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Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin & MYOB - is it really this bad?

2003-07-07 Thread mkraus

Stuart,

If you're accessing the data file locally, check that the permissions for the files and directories are the same as if from samba.

MYOB achieves filesharing of data files via lockfiles, if one user logs into MYOB (creates a lockfile), and the other user can't read or modify that lockfile they will not be able to use the same MYOB data file under MYOB.

I hope this is clear, and from the looks of things, its probably what's happening. (Ie. you access locally and it locks other users out as they don't have the priveleges to read/modify the lockfile.)

Warmest regards

Mike
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Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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07/07/2003 04:35 PM

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Subject: [SLUG] Win4Lin & MYOB - is it really this bad?

Just wondering if anyone else has a major performance issue with running
Win4Lin Server edition (within that MYOB Premier Accounts).

I'm accessing a samba network drive from within the copy of win4lin so
that the MYOB data can be shared across a company. This works OK for
Win98 clients accessing the data, speed is OK. From Win4Lin, it sucks.
Performance is about 1/5 the speed or worse.

Accessing MYOB data directly from Win4Lin to file on same Linux Box is as
fast as I could expect. Unfortunately, this will not allow the MYOB data file to be
shared with the other users. Only accessing via MS Networking will allow this and that slows it down big time.

I've also emailed support @ Netraverse but so far (ie 3 days ago) no response.

As an alternative, has anyone tried crossover office with MYOB in Network 'file share' mode?

Stu

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Re: [SLUG] mandrake 9.1 cdrom and sound

2003-07-07 Thread John Nicholls

Wayne Crich wrote:
This sounds like two dumb questions. After years of using RedHat i have 
set a machine up with mandrake.
 
Two simple problems:
 
1) No sound - Yet card is configured correctly and volume is set above 0.
You also need to add yourself to the audio and cdrom groups. Mandrake 
doesn't do tnis automatically.
John

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Re: [SLUG] mandrake 9.1 cdrom and sound

2003-07-07 Thread Stuart Guthrie

Hi John,

> You also need to add yourself to the audio and cdrom groups. Mandrake 
doesn't do tnis automatically.

I did not have to do this..

>groups sfg
sfg : sfg
Yet I can still do the audio thing. Maybe this was an older Version 
requirement? I'm using Mdk 9.1.

Stu

John Nicholls wrote:

You also need to add yourself to the audio and cdrom groups. Mandrake 
doesn't do tnis automatically.
John

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Re: [SLUG] mandrake 9.1 cdrom and sound

2003-07-07 Thread John Nicholls

Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Hi John,

 > You also need to add yourself to the audio and cdrom groups. Mandrake 
doesn't do tnis automatically.

I did not have to do this..

 >groups sfg
sfg : sfg
Yet I can still do the audio thing. Maybe this was an older Version 
requirement? I'm using Mdk 9.1.
Strange. This was on 9.1.
John


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Re: [SLUG] mandrake 9.1 cdrom and sound

2003-07-07 Thread James Gregory

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 17:37, John Nicholls wrote:

> Strange. This was on 9.1.

I don't know for how long it has been the case, but gdm at least changes
the ownership of the appropriate /dev entries when you log in using it.
So if you're using runlevel 5 you shouldn't need to worry about it.
You'll find however that this is a problem if you attempt to ssh to a
mandrake box where you haven't logged in with gdm -- though playing mp3s
on a computer you aren't near isn't generally a productive innovation.

James.


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Re: [SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-07 Thread John McQuillen

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:49, Douglas Stalker wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard
> drive.
> 
> > The only problem is that although Diskdrake shows the new partitions
> at
> > the new sizes, df still reports the old sizes and free space. It
> appears
> > that the file systems have not grown to fit the new partitions. Is
> there
> > anything that I can do to fix this, or do I have to start again?
> 
> The utility 'resize2fs' can resize ext2 and ext3 filesystems to take
> up the entire partition without losing any data (but backup beforehand
> just to make sure.  :-)  By default, it will grow the filesystem to
> fill the partition.  'man resize2fs' will have more details.
> 
> Knoppix includes resize2fs, which makes it easy to boot up off the CD
> and resize the partitions on the hard-drive.
> 
> If you're using reiser fs, try using the resize_reiserfs utility
> instead.

That worked perfectly. I had to boot to the Mandrake rescue disk and run
resize_reiserfs on each of /dev/hda1,6,7 & 8 (after copying it onto a
floppy as it isn't on the rescue disk) and I am now in business with
much more free space.

Thanks and cheers,

John...
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Re: [SLUG] Re: [Debian-au] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Airlie

> >
> > Currently, I believe we need a location that
> >   - has food and drink nearby,
> >   - is accessable via public transport
> To me that is the #1 problem with it.  I like the place itself but
> walking through the park in the dark (and it gets real dark as most of
> the few lights dont work) by yourself is not too much fun.

just on getting to the WBH after dark (I'm not a debian user, but I live
within sight of the WBH), if you walk along the wharf to the steps up to
victoria street and then up victoria street to the KC train station, it is
probably a while lot nicer than either the park or central Wolloomooloo...

Dave.

>  - Craig
>

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Re: [SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-07 Thread Shaun Oliver

remember everyone, 
utilities like norton ghost and dd take the partition table along for
the ride when you do a clone of the image.
that's why the df reports the wrong partition sizes
use nopix or your boot floppies and backup all the files you want to
move to the new partitions and reformat those partitions before
restoring.
hth

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[SLUG] Can't watch le tour de France! because of M$ media player

2003-07-07 Thread linley caetan

Mplayer will not le me play this link to the audio or videi feed from 
the Tour de France.
   typical link 
is:http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/oln/tdf2003video/05action2_100.wvx

Mplayer spits out:
Playing mms://gcrod9.streamos.com/6/oln/tdf2003video/05action2_100.wmv
Resolving gcrod9.streamos.com ...
Connecting to server gcrod9.streamos.com[64.152.108.145]:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving gcrod9.streamos.com ...
Connecting to server gcrod9.streamos.com[64.152.108.145]:80 ...
Server return 500:Internal Server Error
Unknown ASF streaming type
Resolving gcrod9.streamos.com ...
Connecting to server gcrod9.streamos.com[64.152.108.145]:1755 ...
connected
file object, packet length = 1200 (1200)
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream id: 1
stream object, stream id: 2
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1200
Cache size set to 185 KBytes
Connected to server: gcrod9.streamos.com
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
command packet detected, len=60  cmd=0x5
Cache fill: 17.39% (32768 bytes)Detected ASF file format!
 ASF Stream group == START ===
object size = 38
stream count=[0x2][2]
  stream id=[0x1][1]
  max bitrate=[0x243e][9278]
  stream id=[0x2][2]
  max bitrate=[0x16b0b][92939]
 ASF Stream group == END ===
VIDEO:  [WMV3]  176x132  24bpp
==
Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available (enable it 
at compilation!)
*** Try to upgrade /home/linley/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Can't find codec for audio format 0x161!
==
fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
==
*** Try to upgrade /home/linley/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Can't find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57!
==

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Re: [SLUG] Can't watch le tour de France! because of M$ media player

2003-07-07 Thread Rev Simon Rumble

On Mon 07 Jul, linley caetan bloviated thus:
> Mplayer will not le me play this link to the audio or videi feed from 
> the Tour de France.
>typical link 
> is:http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/oln/tdf2003video/05action2_100.wvx

mplayer handles it for me  (mind you, I've done it from a terminal
session and am only assuming it spat out video and audio on my machine
at home, terrifying the girlfriend no doubt)

VIDEO:  [WMV3]  176x132  24bpp
==
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 11025 Hz, 1 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 1002->22050 (8.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
==
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local
display)
Disabling DPMS
==
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
External func OLEAUT32.dll:8
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0   size:69696  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 176 x 132 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 176x132 => 176x132 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm:dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==

I'm running MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.3 and have all the codecs from the
MPlayer site downloaded.

Perhaps you could try downloading all the codecs from the MPlayer web
site and recompiling?

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[SLUG] request tracker -- worth it?

2003-07-07 Thread mlh



I've been looking for issue/problem/request tracking
software, and have send RT (request tracker) (http://bestpractical.com)
recommended in many places.

I've had a go at installing it but I must say it is _the_ most
difficult program I have had to install from source in
over 10 years.  It seems extraordinarily sensitive to versions
in all it's bits (perl, perl modules, mysql, apache modules),
and even if I do get it running I suspect it's going to be hell
to maintain/fix.

To my question ... is it worth it?  Is it really so much better
than other request/issue/problem trackers? e.g. scarab.tigris.org
for instance?  Does anyone have any other suggestions?


Regards,
Matt
PS. I'd post this to the RT list, but I'd rather not offend
them, and I think I've seen a few RT users on this SLUG list.



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