Re: Virtual memory problem?

1997-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tdisk with kernel 2.0.27. Yep, I had a 2.0.27 machine up for 215 days with an smc-ultra (8216 like the original message). Oddly enough after being rebooted after 215 days, it mysteriously restarted 20 days later. :-( Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PR

Re: microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t's got some proprietary Microsoft compression scheme in it. You can play them with play from OSS/Linux (including the demo version from www.4front-tech.com, and play works on OSS/Free even after your OSS/Linux trial has expired), but I don't know how you can c

multiple inetds

1997-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, it runs ok but doesn't do anything. eg I made my own inetd.conf with an entry 28123 stream tcp nowait hamish /usr/sbin/in.telnetd and ran inetd, but connections are always refused. This happens on both Debian hamm and Solaris 5.5.1. Any suggestions? xinetd? thanks, Hamish -- H

some sort of svga getty?

1997-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
unfortunately Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 51% The opposite of a profound truth may wel

Re: faxing from Win 95

1997-08-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lled Stomper? If so, it's pretty much a DOS /win '95/NT program. We > use it at work, and it's > OK unless the modem can't connect, then you have to reboot both machines, > yech. No, stomper is a modem sharing program. There is a solution for Samba, which invo

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in chemistry. Similarly I have some ideas for some electronics packages (mostly related to microcontrollers/microprocessors); there is one or two similar packages at present; is there sufficient interest for me to do some? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

1997-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Disk Manager anyway (due to booting to DOS etc), Linux is fine with it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CP

Deity vs Diety

1997-08-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety projects is the provision for This name is confusing me -- is it really Diety? Should be "Deity", no? Very different! hamish -- Hamish Moffat

database with ODBC support?

1997-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 51% Your train has been cancelled due to defect

Re: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
sonality Debian? :) > > Take a look at Caldara's naming conventions. Open Linux Base, Open Linux > Standard, and Open Linux Deluxe. Why not just Debian? It sounds like you are suggesting that actual different versions should be shipped! With free software, there's no price diffe

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 01, 1997 at 11:00:20AM +0100, Alec Clews wrote: > There is obviously a desire to make a small, simple Debian and so I > propose a project to make > one available. Do you mean small on the source media? I would think Debian is a scalable as you want at installation. hamish -

Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence

1997-07-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
earlier (I think), and especially was available (released) for Alpha earlier, attracting Linus etc. I believe Alan Cox (networking guru) runs it too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineerin

Re: Linus uses Red Hat?

1997-07-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
view, NASA has very specialised applications and they might feel Debian is too specialised to be for them. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.ho

seeking newsreader suggestions

1997-07-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t, but for news. :-) Any suggestions? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 50% The opposite of a

OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I would not recommend you reply directly to this chap; I did and have started receiving more test messages directly. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml

Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
whatever, so no K6 >= 200. Buy a Gigabyte or something. ASUSTech, ABIT, etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [*

Re: perl script

1997-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ut xedit saw > them big as life. Is vim now trying to be compatible with M$?!! I may > have to find a new editor. Vim will ignore them, but leave them in when it saves. Vi will show them. Can be removed with tr -d '\015' < file > file2 Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, S

suck fixxed, but nntpsend odd

1997-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rename the file hostxyz (in out.going) to hostxyz.nntp, and not much else. Similarly, nntpsend renames it to hostxyz=n The nntpsend log looks promising, but the articles haven't arrived at the other end as yet. :-( Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] St

need help with suck

1997-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o the host, right? Does the get-news.inn script handle posting? Once I can get suck working, getting it batched to UUCP shouldn't be too hard. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3

Re: Linux Journal "Reader's Choice Awards"

1997-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hile I suspect XFree would be the most popular of the three by far. Similarly all the backup tools listed are commercial AFAIK. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
minutes after I start up my system, because I don't use Linux on it every day. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CP

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
art that failed during compilation, run again and it will be okay. Or make clean then start again (safer). hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key

Re: Mailers

1997-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
handling tools of emacs worth looking into? Obscure keystrokes. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 50

Re: Security hole in Debian's /bin/false?

1997-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Shell scripts here on Solaris 5.5 too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 50% The opposite of a profou

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the interpreter (/bin/sh) would exit, and so there'd be nothing left running. And it wouldn't be root anyway -- setuid scripts are not allowed (by the kernel) because they are prone to security problems. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Studen

Re: Matlab for Debian?

1997-07-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
od but unfortunately does not seem to be entirely source-code compatible, if you're trying to run pre-written stuff. I used it for my studies this semester and some supplied programs would not run without some fairly minor modifications. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

debian is cool

1997-07-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d upgraded it in place without reboots to 1.2 and recently 1.3. (The load of 1 is the rc5 client, for what that's worth.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://ham

Re: Sound

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ig to access this option, though. It's not too practical (IMHO) to include a sound module in the standard kernel distribution, because unlike other drivers, all the sound drivers get compiled togethe as you pick them at compile time in the sound.o. OSS/Linux (the commercial ve

Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tscape isn't even official supported? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 49% The opposite of a prof

Re: dosemu comes w/o conf file

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
"_" instead of "-" to purge packages in dselect. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 49% T

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; just gives an error and won't touch the disk; no error message, just a code. I would think 3.0 would be better in this regard, but I haven't seen it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems

Re: getting CDs overseas

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s etc. Even the CD audio Internet houses (like cdnow.com and friends) have lower rates than these places. :-( Anyway, the discs will no doubt be available somehow or other. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & c

Re: DEBIAN NEWS

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to whatever courier company or shipping agent it is they use. I would be happy to pay $9.95 for the disc and $7 odd for postage, which is what Walnut Creek/Pacific HiTech charge me on their monthly Linux discs. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, to say that a module is installed. Only done complete installation 3 times though. Must be up to 10 Windows 95 just here at home among three PCs .. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
erywhere. Then I nuked it all and installed Debian. Very nice, have been using this for about 10 months now. All three of my Linux systems use it. Two were Slackware converts, the third started with Debian (1.2). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, compute

distribution page

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nstead. I never found it to be any worse than Slackware, which I've also used in the past. regards, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP ke

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
l doesn't run Java binaries itself, it just knows to start up the JDK java interpreter (/usr/bin/java or whatever) if you run a Java binary. Something like perl is just as platform-inspecific mostly. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, co

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ee an advantage in writing to the MBR (/dev/hda) rather than the partition itself. LILO will disappear during Windows95 installation if written to the MBR; only the active partition will be changed if it's in the boot sector (hdaN), and you can get it back with just Windows fdisk. Hamish -- Ha

GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
G'day, Last night I compiled GCC as a crosscompiler for the Motorola 6811 microcontroller. It occurred to me that since most of the Debian packages are also available for m68k and also Sparc and Alpha now, the develops are probably using cross-compilation, rather than actually owning all these mac

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
th the WD (although it still happens to my CD-ROM drive which is on the secondary). I don't know if there's a performance difference, but I couldn't be any worse off. So in summary, DMA does not seem to work to drives on the secondary controller, while it works fine on the prima

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
istribution. Perhaps I should be using > another mail-daeomn. Or is there a way that I can restrict things in > smail? The documentation for smail is (or was anyway) pretty woeful! Blackmail likes smail. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student,

Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative

1997-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t said, I never had any actual problems like this with it. How hot is it there? In that weather, just the heat out of the power supply is enough to keep things quite warm. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
mail is only 20k odd, works quite well, and comes from comp.sources.unix or .misc or something. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here)

linux 2.1.x -- poor multitasking?

1997-06-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t the volume is very high. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may w

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
be made > bootable, however). I thought debian did this anyway, and installed the "mbr" program into /dev/hda or /dev/sda instead, which would then boot the partition marked active. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science &

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
new version. My conf.modules says options sbpcd sbpcd="0x330,0" which is for a "lasermate" interface at 0x330; it's just a small CD-ROM only controller, no sound card etc. Quotes are required for the module only. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

Re: Tape backup

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
he entire > system on the jaz cartrige. I also use them for "sneakernet" to carry > 1GB from work to home and back. Well, a $40 Travan cartridge can store 1.6Gb or 2Gb in the right flavours, and the cartridges are a bit cheaper. The speed would have to be better then the Iomega

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
n the $40 NE2000s. I also bought (for $5) a big VLB IDE/IO/SCSI card (Adaptec 1520 based), also "no drivers." Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.o

Re: 10BT cables and lightning

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
or ethernet cables? Ouch. Sounds like Ethernet just isn't intended for the environment you're intending. You really can't drill a couple of holes in the floor or the walls? The metal conduit might help, but it may also attract the lightning .. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEA

Re: zip ECP/EPP driver?

1997-06-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
r slow -- quite a lot slower than the Iomega DOS/Windows drivers. Dave Campbell had developed a new set which used the bidirectional modes and were therefore significantly faster (IIRC). thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer scien

zip ECP/EPP driver?

1997-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone know the new URL for the ECP/PP driver for Zip parallel port drive? (By Dave Campbell). He seems to have disappeared from the last location, at curtin.edu.au. Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & comp

Re: xfree86 3.3

1997-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
fixed ASAP? Make sure /tmp has the correct permissions too, if /tmp is not writable you will get this error. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
In any case, I would have to say that on my hardware (Cyrix 6x86 P150+, 32mb, Trio64V+ video card), Word 95 is noticably faster than StarWriter, which is quite disappointing. I would have thought anyone could wirite a faster WP than MS ... Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
your .(t)cshrc, .profile, etc; it didn't seem to for me. Once you've run that, it can find the libraries. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
l offerings are mostly useful for > when people send me Word6 smack). Handy if you don't know (La)Tex; I don't, so I want something WYSIWYG. Mind you, these days I could almost write most things in HTML, or some SGML even (Linuxdoc, or Quartz). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e because it is only $100 AUD student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 for students I think, regularly nearly $500). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. h

Re: Ricoh CDRW (CD-ReWritable) drive

1997-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
have it, Windows95 doesn't have it (has Juliet instead), DOS obviously doesn't have it. But almost all Unix CDs use it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.h

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add > -bpp 16 to the command line. If you are using startx or xinit, you > can set up an alias. Much easier to set your DefaultColorDepth in /etc/X11/XF86Config. I use startx with this, to run 16bpp by default. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, Stu

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
enabled it and it kept my (diald-controlled) PPP link up for about seven hours the next night. :-( diald appears to be configured correctly to ignore rwhod traffic, too. I presume it was rwhod's fault, because that's all I changed and it hasn't done it again since. Hamis

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
only a patch in the 1.2.x and early 1.3.x days. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 46% The opposite of a

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
us. Why? > How should I activate this option? You need to enable firewalling; masquerading should become available then. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
illions" of IP-Accounting rules, one for each > service/destination combination, right? I believe so. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffa

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
summarize and mail it out daily. But nothing generic, it depends on the order of the items in the ip_acct file, etc. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.

Re: Colorado Parallel port tape

1997-05-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ives > ยท All drives that connect to the parallel port (eg: Colorado Trakker) Well, that just means ftape doesn't support it; it's not a general tape HOWTO. (ftape is the floppy-controller tape drive driver). hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud

ELF header message with modutils 2.1.34

1997-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
/modules/`uname -r` is included in conf.modules. Using 2.0.30. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
scripts to run from anacron instead of cron; then things get run once a day only, but definatel (if the PC is used at all that day). Very nice. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year,

Re: NEED info concerning "US Robotics" modem

1997-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
dem leaves out almost everything.) hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 42% -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: Kernel-compilation error no.2

1997-05-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e these if you turned off PCI, but compiled in a driver that used PCI, like some of the network cards. (I'm recalling this from the 1.2.x days.) Usually this happens when you compile in all the network drivers, rather than just the ones you need. It doesn't really hurt to have PCI enabled

Re: deselect

1997-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
x partitions. It has whatever you want on it, or can do; it's just a disk. You can put ext2fs on it for true Linux long filenames and permissions if you like. Also, disks don't need to be formatted especially for vfat; you can just start using them for that. Hamish -- Hamish M

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ct I'm studying at uni, but would prefer to use something compatible at home, but none of Postgres, mysql (when I got it working; I can't remember how to start the server now!) or mSQL will accept the create table commands given, complaining about the datatypes. I understand this might be a

Re: kahnd

1997-05-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
PC (Win95/NT), and wants to talk to this machine at the ISP too, and it doesn't work, even with LMHOSTS it seems. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
oller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://ya

2.1.36 kernel?

1997-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
have the latest things from bo. Anyone else had this problem? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 42%

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
've never had any trouble with it. I get a couple of zero dtimes on fscks occasionally (on the forced check) but nothing serious. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http:

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tarts after an 800mb DOS partition. No problems here. Make sure LBA is enabled. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPO

kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rce and the new modutils 2.1.34 and will see how it goes, I have been patching up. Anyone else having this? Nobody in the linux.dev.kernel group (or the mailing list) seem to have mentioned it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science &am

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
together. Actual mileage may vary. Yes, the defaults are 4 3 4 3 respectively but they are just defaults, and should be changed for concurrent use of the ports. Mine are 4 3 5 7, with 7 to be changed to 2 when I can next be bothered, although IRQ printing (to lp1 on IRQ 7) works anyway. Hamish

ssltelnet - issue

1997-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is there a /etc/issue.net equivalent for ssltelnet? I like ssltelnet, but I don't much like 586-unknown-linux [SSL] (yodeller) (ttyp6) Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd y

odd problem with lpr and lp ports

1997-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
now that it'll help before suggesting it.) If lprng is the answer, is there really a problem with the different lpq format and samba, and is there a fix? All printing will be from Win95/WinNT machines, via samba. Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTE

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
edhat. Slackware uses .tgz, but there are basically no packages available except the standard distribution, and they're just a big of control info added -- not a lot different to Debian, really. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science &a

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lement an SMB method. Some unsolved problems as yet, and no time at present to work on it. But will let you know. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.a

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
interesting is the package names (as presented now in dselect), rather than the filenames. I think the above would just be an interface to dpkg, rather than a nice friendly package management tool (which is what dselect and deity aim to be). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

Re: Which pentium: 200, PRO 200, or MMX 200?

1997-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I saw in a magazine earlier this month, does help things along quite a bit. But Pro would be better, being 32-bit optimised. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd yea

HotJava script

1997-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t's not in any of the classes.zip files I have (one for HotJava, one for JDK. Nor in the Windows/Netscape one either.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yal

root disk

1997-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
necessarily the current ones.) thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 40%

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
n. I just checked and that's not the problem. /tmp okay? Has been known to lose normal-user write permissions, although not for quite a long time for me. Should be drwxrwxrwxt. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the machine at high CPU load for that time too. (*) Hamish (* I can tell from the fan speed on my Cyrix. :-) -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; you shouldn't need to do a tutorial to use something as simple as a hypertext browser; lynx is far more obvious to use, and has (TTBOMK) the same functionality .. (although obviously for html vs info nodes.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stude

Re: problems with SounBlaster16

1997-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
aded as modules, by the way. No problem with sbpcd as a module here. Specifying the IO options to the module is a bit more difficult though. -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 40%

Re: sendmail on two hosts for one domain

1997-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
But how will you specify which users? You might as well use an alias file if you don't intend to forward all non-existing users elsewhere. You might be able to rig up an smail director (/etc/smail/directors) to do this. I wouldn't guess as to how to do it myself though. Hamish --

Re: Diald setup problem - Please help

1997-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ver (apache) which uses diald's fifo option to bring the link up. I have diald set never to bring the link up on particular traffic, only by explicit request. And drop the link after 20 minutes idle. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, comput

Re: How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nd of mine wiped another friend of mine's DOS partition. I recovered it with Linux FDISK (from a floppy because he was not a Linux user). I lost the partitions on my Linux server once and recovered that with Linux fdisk too. -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australi

Re: g++ file doesn't run

1997-03-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
don't send at least one new line. (Similarly by default even character by character input won't see anything until the user presses return). Try #include main() { cout << "Hello there." << endl; } You would theoretically get no output from #include mai

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
laris, but none of the US sites would let me have it and none of the non-US sites had it yet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [ ] 40% PGP key available from web page above.

Re: LARRY ELLISON

1997-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
re only being used on the ethernet between the masquerader and my PC, not on the internet at all. The answer seems to be javascript. I'll try it on a miscellaneously-named PC here at university and see what happens. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, c

Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

1997-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s box I'm typing this on. /bin/sh has no command line editing, for example. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [ ] 40% PGP key available from web page above.

Re: LARRY ELLISON

1997-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
27;m on via my ISP who's given my a dynamic IP, so I'm really dialin-a1-30.melbourne.internex.net.au or similar, and then I've via proxy cache proxy1.mel.connect.com.au, but that page still knows I'm from hamishpc! I do CGI but can't see how they do this one. Hamish -

Re: lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mar 03, 1997 at 07:38:33PM -0500, Brian S. Julin wrote: > I upgraded tons of packages (stable) and now lynx takes about > a minute to start. Same here; well, about five seconds, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything in that time. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d that I put "check_for_nonprintable no" in /etc/lpd.conf - as Strange, because I don't have that in smb.conf, and I print PCL to my new HP5L from Win95 boxes just fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science & computer syst

Re: RSA Datasecurity Challenge

1997-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
n get the client? I got the source from the upenn address, but it doesn't have a -i option, so I guess it's not what I want. With all this cryptography software I've got here (pgp in particular), I think I might be just about ready to nuke the USA. Sheesh. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

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