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Transfering Live CD to hard disk
by Mark Rogers 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I have a bootable Linux (Debian-based) LiveCD, that I want to duplicate onto a hard disk so that it boots from that instead. The hard disk can (should) be mounted read-only, although a writeable swap partition might be useful. The LiveCD is a web kiosk (www.webconverger.com) The reason I want to transfer to hard disk is so that I can mount the disk read-write, make a few changes, then remount it read-only. As a read only disk it can be "reset" by restarting the PC, the whole point is that no user data gets stored. Any ideas how I'd do this? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Does this "cpu MHz" figure seem right?
by Chris G 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

On my system /proc/cpuinfo contains:- processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1632.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 4897.97 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1632.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 4895.38 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: Should I be seeing more than that 1632.000 value for cpu MHz or is the nominal 2.40GHz figure for Core 2 Duo 6600 just that a 'nominal' CPU speed? -- Chris Green

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EEE Pc competitor?
by Mark Rogers 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

http://www.elonexone.co.uk/ £99 Linux based laptop. No mention of specs yet, other than it is solid state disk, wireless, Linux, etc. Launches on 28th Feb at Education Show at NEC, heavily targeted towards educational use. (Imagine that, a whole generation of students who know that "word processor" doesn't have to mean "word"...) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Dedicated Server machine share, anybody?
by Martyn Drake 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hello, I'll probably be flamed for this, but it's rare that I advertise. I'm contemplating taking out a (cheapish) dedicated server for a couple of personal projects. The specification is: - AMD Opteron 1261 - 1Gb RAM (possibly 2Gb) - 250Gb SATA II HD - 1Tb bandwidth - CentOS 5 64-bit The server will be hosted with SoftLayer in their Dallas Datacentre. I'm looking to partition the server into several Xen virtual machines, and to recoup/off-set some of my rental costs I was wondering if anybody would be interested in taking out a machine for around a tenner a month with relatively generous specifications for the VM. Regards, Martyn

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For Sale...
by Richard Bensley 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

-External SCSI RAID array + PCIX controller card. Comes with 4x74GB drives, I used it in a RAID0 config, got about 240MB/s-300MB/s depending on capacity. As pictured here: http://teatimebing.shackspace.com/out/raid.jpg If anyone is interested I will release more specs. Looking to get £300 ono I guess the card would work in a Apple G4/G5 system with a PCIX port, would be great for a Final Cut suite! Those 10bit streams need some juice. -I have an SGI octane that I used with said RAID that I would be willing to part with. Dual 300MHz V6Pro 1x18GB system drive + backup (fresh IRIX install) IRIX CD's (no external CD drive) 2GB RAM - £150 21" SGI granite monitor. SGI keyboard and mouse. Or £400 for both of them together, delivery would be pricey for either/both items as they are heavy. Collections welcome. Cheers Rich

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Should Norfolk NHS go private?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

Hi Folks, This morning's Eastern Daily Press on-line: http://tinyurl.com/22odzx carries a story: Doctors warn on computers ELAINE MASLIN 21 February 2008 04:35 Health bosses have put thousands of patients' care at risk by failing to upgrade a defunct computer system, GPs claimed yesterday. Doctors at Reepham's GP practice say they have had to use obsolete computers, which stop them accessing patients' records, for months while waiting for a new system and upgrade. The article is silent about what the technical aspects of the necessary upgrade are; but further down it states: The computers were bought in 2003 by the surgery and work on a server more than six years old. That's very young by Linux standards! I wonder what the problem is ... ?? Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Feb-08 Time: 08:19:56 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Kernel messages
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi Folks, I've just had a string of messahes from/about the kernel (All at the same time, so I'm omitting the repeated "Message from sysloigd ... " lines): Message from syslogd@localhost at Sat Feb 23 14:48:19 2008 ... localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] localhost kernel: SMP localhost kernel: CPU: 0 localhost kernel: EIP is at 0x8978b66 localhost kernel: eax: 08ebf068 ebx: 08b91df8 ecx: 09eccc28 edx: 08ebf068 localhost kernel: esi: 0a20e3c8 edi: 09eccc28 ebp: bfc25f98 esp: bfc25f98 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 007b localhost kernel: Process firefox-bin (pid: 28766, ti=ce4ae000 task=c53f6000 task.ti=ce4ae000) localhost kernel: EIP: [<08978b66>] 0x8978b66 SS:ESP 007b:bfc25f98 What might these indicate? (Debian 4.0 Etch, regularly updated, running in VirtualBox on a Vista system). With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 23-Feb-08 Time: 15:54:48 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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python/apache2/viewcvs problem
by Jenny Hopkins 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Hullo List, A few days ago it was noticed that the viewcvs on our server was showing a blank page. The apache logfile muttered something about not being able to find the SAPI module. [Thu Feb 21 18:40:36 2008] [error] [client 74.6.29.42] Traceback (most recent call last): [Thu Feb 21 18:40:36 2008] [error] [client 74.6.29.42] File "/home/aleph1/websites/aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi", line 60, in ? [Thu Feb 21 18:40:36 2008] [error] [client 74.6.29.42] import sapi [Thu Feb 21 18:40:36 2008] [error] [client 74.6.29.42] ImportError: No module named sapi [Thu Feb 21 18:40:36 2008] [error] [client 74.6.29.42] Premature end of script headers: viewcvs.cgi I compared various backup images, and found that overnight every .py file in /usr/share/python-support had been added again but as .pyc (see below). I know nothing about the intricacies of python; it would seem this is the same time as it would have broken though. viewcvs and apache2 have upgraded in this time. Can anyone can give me a hint as to where to start foraging for incompatibilities? Presumably something didn't upgrade that should? Here are the installed python-related packages (sorry to post loads of output) ii libapache2-mod-python 3.2.10-4 ii python 2.4.4-2 ii python-apt 0.6.19 ii python-central 0.5.12 ii python-clearsilver 0.10.3-4.1 ii python-egenix-mxdatetime 2.0.6-4 ii python-egenix-mxtools 2.0.6-4 ii python-gdbm 2.4.4-1 ii python-imaging 1.1.5-11 ii python-libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-2 ii python-minimal 2.4.4-2 ii python-moinmoin 1.5.3-1.2 ii python-mysqldb 1.2.1-p2-4 ii python-pysqlite2 2.3.2-2 ii python-setuptools 0.6c3-3 ii python-subversion 1.4.2dfsg1-2 ii python-support 0.5.6 ii python-xml 0.8.4-6 ii python2.4 2.4.4-3 ii python2.4-minimal 2.4.4-3 Many thanks, Jenny jenny@xios:/home/dirvish/stoneboat$ sudo diff -r 20080218/tree/usr/share/python-support/viewcvs/ 20080217/tree/usr/share/python-support/viewcvs/ Only in 20080218/tree/usr/share/python-support/viewcvs/: accept.pyc Only in 20080218/tree/usr/share/python-support/viewcvs/: apache_icons.pyc Only in 20080218/tree/usr/share/python-support/viewcvs/: apache.pyc Only in 20080218/tree/usr/share/python-support/viewcvs/: blame.pyc etc etc

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Off topic, scrounger?
by Martin Collins 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Hi everyone, Anyone got a spare micro atx motherboard and processor kicking around they want to donate or sell cheaply please? I've just lugged an IQON TESC03 (Tesco special) base unit all the way home on the train from Hull. I foolishly promised my poor brother in-law that I would get it repaired cheaply after he's just spent about £150 in repair-man bills only to have the processor and motherboard blow-up completely on him. He's agreed to have Linux installed on it so it's all in a good cause! Best regards, Martin

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[ALUG Announce] New lug.org.uk site goes live
by MJ Ray 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:50:57 +0000 From: Hugo Mills <hugo(a)lug.org.uk> Message-ID: <20080221115057.GB640(a)vlad.carfax.org.uk> All - I am pleased to announce that the newly redesigned lug.org.uk website has gone live. After several weeks of concentrated effort from the lug.org.uk admin team, we have a completely redesigned and largely rewritten web presence. The new site, running on Drupal, has a new logo, a fresh look, dynamic content aggregating news from LUGs around the UK, and is standards compliant. The site is available at: http://lug.org.uk/ The lug.org.uk admin team are, in alphabetical order: Phil Clarke, Ciemon Dunville, Mat Grove, Alasdair Kergon, Hugo Mills, Alan Pope, and Andy Smith. We welcome Ciemon and Mat onto the team as website administrators. Most of the team will be attending FOSDEM this weekend, if you want to talk to us in person (or buy us drinks). Finally, we would like to thank the many people who read and commented on the pre-release version of the site. Their feedback was useful, constructive, and much appreciated. Please circulate this announcement as widely as possible. Hugo. -- Hugo Mills <hugo(a)lug.org.uk> lug.org.uk admin team ----- 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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