quote who="David Guest"
And you can still get all the benefits of a fixed IP by adding a dynamic DNS
service to the cheaper dynamic IP address.
Perhaps. Saying you can get "all" the benefits is a bit of a white lie
though.
Even given what you can achieve, I certainly wouldn't entrust
Look, I've seen this before. If you want to be employable, than you
need to have the skills. Not knowing basics documentation stuff
like Word is surefire way to get passed up. Anyhow theres my advice.
ROFL
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This one time, at band camp, Paul Cameron said:
As well, I've had nothing but trouble with PDF's using acroread
on Linux as well as ghostview (which often pukes up PDF's)
Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
was written for it! honestly i dont
Oooh! A SLUG troll. It's been so long, so perhaps I'll bite.
quote who="Paul Cameron"
Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
was written for it!
Acrobat Reader for Windows was definitely written for Windows. Acrobat
Reader for Unix wasn't.
honestly i dont
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:47:13AM +1100, James Wilkinson uttered:
This one time, at band camp, Paul Cameron said:
Using Word for documenting is hardly a 'skill', and any professional
documentor will be using tools like DocBook, or TeX, and generating
their documentation in something
enterfornone wrote:
...snip
Troll child :-(
I think some of you zealots need to get out of this dreamworld. Linux is
not yet a significant player on the desktop. Most people do need Work skills
to be employable.
Work != Word skills.
Besides, countering every anti-linux
This is a Linux list, isn't it?.
Linux _is_ a "significant player on my desktop" as I choose not
to use windows or any of the proprietary crap it produces.
And I'm annoyed at people trying to force me to use M$ bloat,
something I thought I wouldn't see on this list.
enterfornone wrote:
Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
was written for it! honestly i dont understand if u want documentation
that is not man crap than use .doc!!!
I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
own crazt abiword or man crap. It
I dont suppose anyone has a nice quick way of
detecting and removing old library versions?
some fancy regex's or something?
Dean
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:51:53AM +1000, Greg wrote:
This is a Linux list, isn't it?.
Linux _is_ a "significant player on my desktop" as I choose not
to use windows or any of the proprietary crap it produces.
And I'm annoyed at people trying to force me to use M$ bloat,
something I
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42259,00.html?tw=wn20010307
Their "qrpff" program is a more compact cousin of the DeCSS utility that
eight movie studios successfully sued to remove from the website of 2600
Magazine. But unlike DeCSS, qrpff is abbreviated enough for critics of
the
Paul Cameron wrote:
I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
own crazt abiword or man crap. It cant generate proper .doc files, so
where is the point? I tried to make for them for application documentate
software, but i can't appease those freakes.
A portion of
david kwok wrote:
Could anyone point me to any commerical support for Qmail?
I have this error messages from my qmail server,
"cname_lookup_failed_temporarily". The mail sent to remote location is
therefore not working. The remote locations are aol and the like which use
non-compliant
Each has it's place, nothing wrong with choosing the best tool for the
job.
exactly, which is why people bite when someone wades in with "MS rulez"
and "you must use Word"...
if the guy had mounted a well reasoned arguement i don't think people
would have been shouting "troll"
later
marty
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:32:32AM +1100, Martin wrote:
Each has it's place, nothing wrong with choosing the best tool for the
job.
exactly, which is why people bite when someone wades in with "MS rulez"
and "you must use Word"...
if the guy had mounted a well reasoned arguement i
I have a need to convert text files created with tomsrtbt to DOS
end of line format... using only tomsrtbt tools.
There is no unix2dos, Perl or tr available.
Unfortunately the usual sed s/$/x0d/ text.unix text.dos
adds only literal x0d's to the line endings with tomsrtbt's sed. :(
Also, the
why does a ps on my machine show these 2 nmbd process
that have been running since 1 March?
root 1776 0.0 0.9 2240 1236 ?SMar01 0:01 nmbd -a
root 1777 0.0 0.7 2160 944 ?SMar01 0:00 nmbd -a
nmbd and smbd are run from inetd, not as standalone
The operative word here being "choose", a few years ago I tried
Linux, using it for a year or so as server/gateway/router environment.
After having tried windoze at these tasks, Linux's superb
performance prompted me to use it as my desktop environment, which
has been improving at an
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:02:47AM +1100, enterfornone wrote:
Even if there was a Linux WP that was better than Word, the fact still
remains that if your job involves using a word processor, chances are you
will need to know Word.
But there's nothing to know. If your employer plops you down
but it's a microsoft product! Surely it's so easy to use you don't need
any prior experience! ;))
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, enterfornone wrote:
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:02:47 +1100
From: enterfornone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface
|Unfortunately the usual sed s/$/x0d/ text.unix text.dos
|adds only literal x0d's to the line endings with tomsrtbt's sed. :(
|
|Also, the thing with the C-V C-^ RET produces a nice looking ^M's but
|tomsrtbt barf's on them.
bash$ echo foo | sed 's/$/^M/' | od -bc
000 146 157 157 015 012
Even if there was a Linux WP that was better than Word, the fact still
remains that if your job involves using a word processor, chances are you
will need to know Word.
but you just said yourself that what you should use is "the right tool
for the job"...
don't you think it is a little short
And smbstatus says??
Also look out for local WINS and DNS 'doze boxen that tend to hand around
forever.
If you have configured your SAMBA as an NT server (not workstation) you will
also get pestered by 'doze boxen.
netstat -a should show their real connections, if they exist.
If they don't exist,
I believe inetd only responds to connections not broadcasts. nmbd needs to
deal with broadcasts so hence the need for the daemon to stay active?
It sounds good but maybe someone with more experience might be able to
confirm this?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Dave Fitch wrote:
Michael Covi [EMAIL
Dear Sluggers,
Having reviewed the correspondence exchanges over the last couple
days I feel there is a need to get focus back
This exercise is not about what is best but ensuring that
individuals can use what they believe is best
without imposition from Government
THIS IS ABOUT
Hi ..
This is documented in the qmail FAQ.
Find out about it here
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/outgoing.html#cname-lookup
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2001 9:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:21:37AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
|Lovely on bash ; barfs on tomsrtbt ash?
bash$ ash
$ echo foo | sed 's/$/^M/' | od -bc
000 146 157 157 015 012
f o o \r \n
005
Maybe the tty driver you have in tomsbtrt doesn't have all the quoting
Indeed, most of the calls I get from users stems from their lack of training
with 'doze. They use M$ all day on their desktops but do not understand how
to do more than the average daily task.
It is a complete fallacy to assume that users will find Linux or M$ more or
less difficult to use than
hi guys
anyone going to the installfest from the inner west (i am at north
strathfield) and want to car pool?
later
marty
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I use Linux as a gateway/router. I tend to use 2000pro as a desktop.
Each has it's place, nothing wrong with choosing the best tool for the
job.
Can't agree more...
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Tried patch;
http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch
Cheers,
Michael
I have this error messages from my qmail server,
"cname_lookup_failed_temporarily". The mail sent to remote location is
therefore not working. The remote locations are aol and the like which
use non-compliant DNS
quote who="Matthew Dalton"
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm speechless! I am without speech!
What, you think Paul == Rick?
The 'from' line is continued on from the In-Reply-To, as Paul was
I try to login as a normal user into xfree, by typing either startx or X and
I get an error message of: Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
Only root can start XFree.
How do I assign Console Ownership/permissions to other users?
Oh I run Red
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Define a sudo for startx ?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Scott Ragen wrote:
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:42:04 +1100
From: Scott Ragen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] Xfree User Problems
I try to login as a normal user into xfree, by typing either startx or X and
I get an
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:02:47AM +1100, enterfornone wrote:
Even if there was a Linux WP that was better than Word, the fact still
remains that if your job involves using a word processor, chances are you
will need to know Word.
snip Word
Andrew Reilly wrote:
(Hell, strings|par|less usually does a fine job!)
'par' not found.
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Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who="Matthew Dalton"
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:44:37PM +1100
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm speechless! I am without speech!
What, you think Paul == Rick?
No, dude! I was speechless about the
Terry Collins wrote:
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])110;$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]48){$h
quote who="Matthew Dalton"
No, dude! I was speechless about the whole thing. I know what the
'In-Reply-To' line means.
Sorry, had to ask. :)
I've been tipped off by an anonymous source that Paul - today's list
entertainment value - was in fact recovering from trying to get the docbook
tools
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:07:00AM +1100, Jill Rowling wrote:
And smbstatus says??
Samba version 2.0.7
Service uid gid pid machine
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No locked files
Share mode memory usage (bytes):
1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%)
As soon as theres any traffic on that port they will fire up and stay
there straight away. It's nothing to worry about it's normal behaviour.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Dave Fitch wrote:
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:41:39 +1100
From: Dave Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Guys,
how do get ppp to "Dail ON DEMAND"?
i.e when someone activates their browser.
cheers
M
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Michael Sztachanski wrote:
Guys,
how do get ppp to "Dail ON DEMAND"?
i.e when someone activates their browser.
Well, a few months ago, you would use diald, which could respond to
demand or times.
I don't know what the latestst is.
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
ISDN
Installation: $BigBread
Hardware: $DoleOutTheDosh
Not if you use onramp home highway. Similar cost to two POTS lines.
Call costs: $PrettyPenny
Unless you use data-over-voice for untimed local calls.
Speed: Shite
For
Hello there,
Joined this group yesterday in the hope that
someone can assist me in getting XFree86 going on my Laptop. From the
little I have learnt over the past week since buying a copy of Redhat 7.0 from a
news agent, I have gathered that I need a config file for XFree86 4.0.1-1 for my
Hi all,
I have an interresting problem where by,
When I'me running my newly compiled 2.4.2 (no patch) kernel, I'm unable
to open a specific word
document with StarOffice 5.2.
Only problem is that it hangs my machine pretty bad.
on the 2.2.17 kernel I get en error in staroffice but my machine
It's ok guys, used the standard ppp stuff with a little adjustment. Works
great!!!
regards
M
At 06:57 PM 08-03-01 +1100, John Morrissey wrote:
Dial on Demand - easy
Go to the link below, dowload the iso, burn cd, install and it works
(based on RH ofcourse)
Cheers
John
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