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RE: [wlug] iHug / Wired Country
by Lindsay Druett 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

> > WC have there own licenced spectrum, this helps. > Using own licenced spectrum definitely helps, but how many customers can you cater for in one direction with one PoP ? > > Cell phones are fairly commonplace, I would imagine most > cellphone towers > have generators? My point being that there is more than one > way to kill > a cat. Yeah, but cellphone coverage is not really that great, it's okay, but more often than not, when I am on a cellphone, I end having to go outdoors for a better signal or at least move around. Batteries go flat at the wrong time, maybe I jinxed with cellphones.... However, not great in an emergency. The cellphone is a good idea to an extend, but there is a lot of "what ifs" in my view. I'm not trying to be the party pooper here, after all, I have been playing with this stuff, check out www.lindsay.wired.net.nz/projects/sip/ but when there is an essential service involved, I am in favour of using tried and proven methods. > > Telecom sux, give the competition a go. God knows the > government isn't > helping in this area. > Have a look at www.llu.wired.net.nz - I agree with what you're saying, I can see why iHUG is providing this service, but at the end of the day I am not going to direct customers, friends, or whatever down a technology path that isn't all that crash hot - it won't do anyone a favour, in fact it will make Telecom look really good. If wireless was going really solve the local access issue and do a just as good if not better job than a wired local loop system, then the local loop unbundling proposal would have never been considered, in fact Telecom would have ditched the wired local loop system and gone wireless themselves.

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RE: [wlug] iHug / Wired Country
by David Nicholls 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Try satlan. Hell im on the 128k plan and find it great. Bugger all outages and I can ring these guys almost any time of day. Sadly I don't believe they do a phone service but the customer service is bloody good. www.Satlan.co.nz Cheers... david -----Original Message----- Joseph Gibbs wrote: >Hi, >Looking at getting wireless internet and phone package from wired >country, through ihug. Will probably get the 1 or 2mbit deal. Has >anyone had any experiences with them? I checked the wlug pages, not >much info about them though. I'm interested in the quality of service >they provide, and any other experinces you could share for/against >getting this service.

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Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated Committee for 2005
by Craig Box 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Congratulations to the following people, who were tonight voted in as the Executive Committee for the WLUG for 2005: President: Greig McGill Vice-President: Perry Lorier Treasurer: Craig McKenna Secretary: Craig Box General Committee: Matt Brown Kyle Carter Jamie Curtis Gian Perrone John McPherson The minutes are now available at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2004-09-13. Thanks to everyone who came. Craig

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Weird SEGV with Apache.
by Oliver Jones 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Howdy. I'm getting a weird problem with Apache on a RHEL2.1 box I have. It does on the _second_ HUP or USR1 signal it receives. So ever two days logrotate kills it. It seems to be dying when PHP reloads for the second time. Anyone have any useful ideas on how to track this problem down more precisely? End of strace log: fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=27598, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4046e000 read(8, "[PHP]\n\n;;;;;;;;;;;\n; WARNING ;\n;"..., 8192) = 8192 read(8, "time notices (these are warnings"..., 8192) = 8192 read(8, ".dll\n;extension=php_mysql.dll\nex"..., 8192) = 8192 read(8, " persistent links. -1 means no "..., 8192) = 3022 read(8, "", 4096) = 0 read(8, "", 8192) = 0 ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffe2e10) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) close(8) = 0 munmap(0x4046e000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/protocols", O_RDONLY) = 8 fcntl64(8, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5834, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4046e000 read(8, "# /etc/protocols:\n# $Id: protoco"..., 4096) = 4096 close(8) = 0 munmap(0x4046e000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/protocols", O_RDONLY) = 8 fcntl64(8, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5834, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4046e000 read(8, "# /etc/protocols:\n# $Id: protoco"..., 4096) = 4096 close(8) = 0 munmap(0x4046e000, 4096) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 getpid() = 8935 shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, 33554432, IPC_CREAT|0600) = 14516227 shmat(14516227, 0, 0) = 0x4292e000 shmctl(14516227, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbffe3a00) = 0 getuid32() = 0 getgid32() = 0 shmctl(14516227, IPC_64|IPC_SET, 0xbffe3a00) = 0 shmctl(14516227, IPC_64|IPC_RMID, 0) = 0 unlink("/tmp/session_mm_apache0.sem") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/tmp/session_mm_apache0.sem", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 8 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getpid() = 8935 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/php4/imap.so", O_RDONLY) = 9 read(9, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\20"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1453914, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 771468, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 9, 0) = 0x4492e000 mprotect(0x449e7000, 13708, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x449e7000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 9, 0xb8000) = 0x449e7000 close(9) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 9 read(9, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000J\0\000"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=91717, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 74532, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 9, 0) = 0x408fe000 mprotect(0x4090f000, 4900, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4090f000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 9, 0x10000) = 0x4090f000 close(9) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb5.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 9 read(9, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\362"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=432826, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 363904, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 9, 0) = 0x449eb000 mprotect(0x44a41000, 11648, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x44a41000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 9, 0x55000) = 0x44a41000 close(9) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libk5crypto.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 9 read(9, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360 \0"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=78765, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 68148, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 9, 0) = 0x44a44000 mprotect(0x44a53000, 6708, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x44a53000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 9, 0xe000) = 0x44a53000 close(9) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 9 read(9, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\t\0\000"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=8653, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 8584, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 9, 0) = 0x406ad000 mprotect(0x406ae000, 4488, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x406ae000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 9, 0) = 0x406ae000 close(9) = 0 stat64("/etc/cram-md5.pwd", 0xbffe39e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/dev/urandom", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0644, st_rdev=makedev(1, 9), ...}) = 0 open("/usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf", O_RDONLY) = 9 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7338, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4046e000 read(9, "#\n# OpenSSL example configuratio"..., 4096) = 4096 read(9, "onName_default\t= World Wide Web "..., 4096) = 3242 read(9, "", 4096) = 0 close(9) = 0 munmap(0x4046e000, 4096) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- chdir("/etc/httpd") = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 getpid() = 8935 kill(8935, SIGSEGV) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [RTMIN]) --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

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Daemon monitoring tools.
by Oliver Jones 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Hi guys. Way back in the ancient mists of time I remember seeing some daemon monitoring app. I can't remember what it was called though. It basically was a tool that ensured that particular daemons on a host were always running. Ie, if they crashed or whatever the monitoring app ran the appropriate rc script to restart them. Anyone know what I'm talking about or a good app that does this? Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

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RE: [wlug] New Workstation Hardware Advice
by David Nicholls 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Hi gund, I must say I agree with oliver on this topic... The athlon cpu could well be the way to go. Most of the processors (to coin a phrase) "honk along" at VERY nice speeds. The physics dept at the waikato uni uses almost exclusively a64s. Hoever the 32 bit cpus are just as good and I believe they are going to be dual coreing them in the near future. There are some VERY nice mobos out for these boards... www.tomshardware.com is a good place to go for reviews of chips, boards and gfx cards... They not only test on win systems but a linux build as well so you get an idea of how much trouble they went to to get things working. Basically you need to have a look, have a think about the details of what you want in your system, then come back and ask us if its any good and we can tear it to shreds for you:) Just don't forget the floppy drive ;) Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Gund Wehsling [mailto:Gund.Wehsling(a)computerland.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:56 am Subject: [wlug] New Workstation Hardware Advice Hi I am thinking about getting a new workstation for study/development. It will be a beast. Apart form the favourable reviews of NVidia graphics cards here, are there any preferences to motherboards? IDE RAID controllers? I have been living in laptop land for a while now and have lost contact with desktop options and hardware. Ideally, the desktop will have 3GHz Processor or thereabouts 4GB RAM 2x120GB hard drives (one for mirror / backup) DVD Writer The machine will primarily be used for VMs, so throughput would be nice and the RAM _needs_ to be big. Also, as I am a struggling NetWare engineer, a nice place that sells this and helps with finance would be a plus. Any thoughts in this direction, assume I am ignorant please. Many thanks Gund

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Re: [wlug] Suse Live CD
by Craig Box 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 22:02 +0000, Felix Hohener wrote: > Craig > > Just tried this, but I am not going anywhere. Is there any password involved > in the log on or just "user(a)jetstreamgames.co.nz" and nothing else? You need to specify a password I believe, but it can be anything. The username can also be anything as long as it ends with @jetstreamgames.co.nz You can then log in but only connect a range of selected IPs for games servers, including ftp.jetstreamgames.co.nz - make sure that whatever DNS server you're using is inside this list of IPs. You can use jetstreamgames's DNS server at 203.96.91.1 Craig

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, TONIGHT 7:00pm
by Craig Box 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

In accordance with Rule 6 of the charter, I would like to remind all members that the Waikato Linux Users Group (Incorporated) will be holding its Annual General Meeting *tonight* at 7pm, at the Crawshaw School Multi Purpose Room (the hall, where the Installfest was held, is unavailable, so we've moved to a replacement room. It will be signposted.) Doors will open about 6:45pm; please be prompt. Remember your $20 subscription fee. Craig

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WLUG Meeting is on monday
by Meeting Reminder bot 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

The WLUG meeting is on monday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This meeting, on a different date to the regular September meeting, is the 2004 [Annual General Meeting|AGM] of the [Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated|WlugIncorporated]. * Venue: CrawshawSchool Multi-Purpose Room * Time: 7pm (Doors open 6:45, please be prompt). * Remember: [your $20 2004-2005 membership fee|http://www.wlug.org.nz/JoinWlug] Agenda: # Apologies # [Minutes of the previous AGM|MeetingTopics.2003-09-22] (22 September 2003) # Matters arising # Chairman's report # Treasurer's report # [Election of Officers|WlugElections] # General Business Please note that nominations are now being taken through the WlugElections page.

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RE: [wlug] New Workstation Hardware Advice
by Gund Wehsling 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I am only familiar with VMWare. But open to new ideas. So this is what I do: A customer wants wot make xyz work with abc in his specific environment. So I build the system in a VMWare session and prove it works before going out to the site and implimenting the change, a nice way to do things on a limited budget. Also, I have pre-built machines in a virtual lab that I use to test new software for campatibility reasons etc. If there is another way to do that, then that would be great. It would also be nice to say I have a desktop with 4GB of RAM, but we can get into that later;-) Gund -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Jones [mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz] Sent: Wed 8/09/2004 12:40 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Cc: Subject: Re: [wlug] New Workstation Hardware Advice > Apart form the favourable reviews of NVidia graphics cards here, are > there any preferences to motherboards? IDE RAID controllers? I have > been living in laptop land for a while now and have lost contact with > desktop options and hardware. > > Ideally, the desktop will have > > 3GHz Processor or thereabouts > 4GB RAM > 2x120GB hard drives (one for mirror / backup) > DVD Writer Perhaps you would be best with an Athlon 64 based system? Not sure how well nVidia works with 64bit Linux though. From what I know (which is little) they have a very fast FSB etc. If you only want to go 32bit then 800Mhz FSB P4's are quite nice. I have a P4 2.6Ghz Intel i865 based system under my desk. It performs quite nicely. > The machine will primarily be used for VMs, so throughput would be > nice and the RAM _needs_ to be big. By VMs I take it you mean Virtual Machines. Are you planning on using User Model Linux or VMWare? Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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