Re: How disable one of dual processors?

2005-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
given that cpu0 is dead, you might get some life out of it in the interum before getting a replacement by simply physically swapping cpus (2c) Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:04 -0300, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote: Hello fellows, I have a dual PowerMac G4

Re: [SLUG] clamd dead but subsys locked

2005-05-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
check permissions in the parent directories? Dean Voytek Eymont wrote: I've just tried to update my clamd but it fails to start now: # service clamd start Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon:[ OK ] # service clamd status clamd dead but subsys locked messages has: May 20

[SLUG] gig fibre cabling

2005-05-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
hi all im looking to pick up some gigabit fibre data cabling with the SX/SC ends (both ends). this is for the lanparty you may have seen posted on slug, we have gig fibre ports on the back of the cabletron switch stacks, and we just acquired some gig fibre cards - so hopefully someone has some

Re: [SLUG] MySQL server to server data transfer

2005-05-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
you could use replication temporarily just set it up, then run LOAD DATA FROM MASTER boom, off it goes. Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: Voytek wrote: I need to transfer several databases from one MySQL server to another, data szie about 350MB HD space; is it practical to do like 'mysqldump mysql.sql |

Re: [SLUG] Sources for Debian Sid (stable)

2005-05-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
the nice people at pacific do also (mirror.pacific.net.au) if your isp is peered with them then it will count as free data (if your isp does that, which they do seem to) Dean Rob Sharp wrote: I didn't realise that optus ran a debian mirror. Any ideas if Optus mirror use counts toward your monthly

Re: Pegasos II With Linux..

2005-05-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
sounds like you just havent configured things properly all the mentioned distributions are all just linux wrapped and bowed with different knots. id say that you havent provided anywhere near enough information to get any helpfull feedback how much ram do you have? what video card? have you

Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board

2005-04-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
be awair that often 'hardare raid' ata and sata controllers actually just have bioses which can boot from raided disks and then hand over to the OS. therefore their is no actual difference between 'hardware' and software raid as your cpu is doing the work please see documentation relating to your

Re: Charger ring colour does not fit apm indication

2005-04-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Eddy Petrisor wrote: Hello, I have a powerbook g4 with Debian installed on it and Mac OS X. The kernel used by me is 2.6.9 with benh's sleep patch. I have some concerns regarding charging and the battery: 1) When inserting the charger into the laptop and the battery is partially charged, then

Re: apple dvd pccard

2005-04-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
sadly the mpeg decoder on the ati cards in imac dv's (and my ibook dual usb) are unsupported thats the sole reason my old imac dv runs osx man id be willing to throw cash at someone to reverse engineer it. pity ben is a busy man as it is. someone clone him. Dean vinai wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005,

Re: apple dvd pccard

2005-04-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
sadly the mpeg decoder on the ati cards in imac dv's (and my ibook dual usb) are unsupported thats the sole reason my old imac dv runs osx man id be willing to throw cash at someone to reverse engineer it. pity ben is a busy man as it is. someone clone him. Well, that's a little bit of a different

Re: apple dvd pccard

2005-04-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
The ATI stuff is a hardware assist mecanism, it's doesn't do the entire decoding, it does HW IDCT and motion compensation stuff afaik, or that sort of thing. Anyway, we don't currently have specs on how to use it. ATI does provide a binary lib for x86 that can be used in linux, I think, but not

Re: [SLUG] Buying a Printer

2005-04-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
my 2pc, lexmark laser printers cost about $300 and you can even get them from aldi they are usb and parralel (in some cases, cant speak for the whole range). they do postscript and claim linux support. ive printed to one from linux and macosx through a windows machine. so im recommending them

[SLUG] gigabite fibre nics

2005-04-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
can anyone recommend a good gigabit fibre nic im not really certain of anything in that realm of networking. different bases etc. basically just eyeing these old gigabit fibre ports on some of these switches and thinking about putting servers on them (media converters seem to cost more than the

Re: iBook G3 owners

2005-04-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
speaking of xorg, is it in sarge or sid for ppc yet im still runnung xfree86 - but im assuming one magic day ill have an enormous update as xorg takes over and everything is compiled against it - and consequently repackaged Dean Steve Freitas wrote: On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:14 am, Benjamin

Re: Installing Debain on My AMD64

2005-04-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
I think running a 64bit system is all very nice (and fast), except for software availability. Sure, most software has a working 64bit version (unlike on Windows...), but a few pieces essential for the typical user are missing: most browser plugins, openoffice, wine etc. openoffice wont be far off,

Re: internal modem

2005-04-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75407 someone link this Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:59 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Dean Hamstead, on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:23:33 +1000, machine is a dual usb ibook has an internal 56k modem, it seems

Re: internal modem

2005-04-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
actually still havent found the command Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75407 someone link this Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:59 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Dean Hamstead, on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:23:33 +1000

Re: internal modem

2005-04-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
ahh ben comes through with the goods except for the actual doco... hrmm anyone using a modem on their ibook (even imac) and got some options? damned lack of apple cds Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:59 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Dean Hamstead, on Thu

internal modem

2005-04-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
machine is a dual usb ibook has an internal 56k modem, it seems to be at /dev/ttyS0 gtkterm seems happy enough to talk to the modem, but when i dial (ATDTx) it just spews garbage at me immediately no its not ppp, it just hammers in straight away with or without the phone line plugged in. could

[SLUG] Colored RJ45 Boots

2005-04-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
im looking for someone who sells colored rj45 boots. and by colored i mean not just ultramarine blue. its *really* hard to find someone local Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
ahh script kiddies might want to put ssh on a non standard port. Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: Joshua Bassett wrote: Hi Sluggers, I was going through my auth.log file the other day and noticed that someone (possibly several machines) are trying to login to my box using a variety of canned usernames.

Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
or use key based auth as well as login Dean David Kempe wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: ahh script kiddies might want to put ssh on a non standard port. If you dig through the archives, you might find a suggestion i made about tcpwrappers only allowing australian subnets. this will cut this crap

[SLUG] pata ide raid cards

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
anyone have a story to tell regarding hardware pata raid cards? my use of sata raid cards has proved to show that they are infact just a bios that can see software raid and then boot and tell the OS about is (see doco on sis driver) is this so with pata? i would like to know if the $50 cards you

Status

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
before i ask stupid questions is there a support status page for amd64 im interested in buying an FX cpu and then which video card is best supported (non-GPL will do) so nvidia or ati also whats mainboard support like im looking at a pci-e dfi lanparty board yeah so i like games. bah. Dean -- WWW:

Re: Status

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
to the weary traveller i was of course refering to running debian on the aforementioned hardware Dean Zachary Rizer wrote: The page you are looking for is here: http://www.google.com Regards, Zaq --- Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: before i ask stupid questions is there a support status

Re: Status

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Nvidia absolutely has the best drivers of those two. I would not personally buy an ATI for running a Linux system. thats the quick summary im after. thanks also whats mainboard support like Well the list has had a number of messages on that you can find in the archive. I think I have seen

Re: [SLUG] Groupware

2005-04-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
www.egroupware.org Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm looking for a web based multi-user calendar function that is web based, PHP and preferably Postgresql (but will accept MySQL). What are your recommendations? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Caldera

2005-03-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
there is no reason not too use an up to date distribution infact it would be recommended as the older versions have these things called bugs and security holes. you just have to be careful that you dont let the distribution get out of control with gnome or kde etc... especially on 32mb ram get

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
clamav Phill wrote: I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective and simple to setup? Regards, Phill -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
im running exim + clamav + spammassassin + mailman + mysql on openbsd go team opensource. but yeah. no dramas. i also dont allow malicious file formats such as .exe .scr etc if you cant zip them then theres a problem. i also explicitly ban chinese, russian and a few other character sets. but this

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
spamassasin turns away ALOT of spam but spam still gets through - thats life hence the hard rules based on character encoding and attachments Dean Gottfried Szing wrote: hi we turn away more mail than we recieve. and plenty of spam still gets through. but no virii. i am really curious, but is

Re: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
could be to do with password encryption (ie you need to turn it on in samba) Dean Phill wrote: I hsve setup a samba server on a fedora 3 platform but am having trouble connecting from windows xp. xp seems to recognise the share but the password is not accepted (the password is right). the samba

Re: [SLUG] email server

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
if your running your webserver and your mail server on the same machine then you just need https, connections from squirelmail to imap wont go through the internet and so dont need to be encrypted Dean Michael Fox wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:42:26 +1100, Phill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

Re: list of PowerMac sound hardware TO-DO (help welcome)

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
works and what is broken for each supported sound hardware? Such a table could go a long way towards helping whoever will pocket the $500 Ubuntu bounty for fixing ALSA for all pmac sound hardware variants. Not exactly, you are welcome to start such a table though :) This is what I

Re: [SLUG] RIP LinMagAU

2005-03-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
be sure to post a link some place Dean Simon Males wrote: We all know that LinMagAU stop publishing some time ago, and now the domain has been hijacked. Does anyone have the editions in one big tar ? I would really like to seem the articles appear online in one shape or form again, rather then

Re: exim4 does not deliver all local messages instantly

2005-03-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
if exim gets more than 10 messages in the one smtp connection it will differ them into the queue. This is a good thing in an extremely busy server - especially when queue runs are potentially served by other machines or some sort of cron based queue running is happening. if you can get fetchmail

Re: Ben and his MiniMac

2005-03-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
what are you saying about my car? i dont turn on the neon lights during the day... Dean david wrote: There is more to life than hours spent in traffic and cityscapes dominated by gaudy neon lighting ;) david Dean Hamstead wrote: a life? your live in canberra right? im not sure if thats possible

Re: Debian 3.0_r4

2005-03-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
im a sid man myself. but im not running production boxes sid being 'unstable' i think potatoe - way old woody - 'stable' but old sarge - 'testing' but new sid - 'unstable' bleeding edge i think thats right. anyway, often times youll do a system wide update and something minor will break. but

Re: Mirroring disks (almost) between hosts

2005-03-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
perhaps 'coda' might be of interest Dean Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Tamas K Papp wrote: Unless your servers have databases or something like that, unison might work. I looked at Unison and it's a file-synchronizer, i.e., bidirectional. I only want unidirectional. I

Re: installing net install oon IMAC G3

2005-03-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
just drop the boot images on the hard disk reboot, get into openfirmware, point it at the files and off you go. its all in the debian install doco Dean Bryan Frechette wrote: Hi, i would like to know, how we install the net install of debian PPC on an Imac G3 Bryan Frechette -- WWW:

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
benh still gets my vote as favourite ppc developer hmm i think im getting a complex here Dean david wrote: According to http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm The ppc community looks like it has added some development muscle to its linux component.. -- WWW:

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
It has nothing to do with IBM's involvement. In fact, if you look closely at the DRI lists, you'll see some IBM folks involved ;) im not saying they arent involved. my point was more they ship ppc based servers - so core stability would be my goal if i was them not bells and whistles. DRI for r300

gnome silliness

2005-03-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
does anyone know why gnome would be demanding 24 bit color. i would rather 16bt 800x600 over 24bit 640x480!! i cant find anytihng in ~/.gnome* /usr/share/gnome/* etc Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome silliness

2005-03-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats kind of the wierd thing gdm is happy with less colors more pixels. then gnome fires up and ruins everything kill gdm and use startx get nice little X cursor, gnome starts and the res goes all stupid im willing to admit metacity could be at fault here. Dean vinai wrote: does anyone know why

Re: iMac Mini

2005-03-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
so ben is fixing things already mwwoohahaha, my scheme to have someone fix problems before i buy one is working better than i could have dreamed!* Dean * if ben gets airport express going i think hell recieve more beer than any man ever before Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at

Re: mol and wlan

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
what are the advantages of using mol instead of dual-bool? Running several operating systems simultaneously, and being able to run earlier versions of Mac OS on newer hardware. virtual machines always have advantages and disadvantages over dual booting. mol isnt a true virtual machine as it

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
right? I'm not happy with nvida's proprietary drivers but in my eyes they are better than nothing if you need 3D. Even if Broadcom produces proprietary drivers, it would be a step forward in my opinion. I know we are a small market (Linux PPC users) but I still can't imagine they would pass up

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
can we please get these scanning patches into the debian kernels upstream into the main linus official would be nice, but if we can settle it into the debian releases it gives us a 'standard' to work from and adds credibility to getting it into the main kernel tree give me scanning and dont make

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
im note sure if 'tryong to get them back' is really a requirement of the GPL. i dont think your trying to say they violate the GPL, im sure your just saying that they arent being as community oriented as they might otherwise be. but my understanding of the GPL is that changes become GPL and should

Re: 2.6 kernel for iBook 500 Mhz G3 dual usb

2005-02-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
the stock debian 2.6 kernel should work fine works on my clamshell ibook, which is close enough to identical to yours you may just need to install the apm_emu module, the snd-powermac module and... well that should be about it. modem support is now in the kernel, not a module as for 3d

Re: [SLUG] uploading directory tree recursively

2005-02-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
can you get samba going the options 'recurse' and 'prompt' are the too little friends you want to enable so like cd /mnt/windows smbclient //myothercomputerwhichrocks/sharedspace prompt recurse mput * bam recurse and prompt may work with ftp also. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a

Re: [SLUG] problem solved, dilemma using samba please give comments

2005-02-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
another dilemma. is any slugger thinks that samba for roaming profiles needs a very high end computers. currently I am using Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz with 512 Mb RAM + 120 Gig Hard Drive, and the samba is serving 3 clients only with ok big profiles. do you thinks it is very bad using this configuration

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-02-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
given that ben paid a little out of his pocket im sure it will payback a little and still count ben will no doubt still be warmed by your donation ;) looking forward to seeing some pics and some results Dean On Fri, February 11, 2005 7:47 pm, Philipp Käser said: hej ben, Ok, I've revived

Re: imacmini paypal

2005-02-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
which model and what options did you buy? Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:41 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: or get out your electron microscope and some really small probes and start reverse engineering the chips ;) powerpcs are such a great cpu, alas the hardware attached

Re: [SLUG] Unable to login

2005-02-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
use init as /bin/bash remount root, change the root login youll need to pass init details to lilo (or other boot loader. lilo being the old school favourite. go lilo) Dean david wrote: Hi, I do not know what triggered it but one machine now refuses to allow logins. It's running and allowing

Re: imacmini paypal

2005-02-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
or get out your electron microscope and some really small probes and start reverse engineering the chips ;) powerpcs are such a great cpu, alas the hardware attached seems to be the playing ground of closed door hardware development. did you get your mac mini yet ben? Dean Sven Luther wrote: On

Re: [SLUG] mixed case web tree

2005-02-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
turn on mod_speling Dean On Tue, February 8, 2005 10:35 pm, Voytek Eymont said: I have a web user who seems to insist on using mIxEd caSE files/tree... he asked me to symlink '/path/lowercase' to real '/path/LOWERCASE' will that work properly, what do you fellow think ?

Re: [SLUG] mixed case web tree

2005-02-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
no joking here Dean Paul Robinson wrote: Yep - upon googling it yes it would.. I thought the other guy was joking when he suggested it :) Definitely the easiest option of the lot. Mike MacCana wrote: Paul Robinson wrote: Since linux treats lowercase and LOWERCASE as seperate items there's no

Re: [SLUG] forensics work without history file

2005-02-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
That wont handle the case of a remote login, either rsh or ssh ... or via the serial console. Is placing a keylogger even legal, with or without the employee's knowledge ? Just mention it in the MOTD which is displayed at login (but rarely read) Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Minimac for ben pledges

2005-02-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
the official pay pal account is... [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is ben's 'australia' pay pal account. there is no middle man, so your donations go straight to the man himself. and here is a list of the kind people who have pledged to help out. Dean Hamstead $50 Keving Hendricks $50 Barry Hawkins $50

Re: [SLUG] Linux rox...

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
hmm proprietry extensions always cause to raise an eyebrow. but i imagine that perhaps they enable some hardware feature in the card that wouldnt otherwise be used. Dean James Gray wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:03 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 19:52 +1100, James Gray wrote: Gotta admit

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
, to a point. It should definitely be a ppc distro if not debian/ubuntu. On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 14:25 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: im talking about suse supporting alsa Dean Mauro wrote: There is no such thing as suse ppc and there hasn't been for a few versions. Things have to get tested after porting

Re: [SLUG] Debian netinst iso's

2005-02-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
mirror.pacific.net.au? Dean Michael Fox wrote: What happened to all the mirrors holding netinst images. I can't find them. I am looking for the following one; http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20050115/sarge-i386-netinst.iso The link don't work, anyone know a mirror that

Re: [SLUG] Hostile LANs

2005-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have been asked to set up multiple LANs with Internet access in what I consider to be a hostile environment - a private uni student dorm complex. That's about as hostile as you get! A lot of intelligent (generally!) people with too much time on their hands. I'm told that most of them are

[SLUG] Matrox Millennium 32MB G450 DualHead AGP Video card

2005-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
has anyone has any experience with the video card in the subject line in linux. the x.org site claims good support. i understand it has lots of nice inbuilt hardware features. can someone just briefly run through status. dual output? opensource 3d drivers? etc? Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Matrox Millennium 32MB G450 DualHead AGP Video card

2005-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I used to run one of these... Ahh, great card. Significantly better in 2d display quality than the Radeon and finally Nvidia that replaced it. So crisp! Matrox is *the* card for display snobs. ;-) Back then, dual output was supported (3d on one head only), 3d was okay but that was never

Re: ical package?

2005-01-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
ical is a macosx application? the callender plugin for the mozilla suite can do ical files etc and is functionally identical or superiour to ical. the stand alone calendar - sunbird - isnt as stable as running as a plugin. i dont think sunbird is available for ppc. but the plugins are platform

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
turns out im in the same country as ben, or maybe ben is in the same country as me. i suppose that depends whos a citizen :) Dean Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2005 1426, somebody named Philipp Kaeser inscribed this message: additionally, concerning the discussion that

Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
thus far we have (im assuming US dollars here people) Dean Hamstead $50 Keving Hendricks $50 Barry Hawkins $50 Harvey Ussery $50 Dylan Beaudette $10 Philip Kaeser $50 Wilhelm Fitzpatrick $50 so $310, we are about 4 donations short Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: Actually, ive been meaning to make some

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
: Great idea!! I can give you $40. But how can I send you the money? Western Union takes $9.50 away. You would get ~$30 in the end. How does all the others send you there money? bye Roland Wegmann Am Mittwoch, den 26.01.2005, 22:19 +1100 schrieb Dean Hamstead: thus far we have (im assuming US dollars

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats $150 Dean On Tue, January 25, 2005 11:56 pm, Kevin B.Hendricks said: Hi, Put me down for $50 contribution too to get Ben a mini Mac. Kevin On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: Actually, ive been meaning to make some sort of contribution to the fine souls who keep

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
(which would be the way to go). just buy the gift voucher and send it to ben. thoughts? (ill add up the pledges so far later today - im kind of running in and out) Dean On Wed, January 26, 2005 5:22 am, Barry Hawkins said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Hamstead wrote

Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet? Dean On Tue, January 25, 2005 12:42 am, linuxx said: Anyone know if is posible boot this machine without keyboard,mouse and monitor of course after install linux in it , and how it work under debian-ppc ? I would like to get one to have 24h/day

Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
. but it wouldnt be tax deductable anyway (i think, im not american) so like, 9 or so more people and bam, ordered. Dean On Tue, January 25, 2005 12:44 pm, Dean Hamstead said: has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet? Dean On Tue, January 25, 2005 12:42 am, linuxx said: Anyone know

Re: AGP Support in PesasosII

2005-01-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
as 9700/9800, but not the 9600/9550 ones. There are no 3D drivers above the 9250 ones anyway, so a 9250 with 256MB of ram like the one sapphire build is a perfect match (an i think it is even fanless). that woudl explain why they only sell ati 9200's. the world makes sense again ;) There

Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
On 18/01/2005, at 2:27 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: I _NEED_ to sell my sgi visual workstation to pay some debts and also get OS for a wedding. I mainly had this machine for novelty value along with my swarms of macs running linux. Details This is a fairly loaded Silicon Graphics Visual

Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
is the term i believe. or haggling. eh something like that. anyway, make an offer if your interested. Dean Ben de Luca wrote: On 21/01/2005, at 7:46 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: this is second hand sales, i ask a price - you make an offer that just assumed in my mind. $2500 is what most second hand places

[SLUG] Exim and Authenticated SMTP

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
anyone using exim, with authenticated smtp ie plaintext and cram md5's. im looking for someone who can send some 'configure' snippets to allow users to relay based on them providing per user login credentials Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Stop Please Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
ok this whole thread has gone out of control i posted looking for anyone interested, its worth noting i posted to chat first - gave some time, and then to slug. obviously i didnt intend to spawn such a flame war. perhaps the word negotiable would have stopped this anyway regardless. i have had

[SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
I _NEED_ to sell my sgi visual workstation to pay some debts and also get OS for a wedding. I mainly had this machine for novelty value along with my swarms of macs running linux. Details This is a fairly loaded Silicon Graphics Visual Workstation 540. It is currently running Windows 2000,

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
someone buy me one, and i volunteer to play around with it Dean Colin Leroy wrote: On 15 Jan 2005 at 11h01, Richard L. wrote: Hi, Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. We'll know for sure when someone tries it :)

install docos for debian on dual g5

2005-01-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
the question of linux on dual g5s is so regular im wondering if someone could ut together some documents and link them off the debian ports page the existing linked documents were invaluable in my first few times of putting linux on mac hardware (much like the i386 install docos), so hat goes of

Re: Any Debian presence at MacWorld?

2005-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
I'm starting out on a PowerMac dual G5. It comes pre-formatted with the OS, and I'll probaly reformat it to my liking, but I am wondering how I can set up the partitioning. I want to use various flavors of Linux (YDL, gentoo, and debian, maybe knoppix) and FreeBSD. a little off topic but im

Re: Any Debian presence at MacWorld?

2005-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
I'm starting out on a PowerMac dual G5. It comes pre-formatted with the OS, and I'll probaly reformat it to my liking, but I am wondering how I can set up the partitioning. I want to use various flavors of Linux (YDL, gentoo, and debian, maybe knoppix) and FreeBSD. a little off topic but

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have just had access to a brand new iMac, and it just feels good to have such a snappy machine; with a better OS such as GNU/Linux -- Mac OS X still freezes for short periods, specially when using QuickTime for playing streams -- it could be serious competition. With Apple not

Re: ATI Rage128 video out didn't work

2005-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
has this patch been merged into the debian kernal image yet? im way too lazy to compile my own kernel. and i would like to see this actually be in the kernel. there was mention of making it conditional as apparently it breaks things for some machine. thanks Dean Matthias Grimm wrote: Am

Re: [SLUG] POP IMAP

2005-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've googled the wee-smalls. I've asked SuSE support who said Go Hops, this is not a free installation question, just like google said they would. So in desperation ... I have SuSE 9.2 pro installed (9.1 was the same) SquirrelMail, Evolution POPing wont work. Reason is

Re: [SLUG] Webcams - which to buy?

2005-01-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
you might save yourself a lot of pain by using a video capture card and an inexpensive video camera (security camera from jaycar or dse or something) firewire camera would also be a great option - firewire cards are cheap... you might be able to get an old video camera with some firewire action.

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
Igor Khavkine wrote: I'm thinking of getting a PowerPC box as my next desktop and I have a few questions. Hopefully this is the right place to ask. good idea. First are there viable alternatives to Apple computers for a PowerPC desktop? Can I get decent hardward without an OS for a

Re: [SLUG] Dell GX1 Optiplex Wont boot

2004-12-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
definately sounds like something has come loose in transit i would concur with stripping out all unneeded peripherals and cleaning the insides. but i wouldnt go past physical violence. not towards staff or friends but towards the machine itself. you would be suprised what a few well placed blows

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
given the variety of hardware would it be worth splitting up snd-powermac? how easily can code be used from darwin? Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:15 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas it doesnt know what

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas it doesnt know what to do when plugging in headphones not to mention lack of input sensors for my ibook (clamshell) i realise though that if you cant get specs and no one wants to tinker around stuff wont get implemented. but if its in

Re: [SLUG] Using htdig to index internal servers

2004-12-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
mount everything and index it? Dean Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, htdid easily indexes *nix internal servers but how do you index an SMB network? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: XMMS and alsa output on sid (goes too fast)

2004-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive had this problem for ever. ive always had to use alsa-oss Dean Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: 'ello, On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 22:12, Bobby Holley wrote: did anyone ever find a solution to this problem? I'm having the same issue (command line mp3 players like mpg321 work fine but xmms

Re: [SLUG] Production Ready software on Linux

2004-12-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
oracle i suppose thats a backend netscape. commercial software... whats commercial software. i find that i get on a windows machine and cant do what i want because it doesnt have any applications! Dean James Gray wrote: Hi All, The sales guys have asked me a question. What commercially

Re: [SLUG] Trkiye'nin en iyi bilgi yarmalar.

2004-12-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
as much as i hate replying to spam can we please just block obscure character sets? Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.birmilyon.com Eer bu mesaj dzgn gremiyor veya seenekleri iaretliyemiyorsanz buraya tklayn http://www.birmilyon.com/t.asp?guid=E1E80A70-E982-4F71-A5F2-584373345297 veya

Re: OT: Re: Netatalk over a wireless router?

2004-12-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
Yes. It doesn't say much other than the fact that the router is supposed to work with MAC OS, Windows and Linux. Work seems to be a pretty general term in this context. snip well tcpip works so it does, use cups and can connect to printers in a million different ways. including

Re: Netatalk over a wireless router?

2004-12-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
The wireless router is probably not a multi-protocol router. If so, it only handles IP, not AppleTalk. Try connecting to your printers and fileservers via IP. having read your next statement, have you read the specs of your wireless access point? Thanks! I hadn't even realized OS X let

Re: [SLUG] Adobe/Microsoft/Apple

2004-12-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
David wrote: I've been trying to persuade someone I know that his idea of security isn't very secure, when he sent me this: things I'd probably dump MS altogether and invest some time/effort/cash in Linux and related but too many clients (pretty much like me, really :-) have too much data in MS

Re: [SLUG] Wireless LAN

2004-12-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
go down to dick smiths and buy a few different brands. return the ones that dont work Dean james wrote: G'day Can anybody point me at a wireless PCI card that: a) Works with a recent 2.6 kernel b) Is available in OZ. I need to equip 30 systems. I have bought Cisco 350 cards that work perfectly,

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