February 2017 - luv-main

Chrome notification pop-up location
by Toby Corkindale 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

I use Google Chrome, which supports letting websites send notifications as brief pop-ups on your screen. This works fine, except they always appear in the bottom-right corner of my right-hand monitor. I have two monitors, and the one on the right is kind of secondary, and the far right of it is out of my field of vision. Does anyone know how to control where notification pop-ups appear? I'm running KDE on Ubuntu 16.04. Cheers Toby

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meetings
by Russell Coker 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

As Andrew has noted we have been kicked out of our meeting room. We are actively looking for other options. If you know of a meeting room we can use for minimal cost (or ideally for free) then please let us know. If you know of a meeting room that's available at 6:30 on the 6th of March then let us know ASAP!!! Especially if it's not too far from the previous meeting room. If a company is only available to provide a venue for a single meeting then that's totally OK, anything to get us out of the current predicament. Andrew is actively investigating some possibilities right now. But we can't assume he will be successfull (espectially not for next month's meeting due to short notice). Also I can't comment on what he is persuing. Please send any tips for commercial organisations that might provide free or subsidised meeting space to the committee or Andrew. Such things can't be discussed on a public list. For future planning (IE April and beyond) I think we should at least consider more radical options. If we were to hold the main meeting on a weekend then the following 2 options would be available. Red Hat have generously sponsored our meeting venue for many years. I hope that they will continue doing so, but as they have paid the bills directly we have no idea of how much they paid and how much they are prepared to pay in future. So obviously a cheap venue would be preferred. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/libraries/locations/Pages/locatio… The Library at the Dock is only open until 7PM on weeknights but is open 10-5 on Saturday and 12-5 on Sunday. Sunday had free parking last time I checked. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/hubs-bookable-spaces/the- dock/library-at-the-dock/Pages/performance-space.aspx If LUV is a "not for profit organisation from within the City of Melbourne" then a nice room for 120 people costs $24.50 per hour which is probably a lot less than what Red Hat has been paying. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/hubs-bookable-spaces/the- dock/library-at-the-dock/Pages/fees-for-bookable-spaces-library-dock.aspx The above lists all the available spaces at the library. From a quick scan the performance space seems most suitable and it's at least a good place to start the discussion. But if we do choose the library then another space might have some benefits. Also note that the library has a cafe downstairs. It's not cheap, but having a choice to buy slightly expensive food is better than having no choice. They also have extensive facilities that can be used for free before or after a meeting. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/hubs-bookable-spaces/kathleen-sym… library-and-community-centre/pages/multi-purpose-room-1.aspx The Kathleen Syme library has a room seating 56 people "theater style" for $10.50 per hour for "Not-for-profit in CoM municipality". It's also not far from our previous meetings. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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splitting a diff
by Russell Coker 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

I have a diff file that has changes to multiple source files that I want to split up for sending upstream. Is there a good tool for splitting this? The ideal would be something that takes a list of source files on the command line, and writes the diffs for them to one file and the diffs for everything else to another. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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rsync with multiple threads
by Bill Yang 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi there I need to transfer 200+ TB data from one storage server (Red Hat Linux based) to another (FreeBSD). I am planning to use rsync with multiple threads in a script. There are a number of suggestions on the Internet (find + xargs + rsync), but none of them worked well so far. I also need a reliable way to check whether all files/directories from the source server have been copied to the destination server. Any suggestions/help would be appreciated. Regards Bill

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LUV DNS
by Russell Coker 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

I recently had to changethe IP address of my main DNS server and forgot to update the LUV server to allow transferring the data. I discovered this when the cached zone data expired and my own mail server was unable to send mail to the LUV server and a mon alert was raised about the inability to send mail. I've fixed the problem and configured another mon alert on DNS zones that don't transfer. As we had 2 servers still operating correctly at all times users would not have noticed. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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USB capture
by Mark Trickett 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Hello All, I have tried using Audacity on this Acer TravelMate 3230, and it will record, until I select a USB source, in particular a turntable with RCA and USB output. Audacity will record for a while, then stop while signal is still coming in, and I have not found how to get it to go on, even restarting with a bit missing is difficult. I am having some success with a different turntable/stereo that will record to a USB memory stick, but only as MP3. I suspect that there may be compatability issues, including only 1.5Gb of RAM. I know Audacity is stable and usable to do the editing, just not the recording. A way round this is to capture the audio data stream from the USB source, then load into Audacity to edit and cut into tracks. I would appreciate pointers as to how to capture the data stream other than Audacity. Regards, Mark Trickett

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Dell notebook 2510872AV Intel Core i7q 7500u
by Andrew Greig 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

Hi All, I am looking at this for my next portable Linux machine, I want to tether my camera, but I needed inquire, if I wipe Windows 10 off, will I be able to install Linux? Any gotchas? Andrew Greig

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