If you use Icinga or Nagios you can set Warnings and Critical states. Checks
can occur at specified intervals along with any other checks you might want
to do (memory/cpu load, disk space, etc)the temperature checks need
lm-sensors installed though.
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On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 13:59 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I've cracked it...
You're not the only one ;-)
I'd personally avoid making webmin publicly available.
Consider using iptables or (ufw) to restrict access to your IP if you have a
static, or you could only allow access to
On May 21, 2011 6:28 PM, Jon Spriggs jon@sprig.I
Every now and then, I look at X2GO and FreeNX and remind myself that
it's not really doing much more than a tunnel to a method of
displaying X, and that my way works.
that said... I actively encourage the use of FreeNX, as it has some useful
On May 20, 2011 6:19 AM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
I'd be very wary of using somebody for IT services who didn't appear to
know that Openoffice would open those three file formats...
OpenOffice/libreoffice will open them happily.whether the content of
them is displayed as
On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've
given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again
sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet
seem only to be able to assign
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:05 PM, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello me again;
I've slightly looked into this but not with full intensity just wanted
to know if any of you had done it:
I got this new smartphone/minicomputer nokia n900 (just two days before
the platform anouncement) and
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.netwrote:
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:05 PM, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello me again;
I've slightly looked into this but not with full intensity just wanted
to know if any of you had done it:
I got this new smartphone
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote:
Why should the access be OK one way but not the other?
Firewall rules? Samba server started? Check ufw status on both machines,
and output netstat -auntp to see whether the necessary samba ports are open
and samba
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote:
On 01/03/11 16:36, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gbpli...@gmail.comwrote:
Why should the access be OK one way but not the other?
Firewall rules? Samba server
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote:
On 01/03/11 16:51, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
You should get something similar to the following:
$ sudo ufw status
Status: active
Status inactive.
What does that imply?
It's not Iptables that's stopping
I now have a problem sharing directories on the Netbook. If I right-click on
a directory and choose Sharing Options and check the Share this folder
box it now says :
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name
Everyone to a SID. Memory allocation error.
Ok - can
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:09 PM, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.ukwrote:
If you only want to share files between Ubuntu machines, using a secure
connection, SSH is an option
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS
Nautilus supports this by default - for fast and easy transfer, simply
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
I too now swear by CloneZilla, I like the fact it works with both Linux and
Windows (XP at least, not tried restoring any Vista, Server 2003/8 or
Windows 7 machines). I now have it on my server and netboot machines. It's
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the forums,
hardly any one there! Worked well, hardware recognised (and I know what I
am doing!)
Fedora - didn't like it, could fry an egg on my trackpad!
Likewise, if anyone has an invite going spare then I'd be interested in
giving it a go!
Many thanks
Paul
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Paul Jones p...@pjitsolutions.co.ukwrote:
snip
Are the system admin? If not I would be careful about putting a non-work
PC on the corporate LAN.
Without admin rights you wouldn't be able to join the domain anyway!
As mentioned earlier in the thread,
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Andy Partington andy.parting...@gmail.com
wrote:
I use Nagios at work on a CentOS install, the company I work for use SME (
God it's horrible ) but it's also based on CentOS so you can work your way
round it.
Feel free to fire questions at me, guys in
Skipton, North Yorkshire here. Incidentally we support Linux and Windows
boxes (server and workstation). For commercial reasons we avoid domestic
support though, but for business we're happy to provide informal advice or
paid consultancy.
I believe it's against list rules(?) to shamelessly plug
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking
questions on Windows forums. The first one that comes to mind is Experts
Exchange (now a pay site and abandoned), but there have been others.
snip
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
snip
I've got Puppee on my eeepc because as soon as I open Firefox on Lucid, the
processor starts running at 100% with appalling latency - Puppee it runs
beautifully. Or just use standard Puppy.
/snip
Have a look at
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Just as an aside (and I'm not discounting the possibility of hardware issue
- this seems likely) what's the drive fragmentation like on the host drive?
The curse of installing an Ext3/4 container on an NTFS partition is that the
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Why would fragmentation cause latency?
Sean
Heavy load on disk controllers while they seek would add to the overall CPU
load. I wouldn't say this is likely to be the exclusive cause of the
symptoms you are seeing - just
Likewise - we have an IT support company in Skipton and would possibly be
interested :) Drop me an email to discuss, let me know the dates and we'll
try to get involved!
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.comwrote:
Might be worth asking this on GeekUp. I'm in
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
Likewise - we have an IT support company in Skipton and would possibly be
interested :) Drop me an email to discuss, let me know the dates and we'll
try to get involved!
Arghhh - apologies for the top post there - I
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.comwrote:
try running sudo chmod 777 * on the directorys and files
Arghhh - while it's entirely possible that this might resolve the issue,
that's possibly the WORST thing you can do to resolve a permissions based
issue!
Please
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Cornelius Mostert
corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
Or buy a Sheva plug fro $99 I think this is a nice little ting
http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/home
And they do have UK versions
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Yes - I can vouch for
snip
Oh, if 13.04 is Raffish Roach do I get a prize?
/Snip
I do!! Personalised distro ;)
:D
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote:
I do have my doubts about the speeds shown on this site. It shows my
street at less than 1Mb, despite the fact had an upgrade three months ago
and now get 3-3.5 Mb. My friends village shows speeds only available with
On 4 August 2010 12:23, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk
wrote:
I'd also suggest that if you don't trust the medium between the 2 machines
(ie, the internet) then you might want to consider running rsync over ssh.
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/rsync.htm
:)
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who is keen on using open source wherever possible in a new startup
company, so I am looking for any kind of
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners'
distro.
Crunchbang is awesome - I set it up for my wife who was complaining about
performance on her EEEPC 701, and have since run it on other hardware
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and
faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It
was just that getting firmware for my wifi card and so on was a bit of
a pain. It is
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Ibbotson
thomas.ibbot...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I have a Nexus One, but I don't have a wireless router in my college
accommodation and I'm not allowed to install one. I was wondering if
anyone knew a way to connect my phone to my computer's internet
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Andy Dixon ubu...@zxcreative.com wrote:
Hi,
I had this before in the past. click on the window on the bottom bar, press
alt+space, press the down arrow key 3 times, press enter, then move the
mouse around and it should appear.
If you do it wrong, it'll
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Cornelius Mostert
corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
My question is how do I get the window to appear again?? I could open
another window (like terminal window - if it is the terminal window
that disappeared) but how do I get the disappeared one
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.comwrote:
I thought there was something that I hadnt noticed that was going to pop up
later. Im using this on my everyday work laptop so I just wanted to check
there was nothing that meant I needed to go back to 32-bit.
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On 05/29/2010 06:27 PM, John Stevenson wrote:
I use the social media enhancements and find them very useful, I would be
surprised if they are causing any significant load, I certainly cant see
that when I look at the processes loading the system.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote:
You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like
with:-
sudo -s
Hmmm, when I do this I
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
they do them, but they seem to imply that you need to be some sort of
techy person to use it, it points out that some programs may not be
compatable with others, given that openoffice can work with office
files and can
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.comwrote:
That's a fair point, I also used to run XBMC on an original xbox.
/snip
I can also vouch for XBMC on the original Xbox and also on a custom desktop
PC. XBMC supports remote control via a browser (so fine on an
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Chris Rowson
christopherrow...@gmail.comwrote:
I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with a
bunch of live CDs, insert them into the PCs and reboot them (observing the
resultant chaos).
Chris
I can't remember what the correct
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
2x Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2425 HE
:)
Cheers,
Al.
Hmmm.that's some serious processing powerthe CPU's in your machine
cost more than my car!! and probably go faster ;)
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FreeNX is good, but it'll give you a separate X session rather than a
session to the desktop running on the Joggler screen.
Snip
In the FreeNX client you can specify a shadow session which joins the currently
running X session. Not tried this with the joggler, but i use this for my
desktop at
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Barry Titterton
barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote:
Cheers Ashley,
I suppose it is asking too much for the BBC to mention that their scare
reports are for Windows users only.
Barry
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote:
Hi,
I originally posted this email to my users' list as I have some
customers who are concerned about the Digital Economy Act. I was
asked to repost it here as it may be of interest, so I'm editing it
a little and doing
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:29 AM, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
Am I wrong in thinking this post is really a warning about not setting you
router up securely?
If you are unable to control the router or the IP address your Ubuntu box
is assigned, then you can always run a firewall
On 20/04/10 19:14, Daniel Case wrote:
Never, ever leave Samba open without due care and attention, all too
often i see people telling others to install Samba without warning them
of the possible implications, many people
are quite lazy, and instead of settings everything up, will just
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
I can see that in an office, with a lot of data, having hourly, daily,
weekly, etc., snapshots is much more important.
snip
Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the
repositories) is
On 13 April 2010 12:26, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
And so VLC is running on a computer somewhere...so the music or video
comes out of that computer, not the client you are using to access the
web interface? That sounds good!
if it's of interest to anyone, XBMC does
I would like to use Orange and they say the dongle does not support
Linux. I suspect the dongle does, and orange are choosing not to
(whereas another of the big five have set up a repository to support
their dongles). From what I have read online, some folk have had some
success with some
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.comwrote:
Ahhh i see, i have uploaded the tutorial to my blog:
www.newforumnetwork.com/joggler
Daniel, just to clarify is that working *with* sound? I'm tempted to give
this a go next week, but have been enjoying using the
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.comwrote:
I ordered one yesterday on-line and I had a dispatch email yesterday
evening saying it will be with me today. Not bad at all at just £49.99
inc VAT and Shipping.
Cheers
Al
I got the same - so Online appears to
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ashley Whetter
ashley.whet...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've also emailed my MP. A good site for messaging your MP was on the
Ubuntu uk podcast: www.writetothem.com. The third hearing of the bill
should be on BBC Parliament today but I'm not sure what time it is
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.comwrote:
Trying to get one today, went to the nearest O2 store but they were
out of stock...so im going to have to try Doncaster.
Just ordered mine online and expecting it in 5days... something to play
with when I'm on
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bob Giles thecorf...@gmail.com wrote:
Methinks it is time to fire up LogMeIn and speak to them via Cambridge!
Logmein?? just ssh -D to a box in this country and set your browser to
use localhost: as a socks proxy :)
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I don't have a speccybut do have an old acorn electron - would
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Any traffic destined for the local network will route exclusively to
that network. As mentioned previously if you are on 192.168.1.1/24
and you send a file to 192.168.1.10, then routing occurs on the local
machine. A broadcast ARP packet is sent to establish the MAC address
of the machine and
Have a look at the sheevaplug from www.newit.co.uk!
It's small and performs amazingly!
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