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Notes for my February LUV main talk
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hi LUVvers, I just put links to the notes of my talk at last Tuesday's February main meeting up on the LUV website: https://luv.asn.au/presentations in original org-mode format (sorry encoding is NQR, it should be utf8), and exported HTML. -- Smiles, Les.

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Fwd: Red Hat JBoss User Group: Take JBoss to the Cloud with OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat
by Russell Coker 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

This one sounds interesting too. As it's after 5pm it would be really good for people who work in the CBD. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Fwd: Red Hat Technical Deep Dive Series: CloudForms - Your IT. Your Control. Your Cloud Success.
by Russell Coker 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

I think that many members of this list could benefit from this session. I would go but I have another appointment at that time. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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LCA videos, OpenWorm, Scicast etc
by Rodney Brown 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

LCA2014 videos are up at http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2014/ ~12-13Gb Short audio interviews by Otto Benschop at https://googledrive.com/host/0B2KTxndVFSKuSjZKTDRaTlpJcmM I'll burn some DVDs for the picnic OpenWorm an open source project dedicated to creating a virtual C. elegans nematode - may interest http://www.openworm.org/index.html Have any LUV Rasbian users tried Mathematica/ the Wolfram language yet? https://scicast.org/#/about - a prediction market study may interest

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Showing less memory than allocated
by Daniel Jitnah 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hi Luvers, I have a cloud server from a cloud provider thats supposed to have 1Gb allocated ram, but its only showing 761Mb (using free -m) XXX@XXXX:~# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 761 668 92 0 6 183 -/+ buffers/cache: 478 283 Swap: 1023 25 998 Any reason why? Cheers, Daniel

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Fwd: Re: Showing less memory than allocated
by Daniel Jitnah 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

On 22/01/14 15:09, Andrew Spiers wrote: > On 22/01/14 14:20, Daniel Jitnah wrote: >> Hi Luvers, >> >> I have a cloud server from a cloud provider thats supposed to have 1Gb >> allocated ram, but its only showing 761Mb (using free -m) >> >> >> XXX@XXXX:~# free -m >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 761 668 92 0 6 183 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 478 283 >> Swap: 1023 25 998 >> >> >> Any reason why? >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel > > Hi Daniel, Looks weird to me. free uses base 1024 by default, you can > make it use base 1000 with the --si switch. > > Here's a vps that was advertised to me as having 512m of ram: > > $ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 496 382 114 0 34 191 > -/+ buffers/cache: 157 339 > Swap: 967 8 959 > > > $ free -m --si > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 508 392 116 0 35 196 > -/+ buffers/cache: 161 347 > Swap: 991 8 982 > Hi Andrew I have tried that (free --si) , it reports 778 (or something like that_. Btw its Debian 7. The value 761 also seems like a weird number? Has anyone had any issue with Debian reporting wrong memory? Daniel. > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >

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Hardware donation: IBM BladeCenter + 10 HS21/22 blades
by Avi Miller 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Hey kids, I have an IBM BladeCenter chassis with 10 working (and 1 non-working) blades that is taking up space in my house. The chassis works great, and has both gigabit ethernet and fibre channel connectivity. The 10 working blades are mostly HS21s with dual-sockets and anywhere from 2GB - 8GB of memory (from memory). There is also an 11th blade I could never get to work, but could be used for parts, I guess. I’m happy to give the entire lot to anyone who’s willing to come pick it up from my house in Melbourne. :) Caveats: this thing is large. Like 5RU or 6RU or something. It’s also massively heavy. Fully loaded, it’s probably 60kgs+ or so. It requires 15A power (cables not included) and has four PSUs, so you need significant power supply (though it’ll run with only 2 connected). And finally, it’s stupendously loud. Like imaging an A380 landing about 10m away from you and then double it. This thing wouldn’t sit under someone’s desk. :) I’d prefer to give the whole lot away in one go, and I’d also prefer to give it to a non-profit or educational organisation, or anyone who is going to take hackvantage of it. I bought the whole lot for about $500 thinking I’d be able to do some virtualisation work with it, but the power requirements and noise just weren’t appropriate for a work-from-home environment. If this sound like something you’d like and you have a server room/basement/garden shed/bunker in which to store it, and some way of picking it up from an outer Northern suburb of Melbourne, please email me directly. NOTE: I can’t power the thing up any more, so please don’t ask specific questions about actual memory sizing or processors. I believe they’re Intel Xeon-esque processors. Each blade also has 2x internal HDDs. Essentially, you’re getting the lot for free, so think of it as a blade centre lucky dip! :) Email me off-list if you can take it off my hands. Cheers, Avi

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Evolution Crashing
by david.zuccaro＠optusnet.com.au 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Hi, Evolution is crashing on when it starts up. This is the error output: (evolution:24495): Gdk-WARNING **: The program 'evolution' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 142 error_code 1 request_code 136 minor_code 19) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) I'm using debian and I recently upgraded to 7.3 (not sure if that has anything to do with this). Any ideas as to how I can fix this? Thanks, David ------------------------- Email sent using Optus Webmail

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ALSA USB and motherboard
by Russell Coker 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

I have a new Dell PowerEdge T110 workstation to replace the old T105. Both of them lack any proper sound hardware so I've got USB speakers. Some time in the process of replacing the system or the monitor (which is a USB hub and thus changes USB device assignment) sound stopped working in KDE. It seems that the main problem is that there is some sort of sound hardware detected on the motherboard (maybe the built in PC speaker) which causes the real sound hardware to be registered as ALSA device 1. So far the only way I've discovered to make things work is to make the following sym-links to make the USB sound hardware be device 0. # ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 60 Dec 9 20:49 by-id drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 80 Dec 9 20:49 by-path lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Dec 18 00:05 controlC0 -> controlC1 crw-rw---T. 1 root audio 116, 3 Dec 9 20:49 controlC1 crw-rw---T. 1 root audio 116, 5 Dec 9 20:49 hwC0D0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Dec 18 00:09 pcmC0D0p -> pcmC1D0p crw-rw---T. 1 root audio 116, 4 Dec 9 20:49 pcmC0D3p crw-rw---T. 1 root audio 116, 2 Dec 18 00:09 pcmC1D0p crw-rw---T. 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 9 20:49 seq crw-rw---T. 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 9 20:49 timer Is there a way that I can reserve device 0 for the USB device? It needs to be reserved because the motherboard hardware is detected before the USB bus is scanned - if the monitor is even turned on when the system is booted. Is there a way I can make the system just ignore the motherboard device and have only 1 ALSA card? There's only one thing that can ever be useful so it seems best to make it the only recognised card in the system. Thanks -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Upgrading to Fedora 20 using fedup - what is the ISO format wanted?
by Allan Duncan 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

I have an iso image of the Fedora 20 install DVD, but when I try to use it I get this: > fedup -v --iso Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso --network 20 usage: fedup <SOURCE> [options] fedup: error: argument --iso: invalid isofile value: 'Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso' > I wrote this exact iso file to a stick. mounted it, and used the "--device DEV" option, and successfully ran the upgrade, so I would like to know for the future what does the "--iso" option really want?

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