Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-28 Thread Stuart Sears
old mailx. Or mutt. :) well now that you mention it... in other news, I'm learning vim today. I quite like. You'll be learning it for years. Nearly every day I find something else I didn't know :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh

Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?

2014-04-28 Thread Stuart Sears
wiki on how to achieve it. Works Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] disk types and layout on a new box

2013-10-04 Thread Stuart Sears
, thereby requiring at least 4 drives paired into two pairs and then stripe between the two raid-1 devices? this is getting complicated! That's the normal way to do that, sometimes with more than 2 RAID 1 pairs. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh

Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

2013-10-04 Thread Stuart Sears
for writing to the one disc sequentially. Once again, no. In short, it's a completely flawed idea IMHO (of the Not So Humble variety :-p) no, not really, it's just different. Although I don't use it myself. -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please

Re: [Hampshire] Pay-as-you-go mobile data sim?

2013-02-27 Thread Stuart Sears
/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Jack Knight -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Pay-as-you-go mobile data sim?

2013-02-27 Thread Stuart Sears
/Definitive-Who-owns-Giffgaff-from-Companies-House-records/td-p/2770063 Martin N Running MorphOS v3.1 (July 2012) on a PowerPC Powerbook, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Pay-as-you-go mobile data sim?

2013-02-27 Thread Stuart Sears
it was wifi only (or are you tethering it through a phone?). It's an option on the 32Gb model, so I paid for it for use on the train. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Digital SLR recommendations

2013-02-18 Thread Stuart Sears
a few folk who are very happy with them. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] The future of Linux / career advice

2013-02-15 Thread Stuart Sears
forum arenas. Regards, Stuart ** this is not directed at anyone in particular, just to be clear and avoid misunderstandings :) -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] DVD Ripping

2012-05-01 Thread Stuart Sears
*buntu and Fedora (although they're in the repos for those too) so looking around, I found h264enc. This is a script that puts together a list of tools, mencoder, mplayer, faac, MP4Box etc in a way to get decent results. Seen that, it's okay. Handbrake still wins though :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears

Re: [Hampshire] DVD Ripping

2012-04-26 Thread Stuart Sears
also ogmrip, which I like as well and used to use when I was having issues with Handbrake (random segfaults a while back) Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Domain type authentication using Linux as domain server

2012-04-10 Thread Stuart Sears
to parse. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Domain type authentication using Linux as domain server

2012-04-08 Thread Stuart Sears
:) Just sayin'. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Gnome 3

2011-10-19 Thread Stuart Sears
On 19/10/11 15:51, john lewis wrote: [...] Ooops! I thought it was working but it aint! It works with file manager but not in any text editing I've tried, for example I still need to use Ctrl-Del in this mail app and in a terminal window. to delete text in a terminal? I certainly don't need

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging with setup.py...

2011-03-14 Thread Stuart Sears
is rpmbuild being run here? or are you attempting to run everything using setup.py? Where is the SPEC file that rpmbuild is using? All other incantations I've tried have failed horribly (usually with the GES.glade file ending up in completely the wrong plac). Errr - help? Vic. -- Stuart Sears RHCA

Re: [Hampshire] Any grep gurus here?

2011-03-06 Thread Stuart Sears
(bar' treats the ( as just another character. This is likely what you want here. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Foundation and Linux Certification Programs

2010-10-29 Thread Stuart Sears
, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Cron script problem

2010-10-05 Thread Stuart Sears
with all of it, it's mostly pretty good) Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] eReaders

2010-09-12 Thread Stuart Sears
android phone, like Jan. P.S. I already know about Calibre :-) well, there you go, then :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LTS server problems

2010-08-22 Thread Stuart Sears
/showthread.php?t=189555 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=191564highlight=vnc+gnome http://theseekersquill.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/vnc-server-ubuntu-windows/ http://www.ehow.com/how_5089245_install-vnc-server-ubuntu.html Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet

Re: [Hampshire] httpd default/catchall Virtual hosts

2010-02-21 Thread Stuart Sears
On 02/21/2010 02:53 PM, Stephen Davies wrote: Here's the scenario A number of Domains have been defined using DYNdns. They all point at one IP address. At that address is a Netgear Router that is configured to port forward all port 80 requests to the Linux Server where the http server is

Re: [Hampshire] unable to connect from one system to another using ssh

2010-02-17 Thread Stuart Sears
NAME konversat 3849 stuart 15u IPv4 220155 0t0 TCP x.x.x.x:38052-remote.host.name:vcom-tunnel (ESTABLISHED) ... Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Apache virtual hosts

2010-02-16 Thread Stuart Sears
them all to say VirtualHost *:60163 ServerName my.server.name DocumentRoot /path/to/data /VirtualHost and hopefully all should be well. Assuming that all your 'ServerName' hostnames resolve to your IP address. regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My

Re: [Hampshire] SPF Best Practice

2010-02-03 Thread Stuart Sears
. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Debian auto-mount scripting?

2010-02-01 Thread Stuart Sears
On 11:58 Mon 01 Feb , Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks What's the up-to-date way to run a script when a USB hard-drive is plugged in to a server running Debian 5.0 and a 2.6.26 kernel? Autofs/automount? udev? The technology seems to keep changing, and I don't know what's

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu ( Other) users beware

2009-11-12 Thread Stuart Sears
for that as well. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Hard disks and LVM

2009-11-03 Thread Stuart Sears
Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Hard disks and LVM

2009-11-03 Thread Stuart Sears
On 03/11/09 17:08, Stuart Sears wrote: [...] /dev on a modern Linux system is usually managed by udev and should not need copying. To check this: # grep /dev /etc/fstab aarrgh. or in fact don't. I have no idea where that came from. That's what you get for leaving the house at 0530! :) however

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-28 Thread STuart Sears
Samuel Penn wrote: [...] Several hosts, most of them virtual. If nothing else, there's also the learning opportunity since it's something I'd like to know how to do. I hear that. Been there and done it - do quite a lot of LDAP stuff these days as a result. However, I can't find any easy

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-26 Thread Stuart Sears
provide nice commandline tools for managing users and services. If you just want an easy-to-use LDAP directory, then... http://directory.fedoraproject.org Stuart ** :) -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-26 Thread Stuart Sears
On 27/10/09 00:00, Stuart Sears wrote: [...] note to self: read the whole thread first. :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-26 Thread Stuart Sears
they require java, but do work (IIRC) with openjdk now) Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] Xorg is hungry today...

2009-10-06 Thread Stuart Sears
and rpm -qp in the table. ** the answer may well affect whether I decide to bother :) -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] Xorg is hungry today...

2009-10-06 Thread Stuart Sears
that totally confused me when I first got to it? Never mind all the apt pinning stuff... :) -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Stuart Sears
) that I think anyone that knew anything about security could get in with no problem. Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Stuart Sears
enforce TLS for incoming connections. -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Kernel compilation

2009-09-18 Thread Stuart Sears
with a kernel RPM not just a binary an modules, which can be easily installed and removed, creating the initrd where appropriate) Kind Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-18 Thread Stuart Sears
, so the most appropriate patches (and .config options) are likely to be applied. Also the installation and removal scripts will match those of the vendor-provided existing kernels Horses for courses etc etc :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh

Re: [Hampshire] RHCE / RHCT

2009-09-18 Thread Stuart Sears
/prep_guide/ There are no official practice tests or exam guides beyond the above. Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL

Re: [Hampshire] RHCE / RHCT

2009-09-18 Thread Stuart Sears
On 18/09/09 15:27, Stuart Sears wrote: On 18/09/09 15:04, 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

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-18 Thread Stuart Sears
be. As long as you get the configuration correct for your system. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

2009-09-15 Thread Stuart Sears
only the first 'title' or 'artist' field, though. (AFAIR) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http

Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

2009-09-07 Thread Stuart Sears
On 07/09/09 19:05, Leo wrote: Unfortunately I've tried both exfalso and easytag and neither of them is really good enough for me. What do you need/want a tag editor to do that they don't? Are you comparing these to an editor you've used in the past? How about picard? Stuart -- Stuart Sears

Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

2009-09-06 Thread Stuart Sears
to make multiple changes. It just seems easier. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] alternatives to acroread

2009-07-01 Thread Stuart Sears
On 01/07/09 12:02, john lewis wrote: are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and kpdf evince? it's the default GNOME pdf (and ps) reader Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] alternatives to acroread

2009-07-01 Thread Stuart Sears
can be there if they must. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Stuart Sears
-j /dev/md0 I think you may have become slightly confused with the mdadm --assemble commands in that howto. man md / man mdadm are both pretty good at explaining how some of this works. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Stuart Sears
not do this at the same time as having /dev/md0 mounted, if I were you :) (well, not mounted rw, anyway) Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] SECURE NFS ROOT ?

2009-03-05 Thread Stuart Sears
-- Stuart Sears RHC* It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-25 Thread Stuart Sears
at the ready. :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. It's today! said Piglet. My favourite day, said Pooh. -- 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] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-18 Thread Stuart Sears
Stephen Rowles wrote: [stuff about HDMI] Does anyone know of any video / sound card pairs that fit the bill, and most importantly actually work on Linux! not exactly what you asked for, but I couldn't avoid mentioning this: http://beagleboard.org/ there are some amazingly cool videos of it