Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Bernard
Hi All Thanks to all at the install-fest follow up..it was a big help to me getting my machine running better.appreciate the input of all and special thanks to Ross for his patience (first time I have seen sparks coming from plastic teeth:) good turn out on such a miserable night Bob Bernard

Re: Samba help - again

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Fisher
When I first dabled with Samba I eventually realised that all of my problems were because of the level of firewall. On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:05, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get samba to work > on my work lan - to no avail. I've RTFM

Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1

2003-03-31 Thread Paul
Hi all, Have a play with the mandrake control center I found that when going through the configuration wizard you can select winmodem as your network adapter! I use a cable modem but would like to hear from anyone who has got their winmodem working using mandrake 9.1. Cheers Paul

Re: SHRIKE

2003-03-31 Thread Slosh
how much?? --Slosh - Original Message - From: "Paul Swafford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: SHRIKE > "Shrike" redhat 9.0 available from e-caf > > thanks to Mahesh for the tip on BitTorrent > it was ok ish for doing the

SHRIKE

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Swafford
"Shrike" redhat 9.0 available from e-caf thanks to Mahesh for the tip on BitTorrent it was ok ish for doing the download .. although I'd still rather use FTP Regards Paul Swafford (Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 w

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Yuri de Groot
>How do I give back the 1Gb partition to Windows? run the windows version of fdisk (FDISK.EXE ?) using win-fdisk, delete the 1Gb partition and in the free space create a new partition. Hopefully windows is clever enough to detect an unformated windows partition and offer to format it next time you

Re: OH NO !!

2003-03-31 Thread Conrad Wolf
Hi Paul, I'm new on the list and looking for the installation CDs for Debian. Yesterday at the meeting I was told that you would possibly sell them. Have you got the CDs for release 3.0 'woody'? Cheers, Conrad Paul Swafford wrote: for those of you using Gentoo .. terrible news .. Gentoo to a

Re: Samba Help - Again

2003-03-31 Thread Jason
I'm home now and a kind list member has offered to come see me tomorrow at work. If we have no joy, I'll follow up your suggestions, and I will post our results on-list either way. Cheers Jason Nick Rout wrote: what are the symptoms, and can you post your smb.conf have you set up smbpasswd?

Re: OH NO !!

2003-03-31 Thread Jason
Use URPMI, it'll make you have warm fuzzies for RPM's =) Cheers Jason Nick Rout wrote: Its a bit late in the day in this part of the world for april fools jokes isn't it? anyway, thats the consensus on the gentoo email list. A selection of comments: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Jason
Wouldn't this be negated by the creation of a boot floppy which I ALWAYS do and advocate your unixness?? =) Cheers Jason Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:02, Jason Greenwood wrote: Other than that, you really do only need the 3 partitions, root/swap/home on the new drive. U

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Chris Downie wrote: > How do I give back the 1Gb partition to Windows? > > Other than root, swap and home, should I have any other directory on a separate > partition? Judging from your question, you know about partitioning, have installed Linux before, and now want to make on

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:02, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Other than that, you really do only need the 3 partitions, > root/swap/home on the new drive. UMM, Jason, with all due respect etc. etc... For a machine of that age it's _*really*_ important to have the boot stuff on its own small partition at

Re: OH NO !!

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
Its a bit late in the day in this part of the world for april fools jokes isn't it? anyway, thats the consensus on the gentoo email list. A selection of comments: > Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? > Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you > want rpms

OH NO !!

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Swafford
for those of you using Gentoo .. terrible news .. Gentoo to adopt RPM .. read about this travesty here http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml ah well back to apt-get :) Cheers Paul

Re: pike vs python

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
wow is this the martin we know? time to come back for another demo!! On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 06:49:11 +0200 Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > enough is enough! > i've had it! > > with pike: > calendar failing, > floatingpoint bugs, > blocking i/o callbacks > upgrading woes > > with cau

Re: Samba Help - Again

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
what are the symptoms, and can you post your smb.conf have you set up smbpasswd? are all the users using the same login and passwords on the windows boxes to their user accounts on the linux box? can you post the results of smbclient -L localhost - and smbclient -L windowsbox from the linux box

Samba Help - Again

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi all, I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get samba to work on my work lan - to no avail. I've RTFM and attended the ostc class on it. It still won't go. I am at my wits end. Is there anyone who is in the CBD during the week who could pop in and have a look to see if I hav

Samba help - again

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi all, I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get samba to work on my work lan - to no avail. I've RTFM and attended the ostc class on it. It still won't go. I am at my wits end. Is there anyone who is in the CBD during the week who could pop in and have a look to see if I hav

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
First off, get Mandrake 9.1it's miles ahead of 9.0. As far as "giving back" the 1 GB partition to Winders, well, there are many ways but perhaps the easiest is to delete that partition with partition magic and either a)format it as fat32, essentially giving you 2 winders partitions, the sec

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Slosh
PartitianMagic is a Windows Program and IMHO really good, however you still run the risk of loosing data while you move it from the area you are giving back to windows --Slosh - Original Message - From: "Brad Beveridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2

pike vs python

2003-03-31 Thread Martin Baehr
enough is enough! i've had it! with pike: calendar failing, floatingpoint bugs, blocking i/o callbacks upgrading woes with caudium: php problems parser bugs entity problems licensing problems camas problems with roxen: mysql dependancy complex rxml classes with sTeam: confusing web interface

RE: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Brad Beveridge
you should be able to use cfdisk to resize your partitions - however it's not very graphical, or particularly friendly & you could possibly trash your partition :) Brad > -Original Message- > From: Chris Downie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:36 p.m. > To: [EMAI

Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Chris Downie
Hi Guys, I have taken advise and will now pester the list for help. My long term goal is to be MS free, my short term goal is to go longer than 25 days without a BSOD (or equivalent). I'm afraid I can't impress you with a flash system, all I have to play with is a Cyrix 233MMX, 224Mb and 4.3Gb

Re: FW: Software development tools

2003-03-31 Thread Paul
Hi, > beyond me - everything is a bloody class. Isn't that why OOP was invented. So that real world objects such as buttons, text boxes, forms etc can be easily represented as an entity. If you don't like objects them use GTK and have a look how the the "official" hello world app is. Java may

Re: FW: Software development tools

2003-03-31 Thread Slosh
I meant as in it's got nice layout type things to it and stuff like that. Not that it was easy to implement. --Slosh - Original Message - From: "Gareth Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: Re: FW: Software development tools

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
bastards On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:52:15 +1200 (NZST) "Ryurick M. Hristev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI > > http://www.cexx.org/sheriff.htm > > Unlike most conventional spyware, imrworldwide.com's Red Sheriff is loaded as a > Java applet embedded in a Web page you visit. Once loade

Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-03-31 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
FYI http://www.cexx.org/sheriff.htm Unlike most conventional spyware, imrworldwide.com's Red Sheriff is loaded as a Java applet embedded in a Web page you visit. Once loaded, it sends information about your ... [...] Disturbing trends ... Cheers, -- Ryurick M. H

Re: PGP sig (Was: How to mount a scsi tape drive?)

2003-03-31 Thread Mike Beattie
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:57:20PM +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote: > Only the sender can produce the sig, using his/her private key. > Recipients can then use their own copy of the sender's public key to verify. Best way to think of it, is like this: Signature <-> Plain Text <> Encrypted

Monitor settings

2003-03-31 Thread Yuri de Groot
You don't have to have the exact monitor. As long as you know the refresh rates and the supported resolutions, you can select the vidoe modes manually eg you might be offered a list like: 800x600 50hz 800x600 60hz 1024x768 50hz 1024x768 60hz 1024x768 70hz etc.. Just choose the modes you know you

PGP sig (Was: How to mount a scsi tape drive?)

2003-03-31 Thread Yuri de Groot
It's like a checksum. If you have the sender's public PGP key stored on your machine, you can use the PGP sig to verify that it came from the sender. Only the sender can produce the sig, using his/her private key. Recipients can then use their own copy of the sender's public key to verify. Yuri

rsync (Was: Linux downloadling tip was: Yet Another Knoppix release)

2003-03-31 Thread Yuri de Groot
> Any one else use rsync? I used it recently to back up a directory tree on one hard drive to another. Yuri

Re: FW: Software development tools

2003-03-31 Thread Gareth Williams
My 2c Pro - cross platform Con - dog slow However it is a nice language IMO, and probably one I know best (oh dear, isn't that sad :-/ I must force myself to use C more often..). Garbage collection is especially nice though ;-) So I use it. But I can't defend Swing. How you can call it "really

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-31 Thread David Zanetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > When I type 'mt status' I get: > > -bash: mt: command not found Are you root? It may not be in the non-root path. Otherwise, mt-st is the package you're after (in at least Debian) - -- David Zanetti <[EM

Re: FileCompare equivalent "diff"

2003-03-31 Thread Ken McAllister
Nick Rout wrote: diff file1 file2 > file3 Ken McAllister says thank you. Question 17:02, reply 17:07. Wow.

Re: FW: Software development tools

2003-03-31 Thread Joshua Collins
2c I like java a lot, mainly bacause it's realitively easy to pick up (unlike C *evils in it's direction*) and it provides a really nice way to design guis via JavaSwing. --Slosh Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks for the info guys, I've installed KDevelop overnight so will check that out later alon

Re: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Run Knoppix and copy the XF config files from that. It should detect/configure it just fine. Cheers Jason Daniel Fone wrote: One peice of bad news... A guy called Ray wanted his machine upgraded to Mandrake 9.1. He had some partion problems so we decided to reinstall from scratch. The install

Re: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
Often if you search for the make and model of monitor on google [groups|web] you will find the right modelines. Or use the same as he used last time - you did backup XF86Config? On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:04:18 + (GMT) Daniel Fone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One peice of bad news... > > A guy

Re: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Daniel Fone
One peice of bad news... A guy called Ray wanted his machine upgraded to Mandrake 9.1. He had some partion problems so we decided to reinstall from scratch. The install was fairly impressive, very little configuration was asked for which I didn't like much (maybe I should have run in expert mod

FW: Software development tools

2003-03-31 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Title: FW: Software development tools Thanks for the info guys, I've installed KDevelop overnight so will check that out later along with some of the other suggestions. I would find switching to Kylix quite easy, but I wonder about its future. What's the consensus, or is there a consensus, a

RE: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Rick's son could not make it so Rick came to buy the CD's. Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Jason Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:23 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Last nights meeting And Ricks son's box?? Cheers Jaso

Re: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
And Ricks son's box?? Cheers Jason Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Well 3 of us installed KDE 3 on Herb's RedHat 8.0 machine and spruced it up for him. Got his various removable media mounted with icons on his desktop and generally improved his setup (IMHO) Hopefully we did not confuse him too

RE: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread David Kirk
Nick wrote: > How did it go? I'm sorry I could not be there. > > Did we get a few boxes fixed? I fixed up some guy's XF86Config on his laptop. Unfortunately he only had 32MB of RAM, so RedHat 8.0 ran a bit slow for him. He is going to get some more ram rather than go to a lightweight window ma

RE: Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Well 3 of us installed KDE 3 on Herb's RedHat 8.0 machine and spruced it up for him. Got his various removable media mounted with icons on his desktop and generally improved his setup (IMHO) Hopefully we did not confuse him too much. We did stress that he should not hesitate to ask the list for h

Last nights meeting

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
How did it go? I'm sorry I could not be there. Did we get a few boxes fixed? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
the package name in redhat and mandrake is mt-st On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:38:00 +1200 Bryce Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > When I type 'mt status' I get: > > -bash: mt: command not found > > so it appears I don't have 'mt'? What should I do now? Is 'mt' > something I find

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi David, When I type 'mt status' I get: -bash: mt: command not found so it appears I don't have 'mt'? What should I do now? Is 'mt' something I find on distribution cd's? (I searched for an executable file called mt but could only find my character device by that name plus some c++ source

Re: Any one usd this p2p system?

2003-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:11, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > any one else use this p2p system? > > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html > > I am just trying it out at work.. there goes the 10gig > limit. :) I was involved with one of the earlier tests. It's really quite remarkable, and is without do

Any one usd this p2p system?

2003-03-31 Thread Mahesh De Silva
any one else use this p2p system? http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html I am just trying it out at work.. there goes the 10gig limit. :) = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telst

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-31 Thread David Zanetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Slosh wrote: > [snip] > iD8DBQE+h8uNT21+qRy4P+QRApb3AKC/CW5yf7DR9k6QWTWXD7EAEkBzMACeNeB7 > > LkFu46ipBgp0CH4hFM5kC04= > > =hZ7D > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > What's this PGP signature thing?? I sign all my email messages, tha

Re: Zane can you please remove design@cuddon.co.nz

2003-03-31 Thread Slosh
Grin I dunno it could've been horribly amusing and irritating --Slosh - Original Message - From: "David Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:21 PM Subject: Re: Zane can you please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Zane Gilmore wrote: > > > [EMAIL

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-31 Thread Slosh
[snip] iD8DBQE+h8uNT21+qRy4P+QRApb3AKC/CW5yf7DR9k6QWTWXD7EAEkBzMACeNeB7 > LkFu46ipBgp0CH4hFM5kC04= > =hZ7D > -END PGP SIGNATURE- What's this PGP signature thing?? --Slosh

Re: Linux downloadling tip was: Yet Another Knoppix release

2003-03-31 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Any one else use rsync? For many years. I use it for every copying operation, even on local disk. It does all of cp and scp plus heaps extra, basically it leaves the rest for stone dead. The only time I use it in server mode is when syncing my Linux updates. I keep on being surprised about how m

Re: Weird Connectivity Problems after upgrade/install

2003-03-31 Thread Chad
You do know what the netmask is right? It might just be worth runing the mandrake networking Wizards from control panel and setting it up again that might clean up any config errors that have crept in there from somewhere. Chad On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:50 am, you wrote: > Hope someone can help me

Re: Single click / double click niggle on mandrake 9.1

2003-03-31 Thread Chad
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > I can't find any setting to change it. In the KDE control centre I've > > looked under "look'n'feel" and "behaviour", and can't find any > > single/double click option. > Peripherals -> Mouse > Tim Wright Or add a contrib source (use urpmi.setup ("ur

Re: Linux downloadling tip was: Yet Another Knoppix release

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
yes, thats the whole point of it i guess :-) On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Philip Charles wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:58:30 +1200 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It uses double the space that the file takes up, as it makes a

Re: Linux downloadling tip was: Yet Another Knoppix release

2003-03-31 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:58:30 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It uses double the space that the file takes up, as it makes a temporary > file while it is rsyncing, then changes the name of the temp file at the > end. > > So if you

Re: Bye - was weird connectivity problems

2003-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
Sounds more like a permission problem. Check permissions on the modem device, than fix it via devfs On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jason wrote: > ok, I'm writing this from my Linux installI ran kppp as root and I > was able to connect. So where is the bloody text file/files that modify > your networ