Re: [Hpr] https

2021-12-17 Thread Jon Spriggs
In my experience all podcatcher clients (at least that I've come across) support the redirects. The one thing to be really cautious of though is that your GUID is the HTTP URL... but don't change this over (or if you do, have a cut-off point in the PHP which generates the RSS) otherwise all your

Re: [Hpr] https

2021-12-15 Thread Jon Spriggs
HTTPS Everywhere is due to be deprecated by it's creator the EFF because "HTTPS is actually everywhere". https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhere -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs @jontheniceguy everywhere... https://jon.sprig.gs On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 12:23, Kevin O'Brien

Re: [Hpr] https

2021-12-15 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Ken, There are two usually stated reasons for switching on HTTPS. 1. Better SEO (not sure whether that's a thing that HPR will care *that* much about?) 2. Reducing the risk of your ISP/Law Enforcement Community/Malicious nare-do-well being able to man-in-the-middle a connection between you

Re: [Hpr] Automatic Music-less Feed

2021-10-20 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Izzy, I do something similar (but, honestly, much less efficiently) with CCHits.net. The show is run using this script: https://github.com/CCHits/Website/blob/master/CLI/showmaker.php and this library: https://github.com/CCHits/Website/blob/master/CLI/library.php And yes, it's god-awful PHP,

[kdeconnect] [Bug 412018] Nightly build of KDEConnect on Windows crashes following pairing

2020-11-10 Thread Jon Spriggs
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412018 Jon Spriggs changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|--- |FIXED Status|REPORTED

Re: [Hpr] Help Needed → http://freeculturepodcasts.org/

2020-01-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
Easiest thing, if it's going to be static content, is to use something like Jekyll. I've had *lots* of experience with this, see for example: https://github.com/lugorguk/lug.org.uk-website and https://github.com/manchester-tech-events/manchester-tech-events.github.io For lug.org.uk (the first

[kdeconnect] [Bug 412018] Nightly build of KDEConnect on Windows crashes following pairing

2019-09-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412018 --- Comment #1 from Jon Spriggs --- Last few lines from kdeconnectd run in a command prompt: Command Line: SnoreToast.exe -t "KDE Connect Daemon" -m "Pairing request from Personal phone" -p C:/Users/Jon/AppData/Local/Temp/kdecon

[kdeconnect] [Bug 412018] New: Nightly build of KDEConnect on Windows crashes following pairing

2019-09-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412018 Bug ID: 412018 Summary: Nightly build of KDEConnect on Windows crashes following pairing Product: kdeconnect Version: unspecified Platform: MS Windows OS: MS

[ansible-project] Sorting dicts in lists - works different between my machine and others

2019-05-14 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi, I have a variable which is a list (sourced from registering the response from a 3rd party module). In that list, each item is a dict, as follows: [ {'policyid': '1009', 'other': 'content'}, {'policyid': '2019', 'other': 'content'}, {'policyid': '1024', 'other': 'content'},

[ansible-project] Building variables like in Jekyll?

2019-03-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi, I've a complex data structure to build, which, while I can do it in group/host_vars/ I'm worrying about the people who follow me on, and how they'll cope with it. I've some experience of Jekyll, which has a good data structure with yml files in a directory, and I'd like, if possible to use

[Talk-GB] Marking closed businesses

2019-03-07 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi, Near where I am are some mapped businesses properties which have closed, primarily shops, but also a couple of restaurants. I'm far from an OSM expert, and my gentle trawl of the wiki hasn't given me any real insight. It's got me thinking, and I'd like to improve information about properties

Re: [ansible-project] Re: setting variable in a playbook from a jinjia2 snippet

2019-02-26 Thread Jon Spriggs
for %}\ > {% output %}" > loop: "{{ archive_content.results|list }}" > - debug: > var: path > > Unfortunately in this moment I can't test the playbook.. > > Regards > > Luca > > > > > > Il giorno lunedì 25 febbraio 2019 13

Re: [ansible-project] Re: setting variable in a playbook from a jinjia2 snippet

2019-02-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
Also, look at the set_fact module, I use this extensively! -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs @jontheniceguy everywhere... https://jon.sprig.gs On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 11:45, fusillator wrote: > Sorry for the stupid question > solved with > > - name: "debug archive_content" > debug: >

Re: [ansible-project] Dealing with non-fixed length lists of variables

2019-02-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
Why not structure your data like this: --- - hosts: all vars: provider: password: Password server: IP user: username validate_certs: no server_port: port mapping: # This is new and might be stored elsewhere :) server1.example.com: 192.0.2.1

Re: [ansible-project] Hosts with multiple users.

2019-02-12 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Eduardo, Ansible tends to be relatively prescriptive - you need to specify the username, or you'd need to specify multiple "host" entries with each of the usernames. You could perform a "simple" action (like "ping" or "setup") and let it stop processing hosts that it doesn't get a response

Re: [ansible-project] Re: PLAY RECAP -- Status

2019-02-11 Thread Jon Spriggs
If you spot, in the logs, it shows that it's breaking on the "ethernet0/1", and, if I read it right that's in the "/" in that... So it's probably worth wrapping any instance of "ethernet0/1" in quotes, like I did. Give that a whirl, and try again :) --- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs @jontheniceguy

Re: [ansible-project] How can I pass extra variables to a shell script in my playbooks

2019-02-11 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Conor, sounds like you're probably doing this (untested pseudocode): - shell: "/path/to/script {{ var }}" vars: var: some_key: some_data Instead, you need to do something like this (untested pseudocode): - shell: "/path/to/script {% for item in var|dict2items %}{{ item.key }}={{

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Basic Static IPv6 setup

2019-01-20 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi, I've read through the manual page several times, and read around online a fair amount, and I'm struggling to find an answer to this. I am using DNSMasq for just IPv6 IP allocation. I am using the following config: domain-needed bogus-priv no-resolv filterwin2k expand-hosts domain=localnet

Bug#878192: Vagrant/virtualbox: Optionally disable rsync synced_folder if vagrant-vbguest is installed

2017-10-10 Thread Jon Spriggs
Package: cloud.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: newcomer patch Dear Maintainer, I would like to propose that you add the following wrapper to the "config.vm.synced_folder" line in the Vagrantfile packaged in the debian/squeeze64 (and potentially the other distributed images?) This would

Bug#878192: Vagrant/virtualbox: Optionally disable rsync synced_folder if vagrant-vbguest is installed

2017-10-10 Thread Jon Spriggs
Package: cloud.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: newcomer patch Dear Maintainer, I would like to propose that you add the following wrapper to the "config.vm.synced_folder" line in the Vagrantfile packaged in the debian/squeeze64 (and potentially the other distributed images?) This would

Re: [Hpr] New Podcast

2017-09-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
Another interesting podcast you might want to follow up with - The Admin Admin Podcast: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ These guys talk about being an IT administrator, whether thats a local desktop engineer, a cloud-native specialist deploying to cloud hosting platforms running Linux, or an

[kdeconnect] [Bug 375247] New: It would be useful to provide a NAT-only mode for those of us running in a VM

2017-01-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375247 Bug ID: 375247 Summary: It would be useful to provide a NAT-only mode for those of us running in a VM Product: kdeconnect Version: unspecified Platform: unspecified

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnu/Linux, BSD and FLOSS group

2016-09-06 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 6 September 2016 at 15:23, Alan Pope wrote: > Hah! There have been numerous Linux User Groups in and around London > over the years :) > You may want to reach out to the existing groups:- There's also the "Brixton Linux Action Group" [1] (who I discovered this evening while

Scripting GPG without retaining keys

2016-04-05 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi all, I'm trying to write a script which encrypts against keys retrieved from a keyserver but doesn't cache them. I've got the following: gpg --no-options --trust-model always --no-default-keyring --keyserver ldap://keyserver.example.com --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --recipient

Bug#808132: RFP sniproxy -- A reverse HTTP(S) proxy which performs SNI and HOST inspection and routes traffic without decrypting the TLS packets.

2015-12-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist URL: https://github.com/dlundquist/sniproxy License: BSD-2 The presence of a debian folder implies that there are existing debs which have been built, they just appear to not be in the Debian repositories.

Bug#808132: RFP sniproxy -- A reverse HTTP(S) proxy which performs SNI and HOST inspection and routes traffic without decrypting the TLS packets.

2015-12-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist URL: https://github.com/dlundquist/sniproxy License: BSD-2 The presence of a debian folder implies that there are existing debs which have been built, they just appear to not be in the Debian repositories.

Re: [guardian-dev] Self-hosting option for StoryMaker 2

2015-04-27 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 22 April 2015 at 00:17, Josh Steiner j...@vitriolix.com wrote: It would take a bit of discussion for how the user could easily configure the app to support the server without having to enter a bunch of byzantine parameters they don't understand Why not populate a QR Code block with this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Tony, A few of us are tracking some issues in http://pad.ubuntu.com/phonefaq - you need an Ubuntu one account with membership of the Ubuntu-UK or another Ubuntu team membership (Alan mentioned it a few days back) but if you've not got one of those, you can either ask for it to be added, or let

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Gareth, I asked the same question of Alan Pope yesterday. We're putting together something on http://pad.ubuntu.com/phonefaq which covers where to report bugs, what bugs are known about, what is outstanding on being logged, etc. Please feel free to contribute. Like you, I've got some niggles

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
I think the Ubuntu One login system has been a little flakey today - I've certainly had problems. So, you need to login (via Ubuntu One) to contribute to the pad, but once you're in, that's it, you're in :) Give it another shot and see if it works for you now. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 25

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing from Android device

2014-05-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
There is an app called LetsPrintDroid which will print to a CUPS server... I've used it and it's OK. On 25 May 2014 16:54, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi everyone, I have a Android smart phone. Does anyone know if I can print from it to a printer attached to an Ubuntu

[fonosfera] Routing question

2014-02-03 Thread Jon Spriggs
Before I start adding scripts to /etc/rc.local, is there any way I can add, using lUCI, a second (or more) route to my Fon 2n? I've got a supplied DSL line from work, and rather than re-wiring the house, I'd like to point specific destination networks to a different gateway address. I'm tempted,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

2013-09-05 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 4 September 2013 12:28, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: SNIP I suspect that the solution fundamentally relies on denying access to encryption keys to anybody other than the sender and the intended recipient. The system based on page, line numbers and word positions in a commonly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

2013-09-03 Thread Jon Spriggs
Sadly, even MyKolab isn't really secure [0] Realistically, what are you looking for? It's like the famous Easy, cheap or secure, pick 2 statement... If it's protecting the messages you have sent from inspection (casual or otherwise on the server), use something like GPG/PGP. Consider backing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

2013-09-03 Thread Jon Spriggs
that the communications are always managed by you... but this won't happen until more people get concerned about this stuff. Regards, -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 3 September 2013 12:09, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 3 September 2013 11:55, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: Sadly, even MyKolab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

2013-09-03 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 3 September 2013 14:51, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't everyone with 0.5 of a clue know this? Frankly, No. As soon as (if not before) the NSA whistleblower is in Hong Kong headlines dropped off the BBC front page, outside of those of us who actually care about this stuff stopped

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-08-23 Thread Jon Spriggs
Most, (if not all) councils outsource their IT to a 3rd party. This outsourcing will be very fluffy around what technologies they expect to be provided, but nearly all will state some kind of Technology Refresh after X years. The Service Integrator (SI) I work for wouldn't even consider making

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-08-01 Thread Jon Spriggs
Just bear in mind while you're not wrong about it only going to a handful of vendors, you've got the names wrong when it comes to IT. HP (was EDS), IBM, Computacentre, Fujitsu, Capita, CapGemini G4S don't have an IT arm that I'm aware of, Serco - not a clue, and I think PwC's IT contracts were

Re: Any One-Time password system.

2013-05-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
PPTP is broken [1]. OpenVPN (for which there are clients for Android, iPhone, MacOS, Linux, Windows) is not. OpenVPN will use TLS certificates as well as other centrally managed authentication based systems (e.g. Radius, MOTP, maybe Google Authenticator?) to authenticate and authorize. There are

Re: [fonosfera] OpenVPN maximum clients

2013-05-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Yep. Recent releases of the firmware will let you specify how many clients you want to be able to connect. I suspect it's probably still on the default of 2. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 16 May 2013 14:46, FM seeder@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Can Fonera 2.0n handle 3 openVPN clients?

Re: Any One-Time password system.

2013-05-14 Thread Jon Spriggs
I'm the current project lead for the MOTP-AS project [1], so I'm happy to help with anything relating to that project (off this list, unless it's directly FR related) :) [1] https://github.com/MOTP-AS/MOTP-AS -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 14 May 2013 08:26, Sergii Bieliaievskyi

Re: Any One-Time password system.

2013-05-14 Thread Jon Spriggs
MOTP-AS uses plain-text credentials right now, but I'm still integrating myself properly into the project, and I've not really experimented with any other modes. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 14 May 2013 15:49, Sergii Bieliaievskyi s.bieliaievs...@sethq.comwrote: 2013/5/14 Michael

Re: [fonosfera] SNMP - Fonera 2.0n

2013-02-26 Thread Jon Spriggs
I've briefly experimented - you can install mini-snmpd using opkg but there's no configuration options set up for this. Once you've installed the package, you can run mini_snmpd -c COMMUNITY_NAME -D DESCRIPTION -d /jffs,/tmp -a -i eth0,eth0.1,eth0.2,br-lan will give you a SNMPv2 polling of disks

Re: unsubscribe

2013-02-20 Thread Jon Spriggs
List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html (But the essence of it is, to unsubscribe, go here: http://lists.freeradius.org/mailman/listinfo/freeradius-users) -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 20 February 2013 10:29, Andrew Long furs...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [fonosfera] Fwd: Throughput question

2013-02-14 Thread Jon Spriggs
:35, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: Sorry for the delay - it's been a crazy few days! See inline below. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 12 December 2012 14:42, Matthijs Kooijman - Fon matthijs.kooij...@fon.com wrote: Hi Jon, When running a speedtest (via speedtest.net) from either

Re: freeradius not working in normal mode but working in debug mode

2013-02-11 Thread Jon Spriggs
Firstly, I'd suggest not posting the same question 3 times in 1 hour. I don't have a problem with it (personally), but it's rather rude, especially on a low volume list like this. The reason it's not working is probably to do with permissions - check what user account you are running it as in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sony Experia

2012-12-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Ted, Even if later versions are available, you'll only get it if your mobile network has also made it available. Some phone manufacturers have it so that upgrades can only be performed from a Windows OS, which is referred to as being not-OTA (Over The Air). With regards to the battery, the

Re: Bypass SQLIPPOOL via variable?

2012-11-01 Thread Jon Spriggs
Also, not wishing to drag this too much into the OpenVPN support group, but you can make OpenVPN use p2p mode which will allocate IP addresses from a /24 or greater, or you can assign individual IP addresses with a script. Obviously, these are things to research in the OpenVPN configuration pages.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

2012-10-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
You want an application called SoX Do this: sox file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav outfile.wav If you want to change formats while you're doing it, then you'll need to do some more digging around. I use SoX extensively in CCHits.net, and, if you can make your way through my somewhat shoddy PHP, I've

Re: [fonosfera] Fonera 2.0n: start openvpn client at boot doesn't work

2012-08-22 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi there, The latest developer firmware has it's own OpenVPN setup in it. To use it, your best bet is to parse your existing configuration files and insert them into the uci configuration files. If you want to send me the config file (sanitized if necessary) I'll drop you some pointers about how

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommendations for dongle internet?

2012-08-02 Thread Jon Spriggs
I've used an Android device with no issues, but I've also had some success with the Huwei USB dongles - both from 3 and O2. I think 3 are pretty good from a data plan rate... -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 2 August 2012 16:38, Anton Kanishchev antonk20...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adam, I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing out a report of installed applications?

2012-07-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
The command you're looking for is: dpkg -l That l is a lowercase letter L. The other stuff you're looking for is findable with: lsusb lspci fdisk -l dmesg All the best, -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On Jul 25, 2012 6:18 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Windows has a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] phishing and LinkedIn

2012-06-07 Thread Jon Spriggs
Bear in mind the key here is to decrypt the hashes which are publically circulating. If you give them a password to hash for you, then they can then search for that hash and get a list of everyone who's used that password. Even if it's just one person, that's one password less they need to put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Praises and a question.

2012-05-31 Thread Jon Spriggs
I've been using Netbeans (which is multi-platform) for my PHP sites, but you could easily use the same install to do pure HTML sites. Create each site as a project, which you can specify is on a remote site. Regards, -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 31 May 2012 12:05, Toby Satchell

Re: [Xrdp-devel] X11RDP connect error with nothing relevant in sesman logs

2012-03-22 Thread Jon Spriggs
Thanks Jay. I'd like, if possible, to use the latest git version of X11RDP too - where can I get that from? I'll change the switches below as per your suggestion in the interim though. Do you know if there are any plans to get X11RDP into the Debian repositories? -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On

[Xrdp-devel] X11RDP connect error with nothing relevant in sesman logs

2012-03-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
I followed the guide at http://scarygliders.net/2011/11/17/x11rdp-ubuntu-11-10-gnome-3-xrdp-customization-new-hotness/ to install X11RDP under Ubuntu 12.04. Having connected, entering my username and password to the sesman-X11rdp dialogue, I get the following text: connecting to sesman ip

Re: [Owncloud] SFTP to a user's ownCloud files?

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Spriggs
If you've got some combination of Chroot, an FUSE (file system in Userspace) module for Webdav and an automounter... then you might be able to do this without too many issues! I should note, I've *not* done this. Look at ProFTPd which does have an SFTP module, and I saw a howto for making Samba

Re: [ubuntu-uk] qlcodes on ubuntu cd wallets

2011-12-22 Thread Jon Spriggs
2011/12/22 Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk: On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 21:59:56 Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: I kinda like the idea but all too often the QR codes used are dull and unimaginative. I'm sure you can find a way to make them more interesting. Grant. How about doing

Bug#652890: RFP: Barada -- Barada is a PAM module designed to provide two-factor authentication support.

2011-12-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: Barada Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Moxie Marlinspike mo...@thoughtcrime.org * URL : http://barada.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Barada (Barada Aint Respecting

Bug#652890: RFP: Barada -- Barada is a PAM module designed to provide two-factor authentication support.

2011-12-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: Barada Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Moxie Marlinspike mo...@thoughtcrime.org * URL : http://barada.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Barada (Barada Aint Respecting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No, You Won't See Me on Facebook, Google Plus, nor Skype - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )

2011-12-12 Thread Jon Spriggs
(I'd have credited this comment, but I've not seen it in my mail stream aside from in someone else's reply, and I don't know who said it, as that person cropped the originators name out!) What does FaiF stand for, if we are to get anywhere with promotion we need to use PLAIN ENGLISH its fine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O/TTablet security!

2011-11-24 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 24 November 2011 20:36, Pete psmo...@live.com wrote: On 11/24/2011 08:09 PM, Matt Jones wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Petepsmo...@live.com  wrote: Hi all, Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV earlier they were advertising 'Norton Tablet

[ubuntu-uk] Quickly (Python+GTK) question

2011-11-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi all, I've been experimenting with Quickly - the Python+GTK rapid development tool created by Canonical and I've hit a bit of a speed bump right out of the gate! I posted a question on StackOverflow (as it's a Python question, as well as being for Quickly) and I wonder if anyone can either let

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Last night at Nottingham .....

2011-11-11 Thread Jon Spriggs
It was even mentioned on the NaPodPoMo (National Podcasting Posting Month... I think) by Dave Lee of The Bugcast Podcast this morning. I was mildly jealous. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 11 November 2011 13:54, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there  Just to say that the

Re: [Owncloud] Email handling in ownCloud

2011-11-09 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 8 November 2011 16:43, Gunnar Wrobel wro...@horde.org wrote: Quoting Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs: I think there's a lot of features that OwnCloud are re-implementing, that horde already has done, and I'm surprised the two projects aren't looking to each other to see how they could complement

Re: [Owncloud] Email handling in ownCloud

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Spriggs
If you're looking for a mail service, hosted by you, then implement something like Citadel, or Horde, or any of the handful of webmail or web based groupware suites. Most of these implement their own mail backend, or use the server's own mail server, and are more likely to be kept up to date for

Re: [Owncloud] php debugging suggestions

2011-10-17 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Kunal, You might be interested in an extension for PHP called XDebug. If you're running Ubuntu, it's just an apt-get away. Once you've got XDebug installed, you need something that can walk through the code - I use Eclipse with it's PHP support, which includes support for XDebug. Try this:

Re: [Owncloud] Hoping to contribute as part of University degree

2011-10-07 Thread Jon Spriggs
I'm no low-level developer - I can barely keep up with my own projects, but I think that having something DVCS based will give you more power in the long run. Each time you save, it's going to try to write to the WebDav service (if you're using copy-on-write). If you use the DVCS model, then your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing up Mobile Phone

2011-10-06 Thread Jon Spriggs
Wammu will do it, apparently: http://wammu.eu/phones/nokia/?page=7 Regards, -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 6 October 2011 11:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Someone, and I think it might have been on this list, gave me a website that would backup (or synch) my Nokia X3

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

2011-08-19 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 19 August 2011 08:33, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 August 2011 11:25, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 18 August 2011 11:05, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Yes, it's to celebrate having 1 million U1 users.  Hope they have 5 millions GBs somewhere, just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slow d/loads

2011-07-24 Thread Jon Spriggs
Ted, If your provider is saying you have a line fault (something I seem to recall is pretty rare to get out of them without accusing them of lying), then wait for the engineer to come out and fix it. A line fault exists between the master socket and exchange in the case of a BT based service, or

[ubuntu-uk] Help needed finding my bluetooth on my new laptop

2011-07-03 Thread Jon Spriggs
(and no, it isn't down the back of the sofa) So, here's the thing, I bought one of these: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/265218 I've received it, and installed Ubuntu 11.04 on there (yes, even with Unity) and it's lovely. Everything I wanted it for works a treat - Wifi's great, battery life,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 18 April 2011 08:33, Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com wrote: Hi all I have, very foolishly in hindsight, offered to help my partner to bring order to her tens of thousands of digital pictures.  You can guess what the main problem is, one of being able to find that picture of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 28 June 2011 11:27, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: snip To make it portable, consider installing a thin linux distribution (such as Puppy) in a VM (like QEMU) or natively booting from the media storage device. I'm just looking into how easy or hard that is! :) I had some time in my lunch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 28 June 2011 15:51, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 28 June 2011 15:22, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: The first one (about getting TinyCore running in QEMU) is here: http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2011/06/28/experimenting-with-tiny-core-linux-on-qemu/ In response to a post on the Ubuntu UK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scheduling software recommendations

2011-06-27 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 27 June 2011 16:54, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Avi, snip Horde - (http://www.horde.org) similar to above I guess in that it is a groupware app. Not sure about functionality haven't used it ages (PHP). Horde 3 (the framework) had a very decent XMLRPC interface which

[Owncloud] Re: GSoC Sync Client - Server Component

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 22 June 2011 08:36, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: Horde (from horde.org) has a set of libraries which does SyncML... I don't know whether they're compatible, as, obviously, Horde is a usually seen as a groupware suite, but it does have a file management application (gollem) so it might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kindle and Ubuntu

2011-06-09 Thread Jon Spriggs
Alan, It appears as a mass storage device, and thus is adequately supported by Ubuntu. For conversion of documents from HTML and others to the native formats, the easiest thing to do is to e-mail the document to USERNAME_FROM_DEVICE@free.kindle.com to convert it, or use calibre to make the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

2011-05-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Alan, I'll stick the same thing on the Etherpad, but I just wanted to drop in this comment... How will you be supporting it? I've set up machines for my dad and aunt, both of whom are very remote (They both live 3 hours away). Both are using Ubuntu, and I've set up OpenVPN to my home

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

2011-05-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
a...@popey.com wrote: On 21 May 2011 15:55, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: How will you be supporting it? Good question. I don't know if I will yet. However what i did for my mum was setup a dyndns address which automatically updates whenever their her IP changes. I can then ssh into her machine via

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

2011-05-21 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 21 May 2011 17:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/05/2011 17:39, Jon Spriggs wrote: As I said, the VPN part is more to save having to set up local port forwarding and DynDNS, especially as my Dad is with BT, and their default response with the home hub is Press

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends

2011-03-29 Thread Jon Spriggs
One thing I spotted today was that there's a telepathy plugin for Remmina - the Remote Desktop Application, and from the looks of things, if you've both got it installed, you can right click on a contact in empathy and select Share My Desktop - although, to be fair, that might have been there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends

2011-03-25 Thread Jon Spriggs
SSH keys are created by producing a pair of cryptographically equivelent numbers with a size of (usually) 1024 or 2048 bits (I think!) long. When performing a complex equation, the result of encrypting one with the other returns the same value. It is not linked to a hardware value. You can share

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends

2011-03-24 Thread Jon Spriggs
I support both my dad and my aunt, neither of whom are particularly au fait with computers. Before leaving theirs, I set up OpenVPN between their PC and my server, using DynDNS to find my home server and opening UDP port 1194 to my OpenVPN server, in this case, my Fonera 2.0N I add a certificate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends

2011-03-24 Thread Jon Spriggs
I was going to do to that, but I already knew when I was setting up my Aunt's machine that her existing DSL modem was on it's way out... knowing I wasn't going to have to sort out port forwarding from ~200 miles away was a BIG bonus for me, which is why I went the OpenVPN route. If you've got a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network traffic monitor that only monitors extra-LANtraffic?

2011-02-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Consider something like Ntop. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 16 February 2011 10:46, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Gordon, You'll probably need a proxy to capture that info, perhaps look at 'squid' proxy Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network traffic monitor that only monitors extra-LANtraffic?

2011-02-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/02/11 10:52, Jon Spriggs wrote: Consider something like Ntop. Wow! That is some app. Going to take me a while to work out how to use THAT properly.. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
I really like the idea of having an How to contribute to Ubuntu guide or perhaps a document on What is Ubuntu, however, it should also be configurable to an absolute minimum page (three colours, black and corner marks) for office deployment or experts. Perhaps when it says Would you like to print

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

2011-01-17 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 17 January 2011 10:45, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 17 January 2011 10:24, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Erm, I bet Tesco/PC World buy a shedload more machines than Linux Emporium could ever do and so will get much better volume discounts on the hardware even

Re: [StatusNet-dev] PuSH on Replies

2011-01-14 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 5 January 2011 22:36, Brion Vibber br...@status.net wrote: On 1/5/11 1:01 PM, Jon Spriggs wrote: I'm hoping to use a StatusNet Instance for a website I'm writing, and one of the developers I'm working with said[1] that he wished that StatusNet supported PuSH on replies (and I assume

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS Simple Web Forms?

2011-01-06 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 5 January 2011 21:42, John Levin technola...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/01/2011 21:13, A J Binnie wrote: On 5 January 2011 20:47, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net mailto:li...@tdobson.net wrote:    Does anyone know of a FOSS, easy, simple way of creating forms to gather    user feedback? There's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Jon Spriggs
That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first OggCamp called Programming explained to non-techies -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 4 January 2011 14:44, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard

[StatusNet-dev] Programatically getting the Conversation ID?

2010-12-15 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi, I'm trying to use a StatusNet instance as part of a project I'm starting up. One of the things I'd like to do is to link into the thread, rather than just to the individual message, and I was wondering whether it's possible to make an API call to get the conversation ID? Many thanks, -- Jon

Re: Please subscribe to wave-...@incubator.apache.org

2010-12-09 Thread Jon Spriggs
Jeremy NGL jeremy@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Just wanted to let you know that for some readers (at least for me) those mailing list adresses you're trying to promote appears truncated on screen (and are not links)... I'm also a member of the group, even if I've only posted once, so that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? [was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28]

2010-11-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
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. -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs Please excuse any top posting, typographical or gramatical errors and brevity, as this

[ubuntu-uk] UCubed Planning Meeting Invite

2010-11-04 Thread Jon Spriggs
Next meeting: 2010-12-02 19:30-21:30GMT at irc://irc.freenode.net/ucubed Agenda/Minutes at http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UCubed-2010-12-02 This monthly meeting is for potential and past organisers to discuss plans for the next UCubed event, which is scheduled for 2nd April, 2011 at MadLab,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-16 Thread Jon Spriggs
Hi Colin, If there isn't already a mid Wales LUG at http://lug.org.uk, it would definitely be worth starting one... After all, if two of you are meeting up, you never know what might happen if you advertise it. That's more-or-less what happened with Stockport Hackspace and we've got about 20

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Little project

2010-10-15 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 16 October 2010 00:38, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 15/10/10 23:26, Daniel Case wrote: Hi guys, I have a little project to do so that i can access my email and some other websites from college, it has a web filter so blocks such things which is annoying in 2 hour long 'free'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup

2010-09-01 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 1 September 2010 09:29, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi 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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626171] Re: On my first attempt to log in, GDM crashes and restarts.

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Spriggs
In response to Bowmore's comment before, mine is on an EEEPC 900A running Maverick Alpha 1, upgraded with apt-get dist-update each time. -- On my first attempt to log in, GDM crashes and restarts. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626171 You received this bug notification because you are a member

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