Re: [SLUG] ownCloud alternatives
On 12/10/2013 08:14 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: Anyone have experience with backing up/restoring this in the event of a hardware meltdown? I would put it in if there is a bullet proof way of ensuring a restore in case of a failure. We have been using it for months with only the occasional hiccups in a client here and there. Simple to set up in CentOS, sync's with all the PC's we need. If you backup the DB and conf files to the data directory then it will replicate them to your clients. If your server dies then just restore from anyone one of the clients. I like it 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] 20 years of using Linux at Home
have changed. I spent ten years writing for - www.linuxuser.co.uk - www.linuxformat.co.uk - http://www.linux-magazine.com/ . Travelled round the world a few times doing that. I think my first distro was Caldera which I think was in 1996. I was working as an NT / 95-98 admin at the time. Magazines played two huge parts in my adoption of Linux. 1) I go to have disks to install distros from 2) In one article on PHP + MySQL they had a shot of Webmin www.webmin.com In NT land we had buggy mail severs and other crap + a whole lot of shrink wrapped boxes that cost 1,000 $ of equally crap software. I installed RedHat 7.? and webmin and clicked on the Servers tab - here was a suite of offerings that I could install for free and get working rather than thinking of how to install front page extensions on IIS. The screen shot in one of those magazines was a big eye opener - thanks! Cheers 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] DAW audio software and the Zoom HD8/16
On 01/30/2013 06:07 PM, Trevor D. Manning wrote: Hi Sluggers, I am curious if anybody on this list has used one of these units with DAW software such as Ardour, for example, and what their experience has been. I've not used this particular hardware but I've often had problems with setting my Edirol USB device and being able to layer tracks and listen while record. I think part of the problem is (was?) setting up a real time kernel. I use Linux as a general purpose box so I haven't geared it to a DAW so much (as I would have wanted). There was a guru on the Melbourne or LUV group (I forget which) who appeared to know a great deal about using Linux professionally as a DAW - perhaps search their archives. Cheers 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] clone system to a vm?
I have a Centos 4 machine, I'd like to try cloning it from a physical machine to a VM on another system, I've installed Centos 6 on the new machine, and, learning how to setup VM how would I clone existing system across LAN to VM ? thanks for any tips That is a old version so I would be inclined to upgrade. That being said I'll echo another’s comments and rebuild the machine. * use RPM to list all the $packages * Install a base install * yum -y install $packages * rsync /home/ server:/home/ (repeat for other data dirs) If you want to clone the config then you could copy files from /etc or install webmin and backup (old) restore (to new) the config of the various services. Just my $0.02 Cheers Piers -- 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] downgrading from Centos 5 to 4 ?
On Sun, September 2, 2012 2:42 pm, James Linder wrote: James, yes, I've been thinking of that, what sort of minimum hardware would you guesstimate I'd need ? all I need for Centos is apache php mysql, single cms that has perhaps 5 users at most, if that, just to retrieve docs from doc repository Set your apache max clients to 6. If the CMS is memory hungry then check the log files for: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of bytes exhausted (tried to allocate bytes) And update the PHP ini file accordingly. I suspect that you could get a usable system for 5 users in 256MB of RAM / 1 CPU 1.7 is fine or lower) and what ever image size that covers your install + growth. If a CMS is being used for 5 people then it must be a wiki / KB or something similar? You could just dump the db and write a PHP navigation tool and be done with it. Cheers 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] US DOD Distro - First Impressions
On 08/03/2011 08:56 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: To get started, download the LPS-Public ISO image and burn it to a CD. Read the Quick Start Guide for more information. Downloaded 300Meg ISO and used UNetbootin to write it to USB. Nice to have a distro that boots to root. Very quick from a app load POV. Uses windows (95 / NT) like widgets with 'Shows Desktop' and C:\ icons. Have Nvidia settings app and detected my wireless. Shell is BusyBox Ash. Has Ctrix RDP clients. Not sure if it has disk management tools for a system recovery. In a nutshell - its hard not to like: quick, responsive, secure, has the basic apps one needs (especially if you use apps in the cloud). I wonder how long before they have 'dev' version with a syntax highlighted text editor. This usb _is_ staying on my car keyring. Cheers 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] Is Linux Dead a worthy Debate for a SLUG meeting?
On 24/06/11 07:43, David Lyon wrote: Occassionaly you'd see changes in face expression.. Piers likes this. -- 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] Choice of OS's
On 06/09/2011 04:52 PM, Andrew Hurley wrote: Hi, haven't used a linux box in many a years and am tossing up to run either OpenSUSE 11.4 or CentOS 5.6 due to specific software requirements. If you had to choice an OS which one would it be? If you want a desktop then probably look at Fedora and not CentOS. What is the specific software you need? Ubuntu is a good desktop but so if Fedora / OpenSUSE. Most people don't buy Linux. Just download your choice onto a CD / DVD / USB drive and install from there. Most of them let you install it alongside an existing system as well. Cheers 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] Hourly rate for short-term PHP work
On 06/05/2011 06:46 PM, James Gray wrote: On 05/06/2011, at 10:08 AM, Jim Donovan wrote: The matter of pay rates came up a week or so ago. How about $25-30/hour for an experienced PHP developer - see http://www.seek.com.au/job/19910204 I hope that's not indicative of where the market's headed. ouch You'd get paid more washing cars, or (night) packing shelves...maybe the pimp advertising was smoking crack? The FTE @ $30 / hour (Full Time Equiv) [1] is $47,424 which is way above many jobs (washing cars, stacking shelves). I've often spoken to PHP devs who want $90 / hour (which is $142,272) and many wanting $50 / hour ($79,040 FTE). Often when people talk of a package that includes 9% super (aka $50 / hour = $86,153.60 package). Alternately http://www.remotestaff.com.au has PHP devs for $5.19 AUD + per hour. Maybe the person advertising was taking into fact that you can offshore development in the blink of an eye. If you have global skills you have global competition. Cheers P [1] ~ FTE == 80% of casual rate. Contractors you are really casual employees with a cool name -- 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] Re: [Jobs] Systems Admin - Build Engineer
On 05/24/2011 12:54 PM, Simon Rumble wrote: You're talking to the wrong people. Lemme guess, recruitment agents with English accents, straight off the plane from England but claiming to have extensive contacts in the industry? They're idiots. Every last one of them. They'll be reading your somewhat eclectic CV and see that as a liability, which is idiotic of course but they're idiots you see. Since they have absolutely no understanding of what we do, they just parse a checklist of skills against your CV. There are two discussions I know of on LinkedIn regarding IT recruiters. One in the Australian IT Industry group asking for your top five complaints about recruiters. (If you are going to post have a read of all the comments first - you might learn something [and grab a large coffee first its rather long]) ...and secondly in Australian New Zealand Recruitment Network where recruiters are discussing how they can *fix and address* the *valid* complaints IT (and other) candidates have. The comments about imported recruiters have been made on both LinkedIn groups. Try to find companies that advertise direct. In some (many?) cases recruiters are filling positions you are interested in so dealing with them is part of the employment landscape. My advice: * Make an effort to build a relationship with smaller numbers of recruiter who you get better service from, find them, stick with them. * They are time poor and dealing with 100's of different people each week - give them a break and start every phone conversation with a couple of words to job their memory Hi its David, the DBA candidate for the North Shore role... * Vote with your feet - walk away from recruiters that mess you about and tell them eg: You told me the role was paying $80k but in interview the employer said it was $70k (it might be that the *employer* made a mistake or lied - give the recruiter enough feedback to mend their evil ways. If there's a job you really want that's got a recruitment agent in the way, put in a custom CV that ticks all the mandatory boxes, plus something ridiculously wrong but funny (12 years Ruby on Rails experience). Hopefully you'll get through to someone with a brain who'll find it funny and decide to call you. That's not good advice. (I find it funny and can look past it but I wouldn't bet you career on the recruiter or employer doing sowould you?) The IT recruitment agency slogan: If you can, do. If you can't, have you considered a career in IT recruitment? Most engineers and IT people make lousy recruiters, one of the biggest complaints that IT candidate have is that the recruiter doesn't understand the job (aka they are not an engineer / IT person). Now just some caveats: * I've been in the Recruitment Industry since 1991 * Most recently as a developer of recruitment software * I manage the Australian New Zealand Recruitment Network group on LinkedIn and kicked off the discussion so that recruiters could fix their own back yard - and OF COURSE they want to! * I have hired engineers a number of times (grad, ord, masters and up to professor level) and without exception none of them could do the recruitment role, but I know of people in the industry who are engineers and can * The discussion on Australian IT Industry has much larger feedback from both sides - most of which is valid - and if you care about this topic then I suggest you read it. The reason I have posted a reply is that in all the LUG's their are people with a wealth of experience and knowledge and also young people starting out on their careers. It would be unfair to the latter group to have Simon's opinion (which he is perfectly entitled to) go uncontested since - IMHO - the problems won't exactly go away so people might as well know how to deal with them. Trust me - I've been using Linux years before I was in recruitment! Cheers 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] XHTML to PDF
On 03/04/11 20:16, Chris Allen wrote: Is there an application that created a PDF file from an XHTML. I'm looking for something the woks form the $ prompt, even better if it is available in Unix (Sun Solaris). Chris Allen But you probably want ghostscript: http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntuchannel=fsq=ghostscript+html+to+pdfie=utf-8oe=utf-8#sclient=psyhl=enclient=ubuntuhs=ffWchannel=fssource=hpq=linux+ghostscript+html+to+pdfaq=faqi=aql=oq=pbx=1bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.fp=c4f9bf7f64efb33f Cheers P We use a variety of command line tools to translate doc, docx, pdf, rtf, html to text for resume / document indexing. If this query is part of a bigger problem then I might have some other ideas that could help. PM me if that is the case. -- 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] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems
Rick Phillips wrote: I presume some people on this list travel to the UK and Europe. Any pointers would be appreciated. Mc Donalds free wifi? I did some emergency coding from one of these restaurants when w/o internet access a few years back. Depends on what you need but for the price of a coffee Cheers 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] Buy a Web filter now, from Kogan
On 29/06/10 11:16, darrin hodges wrote: I see a flaw in the design. What happens if the spam comes in very small packets? * I saw this problem so I decided to wrap the computer in glad wrap until completely sealed. This was bad for air flow / heat so I did it to the user, haven't heard any negative feedback from them yet * -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Vodaphone USB wireless (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra USB wireless internet)
I didn't do anything special to mine (I don't think), but: I do have to wait about a minute until it modeswitches itself. I takes a long time. Might help some one -- 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] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?
On 13/05/10 18:08, Dean Hamstead wrote: At my undisclosed business we are running 14 physical machines, 128gig ram 2x6 core amd, each with ~100 VMs. What server hardware? Sun Fire X4140 Server? Just curious. 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] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.
how immediate does this need to be? unless this really needs to run
straight away, i'd put the needs background work request in a simple
queue and process it via a cron script. IMHO, putting a layer between
a web request and any serious out-of-band processing is the best way
to handle these cases.
You could set up a cron job to poll a php script hourly.
php /var/www/html/cron/cron.php
Have that script query a queue:
SELECT script_name, parameters FROM cron_table WHERE done = 'NO';
Iterate through the results and run the script(s):
foreach($results as $row)
{
extract($row);
// assuming the params are in the formate a:1/b:2/c:3
$params = explode('/', $row['parameters']);
// populate the variables that the script is expecting
foreach($params as $p)
{
$z = explode(':', $p);
$$p[0] = $p[1];
}
// include the script that actually does stuff
include '/var/www/html/cron/' . $row['script_name'];
}
Using this way you only have to set up one cron job and you can point it
at any PHP script by just getting the page to insert a row in a database.
Just an idea, code probably is broken somewhere but anyway...
Cheers
P
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Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs
Peter Chubb wrote:
Rodolfo How do you read .docx documents without OOo? Or you install
Rodolfo OOo libraries and convert the document to other format?
-
Alternatively if you already have a gnome desktop, abiword works most
of the time, but its user interface is modelled on that of Word(TM) (and is
therefore horrible to me).
If you just want the text of the document then unzip the file and
convert the document.xml to text.
Below is some (old) code which does this.
In PHP:
function importDOCX($file_info)
{
shell_exec('mkdir /tmp/docx');
shell_exec(cp . DOC_ROOT . 'documents/' . str_replace(' ',
'_', $file_info['file_group']) . '/' . $file_info['sub_folder_path'] .
'/' . str_replace(')', '\)', str_replace('(', '\(', str_replace(' ', '\
', $file_info['filename']) .' /tmp/docx/')));
shell_exec('unzip /tmp/docx/' . str_replace(')', '\)',
str_replace('(', '\(', str_replace(' ', '\ ', $file_info['filename'])))
. ' -d /tmp/docx/');
$file = file_get_contents('/tmp/docx/word/document.xml');
shell_exec('rm -fR /tmp/docx');
$file = str_replace('w:', \nw:, $file);
$file = strip_tags($file);
$file = str_replace('amp;', '', $file);
$out = '';
$arr = explode(\n, $file);
foreach($arr as $line)
{
if(trim($line) != '')
{
$out .= $line . \n;
$c = 1;
} else {
$c++;
if($c == 2)
$out .= \n;
}
}
return $out;
}
Also you can use antiword from the command line:
function importDOC($file_info)
{
return shell_exec(/usr/bin/antiword . DOC_ROOT . 'documents/'
. str_replace(' ', '_', $file_info['file_group']) . '/' .
$file_info['sub_folder_path'] . '/' . str_replace(')', '\)',
str_replace('(', '\(', str_replace(' ', '\ ', $file_info['filename'];
}
These are both converts to text for searching purposes from some legacy
code. The do meet the criteria on minimum install.
Cheers
P
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Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband for Net Book
Tim Bayfield wrote: Greetings SLUG, Can anyone advise if there is a USB Wireless Broadband device from any of the ISPs which will work with a PC based Net Book running Linux? * Telstra Series 7. Model: MF636 You need to turn off the device's functionality as a thumb drive and not as a modem. From here (and other places): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1005910 *You can try the following steps: 1. on WinVista through control panel ADD the extra init command *AT+ZCDRUN=8* 2. try to connect once with the providers s/w (WinVista) 3. remove the above command through control panel (WinVista) * Sending this command to the device is essential to un-paperweight it: **AT+ZCDRUN=8* * Then you have to make sure that usb_serial is loaded for the device. http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ Then just plug it in (to Ubuntu) and it gets found and enter your pin and you're off. We use these for all our staff's laptops running ubuntu. Big Note: DO THIS **AT+ZCDRUN=8 first (and only once). Sounds a pain but it should only be done once. Cheers P ** * -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
