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How to exercise a disk drive?
by Chris G 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Are there any disk exercising/testing programs for Linux? Well, I'm sure there are, so does anyone have any recommendations? I want to stick a couple of old (as in I have used them in systems now defunct) IDE disk drives into my Linux box and make sure that there is nothing radically wrong with them. They're not *that* old, 160Gb and 200Gb respectively. Destructive (of data) teting is fine, I don't even know at the moment whether they're ex-Windows or ex_linux. -- Chris Green

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No network every time
by Chris Walker 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

I've no idea what I've done recently to provoke it, but every time I power on my machine, it tells me there's no configured network interface. All I have to do to fix it, is give the root password, and then click ok several times until I get to 'finish'. It remembers all the static ip details but I can't persuade it to remember to start. All I can recall doing recently is trying to persuade the box to talk to my Nokia phone but I'm not sure if that's the cause. I mention it just in case. I've tried googling for the solution but got nowhere. Anybody any ideas?

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Help with Openwrt
by S.Jude＠uea.ac.uk 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hello, Are there possibly any openwrt users out there who can help me? I bought a cheapy Linksys WRT54GS for a networking/electronics project I've got in mind. I flashed it with openwrt with no problems, until I tried setting it up as a bridge. It has lost the network config file and is running the IP address of 0.0.0.0 (a bit of a problem) I can get it into failsafe mode but can't seem to get tftp to upload a new image to it in failsafe mode. I did try to write a new network file but it wouldn't let me write the file (this may be my failing with permissions rather than openwrt!). Does anybody have any experience of openwrt who can suggest a solution other than opening the box and resetting the flash? Thanks Simon

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Straightforward hardware for Linux box - suggestions?
by Chris G 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

I'm considering a new Linux box for my wife to use so I can more easily tidy up and upgrade here existing one. I'll go for 'bare bones', i.e. no mouse, keyboard or display as she'll carry on using the existing ones. I'll almost certainly go for integrated graphics on motherboard as it's mostly business use so no real need for a whizzy graphics card. So, what's a good motherboard to go for at the moment that will 'just work' with a (say) Ubuntu 9.04 installation? -- Chris Green

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Charity sack collection organiser
by Mark Rogers 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Sorry for the terrible subject line, I can't think of a better one! I've been asked by someone who organises charity bag collections for some software to help them organise themselves. Ie they send people out to drop empty sacks (or leaflets) through people's doors, then go back to collect them, and they want a way to basically manage that process to make sure areas get covered properly but not more than once, to record how many bags they get back out of each 100 empty bags they send out, etc. Any suggestions? I figure there are similar potential uses for such an application out there (eg Kleeneezeeee or whatever they're called), but half the problem is working out what to search for. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Opensourc3 magazine...
by Brett Parker 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Just got told about this on the blug mailing list, so thought I'd pass it on: http://www.opensourc3.org/ Is fairly advert heavy in the pdf, but nothing that can't be easily skipped past, looks like issue one is a brief introduction, I'm hoping issue two gets a little more indepth. Anyways - not a completely bad read - worth having a quick squint at. Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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DPMS on LG monitor
by Dan Hatton 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Dear All, I usually operate my Gentoo netbook with one of two external monitors plugged into its VGA output: - an LG Flatron W2234S; or - a Samsung SyncMaster 710N. I'm also usually running xscreensaver with the following options (among others) timeout: 0:02:00 cycle: 0:01:00 lock: True lockTimeout: 0:00:00 passwdTimeout: 0:01:00 dpmsEnabled: True dpmsStandby: 0:05:00 dpmsSuspend: 0:05:00 dpmsOff: 0:05:00 The netbook's built-in screen and the Samsung monitor switch off after five minutes like these options tell them to. But the LG monitor stays on, advising me to "check signal cable". Any ideas how I can get the LG monitor to obey the DPMS commands, please? -- Thanks, Dan

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Anonymous FXP
by lists＠glover.uk.net 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi, Here's a question for you all (because I'm sure I'm not the only person whose attempted this!) We have a piece of software at work (Omnibus Transomneon), which initiates FXP transfers of files between video servers. Because this software is pretty dumb, and it normally only talks to Omneon Video servers, it will only log into FTP as anonymous. The problem I have is I have a Linux (Unbuntu 9.04) that I need this to transfer files onto. I have tried vsftp, which will accept anonymous FTP, but won't do anonymous FXP, authenticated FXP works. I tried proftpd, which will allow anonymous FXP, but bitches about the "Size command in ascii mode". Transomneon uses this to check the progress of transfers. Although the transfer is in binary mode. I tried pureftpd, which would not allow anonymous user to delete files. I gave up with wu-ftpd because I couldn't get ls to work. This has been driving me insane all day. I know what I'm trying to do is very insecure, but I'm on a private well firewalled network. Anybody got any ideas of an FTP server that will support anonymous FXP, and the size command, and allow anonymous deletes? Many Thanks Chris

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BB: Comparing notes
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Greetings Folks, Probably not a Linux issue (though it could be). Anyone else having trouble logging in to their Barclays Bank online banking using their new interface (which went live this morning)? On the machine which I've usually used for this (somewhat slow, smallish RAM), which has always worked OK in the past, with the new interface my browser (Firefox) is completely choked and goes bananas. I then used another machine (faster, more RAM) and didn't get that trouble (Browser = Iceweasel); but even so had to try a few times before their system would recognise my details ("didn't match our records"). When I phoned up their helpline, I was finally "talked through" a login. What I was told to enter for URL was A: www.ibank.barclays.co.uk and this led to a successful login. What I usually use is B: https://ibank.barclays.co.uk Both lead to the same apparent page: https://ibank.barclays.co.uk/olb/m/LoginMember.do but it was B which gave the problems. I was told by the Indian lady not to use entries stored in "Favourites" (yuk) or in Bookmarks "for security reasons", but to type it in explicitly. There are some other details I could give, if it was of interest; but I'm mainly interested at the moment in whether other people have been having similar problems. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Jul-09 Time: 09:45:54 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Dual Booting OSX & Ubuntu
by Simon Royal 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Hi I am a Mac user who currently has a PowerBook G4 which I want to dual boot OSX and Ubuntu on. Is there any on the group that has done this? I really don't want to mess my current Mac OSX Leopard installation up, but luckily I do triple boot at the mo between OSX Leopard, OSX Tiger and OS9 all on separate partitions. So if I could I would lose or use the Tiger and OS9 partitions for use in this project. I have dual booted OSX and Ubuntu a few years ago and it worked, but I can't for the life of me remember how. Simon Royal --- Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on 'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 & 9.2.2...)

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