Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?

2015-06-02 Thread David Lyon
chel > > -- > rachel polanskis > IT Consulting, UNIX & Macintosh > Greater Western Sydney > > > On 2 Jun 2015, at 15:20, David Lyon > wrote: > > > If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your > > database links for insertion attac

Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?

2015-06-01 Thread David Lyon
ntrusion etc. > > -- > rachel polanskis > IT Consulting, UNIX & Macintosh > Greater Western Sydney > > > > On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon > wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity.

Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?

2015-06-01 Thread David Lyon
s, or if you are > exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. > Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as > opposed to intrusion etc. > > -- > rachel polanskis > IT Consulting, UNIX & Macintosh > Greater Western Sydney >

[SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?

2015-06-01 Thread David Lyon
Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything lik

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

2015-02-10 Thread David Lyon
ost-upgrade troubles. Have you gone through a major upgrade > recently? > > On 11 February 2015 at 14:21, scott wrote: > > > On 02/10/2015 09:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott wrote: > > > > > >> On 02/10/2015 05:32 P

[SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

2015-02-10 Thread David Lyon
Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. apt-get is for some reason broken. I get the following error message with "sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev" or any command: E: Internal Error, No file na

[SLUG] How to filter audo on Linux for pumping to RGB-LED strips?

2014-11-21 Thread David Lyon
Hi, There's some RGB LED's at a Hackerspace: - http://forum.makehackvoid.com/t/led-uplighting-status/179 I asked a geek I know how to filter sound from linux to drive different colours in the LED's. He said "That's easy - just use the following command": > pamon --latency 100 | hexdump -C Th

Re: [SLUG] Weird traceroute problem.

2014-10-28 Thread David Lyon
I've just seen a possibly similar thing. The scenario was that the customer didn't pay their bill. Not sure - but most likely cause was the bill accidentally went into spam. After paying, the hosting company assured us everything would be up. Website was up but mail was down. It looked like a DN

Re: [SLUG] Debugging Linux ACL's

2014-08-31 Thread David Lyon
I think I got it going from this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/580584/setting-default-permissions-for-newly-created-files-and-sub-directories-under-a Thanks for the answers On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Norman Gaywood wrote: > On 1 September 2014 16:48, Norman Gaywood wrote: >

Re: [SLUG] Debugging Linux ACL's

2014-08-31 Thread David Lyon
That returns nothing. On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Norman Gaywood wrote: > How about: > > getent passwd 300 > > > On 1 September 2014 15:44, David Lyon > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have this, from executing the following command: >

[SLUG] Debugging Linux ACL's

2014-08-31 Thread David Lyon
Hello, I have this, from executing the following command: /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase/DBASE4 # file: home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase/DBASE4 # owner: root # group: Administrators user::rwx user:root:rwx user:admin_acct:rw- user:300:rwx user:302:rwx group::rwx group:Administrators:rwx group:3

Re: [SLUG] A call to arms!

2014-07-20 Thread David Lyon
Hi Patrick, There's really not that much difference between this government and the last one with respect to any technology development policies. If you think there is a big difference, then I welcome you to explain the differences. If you want to say what you think the policies should be that wi

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread David Lyon
to set system timezone depends on > the > > answer to this question. > > > > And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the > > correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. > > > > > > > > On 17 July 2014 10:51, David Lyon &g

[SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-16 Thread David Lyon
I'm trying to get the correct datestamp in a logfile for Raspberry-Pi for a server task. The task runs under supervisord with root permissions. I modified /root/.profile and added TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ However, in Python, the logging/task doesn't see dates with the correct timezone de

Re: [SLUG] MySQL maintenance

2014-06-27 Thread David Lyon
Possible hardware (Hard-disk) failure? While mysql will probably run forevever, the same assumption can't be made for the magnets in the hard-disks. Which can over time lose their workingness. On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:54 AM, wrote: > > > on the new vm, in use about 6 month, couple of weeks

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread David Lyon
And you might follow these old-timers: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-of-9-Windows-Desktop-PC-Workstations-HP-Compaq-Dell-Intel-AMD-/231246144371 On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM, David Lyon wrote: > I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. >

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread David Lyon
I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. Not say don't live-in-hope in finding a new friend, just that the days of all the PC's spending time together on the nature strip breathing the fresh air seems to have passed. It's a new generation being thrown out now. :-)

[SLUG] Light Linux Permissions help for constantly running processes and Samba Share access

2014-05-26 Thread David Lyon
Hi, I'm struggling getting some production programs to run on a "new" Linux system. These programs have been working for so many years and it seems that I've forgotten how to set them up. Maybe it's different on this server-distro. Not sure. It's Zentyal - ubuntu based. village@server-ivm:~$ una

Re: [SLUG] Internet at 500m

2014-05-22 Thread David Lyon
Have they seen products like this? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/150Mbps-high-power-outdoor-wi-fi-wireless-outdoor-wireless-access-point-cpe-equipment/1489776809.html On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > I have a friend living in near jungle conditions in

Re: [SLUG] Download speed

2014-05-21 Thread David Lyon
ok, I patched those links in. Forgive my code posting, last time. I will answer offlist if I get any further requests. It has some command line options to specify the size to download, where to put the logfile, and the duration to wait before downloads. $> python x_download_test.py 1M -i 5 -Pyth

Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.

2014-05-21 Thread David Lyon
First thing to check is that the "Wifi button" is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to "off" without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrote: > I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem > posted that nobody

Re: [SLUG] Download speed

2014-05-21 Thread David Lyon
Maybe something like this (python code): # /usr/bin/python import time import urllib2 if __name__ == "__main__": while (1): # Initial Time reading start = time.clock() mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.slug.org.au/event/91";) output = open('test.mp3

Re: [SLUG] Compilation issues with a C++ Internet-of-Things Event-Framework

2014-04-25 Thread David Lyon
am, "Jiří Baum" wrote: > Hi, > > David Lyon: > > When I compile, I get these errors: > > > dlyon@dlyon-HP8000SFF:~/IoT/madstuff$ make > > CC madstuff.o > > madstuff.cpp: In member function ‘void App::setup()’: > > madstuff.

[SLUG] Compilation issues with a C++ Internet-of-Things Event-Framework

2014-04-25 Thread David Lyon
Hi, I'm having some problems with compile errors. I have an Event-Framework and the programs look like this: - https://github.com/clixx-io/clixx.io/blob/master/examples_eventframework/timer.cpp When I compile, I get these errors: dlyon@dlyon-HP8000SFF:~/IoT/madstuff$ make CC madstuff.o

[SLUG] LinuxCon Japan 2014

2014-03-30 Thread David Lyon
Just thought I'd mention that LinuxCon 2014 in Japan is coming up. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan Although it's only for two days, that would leave the rest of the time for a few trips to Akihabara and some extra Tokyo tourism if you took the whole week off work. There's

Re: [SLUG] Reuse or Recycle Your Old Computer

2014-02-06 Thread David Lyon
Hi Tom, Have you seen these ? : http://www.adapteva.com/ On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: > On 04/02/14 16:42, Glen Turner wrote: > > I'd also be careful when comparing old v new computers that you >> include the entire system, especially if moving from a CRT to LCD >> s

Re: [SLUG] Linux Exchange Alternative

2014-01-31 Thread David Lyon
Hi Edwni, I'm counting 8 ^ 2 * 2 answers. First, do you want the output in csv or pdf ? Secondly, what colour are you wanting the column-headings in ? Thirdly, what's the sort order ? On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Edwin Humphries < edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au> wrote: > Guys, thanks

Re: [SLUG] Linux Exchange Alternative

2014-01-29 Thread David Lyon
Hi Edwin, http://www.zentyal.org/ is what I found, but I haven't used it. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:40 PM, David Lyon wrote: > Hi Edwin, > > I did this for a client in the last few weeks. > > This might not be a perfect match to your question but in the end we > sele

Re: [SLUG] Linux Exchange Alternative

2014-01-29 Thread David Lyon
Hi Edwin, I did this for a client in the last few weeks. This might not be a perfect match to your question but in the end we selected Lightning Calendar for firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/calendar/ It's turned out perfect for our users, because it is just an extension that runs

Re: [SLUG] Car on-board diagnostics

2013-11-19 Thread David Lyon
Hi David, For some reason, this message went in my spam bin and I only just found it. How's the status with this ? On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:41 PM, David Joshua Geary < bianca.ura...@gmail.com> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Trying to interface with my car's on-b

[SLUG] SLUG Meeting Information followup on GM Serial Interfaces

2013-11-03 Thread David Lyon
David gave a Lightning talk on GM interfacing. Here is the information that I found: http://www.techedge.com.au/vehicle/aldl160/vn_aldl.htm Hope that is helpful to getting your Linux interfaced. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and F

[SLUG] Friday Night's meeting - any talks?

2013-06-25 Thread David Lyon
Hi all, I was just checking the website and there are no talks posted yet. Does anybody know RRDTool ? http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ It would be great if, just for me, somebody who knows it could do a talk or a lightning talk on that. Regards David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-04 Thread David Lyon
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Glen Turner wrote: > > The lack of two I2C ports on the RPi would be a practical reason. The sense > of master and slave carries electrical implications, so a port can't change > from one to the other without restarting the bus and all of its devices. > > Actually

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-03 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Barnes wrote: > This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running > TCP/IP over the I2C bus? > > I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network on > them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread David Lyon
The only issue that I can see is that I2C is a bus/master protocol. I know the Linux drivers support being the Master but I'don't know if it supports being a slave. So I'm not even sure if you could easily accomplish it without using extra hardware such as PIC/AVRs. On 01/06/2013 11:11 PM, "Jake

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread David Lyon
Here's the link to that project: - http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Barnes wrote: > This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running > TCP/IP over the I2C bus? > > I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network on > them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-29 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: > Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to > teach kids about programming and computers. > Semi-related to that, a rep at Element14 at cebit was saying that there are approx. 10,000 Raspberry-Pi's being sol

[SLUG] Linux on the Supercomputer

2013-05-12 Thread David Lyon
Here's an article showing Linux is not only taking over the embedded systems: - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/fast-faster-fastest-linux-rules-supercomputing/11263 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mai

Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment

2013-05-08 Thread David Lyon
I've had a similar experience. My Enlightenment (Bodhi Linux) notebook has O/S imploded with two weeks of continuous use. After changing themes, the file manager doesn't display anything (rendering problem?) making copying files from the SD card easily, not easy. Back to shell. Then, git for some

Re: [SLUG] Installing Richcomm PowerManager on Ubuntu-type system

2013-05-07 Thread David Lyon
I've not tried with any modern devices but the older UPS's used to toggle the CTS or DTR data line on the serial-port to tell the PC that power was available. The driver would simply watch the pin and when it toggled the software would start taking action. These lines are still made available via

[SLUG] Weekly Reading material for Linux

2013-05-07 Thread David Lyon
Hi all, This site has on some of the interesting posts on what Linux has been doing recently: - http://linuxgizmos.com/ Many things I didn't know about. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] multi file rename matching moved multiple regex pattern matches using shell expansion only

2013-05-03 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Kyle wrote: > > 'Statement_**<4 digit yr>.pdf' > > which I want to rename to > > '<4 digit yr>__Statement.pdf' > > I can work out the regex, but having trouble figuring out how to feed this > through the shell. > > It's admirable to know how to do that. But for saf

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread David Lyon
I'm really slow to get new stuff. I only just got a sata SSD. However, I've seen these: - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Free-PP-Case-USB-2-0-to-2-5-SATA-Hard-Disk-USB-Interface-Converter-Adapter-/181006710919?pt=AU_CablesConnectors&hash=item2a24d73887 That might allow me to connect an SSD.

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread David Lyon
Here's some benchmarks that were previously done: - http://jalada.co.uk/2012/05/20/raspberry-pi-sd-card-benchmark.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Grant Bailey < grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Is either device powerful enough to act as small business server? I > realise that some people have turned the Pi into a server but I'm not sure > whether they have been deployed for commercial applicatio

[SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-28 Thread David Lyon
Is this the worlds cheapest Linux board ? It runs Arch Linux. It's interesting reading their user guide: - https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLinuXino-MICRO/resources/iMX233-OLINUXINO-MICRO.pdf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscri

[SLUG] Cool OpenSource Project for the week : Gambas3 - Going where Visual Basic wanted to go - on Linux

2013-04-17 Thread David Lyon
For any old Visual Basic Programmers, here's an interesting adaptation from Benoît Minisin who lives in Paris. - http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html It's not a Clone of Visual Basic, but inspired by it. I just downloaded the development environment by doing: > sudo apt-get install gamba

[SLUG] Fedora - Advancing with Gnome

2013-04-12 Thread David Lyon
I know there are Fedora lovers on the list. This might be something you guys already know but for others it might be interesting reading: - http://worldofgnome.org/fedora-19-chasing-the-perfect-gnome-distro/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 20.0 Problems in Mint Linux

2013-04-11 Thread David Lyon
That's a joy of Linux, stuff gets screwed up for no obvious reason. I'm really peaved now that my Terminology terminal stopped working showing similar symptons after I changed a config setting, now it won't let me get back to the same menu to change it to something else. I'd suggest fresh reinsta

Re: [SLUG] Coffee Table Linux

2013-04-08 Thread David Lyon
ney.com/ > > LEDs are my pet project, but the only link to Linux, so far, has been the > webserver: > http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-**sydney/LED-Lighting-guide.**shtml<http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/LED-Lighting-guide.shtml> > > Marghanita > > > David Lyon wrote:

[SLUG] Coffee Table Linux

2013-04-08 Thread David Lyon
In Europe, people not only use Linux to power data-centres but also their coffee tables. Adding LED's to your Linux can give very relaxing results. Here's a nice coffee-table probject for Linux along with a link to the source code: - https://metalab.at/wiki/RetinaTattoo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

[SLUG] Fwd: Cool New Terminal Emulator for a modern look in Linux (David Lyon)

2013-04-06 Thread David Lyon
Apart from all the eye-candy in Terminology I found that it has one really useful command that helped me at work. It has commands called 'tyls' and 'tycat'. What theydo is list out files in a command line along with a preview. It doesn't sound much but normally you have to go out to some gui file

[SLUG] Welcome to the new command line for linux

2013-04-03 Thread David Lyon
Sorry for double posting but here is the homepage to Terminology: - http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Cool New Terminal Emulator for a modern look in Linux

2013-04-03 Thread David Lyon
Hi all, I was really happy with my terminal-shell until I discovered this: - http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/terminology-more-than-terminal-emulator.html Terminology is an updated 3D/OpenGL version of Terminator. For those into command line shells, it's quite interesting. -- SLUG - Sydney Linu

[SLUG] CFP - Tokyo Raspberry-Pi Users Group Linux Talks

2013-04-03 Thread David Lyon
This is as much an opportunity to learn as it is to talk, but I'm passing on this information as the Raspberry-Pi is after all a Linux Machine for the masses: """ We've already set our biggest Raspberry Jam on May 25th at IIJ Jinbocho Office. so we getting started opening Call for Paper for the ev

Re: [SLUG] Linux training

2013-04-02 Thread David Lyon
Another way of learning Linux is to come to Hardware Freedom Day at the Raspberry-Pi users group. - http://www.ozberrypi.org/events/109635212/ It's not really structured, but you will get exposure and see Linux in action. I've been doing Linux for some years and I always learn something that I

Re: [SLUG] Question: I gave a lightning talk 1 or 2 months ago. Are these still being posted, downloadable?

2013-03-31 Thread David Lyon
Not sure but it might be some time. I just checked the homepage at http://www.slug.org.au/ and it's been recently updated to show a talk from 2010 ! (Maybe they are just testing new features - not sure) On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Jason Haston wrote: > Question: I gave a lightning talk 1

Re: [SLUG] Pimp My Notebook: Linux, Solid State Disk, RAM and New Paint Job for the HP Pavilion DM1

2013-01-21 Thread David Lyon
Alternatively, have you looked at using a Raspberry-PI. Linux works fine on that. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)

2012-10-18 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: > Its primary goal is safety though, not efficiency. > > I want to add a linux angle, but can't think of one. > > The powers-that-be-here don't even want you to know what can actually be achieved with Linux. In Tokyo they have a crazy ro

Re: [SLUG] Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)

2012-10-18 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Makes me wonder how much I’m killing the planet with the 700W power > supply in my PC. > You won't kill the planet, on account of it having an iron core. Don't worry. You'd need thousands of megawatts (at least) for your power-supply to da

Re: [SLUG] Customer site hacked with brut.php - what to do?

2012-08-21 Thread David Lyon
I have changed the password on the hosting account. It won't be possible to reload everything else because it is an ISP hosted machine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Customer site hacked with brut.php - what to do?

2012-08-21 Thread David Lyon
I have a customer with a hacked website. When I ftp'd to their web-server I found this wart (listed below - saved as brut.php): How did the hacker put it on my system ? What could it have comprimised ? What can I do to stop further consequences? --- brut.php (don't run this) --- #  GaStRo -Dz

[SLUG] Copying mc (midnight commander text) to local clipboard

2012-08-20 Thread David Lyon
I have to ssh to a remote machine. Then I use Midnight Commander for editing. It's pretty much what I like but .. .. Anybody know how to copy text to the local clipboard. It over-rides the ssh clipboard. I want to cut + paste between ssh windows. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Linux in your keyboard

2012-08-14 Thread David Lyon
For fans of linux : http://hackaday.com/2012/08/14/turning-a-keyboard-into-a-computer-with-a-raspberry-pi/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Recycling/Disposing of old PC's - Send to kids in Africa for their schools

2012-08-13 Thread David Lyon
If anybody has PC's to throw out, let me know. I can come pick them up. It turns out my friend is looking for such things and will send them to Sierra-Leone in Africa to teach kids about computers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Editing a text file (to preserve line-endings) - how to do it ?

2012-08-01 Thread David Lyon
Seemingly easy question, but it's not that simple. I have a text file which is from a legacy system. It's actually print data. ||| SALES - SUPPLIERX FOR MONTH

[SLUG] Android PC's for hacking

2012-07-03 Thread David Lyon
I stumbled upon these: http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/575789804-MK802-Android-4-0-Mini-PC-Thumb-Drive-Android4-0-IPTV-Smart-HD-Player-wholesalers.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Samba question

2012-05-22 Thread David Lyon
Not that I could ever figure it out properly myself but I do know the values are stored in samba.conf in /etc. They have a creation flag setting that you can easily change. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/ma

Re: [SLUG] DWG (autocad) Viewer / Convert to SVG

2012-05-11 Thread David Lyon
A lot of people use DXF then go to SVG/PNG that way. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:17 PM, meryl wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a DWG (autocad) Viewer / Converter to SVG and or > PNG > > A cursory search returns LX-Viewer and DraftSight. > > Which one do you use, or do you prefer another p

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread David Lyon
Are they dual core ? Do they have a sheetload of memory ? I found ubuntu got slower and slower till I got in newer hardware. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners

2012-04-15 Thread David Lyon
Do you want to buy a Brother Scanner with a network interface? Some scanners have text reading. The mastersource for OCR is on Sourceforge. Can't remember the packages name. Maybe Ubuntu has an OCR package. I would be surprised if it didn't work. Modern scanners have PDF scan, like the one I wa

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Apache limits on number of files in a directory

2012-04-04 Thread David Lyon
imho if you have so many files, it might be worth looking at a CMS where a record can be created for each item and rendered on demand. On 4/5/12, Jake Anderson wrote: > I wouldn't expect 1500 files in a dir to be slow (from the file system > POV, the ftp server is doing who knows what). > slow wo

Fwd: [SLUG] Ubuntu instalation

2012-04-01 Thread David Lyon
Don't know, but could be more than the hard-disk is dead. What type of computer ? I have recently encountered the same problem with HP-Desktops and was told that the CMOS battery was dead. True to the advice, when I replaced the battery the systems no longer came up with a blank screen and booted

[SLUG] Android features merging into Linux Kernel

2012-04-01 Thread David Lyon
http://hackaday.com/2012/03/19/android-rolled-into-linux-kernel-3-3/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 12.04 (David Lyon)

2012-03-30 Thread David Lyon
ok, I think I will download the beta and try it. For those who haven't seen Ubuntu 12 with its ultra-cool Heads-Up-Display and tweaked User Interface check it out at: - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/ubuntu-12-04-beta-1-released/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

[SLUG] Linux on 8 bit AVR

2012-03-30 Thread David Lyon
This guy says it is a little slow but it does work.. http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%208bit -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Ubuntu 12.04

2012-03-29 Thread David Lyon
- http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/251210/seven_new_features_in_ubuntu_1204_precise_pangolin_beta_1.html (I just downloaded their alpha. It's user interface is really schmick. Sadly it just wouldn't install to my machine properly). But what I did see was very, very nice. -- SLUG - S

Re: : [SLUG] Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Hodsdon wrote: > Like Chris, I haven't ordered yet, > > Raspberry pi & Arduino, what can we do? > You wouldn't need an Arduino if you had a r.Pi. It has a GPIO area that you can hook in whatever you need. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] Hacking "Hackable Android Pads"

2012-02-17 Thread David Lyon
st dump the raw data via tftp somewhere safe > so you can dump it back on to the tab if you mess up. > > If the previous owner of my netbook had done that it probably would have > saved me about 2 solid months of searching for compatible boot loaders and > android images. > > S

Re: [SLUG] Hacking "Hackable Android Pads"

2012-02-16 Thread David Lyon
- > no sound, or no mouse, or no wifi, etc. > > In the end I dumped Debian on it and used an android kernel to boot it. > > --Original Message-- > From: David Lyon > Sender: slug-boun...@slug.org.au > To: SLUG > Subject: [SLUG] Hacking "Hackable Android Pads" &g

[SLUG] Hacking "Hackable Android Pads"

2012-02-16 Thread David Lyon
There's lots of inexpensive Android Tablets. Junk? perhaps: - http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=android+tablet&catId=0 Question is, how to hack these things? They have a linux bootloader, where's information on that generally ? I know you have to build a kernel. That means picking

[SLUG] Linux Internet Radio - how to ?

2012-02-13 Thread David Lyon
On my Nokia phone I located this channel: - http://www.paris-one.com/dance/ Works on my phone. Anybody know how to program that to work on an embedded linux machine ? In either C++ or Python? Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and F

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-04 Thread David Lyon
well, another viewpoint. I bought a new notebook and it came with windows 7. For years I've not felt so dissappointed with a computer. I just couldn't find anything fun to do with it. They've even removed 'debug'.. Shish-ka-bobs. Then After I got Ubuntu 11 on, the machine is my sense of lovely.

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-03 Thread David Lyon
More to the point, everything these days comes with rules. I don't blame Apple for taking all the 'free' software rolling it up, and making motza's by selling it debugged with a nice bitmap on hiding all the crud. Then for hacking, nothing stops anyone hacking the devices. Except for Sony. And it

Re: [SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-22 Thread David Lyon
Thanks Steve, Very helpful. I will try some of the downloads from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/resources/se-embeddocs/index.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-21 Thread David Lyon
than running an interpreter. > > J. > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Lyon < > david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM >> board. >> >> Anybody know how to do it? >

[SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-21 Thread David Lyon
I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM board. Anybody know how to do it? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android for "work"

2011-12-15 Thread David Lyon
Well I noticed that it has gftp, some text-editors, maybe geany, a command line. It can run python and compile java. Subversion it can also run I think. So I'd say its got the potential not to be a toy. On 12/16/11, elliott-brennan wrote: > Is anyone on the list using Android for a > signific

Re: [SLUG] Android for "work"

2011-12-15 Thread David Lyon
I will give pclinux a go next time, I think. Well, by lack of answers it would seem Android may just be a toy. Given nobody is putting their hand up to say 'yeah, its a good work tool'. Will run a phone though.. No debate about that. On 12/15/11, Heracles wrote: > On 15/12/11 13:0

Re: [SLUG] Android for "work"

2011-12-14 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linder wrote: > When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he > is nearly always wrong I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for

Re: [SLUG] Android for "work"

2011-12-14 Thread David Lyon
maybe 2 years is really 5 or 6.. Actually, I just jumped over to learn Puppy Linux. Pretty hardcore but everything is quite good. Ubuntu has nice graphical effects but I have work to do and willing to lose them in an effort to get some stuff done.. still curious about Android.. -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Android for "work"

2011-12-14 Thread David Lyon
I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for work - just fine. At home I tried Ubuntu 11 and one my one or two year old hardware it just has unacceptable performance ie 10 - 20 seconds to respond to menu clicks etc. So, there is Android 3.2 from: http://www.android-x86.org/ Any good for tech work? ie lig

Re: [SLUG] Lightweight distribution

2011-12-06 Thread David Lyon
Depends what you are looking to do. Have you tried Puppy Linux? DSL - Damned Small Linux I agree wireless is harder on lighter distro's. Maybe that is the area that you need to Master. Then load that as a custom script. On 11/30/11, Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm looking for the

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-04 Thread David Lyon
umm... yeah... but doesn't run linux afaik On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM, simran wrote: > haha... indeed... would be good... although i think i'd still prefer my zx > spectrum :) > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, David Lyon > wrote: >> >> Simran, >

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-04 Thread David Lyon
Simran, I understand... you are after true beauty.. maybe you need a fignition system: - http://hackaday.com/2011/12/04/a-keyboard-for-your-fignition/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-02 Thread David Lyon
HP-Envy with 8 cores are pretty nice for Ubuntu.. The hard-drives inside have a design flaw which causes them to overheat and die. SSD would fix that. I repaired one for a friend, just booted ubuntu from usb. Great! On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM, simran wrote: > hi all, > > wanted to ask you

[SLUG] New ARM tools for Native apps on Android

2011-11-30 Thread David Lyon
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/arms-new-tools-make-it-easier-for-android-devs-to-use-native-code.ars -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-23 Thread David Lyon
I've given up trying to find any job. Not employable. Rather, I'm trying to build a pad computer based on Android to take back to Japan and sell. The whole android hardware thing is going through a massive transformation and there's just a whole lot of things 'not-right' about android that requir

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-23 Thread David Lyon
Everybody wants slippery slidy finger driven desktops these days. If it's not like that then it's not cool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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