what was the upshot of the legal case against the developer of Reiserfs?

2007-07-25 Thread dave
> Reiserfs - A good journelling f/s. Fast and stable. Dense data packing, Chis, I remember you and some others on list talking about his case has this been resolved? DID he kill his wife and lover (whatever the case was about?) Yes i could google but only just thought about this from reading

Re: what was the upshot of the legal case against the developer of Reiserfs?

2007-07-25 Thread Jim Cheetham
Nothing has been resolved yet. According to a recent Wired.com article( end of June, http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser), he is still in jail awaiting trail - but they implied it's starting in July. An odd article, and definately an odd case. Lots of circumstantial e

Re: what was the upshot of the legal case against the developer of Reiserfs?

2007-07-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/25/07, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reiserfs - A good journelling f/s. Fast and stable. Dense data packing, Chis, I remember you and some others on list talking about his case has this been resolved? DID he kill his wife and lover (whatever the case was about?) Goodness only know

Re: what was the upshot of the legal case against the developer of Reiserfs?

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
Jim Cheetham wrote: > Nothing has been resolved yet. According to a recent Wired.com > article( end of June, > http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser), he > is still in jail awaiting trail - but they implied it's starting in > July. > > An odd article, and definately an od

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:01, Phill Coxon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have 9Gig of bandwidth left for the month which ends midnight > tonight. > > Any recommendations on distributions or interesting open source ISOs to > download tonight? I had the thought - what about the RedHat clones? I've go

CFP: Systems Administration Mini-Conference at NZNOG 08

2007-07-25 Thread Simon Lyall
Call for Presentations for NZNOG 2008: Systems Administration Mini-Conference http://nznog.miniconf.org We will be holding a network systems administration mini-conference in Dunedin, New Zealand on Wednesday 2008-01-23, as part of the New

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:01, Phill Coxon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have 9Gig of bandwidth left for the month which ends midnight > tonight. > > Any recommendations on distributions or interesting open source ISOs to > download tonight? I had the thought - what about the RedHat clones? I've go

Ubuntu Server Question

2007-07-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings, I have been assigned the care of a small Ubuntu network. All the Linux machines are running Ubuntu Server - the Edgy Eft version, and hide behind an IPCop. Problem is that a newly installed machine allows access from all others, but no services from the outside world. Yes I have set /

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
I've got CentOS 3.8, 4.4 and 5.0 ( IIRC 5.0 in 64 bit too ), and am currently downloading Sabayon 3.4 x86 dvd if anyone's interested. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:26:58 +1200 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:01, Phill Coxon wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have 9Gi

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
Steve Holdoway wrote: I've got CentOS 3.8, 4.4 and 5.0 ( IIRC 5.0 in 64 bit too ), and am currently downloading Sabayon 3.4 x86 dvd if anyone's interested. Sabayon please (again). When was 3.4 released?

Re: Ubuntu Server Question

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings, I have been assigned the care of a small Ubuntu network. All the Linux machines are running Ubuntu Server - the Edgy Eft version, and hide behind an IPCop. Problem is that a newly installed machine allows access from all others, but no services from the outs

Re: Ubuntu Server Question

2007-07-25 Thread David Young
Hi Christopher, There's no "secret outside access" switch that I've ever come across, but here's a silly thought... have you set a default route on the new machine? -- Regards, David Young

Re: Ubuntu Server Question

2007-07-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/25/07, David Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Christopher, There's no "secret outside access" switch that I've ever come across, but here's a silly thought... have you set a default route on the new machine? That is a very good point, Thanks. I will check that out. -- Sincerely etc. Ch

Re: Ubuntu Server Question

2007-07-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/25/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been assigned the care of a small Ubuntu network. > All the Linux machines are running Ubuntu Server - the Edgy Eft > version, and hide behind an IPCop. Problem is that a newly installed > machine

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, July 26, 2007 7:23 am, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:00:18 +1200 > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +1200 >> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Steve Holdoway wrote: >> >> > Sabayon please (again). >> > >> > When was 3.4

Anyone know how to extract Teletext info via a MythTV box?

2007-07-25 Thread Brett Davidson
Seems like it should be possible... Brat. -- Brett Davidson Systems Engineer -- Net24 Limited Web: www.net24.co.nz Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 -- // web hosting / email hosting / data backup // our reputation for reliability precedes us This transmission is for the intended addr

Re: Anyone know how to extract Teletext info via a MythTV box?

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
What are you harvesting your TV signal from? Have you considered joining the mythtvnz mailing list? http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz On Thu, July 26, 2007 10:38 am, Brett Davidson wrote: > Seems like it should be possible... > > Brat. > > -- > Brett Davidson > Systems Enginee

Confused file system

2007-07-25 Thread Kerry Mayes
One of my music rippers has created a directory with the unfortunate file name of: The Platinum Collection (disc 1: Greatest Hits I) It is on a usb drive formatted as ntfs and this was most likely created while connected to my laptop. It is currently connected to a windows server. I can neither

Re: Confused file system

2007-07-25 Thread Zane Gilmore
From the command-line you should be able to wrap the name in quotes and have your way with it. Kerry Mayes wrote: One of my music rippers has created a directory with the unfortunate file name of: The Platinum Collection (disc 1: Greatest Hits I) It is on a usb drive formatted as ntfs and th

Backup question

2007-07-25 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi all, I am running MEPIS 6.5 with a KDE desktop. I am considering running Keep (the KDE backup thing) to do local time-series backups of my home directory (to guard against accidental deletions or edits) and then rsync to mirror everything from /home to an external USB drive periodically. T

Re: Confused file system

2007-07-25 Thread Jim Cheetham
You can't refer to the filename from Windows because of the colon (:), which is confused with the drive-letter-separator. Windows is obviously assuming that you have the normal "A:" "C:" and now "The Platinum Collection (disc 1:". Good on you, MS! You might be able to use wildcards from the comma

Re: Confused file system

2007-07-25 Thread Roger Searle
Is the issue with this folder only and a more simply named folder on the drive can be renamed etc? I ask because I am wondering if the issue is actually the permissions the server has imposed on the entire drive. Cheers, Roger Kerry Mayes wrote: One of my music rippers has created a director

Re: Backup question

2007-07-25 Thread Col
Nick Rout wrote: Col wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: Hi all, I am running MEPIS 6.5 with a KDE desktop. I am considering running Keep (the KDE backup thing) to do local time-series backups of my home directory (to guard against accidental deletions or edits) and then rsync to mirror everyth

Re: Confused file system

2007-07-25 Thread Kerry Mayes
None of these ideas are working from the linux box connecting the drive as a samba share. (And nothing worked from windows direct). I'll try taking it off the windows machine and connecting it directly to linux. K

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thursday 26 July 2007 9:27 am, Nick Rout wrote: > >> > When was 3.4 released? > >> > >> A couple of days ago... > > > > July 24th, to be exact. It'll not be ready until tomorrow... I've had to > > change mirrors ): > > No hurry. I wouldn't mind a copy too. The latest version looks worth a try.

Re: Backup question

2007-07-25 Thread Andrew Errington
> > One of the reasons for the backup MAY be to prevent the situation where > > a file is deleted by accident. Consider the scenario where you > > accidentally delete a file on your computer, and then the backup script > > runs. Suddenly the backup gets deleted too. > > Good point, I don't run the

Re: Backup question

2007-07-25 Thread Col
Andrew Errington wrote: Hi all, I am running MEPIS 6.5 with a KDE desktop. I am considering running Keep (the KDE backup thing) to do local time-series backups of my home directory (to guard against accidental deletions or edits) and then rsync to mirror everything from /home to an external

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:00:18 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +1200 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > Sabayon please (again). > > > > When was 3.4 released? > > > A couple of days ago... July 24th, to be exac

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > Sabayon please (again). > > When was 3.4 released? > A couple of days ago...

Re: Backup question

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
Col wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: Hi all, I am running MEPIS 6.5 with a KDE desktop. I am considering running Keep (the KDE backup thing) to do local time-series backups of my home directory (to guard against accidental deletions or edits) and then rsync to mirror everything from /home to