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Simple photo manager utility - recommendations
by Chris Green 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

What do others use as a file manager for photographs? I think what I'm after really is a simple file manager utility that shows files as thumbnail images rather than just filenames so I can see what the pictures are, select them and organise them in folders. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Routing/URL qustion
by Chris Green 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

I get my ADSL service from UKFSN and from the outside world my domain name is 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net, I have my firewall set up so that HTTP requests get routed to my Slackware Linux box. In addition I have www.isbd.ltd.uk at Just-The-Name with web forwarding set up so that it routes HTTP requests to my home Linux system. Is there any way that I can set my home system so that URLs of the form http://www.isbd.ltd.uk/<something> will work from systems on the LAN behind the firewall? If it can be made to work for all systems that would be great but just the Linux box would be better than nothing. As it is it is quite difficult to be sure that when I post a URL (for an image I want to refer to in a mail for example) that it is correct. As it is at the moment if I go to:- http://isbd.ltd.uk/myimages/toggle.JPG The URL gets translated to:- http://84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net/myimages/toggle.JPG which is correct, but I get a wierd error page which says:- Object Not Found The requested URL '/myimages/toggle.JPG' was not found on the RomPager server. Return to last page Maybe I've got the URL wrong but, if so, how do I diagnose it? There is nothing in the apache error log. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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DMA errors
by Barry Samuels 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

My computer has 1 main (primary) IDE drive of 250GB. Recently I have added anothe 250GB drive onto the same cable as secondary. At a set time during the night changed files from the primary drive are backed up onto the secondary drive using Find/CPIO. When this backup happens I get many of the following errors in my logs: Mar 3 07:35:16 dataman1 kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=440937085, high=26, low=4729469, sector=232525840 Mar 3 07:35:16 dataman1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 232525840 Mar 3 07:35:16 dataman1 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } The values vary but the messages are basically the same. After the backup at 1:00 AM there are no more messages until Cron Daily is run at 7:30 AM when they repeat. However after that, whatever I do on the computer, there are no more DMA error messages until the next backup. This did not happen at all until the new drive was installed and the backup sessions started. Both drives are set for UDMA5 (it says in the BIOS). I don't see why these errors should occur for hda as it is only being read during the backup whereas hdb is being written to but then I don't know anything about DMA. I tried changing UDMA5 to UDMA3 on hda to no effect. It is now back to UDMA5. I would dearly like some suggestions from the experts. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Humax PVR9200T and Linux per USB -- any experiences?
by Jan T. Kim 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Dear list, The PVR-9200T is a DVB-T receiver / HD recorder with an USB interface, see http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/products/pvr-9200t.asp Does anyone here know what the USB interface has to offer from a Linux perspective? The technical specification and user manual are not too informative, they just indicate that there is some "media eLinker.exe" program included, which allows copying recorded video from the recorder's hard disk to a computer, but it's not clear to me whether I could also do this with Linux (the docs just mention the Windows software and don't provide any technical details about the device's USB port). Ideally, I would like to simply mount the recorder's HD and copy the recording in question to some more permanent storage -- but does the PVR-9200T implement the USB mass storage class? Best regards, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: jtk(a)cmp.uea.ac.uk | | WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----*

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my computer frozes at boot loading
by Paul, Jean R 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

I am wondering if anyone has encountered the same problems. I have installed dual boot with Mandrake 10 and windows XP. When i turn on my computer if either frozes before the LILO or restarts after i have chosen the operating. Recently when Windows was chosen the computer didn't load XP at all. In addition while i am working with linux, the computer frozes at any time, or just reboots. i would appreciate any help from people who have had the same experience with their PC.

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"keyring camera"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi Folks, Does anyone either have (and be willing to sell for a reasonable price), or know where in the Norwich/ K.Lynn/Ely/Cambridge/BSE area one could buy, one of those little "keyring" style digital cameras (e.g. Phillips 007, but not necessarily)? Flash not required, but reasonably decent photo quality is desirable. The usual shops, even specialist digitial photo shops, don't seem to have such things at the moment, but maybe I'm not searching web sites efficiently. With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Mar-06 Time: 16:32:22 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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RE: [ALUG] "keyring camera"
by Keith Watson 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> From: Keith Watson Sent: 02 March 2006 16:40 > > From: Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk Sent: 02 March 2006 16:32 > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > Does anyone either have (and be willing to sell for a reasonable > > price), or know where in the Norwich/ K.Lynn/Ely/Cambridge/BSE area > > one could buy, one of those little "keyring" style digital cameras > > (e.g. Phillips 007, but not necessarily)? > > > > Flash not required, but reasonably decent photo quality is > desirable. > > > > The usual shops, even specialist digitial photo shops, > don't seem to > > have such things at the moment, but maybe I'm not searching > web sites > > efficiently. > > > > With thanks, > > Ted. > > <http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35313&DOY=#DOY&criteria=#c riteria> > > Regards, > > Keith > ____________ > Live life as life lives itself. - Zen Proverb Unfortunately doesn't seen to be Linux compatible. Regards, Keith ____________ CLAIRVOYANT, n. Persons who have the power of seeing that which is invisible to their patrons, namely, that they are fools. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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RE: [ALUG] "keyring camera"
by Keith Watson 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> From: Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk Sent: 02 March 2006 16:32 > > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone either have (and be willing to sell for a > reasonable price), or know where in the Norwich/ > K.Lynn/Ely/Cambridge/BSE area one could buy, one of those > little "keyring" style digital cameras (e.g. Phillips 007, > but not necessarily)? > > Flash not required, but reasonably decent photo quality is desirable. > > The usual shops, even specialist digitial photo shops, don't > seem to have such things at the moment, but maybe I'm not > searching web sites efficiently. > > With thanks, > Ted. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35313&DOY=#DOY&criteria=#cr iteria Regards, Keith ____________ Live life as life lives itself. - Zen Proverb

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transfer pictures cured
by robert 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I found out that all i had to do was to send a picture message direct to my email address,though i might have to print it out first before i can use it(A4 size). Robert

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Transferring pictures
by robert 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

I was just wondering whether you can transfer pictures from a mobile phone to a compter with Linux on.On Suse 9.2 my Sony Ericsson registers but only the modem in it.The phone came with a pc disk but only works on Windows XP which i don't have(hence Linux).My phone is Sony Ericsson k608i Thanks Robert

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Charity Webhosting
by Tony 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Can anyone recommend a reliable host for a local registered charity (based in Suffolk). I'm looking for Linux hosting with PHP and MySQL. I don't expect a lot of bandwidth use initially - their previous website had hardly any hits but hopefully with some fresh ideas, useage will increase. They are reforming with a new name so domain name (.co.uk) required. They are a charity that provide support to the voluntary and community sector throughout Mid Suffolk and serve other charities. They are quite happy for the hosts logo to be displayed on the site (provided it is not too overpowering!). Chances are that follow up business will follow from other charities so would be interested in details of what the host can offer on a commercial basis in respect of business introduced from other charities (and non charities). Main thing I am looking for is reliablility with very little down time. Also daily backups would be good as the site will be dynamically produced. Thanks Tony

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RE: [ALUG] Windows Vista UI
by Keith Watson 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

> From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 01 March 2006 00:30 > > What do we think the implications will be for Linux when > Vista becomes available, will the KDE team try to follow on a > similar path ? Will Gnome look really old and outdated to > users coming from Windows ? well, I think Gnome, KDE, et.al. are already streets ahead when it comes to theming the UI anyway. Whenever I have non-linux aware friends/family looking over my shoulder when I'm using my system they nearly always remark on how great my "Windows" theme looks. Regards, Keith ____________ 'I can see nobody on the road.' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' said the King 'to be able to see Nobody! And at this distance too!' - Lewis Carroll

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miniBB
by David Noble 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Do any of you have much experience in editing the php.ini file? I compiled php without the mysql option, and although the phpinfo function and other basic functions work, for some reason I can't connect to mysql from php. I am able to connect to mysql directly; and it appears to function normally otherwise. Cheers, Dave.

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Cant enable DMA
by Ben Whyte 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi guys Appreciate all the assistance that anyone can provide. I have an ABIT IG-80 motherboard, which uses an intel 915 chipset. When I do an hdparm -t -T /dev/hda I get the following result /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 3928 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1963.32 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.32 seconds = 2.41 MB/sec Now the drive is a 200gb, pata drive and when I try and activate DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda it comes back with /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) I am using the defualt debian kernel 2.6.15. Any ideas as to why it wont let me activate DMA ? Ben

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Irony....
by Peter Onion 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management. Strikes me as ironic ! Peter

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! 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 xchat, irssi 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://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Once again I try - and fail!
by Barry Samuels 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

I had some help from the group a little while ago when I was trying to get my Thinkpad to boot from an external (USB/IDE) drive and, with various peoples' help I finally suceeded. Now I'm trying to do the same thing with a drive from another computer. I'm part way there but during boot I see: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 431: cannot open dev/console: No such file kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Then the process proceeds with a few more lines about USB and SCSI until: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, ... etc Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1, ... etc and here it stops. I don't remember seeing these errors on my previous attempt. Any suggestions (in the nicest possible way of course) would be appreciated. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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[ALUG Announce] Autistic GNU/Linux User Group http://autisticlug.org/
by MJ Ray 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- From: Steve Parkes Like many Linux users and contributers I am on the Autistic spectrum. Over the last few years I have ranted over and over at friends and colleagues about how existing LUGS are failing their membership I took the logical next step and formed a LUG for people on the Autistic spectrum or with co-morbid communication and self esteem issues. The Autistic GNU/Linux User Group is open to anybody on the Autistic Spectrum, with other communication or social issues or who wishes to be a friend of people with these problems. Membership is open to anybody using or interested in using a Unix™ like system with particular emphasis on Free and Open Source Software. We have a mailing list where people can geek out and no question or comment is considered off-topic from the uber deep geekery of kernel development to the newbie questions about ls, a wiki for knowledge management and hope to provide a link to local LUGS via our membership so our members can reach out into the wider Linux community and meet like minded people. With the support of mailing lists from lug.org.uk we hope to provide a worldwide virtual LUG with a membership stretching around the glode making visits to events and meetings anywhere in the world an enjoyable experience for people on the spectrum. http://autisticlug.org/ Please forward this message to anybody you think may be interesting in joining the LUG or helping support autistic Linux users when visiting your LUG. cheers sparkes ----- 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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Icon editor - any ideas?
by Chris Green 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I am looking for a simple icon editor for my Slackware system. The only two Linux icon editors I can find are babygimp (which almost works on my system but I get a perl error when it runs) and kIconEdit which seems to want an ancient version of QT for it to build. Does anyone have any other ideas (like should I just use gimp?). -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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That old SCO chestnut.
by Ten 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I'm sure a lot of us have spent a fair amount of time reading about and discussing this matter, so if you've been living underground and don't know what the heck I'm on about, I shan't recant at length about it - a swift google or a look at http://www.linux.org/news/sco/timeline.html will see you right. So anyway, I expect people have heard about this, but here's some links anyway: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060221220214214 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060223040825533 Ignoring the unnecessary crowing for a minute, I'm skeptical about how IBM are going to make anything of this, but wouldn't it be marvellous if they did? I'll bet the direct subpoena to MS is nothing more than an empty gesture evidence-wise, but there might just be a chance of catching them by the BayStars. I'm not of the ilk that wring their hands and chant at night over the fate of Microsoft, but I can't help thinking that if their supreme arrogance dropped them in serious guano over a silly legal feint like this, the line of sympathisers would be mighty short. Ten. -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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[ALUG Announce] Monitors
by Laslett Studio 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- I have several monitors that need a good home -- I can't guarentee they all still work -- but they did when they went in the garage -- I am in Norwich You can call me 01603 617632 Patrick ----- 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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Convert a photo (.JPG) to an icon - how?
by Chris Green 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

This is probably a trivial question, but still.... How can I convert a photograph (probably stored as a JPEG file) to an icon file that I can use as my favicon? It would be useful if, on the way, some sort of tone separation process was available to make it work better as an icon too. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Bash script to test serial ports
by Stuart Bailey 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

HI, I'm trying to test serial ports using a bash script. Currently I have: DATA="1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" stty -F /dev/ttyS0 ispeed 115200 ospeed 115200 stty -F /dev/ttyS1 ispeed 115200 ospeed 115200 echo -n " Sending data from /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/ttyS1:" ./send_data.sh /dev/ttyS0 $DATA & exec 3</dev/ttyS1 while read -t 2 -u 4 RESULT do if [[ "$RESULT" == "$DATA" ]] then echo " PASSED" else echo " FAILED" fi done I repeat this script for data in the other direction. This seems to work fine if a cable is connected between the two ports, and data transfers are successful. However, if the first time round, but if no cable is connected between ttyS0 and ttyS1, the first test reports FAILED, and then the script hangs. BTW the send_data script is a follows: sleep 1 echo $2 > $1 2>/dev/null I thought the read -t 2 ... should timeout after 2 seconds if no data is received. Any idea why this hangs? Also, is there a better way to test these ports? The system I am trying to test is limited - perl and awk are not installed. 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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64bit computing on the cheap
by Wayne Stallwood 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Anybody interested in mucking about with an Alpha box ? I have a spare one now due to an upgrade, AlphaServer 1000 Big unit but not as noisy or power hungry/space heating as it looks. 1GB of RAM, complete with ECC parity modules. 266 Mhz Alpha processor (a bit faster than it sounds) 7 hot swap bays ( a selection of drives will be supplied to go in these, mostly 2.1GB units but I do have at least one 4.3 to go in there) Dat drive (untested) Had it running the Debian alpha port...it can also run OpenVMS (hobby licence is available for free still I think) and Tru64 (again you'll need a licence) or Windows NT (not much point, there are hardly any binaries available) or BSD Unit is currently set to a local (VGA monitor PS2 KB/mouse) console but I can reconfigure for serial console if required. ECU floppy included for hardware configuration and I'll shove in a Ethernet card that Debian understands easily. Any offer considered...otherwise it is going on Ebay Also may have a DSSI disk array/host adaptor and disks, depending on if I get time to wipe them...However these need the Array controllers reconfiguring (which requires a special serial lead) and I have never been able to get the adaptors to play on Debian anyway. Also they are 6x2.1GB which hardly seems worth the effort.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

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