Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-06 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi, Prepaid SIM cards are available and should be less expensive than hotel rates iff you use little bandwidth over multiple days. There is little chance of finding free WiFi in cafes and such. OTOH, many hostels offer nice single/double rooms and typically also provide WiFi/Laundry etc. If you s

Re: [SLUG] A little script i have wrote

2010-05-26 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi, On 100526 at 17:00, Josh Smith wrote: > I tried to put in in vlc to do the same thing. So far it playing with > the correct size on the desktop. > > still trying to make it go on the desktop so I can still see the icons > that are on the desktop. How about: file=(ls $folder|shuf|head -1) mp

Re: [SLUG] Net send for linux

2010-04-05 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 100405 at 23:45, Daryl Thompson wrote: > Is there a Linux equivalent network messaging command like 'NET SEND' in > windows > That is i want to be able to send messages to all and individual > computers on the local network. Homebrew computer club method works as follows: Server: netcat -l

Re: [SLUG] NTP Issues

2010-01-20 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 100121 at 10:00, Kyle wrote: > However, since then server loses time BIG time. Funny thing is, > other server in same subnet (also NTP) keeps perfect time. Both > running CentOS 5.x. Did you check /etc/adjtime? Not only will NTP refuse to change the clock in large steps, it also makes a record

Re: [SLUG] logrotate hourly

2010-01-13 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 100112 at 16:09, david wrote: > Is there a good reason NOT to rotate logs hourly.. for example by > moving the logrotate cron to hourly instead of daily? This is a file > created hourly by cron for which I want to keep a history. Maybe you rather want to include the date in the file name, so i