Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:28, you wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:06, Tim Wright wrote: > > I can put my libstdc++.so.5.0.3 on the web for you to download, but it > > comes from gcc version 3.2.3 (debian prerelease), and is 600K. > > > > Does anyone have gcc version 3.2.2 installed, and running the

Re: Netatalk - success

2003-04-02 Thread Jason
Great!! Thanks for that. I will try it at work tomorrow. Cheers Jason Andrew Gordon wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, Whew, compared to Samba, the Netatalk setup was piece of piss. Installed the RPM, rebooted to activate the kernel modules and poof, it was up and PS,

font2pcl.ps

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
Help! I need to create a bitmapped PCL font and font2pcl.ps is all i can find. It lives in the gs package, and is advertised as doing just what i want. Anyone have any guesses as to how i use it ? I've tried all the obvious alternatives, but it stubbornly does nothing. TIA, Rex

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:06, Tim Wright wrote: > I can put my libstdc++.so.5.0.3 on the web for you to download, but it > comes from gcc version 3.2.3 (debian prerelease), and is 600K. > > Does anyone have gcc version 3.2.2 installed, and running the same > architecture as Chris (I assume i386)?

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Its the same filename, and its in /usr/lib/ but Celestia gripes that it > isn't the version from GLIBCPP_3.2.2 (its from GLIBCPP_3.2). All my > searching cannot find a package (binary OR source) that is called > GLIBCPP_3.2.2. I suspect its a non-separa

Re: Netatalk - success

2003-04-02 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Hi All, > > Whew, compared to Samba, the Netatalk setup was piece of piss. Installed > the RPM, rebooted to activate the kernel modules and poof, it was up and > PS, anyone know how to allow guest sessions for those NOT a user on my box?? Add uams_gue

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Tim Wright wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Yes, I've got libstdc++.so.5.0.0, but that is already linked by "libstdc++.so.5", so celestia knows its the wrong one... Wait. You've already got exactly the right file - the numbers after the ".so" extension are just the vers

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2003-04-02 Thread IanDunn

OT - Alps printer

2003-04-02 Thread Barry
Does anyone own or know the whereabouts of an Alps microdot printer in the Christchurch area please Barry

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Yuri de Groot
>As with the "server" side, the "linux not good for the desktop" have cooled down. Linux is fine on my desktop. It's the wife's laptop we're struggling with :-) But seriously - Mdk 9.1 is there. Friends see the kde 3.1 desktop and think it's some cool new windows theme - then I say it's linux an

Re: Last nights meeting

2003-04-02 Thread Herb Petrie
Thank you all for the help I received on monday night, slowly finding my way around, the connection to my ISP is much more consistent, and faster than it has ever been. Would it be safe for me to copy via floppy disk, my mailboxes and bookmarks in ms98 "Eudora" to Mozilla mail ? Thanks Again,

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > follows a sigmoidal (1+e(-x)) type of function. Typo: 1/(1+e^(-x)) -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

2003-04-02 Thread Yuri de Groot
>Hi Yuri > >The Exact error from kppp log will helpus find the >problem. Something about timing out. I had to leave home to go to work at that point, I will post pppd logs next time I get a chance to look at it. First I will copy all the ppp config files from my desktop to see if that helps. Yu

Re: VMWARE on Duron 900

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > whats the best way of doing that? do i just mount it and then do a > mkisofs on /mnt/cdrom ? > > or do I dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win2k.iso > > On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:20:05 +1200 > C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is hard. I'd suggest making a

Netatalk - success

2003-04-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi All, Whew, compared to Samba, the Netatalk setup was piece of piss. Installed the RPM, rebooted to activate the kernel modules and poof, it was up and running (via a daemon). As a result, any user set up on my box, can login via their Apple PC (non-osx versions) and have access to their hom

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote: > For anyone who is interested: > > The membership of the email list is over 260 on > 3 April 2003. > > This is a pretty big jump in the last few months. How about a graph (statistics) :-) When a new enters the "mainstream" the rate of adoption often f

Making an ISO was Re: VMWARE on Duron 900

2003-04-02 Thread C Falconer
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:25, Nick Rout wrote: > whats the best way of doing that? do i just mount it and then do a > mkisofs on /mnt/cdrom ? I *think* this will try and make an iso called /mnt/cdrom ...reads man page... looks like it should work. From the man page "mkisofs is effectively a pre-m

Re: Mounting (and unmounting) SMBFS

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Munro Glass
> There are other ways to access smb shares: > > in konqueror travel to the url smb://machine/share and a > username/password dialog will pop up. Odd - this seems to work for some shares but not for others. It's almost like it's connected to some shares as a Guest and therefore isn't able to read

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:47:37AM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > For anyone who is interested: > > The membership of the email list is over 260 on > 3 April 2003. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/lists-archives/lists> du -hc cantlug* | tail -1 42M total Starting from Dec 2000 There's a steady in

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
You mean auckland lug! > thats more than nzlug! > > > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:47:37 +1200 > Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For anyone who is interested: > > > > The membership of the email list is over 260 on > > 3 April 2003. > > > > This is a pretty big jump in the last few

Re: VMWARE on Duron 900

2003-04-02 Thread David Zanetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > or do I dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win2k.iso This works, I've done it a few times. - -- David Zanetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | (__) #include| ( ooMooo "Hope.. is a dangerous thing." |

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
thats more than nzlug! On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:47:37 +1200 Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For anyone who is interested: > > The membership of the email list is over 260 on > 3 April 2003. > > This is a pretty big jump in the last few months. > > > > > -- > Zane Gilmore, A

Re: VMWARE on Duron 900

2003-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
whats the best way of doing that? do i just mount it and then do a mkisofs on /mnt/cdrom ? or do I dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win2k.iso On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:20:05 +1200 C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is hard. I'd suggest making an iso of the win2k CD and put that on > the host machine

RE: Last nights meeting

2003-04-02 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
I am not sure about mail but I know you can export IE favourites to an html file and then import them to Mozilla (I did it yesterday here at work) If you cannot import the Eudora mail maybe you could email it to yourself (from one system to another) Regards, Robert -Original Message

Re: Last nights meeting

2003-04-02 Thread Herb Petrie
Thank you all for the great help I received on monday night. The connection to my ISP is now much more consistent, and faster than it has ever been, and have not seen a "busy" message yet. Slowly finding my way around, would it be safe for me to copy via Floppy disk, my mail boxes and bookmarks,

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Can the old VMS box take load! > For anyone who is interested: > > The membership of the email list is over 260 on > 3 April 2003. > > This is a pretty big jump in the last few months. > > > > > -- > Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer > Information Services Section, Information Tech

Re: Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

2003-04-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Yuri The Exact error from kppp log will helpus find the problem. Mahesh > Hi Folks > > I found a driver at www.linmodems.org, which created > the following device: > /dev/modem -> tty/LT0 > > I then used the Mandrake Internet thingy wizard to > set up a connection to > ClearNet. > I had to

RE: Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

2003-04-02 Thread Steve Bell
> Then when it got to "Logging onto network", it spat the dummy, I uncheck "logon to network" on my windows box, and it connects much faster. I don't know the ins and outs of that, I just know it does. (Sorry in advance if this is a dumb answer).

Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Zane Gilmore
For anyone who is interested: The membership of the email list is over 260 on 3 April 2003. This is a pretty big jump in the last few months. -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waanang

Wow!! - MS Japan Sales hurting....

2003-04-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
Very Interesting http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8658

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Gareth Williams
On Thursday 03 April 2003 21:22, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Yes, I've got libstdc++.so.5.0.0, but that is already linked by > "libstdc++.so.5", so celestia knows its the wrong one... If it was the wrong one, you would likely get a whole lot of errors about "Unresolved symbols" or the like. No, cele

Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

2003-04-02 Thread Yuri de Groot
Hi Folks I found a driver at www.linmodems.org, which created the following device: /dev/modem -> tty/LT0 I then used the Mandrake Internet thingy wizard to set up a connection to ClearNet. I had to choose "Normal Modem" instead of "Winmodem", and told drakconnect that the normal modem is /dev/

OSTC Courses

2003-04-02 Thread David Kirk
Hey everyone, This is what's happening at the Open Source Technology Centre. I have put links to each course on the forum. Please use them and don't post your replies here. * PHP Course http://www.ostc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5 This course is scheduled for Monday night at 6:00pm. Jason has a

Re: pike vs python

2003-04-02 Thread Martin Baehr
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:18:49AM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > how many LUG lists are you a member of around the world? well, all the lugs i am in, are places that i have been to: vienna, san diego, los angeles, auckland, wellington, chch, dunedin, tokyo, singapore... the list is slowly growing

Re: pike vs python

2003-04-02 Thread Zane Gilmore
Martin, how many LUG lists are you a member of around the world? On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:44, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:33PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > wow is this the martin we know? > > you bet it is! > > > time to come back for another demo!! > > i'd love to! >

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > > Surf elsewhere ? What if there isn't an "elsewhere" ? > > > Google knows how many million pages? Sure there's an elsewhere... ;;) > >

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > Surf elsewhere ? What if there isn't an "elsewhere" ? > > Google knows how many million pages? Sure there's an elsewhere... ;;) > Right! So, as an _example_, let say I am intereste

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: [...] > > Surf elsewhere ? What if there isn't an "elsewhere" ? > > Google knows how many million pages? Sure there's an elsewhere... ;;) Right! So, as an _example_, let say I am interested in user comments on a particular topic on Slashdot. Where els

RE: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Steve Bell wrote: > I reckon the 'governing bodies' (whoever the heck they > are) should make rules about what is ethcial with java. (the same guys who > make rules about unsubscribes/spam, I mean.) I understand now why I don't receive spam any longer. It is because it was d

RE: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Steve Bell
For my 2c worth, even Macromedia Freehand's webbrowser based help needs Java to run properly. I reckon the 'governing bodies' (whoever the heck they are) should make rules about what is ethcial with java. (the same guys who make rules about unsubscribes/spam, I mean.) >From my limited understand

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > AFAIK you can't turn java on/off site-specific, let me know if I am > > wrong. > > Err, Konqueror lets you do this... I stand corrected :-) (I had some very vague recollection, this is why I asked to be corrected if I am wrong). Cheers, -- Ryu

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-04-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
David, You are right, the new ML 9.1 does indeed resize fat32 and NTFS partitions and I've heard of people having good results so far with it. I agree'd with your method as well, that is how I would do it. Cheers Jason David Kirk wrote: Chris, Here is what I would do: How do I give back th

Re: X configuration

2003-04-02 Thread Keith McGavin
> From: "Raycl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Did a reinstall, the screen was still stable but the desktop wouldn't > or couldn't load. X configuration has been fixed by Ray using a ugrade from 9.0 to 9.1. 9.0 did set up X but 9.1 had problems. Using the upgrade preserved the XF86Config file to make X

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Chad
You should find the file libstdc++.so.5 in the package libstdc++5 under mandrake linux (you are using that still aren't you?) install it with the command. urpmi libstdc++5 (this from 9.1 but should be the same for 9.0 and 8.2) chad On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 9:22 pm, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Tim

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > No, sorry, it's an empirical observation. E.g. one was a German Is there such a thing as an emperical observation? (I'm sure this will start one of those 'interesting' CLUG discussions:) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science U

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Reformulation: I _use_! a couple. And they don't use it for menus but for graphs > which by the way they are presented can't be done in gifs/png (which are static) > or javascript (no graphics AFAIK, unless you call java methods) This case would be very exceptional, and you'd know the site so th

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Yes, I've got libstdc++.so.5.0.0, but that is already linked by > "libstdc++.so.5", so celestia knows its the wrong one... Wait. You've already got exactly the right file - the numbers after the ".so" extension are just the version number, and 5.0.0 *i

Re: Mounting (and unmounting) SMBFS

2003-04-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> in konqueror travel to the url smb://machine/share and a > username/password dialog will pop up. Which (running as root) program is doing the mounting? You could trivially solve all your trouble by setting the suid bit on mount and umount. This will allow users to use smbmount and smbumount. T

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:22, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Yes, I've got libstdc++.so.5.0.0, but that is already linked by > "libstdc++.so.5", so celestia knows its the wrong one... /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.3 is available from debian unstable. Rex

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:11, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > It is old? glibcpp_3.2.2 is presumably intertwined with gcc 3.2.2 and > my MDK 9.0 dist came with gcc 3.2(.0?), so I presume its late model > with shiny hubcaps etc... :^) I could be wrong (has been known to > have happened!) Nope. You are ri

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Tim Wright wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm having trouble finding "libstdc++.so.5" (from glibcpp_3.2.2) Do you have any files that start with "libstdc++.so"? Yes, I've got libstdc++.so.5.0.0, but that is already linked by "libstdc++.so.5", so celestia knows its the wrong o

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Chad
Pk if your runing mandrake you can find out quite easyly if mandrake has the file avliable in any of it's packages. As root type urpmf libstdc++.so.5 it will search through the Mandrake package lists and the files they conatin and print out the names of any packages that contain that file. Then

Re: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:19, Yuri de Groot wrote: > >I would look for that particular laptop model + linux on google. See if > > >others > > have had luck getting the modem going. I found a few laptop >specific > sites when I was trying to get my laptop winmodem going. What is the > brand BTW? W

Winmodem Info

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
You might want to try here as well: http://www.linmodems.org/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > I'm having trouble finding "libstdc++.so.5" (from glibcpp_3.2.2) Do you have any files that start with "libstdc++.so"? If you do, you can use a quick hack that usually works: Create a symbolic link in the directory you found the "libstdc++.so" from "

RE: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/nec.html there are a few NEC models mentioned, need more details to check it out. or search the exact model on google (as already suggested). also /proc/pci or lspci may give you chipset clues. Or try knoppix and see if it detects the modem, that is always a good

Re: Cannot find right "libstdc++.so.5"...

2003-04-02 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Rex Johnston wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 19:15, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm having trouble finding "libstdc++.so.5" (from glibcpp_3.2.2) Eh ? You shouldn't need this lib unless you are running something *really* old (like the vga version of Quake1 or something). It is old? glibcpp_3.2.2