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OT: Reliable ADSL VPN routers with 3G fallback?
by Mark Rogers 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Any recommendations? Draytek 2830 (about £140+VAT) seems to be popular, although you need a 3G USB dongle as well. I'm going to be installing a small Linux box (see, almost on topic really!) at a remote site; it's job will be to collect data and send it to us via ADSL or (if ADSL unavailable) via 3G; VPN access required to allow us to reliably get back into the unit remotely if we need to. Not going to see all that much data traffic and never more than 1 or 2 people connected via VPN (usually nobody), so the Draytek may be overkill. -- 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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1s cron-a-like
by Mark Rogers 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

I need to run a script every second. The script will complete within milliseconds so the hardware is capable, all I am looking for is a reliable way to schedule it. Basically I want a higher-resolution cron. Any suggestions? One option is to write a script which runs every minute and does along the lines of: for($i=0;$i<=59;$i++) { // do something sleep(1) } .. but I'd much rather find a daemon capable of kicking off the script every second (and ideally more flexibly like cron does, and with the logging capability etc that cron has). -- 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 March
by Viperfang 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

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 Norwich Aluggers, Our monthly ALUG Norwich social meeting will be held this Thursday, 8th March 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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Outlook "Rich Text" format (Not OT!!)
by Mark Rogers 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

One of my customers (using Outlook via Exchange) keeps sending me winmail.dat attachments. I know from experience that this means somewhere the message is being sent as "Rich Text" rather than "HTML". However he's checked and Outlook is set to use HTML. Any suggestions? I don't have Outlook installed (I don't think they have a Linux version yet :-), although I think it's possibly at an Exchange level anyway, and I know some people her administer both. It seems to be only affecting me - they haven't explicitly said this but I get the impression they can send attachments to (eg) Hotmail and Gmail which (as far as I know) don't support Rich Text either, so it may be something somewhere as got configured against my email address. But I'm just speculating! Something else they haven't said, but I can hear them thinking it, is "why don't you just use Outlook like everyone else", so I'd like to show this is a config problem their end not just me being "non-standard". Grrrrr.... Mark PS: I do have tnef installed so I can extract winmail.dat files but when all they're sending me is screenshots it's a pain not to be able to read them inline in Thunderbird. -- 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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Is it just me?
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hi Folks, For the last couple of days, readers' comments on articles in the Cambridge News can not (for me) be read beyound the first bunch. This looks like a Javascript problem (and I never had it before this week on this site). For example, have a look at the article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/ Passengers-stranded-as-doors-closed-too-soon-29022012.htm [also = http://tinyurl.com/6u9u599 ] You can read the first bunch of comments (currently 5 ot them) direactly at the end of the article. However, there are (allegedly) currently 4 bunches of comments in all (not surprsing for a story likr this). But if I click on any of the numbered boxes (or on the "Next", or "=>" arrow, or "Last" button), nothing happens. My firefox tells me that underlying the [1], [2], [3], [4], Next, and Last are: javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04$CommentTopPaging$rptPaging$ctl00$lbPage','') javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04$CommentTopPaging$rptPaging$ctl01$lbPage','') javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04$CommentTopPaging$rptPaging$ctl02$lbPage','') javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04$CommentTopPaging$rptPaging$ctl03$lbPage','') javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04$CommentTopPaging$lbNextPage','') javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04$CommentTopPaging$lbLastPage','') Do other people experience the same problem? If so, is the nature of the problem recognisable from these Javascript commands? With thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 29-Feb-2012 Time: 19:24:02 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------

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ftp on the blackboard
by Anthony Anson 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Have Linux Phrasebook (Essential Code & Commands) and I can find no reference to ftp there. Could some kind person suggest a good place (webwise) to start looking for gen? (The button on the Firefox add-on won't appear, and demands new files, so can't use that, and it's irksome to have to use another box, fire-up XP, update AVG definitions, and use WS...) In case I haven't mentioned it, I managed to change the Eee's root password at last. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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support for an end user in North London
by Peter Alcibiades 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hi, Does anyone know someone who would be prepared to support an end user in North London? There are two a standard Debian installations, used mainly for writing, web, email. One is a Thinkpad, the other a desktop. Happy to pay standard rates. It should not be all that often, but I am travelling to London less often than in the past and am looking for someone else to be able to refer him to. Write to me off list if there's anyone you can vouch for. Peter

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automount of USB drives not working - where should I look?
by Chris Green 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

I've just discovered that automounting of USB drives isn't working on my xubuntu 11.10 system. I can see the device with lsusb:- Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0951:1607 Kingston Technology DataTraveler 100 but no sign of it automounting. The "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" setting is ticked and it always used to work (though I'm not absolutely sure it has worked since I upgraded to 11.10). Any ideas? -- Chris Green

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SQL question, I suspect I need some sort of inner join
by Chris Green 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I have a sqlite table of temperatures with columns as follows:- id, Date, Time, Inside_Temperature, Outside_Temperature How do I get the date and time for the minimum and maximum temperatures for a specific year? It's easy enough to get the required temperature:- SELECT min(Inside_Temperature) from temperatures; ... and even to get the Date and Time associated with that:- SELECT Date, Time FROM temperatures WHERE Inside_Temperature = (SELECT min(Inside_Temperature) FROM temperatures); However if I want to find the minimum temperature in 2012 I'm a bit stuck. SELECT Date, Time FROM temperatures WHERE Inside_Temperature = (SELECT min(Inside_Temperature) FROM temperatures WHERE Date like '2012%'); ... returns dates in other years where the temperature happened to be the same. I can make the outer SELECT only look in 2012 but that's beginning to get a bit messy. Is there an easier/better way where I join using the id which matches the minimum temperature to select the other columns I want? -- Chris Green

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Off topic: dot IT domains
by John Woodard 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Sorry if this is slightly off topic but I know the collective wisdom out there will know the answer to this one. Who is a good uk agent to reg a .it domain? The usual bulk reg sites like 123-reg don't seem to do them. Cheers, BJ

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