[ubuntu-uk] Birmingham Hackerspace
Hi, There's been a lot of discussion about a London Hacklab forming, and us in Birmingham are jumping on the bandwagon. We'd like to get as many people together to talk about what we could do, to bring a hacklab/openspace/hackerspace to Birmingham. A hackerspace or hackspace (from Hacker and Space) is a real (as opposed to virtual) place where people with common interests, usually in science, technology, or digital or electronic art can meet, socialise and collaborate. - WIkipedia This will hopefully be a place where people can explore technology, blog about their surroundings, meet and organise themselves. Even though it is usually geek based, more interesting, and innovative things will happen the more people use it. We have the pre-requisite mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/birmingham-hack-space/ We are probably going to be meeing at The Bull in Birmingham City centre. (Geek friendly, with wifi) http://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.486434mlon=-1.895119zoom=15layers=B000FTF Although this maybe subject to change, so sign up to the mailing list to keep up to date. To arrange a time a meet-o-matic form has been set up. http://beta.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=7AGJF0 So please put in the times that are best for you. PM = 6pm-10pm. Please tell your friends about this, blog about it, twitter it. At the moment we just need to build up interest and people that want to actually *do* something. The more people we tell, the more likely we are to find those that we need to get his off the ground. Cheers, Ciarán -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Cisco 1900 Catalyst switch
Hi All, I've just picked up a WS-1912-EN from the ever awesome freecycle and whilst It's plugged in and working as a switch, I don;t have a console cable. Is there anyway that anyone knows of to find the IP address of the switch or what the defaults are? If not, I'll have to make up my own console cable! M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Cisco 1900 Catalyst switch
2009/2/1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk Is there anyway that anyone knows of to find the IP address of the switch or what the defaults are? You could use the free application 'Cisco Network Assistant' http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5931/index.html This is a windows only application. It uses CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) to map your network. By default an IP will not be set on the switch and it won't get one from DHCP. Hope that helps. Colin and his CCNA being useful :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Cisco 1900 Catalyst switch
Quoting Colin McCarthy binarysig...@gmail.com: 2009/2/1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk Is there anyway that anyone knows of to find the IP address of the switch or what the defaults are? You could use the free application 'Cisco Network Assistant' http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5931/index.html This is a windows only application. It uses CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) to map your network. By default an IP will not be set on the switch and it won't get one from DHCP. Hope that helps. Colin and his CCNA being useful :-) Nice one, I'll give it a go! M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Cisco 1900 Catalyst switch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi All, I've just picked up a WS-1912-EN from the ever awesome freecycle and whilst It's plugged in and working as a switch, I don;t have a console cable. Is there anyway that anyone knows of to find the IP address of the switch or what the defaults are? If not, I'll have to make up my own console cable! M. hmm you could try 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 192.168.1.1 or perhaps 192.168.1.0 apart from that, i am not sure Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : Feb 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmF0hkACgkQaggq1k2FJq3r1QCfdvz44J5b9RT4540Bdjg2aTcK GZ0An11YxihzxqJEzHJY0uvQ8jJtw4nk =T9ke -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using an Nvidia MX440
Kev, Thanks for your xorg file. I noticed it uses the 'nv' driver and I am trying to get the version 96 driver going but it will give me a guide. I noticed some other posts about this card on this list so I will let you all know how I get on. Thanks again, Steve On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:23 +, piskie wrote: xorg attached I hope - if not I'll post it it's the one I was using when I had the card - pretty sure that when I had the card I was caught up in all that Michael alludes to - I know I had to use proposed at the time to get it. I looked at my nvidia thread - I think that in the end I did a clean install and it worked for me, this was the issue I had with it to start with - but that was when the driver was beta still http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1827368postcount=1 Kev Steve Baugh wrote: Michael, Kev, Thanks for your comments and pointing me to the bug report. I am using Intrepid 32 bit. The bug report mentions a number of xorg.conf tweaks so that could be it. I would be interested to see your xorg.conf, Kev. The following comes up a lot: Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True There was a warning about a missing section in xorg.conf when I activated the driver so that may be it. Thanks again (I do miss compiz!), Steve On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 18:40 +, Michael Wood wrote: Yes I have, What version of Ubuntu are you running on the second PC ? There were problems with Intrepid because of the new Xorg server and nvidia not having released a driver that was compatiable with it, though this is mostly resolved now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/251107 2009/1/30 Steve Baugh stephen.bau...@ntlworld.com I have two Ubuntu systems, this one using an Nvidia 8400 quite successfully and anther one which is only used for my Amateur Radio activities. The second PC has an Nvidia MX440 in an AGP slot. The 2D nv driver works OK but I would like to be able to run programs using OpenGL. To this end I downloaded the version 96 driver from the repository and activated it. I then found that the programs I run under Wine had their menu text scrambled and when I enabled desktop effects pop-up windows and Screenlets were blank. I have now deactivated it. Has anybody managed to get 3D working with this card? Steve, Bracknell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ plain text document attachment (xorg) Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Unknown ModelName COMPAQ S710 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor1 VendorName Unknown ModelName TV-0 HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth24 Option metamodes CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0; CRT: 640x480 +0+0 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen1 Device Videocard1 MonitorMonitor1 DefaultDepth24 Option metamodes TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Loaddri LoadGLcore EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psaux Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 Screen0 Below Screen1 Screen 1 Screen1 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 VendorName NVIDIA Corporation BoardName GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using an Nvidia MX440
Oh - sorry - I didn't even look at it :( tbh I think I was mucking about with it helping someone on the forums - that xorg was my working one with TV out etc before I changed my card and was using the 96.43.09-0ubuntu1.1 driver. Kev Steve Baugh wrote: Kev, Thanks for your xorg file. I noticed it uses the 'nv' driver and I am trying to get the version 96 driver going but it will give me a guide. I noticed some other posts about this card on this list so I will let you all know how I get on. Thanks again, Steve On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:23 +, piskie wrote: xorg attached I hope - if not I'll post it it's the one I was using when I had the card - pretty sure that when I had the card I was caught up in all that Michael alludes to - I know I had to use proposed at the time to get it. I looked at my nvidia thread - I think that in the end I did a clean install and it worked for me, this was the issue I had with it to start with - but that was when the driver was beta still http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1827368postcount=1 Kev Steve Baugh wrote: Michael, Kev, Thanks for your comments and pointing me to the bug report. I am using Intrepid 32 bit. The bug report mentions a number of xorg.conf tweaks so that could be it. I would be interested to see your xorg.conf, Kev. The following comes up a lot: Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True There was a warning about a missing section in xorg.conf when I activated the driver so that may be it. Thanks again (I do miss compiz!), Steve On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 18:40 +, Michael Wood wrote: Yes I have, What version of Ubuntu are you running on the second PC ? There were problems with Intrepid because of the new Xorg server and nvidia not having released a driver that was compatiable with it, though this is mostly resolved now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/251107 2009/1/30 Steve Baugh stephen.bau...@ntlworld.com I have two Ubuntu systems, this one using an Nvidia 8400 quite successfully and anther one which is only used for my Amateur Radio activities. The second PC has an Nvidia MX440 in an AGP slot. The 2D nv driver works OK but I would like to be able to run programs using OpenGL. To this end I downloaded the version 96 driver from the repository and activated it. I then found that the programs I run under Wine had their menu text scrambled and when I enabled desktop effects pop-up windows and Screenlets were blank. I have now deactivated it. Has anybody managed to get 3D working with this card? Steve, Bracknell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ plain text document attachment (xorg) Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Unknown ModelName COMPAQ S710 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor1 VendorName Unknown ModelName TV-0 HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth24 Option metamodes CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0; CRT: 640x480 +0+0 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen1 Device Videocard1 MonitorMonitor1 DefaultDepth24 Option metamodes TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Loaddri LoadGLcore EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psaux Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 Screen0 Below Screen1 Screen 1 Screen1 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Cisco 1900 Catalyst switch
Quoting Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi All, I've just picked up a WS-1912-EN from the ever awesome freecycle and whilst It's plugged in and working as a switch, I don;t have a console cable. Is there anyway that anyone knows of to find the IP address of the switch or what the defaults are? If not, I'll have to make up my own console cable! M. hmm you could try 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 192.168.1.1 or perhaps 192.168.1.0 apart from that, i am not sure Thanks Paul, Turns out that DHCP was enabled after all. I've found it on my network but I can't telnet to it or login to the web interface. :o( Looks like I'm building a console cable tonight... :o) M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Cisco 1900 Catalyst switch
2009/2/1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk Quoting Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi All, I've just picked up a WS-1912-EN from the ever awesome freecycle and whilst It's plugged in and working as a switch, I don;t have a console cable. Is there anyway that anyone knows of to find the IP address of the switch or what the defaults are? If not, I'll have to make up my own console cable! M. hmm you could try 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 192.168.1.1 or perhaps 192.168.1.0 apart from that, i am not sure Thanks Paul, Turns out that DHCP was enabled after all. I've found it on my network but I can't telnet to it or login to the web interface. :o( If 'line vty 0 4' does not have a password set on it telnet will not work. It's a good security feature. And of course if a password is set you need to know it :-) Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Jaunty
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/1/31 Ted t...@trufflesdad.plus.com: Trying to upgrade Jaunty and both apt and synaptic tell me they cannot find the repos..I go to /etc/apt/sources.list and find I can ping all the repos both by name and ip number..I have tried altering the address to us but makes no difference...Any advice welcome.. Well the first advice is Don't. Jaunty isn't ready yet, and if you can't figure out a problem such as this then perhaps you're not ready for Jaunty either. The recommended way to upgrade from one release to another is to use update-manager (with -c and -d options to jump to a version currently under development) or do-release-upgrade (usually used on servers). Cheers, Al. Thanks for the reply.. I have just reinstalled Intrepid did an update/upgrade then used package manager to upgrade it to Jaunty..Still have the same problems where i can ping the servers but apt tells me cannot resolve servers..Did another Google and find quite a few others have this problem .. -- Regards Ted Wager Using Ubuntu Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver problems
2009/1/30 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: OK, ignore me - I've reinstalled .09. rebooted and it's OK. Apart from my username/logoff button being missing. But who'd want to log off anyway? :-) Seriously though, if you want it back and it's still missing after a reboot, you can probably do it by right-clicking the mouse on the Panel where you want the button to be. Choose Add to Panel... from the menu that appears and pick the button. I'm just guessing, since I'm still on 8.04, but I think the two buttons that are missing are Quit and User Switcher. HTH. Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Firefox Officeanados
Ooo! Well spotted that man, take a gold star and become teachers pet for a day. Cheers Lee Ian -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of LeeGroups Sent: 31 January 2009 21:03 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Firefox Officeanados E Use a local file server, like in the Advanced settings tab, last box, Use Own Server check box Lee Gents Thanks for the pointers - Foxmark would be the ideal if it could be persuaded to use either the local HD, or the local file server I will have. But I think for the moment I'll go with the safer answer of not available! Ian -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Michael G Fletcher Sent: 31 January 2009 15:41 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Firefox Officeanados On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:10 AM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Stuart wrote: snip ...the Foxmarks add-on for Firefox lets you synchronize your bookmarks... They are all stored on a central server. The privacy issues with this are mentioned in the thread. Here's Eben Moglen on this general area: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQiTzs8PQ4 Mac There is also delicious.com - which means you could access your bookmarks on completely different machines as well. (although i'm not sure how good their privacy controls are) _ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com -- 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/
