Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, John Wiltshire generated: >any other box on the UPS which needs it. I'm assuming the same would work >for Linux although it would probably be a lot easier to set up (given the >relative difficulty of scripting on NT compared to Linux. Yeah, very f'n easy. genpowerd is the

Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, George Vieira generated: >APC Smart-UPS 700va We got an APC SmartUPS 650 on our servers, you can get an 'NT monitoring cable' from Harris Tech and use it with... oh i forget which ups-monitoring software, but the cable works with it. note: ups cables aren't plain serial cab

Re: [SLUG] RFC: Slug and Announce Lists

Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Anand Kumria wrote: > > Option 1. That way you can easily send announcements to your pager or > > something. Just using the announcement list only will mean that it'll > > become more effective. > Dude, you can always subscribe your pager to announce, and yourself to slug. >

Re: [SLUG] change default mail handler

Hold on, mail in which direction, do you want to alter the outgoing or incoming mail? In most simple setups, /usr/sbin/sendmail takes messages on stdin and delivers directly to the remote relay. This doesn't require a daemon listening on port 25 (sendmail, anyway, postfix is different). So you c

Re: [SLUG] ext ascii (127-255)

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:59:59PM +1100, Conrad Parker wrote: > echo -e "\016" > > switches your terminal to the other half of the character set (it's > a terminal thing). And for those of you adventurous souls who tried this to see what it looks like, echo -e "\017" will put it back to normal

[SLUG] X screen suspended in console

i have a funny problem with X. when i drop to console, my X screen is suspended in console. i can't see anything that i type in console because the X screen is suspended on the current screen. i know that i'm typing commands, and the system is accepting commands because i can start up another X s

[SLUG] Re: change default mail handler

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:14:09PM +1000, David Kempe wrote: > On a redhat 6.2 box, or even a debian box, is there a way to change > the default mail handler? Like I have an alternative (read oracle) > mail server daemon that takes up port 25 - it seems to speak > reasonable SMTP. How do i get un

Re: [SLUG] Need some help setting up printer

> Alister Waller wrote: > The windows side of things seems to install OK. I use the correct > windows driver for the printer, but when I try to print a test page I > get > > there was an error writing to \\servername\epson for printer type > (note: I have tried using lp as well) > there was a pr

Re: [SLUG] change default mail handler

>All the person needs to do is to stop sendmail from automat(g)ically >starting at bootup, which is in case of RH: > >Remove all occurences of > > k**sendmail (** denotes a double digit number) > s**sendmail That should be K and S (capitals) >in the directories > > /etc/rc.d/rc*.c (* denote

Re: [SLUG] change default mail handler

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:58:39PM +1000, Stephen Mills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > thing to do that instead? Where is that info stored? How do i stop > sendmail? > I should be able to figure out if I can enable this thing or not. > > > > on redhat: > > make sure sendmail is stopped > >

[SLUG] Need some help setting up printer

Hi.   I have been trying to get an epson stylus colour 900 printer set up on my RedHat 6.2 linux PC so that my win98 PC's can print to it. I can print fine in Linux using lpr -Plp filename. I am using SAMBA 2.0.6. I can see the printer over the network fine. I also have linux file shares s

Re: [SLUG] ext ascii (127-255)

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:44:01PM -0400, Minh Van wrote: > why can't i get the real extended ascii chart printed properly in the > default linux cli ? > > somebody mentioned that it may be the type of font i'm using, but it > neither works in X. echo -e "\016" switches your terminal to the oth

Re: [SLUG] change default mail handler

> > David Kempe wrote: > > > > Is there a way to change it so that the mail is sent to this local server on > > port 25? > > > You just need to set it up as the relay host. I'm clueless about sendmail, > so I can't help you on that count. > > Exim? Postfix? Easy enough. :) > Ok, I tried Postfix,

RE: [SLUG] change default mail handler

thing to do that instead? Where is that info stored? How do i stop sendmail? I should be able to figure out if I can enable this thing or not. on redhat: make sure sendmail is stopped /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop then un-install it rpm -e sendmail then install your alternative mail so

Re: [SLUG] DOS Boot floppy

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:48:24PM +1000, Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry ifthis is off topic, but I guess all linux users have this problem at > some time. > > I need to create a DOS boot floppy (no problem) which includes the driver > (the problem) for my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card so t

Re: [SLUG] change default mail handler

> David Kempe wrote: > > Is there a way to change it so that the mail is sent to this local server on > port 25? You just need to set it up as the relay host. I'm clueless about sendmail, so I can't help you on that count. Exim? Postfix? Easy enough. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: [SLUG] DOS Boot floppy

From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >go to a windows machine and using the control-panel -> >add/remove software >-> startup disk and make a boot disk. > >then copy to the disk the ahaXXX.sys driver and apsicd.sys >driver if you >need cdrom support > >then do the >device=ahaXXX.sys

[SLUG] change default mail handler

Hey people, On a redhat 6.2 box, or even a debian box, is there a way to change the default mail handler? Like I have an alternative (read oracle) mail server daemon that takes up port 25 - it seems to speak reasonable SMTP. How do i get unix mail into that mail program? At the moment i thin

[SLUG] ext ascii (127-255)

why can't i get the real extended ascii chart printed properly in the default linux cli ? somebody mentioned that it may be the type of font i'm using, but it neither works in X. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/s

[SLUG] Re: HTML Editors

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:42:15PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: > Gang, > > What are people using for HTML editing ?? i'm bothered that no-one here has mentioned emacs' psgml mode. its all i ever use for any HTML (or other SGML, like docbook) editing. xemacs comes with it standard, just open a .ht

RE: [SLUG] DOS Boot floppy

go to a windows machine and using the control-panel -> add/remove software -> startup disk and make a boot disk. then copy to the disk the ahaXXX.sys driver and apsicd.sys driver if you need cdrom support then do the device=ahaXXX.sys device=apsicd.sys in your config.sys thanks, George Vieir

Re: [SLUG] RFC: Slug and Announce Lists

> Anand Kumria wrote: > > Option 1. That way you can easily send announcements to your pager or > something. Just using the announcement list only will mean that it'll > become more effective. Dude, you can always subscribe your pager to announce, and yourself to slug. Please, tell me you've

[SLUG] DOS Boot floppy

Sorry ifthis is off topic, but I guess all linux users have this problem at some time. I need to create a DOS boot floppy (no problem) which includes the driver (the problem) for my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card so that I can update the bios of a SCSI drive. How do I create a Dos boot floppy includin

Re: [SLUG] RFC: Slug and Announce Lists

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:08:13AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > There's been a bit of discussion between the committee as to how we should > > handle announcements on the Slug list, and the Announcements list. > > > Well, there's been an overwhelming response for optio

[SLUG] Re: Mutter, mutter

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:02:47PM +1100, Jamie Honan wrote: > > I'm forced to compile some code for a Windows target. > > There's stacks of cygwin binaries (gcc.exe) for running on Win, > and info on building a cross compiler (compile Linux, target cygwin). > > I'm really looking for a Linux p

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:20:49PM +1100, Jill Rowling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Depending on the os/platform, > Text based: > vi, nedit, gvim, notepad (Yup! at the customer's site, or DOS > vi.exe) Sorry I cant resist ;- Whats wrong with "cat" and "sed" combined? cat > blah.html

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:32:32AM +1000, Joe Haribonigo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/9/linux_laid.html > > heheehhehee Maybe its a new form of a Microsoft "bug". They pay people to keep Linux developers off work So they can make they own "advances

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

Damn... you test in hotjava... even Sun have dumped it now Jill Rowling wrote: > > Depending on the os/platform, > Text based: > vi, nedit, gvim, notepad (Yup! at the customer's site, or DOS > vi.exe) > > GUI based: > quanta, amaya, communicator (rarely), frontpage express i

RE: [SLUG] HTML Editors

Depending on the os/platform, Text based: vi, nedit, gvim, notepad (Yup! at the customer's site, or DOS vi.exe) GUI based: quanta, amaya, communicator (rarely), frontpage express if desparate, M$ Word if even more desparate at the customer's site. Verification: Netscape,

Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:21:03AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake lines > > coming in from the UPS and make a decision as to what to do when they change > > state. > > > That was where I was headed. :) > > How Free Software-fri

[SLUG] Mutter, mutter

I'm forced to compile some code for a Windows target. There's stacks of cygwin binaries (gcc.exe) for running on Win, and info on building a cross compiler (compile Linux, target cygwin). I'm really looking for a Linux pre-built binary for gcc + binutils for cygwin target. I can find an rpm for

RE: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Query (given that I've only ever used Dumb-UPS): > >What tells what what's happening and how? > >(ie. Okay, so you've got your serial cable keeping them talking, and I >assume there's a daemon running in the background waiting for cries of >"Wolf!" fr

RE: [SLUG] Linux routing between 2 nics

Both networks must use the linux box as a default gateway and then add a route for each side of the network or masquerade one side if you need etc...etc.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301

RE: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

The www.upsonic-power.com.au has RedHat driver support so I guess that's a big plus in my books. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Origi

Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

> Jill Rowling wrote: > > You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake lines > coming in from the UPS and make a decision as to what to do when they change > state. That was where I was headed. :) How Free Software-friendly are the various UPS manufacturers? Recommendat

RE: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

Yes, the UPS manufacturer supplies you with an executable which monitors the state of the serial port dedicated to the UPS. You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake lines coming in from the UPS and make a decision as to what to do when they change state. Many UPS manufa

Re: [SLUG] FW: [bugs] Format String vulnerability

>> CNet Article: >> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2719802.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni CNet as usual, gets things a little garbled. lwn.net has a better analysis and pointers to update packages, notably for glibc. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More I

Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

> John Wiltshire wrote: > > Our Smart-UPS is connected to an NT box (via serial cable) which runs a > stack of scripts when it gets the "shutdown" message to cleanly shut down > any other box on the UPS which needs it. I'm assuming the same would work > for Linux although it would probably be a

[SLUG] FW: [bugs] Format String vulnerability

FYI > -Original Message- > From: Michael Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 8 September 2000 10:13 AM > To: BUGS > Subject: [bugs] Format String vulnerability > > > CNet Article: > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2719802.html?tag=st.ne.10 > 02.tgif.ni > > Security ex

RE: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Great thanks, that's the kind of info I'm looking for. > >I was also thing about one big UPS connected to the Linux box >(notice the >CAPITAL for respect) which will remotely notify the other servers to >shutdown if needed. >I've seen info on that

RE: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

Great thanks, that's the kind of info I'm looking for. I was also thing about one big UPS connected to the Linux box (notice the CAPITAL for respect) which will remotely notify the other servers to shutdown if needed. I've seen info on that somewhere and wondering if any smart UPS will work OK fo

Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

George Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > UPS-Sonic http://www.apc.com/products/techspecs/index.cfm?base_sku=BK650MI > or > APC Smart-UPS 700va I've never got the hang of the different APC models, eg. the black boxed ones vs the cream boxed ones. If you find out, I'd like to know. I like the Sola one

RE: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

George, We are using APC Smart-UPS here (3000va), though not using Linux as the controlling machine (no reason for that, just the way it is). Works well and powers a good two full 19" racks for over half an hour. It's kinda freaky doing the occasional test and pulling the power cord from the ra

Re: [SLUG] RFC: Slug and Announce Lists

Jeff Waugh wrote: > 1) Announcements only go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], subscribe to it if you > want to hear them at all. > > 2) Announcements go to both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], > choose whichever is appropriate for how much traffic you can handle. I'd opt for 2. I only have to puru

Re: [SLUG] [OT] IDE controller settings

> >The main chip is *cough* WinBond W83787F *cough* > > If you can't get it to work, just plug in a IDE controller board, they > are easily found in spare parts boxes. sorry, didn't phrase that well... Thats the main chip on the contraoller card. (btw, yeah, i've got buckets of the things, but i

[SLUG] UPSs and linux in general

Hi all, I've been given the go ahead to get some UPSs into our server room and I have looked at a couple of brands. UPS-Sonic http://www.apc.com/products/techspecs/index.cfm?base_sku=BK650MI or APC Smart-UPS 700va anybody have some experiences with these or bad ones if that. Any other models th

[SLUG] [OT] IDE controller settings

yo people! sorry fer the ot post, but i cannot find anything in other places online... Basically, i just aquired (yet another) 486. It seems to be one of the last versions of 486's (natively 100mHz, 7x pin RAM). Basically, i've got all the bits possible, but i cant get my ide controller to work.

[SLUG] (no subject)

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/9/linux_laid.html heheehhehee - Powered by http://www.telstra.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

> Jamie Honan wrote: > > The training in learning a few tags is very minimal. Preach brother. Tags for humans: (optionally: ) (optionally:) (yes, seriously - this is very useful) If really required (ie. coders): Have a look at http://advog

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

> What are people using for HTML editing ?? Well, if you are starting from a blank sheet: I write technical doco, so YMMV. (i.e. lots of words, few graphics). I write text. Blank line between paras, underline headings like this heading === I then run it through txt2html (a perl script).

RE: [SLUG] Linux routing between 2 nics

Looks like what you are doing is correct. If you can ping the other network NIC of the router, then the routes are working. The ping to other network hosts is not working because they aren't sending the replies to the correct place. You need to place the router in the way because it is the only ma

Re: [SLUG] Linux routing between 2 nics

Do you have IP forwarding enabled in the kernel, and also is /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward set to 1. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I think this was brought

[SLUG] Linux routing between 2 nics

Hi I think this was brought up a couple of weeks ago, but I can't find it in the archive, so my apologies if if retraces ground already covered. I am trying to set up a linux box as a bridge between 2 networks: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:DF:03:BF:1C inet addr:192.168.

Re: [SLUG] RFC: Slug and Announce Lists

> Jeff Waugh wrote: > > There's been a bit of discussion between the committee as to how we should > handle announcements on the Slug list, and the Announcements list. Well, there's been an overwhelming response for option 3: "Simplify the question." 8) And here I am trying to give both sides t

Re: [SLUG] Re: Im not alone anymore!!

On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Lyndall Brown generated: >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. Er, sorry everyone. I've been messing with mutt's config, and was setting a

RE: [SLUG] Re: Im not alone anymore!!

> Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. Sounds like you don't need msn to do that for you! Just use a public mailling list by accident! Oops! :-/ Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http:

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

ROFLMFAO mind you, i use tcsh with vi keybinds, so i shouldn't comment thom At some point around Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:58:50AM +1100, Jeff Waugh spaketh thusly: > > Jon Biddell wrote: > > > > Bloody vi is to Linux what EdLin was to DOS - good for emergencies but > > a pain in the "A" other

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

> Jon Biddell wrote: > > Bloody vi is to Linux what EdLin was to DOS - good for emergencies but > a pain in the "A" otherwise > > Now - pico - THAT is a real man's editor ~/.bashrc: alias :q!="exit" alias :wq="exit" alias :q="exit" - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

RE: [SLUG] HTML Editors

wow, you mean there are other editors apart from vi, I had to check for myself, now pico seems awfully like the dos edit.com program. I think I will stick to vi myself. Patrick > -Original Message- > From: Thom May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 8 September 2000 1:06 AM >

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

Vim. And possibly gvim for when my eyes are going. syntax highlighting, and other niceties, plus all the speed power etc of vi. Pico - a real man's editor? only if the man in question is a severe conniseur of pain... cheers thom At some point around Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:52:56PM +1100, Jon Bid

[SLUG] Re: Im not alone anymore!!

> >yeah, i'm going to traceys, fuck krissies off. i'm not going to the >city to rave in some hole. > Fair enough >oh wait. kate slutgrove, after trying to pull both adam and his >brother, and failing, is now going out with one of adams best mates from >school. god, she is such a cow. me an

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Blank 5.25" DSDD Floppies

On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Kevin Pulo generated: >Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might be able to buy >some blank Double Sided, Double Density (DSDD) 5.25" (ie. 360Kb) >floppy disks? Here's what you don't want to hear: If you had mailed the list maybe 2 weeks ago you could have had th

Re: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)

> > http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3 I installed it and poked around a bit. Looks nice, but i haven't actually used it for mail yet. Jason -- GnuPG Key 2450EEDC Jason Rennie<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 1A2B 5E34 B45A 2871 A488 99C7 7579 5FFC 2450 EEDC -- SLUG - Sydne

Re: [SLUG] Yet another can of worms (MPAA & DeCSS)

> The MAA has ZERO authority outside the USA iin this > matter - in fact, by sending a "cease and desist" order > to an Australian site, for example, they are breaking > the law themselves (from our legal department !!). Great now guess who's gonna disappear in the middle of the night. Jason

[SLUG] IP Chains and DHCP

Im running a Debian Box ver 2.2.15 on a cable modem. However im having trouble (lots) with getting my eth1 assigned to a dhcp address. I do have a dhcp client running, and the following is my ipchains -L print out. Eth0 is on the 192.168.1.x/24 network. I want, and obviously need all incoming Ip

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Conrad Parker wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:42:15PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: > > Gang, > > > > What are people using for HTML editing ?? > > HTML is a computer output format! > > vi is the ultimate in human->computer input! ("the interface is > inside your mind"!) >

Re: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)

On 7 Sep, Dave Fitch wrote: > All the ones I've tried kmail, tkRat etc etc have either > been too gui (ie. large, slow and unreliable) or not > enough features. For ages now at home I've been using elm. > And it's great but a gui one would be nice. I've even > tried netscape (for a sho

Re: [SLUG] HTML Editors

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:42:15PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: > Gang, > > What are people using for HTML editing ?? HTML is a computer output format! vi is the ultimate in human->computer input! ("the interface is inside your mind"!) you fill in the gaps! K.shouty (ps. I usually use perl to f

[SLUG] HTML Editors

Gang, What are people using for HTML editing ?? I'm presently using the HTML component of Applixware 5.0, and have used AsWeb, but I'm looking for something similar to NetObjects Fusion (EvilWare product that SHMBO uses). Yes, another attempt at weaning SWMBO from EvilWare - we are making progr

RE: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)

> > > Andrew Macks wrote: > > > > Has anybody tried Evolution yet? > > > > http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3 > > > Aye. There's nothing to see here. > > Move along. ;) > > - Jeff > > > (Basically, if you don't get your thrills out of running the same > application 10 times every 5 minut

Re: [SLUG] A4tech serial mouse support in X.

hi, just an update on this issue. i got the A4tech working. for some reason i gotta set the "Buttons" option to "4" or greater even though it only has 2 buttons. but then it works just fine. Arun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] RFC: Slug and Announce Lists

Hi all, There's been a bit of discussion between the committee as to how we should handle announcements on the Slug list, and the Announcements list. There are two differing perspectives on what should happen, so I'll outline them here: 1) Slug is for discussion, Announce is for announcements

Re: [SLUG] Intel 440BX2 + CDROM

hey, say the cdrom is on hdc, put this in your lilo.conf append="hdc=noprobe hdc=cdrom" save it... rerun lilo... reboot... Does it detect correctly now? I have seen this personally on 1 drive, it just freezes for a few moments on the cdrom detection, and doesn't detect. But appending the abov

[SLUG] Linux Pocketbook -- Thanks for all the input

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the comments you posted to the list and myself regarding the upcoming Linux Pocketbook. I hope the final result lives up to what you'd like to see in a beginner's guide to Linux, and I look forward to hearing your comments about the -finished- product!

Re: [SLUG] Next Meeting - Sep 29th

> Despite the presence of the Olympics we have a room at UTS. The usual > room of 1.04.06 has been booked. Shoud there be any changes we will > send an announcement and update the web site. Triffic! I'll be over for the Olympics, and I want to come by SLUG and see some old faces. I've been worrie

[SLUG] Next meeting of MacLUG - Marcarthur Linux Users Group (a sub group ofSLUG)

Hello Sluggers The next meeting of Macarthur Linux Users Group (MacLUG) will be on Saturday 16th September from 10am to whenever. It is in Campbelltown - RSVP for the address. MacLUG meetings are a day event, relaxed, hands on, come and go when you want to, etc. The idea is to bring your box a

Re: Japanese spam was: [SLUG] ?$B=P2q$$$N%[!<%`%Z!<%8$N$*$7$i$;?(B

> Anand Kumria wrote: > > Sorry about that folks. That message seem to tickle an error in the > anti-japanese regular expression we use. Hopefully I've made it a > bit tighter. The whippings will continue until morale is restored. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- h

Re: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)

> Andrew Macks wrote: > > Has anybody tried Evolution yet? > > http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3 Aye. There's nothing to see here. Move along. ;) - Jeff (Basically, if you don't get your thrills out of running the same application 10 times every 5 minutes, it's not worth it - lo

Re: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)

> Dave Fitch wrote: > > For ages now at home I've been using elm. > And it's great but a gui one would be nice. Hmm. It just occurred to me to recommend XPine. It's a kind of strange idea, but a friend of mine raves about it. I should warn you that she also runs all her Linux software (read: G

RE: [SLUG] Running SOlaris binaries on Linux?

On 07-Sep-2000 Jill Rowling wrote: > I believe you can, but only the same hardware architecture (eg Linux x86 can > run Solaris X86 version, but not the SPARC version). FWIW, you can definitely run (some/most) Solaris SPARC binaries under SPARC Linux. You need to copy some Solaris libraries first

Re: [SLUG] Multiple printers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have several printers on smb shares on an internal > network and all work well, but how do I print to them > from netscape. I can print locally but i wish to print > to other printers. the default in Netscape is to > print to lpr. My printcap is below, and I am tryi

[SLUG] [OT] Blank 5.25" DSDD Floppies

Hi, Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might be able to buy some blank Double Sided, Double Density (DSDD) 5.25" (ie. 360Kb) floppy disks? I'm looking for about 50 of them, but whatever's available would be good. It'd be better if they were "new", by which I mean previously not used

[SLUG] [Job] Software engineer w. Linux exp

Hi, Here's an ad for a software engineer with Linux experience (I tried to add to the linux.org.au job db but the db server seems to be down at the moment). Feel free to email me about the project or email the address in the ad for more general details about the job (there's also more about em