[SLUG] shmget and 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
Morning all, So, I upgraded from 2.4.0-test12 to 2.4.0, and now Apache dies like this: [emerg] (28)No space left on device: could not call shmget Great, huh? The odd thing is that nothing significant has changed between my setup with this kernel, and the one an iteration ago. Have I

Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Lake
Hi Guys, OK got the printer working. The problem IS, AFAICT, the driver. At work the HP 1100 I have setup fine but that was 2 years ago. This 1100 is a new which I have borrowed and is pretty much the same externally. Remember I mentioned that all the blank lines of my letter in the Postscript

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Lake
Rick Welykochy wrote: I have had monitor colour guns blow out on three separate occassions using two separate monitors, using X. (One monitor was repaired and the blue gun blew six months later). Admittedly, the two monitors in question are 4-5 years old, so the problem might just be monitor

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Michael Lake" Having looked at Trinitrons I will stick with them. They are really very crisp and clear with better contrast (like black is really black). I think they are better value for money than LCD if you don't have desk-depth probs. Indeedy. If you want an inexpensive

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Dave Kempe
Indeedy. If you want an inexpensive trinitron monitor, go for one of the 'budget priced' Diamond View lines. They're Mitsubishi monitors, and are very similar to what you'll find inside one of those perky G3 monitor shells. From what I've seen the CTX's look very nice. Very flat and nice

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Lake
Dave Kempe wrote: nice and they look trinitron based. They are so flat they look concave. Very nice. To tell if it is a Trinitron: Setup a nice white background and look for the two fine black horizontal lines 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the screen. Hallmark of the Trinitron Clan. Yes the

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Foster
Yep, the 17" CTXs house Trinitron technology and go for under $730. Very similar to these are the same sized LG's. Pretty good value and ATM I'd go one over my current 19"... Andrew. On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:26, you wrote: From what I've seen the CTX's look very nice. Very flat and nice sharp

[SLUG] VMWare and LILO configuration

2001-01-07 Thread Subba Rao
Hello I have installed VMWare on my Linux (host). There are 2 seprate HDs on this system. I have created raw disks to install the guest OSs.

Re: [SLUG] VMWare and LILO configuration

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Subba Rao" In the current LILO configuration, I have: boot=/dev/hda Can anyone recommend a better LILO and/or VMWare configuration? But of course! :) I prefer that VMWare not to prompt me for the guest OS. I plan to install other Guest OSs on other HD (/dev/hdb). How

Re: [SLUG] VMWare and LILO configuration

2001-01-07 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who="Subba Rao" In the current LILO configuration, I have: boot=/dev/hda Can anyone recommend a better LILO and/or VMWare configuration? But of course! :) I prefer that VMWare not to prompt me for the guest OS. I plan to

[SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Foster
Hey all, I am interested to hear your thoughts on an observation I'd made today - I've been brewing up a whole bunch of mp3s using various rippers and encoders: cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab bladeenc, lame.. mostly with the grip frontend (WAY happy with that one - check it out!) What I've

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Andrew Foster" I've noticed the same symptom @ 128 and 192 kb/s bitrate. Not sure I've ever noticed that before, but two recommendations: * Use Ogg Vorbis instead, or, if you have to use mp3s, * Use variable bitrate compression. Have you tested this aurally only, or with some

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: Andrew Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:59 AM Subject: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed Hey all, I am interested to hear your thoughts on an observation I'd made today - I've been brewing up a whole bunch of mp3s

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Foster
I'll check out Ogg Vorbis, but aside from "Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free" advantages, I don't immediately see a performance or accuracy benefit in its use? On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:02, you wrote: Have you tested this aurally only, or with some assitance? Just aurally at this

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Heracles
Michael Lake wrote: To tell if it is a Trinitron: Setup a nice white background and look for the two fine black horizontal lines 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the screen. Hallmark of the Trinitron Clan. If you value your sanity - DON'T do this. They will haunt you! You will forever see the

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Foster
Have you listened to the intermediate .wav file? I just tried that; interestingly enough it was precisely the same effect between wav/cd as mp3/cd Alternatively, you could be imaginging it. 2/5ths of a semitone is a small deviation - one which I'm beginning to believe most people can't hear

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: Andrew Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:09 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed Have you listened to the intermediate .wav file? I just tried that; interestingly enough it was precisely the same effect

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Mike Holland
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Heracles wrote: If you value your sanity - DON'T do this. They will haunt you! You will forever see the lines in your mind's eye just where they Damn you! They didnt bother me until you said that! BTW, the Trinitron(tm) tech is called "Apeture Grill" generically, and the

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-07 Thread Martin
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael Lake wrote: Dave Kempe wrote: nice and they look trinitron based. They are so flat they look concave. Very nice. To tell if it is a Trinitron: Setup a nice white background and look for the two fine black horizontal lines 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the

Re: [SLUG] Slug meeting December 2000 / January 2001

2001-01-07 Thread abinns
Whats happened to the slug list? Is it very quiet, or have I been dropped off the mailing list for some reason? Aaron Binns System Engineer Tower Technology Pty Ltd Ph# (02) 94242786 Fax# (02) 94247072 * PRIVILEGED -

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Rennie
I am interested to hear your thoughts on an observation I'd made today - I've been brewing up a whole bunch of mp3s using various rippers and encoders: cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab bladeenc, lame.. mostly with the grip frontend Have you considered using ogg vorbis for you encoding instead

Re: [SLUG] Slug meeting December 2000 / January 2001

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Whats happened to the slug list? Is it very quiet, or have I been dropped off the mailing list for some reason? Your Notes server was bouncing your email, so we removed your subscription, and the removal notice bounced too. You can always catch up with the

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:50:31AM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote: I am interested to hear your thoughts on an observation I'd made today - I've been brewing up a whole bunch of mp3s using various rippers and encoders: cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab bladeenc, lame.. mostly with the grip

[SLUG] Making Fonts

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Rennie
Hi all, I was wondering, does anybody have any pointers on how to go about making fonts ? Preferably linux tools to help in the endevour. more simply I need to modify the letters that are assigned to a koine greek font, so that I find it easier to type up. Any ideas ? Jason -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Rennie
Is there a site with more info/players/etc? www.vorbis.com And there is a good article in the january linux journal on ogg vorbis, which is where I first really heard about it. Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

RE: [SLUG] NFS Quota wierdness

2001-01-07 Thread Jill Rowling
I generally put a value in the grace section (sorry, another Unix, not Linux) but maybe all that's happening is because you don't have a value for the warning quota level (== grace), you are getting warnings for all file creates, not just those over quota. Just a thought. - Jill. -- Jill

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:02:54AM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote: Is there a site with more info/players/etc? www.vorbis.com And there is a good article in the january linux journal on ogg vorbis, which is where I first really heard about it. Cool. Thanks. wIll be looking into it later

Re: [SLUG] mp3 pitch/speed

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Foster
From what I've seen, I'd agree with that. I suppose one shouldn't hold out for too much accuracy in a laptop CDROM / sound card combination. Mmm, integrated. Thanks again, Andrew. On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 02:23, Crossfire wrote: This I consider to be indicitivite of a sampling rate mismatch

Re: [SLUG] New LINUX Usr

2001-01-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
Peter Hardy wrote: Apparently there's a Western Sydney Linux Users Group that meets at Richmond once a month. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I know, this group never made it past November 1999. They were unable to continue holding meetings at the Richmond UWS campus. Up until then,

[SLUG] printer help

2001-01-07 Thread Michael
What documents do people recommend I read in an attempt to setup a HP LaserJet 6L laser printer on my linux machine and have it shared out to my internal network via samba. Thanks Michael Fox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-07 Thread Ricky C
hi All, I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their Sun box, say an Ultra 10 We had RH6.0 on an Ultra 10 machine with RAID 5 Storage Edge and its time to upgrade it. RH doesn't do sparc anymore. Thanks R

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
We've been happily using Debian on Ultra 5/10's in production for about 6 months. Smooth. Can't give a RH vs Debian comparison as I've only used RH on i386. Essentially, Debian works well on a Sparcs and you'll find it a joy to administer. On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:32:08 Ricky C wrote: hi All,

RE: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-07 Thread David Kempe
hi All, I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their Sun box, say an Ultra 10 We had RH6.0 on an Ultra 10 machine with RAID 5 Storage Edge and its time to upgrade it. RH doesn't do sparc anymore. Redhat 7 doesnt do sparc yet, but i wouldn't use it on intel

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
Sparc based RH dists are now "community" based or something. Meaning that they dont look after it but they are happy for people to do the work for them. Something like that anyway. Dean David Kempe wrote: hi All, I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their

Re: [SLUG] Meeting?

2001-01-07 Thread Conrad Parker
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:56:04PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: I imagine that we'll be having a meeting early in the week starting Monday 22nd. That way, there's more chance of having some geeks around to make for a kickarse meeting. :) Raster, Horms and Rik van Riel will be around at that

[SLUG] linux.conf.au dinner registrations closing

2001-01-07 Thread Caitlin Fegan
If you are planning on coming to linux.conf.au, but haven't already registered, you'd better get in quick. Although we will continue taking new registrations for the conference itself, we have to close bookings for the dinner by 4pm Tuesday January 9th (Sydney time). That's right, you have