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Distributed Version Control System
by David Mehler 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hello, I'm looking for a version control system for a few up and coming personal projects, one already underway one to begin. Over the years I've tried tackling both cvs and svn as version control systems with no success. I'm therefor looking in to a distributed version control system I do plan to have other developers assisting or taking a machine away from my network and not allowing internet access to a server, so I'll need to go distributed. Things I need: Good Windows and Linux support I'm going to either be working in both environments or have developers who will. For the windows I'd prefer a gui app that integrates in to windows explorer. File and Directory renaming support I've read so much today my head is swimming but if I rename a file or a directory I want the version control system to track that. I know some do, some don't. Central server A network or internet accessible server that developers can pull a copy of the current files, go offline and work distributed, and then come back online and commit changes. Branching and merging Not sure about this one, but I've read that cvs and svn in particular make branching (cvs) and merging (svn) I hope I don't have those backwards difficult. I've looked at: 1. Git 2. Mercurial 3. Monotone I started out with many more, but those seem to be the ones that will best work. I was wondering after all that if anyone has any opinions pro conn on these three distributed version control systems? Or, others I might have missed that might work as well. I am preferential to open source. Thanks a lot. Dave.

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Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard
by Ben Mustill-Rose 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hey all, I need to paste some text into a file which I'm modifying via vi which resides on a machine that I'm connecting to using putty. For those of you that don't know, control v for paste won't work inside putty; it just sends the charactor that control + v represents. The idea is that you can right click anyware inside the putty window and the text will be pasted in. This isn't usually an issue, except I'm working on a system without a mouse. I did try using expan drive (A great product for mounting sftp locations as drives in explorer) to find the file that I want and then modify it in notepad, but doing it this way bash seems to see some strange charactors which are stopping the script from running - I think it might be the different way that windows and linux do linebreaks. I did think I'd found a way to paste; hal doesn't offer any form of cursor mooving as far as I'm aware, so I loded up narrator, told it to move the mouse to the active item, opened the putty window then used hal to perform a right click, but this doesn't seem to work. We're talking quite a few lines of code here so I don't really want to echo them to the file line by line if it can be avoided. As always, any solutions or tips will be gratefully received, but I think I'll be going into s3 soon since its just past 4AM in the uk. Cheers, Ben.

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JFW and event viewer (Windows 7)
by Andrew Hodgson 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi, Has anyone else noticed that in JFW 12 the event viewer text is not reading out when using the event viewer in Windows 7? Andrew.

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Cisco Linksys Routers
by George Bell 02 May '11

02 May '11

This is an issue which has stumped us, but may be of interest generally. 1) Do you have access to Server 2003? 2) Do you have a Linksys WAG320N Router connected to that server? (That's the Dual Band Wireless-N ADSL2+ Modem Gigabit Router.) 3) Does your router have a static IP address? 4) Windows 7 pro or above? If the answer is yes to all four, are you able to VPN into your server, and retain Internet connection? The situation I have is that the Router's Firewall has to be off in order to get Windows 7's VPN to connect at all. I can then run Outlook 2003 from my laptop and (after a long delay) it will connect to the Exchange Server 2003, and I can send and receive mail. However I get a warning that the Internet is no longer connected - although the mail side is still working. Consequently, any external links in messages fail, and IE onbvioulsy doesn't work. I hasten to add that when I had the late, now defunkt, Draytek 2600G router all was well. I can VPN into one of our suppliers, and this Internet failure does not occur. Has anyone any ideas where to even begin looking here? I'm off to Iceland on Wednesday, and while at least I can get my e-mail, it's rather a pain to have to kill the VPN to get web access. George.

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Cisco Linksys Routers
by George Bell 02 May '11

02 May '11

This is an issue which has stumped us, but may be of interest generally. 1) Do you have access to Server 2003? 2) Do you have a Linksys WAG320N Router connected to that server? (That's the Dual Band Wireless-N ADSL2+ Modem Gigabit Router.) 3) Does your router have a static IP address? 4) Windows 7 pro or above? If the answer is yes to all four, are you able to VPN into your server, and retain Internet connection? The situation I have is that the Router's Firewall has to be off in order to get Windows 7's VPN to connect at all. I can then run Outlook 2003 from my laptop and (after a long delay) it will connect to the Exchange Server 2003, and I can send and receive mail. However I get a warning that the Internet is no longer connected - although the mail side is still working. Consequently, any external links in messages fail, and IE onbvioulsy doesn't work. I hasten to add that when I had the late, now defunkt, Draytek 2600G router all was well. I can VPN into one of our suppliers, and this Internet failure does not occur. Has anyone any ideas where to even begin looking here? I'm off to Iceland on Wednesday, and while at least I can get my e-mail, it's rather a pain to have to kill the VPN to get web access. George.

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Mac Users?
by David Mehler 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hello, If there are any Mac users on this list can you please write me offlist? I'd like to know your level of Mac experience. I've got the opportunity to get a used Mac and am wondering if it's a good deal or not, wanting to expand my knowledge in to Macs. Thanks. Dave.

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users of OpenDNS?
by David Mehler 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hello, Anyone using OpenDNS? If so, when the client pops up in the task bar is there something special you have to do to get it to speak? It is not for me. I've got it installed and got the dns servers set, but am not noticing any reduction. Is there another step? Thanks. Dave.

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windows automatic installation
by John G. Heim 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

I'm trying to follow the instructions for creating an answer file with the Windows Automatic Installation Kit. When you install WAIK, it includes documentation including a step by step guide. Following the step by step guide, I have created an answer file but the installer doesn't seem to find it when I boot from the installation CD. I have tried it on two different computers. I have tried putting the answer file on a flash drive and on a diskette. I have tried nameing the anser file both Autounattend.xml and Unattend.xml. But no matter what I do, it always comes up at the page where it asks you to accept the license agreement. So its not doing an automatic install but I don't know if its not finding the answer file or if there is something wrong with the answer file. My answer file is reproduced below. Note that one of the keys is AcceptEula which I figure means "accept user license agreement". The value is true. Yet, it still asks me if I want to accept the license agreement. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="windowsPE"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <DiskConfiguration> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <CreatePartitions> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Size>40000</Size> <Order>1</Order> <Type>Primary</Type> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Active>true</Active> <Label>system</Label> <Order>1</Order> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> </Disk> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <DiskID>00</DiskID> </Disk> </DiskConfiguration> <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </InstallTo> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> <UserData> <ProductKey> <Key>49JCX-4VFQC-9K8HX-XDDJ2-XMHDG</Key> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </ProductKey> <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula> <FullName>John G. Heim</FullName> </UserData> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SetupUILanguage> <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage> </SetupUILanguage> <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale> <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage> <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale> </component> </settings> <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Reseal> <Mode>Audit</Mode> </Reseal> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/tmp/install.wim#Windows 7 ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /> </unattend>

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Extend wifi from ethernet with 1 ssid?
by Ben Mustill-Rose 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Hey all, I'm looking to increase wifi coverage but I don't want to use a device that will broadcast an extra ssid. To give you an idea, the layout of the network at the moment is: modem router access point combo ethernet to another floor switch computers and new device I've installed WDS setups before which would solve my ssid problem, but that only works when your doing wifi > wifi as opposed to ethernet > wifi and my router doesn't support it anyway. I know that I could just plug in another access point to the switch and turn off dhcp, but that still leaves me with the problem of having 2 ssid's which I don't want. I'm not really looking to break the bank doing this; I just want to extend the wifi so that Its a bit more reliable in our garden for the few warm days we get a year and it just so happens that the room with the switch in it is quite high up and faces the garden. Anyone know what I should be looking to purchase? Cheers, Ben.

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orca with custom live cd's?
by Zameer Mahomed 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Hi guys, for those of you who use linux, I have a question regarding integration of audio as well as speech in to existing live cds. Assuming you know or heard of a program called parted magic, or perhaps any program that uses linux for getting a job done, be it an anti-virus or utility program, Is it possible to have audio support so as to integrate orca? If perhaps these things can't be done, forgive my ignorance, I've really not used linux ever! Regards

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