Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-16 Thread Matt Moor
On 16/07/10 12:31 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Also, lots of different apps, so I might well end up with multiple solutions. A good distributed POSIX FS with replication, eventual consistency, some sensible conflict resolution model, and data center awareness would have been easy enough to use

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-08 Thread Matt Moor
Crossfire wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without STOMITH[1]. The scenario is I have two identical

[SLUG] 2008 SLUG Election Results

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Moor
Officer. Regards, Matt Moor SLUG Secretary === Results === President: Sridhar Dhanapalan (Elected unopposed) Vice-President: Anna Buttfield (Elected unopposed) Treasurer: Ken Wilson (Elected unopposed) Secretary: Carol Hoare (20 Votes, Elected) Konrad Zielinski (10 Votes

[SLUG] (Correction) Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] 2008 SLUG Election Results

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Moor
Hi All, The post I made earlier this evening of the 2008 SLUG Election Results contained an error. Sonia Hamilton's nomination did in fact have a second, Erik de Castro Lopo. The corrected text should have read: Sonia Hamilton (N: Self, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, Accepted) Regards, Matt Moor

Re: [SLUG] Nominating Scott Waller

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Moor
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I'd like to nominate Scott Waller for the SLUG committee as an ordinary member. Scott has been taking care of the video recordings of each SLUG meeting for the last year and has reliably recorded, transcoded and published the video. On the committee, he will be in a

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] May SLUG Monthly Meeting

2007-05-23 Thread Matt Moor
Hi All, Unfortunately Justin is unable to present his talk Building a load-balanced, highly-available web site with Debian, Pound, Apache, Spread and Wackamole. We're currently seeking other speakers on the activities list, so the topic for the general talk is now TBA. :-) Also, please note

Re: [SLUG] late entry to slug meeting

2007-03-29 Thread Matt Moor
Hi Amos, Unfortunately IBM security leave at approximately 8pm. This means that no one can gain entry to the building after then. If you do turn up before that, you can just signal the guard to let you into the building and escort you up to the 13th floor. Please have some patience, however

[SLUG] Nomination: John Ferlito for Treasurer, Secretary, Ordinary Committee Member

2007-03-28 Thread Matt Moor
I'd like to nominate John Ferlito for the positions of Treasurer, Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. John is a valuable member of the community, having been involved in SLUG from the very early days, and more recently as a core member of the LCA2007 team. He has a sound financial and

[SLUG] Nomination: James Polley for Secretary, Ordinary Committee Member

2007-03-28 Thread Matt Moor
I'd like to nominate James Polley for the positions of Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. James has shown considerable initiative and dedication to the community in the past six months, volunteering at linux.conf.au 2007 and drafting an important ammendment to the SLUG constitution.

[SLUG] Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood for President

2007-03-28 Thread Matt Moor
I'd like to nominate Lindsay Holmwood for the position of President. Lindsay has been a part of the SLUG committee for the past two years, serving as President for the past twelve months. Lindsay has proved himself invaluable, whether simply working out the agenda for a monthly meeting,

[SLUG] 2007-08 SLUG Annual General Meeting

2007-03-12 Thread Matt Moor
Holmwood Vice-president Silvia Pfeiffer Secretary Matt Moor Treasurer Ken Wilson Ordinary Committee Members Jeremy Apthorp Chris Deigan James Dumay Honorary Members None Matt Moor, 2006-2007 Secretary Lindsay Holmwood, 2006-2007 President -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] 686 || !686

2006-12-16 Thread Matt Moor
Penedo wrote: [...] BTW - speaking of which - the new Xen packages documentation in Debian Etch seem to assume that the user already knows which package he should use. Could someone please tell me yes/no on weather linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-k7 is the right package to use to run a Xen machine

[SLUG] Re: [CTTE] in Sydney on Friday

2006-09-24 Thread Matt Moor
Hi Russell, Just to make sure you're aware - SLUG is no longer being held at UTS - They started to ask for money - we're now at the IBM building in St Leonards [1]. Meeting times are still the same, however. We're full up for talks this month, but perhaps we could get you to talk about

[SLUG] DebSIG: Wednesday 19/07 - Matt Palmer on automated debian/ubuntu installation

2006-07-17 Thread Matt Moor
manner of unnatural things. Should be good for anyone wanting to install multiple Debian/Ubuntu machines with a minimum of pain. Regards, Matt Moor SLUG Secretary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] DebSIG Tonight!

2006-06-21 Thread Matt Moor
things. Should be good for anyone wanting to install multiple Debian/Ubuntu machines with a minimum of pain. Regards, Matt Moor SLUG Secretary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] DebSIG - Talk change

2006-06-21 Thread Matt Moor
Hi All, Unfortunately Matt has had to pull out sick at the last minute, and won't be able to present tonight. Instead, we offer random commentary and discussions on Debian Ubuntu. And beer. Apologies to anyone put out by this, but it should be a fun evening anyway. - Matt -- SLUG -

[SLUG] Sydney Novell User's Group SuSE Installfest

2006-05-10 Thread Matt Moor
This isn't a SLUG event, but we on the committee thought it might be of interest. Regards, Matt Original Message Subject:[CTTE] Open Invitation Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 02:06:37 +1000 From: SNUG Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination: Matt Moor

2006-03-30 Thread Matt Moor
Thanks guys! I accept and look forward to contributing to what I hope will be a very exciting year for SLUG. More spiel tonight! Regards, Matt Moor Lindsay Holmwood wrote: G'day all, I'd like to nominate Matt Moor for the positions of Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. Over

[SLUG] [Fwd: [CTTE] Linux Management Survey Results]

2006-02-13 Thread Matt Moor
Original Message Subject:[CTTE] Linux Management Survey Results Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:36:10 -0700 From: Andi Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, You might remember in November last year, I asked for assistance from you and members of the

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Using telephone wiring for networking?

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Moor
Hi Richard, This was one of those buzz-wordy type things a few years ago, and some of the big consumer network device companies put out product. I didn't hear about any of them reaching 100Mbit/s, though - and I'd be really surprised if they did, given the number of pairs available in your

Re: [SLUG] PC-BSD vs Desktop-BSD

2005-12-03 Thread Matt Moor
Hi Dom, BSD is reasonably straight forward, and typically has very good documentation. Since PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD, you should find the FreeBSD hand book at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html useful. If you're looking for something more complete, the

Re: [SLUG] VMware 5 Workstation + Linux = kernel panic?

2005-11-10 Thread Matt Moor
There are 'issues' with VMWare 5's bridge module and the kernel that ships with Breezy. Apparently, the latest any-any patch will fix it. See here for details: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-77040.html You could also try building your images elsewhere, and runnning them up in

Re: [SLUG] Treo 650 on Ubuntu

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Moor
A little googling: http://soft.zoneo.net/Linux/palm_pictures.php I guess the GNOME utilities might bring the photos across too, so you might want to do a search for *.jpg.pdb.. Cheers, Matt Pia Waugh wrote: Hi all, so I have got my Treo 650 synchronising perfectly on Ubuntu over the USB

[SLUG] Fwd: [CTTE] TV Show Request

2005-10-20 Thread Matt Moor
Original Message Subject:[CTTE] TV Show Request Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:07:28 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'd be very grateful if you'd consider alerting your members to the request shown below, either by internet bulletin

Re: [SLUG] Keeping passwords safe

2005-10-08 Thread Matt Moor
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: Maybe not so silly. Obviously you don't want to use to use public key encryption because that would put the private key, the public key and the cipher text all on the same machine. That makes the encrypted data only as secure as the machine

Re: [SLUG] Keeping passwords safe

2005-10-08 Thread Matt Moor
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: The aim was to be secure enough that if I loose my laptop the file can't be decrypted without a a large bunch of smarts and CPU grunt. I think I need to re-evaluate what I'm doing. Have a look at passwordsafe - as you noted below. They've made a reasonable

Re: [SLUG] Keeping passwords safe

2005-10-02 Thread Matt Moor
There's passwordsafe: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/. It was written originally by Bruce Schneier, but has long passed out of his hands. It's for windows, but see the 'related projects' link. PasswordSafe is really good at what it does crypto-wise. The implementation's certainly

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Help Please

2005-07-03 Thread Matt Moor
Hi Kevin, A little bit of poking around led me to this: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#issues The first issue on the page seems relevant - it would seem that the hotplug timeout is too low. I would have thought that you'd be able to load the firmware even with the transmitter switch off,

Re: [SLUG] Low - mid level graphic card recommendations

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Moor
That's certainly out of the norm, at least from my experience (with a couple of boxes). Before I the motherboard died, I was running an athlon machine with a Geforce2 MX 24/7 for 2 years. I was rebooting every 2-3 months (usually for kernel or hardware upgrades), but iirc, never had X or the

Re: [SLUG] DirecPC under Linux (Telstra Sattelite)

2005-06-21 Thread Matt Moor
A quick google uncovered this, but there doesn't seem to be too much doco available.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/direcpc and http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:m088cZRuls8J:www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/direcpc But not much else. DirecPC is immensely popular in the parts of the

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Panic - missing file system from kernel?

2005-06-14 Thread Matt Moor
and should cause you less pain. Regards, Matt Moor -- 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] Squid accelerator + SSL

2005-06-06 Thread Matt Moor
So, the way that we do this, along with a million other suckers running IIS is to use apache and mod_proxy and/or mod_backhand. Our apache server is configured to only serve SSL (i.e. redirects requests to port 80 to 443), and we have a vhost for the site in question, with mod_proxy pushing

Re: [SLUG] java security in Linux

2005-06-05 Thread Matt Moor
, unless you were silly enough to do something like run the offending applet as root. A basic introduction to the JVM security model is here: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-1997/jw-08-hood.html Cheers, Matt Moor -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Request/issue trackers - options?

2005-06-05 Thread Matt Moor
We use Request Tracker for helpdesk ticketing in here, and it rocks. We've got ~20k requests/issues in it, across 4 queues, and from other sites I've seen, this is small. We handle errors, requests for new services and tracking general issues. The only comment I'd make is that I don't think

Re: [SLUG] Geographic Information Systems and PostgreSQL

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Moor
I've run a few more tests... I remember someone saying that they had the loan of a kick-arse server as a test bench (was it Matt? can't remember) Funny story, that. We sent it back, but not before it (helped) take out a power circuits in the office where it was located. :( Before I could

[SLUG] Copyright and FTA seminars -- Aus. Copyright Council

2005-05-31 Thread Matt Moor
August Expand your knowledge and nip copyfright in the bud, for further details please visit: http://www.copyright.org.au/training Australian Copyright Council, PO Box 1986, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012. TEL: 02 9699 3247, FAX: 02 9698 3536, WEB: www.copyright.org.au Regards, Matt Moor -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] fscking ISPs

2001-04-02 Thread Matt Moor
I'm in a similar bag. I'm all for ADSL or Cable, though. Optus won't cable me, though, and if I'm gonna be speed limited, I'd prefer ADSL (given that I could then change to another provider later, with the same equipment -- in theory). So, my question is, is Telstra's ADSL (the freedom plan) all