Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy

2011-02-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
this legislation is meaningless as open source projects cant respond to tenders. vendors are already selling products rooted in, or heavily based on open source. the basis of the softwares development was already irrelevant in the tender process. this legislation should have also included state

Re: [SLUG] Optus broadband stick

2011-01-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
which model is it? this will dictate 3.6 or 7.2 meg max (dual frequency) huawei modems typical appear as two usb serial devices. the first for data, the second provides a control plane of sorts. both use a classic hayes 'AT' like command set, and ppp is used to create an ip connection with the m

Re: [SLUG] kvm network bridging etc

2011-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
libvirt is a library, but libvirtd will manage kvm's for you you just make xml (ew but oh well) configs for the vm, and use virsh to fire them up in terms of configuring network interfaces, you just set up a bridge interface (brXX) and bond it to eth0, then in the vm configurations you just

Re: [SLUG] kvm network bridging etc

2011-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
using libvirt to manage kvm? Dean On 25/01/11 14:18, david wrote: Can any kind soul point me at instructions or examples? I need my guests and host to be seen as public static IP numbers and I need to be able to do it all from command line. I can find plenty of google fluff, but either it doe

Re: [SLUG] Which Virtualisation, and why?

2011-01-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
its FOSS, gpl etc Dean On 12/01/11 15:20, david wrote: dave b wrote: Hum ... easy virtualisation for those who don't want to do it manually ... http://www.proxmox.com/ - from their homepage: Search Keyword licence Total: 0 results found you can use both kvm and openvz and it has a ni

Re: [SLUG] Which Virtualisation, and why?

2011-01-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi David All the linux big boys are moving fast to KVM. Redhat and IBM have abandoned Xen completely, making it an out of kernel patch set maintained by Citrix and perhaps code from Oracle. Youll find that Debian has also elected to discontinue Xen in the next release. Virtualbox is still ni

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading OS RAID

2011-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
fer the system onto the new RAID. Just haven't figured out how yet. Plus any other gotchas I don't yet know about. Kind Regards Kyle On 10/01/11 9:32 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: 1. How do I go about rebuilding the

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading OS RAID

2011-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
1. How do I go about rebuilding the RAID with ALL brand new disks (obviously no longer the same disks, but now newer spec larger disks) such that I don't lose not only the data but don't have to rebuild the whole machine again? Your goal isnt clear. Can you please elaborate? 2. I'm better stic

Re: [SLUG] website questionnaire software?

2011-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
Limesurvey is nice. Typical Php+mysql Its very feature filled, so setting up surveys has a learning curve. You have to wrap your head around how they have presented the (gui driven) survey configuration. it can be found on fm, google, etc. Dean On 07/01/11 14:40, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Can

Re: [SLUG] Value of Red Hat certification ?

2011-01-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
Youll find that there is ample information on the internet to be able to study the RH exams without paying thousands on a training course. You may also find it more cost effective to sit the exam, then go away and study, then sit it again. Each exam sitting costing the (ridiculous) cost of ab

Re: [SLUG] A Toshiba Computer.

2010-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
On 29/12/10 15:16, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: So, I bought a new computer at the (ahem) Boxing Day Sales. It happens :) It's a Toshiba and I'd like some advice on (a) heaving the (obligatory) Windows out of the system and (b) installing the latest Ubuntu. When buying laptops, its ex

Re: [SLUG] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site

2010-10-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
"Denyhosts" is a very useful program which allows you to configure automatic blocking of port 22 based on a range of criteria, with a range of banning lifetimes etc Its a package in most distributions, well documented and afaik widely used. Ive used it on deb, centos, freebsd, openbsd etc De

Re: [SLUG] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site

2010-10-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
There is a kernel module which you can build yourself. Or you can write a script to generate huge iptables rules from your geoips details. You should be careful to update it regularly. And also keep in mind that long time 'unallocated' ranges are now allocated. 1/8 for example, a large chunk

Re: [SLUG] Re: Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
my 2c. my recommendation is just to pick a popular distro and focus on configuring services and applications. you should also endeavor to avoid leaning on gui tools and wizards to configure things. 'learning' all the different distributions is pretty much pointless. mastering what they have

Re: [SLUG] copying binaries from one Centos to another?

2010-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
you can just force the older rpm to install On 18/09/10 13:01, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have a Centos 5x system with RRDTool 1.2x as in # ls bin include lib share # pwd /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.27 I want to use this on another Centos 5x, do I need to copy anything else beside recursive /usr/lo

Re: [SLUG] enabling snmp on NIC ?

2010-09-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
start with the command like snmpwalk to see that snmp is working properly. as netsnmp allows you to not only have snmp v2 communities, but also IP and oid access lists. Dean On 9/15/2010, "Voytek Eymont" wrote: >I've setup a Centos 5 with Cacti, it all seems to work, but, when I try to >get i

Re: [SLUG] High I/O file systems

2010-08-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
the first question that comes to mind is, are you using RAID? Dean On 31/08/10 20:48, Max Wright wrote: Has anyone implemented any of the high I/O filesystems which have been added to the kernel? We have some busy databases which put ext3 under stress, I am wondering about Oracle's fs for insta

Re: [SLUG] Weird X/Gnome issue

2010-07-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Gnome display settings are perhaps overriding the x config. If all else fails, try creating another user and logging in? Dean On 29/07/2010, at 7:22 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an laptop with a native resolution of 1280x800 running Debian > testing with a Gnome deskt

[SLUG] Re: [chat] WiFi AP, is WRT54G the way to go ?

2010-07-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Voytek You may want to pick something with open source support that is more modern. For example a Netgear or an Asus. Without knowing your requirements, i cant recommend a more specific model. However the faster cpu, wireless-N and possibly gigabit ports may be worth a few extra dollars to y

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

2010-06-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Zazz.com.au has ubuntu installed pc's from time to time. They seem to be ex-leases, form factor is usually smallish. Although you have to wait for them to come around for sale :) Dean Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for a

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
I suspect I'll stick to Xen until RHEL/CentOS 6 comes out and officially supports KVM (unless I missed the change of status of KVM in 5.5 from "Technology Preview" (its status in 5.4) to "Supported", have I?) Yeah its supported, apparently. Or you can guy RHEV and get better features for a fe

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
Stay away from Xen as IBM and RedHat have both abandoned it in favour of KVM. Stay away from vmware as its closed source and only developed by vmware :) KVM is in centos 5.4 and every other distribution (debian etc). Centos 4.8 supports virtio for much faster io and network performance. At my und

Re: [SLUG] Linux hosting providers - recommendations

2010-05-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
I was looking at crazydomains.com.au. Any experience with them? Google for reviews about them, I don't have personal experience but found many horror stories (now that I think - maybe on the whirlpool forums too). They are fantastically cheap for buying domains. But for hosting, their ma

Re: [SLUG] Debian, WattOS, BSD, ZFS .. & boot probs.

2010-04-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
is this spinning disk sequence you described actually just these 4 ascii characters being displayed such they appear spinning? ie -\|/- this is the freebsd kernel booting. seems strange that you would install the freebsd kernel source code? i dont think the intention is to be able to boot your d

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Membership decline

2010-04-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
My 2c. Having been a SLUG troll for many years now (10+?, i think i was maybe 15-16, now im edging dangerously closer to 30), of late i have found SLUG to be less and less interesting. I have pondered on it from time to time as I used to really enjoy SLUG. My thoughts are along two lines...

Re: [SLUG] Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS

2010-03-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Try this netgear http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessNRoutersandGateways/WNR3500L.aspx Be careful to get the 'L' release, as i accidentally got the WNR3500 which cant run dd-wrt (etc). Has 5 ports gig (1 is wan) and Wireless-N. A great buy and good to see companies seeing

Re: [SLUG] System admin graphing tools

2010-02-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
torrus is awesome www.torrus.org Dean Ken Foskey wrote: We all know we should do it. Provide a monitoring system to see how our system loads are going. I have a couple of links that look interesting: http://flapjack-project.com/ It is local so goes first :-) Flapjack is a scalable and dist

Re: [SLUG] editdns opinions?

2010-02-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
i have had good experiences with xname.org it does what it says on the box, without fuss Dean david wrote: I'm thinking of using editdns.net for dns secondaries Does anyone have an opinion? thanks David -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - ht

Re: [SLUG] Perl Modules

2010-02-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
Which distribution are you running? Most distributions have rpm/apt/ etc of rt. This makes life much easier. Otherwise follow the rt install instructions... Dean On 24/02/2010, at 7:07 AM, Rick Phillips wrote: I am trying to install RT (Request Tracker) on a new server but have found mysel

Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

2010-02-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Regardless of the method used, with two drives you either get speed or reliability, you dont get both. You either mirror (reliability) or stripe (speed). Dean Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit.

2010-02-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
i have been running 64bit linux (admittedly debian not ubuntu) for 5 years now, never had any issues - although i have also run linux on sparc and powerpc... so what i consider issues and what others consider issues may vary :) x86_64 is as stable as any other port of linux, most companies are

Re: [SLUG] custom kernel throws dpkg error

2010-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
why not use KVM or virtualbox? Dean david wrote: After installing VMWare-Server following this howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-1.0.x-on-an-ubuntu-9.10-desktop-p2 I now get this every time I do *any* apt-get install: Failed to process /etc/kernel/postin

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I think youll find that this grease is actually a special highly thermal conductive fluid - which is designed to improve contact between the cpu and the heatsink Check that the cpu fan is working, (cables could be blocking it), also examine the air flow through your case. You could consider

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Part of the motivation for buying a modem out-right and use pre-paid is that it doesn't tie us to any plan, plus we expect to use the pre-paid modem very sporadically - in emergencies which happen when the guy on call is out and just must access the network. the down side of pre-paid is that

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
the worst, then Vodafone, Optus and then Telstra at the opposite end of the scale. 2010/1/21 Dean Hamstead mailto:d...@fragfest.com.au>> The Optus dongles 'just work', as the huawei modems are well supported in more recent kernels and network-manager. They are also tr

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
The Optus dongles 'just work', as the huawei modems are well supported in more recent kernels and network-manager. They are also trivial to get going using wvdial (which i use) or other ppp tools. Virgin, Dodo, 3 and Voda dongles which are from Huawei are no doubt just as trivial to configure.

Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing

2010-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
I can vouch for scribus, its quite good and very actively developed. Dean Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Hi Heracles, Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable, and it is available for most of the Linux distrib

Re: [SLUG] logrotate hourly

2010-01-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
Depends on the impact of logrotation on the program for which the rotation is occurring. Also if there is low log activity, you may find a large number of otherwise empty files will become troublesome to deal with. Dean david wrote: Is there a good reason NOT to rotate logs hourly.. for exam

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
If we want to take a really pessimistic view, of where censorship of the net could go, there are not only those who deny Climate Change is being influenced by Human activity, but also those who deny evolutionbut there are enough implementation issues to focus on. Belittling peoples willingne

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
Martin Visser wrote: Kevin The physical links to the rest of the Internet are not some vapourish, unfathomable sort of web. They are real bits of optical fibre cabling (with a smattering of satellite for backup) that terminate on real routers in real data centres. They are certainly enumerable,

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
I don't consider gut wtetching violence freedom of speech. I was interested in marches and so forth about wasting tax money on cisco hardware... I mean filtering. Dean On 17/12/2009, at 4:29 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: Anyone heard of actual pro

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
Anyone heard of actual protests? Dean Adam Kennedy wrote: Is anyone aware of any groups taking more direct technical action against this proposal? I'm more of a builder of things than a talker, and it occurs to me that if the scope of potential blocking is as wide as it (naively, to me) appear

Re: [SLUG] Re: Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
Where do we get these people. They congregate in to 'Parties', meet monthly, and people vote for them. They fill up three levels of government, with an upper and lower house for state and federal :) Dean -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
Youre forgetting how wholeheartedly the people of australia voted in the current labor government. Although this should really move to slug-chat Dean Mike wrote: I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't. Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be censore

Re: [SLUG] Secondary Mail Server

2009-11-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
Ideally, a secondary MX should have the same configuration as the primary. How often does your user list change? It should be reasonably straight forward to provide a list of users to the secondary. If you configure your secondary as a relay host for your primary, then it will accept mail from

Re: [SLUG] Free DNS services ?

2009-11-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
xname Dean Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, whom can you recommend pls as reputable, reliable (as it gets for free) free full-control dns services along the lines of what dnsmadeeasy does please? -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subsc

Re: [SLUG] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether it's worth moving to 64-bit. I confess that I still dual boot 32-bit for one legacy application: Vuescan. But with enough tinkering with ia32-lib or VirtualBox, I bet I could get it to work. It used to work on 64-bit Intrepid. Ot

Re: [SLUG] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
The lesson here may be not to use python :) Dean Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 10:00 +0800, jam wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009 05:57:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: otherwise, 32bit is better. Pray wax lyrical Memory footprint. For instance, bzr memory use under 32-bi

Re: [SLUG] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
32bit is dead flash works perfectly (linux vs windows aside) in 64bit and has done for ages. by default the gpl flash is installed, youll just need to install the nonfree adobe flash package and use update-alternatives to make sure its selected as your flash plugin. any archaic and annoyin

Re: [SLUG] Netgear's NMRP protocol

2009-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
maybe ask the dd-wrt or openwrt guys? Dean Peter Chubb wrote: Has anyone reverse-engineered a tool to write NMRP packets? It looks pretty easym, but fiddly; I'd rather avoid the work if someone else has already done it. Especially as it looks as if I'd need to hook up a serial port to be able

Re: [SLUG] IPTables

2009-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
also, not syncing the clock makes date stamps in logs almost entirely unreliable. Also very true unless maybe his sever is a virtual one on top of a platform which provides an accurate clock. Or an external clock, perhaps GPS or some other solution for time sync. Dean -- http://fragfest.com

Re: [SLUG] IPTables

2009-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
Even though dns may not be 'turned on', almost everything tcpip related wants dns look ups. sshd for example, will stall for quite an annoying amount of time trying to do a reverse lookup. unless you dont actually have name servers configured at all. also, not syncing the clock makes date sta

Re: [SLUG] IPTables

2009-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
You most likely want to allow outbound dns and the subsequent reply Keep in mind that blocking outbound usually requires a few more allowances than just the basic service you plan the box to provide. NTP also springs to mind, so that you can keep the clock in sync. You can also allow ping req

Re: [SLUG] Asset Tracking / Inventory Management

2009-11-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
try racktables.org Dean Joel Heenan wrote: SLUG, Looking for a lightweight open-source asset tracking / inventory management tool. Our needs are basic, but we may want to customize the model or starting getting funky with it. The tool should: - Have a reasonable web based interface - Allo

[SLUG] sydney wireless

2009-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
hey all, anyone know what has happened to sydney wireless? Dean -- 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] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
larger fans are quieter than smaller fans, and much cheaper than liquid cooling you can also get extremely large cpu coolers that will reduce noise. Dean Ken Foskey wrote: My computer is too noisy. It is not graphics because it is not used much and when it does there is enough background n

Re: [SLUG] VPS hosting

2009-10-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://www.crucial.com.au/ Dean Ashley Glenday wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, cost effective, virtual hosting provider? I'm unhappy with the host I'm using now charging to reboot the server and for data transfers in and out. Basically what I'm looking for is a server I can reboot mysel

Re: [SLUG] RE WIRELESS BROADBAND ON NETBOOKS

2009-09-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
jam wrote: On Thursday 01 October 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: We use Westnet Huawei e169 usb drives on 701 EEEPC's I guess any reseller that uses Optus as a carrier will be the same. We use Mint and it has worked on Puppy and Ubuntu The default E program wont find 3g network

Re: [SLUG] Debian PPPoE problem

2009-09-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
3. On my gigabit NIC, it had 4 led lights; 2 for 10/100 link (led1 and led2); another 2 for 1000 link (led3 and led4) When my debian box is off or in BIOS, on eth0 (connected to billion modem) led3 and led4 will be on static green (as expected) But after the debian connected with pppoe, led2 a

Re: [SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
From what I hear they are proprietary and their technology is not routable. I prefer to stick to an open standard, preferably something which comes as part of CentOS 5. ATAoE is l2 protocol so no its not routable, but ATAoE is a published standard and the drivers are in the kernel since 2.6.

Re: [SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage. I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI. I am not sure that you want to use

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
Try NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ although its been dead for a long while. http://kompozer.net/ which seems to be under development again! Dean Kyle wrote: Hi Folks, what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux?Junior wants to start building his own website, so he's going to require

Re: [SLUG] IT asset tracking - IRM ? what else ?

2009-09-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
tried this ? http://racktables.org/ Dean Voytek Eymont wrote: On Wed, September 9, 2009 10:00 pm, Chris Collins wrote: On 09/09/2009, at 9:49 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: If you read the IRM website, you'd see that it forked into GLPI - http://www.glpi-project.org/ I've just deployed GLPI o

Re: [SLUG] DNS Appliances/Web Frontends

2009-08-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Powerdns has a great front ending poweradmin. Apt-cache search pdns Dean On 29/08/2009, at 2:23 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: www.webmin.com Ben UnspecifiedId wrote: Greetings, a) can anyone recommend a good virtual DNS appliance with a decent Web GUI frontend or b) good Web Front ends for

Re: [SLUG] Kogan Agora Netbooks

2009-08-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
sounds like slug should arrange some kick backs Dean Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Thanks Terry, Your initial response prompted a whole lot of discussion, and a few purchases. Marghanita Terry Dawson wrote: (sorry, this one got lost too!) Marghanita da Cruz wrote: However, I would like to kn

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Definitely, It wasnt long ago that the $999 desktop, then the $999 laptop was a massive breakthrough. I hope someone (amd maybe) breaks the Atom monopoly and brings some more cores, bits, fpu and pipelines to the netbook cpu market. Dean Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hopefully an alternative to the Atom will hit the market soon Need some competition to heat things up and bring prices down. Dean yes, I saw similar articles (and it seems to be confirmed when spec-browsing) according to an OEM offer out of PRC someone showed me, the cost of OEM XPH was USD3

Re: [SLUG] Anyone with a Beyonwiz PVR - looking for clues on how to transcode the video

2009-08-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
I was under the impression 'freeview' was a united front of the free to air channels against paytv (eg. foxtel/austar and any incoming iptv offerings) more so now that digital free to air now has a lot more channels[1] and some paytv like features (digital, show information etc), it kind of see

Re: [SLUG] ftp client recomendations ?

2009-08-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
sounds firewall related? bloat your browser more with http://fireftp.mozdev.org/ Dean Voytek Eymont wrote: what is a good ftp client for windoze ? I have a user with Filezilla, since he moved ISP, his Filezilla times out with my ProFTPd on Centos (but, it worked till now with the former ISP)

Re: Pro now discounted...Re: [SLUG] Kogan Agora (non-pro) Netbooks discounted again, was: Kogan Agora Netbooks

2009-08-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
that is good news, thanks for the heads up Marghanita Dean Marghanita da Cruz wrote: The Agora Pro has now also been discounted...to $439 <http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-agora-netbook-pro/> Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: only difference is 1/2 the battery (3 cell

Re: [SLUG] Sound system details

2009-08-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Pci or ISA? Lspci will list pci devices and give you a starting point. Dean On 13/08/2009, at 10:29 AM, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I have just set up a lenny system on old box and am having trouble getting audio up. It is a while since I have done this, but could someone suggest how to find ou

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
Keep in mind that mobile data (on average) halves in cost each year. So prepaid is preferable over 24 month contracts, no matter how cheap they seem now. Dean jam wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: That's a given, mobile internet or not! 2009/8/6 Kevin

Re: [SLUG] linux firewall/vpn devices wanted

2009-08-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
check out pfsense.org its bsd based and in many ways more advanced than ipcop Dean On 8/3/2009, "Grant Parnell" wrote: >Something sub $500.00 that's small, runs linux and is customisable. It >probably should have 256MB of RAM and at least the same in flash and two >ethernet ports and at least

Re: [SLUG] Kogan Agora (non-pro) Netbooks discounted again, was: Kogan Agora Netbooks

2009-07-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
only difference is 1/2 the battery (3 cell rather than 6) and 1/2 the ram (1 rather than 2 gig) amazing how much some battery acid and ram can add to the price Dean On 7/28/2009, "Terry Dawson" wrote: > >I just received an email from kogan advising that their non-Pro Agora is >now $399, which

Re: [SLUG] Kogan Agora Netbooks

2009-07-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
How does battery life fare? Dean Terry Dawson wrote: Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Any thoughts on these? Powering the Kogan Agora Netbook is gOS, a very aesthetically pleasing, powerful, intuitive, and fast operating system. Combined with the power and great value of our hardware, it brings you

Re: [SLUG] Extracting string from a file - shell script

2009-07-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
in perl, depending on how strictly you want to enforce the format of the TF0220 (in this case, just any string between 'End of' and 'at'. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $string = q|*** End of TF0220 at Thu Jul 2 10:06:51 EST 2009 - RC = 0|; my ($var) = $string =~ /End\s+o

Re: [SLUG] Server Monitoring: RAID6, VMs, disk usage

2009-06-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
I would have to recommend NUT over apcupsd. Dean On 6/22/2009, "Ben" wrote: >Hi Lindsay, > >Thanks for that comprehensive answer. > >So collectd runs on each system itself, but I assume Nagios is centralised >at some point, so where would be the most sensible place to do that? Is >there ultra r

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
longer a problem :) Dean Ken Foskey wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:10 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one. The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice. Brother has an aspire running Linux for wife.Works well from what I can see. It is

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one. The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice. I suspect this aspire one goodness, rests mainly on an intel developed reference board which has had minimal customization. The cheapy one has all sorts of strange quirks. Dean Adrian C

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

2009-05-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
why not use ftp then? Dean Andre Kolodochka wrote: Is there something not necessarily based on rsync? ftp, for example? Andre. 2009/5/26 Christopher Vance : On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: I use unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ It claims to run

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

2009-05-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
you can also apply rsync over ssh. there are a number of OS ssh servers for windows. Dean Gonzalo Servat wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Andre Kolodochka wrote: Given that my Lacie Ethernet disk just died, I was thinking of solid backup solutions for my personal files (20-30Gb). Si

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

2009-05-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
PS: On a Mac, you can usually take a hard drive out of one machine and put it in another and it will "just work". How much tweaking to get the same result on linux/ubuntu? network cards and significantly different disk devices (ie pata, sata, some strange raid) are usually the only hurdle,

Re: [SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?

2009-05-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Apache is always a great choice. Apache 2 is extremely modular and allows for some mind boggling configuration arrangements. The configuration is somewhat intimidating, but debian has packaged it up to make it much more convenient (and possibly less intimidating). If ubuntu has borrowed this arrang

Re: [SLUG] Web hosting recommendations

2009-05-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
bur.st used to be good, but they arent taking any more users i have VPS with crucial but they also do web hosting. 3gig HDD, 60gig downloads 5.95/month or $59.95/year mysql, perl, php, RoR, fp, etc etc http://www.crucialp.com/web-hosting/ Dean Paul Robinson wrote: Hi Mary, What about mont

Re: [SLUG] Linux netbook?

2009-04-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
the kogan looks really good. i would like to know the sound and network chipsets though. chances are intel or realtek sound, and broadcom or realtek network. the intel video is properly supported by x, although its far from a power house. Dean Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at ban

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

2009-04-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
RAM is so cheap now, that if you start using swap heavily people just drop in a bit more ! I tend to roughly match swap and memory. At least when i first install. Dean Michael Chesterton wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:02 PM, Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, I've decided to increase the RAM on my home Ce

Re: [SLUG] Certifications

2009-04-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
Although cisco are the spawn of all evil, CCNA has good street cred. You should also consider investing a few years at university and getting computer science or engineering degree. Dean Meijer, Luke wrote: Hello What (if any) Linux certifications have / are you guys doing? I am looking a

Re: [SLUG] Sound Problem - Chipset Specs

2009-04-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
have you run alsaconf? Dean Malcolm Johnston wrote: The "scanpci" command has produced the following info: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC '97 Audio Controller A "-v" flag to this command produces much more information, but I'm not sure that this is necessary for the moment. I

Re: [SLUG] Clients accessing web server

2009-03-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
vsftpd has a good reputation if you are very paranoid, you can set up sftp with keys. Dean Rick Welykochy wrote: Rick Phillips wrote: I have never allowed FTP, SFTP nor SSH access to the server for security reasons (other than myself) but this customer wants to directly edit his new web si

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
> Yes, it's Solaris 10. I was under the impression that Virtualbox was > focused more on desktop virtualisation and is less geared for servers. > Is that incorrect? They are feeling the lure of data center virtualisation. However Virtualbox is probably not mature enough for system critical appli

Re: [SLUG] A little SAMBA help, maybe?

2009-03-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
I think you are approaching this in the wrong way try the "write list" flag. [tv5] comment = TV Shows path = /volumes/tv5 write list = @files read only = No create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0775 guest ok = Yes Dean Kyle wrote: Hi fo

[SLUG] OpenIPMI vs FreeIPMI

2009-03-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
Im interested in peoples thoughts on OpenIPMI vs FreeIPMI. Googling hasnt really given me a concise list of pro's con's, strength's, weakness's etc. Basically im just after shortest path to SOL and power control. Monitoring other functions would be nice but is already done using lmsensors et

Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?

2009-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
Mencoder is your Swiss army knife of encoders. It's not on debian by default so it may not be in ubuntu. Dean On 02/03/2009, at 8:01 AM, 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

Re: [SLUG] MySQL

2009-02-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
apt-get install mysql-server Dean Chris Allen wrote: I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and want to teach myself MySQL. I thought it would be simple enough to select it from the options "Add/Remove Applications" I can see option to install an administrator and a browser but not the server itself. Ha

Re: [SLUG] Network sound

2009-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
ages ago i experimented with getting esound working over a network. my experiment was successful and having achieved my goal i did nothing more with it. but i had a quirky combination of softwares and hardware... xmms running on a clamshell ibook running debian pcc via wireless ethernet

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
for anyone interested, zazz.com.au has a cheap nas on sale today the usual disclaimers apply (ie i dont work for them etc) Dean Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:33:48AM +0900, jam wrote: Seagate published this http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
are you installing the nvidia drivers? or just the out of the box open source ones? Dean jam wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: 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 vid

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
mythtv in all its flavours, but i recommend the popcorn a-110 i put a review of it at http://rantage.com.au/item/1229558115/ Dean 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 ove

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
4 port sata cards are about $50, so motherboard density isnt really that big of a deal. what i would worry about is how well the sata controller chip is supported. the aforemented $50 cards are 99% silicon image chips with excellent drivers. my mileage hasnt been so good with other onboard sata

Re: [SLUG] How do you un-partition a HD

2008-12-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
did you install on to the external hard disk? what format was the external hard disk before and after? Dean Daryl Thompson wrote: Help Help Help Last night a copied all my data onto a external Hard disk. then precoded to install Linux forgetting to remove the external Hard disk. Now how can

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