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Deleting directories which only contain old files
by Mark Rogers 08 May '10

08 May '10

Starting in a directory on my server, I need to delete all directories below it which only contain files older than a certain age. To be clear, I don't just want to delete old files; if a directory has any new files in it then I don't want to delete the older files that might also be in there. Background: I run dspam on a server, and it creates a directory for each mail address it scans, containing a log and a quarantine mailbox, amongst other things. I have many many directories that were created automatically for non-existent users and haven't seen any changes in months or even years, but "active" directories do have old files in them (preferences files, etc). So I want to find directories that haven't had any of their contents change in (say) 6 months, and then delete the whole directory. -- 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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Bluetooth - help!
by Chris G 07 May '10

07 May '10

I'm trying to get my desktop Linux box to talk Bluetooth and I'm *very* lost. I've plugged in a USB Bluetooth 'dongle' and it's sitting there happily flashing its blue LED. So now what do I do? :-) If I run bluetooth-wizard it loses me completely, I don't really know which 'end' it's asking for information about. The other end I'm trying to communicate with is a Nokia E71 phone. Can someone describe in simple terms what I should be doing to pair my computer with the phone? (Note: I have successfully paired other Bluetooth devices before now, in particular a SatNav and a bluetooth equipped crash helmet) -- Chris Green

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concatenate two jpeg images
by Ian Thompson-Bell 07 May '10

07 May '10

I have two jpeg images that I can arrange to have the same height. I want to combine then into a single image of the two, side by side. I cannot seem to find a way to do this in GIMP. Any ideas? Cheers Ian

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Thunderbird 3 Smart Folders
by Wayne Stallwood 06 May '10

06 May '10

Ok after an initial "ugh" when Thunderbird got updated to version 3 as part of my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 I have sort of adjusted and it *is* better. But one thing that I can't get is adding smart folders properly...has anyone done this and how ? At the top of the folder tree I have an "Inbox" smart folder which is a combination of my local (pop collected) inbox and an imap work one I want to add another smart folder that only shows unread items in the same way just under this. I can change the filter on the existing "Inbox" smart folder so that messages are only shown if status-isn't-read and that works fine (although annoyingly it only updates if you leave it and navigate back) but what I can't seem to do is add an additional folder that behaves like this. I worked out that the easy way to add new smart folders is to perform a search and then in the search options click "save search as virtual folder" but this only allows me to add the virtual folder as a subfolder to one of my existing accounts...not put it at the top with the other smart folders.

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Keyboard is king?
by Anthony Anson 06 May '10

06 May '10

Can anyone suggest why, occasionally, I turn on the Eee (t's still running Tellytubbies Xandros) and no keyboard function works. Right arrow, left arrow, tab, nuffin. Order is restored when the mouse is tweaked. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Re: [ALUG] Any raid experts among us?
by Adam Reid 06 May '10

06 May '10

Righty... the situation's changed a bit now, as Brett outlined. Raid is now repaired, but won't start on boot, for reasons not known. Syncing doesn't cause lockups, or that's not proven, but something does cause a USB devices to stop responding, eg keyboard & mouse. this happened on the live cd as well, although the PC was working normally otherwise. Basically, as it stands now, I have a working raid, in the live cd mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0 works perfectly, but something has changed that stops it being loaded at boot time; the kernel gives up waiting for the root device to be ready & drops me at busybox. I could make a backup of the array and reinstall the whole system, but I'd prefer to solve the problem if possible. I'm making a full backup tomorrow anyway, whatever happens.

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Any raid experts among us?
by Adam Reid 05 May '10

05 May '10

Allo all, I've run into a spot of bother (understatement of the year) while upgrading Ubuntu to 10.4. More specifically, after upgrading, the device names of my drives seem to have shuffled around a bit, and raid5 (softraid) broke. I'm unable to rebuild the array, as it seems to value the old device names more highly than the uuid's, and errors out. Pastebin of the current drive situation is at http://www.pastebin.com/2AT9fQYF . The drives used to be sda, sdb and sdc, but somehow the dvd drive took over sdb post-upgrade. You can see my attempts to sort the situation here, and the results: http://www.pastebin.com/t8wPxZHu . I can get to busybox on the PC, and am using a liveCD to try to repair it. I'm wondering whether shuffling the cables around to realign the drive letters is a sane idea ... or whether that'll make the problem worse. Any insight much appreciated.

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Geekbench In Xubuntu
by Simon Royal 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi I am interested in getting Geekbench in Xubuntu. I have downloaded the file from the website, unpacked it and went to Execute it, but it doesn't do anything. I'm dual booting XP and Xubuntu on my ThinkPad 600 and have benched XP and would like to see if there is an diference under Xubuntu. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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Xubuntu Sound Problems Continue
by Simon Royal 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi I still havent gotten any further with geting sound to work on my ThinkPad 600 under Xubuntu 10.04. I tried following some tips I found online and atleast got something to show up in Mixer. When the machine boots you hear the speakers being initialised - you get that crackle for a second or so. But when I play an MP3 in Exaile it plays all crackly and you cant even make the song out. However, tonight I was on FaceBook and someone started chatting to me and when I got a new message I got a sound. I have never had that before, so something must be working somewhere. I just double checked an MP3 again and no joy, and I then thought about playing an audio CD, but while the CD played I got no sound. Any further ideas? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Xubuntu Copy Dialog Box
by Simon Royal 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi I was copying some file to my USB Flash Drive the other day from Xubuntu and it didn't come up with a copy dialog progress box. I didn't think too much of it at the time. This morning I was trying to create an alias of my windows partition on my desktop and accidently dropped it so it is copying the whole partition onto my desktop and there is no dialog or progress box. It is a 6GB partition and there is no way to stop it. I can here the hard drive chugging away so I know it is doing it. Why is there no box that comes up? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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