http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58060 <pre>One more reason to hate Rogers cable internet: they changed my IP number today while my DHCP lease was still alive. I wondered why networking wasn't. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> D. Hugh Redelmeier 2012-05-24T18:11:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58057 <pre>Hey Everyone, I'm curious about experiences and recommendations with small business accounting/bookkeeping software. This is a new area for me, so packages or services with pointers to good documentation and a community of Ontario small business people using it would be a huge plus. I'm thinking FOSS of course, but online services work too. Thanks, -Mike -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> Mike Kallies 2012-05-24T16:10:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58055 <pre>Hi all: I'm going to be wast^H^H^H^H spending some time at Linuxcaffe on Sunday afternoon, 27 May. Starting maybe as early as 2:00pm; ending maybe as late as 6:00pm (anybody know what the actual Sunday hours are?) Thanx to Canonical, Ubuntu-Canada and Darcy, I'll have some shiny new Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04) CDs to give away. Hope to see you there! Linuxcaffe 326 Harbord St (corner of Grace St.) Toronto, ON M6G3G8 Map: http://osm.org/go/ZX6BaIRO--?m --Bob. </pre> Bob Jonkman 2012-05-23T19:04:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58054 <pre>Great news for fans of photography who use Linux or FOSS: Hugin has improved dramatically since I last used it. Hugin is a photo-stitcher/panorama-maker. In my previous experiences with it (which go back about five years), it was initially incomprehensible and unusable, then tricky and in desperate need of hand-holding (you had to point out to it every place where two photos matched), then crash-prone and still in need of hand-holding. But this morning, having not used it in perhaps a year, I handed it four photos and it said "is this what you wanted them to look like?" It got it in one. And it did it twice more, no hand-holding. That's not a long enough session for me to feel sure it's no longer crash-prone, but it's seriously got its stuff together on matching pictures. The next big test is to pass it a vertical pano, or a horizontal pano composed of vertical ratio images (I could never get that to work in the past). Or a bunch of overlapping images in both directions. But the ease of use on basic panoramas was spectacular. Take a look if you have the slightest interest. The panoramas I created this morning are from a recent trip, and they aren't on my website yet. Back when it still needed hand-holding, I made this: http://www.gilesorr.com/travels/Rome2009/Rome2009panos.trevi_pano.html - you can do good things with Hugin. The thing about the Trevi fountain ... it turns out that it's in a rather small square, and you simply can't back up far enough to take a single shot of the place without a fisheye lens. Another good moment from Hugin: http://www.gilesorr.com/photography/200906/200906.guild_pano.html . The trick with people is you need them not to be crossing the image join-lines. :-) </pre> Giles Orr 2012-05-23T15:17:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58052 <pre> Offers NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED First reasonable offer takes it. Telephone 647 974 2769 Email billhenderson-GANU6spQydw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> torfree-GANU6spQydw< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-23T14:46:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58046 <pre># Via APC Via has just recently announced a Neo-ITX form factor (drops into any miniITX or microATX) Android PC board. It is expected to retail around the $49 price point. http://apc.io/about/ http://www.viagallery.com/Subcategory/apc.aspx While the lack of SATA and/or miniPCIe leaves a something to be desired, I find it interesting to see a major board designer getting into this low cost ARM system market. # Mele A1000/A2000 Personally, I just received last week my Mele A1000. http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mele-1080p-android-2-3-internet-tv-set-top-box-w-wifi-optical-3-x-usb-hdmi-av-lan-sd-119913 It's got a very full feature set at a reasonable price. Allwinner, the makers of the A10 SoC are open-source friendly and have released all the source code. There are now workable Debian and Ubuntu Images for this device. http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/ The A2000 is the same main=board with a smaller case and no HDD enclosure. The specs for it on Dealextreme are just wrong so I'm not posting the link. # General The OLPC XO proved you really could ride Mores Law in the other direction. Raspberry Pi gave it mass appeal. With the market going the way it is, I'd like to hear from GTALUGers. 1) What they would be doing with these devices? 2) What would you expect in term of support before you try one? 3) What feature set do you think these boards/systems should be targeting? At what price would you pay for that feature set? </pre> Scott Sullivan 2012-05-22T17:26:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58033 <pre>Using Ubuntu 12.04, Gnome GUI and Nautilus, I can browse the network and see the memory card that is in my network printer. I click on the icon and I am prompted for a password. When I do the same from my Windows 7 box, there is no prompt for a password and I can access the files. How do I get rid of the password prompt? Thanks Stephen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> Stephen 2012-05-22T12:39:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58024 <pre>Hello guys, I am doing an academic research focused on software development using cloud computing platforms. Despite not having a direct link to Free Software, I think it is an interesting research because I know that several projects, some of which I also participate, make use of cloud platforms for development. I would like to share with you a basic form that I designed to compare the use of 3 of the main platforms. It is a simple questionnaire, with only multiple choice questions, which takes no more than 5 minutes to respond. Feel invited to respond: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFh4N1B5dTBNS2hVZlZQUVowcGVtQVE6MQ Grateful in advance for help. best regards, =================================================== Marcelo Cavalcante Rocha - Kalib Graduando em Sistemas de Informações - ESTÁCIO/FIC Usuário Linux #407564 | Usuário Asterisk #1148 Fortaleza - Ceará - Brazil Celular: +55 085 87620983 Certificações: ITIL V3 | CSM | LPI-C1 | Novell CLA Minha Pessoa: Blog Projetos: Tux-CE | Archlinux-br | Chakra | KDE Brasil | TLUG | PUG-CE =================================================== Proteja meu endereço como estou protegendo o seu. Não revele e-mail dos correspondentes: use Cco (Copia Carbonada Oculta). Retire os endereços antes de reenviar. Dificulte assim a disseminação de vírus e spam. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> Marcelo Cavalcante 2012-05-20T14:26:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58005 <pre> I've managed to get automount under mdev sort of working, but it's not quite ready for primetime yet. E.g. when I insert a USB stick, a hotplug event triggers a script, which creates a new device (/dev/sdb1, etc). I've modified the script to also mount the new device when it's created. So far so good. Unfortunately, since it's mounted by root, my regular user account can't write to it... oops. I also need to unmount it as aregular user, before yanking it out. An idea might be a script with sudoers access that lets me unmount anything on the /media directory. Manual mounting/unmounting on fstab-listed devices works as per normal, but some people prefer automounting. Any ideas on mounting? </pre> Walter Dnes 2012-05-17T08:03:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58002 <pre>Hi, Do you know any console program that has drop-down menu or subwindow menu.  I know about "mc" (Midnight Commander). Anything else? Most terminal programs that I use will replace entire screen with help infos or menu choices.  I guess they call this "modal".  Personally, I sort of prefer this.  But... </pre> William Park 2012-05-16T22:09:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57998 <pre>I have a notebook on which I previously installed Ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04 and I want to install 12.04 (over 8.04). See a pattern? I want the latest LTS and the one before. When I try to install 12.04, and ask to configure the partitions, the installer sees none. And gives no explanation! I exited the installer (this is a live DVD of Ubuntu 12.04 for AMD64) and run parted from the console, it prints a terse message to stderr: ====================== libparted : 2.3 ====================== Can't have a partition outside the disk! A hint. But not too explicit: it doesn't say what partition. Here what fdisk says (decorated with labels from the partitions): Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x17a417a4 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1020 8193116 27 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 1021 6368 42957804+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 6369 7388 8193148 83 Linux: Ubuntu8.04 /dev/sda4 7389 14594 57882195 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 7389 8153 6144820 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 8154 13573 43536116 83 Linux: /home /dev/sda7 13574 14594 8195072 83 Linux: Ubuntu10.04 It all looks good: all the cylinder numbers make sense. But it turns out that (120034123776 bytes/disk) / (8225280 bytes/cylinder) = 14593.31764705882352941176 cylinders/disk NOT 14593 as fdisk reported. So: the extended partition sda4 and the last partion within it, sda7 extend into this fractional final partition. Any block past (8225280 bytes/cylinder) * (14593 cylinders/disk) / (512 bytes/block) = 234436545 blocks is in the fractional extra cylinder. You can see this with "sfdisk -u S" output: Disk /dev/sda: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/sda1 63 16386294 16386232 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE /dev/sda2 * 16386300 102301908 85915609 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 102301920 118688215 16386296 83 Linux /dev/sda4 118688220 234452609 115764390 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 118688283 130977922 12289640 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 130978008 218050239 87072232 83 Linux /dev/sda7 218050560 234440703 16390144 83 Linux Warning: partition 4 extends past end of disk Interestingly, there is a bit of unused space after sda7 still within sda4. But I still would have expected a warning about sda7 going past the end of the disk. If I use "sfdisk" without flags, I get a lot of cylinder numbers decorated with + and - suffixes that indicate rounding. Disk /dev/sda: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0+ 1019- 1020- 8193116 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE /dev/sda2 * 1020 6367- 5348- 42957804+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 6368 7387- 1020- 8193148 83 Linux /dev/sda4 7388 14593 7206 57882195 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 7388+ 8152- 765- 6144820 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 8153+ 13572- 5420- 43536116 83 Linux /dev/sda7 13573+ 14593- 1021- 8195072 83 Linux Warning: partition 4 extends past end of disk Cylinder numbers seem to be off quite often. What can I do to fix this, at least to the point where gparted and friends will look at it? I want to keep the contents of my current partitions (other than sda3). Can I somehow get the rather arbitrary geometry of the disk changed so that the partitions don't look screwy? BTW, I would guess that this partitioning was created by Ubuntu something-or-other. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> D. Hugh Redelmeier 2012-05-16T05:18:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57988 <pre>So that's good at least. Another verdict is apparently still to come. </pre> Lennart Sorensen 2012-05-15T16:29:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57960 <pre>Hi all, How do you check your external IP? I know about &lt;whatismyip.com&gt;, but I would like to know other sites. I usually go to my router's webpage. But, my new router has fancy Java enabled webpage that I can't log in using Lynx. So, I can't script it. My plan is to send email to myself if IP changes. :-) </pre> William Park 2012-05-12T16:29:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57958 <pre>Greetings, For any that are interested there Cfengine is hosting a training session this month in Toronto. I'll be there also. http://cfengine3toronto.eventbrite.com/ Sincerely, </pre> Neil Watson 2012-05-10T23:00:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57957 <pre>Debian developer Raphael Hertzog has completed the translation into English of his "Debian Administrator's Handbook" and its now released under free licenses in various formats: http://debian-handbook.info/2012/the-debian-administrators-handbook-is-available/ ... including online: http://static.debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/ Looks good! </pre> Daniel Wayne Armstrong 2012-05-10T19:24:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57955 <pre>Hey everyone, I figured I'd post here to see if anyone would be interested in these two items. Both of them work, come with their original wall chargers, as well as 2GB SD cards. I'll wipe either of them to factory defaults so that they are like new when you get them. The OpenMoko FreeRunner Neo is an open source, at hardware and software level, phone/portable media device. I had a company in Europe fix an antenna and GPS hardware bugs, as well as the notorious buzz fix. It comes with a neoprene carrying case, 2 original batteries, and a 2GB micro-SD card. The coolest thing about this device is that there's a revision 4 of it out now that is a drop in replacement board to make it a more modern smartphone. Details on the FreeRunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner Info on the GTA04 upgrade motherboard here: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/ As for the OLPC XO-1, it's from the original Give 1 Get 1 (g1g1) program, so it's the first consumer ready hardware from OLPC. I'll restore it to factory default Sugar Linux and include the developer key so that you can install whatever OS you want on it. It's an amazing piece of hardware and has one of the best screens I've ever used, capable of switching from black and white to full color, so as to accomodate direct light down to low lighting situations. OLPC XO-1 details: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1 If you are interested, make me an offer off-list at grazer-Re5JQEeQqe9fmgfxC/sS/w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org I'm cleaning house with a baby on the way, so I'm clearing out some of my "toys" that I rarely use. Thanks! -jason PS: Oh, and I'm on the west side of downtown Toronto, Dundas and Dovercourt area, but could probably deliver or arrange a pickup most anywhere in Toronto. </pre> Jason Shaw 2012-05-09T01:02:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57941 <pre>&lt;rant&gt; I had no idea that sshd would be using /etc/hosts.allow. One week of wild goose chase! &lt;/rant&gt; </pre> William Park 2012-05-03T00:17:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57937 <pre>I recently decided that it would be prudent to replace the hard drive and increase the available space on an Acer Aspire 3610 laptop, which was dual boot at the time. Windows folks periodically cleanse their hard drive: wipe the hard drive, re-install their operating system, and then re-install every last application that they need. This is a very foreign way of thinking in the Linux world, as the folks on this list will know. I wanted some way of avoiding that process on this laptop. After a week of tinkering, I put together a procedure for doing that, which is documented in a paper on my academic web page: Cloning and Expanding a Hard Drive Under Windows XP http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~phiscock/papers/clone-and-expand.pdf Why is this relevant to a Linux discussion list? Because Clonezilla and GParted, used in this exercise, are both linux tools. Also because the approach could be used to tweak the partition allotment in a dual boot system. In the process I came across a method of recovering grub, which I tested (it worked) and is listed in the references. In the process, I copied my home directory to a backup and then blew away the Suse linux installation (I could never get it to work at a nice resolution for the laptop display), but that's not necessary in this procedure. Comments welcome, of course. Peter </pre> phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-01T16:20:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57931 <pre>Hello all, I am trying to set openLDAP enforce password policy and I am getting in trouble figuring what these lines should go. Basically, I have the password schema in place, and the module outlay. Now, it look I will have to get LDAP configuration somewhere and also create a new organization unit that will go into the database. The later is easier to figure out where it should be placed, but I am having a hard time figuring where the ppolicy configuration should be placed. I am using the new cn=config setup and assume it should be one of the following: /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn\=config.ldif /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={-1}frontend.ldif /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={0}config.ldif /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}hdb.ldif http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/guide.html Look under section 12.10.2 Quote: Instantiate the module in the database where it will be used, after adding the new ppolicy schema and loading the ppolicy module. The following example shows the ppolicy module being added to the database that handles the naming context "dc=example,dc=com". In this example we are also specifying the DN of a policy object to use if none other is specified in a user's object. database bdb suffix "dc=example,dc=com" [...additional database configuration directives go here...] overlay ppolicy ppolicy_default "cn=default,ou=policies,dc=example,dc=com" End of quote: Where the heck should above go? Have anybody here working with password policy outlay before? Regards, William -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> William Muriithi 2012-04-30T22:21:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57928 <pre>Is there a more user-friendly way to get updates than Update manager? I see hundreds of suggested updates for things like Evolution that I don't even use. You can't Shift+Click to deselect ranges of updates. So I have to click each update of hundreds. Is there a faster way to do this? Chris -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists </pre> Mr Chris Aitken 2012-04-30T18:40:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/57923 <pre>_No Reasonable offer refused_ HP Tower: Internal Hard Drive 1: 320 gb Internal Hard Drive 2: 80 gb CDR/W Intel dual core CPU 6400 &lt; at &gt; 2.13 Ghz 2 GB High Speed RAM USB External drive: USB (1) 1.0 TB Drive enclosure: - no HD - includes SATA bracket and cables if you wanted to go that way. Screen/Monitor/CRT: Gateway flat 21 inch (almost new) Cable Modem: DOCSIS 3.0 - high speed (Almost New) Ready For Teksavvy, Rogers, etc Router: TP-Link WR841N v5: (Almost new) with 4 Wired connections plus Wifi &lt; at &gt; 300 MBps Sound box: Philips Booster and speakers. Book: Programming Windows + Disk This is SDK - not MS-Foundation Classes or whatever the term is in English. Also with this I'll include all the tools you will ever need to develop progs - None of which is hacked-cracked-pirated-etc. All Legal (Bloodshed's "Dev-Cpp" is the main item here plus Mysql) Also will throw in a proggy 90% complete and working for Accounting General Ledger and pass you the copyrights. Nice small hand vacuum cleaner for cleaning keyboards, tower and desktop full size boxes and lard to reach places. tel: 647 974 2769 email: slackrat-GANU6spQydw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org NON-PUTER STUFF Dining Room table and 4 Chairs Brand New - Never used Extender middle leaf Lazy Susan server (Cost $700) Coffee Table and 2 end tables (worn a bit) 2 Lamps Quantity of kitchen related items - EG: gram scale - mixer plus food items - $25 would be rock-bottom offer for this lot - worth much more. tel: 647 974 2769 email: slackrat-GANU6spQydw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org </pre> Slackrat 2012-04-30T16:09:32 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug