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Peter Garrett | 1 Oct 2006 01:00
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Re: BitTorrent secrets

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:30:40 +0100
Tony Arnold <tony.arnold <at> manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > (talisain wrote)
> > Said encryption -might- help with your download speeds - some ISPs are
> > known to throttle bittorrent traffic. The ethics of avoiding this
> > throttling is a contentious issue, so I'll leave the decision up to you.
> 
> Yes, it turns out my ISP (Pipex) throttles BT traffic to a measly
> 20kB/s. Apparently they've been doing this since March 2006. Pointless
> as I all I'm doing now is downloading using HTTP and getting full
> bandwidth!
> 
> I'll look into encryption, but reading about it, there seems to be
> compatibility issues between clients, so I'm not sure it's quite ready
> yet.
> 
> Azureus, seems to be a heavy weight client, as many Java apps are!

Whether you decide to use Azureus or not, there's a very informative wiki
about bittorrent in general (of course with emphasis on Azureus)  at
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

The page on "good settings" is particularly useful - but no matter which
client you use, similar principles apply. It appears that the maximum
upload speed should be limited to around 75-80 % of your theoretical
maximum to avoid throttling yourself ;-), and that the number of
simultaneous connections per torrent,and globally, should also be limited,
as well as the upload slots you make available. 

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Good_settings
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Peter Garrett | 1 Oct 2006 01:19
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Re: BitTorrent secrets

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:55:40 +0100
Tony Arnold <tony.arnold <at> manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks, but as I reported in an earlier message, the problem is my ISP
> who throttles BT traffic to about 20kB/s. I'm going to try setting up a
> VPN connection to work and see if that overcomes their throttling.

If you can use a shell like that, you could also try "socksifying"
bittorrent with ssh. With " tsocks" ( available in the repos), you can make
virtually any program use SOCKS version 4 or 5. The config file is pretty
simple, and commented. Most people probably just need to define the socks
server as 127.0.0.1 and set their local network, in /etc/tsocks.conf . Then
you can run

ssh -NfD 1080 username <at> your.remote.shell

and you will have a proxy and a tunnel with which to connect. 

After that you just run

tsocks <command-for-your-app>

I haven't tried this with bittorrent, but it works well to tunnel wireless
traffic away from snoopers in public places ;) The only proviso is to have
a friendly remote shell server whose owners and/or admins don't mind you
using the bandwidth, I guess. Wiser souls may correct my assumptions ;-)

Peter
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m c | 1 Oct 2006 01:19

Re: Re: fglrx won't initalise DRI

On 9/30/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/30/06, m c <markc.lists <at> googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Aha, solved it in two parts, firstly due to being a complete idiot I
> > didnt notice linux-restricted-modules wasn't installed. This is a bad
> > thing. After that there was still a problem that libgl was looking for
> > fglrx_dri.so in compltely the wrong place so I had to add
> > export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/dri
> > to /etc/profile
>
> Did you install FGLRX from the Ubuntu repos or from the ATI website?
> I'm using FGLRX drivers from the Ubuntu repo and didn't have to make
> any modifications to environment variables or files.

No I used the Ubuntu repository, so I'm really not sure why I
encountered this. Maybe because I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy? Or it
might have been a problem similar to the one that caused me to lose
linux-restricted-modules on upgrade to Edgy because I commented out
the restricted repo by mistake.
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Raymond Lillard | 1 Oct 2006 02:05
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AMD_64 Server on Tyan s3992 -- slow install (frozen ??)

I am installing 6.06 AMD_64 server from the downloaded iso
on a Tyan mobo s3992 (dual AMD Opteron Socket F).  After
partitions and the other preliminary ceremonies, the unpacking
of the base install started.  It has now been over and hour
and it is seems stuck at 34%,

There is a 500GB RAID1 partition for /home and the usual system
partitions are also installed on appropriately RAID1 partitions.

Has it hung, or is it just slow.  If it building the big RAID1
partition, there should be something on the screen to let one
know something is being done.

Ray
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Adam Conrad | 1 Oct 2006 03:16
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Re: OpenOffice won't open

Lorin Pino wrote:
>  From the start of the errors, is this a video driver problem?
> 
> This is what I get when trying to start "openoffice" in a terminal:
> 
> [fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/47371

If you're running a card old enough to be bitten by this bug, I'd
suggest using the open source driver anyway.  It will give you full
OpenGL acceleration, tends to be a bit more stable than fglrx, and you
won't be at the mercy of a binary driver randomly dropping hardware support.

If you do switch drivers, be sure to "dpkg --purge xorg-driver-fglrx".
Having fglrx installed while running the ATI driver will confuse things
to no end, as fglrx replaces libGL with its own version when it's installed.

... Adam
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Peter Garrett | 1 Oct 2006 03:22
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Re: Problem with Network Manager

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:07:22 +0200
"Ben Edwards (lists)" <lists <at> videonetwork.org> wrote:

> Been trying to get network manager working.  I have the applet but when
> I click on it it only shows wired network, and this is only if I start
> eth0 manually.  Currently I have eth0 and ra0 in my interfaces file
> (neither with auto).  I have also started er0 and it does not show up.

Network Manager doesn't play nice with /etc/network/interfaces :)
You need to comment out all interfaces in that file except for the "lo"
stanza which normally looks like

#loopback
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

> 
> Also looking a http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ half way
> down the page there is a  screenshot showing a applet with a drop down
> panel showing a list of wireless networks and there signal strength.
> The applet I have had do drop down;(

Probably because your interfaces file is confusing Network Manager,
although I might be wrong...
> 
> I then installed Wireless Assistant and this shows 4 wireless networks
> in range.

Well, you can either use the "traditional" /etc/network/interfaces
approach, or the Network Manager approach - but not both at once. Most of
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Raymond Lillard | 1 Oct 2006 06:04

Re: AMD_64 Server on Tyan s3992 -- slow install (frozen ??)


Raymond Lillard wrote:
> I am installing 6.06 AMD_64 server from the downloaded iso
> on a Tyan mobo s3992 (dual AMD Opteron Socket F).  After
> partitions and the other preliminary ceremonies, the unpacking
> of the base install started.  It has now been over and hour
> and it is seems stuck at 34%,
> 
> There is a 500GB RAID1 partition for /home and the usual system
> partitions are also installed on appropriately RAID1 partitions.
> 
> Has it hung, or is it just slow.  If it building the big RAID1
> partition, there should be something on the screen to let one
> know something is being done.

I have given up on Ubuntu.  Maybe next time.  I expect to have
another server in a few weeks with the same configuration.
I'll try it then as I expect to not have time constraints as
I do now with this system.  I have installed CentOS with no
apparent problems.

I believe 6.06 was timing out on something as it would stop
at various points and go forward a bit and stall again.
After over four hours and three attempts of this I gave up.

If any one has insight into this our wants additional details
feel free to ask.

Regards,
Ray
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Lorin Pino | 1 Oct 2006 06:20
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Re: OpenOffice won't open

Adam Conrad wrote:
> Lorin Pino wrote:
>   
>>  From the start of the errors, is this a video driver problem?
>>
>> This is what I get when trying to start "openoffice" in a terminal:
>>
>> [fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS
>>     
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/47371
>
> If you're running a card old enough to be bitten by this bug, I'd
> suggest using the open source driver anyway.  It will give you full
> OpenGL acceleration, tends to be a bit more stable than fglrx, and you
> won't be at the mercy of a binary driver randomly dropping hardware support.
>
> If you do switch drivers, be sure to "dpkg --purge xorg-driver-fglrx".
> Having fglrx installed while running the ATI driver will confuse things
> to no end, as fglrx replaces libGL with its own version when it's installed.
>
> ... Adam
>
>   
Thanks, that is probably it (ATI Radeon 9000).  I will try switching and 
see what happens.
~Lorin
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Miles Lane | 1 Oct 2006 06:40
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Re: Problem with Network Manager

On 9/30/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett <at> optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:07:22 +0200
> "Ben Edwards (lists)" <lists <at> videonetwork.org> wrote:
>
> > Been trying to get network manager working.  I have the applet but when
> > I click on it it only shows wired network, and this is only if I start
> > eth0 manually.  Currently I have eth0 and ra0 in my interfaces file
> > (neither with auto).  I have also started er0 and it does not show up.
>
> Network Manager doesn't play nice with /etc/network/interfaces :)
> You need to comment out all interfaces in that file except for the "lo"
> stanza which normally looks like
>
> #loopback
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
>
> >
> > Also looking a http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ half way
> > down the page there is a  screenshot showing a applet with a drop down
> > panel showing a list of wireless networks and there signal strength.
> > The applet I have had do drop down;(
>
> Probably because your interfaces file is confusing Network Manager,
> although I might be wrong...
> >
> > I then installed Wireless Assistant and this shows 4 wireless networks
> > in range.
>
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ajit nayak | 1 Oct 2006 07:24
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Disk space needed for ubuntu server edition.

How much disk space is needed to install and run (without any problem) Ubuntu sever edition (including LAMP).
If I install the desktop edition can I still run LAMP, is it easy to setup with the desktop edition ??

thanks,
Ajit.

<div><p>How much disk space is needed to install and run (without any problem) Ubuntu sever edition (including LAMP).<br>If I install the desktop edition can I still run LAMP, is it easy to setup with the desktop edition ??<br><br>
thanks,<br>Ajit.<br></p></div>
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