August 2010 - main

Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition
by Simon Royal 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi IF you need a free non-destructive partition tool, check out Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition. http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm I have used it a number of time to resize Windows before installing Linux. I also just used it to remove Linux and resize Windows larger. Brilliant. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 240X running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP Home - Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4.

1 0

Moving from Xubuntu 9.10 to 10.04, sharpness seems to be worse
by Chris G 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I have just upgraded my system from Xubuntu 9.10 to Xubuntu 10.04, it seems to me that the sharpness seems to have subtly deteriorated. I have checked some of the obvious things (like the screen resolution hasn't been changed). It was most immediately noticeable in my terminal windows but, on looking carefully, I think the effect is general, it's just that I use smaller font sizes in my terminals than elsewhere. Has anyone any ideas what I should maybe be checking to see what might have caused this? It could of course be that I'm getting older and my eyesight is failing! :-) -- Chris Green

2 2

How do you set X resources for a remote client application?
by Chris G 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

I'm running a GUI editor (xvile) on a 'remote' (i.e. not my desktop) machine and I need to be able to set its X resources. For xvile run on the local machine it's easy, I just put them in .Xresources and when X starts up it automatically loads any resources it finds in .Xresources (and/or .Xdefaults). So how do I do the equivalent when xvile is running on a remote client? Do I have to install xrdb on the remote client and run it before running xvile? It somehow seems wrong as its the display machine (X server) which actually needs to set the resources, can't I somehow tell the local (server) machine to set resources for a remote client app.? -- Chris Green

1 0

PHP tools
by Peter Alcibiades 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

A friend asked me what he should use to write PHP in. Never having done any of this stuff, I had no idea, except that maybe Geany or Kate would work. What do you guys use? Also, he is setting up Linux for the first time. I recommended Mandriva to him, as being more familiar than some of the alternatives. But if he wants to run his PHP, once he has written it, what does he need to install? I am guessing that Apache would work, but is there something simpler and lighter for him to get started on? Peter

8 7

Free ADSL filters?
by James Bensley 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Anyone want an ADSL microfilter? I seem to have a draw with 7 bog standard BT ADSL filters in it? Free to anyone thats wants one/them? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...?

1 0

Can one get a proper root environment with sudo?
by Chris G 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

I tend to use 'sudo -s' when I want to do a series of things as root, it generally works fine but I have just noticed a minor issue. It doesn't set a proper root environment so that you still have the environment of the user who sudo'ed to root - in particular there is the PATH which may have all sorts of oddities on it and HOME is still set to your home directory. -- Chris Green

8 15

Odd cookie behaviour of particular www site
by Dan 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Dear All, I've been trying to visit the website <http://www.cosis.net/> with Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo. Even though I have an exception set in my preferences, to allow cookies from cosis.net, the site complains bitterly that `Cookies are currently disabled in your browser', and therefore refuses to let me see any of its content. This is particularly odd because, by this time, cosis.net actually has successfully set a cookie. When I access the same site with Lynx, www.cosis.net sets a single cookie, and lets me in just fine. Any ideas, please? -- Thanks, Dan

4 4

was there a pub meet this month ?
by Ian Porter 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

has there been a pub meet this month ? would be cool to say hi :). did not see any emails about it. -- King regards Ian Porter www: www.codingfriends.com

7 9

Multiple gateways
by Mark Rogers 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

At work, we have two ADSL lines, one of which is faster than the other and tends to be used as the "main" route out of the office, but it has a dynamic IP address. The slower line has a static IP and has ports mapped for services I want to access remotely (eg SSH). However, with the default gateway being set to the IP of the router on the faster line (say 192.169.10.1), this means that connections through the second router (say 192.168.11.1) don't work. My PC obviously has addresses on both subnets, and out to be able to respond to a connection coming in on the 192.168.11.x address replying via a default gateway on that subnet, but as I understand it I only have one default gateway. So, how should I set this up? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

5 13

Linux on dead trees
by Mark Rogers 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I subscribe to most of the various Linux rags, and get varying degrees of knowledge out of them. I frequently read something interesting, get to work (where I could use it) and forget what the software was I discovered, and even which mag I discovered it in, and can't find it. Hopefully any avid dead tree readers can help me on two particular subjects: 1. In this month's issue of one of the mags, I started reading an article about remote access, where several options were compared, including NoMachine's NX (which I use), and something else (which got the best review) which I can't remember, but would like to play with. It was GTK based. 2. A couple of months ago, one of the mags reviewed an SSH tool (might have been a terminal tool) which would allow me to better manage multiple sessions, including running the same command across multiple sessions ("apt-get upgrade" etc), and various commands to make the windows easier to work with. It integrates with screen as well, as I recall. Anyone able to tell me what either of these packages were? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

1 1