Lug Finder
by Dick Turpin
Hi All
Last week (or something) I mentioned I wanted to stick a Lug Finder on
my Website one of the guys I know from Wolves-Lug and LugRadio fame Aq
(AKA Stuart Langridge) slapped something together in 30 minutes for
me.
It needs tidying up for my requirements and I need to get the rest of
the Longitude and Latitude details as only one or two have them so
that it could be tested.
Can anyone give me some guidance on how I go about getting the
long/lat info? I had a look on google earth which gives some but the
numbers don't look long enough compared to the ones Stewart has
inputted.
You can have a look at: http://www.centrosales.co.uk/lugfinder/ this
is just temporary until I get it right then I'll stick it on my
personal site.
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Dick Turpin
"At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"
17 years, 11 months
OT:Road humps
by Kevanf1
Please accept my apologies for this being OT but being as we all no
doubt have to travel over these blasted road humps to attend LUG
meetings there is a link... ok, it's tenuous.
I don't know how you guys and girls feel about road humps here in the
UK? If you are against them, as I am very strongly, then you might
like to consider signing this petition:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Nohumps/
Personally I hate the damn things. I feel that they are no more than
inverted potholes and do far more damage than they do good - anybody
who has watched the boy racers speed up to go over them will know what
I mean. They are also very bad for the environment as it means
slowing the engine and then revving it again once they have been
traversed. Need I mention what bad news they are for motorcyclists...
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17 years, 11 months
Just a little test...
by Kevanf1
I'm just trying a little test. Dick hasn't received his post from
yesterday about Linspire being based on Ubuntu in the future... I'll
see if he gets this one.
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17 years, 11 months
Theres more to this than meets the eye
by Dick Turpin
Hi All
This just dropped in my news feed from slashdot
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue31
Linspire have announced that they will be making a switch to base
their distribution off Ubuntu, sounds minor doesn't it?
Being the cynical so and so I am lets just take a moment to think this
through, Linspire is already a 'Pay For' release and we all know that
Canonical needs to make some money I wonder if this is a precursor to
some sort of buyout?
You heard it here first ;-)
--
Dick Turpin
"At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"
17 years, 11 months
HELP WITH LINUX
by simon law
Having just taken windows xp off my PC, and installed ubuntu witch works great. But i do have a problem. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT. I cannot install things like web-cam, Internet TV for football, etc is there a Linux o/s more like windows to get me started as i do not want to go back to windows but may have to please help
simon law
PLEASE REPLY TO
simonjohnlaw(a)yahoo.co.uk
sijohnlaw(a)talktalk.net
THANK YOU
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1. Re: DNS problem [was Re: Unanswerable Question] (Carl Struyk)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:00:56 +0000
From: "Carl Struyk" <carl(a)struyk.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] DNS problem [was Re: Unanswerable Question]
To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk
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Hi Richard - I'll try those things in a minute as I've stopped using
Ubuntu 6.10 and have put a Knoppix 5.1.1 Live DVD in and it works!!
Well this has now got me stumped as I was sure it was the router. The
odd thing is if i go into network card configuration and specify DHCP
- it sort of screws things up. GAIM won't connect, Conquerer will
actually still work whereas Iceweasel wont!
I have checked the /etc/resolv.conf and it does indeed give me the ip
of the router. I will boot into Ubuntu again and stay on that to try
your commands now that I can see another distro works...
many thanks!
On 3/8/07, Richard Smedley <smedley358(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Carl,
>
> > If I look in etc/init.d/networking it shows me just some scripting for
> > enabling/disabling the interface - no settings for DHCP/DNS etc. in
> > there. I don't have a file named net.eth0 or eth1.
>
> What distro are you using?
>
> Although Ubuntu and similar expose DNS info through GNOME's
> ``networking'' GUI in the admin menu, to see where your PC
> is looking for DNS, type:
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> which should return your router address.
> If it returns nothing, add in a DNS server here
> (e.g. 208.67.222.222) with
> echo "208.67.222.222" >> /etc/resolv.conf
> Be warned that Ubuntu will not retain this.
>
> Do you get this problem with Konqueror as well as
> Firefox/Iceweasel?
>
> WGET? What about wget -4 ?
>
> > If I go into the
> > settings for the card (in the GUI) I can see that it has picked up the
> > IP and broadcast address. If I manually input the IP, SM and gateway
> > - it still doesn't work. net-setup (command not found). dhcpd
> > (command not found).
>
> sudo dhclient
>
> - Richard
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:14:52 +0000
From: "Andrew Edwards" <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] DNS problem [was Re: Unanswerable Question]
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thanks for taking that one richard, i think it shows that i just
booted my freebsd box for the first time in about 6 or more months!
LOL scary thing is, it's probably been longer since i used linux
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:45:54 +0000
From: Richard Smedley <smedley358(a)btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] DNS problem [was Re: Unanswerable Question]
To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk
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> Hi Richard - I'll try those things in a minute as I've stopped using
> Ubuntu 6.10 and have put a Knoppix 5.1.1 Live DVD in and it works!!
> Well this has now got me stumped as I was sure it was the router. The
> odd thing is if i go into network card configuration and specify DHCP
> - it sort of screws things up. GAIM won't connect, Conquerer will
> actually still work whereas Iceweasel wont!
Okay, I think I was on the right track - hence the suggestion on
Ubuntu to try wget, then wget -4
iow I suspect that the problem lies with your router's attitude
to IPv6 :-/
Recent Ubuntu releases default to IPv6 (which is a good thing),
however your router may be one of the few that won't (save,
perhaps, with a firmware upgrade) play nicely with IPv6.
Try typing sudo apt-get update
I bet it tells you it's waiting for [0,0,0,0] instead of
194.169.254.10, or whatever it should be.
Firefox will default to IPv6 on Ubuntu and so will apt and
wget - unless you use the -4 switch.
Konqueror doesn't.
If you actually install Ubuntu, instead of running it live,
and can't alter your router, let us know on the list and
I'll tell you how to remove IPv6 from Ubuntu & Firefox.
"Andrew Edwards" wrote:
> thanks for taking that one richard, i think it shows that i just
> booted my freebsd box for the first time in about 6 or more months!
> LOL scary thing is, it's probably been longer since i used linux
That sounds like a less-than-ideal situation :-/
Cheers,
- Richard
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:34:27 +0000
From: Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Logo...
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Kris, that is excellent :-) May I enquire where you got the
Staffordshire knot design? Is it legal to use? I need a
Staffordshire Knot logo myself but can't find a legal to use one....
:-(
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:41:04 +0000
From: "Kris Douglas" <webbox.uk(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Logo...
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I'll send ya the vector
On 09/03/07, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kris, that is excellent :-) May I enquire where you got the
> Staffordshire knot design? Is it legal to use? I need a
> Staffordshire Knot logo myself but can't find a legal to use one....
> :-(
>
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> For a group near to you look here:
> Worldwide
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17 years, 11 months
Logo...
by Kris Douglas
I have been thinking about doing an E107 design for you guys...i just wanted
to see what you think of this logo, feel free to criticise...was a 2min job
:)
Regards,
Kris Douglas - Softdel Limited
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Mail: kris(a)softdel.net
17 years, 11 months
Re: [Staffslug] Unanswerable Question
by Carl Struyk
Thanks for the quick response Andrew - here is a little more info:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:85:5E:EC:CE
inet addr:192.168.1.15 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:85ff:fe5e:ecce/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1008
RX bytes:1041362 (1016.9 KiB) TX bytes 53020 (51.7 KiB)
If I look in etc/init.d/networking it shows me just some scripting for
enabling/disabling the interface - no settings for DHCP/DNS etc. in
there. I don't have a file named net.eth0 or eth1. If I go into the
settings for the card (in the GUI) I can see that it has picked up the
IP and broadcast address. If I manually input the IP, SM and gateway
- it still doesn't work. net-setup (command not found). dhcpd
(command not found). If i try route add.. I get a comment saying
SIOCADDRT: Operation not permitted.
I loaded up Fedora Core 6 Live to discover no ifconfig command!
17 years, 11 months
Linux firewalls
by Alistair Scott
Hello folks
I'm relatively new to Linux. I switched from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu on
my home PC about a month ago. I'm not getting on too bad with it so far.
I'm trying to move it into our office more as well. We are soon to have
a leased line installed to replace our ADSL and I was thinking it would
be an ideal opportunity to install a Linux based firewall.
I've downloaded and installed Endian Community edition. I can connect to
the internet through it, although I haven't setup any of the
firewall/filtering features yet.
Has anyone any experience of setting up Endian? any tips? should I be
looking at something else?
Cheers
Al
17 years, 11 months
