[SLUG] Ethernet over Power device needs good home

Found beside Foreshore Road, one Pro.2 IPP200. No cables or packaging. Seems to be in good condition. Would be of most use to someone who already has a pair. Reply off-list. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Can banks handle daylight saving?

AEDT. We discussed this before. Looks like banks still haven't worked out how to handle changing timezones. And NAB doesn't understand that there simply won't be 5AM AEDT on 1 April. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570

If it's not a silly question, what cable is the monitor connected with? If it's a VGA cable, the computer may not know what monitor you have. Jim Donovan It seems to only do generic card and 1024x768 whereas it should do 1920x1080 Anyway any pointers in the right direction would

[SLUG] Traffic control

with tc(2), iptables(8) or anything else? Or could I alter said son's machine's routing to use as gateway another machine running something to slow data down. Any suggestions, please? Jim Donovan P.S. Not relevant to my problem however you sometimes see plans in which you can burn a month's

[SLUG] Exigent closed following RAID crash?

work nor do they answer tickets. Their phone is still connected but you don't get to a human operator. Thanks, Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] decent hardware shop around Sydney

someone point me in the direction of a good software(linux)/hardware shop in Sydney, preferably on the Northside. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] webhost needed with ssh access

Can someone recommend a host that allows ssh access (and perl and email), please? It's for a small website. I've been using Smartyhost but their ssh server is being retired and not replaced. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Hourly rate for short-term PHP work

The matter of pay rates came up a week or so ago. How about $25-30/hour for an experienced PHP developer - see http://www.seek.com.au/job/19910204 I hope that's not indicative of where the market's headed. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Server licences

, whatever that may be, and virtualisation servers. Can anyone explain what these licences are about, please? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Optus broadband stick

it get in good areas? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Browsers for banking

is more tractable. Commonwealth opens extra windows but only logs off in one of them; you have to close the others by hand. Not that they will work after logoff but it's lousy security. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Long lines in /var/log/httpd/access_log

A few lines like this have appeared this week; what do they mean, please? Jim Donovan 67.70.87.182 - - [28/Oct/2010:14:06:59 +1100] GET /documents/url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoNSUhEUgAAADgOCAYAAAB6pd%2buAXNSR0IArs4c6QZiS0dEAP8A%2fwD

[SLUG] librt.so

on uclibc however that is a severely cut-down version of glibc. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] RRDtool efficiency

a lot of I-O, if the basic data storage type was float rather than double. We had absolutely no use for either the extra precision nor the extra range of double. I emailed Tobi Oetiker saying so and he replied that no-one had ever thought of that. AFAIK, there's still no way round using double. Jim

[SLUG] Aldi notebook

://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windows7/archive/2009/05/29/let-s-talk-about-windows-7-starter.aspx - so there's another reason to add Ubuntu or similar. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Serial write problem

(cut-down debian Potato is available), does anyone have any simpler suggestions? Thanks, Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] MYOB/POS etc

that be even worse than local MYOB? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Surveillance camera in car

/second if the driver desires The TS-7250 looks suitable (http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250) but the only cameras I've found have composite video output e.g. Jaycar's QC3491. Can anyone suggest hardware suitable for such a setup, please? Jim Donovan -- SLUG

[SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?

during the week. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday

account with audible alarm so I could see what he was upt to. Here are the first couple of lines he logged, followed by `uniq -c` of the rest. Jim Donovan = Aug 13 14:43:14 phenom sshd[4919]: Did

[SLUG] Unwanted laptop wanted

from the plugpack. It should have USB so we could give it a mouse and a 802.11g adaptor. It should also have a working NIC. If you reply, please indicate where I can collect it from you. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] re: splitting mailboxes

Have you tried csplit(1) - set pattern to '^From ' and stand back. You'll have to deal with an empty file before the first item. You say they're sequential so no further processing is required to separate old ones. Note that many spams have crazy Date values. Jim Donovan I have a mailbox

[SLUG] ssh logins (ctd)

122.116.243.233 has been hitting me today, apparently from Taiwan. I blackholed him by hand. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Monitor reliability vs. videocard reliability

with VGA it works again. Machine and monitor are both about 18 months old. Because of the location, swapping cards, monitors or anything else would be a nuisance. My feeling is that the intermittent fault is more likely to be in the monitor. Comments, please? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

logins. And they seem unable to keep our webstats running. Can anyone suggest a better host which also allows SSH logins? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] ETSI

If you don't know what ETSI and HI2 are, stop. If you do, have you ever seen anything for catching the handshake packets emitted by HI2 and decoding them? What was it written in? Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] problem with Mandrake 8 httpd

Hi, We've got Mandrake working but the www server won't display included images. However, we know it can reach and serve the images because it does if you get them explicitly one at a time. I can't find how they turned this facililty off; is it something in httpd.conf, please? - Jim Donovan