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remote booting
by Peter Alcibiades 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Question: is it possible to boot an existing system remotely, and if so how do you do it? The case I'm looking at is someone who wishes to just take the disk out of their desktop machine, and install it in a server someplace else in the building (for security reasons, it will be in a different secure environment), but boot from it over the network. So they would have a diskless workstation booting from their existing hard drive, but remotely. Is this possible? Or is there some way of doing something which comes to the same thing? I wondered also if the right way to go about this is xdcmp and remote login from a very basic desktop machine? Any suggestions gratefully received. Peter

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Using sort
by Mark Rogers 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

I have a log file which looks like this: 20110905-000107 803 cmd1853 - Host:/127.0.0.1 opened command interface from port: 54365 20110905-000108 761 cmd1854 - Command: 20110905-000108 766 cmd1853 - Response: 201 Service ready 20110905-000108 766 cmd1854 - Response: 201 Service ready 20110905-000108 803 cmd1854 - Host:/127.0.0.1 opened command interface from port: 57052 20110905-000108 804 cmd1853 - Host:/127.0.0.1 closed command interface from port: 54365 20110905-000113 804 cmd1854 - Host:/127.0.0.1 closed command interface from port: 57052 20110905-000313 761 cmd1858 - Command: 20110905-000313 766 cmd1856 - Response: 201 Service ready 20110905-000313 766 cmd1858 - Response: 201 Service ready I want to sort it in numeric order on the cmd value. Note that the cmd number isn't always 4 digits and I want cmd9 to appear before cmd10, etc. Can I do this with sort? I've seen examples that suggest that something along the lines of sort -n -k3.4 .. would do it but I can't get it working in any of the various permutations I've tried. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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[ALUG Announce] ALUG Norwich Pub Meet Thursday 8th September
by Viperfang 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Hello Aluggers, Our monthly ALUG Norwich social meeting will be held this Thursday, 8th September at The Coach and Horses (82 Thorpe Road, Norwich, NR1 1BA). The meeting officially starts at 8pm, although some people may arrive earlier. More information on those people can be found on the list and the IRC channel. If you are unsure if you will recognise us then make yourself and your intent to attend known by either posting on list or visiting us on IRC so we can look out for you rather than hiding in the corner. Optionally you could ask at the bar if they know where the geeky computer weirdos are and they'll point you in the right direction (seriously!). Another possibility is look for heaps of electronics on a table that may possibly look like movie props that would used for detonating explosives. Feel free to bring electronics/laptops/gadgets to the meet, you will by no means be alone. Ben Bewick aka Viperfang NB: This mail is automated, please refer to the usual sources for more information. ALUG Contact Details: Website : http://www.alug.org.uk/ IRC : #alug on irc.alug.org.uk List : http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo Twitter : http://twitter.com/anglianlug Identica: TBA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2381613902 ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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cheap windows box
by Peter Alcibiades 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

www.speedie.co.uk Peter

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Need a cheap windows box
by Montmorency 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

As in subject. At least 1.6GHz cpu; 2G of memory. HD doesn't matter. Even 40G would be fine. Katsmeat montmorency(a)ukfsn.org bellphegore(a)nerdshack.com

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A couple of git questions
by Chris G 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

While using git over the past few weeks a couple of questions have arisen. 1 - When doing a 'git commit' where does one, by convention, put the comment? Does it go before all the comments, after them, or what? I know it doesn't actually matter at all but I'd still like to know. 2 - What is 'git diff' invoking as a pager, and why? E.g. see the following:- chris$ git diff mychanges stable diff --git a/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php b/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class index 5075c60..01f15a5 100644 --- a/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php +++ b/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php @@ -774,8 +774,8 @@ if (!class_exists('setting_dirchoice')) { if ($entry == '.' || $entry == '..') continue; if ($this->_pattern && !preg_match($this->_pattern,$entry)) continue; - $file = (is_link($this->_dir.$entry)) ? readlink($this->_dir.$entry) : $this->_dir.$fil - if (is_dir($file)) $list[] = $entry; + $file = (is_link($this->_dir.$entry)) ? readlink($this->_dir.$entry) : $entry; + if (is_dir($this->_dir.$file)) $list[] = $entry; } closedir($dh); } (END) That (END) is a prompt waiting for me to do something to exit. This is on a 60 line high terminal window so the pager is unnecessary anyway! The real problem was that it took me quite a while to find out how to exit. -- Chris Green

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Re: [ALUG] Updating Seamonkey
by Bev Nicolson 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

D'oh. Sent it Brett direct. Sorry. On 2 September 2011 10:48, Bev Nicolson <lumos60(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Why wait? If you want/need the newer software, you need to upgrade to >> a distribution that's < 3 years old... Getting more hardware shouldn't >> mean that you don't look after the old. Until the old goes in the bin, >> if it's being used, keeping it up to date is A Good Thing (tm). >> >> Brett. > > > Under normal circs I'd agree but what else can you do when your > computer refuses to let you upgrade? (It gets to certain point and > complains about lack of memory.) > > However, it seems there is a possibility of obtaining laptop sooner > than I thought. > > Bev. >

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Church WiFi
by ted.harding＠wlandres.net 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hi Folks, Back in the early 2000's, when Internet access in my Little Ouse/Brandon Creek area was limited to painfully slow dialup (not to mention many other remote places throughout East Cambs and North/West Norfolk), I remember discussing with fellow nutters in the Anglia Linux Users Group the feasibility (as I wrote at the time, Feb 2002) of the following: Come to think of it, ALUG should be a damn good place to ask this question ... A friend of mine, much knowledgeable, tells me that with directional antennae a line-of sight range of 10-15 miles should be attainable for wireless LAN. But it's equally a question of finding hospitality at the far end. Well, out here in the midst of optically flat nowhere, line of sight to almost anywhere is no problem. Problem is, almost everywhere is uninhabited. Nearest place which might have an accommodating college or such is Ely (10 miles, but on a nice mountain which boosts line-of-sight visibility). So there you are. I'm groping. But there must be some of you who've at least thought about this in similar terrain; so if anyone has any comments or suggestions I'd be most interested to hear! It might lead to an improvement on my current 33.6K bit rate ... and, come to think of it, converting Ely Cathedral to a LAN hub is a tempting notion. Best wishes to all, Ted. Well, the Broadband Revolution has rendered such thoughts obsolete at the Brandon Creek exchange, of course. But a news story this morning revives the notion, and has inspired me with a new twist to the idea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-14734574 Inquiry into Norfolk church WiSpire scheme Plans to use church towers in Norfolk to transmit wireless broadband signals to provide better internet access for rural areas have stalled. [...] The scheme is a venture by the diocese and internet service provider Freeclix. Wireless receivers would be installed on church spires, acting as high spots, to give nearby businesses and homes access to high-speed broadband. Wi-fi hot spots would also be created in churches. So it seems there is still scope for my original concept out there in Norfolk. But I have a bigger concept now. These days, most people have Wireless Internet enabled mobile phones, so can be in contact wherever there is a signal. Not forgetting all those home computers. Which prompts me to think that we no longer have a need for priests and parsons to communicate with the Almighty. And the proposal that "Wi-fi hot spots would also be created in churches" is based on a narrow and outdated vision. I do not believe that God is so obsolete that he can't fill the Universe with WiFi signals, and receive any that are transmitted. He created all this stuff in the first place, and has been ahead of us ever since (though we may be starting to catch up). So, from now on, if you want to communicate with Him, just switch on your mobile and dial the Divine Number (which is not "666" -- that connects you to a different Infernet Service Provider). Then the ancient channels of Priest and Parson (whose information transmission rate has been stuck at about 0.001 bits/sec for millennia) can be closed down, and their infrastructure put to better uses (as seems to have been the idea behind the WiSpire idea in that news item, though still based on backward thinking). Then you can talk directly to God, and He can talk directly to you. If you pray ever so nicely, perhaps He will favour you by setting up a cosmic Internet hub, which will route all wireless communications from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world. All He needs to do is to will it, and it will happen. Onward! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 01-Sep-11 Time: 09:53:09 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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