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recommended commercial hosting companies?
by mbm 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

The recent discussion about mail access via ssh and ssh tunnels prompts me to ask about list members' experience of commercial hosting services. I have long since ceased to have any direct responsiblity for publicly accessible servers and my only network is now my home system. As I have said in earlier posts, I don't run 24/7 servers on that network and my only public servers are those provided by my (limited, home user) 1and1 contract. However, I have recently been playing with egroupware and a few friends and colleagues have asked if I could make the poc system I have built at home available on a public server. 1and1 provide good, reliable, fast, mail, DNS and web services, but they also offer virtual servers for the home user at around 15 UKP pcm. The other likely looking candidate is fasthosts who are a lot cheaper, have no traffic cap, but have different limitations. What I am looking for is a good quality commercial provider offering the following: root ssh/sftp access to a linux server apache/mysql/php/perl (preferably with no limit on the number of mysql databases, but I'd settle for 5 rather than the typical 1). ssl certificates for the webserver personal DNS management ideally local email server not too many restrictions on the outbound traffic (e.g. I'd like to be able to ssh out as well as in...) Any recommendations? TIA Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a Microsoft free zone. Please do not send me Microsoft Word Documents. For some reasons, see: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

<<I found it: > - Open a file manager window (Gnome Commander?) > - Go to Edit->Preferences. > - Go to Media > - Change the selection for "Music Player" to what ever you want. Hope this helps. Tim.>> Pretty close. I found it at last but not where I expected to. Places > Music then Edit > preferences. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] Cheap HP server OS free
by Wayne Stallwood 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:13 +0100, James Freer wrote: > Wayne > > Thanks for replying. I did mean to send it to the list. It seems that > one has got to enter TO: main address each email to this group. When > one just does REPLY it goes direct to the sender - that's what i did > this time. I don't know why it should be this way on this group as > others like yahoo all go straight to the list... that's the way it > should work. To be honest that behaviour is more down to your mail client than the list, and looking at your headers you aren't using a mail client but google's webmail interface. A lot of mail clients have a reply to list button that reads the header in the mail from the list which announces it as a list and provides the correct reply address, others allow you to set a default reply address for a folder and then have a rule drop the alug mails into this folder. Unfortunately I think most webmail (inc google) lacks this functionality. The reason it is done this way is to preserve the reply-to header rather than rewriting it, this is considered the "correct" behaviour but unfortunately not all mail clients support it. Hence things like yahoo groups do it the "technically wrong" way and rewrite the reply-to header to be the list address. It has been a matter of debate on the list several times and comes up for discussion once in a while. But the general consensus each time is to leave it the correct way and deal with it at the client end.

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

<<Check for the auto play handling preferences, which seem to have become more Windows like. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Green" >> Ah, I wasn't clear enough. Sorry. What I meant was, is there a way to make it treat this MP3 player like a usb drive? Bev. > > 2008/7/24 Bev Nicolson <bnicolson(a)operamail.com>: > > Plugging in a generic MP3 player, I see that 8.04 no longer > > treats it as a USB drive and says it can't play what's on there > > without searching for codecs etc. Given that it's all in MP3 > > format this must be nonsense. It was more helpful when it viewed > > it as a USB drive so is there a way of changing this? > > Thanks. > > Bev. > > > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] Cheap HP server OS free
by John¹ 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

On Saturday 26 July 2008 12:00:03 "James Freer" <jessejazza(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > ok thanks Wayne for clearing that up. Most of the time i remember... like > today. > > I use a mail client for archiving emails to CD but i have to say that > i like the conversations that googlemail offers. > > I do use Thunderbird on imap on one machine but just doesn't seem > worth having on each machine. "Googlemail" can be set up to send/copy to your normal mail client thats the way I use it, with a blind copy sent to a 'proper' email address. that way "Googlemail" acts as an extra archive and one can also copy ones email's onto a CD. (See Forwarding & POP/IMAP somewhere on one of the help or overview pages). -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail - against microsoft attachments /\

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Which is good but I want to mount it as a disk drive just to transfer files to it. I didn't explain myself very well the first time, sorry. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Bower" > > mp3 is a patent encumbered file format, ubuntu doesn't carry the > required codecs in the default install (probably) read: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats > > for more information and how to fix. > > Adam > -- > jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Plugging in a generic MP3 player, I see that 8.04 no longer treats it as a USB drive and says it can't play what's on there without searching for codecs etc. Given that it's all in MP3 format this must be nonsense. It was more helpful when it viewed it as a USB drive so is there a way of changing this? Thanks. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Cheap HP server OS free
by Wayne Stallwood 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Following on from a recent(ish) discussion about these. Ebuyer now have the cheap HP Dual Core Opteron servers back in stock, now at £97.86 +VAT but including a 3 year next business day warranty package. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146548 Ram is a bit lacking at 512MB but it is cheap to add more They are linux certified by HP for some flavours of Suse and Redhat so linux friendliness shouldn't be an issue and although the built in Graphics is a bit wanting they do have a full length PCI-E x16 slot to add something better so you could convert them into a reasonable desktop. The only negative thing I have to say is that the particular chip they use is (as Adam Bower has pointed out previously) known to be a bit of a watt muncher so expect a reasonable tag on your electricity bill if you use them as a home server powered 24/7. Probably an idle of something in the region of 200Watts or maybe slightly less.

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by gizbun 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings Bev. I was getting this on one of my machines after upgrade. The simple solution is to edit /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot to remove the -i option i.e. in /etc/init.d/halt change: halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown to # halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown halt -d -f $poweroff $hddown and in /etc/init.d/reboot reboot -d -f -i to # reboot -d -f -i reboot -d -f (old lines left and commented out so that I know what I've done.) The man page states that "-i iterates configured network interfaces and brings them down before shutting down. On Linux, this is unnecessary as the kernel will do this anyway." It worked for me anyway. David Davies

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by gizbun 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

> I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings > Bev. > I was getting this on one of my machines after upgrade. The simple solution is to edit /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot to remove the -i option i.e. in /etc/init.d/halt change: halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown to # halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown halt -d -f $poweroff $hddown and in /etc/init.d/reboot reboot -d -f -i to # reboot -d -f -i reboot -d -f (old lines left and commented out so that I know what I've done.) The man page states that "-i iterates configured network interfaces and brings them down before shutting down. On Linux, this is unnecessary as the kernel will do this anyway." Worked for me anyway. David Davies

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