Re: [SLUG] Potato - Woody

2001-06-05 Thread Tom Massey
Hi, just a quick thank you for all the useful info I got about this. Apt-get is indeed as fun to play with as people have said. :-) Thanks, Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] File start-up problem

2001-06-05 Thread Debian User Adam Bogacki,,,
Hi, when trying to install WordPerfect 8 from PCactive's December 2000 CD I mounted it (via Gnome), copied it to /usr where I had most diskspace, cd to /usr and . could not open the program. ls -l WORDPERF gave me

Re: [SLUG] File start-up problem

2001-06-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Debian User Adam Bogacki,,, said: when trying to install WordPerfect 8 from PCactive's December 2000 CD I mounted it (via Gnome), copied it to /usr where I had most diskspace, cd to /usr and . could not open the program. type 'mount', I'll bet that your cdrom

[SLUG] kdelibs in sid currently broken, 2.4.5?

2001-06-05 Thread Andre Pang
hey guys, just thought i'd mention that if you're running sid, updating to kdelibs3 at the moment isn't the best idea. kdeinit is barfing and chewing up all memory before being killed by the OOM killer (if you're lucky). i dunno if this is related to kdeinit itself, the other KDE libraries,

Re: [SLUG] kdelibs in sid currently broken, 2.4.5?

2001-06-05 Thread getadog
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Andre Pang wrote: on another note, has anybody else found that 2.4.5 is playing weird memory games with the swapfile and is generally pretty unstable? i managed to completely freeze it just by running 'Eterm -fn 9x15' (which is actually an invalid

Re: [SLUG] Proxy blues

2001-06-05 Thread Rick Welykochy
Laurie Savage wrote: I cannot get through the Dept of Education Proxy server with Lynx or Konqueror. The general setting given a school's ID is http://pac.xxx.yyy.zzz.au/schools/schoolid-xyzetc.pac My guess: Konqueror (and Lynx) do not accept .pac files. If you can find out the proxy

Re: [SLUG] Proxy blues

2001-06-05 Thread Paul Robinson
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 19:34, Rick Welykochy mumbled something about: Laurie Savage wrote: I cannot get through the Dept of Education Proxy server with Lynx or Konqueror. The general setting given a school's ID is http://pac.xxx.yyy.zzz.au/schools/schoolid-xyzetc.pac My guess:

Re: [SLUG] kdelibs in sid currently broken, 2.4.5?

2001-06-05 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:42:50PM +1000, getadog wrote: Do you have a swap size 2 times your ram? nope. i found this proposition a bit ridiculous to begin with, although maybe now i'll have my head bitten off for it :). i run a reasonably basic system, and before installing Debian on my

Re: [SLUG] WFWG clients - How

2001-06-05 Thread Heracles
Terry Collins wrote: I am looking to retire my Novell 4.11 server but still need to provide file and print services to two WFWG clients, which will be naturally off a linux server. Is anyone still doing this and how? I have recently retired a Nivell 3.12 server and set up a simple RedHat

Re: [SLUG] WFWG clients - How

2001-06-05 Thread Howard Lowndes
On a slight deviation from this track. Are any of your printers network printers as opposed to LPT1 printers? I have a network printer which the Linux boxes will print to fine and which is being shared out by Samba on a Linux box to my Winboxes, but the Winboxes won't print to the share, they

Re: [SLUG] Where to get Agenda PDAs ?

2001-06-05 Thread Catie Flick
On 5 Jun, Jon Biddell wrote: Not wishing to piss on Anthony's parade, but I had a look at the Agenda developers site today, and they have a special white blue model with 16Mb RAM, 8Mb flash, and a few utilities that you can get for $179USD. Problem is many of the reviews I was able to

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread Terry Collins
DaZZa wrote: It's specifically a Linux job, and the money offered isn't _too_ bad. Anyone who wants to bitch about it can bite me - flames will go to /dev/null. That includes you, Terry. Well, I'm posting the reasons why I think it is inappropriate for posting to Slug. 1 - It doesn't

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:42:31AM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] The info is in the ad. Note that seek.com.au requires frames, so viewing it through lynx won't work - which sucks a bit, but such is life. Arent frames part of the HTML standard? jhs -- Be gentle with the

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:41:36AM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: [snip] Not part of HTML 1.0 AFAIK, which is all my version of lynx supports. I have to say (without wanting to start a Frame War) that frames greatly reduce the amount of

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread enterfornone
I have to say (without wanting to start a Frame War) that frames greatly reduce the amount of traffic generated. If you have three frames: * main menu * sub menu * document then when selecting a link only the document needs to be updated, speeding up loading and decreasing the traffic

Re: [SLUG] USB Modems.

2001-06-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
Assuming that your modem is supported then you will most likely need to update your kernel. Id be suprised if updated kernels arent available as RPMS but compiling is easy enough even for a newbie. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I am quite new to this group but I am committed to

Re: [SLUG] USB Modems.

2001-06-05 Thread Peter Hardy
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am quite new to this group but I am committed to operating in a Microsoft free environment. I just have a few problems. An admirable goal, indeed. beefy system spec snipped Can I some how use my USB devices through Linux (Red Hat 7.1?) I really need my

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread james
Not part of HTML 1.0 AFAIK, AFAIK sounds slightly rude ;) What is it? As always, with anything Linux, YMMV. Yes Mum, More Vanilla? Someone help me out here? Thanks! (TFTAH). Also, IRAYH, and TARAIJMTU. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

RE: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread Sean Carmody
AFAIK sounds slightly rude ;) What is it? as far as i know As always, with anything Linux, YMMV. your mileage may vary Thanks! (TFTAH). Also, IRAYH, and TARAIJMTU. ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Calling all Regex champions

2001-06-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Steven downing wrote: Having moved all my mp3s, I need to update my XMMS playlists, BUT there are a couple which have been updated already. So, I want to match /usr/local/mp3/whatever BUT NOT /usr/local/mp3/mp3/whatever Yes, I've moved them all from /usr/local/mp3 to /usr/local/mp3/mp3

Re: [SLUG] Proxy blues

2001-06-05 Thread Mike Lake
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:51:43PM +1000, Laurie Savage wrote: I cannot get through the Dept of Education Proxy server with Lynx or Konqueror. The general setting given a school's ID is http://pac.xxx.yyy.zzz.au/schools/schoolid-xyzetc.pac Netscape under Linux can do this. Has anybody any

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-05 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:26:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not part of HTML 1.0 AFAIK, AFAIK sounds slightly rude ;) What is it? As always, with anything Linux, YMMV. Yes Mum, More Vanilla? Someone help me out here? either