Re: [Hampshire] using wu-ftp

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi Mike, It looks like you have a port forwarding problem here. FTP uses two ports (21, the command channel and 20, the data channel). Try opening port 20 on your router too. It should work then. Cheers, Paul. --Original Message-- From: Mike Burrows Sender:

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

2009-02-09 Thread Dean Earley
Hi, Just a quick reminder that the next meeting will be a joint meeting between the Hants and Surrey LUGs at the Nokia facility between Fleet and Farnborough starting at 11am. And to save everyone else from going hunting, it's next weekend on the 14th. -- Dean Earley, Dee

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

2009-02-09 Thread Dean Earley
Hi, Just a quick reminder that the next meeting will be a joint meeting between the Hants and Surrey LUGs at the Nokia facility between Fleet and Farnborough starting at 11am. And to save everyone else from going hunting, it's next weekend on the 14th. -- Dean Earley, Dee

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Aspire One + Huawei E620 3G modem

2009-02-09 Thread Stephen Pelc
Bob said: Some bas***d has been renaming the serial driver module we use on the Asus Eee to talk to our instruments pl2303.ko.huawei preventing the driver from loading. ... Why would such a dongle need to disable a standard serial USB driver in such a crude manner ? They can't be that

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] February Meeting

2009-02-09 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:31:46PM -, Dean Earley wrote: Hi, Just a quick reminder that the next meeting will be a joint meeting between the Hants and Surrey LUGs at the Nokia facility between Fleet and Farnborough starting at 11am. And to save everyone else from going hunting,

Re: [Hampshire] using wu-ftp

2009-02-09 Thread Vic
I didn't think anything explicitly used port 20 any more. Most I've used just open an arbitrary port and use that... It depends on how the server is set up... The port 20 thing is PORT mode; the client connects to port 21, and then the server connects from port 20 to the port one higher than

Re: [Hampshire] SSH pain

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Capstick
Paul Stimpson wrote: Hi, I've been using SSH2 to log into my home server for so long I can't remember exactly what I did to set it up. Yesterday I added a new user to the server and I want then to be able to use SFTP. I created a new user and generated new new id_rsa and id_rsa.pub

Re: [Hampshire] SSH pain

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Churchill
2009/2/9 Paul Stimpson p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk: Hi, Thanks. That was it. I'd not put the key in authorized_keys properly and, when I did, sshd was refusing to open it because the permissions on the users's home were too lax (it was group writable). I've been bitten by that one before as

[Hampshire] Wine tricks/tips please.

2009-02-09 Thread Clive Woodfine
For some time I have been trying to get IBM ViaVoice 10 speech recognition program working in Wine. After installing the latest version of Wine (1.1.14), winecfg now offers ALSA as a choice for audio. Using this I can set up the microphone and use the speech training wizard. Great!! However when I

[Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Vic
Hi All. I had an unproductive time the other day trying to get some help from Demon's technical support (ha!). So before I apply for a MAC move to a different ISP, does anyone have any contacts that might be able to help move things along? I only need them to escalate a fault, and it's not

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi Vic, Sorry, I can't help with Demon but I can recommend my ISP: Idnet.net. Real engineers on the helpline and no BS. What is the fault symptom? If you want to try to get BT to fix the fault I was once offered the following advice: Call BT saying you have a voice fault (don't mention

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:41:39PM +, Paul Stimpson wrote: Hi Vic, Sorry, I can't help with Demon but I can recommend my ISP: Idnet.net. Real engineers on the helpline and no BS. What is the fault symptom? If you want to try to get BT to fix the fault I was once offered the

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hugo Mills wrote: If you want to try to get BT to fix the fault I was once offered the following advice: Call BT saying you have a voice fault (don't mention ADSL). Tell them you can hear intermittent crosstalk from other people's calls. That should make them replace the whole pair all the

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:55:03 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said: where the fault is finally passed on to BT, whereupon it is immediately fixed. Although I sympathise with the problems of getting faults escalated to BT via an ISP, the phrase immediately fixed isn't one I've ever heard applied

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Sean Gibbins
Keith Edmunds wrote: On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:55:03 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said: where the fault is finally passed on to BT, whereupon it is immediately fixed. Although I sympathise with the problems of getting faults escalated to BT via an ISP, the phrase immediately fixed

[Hampshire] [OT] [Advertisement] Nintendo Wii, Accessories and Games For Sale

2009-02-09 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi Everyone, Well, not entirely OT since it appears you can install Linux on the Wii, but I hope you don't mind me advertising this on behalf of my son anyway! As the subject says, he has a console, some accessories and a number of games for sale, variously in very good and excellent condition,

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Tim
On Monday 09 February 2009 17:18:29 Sean Gibbins wrote: Keith Edmunds wrote: On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:55:03 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said: where the fault is finally passed on to BT, whereupon it is immediately fixed. Although I sympathise with the problems of getting faults

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone 'know someone' at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Vic
They won't do that if they can't detect the reported problem. Also, if they send someone out to test it and can't find the problem, they'll charge you 140 quid for the call-out. The call-out fee doesn't matter. The trouble is that the line is no longer a BT line - it's provided by one of

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Dean Earley
Tim wrote: You can't make the assumption that if BT attend they will look at the ADSL side of things while they are on site. In fact, if they've come out for a voice problem, they can not look at the DSL side as that's a different department. Occasionally you get a helpful engineer though :)

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone 'know someone' at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Vic
Best bet is a strongly worded letter to Demon customer service stating if they don't arrange a BT visit then it is good bye. Demon Customer Service appear to be the same outsourced bunch... :-( Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone 'know someone' at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Nick Chalk
Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote: The trouble is that the line is no longer a BT line - it's provided by one of these reseller-type companies. So although it is BT that will (eventually) fix the fault, BT won't talk to me directly. Sounds like you need to be speaking to BT Openreach - who probably

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] [Advertisement] Nintendo Wii, Accessories and Games For Sale

2009-02-09 Thread Sean Gibbins
Sean Gibbins wrote: Hi Everyone, Well, not entirely OT since it appears you can install Linux on the Wii, but I hope you don't mind me advertising this on behalf of my son anyway! As the subject says, he has a console, some accessories and a number of games for sale, variously in very good

[Hampshire] Restoring firefox bookmarks

2009-02-09 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
I've rebuilt a machine that was Ubuntu 8.04 with Debian Lenny. I have a backup of /home from the ubuntu machine, including my .mozilla directory. I've rsynced the .mozilla/firefox directory to .mozilla on the debian system, and restarted iceweasel, but I don't see any sign of the bookmarks.

[Hampshire] configuring mrtg ..

2009-02-09 Thread MSK
Hi All,   I want to configure MRTG on my server in such way that it will monitor disk usage cpu utilization and bandwidth  on all servers in the network.   Can anybody help me ?   Regards, Manish -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Restoring firefox bookmarks

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I had a similar problem with Thunderbird. On the build I had the settings directory was called something different. I checked on my Etch machine and it was called .mozilla/firefox on that so maybe not. When you copied the files across did you copy the ownership and permissions? If the

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone know someone at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Stephen Davies
My Mum had this sort of issue with Talk-Talk. They wouldn't (via the script read from their Mumbai call centre) escalate the problem to Openreach even though ALL the Talk-Talk customers in her street (4+) were without a phone I tried in vain to speak to a supervisor when reporting the