[Hampshire] HantsLUG / Southampton Makerspace

Hello, I realise from the website HantsLUG hasn't met for a fair while - and we've offered before when we were much smaller - but I just wanted to let you know that now So Make It have moved into a larger space (~1200 sqft) you're still welcome to meet there (no cost, though donations are welcome!

Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot

You could make a very small plugin so only email addresses on the mailing list can be used to register new members; this could be combined with other "defences". It'd stop most of the automated Wordpress registration scripts that are out there; though it obviously wouldn't hold out a determined

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

Interesting escape character; though I think backslash moves around too much for me personally. (I use a lot of different keyboards!) I didn't think I was missing anything until I started really using it either! That's why I ask for screen features that people use that I don't; you generally do

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

Tim: yes. It's heirarchical - think of this as a rough analogy: "Sessions" in tmux can be thought of as separate terminal windows on your desktop. "Windows" in tmux can be thought of as tabs in one terminal window on your desktop. "Panes" in tmux are effectively splitting a single tab in your te

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

to me; but this may just be my perception. Cheers, Benjie. On 15 April 2013 18:30, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Benjie, > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:09:58AM +0100, Benjie Gillam wrote: > > If anyone would be interested in hearing about how I use tmux then I'd > be happy to w

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi workshop

I've heard good things from a friend about this workshop (they went to the one at Solent Uni the other day). I'm going to the one at Southampton Uni on Thursday 25th (which is unfortunately now full) - anyone else going to this one? On 15 April 2013 10:50, Tony Whitmore wrote: > This Raspberry

Re: [Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

v 1.8 you find so helpful? > > Cheers! > > Michael > > > > On 15 April 2013 10:09, Benjie Gillam wrote: > >> Does anyone here use tmux (as opposed to screen) for terminal >> multiplexing? I've been using it for a few months and it's awesome - >> espe

Re: [Hampshire] Free to a good home: back issues of Linux Format magazine with DVDs

HantsLUG are welcome to set up a library at So Make It :) Personally I think LUGs and makerspaces/hackerspaces are a really good fit with respect to skill and interest overlaps - I know we share a few members. I'm afraid we're too small (and cold!) to host any of your meetings just yet, but per

[Hampshire] Tmux - the terminal multiplexer

Does anyone here use tmux (as opposed to screen) for terminal multiplexing? I've been using it for a few months and it's awesome - especially v1.8 which was released just a couple of weeks back. I no longer use tabs/multiple terminals - everything on my system goes through one single terminal wi

Re: [Hampshire] Free to a good home

Any hardware and books that aren't wanted by others would probably be welcomed by Southampton Makerspace[1]; we can't promise to be a good home but it's better than sending them to the dump. If we can't find a use for them directly (for their intended purpose) then we'll try and take them apart

Re: [Hampshire] new device

If you think that's cool... https://getmyo.com/ On 1 Mar 2013, at 20:45, john wrote: > Hi All > > Just seen this. I looks fantastic. > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415979,00.asp > > I know its windows but someone out there will hack it for linux. > > John Eayrs > > -- > Please

Re: [Hampshire] Steam

I believe this is due to how much Valve hate Windows 8 for gaming. And it's been a much requested feature for years. I heard most if not all of Valve's own titles have been ported to Linux and many other games too, but it's still a tiny percentage of the total number of games available on Steam

Re: [Hampshire] The future of Linux / career advice

The TV I bought way back in '08 runs Linux beneath the hood. I didn't know this until I noticed all the legal notices at the end of the instruction manual... I've not tried hacking into it yet, waiting until I can afford to replace it... On 14 Feb 2013, at 15:06, j...@osml.eu wrote: > On 2013-0

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi Questions

A loaded Raspberry Pi model B sucks down about 700-750mA, or more if you've hooked up particularly current-hungry USB devices to it. The USB specification states that USB devices should demand no more than 500mA, and many computer sockets/hubs will automatically disconnect devices that suck down

Re: [Hampshire] HD activity

iotop is great for diagnosing disk I/O :) On 3 Feb 2013, at 19:28, "Rob Malpass" wrote: > Hi all > > For some reason, the external drive that my media centre has all its stuff on > has just started working really hard. I’m not sure whether I should be > worried but my **ix is very much bas

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

Try adding ".local" to the existing hostnames now to invoke mDNS/Zeroconf - e.g. `ping hostname2.local` . If you don't have it installed it's just a `sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon` or similar away. When I had a Linux DHCP server at home it Just Worked(TM), but that was a few years ago now. Y

Re: [Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC

Sorry, my son sent this whilst I was seeing to the newborn! I meant to say you effectively license them, with all the small print, restrictions, etc etc I don't think it can be said that you own them in the same way you own a sofa. Benjie On 7 Jan 2013, at 13:17, Benjie Gillam wrote: &

Re: [Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC

On 7 Jan 2013, at 13:11, Peter Salisbury wrote: > I find all this 'you may have bought it but we'll tell you how > to use it' stuff SO annoying. With most blu-rays, DVDs and music these days you don't buy them. You license them. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

on > -- > Anton Piatek > (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) > http://www.strangeparty.com > > No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a > significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > On 14 Dec 2012 21:07, "Pe

Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

Collins wrote: > On 14/12/12 16:53, Benjie Gillam wrote: >> I think a Diffie-Hellman key exchange would mean even if you surrender your >> passwords/certificates/etc they still can't decode previously captured >> network data. Though I think it only works for "real

Re: [Hampshire] Communications Data Bill

I think a Diffie-Hellman key exchange would mean even if you surrender your passwords/certificates/etc they still can't decode previously captured network data. Though I think it only works for "real time" communications where the key is destroyed after the communication has completed (e.g. SSL)

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Equality Act 2010 compliance

On 26 Nov 2012, at 16:45, Lisi wrote: > I can't be the only person > who takes one look at some websites, says well, if they don't want me, then I > don't want them - and surfs away without looking. Sight issues aside, I do that to websites that overly use Flash, or require it to do things that

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

On 21 Nov 2012, at 16:24, c...@spamcop.net wrote: > But for something as central to the reliability of the network (and a network > used by a few very non-technical people), I was hoping to avoid non-standard > firmware. I had to flash one of my Virgin Media routers (a Netgear one, I think) with

Re: [Hampshire] Remote wipe of Linux systems

http://preyproject.com/ comes to mind. I agree with encryption being a better option, but the risk is if you don't shut down then your encryption key is still stored in RAM (most cold boot RAM extraction issues have been solved by shutdown scripts in the last few years, I think?) and if there'

Re: [Hampshire] DVB Tuners

I had a MythTV system set up with 4 tuners for a long time. Unfortunately I've had to move to cable/TiVo now which means better TV but terrible interface (in comparison to MythTV). Worked fine in Ringwood, Gosport and various locations in Soton. I still have a couple on Freecom USB sticks - you

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity

A few more data points: My parents and uncle both find it confusing still after using it for a year. The invisible menus are the biggest issue for them. My wife who is a programmer (so a little more tech savvy ;) dislikes it and finds the window grouping to be annoying/frustrating and the tray

[Hampshire] Raspberry Pi/Linux/Home Automation - EVE Kickstarter

Kickstarter for a control-everything-wireless board (backpack/shield) for the RasPi - may be of interest? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspberry-pi-wireless-development-hardwa http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2344 If you like Raspberry Pis and you're interested in hom

Re: [Hampshire] upnp

this message, however, a > significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > On Oct 24, 2012 6:28 PM, "Benjie Gillam" wrote: >> You might want to look at DLNA too (it's built on top of UPnP) - thats where >> renderer/server/controller/etc are d

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-HACK]

On 18 Oct 2012, at 08:48, Anton Piatek wrote: > We could perhaps try and combine any of the meetups where there are > overlaps - Southackton recently had a hack day and there would have > been space for people to turn up and talk about linux hacking rather > than just robotics and 3d printers. The

Re: [Hampshire] Build woes

You've probably sorted this by now, but I normally just reset the CMOS when this happens - saves inserting gfx, booting, ejecting gfx, booting, swearing at it still not working. -- Sent from my mobile, so please forgive spelling/brevity. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Inte

Re: [Hampshire] Linux on a G4 Mac Mini

Are you sure you burned the CD correctly - as an image and not just adding the ISO to the disk (you can see by viewing it in another computer - there should be lots of files - not just one)? You could try booting the Mac into target disk mode and mounting it to another computer over FireWire and i

Re: [Hampshire] Correction - was:Re: [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey

Also another of Southackton's members, Adam Groves, was interviewed by Zoe Kleinman on BBC Radio Solent in mid 2011. We've also done various other things to try and attract attention. I didn't think it was appropriate to promote SoutHACKton on the HantsLUG mailing list previously for fear of being

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey

mailing list - especially the more technical parts that you think might bore HantsLUG members ;) Cheers, Benjie. On 9 September 2012 17:35, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > On Sunday 09 Sep 2012 10:22:16 Benjie Gillam wrote: > > Apologies for the cross-post but I'm aware that there a

Re: [Hampshire] Correction - was:Re: [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey

://groups.google.com/group/southackton On 9 September 2012 16:03, wrote: > On Sunday 09 September 2012 15:51:22 Dave Walker wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, wrote: > > > Thanks, Benjie for your reply. > > > > > > On Sunday 09 September 2012 12:50

Re: [Hampshire] Correction - was:Re: [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey

On 9 Sep 2012, at 12:13, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Sunday 09 September 2012 10:22:16 Benjie Gillam wrote: >> Apologies for the cross-post but I'm aware that there are a number of >> people on this list who are into hacking/making/tinkering. >> >> We'

[Hampshire] [OT] Southampton Hackerspace Survey

Apologies for the cross-post but I'm aware that there are a number of people on this list who are into hacking/making/tinkering. We're trying to get a Southampton Hacker/Makerspace off the ground, so we're about to start talks with Southampton University regarding potential early support. If y

Re: [Hampshire] Backups with Amazon Glacier

I would like to know the same. Personally I use s3cmd to sync my photos to s3. Amazon have said that they will be adding s3 <--> glacier support soon so you could use s3 for a full current revision and glacier for point in time backups. This'd be very expensive though with s3 costing 12.5 times

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Vision and two routers

It might be worth having a read of http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html and the like. It talks of "split[ting] traffic arbitrarily across multiple ISPs for reasons like failover and to accommodate greater aggregate bandwidth than would be available on a single uplink." You might w

Re: [Hampshire] re skype

Sounds like an issue with the webcam/driver to me - I used to have one years ago that'd do something similar. Try a different webcam? On 9 Jul 2012, at 07:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 02:51:42 +0100, j...@jesoftware.freeserve.co.uk said: > >> To restore the video link with goo

Re: [Hampshire] re skype

I used to restart it every few weeks when it got unstable, but didn't use it for VoIP much (just chat). (Ubuntu, various generations.) On 7 Jul 2012, at 20:50, Bryn Jones wrote: > I'm running 2.2 and have never had any 'exciting' issues. Runs fine for days > under Mint 12. > > Note I don't us

Re: [Hampshire] Flash Player on Linux

I've heard Chrome will be maintaining the Linux version of Flash. Good riddance, I say. Here's my thoughts on Flash/plugins, if you're interested: http://www.benjiegillam.com/2012/02/a-plugin-free-web/ Cheers, Benjie On 2 July 2012 21:03, Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello Folks > > I've just noti

Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome and a kermel oops

The newest Macs Airs are apparently suffering from this (or a similar) bug too - it's something to do with a Chrome graphics leak and the Intel drivers. (If this is related, which it sounds like it might be.) http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/google_chrome_crashes_on_macbook_air_pushes_upda

Re: [Hampshire] Support for touchscreens

That was my first thought too, but I'm not sure how you'd go about remotely administering an iPad - I guess you could jailbreak it and install a VNC server of some kind. For remote administration I suspect Linux'd be a better bet. That being said, what do you really need to administer? Buttons

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Revo 3600 + Xubuntu 12.04 + Panasonic Viera 32" TV

For my TV (an LG) I had to change the aspect ratio setting to "Just Scan", which I could do from the quick menu. There was also a setting in the ATI Control Panel that came with the proprietary fglrx (or whatever it's called) drivers called "overscan" which I had to drop from 10(%?) to 0. Then i

Re: [Hampshire] Quiet and cool PC running?

For anyone using thin clients, I've had great success with FreeNX in the past - it puts VNC to shame. http://nomachine.com/ It's basically X over SSH, only the X protocol is compressed up to 1000x in places. It's truly impressive, e.g watching YouTube (with sound) over 2 ADSL connections. --

Re: [Hampshire] Is my HDD on the way out?

Check out smartmontools[1] (specifically the `smartctl` binary) to access your hard drives S.M.A.R.T.[2] information - if that reports errors then it's likely your drive is failing. Posts such as this one suggest that it may be another iffy SATA cable: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1075

Re: [Hampshire] SQLite3

i, > > On Thu, March 22, 2012 15:25, Benjie Gillam wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> >> I recently started experimenting with the Amazon Linux AMI (on AWS/EC2) - >> it's a CentOS based distribution. Unfortunately it has sqlite 3.6.20 and >> I need 3.7.4+ f

[Hampshire] SQLite3

Hey all, I recently started experimenting with the Amazon Linux AMI (on AWS/EC2) - it's a CentOS based distribution. Unfortunately it has sqlite 3.6.20 and I need 3.7.4+ for FTS4 features. What's my best bet - download and compile the latest source? Nab a more up to date package from Fedora? C

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

On 14 Feb 2012, at 16:50, Benjie Gillam wrote: > Assuming you've got a relatively modest hard drive in your upstairs computer > (not solid state/etc!), gigabit attached RAID should increase your > performance over your local hard drive. I did similar to you a few years > ago

Re: [Hampshire] Network speeds for diskless system

Assuming you've got a relatively modest hard drive in your upstairs computer (not solid state/etc!), gigabit attached RAID should increase your performance over your local hard drive. I did similar to you a few years ago[1] and my wife's PC's file access times decreased massively - that was my 6

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] SSD specs

On 13 Feb 2012, at 11:20, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Yes, there is that, but if you write to the whole disk once, and then > write to the whole disk a second time, you will be 100% sure that you > have hit each actual flash sector at least twice, even if wear > leveling is used. Actually I be

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Steam game problem with half life 2.

I have steam on my Mac and PC; I'd be happy to help if you email me off-list. It's a shame Steam haven't got their Linux port up and running yet. They only added Mac in the last year or two! Here's their suggested way of running it under Linux: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_und

Re: [Hampshire] ntpd vs. ptpd

-- Sent from my iPhone, so please forgive spelling/brevity. www.BenjieGillam.com Founder: FitFu.com, GymFu.com Brain Bakery Ltd. and GymFu Ltd have registered address: 7 Duck Island Lane BH24 3AA. Registered in England and Wales, Company Numbers: 5849251 and 7022440 respectively On 27 Jan

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

My wife had an eMachines PC many years ago that was very unstable - USB/sound only working periodically. Unsurprisingly in hindsight a few months later the PSU blew up and took out the motherboard, RAM and CPU with it. HDD survived, thankfully! I wouldn't trust them again after that. Benjie.

Re: [Hampshire] VDSL equipment

On 5 Jan 2012, at 06:01, Mike Austin wrote: > I have a TIVO box connected to my Virgin Cable installation. It is very > good, but I have yet to crack controlling it using my slingbox. I spent > nine years living in Cyprus, so obtaining UK TV was a challenge - I > installed a 4.2 metre dish on ou

Re: [Hampshire] mdadm/RAID0 issues after Ubuntu upgrade 8.04 > 11.10

Thanks Keith, I'll try it. The rootdelay solution didn't work, but adding sleep 5 to the middle of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/mdadm and then running update-initramfs -u Seems to have worked (no failures since, but it's not reliable to reproduce so it could be fluke). (Ju

Re: [Hampshire] mdadm/RAID0 issues after Ubuntu upgrade 8.04 > 11.10

takes too long sometimes.) ... After much searching it seems the safest fix is to add rootdelay=2 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/defaults/grub and then run sudo update-grub... Wish me luck! Benjie. On 27 December 2011 07:52, Benjie Gillam wrote: > Sorry, I meant RAID1 - the 0 of

Re: [Hampshire] mdadm/RAID0 issues after Ubuntu upgrade 8.04 > 11.10

850 active sync /dev/sda5 1 8 851 active sync /dev/sdf5 So I'm none the wiser. :-/ Benjie. On 26 December 2011 21:33, Benjie Gillam wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed Ubuntu for my parents many many moons ago. I had upgraded i

[Hampshire] mdadm/RAID0 issues after Ubuntu upgrade 8.04 > 11.10

Hi all, I installed Ubuntu for my parents many many moons ago. I had upgraded it as far as Hardy and then I left it. Recently they've been complaining that certain websites aren't working (due to flash being too old) and their printers drivers not being fully reliable. "No problem," thinks I, I'll

Re: [Hampshire] Samsung N145+ netbook (battery life)

Had the same issue with an Eee a few years ago, sent it back and the replacement worked fine. In fact it still does, I was using it only yesterday! Benjie -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hants

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

Graphics card power, perhaps? 2x3 Do they have any lettering? -- 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] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

Mailgun.net may be of interest, plus as a bonus you can do all sorts of funky API based things with your email. Disclaimer: I have not used them for personal email hosting, only mail sending. Disclosure: They're a fellow YCombinator company (same batch) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

TestDisk does exactly that - it scans the whole disk looking for pieces of data that look like they were JPG images (or whatever you're searching for - it has a bunch of prebuilt filters) - which is why I recommended it. However different filesystems lay out files in different places - e.g. at m

Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image

I've had a lot of luck with TestDisk[1] in the past (mostly for recovering images from flash memory cards where the user has accidentally done delete all instead of delete!), but it doesn't claim to support recovering files from HFS+ filesystems. Personally, I'd give it a go anyway and see what

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu and Intel H61 chipset

On 13 Oct 2011, at 10:28, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > After replacing the paste and cleaning the heat sink/fan, the PC ran > OK for another year or two until the motherboard truely failed, so a > replaced the PC. I did similar 2 weekends back (used TIM cleaner to remove the old CPU/Heatsink p

Re: [Hampshire] Data Destruction

On 7 Oct 2011, at 10:30, Alan Pope wrote: > Use DBAN and get on with your life :D Get on with your life after the many hours it takes to run... Assuming you're not intending to reuse or redistribute it, and that you have or can borrow a sledgehammer: sledgehammer it and get on with your life, i

Re: [Hampshire] Data Destruction

On 7 Oct 2011, at 09:05, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > If you really have to erase all trace of the data, you should really > have thought about that before writing it to the HD. > Normal practice now is to use whole disk encryption. > Then, to erase the whole disk, just erase the key. That's

Re: [Hampshire] Data Destruction

I'm not sure the TrueCrypt solution will work. Normally when you create a filesystem/partition, the tools write out the minimum data they can - generally the partition layout in the MBR and the file allocation table at the beginning of the disk (and in a number of backup places throughout the di

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

Or, alternatively, open it into a decent web browser and type this into the JavaScript console: var as = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); var hrefs=[]; for (var i = 0, l = as.length; i Hi. > > I have a large file that contains snips of http pages. > Each line is like this: > some junk...

Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

There's a _very_ good chance that I'm wrong, but do you have to chmod +t (?) the directory? $ man sticky Cheers, Benjie. On 9 Sep 2011, at 09:15, Vic wrote: > So per the advice chmodded them to 777. > > It's *almost* universally true that any advice telling you to 777 > something is w

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

1million IP addresses per second is... It's worth mentioning that 10^25 years is roughly 10^15 times as long as the estimated age of the universe, assuming you subscribe to modern science. On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:24, Benjie Gillam wrote: > Other issues with this approach: > - Proxies

Re: [Hampshire] DDoS survival strategies

Other issues with this approach: - Proxies would route lots of traffic through few IP addresses - Large campus networks (e.g. universities) sometimes use single outbound IP addresses - If you export APIs, these may be being polled too frequently accidentally - External services which fetch from/ag

Re: [Hampshire] New Member

Apologies for the OT response, but I wanted to point out the following two meets you may be interested in: If you're into Arduino or any form of hardware hacking/modding then you may enjoy SoutHACKton our local attempt to create a hackspace, next meeting is on Wednesday 7th, details: http://so

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

One of the great things about screen is you can set it up as the remote command for when you SSH into a box, so you always continue where you left off (very useful if you're connecting from your phone or from anywhere over a 3G/EDGE/GPRS/packet radio/... network). Also you can set up a configura

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop batteries

Most laptops in my experience work without a battery so long as the mains charger is connected - if yours doesn't then I fear it might be the motherboard that has failed. Kind regards, Benjie. On 26 July 2011 14:40, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 July 2011 14:36, Adam John Trickett > wrote: > > I s

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Network Query

My suspicion is that powerline is dropping or corruping a bunch of packets and so you have a high retransmission rate clogging up your network port. My other suggestion is what Keith said - perhaps there is a bottleneck somewhere else on your system. Cheers, Benjie -- Sent from my iPhone, so

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Strange Shell Prompt.

My guess is that his iPad used your IP address beforehand and requested 'johnrs-ipad' be it's hostname during the DHCP request a while back. When your MacBook did a DHCP request, the server recycled the old iPad record without properly cleaning it first. Benjie. On 5 July 2011 15:28, Mike Burrows

Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

> > I'm no expert, but shouldn't that be `nc -vl ` to set up a listener? > I don't think you can use -p with -l. > Correct, my appologies. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.u

Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

Can you ssh -p from another computer/device on your LAN? (You may need to use your internal IP address to do so.) If so then you at least know SSH is working. If not, then I'd use netcat. is an unprivileged port (>1024) so if you shut down sshd you should be able to run nc -v -l -p

Re: [Hampshire] [OT} weird web behaviour

What's the result for one of the faulty websites of $ dig On the command line, when connected without DHCP? (Terminal.app under Mac, I think) DHCP issues the IP adresses even if they are fixed IPs, unless you configure each computer manually (rather than configuring them via the router) and i

Re: [Hampshire] Home network cabling

You could also run the cable through pipes outside, fit a junction box to the outside wall of your house. I'd use a switch in room A (they're very cheap and relatively power efficient) and just have one cable from central hub. Allows for better future expansion too. If speed isn't an issue then y

Re: [Hampshire] Sharing printers with OS X from CUPS

Here's your issue: # Only listen for connections from the local machine. Listen localhost:631 Change it to: Listen 192.168.0.X:631 Where X completes your (hopefully fixed?) LAN IP address. Cheers, Benjie. On 18 May 2011 22:11, Robin Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there anyone on this list

Re: [Hampshire] HERE files and output redirection

I think you want: mpirun -np 6 ./laplace < HERE | tail -n 1 > output You can add brackets to make it clearer: ((mpirun -np 6 ./laplace < HERE) | tail -n 1) > output Hope this helps? Benjie. On 16 May 2011 17:35, Robin Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have the following code in a batch script:

Re: [Hampshire] Networking for Dummies

Eclipse used to do multiple IP addresses, I don't know if your ISP does. If so, you could do this with 3 devices: ADSL router and 2x ethernet routers, then you set up 2x standard NAT one on each IP address. That'll safely separate the networks. Benjie. On 9 May 2011 16:43, Vic wrote: > > > If y

Re: [Hampshire] When is it necessary to reboot

I think it tends to be easier to tell the user to reboot than to log out and back in again. Or even "killall nautilus". I generally just get my parents to reboot - they're more familiar with that process. As for kernel upgrades, I'd review the changelog and see if the issues fixed affect you. e.g.

Re: [Hampshire] Setting up ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 in Debian

Try installing the debhelper package: http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2003/07/msg00027.html You may need to install extra software too, but we can figure that out step by step if you can't find a list somewhere. Cheers, Benjie. -- Sent from my iPhone, so please forgive spelling/brevity

Re: [Hampshire] Setting up ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 in Debian

You probably want to fully uninstall the existing drivers before installing the new ones. You may also want to run fglrxconfig (or whatever it's called) to autogenerate an xorg.conf file (you shouldn't need to, but if it's not working...) Can you: $ sudo modprobe fglrx ? Running $ glxinfo | gr

Re: [Hampshire] Video processing library recommendations

You could use ffmpeg to turn the movie into jpgs, process the jpgs and then convert back again: http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC15 http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14 Would use a lot of disk space I guess, but you could process the videos 100 frames at a time or whatever? I think mencoder let

Re: [Hampshire] Domestic ADSL ISPs

I second Eclipse - I was with them for years when I had ADSL. I had their top deal (£30/mo) and was frequently downloading 120GB+/mo (no, not illegal file-sharing, all legitimate data for work!). It was 50GB limit during the daytime, unlimited overnight. I'd still be with them now if I hadn't moved

Re: [Hampshire] [sort-of-OT] Advice for (geeky) broadband provider

I'm with Virgin Media (Upper Shirley), here's my stats: [1] 50.61 down, 1.63 up, 18ms ping. It's worth pointing out that VM are already rolling out 100Mb (and are even testing 200Mb in some places) and they're also increasing the upload rate (50Mb do

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

What I would do, I think, is have a map (e.g. google map), click on a location and say "is their cable here?". It would then find the nearest postcode to that lat/lng and query VirginMedia.com to see if cable is in that area. I did this manually when I was house hunting recently, looked up in the r

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

The UK post code database is out there on the net, you just have to look :) I'd guess a name for the 2009 post code database might be along the lines of uk-post-code-2009? And perhaps, due to size, it might be bz2 compressed...? Benjie. On 9 January 2011 00:36, Vic wrote: > > > I think the prob

Re: [Hampshire] Interesting DNS problem

You could use Amazon AWS' Route 53 DNS hosting and use the APIs to update the domain name directly, that way you can update the root record to be an A record pointing to the dynamic IP and instead of the dyndns script have a route53 script which updates Amazon's nameservers. http://aws.amazon.com/

Re: [Hampshire] VirutaHosts with Differnet Outbound IPs

A potential solution would be to run two different apaches, each bound to an individual IP address explicitly (with the Listen configuration option)? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/bind.html Benjie. On 16 December 2010 13:34, Keir Whitlock wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a question that I have

Re: [Hampshire] EXIM

Thx for the links, it seems Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is not vulnerable :) On 13 December 2010 08:14, Anton Piatek wrote: > On 12 December 2010 22:04, Adam John Trickett > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If you have an exposed server running Exim it's worth checking for > updates > > after a recent security flaw

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Saturday Meeting

I was intending on coming for the first time. :) Benjie. On 3 December 2010 15:08, Clive Woodfine wrote: > On 3 December 2010 14:11, Ashwin wrote: > >> >> I was planning to go to uni tomorrow morning anyway so unless they have >> locked us out, I will be able to host the meeting. I will check

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Server and Wordpress

x27;s not world readable if you're on a shared host. Benjie. On 1 December 2010 18:33, Chris Dennis wrote: > On 01/12/10 17:54, Benjie Gillam wrote: > >> Personally, I'd install it straight from Wordpress. I see no advantage >> to installing it from the Ubuntu repositor

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Server and Wordpress

Personally, I'd install it straight from Wordpress. I see no advantage to installing it from the Ubuntu repository, and when you later update your Ubuntu to the next LTS I would guess that it's likely to corrupt your Wordpress install with a different version to what you're running, or leave around