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Migrate Evolution To New Computer
by David Zuccaro 15 May '13

15 May '13

So my old computer is running debian squeeze with evolution 2.30.3. My new computer is running debian wheezy with evolution 3.4.4. What is the best way to migrate my mail folders and address book to the new computer? I tried copying across ~/.evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution but that hasn't brought across the sub-folders or the different email accounts.

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gitlab
by Andrew Spiers 15 May '13

15 May '13

I've asked this question on the SAGE-AU mailing list, apologies for the redundant redundancy for those subscribed to both lists. Is anyone using or administering a gitlab instance? How are you finding it? Is the wiki functionality good, or more pain than it is worth? I'm considering binning a gitorious installation and migrating a few repositories over, has anyone done that?

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Re: CD/DVD Vendors (was Re: Debian 7.0.0 dvd's)
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 15 May '13

15 May '13

A couple of points in my defense.......... The main problem with CD/DVD vendors of Linux distributions is the reliablity of the burning. Becuase of my relative isolation I have been using such CD/DVD sets for years and around half of the supplied sets __will__ have writing faults, particularly anyone using those awfull no-name media. ie most. If you install directly from the sets this may not be an issue as the faulty files may not be being used but as i recover all files and build my own repository this is an issue I regularly come across. This is why I have asked for ISO images as this problem does not apply. Second point, While it would be nice to come down to a LUV meeting this takes a good portion of a whole day and the trip down and back wil cost around 100 dollars, for such money a could bye line time to down load the 3 DVD's. Another point here like a good number of people living in rural areas I do not like driving in Melbourne and I certainly am __NOT__ comfortable about finding parking around North Melbourne in the afternoon peak hour and driving home at 0200 in the morning is no picknick these days. Its all got to hard, I will think of another way around the problem. Thankyou to the two people that responded with offers, it was apreciated. Linux for 20 years, Lindsay

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A wierd (to me at any rate) linker problem
by Allan Duncan 14 May '13

14 May '13

I'm trying to compile gnuplot 4.6.1, but it breaks on a library item being linked - file not found. Except it is clearly there. Details: [src]> c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -L/usr/lib -o gnuplot alloc.o axis.o binary.o breaders.o color.o command.o contour.o datafile.o dynarray.o eval.o fit.o gadgets.o getcolor.o graph3d.o graphics.o help.o hidden3d.o history.o internal.o interpol.o matrix.o misc.o mouse.o parse.o plot.o plot2d.o plot3d.o pm3d.o readline.o save.o scanner.o set.o show.o specfun.o standard.o stats.o stdfn.o tables.o tabulate.o term.o time.o unset.o util.o util3d.o variable.o version.o -lcurses -ledit -lz -lgd -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -ljpeg -llua -lm -ldl -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng12 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status [src]> [src]> ls -l /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 13 21:09 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.49.0 [src]> OK, there's libpng15 there also, change the 2 to a 5 in the above, and LO! the link works. Maybe libpng12 didn't get picked up by ldconfig: [/etc]> strings ld.so.cache | grep libpng libpng15.so.15 /usr/lib/libpng15.so.15 libpng15.so /usr/lib/libpng15.so libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 [/etc]> Well that looks good to me. Where to next?

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auto setting values in /sys
by James Harper 14 May '13

14 May '13

What is the recommended way of setting values in /sys these days? Specifically, scheduler and read_ahead_kb for specific disks. I can write a few udev rules if required but it seems a bit clumsy... Thanks James

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Re: Debian 7.0.0 dvd's
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 12 May '13

12 May '13

Much thanks for both offers of DVD's its much apreciated, although it does raise the difficulty of which kind offer to chose, but I will figure that out. A comment on Russell's post regarding koganmobile, the problem with this is the data per day is limited to 400Mbytes, this means one cannot simply get large items like even a CD image. I found this type of restriction was common on monthly based accounts. Such a restriction almost never applies to prepaid data which is one of the reasons I have chosen to take that path. A point I will bring up on service selection, I will not if at all possible deal with faceless organisations, both internet service providers I deal with have real people one can talk to. I ___HATE___ organisations which go to great lengths to put there customers at arms length (ie most of them). I have found Virgin's support to be a major breath of fresh air, where organisations like Telstra apparently could not care less. Lindsay

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None
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 11 May '13

11 May '13

On Sun, 12 May 2013 00:15:30 Mark Trickett wrote, >On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 07:30 +1000, zlinw(a)mcmedia.com.au wrote: >> Much thanks for both offers of DVD's its much apreciated, although it >>does >> raise the difficulty of which kind offer to chose, but I will figure that >> out. >Whomever, may I request a set of DVD's, I am on a 56K modem. Let me know >and I will try to sort out blank disks and postage if reasonable. My >responses may be delayed if my work involves early starts and long days. If you wish I can send you the drive with iso's on it for copy and return, this gets around any problems due to burning errors. I found these to be a significant issue on getting such CD/DVD's. I have as yet not been into Benalla to organise the iso's as I am due to pick some items on tuesday. >> A point I will bring up on service selection, I will not if at all >>possible >> deal with faceless organisations, both internet service providers I deal >> with have real people one can talk to. I ___HATE___ organisations which >>go >> to great lengths to put there customers at arms length (ie most of them). >> I have found Virgin's support to be a major breath of fresh air, where >> organisations like Telstra apparently could not care less. >It would help if all providers would acknowledge that Linux is standards >compliant at the networking level. I want real support for the >connection. What I have to do to achieve the result is up to me. I do >not expect to need to be told how, just what. Currently, Telstra will >not provide "support" for Linux, including the simple link metrics. What I have found from working with a number of ISP's is most these days contract out all the server side, and it is quite possible most people working for them have not got a clue and are just working from "cheat sheets" consequently simply do know any better. Lindsay

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RE: Debian 7.0.0 dvd's
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 11 May '13

11 May '13

On Sat, 11 May 2013 James and Trent wrote, >> >> James Harper writes: >> >> > If the reason for installing Squid is for caching deb's then you'll be >> > much better off with apt-cacher. >> >> I've had bad experiences with the two older apt-specific partial repo >> caching tools (apt-cacher and another one, I forget the name); IIRC they >> were vulnerable to injection from the LAN, and this would regularly >> happen by accident if >1 distro was used (e.g. ubuntu and debian both >> had foo-1.0-1 but with different checksums). >> >Thanks for the tip. I've only ever used Debian but had thought about >trying Ubuntu. >> IIRC last time this came up, a new one had recently come out >> (apt-cacher-ng?) which somebody said fixed all the problems. >> >I did see an apt-cacher-ng recently. I wonder if the repository can >migrate... >James I only upgrade testing when I see significant changes on packages that interest me. I compile my own kernel and I have compiled Mesa and Radeon drivers to the latest myself when required. I found upgrading on a regular basis just cost a lot line time I did not have with no __apparent__ advantage. For the packages, I have set up apt not to erase downloaded packages, these are then moved using apt-move to my repository. The only slight problem with doing this is that for some reason latter installers do __NOT__ get on well with the local store. This is not a real issue with me anyway as I just use the original 6.0.4 install CD. Lindsay

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Re: Debian 7.0.0 dvd's
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 10 May '13

10 May '13

On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:40:30 Trent W. Buck wrote, > You must install a lot more crap than me :-) Yep, First theres the compilers and other stuff (xorg, mesa and other library headers etc) for building programs. Then as one of things I am currently writing is a 3D simulator is a lot of graphic arts items (both 2 and 3D) and audio stuff and some of these take up heaps of space, I cannot quote figures but they do take up a __lot__ of space. Lindsay

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Re: Debian 7.0.0 dvd's
by Tony Crisp 10 May '13

10 May '13

On Fri, 10 May 2013, 07:30, zlinw(a)mcmedia.com.au wrote: } A comment on Russell's post regarding koganmobile, the problem with this is } the data per day is limited to 400Mbytes, this means one cannot simply get } large items like even a CD image. I found this type of restriction was } common on monthly based accounts. Such a restriction almost never applies } to prepaid data which is one of the reasons I have chosen to take that path. To stay under the daily limit you could download the image via bittorrent. You can pause the download and come back another day to get the other bits. Crispy.

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