Steve,
Sorry. MYOB permier version 5 is latest.. I was thinking of their other
dummed down product. MYOB Accounting that's version 11 now.
God we shouldn't be talking about commercial products on the list I know.
More to the point commercial applications that access databases over SMB
shouldn't
Steven,
Just the be more precise.
NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
They code it in NetBIOS so it works over IPX, TCP/IP, NETBEUI whatever crap
is laying around. Hey isn't that a really old version of MYOB you have
there?.. I think I've found another excuse for you to pay money? Commercial
non-plug...
Luke
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The workstations use MYOB Premier 5.0.2 (atleast, they get update
notices via email and download the patches over the web).
The workstations have been told to use TCP/IP as the communications
method.
Not enough money, sorry, maybe these features/b
Terry Collins wrote:
>
> Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I tried NTSC no luck. I should also say I get a pop up error message as
> > follows
> > Errors
> > v41:timeout (got sigalarm), hardware/driver problems?
> > ioctf: videocsync(0): interrupted system call
> > ioctf: vid
>Very unstable format to store data, imho.
No it's commercial marketing. They want you to buy the commercial Premiere
edition where only one user locks the file and shares it through a
proprietary NETBIOS protocol? So how much money have you got to solve this
problem?
This is not a plug for MYO
Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
>
> Thanks.
>
> Stephan Borg wrote:
> >
> > Yeah - sorry, I would have been more detailed in my response.
> >
> > I also saw another post on slug about using 'sax2' - if your running
> > Xwindows, that's probably an easier solution. But both ways should work.
> >
> > Fee
Terry Collins wrote:
>
> Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I tried NTSC no luck. I should also say I get a pop up error message as
> > follows
> > Errors
> > v41:timeout (got sigalarm), hardware/driver problems?
> > ioctf: videocsync(0): interrupted system call
> > ioctf: vid
SO 6 beta is great from what I've used it for, there is now no SO desktop or EMail
features, but the Microsoft Word compatability is more fine tuned.
I would most definitely recommend it.
I am unaware of any good accounting packages for Linux yet, or DataBase packages as
user friendly (albeit c
Christopher Booth wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that most law firms were Word Perfect Stalwarts.
In my experience they/we mostly use MS Word (Office 97 version mostly).
I use SO at home and swap files with work. I have not tried SO 6 yet but
if what someone else posted is true then it is
Hi all,
Is it safe to upgrade only the kernel only and not what RedHat suggest.. ie
headers,SysVinit etc.etc..??
I am running 2.4.2-12 and want to move off it beause of the IPTABLES
problems and my Tar.gz of 2.4.16 isn't working due to some sort of root=
lilo problem..
will a
rpm -Uvh kernel-2
> I don't know of anyone who has the complete archives. I started keeping
> some messages in 1998, but No, I'm not making them available for download
> as I can see no good reason for it when there are two on-line searchable
> sources available.
If you have mboxes of your archives, can we arran
> I just wish it would display the hostname, so you can use it as a network
> wide system monitor utility.
Someone actually suggested making it a remote monitor so that it could monitor
different machines on the network. Displaying the hostname could be tricky in that
small window but m
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> Samba 2.0.7 patched - File server is PCD, DNS2, WINS and
Which patches have you installed? ie did you install a pam patch or
something different?
> dhcp.(will be going over to 2.2.2 soon - some nice things there).
yeah, hopefully v3 will come o
> I'm also intending to try the latest version of mozilla - the
> one in debian potato seems fairly out of date now, maybe it's
> got better since then (hopefully!).
The latest Mozilla will always be superior to the latest Netscape. Netscape
is just an old Mozilla build with a bunch of AOL stuff
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:49:16AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> ask netscape.com - its proprietary software, remember?
yeah just wondered if anyone knew why they haven't done one
though, the last sparc linux seems to be for a 2.0 kernel.
I've downloaded the netscape 6.2 (or 6.2.1 or something) sou
>> I have a friend who is a Sydney QC and would like to get his practice off
>> M$, but his main arguement is that all his business associates who deal
>> with him want to transfer material in M$ Office. Yes, I know that SO with
>> do M$ Office, but it is not native.
> Honestly with V6 the diffe
At 11:11 am, Monday, January 7 2002, Alister Waller mumbled:
> problem I have is when the internet is not up (phone line has dropped etc)
> and one of the remote users dials in then that user is given ppp0 for
> themselves and then the dialup for the internet wont work as it has to use
> ppp1 or
Hello All,
I am having troubles with a tar backup that i created. My system is Red Hat
7.2, kernel version 2.4.3-12. My machine is a samba server, has a DDS4 tape
drive and has a 36gb hard disk. Currently though it has only used 17gb.
The variable TAPEDEV is /dev/tape. The variable ERRFILE is
/va
I was under the impression that most law firms were Word Perfect Stalwarts.
Chris
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:02:55 +1100 (EST)
"Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's interesting that you say you are a lawyer and hence I assume that you
> use Linux/SO/etc in your practice.
>
> I have a f
Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
>
> Thanks.
>
> I tried NTSC no luck. I should also say I get a pop up error message as
> follows
> Errors
> v41:timeout (got sigalarm), hardware/driver problems?
> ioctf: videocsync(0): interrupted system call
> ioctf: videocmcapture (0,fmt=4,size=48x32) :Device o
hallo,
i was procrastinating the other day, and decided to turn my Caps
Lock key into a Ctrl key. whoop-de-doo, you say, everybody's
done that.
well, here's a better solution: make your Caps Lock key _and_
your Ctrl key map to Ctrl. make your right Windows key into a
Caps Lock. this way, you
Minh Van Le wrote:
> I see it. My mistake. I think I mislead myself with the 54mb file
> @http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug.mbox/ as I expected the SLUG archive to be
> much bigger because SLUG was established since 1993.
I don't know of anyone who has the complete archives. I started keepi
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:31:38PM +1030, David Fitch wrote:
> h, so why not?
> got mozilla but not really that impressed with it.
Then try galeon, I think its basically a different front end to mozilla.
One of the reasons I switched to galeon was its tabs, at the time mozilla
didn't have tha
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:26:31PM +1030, David Fitch wrote:
> ok... I've googled and found lots of people with the same
> problem but nowhere found the answer...
>
> Trying to install debian (sparc non-us disk one) 2.2r4 on a sparc5,
> I can't boot the cd - I get:
>
> bad magic number in disk l
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> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:15:50PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> > netscape doesn't exist for sparc-(glibc-version) ?
> > try mozilla or something instead.
>
> h, so why not?
> got mozilla but not really that impressed with it.
ask netscape.com - its proprietary software,
Its Ok, I have sorted it out.
cheers
alister
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Alister Waller
> Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 9:57 AM
> To: Slug
> Subject: [SLUG] PPP question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linux Box (redhat 7.1) that is use
Found this on ZDNet - and thought it worth posting...
Check the warnings at the end!
Speed up your hard drive
Many Linux distributions are installed in such a way that the 32-bit
input/output (I/O) and DMA capabilities of today's UltraATA/66 hard drives
are not fully exploited. By reconfigur
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 17:07, Mike Holland wrote:
> Is the partition mounted with the no-suid option?
This was the problem (see my prev? email).
Thanks.
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Hello all,
We here at work have come up with an idea of connecting a heap of PDA
devices we were going to throw away to our system via PDA - GSM modem using
ssh.
We are in 'idea speculation' mode at the moment, and trying to make a
working prototype before showing management (of which they will ba
Hi,
I have a Linux Box (redhat 7.1) that is used as a dialup server to the
internet and also has a couple of remote users dialing into it.
problem I have is when the internet is not up (phone line has dropped etc)
and one of the remote users dials in then that user is given ppp0 for
themselves a
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> My perception of Linux and small business is that it works too damned
> well.
That's the problem with any computing technology - or anything, for that
matter.
If it works too well, it fails to make the consciousness. When it does fall
over, it's a ca
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Stephan Borg wrote:
> (1) Linux is Free, we all know that and who better to benefit from it
> than Small Businesses.
> Unfortunately, there are a couple of points which work against this
> 'marriage made in OpenSourcedem':
> (a) Your average Joe Business Owner most probably ha
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Stephan Borg wrote:
> I think the point I was trying to make in my original post (don't you
> love it) now that I look at it, is:
>
> How can you bring Linux to the attention of Joe 'SME' User?
I don't. They say 'I want to do foo' and I say 'here is box that does foo'.
It
This one time, at band camp, Heracles wrote:
>Unfortunately for most of us, those with the "Secret knowledge of
>the Debian" prefer to keep it hidden as much as possible, only
>occasionally passing on the crumbs to accolites. They prefer to
>refer to the FM. Thankfully as there are so many manu
You mean this?
gpg: Good signature from "Malcolm Valentine (Spin)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
owner.
Eugene
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I've only just starting using gpg. Initially I was using gpg version
1.0.4 and downloading peoples public keys from wwwkeys.pgp.net ,
Evolution seemed to handle this alright, verifying that various pgp
signatures were good, but untrusted. I downloaded the 1.0.6 version as a
Mandrake 8.1 rpm and th
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 23:51, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
[...snipped...]
> Yes but also inexpensively and permanently.
[...snipped...]
> And once it is in they do not have to touch it. They will want it on their
Linux and the apps that run on it are not perfect. Monitoring and
patching will still be
Steven Evans wrote:
> Could you make the reply to this post public for all of us to see.
>
> All the research done on this topic on google comes up with one response:
> myob has left a bug in their product to stop multiple users (1 is ok, 1 > is
> bad and reduce to crawl) from using linux as th
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Yeah I noticed. But the mboxes are only for the current month. I suspect they
> > get converted by MHonArc every month, which is a hassle to search. Does it pose
> > too much of a space burden on the SLUG server to store mbox'd archives for each
> > month ?
>
> The mbox
Grant Parnell wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Michael Sztachanski wrote:
>
>
>> FYI,
>>
>> an running MYOB Premier 4.5+ at a clients premises. The Head Office
>> (Syd) has 5 accounts people, with another 2 connect via VPN from Melb.,
>> with another 2 from Qld via VPN as well.
>>
>> Clients ar
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 00:02, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> I have a friend who is a Sydney QC and would like to get his practice off
> M$, but his main arguement is that all his business associates who deal
> with him want to transfer material in M$ Office. Yes, I know that SO with
> do M$ Office, b
>
> *Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old
> regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would
> prosper under the new. Their support is indifferent partly from fear and
> partly because they are generally incredulous, never really trusting new
> t
It's interesting that you say you are a lawyer and hence I assume that you
use Linux/SO/etc in your practice.
I have a friend who is a Sydney QC and would like to get his practice off
M$, but his main arguement is that all his business associates who deal
with him want to transfer material in M$
Having picked this thread up on the digest I apolgise for only replying
to the list.
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux & Small Business
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:36:26 +1100
> From: "Stephan Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Osgiliath Pty Ltd
> To: "'Howard Lowndes'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:15:50PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> netscape doesn't exist for sparc-(glibc-version) ?
> try mozilla or something instead.
h, so why not?
got mozilla but not really that impressed with it.
Ta,
Dave.
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Thanks again Jeff,
This time for the tip on tagging. I've got lots of reading to do yet.
N
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> ok it's got me! how do you find/install netscape for sparc (debian
> potato but also woody)?
> I can see all the java and spelling etc pkgs but not the one with
> the actual executable!
netscape doesn't exist for sparc-(glibc-version) ?
try mozilla or something instead.
Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sed is no good for multiple line work. you can do it, but its just silly:
> uniq | sed -ne
>'s/^\([^,]*,\)\{2\}\([^,]*\)$/\2/;h;n;s/^\([^,]*,\)\{7\}\([^,]*,[^,]*\),.*$/,\2/;H;x;s/\\
> //p'
Try
uniq | paste -d , - - | cut -d , -f x,y
The values of x and
> All the burners worked fine on Linux, and the burn-proof feature worked
> too. However they continually said this burn-proof was not necessary
> under linux anyway.
What is this burn-proof stuff?
> No mention of some burners that are very common here, espec no mention of
> Sony. I have jus
At 09:02 AM 29/12/01 +1100, you wrote:
fdsfsad
Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just a quick note. I recently read that MMC (MultiMedia Command set)
>compliant CD writers all work perfectly under Linux (but it's hard to
>find out if a model is MMC compliant).
>
>Newer ones tend to be. Well, The
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:24:56AM +1100, Doug Foskey wrote:
> My question for others,
> however is: Who in the major providers, will do DOV, as when I spoke
> to them, no-one knew anything about it. (The small providers are too
> expensive usually).
http://www.traverse.com.au/Australia/html/isp
> How can you bring Linux to the attention of Joe 'SME' User?
Find a problem, solve it.
You have to remember that to an anal-retentive small business manager,
blippity-whizz-bang-digi-bl0rken-splort doesn't matter. You don't need to
bring Linux to their attention - bring stuff that fixes their
Ooooh, but there are so few . . .
I think the point I was trying to make in my original post (don't you
love it) now that I look at it, is:
How can you bring Linux to the attention of Joe 'SME' User?
Stephan
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> O
I'll agree with that statement. I have a large client who is very
pro-Linux; so much so that he went and did the course. He still doesn't
know a great deal about Linux, but he does know about the bottom line, and
that makes him a happy client.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> Note: "S
...and in most cases they don't have anyone who knows about Windows
either.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Stephan Borg wrote:
> It's a lot easier to go to your local computer shop and get
> support for the majority of applications on a Windows box than to go
> look for someone with StarOffice or Pos
My perception of Linux and small business is that it works too damned
well.
If you put a Linux box into an SME, and you have done your bit correctly
then it will just hum along and not bother anyone. That cannot be said
for the dark side. I am always convinced that one problem with M$ servers
i
You don't say where you are but have you looked at Telstra Wide area
charging zones.
I got untimed STD foa a client between Rutherglan and Albury (about 40+km)
on their <50km wide area plan.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Doug Foskey wrote:
> I am a country user. I approached Telstra re ISDN, but un
Bernhard Lüder wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need to convert 2 lines of data to one.
>
>This is the data I can extract from the data base:
>FIXEDdata1,Flexibledata1,Neededdata1
>FIXEDdata1,Flexibledata2,Flexibledata3,Flexibledata4,Flexibledata5,Flexibled
>ata6,Flexibledata7,Neededdata2,Neededdata3,Flexibledat
> > I think this is pretty far from the truth nowadays. Small business
> > people who know bits and pieces about computers and are investigating
> > technology definitely know about Linux. To a lesser extent "Open
> > Source", and to a far lesser extent, "Free Software". It's just been too
> > a
> Wish there was a how-to for the long-time Pine user moving to Mutt!
> I just love the technicolour.
You can use the pine-like muttrc file that (I think) comes with mutt, it's
certainly in the Debian packages.
> Question: How to do bulk actions, as in Pine, where you use the `;' key,
> then
> -Original Message-
> On Behalf Of Jeff Waugh
> Sent: Sunday, 6 January 2002 8:02 PM
>
> > (a) Your average Joe Business Owner most probably has never
> heard of
> > it before and/or doesn't even know Linux/OpenSource exists.
>
> I think this is pretty far from the truth nowadays. Sma
Thanks.
I tried NTSC no luck. I should also say I get a pop up error message as
follows
Errors
v41:timeout (got sigalarm), hardware/driver problems?
ioctf: videocsync(0): interrupted system call
ioctf: videocmcapture (0,fmt=4,size=48x32) :Device or resource busy
ioctf: videocmcapture (0,fm
Dear Sluggers,
Wish there was a how-to for the long-time Pine user moving to Mutt!
I just love the technicolour.
Question: How to do bulk actions, as in Pine, where you use the `;' key,
then select a range of message numbers, then `a' to apply a command to the lot?
E.g. I sort my mail spool by
On Sunday 06 January 2002 19:46, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> > Stephan Borg wrote:
> > Ok, I think I can help on items 2 & 3.
> >
> > (2)
> > The mouse config, under Redhat (and hopefully) Suse is
> > /etc/sysconfig/mouse. In there, you should find a line and
> > change it to: XEMU3=yes
Assuming
Andre Pang wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:46:14PM +1100, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
>
> > > Would anyone like me to keep you posted on progress? If there is enough
> > > interest I might just post progress to Grrltalk.
>
> Please keep me posted of your progress. I'm no lawyer (nor even
>
> Ok, let me try again - are you using X-Windows?
Yikes, everyone, snippage!
- Jeff
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> (a) Your average Joe Business Owner most probably has never heard of it
> before and/or doesn't even know Linux/OpenSource exists.
I think this is pretty far from the truth nowadays. Small business people
who know bits and pieces about computers and are investigating technology
definitely kno
Ok, let me try again - are you using X-Windows?
If so, in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, you should find a line in the
'Section "Pointer"':
Emulate3Buttons
I would say, just make sure its in there and not commented out.
Stephan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
Hello all,
Two opinions that I would like to share with you and get some feedback.
(1) Linux is Free, we all know that and who better to benefit from it
than Small Businesses.
Unfortunately, there are a couple of points which work against this
'marriage made in OpenSourcedem':
(a) Your average
> Yeah I noticed. But the mboxes are only for the current month. I suspect they
> get converted by MHonArc every month, which is a hassle to search. Does it pose
> too much of a space burden on the SLUG server to store mbox'd archives for each
> month ?
The mboxes contain the entire archive of
Stephan Borg wrote:
>
> Ok, I think I can help on items 2 & 3.
>
> (2)
> The mouse config, under Redhat (and hopefully) Suse is
> /etc/sysconfig/mouse. In there, you should find a line and change it to:
> XEMU3=yes
>
> I would assume, you'll need to restart the gpm server (/etc/init.d/gpm
> res
Hello too,
There is also the view looking at what the proprietry system has done to
software development.
ie., If all source code is kept closed then only the proprietry owners
access and evolve that app or whatever it may be. Talented willing
hackers get no chance to improve on it - oportunity
ok it's got me! how do you find/install netscape for sparc (debian
potato but also woody)?
I can see all the java and spelling etc pkgs but not the one with
the actual executable!
Dave.
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Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Is there a downloadable version of the SLUG archives ? Perhaps a *.tgz of
> > raw mbox format for each month ? as some people would rather have the
> > archives stored on a LAN and run searches using their native email
> > clients. This would save time performing live s
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