Re: [SLUG] debugging ODBC / samba - solved
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 06:55 PM, Stewart wrote: Anyhow, as Mike said and my experience is showing, it's not MYOB per se that's the problem, it's this ODBC driver using the MYOB file as a system DSN. Well i haven't exactly solved the problem but thought it worth posting that i'm now certain it's got nothing to do with samba at all. I moved the data file onto another 2k box and the ODBC connection was just as dastardly as when served via samba. Interesting though, when using tethereal to sniff network traffic in verbose mode, the odbc driver generated about 110Mb of textfile in a just a few seconds - i shut the sniff off for the rest of the 10 minutes the query took. a similar query to the same data file from MYOB took only a few seconds and created only about 8Mb of verbose tethereal data. just all FYI FWIW really. I'm going to hand the problem back to the software vendor now that i've proved it's not a server issue. ..S. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Evolution & IMAP
We have been using Lotus Notes for email for around 8 years. Notes has a fairly sophisticated database replication / mail holding system which is especially useful for occasionally connected users. They can prepare emails off line and when they connect send the mail and pick up any new mails. The server mail file and the client mail get updated to hold the same data. (This is also configurable) I have converted a couple of users to Linux running Redhat 9 and they are using Evolution as the client. They can read mail using IMAP, although they only get a local copy of new mail in a particular folder if they open that folder while connected to the server. When they send mail the senders copy is only stored on the particular computer they happen to be sitting at. They would like it to get stored on the server as well. A work around we use at the moment is that the user bcc's themselves a copy and then later files that appropriately on the server. Has anyone else found this to be a problem? I don't know if IMAP supports it but it would be nice to be able to send mail via IMAP and hus via the central server as well as read it and then a copy would be kept on the server. This is not an option in Evolution. Does anyone have another solution? I guess this is a problem with many email systems where users may access their mail from multiple locations or over an intermittent connection. Regards to all Steven -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Evolution & IMAP
I thought I saw the ability to send all your sent items to the server by modifying the send folder option. > We have been using Lotus Notes for email for around 8 years. Notes has a > fairly sophisticated database replication / mail holding system which is > especially useful for occasionally connected users. They can prepare > emails off line and when they connect send the mail and pick up any new > mails. The server mail file and the client mail get updated to hold the > same data. (This is also configurable) > > I have converted a couple of users to Linux running Redhat 9 and they are > using Evolution as the client. They can read mail using IMAP, although > they only get a local copy of new mail in a particular folder if they open > that folder while connected to the server. When they send mail the > senders copy is only stored on the particular computer they happen to be > sitting at. They would like it to get stored on the server as well. > > A work around we use at the moment is that the user bcc's themselves a > copy and then later files that appropriately on the server. > > Has anyone else found this to be a problem? I don't know if IMAP supports > it but it would be nice to be able to send mail via IMAP and hus via the > central server as well as read it and then a copy would be kept on the > server. This is not an option in Evolution. Does anyone have another > solution? I guess this is a problem with many email systems where users > may access their mail from multiple locations or over an intermittent > connection. > > Regards to all > Steven -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb Your one stop shop for I.T solutions. Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Themes in nautilus?
I have been looking to change the themes in nautilus on Redhat 9.0, Redhat 9.0 with xd2 and on Mandrake 9.1. Have these versions of nautilus have modded so that you can't change the themes? If now how do I change the themes? I have been down the road of edit, preferences the dialogue box that pops up does not have appearances at all. Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Themes in nautilus?
Kevin Saenz wrote: >I have been looking to change the themes in nautilus on Redhat 9.0, >Redhat 9.0 with xd2 and on Mandrake 9.1. Have these versions of >nautilus have modded so that you can't change the themes? No, nautilus now doesn't do themes -- but Icon themes will change the icons for you ;) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Distros & Versions for Sun Hardware
I have a Sun Sparcstation 10 (Solaris 8) and a Sun Sparcclassic (RH6.2)
that I want to move into a new DMZ.
So I'm looking for recommendations for distros & versions of Linux that
are best for their new role. Are any sparc linux suitable?
Gui's are irrelevant as I want to run a http and smtp servers and prefer
text configs.
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Re: [SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m
--- Nick Croft wrote: > Just wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the meaning, > purpose or > origin of those strange nonsense words in spam. I'm busy refining > spamc > & bogofilter atm and I see a lot of those words. It's got to do with fooling Bayesian statistical filters, I think. See this article for a description: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html I guess what normally happens is that if a message is identified as spam, it's keywords are added to the filter's database of spam-keywords. These messages make sure that a bunch of nonsense is added to the database at the same time, eventually clogging it up with nonsense. That's just a guess - I'm no expert on this stuff. Surely it's easy enough to filter out the nonsense, and _then_ run the message through the filter. If it was me, I'd be looking for _collocations_ of keywords (e.g. 'prescription' only if it co-occurs within a given span with 'viagra' or 'vallium'...). But like I said, this isn't my field. Are there any filters that attempt to scan for grammatical pattens, like for example imperatives "Visit our exciting web-site!" or clauses without a finite verb "Free viagra content here!" ? Or do they all just work at the vocabulary level? mark = mark a. bell http://www.users.bigpond.com/m487396 __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Themes in nautilus?
That bites. When did they stop that? > No, nautilus now doesn't do themes -- but Icon themes will change the > icons for you ;) > > __ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Billion ADSL Router (BIPAC-741)
G'day SLUGers Does anyone here ever using BIPAC-741 from Billion? I'm using InterNode ADSL which giving me a dynamic ip. I've tried so hard to configure its 'Virtual Server' feature to redirect any incoming HTTP from outside world into my tiny box of redhat 9 web server. I can open my web server via local connection (e.g. http://192.168.1.10) which I supposed theres nothing wrong with the conf. But if I type in the ADSL ip address, it open the front page of the ADSL modem configuration page, which is really security_risk for me. Any comment? Phillipus. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Please Help
I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data transmissions (from phone line recording made w/sound board) and would like to decode both originating/answer sides of data transmissions after call has been made. I have no way of converting this .wav file to ASCII data. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thank You, Edward Maloney -- ___ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Billion ADSL Router (BIPAC-741)
That might be normal, you could try to request a page from outside your network and see if that works. You're probably getting the router config page because you are connecting to it from the 'inside' Babelfish is one way to test it. On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:29, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > G'day SLUGers > > Does anyone here ever using BIPAC-741 from Billion? > > I'm using InterNode ADSL which giving me a dynamic ip. > I've tried so hard to configure its 'Virtual Server' > feature to redirect any incoming HTTP from outside > world into my tiny box of redhat 9 web server. > > I can open my web server via local connection (e.g. > http://192.168.1.10) which I supposed theres nothing > wrong with the conf. > > But if I type in the ADSL ip address, it open the > front page of the ADSL modem configuration page, which > is really security_risk for me. > > Any comment? > > > Phillipus. > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Felix Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] OT - Australian distro?
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:43:03AM +0300, David Howard wrote: > As an expat a long way from home, I find myself using (apart from > straight Debian) mainly Canadian distros (Libranet/Vector/Peanut). > To the best of my knowledge, no Australian distros are currently > extant. My question is, are any in the works? There are 49 Australians in Debian-devel [1] and probably a dozen New/Unofficial Maintainers (including Daniel Stone and myself). Is that close enough? = P Cheers, Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau [1] http://people.debian.org/~edward/globe/countries/ -- -- * Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau Computer Science & Student Rep, UNSW * * # apt-get into itDebian GNU/Linux Package Maintainer * * * * 1024D/2E8B68BD: 0B77 73D0 4F3B F286 63F1 9F4A 9B24 C07D 2E8B 68BD * -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
Title: Mensaje Hi all, I´m preparing my migration to Australia (not yet there) but I´m gathering some information about the linux world in down under. Is there any specially popular distribution in Australia? or is it like in th US? Do you guys are all members of ACS? or any other organization? Cheers... Enrique.- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux in a Laptop.
Title: Mensaje Hi all, Is any one running linux in a thinkpad T30 with reasonable success? I just got mine with Windows XP but want to dual boot it with Linux. Which distribution would be more appropiate? Thanks in advance for any advice Enrique.- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Billion ADSL Router (BIPAC-741)
If you are typing in the ADSL internal address (192.168.1.x) and getting it's configuration page that is ok, it is supposed to forward it's EXTERNAL address. If you can access the modem configuration page externally (from the net) I would disable that. If the modem is listening to port 80, either change it (I think it is in the misc. settings) or change th port for your web server (LISTEN XX in the conf file). Make sure you forward the port your server is using. Don't test INTERNALLY. test EXTERNALLY - if you can, shell on to an external linux box and use a text based browser - links or lynx - and test. Don't forget that the ip is dynamic take steps to track it. Hope this helps. Regards, Mehmet - Original Message - Subject: [SLUG] Billion ADSL Router (BIPAC-741) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-06-2003 03:18 > G'day SLUGers > > Does anyone here ever using BIPAC-741 from Billion? > > I'm using InterNode ADSL which giving me a dynamic ip. > I've tried so hard to configure its 'Virtual Server' > feature to redirect any incoming HTTP from outside > world into my tiny box of redhat 9 web server. > > I can open my web server via local connection (e.g. > http://192.168.1.10) which I supposed theres nothing > wrong with the conf. > > But if I type in the ADSL ip address, it open the > front page of the ADSL modem configuration page, which > is really security_risk for me. > > Any comment? > > > Phillipus. > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Please Help
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:34:18 +0800 "Edward Maloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data > transmissions (from phone line recording made w/sound board) > and would like to decode both originating/answer sides of data > transmissions after call has been made. I have no way of > converting this .wav file to ASCII data. Do you mean performing speech recognition on the WAV file to produce a transcript of the recorded voice? If so, then this technology does not really exist yet. I do not know of an speech recognition software for Linux and even the stuff available for windows is rather limited. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -- Ernst Jan Plugge -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[slug] Irritating terminations
Hello Sluggers, As a part time user of this Mandrake 9 distro of Linux I have a problem interpreting the details of a log file taken from kppp. What is happening almost every time I log in to my ISP - tac.net.au on the central coast - is that I am disconnected, usually within 0.7 minutes as you may see in the log. It is a plain dial up connection with no ADSL or other special facilities. Sometimes it happens once, most usually twice on almost every log in to the ISP for the last few weeks, it was good for a while - before I renewed my subscription to the ISP for another year, and now after a few months of clean operation it seems to be disconnecting with the same abandon it did before. At that time there was a bit of static on the line, but at the moment it is clear as a bell, the static just seems to have shifted to my mothers place. Anyone fill me in on what the cause of it may be? I'm using a 56 kb external modem - acer 56k surf. I had heard a conspiracy theory about telcos and ISPs, which when put to my ISP was vehemently denied, that some users had their first calls disconnected by the ISP so twice as many calls had to be made - good for telcos and good for ISP's, especially if, as it was alleged, the ISP was working on commission for a telco... the other extension of this is that the telco can detect the type of device in operation and react in accord with their profit motives - anybody else know of this, it certainly would seem to fit a few pieces of the jigsaw together. Here is the log for this mornings effort: Jun 15 08:47:01 localhost pppd[17861]: pppd 2.4.1 started by neast, uid 500 Jun 15 08:47:01 localhost pppd[17861]: using channel 3 Jun 15 08:47:01 localhost pppd[17861]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 15 08:47:01 localhost pppd[17861]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tts/0 Jun 15 08:47:01 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jun 15 08:47:04 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jun 15 08:47:11 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x41 ] Jun 15 08:47:11 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x41 ] Jun 15 08:47:11 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x42 ] Jun 15 08:47:11 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x42 ] Jun 15 08:47:11 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x43 ] Jun 15 08:47:11 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x43 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x44 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x44 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="neast" password=] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 ""] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x75 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x75 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [proto=0x8207] 01 65 00 04 Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: Unsupported protocol 0x8207 received Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP ProtRej id=0x2 82 07 01 65 00 04] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 ] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0x45 80 fd 01 01 00 0f 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2] Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: local IP address 202.9.246.109 Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: remote IP address 202.9.246.65 Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: primary DNS address 202.9.244.6 Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: secondary DNS address 202.9.244.3 Jun 15 08:47:13 localhost pppd[17861]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 17872) Jun 15 08:47:14 localhost pppd[17861]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 17872), status = 0x0 Jun 15 08:47:28 localhost pppd[17861]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0xa2a78d1e 00 2d 0f 01] Jun 15 08:47:28 localhost pppd[17861]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0xb5c25f2f 00 2d 0f 01] Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Modem hangup Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 17885) Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Connection terminated. Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Connect time 0.7 minutes. Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Sent 87 bytes, received 70 bytes. Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Couldn't release PPP unit: Invalid argument Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 17885 Jun 15 08:47:42 localhost pppd[17861]: Script /etc/
Re: [SLUG] Evolution & IMAP
Thank you I spent quite some time looking in all the wrong places for ways to set this up. Of course now Notes doesn't seem to offer its sent folder as an option to the IMAP client. These things always seem more difficult than they ought to be. Steven Kevin Saenz replied I thought I saw the ability to send all your sent items to the server by modifying the send folder option. > We have been using Lotus Notes for email for around 8 years. Notes has a > fairly sophisticated database replication / mail holding system which is > especially useful for occasionally connected users. They can prepare > emails off line and when they connect send the mail and pick up any new > mails. The server mail file and the client mail get updated to hold the > same data. (This is also configurable) > > I have converted a couple of users to Linux running Redhat 9 and they are > using Evolution as the client. They can read mail using IMAP, although > they only get a local copy of new mail in a particular folder if they open > that folder while connected to the server. When they send mail the > senders copy is only stored on the particular computer they happen to be > sitting at. They would like it to get stored on the server as well. > > A work around we use at the moment is that the user bcc's themselves a > copy and then later files that appropriately on the server. > > Has anyone else found this to be a problem? I don't know if IMAP supports > it but it would be nice to be able to send mail via IMAP and hus via the > central server as well as read it and then a copy would be kept on the > server. This is not an option in Evolution. Does anyone have another > solution? I guess this is a problem with many email systems where users > may access their mail from multiple locations or over an intermittent > connection. > > Regards to all > Steven -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb Your one stop shop for I.T solutions. Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Enrique Vila wrote: > I´m preparing my migration to Australia (not yet there) but I´m > gathering some information about the linux world in down under. > > Is there any specially popular distribution in Australia? or is it like > in th US? Dunno how it is in the US, but here Debian, RedHat, and Mandrake are all pretty popular. The odd copy of SuSE pops up, and others like Gentoo and whatnot are seen, but the big 3 dominate. > Do you guys are all members of ACS? or any other organization? I'm StudIEEE, StudIEAust, StudAPESMA, but not because of my interest in Linux. To become an ACS member, you have to hold appropriate technical qualifications - which I'll wager half of the people on SLUG don't have (not necessarily a bad thing...). In the circles I frequent, the ACS is seen as a bit of a joke - an MS shill, and not overly interested in true state of the art. I think IEEE's Computer Society isn't bad, but it isn't local. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
g'day enrique :) > I´m preparing my migration to Australia (not yet there) but I´m > gathering some information about the linux world in down under. :) this mailing list is certainly one good place to get info :) it doesn't really matter which state (or territory) u r gonna live in ... u should be able find a Linux Users Group similar to this one :)) > Is there any specially popular distribution in Australia? or is it like > in th US? others will be more expert than me as to the types of distros available ... matthew mentioned four of them... but i do believe there are "made in australia" distros as well... if u look at the archives from the last coupla weeks i think u will find a discussion of oz distros > Do you guys are all members of ACS? or any other organization? hhhmmm i m a member of the fishing club at the local pub (drinking hole - place where alcoholic beverages are served) :)) does that count?? :))) seriously.. i suspect that u will find a huge diversity of ppl on this mailing list... i think that one of the members of slug is a young man in his early teens... i suspect he is very good with python :) matey :) u come on down under ... we'll throw another shrimp on the barbie for yer :) oh .. also .. crack a tinny or two when u get here ... ok?? :)) see yer :) m -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m
I've always presumed that it was some type of cookie; in the bovious way, to validate the email, but also if you complained to the isp they would be able to know who complained if the isp then showed the complaint to the spammer. But yeah, trying to fool filters is probably the main purpose. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Red Hat Install Problems on Laptop
All: I am trying to install Red hat Linux 8.0 on Sony's PCG-Z1P Notebook. However I am having problems creating partitions. With Disk Druid, from the drive rectangular display, I do not even see the current NTFS partitions from Windows XP. Anyway I tried to create a "/boot" partition, and I get an error message: "Could not allocate requested partitions: partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions" ? What is the issue here ? On my PC I can see the Windows partitions from Disk Druid, and can successfully create Linux partitions ? Should I create the recommended "/", "/boot", "/usr" etc ... using partition magic may be ? But then will the install CDs work and skip partition part of the install ? Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:51, Matthew Palmer wrote: > I'm StudIEEE, StudIEAust, StudAPESMA, but not because of my interest in > Linux. To become an ACS member, you have to hold appropriate technical > qualifications - which I'll wager half of the people on SLUG don't have (not > necessarily a bad thing...). In the circles I frequent, the ACS is seen as > a bit of a joke - an MS shill, and not overly interested in true state of the > art. I think IEEE's Computer Society isn't bad, but it isn't local. A tad harsh on the ACS, I think. In New South Wales the ACS have an open source SIG, and you don't need to be a member to come along to the SIG meetings (but members will get priority e.g. if there is not enough room at a meeting). The SIG home page is here: http://acs.org.au/nsw/sigs/opensource/index.html Also, the ACS can be a good place to network - i.e. find work. All the best, Bruce Badger http://www.openskills.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
ACS commentsRe: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
Bruce Badger wrote:
> > ...snip
> > In the circles I frequent, the ACS is seen as
> > a bit of a joke - an MS shill, and not overly interested in true state of the
> > art. I think IEEE's Computer Society isn't bad, but it isn't local.
>
> A tad harsh on the ACS, I think.
I disagree. In 20 years of IT, the question of ACS membership has only
been raised once and it is, in my experience, generally not held in high
esteem.
The ACS decided to be an elitist oganisation right from the start and as
a consequence it is largely irrelevant.
When the formalisation of SLUG was considered, being under ACS was
considered for a mirthful microsecond.
>
> In New South Wales the ACS have an open source SIG,
As does AUUG, which was seriously considered for the formalisation of
SLUG, but it was felt that an US & Them situation would exist from
membership of AUUG costing $100pa.
Both were also felt to be Johnny-come-lately organisations to the
question of open source and that the real reason for them taking on
board open-source was to retain members, rather than promote open
source.
I've always felt that SLUG was the best for open source, because it was
not elitest and restrictive in whom it would accept.
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Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:35:22AM +1000, moise lim wrote: > :) this mailing list is certainly one good place to get info :) it doesn't > really matter which state (or territory) u r gonna live in ... u should be > able find a Linux Users Group similar to this one :)) > Hrm, did I get my windows mixed up? Am I on IRC instead of a mailing list? ;) -- Jon Teh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] lost menus
Hi All, I just upgraded my Sid desktop and have lost everything under the menus in Gnome. Is something broken in the archives or have I done something stupid?? Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Jon Teh wrote: > Hrm, did I get my windows mixed up? Am I on IRC instead of a mailing > list? > > > ;) Chuckled once because of the way you spelt tongue. Chuckled a second time when I realised `teh' was intentional as its your surname :D Mike > -- Jon Teh > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LILO problems
Hi everyone I'm a newbie, firmly entrenched in the Microsoft way (but not liking it) so looking to alternatives. I have installed Mandrake 9 and love it, but am having a few difficulties. Re LILO, here's my problem: 1. installed Win2K on hda1 2. installed Linux in hdb1 3. LILO worked fine 4. reinstalled Linux on hdb1 5. LILO didn't work any more, and trashed my MBR so couldn't boot into Windows. 6. Reinstalled Win2k 7. No LILO! I haven't been able to get LILO installed and working since - at the moment I don't get a LILO prompt, my computer boots straight into windows unless I boot from a floppy, but this is a pain as I need to eject it every time I want to boot into Windows. My disks are arranged thus: hda1 (one partition) => windows, bootable; hdb1 (default partitions courtesy of Linux) => Mandrake 9, also bootable. I'm attempting to install LILO on hdb1, with Linux as the default OS. I've followed all the advice I can find on the net, and still can't seem to get it working, so I'm missing something pretty obvious. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction... Thanks in advance <>-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LILO problems
On Saturday 14 June 2003 15:58, Geoff Howell wrote: > 6. Reinstalled Win2k > 7. No LILO! > I haven't been able to get LILO installed and working since - at the moment > I don't get a LILO prompt, my computer boots straight into windows unless I > boot from a floppy, but this is a pain as I need to eject it every time I > want to boot into Windows. Since reinstalling W2K, what have you tried to do to get lilo working? It's been a while since I used lilo, as Redhat has used the vastly superior GRUB bootloader for ages. Anyway, I thought the preferred method for setting up dual boot machines these days was to use the W2K bootloader, and I have had success doing it this way in the past, eg see this page: http://classes.csumb.edu/CST/CST434-01/world/DualBoot.html good luck. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Please Help
Like Erik, I'm not really sure what you want to do. If you want the best chance of getting help on this list (and others), check out this howto: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and especially: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific Have you already produced the .wav file and just want to convert it, or do you need assistance with making the .wav file also? Carl. On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:34, Edward Maloney wrote: > I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data transmissions > (from phone line recording made w/sound board) and would like to decode > both originating/answer sides of data transmissions after call has been > made. I have no way of converting this .wav file to ASCII data. > > Any help would greatly be appreciated. > > Thank You, > Edward Maloney > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG]
On Sunday 08 June 2003 03:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi There, > > relay=c68.115.75.246.euc.wi.charter.com [68.115.75.246], reject=553 5.1.8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > does not exist > My sendmail admin skills are pretty much non-existent, but I have had a similiar problem before. The mail relay is doing a DNS lookup on the domain of the sender address, and rejects it if the address cannot be found. This is presumably a spam prevention measure. In my case, I registered a domain + hostname for the box and everything worked fine after that. Note that it's not normal to use an IP address as part of a mail addy, I don't know whether the relay would do a reverse DNS lookup in this case. Carl. PS: Please use a proper subject line in future when posting. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux in a Laptop.
On Sunday 15 June 2003 06:17, Enrique Vila wrote: > Which distribution would be more appropiate? What are your trying to do, start a flamewar ? :-) I have run Redhat 9 on several different Dell laptops quite successfully, but never on an IBM. If you are new to GNU/Linux, choose from Redhat, Mandrake or Suse. Any of these really should be fine. I use Redhat, but that's only 'cause it's what I am used to. You may be interested in reading: http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/t30.html http://www.jeo.net/T30/ I found these links at: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Carl. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LILO problems
you could try rescue command when you insert the mandrake boot disk. you could probably recover linux that once you have linux you could then install lilo to install in the MBR I think the command is something like lilo -M -b /dev/hda -C /etc/lilo.conf I am not sure if I have gone overboard. Also you could try grub seems to be a nicer boot loader. > Hi everyone > I'm a newbie, firmly entrenched in the Microsoft way (but not liking it) so > looking to alternatives. I have installed Mandrake 9 and love it, but am > having a few difficulties. Re LILO, here's my problem: > 1. installed Win2K on hda1 > 2. installed Linux in hdb1 > 3. LILO worked fine > 4. reinstalled Linux on hdb1 > 5. LILO didn't work any more, and trashed my MBR so couldn't boot into > Windows. > 6. Reinstalled Win2k > 7. No LILO! > I haven't been able to get LILO installed and working since - at the moment > I don't get a LILO prompt, my computer boots straight into windows unless I > boot from a floppy, but this is a pain as I need to eject it every time I > want to boot into Windows. > My disks are arranged thus: hda1 (one partition) => windows, bootable; hdb1 > (default partitions courtesy of Linux) => Mandrake 9, also bootable. I'm > attempting to install LILO on hdb1, with Linux as the default OS. > I've followed all the advice I can find on the net, and still can't seem to > get it working, so I'm missing something pretty obvious. I'd appreciate it > if someone could point me in the right direction... > Thanks in advance > > __ > > * > NOTE: An attachment named winmail.dat was deleted from this message because it > contained a windows executableor other potentially dangerous file type.Contact the > system administrator for more information. > > __ > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb Your one stop shop for I.T solutions. Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] lost menus
Is this XD2 you installed? > Hi All, > > I just upgraded my Sid desktop and have lost everything under the menus > in Gnome. Is something broken in the archives or have I done something > stupid?? > > Adam. -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb Your one stop shop for I.T solutions. Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LILO problems
Geoff Howell wrote: >6. Reinstalled Win2k >7. No LILO! Run lilo -v pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] lost menus
Kevin Saenz wrote: >Is this XD2 you installed? Ximian no longer produces Debian packages. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] lost menus
Ok no prob > Kevin Saenz wrote: > >Is this XD2 you installed? > > Ximian no longer produces Debian packages. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
