Re: [SLUG] Customer site hacked with brut.php - what to do?

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Mark Walkom wrote: > On 22 August 2012 12:00, David Lyon wrote: > >> I have a customer with a hacked website. >> >> When I ftp'd to their web-server I found this wart (listed below - saved as >> brut.php): >> >> How did the hacker put it on my system ? What could

Re: [SLUG] $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > "The Australian Government is providing over $11 million to support > the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program which will deliver over 50,000 Thats pretty awesome. Are OLPC still doing the 'buy one donate one' program? -Rob -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

It could be unicode normalisation. -Rob -- 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] 500 node mesh network for Parramatta

+1 on Adrian's telco check suggestion. Also, Google in Mountain View have had some terrible trouble with single-radio mesh networks, so I'm not sure WRT's will give a good result. or perhaps you mean 'pervasive network with roaming', not 'mesh' ? -Rob -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] mobile printer

The H470 from HP looks pretty small. -Rob -- 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: Time Pedantry

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 12:27 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> ...but the real question is if we love or hate the GMT/UTC difference, and > >> 23:59:61? > > > > *cough* :60 *cough* > > Well, I am glad someone was on the ball enough to notice that. ;) > > IIRC, :61 is actually a possible but extre

Re: [SLUG] evolution vs notifyosd

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:53 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > Does anyone know how to get Ubuntu notifyosd (the notify > on-screen-display doohickey) to leave my Evolution pop-up appointment > reminders alone? > > notifyosd is there to make transient events visable without being > intrusive. But I *WA

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] SLUG FebruaryMonthly Meeting - Python Game Programming *Tutorial*

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:08 +1100, Dylan Jay wrote: > On 25/02/2010, at 11:01 AM, Robert Collins wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:31 +1100, Tim 'mithro' Ansell wrote: > >> Hello everyone! > >> > >> Don't forget to do your homework (Instal

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] SLUG FebruaryMonthly Meeting - Python Game Programming *Tutorial*

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:31 +1100, Tim 'mithro' Ansell wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Don't forget to do your homework (Install Python, Pyglet and Rabbyt) > before this tutorial. The set-up page has been updated with instructions > for a number of other Linux distros. You can find it at > ht

Re: [SLUG] LAMP - researching setup for hosting on multiple servers

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 20:32 +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: > G'day Sluggers, > > I've inherited a LAMP stack which uses the php session stuff to maintain a > session with an authenticated user. A cookie gets sent > to the user and upon it's return PHP retrieves the "session" from a file in > the "s

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 18:24 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > I'm not suggesting this be the ONLY way of dealing with the issue. > > If it's possibly to at least remove all the excuses that it's cheap > and easy, and demonstrate an ongoing series of high profile false > positives, and the resulting lat

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 16:08 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Is anyone aware of any groups taking more direct technical action > against this proposal? .. > I'm pondering the idea of automating the web trawling process to find > NC content, and then just submit all 100 million NC content URLs to > the

Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 14:47 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > whenever I sign onto Ubuntu Karmic the sound level is zero and I have to > raise the volume. This is an upgraded system, I cannot find right > google juice to find answer. > > Work around to force 100% in start up also accepted. I have an ex

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

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-bit builds of python is less than half that of the same workload on 64-bit

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

FWIW, the things that affect me using 64 bit on a given machine are: more than 3GB of RAM or need more than 2GB in a single process or doing 64 bit math (nb this isn't strict, you can get at the opcode in 32-bit installs, just requires effort) or want to do 64 bit port testing/development -> 64bit

Re: [SLUG] bzr issue

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 20:34 +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: > I have been pushing to a remote repo using bzr when the adsl link dropped. > sftp://usern...@repo.didymodesigns.com.au/pathtorepo/ > usern...@repo.didymodesigns.com.au's password: > bzr: ERROR: No such file: '/pathtorepo/.bzr/repository/pack

Re: [SLUG] Syncable wiki?

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 19:14 +1100, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > > Does anyone know of any such software? Linux of course, and > preferably PalmOS as well but that's not essential. ikiwiki is the most mature such thing I know of. -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign

Re: [SLUG] Pulse Audio

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 19:31 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > PulseAudio is awesome. We've desperately needed something like it in > the > Linux desktop ecosystem for a very long time. Ubuntu's integration > (and lack > of co-ordination with upstream) is... not so great. Sadly, this means > that a > hu

Re: [SLUG] advice on security compliance

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:28 +1100, Daniel Bush wrote: > I was following Rick's recent post about penetration testing with some > interest. I'm looking at complying with anz e-gate for e-commerce > transactions. ANZ has this declaration form for internet sites that you > have to sign. One of the

Re: [SLUG] Pulse Audio

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 I no longer have sound. lspci recognises > my Creative Labs Live card but I get nothing out of it. Last time this > happened I fixed it by the complete removal of

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 11:14 +1100, Del wrote: > > One of the things that the stable distros tend to miss out on is > having > the latest updated device drivers. What it sounds like you're doing > is > trying to get stuff working that while not bleeding-edge, probably > does > require updated k

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 13:03 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > That's generally what I'd expect, based on my experience with Debian > and CentOS, and why I tried to stick to it - I usually don't care > about having latest versions (as long as the current one does the job) > and I don't have too much sp

Re: [SLUG] Re: LTS worth anything?

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 10:50 +1100, david wrote: > > I'm running LTS on my two servers - so graphics, sound etc are non issues. So > far, so good and it's > really nice to not have to worry about things breaking but still get security > upgrades. I'm > wondering if anyone has any thoughts abo

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:25 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/10/31 Robert Collins > > > > A small note: if you have Hardy, the ISO won't help, you should upgrade > > via update-manager -c -d (or wait 6 more months for Lucid which will be > > a LTS release). &g

Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 16:47 +1100, James Polley wrote: > Just to summarise the things people announced at the start of our > October meeting: > > - Ubuntu Killer^WKarmic Koala was released yesterday. If you have a > Jaunty Jackalope machine you should be prompted for an upgrade - > otherwise you

Re: [SLUG] Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 13:15 +1100, Bill Donoghoe wrote: > > 1. What do I need to do to get Ubuntu to use 4Gb RAM? My current > Jaunty > installation only recognises around 3Gb. Is this just a kernel > upgrade > or If I remember correctly we don't support > 3GB on 32-bit installs anymore - t

Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:44 +1100, 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 noise. It is the power > supply and cpu fan that kicks in with cron at 2 am in the morning. > > I was thinking about addi

Re: [SLUG] Integration testing

There's pycucumber for pythonistas; haven't used it so can't vouch for it strongly :) -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.ht

Re: [SLUG] setting up squid proxy

A standard squid config is setup as a forward proxy. You need a reverse proxy. If you also want to browse out via squid, you need both a forward and reverse proxy setup. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydne

Re: [SLUG] Disclosure agreements and open source

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Armin Marth wrote: > Hello SLUGers, > I work on the help desk for a medical software company, and have > recently been given a disclosure and confidentiality agreement to > sign. I have been keeping a keen eye on open source software for > medical prof

Re: [SLUG] setting up squid proxy

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:38 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/8/18 Tony Sceats : > > what you're trying to do is usually referred to as a transparent reverse > > proxy.. you should be able to find heaps of info on this > > What's "transparent" about it? It's just "reverse proxy" as far as I know.

Re: [SLUG] setting up squid proxy

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:00 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > I'm using webmin to configure the setup and it's pretty basic what I > want. Just squid to redirect the http request to the correct server. I have no idea if webmin understands current syntax. http_port 80 vhost visible_hostname cache_pe

Re: [SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday

Also, passwordauthentication no in sshd_config is a very useful step ;) -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 09:36 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an Ethernet hub to be used for network troubleshooting > (trying to find which of our hosts is involved in the load on our > office uplink). If you want to do greedy packet capturing, I suggest using 'port mirrori

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

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 22:36 +1000, david wrote: > Q2. what does the @ mean? > > da...@david:~$ date -d @1174306440 > Mon Mar 19 23:14:00 EST 2007 > > I got this from a google search - the string is from a mysql timestamp which > didn't include the @ I can't find a reference to @ in the date

Re: [SLUG] Re: aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 15:56 +1000, Denis Crowdy wrote: > > cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, > `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' > cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, > `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' > cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, > `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' > cp: c

Re: [SLUG] Re: aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

type 'mount' in a terminal and look for filesystems. One of them will be low - < 200MB or even less of space. One possibility is '/boot', which is where kernel initramfs' are built and saved. These can add up to quite a bit of space. -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - back to the OP ;-)

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 18:48 +1000, david wrote: > I wonder what "warmplug" means? AIUI its 'suspend, attach device, resume'. So there is power on but no activity during the attach/detach event. -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 15:35 +1000, sonia wrote: > Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? > > Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old > machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the > Ubuntu mirrors, and googling on "Ubuntu Gu

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:27 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Jeff Waugh writes: > > > > > >> Hmm discounts all my work. In one company a mere 2,000 employees got > >> to see it. > >> > >> Hey if my software is used by tens of people but the results are seen > >> by millions does that count? Nope

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 15:25 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what number of users are you considering "real > users" > here? I agree with what you are saying, but you certainly seem to > have > a much, much higher standard than I (at least) am used to for "real" > use. Millions

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:29 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * Robert Collins [2009-03-19 12:02:41 +1100]: > > > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:46 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > Is there any reason why you want to use a *distributed* VCS? For > > > personal stuff it&#x

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:46 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * Alan L Tyree [2009-03-18 11:55:51 +1100]: > > > > Looking for some advice. I have used RCS version control for writing > > > > LaTeX documents for some time, but am looking at the advantages of > > > > using a distributed version control

Re: [SLUG] Talk request. Freenet or similar technology.

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 09:52 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:43:38 +1100 > Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been running a node off-and-on for a few years, and tracking the > > project. If noone else steps up I'

Re: [SLUG] Talk request. Freenet or similar technology.

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 09:20 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Has anyone played around with Freenet or similar technologies and > be willing to give us a presentation about it? I've been running a node off-and-on for a few years, and tracking the project. If noone else steps up I'd be happ

Re: [SLUG] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 23:23 +1100, Gerard Kelly wrote: > Hey All, > > Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer will be hosting a live rally in Sydney > on > November 6th. ... > "Make a note in your diary now and be watching at the dawn of a new age of > freedom." ... In what psychotic world did you imagine

RE: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:44 +1100, James Purser wrote: > Yeah while we're at it, > let's jail people for joining a religion or we could try bringing back > the death penalty. Don't forget torture, forced abortions and mutilations while we're at it. -Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: [SLUG] DODO

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 09:19 +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: > Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > > > > I'm 99% certain they're using Squid, but I think they've either > > severely misconfigured it, or are running a dodgy hacked up older > > version. > > > > > > > yeah I ran into the TPG proxy admin at my local

Re: [SLUG] debmirror - shared pool between debian and ubuntu?

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:38 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there much overlap between the ubuntu (hardy which I have) and > debian > respositories? > > If there is any significant overlap, then is it possible to share the > package pool between debian and Ubuntu? No. Binary compatibil

Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:53 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: > > > Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see > Internode > offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily > used Hexago box in the world). But neither the ISP nor the customer > will want tunnels i

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 3.0 Download Day

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 13:22 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Firefox 3.0 is coming out tomorrow. The 18th here is the 17th in the USA, > which is global download day for the Firefox 3.0 launch. > > Mozilla is attempting to win a Guiness Book of World Records entry > for the most downlo

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 27 June and Call for Speakers

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 11:44 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > === Call for Speakers === > > SLUG is currently looking for speakers to fill our General and In-Depth > Talk slots for this month's talks. Please contact the committee if you > would like to talk - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd be happy to do a

Re: [SLUG] Filesystem which allows online fsck?

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:24 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of a Linux filesystem which allows online > fsck on a disk that is currently mounted read/write? xfs or jfs might. I'm pretty sure ext3 allows a readonly fsck online, but I presume you want writing-fsck

Re: [SLUG] Spider a website

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:20 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > I'm looking for some recommendations for a *simple* Linux based tool to > spider a web site and pull the content back into > plain html files, images, js, css etc. > > I have a site written in PHP which needs to be hosted temporarily on a

Re: [SLUG] Outputing progress counters with PHP/HTML

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 12:30 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > > You do a select before every insert?! Is the table indexed? > If not that might explain the slowdown; a select WILL take > longer the bigger the table. Also when adding 100K records the stats for the table could become incorrect q

Re: [SLUG] PostgreSQL slowing down on INSERT

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 02:32 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I have a PHP script that inserts around 100K of records into a table on > each time that it runs. > > It starts off at a good pace but gets progressively slower until it falls > over complaining that it cannot allocate sufficient memory. >

Re: [SLUG] Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:06 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Background: my normal mail setup uses Postfix on my laptop to send > outgoing mail. My university has blocked all outgoing ports except 80 > (and they may have a transparent proxy in front of that) and 443 on > their wireless network. My lap

Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:36 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 15/04/2008, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:18 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > > > Also do they actually need to carry the data with them? It would seem > > &g

Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:18 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > Also do they actually need to carry the data with them? It would seem > if the ratio of data owners to intelligent devices/readers is so high, > you really come back to simply needing a card number ala Medicare - or > maybe even something li

Re: [SLUG] Anyone familiar with git?

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 18:13 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > a) Pull the upstreams sources (this I can already do). > > b) Create branch of the upstream sources for my own hacking (I > think this is "git clone upstream hacking"). Yes. > c) Hack on my hacking branch and commit stuff

Re: [SLUG] Anyone familiar with git?

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 21:22 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm interested in hacking on a project that uses git and although I > > have used cvs, sccs, GNU arch, bzr, svn, perforce, darcs and other

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

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 09:52 +1100, 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].

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 09:58 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > Dear Lazy Web, > > I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a > lot of round trips like this: > 1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot > 2. netboot and install Linux, when that reboots > 3. notice the reboot, hit

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:21 +1100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > Long and short of it some devices will change incorrectly todat (eg my > > mobile phone), others are correct. Thank $deity I haven't got a large > > server/blackberry/phone infrast

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Anna Buttfield

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 08:27 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 at 11:43, "James Dumay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am proud to nominate Anna Buttfield for the position of Ordinary > > Committee Member. > > > > Anna has been an integral organiser and liaison venue for the SL

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: > Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest > we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist > tomorrow > > Incentives include enjoying the nice drive to Wollongong in early > autumn, pizza and softd

Re: [SLUG] HOWTO make a Ubuntu Live CD

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:24 +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to make a Ubuntu live CD. That is to say a CD similar to > the usual installation CD but with the installer stripped out. The CDs > would be used in a classroom where I don't want students actually > installing Ubuntu ju

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:28 +1100, Ricky wrote: > Dear SLUG List > > Has anyone come across any Linux/Open Source Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) > solution ? I thought selinux has something in this space. -Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Des

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] If you could ask Microsoft a question, what would it be?

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:08 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >Perhaps it would be useful to say, > > > "we're only really interested in talking to your Open Source > Office > > > people". :-) > > > > I don't think that that is useful, particularly as its not true. > > Er, what is not true? The clau

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] If you could ask Microsoft a question, what would it be?

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:58 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I can think of few things in the IT sector less interesting to me than a > > visit from a MS marketroid. Get a MS leader in the door, and thats a > > different thing. > > The original person visiting was not a marketroid. It'll be int

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] If you could ask Microsoft a question, what would it be?

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:59 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good will is not coming to a LUG meeting and pushing microsoft's agenda. > > Good will is doing something that costs Microsoft and benefits Linux and > > FOSS far

Re: [SLUG] Override the tools

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:13 +0900, jam wrote: > > dpkg and apt seem to not have the options. Every one says > aptitude is better. Wow not for the likes of me! but it still > does not allow packages to be broken. > > Short of lists and a stick can the package manger be forced? It can be but you

Re: [SLUG] BarCamp Sydney

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 10:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > We have posted the "BarCamp Sydney" event and also many other more on > Esparko.com. Esparko.com is another great avenue to help promote your > future events. You may post and manage your own events at any time you > want

Re: [SLUG] Death to trackerd

On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 22:25 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > So, does anyone have anything positive to say about trackerd? It shows how hard robust and painless indexing is to achieve :). -Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: [SLUG] {Commercial} SafeSquid "SPEED-BOOSTER" 4.2.0 Released

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 05:59 +, Proxy wrote: > Hello All, > > SafeSquid "SPEED-BOOSTER" 4.2.0 for Linux has been released. > Increasing throughout, is the key goals of 4.2.0.The changes made in > the new version are as follows - NOT RELATED TO SQUID AT ALL. Entirely spam, a commercial product

Re: [SLUG] Which multiport NICs for Linux ?

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:30 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote: > Hello :) > > I want to set up an IP accounting box for a home network. > > My idea is to install x2 quad port ethernet NICs in a Red Hat server to > compose the topology below. > > Do people know of any good Linux compatible multiport NICs

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:29 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 20/09/2007, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > cygwin is like Linux I have never had any problems getting things sorted > > out, the community is very strong. We have plenty of Unix experts at my > > company so I leveraged those

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:18 +0930, Michael Davies wrote: > On 14/09/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > > > > > They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. > > > > > > Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against > > > my De

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 13:46 +1000, James Gregory wrote: > > I'm very happy with the Dell D420, which has been updated to Core 2 Duo with > > the newer Dell D430. Robert Collins has one of these, so he can tell you how > > sweet it is. :-) Mine works really nicely, w

Re: [SLUG] Free to good home - new dell all-in-one 946 printer.

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 11:46 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > I recently bought a laptop, and due to bizarre marketing voodoo it was > cheaper to buy it with a printer. I have a printer already though, so > the new one is off to a good home. And its found a home - thanks! -Rob --

[SLUG] Free to good home - new dell all-in-one 946 printer.

I recently bought a laptop, and due to bizarre marketing voodoo it was cheaper to buy it with a printer. I have a printer already though, so the new one is off to a good home. Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: [SLUG] {OT} Have a read of this

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 09:32 +1000, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: > http://cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=ausnews&id=2007_08_13.htm Including a small snippet about it is polite at a minimum. In this case its not just OT, its completely unrelated to linux and at best belongs on slug-chat with a topic like '

Re: [SLUG] Injecting information into a bind server

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 13:03 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:03:41AM +1000, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury > wrote: > > have you considered using the "hosts" file to resolve names > internally? its > > ok for a couple of machines, but if you have hundreds, then views > seems t

Re: [SLUG] Audio skipping on Ubuntu kernels

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > > is there any reason you cant go to a cpu specific kernel? > > > Because the largely pointless number of CPU specific kernels were > > > reduced to a single generic kernel for edgy. > > see hard disk IO > > Not entirely sure how tha

Re: [SLUG] Audio skipping on Ubuntu kernels

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:27 +1000, James Gregory wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've found that playback of music on my laptop has this horrible, > horrible tendency to "skip" (by which I mean that the music stops for > some fraction of a second) extremely frequently. This has only been > occurring since

Re: [SLUG] WAN link optimisation

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:36 +1000, Gavin Carr wrote: > > What I'd _really_ like, though, (and haven't found any explicit > references > to yet) is like (3) but actually duplicating packets down multiple > links, a > sort of 'network raid 1' where (3) is network raid 0. In other words, > somethi

Re: [SLUG] WAN link optimisation

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:15 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: > Secondly, if you run a QoS network connected > to a non-QoS network then you might want to do deep packet > inspection and set the DSCP on incoming traffic. Otherwise > you end up with a situation where the user on the non-QoS > network gets a

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop repairs?

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:36 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone have any recommendations for a laptop repairer who knows > what Linux is. I have a Dell laptop with nothing but Linux on it > a minor hardware problem. Why not use Dell? They've repaired my X1 a number of times now

Re: [SLUG] Trojan Horse Loaded Version Of Ubuntu 7.04 Spreading Over Torrent Sites

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:09 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > For the benefit of those who might not follow such news (e.g. Linux newbies > who take their first steps in downloading and installing such software), I > post this here as a warning - don't download just any copy of a Linux distro > unless i

Re: [SLUG] Etch on ibook

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:09 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:49:09AM EST, Robert Collins wrote: > > At a guess: > > 1) install the ubuntu kernel, acpi-support, laptop* packages. > > PowerPC machines do not use ACPI. Thats true. However there are a

Re: [SLUG] Etch on ibook

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:06 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I've just installed Etch with xfce on my iBook. I can't quite figure > out what I need to install/configure to get the machine to "sleep". I > know that it works since I was earlier running Ubuntu on it. > > I will probably be embarrassed by

Re: [SLUG] Dual booting a USB stick

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:11 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know if it's possible, and if so how, a USB stick can be > > made to be setup as dual boot with either Lilo or Grub (I assume). > > > > I have a 2Gb USB stick which

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 22:43 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have a pointer for a sample of code which sends multiple files > as a single HTTP response using MIME multipart/related? > > All the code or explanations I found so far are talking about either > creating MIME e-mail

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 18:36 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > What might be meant is that the sales droids make commission on the > sales. And? They still get a commission, of the same amount - or more (different product lines often have different margins) with what I'm suggesting. -Rob -- GPG

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 17:52 +1000, David Ward wrote: > Thanks Amos. This is something I have thought of and mentioned to > some > of the sales stuff. Their instant reaction is that if there's no > money > in Linux why bother selling it? > > They sell MS software and make margin on it. So can u

Re: [SLUG] Samsung SGHA701 / USB connection

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:48 +1000, david wrote: > > Is this just to stop idiots messing up the phone's software, or is > there > a genuine problem with plugging one of these gadgets into a linux box? Its probably to stop windows assigning a generic driver to the device before their software is in

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft's tool to assess Linux Persona

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 18:49 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > http://www.linuxpersonas.com/ Shame it doesn't work on linux :). (Firefox, flashplayer-somethingorother installed). Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

Re: [SLUG] RAID Performance Oddness - Update

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:34 +1100, Craig Dibble wrote: > > > It may well be that spelling it out like this makes it look obvious > what > the problem is, but since the results I was getting seemed to be > contrary to popular wisdom, and to any documentation I have read, I > had > a hard time tryi

Re: [SLUG] wenwe

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to play (wenwe were in Zimbawbe ...) but rpm has *never* left me up the creek without a paddle: apt-get install kde4base-dev ... I guess if that if everyone believes the wonderful toy is truly wonderful then the cracks never get to be fixed. This is a known up

Re: [SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 14:34 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > > G'day all! > We're running low on volunteers - anyone else want to represent their > favourite distro? What ones do you have? Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This i

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