Re: [SLUG] Net escapes

2000-09-02 Thread Howard Lowndes
I had a similar experience and someone suggested that there is a setting in ~/.netscape/preferences.js about the language preference being en-us and you change it to just en It did work for me on a couple of occasions, but not on others, and I currently have a box out there somewhere that is misb

Re: [SLUG] Net escapes

2000-09-02 Thread Chris MacKenzie
Richard wrote: > Anyone had a problem with Netscape shutting down when attaching an > address from an address book list to a new Email? It works OK when > manually entering the address. It does it to me every time..funny thing is it used to work prior to 4.74 *8-/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User G

[SLUG] Net escapes

2000-09-02 Thread Richard
Anyone had a problem with Netscape shutting down when attaching an address from an address book list to a new Email? It works OK when manually entering the address. Thanks Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/s

Re: [SLUG] Fibre Channel

2000-09-02 Thread Anthony Rumble
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Dion Curchin wrote: > Hi there People, > Have any of you out there had any experience with Emulex > LightPulse LP8000 Fibre Channel Controllers and Seagate FC hard drives?? > Does linux offer any support for these?? Any tricks / traps and is there > anywhere that

RE: [SLUG] locked up console

2000-09-02 Thread Patrick Kelso
> -Original Message- > From: marty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2000 10:33 AM > To: Jeff Waugh > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] locked up console > > > > > anyone experienced anything like this ? > > > > Only when playing with broken SQL queries

Re: [SLUG] locked up console

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> i did some google searching and found most people attribute experiences > like this to navigator... Oh... yeah. I guess I'm desensitised to that now... ;) > i could login in okay... that's how i got the plea for help out... :) > > top showed no processes running that i could point a finger a

Re: [SLUG] locked up console

2000-09-02 Thread Jason Rennie
> The only way to find out is to see what's running. Sounds as if something's > grinding your machine's CPU and swap. This is one reason why I use > Bubblemon... At a glance you can see how your machine is doing, and what's > changing. Kick off a broken query and you see the CPU boiling, then your

Re: [SLUG] locked up console

2000-09-02 Thread marty
> > anyone experienced anything like this ? > > Only when playing with broken SQL queries in PostgreSQL or text processing > with PHP cgi. ;) i did some google searching and found most people attribute experiences like this to navigator... > The only way to find out is to see what's running. So

Re: [SLUG] locked up console

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> just before it hung, windows stopped rendering properly. they would sort > of get halfway there but not finish (ie. you would get the frame of an > xterm but no title bar and none of the terminal output that was there > before i switched desktops... it was about this time that my HDD started >

[SLUG] locked up console

2000-09-02 Thread marty
hi all X/gnome/enlightenment just started hitting my hard disk and then hung the console... just before it hung, windows stopped rendering properly. they would sort of get halfway there but not finish (ie. you would get the frame of an xterm but no title bar and none of the terminal output that

RE: [SLUG] drawing power

2000-09-02 Thread Dave Kempe
Yeah that is about right. Powering up is a little more, but once its running it only draws about half an amp. You shouldn't start any fires anyway, the circuits should trip well before you can start a fire. Or in an older house the fuse will blow. You should be able to just keep going until a fuse

RE: [SLUG] drawing power

2000-09-02 Thread Marty Richards
I have 35 PC's powered up in my room. Don't sweat it ;) Admittedly I have 2 x 10amp circuits in here, and only use 8 monitors... but everything has a 10 Amp cutoff and I haven't tripped anything for ages. I suspect a PC without a monitor is only drawing half an amp or so - does anyone know? ;) C

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: FC: More on Microsoft products tracking users

2000-09-02 Thread Rick Welykochy
Jason Rennie wrote: > > > Sluggers: is there any similar software for Linux? I know a firewall > > might go part of the way, but what is really needed is software that > > detects even outgoing request on, say, port 80 that are not generated > > by the user ... however that is defined! Prolly a c

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: FC: More on Microsoft products tracking users

2000-09-02 Thread Jason Rennie
> Sluggers: is there any similar software for Linux? I know a firewall > might go part of the way, but what is really needed is software that > detects even outgoing request on, say, port 80 that are not generated > by the user ... however that is defined! Prolly a config file listing > just those

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: FC: More on Microsoft products tracking users

2000-09-02 Thread Howard Lowndes
Well I am connected through Bigpond Direct and I use their proxy cache at http://proxy.cache.telstra.net:3128, that is after it has been through my own proxy cache. This has two advantages: 1. It reduces my http and ftp traffic costs from 19c/mb to 12c/mb 2. The receiving web server sees my IP as

[SLUG] OT: Do we really need to worry?

2000-09-02 Thread Rick Welykochy
Ballmer bombs on keynote "TORONTO -- Every convention needs a keynote address, which sometimes -- even often -- is unfortunate. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's speech Wednesday at Comdex Canada was best left undone. It featured bad anal

Re: [SLUG] Fix to: Help - Disaster Struck

2000-09-02 Thread Rick Welykochy
Steven Kerr wrote: > Thanks for those who responded. > > The fix was a bit of patience and Reading TFM > > e2fsck -b 16385 -c /dev/hdd1 > > The -c did a bad block check, in frustration I left the system > overnight as it appeared just to hang... no disk activity for about 10 > minutes. > > T

[SLUG] Fwd: FC: More on Microsoft products tracking users

2000-09-02 Thread Rick Welykochy
Interesting. With the revelation that Microsoft's software is covertly tracking users and reporting back to Redmond, comes reports of Windows software that stops such nasty activities as the source. The software detects network requests being generated by software (not the user) and alerts the ha

[SLUG] Fwd: Info

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[SLUG] drawing power

2000-09-02 Thread Minh Van
i've got 10 pcs in my room. there's 1 extension slipped underneath the door from another room. is it safe to daisy-chain 10 x6 power adapters and use them ? or am i supposed to invest in special extensions, or run more extensions from other rooms into my room ? i think a circuit shouldn't have m

Re: [SLUG] HTTP redirection

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> What I need to do is to re-direct any calls to this box to another server > on my local network. > > Can this be done easily ? But of course! :) Check out port forwarding with ipchains -> we were actually talking about this very thing (tho with FTP) a couple of days ago. The IP Masquerading

[SLUG] HTTP redirection

2000-09-02 Thread Jon Biddell
Hi all, I have Apache set up on my gateway machine, and can access this via the web with no problems. What I need to do is to re-direct any calls to this box to another server on my local network. e.g. 203.30.61.4 (my fixed IP address) resolves to predator.fl.net.au, which is running Appache. I