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Using a Pi as a print server
by Chris Walker 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Is there a dedicated Pi mailing list where I should ask this question or will this be ok here? In view of my failing to set up my printer as a device off my router, I'm now thinking that I can use the same USB socket on the router to power a Pi which can then act as a print server for my printer. If I were to use a pre-configured distro like Raspbian, it would have all the desktop stuff installed and I don't want that. So is there an easy way to do a minimal install on a Pi? I would experiment on my own Pi but I've lent it to somebody to use in their own OS experiments so apologies for having to ask this question.

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beep beep
by nev young 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

I find it hard to believe that such a simple thing is eluding me. I just have to be looking in the wrong place. I want to make the speakers on my PC go beep or beeeep. Currently writing a project in C but I'm pretty flexible on source language. Running ubuntu 12.04. Any pointers, even those that make me go "Doh"! greatly appreciated. Nev

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Software Freedom Day event?
by MJ Ray 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Do ALUGgers want to run a Software Freedom Day event? Nick of Rugby LUG wrote to lugmasters: Registration for free event swag is open until the end of July, with the event now only two months away. The SFD wiki [2] currently lists only 3 UK events being planned - in Manchester, Hereford and Rugby - with an additional IoMLUG event shown on the SFD map [3]. Will there be any more this year? [1] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ [2] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/UK [3] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2013 Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Wiki users list despamming
by Jonathan McDowell 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

I have taken a chainsaw to the wiki users list; while we had antispam protection preventing new users from creating pages it wasn't stopping them creating pages and we were up to over 80,000 accounts. I started trying to sensibly weed these out, but it's hard to distinguish. So I resorted back to cruder methods, making sure all the accounts listed on: http://www.alug.org.uk/MembersGroup existed and trying to find a handful of users I knew should be there but weren't. We're now down to 14 users. If I have inadvertently culled your account let me know and I can bring it back from the dead (and ensure it gets added to the MembersGroup page). J. -- /-\ | Ok ramblers, let's get rambling. |@/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | \- |

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Button mapping on a mouse
by Chris Walker 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

For health reasons I use an Evoluent Mouse type 3 on my machine. For years I've not been able to use it fully as I have lacked the skills necessary to remap the buttons. But bouyed up by the success of making the latest install work, I thought I'd give it another go. I found this site - http://quandtum.weebly.com/2/post/2012/03/how-to-change-mouse-button-functi… and this one - http://denishaine.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/evoluent-mouse-with-ubuntu-11-04… but neither tell me how to configure a double-click. I've looked how I map the buttons in Windows but that uses an XML file which seems to bear little resemblance to the mapping used in linux. I have already tried to map the buttons to other functions but that hasn't worked so I need to do some more work on that and although I might be able to resolve those issues, there's one I can't. That one thing is a double click. In Windows I have button 2 (3 in linux!) configured to act as a double click but I can't seem to do that here. This page refers to some software - btnx - that isn't available on this distro - http://www.ghacks.net/2011/06/28/how-to-customize-extra-mouse-buttons-in-li… so I'm a bit stuck. Does anyone here know of a way to simulate a double click using the inbuilt software of the system? If it helps, I already have a file 90-evoluent.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and the contents of that look like this Section "InputClass" Identifier "Evoluent" MatchUSBID "1a7c:0068" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 2 5 6 7 2 9 10 11 12 13" EndSection But as I said, even that doesn't work. I'm not getting a right click for button 8. Any help appreciated as always.

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Short term Linux sysadmin cover needed based in Little Bealings, nr Ipswich - not an agency :)
by Ruth Cheesley 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi folks, I've posted this on Facebook and in the IRC chat room, sorry this is my first introduction to you all, I had hoped to get to a meet before posting! My Linux sysadmin has dropped a bit of a bombshell in that he has a new job starting on 5th August - and I am away from Friday through to the 9th August which can't be cancelled. I need somebody who is able to come in and do a handover this week, to cover for at first two weeks. Clearly you must be an experienced sysadmin and capable of picking things up quickly. I will also need references and whatnot due to the nature of the job. Just to be clear I run this business, I'm not an agency, and it is a real job! We are a web design & open source business run along ethical lines (I'm Buddhist and run the business along those lines) - www.viryatechnologies.comwith offices at Mallard House Business Centre in Little Bealings. Our main line of work server-wise is web servers, mostly running CentOS. We have several servers ourselves both dedi's and VPS's, and we look after servers for clients. We also run Kubuntu throughout the office on all our machines. We also have an emergency support service which is by the nature unpredictable, often involving compromised servers which we have to analyse, investigate and fix. We also do ad-hoc work such as applying updates etc for clients who don't have an ongoing support contract with us but need the work doing on an ad-hoc basis. The work would mainly be general day to day maintenance, backup checking (we push to AWS & Glacier), etc and dealing with any support tickets that might come up. Also may involve installing software, configuration etc. If you can code we can also provide some coding work if you are interested, mostly PHP based (we specialise in Joomla! and have several extensions we sell which need work, and a few in the sidelines which need migrating to 3.x). Salary is negotiable and there is very definitely the opportunity for ongoing work for the right person, but right now I am looking for someone to step in and help us in a difficult spot - if you are interested please email me asap, ideally I would like to be meeting you in the next couple of days. Thanks in advance, and sorry again that my first post is a 'please can you help me out' post! Ruth Cheesley -- Be like me, be Carbon free - don't print this and save a tree IMPORTANT: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies thereof.

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Planet...
by Brett Parker 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Just to make everyone aware, due to planet planet no longer being maintained, I've actually moved the alug planet to using venus (for now), though I'm happy to take suggestions for other feed aggregators to use, I am considering using feedjack, if only because I'm more comfortable with using django than the current static generation system. Also, we should probably look at actually making a theme for moinmoin (which runs the main website: http://www.alug.org.uk/ and also something for the planet...) Just incase anyone else is looking for the rss/atom feeds of the planet, they are (as they have been for a while): rss 1.0: http://planet.alug.org.uk/rss10.xml rss 2.0: http://planet.alug.org.uk/rss20.xml atom : http://planet.alug.org.uk/atom.xml Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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Job Opportunity
by Alan Greer 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

My name is Alan Greer, I'm a director of a company Observatory Sciences Ltd (http://www.observatorysciences.co.uk) We have a job opportunity that I would like to share: Job Opportunity: Graduate Software Engineer Graduate Software Engineer. Salary £22-25K. Observatory Sciences is a UK-based company specialising in developing software for telescopes and instruments used in astronomy, high-energy physics and other "big science" projects. Our client base is global, and includes some of the world's largest telescopes and synchrotron facilities. Due to continuing expansion we seek a software engineer to work with our existing team of specialists to design and implement software for control and data acquisition applications used by astronomical observatories and accelerator facilities. The job mayinvolve international travel to clients' facilities, including Europe, USA and Hawaii. Observatory Sciences currently has offices in Cambridge and Brighton. This post may requiremoving to Oxford at a laterdate. Applicants should have a scientific or engineering degree. You must be self-motivated, analytical and inventive: you should also be excited to be working at the cutting edge of scientific discovery. Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, are essential. You should have experienceor training in developing scientific or technical applications in a UNIX/Linux environment with C, Java or C++ programming. A background in physics/astronomy, experience of control or real-time software, motion/servo control or LabVIEW would be advantageous. Salary will be in the range £22-25K p.a, commensurate with experience and qualifications; specific on the job training will be provided as necessary. This is a rare opportunity to use your scientific and software skills with a talented team of scientists and software engineers in a unique and expanding company. Closing date for applications: 7thAugust 2013 To apply, please send your CV including contact details for two referees, viaemail to jobs(a)observatorysciences.co.uk or post to Dr C.J. Mayer, Observatory Sciences Ltd., William James House, Cowley Road, Cambridge. CB4 0WX.

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"Attempt to access beyond end of device" after dd
by Mark Rogers 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

I have a failed SanDisk Extreme III (30 MB/s 4GB) card. I successfully recovered everything that mattered a couple of weeks ago using ddrescue: $sudo ddrescue -f -n /dev/sdd ./from-site-`date +%F`.dd logfile The resulting image is 4110188544 bytes in size. Today used dd to put the recovered image onto a new Sandisk Extreme 40MB/s 4GB card: $ sudo dd bs=1M if=from-site-2013-06-25.dd of=/dev/sdd dd: writing ‘/dev/sdd’: No space left on device 3816+0 records in 3815+0 records out 4000317440 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1313.42 s, 3.0 MB/s When I boot from the new card, I get "Attempt to access beyond the end of device" in /var/log/messages, although these attempts only come from access to /dev/sda5 which is the swap partition. So, what do I do? As far as I can tell all I need to do is fix the partition table and reduce the size of the swap partition. I did try firing up fdisk and deleting and recreating the partition but it just created it the same size, presumably because fdisk believes the disk is the wrong size. How do I fix that? Possible solutions while booted into the box preferred but if I need to take the card out and transfer to another PC via USB card reader I can do that. Mark Rogers -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Mulberry Tree
by samwise 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back today, 15th July, at 20:00: The Mulberry Tree 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 225776 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA WWW: https://www.facebook.com/MULBERRYHOSPITALITY The Mulberry Tree, previously known as The Milestone Beer House, is a grade 2 listed building in the centre of Ipswich. It is located at the intersection between Woodbridge Road and the A1156, across the road from the old Odeon cinema and not far from the Regent Theatre. It re-opened on Thursday March 29th 2012 after a major refurbishment, under its original name of The Mulberry House and has already begun to regain a good reputation for its selection of beers and ales. It has a sizeable car park to the rear of the building. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Cheers, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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