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Where to buy basic system unit for Linux?
by Chris G 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Does anyone have recommendations for buying a reasonable base unit (i.e. no screen/keyboard/mouse/etc.) I think I'd prefer an 'all Intel' system as that's any easy way to be (fairly) sure it will all work in Linux (though I'm willing to listen to alternatives). I want something like - desktop/tower system, intel core two quad processor, 4Gb RAM (with space for more), 500Gb or thereabouts hard disk. My last system was a 'select the bits yourself' custom build from Komplett but they no longer exist. A company like them would be good. -- Chris Green

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Linux PVR boxes
by Mark Rogers 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of commercially available Linux PVRs, such as http://www.darkbox.co.uk http://www.dreambox.org.uk A customer asked me about them as his "Linux guru" (a title I really don't live up to!) and I'd not heard of either of them. -- 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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Installing NX on a headless remote server
by Mark Rogers 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Is there any reason why I should not be able to install NX (www.nomachine.com) on a remote server (to which I have root access)? If I try to install using dpkg and "apt-get -f install" to resolve dependencies I'm getting connection errors which I am pretty sure relate to there being no X server installed. What would be the minimum I need to do to get X installed so that this would work (assuming my guess is correct)? What I am trying to do is reach the point where I can connect to a box in a remote office and use (eg) Firefox on the box to view locally hosted web pages, although once I have remote access to a "desktop" there are other ways I could (ab)use that. -- 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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non-empty DVD shows up empty.
by Torben Stones 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

I've got some pictures that I backed up to a DVD earlier this year. But now when I put it my computer to recover some of them it shows up as an empty DVD+R. I can see from the surface that it has been written to, but the computer just isn't seeing it. Is there any programs that I can use to try and recover what is on the disk? Any help would be greatfully recived. Thanks Torben -- You've got a lot of choices in your life. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

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books on perl
by robert johnson 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

I was wondering whether there was any books on Perl programming, more importantly making games using Perl.Thanks Robert

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How-To: Dual-Boot Ubuntu Linux Desktop Along Side Windows XP
by Barrys linux mail 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hi Below is a link to a step by step guide of how to boot two hard drives Ubuntu/XP it may help somebody as it helped me Barry http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2006/06/02/how-to-dual-boot-ubuntu-606-dapper-l…

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National Archives: Open Doc Format Petition
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Hi Folks (and sorry for any cross-posting you may experience), It looks as though the result of the e-petition may have been positive! (Or maybe it was already OK). See: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16957 Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 26-Sep-08 Time: 17:30:46 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Twiceler is making me paranoid
by Sagr 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

I have noticed an increasing number of visits from a web bot called Twiceler (ID String: Mozilla/5.0 Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuil.com/twiceler/robot.html) It's initial visits seem to come from IP:208.36.144.6 but I have also noticed it appearing from IP:38.99.44.101 et al. I initialy thought it was a Hacker Bot as it seems to occasionaly cloak it's identity and claim to be the Google Bot. However the multiple IP address hopping and ID cloaking kind of became insignificant when my inbox started to become flooded with Hacker Alert emails from some of my PHP scripts who were reporting they were being probed with an assortment of invalid input parameters by this Bot. In short this Twiceler Bot appears to behave like a Hacker Bot deliberately designed to probe websites and scripts for vunerabbilities. However looking at it's website it gives the impression of complete innocence... What on earth is going on??? Have any other ALUGers found their website being checked for vunerabilities by Twiceler? Time for me to baracade the door and hide under the bed with tins of corned beef and bottled water??? Sagr.

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Flash/Gnash!
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi Folks, I want to install a standalone FlashPlayer on a Debian Etch 4.0 system (regularly updated), just as I once did in the increasingly distant past on a RedHat-9 system! I have the FlashPlayer plugin working nicely in Iceweasel, but I also want the standalone version. Adobe's FlashPlayer web-pages do not seem to have the standalone version for Linux available (the one page where it is alleged that it is available as part of a "developer" package has no content). Question 1: Can anyone point me to a site where it IS available? A possible alternative might be Gnash, the OSS development of a flash player. Having entered deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main (as recommended on a forum that came up on Google) into /etc/apt/sources.list, I can search for 'gnash' in the synaptic package manager and find a selection [A] of gnash and related packages. However, If I attempt to mark gnash for installation, I get [B] To be installed libcurl3-gnutls and is I then mark that for installation I get gnash: Depends: gnash-common but it is not going to be installed even though gnash-common was listed at [A] above. So I go back to the [A] listing, and mark gnash-common. I then get To be installed libcurl3-gnutls just as at [B]. And when I try to mark this again, I get: gnash-common: Depends: gnash-common but it is not going to be installed Depends: libboost-date-time1.33.1 but it is not installable Depends: libboost-thread1.33.1 but it is not installable Depends: base-files (>=4.0.1~) but 4 is to be installed So I'm right royally going round in circles. GNASH GNASH GNASH!!! Question 2: Can anyone suggest a way out of all this? Either a pukka Adobe standalone for Linux, or an escape from the Gnash labyrinth? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Sep-08 Time: 17:14:51 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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[FTAGH] Atari 800XL + Mac IIsi
by Mark Ridley 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Apologies for the non-Linux related mail, but I'm moving abroad and I just can't bring myself to throw these away. Mac IIsi, monitor, keyboard etc. Fully working. [ex-BT kit, give to me when I left] Atari 800XL, 1050 floppy drive, PC/SIO connector, a bit tatty but works. [my first computer, what a beauty!] Free! But you'll need to come get them from Norwich Road, Ipswich. Reply to me if interested, and we can a rrange a time. -Mark

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