Re: [SLUG] Linux as Business Desktop

Run Star Office for the slow machine off the fast one. StarOffice was designed to be run that way anyway. On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:35:18 Jason Rennie wrote: How does it run on older processors ? The test box i will be dropping off for them will be a 400Mhz K6, but there existing machines are a

[SLUG] CD burn, GCC - redhat 6.2, Java

a) Does anyone have any good pointers on CD burning? Especially binary copies of CD's. b) I have just installed gcc 295 from compiled source on redhat 6.2. RPM 4.0 stopped me installing :-(. Now I have installed it there are funny things happpening, what files to I have to tweak to

Re: [SLUG] Use of DUMP for backup to remote server

I do have a /etc/hosts.equiv on the HP box and that works for rsh but may not be used by rexec try using .rhosts file in the root directory on the remote machine. Make the permissions 400 and the owner root. Not very secure but should work. Tape device on HP are usually writable by all, so

Re: [SLUG] Linux as Business Desktop

I've tried a couple of places with SO being served to a slower box, but without a 100meg nic it takes over a minute to load up... I think it's a good idea if you have limited disk space but otherwise it would work better installed on the box. I have it running on a p166 with 96meg RAM and, as

[SLUG] CD burn, GCC - redhat 6.2, Java

a) Does anyone have any good pointers on CD burning? Especially binary copies of CD's. b) I have just installed gcc 295 from compiled source on redhat 6.2. RPM 4.0 stopped me installing :-(. Now I have installed it there are funny things happpening, what files to I have to tweak to find

[SLUG] Antoni's Book Search

I found that after the installation, setup, playing around and generally getting the hang of it all, that introductory Unix books were very helpful in getting a 'bigger picture' of how it all works. The more recent the editions, the more they also cover Linux stuff. Try Unix for Dummies or the

[SLUG] Another Perl Question

I need to save username and password as a cookie on the client. yeah thats easy, i would like a single encrypted cookie. Doesnt have to be insanely encrypted just something thats not easily readable. (did i mention perl?) Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Another Perl Question [continued]

Whoops - sent that last one too early As for using cookies for authentication, this is the wrong thing(tm). You may want to consider switching to mod_perl, so you can use something like Apache::Session, which will let you use cookies to select sessions, which can contain your authentication

Re: [SLUG] CD burn, GCC - redhat 6.2, Java

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Ken Foskey wrote: a) Does anyone have any good pointers on CD burning? Especially binary copies of CD's. Here is what I do to copy one CD to another, if thats what you mean. Copy directly from once CD to another CD cdrecord -v speed=4 -dev=0,4,0 -isosize

Re: [SLUG] Another Perl Question

Dean Hamstead wrote: I need to save username and password as a cookie on the client. yeah thats easy, i would like a single encrypted cookie. Doesnt have to be insanely encrypted just something thats not easily readable. (did i mention perl?)

Re: [SLUG] Problems upgrading debian

Further to my earlier post: One package, 9menu, is in an unconfigured state because the post install script fails. The package is not important it was suggested originally as a useful adjunct to the lwm window manager. I can't configure it with dpkg --configure because of the script

Re: [SLUG] Got a schwanky keyboard?

Jeff Waugh wrote: I happen to have a thing for MS peripherals, Me too. Best things they make are accessories. Anyway, it turns out that XFree4 supports these properly! Run xev, and start pressing your extension buttons, and you'll see the messages pop up with the right silly names:

Re: [SLUG] Got a schwanky keyboard?

quote who="Arunava Sen" Just one thing though do you have it running in USB mode? If so, is that necessary for the extra buttons or do they work fine with X with the USB-ps/2 converter that comes with the keyboard? Unless I've completely missed something, the keyboard itself isn't a USB

Re: [SLUG] Got a schwanky keyboard?

Use aumix, aumix :2 +XX where XX is a value to add or -xx to subtract or no sign for literal aumix --help w is pcm Dean Unless I've completely missed something, the keyboard itself isn't a USB device, it just happens to have a two-slot (socket?) unpowered USB hub in it, and the

Re: [SLUG] Got a schwanky keyboard?

quote who="Dean Hamstead" Use aumix, aumix :2 +XX where XX is a value to add or -xx to subtract or no sign for literal Of course - aumix. It's been so long. ;) XF86AudioRaiseVolume = aumix -v +5 XF86AudioLowerVolume = aumix -v -5 and... XF86Calculator = gcalc # I need this one

Re: [SLUG] Problems upgrading debian

Oops! I left off the attachments. Further to my earlier post: One package, 9menu, is in an unconfigured state because the post install script fails. The package is not important it was suggested originally as a useful adjunct to the lwm window manager. I can't configure it with

[SLUG] StarOffice won't start

Does anyone have problems with StarOffice failing to start. I find occasionally that it just refuses to fire up, whether from an icon or from a command line, and fails to give any indication as to why it's not starting. I certainly don't have a problem with RAM (128MB) or swap space (256MB), so

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

Check if their is a soffice process (eg ps ax | grep so) when this occurs. It *could* be checking to see if its already running, then, seeing that it is (in a sense) is quits. *shrug* try openoffice Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone have problems with StarOffice failing to start. I

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

quote who="Howard Lowndes" I find occasionally that it just refuses to fire up, whether from an icon or from a command line, and fails to give any indication as to why it's not starting. I just wish it would tell me what the problem is. Anything in ~/.xsession-errors? The usual logs? A

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone have problems with StarOffice failing to start. Yup. Happens to me too. SuSE 7.0 and SO 5.2. I find occasionally that it just refuses to fire up, whether from an icon or from a command line, and fails to give any indication as to why

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

I have found when this happens its generally because of zombie soffice processes. Do a ps ax |grep staroffice (or even just a ps ax) to see if there are then killall -9 staroffice Hope this helps The Gods Previously Read: On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone have

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

I know this probably isn't helpful, but this does not happen on my machine. I use StarOffice pretty roughly (15~ spreadsheets open at a time), and open and close it numerous times over a day. It crashes maybe once every 2 weeks, but has never had a problem killing itself cleanly on

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

Ya, I have found this. If you leave it open it will behave itself, but I have taken to closing it as it keeps trying to delete some IMAP files that don't exist anyway and the error warnings keep pissing me off, so I close it, but this is when the problem seems to arise. I guess I will just have

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

Quoting Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have problems with StarOffice failing to start. Now this is interesting I've had exactle the same problem with Applixware - the only fix (apart from a reboot) is to kill the x-server and re-start it. Doesn't happen all that often,

Re: FW: [SLUG] parking for the meeting

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Gauci, Geoffrey (GP) wrote: Your not even safe in secure care parks i have been broken into three time in secure car parks... "Secure Parking" is the company name, not what they promise. You check their conditions of use, and they have the same disclaimer that everyone

[SLUG] (Humour) - ICANN Domains (fwd)

For anyone in a tizzy about the new gTLDs issued by ICANN, this may sooth ... SO LONG DOT-COM, HELLO DOT-MUSEUM! ICANN Meets Urgent Demand by Adding .Aero, .Coop, and .Museum Domains http://www.satirewire.com/news/0011/new_domains.shtml -rickw -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

[SLUG] FW: lpd exploit?

Another Deadrat bug? Unconfirmed but likely - there's lots of scans going on for lpd... I've also heard LPRng is exploitable... is that default with Deadrat 7? Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:22 AM

Re: [SLUG] SLUG outage Dec 01 2000

quote who="Anand Kumria" This should be back to normal, let us if they are not. We are aware of the archive 'bounce' problem - trying to fix that right now. [0]: Angus and I do the admin stuff and both of us were busy yesterday. If you'd like to help out as well, then let either of us

Re: [SLUG] SLUG outage Dec 01 2000

On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 01:13:31PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Anand Kumria" This should be back to normal, let us if they are not. We are aware of the archive 'bounce' problem - trying to fix that right now. It should now be fixed. Unfortunately some messgaes from Dec 01 may not

[SLUG] apt-get on rpm distributions

Well it appears that Connectiva 6.0 is now out and "Conectiva is a Linux distribution with full support for apt-get with RPMs." So it looks like apt is achieving cross-distribution success too now. Anyone on large bandwidth care to check it out: ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/

[SLUG] Cool new stuff

Whoa! It's like, cool new stuff day or something... Conectiva 6.0: First RPM-based distribution to make use apt, the Advanced Package Tool. Looks like our old friend Alfredo Kojima (author of WindowMaker) was the geek who made the difference. :) XFree4 (lots of hacking on this by

[SLUG] SLUG outage Dec 01 2000

Sluggers, As most of you are aware there was no email yesterday. This was caused by the mailing list rotation script failing. Our [0] apologies for the delay in fixing this. This should be back to normal, let us if they are not. Regards, Anand [0]: Angus and I do the admin stuff and both of

[SLUG] #slug on irc.slug.org.au

IRC seems to be experiencing a resurgence. Never to not try out new things, an IRC server has been setup on slug. The irc server is irc.slug.org.au and it is part of the OpenProjects IRC network (www.openprojects.net) which hosts channels related to subjects such as: #Php, #FreshMeat, #c,

Re: [SLUG] Problems upgrading debian

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:28:10PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: Further to my earlier post: One package, 9menu, is in an unconfigured state because the post install script fails. The package is not important it was suggested originally as a useful adjunct to the lwm window manager. I

[SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working

Gidday Sluggers This perl script tells me that I don't have a MySQL server on my box (localhost), when I do (The Kmysql stuff confirms it is running - I can view DBs,tables and content) It is from 7/99 O'Reilly's MySQL mSQL book, P156. I'm trying to run it on a Suse6.4 box, if that makes a

Re: Balsa [Was: Re: [SLUG] NOT the /. thread]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently using kmail, and I didn't think it did nested folders or threading at all... Kmail doesn't do nested folders. It was K?mail. although it allows filtering, it does not allow you to specify how the filters are applied (i.e. incoming, outgoing or

Re: [SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Terry Collins wrote: I think it says you don't have msql -- different to MySQL (no y) Regards, Mehmet Gidday Sluggers This perl script tells me that I don't have a MySQL server on my box (localhost), when I do (The Kmysql stuff confirms it is running - I can

[SLUG] Kernel Compile and Debian

Hi all, I was wondering, under debian i have recompiled my kernel, and now the modules don't load on boot up, including my network etc. Now obviously this is a nusiance, but if i where to use make-kdpkg, the kernel building scripts, will that new kernel work with modconf if i install it from

[SLUG] How does Firewire stack up?

Hey I will heed to be getting a bunch of new external devices over the next couple of months, and was wondering how firewire stacks up against SCSI. I would rather not invest in something which is to be obscelete in 6 months (former Amstrad owner here...). Firewire compares quite favourable

Re: [SLUG] How does Firewire stack up?

Firewire compares quite favourable with SCSI devices in terms of price. (Am I wrong on this? Is there a reason for this?) How well is it supported by Debian / Linux? How well does it perform, especially when you start a bit of chaining? I know nothing about it, but there is support in the

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Compile and Debian

You have tried make modules_install have you not? You have also make sure to keep modules support in the kernel? (Dumb questions I know, but I have screwed up on them before) Stephen -- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it did not help the rabbit much -- R.E.

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Compile and Debian

You have tried make modules_install Yeah, the question was to do with modconf in debian and there tricky kernel build scripts. I did the noraml compile from the sources as i have always done, but discovered that this broke modconf. I was wondering if modconf was limited to use with the

Re: [SLUG] How does Firewire stack up?

When I think firewire, I think of fast USB Also, think of it this way. Firewire is new. Scsi has been around for sometime. Scsi you know will work. Firewire you have no idea :) Regards, Alan Lee Ecom Computers Australia - Original Message - From: "Jason Rennie" [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Compile and Debian

quote who="Jason Rennie" I was wondering, under debian i have recompiled my kernel, and now the modules don't load on boot up, including my network etc. On any distro, you have to deal with /etc/modu* - extensive documentation and pointers in /usr/share/doc/modutils/* Or, as a friend of