Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - "Internals of the sync/umount call"

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:04:33AM +1000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > > On 16/05/2009, at 5:53 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> On Sat, May 16, 2009, Grahame Kelly wrote: >> >>> Rather than stating what I suspect is just a "belief", have you look >>> at the Kernel source code at all? If so I would be very i

Re: [SLUG] chmod probs.

2009-04-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:57:09AM +0800, jam wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2009 00:06:56 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > [snip] > > > What am I missing? > > > > find(1), which is used to locate a list of files matching a given set of > > criteria, allowing you to do something like this: > > > >

Re: [SLUG] chmod probs.

2009-04-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:00:10PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Kyle writes: > [snip] > > There is a limit to the number of arguments you can pass to chmod, > though, so it is generally speaking better to structure that like this: > > find -name '*.jpg' | xargs chmod -R 644 > > That fall

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:08:19PM +1100, Tony Sceats wrote: > with VirtualBox 2.1.4 you don't have to setup any bridging, at least not to > be on the same LAN (ie, my VirtualBox machine is on the same subnet as my > the physical machine) > > basically you just say use eth0 (or whatever) in the Vi

Re: [SLUG] Latest or recommended ways to display Gnome Desktop from Windows boxes.

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:05:42PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: > Hi all > > I need get get several MS Windows users access to a Fedora Linux box. > I have nxserver from nomachine on at present and it works very well but > it's limited to just two users. I had tried previously using freenx but I >

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:09:47PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > It still looks like having proper network bridging (so the VMs are > > directly on the network just like any other host) is a pain in the bum. > > The solutions I've seen involve performing some arcane rituals with brctl > > and

Re: [SLUG] mutt and imap folder hooks?

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:43:00AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I'm trying to set mutt folder hooks on an IMAP folder, and I'm not > having much luck. I haven't been able to google up any examples. > > For example: > > folder-hook . set from=so...@foo.com > folder-hook imaps://my.mailserver.ne

Re: [SLUG] Any Active Directory LDAP gurus?

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:45:41PM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: [snip] > Like, I started here... > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms675085(VS.85).aspx have a look here http://www.padl.com/ > > Also would be interested in finding other products (open or not) that do > this running on

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:29:22PM +1100, Barrie Hall wrote: > I must say after years of filling up old Compaq servers with SATA disks > and then having said servers die after 18 months, I just gave up and went > and bought a Dlink DNS-343 and put 4 x 1TB disks in it RAID 5. > > It's great. > > I

Re: [SLUG] IPv6 question

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:55:27PM +1100, Robert Barnett wrote: > > Just for fun, I'm setting up a FC10 machine with as an IPv6 router. > The tunnel device (tun0) is automatically created using a script (aiccu) is this a 6to4 sit or are you using a tunnel broker ? You can use ip -6 r g ipv6.goog

Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?

2009-03-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:01:35AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and > competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the > videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. > > What's the canonica

Re: [SLUG] MEncoder experience

2009-03-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:41:18PM +1100, Sebastian Spiess wrote: > Hi all, > > I've started using mencoder to reduce size of the videos I take with my > digicam. > > up to now I've used something along the line of > mencoder P1020451.MOV -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000 > -oac mp3

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

2009-02-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:56:57AM +1100, Kyle wrote: > Only just saw this msg. > > I did indeed load up wireshark and was using it. But I couldn't see any > packet "identifying" itself as an ipv6 packet. I realise that is > illogical. Every IP address registered by Wireshark was definitely an

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

2009-02-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:35:09PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > > "Kyle" == Kyle writes: > > Kyle> So I guess I need to look elsewhere as to why my experience is > Kyle> "slow". To clarify my thinking, my 'slow' experience relates to > Kyle> the Server/Router routing to/from the hosts behind

Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

2009-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:25:08PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > Thanks for replying so quickly, Jake. [snip] > > I think that's my best shot, because I haven't got a clue about how I > might get the CPU fan on computer A going again. If I knew that, I would > also have known enough not to acce

Re: [SLUG] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony

2009-02-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:21:32AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi all, > > (this is a bit like an ask Slashdot... maybe we can have an "ask SLUG") > > my work is looking at rationalizing phone/mobile usage with possibly > VOIP between offices. I've suggested setting up Linux boxes and using > A

Re: [SLUG] dns attack

2009-01-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:31:35PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Alex Samad writes: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:40:14AM +1100, Kyle wrote: > >> Alex Samad wrote: > >> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> > > >

Re: [SLUG] dns attack

2009-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:40:14AM +1100, Kyle wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > doesn't stop them getting down my adsl link, but atleast it keeps them > > off my dns server :{ > > > &g

Re: [SLUG] dns attack

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Alex Samad writes: > > > I was wondering how many other people are getting flooded with > > named[29134]: client 63.217.28.226#17705: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied > > dns DDOS attacks ? >

[SLUG] dns attack

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering how many other people are getting flooded with named[29134]: client 63.217.28.226#17705: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied dns DDOS attacks ? -- "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is--I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percen

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:35:02PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to > play video files. Sort of like home theatre. > > or video files over a lan connection from a server. > > recording tv is not necessary but may be good.

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2008-12-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:51:35PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Sonia Hamilton writes: > [snip] > > > If so, any recommendations for a mobo that takes a large number of > > SATA drives (eg 6 or 8) and doesn't have some weird BIOS thing that > > requires Windoze to support said large number o

Re: [SLUG] Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

2008-11-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:41:44PM +0900, jam wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2008 10:00:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the [snip] > > Having pondered the doco I cannot see any benefit other than saving > ImportantFile at the cost of quite a lot more complexity. What have I missed? can't

Re: [SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

2008-11-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:14:24AM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > On 29/11/2008, at 9:59 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote: > >> On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in >>> whatever dir you want. >>> >>> before rdif

[SLUG] Medical Practice Management Software

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi There was some talk about this a while back but limited to opensource. I am looking after a small clinic and they have some 3rd party software that works some of the time and can be a real pain to get support on. Its windows based. I thought I would reach out the list, as there seamed to be s

Re: [SLUG] Best of breed LDAP/directory servers in 2008?

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:31AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have any recent experience with LDAP deployments across > reasonably large environments (we have 1000+ hosts)?We use LDAP for > traditional Unix host authentication/authorization, as well as various > other

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:40:11PM +0900, jam wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > am <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Not a trivial question :-) and not as simple as -X > > I'm sitting in front of THIS machine, and logged in > I run a program on

[SLUG] Setting up pptpd server with filtering

2008-11-05 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have setup a pptpd server talking to a windows AD via winbind.so Now I want to be able to limit access to certain parts of the network based upon who has vpn'ed in. Having a look at the ip-up scripts there is no mention of user id. I have noticed that pptpd logs to wtmp logins and logo

Re: [SLUG] System crash resulting in fsck at startup - assistance requested.

2008-10-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:27:45AM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all > > I use Dapper at the present. [snip] > Could someone please provide me with some > information about what this may mean? I would try using smartctl something like smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sda -T permissive smartc

Re: [SLUG] Bluetooth a2dp volume control????

2008-10-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:06:23PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hi, > I've bought myself a bluetooth headset and am streaming audio > to it using mplayer. How do I control its volume? Usually, hitting / > or * decreases or increases the volume, but mplayer thinks it's > sending at 0% volume

Re: [SLUG] Command Line Arguments

2008-10-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:22:41PM +0800, jam wrote: > Over the years I have seen many offerings on this topic, which I've mostly > ignored until I need to do it and discover ITS HARD. Any kind input please: > > Oggs are now divided into oga and ogv. Kewl except some tools won't read .oga > eg a

Re: [SLUG] Capturing emails from IMAP folders

2008-10-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:56:41PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > Hi > > We are currently modifying an email system for a customer and have got a > little stumped at their latest request. > > Basically what happens now (paraphrasing) is that a customer service rep > receives an email from a custom

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:48:59PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > 2008/10/12 Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Mary Gardiner wrote: > > > >> There is one potential disadvantage of non-standard ports: there are a > >> few networks with a default-deny outgoing connection policy who open > >> port 22, but do

[SLUG] managing a adaptec 1430sa

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one out there uses one of these to do hardware raid. I thought I might set it up in raid10 with 4 1Tb drives. My questions on this is what software do I use to alert me if there any problems and will it show up as 1 scsi device (or is it a silly software raid solution a

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:41:57PM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > On 10/10/2008, at 10:58 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >>> >> Personally, I use fail2ban[1] which uses the cruder, but still >> effective, technique of reading your logs and blocking people who try >> to >> guess passwords via ipta

Re: [SLUG] Re: Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:49:06PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Thanks for the advice, everyone. It seems the best option is for me to > simply go request a temporary chunk of addresses through a broker. > > I managed to get on with AARNet (a single IP, not a /48, just for > testing) using some l

Re: [SLUG] ATO/wine

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:34:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > appdb shows a fail > > i spent a few hours on it, until i just drove to my inlaws and used XP. > seriosly didnt seem worth the effort for a once off usage. use vnc or rdesktop to get remote access to box ! > > Dean > > david wrote:

Re: [SLUG] route traffic through multiple interfaces

2008-09-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:02:25PM +1000, Chris Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Chris Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Daniel, > > > You were correct in guessing what I was after. I am trying to get VOIP > working over

Re: [SLUG] Performance Tuning

2008-09-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:06:08PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: > Kyle wrote: >> Ok, [snip] > - use jumbo frames (9000B packet > 8KB disk block, so very efficient) I noticed a lot of people have talked about using large >1500 frames, usually >9k. I had been using jumbo frames for +8 months and I

Re: [SLUG] route traffic through multiple interfaces

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:50:39PM +1000, Chris Zhang wrote: > Hi list, > > > Suppose I have two NICs on one host, NIC A and NIC B. Is it possible to get > all traffic to use A, and then route them through B, and finally to outside? > without the aid of iptables or anything similar, e.g. just cha

Re: [SLUG] File / Disk Encryption

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
Can I use cryptkeeper with truecrypt created disk/bin/files ? Alex > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: http://getfiregpg.org > > iD8DBQFIvHOFvNAHEzzZc9cRAgT2AJ0TgQADDRSpBXlTYZhx1npvbM+IZwCfW9y9 > /vRlbJei7HN1hZKkMmAUP74= >

[SLUG] File / Disk Encryption

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking for a substitute for truecrypt, why because I don;t like how they have gone to the insistence for a gui front end on the linux side of things, the real pain being the how hard it is to compile for debian, true atleast for 5.x not sure for the new 6.x series. Currently I have a usb

Re: [SLUG] OT: image file reduction batch tool

2008-08-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:08:09PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi Slugs, > > anyone have a favourite tool that they use for reducing image file size? > > Not necessarily reducing image size on the page but the amount it takes > up on storage. > > I need something that would crawl the network and

Re: [SLUG] Processor Profiler

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:36:53AM +1000, Nima Talebi wrote: > Hi All, > I've got some performance issues with some VMs where the `system' use was at > about 50%, and the machine was not actually doing (or asked to do) anything > useful. > > At the moment, I'm not interested in _fixing_ the proble

Re: [SLUG] ip6tables config tutorial ... ?

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Kyle wrote: > Thanks Daniel, > > doing a CentOS 5.2 install, so I expect that to have been taken care of. > > Kind Regards > > Kyle > > >> Correct -- assuming you are running a suffici

Re: [SLUG] disk partitioning for lamp: tmp on it's own?

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:37:56PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > how do I make it non executable ? > > Mount it with the 'noexec' option. It goes in the same column of > /etc/fstab as other options like 'auto' and 'noauto'. > > "man mount" has the de

Re: [SLUG] mutt procmail and mailing lists

2008-07-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:13:04AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Jeff Waugh's configs are widely used by muttering SLUGers: > > Yeah, I'm surprised how often I see my stupid quote style on other people's > replies. :-) I should probably update those files... looks good, pity you can't do a s

[SLUG] mutt procmail and mailing lists

2008-07-19 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have noticed recently that List-Id: is being used more and more in the lists that I am subscribed to I was wondering if somebody would share their procmail recipe and mutt config for handling lots of mailing lists such that I don't have to go in there and update .procmail and .mutt all the

Re: [SLUG] Multiple Offices with redundant DSL Connection

2008-07-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have seen similar setups, I ran on with multiple site, but only base having multiple gateways (cable and adsl). all the firewalls where running on openwrt (linksys wrt52Gs careful though they with die under a lot of openvpn encrypted traffic) http://lartc.org/howto/ is the place to start w

Re: [SLUG] OT: WLAN VoIP phone

2008-07-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 08:34:22AM +1000, Sebastian wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across this > http://nuke.ip-ware.net/Portals/0/Brochures/ip_phone_WS-C.pdf nice > phone while I was searching for a new solution to my internet/phone > setup. cool phone I am presuming you have to buy from OS ? mayb

Re: [SLUG] bind attacks

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Samad
us using all the targets bandwidth Just in case I drop their address at the firewall now :) (only 2 - somewhere in china) > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have been seeing these in my logs > &g

[SLUG] bind attacks

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been seeing these in my logs Jun 25 15:19:45 hufpuf named[3574]: client 59.151.50.248#64821: query (cache) './A/IN' denied Jun 25 15:19:48 hufpuf named[3574]: client 59.151.50.247#63595: query (cache) './A/IN' denied Jun 25 15:20:25 hufpuf named[3574]: client 59.151.50.248#10848: query

Re: [SLUG] Opinions on Sender Policy Framework and Domain Keys

2008-06-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 03:48:39PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:53:09PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > John Ferlito wrote: &g

Re: [SLUG] Opinions on Sender Policy Framework and Domain Keys

2008-06-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:53:09PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John Ferlito wrote: > > > >> In my opinion SPF pretty much protects you from one thing, joe-job > >> attacks. ie bounces where someone else has used your domain as the > >> from add

Re: [SLUG] LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

2008-06-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:51:07PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: > david wrote: >> Every external firewire/usb drive i've used has ended up giving me hard >> drive failure, and in some cases heart failure. Other people whose >> opinion I respect have come to the same conclusion. I get the impression >>

Re: [SLUG] wanted: 64bit support for IBCS/sco binaries

2008-06-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:48:37PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: > Hi, > wondering if anyone has any pointers to people/companies/assembler gurus > who can assist me in getting 64bit support for the linux-abi project? > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-abi/ > > I have a few clients that would lik

Re: [SLUG] LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

2008-06-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:59:10AM +1000, david wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:44 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am looking at expanding my disk space on my box. I have turned my eye > > to these little external boxes. > > > > I was wonderin

[SLUG] LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

2008-06-12 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at expanding my disk space on my box. I have turned my eye to these little external boxes. I was wondering has any one else on the list used one of these. I was hoping to connect to it with esata (the reason for the lacie esata controller). A quick google brings me lots of adds t

Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions

2008-05-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:08:10AM +0800, jam wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2008 08:38:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking > > for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to > > have 4-6 sata connectors (and ma

Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions

2008-05-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:11:42PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > Hey hey. > > Alex Samad wrote: >> I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking >> for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to >> have 4-6 sata co

[SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions

2008-05-28 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply The other

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:00:43AM +1000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > We use the following configuration(s). > > Back-ends are: [snip] > > Front-ends are: > > Jetway Hybrid J7F2WE1G2E Fanless (and like) > > HYBRID-C7-1.2G Fanless micro-ATX based: > - Manufacturer P/N: J7F2WE1G2E > - 1.2GHz VIA

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:55:31PM +1000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > Hi Sluggers. > > In response to several questions on Media Centre (or is that arr.. Media > Center) the only way to go is: > Myth-Ubuntu downloadable on a single DVD off the net. Several flavours > are available, i386, x86_64, OSX

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH vulnerability: act now!

2008-05-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:24:00AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > > Just in case anyone missed it, there's been a major vulnerability for > any SSH keys generated on a debian system over the last two years or > so ... apparently the random number generator wasn't being seeded > right, so only a few d

[SLUG] makefile question

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a make file that has a few recipes like inst-hufpuf: tmpDir tmpDir/rootdir-hufpuf @true inst-multimedia: tmpDir tmpDir/rootdir-multimedia @true inst-backup: tmpDir tmpDir/rootdir-backup @true inst-laptop: tmpDir tmpDir/rootdir-laptop @true I am guessing I can wri

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 & Surround Sound

2008-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:43:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:12:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I hope that someone can help me. > >> > >> I have just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my pc and can not get surround > >> sound > >> to work. >

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 & Surround Sound

2008-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:12:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope that someone can help me. > > I have just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my pc and can not get surround sound > to work. > > I have created a file .asoundrc and put it in my home folder but only my > front two spe

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51:47PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: > OK guru's. :-) > > I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the > order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. > > All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the > same as the

Re: [SLUG] Manipulating DNS - got it!!

2008-04-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:17:48PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I did this and

Re: [SLUG] grep question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:16:32AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:55:13PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [SLUG] looking for a command to composite sequentially numbered files

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:24:50AM +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all, > [snip] > > $ for i in `seq 1 999`;do j=`printf %04d $i`; composite -compose atop > bubbles.png 0*.png image$j.png; done > > but I get the following error: > > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do' works here for

Re: [SLUG] grep question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:55:13PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try grep -Ev '^(\W*;|$)' > > great that works, (i changed to \s* instead, also tried the [[:space:]] > > and it w

Re: [SLUG] grep question

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:56:59AM +1000, AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:39:17AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > >so I tried grep -v '^\W*;' which sort of works, except it leaves me with > >blank lines now, how can I not show the blank line

Re: [SLUG] regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:16:59AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:39:17AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > I want to look at a config file that uses ; as comments, but I want to > > look at everything that is not a commented line

Re: [SLUG] grep question

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:39:17AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > > I want to look at a config file that uses ; as comments, but I want to > look at everything that is not a commented line > > so I tried grep -v '^\W*;' which sort of works, except it leaves me

[SLUG] grep question

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I want to look at a config file that uses ; as comments, but I want to look at everything that is not a commented line so I tried grep -v '^\W*;' which sort of works, except it leaves me with blank lines now, how can I not show the blank lines -- "For every fatal shooting, there were rough

Re: [SLUG] Debian question

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:51:48PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Jaime Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2 & 3) Another script that might be useful to automatically install > > > propriet

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 10:11:00AM +1100, John Ferlito wrote: > Keeping in mind I've never done this so no idea how well it works. I'd > say a combination of > > Global File System - http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ I think the requirements where for no STOMITH and GFS uses that in both inca

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:52:55AM +1100, Crossfire wrote: > I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. > > What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole > filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) > without STO

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:09:45AM +1100, DaZZa wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > for some reason my time is still daylight savings time ? hasn't change > > for DST last night. any one else

[SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-29 Thread Alex Samad
Hi for some reason my time is still daylight savings time ? hasn't change for DST last night. any one else having this problem ? Alex -- "There's been a act of war declared upon America by terrorists, and we will respond accordingly." - George W. Bush 09/15/2001 Camp David signatur

Re: [SLUG] Firefox & javascript

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:17:25PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:09:08 +1100 > "Martin Visser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You probably would need to specify the site - as it probably is a > > matter of bad jasvascript code that someone more knowledgable than me > > coul

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a VOIP SIP Service Provider

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:16:26PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > Hi All > > We're about to start working with an Asterisk test bed system. > > We have two lines coming into the office which we intend to have > Asterisk answer and divert different desks. > > For outgoing calls, we'd like to use VOIP

Re: [SLUG] [ot] cheap sms?

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:33:04PM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote: > Dear list, > > I am doing remote telemetry with a small linux box (of course) and then > using sms to transfer the data. > > Can anyone recommend a supplier of cheap sms for large quantity? > > Within a few months 2000 per day. wou

Re: [SLUG] file list for owner/group

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 06:46:20PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > >>> find /path/to/directory -user xxx -group xxx >> does that show files that are user xxx AND group >> >> is it different from >> >> find /path/to/directory

Re: [SLUG] file list for owner/group

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:48:34AM +1100, David Gillies wrote: > Voytek Eymont wrote: > > I once again have a compromised server, courtesy of a user installed cms; > > > > how do I get a recursive list of files owned by 'xxx' group 'xxx' ? > > > > ls -R just lists directories > > > > find /path

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG video helpers

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:43:17AM +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi all, > > We are still looking for volunteers to help with the video-recording at > SLUG. interested in helping out with the transcoding, but I am not a regular at the meetings > > On a side note I wanted to mention that I wil

Re: [SLUG] looking for a command to automatically create sequentially numbered files

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:07:45AM +1100, Felix Sheldon wrote: > > It looks like you might be using single quotes and not back-ticks (on > the ~ key). > > This works for me, with the echo in there at least. > > for i in `seq 1 125`; do j=`printf %06d $i`; echo montage -geometry +4+4 > a_$j.jpeg

Re: [SLUG] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness

2008-03-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:59:16AM +1100, xorprime wrote: > > > > > > Both back-up drives were in USB external cases. I suspect my back-up > > failed because of a dodgey power issue with the external case, but > > that's conjecture at this point. > > > > External drives are ok for me as long as it

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:18:21AM +1100, David Guest wrote: > Armin Marth wrote: > > Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, > > Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be > > exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out),

Re: [SLUG] Oracle 9i database and samba

2008-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:15:33PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:03:22AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > Joel Heenan wrote: > >> Network > >> filesystems are not normally used for database files. > >> > > > > I work for an ASP that has all of its Oracle databases (hun

Re: [SLUG] Oracle 9i database and samba

2008-03-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:50:22PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:40 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Do you plan to have access to that database in parallel to having that > > VMware WIndows running? > > There will be multiple VMs running on the same machine. > > > Because if

Re: [SLUG] Setting up a spam email

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:13:10AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:40:16AM +0900, jam wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 08:07:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 February 2008 05:34:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [SLUG] Setting up a spam email

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:40:16AM +0900, jam wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 08:07:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Monday 11 February 2008 05:34:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can > > > > send spam emails to and they

Re: [SLUG] Setting up a spam email

2008-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:33:17AM +0900, jam wrote: > On Monday 11 February 2008 05:34:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send > > spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. > > > > I use debian, exim and spamassassin. A

Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:47:20AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Note for rsync newbs; rsync -av /home.orig /home/ is different

[SLUG] Setting up a spam email

2008-02-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use debian, exim and spamassassin. All my spam processing gets done as user spamassassin, so I thought I could just process all mails sent to spamassassin as sp

Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:31:10PM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > On 09/02/2008, at 7:00 PM, bill wrote: >> create /home on /hda3 > > No, you just mount /dev/hda3 /mnt and > cp -a /home/* /mnt/ > >> rename original /home for safety until relocated home is verified to >> work >> >> edit /etc/

[SLUG] Games / Interactive learnign for kids/babies 6m -18m

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one has any recommendation for some interactive kids programmes for learning/playing that i can get for linux. I currently have a spare keyboard that the little bashes on, but I would like to have something happen on the screen as well and hopefully maybe learn some t

Re: [SLUG] bigpond cable modem and any old DHCP client?

2008-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:11:08PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > Hello list! > > Does anyone have experience with BigPond cable? > > Specifically, is it possible to use the SB-5101 modem and plug in a > DHCP-client wireless router on the ethernet side, or does BigPond still > require a custom l

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