[ubuntu-uk] JOB: Scalability Engineer/Senior Linux Systems Administrator

2009-02-03 Thread David Pashley
lease email us your CV with a short covering letter (including salary expectations, and where you found this job advertisement) to j...@dbeducation.co.uk. -- David Pashley da...@davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uninterruptible power supply question

2007-03-07 Thread David Pashley
ing to > UPS signals? > > - Does anyone have any recommendations on UPS/software combos? > I have always liked APC SmartUPSs. I believe NUT is the software de jour. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A GUI Grub editor?

2007-02-28 Thread David Pashley
Create vhosts in /etc/apache2/sites-available and then run a2ensite. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread David Pashley
> Just be thankful that they didn't get a random taxi driver to be their expert. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop

2007-01-29 Thread David Pashley
;t understand, then open up the email client. This is always hard to > explain and makes things over complicated. > > Any ideas? or do you think I should suggest it to the gnome / vino people? > Cheerio, > Now I think about it, KDE definiately had this support 4 years ago. I don'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop

2007-01-29 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 29, 2007 at 13:49, David Pashley praised the llamas by saying: > On Jan 29, 2007 at 12:46, James Tuthill praised the llamas by saying: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed Ubuntu on around 8 friends and family machines all > > round the country. Until now I have nev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop

2007-01-29 Thread David Pashley
lication, you can run ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then start the gui app at the command line. For this to work you need to make sure that they have the xauth package installed and that you have uncommented the line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that says: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Fiesty ??

2006-12-21 Thread David Pashley
hit of the > community come up with a solution to this regular problem - can it? Yes, it was solved many many years ago. Store /home on a separate partition and all will be well. > > Regards > > Llywelyn Owen -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta sup

Re: [ubuntu-uk] value of /var/cache/apt/archives ?

2006-12-19 Thread David Pashley
sudo apt-get -o update dir::cache=/media/cdrom0/apt/archives Try: sudo apt-get -o "update dir::cache=/media/cdrom0/apt/archives" > and I get a response: > E: Option update: Configuration item specification must have an =. > > any thoughts? > tia -- David Pashley [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] value of /var/cache/apt/archives ?

2006-12-19 Thread David Pashley
On Dec 19, 2006 at 15:48, Alan Pope praised the llamas by saying: > > ..and apt-mirror. > Does that have any improvements over debmirror? -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] value of /var/cache/apt/archives ?

2006-12-19 Thread David Pashley
- I guess that if they have apps installed which I > do not have, the relevant updates will not be found on my machine (?) > If so this is a minor issue for me. > > Am I on the right lines here? -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] APT problem

2006-12-17 Thread David Pashley
the status file again to show it installed. > > Is there any easy soilution to this? > > I am using Edubuntu 6.06. > > -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ADSL problem

2006-12-16 Thread David Pashley
On Dec 16, 2006 at 16:07, Dave Briggs praised the llamas by saying: > On 16/12/06, David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Run "ip link" > > OK: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ip link > 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue > link/loopback 00:00:00:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ADSL problem

2006-12-16 Thread David Pashley
2006ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.274/0.308/0.364/0.039 ms If you get lines like this, then you have working IP networking. I'll let you work thought this email before we move onto dealing with routing and DNS. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UUID nonsense and my disks

2006-12-16 Thread David Pashley
On Dec 16, 2006 at 15:00, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2006 at 14:35, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying: > > No I didn't. Llamas don't get praised by me - ever - hairy brutes. > > Is there a docu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UUID nonsense and my disks

2006-12-16 Thread David Pashley
66-b081-aac45a8d6cf1 -> ../../hda5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 e96e5965-ac00-4f4d-8213-a48aec958c66 -> ../../hda4 -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Essex based LUG's

2006-11-28 Thread David Pashley
g to be in a pub at a certain time and date and let the natural draw of geeks and alcohol do the rest. Every LUG meet I've been to has had some alcohol involved at some point. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!

2006-11-23 Thread David Pashley
opy your letter, if > that's ok! > > M I really recommend that you don't send the same letter. If they get several identical letter, they are more likely to dismiss it,than if they recieved several different letters. Yes, it'll take you more effort, but it will be worth i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting cold call to (sussex) re linux

2006-11-23 Thread David Pashley
sinesses using it in the city. I believe there is also a KDE developer in Lewes. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/