Re: [SLUG] Read MS Access files on Linux (using php?)

2008-05-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if this is the case and if so what the name of the tools > are? I think I've seen it done in PHP but thought that might have been a A simple google search came up with a blog entry mentioning "mdbtools". A

Re: [SLUG] Linux "clustering" - what are the options?

2008-05-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
given the samba-oriented nature of dazza's query, in addition to linux-ha take a look at http://ctdb.samba.org/ i believe this is the sort of system you are after? Dean Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:44 +1000, DaZZa wrote: Does the Linux world support the concept of active/pa

Re: [SLUG] Read MS Access files on Linux (using php?)

2008-05-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > I've been given some data in .mdb format from one of our lovely > government departments. > (don't even mention the issue of proprietary formats propagated by > public services or I'll scream and possibly kill some brain dead public > servant). > > So I need to

Re: [SLUG] Linux "clustering" - what are the options?

2008-05-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:44 +1000, DaZZa wrote: > Does the Linux world support the concept of active/passive (passive > node takes over if active fails) clustering for this kind of > situation? Or even active/active (both nodes answer requests depending > on load)? http://www.linux-ha.org/ - Th

[SLUG] Linux "clustering" - what are the options?

2008-05-04 Thread DaZZa
Learned folk. I have a fairly hefty Linux install used for high definition video capture and storage. Part of this system is a NAS server which advertises large storage arrays to the network via SMB (CIFS, whatever they're calling it these days). Owing to the nature of the application, there are

Re: [SLUG] Read MS Access files on Linux (using php?)

2008-05-04 Thread Kyle
FWIW, and it's not the answer you're looking for, but; if you're only reading via ODBC, I've never experienced any problem with data loss. Provided you find the right version ODBC driver to match the right version Access .mdb file. They've changed format a couple of times over the years, so y

[SLUG] Read MS Access files on Linux (using php?)

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've been given some data in .mdb format from one of our lovely government departments. (don't even mention the issue of proprietary formats propagated by public services or I'll scream and possibly kill some brain dead public servant). So I need to read these files and extract the

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Next Sydney OSIA Meeting - Wed 7th May

2008-05-04 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Marc, > The next Sydney Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) meeting will be held > at Insightful's office in North Sydney on Wednesday th May from 8am to > 9:30am Great, see everyone there! Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Lin

[SLUG] Booting-up problems

2008-05-04 Thread Leslie Katz
I installed Ubuntu version 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1501laptop with the latest available BIOS (2.6.3) via the Wubi-installer. During the bootup process, I always see two bug messages, whether or not the process completes satisfactorily. If it does complete satisfactorily, I find in the dmesg ou