I set my son up a laptop with xubuntu on it and the password I choose for root
was not the normal one I use (because he knows that one). Now the problem is I
can't rememebr what it was either. I want to add a couple of program and update
etc. and I can't now, my son is not setup as a sudoer
Tim wrote:
I set my son up a laptop with xubuntu on it and the password I choose for
root
was not the normal one I use (because he knows that one). Now the problem is
I
can't rememebr what it was either. I want to add a couple of program and
update
etc. and I can't now, my son is not
I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
interested in using puppet to control it.
In the past I've used CFEngine with success, so perhaps I should stick
to what I know. But it does seem that puppet offers a few nice
things, and is the new-cool. The only obvious problem is
2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk:
Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
http://www.xkcd.com/619/
aieee! it is impossible to read just one page of xkcd!
;-)
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Victor Churchill wrote:
2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk:
Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
http://www.xkcd.com/619/
aieee! it is impossible to read just one page of xkcd!
2009/8/7 Tim xendis...@gmx.com:
Can anybody point me in the direction of a set of instructions for password
recovery that work, I have googled but there are many but I don't want to end
up damaging the install trying to reset the password so I am looking for
instruction that other have used
On Friday 07 Aug 2009 09:13:11 Simon Reap wrote:
Victor Churchill wrote:
2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk:
Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
http://www.xkcd.com/619/
aieee! it
2009/8/7 Alan Pope a...@popey.com:
2009/8/7 Tim xendis...@gmx.com:
Can anybody point me in the direction of a set of instructions for password
recovery that work, I have googled but there are many but I don't want to end
up damaging the install trying to reset the password so I am looking for
2009/8/7 Alan Blanchflower a...@alanblanchflower.co.uk:
Or even three.
http://xkcd.com/214/
... which serves to illustrate that there are at most six degrees of
separation between any two conceptual entities in a semantic database.
(I just made that up, but it is an interesting thought... then
2009/8/7 David Ramsden da...@0wned.it:
Andy Smith wrote:
[snip]
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:57:52PM +0100, David Ramsden wrote:
I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to Ubuntu. I'd
like to avoid a complete re-install because:
a) The servers are all remote and in three
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:34:05 +0100
David Ramsden da...@0wned.it wrote:
john lewis wrote:
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:26:49 +0100
David Ramsden da...@0wned.it wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/8/6 David Ramsden da...@0wned.it:
I have the need to upgrade 3 remote servers from Debian to
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:40:09AM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:34:05 +0100
David Ramsden da...@0wned.it wrote:
Unfortunately the package is provided by a 3rd party vendor, via
their own repository.
The latest major release of the package is Ubuntu only. I could
2009/8/7 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net:
Hi Pavithran,
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:24:07PM +0100, pavithran wrote:
Professional or not I believe this is *linux* users group . And M$ (
not Microsoft) has an awesome reputation of patent allegations against
the Free software movement . And as
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:17:28PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
I believe there was a hantslug presentation about puppet a while
back, sadly I was unable to attend and don't remember who gave it.
Perhaps it's on the wiki?
Speaking of presentations, R.I.Pienaar (who is UK-based) recently gave a
Hi,
A last minute reminder:
Our August meeting will take place as a joint meeting with the Surrey LUG at
the Nokia facility in Farnborough tomorrow, Saturday 8 August from 11am.
For HS reasons can you please email Bob first to let him know you are coming
along to the meeting. When you arrive
2009/8/7 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net:
The free software movement has a very vocal minority of people like
yourself who are happy to say things like the first paragraph and
then argue endlessly about it like the second one.
So you still say that I belong to the free software movement .
No I
Andy Random wrote:
Hi,
I've procrastinated about buying a 901 all year...
Finally this week after getting my annual bonus (not as good as last year,
but in the current climate I'm not complaining) I decided I definitely
wanted one and now it seems I've left it too late :(
Most of the
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:01:57 +0100, si...@pseudo-anonymous.com said:
Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
We use it at work to manage just over 100 servers and it works well. Tips?
Yes: start small. Start with something really, really simple, then slowly
build
On Friday 07 August 2009 09:14:38 Alan Pope wrote:
2009/8/7 Tim xendis...@gmx.com:
Can anybody point me in the direction of a set of instructions for
password recovery that work, I have googled but there are many but I
don't want to end up damaging the install trying to reset the password
Stephen Davies wrote:
As someone who has been writing software professionally since 1975 the
issue of releasing software with known problems (or items Fixed in Next
Release) has always concerned me.
At DEC, we used to document the 'known issues limitations' in the
release notes. I don't
Stephen Davies wrote:
I'm wondering how other LUG Members would tackle the release of software
with known bugs and would it stop you from developing software in the
future if you had the spectre of being sued for bugss in your software.
Remember that the Microsoft EULA makes them NOT Liable
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