) For projects like PlanningAlerts[0] we need to scrape ASPX sites quite often. They are routinely built in the most insane way and the usual wget/curl magic won't cut it. Even for a simple get requests they'll use Javascript to do a postback with incomprehensible session data. I'm not sure if coding a scraper is a solution you're considering but if you are, check out some of the PlanningAlerts scrapers we've written on ScraperWiki[1] for ideas. I like using Mechanize with Ruby but I'm sure there are similar libraries in other languages if Ruby's not your thing. If you end up going the scraping route I'll be happy to lend a hand if I can (the ScraperWiki list[2] is a pretty awesome way to get scraping help too). Cheers, Henare [0] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/ [1] https://scraperwiki.com/tags/planningalerts [2] http://groups.google.com/group/scraperwiki -- Henare Degan e » henare.de...@gmail.com t » @henaredegan w » www.henaredegan.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
