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A customer of mine recently pressed Bigpond Direct on the
question. Answer - March maybe!
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Darrell Burkey wrote:
Anyone heard any news on pricing for ADSL on Bigpond Direct? Last year there
was talk of announcements in Jan/Feb but I haven't heard anything yet. I
have
For your amusement, I've made a "dev/phone" icon for your Nokia mobile. Upload
it at www.blueskyfrog.com.au today. You will need to input the icon key of
p5237944 to download it.
Now you can have your mobile phone made into a device, matches your dev/mug on
your desk.
Aussie
PGP Key Block
Hey sluggers,
trying to get my laptop to get up and running. I have got networking working
in Windows, so i have a base system installed on my laptop.
It has a strange pcmcia 10/100 NIC with the marking SOHO-FP16 on it.
I guessing that the 2.4 kernel will have better support for it, based on my
For your amusement, I've made a "dev/phone" icon for your Nokia mobile.
Upload
it at www.blueskyfrog.com.au today. You will need to input the icon key of
p5237944 to download it.
Where do i do that?
dave
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At 20:51 2001-01-14 +1100, you wrote:
For your amusement, I've made a "dev/phone" icon for your Nokia mobile.
Upload
it at www.blueskyfrog.com.au today. You will need to input the icon key of
p5237944 to download it.
I couldn't find where to stick the magic number "p5237944". The site
I couldn't find where to stick the magic number "p5237944". The site
seems
to be driven by lists, rather than having any data entry field where you
could stick that ID.
Any pointers?
I found it.
Go to the righthand colum where it is a white icon that says cool content
Then go to design
- Original Message -
From: "Richard Gooch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Ian Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Re: Telstra using Transparent proxy on ADSL network
Hm. I'm happy to voluntarily use a proxy, since it's part of
login...
click design an icon in cool content...
type in "p5237944" in the share icon box...
hit enter.. it comes up in your saved icons =)
Daniel Finn
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From:
have one of those impromptu thingys (i think i even spelt that right)
that would be cool, and possibly very funny
maybe a FAQ night.
Dean
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
It seems that no one is interested in having a SLUG meeting on the 22nd, to
which we could invite many of our overseas and
Hey All!
Please try to pardon the chain acronym usage in the topic... ;)
Jeff has called for a smaller meeting for "us SLUGers", and although he did
intend for it to be a propper meeting [and I personally hope that there is a
propper meeting *hint* *hint*], I thought a SLUG BOF wouldn't hurt
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:17:30PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
It seems that no one is interested in having a SLUG meeting on the 22nd, to
which we could invite many of our overseas and local speakers... Could this
be true? I hope not.
Me too.
Most of the SLUG committee have been
Hello Everyone,
I have a DEC VT420 terminal that needs a good home. The terminal
still in its box, has an amber screen and is relatively clean and I
cannot spot any screen burn-in. It appears to work properly though I
have not properly tested the communications side of the unit.
I can
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
I have to admit, I haven't really noticed. But then again, that's
because I'm using a proxy at home (which also doubles as a banner ad
blocker (bliss)). And the home proxy machine is RAM-depleted (only 16
MiB), and thus I get a pregnant pause anyway.
\begin{David Kempe}
I have downloaded the 2.4tar.gz and some debs i think i will need. LIke gcc
and binutils.
Do i need some sort of kernel header?
in the 2.4 .tar.gz
Oh, im going to need libcurses. Anyone think of anything else i need on top
of a base install.
apt-cache show
"Ian" == Ian Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ian Yep definately a proxy, any other connection will get straight through.
Ian But port 80 is being redirected.
Ian I cannot recall seing anything in the terms and conditions that said that
Ian Telstra was going to redirect my packets through a
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Chubb" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Ian Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Richard Gooch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telstra using Transparent proxy on ADSL network
They do this for metering, I
They do this for metering, I think -- I worked on the cable system
for a while, and when I was working on it, *everything* was proxied
through a gauntlet firewall, where the proxies have been altered to
measure traffic and assign it to individual users. Traffic to the
`free zones' is not
Mike Holland writes:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
I have to admit, I haven't really noticed. But then again, that's
because I'm using a proxy at home (which also doubles as a banner ad
blocker (bliss)). And the home proxy machine is RAM-depleted (only 16
MiB), and thus I
Ken
Who uses vi on windows!
Flame suit I do, I use gvim as my generic text file view editor so that
it does not matter if it's in Unix or DOS format it works and all my
key strokes are there /flame suit
Grant
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Who uses vi on windows!
Flame suit I do, I use gvim as my generic text file view editor so that
it does not matter if it's in Unix or DOS format it works and all my
key strokes are there /flame suit
i think he meant that he does use vi on windows ;)
later
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Well you've caught me out on that one. I figured that getty is just a get
from a serial device but I didn't work out the "m" bit.
Disclaimer: I have used modems a lot (even designed them) and Linux/Unix a
lot but I don't use the two together much!
TTY: Yes, teletype. I have used these beasts as
Ken
Who uses vi on windows!
Flame suit I do, I use gvim as my generic text file view editor so that
it does not matter if it's in Unix or DOS format it works and all my
key strokes are there /flame suit
Grant
/me uses winvi as my default editor on NT here at work.
unfortunately my windows
Alright, I'll step forward.
Can you email me off list about exactly what is required/expected and
any relevent contacts?
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:17:30 Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
It seems that no one is interested in having a SLUG meeting on the
22nd, to
which we could invite many of our
I have had Telstra ADSL for a few weeks now and have not been that
impressed.
1. It is unreliable.
2. There seems to be quite a pause in serving web pages, I suppost this
is the cache or the
fact that everything seems to route through Victoria. The download
speeds are quite fast, but
you
|TTY: Yes, teletype. I have used these beasts as the serial console in the
|dark ages. They were current loop interface, though, not RS-232. I think the
|name "tty" for the serial device stuck though as the Bell Labs people
|probably liked the TLA.
|Teletypewriter services are still offered by
ge = generic perhaps?
generic tty?
m for modem?
modem generic teletype
Dean
Jill Rowling wrote:
Well you've caught me out on that one. I figured that getty is just a get
from a serial device but I didn't work out the "m" bit.
Disclaimer: I have used modems a lot (even designed them) and
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
They do this for metering, I think -- I worked on the cable system
for a while, and when I was working on it, *everything* was proxied
through a gauntlet firewall, where the proxies have been altered to
measure traffic and assign it to individual
|ge = generic perhaps?
|
|generic tty?
|
|m for modem?
|
|modem generic teletype
No, just modem get teletype. getty was already an established process
name on Unix. It's the process that sits waiting for a keystroke
indicating a user wanting to login. Back in those days it even did
autobauding
http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/tshoot/apm98/apmflagreset.asp
this is just bizare
Dean
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Hi people.
I am experiencing some difficulties in getting my mandrake system to
work with php support.
I have installed apache from an rpm, then I tried to install mod_php3
this worked fine, however, whenever I try to go to a site that has a
http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/tshoot/apm98/apmflagreset.asp
this is just bizare
fix power management by disabling your floppy driver ?!?!?
later
marty
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"Shannon Doyle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi people.
I am experiencing some difficulties in getting my mandrake system to
work with php support.
I have installed apache from an rpm, then I tried to install mod_php3
this worked fine, however, whenever I try to go to a site that has a
THIS IS THE NEW LINK. TYPO IN THE LAST ONE.
http://www.geocities.com/cashbyfax222/new.html
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hi all,
I'm trying to set up a network here using LDAP as an authentication
suppository. My current problem is this. I can use PAM to authenticate
stuff against the LDAP database, but I can't get Samba to use PAM to
authenticate.
Can someone please tell me how to do this? I've been looking
Interesting article in today's Sydney Morning Herald;
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0101/15/national/national14.h
tml
Now, boys and girls, can anyone tell me WHAT they will
be tested on ? Anyone ???
I feel a Ministerial Letter coming on...:-)
man smb.conf
/ldap
o ldap filter
o ldap port
o ldap root
o ldap root passwd
o ldap server
o ldap suffix
did you check all these?
Dean
James Peter Gregory wrote:
hi all,
I'm trying to set up a network
Hi all,
I just had to stop my sendmail and restart it and it now complains that the
queue load average is too big and I can't get it to work again..
runqueue: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
I tied nuking anything in the /var/spool/mqueue/* since they were dodgy
bounces anyway and
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:09:41PM +1100, Dean Hamstead ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/tshoot/apm98/apmflagreset.asp
this is just bizare
But even more bizarre is if you click on
"Yes, the Stand By option now appears when I click Start and then
man smb.conf
/ldap
o ldap filter
o ldap port
o ldap root
o ldap root passwd
o ldap server
o ldap suffix
did you check all these?
and, using google, this looked promising
Can someone remind me what the fix is for the following sendmail error:
553 some.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
I know it is in the bat book somewhere, but I just cannot find it.
Howard.
LANNet Computing
Here's a challenge for you:
I can no longer run a mail server (=(exim|postfix|sendmail)). Exim and
sendmail both segfault on startup, and postfix just doesn't start (due to
the maze of startup scripts for postfix, I didn't get very far debugging
it).
Exim will receive requests via inetd, but
runqueue: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
i thought this was a system load thing... if the system was heavily
loaded sendmail would delay clearing the queue as email was a low
priority...
what is the system load like?
later
marty
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:15:18PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Can someone remind me what the fix is for the following sendmail error:
553 some.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.5
Cheers,
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Can someone remind me what the fix is for the following sendmail error:
553 some.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
I know it is in the bat book somewhere, but I just cannot find it.
google search: "mail loops back to me" site:sendmail.org
I am going to colo my main box. It will server web pages and receive email
for a few domains.
The thing is I want to store the mail on my local machine, there are about
15 users. What I would like is for the colo machine to store the mail, and
then get my local machine to pick it all up and dump
I believe groups such as SLUG owe it to the community to make political
stands on computer literacy.
For some reason, Australian politicians have NO idea about the need for
serious computer studies. My 17 year old son spent one whole year doing
computer studies and came out not knowing how to
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
Exim will receive requests via inetd, but will not run standalone, its
queue-runner children segfault with signall 11. Sendmail just segfaults.
Signal 11 is often related to bad memory. How old is your machine? Can you
pull it apart, remove and
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Marty wrote:
man smb.conf
/ldap
o ldap filter
o ldap port
o ldap root
o ldap root passwd
o ldap server
o ldap suffix
did you check all these?
and, using
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
Squid.
That would explain trhe delay - swapping.I think squid designed more for
using lots of memory, and many users. But check the manual - you can
probably change the config to use less memory.
Otherwise, try wwwoffle.
Has anybody compared
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, David wrote:
Meantime, I heard recently that UNSW is discarding plans to run on-line
teaching. (hearsay - I hope I'm wrong), and downsizing it's in-house staff
computer training (again hearsay, but I'm told they think it isn't
necessary).
It's not hearsay.
UNSW
George,
if memory serves correct, sendmail will cease to process the queue once
the load average reaches 8, and will stop accepting SMTP connects at a LA
of 12.
If you need to change the load points of the queue and the connects, add
the following to your sendmail.cf: (assuming you have 8.7
Tks for the reponses. It was in /etc/sendmail.cw and has now moves to
/etc/mail/local-host-name.
Quoting Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can someone remind me what the fix is for the following sendmail error:
553 some.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
I know
Yep.. found it... smacking head on walldamn stupid of me and didn't notice
it.../smacking head on wall
I built another kick ass PIII866 Linux server and I forgot there was an NFS
mounted on it...
ps -ef | sort -rn +5 didn't show much CPU usage but GKrellM did show heaps.
The console was full
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:47:24AM +1100, Rodos wrote:
The thing is I want to store the mail on my local machine, there are about
15 users. What I would like is for the colo machine to store the mail, and
then get my local machine to pick it all up and dump it into the various
mbox files. I
Perhaps you should be posting questions such as this
to the samba mailing lists. Although i do think AT
and a few other samba-heads watch SLUG.
Dean
James Peter Gregory wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Marty wrote:
man smb.conf
/ldap
o ldap filter
o ldap
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, John Clarke wrote:
Any ideas on how to set this up. I have check in the bat book but nothing
seamed to cover it.
Make the colo box the secondary MX for the domain, make your local
machine the primary MX. Configure the colo box to relay for the domain
but don't add
|I believe groups such as SLUG owe it to the community to make political
|stands on computer literacy.
Probably a non-controversial thing that SLUG can do is create a mailing
list or even host a web page for it on the SLUG server, if someone is
willing to put up their hand for it. If it
Load = number of processes waiting for CPU. (Length of the run queue)
Load average = average number of processes waiting for CPU over a give
period.
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From: [EMAIL
| if memory serves correct, sendmail will cease to process the
queue once
| the load average reaches 8, and will stop accepting SMTP
connects at a LA
|
|Speaking of load average, wtf does it mean? How does it corelate
to the %CPU
|time as in top?
It's the number of processes in the
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:26:02AM +1100, Rodos wrote:
My problem is that my local machine will be on a cable modem with a
dynamic address. So what do I put as my lower cost MX records IP address?
You could consider a dynamic dns service, if your local box is online
most of the time, and
I think its a very per-school thing.
Having just finished high school i though comput*ing* studies
(which is now a string of other subjects) was reasonable.
The subject studies computing, and as such you learn pseudo-code
flow charts, you also learn elementry stuff about error checking
and
I have just had a brief sojourn in Singapore and have had the opportunity to see
the SG education system at work. They really get max utilisation out of their
schools. You child is allocated to either morning school (7:30 to 13:00) or
afternoon school (13:00 to 18:30). The thing that amazed me
|I'm glad I asked the question.
|
|Are there any books or docs on the boot process? As well as i386 I use a
|mklinux computer; vmlinuz seems to be on the host system as well as
|on the linux partition; the boot process seems to metamorphose as it
|proceeds. I stand back in awe-ful admiration and
on the subject of mgetty, whilst pottering about on google
doing searches like "history of mgetty" and not finding anything
i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
like Michael etc.
Dean
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|Are there any books or docs on the boot process?
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/
there are also some good links on the LFS site:
http://lfs.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/
later
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|i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
|like Michael etc.
Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but
it would have to be a middle initial or his mother's name or maybe even
his site muc.de. People do name things that could possibly be a
OT: my 2c nostalgic worth
I agree,
I think it is a per-school thing, as my school at the time was teaching us
full programming structure and techniques in yr 9 and 10... along with the
WP, SS, DB, security and computer issues as part of the component
subjects... unfortunately 3u Comp St wasn't
Mike Holland writes:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
Squid.
That would explain trhe delay - swapping. I think squid designed
more for using lots of memory, and many users. But check the manual
- you can probably change the config to use less memory.
I've already set cache_mem
Richard Gooch wrote:
RAM, but 72 pin SIMMs are expensive these days because they're not
commodity :-(
If anyone knows a cheap source, please let me know.
Got any spare slots? I have some 4MB SIMs.
They're all filled (4x 4 MiB).
Regards,
Has anyone got XFree 4 running on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 430 CDS - yes
an old one but a good one now that I have beefed it up a bit). Mine has the CT
65550 chip
(I think) but it complains that it cannot find the v4l module. It isn't in the
RH7.0 distro, but I don't see why it should
G'day Folks,
we have 4 x 16 port Cyclades Ze serial expanders and a Ze Host card
(controls 64 ports) for sale. We are looking at 0.5 x current retail
price.
Anyone interested?
Davo.
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, John Clarke wrote:
You could consider a dynamic dns service, if your local box is online
most of the time, and especially if the IP address changes rarely.
Yea, I thought of that but I know there has to be a better way.
Another way to do it would be to configure it as a
someone could just email him and ask =)
since he still maintains mgetty i can only assume hes alive
Dean
Ken Yap wrote:
|i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
|like Michael etc.
Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but
it would
Im pretty sure squid will use more memory if it has too
i recall reading something to that effect when configuring
PCC's proxy cluster.
Squids FAQ is pretty ace ;)
Dean
Squid.
That would explain trhe delay - swapping. I think squid designed
more for using lots of memory, and many
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:38:15PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
I've already set cache_mem to 2 MB. Despite this, it's using 23 MB.
Read chapter 8 of the FAQ for details, but..
Some memory is used for metadata, the bigger your disk cache, the more
objects you have in your cache, the more
|i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
|like Michael etc.
Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but
it would have to be a middle initial or his mother's name or maybe even
his site muc.de. People do name things that could
"JZ John Zantey ( 3470)" wrote:
OT: my 2c nostalgic worth
I agree,
I think it is a per-school thing,
snip
I suppose we were fortunate enough to have a teacher who was doing some sort
of phD in Computing at uni and he loved sharing his study/work with us
little yr 9, 10, 11 and 12
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:11:47PM +1100, Rodos wrote:
Another way to do it would be to configure it as a virtual domain on
the colo box, delivering all mail for your domain to a single mailbox,
but insert a header with the envelope details into each message to
This seams like bit to
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Yap" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Sydney Linux Users Group" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty
|i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
|like Michael etc.
|Kinda like that crazy Linus guy!
Yes, but remember at first he wanted to call it Freax until his friend
disuaded him. What this says about what he thought of himself then you
can conjecture. :-)
Ok, maybe this thread is starting to stray.
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