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Cheese
by Anthony Anson 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

Can't find the thread, but thanks muchly to whoever pointed me at Cheese to get a CCTV onna stick thing working, and not least because I've just been given an old microscope USB camera which the donor insisted worked OK on Win 98, but the software wasn't compatible with XP, and when I told him that I intended to use it in Linux, his anticipation of success dropped to zero. He was most surprised when it worked in Cheese without demur. I hope to proselytise... So, thanks again for the pointer. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Where has all the free space gone?
by nev young 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Good morning ALUGers. I have noticed something a little odd about the space allocation on my disks. Prompted by the disks getting rather full. Taking two in particular I see (using system monitor) device type total free available used /dev/sdb1 ext3 1386.0Gb 79.8Gb 10.0Gb 1306.2Gb 99% /dev/sdc1 ext3 1386.3Gb 111.0Gb 41.2Gb 1275.2Gb 96% Ok. total = free + used but why only 10Gb / 41.2Gb available? I find it hard to believe that there is 69.8Gb of disk lost by sector padding at the end of files or is allocated to the directory. Even more odd that both disks appear to have "lost" 69.8Gb. I get the same numbers (to 1Kb precision) if I use du and df to check the space. I don't know the ext3/4 file system layout and would like to know if these numbers are normal or exceptional. Could I have done something at mkfs time to "improve" on the above? BTW, Trash is empty. I'm not overly worried by this, it's just a "want to know" thing. The disk almost full problem will go away on the 3rd July when the automatic backup program deletes all the incremental backup data for June from these disks, which are my first line of system backups. I've had a very heavy month processing VHS tapes to mpeg4(xvid).avi files. -- nev

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Meet In Ipswich.
by Bradley Simpson 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Hello i was wandering iff anybody was going to be at the nexzt meet in Ip-swich as i went along last week Laptop in hand and a load of questions ready to be asked and nobody showed up. Please say some one will be next time. Bradley.

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text authorship analysis
by Peter Alcibiades 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Does anyone know any packages that do word recurrence intervals, something called the trigram markov model etc to test for same authorship of two passages? Obviously a linux package would be best, but windows would be ok. Whatever works. Peter

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EA-Meet Up
by James Bensley 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

The only Anglian meet-ups I am aware of are the Norwich ones (my old stomping ground) and the Ipswich ones as those are the ones posted on this 'ere mailing list. Firstly, are there any others? Perhaps small meets that don't get advertised on the list and/or are rather ad-hoc? Secondly, has there ever been an "Anglian meet up" where everyone gets together? I think this would be good fun personally. -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

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Why does permission on home directory affect ssh?
by Chris G 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

I just spent a long time diagnosing why I couldn't get a public key ssh login to work. It eventually transpired that ssh doesn't allow one to have group write permission on one's home diectory. That's *not* the permission on the .ssh directory, it's the permission on the one above that. A quick Google search confirms that this is the case, ssh refuses to do public key authentication if the user's home directory has group write permission on it. I can't see any way to disable this (turning StrictModes off seems to disable too much) and I don't really understand the reason for it either. I only want group write set on one particular user, can anyone suggest a way to allow ssh public-key login to that user? -- Chris Green

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Message from (mostly friendly) List Admin about conduct, was Re: My Internet experience...
by Adam Bower 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Anthony Anson wrote: > > That's gets my vote. I'm always reluctant to ban someone outright - > after all, we all have (probably) adequate filters on threads and > particular e-addies if necessary. I have just come back from work and found this thread. Joy. I have sent a further warning to Krishna about being on topic and not upsetting members. Krishna's account is now set that all posts will have to be approved by the list administrators now before they can go the list and I have explained that seeking a way around this will result in a permanent ban. I don't believe that seeking an outright ban is the way forward in this situation, people can learn from their mistakes and when I see mail that contributes to this list from Krishna then I will remove the moderation flag from their email address. I think other members have quite rightly pointed out what the problems are here. Please be nice to each other kids. Thanks Adam -- New signature required, suggestions on a post card please.

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Norwich Meet/Coach And Horses Refurb
by steve-ALUG＠hst.me.uk 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hi Folks, Dunno if it coincides with a Norwich meet, but thought I should point this out in case it does. "The Coach and Horses in Thorpe Road will close at about 6pm on Sunday, June 26 and reopen in the afternoon of Thursday, July 7." http://bit.ly/mqaLGR Regards Steve

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Re: [ALUG] Survey
by Krishna Birth 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

> Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:07:24 +0100 > From: Richard Lewis <richardlewis(a)fastmail.co.uk> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Survey > Message-ID: <87vcw0bnqb.wl%richard.lewis(a)gold.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > OK, at the risk of sounding like some sort of purist, I'm just going > to come out with it: this sort of multi-posting to LUG mailing lists > is, in my opinion, spamming. Please don't do it. It's in your own > interests to refrain if you'd actually like to get a response from > mailing list readers. > > LUG mailing lists are great communities full of interesting and > helpful people and we're very lucky that they're willing to share > their knowledge and experience. Please don't abuse these communities. > > Richard > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Richard Lewis > ISMS, Computing > Goldsmiths, University of London > Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 > Skype: richardjlewis > JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li > http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I don't believe it is spamming. It is on-topic, related, computer/software issue generally and also in this case corresponding and 2-way. Finding answers related to Linux is difficult because the user base is not huge, a sub-set in this group are techies which reduces the pool even further, then there are holidays, time away from the mailing list, sickness etc reducing further, then there are member personalities who based on either my posting or my profile, self-interest etc don't want to answer, this reduces the respondent pool even further. Regards Meeku

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My Internet experience in the West at times is comparable to female foeticide
by Krishna Birth 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

I believe that I am being banned, treated badly and threatened to stop posting from certain Linux, PC, Software and Font internet forums and mailing lists because I have a beyond religion or spiritual realm cause in the projects that I am posting about. When I read / listen about female infanticide / female foeticide, it shows that this is happening why -- there is the cultural factor operating. My content is different and thus that is the reason that I am being banned, treated badly and threatened to stop posting from certain Linux, PC, Software and Font internet forums and mailing lists. To be fair there are some useful responses on some internet forums / mailing lists and threads. Not all members are the same. On the other hand for example in Britain Linux User Groups (LUGs) -- Swlug (South Wales) has banned my posting to it's Linux group, Staffslug (Staffordshire) only yesterday threatened me with banning. Oxlug (Oxfordshire) does not allow me to post. Same with the other Sheflug (Sheffield). Some not all internet forums/mailing list organisers need some educating and need to educate others for example by having some by-laws and rules so that I am treated without these problems. Regards Meeku

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