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Now look out!
by Anthony Anson 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Lenny now ensconced on the Acer Wide-screen flaptop, so it is likely that a superplethora of questions will cascade into the list innit. Most impressed by the relative loading and shut-down speeds as compared with the P it came with. Until everything is working sensibly, Mr. Grub gives me the chance to regress into a comfort-zone - like ATM, when the dongle won't connect... -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Using a Blackberry as a modem
by Paul Grenyer 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi All Does any one have thier Blackberry working as a modem with Ubuntu 9.10. I've found plent of stuff on google, but nothing works. Help! -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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OS Map Data ???
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi Folks, Has any one tried to actually download any of the OS Map Data, supposedly just released on "OpenData" access? As detailed, for instance, by the Guardian today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/02/ ordnance-survey-open-data [equivalent: http://tinyurl.com/yf9dr5y ] I've tried three times today. When you choose a map to download, you fill in a form including your email address. When it is complete, you are told that they will email you the links for download. If you don't get an email within two hour, you are invited to try again. I went through the process for two maps about 4 hours ago, and have heard nothing. I have recently repeated it for one of them (the "Land-Form PANORAMA (vector)" map -- see the Guardian article), and still have heard nothing. Anyone want to compare notes? Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 03-Apr-10 Time: 14:25:14 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Digital Ignorance Bill
by Richard Lewis 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

http://i.imgur.com/1pXlO.jpg Doesn't bode well for digital Britain :-/ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+

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Ubuntu Wireless
by Paul Grenyer 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hi All I'm after some wireless card advice. I have the latest Ubuntu installed on my wife's old: HP Pavilion Pentium 4 and I'm using it as a build box. I need to go wireless. The machine has a couple of PCI slots free. What would people recommend in terms of a wireless card? How would I then go about setting it up? I also have an old USB Belkin F5D6050 wireless adapter. I think it's only 16 bit. Could I use that? I have no idea where to start to set it up.... -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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Static HTML templating
by Mark Rogers 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

I'm (fairly) sure someone here was talking about a templating system for generating static HTML (ie you write the templates, run a script, and get a set of HTML that you upload to the website). I can't find it by searching my ALUG archive for phrases like static, HTML or template, though. Does anyone recall what it was? If not (or regardless), does anyone have any recommendations? I'm building a website for someone who will need to maintain the static HTML themselves when finished. Since all the pages have common elements it's a pain not templating it for my own benefit, however. I could just work in PHP/Smarty as I normally would, then "wget --mirror" the site to generate the static HTML, but if there are better solutions I'm always happy to learn something new! -- 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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Slow network performance with lots of connections
by Mark Rogers 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

When my Linux box has a lot of connections (eg when downloading an ISO via BitTorrent), the network connectivity gets very slow for other things. Now this could be because the total bandwidth usage is high, but I'm seeing this even when the total bandwidth on my cable connection is say 50kbps down, 10kbps up. As this is cable, I may be hitting Virgin bandwidth limits (I'm not sure how to tell), and this may sometimes be the case because if I test with another PC on my home network I sometimes find it is also slow. Other times the other PC is fine. In any case, killing the torrent download usually (not always) speeds everything up. So, there seem to me to be several possible issues (any/all of which may be applying at different times), but I don't know how to diagnose it. For example, it may be the total number of connections at the router (a cheap Netgear wireless cable router supplied by Virgin), or maybe even at the virgin cable modem box? I try rebooting any of these and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I am very aware that I'm just trying random things and not really getting anywhere! -- 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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Re: [ALUG] Increasing Tomcat Memory
by Paul Grenyer 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM, James Elsey <james.elsey(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> From this forum post[1] you should just be able to modify the catalina >> startup script, >> >> Gotta go out so I don't have time to try it myself, but good luck! >> >> [1] >> http://www.coderanch.com/t/421341/Tomcat/change-JVM-setting-Xms-Xmx#1858331 > > I've managed to increase the memory by adding: > > export CATALINA_OPTS="-XmX2048 -Xms2048" > > to /etc/init.d/tomcat. However, it hasn't fixed my deployment problem: > > > deploy-webapp: > > BUILD FAILED > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786) > at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94) > at sun.net.www.http.PosterOutputStream.write(PosterOutputStream.java:61) > at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(BufferedOutputStream.java:105) > at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.java:215) > at org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask.execute(DeployTask.java:201) > at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) > at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) > at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257) > at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104) > > And now I look at the stack trace a bit closer, I wonder if it's Ant > that's running out of space. It was Ant by the look of things. In the end I added: ANT_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Xms1024m" export ANT_OPTS to /usr/share/ant/bin/ant and it appears to have fixed the problem. -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com

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Re: [ALUG] 2 part question!
by Paul Grenyer 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi I can't access the link properly on my Blackberry. As it's Qt is it C++? Paul ------Original Message------ From: Chris Walker Sender: main-bounces(a)lists.alug.org.uk To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk ReplyTo: cdw_alug(a)the-walker-household.co.uk Subject: [ALUG] 2 part question! Sent: 6 Apr 2010 16:23 I am going to have a go at writing an application for my Nokia N900 phone based on this - http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/f28e1110-5ef3-4e24-8ff0-29a… What I would also like to do is have a similar database on my desktop machine - it runs Mandriva 2010 64 bit so that I can update one and 'sync' it with the other one. Can somebody point me in the direction of some suitable SQL Lite code please? I've looked and I'm even more confused than I was when I started. TIA. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________| _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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2 part question!
by Chris Walker 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

I am going to have a go at writing an application for my Nokia N900 phone based on this - http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/f28e1110-5ef3-4e24-8ff0-29a… What I would also like to do is have a similar database on my desktop machine - it runs Mandriva 2010 64 bit so that I can update one and 'sync' it with the other one. Can somebody point me in the direction of some suitable SQL Lite code please? I've looked and I'm even more confused than I was when I started. TIA. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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