Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?

2015-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
I think there is an "edit source" option somewhere there, if you insist on text syntax. Personally I find its WYSIWYG interface pretty convenient, compared to the rare times that I find myself correct entries on Wikipedia. On 3 Oct 2015 6:09 pm, "James Gray" wrote: > I wouldn't describe Confluenc

Re: [SLUG] Website

2015-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
over three years ago (29 May 2012), so perhaps it's just a case of deterioration more than active change. --Amos On 9 September 2015 at 23:12, Heracles wrote: > I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an easy to navigate site > into a nightmare. I know my system is a bit dat

Re: [SLUG] mailing list archives?

2015-06-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks. Not ideal (I prefer old-fashioned mail archives personally) but hopefully can serve. The web site is still broken, isn't it? On 10 June 2015 at 18:56, Ben wrote: > HI Amos, > > try... > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sluggers > > Is this what

[SLUG] mailing list archives?

2015-06-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default "Welcome to nginx!" page. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ S

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

2015-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
specifically > require an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. > > Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine > why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me > who the "upstream supplier" is, except that it isn

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

2015-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 June 2015 at 18:59, James Gray wrote: > As for the weird connectivity, I know TPG for a long time ran transparent > proxies without really making it widely known. I’ve seen similar behaviour > to that which you describe when my local Squid cache get’s it’s panties in > a bunch. “squid -k r

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

2015-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
these pages are being blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the JavaScript console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could be misbehaving? Just for shits and giggles, I visited www.trivago.com.au and had no problem accessing it, even on my flaky home ADSL2+ line. -

[SLUG] CloudFormation chat before last night's SLUG talk

2015-04-24 Thread Amos Shapira
BTW - it was a very useful talk about Docker. Nothing beats hearing from someone who's actually in the trenches. It felt like I could do with a couple more hours like this :). Cheers, --Amos -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS

2015-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
1. Have you tried asking on Whirlpool forums? They got plenty of experienced people there. 2. I just started using Exigent for web hosting (not vps) and so far they are cheap and deliver. They also have VPS options. They got reports of improving over time on Whirlpool. --Amos On 25 March 2015 at

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

2015-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
a major upgrade recently? On 11 February 2015 at 14:21, scott wrote: > On 02/10/2015 09:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott wrote: > > > >> On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>&

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

2015-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott wrote: > On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need > > to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. > > > > apt-get is for some reason broken. > > > > I ge

Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Chrome

2015-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Are you sure you got the youtube page open only once? No other tabs or windows? On 10 February 2015 at 17:25, Heracles wrote: > > On 10/02/15 17:08, scott wrote: > >> On 02/10/2015 01:03 AM, Heracles wrote: >> >>> When I look at a youtube video in chrome it seems to start the audio >>> three ti

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow

2014-10-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Sounds like you have correlation between Java and slowness. What's the Java configuration like? Do you tweaked the JVM settings to take advantage of the larger RAM, for instance? On 27 October 2014 09:08, Felix Sheldon wrote: > Maybe it's Java that's slow? > > Try a different JDK maybe? > > > -

[SLUG] I was searching the SLUG meeting info...

2014-09-25 Thread Amos Shapira
see what Google suggested: http://imgur.com/QwP0iwE :) -- 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] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-25 Thread Amos Shapira
General question to everyone reading this - I have an idea for a service to provide tracking of such info (end of life, software life cycle) automatically. If anyone is curios to hear more, discuss or anything else, I'd be very happy to hear from you. Thanks. --Amos On 26 September 2014

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-25 Thread Amos Shapira
/News/2014/20140424.html My take - upgrade is overdue. --Amos On 26 September 2014 08:56, Chris Barnes wrote: > Hey people, > > I haven't seen an update for BASH come down in the Debian Squeeze security > updates. As a result my machines are still vulnerable. > > My Debi

Re: [SLUG] dos2unix

2014-08-27 Thread Amos Shapira
"tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile" On 27 August 2014 20:47, William Bennett wrote: > When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line > ends converted > > When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex. > > Can anyone tell me what the latest

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update GPG error

2014-07-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Could it be that the proxy has a corrupted cache? Try clearing it. On 22 Jul 2014 14:51, "David" wrote: > > > On 22/07/14 14:33, Lubos Rendek wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> does ignoring GPG with: >> >> # apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update >> >> helps at least temporarily..? >> >> Lubos >> > > S

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Which distribution is it? The method to set system timezone depends on the answer to this question. And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. On 17 July 2014 10:51, David Lyon wrote: > I'm trying to get the correct

Re: [SLUG] MySQL maintenance

2014-06-27 Thread Amos Shapira
Which storage engine and which version of Mysql? They were not all made equal. Otherwise, like others said, I'd look at hardware issues. On 28 Jun 2014 10:46, wrote: > I've been using MySQL for CMS and mail like for ever, on physical servers > and vm servers with no problems that I can recall, ev

Re: [SLUG] Silent 3.5" SATA HDD mounts, anyone?

2014-06-25 Thread Amos Shapira
14 07:09, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hi, > > I have a TowerRAID TRM5B (http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr5mb.html) > without the caddies, and a Western Digital Red Caviear 2TB 3.5" disk. > > I'm looking into mounting the disk into the tower with some noise dampers.

[SLUG] Silent 3.5" SATA HDD mounts, anyone?

2014-06-25 Thread Amos Shapira
o the disk which will allow it to slide inside the slots and pushed against the back plane. But so far I failed to find such caddies. I only see 2.5"->3.5" converters or 3.5"->5.25" converters. Could someone give me a pointer? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Li

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Amos Shapira
s server cost you? Perhaps a Raspberry Pie or some other low-power server will save you lots more power than it costs. --Amos -- 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] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, but don't have much hope. On 7 Jun 2014 16:44, wrote: > I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a > cacti server, has been i

Re: [SLUG] Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

2014-05-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Locate only indexes path names, not other attributes (like type, size, time etc) On 23 May 2014 06:11, "Kyle" wrote: > Thanks to all for the responses. > > Interestingly, everyone has come back with "find" (followed by..) as > the best option. Perhaps this is simply a reflection of the fact m

Re: [SLUG] Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

2014-05-22 Thread Amos Shapira
xdepth 1 -type d -exec ls -dF {} \+ ./ ./Downloads/ ./Sites/ ./.Trash/ ./Google Drive/ ./Snapshots/ ./.config/ ./Library/ ./VirtualBox VMs/ ./.ssh/ ./Movies/ ./bin/ ./.vagrant.d/ ./Music/ ./git-dotfiles/ ./Applications/ ./Pictures/ ./macports/ ./Desktop/ ./Programs/ ./tmp/ ./Documents/ ./Public/ Notice how &qu

Re: [SLUG] multiple grep conditions ?

2014-05-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22 May 2014 14:12, wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 12:28 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > > > As you're not using regular expressions, but just strings, fgrep is > > the way to do it. fgrep -q '07/2014 15/06/2014 > > 20/06/2014 > > 25/06/2014'

Re: [SLUG] Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

2014-05-21 Thread Amos Shapira
(Sorry I'm writing from the phone and can't test exact solution) What's the context of this question? Do you really want to keep all empty directories? "-delete" will fail on non-empty directories. Use "-print0 -prune | xargs -0 rm -rf" to stop find from scanning the doomed directory. On 22 May 2

Re: [SLUG] multiple grep conditions ?

2014-05-21 Thread Amos Shapira
It might be more maintainable to keep the list of patterns in a variable (line per pattern) then pass it to grep using grep's -f/--file= argument: PATTERNS="15/06/2014 20/06/2014 25/06/2014" ... grep -q -f <(echo "$PATTERNS") file2 && exit 0 Note the use of double quotes around the variable inte

Re: [SLUG] stop processing with 'if grep exit' ?

2014-03-19 Thread Amos Shapira
If you want to grep for multiple strings in the same file, and exit if any of them is found, it is more efficient (and I think more maintainable) to specify them in one line: grep -q -e test2 -e test3 file2 && exit 0 The "-q" is --quiet - just to suppress the output if you aren't interested in it

Re: [SLUG] connectivity test loop?

2014-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
a day or every minute, it's up to you) and don't forget to use a lock file to prevent multiple getmail instances from running concurrently. 3. Use a loop, e.g. "while true; do ...; done" --Amos On 12 March 2014 09:00, wrote: > I have a basic script to watching mailbo

Re: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

2014-02-21 Thread Amos Shapira
I don't see the ^M's that I was expecting. Is this file cleaned and working? Perhaps "cat" in Cygwin requires an additional option to show ^M's? On 21 February 2014 21:44, wrote: > On Fri, February 21, 2014 8:05 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: > > BTW, in addition to

Re: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

2014-02-21 Thread Amos Shapira
BTW, in addition to the rest that was said, "cat -tve" is very useful in troubleshooting such issues. On 21 Feb 2014 15:24, wrote: > I've made a crude script under cygwin/XP, it was mainly working, but, > after some edits, I'm getting a '?' appended to file name ? > as so: > sms_out_now.txt? > >

Re: [SLUG] Weird missing files.

2014-02-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Permissions? On 10 Feb 2014 13:45, "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 browse these folders on the console I can see the files. when I > sftp on the command line from a

Re: [SLUG] Monitoring web servers from Australia?

2014-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks. On 22 January 2014 19:14, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Amos Shapira >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to monitor uptime and accessibility of a web server hosted in > > Sydney. > > I use Pingdom for now, but it do

[SLUG] Monitoring web servers from Australia?

2014-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
aware of a good, cheap (free?) monitor a-la Pingdom with Australia-based probes? Thanks, --Amos -- [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FA

Re: [SLUG] Working with PKCS7

2014-01-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Perhaps: openssl pkcs7 -text -noout -print_certs From: http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/ On 17 January 2014 19:05, Jiří Baum wrote: > Hello, > > Anyone have any hints for how to work with PKCS7 (.p7s) files? > > So far I've managed to find that openssl can create them, and convert > them b

[SLUG] Where to look for a PHP developer?

2014-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
t seems to have been gone. Can anyone recommend forums where GOOD developers can be found for such jobs? Although such jobs can be done remotely, it might be beneficial to have someone local. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscriptio

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

2013-12-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On Tue, December 17, 2013 4:33 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: > > So it's not a chroot thing. Please run "lsof -p 5914" and paste the > > output, I don't trust grep's on pid numbers. > > # lsof -p 5914 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE S

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

2013-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
So it's not a chroot thing. Please run "lsof -p 5914" and paste the output, I don't trust grep's on pid numbers. On 17 December 2013 15:12, wrote: > On Mon, December 16, 2013 10:23 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Try "ls -l /proc/21905/root" to show y

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

2013-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Try "ls -l /proc/21905/root" to show you the process's root directory. On 16 December 2013 14:28, wrote: > On Mon, December 16, 2013 2:01 pm, Steve Kowalik wrote: > > > Sounds like a chroot issue. As root, what does /proc//cwd > > point to? > > Steve, thanks > > do you mean this: > # ps ax | g

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

2013-12-15 Thread Amos Shapira
"lsof" the clamd process On Mon, December 16, 2013 11:08 am, Amos Shapira wrote: Amos, thanks > I'm not an expert with this specific software but general knowledge of > CentOS would lead me to: > 1. I suspect your configuration switched from using unix-domain sockets

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

2013-12-15 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm not an expert with this specific software but general knowledge of CentOS would lead me to: 1. I suspect your configuration switched from using unix-domain sockets to tcp sockets. 2. "permission denied" on TCP socket bind would point me to selinux issues or perhaps weird maximum, root-only port

Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

2013-10-30 Thread Amos Shapira
In addition to Michael's good advise, see http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worriedabout steal time. On 30 October 2013 12:28, Michael Chesterton wrote: > show the support people your evidence of high IO wait. > if they can't fix it, cha

Re: [SLUG] making fgets fail during testing

2013-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
"use strace and friends" I though I'd mention that "friends" should include the lesser known "ltrace" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/ltrace), which should allow you to find which user-space function is called, not just system calls. On 21 September 2013 23:07, Glen Turner wrote: > The usual tech

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Cool New Terminal Emulator for a modern look in Linux (David Lyon)

2013-04-07 Thread Amos Shapira
emo movie! I don't deal much with images/videos but when I do (e.g. attach to e-mail or generally check family photos), I always wish I could do that without resorting to some graphic GUI. --Amos -- 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] 20 years of using Linux at Home

2013-04-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Yes it was ablast to be able to rub real Unix programs with "ls" and shell and fork(2) on 386 Ollivetti after years of having to rock up to a serial terminal connected to a Vax to enjoy them. But let me tell what I think about this discussion: http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo http://en

Re: [SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime

2013-02-14 Thread Amos Shapira
In addition to LogStash/Kibana, perhaps you want to look at something that just sends the events to statsd (https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) which then aggregates them into counters and ships the results to Graphite ( http://graphite.wikidot.com/). I have have yet to get personal experience with L

Re: [SLUG] Local Debian 6.0.5 Repository

2012-08-23 Thread Amos Shapira
In addition to Ken's comprehensive response, the bottom line action I'd recommend is to follow the instructions for installation from the "netinst" image, especially if you have a reasonable access (e.g. any home ADSL connections is sufficient) On Aug 23, 2012 10:40 PM, "Lee Isaacson" wrote: > H

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

2012-08-19 Thread Amos Shapira
maximum permissible length. > > (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long) > > That error occurs when trying to access a HTTP URL with https://. Not > sure exactly what would have happened in that circumstance, but as Amos > says, you may need to forward more than one port. > > Yo

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

2012-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Add a similar ssh tunnel on the new port (you can have as many as you like in parallel on the same SSH connection), and access it using explicit https: method. On Aug 19, 2012 9:51 AM, wrote: > On Fri, August 17, 2012 10:37 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote: > > On 17/08/12 07:08, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: >

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

2012-08-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Look for SSH on windows. Luckily for me I never had to use it but I heard about a cygwin port of openssh. There are also SSH implementations for Android. On Aug 17, 2012 7:16 AM, wrote: > On Fri, August 17, 2012 7:12 am, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Sorry - local port forwarding (-l), forwar

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

2012-08-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Sorry - local port forwarding (-l), forwarding from your local desktop to a remote server, then access the local port with your usual browser. On Aug 17, 2012 7:10 AM, "Amos Shapira" wrote: > Look at SSH remote port forwarding (-r). > On Aug 17, 2012 7:08 AM, wrote: &

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

2012-08-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Look at SSH remote port forwarding (-r). On Aug 17, 2012 7:08 AM, wrote: > I have tried installing HP management app on the old DL380 G2 server, > Centos4, no monitor, no desktop > > when I tried running on ssh with 'links https://localhost:3128' (i might > have 3128 incorrect, might be differen

Re: [SLUG] Managing software across a cluster

2012-08-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Go ahead and check Spacewalk for your particular situation, but personally when I looked at it, it seemed to be much too complex to setup and use. I just came across Katello (http://katello.org/), which might interest you as well if you are eyeing Spacewalk. --Amos On 15 August 2012 11:45

Re: [SLUG] Managing software across a cluster

2012-08-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Just get it all under puppet (puppetlabs.com). On Aug 14, 2012 9:55 PM, "Steven Tucker" wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of 20 > nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a lot of MPI. > My problem is that I periodically get

Re: [SLUG] blank desktop / window management

2012-08-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Have you tried pointing your mouse at the screen corners or edges? It might trigger a dock to scroll in. On Aug 13, 2012 10:42 PM, wrote: > I have just upgraded my old Dell dektop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 > using Canonical's official disk. So far I am the only user . > When I log in (as myself

Re: [SLUG] dns issues

2012-08-11 Thread Amos Shapira
More things to try: 1. Check that reverse DNS records point back correctly. 2. There are web sites to let you prob your DNS servers from a few dozens of servers around the world. Try using them to check availability. On Aug 11, 2012 12:28 AM, wrote: > On Sat, August 11, 2012 12:04 am, Glen Turner

Re: [SLUG] sed to delete [??] ?

2012-07-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Hehe :) I didn't specify *where* I was sitting when I wrote that answer... On Jul 21, 2012 4:58 PM, "Jeremy Visser" wrote: > On 21/07/12 15:40, Amos Shapira wrote: > > (Writing from phone so can't test) > > It should be something like: > > sed -r -e

Re: [SLUG] sed to delete [??] ?

2012-07-20 Thread Amos Shapira
(Writing from phone sp can't test) It should be something like: sed -r -e 's/\[[0-9]{1,2}\]//g' On Jul 21, 2012 3:19 PM, wrote: > I wget a page that ends up with multiple lines as below: > > Is there a sed expression, or other, to delete all '[??]' and '[?]' > i.e, brackets with either single or

Re: [SLUG] kernel update reboot ? deleting older versions

2012-07-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Ouch. You should have looked for the packages which contain these files (probably earlier versions of the kernel) using "rpm -qf /boot/file.name" and removed then using rpm. This would also automatically update the grub configuration. Try doing that now. On 12 July 2012 21:58, wrote: > just did

Re: [SLUG] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

2012-07-12 Thread Amos Shapira
It's a script and it's not owned by vmail so it can't be read by the shell. You have to allow it to be readable to the user you are trying to run it as. On Jul 12, 2012 10:22 PM, wrote: > > >>> Please copy the entire crontab entry here (no typing, I suspect you > >>> have typos). This message re

Re: [SLUG] bringing down runaway samba process ?

2012-07-08 Thread Amos Shapira
1. The leap second happened at the end of June, a week ago. He reports that it started earlier. 2. You don't need to reboot, it's possible to just re-set the clock, e.g. "/etc/init.d/ntpd stop; date; date `date +”%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S”`; date; /etc/init.d/ntpd start" (from http://blog.contegix.com/2012/0

Re: [SLUG] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

2012-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Please copy the entire crontab entry here (no typing, I suspect you have typos). This message reads a bit like something is looking for a binary called "bin/sh /usr/local/bin/arch". On 5 July 2012 00:45, wrote: > >> Don't use sudo in a script. You can set your cron job to run as a > >> particul

Re: [SLUG] Agora Smart TV HDMI Dongle

2012-07-01 Thread Amos Shapira
I though it sounded neat too, until I read the less-than-enthusiastic comments on Ausdroid. Bottom line: according to the comments you can get exactly the same hardware at much lower cost from no-name brands and you should consider carefully whether it's really useful. On Jul 2, 2012 8:54 AM, "Tom

Re: [SLUG] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

2012-06-21 Thread Amos Shapira
udo > > Don't use sudo in a script. You can set your cron job to run as a > particular user. > That, or if you must use sudo then you can specify !requiretty in sudoers. --Amos -- [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] Android phones

2012-05-28 Thread Amos Shapira
There is a huge and supportive community of Android hackers. Start with ausdroid forums for australia-centred news/discussions and dig up xda for lots more. On May 28, 2012 11:13 PM, "Voytek Eymont" wrote: > > > Ben Donohue wrote: > > > >Also I'd like to be able to "ghost" or image the phone in

Re: [SLUG] Inverting network interfaces

2012-05-21 Thread Amos Shapira
What distro is it? I RH distros you can stick the MAC address on the interface configuration file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* On May 22, 2012 10:35 AM, "Edwin Humphries" wrote: > G'day, > > I have a rather weird problem. We've installed a router device at one of > our customers;

Re: [SLUG] updated kernel causing problems

2012-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
/boot/grub/grub.cfg, from memory. On May 21, 2012 8:04 AM, "Ben Donohue" wrote: > Hi all, > > Running centos 6.x > > After an update and reboot, the system hangs during startup mid way > loading services... > > If I reboot again and get to grub I can select the previous kernel and > then it all b

Re: [SLUG] Need to fix broken package in Ubuntu

2012-05-17 Thread Amos Shapira
You can tell aptitude to reinstall a package with "aptitude reinstall libpopper13". In the test UI the key press is "L". On May 17, 2012 4:26 PM, "David" wrote: > I need to force apt to re-install a repository package that I have > over-written with dpkg > > > Problem: > xpdf is broken in Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] Re: nostalgia

2012-02-21 Thread Amos Shapira
s about things which interest me. Cheers, -Amos On Feb 22, 2012 2:36 AM, "Geoffrey Cowling" wrote: > What's with all this past golden age? I am OLD (punched cards were an > innovation). But I am not tempted > to pine for the Good Old Days. Remember Red Hat before.., remember ..

Re: [SLUG] slashdot daily mailing list

2012-02-19 Thread Amos Shapira
days 15 years ago. I see that the H has a newsletter, maybe it will be suitable for you? I never tried it. http://www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/news Cheers, --Amos On 20 February 2012 11:04, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Slashdot daily newsletter has changed, to my dissatisfaction. Th

Re: [SLUG] Installing packages in /opt

2011-12-21 Thread Amos Shapira
means that you need to do extra "mount --bind /x /opt/x" on x={proc,sys,dev,usr,lib,var,bin,sbin,...} in order for the installation scripts to find everything they expect. --Amos On 21 December 2011 10:12, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hi folks, > Under Debian, is there a simple way to

Re: [SLUG] Solid State Disk Works Okay with Linux on Kogan Laptop

2011-12-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Back it up often, that's what id suggest from reading other's experience with SSD's. Ref: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html On Dec 12, 2011 9:27 AM, "Tom Worthington" wrote: > I dropped my Kogan Agora 12 Inch laptop onto a stone floor. Remarkably

Re: [SLUG] Cannot create static IP address for Ubuntu 10.4

2011-12-10 Thread Amos Shapira
My favourite way to achieve this is to assign a static DHCP lease on the modem (I.e. set it by the MAC address) that way it's also manageable for other kinds of devices, concentrated in one place and the dhcp server is aware of the address being in use. On Dec 10, 2011 12:22 PM, "elliott-brennan"

Re: [SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

2011-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
The quoted HTML is missing the "" tag and looks like a partial copy/paste from a larger HTML page. The tag is important in order to learn the URL to which the form is submitted. --Amos On 9 December 2011 16:03, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Fri, December 9, 2011 3:42 pm, Jer

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-03 Thread Amos Shapira
I hope it's OK to share this thread since I'm checking options for buying such a laptop too. My main additional features would be - "low weight" (as in - Apple Air light weight) and good battery life (e.g. work at least for half a day straight without a power cord). On 3 December 2011 17:23, David

Re: [SLUG] Wiki software

2011-11-20 Thread Amos Shapira
I like MediaWiki. 2011/11/21 Marghanita da Cruz > Any opinions on the good, bad, ugly Wiki software? > > I'm playing with PHPwiki (because it is tiny). > > Marghanita > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > http://ramin.com.au > Tel: 0414-869202 > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] Clustering weirdness

2011-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
r Maui specific forums, e.g. http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/ --Amos -- 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] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-17 Thread Amos Shapira
only choices are unity and unity 2D. I don't mind Unity but I DO mind that (as it appears from the 2 minutes I had to look at it) NetworkManager fails to find dbus and takes the network down with it, so now there is no network until I find time to figure this out... --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney L

Re: [SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

2011-10-11 Thread Amos Shapira
uest when it received the initial redirect, but that's most probably negligible and worth the trouble that the client will (hopefully) bookmark the "canonical" domain name. --Amos -- 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] ssh key-based auth not working Ubuntu without GUI (X) login??

2011-08-22 Thread Amos Shapira
the authosized_keys file is only accessible when the user is logged in on the GUI. --Amos -- 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] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

2011-07-25 Thread Amos Shapira
ag, so the humidity doesn't condensate on the drive itself) for an hour, let it sit out of the fridge for a few minutes before drying and unsealing the bag (again - to avoid condensation) and try again. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Su

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

2011-07-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25 July 2011 17:57, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 25 July 2011 17:23, Sonia Hamilton wrote: >> * Jake Anderson [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: >> >>> +1 for ddrescue >>> works well. >>> >>> On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: >>>

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

2011-07-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25 July 2011 17:23, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * Jake Anderson [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: > >> +1 for ddrescue >> works well. >> >> On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: >> >You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad block

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

2011-07-22 Thread Amos Shapira
You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks. On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, "Simon Males" wrote: > Hi Slug, > > I'm trying to save a failing NTFS hard drive. It manages to mount and > during copying the following error will appear in dmesg: > > Buffer I/O error on device

Re: [SLUG] ISP for web server in Camden (south-west Sydney)

2011-07-13 Thread Amos Shapira
This is the sort of a question which can be best answered through the whirlpool broadband database and forums... Good luck. On Jul 13, 2011 7:32 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to SLUG and quite new to Linux so forgive me if this query has been wrongly directed. > > I have my own server which run

Re: [SLUG] Hacked email

2011-07-03 Thread Amos Shapira
#x27;s why it might be worth backing up your google accounts, here is a link I filed away four years ago so things may have changed since: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/12/creating-backup-for-your-google-account.html --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Jobs] Systems Admin - Build Engineer

2011-05-24 Thread Amos Shapira
; others in the community who work for them (LinkedIn is your friend). > Snipey (http://www.snipey.com.au/) is supposed to be an aggregator of direct job postings by companies. I haven't done anything through them so can't testify on their quality. Good luck, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

2011-04-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Not sure. I'd lean towards removing it if possible (usually should be possible through standard CPAN commands). Check first where the files from the CPAN package were installed vs. the dpkg package. On 14 April 2011 14:38, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Fri, April 15, 2011 6:55 am, A

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

2011-04-14 Thread Amos Shapira
perl. If you need a CPAN package which doesn't have a .deb then there are relatively simple tools to create .deb. --Amos On 14 April 2011 01:06, Ken Foskey wrote: > Force it then use clan to upgrade it. When it updates through the pm next > it will overwrite because the pm does not

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading OS RAID

2011-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
oot from it. 2. add the PV to the Volume Group (VG) to which the "old" PV belongs to. 3. "pvmove old-pv new-pv" 4. Make sure you can boot and work with the new raid array. 5. IMPORTANT: "pvremove old-pv" - otherwise the system will refuse to use the VG after you

Re: [SLUG] 1066MHz DDR2 Ram

2011-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
I had excellent experience with upgradeable.com.au, many times every time. -Amos On 08/01/2011 7:09 PM, "Jon and Hannah" wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know where I can get some good quality 1066 DDR2 ram? > All I can find is the 800MHz stuff. It also needs to be a matche

Re: [SLUG] dynamically creating a loop device MINOR numbers?

2010-10-09 Thread Amos Shapira
ed. The default is usually fairly low, probably depends on the specific distro, and can be set to a different limit as a parameter to the module. --Amos -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?

2010-10-06 Thread Amos Shapira
it as an "option" > identifier. Insert "./" in front of it so mv doesn't see the "-" at the beginning of the string and tries to interpret it as a flag. So the command could be "mv ./-.mxf newname.mxf". --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Re: Listing local wifi access points?

2010-10-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 October 2010 08:18, wrote: > Also if you're running OpenWRT or similar on your AP, you can get > to a `site survey' under the `status' tab. While other platforms are also mentioned - I found "WiFinder" on an Android phone very useful to get such information

Re: [SLUG] Hosting e-mail?

2010-09-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 27 September 2010 15:03, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Amos Shapira writes: > ...would the free Google Apps for Domains meet your needs?  It is limited to > 50 mailboxes, and is separate from your current gmail account, but should give > you equal reliability and capacity.  (Plus you a

[SLUG] Hosting e-mail?

2010-09-26 Thread Amos Shapira
t we can't fit into our lives right now (expecting another baby). Thanks, --Amos -- 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] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

2010-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
balls on your toolbar everytime there is downloadable > media on a webpage. You can click on the icon and download the > episode, it should play with vlc or xine. > Thanks. I'll try to remember that. Today I tried again and it works, so it probably was a problem on the server. Che

Re: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

2010-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19 September 2010 17:25, Ken Foskey wrote: > This is a guess... > > Have you tried vlc with the Mozilla plugin option? > Didn't work. But just visiting this page now as I did before this time it plays. So maybe it was a problem on their side. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sy

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