> >>plenty of open-source alternatives. Nvidia can keep
> >>their binary-only rubbish as far as I am concerned.
>
> Just think how crap the linux 3D graphics market would
> be without nVidias proprietary driver for TNT/GeForce
> graphics cards...its intellectual property they are
We were talking
check that ram figure, it may have been upgraded, but the off the
shelf model seems to have had 64M.
haven't found much on it on the net, but this shows some specs:
http://systemlogic.neoseeker.com/Products/Hardware/satellite_2590/
often a good place to find specs is ebay - put the model number
Hi there,
Andy George wrote:
I dont get it...
rpm -i mplayer.rpm
Failed dependancies, needs mplayer-common
rpm -i mplayer-common.rpm
failed dependancies, needs mplayer
Not quite...try 'rpm -i mplayer-common.rpm --nodeps'
The --nodeps option ignores dependencies forces install. Once the
common
strangely there a number of reviews about that say distros like
mandrake have easier installs than XP.
I certainly find gentoo an easier install to get _working_ than any
version of windows, but i'm not a newbie. (tongue in cheek only
slightly)
seriously though Chris, did you find mandrake that h
Andy George wrote:
I dont get it...
rpm -i mplayer.rpm
Failed dependancies, needs mplayer-common
rpm -i mplayer-common.rpm
failed dependancies, needs mplayer
Is this the famous hidden "Microsoft Undocumented Feature"?
Try rpm -i mplayer-common.rpm mplayer.rpm
Cheers, Rex
force install it. Been a while since I used rpm - shudder- but I think --force
and --nodeps are the switches you want to use.
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 17:55, Andy George wrote:
> I dont get it...
>
> rpm -i mplayer.rpm
>
> >Failed dependancies, needs mplayer-common
>
> rpm -i mplayer-common.rp
I dont get it...
rpm -i mplayer.rpm
>Failed dependancies, needs mplayer-common
rpm -i mplayer-common.rpm
> failed dependancies, needs mplayer
Is this the famous hidden "Microsoft Undocumented Feature"?
Andy
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:26, you wrote:
> What are the specs of that machine, I just checked with my wholesaler and
> they do not carry that model Toshiba at all... perhaps it has been
> replaced/updated.
>
> Let me know... and I can give you an idea of what you should be paying.
It's not a current
Hi folks,
For those of us who are running web servers on port 80 there is some sort of
worm doing it's thing out there at the moment.
I am currently getting 'hundreds' of http requests to "GET / HTTP/1.1" at the
rate of two or three per minute from all over the world.
If you have automatic
What are the specs of that machine, I just checked with my wholesaler and they
do not carry that model Toshiba at all... perhaps it has been replaced/updated.
Let me know... and I can give you an idea of what you should be paying.
Regards
Adam
PDS Ltd
Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECT
Hi there,
Peter Elliott wrote:
his only caveat was that the installation might be beyond
> the capabilities of some listeners (this is true...
Yes it is true. Some distros have an installation that makes
climbing K2 seem like a picnic! A linux distro that is simplified
massively just for home use
Hi folks,
I'm thinking of buying a Toshiba Satellite 2590XDVD laptop.
I'd very grateful to hear any jewels of list wisdom about them.
Stories of success and failure as well as ideas about sensible price would
be much appreciated.
Thanks a 10^6 in advance.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christop
Hi there,
YudA wrote:
no trouble the only thing I had trouble with was a
dodgy scanner - mandrake knew it was there but I was
unable to get it working properly
Scanners are proprietary devices. That means little
info about their workings will ever make it to Open
Source authors wishing to create d
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:47:03 +1200
Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:34, Nick Rout wrote:
> > The Press this morning page A7
> >
> > "Goodbye to spam after death threats
> >
> > "A ChCh man forced to shut down his spam e-mail operation after death
> > threats and a
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:34, Nick Rout wrote:
> The Press this morning page A7
>
> "Goodbye to spam after death threats
>
> "A ChCh man forced to shut down his spam e-mail operation after death
> threats and abuse is hoping he can now resume a peaceful life out of the
> public spotlight.
>
> "Shane A
logically that is correct i suppose.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:39:07 +1200
Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think they mean for the _non-spam_ corpus. That needs to be your
> own.
>
> For the _spam_ corpus you could use any bag of v14gr4 / nigeria /
> suzy-waiting-to-meet-you / make $$
All hell is lose... and I object to moronic postmasters filling my inbox
with automatically generated rubbish about me having sent one of their
users some virus, when I've never heard of any of those blokes before.
Volker
--
Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:12, Nick Rout wrote:
> there is no pint at all in training a bayesian filter on someone elses
> mail. it says so in the docs for every such filter i have investigated.
> even esr (bogofilter) says so, so it must be right :-)
I think they mean for the _non-spam_ corpus. That
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, CF wrote:
> Your authenticator is not allowed to die either - it must sit looping
> waiting for input then giving the ERR or YES output, then wait for the
> next input. I can't remember if squid respawns dead authenticators or
>
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:42, Daniel Fone wrote:
> > smb_auth is a script that tests a username and password somehow, then
> > returns OKAY or FAILED (something like that)
> YES or ERR to be exact.
:-)
> > All you have to do is write a program that does the same - take
> > username/password pairs
sorry
found it at - http://www.tui.co.nz - of course.
apologies
peter
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:01:08 +1200
Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:52:36 +1200
> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > apparently the tui site lets you make them
>
> and where is that
First thing I tried... www.tui.co.nz
From: Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: laughing my a** off
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:01:08 +1200
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:52:36 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > apparently the tui site
All this talk of spam/filters got me wondering if any one has a nice set of
"profiles" (right word?) to suit "Mailfilter 5"?
--
cheersdave
Reply to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
KMail on Davesmachine
Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) for
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:52:36 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > apparently the tui site lets you make them
and where is that pray tell?
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:34, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:26, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > Wheel mice are harder to get running than standard three button
> > > versions but the optical mice run fine. No idea about USB mice.
> >
> > Not true, wheel mice are as effortless as 2 or 3 button mic
> smb_auth is a script that tests a username and password somehow, then
> returns OKAY or FAILED (something like that)
YES or ERR to be exact.
> All you have to do is write a program that does the same - take
> username/password pairs as presented by squid, test it somehow and
> return Yea or Naye
hi nick
ah but is it true or is it fud?
he's most likely just trying to get some cessation of hostilities by
pretending to be dead.
well that's how my nasty suspicious mind reads the situation, especially as
my mailbox is still being bombarded with offers for his penile aids(no pun
intended).
cheer
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:46, Daniel Fone wrote:
> Has anyone done any work writing a custom squid authentication scheme? The
> requirement is a custom mysql query. My problem is largely with interfacing
> with the (strange IMHO) squid auth method.
> I have played with squid_pam_auth -> pam_mysql
nice.
and then there was linda clarke talking to "the scotsman"[1] on national radio's nine
to noon yesterday morning at about 11:55am.
she asked if other operating systems were more secure than MS and he said well, yes,
at least they claim to be and specifically mentioned linux in this regard -
Hi guys,
Has anyone done any work writing a custom squid authentication scheme? The
requirement is a custom mysql query. My problem is largely with interfacing
with the (strange IMHO) squid auth method.
I have played with squid_pam_auth -> pam_mysql but the query is too limited.
I would also pre
Yeah I've had no little trouble with running any USB
hardware under mandrake 9.1 so far I've tried Wheel
mice, Cameras, Printers, Keyboards, and USB pens with
no trouble the only thing I had trouble with was a
dodgy scanner - mandrake knew it was there but I was
unable to get it working properly
K
replying to myself yet again, here is a ref to the article on the web:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2632716a6530,00.html
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:34:11 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Press this morning page A7
>
> "Goodbye to spam after death threats
>
> "A ChCh
to reply to myself, I mean like this:
http://www.rout.co.nz/tui_ad.jpeg
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:25:37 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://wishes.debian.co.nz/images/scotui.jpg
>
> (sorry to those on nzlug who have seen this already)
>
> apparently the tui site lets you make them
http://wishes.debian.co.nz/images/scotui.jpg
(sorry to those on nzlug who have seen this already)
apparently the tui site lets you make them, as Liz Q said on the nzlug
list, this cries out for a competition!!!
Huh? $399 at the Warehouse or somewhere similar. :-) or am I missing
something.
Shane
Missing quite a few things - well depending on how far you want to go...
Xecuter 2 pro modchip - $150
120GB HDD $250
USB adaptors for keyboard and mouse $50
USB keyboard and mouse $28 (much cheaper than retail)
A
Interesting article for all SPAM hunters.
Larry Smith
GoldenShed Enterprises, Limited
Ph: 03-332-2428 Mob: 021-756-856
-Original Message-
From: NW on Security [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2003 7:50 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Time to stop spam
NETWORK W
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:47, CF wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:31, Robert Fisher wrote:
> > emerged spamassassin, set up Evolution and checked my mail.
> >
> > 49 messages and no Spam. Where is Shane Atkinson when you need him?
>
> I got 87 spam, 19 false negatives and 2 false positives. Want
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:31, Robert Fisher wrote:
> emerged spamassassin, set up Evolution and checked my mail.
>
> 49 messages and no Spam. Where is Shane Atkinson when you need him?
I got 87 spam, 19 false negatives and 2 false positives. Want them?
I obviously spoke too soon.
This morning I had 91 new messages - 41 of them went to my SPAM folder.
Does SpamAssassin invite them in?
Robert
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
-Original Message-
From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 200
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:26, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Wheel mice are harder to get running than standard three button versions but
> > the optical mice run fine. No idea about USB mice.
>
> Not true, wheel mice are as effortless as 2 or 3 button mice, the distro
> installer puts the correct set
http://lwn.net/Articles/45019/
--
Simon Hansman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Press this morning page A7
"Goodbye to spam after death threats
"A ChCh man forced to shut down his spam e-mail operation after death
threats and abuse is hoping he can now resume a peaceful life out of the
public spotlight.
"Shane Atkinson ran"
Now I don't condone death threats at all
Who is Paul Griswald?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:10, you wrote:
> Who just saw Pam Corkery interviewing Paul Griswald on the MS blaster
> virus on 'the last word' (TV1) ?
>
> blah
> blah
> Pam: So who should I blame - is my ISP responsible for stopping this stuff
> ? Paul: Well personally I blame MS
Who just saw Pam Corkery interviewing Paul Griswald on the MS blaster
virus on 'the last word' (TV1) ?
blah
blah
Pam: So who should I blame - is my ISP responsible for stopping this stuff ?
Paul: Well personally I blame MS for leaving such gaping security holes
in their SW.
LOL
; )
/cb
I've previously used spamassasin at work, and we still do.
It worked pretty well, havent had any false positives as I've wacked the
sensitivity up pretty high.
Installed spambayes last week, though I havent been training it well
enough. I'm skipping mailing lists and that for training, and clear
> Wheel mice are harder to get running than standard three button versions but
> the optical mice run fine. No idea about USB mice.
Not true, wheel mice are as effortless as 2 or 3 button mice, the distro
installer puts the correct settings in either way (well mine does).
Likewise for USB mice.
> > In egrep or sed what is the metacharacter to match _across_ a newline
> > i.e. something like 'line1chars.\n.line2chars' ? $ matches the end of
> > a line, but I want to match several lines for search and replace
> It's probably easier to do whatever you want to do in Perl. But if you
> insi
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:33, you wrote:
> Do the NForce motherboards still work? what about DDR motherboards?. I
> will prob just be running Redhat or Mandrake so...
I now have an nForce 2 chipset M/B and have had no major problems installing
and running Redhat 9, Knoppix 3.2 (live cd) and most r
I think SCO are well ovedue for the finger.
And no, I can't see Linux as being the guilty party - closed source _does_
have a lot more hiding space, after all. It's far more likely that SCO is
the infringing party:
"Is there Linux code in SCO's UnixWare?"
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/
Wes
Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
SCO: nick, pay me to use linux
nick: don't believe I have to, so sue me
SCO: issues proceedings
nick: defends them, seeks particulars of the offending code
SCO: err.
Exactly! I wonder if any proceedings are going ahead?
If one organisation beats SCO it will set a pr
The Genius Lan cards GF100TX4 work beautifully.
Don't buy an Albatron motherboard if it claims to have a 3com NIC in it
because they are not 3com chips in their nic and create huge hassles to get
running.
Wheel mice are harder to get running than standard three button versions but
the optical mi
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:10, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> Take a look at ext2resize. You'll need to convert your ext3 filesystem
> back to ext2 (a trivial task) beforehand.
Neh, decided that a clean install was probably a good idea anyway. Took
about 3 hours and my laptop is now running Debian, courte
Hi,
Recently been getting into Linux use because of school but struggled with a
few things on my current system - like winmodems etc. I just blew a hard
drive :( and so have decided to buy some new things all up. What I am
interested in is the best motherboards, and other accessories (modems
exactly:
SCO: nick, pay me to use linux
nick: don't believe I have to, so sue me
SCO: issues proceedings
nick: defends them, seeks particulars of the offending code
SCO: err.
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:12:03 +1200
Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Gareth Williams wrote:
I was interested to hear one of our members say they had contacted sco and
asked for clarification of what code was "stolen or copyright" so they could
remove it and received no answer.
I wonder what would happen if all the LUG group members in NZ asked the same
question or better yet, collecte
There are, as far as I can tell, two camps of thought on why they don't.
Either:
a) they're full of hot air, and can't prove anything
OR
b) they know that as soon as they point out the offending code it'll be fixed,
and they won't have anything left to bitch about.
Either way, you can be sure the
Hi there,
Gareth Williams wrote:
Nobody doubts this, least of all SCO. Which is why they haven't, to date,
actually said _what_ the offending code is. Just that there is some.
Somewhere. Apparently. ;-)
No one should pay them a bean until they prove beyond all doubt that
their claim is valid...i
Thanks Chris and Gareth.
As the portuguese say, Muito obrigado
Shane
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:46, you wrote:
> tcpdump may be what you are after.
> or if you are thinking of / looking for a graphical app, ethereal is good.
>
> Cheers,
> Gareth
>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Vik Olliver wrote:
> I thought I'd give Knoppix installation a go on my laptop. Hey, I
> thought, it has QTParted these days. I should be able to shrink my
> partition and shove Knoppix in the gap.
>
> That was until I discovered that QTParted doesn;t want to resize my ext3
>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:02:44 +1200
rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick
> With reference to the Sky analogue/digital hack question - there
> are
> several hacks for the analogue system and I think that I may have come
> across a digital one also. I will have to investigate further. We
that would be fine if SCO would say what code they think is theirs!
On
Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:18:58+1200 Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Jason wrote:
> > Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for inititating legal action - here
> > it is (I think):
>
> I think the answer for L
tcpdump may be what you are after.
or if you are thinking of / looking for a graphical app, ethereal is good.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 08:32, Shane Hollis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My network has slowed down for some reason, and I know there is a command
> to allow you to see allpacket
Feeding video into composite port and viewing with xawtv.
Col.
Gareth Williams wrote:
Cool. Thanks for the info. Let me know if you get it going :-)
Incidentally, what do you mean by 'partly working'?
Cheers,
Gareth
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 06:16, Col wrote:
Gareth Williams wrote:
ps
Hi,
My network has slowed down for some reason, and I know there is a command to
allow you to see allpackets on a network but after 32 hours programming in
the last 38 my brain is fried ... help please.
--
Shane Hollis
Notes Unlimited New Zealand
Ph: 021 465 547
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:24:51PM +1200, Chris Bayley wrote:
> In egrep or sed what is the metacharacter to match _across_ a newline
> i.e. something like 'line1chars.\n.line2chars' ? $ matches the end of
> a line, but I want to match several lines for search and replace
For sed, you'll need to
Nick Rout wrote:
It is bttv based, which is supported in the linux kernel, on my box you
load the module:
modprobe bttv card=13, autoload=0 [1]
there is a long pause, which could probably be prevented by changing
some of the module parameters.
In gentoo I created a file /etc/modules.d/bttv
wh
Nobody doubts this, least of all SCO. Which is why they haven't, to date,
actually said _what_ the offending code is. Just that there is some.
Somewhere. Apparently. ;-)
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 17:18, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Jason wrote:
> > Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for
Cool. Thanks for the info. Let me know if you get it going :-)
Incidentally, what do you mean by 'partly working'?
Cheers,
Gareth
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 06:16, Col wrote:
> Gareth Williams wrote:
> >ps. I see dragon (www.dragonpc.co.nz) have a "Lifeview FLYVIDEO 3000" card
> >that looks to
Someone should remind him that if he has a phone and is connected to the phone
network, he can't complain about unsolicited phone calls.
It just goes to show that his phone is working.
Wesley Parish
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:58, you wrote:
> Did you see Shane Atkinson on Holmes last night crying b
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:02:28PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
> So, I must be going about it the wrong way. Perhaps some nice people on
> the list can advise on how I should resize an ext3 partition without
> having to copy sh-, er, shovel-loads of files off my laptop.
Take a look at ext2resize. Y
Nick Rout wrote:
I see mythtv has facility for a custom tuner change command. I guess i
need to rig a remote IR sender thru the serial port and change the sky
channel through that. I know there are various projects for this about
the place.
I can help you out here. I have build a UIR which I us
Nick
With reference to the Sky analogue/digital hack question - there are
several hacks for the analogue system and I think that I may have come across
a digital one also. I will have to investigate further. We use the same
system as GB and Europe (I believe).
Rowan
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:2
Gareth Williams wrote:
ps. I see dragon (www.dragonpc.co.nz) have a "Lifeview FLYVIDEO 3000" card
that looks to be a TV and FM tuner as well for $109. Has anyone experience
with these?
I have one but it is still on my todo list.
I have had it partly working under gentoo but then got sidetrac
there is no pint at all in training a bayesian filter on someone elses
mail. it says so in the docs for every such filter i have investigated.
even esr (bogofilter) says so, so it must be right :-)
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:51:34 +1200
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:32, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:29, Shane Hollis wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at running this programme on an XBox hacked to run
> > Linux? It has a solid hardware base, is small, quiet and costs less than
> > $400? Is it possible to run Linux on a PS/2?
>
> Yes, b
I thought I'd give Knoppix installation a go on my laptop. Hey, I
thought, it has QTParted these days. I should be able to shrink my
partition and shove Knoppix in the gap.
That was until I discovered that QTParted doesn;t want to resize my ext3
partition.
Now not resizing an NTFS partition I cou
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:29, Shane Hollis wrote:
> Has anyone looked at running this programme on an XBox hacked to run Linux?
> It has a solid hardware base, is small, quiet and costs less than $400?
> Is it possible to run Linux on a PS/2?
Yes, but it costs a darned sight more than $400. Stil
In egrep or sed what is the metacharacter to match _across_ a newline
i.e. something like 'line1chars.\n.line2chars' ?
$ matches the end of a line, but I want to match several lines for
search and replace
TIA
/cb
Hi there,
Jason wrote:
Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for inititating legal action - here it
is (I think):
I think the answer for Linux is to remove the code, add a different code
that accomplishes the same thing, and give the big fat finger to SCO...
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch
Does anyone have any views? the candidates seem to be:
http://spambayes.sf.net
http://bogofilter.sf.net
http://bmf.sf.net
http://www.spamassassin.org (more than just bayesian)
I am talking about integration with postfix and procmail here, not
client side.
any experiences, war stories, horror sto
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