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Mint
by Bev Nicolson 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

I'm asking this on behalf of a friend. Thoughts on Mint, please. He's after an operating system that works on a usb stick and wants a 'bulletproof workstation not a server'. Does Mint have better firewall/security than Debian/Ubuntu? He is Puppy aware, by the way. If you have additional contributions on CrunchBang, lob them in too. Bev.

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linux equivalent for Cocktail Audio X10 HDD HiFi
by Peter Alcibiades 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

I was reading the Guardian as one does occasionally and getting increasingly discouraged by the chorus of gloom about the impending catastrophic overheating of the planet, exploitation of the working class by evil corporations in pursuit of short term profit etc. So I turned to the reader offer pages for relief and came on the X10 device. Question:: is there a linux distro that does what the X10 does? What it seems to do is, you give it a CD and it then automagically rips it and sticks it into a database. Then it acts as a searchable player/server. Its basically a music server with an integrated ripping function. In short order and only by feeding it your CDs you seem to end up with a proper collection in easily usable format. Here is a review: http://www.whathifi.com/review/cocktail-audio-x10-500gb Is there a distro with all this stuff integrated for the purpose? Or a package? Do people do this with their old CD collections and if so what do they use. Al [Feeling somewhat more cheerful having diverted my attention to a safe technical topic... Must remember not to go there again!]

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 2nd August.
by Viperfang 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

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

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Using a Pi as a print server
by Chris Walker 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Is there a dedicated Pi mailing list where I should ask this question or will this be ok here? In view of my failing to set up my printer as a device off my router, I'm now thinking that I can use the same USB socket on the router to power a Pi which can then act as a print server for my printer. If I were to use a pre-configured distro like Raspbian, it would have all the desktop stuff installed and I don't want that. So is there an easy way to do a minimal install on a Pi? I would experiment on my own Pi but I've lent it to somebody to use in their own OS experiments so apologies for having to ask this question.

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beep beep
by nev young 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

I find it hard to believe that such a simple thing is eluding me. I just have to be looking in the wrong place. I want to make the speakers on my PC go beep or beeeep. Currently writing a project in C but I'm pretty flexible on source language. Running ubuntu 12.04. Any pointers, even those that make me go "Doh"! greatly appreciated. Nev

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Software Freedom Day event?
by MJ Ray 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Do ALUGgers want to run a Software Freedom Day event? Nick of Rugby LUG wrote to lugmasters: Registration for free event swag is open until the end of July, with the event now only two months away. The SFD wiki [2] currently lists only 3 UK events being planned - in Manchester, Hereford and Rugby - with an additional IoMLUG event shown on the SFD map [3]. Will there be any more this year? [1] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ [2] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/UK [3] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2013 Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Wiki users list despamming
by Jonathan McDowell 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

I have taken a chainsaw to the wiki users list; while we had antispam protection preventing new users from creating pages it wasn't stopping them creating pages and we were up to over 80,000 accounts. I started trying to sensibly weed these out, but it's hard to distinguish. So I resorted back to cruder methods, making sure all the accounts listed on: http://www.alug.org.uk/MembersGroup existed and trying to find a handful of users I knew should be there but weren't. We're now down to 14 users. If I have inadvertently culled your account let me know and I can bring it back from the dead (and ensure it gets added to the MembersGroup page). J. -- /-\ | Ok ramblers, let's get rambling. |@/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | \- |

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Button mapping on a mouse
by Chris Walker 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

For health reasons I use an Evoluent Mouse type 3 on my machine. For years I've not been able to use it fully as I have lacked the skills necessary to remap the buttons. But bouyed up by the success of making the latest install work, I thought I'd give it another go. I found this site - http://quandtum.weebly.com/2/post/2012/03/how-to-change-mouse-button-functi… and this one - http://denishaine.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/evoluent-mouse-with-ubuntu-11-04… but neither tell me how to configure a double-click. I've looked how I map the buttons in Windows but that uses an XML file which seems to bear little resemblance to the mapping used in linux. I have already tried to map the buttons to other functions but that hasn't worked so I need to do some more work on that and although I might be able to resolve those issues, there's one I can't. That one thing is a double click. In Windows I have button 2 (3 in linux!) configured to act as a double click but I can't seem to do that here. This page refers to some software - btnx - that isn't available on this distro - http://www.ghacks.net/2011/06/28/how-to-customize-extra-mouse-buttons-in-li… so I'm a bit stuck. Does anyone here know of a way to simulate a double click using the inbuilt software of the system? If it helps, I already have a file 90-evoluent.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and the contents of that look like this Section "InputClass" Identifier "Evoluent" MatchUSBID "1a7c:0068" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 2 5 6 7 2 9 10 11 12 13" EndSection But as I said, even that doesn't work. I'm not getting a right click for button 8. Any help appreciated as always.

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Short term Linux sysadmin cover needed based in Little Bealings, nr Ipswich - not an agency :)
by Ruth Cheesley 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi folks, I've posted this on Facebook and in the IRC chat room, sorry this is my first introduction to you all, I had hoped to get to a meet before posting! My Linux sysadmin has dropped a bit of a bombshell in that he has a new job starting on 5th August - and I am away from Friday through to the 9th August which can't be cancelled. I need somebody who is able to come in and do a handover this week, to cover for at first two weeks. Clearly you must be an experienced sysadmin and capable of picking things up quickly. I will also need references and whatnot due to the nature of the job. Just to be clear I run this business, I'm not an agency, and it is a real job! We are a web design & open source business run along ethical lines (I'm Buddhist and run the business along those lines) - www.viryatechnologies.comwith offices at Mallard House Business Centre in Little Bealings. Our main line of work server-wise is web servers, mostly running CentOS. We have several servers ourselves both dedi's and VPS's, and we look after servers for clients. We also run Kubuntu throughout the office on all our machines. We also have an emergency support service which is by the nature unpredictable, often involving compromised servers which we have to analyse, investigate and fix. We also do ad-hoc work such as applying updates etc for clients who don't have an ongoing support contract with us but need the work doing on an ad-hoc basis. The work would mainly be general day to day maintenance, backup checking (we push to AWS & Glacier), etc and dealing with any support tickets that might come up. Also may involve installing software, configuration etc. If you can code we can also provide some coding work if you are interested, mostly PHP based (we specialise in Joomla! and have several extensions we sell which need work, and a few in the sidelines which need migrating to 3.x). Salary is negotiable and there is very definitely the opportunity for ongoing work for the right person, but right now I am looking for someone to step in and help us in a difficult spot - if you are interested please email me asap, ideally I would like to be meeting you in the next couple of days. Thanks in advance, and sorry again that my first post is a 'please can you help me out' post! Ruth Cheesley -- Be like me, be Carbon free - don't print this and save a tree IMPORTANT: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies thereof.

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Planet...
by Brett Parker 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Just to make everyone aware, due to planet planet no longer being maintained, I've actually moved the alug planet to using venus (for now), though I'm happy to take suggestions for other feed aggregators to use, I am considering using feedjack, if only because I'm more comfortable with using django than the current static generation system. Also, we should probably look at actually making a theme for moinmoin (which runs the main website: http://www.alug.org.uk/ and also something for the planet...) Just incase anyone else is looking for the rss/atom feeds of the planet, they are (as they have been for a while): rss 1.0: http://planet.alug.org.uk/rss10.xml rss 2.0: http://planet.alug.org.uk/rss20.xml atom : http://planet.alug.org.uk/atom.xml Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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Job Opportunity
by Alan Greer 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

My name is Alan Greer, I'm a director of a company Observatory Sciences Ltd (http://www.observatorysciences.co.uk). We have a job opportunity that I would like to share: Job Opportunity: Graduate Software Engineer Graduate Software Engineer. Salary £22-25K. Observatory Sciences is a UK-based company specialising in developing software for telescopes and instruments used in astronomy, high-energy physics and other "big science" projects. Our client base is global, and includes some of the world's largest telescopes and synchrotron facilities. Due to continuing expansion we seek a software engineer to work with our existing team of specialists to design and implement software for control and data acquisition applications used by astronomical observatories and accelerator facilities. The job mayinvolve international travel to clients' facilities, including Europe, USA and Hawaii. Observatory Sciences currently has offices in Cambridge and Brighton. This post may requiremoving to Oxford at a laterdate. Applicants should have a scientific or engineering degree. You must be self-motivated, analytical and inventive: you should also be excited to be working at the cutting edge of scientific discovery. Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, are essential. You should have experienceor training in developing scientific or technical applications in a UNIX/Linux environment with C, Java or C++ programming. A background in physics/astronomy, experience of control or real-time software, motion/servo control or LabVIEW would be advantageous. Salary will be in the range £22-25K p.a, commensurate with experience and qualifications; specific on the job training will be provided as necessary. This is a rare opportunity to use your scientific and software skills with a talented team of scientists and software engineers in a unique and expanding company. Closing date for applications: 7thAugust 2013 To apply, please send your CV including contact details for two referees, viaemail to jobs(a)observatorysciences.co.uk or post to Dr C.J. Mayer, Observatory Sciences Ltd., William James House, Cowley Road, Cambridge. CB4 0WX.

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"Attempt to access beyond end of device" after dd
by Mark Rogers 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

I have a failed SanDisk Extreme III (30 MB/s 4GB) card. I successfully recovered everything that mattered a couple of weeks ago using ddrescue: $sudo ddrescue -f -n /dev/sdd ./from-site-`date +%F`.dd logfile The resulting image is 4110188544 bytes in size. Today used dd to put the recovered image onto a new Sandisk Extreme 40MB/s 4GB card: $ sudo dd bs=1M if=from-site-2013-06-25.dd of=/dev/sdd dd: writing ‘/dev/sdd’: No space left on device 3816+0 records in 3815+0 records out 4000317440 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1313.42 s, 3.0 MB/s When I boot from the new card, I get "Attempt to access beyond the end of device" in /var/log/messages, although these attempts only come from access to /dev/sda5 which is the swap partition. So, what do I do? As far as I can tell all I need to do is fix the partition table and reduce the size of the swap partition. I did try firing up fdisk and deleting and recreating the partition but it just created it the same size, presumably because fdisk believes the disk is the wrong size. How do I fix that? Possible solutions while booted into the box preferred but if I need to take the card out and transfer to another PC via USB card reader I can do that. Mark Rogers -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Mulberry Tree
by samwise 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

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, 15th July, 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. ----- 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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Meeting at Coach and Horses?
by Anthony Anson 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Will there be one on Thursday? -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/

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Network fun: wifi, powerlines and wires
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

So there's rather a lot of these BT Home Hubs around me. They are hopping all over the 2.4GHz band as they fail to avoid interfering with each other and every other router in the area. In short, it's messing up my wifi and any time I (or any other non-BT neighbour) move to a quieter channel, it starts the madness again as the BT hubs shuffle around - the Android phones cope most of the time, but the Linux laptops (one rtl8723ae, one I forget what) don't like it very much. Is there anything I can do (module options or tool configs) to discourage the laptops from disassociating when there's a burst of noise? The good folk on IRC suggest getting a 5GHz band (802.11n) access point but I fear any relief will be temporary as the BT hubs get upgraded to similarly-misbehaving 5GHz kit. Or is it more resilient? Is powerline networking worth a try? Has anyone got tips or things available locally that they'd recommend? I hope it's just ethernet as far as Linux is concerned. Is there another option short of lead-lining my walls which I'm missing? Failing that, I'll wire up yet another house with ethernet cables... Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Help with Setuid?
by Chris Walker 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Having changed my desktop OS to Magiea, I find that I can no longer gain access to my NAS box. Previously I had 4 lines in /etc/fstab describing the mounts and they worked fine. With the change of OS though has come this message whenever I try to access the NAS - 'This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported'. I've read up online as much as I can but I'm no further forward in resolving the problem. Can somebody point me in the right direction please as I need access to the box? If it helps, the 4 lines in question look like this :- //storage_server/Epox_Share /media/Epox_Share cifs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.storage_server.Epox,exec 0 0 //storage_server/Laptop_Share /media/Laptop_Share cifs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.storage_server.Laptop,exec 0 0 //storage_server/Linux_Share /media/Linux_Share cifs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.storage_server.Mandriva,exec 0 0 //storage_server/Media_Share /media/Media_Share cifs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.storage_server.xbox,exec 0 0 In case it helps /etc/hosts looks like this :- # generated by drakconnect 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.25 storage_server

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[ALUG Announce] ALUG Norwich Pub Meet Thursday 11th July
by Viperfang 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

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 July 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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Linux Beer Hike 2013 in Castleton
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

mikeh at csits.net sent a message using the contact form at http://lug.org.uk/contact which I thought might interest some ALUGgers, given the propensity for pub-based meetings here. It's Saturday 17th August until Sunday 25th August and the message said: I'd like to make a general announcement about the 2013 annual Linux Bier Wandering. This year, the event returns to the UK and will be held in the village of Castleton, in the Peak District. Linux Beer Hike 2013 in Castleton ********************************* Hacking, learning, talking, walking and dining - The Linux Bier Wanderung (Linux Beer Hike) is all this and much more. Each summer around 50 Linux enthusiasts meet up for a weeks holiday. This year the 15th annual event takes the penguin-friends to England, specifically to the picturesque village of Castleton in the Peak District. LBWers put their hiking boots on for the first time in 1999 in Pottenstein in Germany. After a great week, it was clear: We'll meet again next year! In the following years the wanderers traveled to countries including Belgium, Ireland, Scotland, Lithuania, Greece, Switzerland, and Austria. 2013 is the third time the event takes place in England. There is much to discover: The Peak District offers many great hikes in and around the village itself and the delights of Speedwell Cavern, and the many other caves in the area. Castleton also has a lot to offer in terms of food and drink: many delicious beers and hearty cuisine will fortify the participants and keep them all happy. Talks about Linux and Free and Open Source Software complete the programme. It is now possible to register to join in with the event [2]. Over the next few weeks the organisers and participants will arrange various hikes and excursions, and participants can also register for workshops and talks. Questions on anything to do with the LBW will be happily answered by the Linux beer hikers on their mailing list [3] or on IRC (channel #lbw at irc.oftc.net). Links: [1] LBW 2013: http://lbw2013.norgie.net/ [2] Registration for LBW 2013: http://lbwreg.draiocht.net/ [3] LBW mailing list: https://mail.x31.com/mailman/listinfo/lbw -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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KDE 4.1 problems
by Chris Walker 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

As part of my new install I am now using KDE 4.10 as the desktop. But it appears to have a problem retaining settings. If I switch off, when it comes back on, the konsole window for example is now full screen when it should be just a small window and similarly for something like a Solitaire game. But using the same DVD I used to install, I created another install inside VirtualBox and that doesn't exhibit the problem. I've been looking online at the KDE 4 pages but I can't get to the bottom of the issue. Can I copy any of the files over from the virtual machine or is there a preferred way to fix it? I've tried logging in as root and moving my copy of the .kde4 folder in the hope that it would create a new one without these problems but either I didn't do it correctly, or it didn't work, the end result being that there was no change. As the virtual machine works and this one doesn't I assumed it might be graphics related but if I do anything to that, I lose everything and can no longer see the graphic I have for wallpaper and all the icons disappear. That then takes me ages to get it all back again so having done that three times now, I'm getting tired of it and now tend to avoid that. So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 5th July.
by Viperfang 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

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

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Upgrading a legacy Ubuntu Server 10.10 install
by Mark Rogers 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

I've just found a production Ubuntu Server 10.10 install that I need to try to upgrade. It's pretty much just Apache, PHP and MySQL so hopefully not too complicated. 10.10 has not been supported for ages - indeed to get to a version which is not EOL I need to skip 11.04 and 11.10 and go straight for 12.04LTS. I've taken an image and restored to an indentical VM. So far I've done: sed -i.bak -e 's/maverick/precise/g' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install apt apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get autoremove This initially failed until I added: APT { Immediate-Configure No; }; .. to /etc/apt/apt.conf Rather surprisingly, I now have an apparently working system, So my question is: what should I look out for to check this has really gone OK? So far it feels like it's been too easy... Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Shorewall logs
by Chris Walker 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

I've this week changed from Mandriva 2011 to Mageia. I did it because Mandriva no longer seemed to be being developed and also because my installation had a few issues. I also swapped out the 500gig drive that Mandriva was on and installed Mageia to a 1TB drive but I kept the 500 gig jobbie. To save myself time I just moved things like the config for Sylpheed and Claws from the 5400gig to the 1TB and those are working fine. In trying to find out why a USB 3 disc wasn't being seen, I noticed that dmesg was filling up with messages from Shorewall. I'm not sure if Shorewall ran on Mandriva but certainly I didn't see those messages. They all appear to be the same though with the exception of the ID which varies. Here's the last two for example [ 6125.561129] Shorewall:net2fw:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=40:61:86:05:f9:31:00:24:a5:bd:b4:dc:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.2 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=2897 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3896 DPT=3389 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [ 6128.560425] Shorewall:net2fw:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=40:61:86:05:f9:31:00:24:a5:bd:b4:dc:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.2 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=2898 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3896 DPT=3389 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 On my machine 192.168.1.1 is the router. Should I be concerned about these messages? If so, what should I do as they're just an irritation at the moment.

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Partition mount problem
by Barry Samuels 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

First a confession. This is about Android but it is using a Linux kernel so I hope this is not entirely off topic. I have an application on my phone which allows me to clear the 'cache' partition although I had never used that until recently. After using it to clear the cache partition that particular partition will no longer mount. It doesn't appear in the 'mount' list although there are no sign signs of an error. The only noticeable difference is that I can't download or update any applications because the download process uses the 'cache' partition and it's not mounted. Other than that the phone works normally. I can get round that by deleting the '/cache' mount point and creating a soft link to another point in the filing system which is then linked to '/ cache' but it's all reset again every time the phone starts. I've tried manually mounting the 'cache' partition using 'mount -o rw - t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache' but that gives me 'Invalid argument'. It can't be a command line argument because there seems to nothing wrong there. I've tried numerous variations of that command with the same error message. e2fsck on the partition says it's clean. I made a nandroid backup many months ago long before this happened and have tried restoring the 'cache' partition only from that but the problem remains. I've deduced from that that it cannot be a problem with the partition itself. So, can anyone suggest reasons why a partition would refuse to mount? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Scanner Xerox 2400 - GL646 chip drivers
by James Freer 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

In my enthusiasm to ditch windows i thought i'd attempt to get my scanner working as it seems drivers are now available for the GL646 chip. Ubuntu wiki have a 'how-to' https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckIfScannerIsClone The first link appears to download more than necessary it seems. I would be grateful if someone more knowledgeable on drivers could read those pages through as something isn't right somewhere. I was just going to buy another scanner but the latest Canoscan (and others) also use the GL646 chip. thanks james

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Re: [ALUG] program for simple graph representation recommendation?
by mark fernandes (IFR) 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Gnuplot is really good for doing quality plots (Good enough for scientific papers). The output terminals include screen, LaTEX, png, SVG, EPS and PDF. The dreaded Wackypedia has a reasonable amount of info (I would especially recommend the IBM tutorial - it really got me started with GNUplot) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot If you need a non-Windows GUI there is a Java GUI for GNUplot (I haven't tried it so YMMV) see http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgp/ Hope that this helps, Mark

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