Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu 12.04 release party

2012-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Sounds fun. According to google maps it's going to take 3mins to walk there from my new abode* :-) (A relocated) Adrian * Time taken to get home again is left as an exercise for the reader, however I hear that Brownian motion makes a good case study. -- Please post to:

[Hampshire] LUG equipment

2011-11-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I need a willing (or not so willing, I'm not picky) volunteer to look after a box of LUG equipment - mainly printer, firewall, cables. It's just the one box (it's compresssed over the years as things have become obsolete). I'm finally moving out of Hampshire to the big smoke as an opportunity to

Re: [Hampshire] FOSDEM?

2010-12-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 00:30:06 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: Hello, Anyone planning to go to FOSDEM in February 2011? Definitely looking at it yes, missed last year. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Saturday Meeting

2010-11-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Great news, and a big thanks to Ashwin! Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] LVM Unmounting

2010-10-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 18:10:51 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:01:36PM +0100, Samuel Penn wrote: Hi all, Quick LVM question - is it necessary to unmount an ext3 partition before growing it? No. resize2fs will do online resizing for you. FYI on

Re: [Hampshire] HantsLUG equipment

2010-10-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Thanks Ashwin, I'll be bringing the kit anyway, probably worth a quick look. Thinking about it a bit more, IIRC the floor port has (finally) been disabled so we are probably looking at trying to figure out a way to plug the firewall into the wireless network instead of the wired one for the kit

[Hampshire] HantsLUG equipment

2010-09-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Is someone able to help look after the LUG equipment as I'm finding it hard to make the meetings sometimes and I'm looking at moving up the M3 even further in a while. We've looked at splitting the equipment in two before: - network bits + printer - more network bits (backup in case the first

Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

2010-09-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 17:42:57 +0100 (+0100), Lisi wrote: [snip] Incidentally, so far, the course is a little disappointing. The first week's work is actually wrong in some of its facts. E.g., Ubuntu shadows Debian Stable's six monthly release, and is released about a month after it. I

Re: [Hampshire] Website down

2010-09-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:47:35 +0100 (+0100), Tony Whitmore wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the general mail, not sure who the hostmaster is these days. The website seems to have been down since yesterday and isn't responding to SSH either. That'll be me (once again). It had OOMed (out of

Re: [Hampshire] HP servers and Debian

2010-08-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:17:10 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Mills wrote: [snip] If that's the case, then you're *far* better off ditching the Onboard RAID and using Linux's software RAID implementation, which is rather better tested. Yes, I can second that from personal experience. Namely when it

Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:15:23 +0100 (+0100), James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I've come to the conclusion that there aren't any decent open source backup products.  Yes, I do actually have it on my todo list to write [snip] So, in summary, it is not good enough to replace the system currently

Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 21:11:25 +0100 (+0100), Keith Edmunds wrote: However, Chris is right: you cannot *know* that two files are the same unless you compare them, byte by byte. If hashes are good enough for you, just backup the hashes and save lots of time and diskspace! My understanding on

Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
tac will do this BTW. (tac = cat spelt backwards. I don't think any Unix wizards will ever win a comedy award, except perhaps Randall Munroe (of xkcd.com fame)). Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu updates

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 14:25:02 +0100 (+0100), James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I find apt-cacher-ng easier to configure. It also has the advantage that it works with debian and ubuntu machines simultaneously which IIRC apt-cacher didn't. Recommended. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux

Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

2010-07-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 19:45:00 +0100 (+0100), Keith Edmunds wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:25:10 +0100, james.dut...@gmail.com said: Does anyone know of any open source backup programs that do de-dupe for the express purposes of reducing traffic over the WAN. BackupPC. Recommended.

[Hampshire] Fwd: [lugmaster] Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu in Business - London, July 13th [a...@popey.com]

2010-06-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Maybe of interest to some people - Forwarded message from Alan Pope a...@popey.com - Subject: [lugmaster] Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu in Business - London, July 13th From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:25:51 +0100 To: LUGMaster lugmas...@mailman.lug.org.uk Hi All, I

Re: [Hampshire] Escape characters with man | grep

2010-05-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:35:20 +0100 (+0100), Owain Clarke wrote: I'm sure this is an easy one for you:- If I want to read a line from a man page with a character which needs escaping, how do I do it? For example, to read the -r option of rsync:- man rsync | grep -r produces no output,

Re: [Hampshire] ClamAV not running?

2010-05-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
FWIW I had issues yesterday (even though I'm using volatile - although I was a version down). I upgraded clam and then it failed to start, kicked the clamav extra updates crontab I have (which pulls in extra lists for email de-spamming) and then it was happy. I think the crontab had not been

Re: [Hampshire] 32- or 64-bit distro?

2010-05-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I run 64-bit and have no problems. However, what are you going to gain? Unless you run a large database or something just stick with 32-bit (which is a darn sight more memory efficient too - all my VMs are 32-bit and they run in much less RAM than the 64-bit ones). FWIW I ran 64-bit because I

Re: [Hampshire] What do *you* put in /etc/hostname on Debian?

2010-04-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:07:15 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: For those of you adminstering Debian or Ubuntu, given a FQDN of foo.example.com, what would *you* put in the /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts and /etc/mailname files? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 foo.example.com

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 21:03:22 +0100 (+0100), Daniel Pope wrote: Hi all, Since the meagre feedback that there was to the wiki migration was universally positive, I have pushed ahead and switched the site to MoinMoin. Cool, many many thanks for this. A small step for Dan, a giant leap for

Re: [Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:43:33 + (+), Michael-John Turner wrote: How are you calling lurker? /etc/aliases contains: lurker-hants: |/usr/bin/lurker-index -l hampshire -m (well it contains a wrapper ATM so that I can debug it :-)) I've not used Exim in nigh on ten years, but a cursory

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Smartphones with keyboards

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
One that hasn't been mentioned is the Motorola Droid (or Milestone in Europe). Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

[Hampshire] hants.lug.org.uk upgrade

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Just a heads up, I'm feeling brave^W foolhardy^W bored. So I may well be upgrading the hantslug box this evening (etch to lenny). I wonder what will break I'll prepare some kit-kats just in case. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat,

[Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I've just been banging my head against lurker (mailing list program we use on hantslug) as it had stopped working. I've diagnosed what's wrong, but have very little clue as to _why_. The box runs exim as a mailserver and that runs as the Debian-exim user: $ id Debian-exim uid=102(Debian-exim)

Re: [Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
a weird one too. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:15:42 + (+), Chris Smith wrote: I use a Roku/Pinnacle SoundBridge (which I bought after watching someone demonstrate it at a HantsLUG talk). It doesn't have a hard-disk, but does most of what you want. That'll be me :-) I'm still happy with mine and use it

Re: [Hampshire] Off-site backup with Amazon S3

2010-03-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 16:16:31 + (+), Philip Stubbs wrote: Has anybody else tried this? what has been the results? Are there any simple and competitive alternatives? Nope, but depending upon your requirements, there was a FUSE plugin which turned gmail storage quota into

[Hampshire] web script suggestions

2010-02-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
NB: I'm not after starting a my language is better than yours flamewar! I need to write a small web script (basically a simple front end to populating an LDAP database). Normally I'd do this in Perl (and CGI library) because of PHP's pretty horrific security record, however I think it's time I

Re: [Hampshire] SPF Best Practice

2010-02-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Nice post from Martin, so in summary: - publishing your SPF records will help others to drop spam claiming to be from you - and _may_ avoid some backscatter (OTOH the servers backscattering are unlikely to use SPF...) - looking up SPF records will help you to avoid some spam - but _never_

[Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
If there are any Debian developers who wouldn't mind signing my GPG key I'd really appreciate it. It's a tad frustrating not being able to contribute (long story). Cheers, Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:02:20 + (+), Simon Huggins wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:40:17AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: If there are any Debian developers who wouldn't mind signing my GPG key I'd really appreciate it. It's a tad frustrating not being able to contribute

[Hampshire] blank CD cases if anyone wants them

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I've 600 spare blank CD cases if anyone would like some on Saturday just shout. Packs of 25 (or 100). My old (old old) employer was throwing them out as the version of their software on it was outdated. I might try Freeagle in a while thinking about it. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux

[Hampshire] Duplex unit for HP 3100,3200,3300,8200 printer

2010-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I forgot who kindly donated this to the LUG, however it should be for a HP 3100,3200,3300,8200 printer IIRC. part number is SG79C210NH If you let me know before Saturday I'll bring it along. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu,

Re: [Hampshire] 06 February at IBM Hursley

2010-01-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I could be tempted to do a talk, I'll have to see if I manage to find the time to write one :) Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] OT [tech] result of overloading memory slots?

2010-01-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 13:15:17 + (+), Simon Reap wrote: Lisi wrote: Put otherwise, could too much RAM fry the mobo, and could it not do so until the second boot up after installation? Have a look on crucial.com. There are various issues here - including electrical - e.g. you

Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?

2010-01-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 14:37:05 + (+), Imran Chaudhry wrote: Will there be any CA cert assurers at Saturdays meeting? At the last meeting, Tony and Ciemon assured me (I think I gave details to Hugo who has yet to assure me). I need another 15 points before I can create 2-year certs.

Re: [Hampshire] wiki updating (or not)

2010-01-06 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Sorted - it was matching a blacklisted word (dating FWIW). Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] wiki updating (or not)

2010-01-06 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 09:37:29 + (+), Victor Churchill wrote: 2010/1/6 Adrian Bridgett adr...@smop.co.uk: Sorted - it was matching a blacklisted word (dating FWIW). .. that would be as in Chapter 3: Monitoring and Updating...! Oh my. Not terribly impressive is it! Adrian

Re: [Hampshire] wiki updating (or not)

2010-01-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
If you could tell use the time/date (and preferably IP) that you are trying from then we can probably have a look in the logs. I suspect you maybe accidentally hitting a blacklisted word. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS

Re: [Hampshire] wiki updating (or not)

2010-01-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 21:11:13 + (+), Victor Churchill wrote: [snip Thanks, you don't _appear_ to be triggering anything that I can see so I'm a bit confused. I've added a bit more debug to the wiki. If it fails would you mind sending me the text you were trying to change it to and

Re: [Hampshire] Apache web root permissions

2009-11-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:47:28 + (+), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: I have a site running drupal. The apache user therefore needs to be able to write certain files (CSS files for example). Hmm - I don't need much for my drupal install FWIW - just files. Install of my (updated Drupal

Re: [Hampshire] Weird output from 'top'

2009-11-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 17:51:39 + (+), Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: [snip] Yes, it is dual-core. I know about top 1 for per-core stats, but I thought I read somewhere that the '%CPU' per-process column was an amalgamation of the two - can't find the reference now, of course! It's not a

Re: [Hampshire] [Job] IMAP Proxy LDAP integration.

2009-10-31 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 17:20:01 + (+), Simon Capstick wrote: Hi, A small job: Has anyone had experience of setting up a (secure) IMAP proxy along with a public CA certificate? LDAP integration, along with setting up OpenLDAP to authenticate users would be a real bonus. IMAP

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Assistance required with kit for Nov meet

2009-10-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Ed Beckmann has kindly offered and since he's 10mins away that saves you a trip. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 21:22:05 +0100 (+0100), Ian Brazier wrote: Hi Adrian, I'll do it if no one closer volunteers. Ian On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:12 +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: I normally look after

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:23:14 +0100 (+0100), Samuel Penn wrote: What I really want to be able to do, is simply do the equivalent of useradd fred ... in OpenLDAP, without having to worry about LDAP schemas and the like. I don't mind configuring the server initially, but want the user

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:24:50 + (+), Chris Dennis wrote: Is there anything else that will do a simple address book / contacts list that Thunderbird clients can share? Google? Seems to be best way to do things these days. I've found Thunderbird's support for LDAP (secured by TLS in

Re: [Hampshire] Intercepting shutdown

2009-10-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:56:43 +0100 (+0100), Leo wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to intercept, or hook into, gnome's shutdown procedure? Basically, my computer has a tv card and occasionally I forget it's recording the tv and shutdown. So what I'd like is to get gnome to call

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] Assistance required with kit for Nov meet

2009-10-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I normally look after the LUG kit (firewall, network gear etc), however I have a prior arrangement for that weekend involving a big flaming thing (no, not vi vs emacs). Would someone mind taking the kit down that weekend and bringing it back - I can drop it off anytime before then. It's

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Elections

2009-10-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:43:07 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Mills wrote: GOs: Adrian Bridgett [snip] I'm sure they will announce their willingness or otherwise to stand for re-election. As long as I can still claim for that penguin house in the middle of my moat I'm in. If not I'll still stand

[Hampshire] computer bits giveaway

2009-10-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I'm having a bit of a clearout and will be freegle'ing these otherwise. If you want something, yell and I'll bring it to the meet on Saturday. DP17MO - 17 CRT Sun monitor (VGA) Deskjet 500 (no PSU!) Deskjet 600 (making a clunky noise ATM) Brother HL2070N (dies if you print within 5mins of being

Re: [Hampshire] Is my program detached?

2009-09-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:28:02 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Pelc wrote: Under Kubuntu 9.04 at least, trying to open /dev/tty succeeds in both cases and fds 0,1,2 return true from isatty(). Similarly, ttyname() returns a name. Hmm, that was going to be my suggestion. Perhaps you could see whether

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Anyone used EclipseComputers or LambdaTek?

2009-09-23 Thread Adrian Bridgett
When only two parts of three turned up from Lambdatek, I was expecting a battle, but no, a human being went and sorted it out and explained where the foul up happened (which I always appreciate). So -1 + 1 = 0 for me. Unfortunately these days 0 is rather a good score since competency seems in

Re: [Hampshire] RHCE / RHCT

2009-09-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 15:04:07 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: I've been toying with the idea of getting Redhat certification. I did the pre-assessment questionaires and concluded that I was pretty close to being ready to take the RHCE exam immediately, but would benefit from the

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:15:18 +0100 (+0100), Chris Simmonds wrote: One option I have considered is using, say, MySQL with one master node replicating to all the others and some mechanism to elect a new master if the original went down. But, that sounds messy. There must be a neater

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 20:17:56 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: I thought the OP wanted to make the data available over 50 nodes! DRBD can only have two simultaneous primaries. Ah yes, I was taking that as meaning that it needed to withstand failure of a (master) node, but still be

Re: [Hampshire] What a load of old cobblers!

2009-09-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 22:14:18 +0100 (+0100), Daniel Pope wrote: [snip] A quality rant there - nice work :-) It seems par for the course to dumb down TV - even science programs being dumbed down well below the level of anyone who would be watching them. Adrian -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Deploying a Rails application

2009-08-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 13:23:28 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hi Chris, I have a VPS I'd like to deploy it on running Debian Etch, which already has Apache2 installed and serving other static pages. If you want to keep your Apache2, I'd recommend using ModProxy and

Re: [Hampshire] OpenVPN + TrueCrypt

2009-08-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 07:42:07 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Morning, I've just deployed an OpenVPN solution for a client, and am considering enhancing the security by having the users keep their keys on an encrypted USB stick. We use PAM authentication on top of openvpn

Re: [Hampshire] Is anybody here using puppet?

2009-08-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 09:01:57 +0100 (+0100), Simon Strange wrote: I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm interested in using puppet to control it. Puppet is _wonderful_. As for most automation tools, it's definitely one of those things where you have to invest time up

Re: [Hampshire] Is anybody here using puppet?

2009-08-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 07:08:23 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: Can you elaborate more as to how you manage SSH keys? I've seen a couple of ways but never really liked them.. I've been using the ssh-ldap patches with great success for some time now. Drop people's ssh keys into LDAP (ones

Re: [Hampshire] Technical Customer Services Manager in Lond on‏

2009-07-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 08:27:24 +0100 (+0100), Jon Fautley wrote: Please e-mail me using jamesto...@hotmail.com to learn more. Or, ja...@camalyn.org should work just as well. To Bin. How appropriate. Adrian -- Email: adr...@smop.co.uk -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian

Re: [Hampshire] No WPA2 option in Jaunty

2009-06-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 17:34:57 +0100 (+0100), Rob Malpass wrote: [snip] Not sure which chipset it is - could be Prism2, in which case you _may_ be able to switch to the hostap driver - which also isnt ideal. The other option is to use ndiswrapper with a windows driver, which again, is less

Re: [Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software, based?

2009-05-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 17:06:54 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: Indeed, unless under very heavy write load I expect software RAID will be fine. To explain this further, if you do a write on RAID-5, you often have to _read_ the disks first - this can add lots of latency. Personally, I do

Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?

2009-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
One thing that you may wish to check is hardware virtualisation support - i.e. which CPU is in it and checking it in wikipedia. Be warned that many brand new (even quad core) processors don't have such support - only specific models do. Adrian -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK

2009-04-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 23:14:05 +0100 (+0100), jt wrote: I am a Linux user so don't see why I cant post. At the same time I am doing my job! If I don't find people for jobs, I don't pay the mortgage! a) I don't recall seeing a post which wasn't a job advert from you, and neither does a search

Re: [Hampshire] Multi-headed virtualization

2009-04-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Also look at SPICE by Qumranet (folks behind KVM, bought by redhat) too. You'd need thin clients, but that has advantages over being limited by cable length back to a central box :-) Adrian -- Email: adr...@smop.co.uk -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux - the

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendation on Virtualisation books

2009-04-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
One thing I've not seen that much comment on is ease of use and management (i.e you want to change settings etc). I find KVM very immature in this regard (particularly when you couple it with the equally immature libvirt* layer). If you want your life to be easy, choose vmware or virtualbox. If

Re: [Hampshire] insmod problem

2009-03-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 21:31:24 -0500 (-0500), Mike Burrows wrote: Hello folks, Trying to install the quickcam.ko module on a etch system: marvin:/home/testermike# insmod /usr/local/src/qc-usb-0.6.5/quickcam.ko insmod: error inserting '/usr/local/src/qc-usb-0.6.5/quickcam.ko': -1 Invalid

Re: [Hampshire] Server Security

2009-03-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
One thing I've not seen people mention: Expect it to be hacked - or at least _plan_ for it (especially with if PHP is involved). Backups (tested). HIDS (I use osiris) - tells you _when_ the box has been hacked. Chkrootkit (ditto). Adrian -- Email: adr...@smop.co.uk -*- GPG key available on

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] memory sticks

2009-03-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 20:42:03 + (+), Lisi wrote: What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of two pairs of sticks given that they both cost the same? Basically, why one might prefer: CT2KIT12864AA667 • DDR2 PC2-5300 • CL=5 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR2-667 • 1.8V •

Re: [Hampshire] GRUB2 is anyone using it ?

2009-03-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 09:29:27 + (+), isaaccl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: hello there, Simple enough question, is anyone using GRUB2 yet ? I ask this because i've had a quick look at it, and unless i'm very wrong, it seems quite different to GRUB. I was, but hit lots of issues due

Re: [Hampshire] Set bond mode, when bonding is compiled in to the kernel?

2009-03-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Alternatively you can poke quite a few settings for bonding in /proc - not sure you can do those settings though. Adrian -- Email: adr...@smop.co.uk -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux - the maintainable distribution -*- www.debian.org -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Debian 5.0 Lenny domU

2009-03-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:24:41 + (+), Tony Whitmore wrote: I'm looking to set up a Debian 5.0 (Lenny) domU under Xen on hardware that supports VT. At the moment the dom0 is running Ubuntu 7.10. (I could be persuaded to upgrade it to 8.04 LTS if it helps.) I'd like to ensure that the

Re: [Hampshire] Debian 5.0 Lenny domU

2009-03-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:16:07 + (+), Tony Whitmore wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:50:07 +, Adrian Bridgett adr...@smop.co.uk wrote: A colleague said he saw problems with the 2.6.26-xen kernel as a DomU FWIW. TBH I'd look at KVM as it seems to be the future (I swapped from

Re: [Hampshire] wiki spam update

2009-02-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 17:05:57 + (+), Adrian Bridgett wrote: Well I think it's certainly helped quite a bit. Not perfect, but then apart from me who is :-) Bah! Spoke too soon, 11 pages spammed :( I've turned on another anti-spam feature now. As usual, yell if you have problems

[Hampshire] wiki spam update

2009-02-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Well I think it's certainly helped quite a bit. Not perfect, but then apart from me who is :-) 2171 blocked, 87 allowed. Due to the unique way in which the edits work, really there have only been 9 page changes - 5 which were fine, four of which were not. So overall, it's letting a few past,

Re: [Hampshire] Restoring firefox bookmarks

2009-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:49:24 + (+), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: 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

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

2009-01-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:17:07 + (+), Simon Capstick wrote: SPAM blocked for LinuxHints/XenOnEtch My IP's static if that's any help to you. Thanks - would you mind trying again? Caught by Bayesian filter like Adam. I've turned that module off - yay for ability to exclude plugins!

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

2009-01-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:37:25 + (+), Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 at 07:29:05PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: However I've just tied it into our very own Steve Kemps's blogspam.net service so we'll see how that goes. Please shout if you have any problems

[Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

2009-01-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Due do a recent spate of attacks on the wiki, we've made a few changes. I did write a simple anti-spam thing (basically watching percentage of links to text on a page), but that's currently in log only mode. However I've just tied it into our very own Steve Kemps's blogspam.net service so we'll

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

2009-01-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 19:48:03 + (+), Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 19:29:05 +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: However I've just tied it into our very own Steve Kemps's blogspam.net service so we'll see how that goes. It wasn't really setup with wikis in mind, but I'd

Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

2009-01-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 21:29:05 + (+), B STEVENS wrote: this may be a naive question but why would anyone attack a linux user group wiki? what form did these attacks take? Probably random attacks. Have a look at this:

Re: [Hampshire] Email Autoresponders

2009-01-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 14:05:22 + (+), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hello, Notwithstanding the general feeling that we don't much like autoresponders... suppose one has been asked to implement one - I'm looking for recommendations. No suggestion, but something to look for is one

Re: [Hampshire] Building 32-bit apps on 64-bit host

2009-01-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:23:04 + (+), Richard Danter wrote: Hi all, I have been developing a couple of little apps to make my life easier at work. All has been going well until my host was upgraded to 64-bit. One of the libs I have to use is available only as 32-bit. The apps

Re: [Hampshire] Virtualization Project advice

2008-12-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:27:29 + (+), Simon Capstick wrote: That's a good comprehensive summary by David. I'll only add our experience FWIW... One more experience story FWIW. Summary - KVM for the adventurous, VirtualBox (ease of use) or VMware (server for simplicity or ESX(i) for

Re: [Hampshire] Some dpkg questions...

2008-11-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:07:49 - (-), Vic wrote: Hi All. I've got a couple of questions about dpkg that I'm not sure about (after reading the man page...) Firstly, dpkg apparently has a --root opetion; I'm not sure if I'm using it properly. I tried : dpkg

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Admin IQ Test

2008-11-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 06:01:48 + (+), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Victor Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A link to this popped up on the Dorset list : http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php Damn. 95%. Darn trick

Re: [Hampshire] Swap versus RAM size (was: I just have to tell someone...)

2008-10-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 23:23:38 + (+), Alan Pope wrote: For some time now on 64-bit platforms the recommendation has been at least 20G of swap no matter how much RAM you have. If you have ever studied the SAP memory management system you can see why. The general argument goes that 20G