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/58067 <pre>Can anyone suggest a cheap web hosting provider with apache/mysql that I can use for my web development coure? </pre> Dave Germiquet 2012-05-26T22:23:26 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 </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 wr</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 </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 Bl</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 </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 </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 mo</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 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug