Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband
On 2012-02-03 14:26, Alan Pope wrote: It's a Super Hub. I have one. It's just a custom netgear device with a cable modem internally. Some people have had issues with it, but that's nothing to do with Linux. So it's a router+modem? Has NAT and all that? Can it present a public IP to my own router downstream of it, as my current Virgin modem does? Regards, Tyler -- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam problem
On 2011-12-07 17:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I purchased a Logitech C270 HD Webcam which according to this site http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices is compatible with Linux. I ran up a Live CD of Ubuntu 11.10 and connected the camera. the camera works but the microphone does not work at all. (The mic works in Windows). Is there a way of getting the mic to work? (I couldn't get it to work in either Sound Recorder or Skype...) I find the microphone settings in Ubuntu are usually muted on a new install. Try: 1. Click on the sound icon in the notification area 2. Select Sound Preferences 3. Input tab 4. Select each input in turn, and unmute input volume and raise to some level between Unamplified and 100%. Regards, Tyler -- [...] we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth. -- Theodore Roosevelt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Boot/Grub problem
On 2011-10-31 20:04, Tony Pursell wrote: I've got a problem with booting after I removed my old 1GB swap file and created a new bigger swap file. The upshot of this seems to be that /boot is now on /dev/sda6 instead of /dev/sda7. (That's because the old swap was before it on the disk). What I get now is Error: unknown filesystem and the Grub Rescue prompt. I can put in appropriate commands there, which gives me the Grub menu and I can boot from there. I have run update-grub and as far as I can see, grub.cfg now refers to /dev/sda6, but I am still getting the Grub error. Do I have to run grub-install as well? If I do, what is install_device? I don't want to make things worse by getting this wrong. Yes, you do. Run: grub-install /dev/sda Regards, Tyler -- No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configure Network Manager from Command Line
On 2011-10-18 16:12, Philip Stubbs wrote: Yes, it is my home server. It did have a GUI installed but that failed after the Oneiric upgrade. Can't complain about that as it did give a warning. So, what is the best way to disable Network Manager? List the interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces, and Network Manager will ignore them. auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 You can also remove the network-manager package. But you'll need to configure the interfaces manually as above. See also man interfaces. Regards, Tyler -- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configure Network Manager from Command Line
On 2011-10-18 16:00, Philip Stubbs wrote: Poking around, I found the /etc/resolv.conf file had nothing in it except a not saying it was managed by network-manager. Manually adding a nameserver here fixed my problem, but I am going to guess that it will disappear again next reboot. How do I make this permanent from the command line over ssh? Strictly speaking, Network Manager doesn't change /etc/resolv.conf unless it is configured with static DNS information, or uses DHCP to fetch the same. A reboot alone does not cause this to happen. Note also that if you were previously using DHCP on an interface, then later configure it statically in /etc/network/interfaces, that the dhcp-client instance may still be running. It will periodically refresh the address. Kill it manually or reboot. Regards, Tyler -- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04
On 2011-09-26 13:48, Alan Pope wrote: I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04? I'd like to see the issues of power consumption on Intel chipsets (since 11.04) resolved. Regards, Tyler -- If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the ... confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought. -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Python Question
On 2011-09-23 15:38, Dave Hanson wrote: I want to search the entire disk of any OS to find the Firefox cache directory. Is it even possible to do this? I don't particularly need the code to do it (I don't mind if you want to share though!) What I'm really after is - Am I wasting my time even trying? The problem is that you're using tools external to python, which are platform-dependent. Consider instead using the os.path python library. Regards, Tyler -- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a small, cheap, ubuntu staging computer/server?
On 2011-09-16 11:48, Alan Pope wrote: On 16 September 2011 11:40, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi -- what box would people recommend for setting up a small, cheap staging Ubuntu web server? This:- http://www.ebuyer.com/253305-hp-proliant-athlon-ii-neo-n36l-microserver-100-cashback-633724-421 That's a great server. I've got one myself, and it does plenty. But if it's just a staging web server, you could easily run it as a VM on any hardware that's not loaded. Regards, Tyler -- I have taken more good from alcohol than it has taken from me. -- Winston Churchill -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] asus transformer
On 2011-09-13 15:56, javadayaz wrote: Cyanogenmod 7. An Android rom for your android phonebut with added goodies baked in! Install procedure: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_HD:_Rooting Tyler -- [...] freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it. -- Penn Jillette -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Use Of Filezilla
On 2011-08-26 15:28, Nigel Verity wrote: I use Filezilla on a regular basis to transfer files between devices via my home router. It's a great utility which I would highly recommend. From time to time it would be useful to access files on devices located at home when I am away. Could anyone suggest how to do this? I use an ordinary ISP (Talk Talk) for internet access. There are often 4 or 5 devices connected to my router, so I am uncertain as to which IP address to use as the target; that of the router or that of the device containing the files. I imagine that the solution for Filezilla will apply equally to using Nautilus to connect to a server. Since you presumably have one public IP and use NAT, you need to forward ports to access SSH internally. Configure some TCP port forwards like this: 10001 - 192.168.0.1 port 22 10002 - 192.168.0.2 port 22 You could then access SFTP/SSH by: ssh -p 10001 user@routerpublicip sftp://user@routerpublicip:10001/home/user However, you still need to know your public IP. If this is static, great. If not, you'll need to configure dynamic DNS as well. Also, a VPN may be a better solution, but more work. Regards, Tyler -- Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure. -- David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 Server text mode problems
On 2011-08-21 20:51, Rob Beard wrote: I've just got a HP MicroServer which I am installing 64-Bit Ubuntu 10.04 on to (I believe it was the 10.04.3 Server ISO I used). I just wondered if there was any way of tweaking it to get it back to bog standard VGA mode? We probably have similar hardware - I just bought an HP ProLiant N36L. It also has a Mobility Radeon HD 4200. Mine runs maverick, and has no problems with the output to my HDTV. However, I only used that long enough to install openssh-server. It sounds like you want to disable kernel mode setting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting But do install openssh-server before you do anything else. You want a network-based way to fix anything that goes wrong. Regards, Tyler -- To have a child is to give fate a hostage. -- John F. Kennedy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcams again
On 2011-08-12 09:48, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: I’ve just bought a Logitech C270 HD from Amazon for £17.99. It’s excellent and works flawlessly in Ubuntu Natty. Thanks for the tip. I've been looking for a replacement for my simple 640x480 generic Logitech attached to my television . Can you swivel it, so it is looking at an angle that isn't perpendicular to the base? How does it attach? Regards, Tyler -- [...] the effectiveness of pat-downs does not matter very much, because the obvious goal of the TSA is to make the pat-down embarrassing enough for the average passenger that the vast majority of people will choose high-tech humiliation over the low-tech ball check. -- Jeffrey Goldberg, For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance The Atlantic, 2010-10-29 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kindle and Ubuntu
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:17 -0700, John Stevenson wrote: 3G option allows you to download books when you are not connected to a WiFi network, it is not intended for use for browsing the Internet. Yet there is a browser, if you don't mind browsing the web on an e-ink display. A friend of mine loves his kindle for the fact that he gets free 3G browsing anywhere in the world (at least where's he's tested, which so far includes the US, UK, and Germany). Regards, Tyler -- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. -- Thomas Pynchon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android? Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the desktop edition or maybe meego? No such thing exists. The closest possibilities are: 1. Port the Ubuntu ARM release to the S2 hardware. Depending on your definition of fun, that will not be fun. 2. Use a VNC client on the S2 to connect to a normal Ubuntu desktop. Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:16 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: No such thing exists. The closest possibilities are: Oh sure. And now even a casual web search turns up several hacked up phones running Ubuntu. Madness. :) Tyler -- The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 12:11 +0100, alan c wrote: I have no hesitation to say to use Ubuntu 10.04.2 (LTS) if it works on that hardware, (probably will). If any hardware that I support have any problesms with the LTS (a few do) then 10.10 seems ok. It will. I've run 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10 on that exact hardware (my company buys a lot of Dells). Alan shouldn't have any trouble with the install. Tyler -- If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. -- Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongle driver .....
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:50 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: Thanks for that Alan. I'll take a closer look. sema_init works just fine in place of MUTEX, but needs a second parameter. I used '1' which seems to work OK. I'll look at the reference above and see what I've been doing. A semaphore with value of 1 is a mutex. That should work fine. Regards, Tyler -- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 07:31 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: Each process will be still limited to a max of 4GB therefore if your aim is to use more than that inside a process, 64 bit is the better choice. Each process is limited to a max of 2 GB, not 4 GB. The maximum addressable space for a 32-bit pointer (signed) is 2 GB. Regards, Tyler -- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] End of Skype on Linux?
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:42 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: One commentator has suggested they've done it for the subscriber list and not for the technology... Ridiculous. Skype's ability to pierce all forms of NAT and firewall puts it miles ahead of MSN. On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:33 +0100, Dan Attwood wrote: So why not just buy the company and tear it to bits? Because publicly-traded companies don't do that to profitable companies with valuable technology. It doesn't increase shareholder value. It's easy to assume everything MS does is evil, and specifically bad for Linux users. They are no friend of ours, clearly, but that doesn't translate to making bad business decisions out of spite. Regards, Tyler -- Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:27 +0100, Colin Law wrote: When this happens is it necessary to reboot fairly urgently or is it ok to delay this till a convenient time. In other words is there a significant difference between delaying the update because it will ask for a reboot, and delaying the update itself. In my experience, you don't need to reboot immediately. But if it was a kernel update (to the same number kernel, not a new one), suspending or inserting new hardware may be unreliable. If it was an important library like libc6, starting new applications may be unstable, but the currently-loaded ones are fine. My rule is: update immediately, and reboot at the end of the day, before trying to put the laptop to sleep. Regards, Tyler -- The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. -- Anne Smedley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:52 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y ...my server it needs a reboot. Of course, if you're doing it at the command line, it's pretty easy to tell if a reboot is required. If the kernel upgraded, reboot. If not, you don't have to. No doubt someone on this list will correct me on the other packages that trigger that output. Cueing them in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Regards, Tyler -- Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - Obviosly not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. I don't think you'll be able to accept such large files. Is the PHP upload size limited by available RAM? Even if not, even a typical disk image is 250 GB these days, and the smallest harddrives people still regularly use are 40 GB. As for the money, it sounds like you want something like Ubercart + Drupal, not Wordpress. Regards, Tyler -- Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal – but if it is an inevitable side-effect of defending human rights, so be it. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] _connnect: IP Open source
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 12:09 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: I think the appropriate group for me to post to you would be: https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/intellectual-property-and-open-source/overview My buzzword counter variable overflowed mid-way through the introductory paragraph. Could you tell us what these people are actually doing, in real words? Regards, Tyler -- Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty. Forced openness in government – open government laws, Freedom of Information Act filings, the recording of police officers and other government officials, WikiLeaks – reduces the power imbalance between government and the people, and increases liberty. -- Bruce Schneier -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] RSI
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 09:07 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: Thanks for all the words of advise. I know the most sensible thing I should do is go see my doctor. I have tried wearing a wrist support, which I don't think helped much. I have ordered a wrist rest pad (the gel lump you rest your wrist on to use the mouse) so I will see how that goes. Then if still no good will go to the doctor. Go see the doctor ANYWAY. Get a referal to an expert. This is your livelihood you're taking about. Don't take chances with it. Regards, Tyler -- ... jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. -- Noam Chomsky, in Understanding Power -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 10:22 +, Alan Pope wrote: On 25 March 2011 09:41, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: You can share the same private key around all the machines you own and trust, That's not wise. If you put your private key on all your machines you trust then I only need to break into one of them to gain access to every machine your public key is on, and you will have to revoke that one key, meaning you can't ssh to anywhere until you generate new keys. Indeed. Seconded. Concur, wholeheartedly. Just put all the keys in one authorized_keys file and copy that around. Regards, Tyler -- Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty. Forced openness in government – open government laws, Freedom of Information Act filings, the recording of police officers and other government officials, WikiLeaks – reduces the power imbalance between government and the people, and increases liberty. -- Bruce Schneier -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 12:39 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: My setup has always been grub on mbr and grub on /boot for each installation. Either way is pretty simple, the only difficulty I can forsee is if you change the kernel on one of the installs that doesn't handle the grub install, then you won't be able to boot to the new kernel until grub is updated. I honestly do not see a compelling reason to have a separate /boot at all, except in the case of using an incompatible LVM setup, RAID or filesystem on /. Then you don't have any of the trouble of trying to maintain one /boot with three distros. Regards, Tyler -- The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. -- John Adams -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 13:01 +, alan c wrote: I have just purchased a Haynes Manual for Ubuntu! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Manual-Mike-Saunders/dp/1844259706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1299589121sr=8-1 The review on the Amazon page is awesome. Tyler -- When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. -- Anaïs Nin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 11:44 +, John Stevenson wrote: How long you should wait probably depends on what the server is doing now. You request does not state what state the server is currenty in, so it is difficult to advise. Indeed. Your description implies that you're not near the server and don't have a networked KVM on it. I don't recommend remotely upgrading without that. The best possible outcome (which doesn't involve you going to the colocation room) is that the server is running an fsck right now and will come online once that's done. Otherwise, you need to get on a keyboard and monitor and see what is happening. Regards, Tyler -- A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 05:38 +, Alexander Birchall wrote: 3. This is what the monitor was displaying: Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: -- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) -- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) -- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) -- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules: ls /dev) Alert! /dev/mapper/eprints.mdx.ac.uk-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs) _ This is likely an error with Grub (especially if you switched to Grub2) or the initramfs image. The use of /dev/mapper indicates you need the dmsetup package. Boot it using a recovery/live CD, and install all the booting from funny stuff packages: apt-get install lvm2 evms dmsetup These will rebuild the initramfs images to include support for a bunch of special boot configurations. I'm sorry I don't have better news for you. Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer driver ...
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:41 +, Barry Drake wrote: I decided to have a go with the AMD 64-bit version of Maverick. I put it on a second hard drive so the 32-bit version is untouched. All was fine until I wanted to use my Brother DCP 135C printer/scanner. I looked at their Linux driver page, and the only drivers available are the ones I already have. I get the error message that they are for the wrong architecture as they are i386 packages. What's the URL? The drivers may be ppd files, which are architecture-agnostic, and the packagers at Brother are just ignorant. If so, try installing them by force: sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture package-i386.deb Regards, Tyler -- ... that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] netbook wifi traffic disconnects all
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 23:11 +, Bill Cumming wrote: I've a Netgear DG834gt Router with custom firmware, It does the same! With me It's a problem with the way the router handles ports, It only happens when i'm downloading many torrents, causes the routers wireless not respond. It sounds more like a problem with the drivers of the wireless, Can't remember where I read it but there's something about the number of ports the router can open and the speed the connections are recycled causes the drivers to effectively crash if it happens too quickly. You've just diagnosed the problem. It has nothing to do with the wireless, and has to do with the kernel parameters for maximum TCP and UDP ports (really, NAT settings) or TCP/UDP timeout. On DD-WRT v24, this is set on the Administration tab, Management subtab, bottom of page, IP Filter Settings (adjust these for P2P. Exactly what to use depends on your hardware (RAM, really) and firmware. Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:20 +, Barry Drake wrote: The waste of such an enormous amount of ink has always been a concern of mine. I agree completely with your suggestion. It needs to have black and three colours - incorporated into the Ubuntu logo maybe? But other than that and page corner markers, just a few words in black would suffice. If you are reading this I actually use the test page for its intended purpose: testing my printer. I keep the last one after installing new toner, and occasionally print if it appears we're running low. It's pretty clear when it's time to order more, regardless of what the printer's warnings think. I do like the idea of a page kids can colour in. :) Regards, Tyler -- Misery is the secret of happiness in marriage. Go make yourself miserable and then come home. -- Garrison Keillor -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:46 +, Barry Drake wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:39 +, George Tripp wrote: Looked at a couple of companies which will sell machines without any op system. Pcspecialists: apparently there's a problem that the touchhpad doesn't work with ubuntu Novatech: don't know if their hardware is compatible with ubuntu or not Glad you made it here. Dell is now offering a laptop (one of the Inspiron range) pre-loaded with Ubuntu. I've had very few problems with the entire Dell laptop line. My company has bought ~30ish laptops from them in the last 5 years. Lessons learned: 1. When reporting hardware needing replacing, just don't tell support you installed Linux. Uh, yeah, I click on properties and ran the Windows test tool. Nope, it says nothing wrong. Yes, I restarted Windows. Nope, problem is still there. I've done this many times for laptop screens with dark areas, and once with a fan that wasn't properly balanced (made a lot of noise). 2. You may need to replace the PCI/PCI-X wifi card, especially if it's f%*ing Broadcom. A perfectly capable Intel wifi card can be had for £10 on eBay, and you'll be happier with it. 3. If you aren't planning to run super-serious video apps, get Intel video. For compatibility, especially since the change to Kernel Mode Setting, it is: Intel AMD nVidia 4. It's hard to find no OS or Ubuntu pre-loaded. Yes, you may have to take the copy of Windows that comes with it, but I doubt you'll find a _laptop_ that's cheaper without Windows, whatever you think of the retail price of the OS. You can always get the install disc and load it as a VM in Virtualbox. Regards, Tyler -- [...] the effectiveness of pat-downs does not matter very much, because the obvious goal of the TSA is to make the pat-down embarrassing enough for the average passenger that the vast majority of people will choose high-tech humiliation over the low-tech ball check. -- Jeffrey Goldberg, For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance The Atlantic, 2010-10-29 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 21:14 +, Alan Pope wrote: Ubuntu has got a lot going in the right direction and I can easily give the benefit of the doubt to a somewhat radical direction. Fingers crossed. Yeah, watch this space :) Unfortunately, I'll be watching this space from a Mint desktop. It worries me that so many people will be joining me (or already have). Regards, Tyler -- Scientific theories can be altered by publishing a paper with reproducible results, and political principles can be changed every two to four years with an election, but if you want to change religious principles you usually have to wait for a whole generation of clergy to die. -- Soren Ragsdale -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 22:26 +, Alan Pope wrote: Eh? You've moved over to mint yourself but you're worried that other people will too? I'm running 10.04 now, but will be moving to Mint as of natty. I'm worried that Unity is one case of Ubuntu pushing design in the wrong direction for the workstation. It's great for netbooks, once they get the basics like can add icons to the left menu sorted. But for my 1680x1050 laptop, where I run multiple terminals side by side and often run VMs, it's not even an option to use a netbook interface. If I have to change the UI, I'd much rather have Gnome Shell than Unity. Or, I was just really, really burned by KDE 4, and have become a bit conservative about major shifts on the desktop. Regards, Tyler -- Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. -- Mark Twain -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:38 +, Paul Sladen wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote: it should be possible to see the keyhole at least. You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly the same as any other keyhole. What you can't see is any of the tumblers *in* the keyhole, or through the keyhole to what is behind it, as that would be a security failure. It's a cute metaphor, but inappropriate. Encryption doesn't lock a room, it changes the entire contents of the room into other, random atoms. There's no keyhole, no tumblers, nothing to see at all except nearly-random noise. We are very unlikely to see a genuine weakness in AES-256 in the immediate future. Regards, Tyler -- Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:45 +, Alan Pope wrote: A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver. Added to my signature quotes source file. :) Tyler -- I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. -- Stephen Colbert -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:35 +, Colin Law wrote: If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about and hope for the best? :) You multiply part of it with the lock, and then modulo it with the doorknob. Regards, Tyler -- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin . -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it safe to upgrade to 10.10 (ATI video drivers)?
Steve Fisher wrote: Pretty much as per title, I use compiz so require it to work, when I upgraded last time it didn't. The easiest way to find out is to download the Desktop iso, convert that to a Live USB with persistent storage, and boot off it. Then you can install the ATI drivers when prompted, and reboot on them. Tyler -- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] A Document 'Signing' solution required
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:41 +, John Stevenson wrote: In my humble experience, it is quite likely that if you find a technological way to force them to engage, they will spend more effort trying to game that mechanism than reading your communications. Indeed. You're trying to solve a social problem with a technical solution. Attack the root of the problem, not the branches. Regards, Tyler -- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:14 +, Barry Drake wrote: I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It goes like this: #/bin/bash rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee (zenity --progress --pulsate --text=Backing up files ) backup_log.txt killall zenity zenity --info --text=Backup completed sucessfully This works fine if I run it from a terminal, but if I try to run it from a desktop launcher or (preferred) run it as a startup program, it fails to do anything - doesn't launch at all. If the script is altered to: #/bin/bash rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc zenity --info --text=Backup completed sucessfully I suspect that rsync --progress --pulsate requires a real pseudo-terminal to be allocated. If you run this from a launcher without the open in a shell option, at least the rsync command while fail. You could do something like: screen rsync ... To launch the command inside a terminal emulator. Regards, Tyler -- Scientific theories can be altered by publishing a paper with reproducible results, and political principles can be changed every two to four years with an election, but if you want to change religious principles you usually have to wait for a whole generation of clergy to die. -- Soren Ragsdale -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gronk, gronk, gronk
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:14 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Nope. It is silent in booting, and, I think, faster. If I then close the CD tray, while the machine is still running, it gronks once. Most likely your BIOS probes the drive at boot-up, even if you don't have it in the boot order. That's normal, and I doubt you can disable it. The sound may indicate a hardware issue with the drive, however. Regards, Tyler -- ... jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. -- Noam Chomsky, in Understanding Power -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 15:13 +, Liam Proven wrote: Docks are for when you want to constantly remove and replace the disks. If they are meant to be permanently in use, put the drives into external enclosures. Indeed. We use them to shred disks before disposing of them. They're best for rapidly removing and replacing drives, not permanent use. Regards, Tyler -- Scientific theories can be altered by publishing a paper with reproducible results, and political principles can be changed every two to four years with an election, but if you want to change religious principles you usually have to wait for a whole generation of clergy to die. -- Soren Ragsdale -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? [was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28]
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:32 +, Jon Spriggs wrote: Actually, I was under the impression that the stack exchange software (which drives stack overflow and askubuntu and others) is Free Software, albeit on a Windows and C# platform. It appears to run nginx on Linux, or at least its front-end load-balancer/proxy does: r...@server:~# nmap -sV -O askubuntu.com -p 23,22,21,80,81,443 Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-11-18 17:39 GMT Interesting ports on stackoverflow.com (64.34.119.12): PORTSTATESERVICE VERSION 21/tcp filtered ftp 22/tcp filtered ssh 23/tcp filtered telnet 80/tcp closed http 81/tcp filtered hosts2-ns 443/tcp open ssl/http nginx web server 0.7.65 Device type: general purpose|WAP|router|firewall|webcam Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 2.6.X|2.4.X (92%), D-Link embedded (91%), Linksys embedded (91%), Peplink embedded (91%), Check Point Linux 2.4.X (88%), MikroTik RouterOS 3.X (87%), Linksys Linux 2.4.X (86%), AXIS Linux 2.6.X (85%) Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.15 - 2.6.24 (92%), D-Link DSA-3100 or Linksys WRT54GL (DD-WRT v23) WAP, or Peplink Balance 30 router (91%), Linux 2.6.22 (91%), Linux 2.6.24 - 2.6.28 (89%), Check Point VPN-1 UTM appliance (88%), Linux 2.6.18 - 2.6.27 (88%), Linux 2.6.9 - 2.6.26 (88%), Linux 2.4.21 - 2.4.31 (likely embedded) (87%), Linux 2.6.15 - 2.6.23 (embedded) (87%), Linux 2.6.22 (Fedora Core 6) (87%) No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal). OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 19.44 seconds Regards, Tyler -- No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loosy splah screen after update to 10.10
I think the idea is that it is much faster, if less configurable. Like the new GDM since 10.04. Regards, Tyler On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:50 +, Craig Peden wrote: Everyone has it. It is the newer graphical boot/shutdown stuff that I think it generated by Plymouth as opposed to the xsplash you will have been used to. You could install xsplash. - Craig On 12 Nov 2010, at 22:36, Pallottini Aymeric paillom...@yahoo.com wrote: I have got an Acer Revo, that I have updated from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10. After the update the splash screen is not the usual graphic one, it is a simple bit of text displaying ubuntu 10.10 and some dots, with even some of the events of the boot process being displayed. The same when shutting down the machine. Is somebody experiencing this also? Can I get back the nice splash screen? Thanks, Aymeric -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. -- Betty Rollin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote: For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this text, shifting those books to distributors and selling the physical objects. Most of the cost is in the distribution ... Incorrect. Most of the cost is in the non-physical stuff: editing, typesetting, marketing, and other forms of production. Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] e-books without Adobe Digital Editions
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:54 +, pmgazz wrote: Otherwise, publishers with existing copyright insist on using DRM - nothing (legally) to be done about that as far as I can tell. Except for Baen, one of the first publishers to come to their senses (and have the mounting sales to prove it). All Baen books are available without DRM in 7 or 8 formats, including ePub and HTML. http://www.baen.com/ Some of which is free for download: http://www.baen.com/library/ Regards, Tyler -- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. -- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, 1959 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter in the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer as the discussions on those links suggest. Ah, yes. You've reminded me as well. Some time ago, my company operated a Mac running MacOS 9. It had two special peripherals: a DVI-VGA dongle to make it boot, and a small device on the power cable. That device had a USB cable, connected to the same Mac. If the Mac locked up, apparently detectable by some kind of USB activity, it would cycle the power. Regards, Tyler -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: Yep, we had those too. Kick-off I think it was called. In fact here it is http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html Yep, that's it! Thanks for the reminder. May I never see such a device again. :) Tyler -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:57 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: You could try disabling the DVI port in the Ubuntu config. I doubt very, very much that Ubuntu has anything to do with this. Start by checking that EFI, the Mac equivalent of BIOS, has a setting to ignore boot errors, or headless boot, or something like that. Disclaimer: I'm very familiar with the boot process on PC hardware, but have never done anything with EFI. Regards, Tyler -- Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mint 9 and Windows 2000 Server
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 12:39 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: I guess not everyone realises yet that Linux Mint is no longer based on Ubuntu - certainly the Wikipedia page (which for some is Gospel) still show it as being based on Ubuntu. Mint STILL is an Ubuntu derivative. They also provide KDE (Kubuntu) and Debian-based releases, now, but the main release is Ubuntu. Tyler -- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for enabling encryption so your neighbours can't snoop on your traffic. Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? Or does it create a local interface on the Linux which does the encryption (and thus must be installed on all PCs)? Regards, Tyler -- A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:18 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? It does. You plug a PC directly into the device and choose a key which is set inside the device. Do that for all devices and then you're set. Nothing more to do, no computers need to be on to enable this once the key is set. Fantastic. A bit of web hunting tells me it is AES-128, which is good enough for me. Are you using Devolo dLAN 200 AVeasy? http://www.amazon.co.uk/devolo-dLAN-AVeasy-HomePlug-Starter/dp/B0014LGNMS Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External CAT5 (subject change for change of topic)
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: As far as I'm aware, it poses no more risk than, say, a satellite dish. I *am* a satellite engineer. I've installed and operated antennas from 1.2m to 9.3m in diameter, from Baghdad to London. I've never seen lighting strikes an antenna in person, and I've only ever seen a handful of documented cases. I've seen more of them destroyed by bombs than by lightning. We typically earth antennas, but only the most expensive installations pay for full lighting protection (which is far more complicated than mere earthing). Your external CAT-5 is fine. Tyler -- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel Case wrote: I have tried to have a Google but these things are generally frowned upon because they are part of a crackers toolkit, anywhere I have found is now down. Does anyone have any idea where I could get a comma separated list of all English words? Try the cracker hangouts: /usr/share/dict Bittorrent IRC However, virtually all dictionary files are formatted one word/term/phrase per line. If you need it to be comma-separated, you'll have to convert it yourself. Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 10:42 +0100, jakewc2 wrote: Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help, willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people. Indeed we are! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_gaaUiNs8 Tyler -- Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange connection problem to Router
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:17 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Have to wait for the second (private) broadband to be activated on our other phone line. Seems odd that the Windows machine was able to automatically detect a static IP address No, it can't automatically detect a static IP. It must have been configured at some point. Look in the Windows network settings and clone them on your Ubuntu PC, except set your IP to another one in the same range. Pay attention to DNS server and gateway IP. Regards, Tyler -- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss
Melv, On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:28 +0100, Melv Bailey wrote: This has caused me a problem since 8.04 (7.10 is the last version I have run sort of successfully without having to jump through VGA driver hoops but I did have to jump through wireless drivers hoops and didnt solve them). I am sorry you are having so much difficulty with video on Ubuntu. Maybe if you have the latest dogs bo**ocks hardware Ubuntu will work Actually, the opposite is true. I've found newer hardware to be the biggest issue, both the latest video chipsets (I'm looking at you, nVidia) and wireless (and you too, Broadcom). When I purchase new hardware, I always insist on Intel video and Intel wireless. Intel doesn't pump the polygons the way nVidia does, but it always works with Xorg. ATI is getting better, but with the latest Ubuntu releases I've had to disable kernel mode setting to make video stable: nVidia is just a huge pain. That's not Linux's fault. No one expects Windows to work without installing drivers, but they seem to expect this of Linux. nVidia has long resisted developing an open source driver, and the closed-source one isn't often up to speed with the latest Xorg. As for disabling kernel mode setting, give it a go. It might help your issues: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting Regards, Tyler -- The paradox of dictating democracy, of enforcing freedom, of extorting emancipation. -- Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (2004) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 16:55 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote: It's very easy: * Go to www.hsbc.co.uk (so now you know what bank I'm talking about) * Click the Log on button in the Business box on the right At that point, it should take you to a login page but in my case it just takes me to a blank page. It loads fine for me as well, on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 with Firefox 3.6.10 and a whole pile of add-ons enabled. Tyler -- I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. -- Stephen Colbert -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:23 +0100, Shaun ONeil wrote: Thermal paste shouldn't dry. It stays a paste. It really is just a lick-um stick-um job. No need to watch paint dry :) Don't, of course, lick thermal paste. It contains some unpleasant heavy metals that you should not ingest. :) Tyler -- Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way ... out of that a new holiday was born ... a Festivus for the rest of us! -- Jerry Stiller, as Frank Costanza in Seinfeld -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 23:35:26 John Matthews wrote: Hi, thank you so much for giving me that info I installed it, and it works so quite happy. Problem is, the http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/ website, only deals with ubuntu up to 9.04 I think, is there an up to date version of it, it looks really helpful. The secure-delete package works just fine up to 10.04. Don't worry about the website. Of course the shred command, which is always installed with Ubuntu, works fine as well. If you really want to ensure a harddrive is cleaned: shred -v /dev/sda That'll take about 48 hours to finish, but it will ensure the drive is not recoverable. For deleting just directories or free space on the drive, the secure-delete tools are better. Regards, Tyler -- Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal – but if it is an inevitable side-effect of defending human rights, so be it. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 02:00:37 Liam Proven wrote: Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent. Me, personally, I'd say wipe reload. It's easier than doing 9.04 - 9.10 followed by 9.10 - 10.04. I concur. I do this kind of reinstall all the time (we use Ubuntu on the server and desktop at my company). Just make a backup of /home and reinstall. Take the opportunity to move to ext4 while you are it; it's noticeably faster for many things. Using an old copy of your home directory will be fine as long as files are owned by the same userid after reinstall. Very little in Gnome, at least, goes wrong with upgrades. KDE apps between 9.04 and 10.04 may be a little more fussy, but if so just delete that app's config and data: rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/digikam rm ~/.kde/share/config/digikam* Regards, Tyler -- Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. -- The Robustness Principle, or Postel's Law, from RFC 793 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 11:38:18 Alan Lord (News) wrote: Just a hint. sudo chown -R user: /home/user will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the colon. Dude! If I had known that fifteen years ago, I'd have done ... well, a little less typing over the years. Very handy. Thanks! Tyler -- The paradox of dictating democracy, of enforcing freedom, of extorting emancipation. -- Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (2004) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder
On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 09:55:33 Alan Pope wrote: To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to 'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The installer will go through /bin, /usr, /var, /etc, /lib and so on deleting all files before the installation starts. It will _not_ delete /home. Of course this only preserves /home, not your settings in /etc nor mysql databases in /var or anything else outside of /home, but it's a very useful feature. Which distro installers support this? They actually rm -rf those directories first? If so, this is indeed an excellent feature. The last Ubuntu installer I used only specified format or not, and didn't say anything about clearing the directories first. What I don't want is existing, non-conflicting older files to be left there. Regards, Tyler -- If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. -- Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?
On Thursday 02 Sep 2010 14:05:30 javadayaz wrote: Does this have any adverse affects on the hard drive? No. Regards, Tyler -- Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal – but if it is an inevitable side-effect of defending human rights, so be it. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?
I don't believe you can instruct a suspended laptop to wake itself up. That would take at least a BIOS feature, I think. A suspended laptop doesn't make a copy of anything. It just syncs the filesystems (writes changes to media), and puts the hardware into a low-power state. That basically means that RAM remains powered and everything else is effectively off. When you restore, the data is still in RAM. Regards, Tyler On Thursday 02 Sep 2010 19:30:01 Jacob Mansfield wrote: why not set it so that if you close the lid it will suspend for, say an hour and then shut down if it takes longer to come out of hybernation than a cold start On 2 September 2010 19:25, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 02/09/10 13:54, javadayaz wrote: Ive recently started to put my pc into hibernate as opposed to switching off completely. Although it takes longer to switch back on and ready to use..i do find all my windows open and even my video paused, ready to watch where i left! How does ubuntu know where i stopped watching a vidand open it right back up? It saves a copy of the memory to your swap space and then turns the machine off. When you turn it back on it boots up (I'm guessing it boots the kernel) and then restores the memory, hence why everything is how you left it. I used to use Hibernate quite a lot on Windows as it was reasonably quick (quicker than booting from scratch) but I find on Linux it works out slower. As a stop gap I generally suspend my laptop when I'm not using it although it does use some power to keep it suspended (whereas with hibernate it wouldn't use any power, well not if the machine was disconnected from the mains). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2010 09:29:35 Cornelius Mostert wrote: 1 thing that no one mentioned as yet that might be obvious is the Subnet Mask. I have a similar setup but are using 2 routers and I found that the DHCP router needs to tell the clients that: 1. The Default Gateway should be the router connected to the Internet 2. Subnet Mask for the clients must be 255.255.0.0 The subnet mask for the clients should be whatever their subnet size is, which for a typical NAT router is almost always /24 (255.255.255.0). If you have a /16 subnet (255.255.0.0), that is fairly atypical for a home router. Regards, Tyler -- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup
On Tuesday 31 Aug 2010 22:58:13 Eddie B wrote: I'm trying to do something that is probably really simple. I have a server which has two interfaces. eth0 obtains an IP (192.168.1.20) by DHCP for the internet from a router sitting on 192.168.1.1. The server, as such, is able to get onto the internet. eth1 connects into a hub, via which all other workstations will connect. eth1 has a static IP, 192.168.2.1. So far I've got the workstations obtaining correct IP addresses (pool starting 192.168.2.100), so I assume the DHCP server is working properly, but no more than that. Can't even ping the server at 192.168.2.1 - “Reply from 192.168.2.1: Destination host unreachable”. My hunch is that it's something to do with the routing tables, or maybe the DHCP on eth0, but I can't find a proper answer anywhere on Google. I was hoping to find some sort of sample config, as surely this is not an uncommon situation, but maybe I'm not searching for the right terms. Eddie, What you are trying to do is make this server act as a router (also called a gateway). It sounds like you have the right idea. Start at the ping issue, as that's not routing, just networking. Where is the DHCP server for the 192.168.2.0 network (the inside network)? Typically this would be on your server on 192.168.2.1. I recommend dnsmasq for a simple DHCP setup like this. Secondly, don't forget to enable IP forwarding. See /etc/sysctl.conf, and uncomment this line: net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Then run: sudo sysctl -p Without that you won't forward traffic from inside to outside. The last thing you need to do is NAT your inside traffic to your outside IP 192.168.1.20. Where to do this is up to you, but you need to run this iptables command at bootup: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE I wrote a blog post about doing this for virtual machines in Virtualbox. The setup should be the same for you, except you can ignore the Virtualbox and brctl stuff. Replace vnet0 with eth1, and ignore the bridge lines: http://www.tolaris.com/2009/03/05/using-host-networking-and-nat-with- virtualbox/ Regards, Tyler -- The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt
On Saturday 28 Aug 2010 08:05:03 Matthew Daubney wrote: Denyhosts is quite useful in stopping brute force attacks. After so many failed attempts it just blocks the attacking IP. See also fail2ban, which is in my opinion more useful. It works using iptables, and supports all kinds of brute-force attacks, from those against Apache to Courier IMAP. Regards, Tyler -- A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!
On Friday 27 Aug 2010 14:56:10 Rob Beard wrote: Um... why do you need to do anything with Firefox? VMWare Server 2 uses a web-based admin panel. VNC inside the browser requires a Firefox plugin, which works on i386 and amd64. Regards, Tyler -- Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it. -- Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!
On Friday 27 Aug 2010 15:41:23 Jim Price wrote: I've been using Virtualbox since Hardy came out, as it is pretty slick and mostly pain free, but I took another look at qemu-kvm after the recent announcement from Oracle, and armed with a little foreknowledge, I feel happy I could switch to kvm without losing very much, if anything. There is a gui for creating and managing VMs (virt-manager), and I tend to want to know how to do everything I do in Virtualbox from the command line anyway so it can be automated if necessary. I thought it was going to be a big job to get it working, but all I had to do in Lucid was install a few packages, add a few lines to the network config and remove Virtualbox. I run Virtualbox on the desktop, and manage three KVM servers running 19 VMs. I've been doing this since Hardy. If you want an easy solution for virtual machines on a desktop, especially VMs with a GUI, use Virtualbox. If you want a headless solution, KVM is fine. But it is NOT as easy to use as Virtualbox, nor does its GUI work as well. There is no fair comparison between virt- manager and the Virtualbox GUI. Regards, Tyler -- A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Real Ale Train
See you there tomorrow, folks! http://fossevents.org/2010/02/02/ubuntu-uk-real-ale-train/ Tyler -- The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. -- Anne Smedley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010 11:01:16 Byte Soup wrote: One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do this? I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an entire disc (i.e. some previously deleted files) I use shred to dispose of drives every month. DBAN, as others have recommended, is handy. But you don't need it. You can boot on the disk you want to shred, or an Ubuntu Live CD (which has shred), or from a machine that has another boot disk and is cabled up to the target drive. Then shred the drive: shred -v /dev/sdb Yes, it works on drive devices. Yes, you can do it to a live drive, even one hosting the filesystem you booted from, and it will keep running. Very shortly after, the running system won't be good for much besides watching the output. -v will keep you informed of progress. It usually takes my server 48-72 hours to make 3-4 passes shredding a 500 GB SATA drive connected via a USB drive adaptor. I doubt anyone will have the resources or motivation to recover a drive after even 1 pass of shred, much less the higher numbers recommended by security researchers. Regards, Tyler -- ... jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. -- Noam Chomsky, in Understanding Power -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was Apps for kids)
On Saturday 07 Aug 2010 09:15:47 Sean Miller wrote: And we have yet to get the opinions of a large percentage of the group. I don't see the point of getting a large discussion going, and I certainly don't see this as a vote. When topics like this come up, it is unfortunate that the mailing list is not, as is the rest of Ubuntu, a benevolent dictatorship. This topic is one of a list of topics that [a] will never be resolved, and [b] is doomed to be continually brought up. We used to call this netiquette, but that very antiquated idea is, well, dead. Squashed under the weight of millions of people who got online faster than people like yourself could educate them. Topics like this are the undead remains of such lofty ideas. You cannot change the world. You can change yourself. You'll be happier if you just deal with the fact that some people prefer to top post, and won't change. Regards, Tyler -- The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. -- Anne Smedley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTML as desktop background?
On 31/07/10 13:08, Jack Leigh wrote: Hey guys, I recently came across this awesome demo of using thecanvas tag in HTML to do 8-bit color cycling (http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/) Does anyone know of a way that I could set one of these as my desktop background or produce an image that I could use or anything? Obviously the animation is key. If you use Kubuntu / KDE, just add a web browser (Konqueror) plasmoid to your desktop, and point it to the site or a local file. Regards, Tyler -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety ... -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distributed Backup Proposal
On Saturday 24 July 2010 09:04:00 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: 1) How would you ensure that my files cannot be copied or read by anyone else on the network? See the brackup project - rsync with encrypted storage. Combine that with P2P, and you have this. Tyler -- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu 64 on basic laptop
On Saturday 24 July 2010 12:57:15 Alan Lord (News) wrote: I do not think it will make much difference. But I use 32bit Ubuntu on all my machines. Earlier experiences with codecs and flash support on 64bit has scared me for life! I have run 64-bit on my normal workstation since Hardy, and run 32-bit on a home entertainment machine. There were growing pains with 64-bit Ubuntu, especially Flash and Java. However, all of those problems have been resolved since at least Jaunty, and all of them have since been backported to Hardy. Flash now runs in 32-bit mode even in 64-big Firefox, the Sun Java Firefox plugin runs natively in 64-bit mode, and you can even get Google Gears 64-bit from various repos. In short: 64-bit works fine. Yes, there have been bad experiences, but they're all sorted now. Regards, Tyler -- No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4
On Friday 16 July 2010 20:53:56 Rob Beard wrote: So considering the large files, would anyone recommend EXT3 or EXT4? Tony outlined the problem with upgrading ext3 to ext4, so I have just this to add: use ext4. There is no reason, exempting some fears caused by problems in early releases, not to use it. It's faster in almost every way. Format ext4 from the start, and you'll be happy. I really, really cannot wait for btrfs. :) Tyler -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4
On Friday 16 July 2010 21:18:47 Rob Beard wrote: Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found something about this when googling about EXT4). Extents are a method of pre-allocating space to avoid fragmentation. ext4 will be faster for copying large files. Regards, Tyler -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query
On Thursday 15 July 2010 07:36:24 Bob Giles wrote: There is probably a simple answer to my query but so far it has eluded me. I have added a line to /etc/fstab which originally mounted a couple of shares on my Netgear Duo NAS at bootup. It worked fine for a couple of days and has now stopped working. However, if I run sudo mount -a in terminal the shares mount as expected. Is networking available at boot-time? Or only after you login? Does mountall run before networking starts? One difference since Ubuntu 7.10 is the addition of network manager and when networking starts (on bootup versus on login). The easiest solution is to script a sudo mount /media/Storage as part of your login. Regards, Tyler -- If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. -- Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query
On Thursday 15 July 2010 19:19:18 Bob Giles wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions and references. This does indeed appear to be a timing problem. The power supply here in Greece where I live has been particularly tiresome lately and as a result, everything gets powered down overnight. Tyler's suggestion seems to be the way to go. I did not realise that networking started on bootup as opposed to login. To be exact, basic networking (localhost) starts at boot. Networking by cable MAY start at boot, but usually at login. Wireless only starts at login as it needs access to your keyring to get the key. But mounting from fstab always happens at boot. Tyler -- He that is truly deep strives for clarity, he that wishes to appear deep to the crowd strives for obscurity, for the crowd considers deep only that which it cannot see to the bottom, the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Intel GM965 to an LCD tv
On Saturday 10 July 2010 15:46:40 pete wrote: And I have discovered that my LCD tv 'overscans'! that is the desktop and shells edges are hidden by the edges of the physical screen! after much googleing around I have been unable to resolve this (forgive me for this but winxp has a 'underscan' button in the graphics driver software that fixes the problem! although ubuntu does not.) the current workaround I am using is a frame of empty panels (toolbars) to take up the space at the side of the screen that i cannot see. Pete, I had a similar problem problem my HTPC and TV. The TV doesn't correctly report the 1080p resolution in the EDID data. I used DTD Calculator in a Windows VM on another machine to generate the overscan data. I blogged a complete solution. I hope this helps. http://www.tolaris.com/2009/04/14/enabling-1080p-video-on-the-shuttle-x27d- htpc/ Regards, Tyler -- The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. -- Anne Smedley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone got a spare joggler?
On Friday 02 July 2010 13:19:47 Alan Pope wrote: It's a computer. There is this thing called google :) Next time you really want to be sarcastic, Alan, try this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=joggler Tyler -- Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job. -- Bruce Eckel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Optional headless server...
As long as the card is on the bus, it is powered. The card itself may have a specific power-save mode, but I very much doubt it. The power consumed by the monitor is another story, but you know how to turn that off. If you want a way to save power and periodically run commands and fetch stuff, just buy a low-power PC. My Intel Atom-powered box consumes 26 W in normal operation, so I never turn it off. Regards, Tyler On Monday 28 June 2010 20:53:43 Timothy Rittman wrote: Hi All, I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction to help with a minor issue. I have a desktop running ubuntu in Bishop's Stortford, but I currently spend most of the week working in Norwich, where I use my laptop to log in via ssh for various bits and pieces. My desktop turns itself on every day at 4:30 and I turn it off when I'm done via ssh. All good. I have a fairly hefty graphics card on the desktop that I'm sure drains a lot of power when the desktop is on. Is it possible to have the desktop running as a headless server most of the time, then perhaps use some sort of key combination to switch on the graphics card when I'm at home? Thanks! Tim -- WWJD? JWRTFM. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu guest in Virtual Box lost networking
On Friday 25 June 2010 08:34:29 David King wrote: I run Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit on my PC, on which I run Virtual Box 3.2.4. In that I have been running an Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit guest. Mostly it has been okay, but recently it started to randomly lose its network connection, and now today it cannot get a network connection at all. I have a similar setup, but prefer to use the host's routing directly rather than the NAT function of Virtualbox. My guide, which is still valid for Virtualbox 3.2.4, is here: http://www.tolaris.com/2009/03/05/using-host-networking-and-nat-with- virtualbox/ Tyler -- ... jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. -- Noam Chomsky, in Understanding Power -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 21:04:38 Chris Rowson wrote: Please feel free to point out any errors etc. I might work this into a how to and publish it on the 'tinterweb (of course giving proper attribution to folk such as Tyler) as instructions on how to do this seem to be spread across quite a few sites. I'm glad you solved it, Chris! Congratulations. No attribution is needed, as I did the same thing you did - Google and experiment until it worked. Today, we call that engineering. :) Regards, Tyler -- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04
On Friday 11 June 2010 13:44:38 Liam Proven wrote: If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs can't access more than about 3¼-3½ gig of RAM; Or install 32-bit and then: apt-get install linux-generic-pae Reboot, hold SHIFT, and select the pae kernel. Then remove the linux-generic package and any generic (not generic-pae) kernels. Once you do that it'll always boot pae kernels. Regards, Tyler -- Before we got into this war there were countless 'military experts' and intelligence analysts that told us this was a good idea, that we had to do it. That presented their information, and were so terribly wrong. These people are still affecting public policy. They are still considered experts. I'm sorry, shouldn't there be a rule or law that says if you fuck things up so badly, you can no longer be considered an expert? -- Tim Robbins -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security
On Friday 11 June 2010 17:47:08 Chris Rowson wrote:
Here's the my current level of understanding! If anyone can fill in
the gaps (or correct me if I'm wrong) I'd be really grateful.
(snipped for brevity)
Your stated understanding is correct, as far as I know it.
What I'm still hazy on is this:
cgi is slower than fastcgi because it (a bit like prefork MPM) has one
process per thread (whereas fastcgi can service multiple requests with
one process).
However.. we want each virtual host to have its own waiting
fastcgi process (to separate out script execution to enhance security)
standing by to execute PHP scripts. How do we do that?
That's easy. Again, webmin + virtualmin will set it up for each domain/account
pretty easily. But here are the packages you need:
apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-mod-fcgid php5-cgi
You can also use libapache2-mod-fastcgi, with slightly different settings.
Enable the fcgid module. Then create a php handler in apache2.conf or a file in
conf.d/, with:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Directory /var/www
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 .php
Options +ExecCGI
/Directory
Directory /usr/share
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 .php
Options +ExecCGI FollowSymlinks Indexes
/Directory
Then in each site's definition (/etc/apache2/sites-available/domainname):
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/domainname/cgi-bin/
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5
SuexecUserGroup #1005 #1005
Where 1005 is the user and groupid of this domain's user. Finally, create an
executable file /home/domainname/cgi-bin/php5.cgi containing:
#!/bin/bash
export PHPRC=$PWD/../etc/php5
umask 022
export SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
exec /usr/bin/php-cgi
This allows each user to have their own /home/domainname/etc/php5/php.ini and
cgi-bin directory. This is the virtualmin way. You could do it another way,
but it works for me.
The attached samples are:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/domainname.conf
/etc/apache2/conf.d/local.conf
/home/domainname/cgi-bin/php5.cgi
I put this last file in my domain-user skel directory so new domain accounts
get it.
Regards,
Tyler
--
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure.
-- Clarence Darrow
VirtualHost *:80
ServerName domainname.com
ServerAlias www.domainname.com
ServerAlias webmail.domainname.com
ServerAlias admin.domainname.com
Redirect / http://www.domainname.net/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =webmail.domainname.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domainname.com:2/ [R]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =admin.domainname.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://domainname.com:1/ [R]
/VirtualHost
# 2008-08-04 tyler - basic settings
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
ServerTokens ProductOnly
ServerSignature Off
TraceEnable Off
# 2008-11-10 tyler - FastCGI + PHP settings
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Directory /var/www
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 .php
Options +ExecCGI
/Directory
Directory /usr/share
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 .php
Options +ExecCGI FollowSymlinks Indexes
/Directory
php5.cgi
Description: application/shellscript
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security
On Friday 11 June 2010 23:17:07 Chris Rowson wrote: That's easy. Again, webmin + virtualmin will set it up for each domain/account pretty easily. But here are the packages you need: Also, unfortunately there's no Lucid installer yet for virtualmin. I might have a look at what's involved in installing it from scratch. I don't use the scripted installer, just the deb. See here: http://www.webmin.com/vdownload.html http://download.webmin.com/download/virtualmin/webmin-virtual- server_3.79.gpl_all.deb However, I haven't tested it on lucid, just hardy and jaunty. Tyler -- Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. -- Richard Feynman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:44:29 Alan Bell wrote: ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it should list the version number of grub. Does it start with 1.98? Grub2 shows a boot menu if it detects more than one operating system. Otherwise it is hidden as you say. In this case it's detecting his WinXP partition and therefore showing a boot menu. Regards, Tyler -- Before we got into this war there were countless 'military experts' and intelligence analysts that told us this was a good idea, that we had to do it. That presented their information, and were so terribly wrong. These people are still affecting public policy. They are still considered experts. I'm sorry, shouldn't there be a rule or law that says if you fuck things up so badly, you can no longer be considered an expert? -- Tim Robbins -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:19:28 Chris Rowson wrote: I'm migrating a web server with a few sites from a CentOS based VPS with a DirectAdmin control panel to an Ubuntu Lucid server. I'm not incredibly bothered about losing the control panel, but I wondered if anyone had any advice on securing PHP scripts so that scripts owned by separate 'site owners' don't interfere with one and other. I've looked at suPHP ITK-MPM but as I've not used either before I'm not sure of the pros and cons. Anyone out there running this kind of setup with any advice to offer? If you intend to run more than one site from this server, you might consider installing webmin and virtualmin. It'll make this easier. Install the apache2-suexec package if all web files are under /var/www and if you want PHP scripts to run as the user (site owner). If your files will be elsewhere, such as /home/domainname, install apache2-suexec-custom and configure it for the appropriate root. You'll need to run PHP as cgi or fastcgi. That means no Apache PHP module, and using the Apache worker or ITK MPM. Regards, Tyler -- One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] fail2ban custom iptables rules
Hi Chris, It certainly is. Attached are samples of my iptables-restore and fail2ban configs for hardy-based servers. My iptables config creates the fail2ban-ssh chain, so I've changed the iptables-multiport fail2ban action so that it doesn't. And I prefer that fail2ban only block NEW ssh sessions, not all existing, when it blocks an IP (good when I'm logged in and another staff person screws up logging in 5 times). Regards, Tyler On Wednesday 09 June 2010 23:57:47 Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, I've been experimenting with using fail2ban to protect Internet facing servers. I was wondering if it is possible to implement your own iptables rules alongside fail2ban. For instance, I'd probably want to set up an iptables rule that drops any inbound traffic not going to ICMP, HTTP, HTTPS or SSH. Does anyone know if it's possible to use your own rules alongside fail2ban? Cheers, Chris -- Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- George Orwell # Fail2Ban configuration file # # 2008-07-31 tyler - modified for Talia use. # Talia firewalls already have fail2ban chains and call them in the # appropriate order. [Definition] # Option: actionstart # Notes.: command executed once at the start of Fail2Ban. # Values: CMD # # not needed because our local firewall setup ensures chain exists #actionstart = iptables -A fail2ban-name -j RETURN actionstart = # Option: actionstop # Notes.: command executed once at the end of Fail2Ban # Values: CMD # actionstop = iptables -F fail2ban-name # Option: actioncheck # Notes.: command executed once before each actionban command # Values: CMD #not needed because our local firewall setup ensures sane environment # actioncheck = # Option: actionban # Notes.: command executed when banning an IP. Take care that the # command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights. # Tags:ip IP address # failures number of failures # time unix timestamp of the ban time # Values: CMD # actionban = iptables -I fail2ban-name 1 -s ip -j DROP # Option: actionunban # Notes.: command executed when unbanning an IP. Take care that the # command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights. # Tags:ip IP address # failures number of failures # time unix timestamp of the ban time # Values: CMD # actionunban = iptables -D fail2ban-name -s ip -j DROP [Init] # Defaut name of the chain # name = default # Option: port # Notes.: specifies port to monitor # Values: [ NUM | STRING ] Default: # port = ssh # Option: protocol # Notes.: internally used by config reader for interpolations. # Values: [ tcp | udp | icmp | all ] Default: tcp # protocol = tcp # 2008-07-24 tyler - customised Fail2Ban jail configuration file # # Changes here override defaults in jail.conf. However, that file # may be replaced during upgrade. [DEFAULT] ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 bantime = 600 maxretry = 6 banaction = iptables-multiport protocol = tcp action = %(action_)s # All servers ban SSH. [ssh] enabled = true port = ssh filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/auth.log # Enable the following on public mail servers only. # Covers both POP/IMAP and webmail cracking. # For web mail failures [pam-generic] enabled = false filter = pam-generic port = http,https logpath = /var/log/auth.log [courierauth] enabled = false port = smtp,ssmtp,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s filter = courierlogin logpath = /var/log/mail.log # Generated by hand *filter :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :fail2ban-ssh - [0:0] # Accept all loopback traffic -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 3 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 4 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 11 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 12 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j fail2ban-ssh -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m multiport -j ACCEPT --dports 22,25,80,443,465,587,993,995 COMMIT # Completed on Fri May 5 10:23:01 BST 2006 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 11:56:45 pmgazz wrote: I use aptitude 'cos I always make a typo on the hyphen in 'apt-get' ;) This sounds like a job for ... sudo ln -s /usr/bin/apt-get /usr/local/bin/aptget Tyler -- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude
On Monday 07 June 2010 08:51:09 Neil Perry wrote: But how many of you using aptitude rather then apt-get? I've used aptitude since I started using ubuntu, seeing as I thought apt-get wasn't maintained any more. I have never used aptitude (except to test it once or twice). I've used apt- get since Warty, on both my desktop and my servers. It is definitely being maintained. Regards, Tyler -- Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude
On Monday 07 June 2010 10:23:45 Mark Fraser wrote: I tend to use aptitude on the command line when apt-get says that it can't perform an upgrade for some reason. This is usually because it needs to install something else at the same time. Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. Tyler -- It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. -- Richard Feynman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Install
On Monday 07 June 2010 21:09:46 Chris Rowson wrote: Ah. In answer to my own question, it looks like the i386 server kernel was 'dropped' in Karmic. Yep. You can see it here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/linux-server This metapackage depends on: * dep: linux-generic-pae [i386] * dep: linux-image-server (= 2.6.31.22.35) [amd64] So on i386 you get linux-generic-pae now. Tyler -- An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell
On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:50:00 Nigel Verity wrote: Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows will invalidate the hardware guarantee. I've run Ubuntu on Dell since 5.04. I've called for support 5 times across 5 laptops - once for a bad fan, and 4 times for dark areas of the screen. In all cases the droid on the phone insists I try various Windows tech support. It goes something like this: Dell: Right click on the background and select Properties. Me: (Reading Slashdot) OK. Dell: Now try ... Me: Nope, that didn't fix it. (repeat a few times) Dell: Sir, I'm sending a technician to replace your screen. Me: Thank you. Don't mention Linux to them. The one time I did, I was sent to a purgatory of You have to reinstall from the recovery CD before we can support you. It's better to play along with the support game until you get what you want. Tyler -- Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances. -- Justice Robert Jackson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] sudo
On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote: You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like with:- sudo -s Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use sudo -i so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment nor vice versa. And on machines with older sudo (I've got some older RHEL servers), I use: sudo su - Which does the same. Regards, Tyler -- For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. -- Frantz Fanon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt
On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote: This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that the packages are often small and the overhead of p2p is too high to get significant gains. Certainly with so many mirrors around you might argue it is too much effort (my ISP, virgin, have a mirror on their network so I get ridiculously fast apt updates for my system) If I'm already using archive.ubuntu.com while on Virgin, will it use the Virgin mirror? Or do I need to manually specify it? Regards, Tyler -- It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. -- Richard Feynman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypt whole disk or just home dir?
On Thursday 13 May 2010 01:10:44 John Stevenson wrote: If you have a laptop hard drive that often contains sensitve personal data or is used for any kind of business or holds information that needs to be covered under the data protection act, then it advisable to have the whole system encrypted in case it falls into the wrong hands. Encrypting home dir + swap, and using a /tmp ram disk, is sufficient even for data protection act requirements. Everything written outside those three areas are operating system files only. How to convert existing homes to crypto, plus swap and tmp: http://www.tolaris.com/2009/11/14/securing-laptops-with-ecryptfs-cryptsetup- and-tmpfs/ Tyler -- Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
