[SLUG] vim :fixdel
On a solaris machine using :fixdel, i still cannot get backspace to... backspace. ^H is only bearable for single line command line, not text editing. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] finding Linux professionals
I'm advising some people who are establishing a business. I know GNU/Linux can do their computer stuff, and they are interested. How do I go about finding people to do the work? Likely there's a website to set up, and perhaps e-commerce, and likely a database backing it all up. I know I can put a message on slug - what I want to know is, are there other avenues, perhaps with more context and information? Is there any established market place to look at? Thanks, Bret -- 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] finding Linux professionals
quote who=Bret Comstock Waldow I'm advising some people who are establishing a business. I know GNU/Linux can do their computer stuff, and they are interested. How do I go about finding people to do the work? Likely there's a website to set up, and perhaps e-commerce, and likely a database backing it all up. An implementation definition in a where do i advertise jobs? email? :-) There's the SLUG jobs mailing list, the Linux Australia jobs page, and there's a number of IT-specific jobs advertisers around the place who are slowly grokking FOSS staff. - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ ...and did you know that Twisties have real cheese in them? - Dave I didn't even think they had real twists in them! - Andrew -- 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] finding Linux professionals
Ben, How do I go about finding people to do the work? Likely there's a website to set up, and perhaps e-commerce, and likely a database backing it all up. You can post a message on Linux Australia's job website: http://www.linux.org.au/jobs/ ...and hassle the OSIA guys: http://www.osia.net.au/ ...who are setting something like this up. DSL -- Open Source Business Network SA http://osbn.inetd.com.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ -- 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] finding Linux professionals
quote(Bret Comstock Waldow); I'm advising some people who are establishing a business. I know GNU/Linux can do their computer stuff, and they are interested. How do I go about finding people to do the work? Likely there's a website to set up, and perhaps e-commerce, and likely a database backing it all up. I know I can put a message on slug - what I want to know is, are there other avenues, perhaps with more context and information? Is there any established market place to look at? Try emailing SLUG's jobs list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Chris -- 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] DHCP configuration opinions?
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:57:01AM +0930, Jonathan Soong wrote:
I want to do this without assigning static-ip's to each of these
machines (i.e. i really want a 'pool' of MAC addresses which can get an
IP, this means that if someone wants to bring a laptop in they will have
to 'register' their MAC address into our 'pool').
I believe that something like this should work for the ISC dhcpd (version 2,
anyway):
deny unknown-clients;
host x1 { hardware ethernet de:ad:be:ef:f0:0f; }
host x2 { hardware ethernet f0:0f:de:ad:be:ef; }
and so on.
The important thing is the deny unknown-clients; line. That changes the
server from the default mode where it's a bit free and easy with it's
addresses. You then have to explicitly tell the server about each of the
machines you want to have an address. It's not greatly different to setting
fixed-address on a specified host, but since there's no address fixed, the
host will be given whatever's available.
Note: this is taken entirely from the dhcpd.conf(5) man page. I haven't
tried this myself, so if it breaks something you get to keep both pieces.
- Matt
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[SLUG] Installing .tgz prog
I am using Fedora Core 1 with all updates and am attemting to install basket-0.4.0b tar.gz. (http://les83plus.free.fr/sebastien.laout/index2.html) I initially had to install gcc etc, before I could run ./configure and now have got to the stage of the following error message:- C++ preprocessor fails sanity check. This refers to /lib/cpp which, upon checking, is symlinked to /usr/bin/cpp. cpp is definitely installed. I have installed .tgz etc files under other distros many times, but have never seen this error message before. Advice/Info please. Thanks in advance Bill -- 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] Pleasant looking font
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:50:09 +1000 (EST) Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But check out Bitstream Vera Sans mono. Its a clean looking sans serif monospaced trueype font that's Open Source. Hmm, tried that font, but personally, I don't think its an improvement over courier. Its too BIG IIRC Solaris has an equiavlent, or you could install the Bitstream fonts themselves. Personally, 'courier' is a good font - but it is kind of boring. Its terrible. Have no idea why any Unix would use it. Serif fonts are terrible for on-screen readability. My eyes are good and the readability issue isn't a big one for me. I'd actually like a smaller font so I can get more text on the screen. If that font was sans serif, then so much the better. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Linux: generous programmers from around the world all join forces to help you shoot yourself in the foot for free. -- 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] Pleasant looking font
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:33:21 +1000 Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I played with fonts for ages and have settled on 9x15. Yep its just called that and its clear and legible. Legible Its HUGE So huge I can hardly read it :-). Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. -- 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] Pleasant looking font
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:30:53 +1000 Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I asked this on the #slug IRC channel a few years ago I was pointed to neep. It's very nice and quite legible at small sizes. I use it now for all my terminals and editors. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't scale to very large sizes terribly well, so I resort to a truetype font when I'm giving talks or demos. Oh, and neep has a very strange ampersand (one of those back-to-front 3s with a vertical strikethrough) that takes getting used to. You may prefer neep-alt, which has a more regular one. http://www.jmknoble.net/fonts/ has screenshots, rpms and tarballs. It's also packaged for Debian, in xfonts-jmk. OO, thats rather nice. I think I'll give that a go for a while. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea; massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene Spafford (1992) -- 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] Linux/Mozilla / internet banking
That worked thanks. On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:42, John Clarke wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:19:45 +1000, Martin Ellison wrote: St George Bank appears to no longer accept Mozilla on Linux. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/02/msg00523.html -- Regards, Martin mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~martin.ellison signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] finding Linux professionals
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:50:35PM +1000, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: I'm advising some people who are establishing a business. I know GNU/Linux can do their computer stuff, and they are interested. How do I go about finding people to do the work? Likely there's a website to set up, and perhaps e-commerce, and likely a database backing it all up. I know I can put a message on slug - what I want to know is, are there other avenues, perhaps with more context and information? Is there any established market place to look at? You could also try the OpenSkills list ... it's fairly new but it might be worth letting them know. You can post to the dev list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW you shouldn't have too much trouble finding people for this kind of work. Patrick Lesslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Festival Voices
I've downloaded and installed different voices but how the do you get festival to use a different voice? trolled through all the docs but it ain't obvious, any heads up out there? use eval try -eval \(voice_us1_mbrola\) or other festvox non mbrola voice such as rab etc Also Alan Black on the Festival list gives excellent support. RL-S -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] FTA petition and foo
Hi all,
Linux Australia has upped the ante on the FTA ('Free' Trade Agreement)
issue. We have pinpointed patents and anti-circumvention concerns that
would have a negative impact on both the Australia Open Source
community, and the Australian ICT industry.
The short of it is if you are interested, read http://linux.org.au/fta/
for a whole heaps of summaries, a whitepaper, and comparison sheets on
the FTA. If interested sign the petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/petition.html. There are lots of
other things you can do to help found at the /fta/ page.
Lets try to protect the freedoms we currently enjoy. We have been too
quiet for too long.
Cheers,
Pia
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Re: [SLUG] Linux/Mozilla / internet banking
Martin Ellison wrote: St George Bank appears to no longer accept Mozilla on Linux. 1. any experience? (confirmation, work-arounds) 2. alternatives? Mozilla 1.4 plus PrefBar set to Moz 1.0 Win98 works fine for me. John -- 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] Installing .tgz prog
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:32, billb wrote: I am using Fedora Core 1 with all updates and am attemting to install basket-0.4.0b tar.gz. (http://les83plus.free.fr/sebastien.laout/index2.html) I initially had to install gcc etc, before I could run ./configure and now have got to the stage of the following error message:- C++ preprocessor fails sanity check. This refers to /lib/cpp which, upon checking, is symlinked to /usr/bin/cpp. cpp is definitely installed. The best thing to do is to look in config.log to see what test it used and how it failed. That will give you some more information about what's going on, and a test case to use in fixing it. HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] HTTPS, dyndns, Apache
Hi All, Just experimenting with SSL on Apache. Have set up my own little dyndns domain. But i notice that when i surf from outside my network to https://woja.somedyndns.comdomain then it asks about the cert not being signed etc etc and asks me to login (apache basic login) and then redirects me to https://privatenetworkIP/ which of course cannot be accessed outside my local network. What is causing this redirect? Cheers, Adam. -- 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] Writing char drivers in Redhat 9
Hi Richard, This doesn't directly answer your question directly but it may be of some help. There is really good book on Linux device drivers written by Rubini and Corbet. The book is published under GPL and you can download it from... http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ It has two chapters on Char drivers. It's well worth a read, it even inspired me to write my own ATM driver. Cheers, - Guy. At 11:00 PM 7/04/2004 +1000, you wrote: Howdy all, I'm trying to recompile a character driver for RH7 under RH9 (2.4.20-8). I'm getting errors because /usr/include/linux/fs.h no longer has definitions for struct file_operations struct, inode struct file This seems to nullify any documentation on linux character device drivers that I've ever seen. Am I missing something obvious? Anyone know how we're supposed to do it now? Cheers Rich --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.576 / Virus Database: 365 - Release Date: 30/01/2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Guy Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.traverse.com.au Mobile 0419 398 234 -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] building a cheap supercomputer
Dear list, I am think of building a prototype supercomputer and if it works I will build a much larger system. What is the best way to get cluster for testing. I know that Stone Soupercomputer cost zero but really I have two questions. 1. How does the AMD64 stack up in cost / performance compared to the say 1.8 Duron? 2. How do you create SAN / NAS type storage for large data sets? http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/ -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Phone:+(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax:+(61-2) 9418 4348 Mob:+(61) 0414 618 425 www.nada.com.au -- 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] building a cheap supercomputer
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:23, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, I am think of building a prototype supercomputer and if it works I will build a much larger system. Sounds like an interesting project. What do you want it to do? What is the best way to get cluster for testing. I know that Stone Soupercomputer cost zero but really I have two questions. 1. How does the AMD64 stack up in cost / performance compared to the say 1.8 Duron? I'm not qualified at all in these kind of things but everything I've read suggests that the cheaper chips are a much better deal in terms of bang-for-buck. I don't know if that's a concern for a supercomputer. Also, the Duron is a 32 bit chip is it not? If you're dealing with big numbers, the 64 bit chip would presumably perform better. Any particular reason you're looking at x86-esque hardware? 2. How do you create SAN / NAS type storage for large data sets? What's large? At work we played with a device that ran 8 or so IDE drives as RAID and had a single SCSI interface on the back of it. It ran a PowerPC chip for it's internal RAIDing software IIRC. Given how cheap a 250GB IDE drive is these days, it sounded like a good deal to me. I don't know if it has a SATA counterpart, so if SATA does replace PATA you may not have an upgrade path for such a thing. You'll probably also want to get some pretty serious network hardware in there too. HTH, James. -- 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] building a cheap supercomputer
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:23, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, I am think of building a prototype supercomputer and if it works I will build a much larger system. Sounds like an interesting project. What do you want it to do? What is the best way to get cluster for testing. I know that Stone Soupercomputer cost zero but really I have two questions. 1. How does the AMD64 stack up in cost / performance compared to the say 1.8 Duron? I'm not qualified at all in these kind of things but everything I've read suggests that the cheaper chips are a much better deal in terms of bang-for-buck. I don't know if that's a concern for a supercomputer. Also, the Duron is a 32 bit chip is it not? If you're dealing with big numbers, the 64 bit chip would presumably perform better. Any particular reason you're looking at x86-esque hardware? 2. How do you create SAN / NAS type storage for large data sets? What's large? At work we played with a device that ran 8 or so IDE drives as RAID and had a single SCSI interface on the back of it. It ran a PowerPC chip for it's internal RAIDing software IIRC. Given how cheap a 250GB IDE drive is these days, it sounded like a good deal to me. I don't know if it has a SATA counterpart, so if SATA does replace PATA you may not have an upgrade path for such a thing. You'll probably also want to get some pretty serious network hardware in there too. HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
