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Are there *any* decent web browsers out there now?!?!
by Chris Green 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

I'm finally getting a bit fed up with Firefox, for a couple of reasons:- It's seems incapable of working with eBay without going to 100% CPU and slowly grinding to a halt. The last few updates have made it *look* decidedly clunky. Arcane configuration parameters required to make it so it can open files on one's local file system. So, I've been looking at alternatives and there's not much that seems any better (they have different issues in the main). I've been trying chromium and it certainly seems faster than Firefox and doesn't seem to grind to a halt on eBay, but:- I want a separate search bar You can't change the keyboard shortcuts Is anything else any better? I've been wondering about Vivaldi, same underlying engine as Chromium but apparently much more configurable. Has anyone here tried it? I'm just a bit wary of going 'off piste' as it were (not in the Ubuntu repositories). -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] ALUG Norwich Pub Meet Thursday 14th December
by Viperfang 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Hello Norwich Aluggers, Our monthly ALUG Norwich social meeting will be held this Thursday, 14th December at The Coach and Horses (82 Thorpe Road, Norwich, NR1 1BA). The meeting officially starts at 8pm, although some people may arrive earlier. More information on those people can be found on the list and the IRC channel. If you are unsure if you will recognise us then make yourself and your intent to attend known by either posting on list or visiting us on IRC so we can look out for you rather than hiding in the corner. Optionally you could ask at the bar if they know where the geeky computer weirdos are and they'll point you in the right direction (seriously!). Another possibility is look for heaps of electronics on a table that may possibly look like movie props that would used for detonating explosives. Feel free to bring electronics/laptops/gadgets to the meet, you will by no means be alone. Ben Bewick aka Viperfang NB: This mail is automated, please refer to the usual sources for more information. ALUG Contact Details: Website : http://www.alug.org.uk/ IRC : #alug on irc.alug.org.uk List : http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo Twitter : http://twitter.com/anglianlug Identica: TBA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2381613902 ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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How to allow easy editing of www-data owned files - or other workarounds?
by Chris Green 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

I've been trying to find a good solution to this problem for *years* but I'm still hitting problems with it. The current problem is that syncthing doesn't deal well with directories and files which have different owners on different systems. The essential problem is that web files which are manipulated by apache need to be owned by www-data but I want to be able to edit these files as well. In particular I have a wiki where I sometimes edit the files using the wiki (ownership ends up as www-data) and sometimes I edit them directly with an editor (ownership ends up as chris). Currently I use access control lists (setfacl) to make things so that both chris and www-data can both manipulate files in the wiki directory regardless of whether they are owned by chris or www-data but this isn't a perfect solution as the correct settings don't always get put on new files. What I really need is:- All the wiki files are owned by 'chris' (the wiki is rooted in my home directory and is synchronised across a couple of machines by syncthing). www-data can read/write/create files in the ~/chris/wiki directory but they will always be owned by 'chris'. Can anyone see a way of implementing this? ... or any other reasonable solution? -- Chris Green

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Magnetic resonance?
by Phil Thane 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

No this isn't a Linux question but you are the only techie people I know. If there is anyone from a Physics / Electrical Engineering background who can help with or proof read a short paragraph about wireless charging using electro-magnetic resonance, please get in touch off-list. Thanks. -- Phil Thane www.pthane.co.uk phil(a)pthane.co.uk 01767 449759 07582 750607 Twitter @pthane

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Strange postfix problem
by Laurie Brown 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

Hi all, Do we have any postfix experts on here? I have a very strange problem I'm struggling to resolve, and I'd appreciate some help. Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie(a)brownowl.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Audio Question
by Ben Whyall 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

Hi I have a query which whilst not 100% linux I suspect someone might be able to help. I want to be able to somehow share speakers, and headphones/headset between two systems. Ideally I want to be able to decide what output is in use by ficking a switch or something similar not unplugging. Same with the input. One machine is a linux box and one is my work laptop (windows 10) What are peoples thoughts? Ben

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Firefox 57 woe
by Bev Nicolson 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

I had hoped to be prepared for whenever the upgrade to Firefox 57 occurred but it turns out I haven't been. This is because the Software Updater hadn't offered 57. Anyway, it seems I have lost all my ScrapBook pages. Or at least, the question I want to ask is, how can I find out for sure that I have? The home and computer directory have been searched for 'firefox data' but no dice. Bev.

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ssh_config file equivalents of command line options - how to find?
by Chris Green 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

I had a hard time recently working out what the ssh_config file equivalent of the -L command line option in ssh was. The man page happily tells you that "Port forwardings can also be specified in the configuration file." buut doesn't tell you *what* the configuration file equivalent is. (It's actually a bit obvious - LocalForward). Is there any documented way of finding the mapping? I'm now after the config file equivalents for -f and -N if there are any. -- Chris Green

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 1st December.
by Viperfang 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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How to *start* a desktop remotely? (for VNC)
by Chris Green 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

How can one *start* a desktop (in my case XFCE on xubuntu) remotely? I have set up VNC to acces my home machine desktop but since it's not actually running a desktop as it's been rebooted the VNC client shows me nothing. Help!? I have ssh access to my home machine. -- Chris Green

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