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On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:43:04 -0600, Ned Latham wrote:

> Addinall wrote:
>> atec77 wrote:
>> > Addinall wrote:
> 
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> 
>> > > Downloads work fine, I am having unusual problems with uploads
>> > > under certain circumstances.
>> > >
>> > > ftp() works just fine.
>> > > posting to Google groups is fine.
>> > > email is OK.
>> > > general web surfing is OK.
>> > > mail works....
>> > >
>> > > uploading stuff via selected forms, like uploading a Word document
>> > > onto SEEK, uploading a file using CPANEL, responding through a form
>> > > like The Australian blogs ALWAYS times out.
>> > >
>> > > This has me a little stumped.Anyone else seen this behaviour on any
>> > > *NIX machines?
>> > >
>> > > I thought it might be iptables screwing around.... Can't see it.
> 
> G'day, Muck.

Heya Noddy.

> 
> Sometimes we overlook the obvious. Have you looked in /var/log/syslog?

Nothing in /val/log/messages

syslog doesn't exist anymore.

I scrapped Ubuntu and went back to RedHat (Fedora 16).

> 
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Mark.
>> >
>> > MTU ?
>>
>> Ta. I'll look. Can't see it as being other than vanilla, although my
>> confidence in Ubuntu is getting thinner and thinner with each release.
> 
> Dunno why you'd have confidence in it anyway. I know it comes with good
> drivers, but in other areas it sucks.

The latest 11.10 sure does suck.  BEGONE!

> 
> My Toshiba Satellite (now a couple of years old) is running Vista and
> Slackware 13.37. Had to rescue winblows last year (thank fuck for
> Linux). No problems at all with Slack, though I don't use SEEK or CPANEL
> or blogs or chat ...

I don't use chat.  BLOGs only when yelling at someone in the Australian.
CPANEL is quite important.  All of my clients use CPANEL on their hosted 
machines.  I don't want to run a data center, and CPANEL is an effective 
way of managing their boxes, and allows them to do some self management, 
mail accounts etc.  So the file upload from the file manager is important.

> 
> It doesn't compare with your situation, but why not give Slack a go?
> (Well, okay, in due course). You'd have to get under the hood a bit, but
> one of Slack's virtues is that it's the most Unix-like of the Linuces
> (well that's its rep. anyway), which should suit you down to the ground.

Slack was my fir linux.  Loved it.  Used to be BSDish through and 
through!  So falling of SCO into slack was easier than the move to Solaris 
(when it gave up BSD and went AT&T).

> 
>> I might try and losing the wireless router and just plug in direct.

Works direct.  The Belkin Wireless router doesn't want to play the game 
on uploads.  Swapped the router, no probs.  Here in South Bank we have 
just been upgraded to 30/2 FTTH so the upward handshaking might have some 
issues with the NAT on my wireless router.

> 
> Speaking of wireless, I'm looking at getting a mobile 'phone. So far the
> best buy looks to me to be the Samsung Galaxy S 2. What's your take on
> the current crop?

Samsung looks OK to me.  Although I am a very small user of the 
technology on 'smart' phones.  I find all the IOS and Android frappery 
gets in the way of saying 'Ullo'.  I bought an LG by Google coz it was 
cheap and seemed to do the same amount of rubbish all the rest do.

Tried a bit of Android development.  That sucks big time.  Pretend 
fucking Java.

Hope you are well Noddy, keep the shiny side up! ;-)

Mark.

> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Ned