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[OT?] Bank Holidays
by Mark Rogers 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Does anyone have any ideas how (from a script) I can determine whether a date is a (UK) bank holiday? Something I can use from PHP preferred but I'm flexible. Since the dates aren't consistent I assume I'm going to need somewhere to look the information up, but I'm not sure where, but it seems like this ought to be a fairly "standard" need. (For my application I need to allow website customers to select a delivery date, which needs to exclude bank holidays.) I'm hoping there's a standard method. -- 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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backport of trac won't allow upgrade to lenny version
by Jenny Hopkins 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hullo there, Does anyone use trac on debian? I've just upgraded a server from etch to lenny. It had a backport version of trac 0.11.1-2~bpo40+1. The lenny version is 0.11.1-2 However, the backports package refuses to uninstall to make way for the new version. Installation errors show: Preparing to replace trac 0.11.1-2~bpo40+1 (using .../trac_0.11.1-2.1_all.deb) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1891, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1885, in main rv = action.run(global_options) File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1403, in run pkg = DebPackage('package', self.args[0], oldstyle=False) File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 303, in __init__ self.read_pyfiles() File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 424, in read_pyfiles 'shared files found in old (%s) and new locations (%s)' % (old_shared_base, shared_base2) __main__.PyCentralError: shared files found in old (/usr/share/pycentral/trac/site-packages/) and new locations (/usr/share/pyshared/) dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 I tried moving /usr/share/pycentral/trac to one side but the same error occurs. Google is not my friend :-( Can anyone advise? I'm not much good with pythony things. Many thanks, Jenny

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Ubuntu server report
by James Freer 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=110 Thought some may be interested in this report. Seems ubuntu is doing very well. How many use it in this group? james

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Anyone know the URL...?
by Anthony Anson 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

I want to download the "patch" from the Vodafone site so I can run a PAYG mobile internet dongle on my Eee, running on that 'orrid Fisher Price Linux, FTTB. There is a patch somewhere on the Vodafone website for this purpose, but despite using all the keywords I can think of to search it, the download has been frustratingly fugitive. (Unless, of course, that particular page was 'down' for some reason... Anyone any ideas? Pretty please? -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 9 April 2009
by David Reynolds 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Dear ALUG, The monthly second Thursday social meeting of ALUG will take place on 9 April 2009 at The Reindeer (10 Dereham Road, Norwich, NR2 4AY; tel. 01603 762223). It's very near the junction of Dereham Road and the Norwich inner ring road (Grapes Hill) and serves a selection of real ales, nice pub food (if you fancy going early to eat) and coffee. There are generally people there from 20:00 onwards and we tend to sit to the left of the main entrance. We look forward to seeing you there. Cheers, David -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk ----- 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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Acer Aspire One with Linpus
by mick 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Has come down in price again. Now under £160 at Dabs http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=5DJT&InMerch=1 That's £30 less than I paid only a few weeks ago. They also have the same beast with half a Gig of RAM for under £140. Astounding. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] xsession errors
by Peter Alcibiades 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Richard, this is what it says: peter 20910 0.0 0.0 5160 776 pts/0 R+ 12:21 0:00 grep beagle What does it mean? I'm not aware of having installed Beagle, but maybe it went in as part of the Gnome install? Peter

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File permissions for FTP and Apache
by Mark Rogers 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I have a server running PureFTP and Apache. If I create an FTP user, it gets a directory under /home/ftpusers owned by ftpuser.ftpgroup I need to create an FTP user that can upload images that the webserver will use (simple: I symlink the directory into the relevant path in DocumentRoot), however I also need Apache to be able to write to the files (images will be uploaded by the website admin backend as well as via FTP). How do I achieve this? I can add Apache (www-data) to ftpgroup, which should solve this but would also give Apache write access to all files uploaded by any FTP user, which I don't want to do. I can make the files world-writeable, which I don't like in principle, but also is going to cause problems as images get uploaded by FTP or Apache (eg new images are not going to inherit the world-write permissions without some changes to the FTP configuration and the web application). This must be a standard problem with a standard solution? -- 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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ubuntu - display configuration
by James Freer 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

ubuntu 7.04 to 8.04 all had in the menu "Screens & Graphics GUI for setting up. Or via terminal displayconfig-gtk. Useful if you want to use two monitors or have an electronic whiteboard. Just been trying out 8.10 wondering how much has been changed from 8.04 and couldn't find displayconfig-gtk. I thought they might have put it in 'configuration editor' but haven't. Has it been replaced with another app - doesn't seem likely to have left it out expecting you to change xorg instead? thanks james

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xsession errors
by Peter Alcibiades 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Still getting them. For example: Could not read Pidgin buddy list file: Could not find file "/home/peter/.purple/blist.xml". Cannot index Thunderbird contacts because a System.ArgumentNullException was thrown: Argument cannot be null. And yet, I don't have either Pidgin or Thunderbird installed. Any idea what's going on? Lenny, up to date. Peter

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