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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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how to do this? networking two interfaces?
by Peter Alcibiades 31 May '10

31 May '10

I have a case with two wired devices with network connections. Downstairs, we have a computer which is connected to an ADSL router via cable. Then, upstairs, there is going to be a networked printer. The problem is, running the network cable to connect this printer from upstairs into the router is not decoratively acceptable. Its an old house. So I have bought one of those little wireless usb adaptors, and we happen to have an old wireless cable router lying around. The idea would be, wire the printer into the wireless router upstairs, then talk to the wireless router over wireless from the usb adaptor in the computer downstairs. This would be two network connections from the same computer, one wired, the other wireless, with the wireless one going only to the printer, and the wired one going to the ADSL router for Internet access. This must be possible, you would think, but how do you set it up? I had intended to use homeplug, ethernet over mains, but the problem is that the two parts of this particular house are on different mains supplies with separate meters. Its an old house. Also, I can't move the ADSL router upstairs, because there are no phone sockets upstairs. They use cordless phones. So assuming its possible, the simplest would be wireless to the printer only. So this would be using eth0 for Internet access, and eth1 for printing only. Can you do this, and if so how? Peter

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PowerPC Linux
by Simon Royal 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi Does anyone have any experience with Linux on PowerPC Macs. Im a long term Mac user and have an iBook G3 which might not be the fastest machine in the world - a 500Mhz G3 with 640MB RAM, but compared to my ThinkPad which is a 300Mhz P2 with 296MB RAM it is a speed demon. I know officially Ubuntu stopped PPC ports in version 7, but community ports are still going strong. There is a PowerPC version of 10.04 although I havent tried it yet. I did try version 5 a while ago and it was pretty good. I also know there is no official support for Flash - although some claim to have it working and a lot of software that is for Ubuntu will only work with x86 devices and not PPC. PowerPC Linux is very thin on the ground, Ubuntu and Xubuntu seemingly the biggest two. Yellow Dog is another and there might be a Suse or Mandriva if I remember correctly. Is it worth pursuing? Is PPC Linux any good? Or should I ditch my iBook and my ThinkPad and get faster P2 or P3 machine. In the mean time I am going to try Ubuntu 10.04 for PowerPC on my iBook. Any help and advice would be appreciated. Simon Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Ubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Mint Linux
by Simon Royal 29 May '10

29 May '10

Hi I am quite liking Xubuntu at the mo, but I do have a habit of flitting from distro to distro. Ive been looking at Mint Linux and it looks great, a streamlined and polished Ubuntu. Is it just a fancy looking Ubuntu? Is it a cut down or lightweight version? Would it run better than Xubuntu? Simon --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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