From rvvs89 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jul 3 22:39:33 2009 From: rvvs89 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Rufus Garton Smith) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:39:33 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Door lock broken Message-ID: 'lo all, While closing up UCC tonight, I noticed that the door lock would not lock, was too hot to touch, and that it was emmitting a smell of electrical burning. Due to the obvious fire danger and security risk, and without access to the machine room due to the recent replacement of the lock, I have had to remove the lock. A multimeter suggests that the door server is even now still emmitting a 12V current. Since the Guild is now closed for the week end, I'm leaving the door open and without the lock installed so that David Adam doesn't have to climb down tomorrow when opening Cameron Hall for the Cleanup and subsequent Independence LAN. UWA Security rarely opens Cameron Hall on the week end unless requested to do so by students from Cameron Hall clubs and even then only occasionally, so the club should be safe until then - not that a locked door seems to stop anyone stealing things from us. For the benefit of whoever reinstalls the door lock, the white cable was in the left terminal, and the red in the right terminal. You'll also need a medium size flat head screw driver (I haven't been able to find any in UCC after all those tools were stolen). Regards, Rufus From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Jul 4 13:30:16 2009 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:30:16 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] [committee] Door lock broken In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Rufus Garton Smith wrote: > While closing up UCC tonight, I noticed that the door lock would not lock, was > too hot to touch, and that it was emmitting a smell of electrical burning. Due > to the obvious fire danger and security risk, and without access to the > machine room due to the recent replacement of the lock, I have had to remove > the lock. A multimeter suggests that the door server is even now still > emmitting a 12V current. > For the benefit of whoever reinstalls the door lock, the white cable was in > the left terminal, and the red in the right terminal. You'll also need a > medium size flat head screw driver (I haven't been able to find any in UCC > after all those tools were stolen). The door lock has been reinstalled, and the distal cause fixed: the modem that runs the door lock occasionally (every 5 years or so) requires a power cycle. Tested and working. [DAA] From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jul 19 13:54:02 2009 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:54:02 +0800 Subject: [tech] Camwhore Message-ID: <20090719135402.5365560qrun76by8@secure.ucc.asn.au> Hi All. In time we should move camwhore off the current box so i can have my home Spare home PC back :P Its going to need a 2.6Ghz~ Core2 with at-least 2Gb Ram and some sort of large hard drive. I would recommend one of the Delta servers that where donated, These would be perfect and have enough CPU and Ram in them.. IIRC we have about 40 of them spare too. Mitch From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jul 21 10:57:41 2009 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:57:41 +0800 Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms Message-ID: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> Hi All. I have about 5 Thin Terms, They do not power on (due to people plugging in 48v AC phone power supplies) If anyone wants to come to UCC to tinker with them and try fix them let me know. Otherwise they get stripped for parts (CPU, Ram etc) and go in the bin. I will head down with them some night this week if people are interested. These are going first to UCC for the clubroom then if un-repairable to the bin. They are HP T5720 T5725 and T5730's Mitch From zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jul 21 11:07:23 2009 From: zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Alwyn Lloyd) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:07:23 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: I fixed a broken one the other day that was in the first batch. if you drop them off, i can come and look at them on friday day and see if its a similar problem with these ones.. [zar] On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote: > Hi All. > > I have about 5 Thin Terms, They do not power on (due to people plugging in > 48v AC phone power supplies) > > If anyone wants to come to UCC to tinker with them and try fix them let me > know. > > Otherwise they get stripped for parts (CPU, Ram etc) and go in the bin. > > I will head down with them some night this week if people are interested. > These are going first to UCC for the clubroom then if un-repairable to the > bin. > > They are HP T5720 T5725 and T5730's > > Mitch From matt at didcoe.id.au Tue Jul 21 14:04:39 2009 From: matt at didcoe.id.au (Matt Didcoe) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:04:39 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC Servers + UPS Message-ID: <9201A400-7965-4463-9E08-84DCFDD7A82A@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Hi all, Given the efforts to upgrade club security of late, I was wondering if perhaps we should be putting some more effort into protecting the server equipment we're running in the machine room - not just physical security, but data security. It's my understanding that currently none of the machines are protected by UPS. Mitch donated some small ones last year (based on what little information I've gathered), but not sure where they went...APC ones, from my limited reading and small amount of experience with the topic, appear to be quite good and there's some reasonably priced models going around (from Harris Technology no less, I'm sure they are even cheaper elsewhere also) The cost would of course, be based on how many we wanted to load it up with. On another note, I've not got access to all the stuff on mission control, so this is just a guess, but it looks like we're monitoring the temperature of individual servers, but are we doing any general environmental monitoring and also access monitoring on the machine room? - Matt [MRD] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090721/87d2b7bb/attachment.htm From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jul 21 14:23:15 2009 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:23:15 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Open AP - UniComputerClub Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:01:27 +0800 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au To: Matt Didcoe Cc: wheel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Subject: Re: [wheel] Open AP - UniComputerClub I think a simple Squid proxy with LDAP authentication would be sufficient. Also a simple firewall allowing the common ports outbound. Mitch Quoting "Matt Didcoe" : > Hi all, > > RVS and I have received reports that people up in the loft that aren't UCC > members have been using our link via the AP. > > I know the last committee discussion on this lead to a decision to leave it > open, but perhaps, given the cost of Resnet/Bright traffic going up along with > some recent torrenting it might be worth discussing the merits of securing our > wifi again and perhaps locking it down to UCC and UniSFA members (via > freeradius & LDAP (that's one potential implementation)). > > Your thoughts on the matter? > > - Matt [MRD] > From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jul 21 17:07:31 2009 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:07:31 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] UCC Servers + UPS In-Reply-To: <9201A400-7965-4463-9E08-84DCFDD7A82A@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <9201A400-7965-4463-9E08-84DCFDD7A82A@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Matt Didcoe wrote: > Given the efforts to upgrade club security of late, I was wondering if > perhaps we should be putting some more effort into protecting the server > equipment we're running in the machine room - not just physical security, > but data security. > > It's my understanding that currently none of the machines are protected by > UPS. Mitch donated some small ones last year (based on what little > information I've gathered), but not sure where they went...APC ones, from > my limited reading and small amount of experience with the topic, appear to > be quite good and there's some reasonably priced models going around (from > Harris Technology no less, I'm sure they are even cheaper elsewhere also) > > The cost would of course, be based on how many we wanted to load it up > with. There are a couple of arguments against UPS protection. Grahame has already mentioned on IRC our lack of significant problems with power (averaging 1-2 outages/year in the last six years) and the difficulty in maintaining them. We also have to remember that the UCC machine room floor is built to unknown standards, and server-sized UPSes are pretty heavy IME. > On another note, I've not got access to all the stuff on mission control, > so this is just a guess, but it looks like we're monitoring the temperature > of individual servers, but are we doing any general environmental > monitoring and also access monitoring on the machine room? We did have a random temperature probe checking the outflow of the aircon, but that's gone now. Replacements may not be a bad idea. An idea sitting in my head for a while is to pull the status of the door sensors into an RRDtool graph or similar. Implementation is blocked on my plan for rearchitecting the door server sfotware, though. David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey@ From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jul 21 17:42:50 2009 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:42:50 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC Servers + UPS In-Reply-To: References: <9201A400-7965-4463-9E08-84DCFDD7A82A@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <560b010907210242u289de4aaxa5030369793c03c7@mail.gmail.com> I have a home-grown dallas semiconductor one-wire serial temperature probe which I'm happy to donate, it doesn't look like much but it does work and doesn't need external power. From memory is accurate to the nearest half degree which is more than sufficient for our needs. JCF. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM, David Adam wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Matt Didcoe wrote: >> Given the efforts to upgrade club security of late, I was wondering if >> perhaps we should be putting some more effort into protecting the server >> equipment we're running in the machine room - not just physical security, >> but data security. >> >> It's my understanding that currently none of the machines are protected by >> UPS. Mitch donated some small ones last year (based on what little >> information I've gathered), but not sure where they went...APC ones, from >> my limited reading and small amount of experience with the topic, appear to >> be quite good and there's some reasonably priced models going around (from >> Harris Technology no less, I'm sure they are even cheaper elsewhere also) >> >> The cost would of course, be based on how many we wanted to load it up >> with. > > There are a couple of arguments against UPS protection. Grahame has > already mentioned on IRC our lack of significant problems with power > (averaging 1-2 outages/year in the last six years) and the difficulty in > maintaining them. > > We also have to remember that the UCC machine room floor is built to > unknown standards, and server-sized UPSes are pretty heavy IME. > >> On another note, I've not got access to all the stuff on mission control, >> so this is just a guess, but it looks like we're monitoring the temperature >> of individual servers, but are we doing any general environmental >> monitoring and also access monitoring on the machine room? > > We did have a random temperature probe checking the outflow of the aircon, > but that's gone now. Replacements may not be a bad idea. > > An idea sitting in my head for a while is to pull the status of the door > sensors into an RRDtool graph or similar. Implementation is blocked on my > plan for rearchitecting the door server sfotware, though. > > David Adam > UCC Wheel Member > zanchey@ > > > From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jul 21 18:31:52 2009 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:31:52 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC Servers + UPS In-Reply-To: References: <9201A400-7965-4463-9E08-84DCFDD7A82A@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <20090721103151.GC8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> RE: UPS; Please realise that effectively UPS'ing "stuff" requires you to distill a depedency graph of services and decide what you need to UPS to provide a given set of services during a power outage. Also realise there's a big ass set of disks and a large sun in the centre of UCC services. :) 2c, Adrian From danielax at gmail.com Wed Jul 22 10:22:53 2009 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel J. Axtens) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:22:53 +0800 Subject: [tech] Door Broken Message-ID: <4b86c8870907211922p494de38bq7a69a68fd6e2bf47@mail.gmail.com> Hi All, Door isn't unlocking. Specifically, the mechanism isn't responding to unlock commands. - The lock is not hot. - I don't have access to the machine room, so I'm unable to powercycle the modem; don't know if that would help. Daniel [DJA] From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Jul 22 18:28:23 2009 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:28:23 +0800 Subject: [tech] Door Broken In-Reply-To: <4b86c8870907211922p494de38bq7a69a68fd6e2bf47@mail.gmail.com> References: <4b86c8870907211922p494de38bq7a69a68fd6e2bf47@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090722102823.GB14858@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:22:53AM +0800, Daniel J. Axtens wrote: > Hi All, > > Door isn't unlocking. Specifically, the mechanism isn't responding to > unlock commands. Fixed! Thanks [DJA], [RVS], [CJS] and [TRS] for narrowing down the culprit. > - The lock is not hot. > - I don't have access to the machine room, so I'm unable to > powercycle the modem; don't know if that would help. The door solenoid is run through the modem; * which has a serial cable to centipede, the DecServer 200/MC; * which MOP boots off madako and can be talked to by mermaid or mussel; * mermaid the coke-server runs [DAG]'s special /usr/sbin/opendoor; * which connects to centipede and tells the modem to ATH1, then ATH0. mermaid's latd had gotten non-responsive. (mussel's was fine and could control the modem) [TRS] kill -9'ed and restarted it, then all was good. If the door solenoid had been hot, that would mean the modem is stuck on and has not successfully been told to ATH0. (so powercycling would help turn it off at least) Nick. -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig at rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jul 23 21:09:48 2009 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:09:48 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote: > I have about 5 Thin Terms, They do not power on (due to people plugging in 48v > AC phone power supplies) > > If anyone wants to come to UCC to tinker with them and try fix them let me > know. > > Otherwise they get stripped for parts (CPU, Ram etc) and go in the bin. > > I will head down with them some night this week if people are interested. > These are going first to UCC for the clubroom then if un-repairable to the > bin. > > They are HP T5720 T5725 and T5730's I've set up LTSP on martello, the T5730 in UCC has been renamed to canevas[1] and now netboots LTSP. For those not familiar, LTSP works by taking the username and password then sshing in to the server and running things from there. Using martello as the LTSP host isn't idea however: - It uses /home, not /away like all the other clubroom machines - KDE and GNOME take up a fair bit of space Possible options include setting up a new server that mounts /away as /home, or running apps locally like the old blackboxes did, but better done as in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients Other recent changes: cephalopod has Ubuntu 9.04 on it thanks to [JCF], and persephone has OpenSolaris 2009.06 with LDAP and /away - I made it use NFSv3 instead of NFSv4 because v4 had a long delay when accessing the filesystem after a period of inactivity. I think /away isn't mounting on boot, despite the nfs/client service being enabled. [1] http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=16297 Lipophrys canevae, common name canevas slimfisk - it's a thin/slim client -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From maset at ucc.asn.au Fri Jul 24 01:31:27 2009 From: maset at ucc.asn.au (Anil Sharma ) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:31:27 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: Ahhh, setting up new clubroom machines. Almost makes me wish I was active again. You kids don't know how lucky you've got it having James and David STILL doing stuff for the club during this somnolence of user interest. Maset the Grandiose. ------------------------------------------------- Without suffering, how can one appreciate happiness? And how would we mark the depths of our sorrow, without the light of hope? From danielax at gmail.com Fri Jul 24 10:17:55 2009 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel J. Axtens) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:17:55 +0800 Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> > I've set up LTSP on martello, the T5730 in UCC has been renamed to > canevas[1] and now netboots LTSP. For those not familiar, LTSP works by > taking the username and password then sshing in to the server and running > things from there. Using martello as the LTSP host isn't idea however: > ?- It uses /home, not /away like all the other clubroom machines > ?- KDE and GNOME take up a fair bit of space > > Possible options include setting up a new server that mounts /away as > /home, or running apps locally like the old blackboxes did, but better > done as in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients Would one of the rack-mounted servers we got recently work as a server? -- d [DJA] From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jul 24 12:45:51 2009 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:45:51 +0800 Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090724044550.GE8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009, Daniel J. Axtens wrote: > > Possible options include setting up a new server that mounts /away as > > /home, or running apps locally like the old blackboxes did, but better > > done as in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients > > Would one of the rack-mounted servers we got recently work as a server? To be perfectly honest, it'd be much cheaper in the long run to buy a new server with lots of cheap RAM instead of running the 1ru p4 xeon servers. I've got one of them at home. The thing puts out a -ton- of heat. Adrian From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jul 24 13:54:31 2009 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:54:31 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: <20090724044550.GE8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> <20090724044550.GE8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009, Daniel J. Axtens wrote: > > > > Possible options include setting up a new server that mounts /away as > > > /home, or running apps locally like the old blackboxes did, but better > > > done as in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients > > > > Would one of the rack-mounted servers we got recently work as a server? > > To be perfectly honest, it'd be much cheaper in the long run to buy > a new server with lots of cheap RAM instead of running the 1ru p4 xeon > servers. > > I've got one of them at home. The thing puts out a -ton- of heat. UCC doesn't pay for power though. Anyway, Frenchie was talking about setting one up tonight, I'll probably wander down and have a look as well. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jul 24 14:47:32 2009 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:47:32 +0800 Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> <20090724044550.GE8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <20090724064732.GF8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009, James Andrewartha wrote: > > I've got one of them at home. The thing puts out a -ton- of heat. > > UCC doesn't pay for power though. Anyway, Frenchie was talking about > setting one up tonight, I'll probably wander down and have a look as well. Thinking about for cooling budget, not for power consumption. Adrian From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jul 24 19:01:22 2009 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:01:22 +0800 Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: <20090724064732.GF8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> <20090724044550.GE8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <20090724064732.GF8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <560b010907240401s614eca9erdab4d29493778421@mail.gmail.com> I've built one of the Xeons as a Debian box Meersau and will be leaving it to TRS to tinker with it tonight. As it had the disk available, it's running an mdadm raid 1 root and currently has a single hot spare disk. If people want to remove that third disk and use it for another purpose feel free, it was mainly added due to it already being in the machine. The box mounts /away and is configured for user logins. [JCF] From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jul 27 02:20:52 2009 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:20:52 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] More PC's/Thin Terms In-Reply-To: <560b010907240401s614eca9erdab4d29493778421@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090721105741.1119295kc2eunnwg@secure.ucc.asn.au> <4b86c8870907231917g73ec404bxf5790ea5487b308b@mail.gmail.com> <20090724044550.GE8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <20090724064732.GF8949@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <560b010907240401s614eca9erdab4d29493778421@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, James French wrote: > I've built one of the Xeons as a Debian box Meersau and will be > leaving it to TRS to tinker with it tonight. As it had the disk > available, it's running an mdadm raid 1 root and currently has a > single hot spare disk. If people want to remove that third disk and > use it for another purpose feel free, it was mainly added due to it > already being in the machine. > > The box mounts /away and is configured for user logins. I've installed GNOME, KDE, XFCE4 and LXDE on meersau and set it up as the LTSP server, and removed GNOME, KDE, LTSP and associated packages from martello. I was fairly liberal in removing stuff, so it's possible I've broken something. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From spartanhelmet at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jul 30 14:38:46 2009 From: spartanhelmet at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Chris Squire) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:38:46 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Apologies Message-ID: If you're not already aware, the forkbomb which took down mussel today was due to myself. I was talking with RVS and LOL about forkbombs and their effect on OSX, but ran it on a mussel term session before I realised where I was typing. Sorry for the disruption to everything at UCC by the death of ldap, and the lack of your screen sessions afterwards. Feel free to mock my stupidity at regular intervals, or just point and laugh if preferred. From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jul 30 15:10:32 2009 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:10:32 +0800 Subject: [tech] Apologies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090730071032.GC10133@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009, Chris Squire wrote: > If you're not already aware, the forkbomb which took down mussel today > was due to myself. I was talking with RVS and LOL about forkbombs and > their effect on OSX, but ran it on a mussel term session before I > realised where I was typing. > > Sorry for the disruption to everything at UCC by the death of ldap, and > the lack of your screen sessions afterwards. Feel free to mock my > stupidity at regular intervals, or just point and laugh if preferred. I hearby pass the torch of "you should've known better" to you. I am thus absolved of this stain. Adrian "I'll just floodping the default gateway to see if there's any issues with the ethernet.. oh wait, that Cisco 7505 just died.." Chadd