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Perl problems
by Ruth Bygrave 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Am trying to install some Perl modules for creating/modifying mobipocket files. Perl version returns 5.8.8, which is apparently correct. On trying any install package I get perfectly correct ftp &c messages from CPAN, followed by a failed make with no explanation. The following is the final set of messages from the Palm::PDB package: "WARNING: LICENSE is not a known parameter. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good 'LICENSE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name. Writing Makefile for Palm -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible" so it apparently happens perfectly correctly up to the make pass, which chokes it. Regards, Ruth

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For Sale: Blackmagic Decklink PCI SD
by Richard Bensley 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Hey All I am gutting one of my G5's and I have this decklink card going spare. Great for any Final Cut users who want to start using hardware based keying, ripping from things like digidecks or just for the sake of haivng access to fast affordable 10bit uncrompressed footage. This however does NOT include the breakout cables as I bought two of these originally OEM and I only bought one set of cables. This card barely saw, I only used it go gain access to the features it was providing on my main machine. This is PCI, not PCIe or PCI-X. I don't know if it will work n a G4 chassis. I am looking to get £80 including delivery. Or £70 with pickup, I live about 15 miles outside Norwich in Loddon. Email me or call me (number in signature). For a connection diagram see page 27 of this pdf manual: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/manuals/decklinkmacmanual.pdf For a wee piccy see here: http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/product_images/18_08_2005blackmagic_d… Cheers Rich -- Richard Charles Bensley richardbensley(a)gmail.com http://www.richardbensley.co.uk 07846466530

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Does anyone have any use for "thin ethernet" hardware?
by Chris G 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

I have quite a lot of old "thin ethernet" computer networking hardware, e.g.:- Lots of 50 ohm coaxial cable (originally 100 meters, but in pieces now, some quite long pieces though) Lots of 50 ohm BNC connectors, T pieces, terminators, etc. One or two PC network cards with BNC connectors. An Axis print server with BNC connector. A hub with a BNC connector (and RJ45 connectors). Free to a good home if anyone wants it, I'm near Ipswich, might be able to deliver in the area. -- Chris Green

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Re: [ALUG] Curiosity Collective Ipswich Exhibit Tomorrow
by samwise 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

On 25/04/2008, Simon Elliott <alug(a)sionide.net> wrote: > samwise wrote: > > They have re-imagined > > semaphore for the 21st Century, music made with Nintendo GameBoys > > > > Different artist but sounds a lot like what Bitshifter does... > > http://www.last.fm/music/bitshifter Yes, the guy doing the game boy music under the Curiosity Collective banner this week is Pixelh8 who has collaborated with a number of ppl doing similar work online ... Peter.

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Curiosity Collective Ipswich Exhibit Tomorrow
by samwise 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Hi, I don't know if anyone is interested, but the Curiosity Collective that we've discussed at the Ipswich meets a few times is coming up to the last day of their exhibit. They are a local technological arts group who have set up in St. Mary's on the Quay church, on Key Street in Ipswich. They're in there all-day tomorrow, and have some really cool exhibits - I've been to one of their preview meetings. They have re-imagined semaphore for the 21st Century, music made with Nintendo GameBoys, mysterious hybrid-portrait-photographs and interactive-kaleidoscopic-video! http://curiositycollective.org/ Anyway, if you've not got anything on, I reckon it's well worth a walk down if you're around Ipswich town centre. Peter.

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PostPost problem with PlanetPlanet
by Ben Francis 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

I've been wondering (probably for years now). Why do all my blog posts get repeated twice in Planet ALUG? The RSS feed looks OK. Ben -- Ben Francis http://tola.me.uk

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Re: [ALUG] upgrading from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS
by Bev Nicolson 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

<<Oh yes, and is there anything important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading?>> > > Backup ? Yes, that might be a good idea! Thanks. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Stallwood" <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.co.uk> > To: ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [ALUG] upgrading from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:46:08 +0100 > > > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:53 +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote: > > I've done what the Ubuntu website says and gone to system > admin > > > update manager and installed the last batch of updates but it > > doesn't mention anything about the new version when I click on > > 'upgrade' again. Am I a) being a bit impatient or b) is there > > another (simple!) way round this? Oh yes, and is there anything > > important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading? > > Backup ? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Router conundrum
by Chris G 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

iIn the past several weeks I have upgraded our home ADSL (which is also our small business internet access) to make it more robust. We have two telephone lines so I got ADSL enabled on the second one so now if one goes down we can still connect. (OK, I know if someone takes the wires out between us and the exchange we probably lose both but there are limits to what's worth doing). The second ADSL is a BT business connection and a free BT Business Hub router comes with it, actually a 2Wire 2700HGV. When it came it installed without fuss and worked, I made its IP address 192.168.1.254 with our original ADSL router as 192.168.1.1. I "shared" access by setting up Maxine's computer to use 192.168.1.254 as its default route and mine to use 192.168.1.1. So far so good, it worked fine, but of course I'd have to manually change things if either ADSL connection went down. So, my next improvement was to get a new Draytek Vigor 2820n router for the not-BT ADSL. I mainly got this for the better (or at least easier to configure) firewall but it offers sharing facilities for two WAN connections and this is where the fun starts. WAN1 on the 2820n is the ADSL connection (EntaNet), WAN2 is an ordinary ethernet connection which can be connected to another router/modem. So I removed the 2Wire router from the 192.168.1.x subnet and plugged it into the WAN2 port of the 2820n. I have set the WAN2 'subnet' to be 192.168.13.x and the 2Wire router is 192.168.13.254. After a few hiccoughs I have got it working but the 2Wire router is causing some issues. For some reason the 2wire router sets itself up so you can access it as http://gateway.2wire.net/ rather than just its IP address (or a name you put in /etc/hosts) on the local LAN. This initially caused some fun and games when I tried to access it but after a while it asked if I wanted to set 192.168.1.x (or maybe 192.168.13.x) as a DMZ and all was well. However I now have another issue caused by this http://gateway.2wire.net/ thing. I want to be able to set up the routers remotely, rather than opening their browser interface to the outside world I'm creating an ssh tunnel to my home machine and port forwarding the router IP. E.g. for the 28820n I do:- ssh -L 50080:192.168.1.1:80 home.isbd.net and it works perfectly, Firefox at work connects to localhost:50080 and sees the 2820n web interface. Similarly I can connect to our DECT SIP phone set up web pages and configure that. The problem is that if I do:- ssh -L 50080:192.168.13.254:80 home.isbd.net and try connecting to localhost:50080 it gets a page not found error because it's trying to connect to http://gateway.2wire.net/xslt?PAGE=HURL00 Can anyone suggest a way around this problem? (Sorry for the long winded explanation) -- Chris Green

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'selectors' for rsyslog, where are they documented?
by Chris G 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

I'm trying to log messages from my router, it can send messages to syslog. However I can't find anywhere any documentation on what 'selectors' should look like in /etc/rsyslog.conf, let alone how I would select messages from my router. Can anyone point me at anything useful please. -- Chris Green

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Blue tooth
by Barrys linux mail 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi Has anyone successfully used a usb bluetooth dongle with Ubuntu 7.10. I can get it to pair with my mobile phone on the laptop, but when i try to send a photo from phone to laptop, the phone does not detect the laptop.Made both phone and laptop visible but still no connection. I must be doing something wrong but what? Not to clued up with blue tooth! All suggestions gratefully received. Barry

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