Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:35:17PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Simon Wong I was wondering what to remove if I do upgrade. Did you keep a list? I guess I can always just look for ximian packages in dpkg, though. I've done it all in one line: COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | grep

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

quote who=Daniel Stone Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list, get the Ximian list out, and do something like this: COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | grep ximian | cut -f -3 -d ' ' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall I did try that once, but it was more troublesome than just removing all of them and then

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:43:50PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 14:23, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: So, the short version is: please report the bug to the maintainer (via OK, will do. Sometimes I'm not sure whether to report it to Ximian whose Gnome packages I use or the

[SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

I had the chance to use a mate's cable connection the other night and downloaded the latest kernel source. My problem is that he put it on a CDRW disk (using windows) and my system does not even recognist that a disk is inserted. I know it can be read using something like easy CD creator in

Re: [SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

I had the chance to use a mate's cable connection the other night and downloaded the latest kernel source. My problem is that he put it on a CDRW disk (using windows) and my system does not even recognist that a disk is inserted. I know it can be read using something like easy CD creator in

Re: [SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Heracles wrote: put it on a CDRW disk (using windows) and my system does not even recognist that a disk is inserted. I know it can be read using something like easy CD creator in Windows Are you sure? Did you try? If the cd-rom doesnt recognise the media, it could be a

[SLUG] CDRW - Read problem.

The CDRW Disk was easily read in my daughter's Win2k machine. I'll transfer it across the network. Shame my Linux machine wouldn't read it though. It could be my CDROM as it is an old 16 speed Mitsumi. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote: On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 10:38, Daniel Stone wrote: Try CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/orbit-1.0 make. Thanks. I thought that ./configure would work that out but apparently it is having trouble in this pack. Bad voodoo. Get them off. Run, don't walk. I

Re: [SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

quote who=David Kempe I doubt that that will help. Most likely is that its either bad burn, or burnt to fast or wrong mode for your cdrom. In particular I have found the Diamond multimedia 32X CDROM can't read heaps of types of CDRs and CDRWs. You may need to get him to burn it at a lower

[SLUG] Eudora and Linux

Just a quick qustion regarding Eudora. Does anyone know if they still use stock standard mbx format on all their products?? Or are there differences? And if this is the case in theory (or possibly practice) this means Eudora mailboxes would pop straight into a Linux box no hassles?? Dan. --

[SLUG] redhat pop3

what does redhat use for pop3? kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] redhat pop3

* This one time, at band camp, Kevin Waterson said: what does redhat use for pop3? kevin H - Cryptic question. Which version of redhat? POP server or POP client? 6.2 uses (iirc) vpop3d or pop3d depending on your config for its pop server and fetchmail as its default pop client. If

Re: [SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

Heracles was once rumoured to have said: I had the chance to use a mate's cable connection the other night and downloaded the latest kernel source. My problem is that he put it on a CDRW disk (using windows) and my system does not even recognist that a disk is inserted. I know it can be

Re: [SLUG] redhat pop3

Tony Green wrote: * This one time, at band camp, Kevin Waterson said: what does redhat use for pop3? kevin H - Cryptic question. Which version of redhat? POP server or POP client? 6.2 uses (iirc) vpop3d or pop3d depending on your config for its pop server and fetchmail as

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 18:40, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: In this case, I suspect it's the maintainer's problem. As I said, the Well, the maintainer thinks it s a Ximian problem so I'll log it there too :-) -- * * Simon Wong* * * *

RE: [SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

The dye on a cdrw disc is darker than the dye on a normal cdr disc. This is because of how they are able to make them re-writable. The short of it is you get a drive that is capable of reading those disc's and you can use them like a normal cdr. I don't know how drives are nowadays, but a year

[SLUG] Potato - Woody Kernel update problems?

Ok, thought I'd better start a new thread since this is no longer about Ximian packages... When upgrading from Potato to Woody/Sid, how does apt/dpkg deal with the kernel? I know it's 2.4.x there but what happens to any kernel changes you've made? Will they be lost or can the kernel be updated

Re: [SLUG] CDRW - Read problem.

The CDRW Disk was easily read in my daughter's Win2k machine. I'll transfer it across the network. Shame my Linux machine wouldn't read it though. It could be my CDROM as it is an old 16 speed Mitsumi. You should use CD-R next time as it's readable by basically any CD reader. A CD-RW is made

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX: a random walk.

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:43:01PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: I'm trying to understand some of the classier programmes to be found in The LaTeX Companion. Not easy, although it would help if some of them worked when you ran them. P.144, The random walk in PSTricks is what's the matter. Can

Re: [SLUG] Potato - Woody Kernel update problems?

At 12:23 am, Monday, November 19 2001, Simon Wong mumbled: Ok, thought I'd better start a new thread since this is no longer about Ximian packages... Bad voodoo! Bad! When upgrading from Potato to Woody/Sid, how does apt/dpkg deal with the kernel? It doesn't. When upgrading, or

[SLUG] Bios Flashing Problem

Hi Sluggers, I have a Gigabyte motherboard (GA-686BX) - quite old, and I have tried reflashing the bios with an update from the Gigabyte website gigabyte.com.tw .. the Flash update froze half way through and I now can not start my system. Nothing comes up on my monitor either. A few friends

[SLUG] Config'ng /etc/printcap

What non-X tool is there to configure /etc/printcap? I can't think of any. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

[SLUG] Re: Config'ng /etc/printcap

! Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What non-X tool is there to configure /etc/printcap? I can't think of any. magicfilter in debian prompts for some stuff and sets it up for you in a console. there's probably others, MF i've just used before. cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] CDRW - Read problem.

The CDRW Disk was easily read in my daughter's Win2k machine. I'll transfer it across the network. Shame my Linux machine wouldn't read it though. It could be my CDROM as it is an old 16 speed Mitsumi. You should use CD-R next time as it's readable by basically any CD reader. A

[SLUG] Re: Config'ng /etc/printcap

Howard Lowndes wrote: What non-X tool is there to configure /etc/printcap? I can't think of any. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of

Re: Subject: [SLUG] Potato - Woody Kernel update problems?

Put the kernel package on hold, probably wise to do along with all the other thing's you've been locally building. See this post: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2000/October/msg01029.html I don't know about non-existant modules causing a hang, but read- up on debian's way of

Re: [SLUG] Samba - Public Access Share

you can put in an option to force user = nobody from my understanding, everybody who connects to that share, connects as nobody I don't know how this works if you have different security options eg. what would happen under these options ? security = domain security = share security = user

Re: [SLUG] gkrellm

Why not use SNMP with custom scripts for gathering the data? Pete de Zwart Around about 1524h 05/11/2001, George Vieira emitted the following wisdom: What I'd like to do is know how my firewall,mail server,etc are working along after a weekend or a day so it needs to be logged... --

[SLUG] Computerbank Volunteers

Dear List, ComputerBank installed a small network project in the Newtown area for Street kids last Saturday but it still needs to to be finished off. If you could help out, it would be greatly appreciated. regards, -- Richard Hayes Computerbank NSW http://www.cbnsw.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Re: Config'ng /etc/printcap

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: What non-X tool is there to configure /etc/printcap? I can't think of any. apt-get install vim -- Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Mgetty+Sendfax

Hi all, I've been playing around with sendfax, and have come up against a brick wall. What the problem is, I want to be able to send a html fax and can't find anything on how to do that. I have gone this far: pbmtext file file.pbm then pgmtog3 file.pbm file.fax then faxed it. It faxes the source

Re: [SLUG] Bios Flashing Problem

Hi Sluggers, I have a Gigabyte motherboard (GA-686BX) - quite old, and I have tried reflashing the bios with an update from the Gigabyte website gigabyte.com.tw .. the Flash update froze half way through and I now can not start my system. Nothing comes up on my monitor either. :( Where

Re: [SLUG] Config'ng /etc/printcap

This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: What non-X tool is there to configure /etc/printcap? I can't think of any. Er... vi, emacs, cfengine? :) The printcap manpage is pretty clear. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg A journey of a

Re: [SLUG] Samba - Public Access Share

Have tried a few things, including that. I think the problem is not actually with the share, but I seem to get the message when browsing to the Server. It seems to want the password for access to the IPC$ SK Original message from: Christopher Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can put in an option

Re: [SLUG] Mgetty+Sendfax

Scott Ragen was once rumoured to have said: Hi all, I've been playing around with sendfax, and have come up against a brick wall. What the problem is, I want to be able to send a html fax and can't find anything on how to do that. Well, the stages would be: Render HTML to PS. Render PS to

FW: [SLUG] Mgetty+Sendfax

Sorry, but to answer my own question I found a handly little program called htmldoc. http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmldoc/ It converts html source to ps, ps2 etc, and pdf files. Thanks for the reply. Scott -Original Message- From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

Re: [SLUG] Mgetty+Sendfax

quote who=Crossfire Well, the stages would be: Render HTML to PS. Render PS to pbm Convert pbm to group-3 compressed send the group-3 compressed file. The method to acheive this is left as an exercise to the reader. At which point we say, Chris, bet you can't do it in postscript! I

[SLUG] Ixla Camera

Sluggers, The Ixla 640 isn't listed in gPhoto's camera index. Has anyone had any success getting this model to work? Thanks, Nick (I've googled a bit. Now I'm slugging) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Samba - Public Access Share

It seems to want the password for access to the IPC$ Along with the relevant options on the share which you may have already, you need to have security=share only once in the config file. try that and see if it works dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Ixla Camera

Nick Croft wrote: The Ixla 640 isn't listed in gPhoto's camera index. Has anyone had any success getting this model to work? (I've googled a bit. Now I'm slugging) The best place to ask would be on either the gphoto or gphoto-devel mailing list. You should be able to find out how to subscribe

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 10:02:17PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I think I used something like COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ximian | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall which depends on having a newer package versions in the non-ximan packages... if not it gets a bit

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

This one time, at band camp, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 10:02:17PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I think I used something like COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ximian | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall which depends on having a newer package versions in the