[SLUG] Mini-Review: 2.4.0-test*

2000-06-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
Kernel Krazy this week - I installed test1 a few days ago, and test2 in the last couple. Here's what happened... test1: * No troubles on boot, everything ran as per. * Framebuffer consoles (with Matrox cards) are cool. You get a penguin for each processor in your system - now I have a

RE: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread John Wiltshire
From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Which just goes to show that when you bundle it in the lamers will use it and let themselves become the victims of Melissa, ILOVEYOU, Life-Stages, IDD redialers and all the crap that is associated with the product. Actually, it just

[SLUG] PHP programmer wanted

2000-06-28 Thread Del
Hi, Is anyone here available for a PHP programming job in the inner eastern suburbs (Paddington). Linux administration skills an advantage but not necessary, LDAP exposure would be an advantage too. Initially a contract term, 3 months, rates by negotiation, extension probable, may become

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Peter Rundle
the members page are missing a bloody /TABLE tag in the HTML, so they come up blank on Netscape. That is actually a deliberate and very slimy "inovation" by M$ of the HTML standard. Guess which web page editor is "broken" and doesn't put in /table tags, -- Front Page. Now guess which browser

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread John Zantey
Well well. We Linux advocados have a lot of catching up to do. JZ Hm./JZ BTW: Since when is 86% "everyone"? ALSO: Not all "others" use Netscape. JZ Double Hm /JZ If there are 100 Million PC's out there, then 14 MILLION of them are not using Internet Exploiter. JZ Well, I use

Re: DNS Serial Number Re: [SLUG] search and replace

2000-06-28 Thread Peter Samuel
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Right... so by the look of things the serial number is just the date in reverse? eg MMDD ?? The serial number is anything you want it to be. Many people use the date as above, along with a few extra digits to cope with multiple updates in the

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Peter Rundle wrote: That is actually a deliberate and very slimy "inovation" by M$ of the HTML standard. Guess which web page editor is "broken" and doesn't put in /table tags, -- Front Page. Now guess which browser is able to format pages properly even though the tag is missing. Yeah,

Fw: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread John Zantey
LOL... Hmmm. /me has evil grins Lets see... now I aint a JS proggy, but would this analogy produce accurate figures (may not even be legal for anything though, bummer ay! hehe)??? if document.write(navigator.userAgent) contains "MSIE" or "Windows" then do NOT do a hit count else do a hit

No Subject

2000-06-28 Thread pworboys
Can NT4 SP6 be changed to supply Plain Text Password -or- Samba configured to accept both Plain and Encrypted Passwords. Unfortunately I have a mixed enviroment of some WFWG/W95/W95a/W95b/W98 that need access to samba mounts so I took the 'plain text' password path. Now I need to connect to a

Re: DNS Serial Number Re: [SLUG] search and replace

2000-06-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Ok so there is not actual standard by increase you mean numberically have a higher value? if it was to be less than the previous value, i assume something dreadful would happen Dean Peter Samuel wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Right... so by the look of things the

[SLUG] Re: your mail

2000-06-28 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:04:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can NT4 SP6 be changed to supply Plain Text Password -or- Samba configured to accept both Plain and Encrypted Passwords. Yes. See /usr/doc/samba-2.0.7/docs/textdocs/ENCRYPTION.txt and

RE: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Alex S
Hi star office seems to browse nicly although the original fonts have a bit to be desired once u put some nice ones in u get a really nice browsing experience ;-) mabey the fact that it is done by sun who are java has somthing to do with it. But I still use lynx. feel the power.. my 2 bobs

[SLUG] X/gnome problem

2000-06-28 Thread Rathnor
Hello, X does not want to stay running for me. Whenever I run startx (or xinit), it crashes within seconds, or a couple of mins at most. The behavoius seems to stop when the machine is reset, but comes back every now and then. I am wondering if someone might know what is going on. The message

Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Danny Yee
Padmini Naidu wrote: [jo@sensi]$ uptime 11:40am up 600 days, 21:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Heh, that beats mine : www:~; uptime 8:30pm up 443 days, 6:19, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01 But this machine has been in continuous operation as a web server for

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Danny Yee
My web site logs disagree, they suggest the market share is 70% IE, 25% Netscape, and 5% other... Stats for the domains: dannyreviews.com danny.oz.au www.caa.org.au Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email

Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Terry Collins
Danny Yee wrote: .snip. But this machine has been in continuous operation as a web server for all that time, serving up to ten thousand requests a day - and it's also a 66Mhz 486 with 16MB of memory! Blow this, I've had enough. I'm retiring the pentium 100 with 64Mb of ram at

Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:50:11PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Does anyone know of a linux distro that will provide an apache server and nfs and fit onto 500Mb of hard disk (swap included)? {:-^). MCC or SLS should do this fine (You do remember MCC and SLS, dont you?? :) Scott. -- SLUG -

Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a linux distro that will provide an apache server and nfs and fit onto 500Mb of hard disk (swap included)? {:-^). Surely any distribution will do, provided that your web pages can fit into that space. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out!

Re: [SLUG] FrontPage Extensions

2000-06-28 Thread Jack Olszewski
Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:13:56 +1000 (EST): I'm trying to get FPE installed on Apache. I have gone back to apache 1.3.3 cos thats the version that FPE4.0 want to use. I can get the install script fp_install.sh to run, but when it asks for the

Re: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Erich Schulz
If you can be that macho, then I'll get my old XT off the shelf, dist down the covers, install ELKS, recompile appache to run in 640 K, with a 100MEG hard drive and the proceed to slowly emasculate myself with a rusty pen knife, yeah On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Danny Yee wrote:

[SLUG] Multiple term windows (TTYs) ?

2000-06-28 Thread Matt
Bit of a weird question but, when was this first introduced ? The ability to switch between term sessions with ALT Fx ? Is this a BASH/CSH thing or something else ? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

Re: [SLUG] Hi posters.

2000-06-28 Thread James Wilkinson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrew Macks generated: On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: I forgot to add - if you correct someones grammar, you lose points. someone's :) "Well, that's almost a sentence." -- Mr Burns. -- jamesw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread James Wilkinson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, DaZZa generated: data from 50 million visitors a day to umpteen sites, collected using WebSideStory's HitBox analysis technology. How many is 'umpteen' again? Less than 20? And what is the HitBox analysis technology? grepping access.logs and piping thru wc -l?

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread J Dean
Just checked up on Sydney Morning Herald stats. For last week SMH recorded. 62.9% IE 29.3% Netscape 3.5% AOL Web Browser Netscape still does well for a product that hasn't had a major release for years. Cheers James Dean F2 - Fairfax Interactive Network -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group

Re: [SLUG] Multiple term windows (TTYs) ?

2000-06-28 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:06:12PM -0500, Matt wrote: Bit of a weird question but, when was this first introduced ? The ability to switch between term sessions with ALT Fx ? Is this a BASH/CSH thing or something else ? You mean the multiple consoles? That was in Linux back before I started

Re: [SLUG] BeOS from Linux?

2000-06-28 Thread Tom Massey
Richard Blackburn wrote: Sluggers; A couple of the magazines have BeOS on their cover CDs. But they say that it has to be installed as a subset on Windows to launch. Anyone tried to install and launch it from Linux? Richard I haven't done this, but it should be possible to do. There was

RE: FW: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Jill Rowling
Too right - especially if it's "just a file server" with NFS. "who" or "w" - shows only yourself logged in. "netstat -a" - shows a gazillion other active connections. - Jill. ___ Jill Rowling Senior Design Engineer Unix System Administrator Electronic

RE: [SLUG] What is Jade ?

2000-06-28 Thread Aravind Naidu
Jade is John Clark's DSSSL Engine (we pronounce DSSSL diesel, so it's funnier when you read it out loud). James Clark you mean The father of all XML parsers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[SLUG] Update/thanks on 1. HTML refresh 2. Maintaining files on a Novel Server from Linux box.

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Lake
Hi All, This is just a follow up to let you know how two problems this newsgroup answered ended up. 1. Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh The problem was gifs being cached and the browser. Newer, dynamically created gifs were not being displayed. The script this was for is a Computer based Kinetics

[SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-28 Thread DaZZa
From slashdot... Blackbox writes "This site answers the age old question: "What do you get when you run 16 mobile phones in parallel?" The answer is of course a 150 kbit/s connection to the internet for your car! Check it out at: http://www.megacar.com shows you the details. Wow! I want one!

[SLUG] FW: flip flop (machine)

2000-06-28 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, This message below show 2 hardware ethernet MAC addresses which are actually from different ethernet cards. Both cards are on a different IP but arpwatch is showing this error. Any ideas on why it's flippin' and floppin'? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer

Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Erich Schulz
External modem On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Erich Schulz wrote: My web server at home is 33Meg Dx, works just fine on my US robotics 56K modem: Check it out (excuse the state of the web page) http://www.instrumental.com.au Is that an internal, or external modem? -- Erich

Re: [SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Fitch
DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] From slashdot... Blackbox writes "This site answers the age old question: "What do you get when you run 16 mobile phones in parallel?" The answer is of course a 150 kbit/s connection to the internet for your car! Check it out at: http://www.megacar.com shows you

Re: [SLUG] dead monitors and computers

2000-06-28 Thread jon
Quoting Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not only in Sydney, but out in the sticks as well. I'm starting to get buried in dead 'puters. Tell me about it !! I've had TRE (The Royal Edict) to the effect that "Thou shalt allow me to retake posession of our 4th bedroom !!!"... I feel a

[SLUG] 0 users on uptimes

2000-06-28 Thread Steve Kowalik
Jill, If a machine reports 0 users, and you know there are something like 20 logged on, the problem isn't that serious, it's just that they (terminal emulator, or terminal itself) can't write to utmp, or wtmp (damn caffeine-deprived mind.) When my machines do this, i usually chmod 4755

[SLUG] Transmeta Linux comments - PC Expo, NY

2000-06-28 Thread Jill Rowling
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/2628/tc/compaq_dell_shy_off_crusoe_chip_ 1.html ___ Jill Rowling Senior Design Engineer Unix System Administrator Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018