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Xubuntu Or Ubuntu
by Simon Royal 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Hi. I am loving linux. After 10 years as a Mac only fan. A few months ago I bought a 1ghz Samsung laptop and ran Ubuntu on it. I loved it. The laptop died shortly after that and I got a Thinkpad 600 and running Xubuntu on it. I chose Xubuntu as it is only a P2 300mhz and was under the impression it was lighter than Xubuntu. After numerous threads it seems Xubuntu in fact is heavier on CPU usage and RAM than Ubuntu. So as I intend to stick with this ThinkPad for a while would there be any benefit in installing Ubuntu on it instead of Xubuntu. Simon -- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

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 this Monday 15th February, at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich, not far from our old haunt - The Milestone. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Nothing particular planned this month, though I'm sure we'll end up covering broadband speeds again, if only briefly, now that Infinity is being rolled out (nowhere near us, I hasten to add). I may have a whinge about nvidia graphics drivers, as well. Remember to call (mail me in advance for my mobile no.) or email me, if you're arriving later and want to ensure I don't wander off, which might happen if the turn-out hits rock-bottom ... Hope to see you there, 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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ThinkPad, Xubuntu, Wake Problem
by Simon Royal 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hi I am having problems with ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu. I had it on there before, no problem. I took it off and reinstalled it recently and am having problems with it waking from sleep. I close the lid and leave it. When I go to open it, it wont wake. Nothing I do will wake it. I have to hold down the power button to get it to go off. It won't then power up. I have to remove the battery and put it back in and then it will boot fine and other than that it works fine. It has been doing it for about a week. Then today it stopped and would wake normally when the lid was opened. I thought the problem had gone away, however, it just started doing it again a few minutes ago. Any suggestions? It is very annoying. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

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SCSI Drives
by James Bensley 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hey Collective, Just got single Celeron old school beast server for my self to play with. Does anyone have any SCSI drives they want to (preferably) give me? It has 2x40GB 10K drives in it and I am looking for a few more so I can use it as a play ground at home. If anyone has got any I am after any size from 5GB > infinity as long as they are also 10K. TTFN. -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

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ThinkPad 600 Xubuntu Sound Issues
by Simon Royal 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi I have an IBM ThinkPad 600 - which I got from a fellow group member. I have installed Xubuntu 9.10 and am having some problems getting the sound set up. I understand they have a different sound chip to the 600E and 600X and that most distros detect it with the wrong sound chip. Can anyone offer any advice or help on how to get sound working on this machine. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Hosting
by Ian Porter 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi all, I am presently hosting my personal domain (http://www.codingfriends.com) on a friends server, but would like to host on my own but not for £30+ p/m. Was just wondering if anyone recommend cheap hosting, but also reliable. I have done a small search on google and come back with http://www.uk-cheapest.co.uk/hosting-plans.php http://www.freevirtualservers.com/free-hosting.htm There is an average 300 page views per day and rising :) Cheers Ian

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Port 53662
by Barry Samuels 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Can anyone suggest what traffic coming in to port 53662 might be? It originates from a number of different IP addresses. My router firewall is set to stop anything not resulting from an outgoing request which leads me to believe it's the result of browsing the web but that traffic is being stopped by my internal (software) firewall which has taken exception to it. If I think that it could be harmless I'll let it pass but I don't want to do that at present as I've no idea what it might be. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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skype and usb phones
by Peter Alcibiades 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Any recommendations about usb phones that work on linux? Its for skype. I know you can get cordless dual phones that plug into the router, and presumably these are risk free, but they're £80 or so, which is a bit much.... Peter

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BIOS config question
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi Folks, A little while ago I bought a second-hand laptop (Advent 8117). It came with Windows Vista Home Premium on its 120GB hard drive. I've put aside doing anything with it for a while, since I wanted to replace the HDD with a larger one, and then install Linux on virgin territory! I've now bought a new 500GB HDD, have just installed that in the laptop, and intend to get round to installing Linux in due course. However, I first wanted to see how the thing behaved by running Linux off a live CD. So, after switching on, I got the message "Press F2 for BIOS setup" (or words to that effect). So I did that, and promptly got the message "Operating system not found". That makes me think that the BIOS setup routines must have been stored in some hidden partition on the original HDD, since I've been able to go into the BIOS when that was still installed. If that's the case, then it leaves me wondering what to do about BIOS config after I've installed Linux. Or, perhaps, whether there's a problem at all. If it was just checking for existence of an OS on the hard drive before letting me into the BIOS, then perhaps when Linux is on it will find an OS and let me in. Or, if the BIOS config stuff really is on the original HDD, and it needs to be able to access that before entering BIOS setup, then I'd be stuck because that wouldn't be on the new HDD. And no obvious way of getting it onto the new HDD. I do also have another Advent 8117 which still has the original Win Vista on it (I run Linux on that using VirtualBox), so maybe if I knew where to look I could pull the BIOS config stuff off. But then there'd be a question of how to get it onto the new HDD! So a number of questions! I'd be very grateful for any comments or suggestions from any experts on this sort of thing. By the way: after booting from a live Knoppix DVD, it seemed to run very happily indeed. (Except that I'm no great fan of KDE ... ) With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 12-Apr-10 Time: 20:30:10 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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serial ports in wine
by Peter Alcibiades 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Has anyone succeeded in using a serial port from Wine, and if so, how did you do it, and how did you test it? I have done the usual things, linked as the Wine guide says, my user is a member of dialout. I've also installed setserial and minicom, got the port configured correctly, and I have managed to connect two computers with a serial cable and then have stuff typed in one minicom window show up in the other. I have also tried setting /dev/ttyS0 to 775 so permissions should not be a problem. But what I don't seem able to do is have applications in Wine get to the serial port. And is there some kind of minicom package for windows that you should use, in the same way you can use the minicom on Linux, so that you can actually see the thing working? Sometimes people suggest you should make loopback by jumpering two of the leads on the serial cable. Have you tried that, and will it explode if you get the leads wrong? And what did you use, a bit of copper wire? Peter

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Youtube Flash player control weirdness
by Srdjan Todorovic 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Hi All, I'm experiencing weirdness with Youtube flash player where one can play the video but sometimes (happens too often IMO) you cannot interact with the player controls (pause/play/position slider). Sometimes it can be "unstuck" if you randomly right-click on the HTML area of the page in Firefox. Anyone knows the cause and/or the solution to this? Firefox: 3.5.8 Shockwave Flash: 10.0 r45 OS: Linux Distro: Kubuntu 9.10 Thanks, Srdjan

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Now look out!
by Anthony Anson 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Lenny now ensconced on the Acer Wide-screen flaptop, so it is likely that a superplethora of questions will cascade into the list innit. Most impressed by the relative loading and shut-down speeds as compared with the P it came with. Until everything is working sensibly, Mr. Grub gives me the chance to regress into a comfort-zone - like ATM, when the dongle won't connect... -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Using a Blackberry as a modem
by Paul Grenyer 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi All Does any one have thier Blackberry working as a modem with Ubuntu 9.10. I've found plent of stuff on google, but nothing works. Help! -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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OS Map Data ???
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi Folks, Has any one tried to actually download any of the OS Map Data, supposedly just released on "OpenData" access? As detailed, for instance, by the Guardian today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/02/ ordnance-survey-open-data [equivalent: http://tinyurl.com/yf9dr5y ] I've tried three times today. When you choose a map to download, you fill in a form including your email address. When it is complete, you are told that they will email you the links for download. If you don't get an email within two hour, you are invited to try again. I went through the process for two maps about 4 hours ago, and have heard nothing. I have recently repeated it for one of them (the "Land-Form PANORAMA (vector)" map -- see the Guardian article), and still have heard nothing. Anyone want to compare notes? Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 03-Apr-10 Time: 14:25:14 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Digital Ignorance Bill
by Richard Lewis 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

http://i.imgur.com/1pXlO.jpg Doesn't bode well for digital Britain :-/ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+

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Ubuntu Wireless
by Paul Grenyer 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hi All I'm after some wireless card advice. I have the latest Ubuntu installed on my wife's old: HP Pavilion Pentium 4 and I'm using it as a build box. I need to go wireless. The machine has a couple of PCI slots free. What would people recommend in terms of a wireless card? How would I then go about setting it up? I also have an old USB Belkin F5D6050 wireless adapter. I think it's only 16 bit. Could I use that? I have no idea where to start to set it up.... -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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Static HTML templating
by Mark Rogers 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

I'm (fairly) sure someone here was talking about a templating system for generating static HTML (ie you write the templates, run a script, and get a set of HTML that you upload to the website). I can't find it by searching my ALUG archive for phrases like static, HTML or template, though. Does anyone recall what it was? If not (or regardless), does anyone have any recommendations? I'm building a website for someone who will need to maintain the static HTML themselves when finished. Since all the pages have common elements it's a pain not templating it for my own benefit, however. I could just work in PHP/Smarty as I normally would, then "wget --mirror" the site to generate the static HTML, but if there are better solutions I'm always happy to learn something new! -- 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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Slow network performance with lots of connections
by Mark Rogers 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

When my Linux box has a lot of connections (eg when downloading an ISO via BitTorrent), the network connectivity gets very slow for other things. Now this could be because the total bandwidth usage is high, but I'm seeing this even when the total bandwidth on my cable connection is say 50kbps down, 10kbps up. As this is cable, I may be hitting Virgin bandwidth limits (I'm not sure how to tell), and this may sometimes be the case because if I test with another PC on my home network I sometimes find it is also slow. Other times the other PC is fine. In any case, killing the torrent download usually (not always) speeds everything up. So, there seem to me to be several possible issues (any/all of which may be applying at different times), but I don't know how to diagnose it. For example, it may be the total number of connections at the router (a cheap Netgear wireless cable router supplied by Virgin), or maybe even at the virgin cable modem box? I try rebooting any of these and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I am very aware that I'm just trying random things and not really getting anywhere! -- 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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Re: [ALUG] Increasing Tomcat Memory
by Paul Grenyer 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM, James Elsey <james.elsey(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> From this forum post[1] you should just be able to modify the catalina >> startup script, >> >> Gotta go out so I don't have time to try it myself, but good luck! >> >> [1] >> http://www.coderanch.com/t/421341/Tomcat/change-JVM-setting-Xms-Xmx#1858331 > > I've managed to increase the memory by adding: > > export CATALINA_OPTS="-XmX2048 -Xms2048" > > to /etc/init.d/tomcat. However, it hasn't fixed my deployment problem: > > > deploy-webapp: > > BUILD FAILED > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786) > at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94) > at sun.net.www.http.PosterOutputStream.write(PosterOutputStream.java:61) > at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(BufferedOutputStream.java:105) > at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.java:215) > at org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask.execute(DeployTask.java:201) > at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) > at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) > at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257) > at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104) > > And now I look at the stack trace a bit closer, I wonder if it's Ant > that's running out of space. It was Ant by the look of things. In the end I added: ANT_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Xms1024m" export ANT_OPTS to /usr/share/ant/bin/ant and it appears to have fixed the problem. -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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Re: [ALUG] 2 part question!
by Paul Grenyer 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi I can't access the link properly on my Blackberry. As it's Qt is it C++? Paul ------Original Message------ From: Chris Walker Sender: main-bounces(a)lists.alug.org.uk To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk ReplyTo: cdw_alug(a)the-walker-household.co.uk Subject: [ALUG] 2 part question! Sent: 6 Apr 2010 16:23 I am going to have a go at writing an application for my Nokia N900 phone based on this - http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/f28e1110-5ef3-4e24-8ff0-29a… What I would also like to do is have a similar database on my desktop machine - it runs Mandriva 2010 64 bit so that I can update one and 'sync' it with the other one. Can somebody point me in the direction of some suitable SQL Lite code please? I've looked and I'm even more confused than I was when I started. TIA. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_alug@the-walker-household.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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2 part question!
by Chris Walker 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

I am going to have a go at writing an application for my Nokia N900 phone based on this - http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/f28e1110-5ef3-4e24-8ff0-29a… What I would also like to do is have a similar database on my desktop machine - it runs Mandriva 2010 64 bit so that I can update one and 'sync' it with the other one. Can somebody point me in the direction of some suitable SQL Lite code please? I've looked and I'm even more confused than I was when I started. TIA. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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MySQL Arrrgg!
by James Bensley 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Knowers of all (I have cross-posted this question to two different lists hence the BCC to not cause unwanted traffic so reply either on list or directly to me off list, its your choice); I am trying to execute the following MySQL statement and am coming up a croppa' SELECT name FROM `visitor` WHERE dob = DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 21 YEAR) This is to select everyone from a table who is 21 years old, just as an example. The statement runs and returns with no errors but returns no entries (and there are entries that are 21 years old) Ultimately I am going to do something like this (I am just free-writing this so the syntax is probably wrong but hopefully you will get the idea); SELECT name FROM `visitor` WHERE dob BETWEEN DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 21 YEAR) AND DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 30 YEAR) to get everyone who is between X and Y years old. Do people think the problem is in my statement or my database? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

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Fwd: [Gllug] Open Source Hardware - event & list.
by Richard Lewis 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi ALUG, I know there are a few very keen hardware geeks reading this list. The following may be of interest. I guess meetings will be in London, but the list <http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug> may be quite fun. Of course, there's also the question of whether LUGs should splinter off hardware enthusiasts; after all, hardware is pretty useless without software and software is pretty tedious without hardware. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+

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Re: [ALUG] Increasing Tomcat Memory
by James Elsey 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

>From this forum post[1] you should just be able to modify the catalina startup script, Gotta go out so I don't have time to try it myself, but good luck! [1] http://www.coderanch.com/t/421341/Tomcat/change-JVM-setting-Xms-Xmx#1858331 James Elsey On 4 April 2010 10:37, Paul Grenyer <paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:34 AM, James Elsey <james.elsey(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey Paul, > > > > Have you tried playing with the xmx options? > > > > From command prompt, run java -X > > > > There are some options to set the heap size/maximum heap size > > Yeah, my problem is which script to put those options into. > > -- > Thanks > Paul > > Paul Grenyer > e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com > b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com >

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Increasing Tomcat Memory
by Paul Grenyer 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi All I've installed Tomcat 6.0 on my build server running ubuntu 9.10. I followed the instructions here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/ And it's been working well. However, I think my application has got too big now (lots of third party JARs) and I keep getting out of heap space on deploy. I've googled but I'm struggling to find a way to increase the memory that works. Can anyone give me some pointers, please? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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