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PHP question, any PHP gurus here?
by Chris G 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Well maybe not PHP gurus, just web/apache/php knowledge required. I want to pass a value from one web page to another, or to be exact from one piece of PHP (on web page A) to another piece of PHP (on web page B). Having said that I can sort of understand the problem, there's nothing necessarily tying the two pages together, they *could* be running on different hosts under different web servers for all the web servers know about it. So, I have a Wiki where page A has a link to page B and I want to be able to pass some data from page A to page B. They *are* displayed by the same web server (which is apache2) and they *are* on the same host. I can't use cookies because by the time I can execute some PHP code the headers are long gone. So how can page A 'send' a value to page 'B'? Am I reduced to the nasty (but perfectly possible) expedient of page A writing something to a file somewhere and page B reading it? -- Chris Green

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Kernel options for Intel 945GME graphics card?
by Dan 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Dear All, Can anyone suggest what kernel options are best for driving the board that appears in lspci as 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) please? (I think I've got the wrong ones, sice DPMS is flaky and I'm getting quite frequent kernel panics related to intelfb.) -- Regards Dan

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Rescuing SVN repository
by Richard Lewis 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi ALUG, I have a Subversion repository which is trapped on a server to which I no longer have (reliable, at least) shell access. (ATM, in fact, I don't even have access to the WebDAV interface as Apache is down.) I want to move this repository to a different server and would be happy to convert to a different SCM if possible (quite fond of darcs, keep meaning to learn more about git). I still have the most recent working copy checked out. Is it possible to use this working copy to start a new SVN repository, retaining all the history? Or can I only dump from the current *repository* (on the server) to make a new repository? Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+

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Re: [ALUG] Anglian Developer Network?
by Paul Grenyer 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

There's one. Anyone else? ------Original Message------ From: Ian Porter Sender: ianporter1976(a)gmail.com To: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com Cc: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Anglian Developer Network? Sent: 2 Jun 2010 20:00 Hi Paul, On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Paul Grenyer <paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker. > > I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc). > > So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with. > > What do you think? How many here are developers? > > Thanks > Paul > I am a software developer and interested in the above. Regards Ian

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Printing to remote CUPS server?
by Srdjan Todorovic 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi all, Been having problems figuring out how to print to a remote CUPS server. Followed a couple of "tutorials" [1] and spoke to people in #cups but nothing seems to help. Environment: - Fedora Core 6 machine "A" (CUPS server, CUPS 1.4.x) - Fedora Core 6 machine "B" (CUPS client, CUPS 1.2.x) - USB printer ASCII Art: [B]--------[A]-----[Printer] Goal: Enable machine B to print to the Printer, using the CUPS server on A. Guides tell me to run lpstat -t on both A and B to verify that the printers are detected. lpstat -t on A: scheduler is running system default destination: Brother_QL-1050 device for Brother_QL-1050: usb://Brother/QL-1050 Brother_QL-1050 accepting requests since Wed 09 Dec 2009 04:50:22 PM GMT printer Brother_QL-1050 is idle. enabled since Wed 09 Dec 2009 04:50:22 PM GMT lpstat: No printer-uri in request! lpstat -t on B: scheduler is running no system default destination lpstat: No printer-uri in request! Looking at the logs (with debug2 enabled) on machine A, it seems that it never returns sensible values in return to a CUPS-Get-Printers command when requested by machine B. The logs are very long, so I paste-binned them at: http://pastebin.com/Han6qXkv Server (host A) config after web interface was used: http://pastebin.com/g9aqUr4b Client (host B) has lines ServerName and BrowsePoll with the appropriate host names for the server A, and host B can resolve and ping it. When lptstat is run on machine A, the correct output seems to be: D [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 11 1.1 CUPS-Get-Printers 1 d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdProcessIPPRequest(0x80b4b1c0[11]): operation_id = 4002 D [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] CUPS-Get-Printers d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] get_printers(0x80b4b1c0[11], 0) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdFindPolicyOp(p=0x80aed258, op=4002(CUPS-Get-Printers)) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdFindPolicyOp: Found wildcard match... d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdIsAuthorized: con->uri="/", con->best=0x80b35648((null)) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdIsAuthorized: level=CUPSD_AUTH_ANON, type=None, satisfy=CUPSD_AUTH_SATISFY_ALL, num_names=0 d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdIsAuthorized: op=0(unknown-0000) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] cupsdIsAuthorized: auth=CUPSD_AUTH_ALLOW... d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] add_printer_state_reasons(0x80b4b1c0[11], 0x80aed3c8[Brother_QL-1050]) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attrs(to=0x80b2dc90, from=0x80b36208, ra=0x80b2e390, group=0, quickcopy=0) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attribute(0x80b2dc90, 0x80af28e0[printer-name,4,42]) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attribute(0x80b2dc90, 0x80aeeb70[printer-info,4,41]) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attribute(0x80b2dc90, 0x80afa838[job-sheets-default,4,42]) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attrs(to=0x80b2dc90, from=0x80aebe90, ra=0x80b2e390, group=0, quickcopy=0) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attribute(0x80b2dc90, 0x80b36040[printer-make-and-model,4,41]) d [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] copy_attrs(to=0x80b2dc90, from=0x80aebe08, ra=0x80b2e390, group=0, quickcopy=-2147483648) D [03/Jun/2010:08:48:00 +0100] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from localhost I have also used elinks and set the printer sharing option, and allow from Internet is enabled. Is anyone able to offer any hints please? Thanks very kindly, Srdjan [1] - http://www.tjansson.dk/?p=54 - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y9-bp2ok5uUJ:avasys.jp… - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=93328

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Is there a Linux file like Windows' Startup?
by Anthony Anson 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I want to have a text file appear on firing-up any of the boxen - two running Debian and the other, Xandros. Not sure where to search in / so I'm saving time - with any luck. The idea is to (first, remember to) make a note of future appointments, jaunts, meetings, reminders to do things, etc., so I can ignor^h^h^attend to them and erase jobs done, etc.. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Anglian Developer Network?
by Paul Grenyer 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi All I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker. I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc). So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with. What do you think? How many here are developers? Thanks Paul

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Why are lookups so slow?
by Chris Walker 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

My machine is a dual-boot i7 machine running on one side Windows 7 and here, Mandriva 2010 (64 bit). I've complained to my phone provider in the past about things slowing down after a period of a few hours so they changed the router. I now have a Huawei HG520b instead of the D-Link I had previously. I'd done a factory reset on that before swapping it out but then the new router arrived so I stuffed that in its place without testing the reset. With the Huawei, Windows will do lookups fine but Mandriva takes ages for everything, web searches, mail and so on. Sending this message sat there for ages doing a lookup for the smtp address before I cancelled it to add this. I *think* I've got both sides, Windows 7 and Mandriva, setup the same with DHCP for both IP address and DNS servers but is there anything I can try before I rip the Huawei out and put back the D-Link? TIA. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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Re: [ALUG] PowerPC Linux
by Simon Royal 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi Also, the burning problem with unsupported drives was generally only with iApps and Finder. Third party apps like Toast never had a problem. Simon -- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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Re: [ALUG] PowerPC Linux
by Simon Royal 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi You dont need a specific firmware or drive to burn in OSX. You used to in early versions of OSX, but havent come across it is Tiger and upwards. You also used to have troubles booting from a non-Apple drive but even that is pretty obsolete these days. Simon -- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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