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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 RAID with ALL brand new
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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 li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
I've setup a Centos 5 with Cacti, it all seems to work, but, when I
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
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 mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have an laptop with a native resolution of 1280x800 running Debian
testing
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
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
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 few
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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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 r...@greyheads.net wrote:
I am trying to install RT (Request Tracker) on a new server
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
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
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
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:
snip
Failed to process
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
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
, then Vodafone, Optus and then Telstra at
the opposite end of the scale.
2010/1/21 Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au 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
trivial to get going
I can vouch for scribus, its quite good and very actively developed.
Dean
Rodolfo MartÃnez 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
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
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
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
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
marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote:
Dean Hamstead wrote:
Anyone heard
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)
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
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
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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
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?
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
-
hey all,
anyone know what has happened to sydney wireless?
Dean
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Powerdns has a great front ending poweradmin.
Apt-cache search pdns
Dean
On 29/08/2009, at 2:23 PM, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au 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)
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
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
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
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
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 rather
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
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 a...@paradise.net.nz 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
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
check out pfsense.org
its bsd based and in many ways more advanced than ipcop
Dean
On 8/3/2009, Grant Parnell par...@muli.com.au 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
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 t...@animats.net wrote:
I just received an email from kogan advising that their non-Pro Agora is
now
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
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 =~
I would have to recommend NUT over apcupsd.
Dean
On 6/22/2009, Ben shadr...@gmail.com 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
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
is no
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
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 kol...@gmail.com wrote:
Given that my Lacie Ethernet disk just died, I was thinking of solid
backup solutions for my personal
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 cjsva...@gmail.com:
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote:
I use unison:
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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 am
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
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
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
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
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 so...@snowfrog.net wrote:
I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and
competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
acer aspire one eepc
i did pay the windows tax but oh well.
the eepc is tonnes of fuss to install
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
the acer just took linux and loved it
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne
the msi looks like the same hardware as the aspire one.
the main difference i have
months.
Dean
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote:
the msi looks like the same hardware as the aspire one.
the main difference i have seem from the eepc to the aspire
is better support for the network hardware in the aspire.
MSI Wind apparently has a great
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