Re: [SLUG] ubuntu 10.4 to 10.10 upgrade nvidia GeForce 8600GT

[Jon and Hannah Hummel]

Hi,

I have the 8800GT, and have had no problems with 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 
Ubuntu. I even have a multiseat working with it under 10.01 and 11.04.

Not sure of the differences.

cheers

Jon


On Tuesday 09 August 2011 11:16:57 David wrote:
> I need to upgrade to 10.10 to get the latest version of a particular
> software.
> 
> 10.10 release notes talk about problems with GeForce 8600GT drivers (and
> several other nVidia drivers).
> 
> Has anybody done this successfully? Google seems to suggest very mixed
> results. I don't want to find myself unable to use my desktop for
> critical work.
> 
> I've been looking at this:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/6
> 26974
> 
> and this:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1614860
> 
> but I can't see anything that inspires confidence.
> 
> Thanks
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Re: [SLUG] Hacked email

[Jon and Hannah Hummel]

> there was a lot of it going on. I pointed out that there is a lot of
> speeding going on too, but I still get booked if I speed. Somehow the
> point didn't seem to sink in.
Thats because suckers like us will pay the fine without questioning it.


> I'm getting the impression that authorities think that internet crime is
> not "real" crime and it's a bit too hard. With some simple co-operation
> these guys could easily have been nabbed. You can be sure it's not the
> only time they've done it.
Authorities don't care about anyting unless it means more power or money for 
them.
Get a crying single mother on national TV at the eve of and election and watch 
the response.
These people are (could be) across boarders which to us means nothing, but to 
a beaurocrat is another universe.

Don't forget it wasn't until ust a few years ago that electronic records were 
actually admissable evidence in court

It's crap I know, maybe we at SLUG could rally with the other Aussie Lugs and 
start a petition or lobby the Government to fix this and I don't know... 
Govern.

jon
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Re: [SLUG] Experimental Live video streaming

[Jon and Hannah Hummel]

Hi Patrick,

Unfortunately I was at my parents that night and their computer was in pieces, 
and then when I got it back together again, priority went to my one year old 
for her missed episode of waybaloo - the price I pay for a peacful dinner, 
sigh... That's exactly why I have a multiseat at home.

I will hopefully be able to catch it next time.

cheers

Jon

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 11:18:30 elliott-brennan wrote:
> Hi John and Hannah,
> 
> Please let us know what it's like on the 'other
> end' of the process :))
> 
> We're hoping to create greater opportunities for
> people to participate through watching the video
> streams and commenting/asking questions via IRC or
> Twitter.
> 
> We're also trying to increase general interest by
> having a greater range of subjects presented at
> each night, some topics spread out over a few
> meetings and then follow-ups on topics, a la Rob
> Smit's presentations on IPV6.
> 
> Added to this, we want to encourage more people to
> present so we can increase the sense of community
> participation and ownership of the LUG.
> 
> We're also hoping to have more remote video
> conferencing  presentations similar to Jeff
> Waugh's earlier in the year.
> 
> Tim A. and James P. are doing a huge amount of
> work to make this all come together and deserve an
> enormous amount of praise for their efforts.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> > Re: [SLUG] Experimental Live video streaming from
> > Jon and Hannah 
> > Thu, 26 May 2011 19:48:19 +1000
> > 
> > Tim,
> > 
> > This is an awesome idea! I've wanted to go to a Slug meeting for ages
> > now, but have never had the time! I should be able to get to computer
> > though!
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > Jon
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Re: [SLUG] ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 upgrade

[Jon and Hannah Hummel]

> I have never experienced a seamless upgrade of any Ubuntu
> distribution, so I second the recommendation to do a full backup
> before attempting the upgrade.

I recently upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04. It was the smoothest upgrade I've 
ever had with Ubuntu, or windows for that matter. Only Issue I had was 
something funny with the task manager causing it to flash - very anoying. 
Solved by a partial profile reset, wihich solved a heap of other niggles as 
well. Even my multiseat kept working. Oh and one of my DVB tuners dropped out 
of existance, but another one came back, why can I only get 2 out of 3 
working?

What are you backing up? anything that you can't afford to loose over an 
upgrade should have already been backed up!

cheers

Jon
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Re: [SLUG] Experimental Live video streaming from SLUG tomorrow!

[Jon and Hannah]

Tim,

This is an awesome idea! I've wanted to go to a Slug meeting for ages now, but 
have never had the time! I should be able to get to computer though!

cheers

Jon

On Thu, 26 May 2011 10:01:56 am Tim Ansell wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm currently trying to set up live video streaming for events held at
> Google like FP-Syd, SLUG and SyPy. Tomorrow at SLUG we are going to try a
> second round of testing. There is no guarantee that it will work at all, so
> please don't rely on the stream but if your bored and want to help out,
> please do join in!
> 
> If you would like to participate in the trial, please go to the following
> URL from 6pm onwards;
>   http://tims-video.appspot.com/slug
> 
> As a backup the following JustinTV channel should also be transmitting the
> same stream, please use the primary video channel to help with testing.
>   http://www.justin.tv/mithro1
> 
> The system has twitter and IRC integration, so tweet with the
> #sydlughashtag, and join
> the
> irc://irc.freenode.org/#slug IRC channel.
> 
> Tim 'mithro' Ansell
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Re: [SLUG] MythTv Setup

[Jon and Hannah]

HI Jeremy,

Yes Myth detects the card correctly. I am using EIT also.
What part of it would be usign UDP, isn't that for entwork traffic not TV?
Following previous peoples instructions, I'm no recieving the following error 
on import of channels.conf "Programmer Error: Failed to heandle tune 
complete." Then nothing happens.

cheers

Jon


On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:07:08 am Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Jon and Hannah said:
> > I've used scan (dvbscan) to generate channels.conf which has
> > everything in it, but I can't for the life of me work out how to get
> > myth to read that and use that as its channel list. I've tried
> > google, and it just says "import channels.conf" - well how?
> 
> Why didn’t you try adding the frequency and other misc data for one of
> the channels manually into MythTV? I’m suspicious about MythTV being bad
> at scanning — it indicates to me there is perhaps another problem going on.
> 
> > Myth itself is rubish at scanning for channels, and doesn't find
> > any.
> 
> Does MythTV detect the capture card at all? Don’t forget there are a
> number of selections, some of which tell it to wait idly around for UDP
> traffic. So even if the DVB card is working fine, it may not be selected
> properly in MythTV (it’s what got me back in the day).
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[SLUG] MythTv Setup

[Jon and Hannah]

Hi All,

I'm trying to set up myth tv on my ubunut box and it is doing my head in.
Myth itself is rubish at scanning for channels, and doesn't find any. I've used 
scan (dvbscan) to generate channels.conf which has everything in it, but I 
can't for the life of me work out how to get myth to read that and use that as 
its channel list. I've tried google, and it just says "import channels.conf" - 
well how?

thanks

Jon
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Virus Scanner

[Jon and Hannah]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:36:07 pm you wrote:
> I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
> via the line that we are immune to viruses, like Apple users have done
> for many years.

Wasn't there a virus for unix systems a few years ago that slowed almost the 
entire internet to an almost halt?
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Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4 desktop freezes

[Jon and Hannah]

Hi,

Have you:
Run a disk check (fsck?) and checked the SMART status of your drives?
Run a RAM check - using the ful live CD, you can run that for a few hours and 
tell you if your RAM is ok.
The above two have given me the same problem in the past.
The current thing giving me that problem is a rubbish graphics card, which I 
notice getting to 98degC and has caused the computer to lock up, and the 
screen to go blank. It replaced another rubbish grphics card which did the 
same thing, but the screen remained visible, just didn't change.

cheers

Jon

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:44:17 pm you wrote:
> I have a problem with an Ubuntu 10.4 desktop.
> It regularly ends up unresposive, with a blank screen, often after being
> left alone for a while, a few hours or overnight. But can happen while
> using machine, where it just stops being able to respond to mouse or
> keyboard with no recovery.
> No response to keyboard or mouse.
> [ctl] [alt] [backspace] has no effect.
> Only able to recover by hard shutdown.
> I initially thought it might be firefox so shut that down when I left
> the machine, it still happened.
> I removed some backup software that I no longer used incase I had
> misconfigured it as at times I got a message on booting that /etc was
> full and had a memory of /etc being the default place for creating some
> backups. df did not show /etc was full. Still happens.
> Reinstalled /, (have separate /home partition), still happens.
> 
> Output of dmesg after a restart contains many repeats of below sequence,
> as does dmesg command output done at other times.
> Is this a clue to something?
> Are their other places that I should be looking?
> 
> [11017.517434] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
> [11017.517446] ata1: soft resetting link
> [11017.868242] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [11017.868268] ata1: EH complete
> [12817.481237] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
> [12817.516675] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
> frozen
> [12817.516681] ata1.00: failed command: SMART
> [12817.516689] ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0
> pio 512 in
> [12817.516690]  res 58/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
> 0x2 (HSM violation)
> [12817.516694] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
> [12817.516705] ata1: soft resetting link
> [12817.864267] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [12817.864297] ata1: EH complete
> [14617.476629] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
> [14617.512669] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
> frozen
> [14617.512676] ata1.00: failed command: SMART
> [14617.512684] ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0
> pio 512 in
> [14617.512685]  res 58/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
> 0x2 (HSM violation)
> [14617.512690] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
> [14617.512700] ata1: soft resetting link
> [14617.860228] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [14617.860246] ata1: EH complete
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[SLUG] 1066MHz DDR2 Ram

[Jon and Hannah]

Hi All,

Does anyone know where I can get some good quality 1066 DDR2 ram? 
All I can find is the 800MHz stuff. It also needs to be a matched pair so I 
can gang them. I currently have a 2G pair and want to upgrade it to a 
4G pair.

Oh, and yes, it is DDR2, NOT DDR3.

Thanks

Jon
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