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Buffalo routers
by James Harper 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

I have a few OpenWRT installations on Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 routers that mostly works great, but one appears to have just lost the radio. The router can scan and see other wireless networks around, but mostly nobody can see it apart from sporadic periods where they can see the ssid but not successfully connect. It was working fine and then suddenly wasn't, even after a power cycle. So I think the radio tx is dying or dead... does anyone have any anecdotal evidence of a problem with this particular router, or maybe I was just unlucky? Thanks James

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Re: Wiki software
by Rick Moen 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck(a)gmail.com) > CNK. If you think gitit has simple deps, you obviously haven't > compiled them in cabal. On a system with a "mere" ???1GB RAM and > 7200RPM disks. Or at least, not the optional code markup part. I actually meant the extent and quantity of binary package dependencies, and, yeah, just doing 'apt-get install gitit', if feasable. (I'm lazy and spoiled by Debian's build infrastructure.) Build dependencies are of course a whole different thing, and a point worth noting for situations where it's relevant.

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Wiki software
by Tony Langdon 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Can anyone recommend a Wiki package that can be run on a Linux host (LAMP or otherwise)? I might have a project which requires a wiki. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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Raspberry Jam Meeting
by Alec Clews 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

G'Day, Just to let people know that Raspberry Jam (for the Raspberry Pi Linux computer) is being held 4/Aug at Melbourne Connected Community Hacker Space. Details http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Raspberry-Jam/events/75258142/ Places are limited to you'll need to register on the meetup page please. Thanks -- Alec Clews Personal <alec.clews(a)gmail.com> Melbourne, Australia. Jabber: alecclews(a)jabber.org.au PGPKey ID: 0x9BBBFC7C blog:http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/

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Universe repository on Ubuntu
by Chandra Amarasingham 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hi, Does know of an official note on how software ends up in the universe repository on ubuntu. Given it's community maintained and not officially supported, is it considered safe enough for production use....safe in the sense of being free of malevolent elements. Stability is not an issue. Regards Chandra

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IOgear network attached USB hub
by Keith Bainbridge 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

G'day All, Anybody had any experience with either of these: IOGear Wireless 4-Port USB Sharing Station IOGear 4-Port USB Sharing Hub Both come with installation CD which raises concerns. Or any suggestions on similar devices? Thanks Keith Bainbridge PO Box 324 BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia +61 (0)408 522 706 keith.bainbridge.3216(a)gmail.com

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Urgent / Important: Is "Computer Science" Science?
by Donna Benjamin 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi all, Submissions regarding the Draft Senior Science Australian Curriculum close **tomorrow**. This article in today's age made me think... http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/science-subject-comes-under-fir… Hang on - Where's computer science? Oh that's right it doesn't exist in the brave new world of the new Australian Curriculum. It's a general capability (ICT) or a "Technology" along with design, woodworking, cooking and agriculture - in a strand called "Digital Technologies" I've been to a couple of Google sponsored workshops advocating for the promotion and redevelopment of computer science in high school. #CS4HS So I have some thoughts on this. Perhaps you do too? You have less than 24 hours to make a submission with your thoughts. The draft curriculum is here: http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/Info+Sheet+-+Draft+Senior +Secondary+Science+FINAL.pdf (and hopefully attached) Email submissions to Science(a)acara.edu.au Make sure to use this cover sheet http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Static/docs/Senior% 20Secondary/Senior%20Secondary%20feedback%20cover%20sheet.docx docx ? Oh no. Ok. I will attempt to attach it converted to odt. More info here: http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ please redistribute or agitate, as you see fit. cheers Donna -- Donna Benjamin - Executive Director Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414

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dev block physical block size
by Colin Fee 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

A colleague has asked if there is any utility, application, or command to show a disks physical block size. He's particularly interested in interrogating a drive to see if it's an Advanced Format drive i.e. with native 4096 byte sectors or 512e sectors etc. -- Colin Fee tfeccles(a)gmail.com

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dumping data from gdb
by Russell Coker 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

I have a multi-threaded program that has just SEGV'd. I want to extract a chunk of data from the program to run in a test program to try and reproduce the problem. Is there a way of telling gdb to dump a chunk of data to a file? The data in question is a regular C string. I tried using p fopen() but it seems that you can't do that sort of thing in a multi-threaded program. p open() fails and I can't work out why. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Increasing capacity on ZFS
by Brett Pemberton 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi, I've begun testing/commissioning a new storage server at home, trying to make it expandable in the future, as 3tb drives become cheaper. I decided to give ZFS on FreeBSD a try, and this is what I'm on now, however the issues I'm having apply equally to zfsonlinux/ZFS using FUSE, so I'm hoping to grab some help here. I knew upfront that you can't add devices to a zpool, so to make this expandable, I took the approach of maxing out my case hard drive space, with the plan of simply replacing the drives with bigger capacity as they fail, or as new drives become cheap. My current system has 2 x 64GB SSDs for OS, and a ZIL (mirrored) and started with 8 x 500gb drives. A mix of PATA and SATA, which isn't ideal, but is what I had spare. Yesterday I did a replace of one of the 500gb drives with a 1.5TB drive I also had spare. The issue I've hit is that although the zpool has seen an increase in capacity, the zfs filesystem has not. Googling and IRC have been unable to help with this, so running it by LUV, considering this portion of the system is OS independent. My relevant history lines are: 2012-07-17.20:04:15 zpool create -f storage raidz ada0 ada1 ada4 ada5 ada6 ada7 ada8 ada9 2012-07-17.20:04:41 zfs create storage/tbla 2012-07-17.20:04:52 zfs set sharenfs=on storage/tbla 2012-07-17.20:04:59 zfs set atime=off storage/tbla 2012-07-17.20:05:15 zpool add -f storage log mirror/gm0s2a 2012-07-17.20:19:27 zfs sharenfs=-maproot=0:0 storage/tbla 2012-07-21.13:33:29 zpool offline storage ada8 ... reboot, replace drive ... 2012-07-21.15:20:40 zpool replace storage 5231172179341362844 ada8 2012-07-21.16:06:17 zpool set autoexpand=on storage ... ^^^ note that this was run while the resilver was in operation ... 2012-07-21.16:46:16 zpool export storage 2012-07-21.16:46:34 zpool import storage 2012-07-21.16:54:02 zpool set autoexpand=off storage 2012-07-21.16:54:07 zpool set autoexpand=on storage 2012-07-21.17:34:12 zpool scrub storage [root@swamp /usr/home/brett]# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 3.62T 701G 2.94T 18% 1.00x ONLINE - Before the replace, storage was showing 3.1T size, I believe. So it jumped by 500gb, which seems about right. [root@swamp /usr/home/brett]# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT storage 609G 2.51T 50.4K /storage storage/tbla 609G 2.51T 609G /storage/tbla [root@swamp /usr/home/brett]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 18G 3.1G 14G 18% / devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev storage 2.5T 50k 2.5T 0% /storage storage/tbla 3.1T 609G 2.5T 19% /storage/tbla I'm also slightly confused as to why storage shows a size of 2.5T, while storage/tbla has 3.1. And clearly neither has the 3.62 which is in the zpool. Can anyone explain this to me? Note that this is still in testing phase, so I'm happy to start from scratch, destroy the FS and try again with all 500gb drives, then do the replace again, if I missed a step somehow. It's more important to me that I get the procedure correct, so that once this is production, I know what's going on. cheers, / Brett

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