[Scottish] Re: Large Linux environments

2008-04-13 Thread Craig Perry
Hi Rob, > how companies manage > large numbers of Linux servers (500-700 machines). Badly?! :-) Just jesting! > What distros do > data-centers use There was a time when it was unequivocally redhat. These days i don't think it'd be fair to say that; the playing field has opened up slightly (f

RE: [Scottish] Network notwork

2006-01-31 Thread Craig Perry
Hey, I saw something similar a while back, it was caused by loss of packets through a router at the far end of an LFN. Basically losing like 2% of packets, equated to a drop of 50%-60% in throughput which i thought was rather insane but hey... It was reasonably similar symptoms in that there wer

RE: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3

2006-01-13 Thread Craig Perry
Hi Rob, Could you do the following: 1. Insert the USB pen drive, then remove it after 5 seconds or so. 2. As root, type "siga" without the quotes at a command prompt. 3. Email me a copy of the siga.html file that is created in /tmp (i.e. /tmp/siga.html) Cheers, Craig P.s. The siga command is t

[Scottish] WiFi Card

2005-01-13 Thread Craig Perry
d to linux - incidentally it was SuSE 9.1 as above with no problems. Cheers Guys > Craig Perry > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > > =T===Mobile > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: This email (including attachments) is confident

RE: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! !

2005-01-13 Thread Craig Perry
Go buy a mac :o) What kind of modem have you got? Is it a USB one or a Serial one? Type "ls -l /dev/modem" and tell us what it says. There's a SuSE diagnostic tool, it's call "siga" or something (it's in the manual) if you could post the output of that on a website or something that may help. E

RE: [Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes

2004-12-23 Thread Craig Perry
finately try a different cd drive in the system just in case this turns out to be the same issue. > Craig Perry > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > > =T===Mobile > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kenny Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [Scottish] Linux training, Chateau projects

2004-11-27 Thread Craig Perry
Hi, I'd be willing to help out with something like this. Could also offer help with FreeBSD for people looking to try that but running into problems. Regards, > Craig Perry > TDMS Agent > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > > =T===Mobile > >

RE: [Scottish] November Meeting

2004-11-25 Thread Craig Perry
Do they provide the PPC variant for macs? > Craig Perry > TDMS Agent > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > > =T===Mobile > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kyle Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2004 16:33

RE: [Scottish] Clear out - update

2004-11-18 Thread Craig Perry
ing up the subscription to the list?! In future though i do concur that [FS] would be a better tag than SPAM SPAM SPAM. My apologies to the list moderators. -- Kind Regards, Craig Perry TDMS Agent Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support =T===Mobile e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Scottish] SPAM SPAM SPAM - Clear out - update

2004-11-18 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, The TV/DVD Player just went. The flat panel's on hold The ps1 + games are "dibbed" Cheers, Craig Craig Perry wrote: Hi all, *This is blatant spam* Having a wee clear out of some stuff, if anyone wants any of the below, mail me off list, all free to uplift (well up to t

[Scottish] SPAM SPAM SPAM - Clear out

2004-11-17 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, *This is blatant spam* Having a wee clear out of some stuff, if anyone wants any of the below, mail me off list, all free to uplift (well up to the end of free stuff bit!), otherwise going to the charity shop. I've got a boxed set here of suse linux 9.1 I've got a *huge* back catalogue o

Re: [Scottish] 2 way pagers

2004-11-15 Thread Craig Perry
Hi, I'd better admit a vested interest before i write a reply - i work for tmobile, but i'll try not to favour any particular network unfairly. The blackberry's are good (read: above average) little devices, batteries last a good wee while, pretty solid (i've dropped mine loads of times with no

RE: [Scottish] Problem resolving local network PC names to IP add resses

2004-11-13 Thread Craig Perry
d a line to the config file (/etc/dhclient.conf on my box, may change depending on distro) along the lines of "host-name linuxcomputer;" refer to the documentation though as that was from memory. HTH! > Craig Perry > TDMS Agent > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > >

RE: [Scottish] Linux distro for mum?

2004-11-05 Thread Craig Perry
e the whole HCI stuff going on with gnome, i swear by the environment, and the fact that its more stable than KDE *for me* > Craig Perry > TDMS Agent > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > > =T===Mobile > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

[Scottish] New Breed Of Spam - And I Quite Like It!

2004-10-26 Thread Craig Perry
Is this a new breed of spam? I don't mind this type nearly as bad! This is better than the medication, russian brides and $9 i'm regularly offered. Craig ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/list

[Scottish] Dual Head Graphics Card

2004-10-21 Thread Craig Perry
pref about the £80-100 mark. Cheers! > Craig Perry > Technical, Data, and Multimedia Support > > =T===Mobile > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: This email (including attachments) is confidential. If you have received

[Scottish] Re: Dual Head Graphics Card

2004-10-21 Thread Craig Perry
o( so does anyone know of a PCI dual head card with reasonable performance then? Do they even still sell these? I can't really phone up and complain either lest they demand i return my freebie! Craig > -Original Message----- > From: Craig Perry > Sent: 19 October 2004 18:26 &

Re: [Scottish] Ubuntu resolvconf

2004-10-12 Thread Craig Perry
sage- From: Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:48:49 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Ubuntu resolvconf On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 08:26 +, Craig Perry wrote: > Hi guys, > > After some recent list traffic about the ubuntu distro I decided to give

[Scottish] Red tape and no scissors

2004-10-12 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, a few weeks ago I started creating a driver for the blackberry under linux. I'm at the stage now where I'd like to release it as alpha code, but unfortunately still don't have clearance from work. My contract states that anything I create within the line of the business, either in work

Re: [Scottish] Ubuntu resolvconf

2004-10-11 Thread Craig Perry
Old habits die hard, and pedantic perfectionists just switch distros lol Regards, Craig -Original Message- From: Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:48:49 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Ubuntu resolvconf On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 08:26 +, Craig Perry

[Scottish] Ubuntu resolvconf

2004-09-30 Thread Craig Perry
Hi guys, After some recent list traffic about the ubuntu distro I decided to give it a go. What a distro! The new kernel and gnome 2.8 have turned my machine into a flyer, fantastic! (Only problem is the day before I tried it, I ordered a machine from dell because I was feeling it was getting

[Scottish] Usb + blackberry update

2004-09-18 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, Big thanks to all for their pointers earlier with regards to the usb stuff, especially the usb sniffer. Just a wee progress update and another question :o) I've got my skeleton kernel module made, and it can be loaded and unloaded from the kernel (currently using 2.6.8 but see no reaso

Re: [Scottish] Usb proxy + list traffic

2004-09-16 Thread Craig Perry
i have been trying this for some time. On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:38:23 +0100, Tim Kerby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look at USB snoopy - you will only need the windows box > http://www.wingmanteam.com/usbsnoopy/ Thats if I'm right in thinking > you want to write your own s

[Scottish] Usb proxy

2004-09-16 Thread Craig Perry
Sorry I don't think I explained it too well earlier. The whole idea is to log/dump the traffic running across the usb wire so that I may make a hacky attempt at replaying some of this to initiate a connection from the linux box. Craig ___ Scottish ma

Re: [Scottish] Usb proxy + list traffic

2004-09-15 Thread Craig Perry
TECTED]> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:47:51 To:"Craig Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Usb proxy + list traffic Hello Craig, Thursday, September 16, 2004, 12:50:07 AM, you wrote: CP> Hi all, CP> Its a bit quiet on this list lately

[Scottish] Usb proxy + list traffic

2004-09-15 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, Its a bit quiet on this list lately is it not? Everyone seems to have moved to edlug. Just a wee question: How could I setup a box to act as a kind of proxy for a usb connection? I.E. Windows box with usb cable to linux box. Usb cable from linux box to usb device. And the linux box jus

Re: [Scottish] [OT] For Sale

2004-05-11 Thread Craig Perry
Hey, I have the same atlas laptop, great for linux! Everything is supported, even the bloody win modem! Reasonable performer, getting on a bit today but i still use it as my main machine. Def a great recomendation for linux. Cheers Craig Paxton, Darren wrote: Hi All, Looking to get rid of a f

[Scottish] Gentoo Kernel 2.6

2004-04-16 Thread Craig Perry
Hey all, I just upgraded to kernel 2.6 on gentoo and most things seem to be working fine :) but there are a few questions... ACPI I'm running a laptop and i find APM to be annoying, it suspends the machine every minute or so regardless of whether i'm using it or not. Don't know if thats a conf

Re: [Scottish] Free LPI Exams

2004-03-19 Thread Craig Perry
Count me in , craig graeme wrote: I'd also be interested in 101 as well. Regards Graeme On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:38, Peter George wrote: Hello Glasgow, LPI are over in the UK for the Linuxuser conference next month, and have offered to come up to Edinburgh and setup an LPI exam center at Ne

Re: [Scottish] Recommendations on ISDN service/provider?

2004-03-13 Thread Craig Perry
Hey, Broadband's just came into my old mans area so I'm facing the same problems, well nearly. I know which ISP i am putting him with, because I'm with them and i know loads of people with them and they are _fantastic_ who is it may you ask? Freedom to Surf (www.f2s.com) they really are great.

Re: [Scottish] Open Office CD Distribution

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Perry
Hey, I done a similar thing to this a couple of years ago. I'm not sure my experience is entirely relevant because i dont know your exact target audience but here's my 10pence worth: I found that anything _remotely_ technical, just turns the punters off. Most haven't a clue about open source s

Re: [Scottish] new web site brain storming

2004-01-15 Thread Craig Perry
Hey, Yeah let us know how it goes. Would be pretty cool if you could use slackware to install everything easily and get everything working, then switch over to debian for downloading other software. Then again i suppose if you've got everything working with another distro why switch? mmm... S

Re: [Scottish] Detecting Wireless Network Cards

2003-07-17 Thread Craig Perry
Hi, Does the belkin use the prismII chipset??? I'm sure it does but you'll need to double check. If it does, then i've found that although the orinocco_cs and hermes helper module will work in some circumstances, you're probably better with the WLAN-NG drivers. Hope this helps. http://www.linux-

Re: [Scottish] Buying new Hardware - Advice

2003-06-28 Thread Craig Perry
Hi, The board powers up for 4-5 seconds at a time. Tried everythin i can dig out of google, done all the obvious ones, use a processor known to work, workin memory, 400watt power supply etc. i'm no electronic engineer so sod it, RMA'd the other day, winging its way back to sheffield :) regards cr

Re: [Scottish] Buying new Hardware - Advice

2003-06-25 Thread Craig Perry
Hi, I just bought the same MoBo from ebuyer and it no-va! tryin to RMA it but believe me, these guys are useless! Just a personal experience with the board/supplier! Regards Craig - Original Message - From: "Phil Deane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ScotLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday,

[Scottish] Software RAID & LVM

2003-06-16 Thread Craig Perry
Hi, Thanks for the replies :) Just to answer a few of the questions: CM> Take some time to think about how (if?) it will boot if hda goes down - do you CM> need a boot floppy? The old 4Gb drive going into this system IS old, i don't really expect it to last long, so the idea is once i got a syst

[Scottish] Software RAID & LVM

2003-06-15 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, I'm setting up a new server at home. It's just a small network, 2x WinXP Desktops, 2x Laptops, one XP one dual boot WinME/Debian. God it's enough to get added to Bill Gates' Crimbo card list! Anyways this server will be running SAMBA/NFS to turn it into a simple NAS. It will also do IP MAS

[Scottish] Debian 3.0r1 Install + XFree

2003-03-07 Thread Craig Perry
this is actually a graphical install at all, because before when I had X problems, it used to freeze my whole system and make the screen look like it was melting. This doesn't happen, I can toggle Caps on/off etc. and the screen doesn't freeze, instead white and blue vertical bars make ni