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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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ssh login changes key mapping - possible?!
by Chris Green 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

I have a very odd keyboard/key mapping problem which occurs on just one system when I use ssh to log into it remotely. I have my keyboard mapped so that the backspace key sends ^H (08) and the DEL key(s) send ^? (7F). I have my keyboards mapped this way on all the systems I use and (if necessary) I use stty in my .profile to set the tty handling to match. This works correctly using ssh from just about everywhere to everywhere:- Home to Areti internet Home to BSNet Work to Areti internet Work to BSNet Work to Home However when I connect from home to work *something* remaps the backspace key so it sends ^? (7F) and remaps the DEL keys so they send some sort of escape sequence. It is an actual key remapping, if I type CTRL/H then an 08 is sent and I get the expected character deletion. Can anyone suggest what might be going on? I don't think ssh should (be able to) do this sort of thing should it? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Putting Debian Linux into Microserver (Kuro Box)
by Tatsuhiko Maegawa 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Just to share my experience with you. I bought Microserver kit - self-build Kuro Box, and 250Gb Harddisk. All this for mere 30,000 yen. This microserver is little smaller than miniMac, and consumes 17watts against 60watts on miniMac. It has PowerPC 266MHz and 128Mb of Ram. I put Debian Linux (Sarge) into it. I built this as web server (Apache + MySQL + PHP4), and run Mambo CMS. So far it runs fine. Sometimes program stops, but you can get away from it since you are asking too much from the box. Details are here http://kurobox.com/ Worth buying if you are thinking of SOHO & Private Linux box, I think. T.

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Gigabit ethernet - USR or D-Link NICs?
by Chris Green 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I have just got a Gigabit 8-port switch and want to upgrade a couple of the NICs to match. Has anyone got any opinions/knowledge as to whether D-Link or USR NICs are liely to be more compatible with a 2.4.xx kernel? (Or other makes for that matter, it's just that D-Link is cheapest and the switch is a USR one). -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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DSL bandwidth
by Stuart Bailey 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi I have a customer who has 512M broadband to their site. They have recently recruited more staff, and find that 512 is not enough. BT have checked their lin3es and say the they're lucky to get 512 (they are about 5 mile from the exchange). Unfortunately, a 2M link is too expensive. Is there any way (perhaps with hardware) to configure multiple 512M links into one high spped link? They ideally want 2Mb Many thanks, Stuart -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Proprietor) Linux Specialist (01953) 601294 (07778) 383739 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ----------------------------------------

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X programming, fonts question
by Chris Green 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Well my re-write and tidy up of astime is progressing. I'm happy with my 'one line per parameter' initialisation code, much less sprawling than the original. I'm now onto the bits I actually want to change, the original version has (horrible) bit-mapped fonts for AM/PM, day of week, etc. These are actually included in the program distribution as *.xpm files which are built into the code. Thus there is no choice of font and if you happened to want to change the names for the days of the week you have to recode the bit maps character by character. Not to mention the horrible convolutions required to actually select the right digits given the date! astime already has the ability to display some text (called a 'label') on the clock and you *can* specify the font for this. If you simply set the label to today's date and tell it to display you get a much nicer display of the date than the built in one. It also saves several hundred lines of code! It was playing with this facility that prompted me to start changing the code so that the date, day of week, AM/PM etc. are all done more elegantly. So (as before) finally to the question. I can see how to select specific fonts in X but is there any way to find a default font family? I.e. I want the code to be fairly general and work in a passable fashion on any X system, thus specifying a font in the code is risky, there's no font guaranteed to be on all systems. What I want is a way to find a font which is (probably) the default for the window manager in use for example. Going on from that is there an easy way to find the range of sizes available for a given font? Then I can find a default (or at least definitely available) font and select a size which is a reasonable match to the clock size. I suppose I could wait until I get home and look this up, I have a set of X programming manuals, but if anyone here can help that would be useful. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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PAM issues
by Andy Trevor 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Guys, I am having some issues with pam_mkhomedir If I log on to the server locally with a use account with no home dir all is well, the home dir is greated with the correct permissions. If I try it from an LTSP client all is not well. The Home dir is created as root and of course all goes wrong after that. Any ideas Thanks in advance -- Regards Andy Trevor Technical Director Cutter Project Limited http://www.cutterproject.co.uk

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RE: [ALUG] dialup to UKFSN
by Keith Watson 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

> From: Ted Harding Sent: 17 August 2005 21:39 > > Hi Folks, > > Are any of you using dialup via a modem to ukfsn.org's dialup > service, and currently experiencing connection problems? > > If so, I'd be pleased to compare notes (it may just possibly > be a faulty modem, but it's unique to UKFSN). No UKFSN seem to have an intermittent problem with their dial-up. I had problems connecting earlier this week and so did a friend who uses their dial-up service. Haven't checked the UKFSN web site, there may be something about it on there. Wonder if anyone's bothered to tell Jason? :o) Regards, Keith ____________

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dialup to UKFSN
by Ted Harding 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hi Folks, Are any of you using dialup via a modem to ukfsn.org's dialup service, and currently experiencing connecion problems? If so, I'd be pleased to compare notes (it may just possibly be a faulty modem, but it's unique to UKFSN). Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Aug-05 Time: 21:32:43 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

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