Re: [ubuntu-uk] Temperature
If you use Icinga or Nagios you can set Warnings and Critical states. Checks can occur at specified intervals along with any other checks you might want to do (memory/cpu load, disk space, etc)the temperature checks need lm-sensors installed though. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] webmin
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 13:59 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: Hello Everyone, I've cracked it... You're not the only one ;-) I'd personally avoid making webmin publicly available. Consider using iptables or (ufw) to restrict access to your IP if you have a static, or you could only allow access to the webmin port from localhost and connect via an ssh socks proxy to that port. Webmin's a bit if a target for attackers and has a long history of vulnerabilities Also, with ssh access consider using fail2ban, or better yet restricting access by IP :-) -- 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 May 21, 2011 6:28 PM, Jon Spriggs jon@sprig.I Every now and then, I look at X2GO and FreeNX and remind myself that it's not really doing much more than a tunnel to a method of displaying X, and that my way works. that said... I actively encourage the use of FreeNX, as it has some useful featurestunneled audio, shadow sessions and the ability to connect and launch non-running desktop to name a few :-) Like I said though, there are *very* many ways of skinning the same True. It's always interesting to find other ways of doing something though :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft proprietary file types?
On May 20, 2011 6:19 AM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: I'd be very wary of using somebody for IT services who didn't appear to know that Openoffice would open those three file formats... OpenOffice/libreoffice will open them happily.whether the content of them is displayed as intended by the original author is another matter (this is also the case between different versions of MS office...) My advice - open the document if you can. If it's something that depends on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf. P -- 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 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to my ubuntu image in VirtualBox -- I'm guessing because VirtualBox isn't clever enough to figure out that I have two modules (both report okay in Snow Leopard). Can I hazard a guess that the installation media you used is 32bit? AFAIK you need to use a 64 bit OS / CPU to use more than 4Gb RAM -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] empathy-skype-evolution
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:05 PM, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello me again; I've slightly looked into this but not with full intensity just wanted to know if any of you had done it: I got this new smartphone/minicomputer nokia n900 (just two days before the platform anouncement) and it's a pretty awesome piece of kit. SNIP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] empathy-skype-evolution
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.netwrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:05 PM, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello me again; I've slightly looked into this but not with full intensity just wanted to know if any of you had done it: I got this new smartphone/minicomputer nokia n900 (just two days before the platform anouncement) and it's a pretty awesome piece of kit. SNIP Sorry about the previous post - gmail went squiffy I've got an N900 too - great device - shame about the lack of future for Maemo/Meego on Nokia handsets. There's a great community for the device though and loads of useful apps/information. I have to say though, that the way I sync information with Evolution is via a MS Exchange server that we use at work. It works really well for OTA synchronisation - and syncs pretty much all the information that you mention, If you want to sync gmail contacts with the phone and with Evolution, I suspect the only way is to sync both the device and Evolution with Gmail itself -rather than to sync the phone with the netbook. There's an article on syncing gmail and evolution here - http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8226-how-to-sync-evolution-with-googles-pim-apps Does this help at all? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: Why should the access be OK one way but not the other? Firewall rules? Samba server started? Check ufw status on both machines, and output netstat -auntp to see whether the necessary samba ports are open and samba is listening for connections :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: On 01/03/11 16:36, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: Why should the access be OK one way but not the other? Firewall rules? Samba server started? Check ufw status on both machines, and output netstat -auntp to see whether the necessary samba ports are open and samba is listening for connections :) Presumably I only need to do that on the Netbook as that's the one I can't access? Yes - sorry - I should have been more descriptive :( You should get something similar to the following: $ sudo ufw status Status: active To Action From -- -- Samba ALLOW Anywhere Apache ALLOW Anywhere 22 ALLOW Anywhere 514/udpALLOW Anywhere $ sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10240.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1186/samba tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1186/samba udp0 0 10.203.7.210:1370.0.0.0:* 1187/samba udp0 0 10.203.7.255:1370.0.0.0:* 1187/samba udp0 0 0.0.0.0:137 0.0.0.0:* 1187/samba udp0 0 10.203.7.210:1380.0.0.0:* 1187/samba udp0 0 10.203.7.255:1380.0.0.0:* 1187/samba udp0 0 0.0.0.0:138 0.0.0.0:* 1187/samba Hope this helps -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: On 01/03/11 16:51, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: You should get something similar to the following: $ sudo ufw status Status: active Status inactive. What does that imply? It's not Iptables that's stopping the connection. Did you run sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba Does that output anything? If not, you'll need to run /etc/init.d/samba4/start and try again (assuming the samba server is installed) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem
I now have a problem sharing directories on the Netbook. If I right-click on a directory and choose Sharing Options and check the Share this folder box it now says : 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name Everyone to a SID. Memory allocation error. Ok - can you try $ sudo service samba4 restart ? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unable to share files over network.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:09 PM, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.ukwrote: If you only want to share files between Ubuntu machines, using a secure connection, SSH is an option https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS Nautilus supports this by default - for fast and easy transfer, simply open Nautilus and in the location bar type: ssh://ip_of_remote_machine You'll then be prompted for a username and password unless you have key based authentication set up. Note that the machine you are connecting to needs to be running an SSH server (sudo apt-get install openssh-server /etc/init.d/ssh start) P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] CloneZilla live ...
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: I too now swear by CloneZilla, I like the fact it works with both Linux and Windows (XP at least, not tried restoring any Vista, Server 2003/8 or Windows 7 machines). I now have it on my server and netboot machines. It's also handy for those times when I want to backup stuff off Windows machines with corrupt installations). I tend to use the Ubuntu based Clonezilla image, not sure exactly what the differences are between the Debian and Ubuntu bases but they're both available from the same site. Yep - it's totally awesome - we actively use it for cloning failing hard disks on all OS's, and for cloning disks before attempting data recovery (so as to not further damage the original disk). Definitely a tool that should be in everyones arsenal :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distro hopping / Laptop running hot
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the forums, hardly any one there! Worked well, hardware recognised (and I know what I am doing!) Fedora - didn't like it, could fry an egg on my trackpad! IMHO Fedora is a great distro, but requires some tweaking to optimise it well (unloading unneccessary modules and stopping unused services helps). Also find that because it is so bleeding edge caution is required with updates.I've had some issues with bugfixes that subsequently expose more bugs. It's solid though and a good opportunity to see some new features in projects :) The Fedora forum guys are all really helpful as well PCLinuxOS - Forum full of rabid fan boys, it didn't work well at all. Agreed - couldn't stand it last time I used it! Linux Mint Debian - very, very impressed! Probably going to stick with this on the laptop. Rolling distro, attractive and the forums are friendly and helpful. Cpufreq didn't run out of the box and the Debian methods of doing things are not as straight forward as Ubuntu, but it just feels right. Still got a huge learning curve, moving from a RPM based distro to a DEB based. But very impressed. Never really played with Mint - this is interesting feedback - might give it a go! So I now have 4 machines on 4 different distros!! Have I missed any distro worth investigating? Depends what you're looking for. I've spent a lot of time distro hopping over the years. The ones that really stand out are Crunchbang - which is *seriously* light and very usable. I've got that running blindingly fast on my wifes EeePC 701. Openbox requires a little bit of command line work setting up menus for new apps etc, but it has a nice minimalist feel - and it's FAST!! (http://crunchbanglinux.org/) The community in the Crunchbang camp are really helpful too. Debian is naturally a great distro to have a go with. It's about as stable as anything out there and it's quick. Again, great community and great documentation out there. If you want an everything but the kitchen sink distro, have a look at Sabayon. It's Gentoo based but has some nice features like using Anaconda as an installer. And there are loads of packages available. The default install is huge though. It's well put together and polished and again, friendly community. It is a bit heavy though! If you want to have a look at security tools, you could have a look at Backtrack -it's a pen-testing distro which is good for learning a little about some of the security tools out there. SamuraiWTF is good for testing web application security. If you have a little patience, and want to roll your own you could also have a look at Arch Linux. This is a great distro if you want to build from the ground up, installing only the stuff you want/need. You'll probably need to set aside a weekend to get something usable for day-to-day use, but it's pretty rewarding :) Does this help at all? P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora
Likewise, if anyone has an invite going spare then I'd be interested in giving it a go! Many thanks Paul -- 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, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Paul Jones p...@pjitsolutions.co.ukwrote: snip Are the system admin? If not I would be careful about putting a non-work PC on the corporate LAN. Without admin rights you wouldn't be able to join the domain anyway! As mentioned earlier in the thread, Likewise Open is the best (well the quickest anyway) way to get a linux machine participating on Windows domain I've also had some luck using Likewise to get machines to join Zentyal (nee Ebox) Samba and LDAP domains :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Find a Router's IP address
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Andy Partington andy.parting...@gmail.com wrote: I use Nagios at work on a CentOS install, the company I work for use SME ( God it's horrible ) but it's also based on CentOS so you can work your way round it. Feel free to fire questions at me, guys in #nagios on Freenode are very helpful I've found as well. Looked at OCS but not used it in anger yet I'm afraid. Nagios is a fantastic tool for monitoring machine states. You can capture and get reporting on almost anything regarding service states and uptime/downtime, configure for SMS and email alerts, report on SNMP and WMI data, etc The project has recently been forked, and Icinga (http://icinga.org) is looking very promising too. We actively use Nagios and offer hosted instances for some of our clients - our fully managed clients are monitored using Nagios by default. That way we usually know about issues before our clients do (low disk space on servers, stopped services, loss of connectivity, etc). I used to use OCS at my previous employer - again it's very feature rich and works best in conjunction with GLPI as a ticketing system. Great for producing ad-hoc reports on hardware, checking specs, and installed software and service pack versions without leaving your desk :) Definitely worth a look. Oh and for nmap, to identify hardware/OS by vendor, the command would be nmap -T4 -A 192.168.1.0/24 If it's a large subnet and you'd like greppable output it would be: nmap -T4 -A -oG scan.txt 192.168.1.0/24 Hope this helps P -- 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
Skipton, North Yorkshire here. Incidentally we support Linux and Windows boxes (server and workstation). For commercial reasons we avoid domestic support though, but for business we're happy to provide informal advice or paid consultancy. I believe it's against list rules(?) to shamelessly plug businesses, but if you want to google us we're in Skipton, and we support Systems ;) Seriously though, if anyone on list is stuck with anything and in the area, let me know. Likewise, if anyone fancies meeting up or setting up a local group, give me a shout :) -- 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
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking questions on Windows forums. The first one that comes to mind is Experts Exchange (now a pay site and abandoned), but there have been others. snip EE is still a very active site - and probably one of the best IT general knowledge support sites out there. I maintain my free membership by answering a couple of questions each month I would recommend to any IT Pro's/technically savvy users out there that this is a good way to find out information when you need it in a hurry (I usually find an answer is forthcoming within an hour or 2, if it's not already in the knowledge base... My issue with general forums (particularly the Ubuntu forums due to the number of users) is that there are loads of competent users giving good advicebut the noise ratio is dire. EE tends to have a better quality response It's horses for courses I suppose...but I personally find EE extremely helpful in times of crisis :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: snip I've got Puppee on my eeepc because as soon as I open Firefox on Lucid, the processor starts running at 100% with appalling latency - Puppee it runs beautifully. Or just use standard Puppy. /snip Have a look at Crunchbang as an option. My wife is running it on her EEEPC701 and it's stable and fast :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Latency on 10.04LTS WUBI
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Just as an aside (and I'm not discounting the possibility of hardware issue - this seems likely) what's the drive fragmentation like on the host drive? The curse of installing an Ext3/4 container on an NTFS partition is that the container is subject to the same issues as the host drivewhile Ext3/4 are not subject to fragmentation, if the host drive is, that can cause performance issues. This is why it's preferred to install on a separate partition dedicated to linux on a machine and dual boot that way. Just an observation... P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Latency on 10.04LTS WUBI
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Why would fragmentation cause latency? Sean Heavy load on disk controllers while they seek would add to the overall CPU load. I wouldn't say this is likely to be the exclusive cause of the symptoms you are seeing - just a pitfall that I would associate with WUBI and it's performance in relation to a full install on it's own partition/disk compared to performance within a container on a non-native formatted disk. The use of a container adds another potential cause of problems... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leeds Surrounding Area - IT Businesses
Likewise - we have an IT support company in Skipton and would possibly be interested :) Drop me an email to discuss, let me know the dates and we'll try to get involved! On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.comwrote: Might be worth asking this on GeekUp. I'm in Leeds and would be interested in getting involved. Simon On 3 Sep 2010 15:12, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there, Do you guys know of any businesses willing to sponsor a Ubuntu Installfest in Leeds City Center? The total costs look like they will be between £150 and £200 and I am willing to go halves with any company if they would be willing to pledge half. Daniel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leeds Surrounding Area - IT Businesses
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: Likewise - we have an IT support company in Skipton and would possibly be interested :) Drop me an email to discuss, let me know the dates and we'll try to get involved! Arghhh - apologies for the top post there - I replied to that on autopilot!# Sorry folks!! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samba Shares
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.comwrote: try running sudo chmod 777 * on the directorys and files Arghhh - while it's entirely possible that this might resolve the issue, that's possibly the WORST thing you can do to resolve a permissions based issue! Please don't ever suggest chmod-ing full permissions to everyone - it's a fix that is likely to come back and bite at a later date! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler as a File server
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Or buy a Sheva plug fro $99 I think this is a nice little ting http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/home And they do have UK versions https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Yes - I can vouch for theseI've got a couple in the wild now and they're awesome devices for the money. ARM processor and run Debian very nicely, although not tried with Ubuntu (although apparently you get them now with Ubuntu preinstalled). http://newit.co.uk sell them in the UK. They support SD cards or you can mount USB HDD's. I personally use them for remote network monitoring and remote SOCKS proxies... but they have enough power to be (very) low end webservers or many other things :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal
snip Oh, if 13.04 is Raffish Roach do I get a prize? /Snip I do!! Personalised distro ;) :D -- Sent from my Nokia N900 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: I do have my doubts about the speeds shown on this site. It shows my street at less than 1Mb, despite the fact had an upgrade three months ago and now get 3-3.5 Mb. My friends village shows speeds only available with fibre-optic, which it doesn’t have. It even shows suppliers that are not available to them! Samknows, as previously mentioned is a better site for accurate reporting - it's a pretty comprehensive guide although it has changed (and not for the better) over the years. I would second the earlier recommendation about talking to a supplier such as Zen - they're knowledgeable, can perform accurate line tests and will be able to give good advice. Of course, Zen have no LLU services in your area, so if the response is not satisfactory it would probably be worth talking to the LLU listed providers: - *O2 / Be Unlimited* is available in your area - *Bulldog (CW)* is available in your area - *TalkTalk* (CPW) is available in your area - *Sky Broadband / Easynet* is available in your area - *Tiscali* is available in your area - *Tiscali TV* is available in your area - *Orange* is available in your area The iPlate is also a useful device for improving speeds - but has no real advantages over simply snipping the bell wire where the BT cable enters the premises to reduce interference. There are some good guides on doing this, notably: http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/broadbandspeed.html :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Rsync to a remote computer
On 4 August 2010 12:23, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote: I'd also suggest that if you don't trust the medium between the 2 machines (ie, the internet) then you might want to consider running rsync over ssh. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/rsync.htm :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for small business
- Original message - I've been reading the list for a few weeks (and posted once to get gmane set up and tested) in preparation for an upcoming job. I have a contact who is keen on using open source wherever possible in a new startup company, so I am looking for any kind of resources which might help in such a situation. I've been using open source software for years, but only in large corporations in fairly narrow applications. I couldn't make the Ubuntu in Business meeting a couple of weeks ago, but is there a writeup of what happened there? Are there any other good starting points to get an overview of what Ubuntu can offer the small (but hopefully fast growing) business? -- Jim Price snip I'd primarily look at http://ebox-platform.org for the ebox package. It ticks all the boxes for a drop-in replacement for MS SBS and is getting better with each version (asterisk is a recent package addition, for example). I've got a couple of deployments out there and it's very good. Ironically though support for joining linux clients is limited and tbh it's a bit of a pain getting linux clients connected, but it's on the wishlist for future releases. In the Fedora/Red Hat camp Free-IPA is an awesome project that serves as an all encompassing replacement for Active Directory by linking kerberos, 389 directory server, PAM and FreeRadius. This is rapidly maturing and is massively scaleable - I've been testing this since early versions, and it does what it says on the tin! It's been said before but what the open-source community needs most is a full replacement for Exchange, with sharing of tasks, public folders and calendars. Egroupware is good but some people genuinely prefer software to web-apps and this is one area that's lacking. From a security perspective there are a wealth of open-source firewall solutions out there. I favour IPCop due to the number of very well written plugins available, but pfSense is also an awesome BSD based project. From a personal perspective, on the desktop a major tool that doesn't have a functional replacement is MS Project. I was using Planner until recently when i found out some major features were missing (but appeared to exist!). Another business tool that is missing is a replacement for AutoCAD - other than those though i don't think there are many applications that don't have a linux based counterpart. Other than that, I'd like to wish you good luck. Having a client who specifically wants an open solution is a positive thingand a great opportunity to spread the word. P-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners' distro. Crunchbang is awesome - I set it up for my wife who was complaining about performance on her EEEPC 701, and have since run it on other hardware that has less than impressive resources, but where a desktop environment is needed. To be fair, once i'd actually set it up so the menu's made sense for her and she had all the apps she needed she was fine and hasn't asked for any support on it since. She's not the kind of user who makes changes to her machine every day, but she does use email and the web heavily, work in spreadsheets and word processor documents and she's really happy with it. Interested to try the new version with the Debian base when it gets into Beta... P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It was just that getting firmware for my wifi card and so on was a bit of a pain. It is vastly easier to get up and running than it used to be - ironically, one of the main reasons Ubuntu itself was created. Debian is catching up and itself is now a sort of quite viable Ubuntu Light. Indeed - I found this recently and started a thread about it. The proprietary driver issue is a bit of a pig, but I have full respect for where the Debian project is coming from. I'm running a few Debian servers around the place now and loving it, and the desktop I have runs like a charm - as I have suggested previously it seems surprisingly fast from a cold start compared to my last Ubuntu install. My first thoughts when installing for the first time in a while was When did Debian get a graphical installer?? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using computer's internet connection on phone via bluetooth
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have a Nexus One, but I don't have a wireless router in my college accommodation and I'm not allowed to install one. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to connect my phone to my computer's internet connection via bluetooth. I know you can do the opposite, i.e. allow my computer to use my phone's internet connection, but I think I'm the only person in the world who wants to do it the other way round. It's impossible to find anything by searching, as everything I find is for connecting my computer to my phone. I know network-manager can handle bluetooth networks, but I can't find a way to set one up that my phone can connect to. Thanks, Tom Not sure about Bluetooth, but with a second wifi adapter you should be able to configure an ad-hoc network from the Ubuntu machine. You'd need to configure the Ubuntu machine as a DHCP server and configure IP forwarding - this might be a breach of terms though as this would technically make the Ubuntu machine a Wireless router I'd be interested to find out if this is possible using bluetooth...although if bluetooth devices are assigned an IP address then it should be possible to route traffic from bluetooth over the Ubuntu box. P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disappearing windows
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Andy Dixon ubu...@zxcreative.com wrote: Hi, I had this before in the past. click on the window on the bottom bar, press alt+space, press the down arrow key 3 times, press enter, then move the mouse around and it should appear. If you do it wrong, it'll anger the rain gods. This, of course can be remedied by casting some chicken bones across your desk before the procedure... Oh, and Hi, i'm new... welcome :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disappearing windows
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: snip My question is how do I get the window to appear again?? I could open another window (like terminal window - if it is the terminal window that disappeared) but how do I get the disappeared one back... thanx /snip If you have desktop effects enabled it is possible you have rolled up the window. The window can be unrolled by scrolling down on your mouses scroll wheel... P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 64-bit not recommended for daily use?
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.comwrote: I thought there was something that I hadnt noticed that was going to pop up later. Im using this on my everyday work laptop so I just wanted to check there was nothing that meant I needed to go back to 32-bit. Better to do it now than later. The only issue that I had with 64bit was some browser plugins (Logmein specifically) being incompatible with the 64 bit version, but nspluginwrapper fixed that :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu getting too bloated?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2010 06:27 PM, John Stevenson wrote: I use the social media enhancements and find them very useful, I would be surprised if they are causing any significant load, I certainly cant see that when I look at the processes loading the system. I would prefer not to loose anything detracted from the current desktop/netbook version of Ubuntu as it seems to be pretty close the mark for the user groups I have been working with. Hi John - i'd say it's user preference, and if you are a heavy social networking user, then there's nothing wrong with it :) And there is undoubtedly a large market that benefit from these features! Whilst I grew up (in terms of Linux) with Debian and have fond memories of installing it instead of Windows 95, I have not felt the need to go back for several years. I do really appreciate the efforts that the debian community make and I doubt there would have been an Ubuntu distro with out them. I think it does a little good to experiment with other distributions and the directions they are going in from time to time, particularly upstream distributions, but some derivatives are also doing some very clever things. Take for example the Mandriva Directory Server - which i personally feel would be good for the Ubuntu project to adopt as that would make migrations from mixed windows/linux domains significantly easier :) The Debian team have indeed done great things in building a foundation for the Ubuntu project as well as a plethora of other distro's, and this is the beauty of the linux ecosystem - the freedom of choice and ease of migration is a fantastic thing :) I do note that you are using Ubuntu for a very different use case and hope that your issues are addressed in Ubuntu or you are happy with debian. I was just trying to gauge opinions from the list and get my views out in the open. I think the Ubuntu distro is fantastic and is a good all-round performer, ideal for new users and experienced users alike, but unfortunately has become to some degree unsuitable for some (but not all of my functions). I'll definitely keep a few Ubuntu boxes around the place, as they serve their functions exceptionally well, but for day-to-day use I'll probably use something a little lighter :) Thanks for all the responses, they were most informative :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwCjJEACgkQinmfyMJZ4la1ZACfSQivha5/tKoE8eEqj4czHstc wFMAnj/8W3xGP1TGf7C3D9RjZuOu5cLC =NrkO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] sudo
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: 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 - snip For familiarities sake if you're used to working in environments which don't generally use sudo (Red Hat, Fedora, etc), then you can specify the root password and the su to it using $ sudo passwd root then, just su as on other distros probably not best practice, but convenient! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell with Ubuntu?
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: they do them, but they seem to imply that you need to be some sort of techy person to use it, it points out that some programs may not be compatable with others, given that openoffice can work with office files and can also work with open document format, adn that open office also works on windows, i think its designed to push people towards windows, MS probably has something to do with this. I'm a bit baffled as well - http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu used to link to a (very) limited list of Ubuntu laptops - and a couple of Desktops occasionally.but it would appear that now it takes you to a list of machines running Windows, with no option to get Ubuntu pre-installed or even to order without an OS (and the subsequent OEM licence fee). I think it's only fair to explain the differences to people though between the operating systems. The number of tasks requiring command line usage are becoming less frequent in Ubuntu, but this is still often the easiest way of resolving issues, and that can create a lot of fear for people The other issue that needs to be highlighted is software incompatibility - there is plenty of software out there that requires Windows and won't run in Wine, not to mention hardware that doesn't play nicely in linux. I've seen an alarming trend in hardware with web based interfaces that require ActiveX as well (some managed Linksys Cisco Small Business switches, Sony IP CCTV cameras). All of these are potential issues that users need to be aware of - and rose tinting the issues ruins the users overall experience, as they see Linux as an obastacle to doing what they want to do. It's old, but I do tend to point people at http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm when I start talking to them about making the changea Use Linux, it's better! approach without discussing possible issues will likely cause them to convert back to windows in a heartbeat. I can't chastise Dell for applying a suitable warning to products they are actively sellingbut would actually like the link on their website that advertises a product I would like to buy to actually exist! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.comwrote: That's a fair point, I also used to run XBMC on an original xbox. /snip I can also vouch for XBMC on the original Xbox and also on a custom desktop PC. XBMC supports remote control via a browser (so fine on an iPhone and N900, or anything else with a decent browser), and also runs a upnp server as well (so other XBMC boxes around the house, the joggler and N900 play media stored on it). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.comwrote: I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with a bunch of live CDs, insert them into the PCs and reboot them (observing the resultant chaos). Chris I can't remember what the correct terminology, but there was a bit of a flood of linux activism/terrorism a few years back when it was not uncommon for people to do precisely that with Knoppix LiveCD's :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] CFLAGS Manipulation in Ubuntu
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2x Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2425 HE :) Cheers, Al. Hmmm.that's some serious processing powerthe CPU's in your machine cost more than my car!! and probably go faster ;) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler Remote Desktop sharing
FreeNX is good, but it'll give you a separate X session rather than a session to the desktop running on the Joggler screen. Snip In the FreeNX client you can specify a shadow session which joins the currently running X session. Not tried this with the joggler, but i use this for my desktop at work... P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zeus virus targets Firefox
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote: Cheers Ashley, I suppose it is asking too much for the BBC to mention that their scare reports are for Windows users only. Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ It's worth noting though that if you do use Windows machines, look after windows machine or manage a firewall - block outbound traffic, as botnets generally use IRC for command and control... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital Economy Act - the OFCOM code
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote: Hi, I originally posted this email to my users' list as I have some customers who are concerned about the Digital Economy Act. I was asked to repost it here as it may be of interest, so I'm editing it a little and doing so. snip thanks for this Andy, informative content! P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Warning to all users of Samba
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:29 AM, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: Am I wrong in thinking this post is really a warning about not setting you router up securely? If you are unable to control the router or the IP address your Ubuntu box is assigned, then you can always run a firewall and/or AppAmor on you Ubuntu box. For those wanting a graphical interface for IPTables, you can use Firestarter (available in the repos). It's a nice interface that covers most functions. From the command line Ubuntu has ufw - the uncomplicated firewall, which is effectively an easy method to configure basic firewalling (eg. ufw allow ssh) I can't emphasise enough how important it is to secure the perimeter device effectively though. If outbound filtering is enabled and services are only enabled on requirement, we'd see a drop in viruses, worms, spam and other nasties. Think back to the Slammer worm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer) which compromised windows boxes at a rapid rate, but could not have propagated anywhere near as fast if outbound firewalling was enabled. The same goes for IRC controlled botnets - if you restrict outbound IRC traffic from only the machines that you use IRC on, then the infected machines cannot be controlled. The majority of spam comes from hijacked PC's - if your perimeter device only allows the mail server on your network outbound access on port 25, then spam cannot be sent from a compromised desktop. Furthermore, logging on the perimeter device can also be used to identify threats from within the network (if you see a blocked IRC or SMTP traffic it gives cause for investigation). I hope this gives a little food for though Paul -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Warning to all users of Samba
On 20/04/10 19:14, Daniel Case wrote: Never, ever leave Samba open without due care and attention, all too often i see people telling others to install Samba without warning them of the possible implications, many people are quite lazy, and instead of settings everything up, will just check the Allow guest access button. What i wasnt aware of, is the fact that it broadcasts on Port 139, went straight through my routers firewall and allowed everyone on the internet to access my entire home folder. I'd add to this that correct firewall configuration is rarely applied in the majority of cases. Many domestic routers tout the ability to firewall traffic but in actual fact are just glorified routers with NAT. A full firewall allows the securing of outbound traffic as well and a default deny policy should always be used. That way if anything on the internal network breaches these rules then it can be noticed and investigated accordingly. In some cases it is possible and acceptable to log accepted traffic as well. windows boxes will also broadcast on 137 and 445. in your case i'm not sure how this broadcast traffic has actually hit the internet and exposed a vulnerability. The purpose of subnetting means that broadcast traffic only goes to machines within the same subnet. For example, a broadcast packet (sent to 192.168.1.255) on the network 192.168.1.0/24 could not technically hit 192.168.2.1 even i it was connected to the same physical switch. id suggest that the problem is probably that the machine was within a dmz or connected directly (bridged or via a modem) to allow a compromise to take place. P -- Sent from my Nokia N900-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I can see that in an office, with a lot of data, having hourly, daily, weekly, etc., snapshots is much more important. snip Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's a perl based with a nice web interface that allows backup using SMB, rsync over SSH, etc. It handles incremental backups nicely and gives an easy method of restoring files and folders as well. I'm currently using it to backup a handful of remote sites to our head office and it's very effective. Might be worth a look. Paul -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up the web interface for VLC in ubuntu/Linuxmint?
On 13 April 2010 12:26, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote: And so VLC is running on a computer somewhere...so the music or video comes out of that computer, not the client you are using to access the web interface? That sounds good! if it's of interest to anyone, XBMC does similar...it runs a web server allowing you to use a handheld device as a remote control :) P -- Sent from my Nokia N900 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4
I would like to use Orange and they say the dongle does not support Linux. I suspect the dongle does, and orange are choosing not to (whereas another of the big five have set up a repository to support their dongles). From what I have read online, some folk have had some success with some dongle models. Hi Dave, If it helps at all i was seriously impressed to find my USB dongle from O2 worked out of the box on Ubuntu (Karmic)as soon as i plugged it in another option appeared in the network manager applet. On Fedora 11 it was very easy to set up as well. hope this helps. P -- Sent from my Nokia N900 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.comwrote: Ahhh i see, i have uploaded the tutorial to my blog: www.newforumnetwork.com/joggler Daniel, just to clarify is that working *with* sound? I'm tempted to give this a go next week, but have been enjoying using the upnp playback that works out of the box on the joggler and I'm loath to do anything with it until the sound issues are resolved! Great device though :) P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.comwrote: I ordered one yesterday on-line and I had a dispatch email yesterday evening saying it will be with me today. Not bad at all at just £49.99 inc VAT and Shipping. Cheers Al I got the same - so Online appears to be the way forward, if they're fulfilling orders on a next-day delivery basis :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ashley Whetter ashley.whet...@googlemail.com wrote: I've also emailed my MP. A good site for messaging your MP was on the Ubuntu uk podcast: www.writetothem.com. The third hearing of the bill should be on BBC Parliament today but I'm not sure what time it is on. I seem to recall it was one of the Alans who set up VoteGeek where you can post responses from candidates: http://votegeek.org.uk/ :) Worth a look. Also worth reading RMS's comments in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/06/digital-economy-bill-richard-stallman P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.comwrote: Trying to get one today, went to the nearest O2 store but they were out of stock...so im going to have to try Doncaster. Just ordered mine online and expecting it in 5days... something to play with when I'm on Holiday next week. Wondering if Popey's on commission after starting this thread ;) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bob Giles thecorf...@gmail.com wrote: Methinks it is time to fire up LogMeIn and speak to them via Cambridge! Logmein?? just ssh -D to a box in this country and set your browser to use localhost: as a socks proxy :) :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy
I don't have a speccybut do have an old acorn electron - would that do? What's the project? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] File Transfers
Any traffic destined for the local network will route exclusively to that network. As mentioned previously if you are on 192.168.1.1/24 and you send a file to 192.168.1.10, then routing occurs on the local machine. A broadcast ARP packet is sent to establish the MAC address of the machine and subsequently the port on the switch to send the packet to...the only time any routing gets done is if the machine is not on the local subnet (say for example sending a packet to 8.8.8.8), whereby the packet would then be sent to the default gateway on the network for routing. Another thing worth adding is that SFTP and SCP are actually safe methods of transport when sending data over the internet, as both are encrypted protocols :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Low power server
Have a look at the sheevaplug from www.newit.co.uk! It's small and performs amazingly! Roachy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
