UK Linux

Earn Online, Want to know how?
onlinefree data entry job url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/10238604.aspx ... 15 Mar 2010 03:32

LXC - Failing to start
Bit stuck here - anyone using LXC? I seem to have it all setup according to what I can find online. I can lxc-create a container, but when I try to run it, I get this: lxc-start: failed to clone(0x6c020000): No space left on device lxc-start: No space left on device - failed to fork into a new namespace lxc-... 23 Feb 2010 09:03

Another Micoshfat centric myth dies: 75% of Linux developersare now paid
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:49:51 +0000, 7 wrote: Another Micoshfat centric myth dies: 75% of Linux developers are now paid I refuse to take you seriously if you cannot spell Micro$oft correctly. -- David Cowie http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidcowie/ Containment Failure + 54988:55 ... 26 Feb 2010 10:47

Curl RTE only runs as root
I installed the Curl runtime environment from http://www.curl.com/download/rte/ so that I could play the online version of the board game Puerto Rico. It works fine if I'm root, but not as an ordinary user. I presume that I need to change the permissions on something. Anyone got any idea what? Browsing the fi... 21 Feb 2010 17:10

Can iptables block TCP RST packets only?
Hi, I have discovered what I believe to be spoofed TCP reset packets being injected into the stream to kill some large downloads I am trying to make. I know the RST packets didn't come from the server I am downloading from because I can see normal data-bearing packets arriving after the RST packets and with ... 25 Feb 2010 19:25

Compiling WiFi driver
In <pan.2010.02.15.12.53.40.411515(a)nospam.zen.uk>, R. Georgeson <rmg(a)nospam.zen.uk> wrote: I'm trying to compile a driver for an RT73 wireless dongle on a machine running Debian 5.04. 'No rule to make target modules' and 'modules' isn't mentioned elsewhere. Am I being stupid, it should be defined some... 17 Feb 2010 00:33

Flaky GUI
Does anyone else find the Gnome desktop incredibly 'delicate' ? On a number of occasions I've had the desktop and toolbars go stupid for no apparent reason (on quite different machines). The only way I've found of recovering this situation is to delete all the .gnome files then reboot. The latest is a case in ... 2 Mar 2010 13:33

removing duplicate newsgroup articles and other stuff with thunderbird
Gradwell newsgroup seems to have thrown a wobbly. Overnight I got large numbers of unread newsgroup articles. Thunderbird 3 coped with reasonably well. If I rebuilt the index for each newsgroup some semblance of normality was achieved. Later on thunderbird just seemed to freeze. It was taking 100% of the CPU. ... 7 Feb 2010 16:29

Firewire [was: Re: Burning music CDs]
Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Jim Lesurf chose the tried and tested strategy of: I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 on a Shuttle as well as Xubuntu 9.10 on an Acer laptop. The Shutlle has a 'firewire' (4 pin) socket and the HD P2 has a (6 pin) socket. The HD P2 documents say it should a... 6 Feb 2010 05:20

- Content management system for primary schools
On 04/02/10 22:41, chris wrote: This is slightly on-topic as it includes discussion of OSS. I've just come back from our school's parent council meeting (a bit like a school board meeting) and turns out our local council are trying to 'persuade' schools to update their website using their 'preferred opti... 10 Feb 2010 07:47