Re: recommendation for lightweight forums software?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
screen again, and you've got what I'm looking at.. On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:39 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: phpbb3 is fine, or phpbb2 with some text entering stuff added. I'm sure I'll get flamed, but both of the above ork fine on e the 4 forums ( fora? ) I run or look after

Re: OT: web hosting recommendations?

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:58:23 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:26:33 +1300 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy should also tell us what he's doing and what he wants. There are ppl here who would anti up some space

Re: == Extra CLUG talk by Mike Culver Mon. 18 Feb 2008 ==

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:52:41 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apart from Nick, Barry, ;and me, I really have no idea. Don't forget to ask about this weekends outage on s3 (: -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommendation for lightweight forums software?

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
in a quick google were distinctly bloat-ware in the user interface department. Cheers, Me. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommendation for lightweight forums software?

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:39:33 +1300 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: phpbb3 is fine, or phpbb2 with some text entering stuff added. I'm sure I'll get flamed, but both of the above ork fine on e the 4 forums ( fora? ) I run or look after. Steve they work fine too, as opposed to my

Re: OT: web hosting recommendations?

2008-02-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
the case, then it may well pay to be in the US. We are in Asia after all, and that's where all the spam comes from. Unfortunately, a lot of US businesses think that way, which is why all our servers are in New Jersey. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IPTABLES brain fade... help!

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
in out source destination 0 0 ACCEPT 0-- * * 127.0.0.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:22 state ESTABLISHED -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPTABLES brain fade... help!

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
need the OUTPUT stuff, as I will be limiting both services and servers that the users can use ): Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel panic - not syncing

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
showing me any full partitions. Any pointers gratefully received! Roger -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How did last night's meeting go?

2008-02-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:00:30 +1300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:50:07 +1300, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia gave us an entertaining and interesting account of the tribulations of a non-technical person moving from a Microsoft Office

Re: Linux and BSD distros at St Albans NN

2008-02-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
No problem. In the office until about 5. On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:32:43 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could I pick them up late tomorrow afternoon? On 2/5/08, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which reminds me... I've got a copy of CentOS 5.1 for i386 and x86_64

Re: 4T of disk in a RAID...

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
memory. And a dedicated 8 port gigabit switch for about $100. And a 1500VA UPS for about $1000. That's one hell of a mythtv back end you're building there (: -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4T of disk in a RAID... What's ya gona do wif it Don?!

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
+MB images mentioned elsewhere in this thread will take less than a couple of seconds at worst to load. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4T of disk in a RAID... What's ya gona do wif it Don?!

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:16:29 +1300 Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though I thought new disks were reading at about 3Gbit/s these days? No, that's the theoretical max speed of the SATA II bus. Disks haven't changed tha much in the last few years... -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: incremental folder naming

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
to you can find the last backup easily . The disadvantage to this is that you need to manage the backups in some way, otherwise they'll eventually fill the disk. If that's a problem, look at the logrotate scheme, and how it's done there. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb headset...

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
??? As for monitoring, the FBI do it ok, don't they??? Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and BSD distros at St Albans NN

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
Which reminds me... I've got a copy of CentOS 5.1 for i386 and x86_64 sitting on my desk... On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:58:37 +1300 (NZDT) Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the distros as of today (all the books in the book section are freely redistributble - some are from Bruce

Re: various, but the transition to X.org is at the bottom of this

2008-02-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
of links to different hardware. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem/wifi router suggestions

2008-01-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
They're all linux friendly! Personally, I use a d-link DSL-G604T ( gen II - which won't load openwrt ): ). I load the latest firmware from dlink. This is extremely important if you're using one of the free ones from telecom, as they cripple it with their own firmware ( so, if you get a cheap

Re: modem/wifi router suggestions

2008-01-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
The tp-link needs to be set up to get an IP address via dhcp from your rta230. That way, all your internet routing will be set up correctly. If there's a dedicated uplink port on the back of the wireless router, then plug it into the adsl router. Then set up your wireless router to either

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Steve Holdoway
sudo vigr sudo chgrp -R groupname /home/roger Steve On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:43:56 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, user IDs are the same, group IDs are not. Can the ID numbers be changed? I've not yet located anything on how to do so - therefore the answer may be no or why

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
Have you tried logging out, then logging back in again, rather than rebooting??? That might help. Steve On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:15:35 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes that's what I do. no alterations made in here stick . . . Nick Rout wrote: Works fine here. How are

Re: Touchscreen monitors

2008-01-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
to acquire some (~10 for the first batch) for some kiosks we're building. The proof-of-concept one apparently only had MSWin drivers, but for production models I'd (obviously!) much prefer a Linux solution. Thanks, Roy. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sun Buys MySQL...

2008-01-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing Interesting, seeing as Oracle have bought BerkeleyDB and Innodb... wonder what's going to happen on the database front? Massive new interest in postgres I hope! Steve pgpVr8XtzjYso.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT - HP priners

2008-01-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
What's the price on a 2600n? THat's supported through cups, too... On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:15:18 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No but they do for the Color Laserjet 2605 is supported, and according to pricespy its not much more. On Wed, January 16, 2008 9:21 am, barry

Re: Hard drive recorder vs myth-tv

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:02:09 +1300 Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking about getting a hard drive recorder to record stuff on TV. But I wanted to get some feedback from the resident mythtv experts on whether it would be better to build a MythTV media box instead.

Re: OT - HP priners

2008-01-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
PCL is well supported in linux, and they network easily, either directly, or though cups and a usb connection. Many of the printers also support PS which gives you a choice! I've still got a LJ4+ working fine. Makes the office smell a bit though... Steve On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:24:08 +1300

Slightly OT: any openwrties out there???

2008-01-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
to the latest NZ supported firmware ( 20071120 ) but still can't access the ADAM2 ftp server. Any hints??? Cheers and happy new year, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: SAP / product v solution was:Re: Anyone else use TelstraClear for broadband internet access

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Holdoway
and work out what's really happening just makes it worse (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wiki Software

2007-12-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
? Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wiki Software

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Holdoway
in both terms of CPU/memory/disk and time are not unlimited ... If CLUG wanted to set something else up, then CLUG might have to exist. http://clug.net.nz/index.php/ThereIsNoCLUG -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: distros and laptops

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:38:45 +1300 Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to keep things on topic I've had good results with ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 on recent dell and toshiba laptop hardware, although the internal pots modems were winmodems of some sort and didn't play ball... My old tosh

usb wireless...

2007-12-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
the least. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

For all you squirrelmail users out there...

2007-12-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
...it seems the site's been compromised for some time, and a new release has been forced. More info on squirrelmail.org - just check them md5sums... Steve pgptJuNvMekml.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What the... home educational software at $6,000 a throw?

2007-12-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:13:28 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Please note very well that I'm not justifying or condoning the alleged actions of the vendor's agents in the particular situation reported by Stuff, or the acions of any other hawker or tinker. --

Re: Apache. Was: Re: Wiki Software

2007-12-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
] wrote: What did apache do to annoy everyone? Or are we severly skimping on hardware spec? Apache is annoying in the same way that BIND is annoying -- it's a general-purpose tool that shows bloat when being used for a small single purpose task. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache. Was: Re: Wiki Software

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Me too. The only problems I've ever had with it have been self inflicted (: Steve On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:28:31 +1300 Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did apache do to annoy everyone? Or are we severly skimping on hardware spec? On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 00:55 +1300, Christopher

Re: Apache. Was: Re: Wiki Software

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
not your typical linux user (: Steve On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:06:14 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever checked out lightspeed or lightttpd? Apache is somewhat bloated these days. Brett. Steve Holdoway wrote: Me too. The only problems I've ever had with it have been self

Re: Wiki Software

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:23:01 +1300 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 11, 2007 3:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just wondering if it would be a sensible replacement for our wiki? I guess it depends on what it is that you want to replace about the wiki :-)

Re: ubuntu trivia....

2007-12-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba permissions

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
What does testparm ( on the server ) tell you about this share? You can override access permissions and file ownerships in your samba config... Steve On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:23:42 +1300 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm having a problem with samba permissions from my linux

Re: font rendering

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
Having seen the damage that automatix can do to any sane package management system, I wouldn't really recommend it any more. A good idea ruined by developers more used to Micrisift IMO... Steve On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:30:01 +1300 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have had a similar problem with

Re: Attachment The Linux/Unix Distro Archive Additions.

2007-12-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attachment The Linux/Unix Distro Archive Additions.

2007-12-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
I've certainly got a firewire card, and I *think* I've got an usb card lying around. Any use?? On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:07:38 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am happy to get the CentOS ISOs over the next week or so, I should

any procmail gurus out there???

2007-12-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'm trying to make a copy of an email and send it to a mail server that's running on a non-standard port ( well, it's not, but the firewall redirects from a non-standard port... ), but I can't find any documentation on what to put in the .procmailrc. So far, I've got to :0c ! [EMAIL

Re: xorg.conf file error

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:33:21 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:53:02 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:57:43 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: xorg.conf file error

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
901 904 932 -HSync +VSync -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell script error

2007-11-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
You running it from cron? If so, there's no search path worth talking about. You can either configure an useable $PATH in the script, or use the full pathname of each command instead. Steve On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:39:42 +1300 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following shell script is

Wiki down???

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
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Re: simulating a slow internet connection

2007-11-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
downloading 500MB, burning a cd and figuring how to use it. I'm sure it'd be worth the effort one day. For now, I just need to easily simulate someone on dialup accessing the site I'm working on. I'm running ubuntu 7.04. Cheers Matt -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Somewhat OT - OS-less Boxen... maybe less OT?

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
it and burn in to CD for the resource centre. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Steve Holdoway wrote: Maybe there's an opportunity here to extend the services offered by the St. Albans gang??? I know there's a games-centric version of Fedora 8 just come out ( sorry, couldn't get away

Re: OT: Paradise.net shooting itself in the foot

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
, but spf seems to be the most popular atm. Just my $0.02, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Paradise.net shooting itself in the foot

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:53:52 +1300 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 10:52 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All headers bar the last one can be extremely simply faked, so they are pretty useless to use to identify the email's provenance. Because

Re: OT: Paradise.net shooting itself in the foot

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:11:43 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, November 21, 2007 9:53 am, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 10:52 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All headers bar the last one can be extremely simply faked, so they are pretty useless

Re: Somewhat OT - OS-less Boxen... maybe less OT?

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
Well, your empty machines + their library of available distros = linux workstations ready for christmas?? On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:01:10 +1300 Edwin Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kinda thing do you have in mind? Edwin On Nov 20, 2007 4:24 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Wiki spammed....

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
... as per subject ): Steve pgpy6sLeYLgsX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wiki spammed....

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:49:05 +1300 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2007 1:46 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... as per subject ): And you couldn't revert it? 1. following your requests on the home page 2. I don't speak wiki pgpclf9SuQUtT.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Somewhat OT - OS-less Boxen... maybe less OT?

2007-11-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
, too, so those can be had providing it is being picked up or the extra shipping is paid (for... uh... across town) These I can supply for ~$200 each, give or take. == blatant plug time ends == Thoughts? Cheers, Edwin. -- Nick Rout -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL

strange reported stuff in /proc/cpuinfo.

2007-11-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 1024 KB Any idea why I'm seeing this - it's 64 bit gutsy if it makes a difference? There's nothing to tweak in the BIOS ): Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange reported stuff in /proc/cpuinfo.

2007-11-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
: 3 cpu MHz : 2800.000 cache size : 1024 KB which is more like it! Think you're right about the core as well. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monthly email ...

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:10:38 +1300 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 10:50 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Removal of the 5 error lines at the base of every page. I've upgraded phpwiki to 1.3.14, which correctly fixes the errors by fixing the code

Re: === Meeting Tuesday 13 November 2007 - That's Tomorrow! ===

2007-11-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
Yes. Use port forwarding! On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:13:24 +1300 Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: I do talk about reverse proxying but won't go into it much unless people want this on the night). I've set up reverse proxying to publish a server behind my fw.

Re: Meta - Spam vs Ham in Job postings on Cantlug?

2007-11-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
It doesn't happen for the Canterbury Software Cluster, even though an HR consultant tried it for a while, he gave up years ago. I don't really think there is enough local work out there for it to ever become a problem ): Steve On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:59:24 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL

Re: Monthly email ...

2007-11-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:02:38 +1300 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything else? :-) -jim 1. Removal of the 5 error lines at the base of every page. 2. Either a) removal of dns wildcarding for the clug.*.nz domains or b) honouring said wildcarding at the web server. 3. Note that

Re: === Meeting Tuesday 13 November 2007 - That's Tomorrow! ===

2007-11-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:10:20 +1300 Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Port forwarding won't help. I'm publishing content from more than one machine. Cheers Don If you're using apache, then look at mod_proxy.

Re: Hotswapping internal hard drives - need RAID drives?

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:01:13 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well lets put it this way: if you rip the drive off the computer while writing to it and without unmounting it first, you *will* be cursing regardless of whether it's USB or SATA, or Linux or Doze. Hint KDE:

Re: OT: DLT IV drive cleaning tape

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:52:36 +1300 (NZDT) Criggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I'm on the scrounge for a DLT IV cleaning tape. New or partially used is fine. A DLT III tape would work too. I don't want to buy one in case this tape drive is dead... they're $120+ each. Vaguely on

Re: vmware-server installation - missing libraries?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:43:33 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I will follow the path of finding out why Automatix doesn't work and see if I have better luck... NO!!! Automatix looked like a really good idea, but it was written by microsofties by the look of it. Totally

Re: vmware-server installation - missing libraries?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:08:57 +1300 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO! don't try apt-get install vmware-server under gutsy! It's not in the repo yet. And the ONLY dependencies are build-essential and xinetd. Kerry. On 06/11/2007, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue

Re: vmware-server installation - missing libraries?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:55:41 +1300 Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2007-11-06T20:47:56+1300, Roger Searle wrote: missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware: libm.so.6 = /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7f84000) i386 binary and library. [EMAIL

Re: vmware-server installation - missing libraries?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:16:16 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, November 7, 2007 6:10 am, Roger Searle wrote: The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server may be missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware:

Re: External Hard Drives and Linux

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
Note that external sata is now becoming more common. Although I've never tried it, I can see no reason why hot plugging a sata disk shouldn't work fine. Steve On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:45:13 +1300 (NZDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am looking to purchase an external hard drive to keep family

Re: External Hard Drives and Linux

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
... although I'd say that the lappie powered usb based drives win hands down on ease of use as ther require no external power supply. Steve On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:07:09 +1300 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that external sata is now becoming more common. Although I've never

Re: Hotswapping internal hard drives - need RAID drives?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:24:12 +1300 Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought one of these nifty hot swappable esata drive bays: http://icute.com.tw/english/iSwap201.htm I want to use it for off site backups i.e.: backup to the drive, pop it out to take off site and replace with

Re: Small / low power Linux device/PC

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
http://www.soekris.com - 1 ext serial + internal serial header on most. CF+IDE on most, SATA available on the latest. http://www.pcengines.ch - I was going to suggest the wrap boards, but I see they're EOL. Steve On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:18:44 +1300 (NZDT) Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Small / low power Linux device/PC

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:06:59 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did my message from this morning not make it to the list? It did, I thought I'd back you up :) Plus the question was for people with experience to speak up. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann

Re: Help: weird conflict problem with DHCP assigned IP addresses and Samba

2007-10-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
You didn't start dhcp on your pc as part of the upgrade did you... so you've now got multiple dhcp servers have you, or has ubuntu decided to use another subnet? On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:43:46 +1300 Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a strange problem since I upgraded from Ubuntu

Re: Is this the list?

2007-10-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
Well, I offered, and it's still sitting on my desk, waiting for someone to pick it up (: Steve. On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:07:23 +1300 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, could someone tell me what has happened with the DVD burner that CLUG was going to buy for Caledonian, the Linux

Re: boot partition full

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:04:43 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a newish suse 10.3 box acting as a file server that I ssh into to check for data backups each morning. Yesterday it was extremely slow to accept the password (maybe 2 minutes) and I then see that the boot

Re: boot partition full

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
If you're running logrotate, you could add it in... On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:45:54 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. Turns out that /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the errant file, 8 gig full mostly of the following line: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

Re: K/Ubuntu desktop ISO Gusty gibon iso download

2007-10-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=gutsy.iso bs=1M test with mount -o loop /gutsy.iso /mnt is pretty quick and reliable. Steve. On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:01:32 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, October 21, 2007 11:46 am, Phill Coxon wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:37 +1300, dave

Re:

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:25:23 +1300 You hope! Remember the last release??? (: Terribly sorry, but your cynicism didn't seem to apply this time around. See:- http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell Sorry, all those years working at British

Re:

2007-10-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:35:49 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: It's actually several list members. I have very gratefully received many gigabytes on DVDs and CDs from several traffic volume donors. All I have done is a bit of talking, a lot of

Re: How to get a report of reserved blocks?

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
Blocks are reserved to replace ones that go bad. They are also available as an overflow for any process with root privileges. On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:26:57 +1300 Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any one provide a link to a good explination of this reserved blocks issue? Why do you

Re: Virtulization question.

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:49:57 +1300 Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 22:47 +1300, Kerry Mayes wrote: vmware server is also free and a better choice than player for most applications. I use it quite extensively for windows (all with valid licences!) on ubuntu

Re: How to get a report of reserved blocks?

2007-10-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:39:20 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how to set the percentage of reseved blocks on an ext3 oartition with tune2fs -m, but how do I find out what the current number of reserved bocks is? tune2fs -l And is it safe to do tune2fs -m on a disk that

Re: tune2fs and raid1

2007-10-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
Yes. The filesystem is built on the disk partition, which is where the raid bit comes in. Steve On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:21:15 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a couple of drives set up as raid1 via software raid with /, /boot and /home partitions. Before I potentially

Re: How to rename a user

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
Just a couple of suggestions... The name of the owner/group is only a lookup in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and is for your reference, not that of the system ( except for any scripts that may have been written ), which talks numbers ( UID and GID ), so all you really need to do is update those

Re: (OT) Which way does she spin?

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
So, I'm not most people (: On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:52:45 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first went to the page she was stubbonly stationary, and I waited a few moments to no avail. My gaze was distracted by a story about this fellow being given bottles - note the

Just testing...

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
... as I've received an 'unable to deliver to list' notification. Any problems??? Steve

Re: Trouble booting Fedora

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
I have, but only 64 bit. I think I gave you a copy?? Steve On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:54:11 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Davin Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I purchased a copy of Fedora from the CLUG meeting last Tuesday but it hanged for 12 hours with the

Re: Pre-Order Official Gutsy CDs Now

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
I buy the cheapest I can get, and cane them on linux/K3B. You know what, none have failed, and I really didn't expect that. Must've used 50 in the last 12 months, zero failures even in my old shuttle box, which is toasty warm all the time. Haven't read any reports, good or bad, but they do come

Re: Trouble booting Fedora

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:33:49 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you did, I wonder if it will be suitable for Davin? Hmm... probably not. I had terrible problems with FC7 istr, and ended up installing from a Live CD. Feisty works ok in this old Athlon XP2400 I'm typing from.

Re: Trouble booting Fedora

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Can you give a quick overview of your hardware? Cheers, Steve BTW: FC8's out pretty soon On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:25:40 +1300 Davin Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I purchased a copy of Fedora from the CLUG meeting last Tuesday but it hanged for 12 hours with the same message: Making post

Re: Linux for OOLLLLLDD PCs

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
ipcop? On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:06 +1300 Aidan Gauland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a very very very old PC--I'm serious, this thing only has about 64 MB of RAM, and a 100 MHz Pentium CPU, and a BIOS that can only boot from a hard drive or a floppy drive--which I have

Re: Linux for OOLLLLLDD PCs

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'd perform a text-based install first... On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:16 +1300 Chevhq Car [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems like the wrong distro to me, as there would not be enough ram to suport the ramdrive. Use the option to install to the hard drive with no acpi, and video set to vga, and see

Re: Linux for OOLLLLLDD PCs

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
My soekris board has much less than that and it runs voyage linux ok... stock(ish) debian kernel. Steve On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:16 +1300 Chevhq Car [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems like the wrong distro to me, as there would not be enough ram to suport the ramdrive. Use the option to

Re: Trouble booting Fedora

2007-10-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Maybe a copy of cygwin would help?? On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:16:23 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I dropped down there one lunchtime with the ISO's, how would I get them on? Can the Windows software make ISO's from the CD's or do I need to bring down these ISO's on a USB

Re: Pre-Order Official Gutsy CDs Now

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:02:25 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, October 11, 2007 1:28 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: windows handles ext2/3 with the addition of a simple and free driver. By the same token, Linux can handle NTFS using the ntfs-3g system. The

Re: trouble w/ mySql

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
Err... there shouldn't be one. Can you set it using mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' or does this ask for a password? Steve On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:32:28 +1300 Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using SuSe 10.1 at work, and it comes with mySql installed and running.

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