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Newer ThinkPad 240x
by Simon Royal 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Hi I'm in and out of Linux all the time and would like to settle with it again. I had a ThinkPad 240x and loved it but it was a bit old. Is there anything of similar size around the 1Ghz P3/P4 mark good for running Ubuntu. I dont want an Atom based machine and if it didnt have an internal CD/DVD drive then it would need to boot from USB - something my 240x didnt have. Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OS9/OSX 10.4/Ubuntu 10.10 - iBook G3 running OSX 10.4 - Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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Running PHP script in background goes into "Stopped"
by Mark Rogers 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

I'm trying to make a PHP script run in the background: $php -q myscript.php & [1] 12345 $jobs [1]+ Stopped php -q myscript.php If I force it into the foreground (fg 1) it runs fine, and if I then stop it (ctrl-Z) and force it into the background (bg 1) it continues to run just fine. It's just starting in the background that seems to be a problem. The script is very simple for test purposes: <?php echo "hello"; ?> (I've tried various scripts, and obviously if I want to stop it and force it into the background it needs to run longer than this, so I just add a sleep(10); to the code.) Googling hasn't got me anything except suggestions that what I am doing is fine! I have no idea if this is a PHP issue or a Linux one? 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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FireFTP
by Anthony Anson 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

I've tried to download FireFTP and it shows all misty blue in Tools/add-ons, with only the 'Uninstall' button standig out like a wossname in the snow. It doesn't feature in Opt/Firefox/Add-ons Can it be that my FriedFox is too old? (Some sites complain about it, or try to send me off to get Shockwave (!) or somethng I don't want.) Trouble is, I can't unearth the version of FriedFox I'm using. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Ehhh?? [OT]
by ted.harding＠wlandres.net 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Good morning folks! I hope you are keeping warm and not suffering too much from travel problams. This is one of those off-topic things that I'm posting because so many of you know things that I don't know ... I'm increasingly seeing in emails (usually sent by organisations) a sentence like the following in the footer area of the message: "To ensure these emails reach your inbox please add <sender> to your address book." Ehhh?? If an email is delivered to me, it is delivered to my inbox. Punkt. So what's behind such a statement? And are people to whom such a thing might apply supposed to have all possible senders listed in their adress books (otherwise they may not have emails delivered)???? I smell a certain kludgy software company in the background! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Dec-10 Time: 09:00:23 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Linux Laptop
by Simon Royal 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi I am looking at switching - once again to Linux on a more permanent state. Ive been a Mac user for 11 years with an interest in Linux. Last year I switched to Linux on a low end laptop but moved back to Mac. Now I am triple booting on an old Mac (OS9, OSX and Ubuntu), but it is a bit old an PowerPC Linux is very unsupported. Id love a new Mac but cant afford it. I cant even afford a half decent one. The only funds I have will be from the sale of mine, which luckily should be about £100 and will buy a failry decent PC laptop. So I am looking for suggestions. It will run Ubuntu or Mint alongside Windows (for those times when you have to use Windows). It needs to be fairly small, with a built in CD drive, USB, PCMCIA slot and built in sound. I know that all sounds fairly standard but Ive had machines in the past few years without some of these. It really needs to be at least a 1Ghz machine capable of 1GB RAM - DDR preferably but PC133 would be ok. It needs to be good with Linux, no odd hardware that needs major tweaking to work. So suggestions please. Simon

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Linux Laptop
by Simon Royal 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi I am looking at switching - once again to Linux on a more permanent state. Ive been a Mac user for 11 years with an interest in Linux. Last year I switched to Linux on a low end laptop but moved back to Mac. Now I am triple booting on an old Mac (OS9, OSX and Ubuntu), but it is a bit old an PowerPC Linux is very unsupported. Id love a new Mac but cant afford it. I cant even afford a half decent one. The only funds I have will be from the sale of mine, which luckily should be about £100 and will buy a failry decent PC laptop. So I am looking for suggestions. It will run Ubuntu or Mint alongside Windows (for those times when you have to use Windows). It needs to be fairly small, with a built in CD drive, USB, PCMCIA slot and built in sound. I know that all sounds fairly standard but Ive had machines in the past few years without some of these. It really needs to be at least a 1Ghz machine capable of 1GB RAM - DDR preferably but PC133 would be ok. It needs to be good with Linux, no odd hardware that needs major tweaking to work. So suggestions please. Simon

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And another can't...
by Anthony Anson 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

While Gargle finds a few hits and Ixquick a lot more, typing "Offbyone Linux download" brings up a lot of Offbyone downloads, but no Linux ones. I am (fairly) reliably informed that therre is a Linux version, but the only reference I can find (but no download) is to Red Hat. I use Xandros on the Eee and Debian on the Acer and the whoppingbigbox. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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How can I find what this apache "file does not exist" error is referring to?
by Chris G 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

I'm getting errors like the following in my apache2 error log:- [Wed Dec 01 17:57:58 2010] [error] [client 84.45.228.40] File does not exist: /var/www/dte-test/httpdocs/images, referer: http://dte-test/ The directory /var/www/dte-test/httpdocs/images doesn't exist but I can't work out any way to find out what's referring to it. Any ideas? -- Chris Green

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A git question now I have the basics mostly fathomed out
by Chris G 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

So, we have a git repository set up on a web server machine 'out there' somewhere. I make my local copy of the repository on my computer and do some editing etc. Then 'git commit' commits the changes to my local repository and a 'git push' sends the changes back to the remote repository. However I don't see how the files get to 'go live' on the remote web server, my 'git push' has simply put them back into the repository on that system. Presumably someone/somewhere has to extract the files from the git repository on the remote into the working directories from which the web server displays them. Is there a specific git command for doing this or would one use the standard 'git clone' to do it, or what? -- Chris Green

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Very strange "No such file or directory" messages - help!!!
by Chris G 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

I have a symbolic link from my home directory to another home directory:- chris$ cd chris$ ls -l total 988 ... ... drwxr-xr-x 3 chris chris 4096 2010-11-20 14:33 dte lrwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 10 2010-11-22 18:58 isbd -> /home/isbd ... ... and, as expected, if I "cd isbd" I arrive at /home/isbd and can see its contents with an ls. However referring to "/home/chris/isbd" sometimes produces a "No such file or directory" error (but not always, as I have just discovered). I'm stumped. What started the problem was running rsync to backup the contents of /home/chris/isbd:- chris$ rsync /home/chris/isdb cheddar.halon.org.uk:backups/isbd rsync: link_stat "/home/chris/isdb" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7] chris$ ls /home/chris/isdb ls: cannot access /home/chris/isdb: No such file or directory chris$ cd /home/chris/isdb bash: cd: /home/chris/isdb: No such file or directory It appears to be something to do with whether I have been in /home/chris/isbd but also seems to be time dependent. It's as if bash 'remembers' where /home/chris/isdb is for a while but then forgets unless I do a "cd isbd" from my home directory. The target (/home/isbd) is simply another part of the same disk that /home/chris is on, nothing special. Another example sequence:- chris$ cd /home/chris/isdb bash: cd: /home/chris/isdb: No such file or directory chris$ cd chris$ cd isbd /home/chris/isbd chris$ cd / chris$ cd /home/chris/isdb bash: cd: /home/chris/isdb: No such file or directory chris$ cd chris$ cd isbd /home/chris/isbd I've never had this problem before with a symbolic link to a directory, what on earth is going on? -- Chris Green

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