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[ALUG Announce] ALUG Norwich Pub Meet Thursday 11th June
by Viperfang 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

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, 11th June 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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Re: [ALUG] Hi
by John Cohen 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Thanks for the welcome, good to know there's quite a few linux users around. Mark, I rely almost entirely on Pro Tools, which of course only runs on windows (badly) or mac, or a hackintosh in my case. But there are certain things I do on one of my linux boxes, like more creative sound design, including csound and pure data. Ardour's saved the day a few times when I needed emergency Foley recordings and didn't have my proper rig with me. I think I'm away on the 2nd Nev, but if not I might see you then. cheers, John -- John Cohen (+44)7500042065 www.john-cohen.com On 27 May 2015 at 13:18, Anthony Anson <tony.anson(a)girolle.co.uk> wrote: > On 27/05/15 12:51, Tony wrote: > >> >> Personal opinion of W7 is that it is bloated resource hog. >> > > Well, that's a 'given', but it's there, and there's loads and loads of > room on the HDD. I do have an XP CD and XP Crack, but have never used > either. > > Basic >> install consumes around 20gb. Is there not a linux alternative to >> Irfanview you could use? >> > > Don't think so, but haven't looked for ages. > > I use Shotwell to download and catalogue >> captures, Luminance HDR to process RAW HDR's, Gimp and Darktable to >> tweak and refine. Fotoxx could be an alternative to try. >> > > I've been using The Gimp, but for basic manipulation of graphics I haven't > found anything to beat Irfanview. > > -- > Tony > http://www.girolle.co.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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! >

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 5th June.
by Viperfang 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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Ubuntu UPS
by Mark Rogers 31 May '15

31 May '15

I've had a Leibert UPS for a while and for some reason I decided today to plug the UPS cable in so I could get around to configuring NUT. However I noticed that without doing anything else, Ubuntu (15.04) was showing me a battery indicator (much as it would if this was a laptop). I removed power and it showed discharging, but not until a few minutes had passed. Similarly when restoring power it too several minutes to show charging. Any ideas where I can tweak this? I can't see any of the usual tools installed. (I did find /sys/module/battery/parameters/cache_time but changing that to zero had no effect.) -- 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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Mapping a local IP to a remote one
by Mark Rogers 29 May '15

29 May '15

I'm sure that if I could make a decent job of explaining what I mean I could Google for this but... My PC is (say) 192.168.1.10, and it can access a remote device (192.168.2.100) via a VPN. What I want to do is give my PC an extra IP address (eg 192.168.1.11) and map all network traffic to that IP address (on any port, and including broadcast traffic) to 192.168.2.100, and send any responses back. In doing so, any other PC on my LAN would be able to access the remote device as if it were local (192.168.1.11). Can I do this? (Background: In this case I have some brain-dead Windows configuration software that can only talk to devices on the LAN, so I need to make the remote device appear as if it were on the LAN. However I have had similar challenges in the past where using a local Linux box as a conduit to remote devices would have been useful.) If relevant, whilst 192.168.2.100 is not a Linux PC (it's an industrial I/O unit), I do have a Linux PC on the remote network that could form part of the tunnel if required. The key point is that I need the remote unit to appear to be on the local network, not just to be accessible from it. My Windows PC can ping (etc) the remote unit fine via the VPN itself, but the configuration software will only search for and work with devices on 192.168.1.0/24, so I need to fake it. -- 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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Hi
by John Cohen 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi everyone, I'm a sound designer living and working in Norwich and London (I mainly do sound-post production for films/commercials) I've been using linux for a few years now, (since 2007 I think?) and recently I've built and maintain a server for our small company. Still consider myself a rookie but am trying to learn as much as I can during my spare time! Look forward to reading you all / meeting some of you at a local pub some day. Cheers, John -- John Cohen

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git help
by Chris Walker 28 May '15

28 May '15

Can somebody help me with some git commands please? I have a git repo called https://github.com/tonercloud/beertent and which contains two projects, harbour-beertent and harbour-beerguide. But I want to split out harbour-beerguide into a separate repository and also if possible move harbour-beertent up a level so that beertent is empty and just leave that repo as harbour-beertent. I created a folder on my machine called beerguide_gitrepo/ and having looked at this page and run step 3 - https://help.github.com/articles/splitting-a-subfolder-out-into-a-new-repos… that folder now contains a beertent folder and that in turn now has two sub-folders harbour-beertent and harbour-beerguide. But so does beertent_gitrepo. I've done as far as step 4 but that's where I am reluctant to go any further for fear of royally screwing things up. Step 5 says I should run 'git filter-branch' but for me, it lacks clarity. As I said above, I want to remove the beertent name and just leave things named harbour-* So can anybody tell me precisely the command(s) I should type in to remove harbour-beerguide from the local beertent_gitrepo and similarly remove harbour-beertent from the local beerguide_gitrepo and remove the beertent folders completely? TIA -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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Starting Nexus at Startup
by Paul Grenyer 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi All I've got a digital ocean droplet with Sonatype's Nexus installed and I'm trying to get it to start when the droplet starts. I've followed the instructions here: https://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/reference/install-sect-service.html and updated the properties file with these: NEXUS_HOME="/usr/local/nexus-2.11.2-06" RUN_AS_USER=nexus PIDDIR="/home/nexus" and can now start and stop the service like this: service nexus start service nexus stop I added the JAVA_HOME environment variable and added JAVAM_HOME/bin to the path for the nexus user, even though I suspect they're not needed. When I restart the droplet, nexus doesn't start. The nexus log isn't written to either. I believe I have the permissions right in /etc/inid.d: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14639 May 28 01:48 /etc/init.d/nexus I've even tried adding: nexus ALL = NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nexus to the sudoers file, but all to no avail. I don't know where to check the log for service starts either. Can anyone help, please? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer Have you thought what Naked Element could do for you? http://nakedelement.co.uk/ It's time to get technical: http://norfolkdevelopers.com

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Mulberry Tree
by samwise 18 May '15

18 May '15

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back today, 18th May, at 20:00: The Mulberry Tree 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 225776 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA WWW: https://www.facebook.com/MULBERRYHOSPITALITY The Mulberry Tree, previously known as The Milestone Beer House, is a grade 2 listed building in the centre of Ipswich. It is located at the intersection between Woodbridge Road and the A1156, across the road from the old Odeon cinema and not far from the Regent Theatre. It re-opened on Thursday March 29th 2012 after a major refurbishment, under its original name of The Mulberry House and has already begun to regain a good reputation for its selection of beers and ales. It has a sizeable car park to the rear of the building. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Unfortunately, I probably can't make it this evening - but hopefully there will be some other regulars in attendance. Feel free to discuss who's going and when on the main mailing list. Cheers, Peter. -- I ran the London Marathon 2015 in aid of the PSP Association. All sponsorship gratefully received. :) http://www.bagshot-row.org/marathonformum ----- 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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LibreOffice Hackfest in Cambridge on May 21st
by Sam Tuke 07 May '15

07 May '15

Pardon my for posting directly to your mailing list -- I have an announcement that may be interesting to LibreOffice users in the area. Later this month on May 21st-23rd the first UK LibreOffice Hackfest takes place next to Cambridge Train Station. Everyone is welcome to participate and learn how to hack on LibreOffice. Full details, including transport, accommodation, and reimbursement information, can be found here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Cambridge2015 A printable poster / flier about the event can be found here: https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/spread-the-word-libreoffice-hackfest… Thanks for reading, Sam Tuke.

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Port Forwarding with Apache
by Paul Grenyer 04 May '15

04 May '15

Hi All I'm frustrated because this is something I have done several times, have working in production and am not able to do again. I suspect there's a piece of understanding I'm missing. I've installed Apache on a Digital Ocean, Ubuntu droplet: aptitude install apache2 a2enmod proxy a2enmod proxy_http service apache2 restart And configured it to forward to port 8938: nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin paul(a)nakedelement.co.uk ServerName solr.nakedelement.co.uk ServerAlias solr ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass / http://localhost:8983/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8983/ </VirtualHost> service apache2 restart However, when I go to the droplet in the browser I get a 404. I have an existing droplet which is configured in exactly the same way and when and I access it in a browser via its IP address I get a 404, which is odd, because if I access it via solr.nakedelement.co.uk it works and the url just points to the IP address. I've tried the obvious thing of removing ServerName and restarting Apache, but there's not change. What am I not understanding? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer Have you thought what Naked Element could do for you? http://nakedelement.co.uk/ It's time to get technical: http://norfolkdevelopers.com

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Clocks
by Chris Walker 01 May '15

01 May '15

Hello, My machine seems to be having problems with its clock. Linux keeps resetting the RTC to minus one hour. The desktop is currently showing the time as 10:46 for example. If I run timedatectl, it shows this :- Local time: Wed 2015-04-29 11:43:59 BST Universal time: Wed 2015-04-29 10:43:59 UTC RTC time: Wed 2015-04-29 10:43:59 Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100) NTP enabled: yes NTP synchronized: no RTC in local TZ: no DST active: yes Last DST change: DST began at Sun 2015-03-29 00:59:59 GMT Sun 2015-03-29 02:00:00 BST Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at Sun 2015-10-25 01:59:59 BST Sun 2015-10-25 01:00:00 GMT Just before I booted into linux (the machine dual boots between Mageia 5 and Windows 7) I set the time in the BIOS to be 11:43 but I see that it's changed already. Does anybody have any ideas what's going wrong, and more importantly how to fix it? -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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"Router" distros
by Mark Rogers 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

In our office we have relatively poor ADSL connectivity (4-6 Mbps - I know some people here have far worse though). We currently have two ADSL lines linked together via a Draytek router and do OK. However I'd like to think about adding a third line and that goes beyond what the Draytek can do. So I'd like suggestions for Linux distros which could replace the Draytek and do some half decent load balancing (and possibly caching for eg Linux and Windows updates etc) across multiple connections. It would need to be able to handle a number of VPN connections too (PPTP unfortunately but that's determined by the other end points). I'm not interested in rolling my own - it needs to "just work" in the way that the Draytek does. ClearOS and pfSense are on my radar although I have no experience of either. Any other suggestions or advice? -- 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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External HDD
by Anthony Anson 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Bought a 500 Gig SATA drive and a portable enclosure to corral it, the idea being to install the latest Mint on it, and update Thunderguts and Firefox (or whatever it's called this week), then transfer what I want from the drive in my MSi notebook. I plug in the USB connections and a pretty blue light comeson, the drive is spinning, but there is no sign of it where there should be. True, I haven't played with the jumpers yet, but surely, there ought to be *some* acknowledgement that there's a drive there? And what number has Mint reached? I'm running 14 at present, and I have a feeling that it's a bit too long in the tooth... -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/

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Firefox crashing again and again
by Bev Nicolson 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

I have googled (using Chromium which seems fine) and looked at the info Mozilla provide but it isn't that useful. The problem is this. I try starting Firefox (37) and while it's doing that it crashes. If it does appear I get an entirely blank window (not toolbars, nothing.) I've tried running it in safe mode but to be honest, I've no idea how to diagnose the cause from there. Help, please. Bev.

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Google Maps
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Greetings All. A quick query (sorry it's probably not Linux-relevant, though it might be). As of today (possibly yesterday) Google Maps is not coming up as it usually does and indeed what does come up is blank and useless. Previously (e.f. Sunday) it had been fine. There is a "search box" but it fails to find a named location or a post-code. The above for iceweasel/firefox browsers. On Opera browser I at least get a world map which I can zoom into, but still cannot enter a specific location or do anything else (e.g. find a route from A to B). What are other people's experiences? With thanks, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 28-Apr-2015 Time: 19:48:56 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------

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external drive
by Anthony Anson 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

Hum - can't find any jumpers to play with... -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/

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Securing Ubuntu
by Paul Grenyer 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Hi All I've a service running on port 8983 of an ubuntu Digital Ocean droplet. In front of that I've got Apache web server forwarding from port 80. It seams that Digital Ocean droplets don't have any security, which obviously isn't great for production. I'd like to secure my server ready for production, but I'm not really sure where to start. I'm assuming I at least need to block access to all ports except 80 and the SSH port, but I don't know how. What else do I need to do? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer Director paul(a)nakedelement.co.uk +44 (0) 1603 383458 @nakedelement http://nakedelement.co.uk

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ext3 missing data
by Mark Rogers 21 Apr '15

21 Apr '15

I have an ext3 filesystem on a 4GB SD card in a remote unit. It had a large log file causing the disk to be full. At that point I was unable to SSH into it so I had someone on site put the SD card into a Windows laptop and used Ext2FS to delete the log file (and to fix the network issues that were preventing my logging in). I can now SSH in and that log file is gone but the disk space isn't back, leaving me running with only a few MB available. What do I do? I am restricted to what I can do via SSH logged into the unit (ie with the filesystem mounted and in use), or via TeamViewer to a Windows 8 laptop with an SD card reader in it. -- 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] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Mulberry Tree
by samwise 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back today, 20th April, at 20:00: The Mulberry Tree 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 225776 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA WWW: https://www.facebook.com/MULBERRYHOSPITALITY The Mulberry Tree, previously known as The Milestone Beer House, is a grade 2 listed building in the centre of Ipswich. It is located at the intersection between Woodbridge Road and the A1156, across the road from the old Odeon cinema and not far from the Regent Theatre. It re-opened on Thursday March 29th 2012 after a major refurbishment, under its original name of The Mulberry House and has already begun to regain a good reputation for its selection of beers and ales. It has a sizeable car park to the rear of the building. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Cheers, Peter. -- I am aiming to run the London Marathon 2015 in aid of the PSP Association. All sponsorship gratefully received. :) http://www.bagshot-row.org/marathonformum ----- 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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Build for an old release - how?
by Chris Green 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

I want to build something (as in I can get a tar.gz source package) for an old release so I can use it on a site with that (old) release. The 'old' site reports its installed binaries as:- ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped Is there any (reasonably easy) way I can set up a build environment on a system where I have full access (i.e. my desktop at home) so that I can create an executable for the above? -- Chris Green

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Confused kernel version
by Mark Rogers 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Either I'm confused or my PC is. Ubuntu 14.10, relatively recent installation. apt-get update / upgrade / dist-upgrade completed and rebooted. $ uname -r 3.13.0-46-generic $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic The following extra packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.16.0-34 linux-headers-3.16.0-34-generic The following NEW packages will be installed linux-headers-3.16.0-34 linux-headers-3.16.0-34-generic linux-headers-generic 0 to upgrade, 3 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Surely the headers should be matching the current kernel, and if 3.16.0 is out there why aren't I running it? I discovered this off the back of trying to get VirtualBox to start, which it won't because it can't compile its drivers, because the headers are missing for the kernel it is running. -- 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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Audio and get_iplayer info
by Chris Walker 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

I know that some people here are interested in audio and others use get-iplayer. So perhaps those people might like to look at this site - http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/BBC/AudioFactory/AudioFactory.html which will give them some information relating to the changes that the BBC are making to audio on streams and also what changes might need to be made to get_iplayer code in order to fetch data in the future. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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Automount problem - solved
by Chris Walker 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Having thought long and hard and after lots of googling, I decided that I would try my 'failing' Seagate 1TB USB disc in the USB3 interface. It works and pops up the notification message. So it appears that something has changed to affect USB3 devices such that they will only work on USB3 interface. It probably *isn't* that, but it seems that way here! -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 3rd April.
by Viperfang 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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