9.10 daily live
What happenned to the daily live CD? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/ seems to be stuck on 2009-10-28 was hoping to get a CD with the latest bug fixes -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
RE: Wi-Fi availability
My suggestion is to use prepaid if you are concerned with limiting excess usage. Availability of Optus means you have access to the likes of Exetel and RegionalConnect who use the Optus 3G network. A price comparison can be found at whirlpool (for regional Vic for example): http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/?action=searchexc=1state=vicclass=2type=rescost=50pre=3000conntype=6speed=512upspeed=0contract=99needhw=yesupfront=99 --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: From: Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com Subject: RE: Wi-Fi availability To: Slawek Drabot sdra...@yahoo.com Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:23 PM On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 03:08 -0800, Slawek Drabot wrote: Does anyone know if a Wi-Fi will work with Ubuntu/UNR and how to get it going? which country town are you looking for coverage? Do you get mobile reception from Optus in your town? This wil lgreatly increase your options and reduce your cost. Or not. I have used Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, Virgin and 3 over the years for mobile data. Out of all of them, Telstra wins hands down - no one comes close to their coverage, their customer service leaves optus, 3 and virgin for dead and if you look at it closely, the pricing on the higher end plans is actually pretty good. One month over quota with Optus can wipe out any savings you may have made by using them. BigPond offer shaped plans. Yes, some of Telstra's business practices are questionable, alot of their products are over priced, but you will find very people (including some of their harshest critics) who will criticise their Next G network. If you have Optus coverage then I would recommend you consider using Internode's 3G product. I have heard good things about it and it is capped, so you don't get a nasty surprise when the next bill arrives. I don't use it as 5G is far too little. More info at http://www.internode.on.net/residential/broadband/3g_wireless/nodemobile_data/plans/ Disclaimer: Internode sponsors the free community wireless network in my town in country Victoria, so I like to say nice things about them. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762
That explains annoyance 1. Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to circumvent annoyance 2? --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: From: Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com Subject: Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762 To: Slawek Drabot sdra...@yahoo.com Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 8:54 AM On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 22:55 -0800, Slawek Drabot wrote: I have exetel mobile broadband using Huawei E1762 modem on 9.10. A couple of issues: 1. On a clean boot with the modem plugged in, 9.10 does not recognise the modem. It recognises the storage part of the modem, but not the modem itself. Solution is to remove the modem and plug it in again, but it's annoying. 2. When re-connecting to the internet, sometimes I get a connection without being able to lookup http pages, i.e. no DNS or similar. Solution is to disconnect and reconnect, sometimes repeatedly, till I'm able to resolve domain names. VERY ANNOYING! The USB serial driver in karmic is broken. There was supposed to be a post release fix for it, but it is yet to be released :( For more info see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/446146?comments=all -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
RE: Karmic Koala 64-Bit: Black screen on re-boot after install
I had a similar problem after doing an upgrade from 9.04 (very disappointing results!) Solution was to disable the previously installed graphics driver and then install new version: http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-fix-screen-mess-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-910karmic -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762
I have exetel mobile broadband using Huawei E1762 modem on 9.10. A couple of issues: 1. On a clean boot with the modem plugged in, 9.10 does not recognise the modem. It recognises the storage part of the modem, but not the modem itself. Solution is to remove the modem and plug it in again, but it's annoying. 2. When re-connecting to the internet, sometimes I get a connection without being able to lookup http pages, i.e. no DNS or similar. Solution is to disconnect and reconnect, sometimes repeatedly, till I'm able to resolve domain names. VERY ANNOYING! Any help appreciated. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
recovering data from a dead hard disk
I have PATA HDD that is showing no signs of life: does not appear in any /dev device listing whether plugged in through USB adapter or directly through the IDE interface. Any way to get access to stored data? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Linux Servers for Infrastructure
I'm trying to PXE boot a thin client that has a Vortex86SX processor (no math co processor or fpu) Error message: This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: 0:0 Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. any insights into the error code 0:0? I'm guessing it has to do with math emulation and fpu emulation being required in the PXE image. Been looking for instructions on how to build a bootable image for PXE (onto an LTSP server) where I can enable both emulations but nothing simple enough for me to understand thus far. Any help appreciated. You can just use cron-apt and your own apt-repo to deploy applications and manage updates, like Microsofts SMS but better. Using PXE and a customised image you could network boot and install all the machines as well, same as MS's RIS or WDS. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Ubuntu upgrades
all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something: how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs? I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same upgrades twice. What strategies do people use to avoid this situation? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: On Bugs and Linux Quality
Daniel Morrison: I have had similiar experiences to what you describe but surely this is what free software is all about! Choice. If you are concerned about stability and showstopper bugs, choose Debian, RHEL, etc. If you are concerned about bleeding edge functionality and hardware support, choose Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. And don't forget to file those bug reports :-) cheers danm Choice is great. However we need to ask ourselves if we really need 20 different media players, for example, instead of 3 or 4 really good ones? The nature of open source means that there are always more bugs than resources to fix them and therefore the tendancy for spawning new projects in response to shortfalls in another. I'm quite happy to live with this arrangement when using open source in the home, but I see this as a big obstacle for commercial/corporate adoption. Let's face it, the pointy haired bosses struggle with making a decision when faced with 2 or 3 options. Expand that to 20 and beyond and we have decision deadlock. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: On Bugs and Linux Quality
I enjoyed this debate. Based on the observations made, what do people here see as the biggest pros and cons of using Linux, and specifically Ubuntu in a commercial, corporate environment? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: DHCPD3 No subnet declaration for eth0 (0.0.0.0) - SOLVED
I dont see an 'auto eth0' line here. does it come up? kk you got it: it wasn't. Didn't like the gateway address. Mind you, that was no where near the error message I received from ifup wouldn't it be nice to have an error message from DHCPD to the effect of: DHCPD failed as eth0 is not up. eth0 is not up because you screwed up the gateway address??? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
noatime automount
I like your idea of setting the noatime mount option and I was looking to set that for all my automounted USB disks, problem is, cannot find the location for setting automount preferences. I'm using 8.04 and notice there is no autofs process and my initial investigation points to gnome preferences. Anyone played around with automount settings in 8.04? 3) Unless you specifically need access time stamps, mount the partition with the noatime option. 99% of users I know don't need atime stamps, and mounting with the noatime flag can reduce disk writes, I/O and general mount/unmount faults by a dramatic amount. This is particularly true if you are a database user (any database - MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, or proprietary stuff). Tagging the disk with a date stamp every time someone opens the file for read is not really necessary unless you have very specific security requirements in your business. All other timestamps (including create and modify) are left alone by noatime, and they work as expected. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
MythTV - program guide info
Those of you who use MythTV, what script/process do you use to download program guide information? I'm using a script I found more than 1 year ago that attempts to use yahoo guide data. Unfortunately it is incomplete in terms of the channels for which it has guides and sometimes it is incorrect. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
