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Re: Meeting?

Tony Vroon — 2013-05-06T16:23:51

We are skipping a month. The weather is too good so I want to be in my
garden, and since we have sent Craig on a seemingly endless series of
training courses I doubt he'll have the energy.
Let's try in June.

Regards,
Tony V.
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Meeting?

David Aizenberg — 2013-05-06T14:43:54

Hello, is there any PLUG meeting planned this month?
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Linux on an 8-bit micro?

David Aizenberg — 2013-04-21T13:49:14


http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit


Linux on an 8-bit micro!






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Valve/Nvidia report on steam port

David Aizenberg — 2013-04-04T23:05:20

Will be interesting for Game Developers mainly, I am not, but I have found
it interesting, so might be worth sharing anyway.

https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/gamedev/docs/Porting%20Source%20to%20Linux.pdf

Re: memory

r j saddington — 2013-03-31T08:41:02

New sticks are Samsung old ones are hynix


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Re: PLUG meeting on Apr 2nd at LINX

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-30T22:46:39

Going to be there. ☺

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:17 PM, C N <eos-+7yZg7JORoz10XsdtD+oqA< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

PLUG meeting on Apr 2nd at LINX

C N — 2013-03-30T18:17:32


Evening,

This months PLUG meeting (on Tuesday, Apr 2nd) will be held in the
board room of the London Internet Exchange, offices located at Trinity
Court just off Priestgate.
I would just like to confirm that anyone is welcome, even if you have
never posted to the mailing list before. Our meetings have an informal
style, and you will generally get the best experience if you bring at
least one computer. Connectivity is available.

The car park entrance is visible here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=PE1+1DA&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Peterborough,+Cambridgeshire+PE1+1DA,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ll=52.571192,-0.245658&spn=0.000342,0.000871&t=h&z=21&layer=c&cbll=52.57116,-0.245766&panoid=PZbIdVOT3A9A5bqAda40xw&cbp=12,58.77,,0,5


Please use street view to navigate your route, the postal code is PE1
1DA. As there are currently no CCTV streams available to me, I can not
see who is waiting to be let in. Please put 01733 207732 into your phone
before you set off.

You are encouraged to contribute 0.50GBP/pers

Re: Remote desktop to headless Linux PC

Mark Rogers — 2013-03-30T08:25:11

That is correct. To confirm this I have set up my box ("C") as a proxy
to see if it helps, but it doesn't.


Forwarding X of SSH is probably the solution when the remote user is
on a Linux platform. But unfortunately they're not, so I really need
something like remote desktop (ie RDP), although VNC and similar could
be considered.

Also: I think it's safe to assume that remote access from mobile
devices will also be needed at some point. I don't have an iDevice but
certainly RDP via VPN is possible from my Android devices, where X
over SSH wouldn't be as simple.
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Re: Remote desktop to headless Linux PC

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-29T12:36:32

As far as I understood, it would not be the solution for this case.
As the web-interface, is latency dependent, and the caching server would be
just as remote from user, as is the primary server.

So instead of:
A -> C (dc)
will be
A -> B -> C (where B will only increase the latency)

Appropriate solution would be like stated in original message.
Use server C as X-host, whereas server C only have redraw latency, which
may not be too crucial in this exact case.


OnTopic:
Make use of X network transparency, ssh X forwarding, to forward a
browser(luakit perhaps) to from server B to A.

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Re: Remote desktop to headless Linux PC

Phil Thompson — 2013-03-29T12:30:52

My first thought was a proxy / cache server with clients pointing their
browsers at C and C updating from A.

But that's as far as I got :-)


Phil

Re: memory

Phil Thompson — 2013-03-29T12:20:48


2rx16 pc3-8500s-7-10-1a works 1 GB
2rx8 pc3-8500s-07-10-f2 doesn't 2 GB

IF the x16 and x8 refers to the number of ICs on the stick then the
non-working sticks have 8 * 256M and the working 16 * 64M which may be
part of the story.

what manufacturer of the RAM sticks ?


Phil

Re: memory

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-28T17:06:01

I don't think that it is relevant to this Mailing list.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:19 PM, richard rjsad <rjsad1-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

memory

richard rjsad — 2013-03-28T15:19:23

i am trying to upgrade the memory on a macmini,at present it  has 2  1 gig cards in  they are   as written on the  chip 1gb 2rx16 pc3-8500s-7-10-1a,when you check it on the hardware spec through about this mac .it shows as  1gb ddr3 1067. i have attempted to install  two 2gb  2rx8 pc3-8500s-07-10-f2 when installed the give me the dreaded bleeping sound can any one give us help on why these memory chips don't seam to work i have checked that they are seated properly and repeated the install twicei have taken these chips out of MacBook Pro so i know they are ok all the chip on both mc  read as ddr3 1067mhzany explanation would be helpful as  i am now got two 2gb chip that i cannot make use of regards richard       _______________________________________________
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Remote desktop to headless Linux PC

Mark Rogers — 2013-03-28T13:39:14

On a customer's site is an industrial unit (call it "A") that has a web
interface, and although it can be reached remotely the web interface
doesn't work well due to latency issues. So there has been a request to
install another PC on-site ("B") that is always running and to which I can
remote desktop, on which to run a web browser, to view A. That means that
the comms between A and B will be on the same LAN (and therefore not suffer
from latency issues), and remote access will be via B.

However, I already have a headless (ie no keyboard/mouse/monitor, and
currently no X) server on-site ("C") that I can reach via SSH. In principle
there's no reason why I can't use this instead of installing something new
(B). So my question is: what do I need to do on C to allow me to access it
via remote desktop and run a browser?

My first thought is that
    apt-get install xrdp firefox
.. should install everything I need, but I'm not sure if that's the case.
Regardless, I would like to install as little as possible to m

Re: Headphones Repair

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-24T16:11:03

Still relevant ☺


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Re: Recommended "entry level" nVidia graphics card

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-21T12:43:38

Congratulations!
Myself I use laptop card: Nvidia GeForce 9300M G, with opensource "nouveau"
driver.
Works perfectly well with openbox :)
And it was quite decent on KDE too, but i was low on CPU & ram clock for
kde;

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Mark Rogers <mark-QPcDH/b5OMq9FHfhHBbuYA< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Recommended "entry level" nVidia graphics card

Mark Rogers — 2013-03-21T11:47:24


Thanks.

GT210 ordered for £18.50 delivered from Dabs.
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Re: Recommended "entry level" nVidia graphics card

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-21T10:29:20

Nvidia are a lot less problematic in my experience.

And I honestly think that for your requirements any modern GPU will do.
I would look into Nvidia GeForce GT 210/220 (slow/fast) side.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Mark Rogers <mark-QPcDH/b5OMq9FHfhHBbuYA< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Recommended "entry level" nVidia graphics card

Mark Rogers — 2013-03-21T09:37:13

Apologies to anyone on the ALUG list as I also asked this there.

I have a PC with on-board ATI HD-6530D. The motherboard is less than a
year old, but apparently this is far too old for AMD/ATI to still
support the chipset so proprietary drivers don't exist for it. I'm
using the FOSS drivers (which would be my preference anyway) but I'm
having issues in X that are causing it to die one way or another every
day or so. The research I've done so far suggests that I have two
options: give up half my life to working out what's going on, or
accept it and move on.

With the latter option in mind, that means I want to buy a cheap PCI-X
video card, but I'd like to get one that's at least as "good" as the
HD6530D. And for reasons of lack of support I'd like to avoid AMD/ATI.
That pretty much means nVidia (unless someone tells me they're just as
bad?).

Any recommendations? No gaming, so just responsive desktop graphics,
and reliable under Linux. (I'm on Kubuntu 13.04 (beta) at the moment,
which I upgraded to in part t

Re: Upgrade non-woes

Mark Rogers — 2013-03-14T15:08:58

At the moment I'm using the FOSS drivers (on-board Radeon HD 6530D)
although I am having problems with them so might go proprietary in the
end. But one thing at a time - I'll see how stable things are now
before I change the video drivers as well!

Re: Upgrade non-woes

David Aizenberg — 2013-03-14T12:03:54

Wow, this is indeed outstanding success story!
Every time I had ubuntu dist-upgrade, I had to fix proprietary video driver
issues(at least);

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