Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-22 Thread Jeff Allison
Checked it's the right disk. On 22 March 2014 18:53, Lubos Rendek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Jeff Allison > wrote: >> Now here's a strange one the drive is now back in it's usb case. >> >> [jeff@nas ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdd/bonnie++/

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-21 Thread Jeff Allison
Now here's a strange one the drive is now back in it's usb case. [jeff@nas ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdd/bonnie++/test.tmp bs=4k count=200 && sync 200+0 records in 200+0 records out 819200 bytes (8.2 GB) copied, 248.397 s, 33.0 MB/s It's now 8x faster.

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-20 Thread Jeff Allison
Yeah luckily I got a WD 2.5TB back from RMA yesterday much faster I'll probably just and that one in instead. On 21 March 2014 12:46, gr0ve wrote: > At least you got the shiny BIOS that unleashes the beast within! > > > rachel > > -- > rachel polanskis > > &

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-20 Thread Jeff Allison
opps forgot the list Definatly the disk... [jeff@nas ~]$dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdj/bonnie/test.tmp bs=4k count=200 && sync && dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdd/bonnie/test.tmp bs=4k count=200 && sync 200+0 records in 200+0 records outDefinatly the disk...

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-19 Thread Jeff Allison
I failed the suspect disk out of the array and now the rebuild is 16000K/sec 4x faster. Strange. Time to do some disk testing... On 19 March 2014 14:59, Jeff Allison wrote: > I ran hdparm... > > [root@nas ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sdd <-- dud disk > > /dev/sdd: > Timing cache

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-18 Thread Jeff Allison
That's installed unfortunately didn't fix my problem. How badly configured does a disk need to be to only run at 4mb On 18/03/2014 3:43 PM, "Rachel Polanskis" wrote: > On 18 Mar 2014, at 3:14 pm, Jeff Allison > wrote: > > Is it the O41072911.ROM? > > Did y

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-17 Thread Jeff Allison
t; > rachel > > -- > rachel polanskis > > >> On 18 Mar 2014, at 14:01, Jeff Allison wrote: >> >> I'm still running the stock bios, only have 3gb sata drives and no >> ssd. so I felt staying stock was safer. >> >> I must have misconfigured somethi

Re: [SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-17 Thread Jeff Allison
dy. More extensive googling on HP N54L Bios will explain it for > you. > > If you have done the mod, you might need to check > > default blocksizes etc.... > > > > > rachel > > > > -- > rachel polanskis > > > On 18 Mar 2014, at 13:28, Jeff Alli

[SLUG] v-slow raid resync

2014-03-17 Thread Jeff Allison
OK todays problem. I have a HP N54L Microserver running centos 6.5. In this box I have a 3x2TB disk raid 5 array, which I am in the process of extending to a 4x2TB raid 5 array. I've added the new disk --> mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb And grown the array --> mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-device

Re: [SLUG] Weird missing files.

2014-02-09 Thread Jeff Allison
Nah after some messing I'm thinking its some kind of timeout. On 10/02/2014 1:45 PM, "Jeff Allison" wrote: > Hi all I've got a strange samba issue. > > I've a Centos 6.5 box with a 3.6 raid ext4 data drive on it, shared > with samba. > > Now when I br

[SLUG] Weird missing files.

2014-02-09 Thread Jeff Allison
Hi all I've got a strange samba issue. I've a Centos 6.5 box with a 3.6 raid ext4 data drive on it, shared with samba. Now when I browse these folders on the console I can see the files. when I sftp on the command line from another box I can see these files. But when I browse via samba or using

[SLUG] Australian distributor product page for Raspberry Pi (Model B)

2012-02-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
Have at it: http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b/dp/2081185 More information: http://www.rasberrypi.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Slug Meeting August 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 14:28, wrote: > Details > > Details TBA. > Awesome! ... wait, wha--? ;-) How many people generally come along to SLUG these days? Any further updates re: what's on tomorrow? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQ

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting - Friday March 25 2011

2011-03-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
(1) Yea (2) Yea (3) Nay (4) Yea Thanks, - Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] sudo configuration question

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff Allison
I've obviously missed something simple here, but how do you configure sudo to allow a user to open a shell as another user? ie sudo -s -u oracle I need to allow two external users access to the oracle account to set up a system but I don't want to tell them the password or change it as it's NIS.

Re: [SLUG] Talk Timer

2010-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Can anyone recommend a talk timer? http://lightningtimer.net/ - Jeff -- Ubuntu's Bleeding Edge http://ubuntuedge.wordpress.com/ "That rug really tied the room together." - The Dude, The Big Lebowski -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
y impacts of such an application, or even the fact > that such an application was possible, and left it at that. Look around for Zeitgeist. :-) - Jeff -- Ubuntu's Bleeding Edge http://ubuntuedge.wordpress.com/ Acts of random. -- SLUG - S

Re: [SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
o point using wp-cache, and it is highly unlikely that there is a direct relationship between "attacked" and wp-super-cache. > Running 'sudo a2enmod deflate' reveals that it's already running. > It's already faster than it was. Doesn't mean it's act

[SLUG] WordPress & sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
> that really got me curious, so i had a poke around the 2.9.2 code base. > jeff, i'm wondering what led to a decision to reimplement php session > handling in custom code? seems the code that leads to pulling the $user > from a permanent store via an encrypted cookie valu

Re: [SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
like Richard has something else running on every request? Notably session_start is not called in the WordPress codebase. Richard, you haven't turned on WP_DEBUG in wp-config.php, have you? (That would explain at least some of the notices and warnings...) - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Bl

Re: [SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > I can see that the page and the background are there. But, no written > content of pictures.Don't know what to do about that. Probably a theme issue. Make sure that you have the freshest version of your theme, and then start looking at your error.log -> you'

WordPress, PHP ... Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
a few weeks for Ubuntu. Seems fine here. I've been running it for a couple of months on production servers [1] for WordPress, PHP, MySQL, etc., and they're running swimmingly. Quite a few problems were shaken out of the PHP 5.3 stack before release, such as the requirement to update APC i

[SLUG] Best API/abstraction? [Was: Time Pedantry] servers?)

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I for one am glad such pages exist. I wish the inventors of time_t had > read it. So which language / library has a great abstraction for time and date stuff, helping you deal with the intricacies of this craziness? - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout

Re: Why so snooty? Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:27:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on > > (with dates and times especially) in a complex stack of software than > > just the OS. Consider the amount of legacy

Why so snooty? Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Waugh
f the MySQL-based Open Source applications around you... Example: WordPress only gained automagically updating named timezones (rather than manual offsets) in 2.7 or 2.8. Fat load of good "Linux" [1] did in that case. - Jeff [1] It's not like you're talking about the Linux kernel here, ei

Re: [SLUG] Tar backup of links

2010-03-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
ks, thus archiving whatever they point to (directories or files, it'll follow them all). - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ "To do: Start up a a magazine dedicated to picky grammar. Call it 'Whom

Re: [SLUG] cloud / VM storage

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
rage at Linode will change once they have the new platform in place.) - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ GNOME. Vorsprung durch Einfachheit. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
this out.) - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ Patches are like Free Software love letters. -- 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: Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
, but I think you have to give the file a special name. I have a DOS image on a USB stick, so I just used that. - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ i wish i could write good flames boc: you can't win

Re: [SLUG] Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
se delightful netbooks: Asus has shipped a few BIOS updates, the most recent of which has improved my wifi performance/reliability considerably. Recommended update. - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ "One in 10 Europeans is allegedly

[SLUG] Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
older netbooks with the N280 (better than N270) or one of the new ones with N450, if you're not optimizing for price. - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ "The beanbag is a triumph of modern day eclectic colourism..." - Catie

Re: [SLUG] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.

2010-01-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
g because the http session isn't closed > until the php ends. You're very likely to find a solution to this in the WordPress code base, particularly related to the WP-Cron code (an implementation of "poor man's cron", in order to run scheduled jobs based on client requests

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Get real, GetUp is a set-up Watch out everyone, we have a rapper on our hands. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "Instead you're doing circle jerks with the Care Bears of Censorship." -

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Anyone heard of actual protests? Putting together the pieces at the moment, very likely to be supported by EFA and GetUp! -> I'll post here when it's announced. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "So please lets

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
27;s very real. Not just "twinkle in the eye" real. Political pressure begins now. (In the next few days, details about a combined EFA/GetUp! campaign should be announced. We have from now -- hindered by end-of-year take-out-the-trash announcement of the report -- until August/September next

[SLUG] Silverstone LC16M

2009-11-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
IR and front-panel control if you need them (we use a wireless keyboard now)... the only disadvantage is that it adheres to the late-2000s blue LEDs fetish. Stupid blue LEDs. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "Our 20th ann

Re: [SLUG] Pulse Audio

2009-11-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
ry about the fruits of volunteer Open Source development in general. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "Maybe you should put some shorts on or something, if you want to keep fighting evil today." - The Bowle

Re: [SLUG] Power Point Document

2009-10-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is there any previewer under KDE for Microsoft Power Point documents? I > know that I can reboot and run Windows, but would prefer not to. OpenOffice.org? - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "Sirens dopplered in t

Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
s go crazy. Turns out it's quite scary when the disks go crazy in the dead of night when the TV isn't on. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ Ye shall be cursed to fall in love so easily, and yet be so cold of

Re: [SLUG] VPS hosting

2009-10-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
n up and want to give me love: http://www.linode.com/?r=600aec6926074d180920749bd113dff2016a650f :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "There, I did it... I defiled a timeless piece of ART!" - Jim Carrey,

[SLUG] bash tips (tr, cut, loops, fields, records) Was: shell scripting help

2009-09-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
; do echo "Welcome, Mr. $LASTNAME," done done < records.txt (Instead of mucking around with tr to muck about with the record separator, you could just use the bash IFS variable, but there are some little catches with that, which are not worth going into for now.) :-) - Je

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
es as function parameters, > not concatenating them. So WordPress is (as far as I can tell) completely > immune to SQL injection now and in the future. 'cept for assy plugins which don't use the prepare() function... it's always the plugins which let us down. :-(

Re: [SLUG] twitter clients

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> for my sins, I have a need for twittering > > what's the latest trend in clients? Linux and/or Mac Gwibber is pretty sweet, if you're keen to use a FLOSS client you can fix or contribute to. Or, TweetDeck is possibly the best cross-platform (Adobe AIR based) non-Free Twit

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
er to GNOME, KDE, progman.exe (on Windows) or dosshell.exe (aptly named) as "shells". - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to r

[SLUG] Let's agree to sue each other! Not.

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
rs" you speak of are looking for the kind of organisation which is unlikely to fail in the first place, not one which is dumb enough to agree to be sued for failure. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ chown -R us

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"? Demise?! :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ Patches are like Free Software love letters. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Empty Xorg.conf on 9.04 install and dual nvidia cards with 'SLI'

2009-08-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
rietary driver support. To make sure Xorg is reconfigured once you have the proprietary drivers installed, run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high xserver-xorg Beyond that, we're going to need to see /var/log/Xorg.0.log in order to know the exact failure. - Jeff -- linux.conf.a

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

2009-06-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
shorthand for saying "show me the human-readable date of this timestamp" (seconds from the epoch). You can get more info about how to use date by reading the info page (a gnu conspiracy to confuse the fuck out of everyone by making man pages useless in favour of some emacsed-up piece of

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-05-31 Thread Jeff Waugh
code the videos? - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "I rather think of Pat as our linguistic ornithologist here - 'Oh look, the brown noddy also nests in the mangrove!'" - John Fleck -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] WordPress talk tomorrow night

2009-05-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
still not be discoverable by search engines.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "It will test your head. And your mind. And your brain, too." - Jack Black, School of Rock -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#x

Re: [SLUG] WordPress talk tomorrow night

2009-05-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Some ideas off the top of my head: > > * design and content best-practices > * SEO > * statistics (As in analytics?) > * theming > * mash-ups/integration with other services OK, will figure out how to fit some of these in. Thanks! :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au

[SLUG] WordPress talk tomorrow night

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
ing muscle just itching to escape. Jeff will return to Sin City to take you behind the scenes of a large WordPress deployment — the all-new Crikey website — and show you heaps of stuff you can use on your own site, including: Sweet plugins, awesome theme frameworks, squeezing WordPress and your

Re: [SLUG] /proc and /sys

2009-05-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
rsync -ax / /media/backupdrive/ will do the right thing unless you have data mounted elsewhere which you want backed up. Always match slashes with rsync source/destination by the way. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "I like you

Re: [SLUG] /proc and /sys

2009-05-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
- saves backing up (and even reading) useless crap like this. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "There's always a new bogeyman - every two months, there's a new axe to add to the axis of evil.&quo

[SLUG] Dell Latitude 2100 (for school kids) with Ubuntu -> here!

2009-05-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
when a student is using the wireless network, is the first product Dell has offered in the country featuring the alternative operating system. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Ubuntu-to-be-offered-by-Dell-Australia/0,130061702,339296519,00.htm - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington

[SLUG] pulseaudio [Was: Re: microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty]

2009-05-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
our running system (it's a meta-package after all). It will only come back to bite you when you decide to upgrade -> that's what the ubuntu-desktop meta-package helps with. An easy way to disable pulseaudio: touch ~/.pulse_a11y_nostart (see /usr/bin/pulse-session, used by /e

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 9.04 performance [Was: Sound in Ubuntu 9.04]

2009-05-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
sure about (Skype works okay here whether I have pulseaudio running or not, so, hrm). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "I haven't been this excited since the introduction of devfs." - Mark Rosen

[SLUG] Ubuntu 9.04 performance [Was: Sound in Ubuntu 9.04]

2009-05-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> ... nope, that didn't work either. My desktop is really sluggish too. > It's the end of the road for me and 9.04. Do you happen to have an Intel video chipset? - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "IMO we should

nginx and boa thoughts [Was: [SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?]

2009-05-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
#x27;t do SSL for you). nginx 0.7.x (which I track in my PPA) does front-end caching too, which is very handy. Just some thoughts. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ Toothpaste is the most important meal of the day. -- SL

Re: lshal, gnome-device-manager, was Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

2009-05-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
e two days until release and we need to shave 1MB off the ISO image" (or it won't fit on a CD-ROM) discussions. (From memory, that was just one release before g-d-m was rewritten in C and had more useful device management functions added -> it's now much smaller!) - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

2009-05-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
and 1080p. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities as public relations problems." - Bruce Schneier -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Web hosting recommendations

2009-05-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
up, this sounds like a job for Dreamhost. Despite driving me absolutely batty, as a well-priced, shared hosting service for LAMPy stuff, their price to reliability ratio is hard to beat. They're very FLOSS-clueful too. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ

Re: [SLUG] HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.

2009-05-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
l built-in, which pushes pixels to a 24" 1920x1200 screen via DVI, and my Atom-based EeePC can also push 1920x1200 via VGA...) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Laughter is a force for democracy." - John Cleese --

Re: [SLUG] Active Directory and linux

2009-04-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
7;d recommend winbind as a starting point, especially if you just want to start playing around with the possibilities on a few desktop machines or file/print servers. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Laughter is a force for dem

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
d my life programming > meaningless applications... Not sure it makes too much sense to review your life's work on Daniel's very literal argumentation... :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Mr Hunt also admits he doe

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
umstance in which a comment like that is actually correct (particularly in the Real World, which is far messier than the imagination fairy land we need to inhabit in order to innovate). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Our 20t

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
ate with or previous version compatibility issues, etc. When I say "reality", I mean products shipping and an active marketplace around them (which *can* be said for GNOME/KDE). Then the hairier issues of software support beyond "hey does this stuff work?" start to bite. - Jeff

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
es even remotely difficult, though, but > rather integrating them into the rest of an environment designed on > different assumptions. Experimenting is fun. Reality is hard. Shipping software and supporting users means your solution has to take all kinds of other issues

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
ystem is built with it (or you have a versioned, consistent API/ABI core that the packaging system can sit on). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Well, you know us usability folks... We like to believe that the two aren't

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
bably haven't thought about it very much. It's like when clients say, "it should be easy to..." and suggest something that would require major architectural changes to your product... - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
t onto the disk.) Mac OS X... the honey-coated monkey dung of operating systems. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ Self-assertive pants are filled with confidence. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
xkcd-style ;-) (There are additional parameters you can add if you want to, but they're all optional.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "The postmodern version is: If all you have is duct tape, everything starts to look lik

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> 2009/3/18 Jeff Waugh : > > Depends on what you mean by manage, but if you're trying to avoid being > > a part time sysadmin, then something clicky might be best. > > I have no aversion to the CLI. I spend half my time in there and I'm quite > fond of it

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
; * can preferably also run on our Fedora 8 desktops, so we can share VM > images Check. > * can support a wide variety of guest OSs (especially Linux, Windows > and Solaris) Check. The answer is VirtualBox. :-) But if you want something nicer, use VMWare Server (free b

Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

2009-03-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
it was born, and GNOME, where it continues to thrive). Despite its warts, I quite like trac, particularly if you effectively use all of its components (wiki, bug tracker, svn viewer, basic project mgmt, etc). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/

Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 where's the logs?

2009-03-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> In the bad old days of dialup analogue modems you could always tail -f > /var/log/messages and see all the modem chatter and easily spot the > problem. Darnit.. I wanna see the conversation. /var/log/daemon.log (you are probably having Red Hat / Debian brain issues!

Re: [SLUG] upgrading Ubuntu with CDs to save bandwidth?

2009-03-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
le the Live CD is just a great big compressed image of a filesystem... so it won't help with upgrades at all (yet [1]). - Jeff [1] Years ago there was some inspired brainstorming about ways to do this very cleverly, but I don't imagine it's on the agenda at the moment. Net connected

Re: [SLUG] upgrading Ubuntu with CDs to save bandwidth?

2009-03-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
ut in the case of a basic Ubuntu machine installed in the field, it's pretty good. Also consider the use of a DVD image if you want the whole archive available.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Evil will always triumph ove

Re: [SLUG] Dedicated Server hosting in California - anyone with experience?

2009-01-31 Thread Jeff Waugh
7;re doing, which is a difficult sweet-spot for hosting companies. Fairly certain they have a hosting facility in Arizona Bay [1]. - Jeff [1] California, as described by Bill Hicks. -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ P

Re: [SLUG] .ssh/config and setting user names for hosts

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I know I can set a per host user or a default global username, but what if I > want to set a global default and then have specific usernames for a handful > of hosts? > > eg; > User mark > > Host host1 > Host host5 > user dummy Try this: Host host5 User d

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netbook experiences?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
hey got kernel boot time down to 1s). Arjan basically removed the need to load modules for anything in the initial boot process, particularly silly stuff like USB. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ He'd never undressed a woman with his

Re: [SLUG] forum software advice

2008-12-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
usin of WordPress, so you'll feel at home if you enjoy WordPress. http://bbpress.org/ - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ The grass is only greener on the other side if yours is covered with turds. --

Re: [SLUG] Re: hosted blogging account with open backend.

2008-12-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
blog client, such as Drivel. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ "The Vines are the latest pretenders to the thrown." - Vines review by liv4now.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

Re: [SLUG] Re: hosted blogging account with open backend.

2008-12-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
ludes all kinds of goodies on top of the basic RSS of your posts. It also has a Blogger importer (among many others), which uses the REST API to suck down your posts and comments into WordPress. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ "

Re: [SLUG] hosted blogging account with open backend.

2008-12-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
fully reliable) version of WordPress. - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ "So between a jazz musician, a murderer, and a congressperson, all called 'Dave Camp', I have a lot of pressure to be evil." - GNOME's

Re: [SLUG] Add items to menu

2008-12-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
t'll do it, unless of course it's not working (in which case, let us know how it's breaking). :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ "Think video. Think text flickering over your walls. Think games at work. Think anyth

Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
ow mapping works). Of course, it's way easier to get NM to do the heavy lifting for you... ;-) - Jeff -- Robot Parade http://www.robotparade.com.au/ m. +61 423 989 818 p. +61 2 9318 0284 f. +61 2 9318 2884 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&

Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Hi Jeff... > > From my original post: > > > System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following > > message: > > > > Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update > > not supported (read only)

Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
. at which point the resolvconf package will be a handy way to manage your resolv.conf settings via /etc/network/interfaces. :-) - Jeff [1] Not because it's impossible to do so, but because it's almost never the easiest way to achieve your goals. -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart,

[SLUG] WordCamp Sydney for WordPress lovers, Nov 29-30

2008-11-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
Yo SLUGgers, there's some awesome stuff coming up in Sydney including RUXCON, WordCamp and OSDC! :-) - Jeff - Forwarded message from Jeff Waugh - Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:25:19 +1100 To: Linux Australia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Linux-aus] WordCamp Sydney for WordPress

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

2008-11-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
(overly pedantic): can do more with find grep can ever do and I can > decide the order of my pipes and WHAT I want to do. In some cases, yes. But most "search recursively for files that contain X" use cases are better served by the vastly more performant grep

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
d it through a std port without interfering with > other services on those ports. Look at the ssh man page (or Google) for port forwarding -- that will allow you to do "VNC over ssh". If you have any trouble, give SLUG another call. :-) - Jeff -- Robot Parade

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

2008-11-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> find . -exec grep "www.athabasca" '{}' \; -print This is massively inefficient. A better choice would be grep -rl piped to xargs. grep -rl www.athabasca | xargs sed -i 's#www.athabasca#www.bathsheba#' - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australia

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

2008-11-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is there a command that finds a file containing a certain word? > > find and apropos don't. They work on filenames only. grep ... and you can use -r to search through files/directories recursively. - Jeff -- Robot Parade http://www.robo

Re: [SLUG] Uptime logging

2008-11-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
plugin -- now you can do the same thing, but with beautiful (and *SIMPLE*) graph output. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ "I've been thinking: I get way too many pieces of e-mail, about 60 a

Re: [SLUG] Distro for fast web browsing on old machine.

2008-11-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
video card and driver are you using? Firefox should be fine on a slowish machine with lots of RAM (512MB is fine). - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ "If you want to start a debate on a subject, however, all that seems to be necessa

Re: [SLUG] Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops

2008-10-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
describe DET's interest in Linux for student laptops may include: "are", "already", "actively", "experimenting", "waiting", "capable" and "vendor". :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http:

Re: [SLUG] Mail server to mail server authentication (postfix)

2008-09-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
... permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated ... (The ellipses represent the usual gumpf you put in s_r_r to protect your mail server from spammage and abuse.) - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ "And that's what it sounds lik

Re: [SLUG] This is a direct attack on process

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is Vista pushing people towards Linux > > http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20367/1090/ > > Pia gets a reference on page 1. > > I find the attacks a little personal. The arguments are well put but a > little flawed. Dude. Sam Varghese. Par for the course. :-

Re: [SLUG] What are the best web-based CRM systems?

2008-08-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I am looking for a very simple crm system. > > Both Sugar / TigerCRM might be overkill as only need to track a small > number of salespeople. > > Any recommendations? For an online service, try Highrise (a 37 Signals product). It's really nice and simple. - Jeff

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