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Any experience of USB to ethernet converters with Linux?
by Chris G 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Has anyone here used a USB to Ethernet converter with Linux? I want to add a second ethernet interface to an Acer Aspire Revo and the most obvious way to do it is to use a USB to ethernet thingy. Will it 'just work' or are there issues? A quick Google search suggests that I should have no problems but it would be good to have specific recommendations if anyone has any. -- Chris Green

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BBC iplayer desktop
by Bev Nicolson 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Because the BBC programmes play back so badly if I watch them online I thought I'd try installing the desktop version of iplayer. However, towards the end of the process a message comes up saying 'Enter password for default keyring to unlock.' I had thought this would go away eventually but it hasn't. Googling tells me that this is used for wireless connection but of course all I wish to do is download a programme and I'm not able to. What do I do? Thanks. Bev.

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Re: [ALUG] And now for something completely different - an iPlayer problem
by Barry Samuels 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

On 23/10/09 14:24:57, Dennis Dryden wrote: > > Can you access it from the same machine under a different account? > Might be a plugin or something. > > Dennis Dennis set me on the right track. I logged in as a different user and iPlayer worked so then I logged in as my usual user and set up a new iceweasel profile and iPlayer still worked. So far I was accessing bbc.co.uk by typing the URL then I imported my bookmark list and selected my bookmarked URL and I got that error message again. I realised at this point that the bookmarked URL was bbc.net.uk not bbc.co.uk and changing 'net' to 'co' cured the problem. I don't know how I got onto bbc.net.uk in the first place but that's the one I bookmarked by chance and that was the cause of the problem. A bit of a weird one that. Thanks to Dennis for the initial clue and to the others who tried to help. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Re: [ALUG] And now for something completely different - an iPlayer problem
by Barry Samuels 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

On 23/10/09 14:24:57, Dennis Dryden wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Barry Samuels > <bjsamuels(a)beenthere-donethat.org.uk> wrote: > > I'm having a BBC iPlayer problem. If I try to access content, using > > Iceweasel, I get a message "This content doesn't seem to be working" > > but my wife can access the same content from her computer connected > > to the same router. We are running the same versions of Debian and > > Iceweasel. > > > > I do have Flash enabled and I can access the ITV and Channel Four > > equivalents with problems. > > > > Any ideas? > > Can you access it from the same machine under a different account? > Might be a plugin or something. > > Dennis That's something I hadn't thought of. Tried that and got a little further to a picture with a 'Play' icon in the centre and a play button on the windows status bar but clicking either does nothing. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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blacklisting in Spamassassin
by Jenny Hopkins 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hullo, I'm finding mail headers a tad confusing. If the header of a mail is as below, what is the actual address that needs to be entered in a blacklist file in SpamAssassin? Or for the local user to enter into an evolution blacklist file on their local machine? info(a)courier.org smtpgw.nic.in ciyang22(a)yahoo.co.uk vastu3.nic.in wb.nic.in ? Many thanks, Jenny Return-Path: <info(a)courier.org> Envelope-To: user(a)dream.mydomain.co.uk Delivery-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:01:09 +0100 Received: from stoneboat.mydomain.co.uk ([80.68.88.63]) by dream.mydomain.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <info(a)courier.org>) id 1MzDaM-0005TE-SQ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:01:03 +0100 Received: from smtpgw.nic.in ([164.100.17.13] helo=vastu3.nic.in) by stoneboat.mydomain.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <info(a)courier.org>) id 1MzDZG-0007Kq-6R; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:59:55 +0100 Received: from vastu3.nic.in (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vastu3.nic.in (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n9HGohnY005375; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:20:50 +0530 Received: from wb.nic.in (wb.nic.in [164.100.199.2])by vastu3.nic.in (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n9HGnfAp005107;Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:19:42 +0530 Received: from wb.nic.in (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by wb.nic.in (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id n9HIAXt6014677;Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:33 +0530 Received: (from apache@localhost)by wb.nic.in (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id n9HI9PTm014656;Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:25 +0530 X-authentication-warning: wb.nic.in: apache set sender to info(a)courier.org using -f Received: from 118.98.215.130 (proxying for 62.56.132.24) (SquirrelMail authenticated user pao-coochbehar) by wb.nic.in with HTTP; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:25 +0530 (IST) Message-id: <44260.118.98.215.130.1255802965.squirrel(a)wb.nic.in> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:25 +0530 (IST) (19:09 BST) From: Mr. Tomo Sand Nori <info(a)courier.org> Reply-to: ciyang22(a)yahoo.co.uk

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Cron format to run something every ten minutes, but not on the hour?
by Chris G 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

I thought I had this sussed:- 3/10 * * * * news <command> to run <command> every ten minutes starting at three minutes past the hour but it doesn't. It just runs the command at three minutes past the hour and not again until three minutes past the next hour. (Note this is in a file in /etc/cron.d, hence the 'news' for the username to run the command.) I thought that the first time I set this up it worked every ten minutes, but looking at my logs it seems I was wrong, oh well. I have to admit re-reading the man page I can't see how I expected it to work the way I thought. So I can change it to:- */10 * * * * news <command> but that means (presumably) that the command will run on the hour which I'd really prefer to avoid. Is there no way to say run at x minutes past and every ten minutes thereafter? I suppose I could do:- 3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * * news <command> Is that the only/best way to do it? -- Chris Green

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leafnode, any users here?
by Chris G 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

I seem to remember that there are some leafnode users here, if so could I ask a couple of questions please. I've looked at the leafnode web site but it doesn't really have much documentation that gives general information. I'm sure it's fine for details of how to instal it and configure it but I want to be sure it does what I want before I actually try and use it. So:- Will leafnode happily collect news from more than one NNTP server? Will it allow what feels like on-line use? I.e. I don't want something specifically for dial up, I want it to provide me with 'new' news all the time, not just once a day. -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

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 tonight, Monday 19th October, at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich, not far from our old haunt - The Milestone. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Last month, we had a discussion about the old tutorials format. When we first started, we used to take turns showing off various programs and technologies to each other - which was a popular feature of the meets. Unfortunately, the number of volunteers began to drop off and it eventually fell on the shoulders of only one or two members to organise tutorials each month. This wasn't fair, so they dried up. However, we decided last month that if we dropped the tutorials to every other month then if we could get just three people to agree to be involved, that would mean they would only have to organise one twice per year. On that basis, we're going to trial bringing them back - I agreed to arrange the first one, this month. So tonight's tutorial is going to be on Android Application Development. I'll go through what the Android platform is, what technologies are behind it, how to get a development environment up and running and the creation of some simple applications. Remember to call or email me, if you're arriving later and want to ensure I don't wander off, which I have a tendency to do if the turn-out hits rock-bottom ... Hope to see you there, 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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playing guardian videos
by Peter Alcibiades 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hi, does anyone know how to do this? Play videos from the Guardian that is? I am doing open with from Konqueror. Mplayer seems not to be able to find the file. Totem wants a plug in text/html decoder, which I have not been able to find one. I seem not to be able to install vlc, this on Squeeze, because it requires vlc-nox, and that then requires a bunch of other stuff which I can't get. So apt-get says it has an unresolvable dependency problem. Seems odd, but there it is. But I don't see why totem should not work. Unless the Guardian is doing something odd? Peter

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slow wifi
by nev young 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Just wondered if anyone here had a quick answer to this. Under windows my wifi network runs at 56Mb/s. However, the same (laptop) hardware running ubuntu (9.04) can only manage 11Mb/s. Is there a way to get the full speed out of it? Nev

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