[SLUG] Re: Samba Problem

[Bill]

Thanks to Phil and Edwin for replies

I've been having the same problem with both Linux and XP boxes - ie unable 
to access existing files on drives in Server.


I've been trying to setup my "Shares" using MepisControlCenter ( which 
allows setting up of Samba) and smb4k.


Mepis Control Centre doesn't work, nor does smb4k.

Problem solved - sort of - by mounting each drive (on the Server) in 
KDiskFree and right-clicking on drive to open it in Konqueror, then 
right-clicking on each directory and selecting "Share" from the drop-down 
menu and making appropriate changes. This works wereas attempting to do 
similar in smb4k or MepisControlCenter doesn't work as changes do not "take".


Now when I use Konqueror on a Workstation to access the Server ( url 
smb:/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/) it shows all folders as Shares and I can access them 
PROVIDED the drives are already mounted on the Server.


Still that problem to sort out but at least I can access my data/files on 
the Server, and I'd prefer the drives to show as a "Share" rather than each 
directory on them. Guess that I can always create a "base" directory on 
each drive and move all other directories into that.


I'll give NFS a try for my Linux boxes, but the problem was really related 
to Permissions apparently.


Thanks again

Bill

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Re: [SLUG] Modems

[james]

> Hi,
> As a new comer to linux could anyone tell me if my modem is suitable and
> if not what modem should I use.My modem is a Motorola SM56 speakerphone
> Fax Data, Everything runs well but I cannot connect to internet.
> Can anyone help I am running Fedora core 4.

You may be out of luck with that one. A quick Google search suggests that it's a
softmodem (also known as WinModem), which means that all the actual work is 
done by
the driver, using your computer's CPU. Some work has been done on Linux drivers 
for
these, but I'm not sure how much progress has been made.
Try http://www.linmodems.org/ and see what shows up there.

If you need to buy a new dial-up modem, make sure it's actually all-hardware. 
Asking
the salesdroid directly is a waste of time; the trick is to ask whether it's
Mac-compatible. I don't know about MacOsX, but previous versions couldn't use
softmodems either, and people who shudder and disclaim all knowledge of "that 
other"
OS will quite happily answer questions about Macs.
I had great success with a Mitsubishi USB modem, I think it was the Diamond 56. 
It's
been a while now, but I got it (and good service) from the Apple store on 
Broadway,
just down from the intersection with City Road.


HTH,
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Re: [SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

[Alan L Tyree]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:36:26 +1000
Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:09:24AM +1000, Michael Knight wrote:
> > Michael S. E. Kraus wrote:
> > > Wondering if anyone can recommend or point me in the right
> > > direction regarding a FOSS equivalent of EndNote (bibliographic
> > > software).
> > 
> > I use BibTeX to manage my bibliography with LaTeX. LaTeX is a bit
> > different from using Word, but I find it much better. It's
> > definitely worth a try, at least.
> I spent some time fiddling with docbook and a bibliography tool called
> "refdbib" from memory (thought it used to be in debian, but maybe not)
> but in the end went back to latex and bibtex as well.  The idea of
> word processing a thesis using a Word-like application strikes me with
> great fear.  Now that that the thing is finished, and tools like
> latex2html and, god forbid, latex2rtf, seem to have improved a great
> deal, I'm glad I bounced down the LaTeX road...

Last time I converted a large project (600 pages) I think I used Hevea.
It went very smoothly. Also, I have found that latex2rtf is a hell of a
lot better than it used to be.

Alan

> 
> Denis
> 
> > 
> > There's many resources on the web for these tools, but it might be
> > worth reading over the Wikipedia entry to begin with:
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX
> > 
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Re: [SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

[Denis Crowdy]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:09:24AM +1000, Michael Knight wrote:
> Michael S. E. Kraus wrote:
> > Wondering if anyone can recommend or point me in the right direction
> > regarding a FOSS equivalent of EndNote (bibliographic software).
> 
> I use BibTeX to manage my bibliography with LaTeX. LaTeX is a bit
> different from using Word, but I find it much better. It's definitely
> worth a try, at least.
I spent some time fiddling with docbook and a bibliography tool called
"refdbib" from memory (thought it used to be in debian, but maybe not)
but in the end went back to latex and bibtex as well.  The idea of word
processing a thesis using a Word-like application strikes me with great
fear.  Now that that the thing is finished, and tools like latex2html
and, god forbid, latex2rtf, seem to have improved a great deal, I'm glad
I bounced down the LaTeX road...

Denis

> 
> There's many resources on the web for these tools, but it might be worth
> reading over the Wikipedia entry to begin with:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX
> 
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[SLUG] Amd dual core processors and Debiam {kernel, linux}-image deb's

[Alexander Samad]

hi

I recently bought a CPU AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+, Dual-Core 2.0Ghz 1MB
Cache S939 cpu.

I was wondering which deb kernel package I shoudl be using to get smp
out of this.  I am using linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7-smp right now 

but when I look at /proc/cpu I get this

processor   : 0
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family  : 15
model   : 43
model name  : AMD Hammer Family processor - Model Unknown
stepping: 1
cpu MHz : 2009.547
cache size  : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings: 2
core id : 0
cpu cores   : 2
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm
bogomips: 3981.31

doesn't look there is 2 cpu's being used


should I be using the k8-smp packages, I tried this and ended up with a
64bit kernel

Thanks
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[SLUG] Newbie Locate Type Questions

[Kevin Fitzgerald]

Hi All

I am trying a Scalix server install and having a *&^$% of a time! Install
goes perfectly and login screen comes up, but alas no love.

Looking through the forums I have found what may be an answer in
http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=475 and
http://www.jroller.com/page/dissonance/20050630#fedora_core_4_and_jdk so I
thought I'd give it a try.

I have tried to find both those scripts (catalina.sh and setclasspath.sh)
with the locate command but no love. I know they are there somewhere. How do
I find them another way. I know this is Newbie stuff but hopefully someone
can help me 

Kev

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Re: [SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

[Alan L Tyree]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:09:24 +1000
Michael Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Michael S. E. Kraus wrote:
> > Wondering if anyone can recommend or point me in the right direction
> > regarding a FOSS equivalent of EndNote (bibliographic software).
> 
> I use BibTeX to manage my bibliography with LaTeX. LaTeX is a bit
> different from using Word, but I find it much better. It's definitely
> worth a try, at least.
> 
> There's many resources on the web for these tools, but it might be
> worth reading over the Wikipedia entry to begin with:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX

I also use LaTeX with BibTeX. I have produced several books with it and
find it by far the easiest thing to work with for long manuscripts. I
use Emacs with AucTex and RefTex. It gives more author assistance
(managing cross-references, bibliographic references, indexing) than any
other software that I have ever used. Also refer to the latest LaTeX
Companion for an index.sty that supports multiple indexes.

I write legal texts that need a normal index, index of statutes and an
index of legislation. All done more or less automatically (and the index
entries refer to paragraph numbers). 

Brilliant from the author's point of view. I used to have trouble
converting to something that the publishes could use, but converstion to
rtf seems to be working smoothly these days.

Cheers,
Alan

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Re: [SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:55, "Michael S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Wondering if anyone can recommend or point me in the right direction
> regarding a FOSS equivalent of EndNote (bibliographic software).

I believe that OpenOffice.org has bibliographic functions. I've never tried it 
so I can't vouch for it.


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Re: [SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

[Michael Knight]

Michael S. E. Kraus wrote:
> Wondering if anyone can recommend or point me in the right direction
> regarding a FOSS equivalent of EndNote (bibliographic software).

I use BibTeX to manage my bibliography with LaTeX. LaTeX is a bit
different from using Word, but I find it much better. It's definitely
worth a try, at least.

There's many resources on the web for these tools, but it might be worth
reading over the Wikipedia entry to begin with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX

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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Gonzalo Servat]

On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes I should have phrased that better.  I use GSM as the codec and that
> is a bandwidth hog.  The problem is that the really tight codecs are all
> proprietory.

Yep, like G729, however I think GSM together with iLBC are 2 of the
better ones to use as they are low bandwidth consumption, but I could
be wrong.
 
> I am playing with PSTN cards and that is harder, mainly because of the
> echo.  Yes, I too have a wake up call service using call scripts.

Yeah, been there done that with PSTN cards and echo. I can't even
remember how I sorted out my echo problems, but I had them with PSTN
and the ISDN too. I remember reading a big long boring document about
it since they always say it's important to understand how and where
echo is generated.
 
> Haven't heard about the rewrite - I will check that out.  I don't
> subscribe to the Asterisk mailing list because it's just too noisy,
> which is a strong indication of the interest, but there are a lot of
> posts from ppl who have plainly not RTFM...

I idle in #asterisk on irc.freenode.net, that's where you hear about a
lot of the latest developments with Asterisk as people like Brian West
idle there too (occasionally Mark pops in, too). I remember being told
by somebody the new dialplan is gonna rock.

As for the noisy Asterisk mailing list, that's why Gmail was invented
(at least for me!). I use it for personal mail and mailing lists (like
SLUG). That way I read posts that capture my interest and then they
are neatly tucked away in one of my labels out of my sight :-)

Cheers,
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[SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

[Michael S. E. Kraus]

G'day all..

Wondering if anyone can recommend or point me in the right direction
regarding a FOSS equivalent of EndNote (bibliographic software).

I'm currently doing my thesis (on FOSS) so it makes sense to produce it
using all FOSS. :)

Thanks

Mike

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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Howard Lowndes]

Gonzalo Servat wrote:

On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


BTW, if you are going to run it over broadband then make sure that it is
symmetrical at all connect points.



I wouldn't say "make sure", I'd say it's probably better to have a
symmetrical connection at all Asterisk points, however if you're using
a low-bandwidth codec, you can get away with asymmetrical just fine
(and traffic shaping if it's a busy network). I connect my Asterisk
box on a asymmetrical connection to another Asterisk box with the same
type of connection (512/128 - each box in different continents) and I
don't experience major problems, granted I do VoIP packet prioritizing
but it just proves the [a]symmetrical aspect is not an issue.


Yes I should have phrased that better.  I use GSM as the codec and that 
is a bandwidth hog.  The problem is that the really tight codecs are all 
proprietory.




That is, at least, in my experience. Also, the dialplan is not THAT
hard to work out, just takes a little reading of how it works, reading
how other people's dialplans work and experimenting. Great source of
info is the popular:

  http://www.voip-info.org

I started experimenting with Asterisk way before I got my hands on a
ISDN card. Back then  I started playing with dialplans, how to make
menu's, wake-up call service (that I still use today!) and stuff like
that. It's good fun. If you know Perl, writing AGI scripts provides
endless posibilities.


I am playing with PSTN cards and that is harder, mainly because of the 
echo.  Yes, I too have a wake up call service using call scripts.





From what I've heard, the new Asterisk to be released in the near

future provides a complete rewrite of the dialplan system and it's
supposed to be much better, together with many new features.


Haven't heard about the rewrite - I will check that out.  I don't 
subscribe to the Asterisk mailing list because it's just too noisy, 
which is a strong indication of the interest, but there are a lot of 
posts from ppl who have plainly not RTFM...




HTH.

Cheers,
Gonz



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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Howard Lowndes]

Julio Cesar Ody wrote:

My current job is to design servers for hosting Asterisk. From my
experience, it's the best PBX software around.

There's a bunch of alternatives such as sipX
(www.sipfoundry.org/sipX/). Never used them, but since Asterisk such a
big community already, I would advise you to stick with it.
Development is solid, it's evolving fast, and once you get the hang of
it, it's a breeze, like using Apache.

Speaking of which, don't let these "magic interfaces" for Asterisk
administration trick you into believing it's a way to go. They make it
easy for you to deliver an end product to a customer who is more or
less into it (there's really no such thing as a wizard-like interface
for Asterisk yet). To get a good grip, deal with the conf files as you
would do with any popular service: with a good text editor  =)   and
then, you'll be writing your own interfaces in a month.


I agree.  "Down and dirty" is the best way to get a workable dial plan. 
 One other thing I got caught out with earlier this year is that 
CVS-HEAD has some dial plan features that are not in Stable, 
particularly the ones that do auto-priority.  This feature makes modding 
a dial plan simple, but without it you have to re-number all your 
extension priorities = PITA.




SIP, IAX, and RTP are protocols just like, say, HTTP (but they're
UDP). There's no mystery when dealing with them if you know how
networking works. I never read a single tutorial in my life on how to
make asterisk work behind NAT. Got it done in a day just by reading
the comments in the sip.conf file.


I tried to get my mind around STUN, because it is non-proprietory, but I 
gave up and went with IAX2 instead.  I believe that the author is trying 
to get IAX2 accepted as a standard anyway.






On 8/24/05, Michael Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


G'day...

Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?

Thanks!

Regards,
Michael Kraus
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Re: [SLUG] Re: domain name registration

[James Polley]

On 8/24/05, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your choice of registrar can have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual
> process of performing a DNS lookup.  



I was about to pick on something else, but I realised that I don't
think that what you said was what you meant to say at all.

I think what you meant was: Your choice of registrar may (if you would
prefer) have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual process of
performing a DNS lookup.

Your original sentence is wrong though: Your choice of registrar can
have a lot to do with the process of performing a DNS lookup - some
(many) registrars offer DNS hosting as well as the registration, and
some even insist that the domain must be delegated to their servers..

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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Gonzalo Servat]

On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, if you are going to run it over broadband then make sure that it is
> symmetrical at all connect points.

I wouldn't say "make sure", I'd say it's probably better to have a
symmetrical connection at all Asterisk points, however if you're using
a low-bandwidth codec, you can get away with asymmetrical just fine
(and traffic shaping if it's a busy network). I connect my Asterisk
box on a asymmetrical connection to another Asterisk box with the same
type of connection (512/128 - each box in different continents) and I
don't experience major problems, granted I do VoIP packet prioritizing
but it just proves the [a]symmetrical aspect is not an issue.

That is, at least, in my experience. Also, the dialplan is not THAT
hard to work out, just takes a little reading of how it works, reading
how other people's dialplans work and experimenting. Great source of
info is the popular:

  http://www.voip-info.org

I started experimenting with Asterisk way before I got my hands on a
ISDN card. Back then  I started playing with dialplans, how to make
menu's, wake-up call service (that I still use today!) and stuff like
that. It's good fun. If you know Perl, writing AGI scripts provides
endless posibilities.

>From what I've heard, the new Asterisk to be released in the near
future provides a complete rewrite of the dialplan system and it's
supposed to be much better, together with many new features.

HTH.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Samba problem

[Phil Scarratt]

Bill wrote:

I've got a home LAN through a modem/router and ethernet switch with 4 PCs.

I have recently set up one PC as a file/print server utilising Mepis 
SOHO Server beta ( debian based).


I have set up the Server with a system hard drive, and 2 data hard 
drives ( /data and /media). I have set these 2 drives as Shares and made 
all directories/files "owned" by my user.


I can access the Shares from all of the other 3 PCs, but can only see 
the files in the shares from one of these PCs.


The 3 Workstation PC's have the same user name and password, the Server 
Shares being owned by the same user, but with a different password, so 
that I need to log-in from the workstation PCs.


Non-server PCs are running XP, Kanotix and Simply Mepis ( both Debian).

All PCs are using the same workgroup name and are in the same IP range etc.

The problem occurs even with firewalls turned off.

I'm obviously overlooking something simple, but can't figure out what it 
is.


Suggestions please.

Bill



- which machines are having problems seeing the files? I assume the 
linux boxes

- possibly use NFS for the linux boxes
- how are you mounting the shares on the linux boxes. I know you've got 
to be careful with what options used when mounting smb shares to make 
the permissions on the linux box right.eg I believe you have to be 
root to mount, in which case without special options on the mount, the 
owner and group will be root


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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Julio Cesar Ody]

My current job is to design servers for hosting Asterisk. From my
experience, it's the best PBX software around.

There's a bunch of alternatives such as sipX
(www.sipfoundry.org/sipX/). Never used them, but since Asterisk such a
big community already, I would advise you to stick with it.
Development is solid, it's evolving fast, and once you get the hang of
it, it's a breeze, like using Apache.

Speaking of which, don't let these "magic interfaces" for Asterisk
administration trick you into believing it's a way to go. They make it
easy for you to deliver an end product to a customer who is more or
less into it (there's really no such thing as a wizard-like interface
for Asterisk yet). To get a good grip, deal with the conf files as you
would do with any popular service: with a good text editor  =)   and
then, you'll be writing your own interfaces in a month.

SIP, IAX, and RTP are protocols just like, say, HTTP (but they're
UDP). There's no mystery when dealing with them if you know how
networking works. I never read a single tutorial in my life on how to
make asterisk work behind NAT. Got it done in a day just by reading
the comments in the sip.conf file.



On 8/24/05, Michael Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> G'day...
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
> PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Kraus
> Software Developer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Howard Lowndes]

BTW, if you are going to run it over broadband then make sure that it is 
symmetrical at all connect points.


Howard Lowndes wrote:

I use it for my SOHO and to contact my clients and it works fine.

Great product and great price, but the learning curve on generating your 
dial plan can be steep.



Michael Kraus wrote:


G'day...

Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?





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Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Howard Lowndes]

I use it for my SOHO and to contact my clients and it works fine.

Great product and great price, but the learning curve on generating your 
dial plan can be steep.



Michael Kraus wrote:

G'day...

Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?


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Re: [SLUG] VPN to Cisco

[Phil Scarratt]

Martin wrote:

$quoted_author = "Phil Scarratt" ;

Having no experience with VPN'ing toa Cisco router endpoint, I'm 
interested in peoples thoughts on creating a VPN to a Cisco 1712 
endpoint. What have people used (successfully or otherwise)? The Cisco 
VPN Client software from Cisco? open-source IPSEC client (openswan or 
whatever it's called)?



the cisco client only does IPSEC. you could do PPTP or IPSEC using other
clients. are you roaming or is it fixed end points?




Does anyone know if I have to use the cisco client?



you don't have to.

marty



Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.

I have fixed end points - of which I have to setup one. The other end is 
a Cisco 1712, my end is a linux box (actually a gateway machine for a 
LAN). I was thinking down the lines of openswan.


I'm actually very glad I don't have to use the cisco client - I find the 
cisco site an absolute nightmare to use, and the downloads section (with 
registration) doesn't work.


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[SLUG] Problem with DVD+R/RW

[Alexander Samad]

Hi 

Been having some problems with my new dvd-rw drive

Model Number:   PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-110D
Serial Number:  EGDC005617WL   
Firmware Revision:  1.08


I am using dvd+rw tools and so far I have made 6-7 coasters, the problem
seems to show itself as 

:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=310h, retry in 47ms

errors whilst trying to write to the drive.

This doesn't seem to be that bad as things go, because I have another
machine with a smiliar drive in it 

Model Number:   PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-108 
Serial Number:  DGDL132757WL   
Firmware Revision:  1.04

which has the same errors on start up of the write session, this is only
whilst writing DVD's

they both also only write at 2x normal speed, even though they are rated
at 12 and I have 8x media.

The main problem I have with the frist drive is that it doesn't/can't
close sessions and thus write the whole disk and then fails to close the
session - resource unavailable.

Has any one else seen this 

I am using them through the ide interface on 2.6.12, I must note that on
early versions of 2.6 I actually got 8x speed through put!

Alex


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Re: [SLUG] Samba problem

[Edwin Humphries]

If I've read your posting correctly, you have a Mepis server, and one 
each of XP, Kanotix and Mepis workstations. I'm guessing that you have 
issues with access from the Linux workstations.


I'd be suggesting not using Samba for access from the Linux workstations 
- use NFS instead, as it bypasses the problem of "pretend-permissions" 
that samba uses to translate the Unix permissions into smb, and also the 
overhead of samba and lisa.


That's how we set up our Linux workstations. Samba is only used by our 
Windows boxes, and Lisa only by the Linux boxes to access shares on the 
Windows boxes.


Bill wrote:

I've got a home LAN through a modem/router and ethernet switch with 4 PCs.

I have recently set up one PC as a file/print server utilising Mepis 
SOHO Server beta ( debian based).


I have set up the Server with a system hard drive, and 2 data hard 
drives ( /data and /media). I have set these 2 drives as Shares and made 
all directories/files "owned" by my user.


I can access the Shares from all of the other 3 PCs, but can only see 
the files in the shares from one of these PCs.


The 3 Workstation PC's have the same user name and password, the Server 
Shares being owned by the same user, but with a different password, so 
that I need to log-in from the workstation PCs.


Non-server PCs are running XP, Kanotix and Simply Mepis ( both Debian).

All PCs are using the same workgroup name and are in the same IP range etc.

The problem occurs even with firewalls turned off.

I'm obviously overlooking something simple, but can't figure out what it 
is.


Suggestions please.

Bill



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Re: [SLUG] Question on Gnome.

[Steven Tucker]

--- Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> > In the past, when I minimized something, it always
> migrated to the bottom
> > tool bar, for subsequent resurrection. Not now.
> > 
> > Now it flies off to the right of the screen, I
> know not where.
> > 
> > It may be that the tool bar extends out beyond the
> right edge of the
> > screen, too, and that minimizing is acting
> correctly. (No evidence, but
> > there has to be something that's doing it.)
> 
> It may be that your X is configured to display over
> two screens. Do you have
> two video cards, or one card that can handle two
> displays? You may want to
> dig around in the X configuration tool to see.
> That's the most likely thing,
> given your explanation.

Haveing set up dual monitors, I find it very hard to
believe this set up would happen by accident. My guess
is that you have simply removed the "window list" from
your tool bar. To fix, just right click the toolbar ->
Add to panel , then scroll down and select wondow
list. Then minimize something and stare in amazement
at my all knowing all seeing, massive brain.
or not!

Hope thats the prob!

Oh yeah, if you did have dual monitor set up, you
would be able to drag windows right off the screen,
you cant do that can you ??

tuxta2
 






 
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[SLUG] Modems

[Paul Maloney]

Hi,
As a new comer to linux could anyone tell me if my modem is suitable and 
if not what modem should I use.My modem is a Motorola SM56 speakerphone 
Fax Data, Everything runs well but I cannot connect to internet.

Can anyone help I am running Fedora core 4.
Thanks Paul

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[SLUG] Re: Recording Audio (Peter Chubb)

[elliott-brennan]

Hi Pete,

I use Audacity. It does ogg and MP3s.

Very easy to use and with a good range of plug-ins and SFXs.

Regards,

Patrick



>> i'd like to record stereo audio that's coming into my laptop via
>> the microphone jack. i'm running ubuntu, any suggestions for
>> software that could handle recording the audio and output ogg or
>> mp3?
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[SLUG] Re: Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:16:04PM +1000, Michael Kraus wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
> PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?

Played with Asterisk.  The possibilities are endless.  It's relatively
straightforward to play with if you don't mind muddling around in lots of
text config files, or there's the quite delightful [EMAIL PROTECTED] custom
distro (http://asteriskathome.sf.net/).  It's just Asterisk and a pile of
custom web-based admin/config loveliness built on top of CentOS.  I highly
recommend it, at least until you really know your Asterisk stuff (at which
point you'll know plenty enough to select your own environment based on your
needs and desires).

- Matt


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[SLUG] Re: domain name registration

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:34:18PM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've registered a '.info' domain name with registerfly.com for about $AUD5.00.
> It all works but it takes about 5 seconds to do a lookup.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a domain registration service that has fast response 
> times
> and does cheap '.info' domains?

Your choice of registrar can have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual
process of performing a DNS lookup.  Just find a 3rd party DNS server and
delegate the domain to them.  Hell, if you've got a static IP, you can run
the master yourself and ask for a slave (or 12) here...

- Matt


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[SLUG] Türkiye'nin en iyi bilgi yarışmala rı.

[info]

Title: Birmilyon.com








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Kazanacağınız BONUS ile yarışmalarımıza katılabilirsiniz.
Cevaplarınızı göndermek için sayfanın altındaki butona tıklayın!


Soru 1 : Türkiye'nin Eurovizyon şarkı yarışmalarında aldığı en iyi derece hangisidir?

a  ) 
2.lik
b  ) 
1.lik
c  ) 
9.luk
d  ) 
7.lik

Soru 2 : 19 Mayıs'ta hangisi olmuştur?

a  ) 
Kurtuluş savaşı başaldı
b  ) 
TBMM kuruldu
c  ) 
Atatürk cumhuriyeti kurdu
d  ) 
Atatürk Samsuna çıktı.

Soru 3 : Pisagor kuramı hangi bilim dalı ile ilgilidir?

a  ) 
Matematik
b  ) 
Felsefe
c  ) 
Sosyoloji
d  ) 
Fizik

Soru 4 : Zeytin dalı neyi simgeler?

a  ) 
Haksızlık
b  ) 
Hasat zamanı
c  ) 
Savaş
d  ) 
Barış

Soru 5 : Hangi aylar ardarda 31 gündür ?

a  ) 
Eylül-ekim
b  ) 
Temmuz-ağustos
c  ) 
Haziran-temmuz
d  ) 
Ağustos-eylül

Soru 6 : Amerikanın kara gün ilan ettiği ikiz kulelere yapılan saldırı hangi tarihte meydana gelmiştir?

a  ) 
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b  ) 
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c  ) 
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Soru 7 : Şeker hastalarındaki eksik horman hangisidir?

a  ) 
Prolaktin
b  ) 
Adrenalin
c  ) 
Trioit
d  ) 
İnsülin

Soru 8 : Dandini dandini dastana ile başlayan nedir?

a  ) 
Masal
b  ) 
Tekerleme
c  ) 
Ninni
d  ) 
Fıkra

Soru 9 : Güllerin İçinden adlı şarkıyı kim söylemektedir?

a  ) 
Sezen Aksu
b  ) 
MFÖ
c  ) 
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d  ) 
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Soru 10 : Normal koşullar altında hamilelik dönemi kaç haftadan oluşmaktadır?

a  ) 
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Re: [SLUG] Recording Audio

[Peter Chubb]

> "Erik" == Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Erik> Martin wrote:

>> howdy
>> 
>> i'd like to record stereo audio that's coming into my laptop via
>> the microphone jack. i'm running ubuntu, any suggestions for
>> software that could handle recording the audio and output ogg or
>> mp3?

Erik> Sweep?

Erik> There's a debian package. Not sure about ubuntu.

Or just brec.

Do make sure that your mic input is stereo --- lots of them are just
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Re: [SLUG] Technical Support Ticket system

[Sam Couter]

Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Debian package is pretty trivial to get running, actually. 

It doesn't play well with Apache2 at the moment. The mod_perl module for
Apache2 changed API and RT hasn't caught up with it yet. Without the
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Re: [SLUG] Question on Gnome.

[Jeff Waugh]

> In the past, when I minimized something, it always migrated to the bottom
> tool bar, for subsequent resurrection. Not now.
> 
> Now it flies off to the right of the screen, I know not where.
> 
> It may be that the tool bar extends out beyond the right edge of the
> screen, too, and that minimizing is acting correctly. (No evidence, but
> there has to be something that's doing it.)

It may be that your X is configured to display over two screens. Do you have
two video cards, or one card that can handle two displays? You may want to
dig around in the X configuration tool to see. That's the most likely thing,
given your explanation.

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Re: [SLUG] Technical Support Ticket system

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 24/8/2005, "Peter Rundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Just after some advice / opinions about the above (on Linux of course)
>for a medium sized organisation to keep track of the constant stream of
>requests.
>
>I'm looking for a relatively simple product, have considered Bugzilla
>but it's perhaps better suited to software development.

RT.  There is none finer:

http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/

Beauty of it is that it's incredibly email-oriented, so the end-user
just fires off an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or can use a web interface)
and all their interaction from there is via email.  Or they can use the
web interface, if you like.

mod_perl and works with a range of databases.
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Re: [SLUG] Technical Support Ticket system

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 24/8/2005, "(Martin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>request tracker
>
>www.bestpractical.com/rt
>
>by no means simple but once you get it running it's pretty sweet.

The Debian package is pretty trivial to get running, actually. 
Installing from scratch, I suspect, would be hard.
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Re: [SLUG] Recording Audio

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Martin wrote:

> howdy
> 
> i'd like to record stereo audio that's coming into my laptop via the
> microphone jack. i'm running ubuntu, any suggestions for software that could
> handle recording the audio and output ogg or mp3?

Sweep?

There's a debian package. Not sure about ubuntu.

Erik

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Re: [SLUG] Technical Support Ticket system

[Martin]

$quoted_author = "Peter Rundle" ;
> 
> Just after some advice / opinions about the above (on Linux of course) 
> for a medium sized organisation to keep track of the constant stream of 
> requests.
> 
> I'm looking for a relatively simple product, have considered Bugzilla 
> but it's perhaps better suited to software development.

request tracker

www.bestpractical.com/rt

by no means simple but once you get it running it's pretty sweet.

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[SLUG] Technical Support Ticket system

[Peter Rundle]

Sluggers,

Just after some advice / opinions about the above (on Linux of course) 
for a medium sized organisation to keep track of the constant stream of 
requests.


I'm looking for a relatively simple product, have considered Bugzilla 
but it's perhaps better suited to software development.


Any thoughts appreciated.

Pete.
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[SLUG] Question on Gnome.

[Bill Bennett]

Have just installed Fedora4 and was fiddling around with the
Desktop. I noticed something that I've not been able to
fix.

In the past, when I minimized something, it always
migrated to the bottom tool bar, for subsequent
resurrection. Not now.

Now it flies off to the right of the screen, I know not where.

It may be that the tool bar extends out beyond the right
edge of the screen, too, and that minimizing is acting
correctly. (No evidence, but there has to be something
that's doing it.)

Don't know what I did to cause this, but it's going to be
a nuisance if I can't fix it, because I'm a command-line
freak and like to have several files open/minimized at a
session.

Has anyone seen this before?

Any help would be appreciated,

Bill Bennett.
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Re: [SLUG] Macquarie Uni Linux Seminar -- Call for help

[Pia Waugh]

Hi Michael,



> A couple of friends of mine head up MITS, the Macquarie IT Society. It's
> kind of like UNSW's CompSoc, but only a fraction of the size.

Cool. 
 
> They try and put on a few cool events for computing students each
> semester and one of the ideas that has come up is some kind of Linux
> seminar.

Awesome!

> The basic idea (open to suggestions though) is essentially a 40 minute
> talk that might include what Linux is, why F/OSS is good and maybe some
> software demos, plus some question time at the end. We have Ubuntu CDs
> to give out too.
>
> We were thinking of having it in week 6 of semester (this is week 4).
> This would also happen to put it just before Software Freedom Day.

I'd be certainly interested in helping out and can do it around Software
Freedom Day. It'd be great if you add your event to the SFD webpage for
Australia at
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Australia
 
> What we're after is someone (or several someones) who would be willing
> to give the talk.

/me puts hand up.
 
> Cons:
> - You'd need to be able to get to Mac uni around 1pm-ish, as that's the
>   time most students are free to come along.

Can do. I work in North Ryde.

> Pros:
> - Warm fuzzy feeling
> - Free pizza (we need to bribe students with pizza to get decent turn
>   outs)
> - We can work out a day that suits you.

Which dates? Which week is week 6? :)
 
> Any help would be much appreciated! Drop me a line if you're interested.

Feel free to contact me directly, I'll ping you my details :) Good luck and
this sounds great!

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Software Freedom Day

[QuantumG]

Pia Waugh wrote:


Yes! We are planning to hand out CDs and foo in the city followed by an
installfest. Details currently at
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Sydney and are
yet to be finalised. We'd love more hands to help out if you can on the day!
I have tshirts on the way so we all look good :)
 



Cool!  Do we have a big SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY banner and permission to 
hang it in a public place.  That'd rock.


You can count me in, what time are we starting?

Trent
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[SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

[Michael Kraus]

G'day...

Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?

Thanks!  
 
Regards,
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Re: [SLUG] VPN to Cisco

[Martin]

$quoted_author = "Phil Scarratt" ;
> 
> Having no experience with VPN'ing toa Cisco router endpoint, I'm 
> interested in peoples thoughts on creating a VPN to a Cisco 1712 
> endpoint. What have people used (successfully or otherwise)? The Cisco 
> VPN Client software from Cisco? open-source IPSEC client (openswan or 
> whatever it's called)?

the cisco client only does IPSEC. you could do PPTP or IPSEC using other
clients. are you roaming or is it fixed end points?


> Does anyone know if I have to use the cisco client?

you don't have to.

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RE: [SLUG] timeline generation software

[Visser, Martin]

 
I have found Ploticus to actually give nicer results than Gnuplot. 
http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/gallery/gall.hbars.html#timeline (And there is 
a SVG & EPS along with bitmap output which is nice)

This package using Ploticus looks right up your alley 
http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm

I also ran across a TeX based timeline macro - 
http://www.tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=Nodes/nodes#timeline

Regards, Martin


  

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Subject: Re: [SLUG] timeline generation software


On Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 16:39:35 +0200, Thomas Schr?der wrote:
>Hi Benno,
>
>gplot should do it I think
>
>http://gplot.sourceforge.net/


Gplot seems to just be a frontend to gnuplot, which is fairly competent at 
generating some fairly sophisticated graphs but doesn't really do timelines.

I guesss I could force it to plot just along the X-axis, but gnuplot output 
isn't the most aesthetically pleasing about :(.


Thanks,

Benno


>Cheers,
>Thomas
>
>Am Donnerstag, 18. August 2005 07:33 schrieb Benno:
>> Does anyone know of some (open source) software that will generate a 
>> pretty look timeline? I'd like something that takes:
>>
>> 1975 Foo
>> 1976 Bar
>> 1980 Baz
>> 1985 Qar
>>
>> and produces something like this in EPS:
>>
>>
>> +
>>
>> |   1975 19801985
>> |Foo  Baz Qar
>>
>> +-+--+-+--+>
>> 1976
>>  Bar
>>
>> I'm sure I could manually do this in Xfig, but that will take me all 
>> day. I'm also sure I could write something myself to do it but that 
>> sounds like perverse procrastination, so I'd prefer not to.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Benno
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[SLUG] Recording Audio

[Martin]

howdy

i'd like to record stereo audio that's coming into my laptop via the
microphone jack. i'm running ubuntu, any suggestions for software that could
handle recording the audio and output ogg or mp3?

cheers
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Re: [SLUG] How do you start a LUG?

[Ben Stringer]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 01:18 -0700, Simon Sutton wrote:
> Hello SLUG
> 
> I am trying to set up a LUG for the area of Dubbo(NSW), but unfortunately
> I don't really know where to start.
> 
> Any advice, or assistance that you can offer me in going about setting up
> DLUG will be very much appreciated, particularly in the areas of
> organizing events and raising awareness of the LUG in its early days.

Hi Simon,

Have a look at Rick Moen's LUG HOWTO.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html

Cheers, Ben



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[SLUG] VPN to Cisco

[Phil Scarratt]

Hi

Having no experience with VPN'ing toa Cisco router endpoint, I'm 
interested in peoples thoughts on creating a VPN to a Cisco 1712 
endpoint. What have people used (successfully or otherwise)? The Cisco 
VPN Client software from Cisco? open-source IPSEC client (openswan or 
whatever it's called)?


Does anyone know if I have to use the cisco client?

Fil

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[SLUG] wpa_supplicant weirdness

[Indelible]

Hi,

I've recently been playing around with wpa_supplicant and a d-link 
DWL-630 pcmcia wireless card (madwifi).


I have an adsl modem/router (non-wireless) with four switched ports. I 
have a wireless access point device plugged in to one of the ports and a 
couple of PC's in to the others.


I have no problem getting the laptop to associate with the access point, 
so wpa_supplicant and madwifi work fine.


From the laptop, once connected, I can ping/connect to the access 
point's IP and to the PCs plugged in to the other switch ports without 
problem.


But I can't ping/connect to the adsl/modem router and hence have no 
internet access. When I send the pings, I can see the LEDs of the port 
where the access point is attached to the router flicker, but I get 
nothing back.


The subnet is 192.168.10.0/24, the router has .1, access point .99 the 
PCs have .70 and .80 respectively.


It's a straight forward setup, I can't get my head around why it doesn't 
work.


If I use WEP instead of WPA/wpa_supplicant things work ok.

I'd be grateful for any advice.
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Re: [SLUG] Software Freedom Day

[Pia Waugh]

> Cool!  Do we have a big SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY banner and permission to 
> hang it in a public place.  That'd rock.

Haven't got a banner organised yet, any idea where we can get one organised
pretty cheap?
 
> You can count me in, what time are we starting?

Hmm, hadn't organised times yet, maybe 10am? Chris?

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] How do you start a LUG?

[Pia Waugh]

Hi Simon,



> I am trying to set up a LUG for the area of Dubbo(NSW), but unfortunately
> I don't really know where to start.

Terry's advice here is great, other stuff you might consider is setting up a
website, and Linux Australia (http://linux.org.au) would be able to help
with that and mailing lists and the like if that is useful to you. Also
encourage anyone interested to start a blog and then get the blog added to
planet.linux.org.au to show the rest of the country what you are all up to
:) Talk to other LUGs, and even perhaps use Software Freedom Day (*) as a
recruitment drive or opening for your new LUG. Also put when your meetings
on your website to encourage newbies to come along and let James Purser
(cc'd) know so he can cover anything cool in the Australian Linux community
podcast LUG roundup :) 

* - (Sept 10 -
see http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Australia for
details on what others are already up to)
 
> Any advice, or assistance that you can offer me in going about setting up
> DLUG will be very much appreciated, particularly in the areas of
> organizing events and raising awareness of the LUG in its early days.

I suggest a way to raise the profile of the LUG really depends on what you
want the LUG to achieve. If it is a technical group of people being
technical together, try to approach groups in the area that might also
attract like minded people to get them involved, TAFEs, Uni, tech schools,
etc. If you want it to have a social aspect you might consider working with
local schools or community centres to roll out Linux and get the average Joe
onside with the LUG and Linux generally. If you have any contacts with the
CSU campus in Dubbo, use them as unis are usually quite supportive of LUGs
and can be a haven for free bandwidth and room facilities. Hold
installfests, have a booth at the local fair/fete, there are loads of ways
to raise your profile :)

Cheers,
Pia

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Re: [SLUG] Software Freedom Day

[Pia Waugh]

Hiya!



> So is anyone planning activities for Software Freedom Day?

Yep :)
 
> Need any help?

Yes! We are planning to hand out CDs and foo in the city followed by an
installfest. Details currently at
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Sydney and are
yet to be finalised. We'd love more hands to help out if you can on the day!
I have tshirts on the way so we all look good :)

Cheers,
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[SLUG] Samba problem

[Bill]

I've got a home LAN through a modem/router and ethernet switch with 4 PCs.

I have recently set up one PC as a file/print server utilising Mepis SOHO 
Server beta ( debian based).


I have set up the Server with a system hard drive, and 2 data hard drives ( 
/data and /media). I have set these 2 drives as Shares and made all 
directories/files "owned" by my user.


I can access the Shares from all of the other 3 PCs, but can only see the 
files in the shares from one of these PCs.


The 3 Workstation PC's have the same user name and password, the Server 
Shares being owned by the same user, but with a different password, so that 
I need to log-in from the workstation PCs.


Non-server PCs are running XP, Kanotix and Simply Mepis ( both Debian).

All PCs are using the same workgroup name and are in the same IP range etc.

The problem occurs even with firewalls turned off.

I'm obviously overlooking something simple, but can't figure out what it is.

Suggestions please.

Bill

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[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: August 26th, 2005

[Chris Deigan]

When:
Friday, August 26, 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
UTS Broadway

SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUG-Chat. Meetings are open
to the general public, and are free of charge.

Please note the room changes: This month's meeting will be held in room
CB02.04.11 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 11) and SLUGlets in CB02.05.38
(Building 2, Level 5, Room 38) at UTS Broadway. There is a map of UTS
available from http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html.

General talk: 
Lindsay Holmwood -- Xfce - A lightweight desktop environment for
the masses. 
You've probably heard a thing or two about Xfce in the standard
geek news channels as of late. This talk will cover what it is,
it's history, it's components, sub-projects, the community, the
developers, and where it's heading. If you've heard stuff about
Xfce before but haven't looked into it, this is the talk for
you! 
Technical talk: 
Oscar Plameras -- OpenLDAP security made simple with OpenSSL and
Cyrus-SASL. 
It is common perception that OpenLDAP is troublesome to install
and even more troublesome to implement with security in it. Is
this perception real or just imagination? It is the purpose of
this tutorial to address this issue; and to demonstrate that
OpenLDAP security can be made simple.

As usual, SLUG-Chat (formerly SLUGlets) will be running in another room
(TBA) during the 2nd half of the meeting for those who do not wish to
attend the 2nd talk.


6:30pm: Doors Open
6:45pm: The Usual Suspects
Q&A - Introduction to SLUG + "What has Linux done for/to me
lately?" + SLUG News & Discussion
7:00pm (approx): General Talk
Xfce - a lightweight desktop environment for the masses
8:00pm (approx): Break 
Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge.
8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for:
Special Interest: OpenLDAP security made simple.
SLUG-Chat: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free
Software.
9:30pm (approx) Dinner
Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head.


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Re: [SLUG] timeline generation software

[Benno]

On Tue Aug 23, 2005 at 09:00:11 +1000, Visser, Martin wrote:
> 
>I have found Ploticus to actually give nicer results than Gnuplot. 
>http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/gallery/gall.hbars.html#timeline (And there is 
>a SVG & EPS along with bitmap output which is nice)
>
>This package using Ploticus looks right up your alley 
>http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm

Yeah that looks like what I want, thanks!

(The TeX one looks nice too, but it relies on pstricks, which I don't think
works too well in pdflatex.)

Cheers,

Benno
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[SLUG] oscommerce b2b ?

[Voytek Eymont]

Any oscommerce experts here ?

I need to install oscommerce for a b2b/wholesaler use, with access to
prices only for predefined customers, I see there are some plugins towards
achieving that, just curious if anyone here done anything like that, what
with


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Re: [SLUG] timeline generation software

[Peter Rundle]

Benno,


I guesss I could force it to plot just along the X-axis, but
gnuplot output isn't the most aesthetically pleasing about :(.


Have a look at JPGraph, object orientated PHP libary for drawing very 
sexy graphs.


  http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/


P.

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[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 48

[ashley maher]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:24 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:24 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello SLUG
> > 
> > I am trying to set up a LUG for the area of Dubbo(NSW), but unfortunately
> > I don't really know where to start.
> > 
> > Any advice, or assistance that you can offer me in going about setting up
> > DLUG will be very much appreciated, particularly in the areas of
> > organizing events and raising awareness of the LUG in its early days.
> > 
> > Yours Faithfully
> > Simon Sutton
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

G'day Simon,

Matt Palmer and I set up South Coast Linux User Group over the last 12
months.

First go to Linux Aust to host a web site and mailing list.

Then call the first meeting. Keep on going.

Feel free to email me, or just join the sclug list link from:

www.sclug.asn.au

Good Luck

Regards,

Ashley

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[SLUG] domain name registration

[luke]

Hi.

I've registered a '.info' domain name with registerfly.com for about $AUD5.00.
It all works but it takes about 5 seconds to do a lookup.

Can anyone recommend a domain registration service that has fast response times
and does cheap '.info' domains?

I'm sure this has been asked before but can you please recommend a service that
does the above.

Thanks.
Kind regards.
Luke.
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