On 2012-02-03 14:26, Alan Pope wrote:
It's a Super Hub. I have one. It's just a custom netgear device with a
cable modem internally. Some people have had issues with it, but that's
nothing to do with Linux.
So it's a router+modem? Has NAT and all that?
Can it present a public IP to my own
On 2011-12-07 17:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I purchased a Logitech C270 HD Webcam which according to this site
http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices is compatible with Linux.
I ran up a Live CD of Ubuntu 11.10 and connected the camera.
the camera works but the microphone does not work
On 2011-10-31 20:04, Tony Pursell wrote:
I've got a problem with booting after I removed my old 1GB swap file and
created a new bigger swap file. The upshot of this seems to be that /boot
is now on /dev/sda6 instead of /dev/sda7. (That's because the old swap was
before it on the disk). What
On 2011-10-18 16:12, Philip Stubbs wrote:
Yes, it is my home server. It did have a GUI installed but that failed
after the Oneiric upgrade. Can't complain about that as it did give a
warning. So, what is the best way to disable Network Manager?
List the interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces,
On 2011-10-18 16:00, Philip Stubbs wrote:
Poking around, I found the /etc/resolv.conf file had nothing in it
except a not saying it was managed by network-manager. Manually adding
a nameserver here fixed my problem, but I am going to guess that it
will disappear again next reboot. How do I
On 2011-09-26 13:48, Alan Pope wrote:
I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04?
I'd like to see the issues of power consumption on Intel chipsets (since
11.04) resolved.
Regards,
Tyler
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If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of
the individual to be wrong,
On 2011-09-23 15:38, Dave Hanson wrote:
I want to search the entire disk of any OS to find the Firefox cache
directory. Is it even possible to do this? I don't particularly need the
code to do it (I don't mind if you want to share though!) What I'm really
after is - Am I wasting my time even
On 2011-09-16 11:48, Alan Pope wrote:
On 16 September 2011 11:40, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi -- what box would people recommend for setting up a small, cheap staging
Ubuntu web server?
This:-
On 2011-09-13 15:56, javadayaz wrote:
Cyanogenmod 7. An Android rom for your android phonebut with added
goodies baked in!
Install procedure:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_HD:_Rooting
Tyler
--
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On 2011-08-26 15:28, Nigel Verity wrote:
I use Filezilla on a regular basis to transfer files between devices via my
home router. It's a great utility which I would highly recommend. From time
to time it would be useful to access files on devices located at home when
I am away. Could anyone
On 2011-08-21 20:51, Rob Beard wrote:
I've just got a HP MicroServer which I am installing 64-Bit Ubuntu 10.04
on to (I believe it was the 10.04.3 Server ISO I used).
I just wondered if there was any way of tweaking it to get it back to
bog standard VGA mode?
We probably have similar
On 2011-08-12 09:48, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
I’ve just bought a Logitech C270 HD from Amazon for £17.99. It’s
excellent and works flawlessly in Ubuntu Natty.
Thanks for the tip. I've been looking for a replacement for my simple
640x480 generic Logitech attached to my television . Can
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:17 -0700, John Stevenson wrote:
3G option allows you to download books when you are not connected to a
WiFi network, it is not intended for use for browsing the Internet.
Yet there is a browser, if you don't mind browsing the web on an e-ink
display. A friend of mine
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run
native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android?
Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the desktop edition or maybe
meego?
No such thing exists. The
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:16 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
No such thing exists. The closest possibilities are:
Oh sure. And now even a casual web search turns up several hacked up
phones running Ubuntu. Madness. :)
Tyler
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The map is not the territory.
-- Alfred Korzybski
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On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 12:11 +0100, alan c wrote:
I have no hesitation to say to use Ubuntu 10.04.2 (LTS) if it works
on that hardware, (probably will). If any hardware that I support have
any problesms with the LTS (a few do) then 10.10 seems ok.
It will. I've run 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, and
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:50 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
Thanks for that Alan. I'll take a closer look. sema_init works just
fine in place of MUTEX, but needs a second parameter. I used '1' which
seems to work OK. I'll look at the reference above and see what I've
been doing.
A semaphore
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 07:31 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
Each process will be still limited to a max of 4GB therefore if your aim
is to use more than that inside a process, 64 bit is the better choice.
Each process is limited to a max of 2 GB, not 4 GB. The maximum
addressable space for a
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:42 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
One commentator has suggested they've done it for the subscriber list
and not for the technology...
Ridiculous. Skype's ability to pierce all forms of NAT and firewall puts
it miles ahead of MSN.
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:33 +0100,
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:27 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
When this happens is it necessary to reboot fairly urgently or is it
ok to delay this till a convenient time. In other words is there a
significant difference between delaying the update because it will ask
for a reboot, and delaying the
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:52 +0100, Paul Willis wrote:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y
...my server it needs a reboot.
Of course, if you're doing it at the command line, it's pretty easy to
tell if a reboot is required. If the kernel upgraded, reboot. If not,
you don't have to.
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow
clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking
GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things -
Obviosly not every job
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 12:09 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
I think the appropriate group for me to post to you would be:
https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/intellectual-property-and-open-source/overview
My buzzword counter variable overflowed mid-way through the introductory
paragraph. Could
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 09:07 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Thanks for all the words of advise. I know the most sensible thing I
should do is go see my doctor. I have tried wearing a wrist support,
which I don't think helped much. I have ordered a wrist rest pad (the
gel lump you rest your
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 10:22 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On 25 March 2011 09:41, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote:
You can share the same private key around all the machines you own and
trust,
That's not wise. If you put your private key on all your machines you
trust then I only need to break
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 12:39 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
My setup has always been grub on mbr and grub on /boot for each
installation. Either way is pretty simple, the only difficulty I can
forsee is if you change the kernel on one of the installs that doesn't
handle the grub
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 13:01 +, alan c wrote:
I have just purchased a Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Manual-Mike-Saunders/dp/1844259706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1299589121sr=8-1
The review on the Amazon page is awesome.
Tyler
--
When others asked the truth of
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 11:44 +, John Stevenson wrote:
How long you should wait probably depends on what the server is doing
now. You request does not state what state the server is currenty in,
so it is difficult to advise.
Indeed. Your description implies that you're not near the server
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 05:38 +, Alexander Birchall wrote:
3. This is what the monitor was displaying:
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
-- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
-- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
-- Check root= (did the system wait for
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:41 +, Barry Drake wrote:
I decided to have a go with the AMD 64-bit version of Maverick. I put
it on a second hard drive so the 32-bit version is untouched. All was
fine until I wanted to use my Brother DCP 135C printer/scanner. I
looked at their Linux driver
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 23:11 +, Bill Cumming wrote:
I've a Netgear DG834gt Router with custom firmware,
It does the same! With me It's a problem with the way the router
handles ports,
It only happens when i'm downloading many torrents, causes the routers
wireless not respond.
It
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:20 +, Barry Drake wrote:
The waste of such an enormous amount of ink has always been a concern of
mine. I agree completely with your suggestion. It needs to have black
and three colours - incorporated into the Ubuntu logo maybe? But other
than that and page
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:46 +, Barry Drake wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:39 +, George Tripp wrote:
Looked at a couple of companies which will sell machines without any op
system.
Pcspecialists: apparently there's a problem that the touchhpad doesn't work
with
ubuntu
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 21:14 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Ubuntu has got a lot going in the right direction and I can easily give the
benefit of the doubt to a somewhat radical direction. Fingers crossed.
Yeah, watch this space :)
Unfortunately, I'll be watching this space from a Mint desktop.
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 22:26 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Eh? You've moved over to mint yourself but you're worried that other
people will too?
I'm running 10.04 now, but will be moving to Mint as of natty.
I'm worried that Unity is one case of Ubuntu pushing design in the wrong
direction for the
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:38 +, Paul Sladen wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
it should be possible to see the keyhole at least.
You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly
the same as any other keyhole.
What you can't see is any of the
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:45 +, Alan Pope wrote:
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
Added to my signature quotes source file. :)
Tyler
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governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous
government in
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:35 +, Colin Law wrote:
If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about
and hope for the best? :)
You multiply part of it with the lock, and then modulo it with the
doorknob.
Regards,
Tyler
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Steve Fisher wrote:
Pretty much as per title, I use compiz so require it to work, when I
upgraded last time it didn't.
The easiest way to find out is to download the Desktop iso, convert that
to a Live USB with persistent storage, and boot off it. Then you can
install the ATI drivers when
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:41 +, John Stevenson wrote:
In my humble experience, it is quite likely that if you find a
technological way to force them to engage, they will spend more effort
trying to game that mechanism than reading your communications.
Indeed. You're trying to solve a
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:14 +, Barry Drake wrote:
I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It
goes like this:
#/bin/bash
rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee (zenity
--progress --pulsate --text=Backing up files ) backup_log.txt
killall
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:14 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Nope. It is silent in booting, and, I think, faster. If I then close the
CD tray, while the machine is still running, it gronks once.
Most likely your BIOS probes the drive at boot-up, even if you don't
have it in the boot order. That's
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 15:13 +, Liam Proven wrote:
Docks are for when you want to constantly remove and replace the
disks. If they are meant to be permanently in use, put the drives into
external enclosures.
Indeed. We use them to shred disks before disposing of them. They're
best for
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:32 +, Jon Spriggs wrote:
Actually, I was under the impression that the stack exchange software
(which drives stack overflow and askubuntu and others) is Free
Software, albeit on a Windows and C# platform.
It appears to run nginx on Linux, or at least its front-end
I think the idea is that it is much faster, if less configurable. Like
the new GDM since 10.04.
Regards,
Tyler
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:50 +, Craig Peden wrote:
Everyone has it. It is the newer graphical boot/shutdown stuff that I
think it generated by Plymouth as opposed to the xsplash
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote:
For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring
the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this
text, shifting those books to distributors and selling the physical
objects.
Most of the cost is
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:54 +, pmgazz wrote:
Otherwise, publishers with existing copyright insist on using DRM -
nothing (legally) to be done about that as far as I can tell.
Except for Baen, one of the first publishers to come to their senses
(and have the mounting sales to prove it). All
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote:
I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X
server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter in
the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer as
the
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Willis wrote:
Yep, we had those too. Kick-off I think it was called.
In fact here it is
http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html
Yep, that's it! Thanks for the reminder. May I never see such a device
again. :)
Tyler
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A
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:57 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote:
You could try disabling the DVI port in the Ubuntu config.
I doubt very, very much that Ubuntu has anything to do with this. Start
by checking that EFI, the Mac equivalent of BIOS, has a setting to
ignore boot errors, or headless boot, or
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 12:39 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
I guess not everyone realises yet that Linux Mint is no longer based on
Ubuntu - certainly the Wikipedia page (which for some is Gospel) still
show it as being based on Ubuntu.
Mint STILL is an Ubuntu derivative. They also provide KDE
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for
enabling encryption so your neighbours can't snoop on your traffic.
Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? Or does it create
a local interface on the Linux
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:18 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware?
It does. You plug a PC directly into the device and choose a key which
is set inside the device. Do that for all devices and then you're set.
Nothing more to do, no computers need to be
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
As far as I'm aware, it poses no more risk than, say, a satellite
dish.
I *am* a satellite engineer. I've installed and operated antennas from
1.2m to 9.3m in diameter, from Baghdad to London. I've never seen
lighting strikes an antenna in
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel Case wrote:
I have tried to have a Google but these things are generally frowned
upon because they are part of a crackers toolkit, anywhere I have
found is now down.
Does anyone have any idea where I could get a comma separated list of
all English
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 10:42 +0100, jakewc2 wrote:
Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help,
willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people.
Indeed we are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_gaaUiNs8
Tyler
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Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:17 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Have to wait for the second (private) broadband to be activated on our
other phone line. Seems odd that the Windows machine was able to
automatically detect a static IP address
No, it can't automatically detect a static IP. It
Melv,
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:28 +0100, Melv Bailey wrote:
This has caused me a problem since 8.04 (7.10 is the last version I have
run sort of successfully without having to jump through VGA driver hoops
but I did have to jump through wireless drivers hoops and didnt solve them).
I am
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 16:55 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
It's very easy:
* Go to www.hsbc.co.uk (so now you know what bank I'm talking
about)
* Click the Log on button in the Business box on the right
At that point, it should take you to a login page but in my case it just
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:23 +0100, Shaun ONeil wrote:
Thermal paste shouldn't dry. It stays a paste. It really is just a lick-um
stick-um job. No need to watch paint dry :)
Don't, of course, lick thermal paste. It contains some unpleasant heavy
metals that you should not ingest. :)
Tyler
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On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 23:35:26 John Matthews wrote:
Hi, thank you so much for giving me that info I installed it, and it
works so quite happy. Problem is, the http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com
http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/ website, only deals with ubuntu up to
9.04 I think, is there an up
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 02:00:37 Liam Proven wrote:
Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em
there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent.
Me, personally, I'd say wipe reload. It's easier than doing 9.04 -
9.10 followed by 9.10 - 10.04.
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 11:38:18 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Just a hint.
sudo chown -R user: /home/user
will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the
colon.
Dude! If I had known that fifteen years ago, I'd have done ... well, a little
less typing over the years.
On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 09:55:33 Alan Pope wrote:
To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a
recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to
'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and
make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The
On Thursday 02 Sep 2010 14:05:30 javadayaz wrote:
Does this have any adverse affects on the hard drive?
No.
Regards,
Tyler
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
I don't believe you can instruct a suspended laptop to wake itself up. That
would take at least a BIOS feature, I think.
A suspended laptop doesn't make a copy of anything. It just syncs the
filesystems (writes changes to media), and puts the hardware into a low-power
state. That basically
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2010 09:29:35 Cornelius Mostert wrote:
1 thing that no one mentioned as yet that might be obvious is the Subnet
Mask.
I have a similar setup but are using 2 routers and I found that the DHCP
router needs to tell the clients that:
1. The Default Gateway should be the router
On Tuesday 31 Aug 2010 22:58:13 Eddie B wrote:
I'm trying to do something that is probably really simple. I have a
server which has two interfaces. eth0 obtains an IP (192.168.1.20) by
DHCP for the internet from a router sitting on 192.168.1.1. The
server, as such, is able to get onto the
On Saturday 28 Aug 2010 08:05:03 Matthew Daubney wrote:
Denyhosts is quite useful in stopping brute force attacks. After so many
failed attempts it just blocks the attacking IP.
See also fail2ban, which is in my opinion more useful. It works using
iptables, and supports all kinds of
On Friday 27 Aug 2010 14:56:10 Rob Beard wrote:
Um... why do you need to do anything with Firefox?
VMWare Server 2 uses a web-based admin panel. VNC inside the browser requires
a Firefox plugin, which works on i386 and amd64.
Regards,
Tyler
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Do the right thing even if it means dying like a
On Friday 27 Aug 2010 15:41:23 Jim Price wrote:
I've been using Virtualbox since Hardy came out, as it is pretty slick
and mostly pain free, but I took another look at qemu-kvm after the
recent announcement from Oracle, and armed with a little foreknowledge,
I feel happy I could switch to kvm
See you there tomorrow, folks!
http://fossevents.org/2010/02/02/ubuntu-uk-real-ale-train/
Tyler
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The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very
young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must
be won on this earth or not at all.
-- Anne Smedley
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010 11:01:16 Byte Soup wrote:
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do
this? I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an
entire disc (i.e. some
On Saturday 07 Aug 2010 09:15:47 Sean Miller wrote:
And we have yet to get the opinions of a large percentage of the group.
I don't see the point of getting a large discussion going, and I certainly
don't see this as a vote. When topics like this come up, it is unfortunate
that the mailing
On 31/07/10 13:08, Jack Leigh wrote:
Hey guys,
I recently came across this awesome demo of using thecanvas tag in
HTML to do 8-bit color cycling
(http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/)
Does anyone know of a way that I could set one of these as my desktop
background or produce an
On Saturday 24 July 2010 09:04:00 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
1) How would you ensure that my files cannot be copied or read by anyone
else on the network?
See the brackup project - rsync with encrypted storage. Combine that with P2P,
and you have this.
Tyler
--
In a time of universal
On Saturday 24 July 2010 12:57:15 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
I do not think it will make much difference. But I use 32bit Ubuntu on
all my machines. Earlier experiences with codecs and flash support on
64bit has scared me for life!
I have run 64-bit on my normal workstation since Hardy, and run
On Friday 16 July 2010 20:53:56 Rob Beard wrote:
So considering the large files, would anyone recommend EXT3 or EXT4?
Tony outlined the problem with upgrading ext3 to ext4, so I have just this to
add: use ext4. There is no reason, exempting some fears caused by problems in
early releases, not
On Friday 16 July 2010 21:18:47 Rob Beard wrote:
Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found
something about this when googling about EXT4).
Extents are a method of pre-allocating space to avoid fragmentation. ext4 will
be faster for copying large files.
Regards,
Tyler
On Thursday 15 July 2010 07:36:24 Bob Giles wrote:
There is probably a simple answer to my query but so far it has eluded
me. I have added a line to /etc/fstab which originally mounted a couple
of shares on my Netgear Duo NAS at bootup. It worked fine for a couple
of days and has now stopped
On Thursday 15 July 2010 19:19:18 Bob Giles wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions and references. This does indeed
appear to be a timing problem.
The power supply here in Greece where I live has been particularly
tiresome lately and as a result, everything gets powered down overnight.
On Saturday 10 July 2010 15:46:40 pete wrote:
And I have discovered that my LCD tv 'overscans'! that is the desktop
and shells edges are hidden by the edges of the physical screen! after
much googleing around I have been unable to resolve this (forgive me for
this but winxp has a 'underscan'
On Friday 02 July 2010 13:19:47 Alan Pope wrote:
It's a computer.
There is this thing called google :)
Next time you really want to be sarcastic, Alan, try this:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=joggler
Tyler
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Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the
wrong tool for every
As long as the card is on the bus, it is powered. The card itself may have a
specific power-save mode, but I very much doubt it.
The power consumed by the monitor is another story, but you know how to turn
that off.
If you want a way to save power and periodically run commands and fetch stuff,
On Friday 25 June 2010 08:34:29 David King wrote:
I run Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit on my PC, on which I run Virtual Box 3.2.4. In
that I have been running an Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit guest. Mostly it has
been okay, but recently it started to randomly lose its network
connection, and now today it cannot get
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 21:04:38 Chris Rowson wrote:
Please feel free to point out any errors etc. I might work this into a
how to and publish it on the 'tinterweb (of course giving proper
attribution to folk such as Tyler) as instructions on how to do this
seem to be spread across quite a few
On Friday 11 June 2010 13:44:38 Liam Proven wrote:
If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the
machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all
of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs
can't access more than about 3¼-3½
On Friday 11 June 2010 17:47:08 Chris Rowson wrote:
Here's the my current level of understanding! If anyone can fill in
the gaps (or correct me if I'm wrong) I'd be really grateful.
(snipped for brevity)
Your stated understanding is correct, as far as I know it.
What I'm still hazy on is
On Friday 11 June 2010 23:17:07 Chris Rowson wrote:
That's easy. Again, webmin + virtualmin will set it up for each
domain/account pretty easily. But here are the packages you need:
Also, unfortunately there's no Lucid installer yet for virtualmin. I
might have a look at what's involved in
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:44:29 Alan Bell wrote:
ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does
not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it
it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it
should list the version
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:19:28 Chris Rowson wrote:
I'm migrating a web server with a few sites from a CentOS based VPS
with a DirectAdmin control panel to an Ubuntu Lucid server. I'm not
incredibly bothered about losing the control panel, but I wondered if
anyone had any advice on securing
Hi Chris,
It certainly is. Attached are samples of my iptables-restore and fail2ban
configs for hardy-based servers. My iptables config creates the fail2ban-ssh
chain, so I've changed the iptables-multiport fail2ban action so that it
doesn't. And I prefer that fail2ban only block NEW ssh
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 11:56:45 pmgazz wrote:
I use aptitude 'cos I always make a typo on the hyphen in 'apt-get' ;)
This sounds like a job for ...
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/apt-get /usr/local/bin/aptget
Tyler
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of
men's minds,
On Monday 07 June 2010 08:51:09 Neil Perry wrote:
But how many of you using aptitude rather then apt-get?
I've used aptitude since I started using ubuntu, seeing as I thought
apt-get wasn't maintained any more.
I have never used aptitude (except to test it once or twice). I've used apt-
get
On Monday 07 June 2010 10:23:45 Mark Fraser wrote:
I tend to use aptitude on the command line when apt-get says that it can't
perform an upgrade for some reason. This is usually because it needs to
install something else at the same time.
Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' rather than 'apt-get
On Monday 07 June 2010 21:09:46 Chris Rowson wrote:
Ah. In answer to my own question, it looks like the i386 server kernel
was 'dropped' in Karmic.
Yep. You can see it here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/linux-server
This metapackage depends on:
* dep: linux-generic-pae [i386]
*
On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:50:00 Nigel Verity wrote:
Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows
will invalidate the hardware guarantee.
I've run Ubuntu on Dell since 5.04. I've called for support 5 times across 5
laptops - once for a bad fan, and 4 times for
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 tend to use
sudo -i
so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment
On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote:
This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are
several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using
bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that the packages are
often small and the overhead of p2p
On Thursday 13 May 2010 01:10:44 John Stevenson wrote:
If you have a laptop hard drive that often contains sensitve personal data
or is used for any kind of business or holds information that needs to be
covered under the data protection act, then it advisable to have the whole
system
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