Hey-Oh. Trying to get Mutt to wrap lines so people stop complaining about my long
lines ;) I've been unable to find the right in on Mutt.org, man muttrc or via Google.
Anyone carrying a clue stick on this? (Jeff?)
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Be wary of the netserver models with "fast, narrow" (10MB/sec) SCSI
controllers. These can be very painfully slow and belong into much the same
space as IDE.
Cheers,
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rodos wrote:
I am wanting to write a small/quick/kiss quote/invoice system that outputs
PDF files.
Use panda! There is a C api which will let you create your invoices
(although there isn't a perl binding)...
Cheers,
Mikal
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Robert Reid wrote:
I'm am considering putting ReiserFS onto my debian system when I put a
2.4.x kernel on. Can ResierFS be currently be used as a root partition
or not?
Root is fine. Just have it compiled into your kernel.
The only problems I've had is with boot
quote who="Craige McWhirter"
Hey-Oh. Trying to get Mutt to wrap lines so people stop complaining about
my long lines ;) I've been unable to find the right in on Mutt.org, man
muttrc or via Google.
You gotta do the wrapping in your editor. I do this in ~/.muttrc:
set editor = "vim '+/$'
Is it a big drama to setup Optus Cable for the Internet on RH7? I tried
to gleen something from previous postings, but I don't see anything
specific on the SLUG site. The Optus people went on and on about having
to have Windows and I told them no. If someone could outline the
procedure step
Mehmet Ozdemir wrote:
Now as to getting optus@home running on redhat, here's a gem for you:
ready for it
http://www.linuxathome.net
how easy was that !!!
harder than you might think...that sites been down for a while now *8-)
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Windows: "Where do you want
v4l drivers for the logitech quickcam express exist
please refer to the slug archive as i have previously
mentioned the url.
It works reasonably well.
Dean
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Michael Covi wrote:
Hi Sluggers,
I wanted to get a digital camera for linux. I know nothing about
Hi im Gemma. I have a mate called Graeme Robinson, he has a slug fetish too!
It's his birthday soon and i wanted to surprise him with some slug stuff.
Can you help?
Gemma.
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Dear All
Win98 - Studio DV Plus or something, which was sold through Harvey
Norman. Lets just say that unless you want to bleed a lot of blood, why
bother. The worst part was the customer then told bloody Harvey Norman
how to fix it - bastard! Digital Video on Firewire is bleeding edge -
Michael
Goto http://freshmeat.net and look for gphoto.
They have a list (not as comprehensive as it could be) of cameras
supported. I got a Kodak DC3400 recently which wasn't on the list
but works perfectly. Just make sure you get one that does standard
RS232, although USB may also be OK.
Alen Stanisic wrote:
I have untarred evolution-0.9 and have a folder at
/home/adam/evolution-0.9
How do I get it to run ?
Adam Bogacki.
If you got source you are going to have to configure and build it which
can be a bit of a pain because of all the dependencies. What I did is
ready for it
http://www.linuxathome.net
how easy was that !!!
harder than you might think...that sites been down for a while now *8-)
Looks like someone should have done a mirror of it :) haha
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Richard wrote:
a Hauppage WinTV card is recommended for Linux. Works well on a
The Q was about DIGITAL VIDEO cameras, which are Firewire. These cards
are analogue. They also suffer from the problem of losing sound sync
with the video (or so I'm told). I was just helping someone out. As far
Glad this all came up, I am about to rebuild my machine... and I wanted to
use ReiserFS, well was atleast looking at it.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Robert Reid wrote:
I'm am considering putting ReiserFS onto my debian system when I put a
2.4.x kernel on. Can ResierFS be currently be used as a
But not for all such cameras... I hold an old USB quickcam express, and it
doesn't appear to work with those drivers you state.. although i intend on
trying some more, soon as I rebuild PC, and put X on. Just waiting for
family router to come along to take connection :)
- Original Message
Terry
a Hauppage WinTV card is recommended for Linux. Works well on a
The Q was about DIGITAL VIDEO cameras, which are Firewire. These cards
are analogue. They also suffer from the problem of losing sound sync
with the video (or so I'm told). I was just helping someone out. As far
as
They broke into my debian machine
Nick
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Richard wrote:
thought people might be interested :)
Thats okay, you weren't to know {:-).
http://www.woa.com.au/linux/how-tos/webcaminstall.html
Slug has quite a few of these installed. Blokes show off their pets
(possums, wives, etc) and more mundane things like offices. We even have
a
Richard wrote:
BTW, my own machine was hacked shorty after subscribing to this list.
Don't know about hacking, but we have a porn spammer lurking.
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Why server vendors are giddy over Linux
Mar 19, 2001
Gartner
2001 TechRepublic, Inc.
G. Weiss
Server vendors, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Dell Computer, are
eagerly declaring their allegiance to Linux as a strategic operating system
(OS). This vendor "bandwagon" effect represents a
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:24:19PM +1100, Craige McWhirter uttered:
Hey-Oh. Trying to get Mutt to wrap lines so people stop complaining about my long
lines ;) I've been unable to find the right in on Mutt.org, man muttrc or via Google.
Anyone carrying a clue stick on this? (Jeff?)
You need
My most interesting bits:
# Signature script
set signature="/home/simonr/bin/sigchange.sh|"
# Big brother
set query_command="lbdbq %s"
# Ignore tedious headers
unignore *
ignore Resent-Cc Resent-Date MBOX-Line References In-Reply-To
Resent-Message-ID Resent-From X-Loop Resent-Sender Precedence
quote who="Adam Bogacki"
Has anyone got any interesting muttrc's they would not mind sharing ?
http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/
http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/
At some stage, I'd like to share mine, but I'm kinda half re-organising
them. "Them", because they're modular, and at at some stage, parts
\begin{Nick Croft}
Yesterday I put (on the main machine) kdebase 4:2.1.0.1-5 and other
k packages.
I found it to be very intrusive, rather like a M$ product. It took
over my desktop immediately without giving me the option of changing
to it.
default window manager is now handled via
\begin{Alexander Else}
i put progeny rc1 on a toshiba laptop the other day. *really* nice
installer. it did do a couple of odd things, though.
works?). the other small thing was it asked twice, at different
stages in the install, to create cvs repositories.
thats been a long-standing bug
Ta, Jeff. Now I'm just going to have to think of something mindless go
on longer than 72 characters... Hey I got there ;)
Pity it doesn't format existing text, just new text that I enter in.
Thus spake Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
quote who="Craige McWhirter"
Hey-Oh. Trying to get
http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/
articles/Cable-Modem/Cable-Modem.html#AEN833
the whole thing
look for the section on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently (no experience) if you have a NIC it should work fairly easily
from dhcp (well you may be lucky)...
if you have USB
"Michael F." wrote:
ready for it
http://www.linuxathome.net
how easy was that !!!
harder than you might think...that sites been down for a while now *8-)
Looks like someone should have done a mirror of it :) haha
They have !!!
Bill Bennett wrote:
Right. Well, quite a lot of this Linux installation is going
to be given the heavus. Are the same problems to be encountered?
So long as you uninstall stuff using the rpm -e command you shouldn't
have any problems.
which has a built in modem. I'd like to contact work at
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rodos wrote:
I am wanting to write a small/quick/kiss quote/invoice system that outputs
PDF files.
...
Hoping to knock it over in a night. Writing the glue in Perl, just need a
layout language. I don't think HTML will cut it.
Well I did some hunting and the choices
Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I put (on the main machine) kdebase 4:2.1.0.1-5 and other k packages.
I found it to be very intrusive, rather like a M$ product. It took over my
desktop immediately without giving me the option of changing to it. Then it
If it does that to
quote who="Craige McWhirter"
Pity it doesn't format existing text, just new text that I enter in.
- In vim, type "gqap", this effects the current paragraph. Works with quoted
replies too.
- Use "d}" to delete to the end of paragraph - very useful for the lazy
non-reply trimmers out there.
Nick Croft wrote:
They broke into my debian machine
... and this is supposed to generate a bunch of "SlackHatStormgenyix is
better than debian because it's more secure" calls.
No, kiddies.
I use RedHat because that's what I'm used to. RedHat have an updates
FTP site (mirrored at
\begin{Rodos}
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rodos wrote:
I am wanting to write a small/quick/kiss quote/invoice system that outputs
PDF files.
Well I did some hunting and the choices came out at LPU, Groff, LaTex,
Postscript and Lout.
Docbook (or rather: some SGML DTD and the jade toolchain) ?
* Adam Bogacki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Has anyone got any interesting muttrc's they would not mind sharing ?
Adam Bogacki.
I've got a fairly complete muttrc (changes from's and sig's etc based on
folder) - however I'm stuck on one thing that someone may be able to
help with...
I want to
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Kempe wrote:
I am running all the latest unstable kde etc and its very nice. I love it :)
Dave
Yes Dave, it's got a lot of class features. I would like it to keep there for
when windows users visit. However I've got a work method consistent over
4 different
I am wanting to write a small/quick/kiss quote/invoice system that
outputs PDF files.
...
Would be nice if I can generate a text, html and maybe RTF version as
well.
Hoping to knock it over in a night. Writing the glue in Perl, just need
a layout language. I don't think HTML will cut
Thus spake Del ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Nick Croft wrote:
They broke into my debian machine
I use RedHat because that's what I'm used to. RedHat have an updates
FTP site (mirrored at mirror.aarnet.edu.au) where, for each of their
distributions, updates are posted fairly quickly after
I follow this same line... stable with security line... and tend to keep on
top of it about once a week if I can, by checking for new updates.
In production servers (which for me are always on "Stable") I only have
the stable and security lines in my sources.list file and always run
I just took delivery a shiny new ADS Cadet fm radio card. The module
loads flawlessly and it SHOULD all work. However, I can't find the
minor number so I can do a:
mknod /dev/radio c 81 x
What should x be? I presume there's a list of them all SOMEWHERE...
Where? I've hunted high and low.
Well, nobody so far has publically nominated.
I'm nominating myself (Chris Collins) for General Committee.
I've been a user of Linux since Mid/Late 1995, when I was introduced
to it by my programming mentor. I became hooked, and became involved
in the general Linux community in Canberra. I
On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:19 AM, Del [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Nick Croft wrote:
They broke into my debian machine
... and this is supposed to generate a bunch of "SlackHatStormgenyix is
better than debian because it's more secure" calls.
Someone asked him what he was
Hi,
If someone has experience with the Kodak DC camera's, namely the DC3400,
please email off list, I have a question that someone might be able to help
me with.
Thanks
Michael
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Thus spake Marty Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Someone mentioned that there was an article recently (like yesterday I
think, on freshmeat?) saying something about DeadRat plans to charge a
subscription fee for updates... I didn't read the article so I'm not sure
how serious it was. Anyone
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:30:06AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Morning all, simple midnight question:
Is there a top-like equivalent for measuring file I/O?
The best I know of is
vmstat 1
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... and this is supposed to generate a bunch of "SlackHatStormgenyix is
better than debian because it's more secure" calls.
Someone asked him what he was running, and he answered... no troll there.
i don't think he was implying it was a troll. i think what he, probably
correctly, pointed
quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I follow this same line... stable with security line... and tend to keep on
top of it about once a week if I can, by checking for new updates.
$ cat /etc/cron.d/aptgetupgrade
2 0 * * * rootapt-get -qy upgrade
What's all this manual, hand-upgraded
Because I prefer to be manually involved :) I know you can cron it, but I
choose not to do so.
I follow this same line... stable with security line... and tend to
keep on top of it about once a week if I can, by checking for new
updates.
$ cat /etc/cron.d/aptgetupgrade
2 0 * * * root
If Redhat or anyone else chooses to charge for a service, I can't see the
problem. If they made it hard to get updates manually I would be pretty
upset, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I think some folks miss the difference between "free" and "free".
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Martin wrote:
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. As far as I could
make out, access was gained, as someone else has suggested,
through a BIND exploit (there are a number of critical ones
floating around affecting versions 8.2.2-P7 and earlier).
See http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html.
quote who="Martin"
redhat are now charging for their "automated update service" it comes
with priority ftp and you can update a gaggle of servers as one... the
individual rpms will still make it onto ftp sites everywhere, but the
automation, support and QOS are what RH are now charging
(Rodos, I get the slug digest which means I don't see slug stuff till
later)
I had a quick look at groff but could not find any usefull documentation
on it appart from a man page which was a little sparse.
There may be some online doco (tbl is the word), but I confess
I used some books.
quote who="Andrew Bennetts"
The best I know of is
vmstat 1
Oh, brilliant! Thank you. Unfortunately, it doesn't show the processes doing
the dirty work, but it's a great start.
- Jeff
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"A rest with a
Hi,
I am just after a hint.
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
this without listing the individual directories
Regards
Bernhard
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* This one time, at band camp, Bernhard L?der said:
Hi,
I am just after a hint.
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
this without listing the individual directories
try this
I think your kicking the wrong cat. KDE is not doing these things it is
the debian packaging thats causing your dramas.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Nick Croft wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:17:04 +1100 (EST)
From: Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL
Did I get in first? :-)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:35PM +1100, Bernhard L?der wrote:
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
this without listing the individual directories
for user
Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions.
Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to
between 30-70% cpu usage and thus slows the machine down considerably.
Reading is fine of course.
Note that I haven't yet chased this problem up with
Peter Hardy was once rumoured to have said:
Did I get in first? :-)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:35PM +1100, Bernhard L?der wrote:
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
this
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Lüder wrote:
I am just after a hint.
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
We've needed a script-pissing contest ...
for f in /home/*; do cp file.file $f; done
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said:
Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions.
Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to
between 30-70% cpu usage and thus slows the machine down considerably.
Reading is fine of course.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Rodos wrote:
We've needed a script-pissing contest ...
for f in /home/*; do cp file.file $f; done
Well I was going with
find . -maxdepth 1 -exec cp file.file {} \;
but its a little longer than yours Rick.
Now I see why people use one character switches
Help!
I'm trying to get a virtual pop system working and I've run into a
problem on the final stretch. I need to be able to get port forwarding
working in a simple manner... here is the scenario.
PHYSICAL SERVER
|
| |
Virt IF1 Virt IF2
My understanding is that ReiserFS is no good for the boot partition, but
should be OK for everything else under /
And probably still does strange things with NFS (I gotta upgrade mine yet)
- Jill.
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Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat
* This one time, at band camp, Tony Green said:
ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -d VIF1/32 1000 -m 1
ipmasqadm mfw -I -m 1 -r PHYSICAL 1001 -p 10
BTW: I've also tried
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L VIF1 1000 -R PHYSICAL 1001
with the same results.
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:18 PM, Crossfire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said:
Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions.
Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to
between
quote who="Marty Richards"
This is the first time I've tried to mirror on Linux.. I guess then I should
be looking back at ext2 and suffering the odd fsck? Any suggestions?
Hardware IDE RAID? It's pretty speedy stuff now... There was a whole stack
of reviews for various boards about a month
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
I just took delivery a shiny new ADS Cadet fm radio card. The module
loads flawlessly and it SHOULD all work. However, I can't find the
minor number so I can do a:
Have you tried /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt?
--
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I follow this same line... stable with security line... and tend to keep on
top of it about once a week if I can, by checking for new updates.
$ cat /etc/cron.d/aptgetupgrade
2 0 * * * rootapt-get -qy upgrade
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:53:32PM +1100, Ian Ward wrote:
What's happening is the $USER is not being substituted. man procmail says
use $LOGNAME
you're right, thanks.
I added the default bit to try to tell procmail to use
/var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail.
It must have worked before cos
Thus spake Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I follow this same line... stable with security line... and tend to keep on
top of it about once a week if I can, by checking for new updates.
What's all this manual, hand-upgraded bollocks? :)
Piece of mind. With production servers if my bind
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:19:15AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
(strongly) that he get onto the Debian Security mailing list which will
advise of Debian vulnerabilities and what packages fix them. Then edit
/etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the security line.
does anyone ever send
Only when there is a security alert. I've definately received several in
the last few weeks. You may want to check you subscription.
Thus spake Dave Fitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:19:15AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
(strongly) that he get onto the Debian Security
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Archives show info about promise ATA100 onboard controllers on the Asus A7V
as being supported, but I am trying to find out if the PCI version of the
controller works under linux.
The PCI card should work just as well as the on-board version.
Archives show info about promise ATA100 onboard controllers on the Asus A7V
as being supported, but I am trying to find out if the PCI version of the
controller works under linux.
It will somewhat decide my option of being one, if it does or doesn't work
with linux.
If it works, I'd purchase
Might order one before I get a drive, that way I get current chipsets :)
and the one everyone seems to be using...
The chipsets, between the onboard and the PCI controller type, are slightly
different from my readings of mail lists around the globe. Can't recall
exact specs, but I did see it
quote who="Dave Fitch"
does anyone ever send anything to that mailing list?
I subscribed weeks ago and haven't received anything yet
beyond the initial subscription confirmation email.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce-01/threads.html
Latest was March 13th, from Wichert.
-
Jill, shouldn't you be doing something about the text to .sig ratio? 3:17
is not good, and that is excluding the SLUG footer as well.
--
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LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
Does anyone know of a mirror or source other than ftp.suse.com?
Current downloads is slower than if I was hand entering the code to
compile.
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shouldn't it be:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $VIF1 1000 -R $PHYSICAL 1001
^ ^
Assuming you have identified VIF1 PHYSICAL at the top of the file, like:
VIV1="192.168.0.2/32"
PHYSICAL="192.168.0.3/32"
BL
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:17, Michael Covi wrote:
I think your kicking the wrong cat. KDE is not doing these things it is
the debian packaging thats causing your dramas.
I would tend to agree with this. I didn't have any of the problems mentioned
when installing KDE 2.1 rpms on a RedHat 7 box.
Tony Green was once rumoured to have said:
Help!
I'm trying to get a virtual pop system working and I've run into a
problem on the final stretch. I need to be able to get port forwarding
working in a simple manner... here is the scenario.
PHYSICAL SERVER
|
Hopefully this should help.
--
Cheers,
Craige.
Yes indeed, I'll follow it up.
Thanks,
Nick
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On Wednesday 21 March 2001 16:04, Terry Collins wrote:
Does anyone know of a mirror or source other than ftp.suse.com?
Current downloads is slower than if I was hand entering the code to
compile.
Tried hylafax.org?
It would have pointers to heaps of mirrors i thought.
there is an australian
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 08:34, David wrote:
I think some folks miss the difference between "free" and "free".
I can't see much difference myself :(
dave
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