On Sat Aug 01, 2009 at 17:53:09 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> "Mass generalisations are always wrong".
Everybody generalises from one example, I know I do...
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On Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 12:58:34 +0100, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> The userland part of KVM is mostly Qemu which is pretty mature already
> so I'd say that while KVM is very new, it has grown up quickly and it's
> still moving forward. I get the feeling that Xen is losing ground and
> going out of
On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 17:34:48 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> I'm wondering if it might be a faulty PSU?
I think its a tie between PSU and overheating.
> It behaves the same regardless of which kernel I select so I don't think
> it is related to any updates, typical to get a hardware failure
On Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 12:09:23 +0100, Leo wrote:
> options, as I see it, are:
> 1. Mount the disk directly in /home/me/Music.
> 2. Mount the disk in /mnt/Music and link /home/me/Music to it.
> 3. Mount the disk in /mnt/Music and bind /home/me/Music to it.
>
> Is there a standard/prefered way of d
On Mon May 18, 2009 at 19:08:07 +0100, Daniel Pope wrote:
> > Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;)
>
> I use killall. What's the difference?
On Solaris "pkill" does what you want, if it is available.
On Solaris "killall" kills *all* processes.
That's the kind of mista
On Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 13:20:24 +0100, jt wrote:
> I have not said that! You wont understand but a lot of the time
> employers are looking to recruit people who aren't specifically trawling
> job boards or job lists.
i.e. They're looking for people that are competent and most of those
are alr
On Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 11:09:19 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> > System | Preferences | Removable Drives & Media
> Cheers Steve, that makes perfect sense only there is no entry for
> Removable Drives and Media under 'System - Preferences' on my machine.
Very odd. I'm using a stock Lenny des
On Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 10:49:32 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> The obvious answer would appear to be 'System - Preferences - Preferred
> Applications', but that only displays a limited subset of applications
> and no obvious means to create your own custom rules.
So very close ..
Take a look a
On Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:35:09 +0100, Leo wrote:
> I've got a domain registered (call it, mydomain.org.uk) with an email
> address set up on it (say, em...@mydomain.org.uk). I recently received
> an email addressed to an...@mydomain.somecompany.cn. However, in the
> header of the email it said:
>
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 on about VMWare (very expensive but nice features) & M$
> HyperV(quite che
On Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 12:54:04 +0100, j...@camalyn.org wrote:
> hi, as I have not yet managed to find someone for the job also shown
> below I'm consequently re-posting.
I think there comes a point when you either admit defeat, or
find other places to post.
I think posting job adverts
On Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 20:59:29 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> Or use a different tool.
> rtorrent *.torrent
>
> will open one copy of rtorrent rather than having multiple copies of a
> bittorrent client running
Indeed. My rtorrent installation is configured to auto-start
any .torrent file it fin
On Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 20:37:57 +, AdamC wrote:
> Can anyone think of a reason why when cron executes a script many more
> programs start (at least over 5), but when I run the script from a
> shell, I get the correct amount of programs running that I am
> expecting?
1. Cron runs.
1a. C
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 19:49:05 +, Phillip Chandler wrote:
> A) - Being morbid. When your gone, your families going to be worrying
> about other stuff. Some of you have mentioned that your wifes arnt
> technical. So my thinking is would they just give the machines away ?
> Rather than have the
On Sun Feb 01, 2009 at 07:30:41 +, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Are there any other ways?
My low-tech solution is to find new artists I like, write down their
names and spend a few hours hunting for them for sale second hand
in the local used music stores.
Not sure what things are lik
On Tue Jan 27, 2009 at 19:06:39 -, Vic wrote:
> > SpinRite selectively disables and enables a drive's
> > read caching, write caching, read-ahead buffering, on-the-fly sector
> > relocation, on-the-fly error correction, dynamic servo thermal
> > re-equalization, early and late ECC error correc
On Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 10:37:25 +, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> I don't mind (I don't normally make changes from work) I'm just
> curious how 204.193.45.69 tripped it, can you check the logs?
The IP wasn't the source, the content of your page tripped the
bayasian filter. I've seeded your
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 be very
interested in hearing how it works out.
Mostly it will d
On Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 15:53:56 +, piskie wrote:
> in a word - no, but I'm a forestpixie on the buntu forums -
> so it kind of fits :)
This is why it is so much nicer when people use real names
or make an introduction that actually introduces themselves.
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On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 21:44:00 +, David Ramsden wrote:
> Unfortunately the forum software doesn't have the ability to specify a
> "dedicated image host" (out of the box). It'll use the main website URL
> for images.
Then I guess ignore that suggestion then.
> But could mod_rewrite help he
On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 16:43:18 +, David Ramsden wrote:
> Using squid as opposed to something like APC sounds like a better idea.
:)
> The website administrator has just turned off images within signatures
> and the performance has increased significantly. So the ability to cache
> imag
On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 15:35:08 +, David Ramsden wrote:
> I'm also looking in to implementing a PHP caching system like APC.
Might be less-effort to put squid in front of Apache...
Also look at avoiding use of .htaccess files, disabling DNS
lookups for logging, and similar things.
Stev
On Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 14:45:36 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 02:06:29PM +, john wrote:
> > I got my email address in 1994. I would like to keep it.
>
> I would urge you to reconsider this, assuming you're talking about
> the Freeserve one. You're always going to be limi
On Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 14:38:08 -, Graeme Hilton wrote:
> Good suggestion, but will it connect to a virtual console - not an X session?
Ahh, no. But you can get that via "conspy".
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On Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 09:55:04 +, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely?
>
> Not this time, but next time run the command under screen(1). That allows
> you to detach the job and re-attach to it later: very useful in exactly
> the cir
On Sat Nov 22, 2008 at 12:03:33 +, pavithran wrote:
>I am planning to buy a eee pc.
>I would like to know about the compatibility of eee pc especially the 901
>series in GNU /Linux distributions.
I bought one on Thursday. It arrived today. It is currently
running Debian GNU/L
On Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 07:55:00 +, Jon Wilks wrote:
> Anyone made a recent purchase and have been happy with the value and
> service ?
The past couple of times I've needed a new PC I've gone to
http://www.novatech.co.uk/
They sell "bare bundles" which are just a case, a motherboard,
On Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 13:31:30 +0100, Phillip Chandler wrote:
> One story I heard regarding the firefox arguement, was that debian was
> doing patches for ff and sending them to mozilla. But mozilla was
> putting these patches on the back burner, and making their own patches
> priority, and that
On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 23:41:01 +0100, Becky Taylor wrote:
> As the title may suggest, I have - It left a big greasy mark on my
> laptop screen. I'm ashamed to say my keyboard is filled with biscuit
> crumbs as well... :-o
Could be worse. I'm an evil smoker, so my keyboards tend to get
ash
On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 16:17:37 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> I want to see the whole thing. Are you going to document the build?
Once it is complete I'll probably put something together on my site:
http://www.steve.org.uk/docs/steam/
I've got images of a couple of bits at the moment, b
On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 16:07:36 +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> OK, you've got me: what do you use to make the cylinder?
Wood too. My design is a little more complex, but very similar to
this one:
http://www.keveney.com/watt.html
So the cylinder will, mostly, be a block of wood with c
On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 13:49:10 +0100, Wayne Lee wrote:
> > At one point I was using a steam engine to open my curtains, but
> > more for novelty than for practicality.
>
> Some people have far too much spare time.
I was challenged to demonstrate that my collection of engines
were useful in
On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 13:05:28 +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
> But is' OK, we will run out of electricity soon anyway and we will be
> back to steam power and candles. ;)
I'm already prepared, with a few steam engines in my house.
At one point I was using a steam engine to open my curtains,
On Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 20:13:31 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> As a replacement for something like bash, I think perl is a great thing.
Agreed.
> However for applications I hate perl! It is far to easy to write perl code
> that is impossible to read, and some of those magic perl tricks can mak
On Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 03:57:42 +0100, Damian Brasher wrote:
> Llama is a must read though, now one of my favorite tech books of
> all time, Schwart, Pheonix & foy actually managed to make me laugh a
> few times just at the right time:) not sure who the funny one of the three is.
Good book yes.
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 18:48:15 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> First I couldn't reload/update - on either, saying that the repositories were
> inaccessible. So of course I couldn't load any software.
Please show us what you tried, and what error you received.
apt-get should be simplest, if you run:
On Fri Oct 10, 2008 at 15:51:40 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> There are also two other files identified as suspect. One as a named Trojan
> and the other being the Linux.Lion.
A virus, or worm, doesn't start running by magic. So if you see
a file that is not an executable which is infected you can e
A pagefile isn't an executable program. So there's no need to
try to "clean" it.
Just ignore it as a false positive. If you're not 100% sure what
you're doing when you mess around with writing to an NTFS volume
corruption is the most likely result.
Steve
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On Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 23:55:31 +0100, Vic wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo "knickers" >> /bin/ls
> bash: /bin/ls: Permission denied
>
> Oh look. No way to start modifying stuff like that.
Indeed. Of course many people have compiled binaries, or otherwise
writable things in ~/bin.
And
On Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 23:41:41 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> What leads you to think it's a _recent_ threat? All reports I can find
> indicate it's very old and well patched.
"patched" ?
It is viral code, that attaches itself to a binary. If you download
a random Linux pre-compiled binary fro
On Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 19:37:44 +0100, Tim wrote:
> How can I tell what the colour depth (16, 24, 32 bit etc.) I am using. I know
> I can look at xorg.conf but how do I know it is using what I tell it to use??
xdpyinfo will tell you that, and much much more.
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On Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:36:20 +0100, Stuart Matheson wrote:
>Can you de-activate the bathroom light at all or is it hardwired to the
>sensor?
The model I chose[0] is basically always on. The drawback there
is that if I need to change the bulbs I will need to cut the power at
the fus
On Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:23:26 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> I have always fancied the idea of a house with webcams and floor
> pressure sensors so that it turns on the lights for you as you're
> going up stairs and then turns them off again.
I've recently rewired a couple of lights in my h
On Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 22:17:31 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> But it's nice to see the ranks of females grow...
I'm actually more curious about the relative age spread amongst the
LUG members.
That kind of information isn't to be found written down anywhere I've
seen, although I do recall another y
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