A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow.
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Saturday May 3rd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
We will be holding our SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/hamilton/enderley/-te+whanau+ptahi/?place/full_map) the community church at the end of Oxford Street.
We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.
This is BruceKingsbury's birthday, so there could also be birthday cake.
I just upgraded a spare box, to see if it's safe to upgrade my main
machine, and the upgrade has broken sudo.
When I try to use sudo it says:
sudo: unable to resolve host calc
calc being the hostname of this machine.
How do I fix this? I guess adding the hostname to /etc/hosts would fix
it but I can't do that because sudo is broken. Also I haven't set up a
root account on this machine.
Aside from booting from a rescue disk is there any other way to fix this?
Glenn
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Aren't we whistling past the graveyard here?
Why the hell should a system upgrade cause a sudo failure??
Or am I an idiot for wondering why the adminsitrator should be locked out of his system because he was bold enough to upgrade?
Has any one bugged this? Or asked why even?
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [wlug] sudo broken after upgrade from gutsy to
> hairy^Whardy
> From: "James Pluck" <papabearnz(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, April 30, 2008 3:12 pm
> To: "Waikato Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 2008/4/30 James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com>:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > *brain-break* Shouldn't that be 127.0.0.1?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nope. 127.0.1.1
> > > >
> > > > Why is Localhost 1.1 in Ubuntu instead of 0.1 as is the norm?
> > >
> > > Enquiring minds and all that :)
> > >
> >
> > localhost is still 127.0.0.1, the name of the machine is 127.0.1.1
> >
>
> Ahh! I wasn't aware of that. I learned something today *grin*
>
> And I have no idea why. Googling only comes up with problems caused by it..
> > no explanation of why they set things up this way.
> >
>
> Hmmm - interesting.
>
>
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Hi all,
Recently purchased a Gigabyte nVidia from PB Tech, hit problems with it
(google "8800gt black screen" if interested), and have effectively been
told by them to sod off.
So, three questions:
1. Anyone got a spare 550W+ ATX supply I could borrow for a few days for
last-ditch troubleshooting? (nothing on the web suggests it'll make a
difference, but it doesn't hurt to demonstrate that, yes, I've done
-everything- to narrow it down to the card.)
2. Once a letter quoting the Consumer Guarantees Act has obtained a
refund -- any recommendations on anyone to buy from who -isn't- a
thorough fscktard?
3. Thoughts on reasonably-priced preferably non-nVidia cards suitable
for gaming? (PCIe, 512MB, etc. the 8800GT was.... -ouch-... $380)
('tis a Windows box -- sigh -- so driver support is a low priority.)
ta,
Bryce
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There's a WLUG meeting tonight:
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7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Robert O'Callahan (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/) will talk about Firefox 3 development
FOXHOLES: News From The Front Line Of The Browser Wars
Web browsers have become a primary application platform, arguably more important than traditional client operating systems. They are also a key security frontier, a vigorously competitive market, and a crucial front in the battle for free software and open standards. For these and other reasons, browser development is both extremely challenging and extremely important. As a core Firefox developer, I will discuss challenges facing our project: competition from Internet Explorer and other browsers; changes to fundamental assumptions about code-level security vulnerabilities; sustaining and evolving a complex and fragile codebase; and the successes and failures of our tools and processes as one of the world's flagship open source projects. Looking forward, I will discuss our efforts to keep the Web vital, in concert with like-minded browser vendors and standards organizations, by enhancing the Web platform with vector and 3D graphics, offline Web applications, accessibility, ric
her typography and layout, enhancements to the Javascript language, efforts to improve cross-browser compatibility, and more. I will talk about why everyone should care and what people can do to help --- which includes joining Mozilla to hack on Gecko with my team!
There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday:
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7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Robert O'Callahan (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/) will talk about Firefox 3 development
FOXHOLES: News From The Front Line Of The Browser Wars
Web browsers have become a primary application platform, arguably more important than traditional client operating systems. They are also a key security frontier, a vigorously competitive market, and a crucial front in the battle for free software and open standards. For these and other reasons, browser development is both extremely challenging and extremely important. As a core Firefox developer, I will discuss challenges facing our project: competition from Internet Explorer and other browsers; changes to fundamental assumptions about code-level security vulnerabilities; sustaining and evolving a complex and fragile codebase; and the successes and failures of our tools and processes as one of the world's flagship open source projects. Looking forward, I will discuss our efforts to keep the Web vital, in concert with like-minded browser vendors and standards organizations, by enhancing the Web platform with vector and 3D graphics, offline Web applications, accessibility, ric
her typography and layout, enhancements to the Javascript language, efforts to improve cross-browser compatibility, and more. I will talk about why everyone should care and what people can do to help --- which includes joining Mozilla to hack on Gecko with my team!
Good News;
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080421091129596
"Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007
do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," said Brown in a blog post recounting
the process of testing a document against the "strict" and
"transitional" schema defined in the standard.
Let's all make sure governments mandating 'software that conforms to
ISO standards' are aware of this, mmmk?
Bad news;
http://opensource.org/node/328
OLPC to use Windows XP instead of Linux? WTF? Epic fail!
"I have no idea what pressures Negroponte is under. I have no idea
what failures of leadership, vision, or courage have occurred, are
occurring, or are at risk of occurring at the OLPC project today. It
would be irresponsible to jump to too many conclusions based on a
single article. But if OLPC abandons its open source roots, then I do
not see the project accomplishing any of its goals."
The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Robert O'Callahan (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/) will talk about Firefox 3 development
FOXHOLES: News From The Front Line Of The Browser Wars
Web browsers have become a primary application platform, arguably more important than traditional client operating systems. They are also a key security frontier, a vigorously competitive market, and a crucial front in the battle for free software and open standards. For these and other reasons, browser development is both extremely challenging and extremely important. As a core Firefox developer, I will discuss challenges facing our project: competition from Internet Explorer and other browsers; changes to fundamental assumptions about code-level security vulnerabilities; sustaining and evolving a complex and fragile codebase; and the successes and failures of our tools and processes as one of the world's flagship open source projects. Looking forward, I will discuss our efforts to keep the Web vital, in concert with like-minded browser vendors and standards organizations, by enhancing the Web platform with vector and 3D graphics, offline Web applications, accessibility, ric
her typography and layout, enhancements to the Javascript language, efforts to improve cross-browser compatibility, and more. I will talk about why everyone should care and what people can do to help --- which includes joining Mozilla to hack on Gecko with my team!
