[edit: a home has been found]

Free to good home, one Intel 510T 22 port switch. (There are a couple of dead ports but its otherwise fine - no glitches or anything).

I've just replaced my home ethernet switch - I was using 5 ports, and most of my wired machines have gigabit now. Yay.

So, if you need a 22 port network switch, let me know. If I don't hear from anyone, it'll go into next months local recycling pickup.

This will be a 'come pick it up' arrangement, unless you're going to be at the same place I am for some other event - in Sydney, if thats not obvious.

What is it with pc vendors that they make selecting machines by fairly useless things like model number (e.g. shuttle), or a hacky fugly hierarchy (e.g. auspcmarket) easy, but by attributes (e.g. '2 ethernet ports, no fans, small chassis') terribly hard.

They should take a leaf out of the way people ask each other for recommendations. auspcmarket /kindof/ does that with the systems hierarchy - but only for a few categories.

What I want I guess, is a menu of tags/attributes I can search for on a vendors site (and/or review sites like CNet's and, google shopping and so on). Doing a google shopping search for my interesting attributes above is a pretty epic fail.

Latin (As in church latin, not latin character encoding) in Ubuntu Karmic will work better than it did in Hardy/Intrepid. I had missed one of the packages that want hard coded locale data when I did the initial enablement patch.

For reference, when adding a locale:

• xlib (wants to know what locales are actually UTF8 and what compose sequences to use)
• gdm (wants to know what locales to display)
• glibc-locales (has the actual definition

I'm leaving UDS early due to a loss in my family - I have to travel now to get to the funeral.

Folk that I had specific meetings/planned discussiongs lined up with I have tried to contact in person, and this post is intended to act as a catchall for anyone I didn't find.

My desktop machine blew up, so I got a lovely fresh install of Jaunty. And, X and Gnome still disagreed by default about my actual screeen size... it was unreadably small with the default fonts. I've posted the following instructions before - these are basically unchanged except that the location of the fonts dialog has moved.

Tip for folk that would like X to show fonts (i.e. the GDM log in screen) in the correct size: Teach X about the dpi setting!

Step 1: run xdpyinfo and look for the dimensions: line. There will be something like this:

dimensions: 1280x768 pixels (266x161 millimeters)

resolution: 122x121 dots per inch

Grab a ruler and measure the screen you have. If it matches the millimeters reported by X, then skip step 2.

Step 2: edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and locate your Monitor section:

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Generic Monitor"

Option "DPMS"

DisplaySize 265 160

EndSection

Add in a DisplaySize like I have there. Now logout of your GUI and restart X - you can run /etc/init.d/{g,k}dm restart from the console, or do what I do - just hit ctrl-alt-bkspace so it restarts. Your login screen should change appearance slightly - either the fonts and regions will get bigger if your dpi was set too low, or vice verca.

Step 3: (For KDE users, someone please tell me what it should be, for GNOME read on)...

Run xdpyinfo again and find the Resolution: line. Ignore the fact that it may not be square, grab one of the two numbers ( I suggest the higher)..

Go to System, Preferences, Appearance, and the Font tab. Select 'Details'. There is a Resolution field there. Put in the single number you chose. Changes should take effect immediately.

Applications I know of which benefit from having this set correctly:

xpdf, gnome-* (panels are readable etc etc), firefox.