Does your laptop power supply have a centre small pin ??
If it does it might be like a couple of Dell's I've looked at. If the
centre pin doesn't make contact with the charging socket the laptop
won't charge, it'll still work on mains as the main 19volts or so is
carried on the inside & outsid
On 26/10/2010 20:50, John Cooper wrote:
On 26/10/10 19:42, Brian Chivers wrote:
I've done LPIC-1 already and found it really interesting & hard as it
dealt with stuff I don't use that much like kernel & x.org config
I'll let you know what the the LPIC-2 is like as I'
On 23/10/2010 16:25, John Cooper wrote:
On 23/10/10 15:57, Peter Collins wrote:
Hi all,
Many thanks for the responses.
Just to clarify I already work in sysadmin role for my current employer
(as well as others) - it is mainly a Microsoft windows based
infrastructure, however I have introduced
Simon Reap wrote:
> On 21/02/2010 11:00, Rob Malpass wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Need some advice about how to automatically mount a nas at bootup on
>> jaunty. The googling I’ve done [1] suggests that the easiest way to
>> do this is to edit /etc/fstab which I’ve done.
>>
>> However on reboot, I f
On 22/02/2010 12:44, John Cooper wrote:
> On 22/02/10 12:07, Brian Chivers wrote:
>> As some of you will know I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu from mostly RH /
>> CentOS. I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.10 in our virtual
>> environment and will soon be bringing
As some of you will know I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu from mostly RH /
CentOS. I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.10 in our virtual
environment and will soon be bringing some production servers on-line
but the length of updates does worry me slightly. I've been using CentOS
as it has a re
Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>
>> I've had about 10 from Jamie's and just changed the batteries & away
>> they go :-)
>>
>
> Where do you get the batts from - last time I looked for UPS batts
> it was only slightly more ex
On 03/02/2010 19:34, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After the power supply to my house destroying the PSUs of my computers
> three times now, I would like to get a UPS.
> Does anyone have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power supply) that is surplus
> to their requirements?
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Jame
>
>
>>> hda: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to
>>> UDMA33
>>>
>> Does it have an 80-wire cable? Have you tried reseating the drive
>> cable?
>>
>
> Dunno what sort of cable it is other than it looks like all other drive
> cables I have seen (apart
Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Sunday 25 October 2009 16:07:14 Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
>> I normally use phpldapadmin (or ldapvi for more global things).
>>
>
> Okay, I may have a look at that as well.
>
>
>> TBH I think running LDAP at home is generally more hassle than it's
>> worth. Okay,
gured.
I have looked at loads on setting up the bridging but only on single cards not
multiples so if
anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very appreciative.
Thanks
Brian Chivers
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activ
John Cooper wrote:
> Chris Dennis wrote:
>
>> Hello folks
>>
>> I'm planning to use one or more external USB hard drives to backup a
>> headless server running Debian. I'll probably use rsnapshot, with a
>> script that detects for the presence of the right drive.
>>
>> But how can the server
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Does anyone know of a supplier of 6-32 4mm (or so) countersunk screws?
> Used for mounting hard disks, but in a caddy hence the countersunk screws
> are required. I'm struggling to find anywhere that can supply them,
> ideally online. Irritatingly I've bought them before, but
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone ever had yum on Centos (5) stop expanding the $releasever
> variable in the repo config?
>
> I am being asked to fix one which has just started doing this,
> supposedly without anyone having done anything to make it so (no, I
> don't believe that). It's ac
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/7/17 Brian Chivers :
>
>> I'll explain I have a machine that I use to rsync stuff to with an external
>> firewire drive & I just
>> rebooted with it connected & / when from sda5 to sdb5 and the others map &
>> this cause
Could some just confirm that if I alter my /etc/fstab file on Debian (8.04) so
it doesn't have UUID
but uses /dev/sda1 etc that this is OK.
I'll explain I have a machine that I use to rsync stuff to with an external
firewire drive & I just
rebooted with it connected & / when from sda5 to sdb5
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/5/27 Brian Chivers :
>
>> I used the bon_csv2html2 script to generate some tables and combined them
>> into the page below. The
>> first two tables are from the same machine & the second is one of our main
>> servers which has a
Simon Capstick wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>> Simon Capstick wrote:
>>> Brian Chivers wrote:
>>>> I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together
>>>> with iSCSI on gigabit
>>>> ethernet. I'd like to te
Simon Capstick wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>> I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together with
>> iSCSI on gigabit
>> ethernet. I'd like to test the filesystem performance, the iSCSI target is
>> an OpenFiler box & the
>>
I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together with
iSCSI on gigabit
ethernet. I'd like to test the filesystem performance, the iSCSI target is an
OpenFiler box & the
client / initiator is a Centos 5.3 machine with the iSCSI mounted as ext3.
Has anyone got any recommen
Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Sun Apr 12, 2009 at 21:21:26 +0100, Brian Chivers wrote:
>
>
>> I'm starting to look at virtualisation but I know very little about it.
>> I've read a bit about Xen & KVM and have had several companies visit
>> College drumming
I'm starting to look at virtualisation but I know very little about it.
I've read a bit about Xen & KVM and have had several companies visit
College drumming on about VMWare (very expensive but nice features) & M$
HyperV(quite cheap for education). I would really like to stay open
source but I
John Cooper wrote:
> Hi, has anyone had trouble with the Perc4e/Di on board RAID controller
> where it will not create partitions on any Linux install? I'm not sure
> if it is a megaraid driver bug or controller bug. I'm installing on an
> old Dell Poweredge 2600 server. At the point it partitions
Rik wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:28 +, Gordon Scott wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I've just started setting up a home server on a nive little ITX box,
>> based upon Ubuntu-server Intrepid Ibex.
>>
>> But .. the setup might make sense for a server farm, but for a small
>> three/four machine ne
Rik wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:03 +, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Sorry - but if a newbie question - but do people have a favourite
>> drive imaging program?
>>
>> I'm looking for something to take an image of both my NASses (is that
>> how to spell the plural?!) which can happ
Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Anybody know anything about video senders? I want to watch my Sky+
> box in the study and I'm not prepared to pay for the multiroom
> package. I have a 40 quid video sender but that's never worked at
> all well - apparently cordless phones, baby monitors and
Vic wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I was chatting to a mate earlier today. He's a Windows admin that's just
> started learning about Linux.
>
> He's just spent quite a long (and painful) time getting a Linux box
> integrated with Active Directory. A big part of the problem is that there
> are so many sites w
Vic wrote:
>> So as you can see there is never any user input to worry too much about
>
> *Yet*.
>
> The trouble with knock-up applications is that they invariably creep; n
> years from now, there might well be a way for user-entered stuff to get
> into the SQL stream. That's when gnarly injecti
John Cooper wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>> I'm trying to insert the text below into a mysql table but it's complaining,
>> I think it's the '
>> that's causing the problem.
>
>> mysql_query(INSERT INTO stream (channel, starttime, title,
Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:02:14PM +0000, Brian Chivers wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to insert the text below into a mysql table but it's complaining,
>> I think it's the '
>> that's causing the problem.
>>
>> childre
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Chris Smith :
>> Brian Chivers wrote:
>>> mysql_query(INSERT INTO stream (channel, starttime, title,
>>> description, genre, filename) VALUES
>>> ('$channel','$starttime','$title','$description'
I'm trying to insert the text below into a mysql table but it's complaining, I
think it's the '
that's causing the problem.
childrens's/youth program (general)
The table is called stream and the field I'm trying to insert into is called
genre and it's a
varchar(200) collation utf_general_ci
Stephen Rowles wrote:
>> On Mon, January 26, 2009 15:48, Brian Chivers wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ?
>>>
>> Yep, I do it all the time, however...
>>
>>
>>> What I'd like to
Peter Salisbury wrote:
> 2009/1/26 Brian Chivers :
>
>> Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ? What I'd like to be
>> able to do is stream TV
>> shows that I've recorded in avi / xvid format to Windows workstations
>> connected to pr
Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ? What I'd like to be
able to do is stream TV
shows that I've recorded in avi / xvid format to Windows workstations connected
to projectors so
staff can view fullscreen what they've requested to be recorded.
I've looked @ VLC and have it so
Alan Bell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Every year in January 30,000 educational professionals huddle together
> to keep warm and look at technology in Olympia. We (The Open Learning
> Centre) will have a stand there this year in conjunction with Open Forum
> Europe, promoting the joys of Software Freedo
Our college has decided to buy 45 Acer Aspire ones and I wondered if anyone has
any advice on how to
clone them all once I have one setup how I'd like, hopefully not one at a time
:-)
I use Norton Ghost on our PC's but not sure if we could use this on the Aspires.
Any pointers gratefully recei
Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Pentium IV desktop PC from a recycle centre with an Asus
> P4S8X motherboard that is acting up. What happens is that after
> turning on, the POST completes and it starts loading the OS but then
> turns itself off after a few minutes.
>
> On boot up again
Chris Dennis wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>> Keith Edmunds wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:52:23 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>>
>>>
>>>> RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^([^/\\]+)?/?$'
>>>>
>
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:52:23 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>
>> RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^([^/\\]+)?/?$'
>>
>
> Sorry, I should have removed the backslash that was before the dot too:
>
> RewriteRule ^([^/]+)?/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:22:33 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>
>> RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]
>>
>
> Untested, but removing the first dot should do it:
>
> RewriteRule ^([^/\]+)?/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]
>
> The documentation for mo
Does anyone have any experience of using mod_rewrite and regexp ?
It's just that I have a piece of software I use in college that uses
mod_rewrite and I'm having problem with users with a dot / period in
there usernames.
The line that is causing the problem is this one
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?/
Tim wrote:
> Thought I would ask the knowledgable mailing list
>
> I have to get a music playing device (prefably CD\DVD) of some form that has
> a
> mono 3.5mm output socket so that I can hook it up to a phone system. The
> device must also have continuous play and be able to play MP3's
>
> Doe
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2008/11/4 Brian Chivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to use
>> and a video input card
>> (not sure if it linux compatible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) but
>> I&#x
patible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) but I'm
not sure what software
to use to do this.
Not worried about motion sensing just need a jpg or something every X minutes
Does anyone do this ? Any ideas or pointer where to start.
Thanks
Brian C
Has anyone done anything with php-ldap ??
I'm trying to write a php script that will return the users with there
gidNumber but what I have doesn't return the gidNumber.
I can post my script so far if it helps.
Thanks
Brian Chivers
Portsmou
Not sure if this is of interest to anyone :-)
http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/free/
The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily
the views of Portsmouth College
-
B STEVENS wrote:
> Thanks, Paul, the search brought up this interesting snippet...
>
> According to other users, there is a bug.
>
> The BIOS password "works" if the laptop is booted from cold but is
> somehow corrupted when brought out of hibernate.
>
> One user proved this by deliberately lettin
MSK wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion
>
> But I need to know more about it because I havent configure Openldap yet
> in my life.
>
> Please consider me as a newbee ..
>
> Regards,
> Manish
>
> --- On *Wed, 10/15/08, Chris Aitken /<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
> From: Ch
john lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:19:46 +0100
> Brian Chivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Have a look at the capacitors on the motherboard & make sure none of
>> them a bulging on top as this causes problems such as you've
>> descri
john lewis wrote:
> I know this sort of request has been done to death many times over the
> years but it seems I need a replacement motherboard and googling
> for ideas throws up too many competing options.
>
> So would like suggestions for a reasonably priced 64 bit system, I
> think I might as
john lewis wrote:
> My main system suddenly powered itself off yesterday whilst I
> was attempting to browse a website. It restarted again but would
> not stay on. I'd hear a click somewhere in the box and it would power
> off and immediately try to restart. The length of time it stayed
> powered u
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