Re: Next months meeting

2007-03-17 Thread yuri
On 17/03/07, Andrew Turner wrote: Next month I am giving a talk on FreeBSD. [snip] Is there anything people want me to talk about? Will you be covering PC-BSD? Yuri

Re: mailing list

2007-03-17 Thread jmumby
If you knew what headers were...yes. Consider me moved on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well for one, I subscribed ions ago and the chances of having that email are remote at best. All that John had to say is what Robert said, how hard was that? Charles like a majority of computer users

Re: Next months meeting

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
yuri wrote: On 17/03/07, Andrew Turner wrote: Next month I am giving a talk on FreeBSD. [snip] Is there anything people want me to talk about? Will you be covering PC-BSD? Yuri PCBSD is FreeBSD with an easy installer and a couple of admin utilities.

Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Kerry Mayes
I'm still having trouble with my Speedtouch Pro ADSL modem. I have it connected to a firewall (IPCop so far but hopefully moving to PFSense) and then to my Ubuntu laptop. (You see how I'm getting as many references to linux in as possible?). I can connect from the laptop through the firewall to

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
Are you able to ping www.google.co.nz from the firewall? If so, then you're on the internet and we can stop worrying about that. Are you using dhcp to configure the networking on your pc's? If so, then you want the following infomation to be transferred (I'm assuming green subnet, change if

Debian Etch SCSI asynchronous probing

2007-03-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
I've just installed Debian Etch onto a 1GB USB flash drive using encrypted LVM. It all went smoothly until the first boot into the OS. The device-mapper tries to initialise while the SCSI bus is still probing (I assume this is due to the new SCSI asynchronous probe code in the Linux kernel)

Re: Debian Etch SCSI asynchronous probing

2007-03-17 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2007-03-18T15:16:46+1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: I've just installed Debian Etch onto a 1GB USB flash drive using Since Etch is not released yet, I guess you mean a weekly or daily build of the Etch candidate release. The fix would probably be to have device-mapper retry its

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Kerry Mayes
On 18/03/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you able to ping www.google.co.nz from the firewall? If so, then you're on the internet and we can stop worrying about that. No, I can't ping any internet addresses from the firewall. The firewall has dns settings pointing to Orcon's

Re: Next months meeting

2007-03-17 Thread yuri
On 18/03/07, Nick Rout wrote: PCBSD is FreeBSD with an easy installer and a couple of admin utilities. And a different packaging system. Statically linked to reduce dependency issues, I believe. I'd go for that if I had the RAM and storage to compensate. Yuri

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:55:28 +1200 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you able to ping www.google.co.nz from the firewall? If so, then you're on the internet and we can stop worrying about that. No, I can't ping any internet

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Kerry Mayes
On 18/03/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about that. Can you ping 66.102.7.99 from the firewall? This is what www.google.co.nz resolved to when I tried this just now. Nope, 100% packet loss. If you can, then it's a problem with dns, not routing. If not, can you post

Re: Next months meeting

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 15:58, yuri wrote: On 18/03/07, Nick Rout wrote: PCBSD is FreeBSD with an easy installer and a couple of admin utilities. And a different packaging system. Statically linked to reduce dependency issues, I believe. I'd go for that if I had the RAM and storage to

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 16:22, Kerry Mayes wrote: On 18/03/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about that. Can you ping 66.102.7.99 from the firewall? This is what www.google.co.nz resolved to when I tried this just now. Nope, 100% packet loss. If you can, then it's a

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Kerry Mayes wrote: On 18/03/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about that. Can you ping 66.102.7.99 from the firewall? This is what www.google.co.nz resolved to when I tried this just now. Nope, 100% packet loss. If you can, then it's a problem

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Kerry Mayes
what does ifconfig on the firewall tell you? That all the interfaces are up with correct IP addresses and have communicated with the green network and the modem. (So not a lot!)

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 17:43, Nick Rout wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2007 16:22, Kerry Mayes wrote: On 18/03/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about that. Can you ping 66.102.7.99 from the firewall? This is what www.google.co.nz resolved to when I tried this just now.

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Swafford
Step 1. take the firewall out of the loop .. connect directly to the modem. Use DHCP .. establish what IP addresses and masks and dns are issued .. next step .. configure firewall with that information (I would start off using DHCP) if that doesn't fix it then the problem is your firewall

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Michael
I assume the output from the following 2 tables is from the modem. IP address table Intf AddressNetmask Type Transl Action Orcon 60.234.197.91 255.0.0.0 Auto pat eth010.0.0.138255.0.0.0 Extra none IP route table Destination

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Kerry Mayes
Ah, no, I'm using ppp. I tried pptp, but couldn't see how to set it up in ipcop - where would you enter the . The orcon site talks about ppp so I went back to that. Looks like it's the modem setup. I'll have to disconnect from this internet connection to try them out again. Also,

Re: paths with spaces and then extending...

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Unfortunately the above URL does not contain the source files from which the above documents were typeset for 'Letter' format paper. The documentation sources and a very informative FAQ are in the source code file located at:-

How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-17 Thread Don Gould
I want to join 4 AVI files I made this afternoon. I then want to host the movie on my web site as a streaming file that people can view. ie - I don't want the user to have to download the whole thing before they can start watching like you do with a mpg file. Can anyone point me in the

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:17:24 +1200 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume the output from the following 2 tables is from the modem. IP address table Intf AddressNetmask Type Transl Action Orcon 60.234.197.91 255.0.0.0 Auto pat eth010.0.0.138

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Kerry Mayes
Well, duh. I've set the modem to pptp and found the setting in the setup to select pptp. I was looking in the web interface for pptp options and of course they didn't appear until that interface was selected. I'm now connected through adsl. Kerry. On 18/03/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-17 Thread Don Gould
www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0002.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0003.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0004.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0005.AVI ' Don Gould wrote: I want to join 4 AVI files I made this afternoon. I then want to host the movie on my web site as a streaming file that

Re: Debian Etch SCSI asynchronous probing

2007-03-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2007-03-18T15:16:46+1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: I've just installed Debian Etch onto a 1GB USB flash drive using Since Etch is not released yet, I guess you mean a weekly or daily build of the Etch candidate release. Yeah. Debian Etch is shorter, and you