Re: [SLUG] Linux & Small Business

2002-01-07 Thread Martin Morgan
For database packages: I am told that Clarion works well under linux. It is certainly user friendly to use, although different enough to Access at first glance to make it look painful to an Access programmer. It does have the advantage of being able to produce Mac, win & unix executables for those

Re: [SLUG] Linux & Small Business

2002-01-07 Thread Howard Lowndes
Does anyone use Corel WP these days? On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Christopher Booth wrote: > I was under the impression that most law firms were Word Perfect Stalwarts. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing somethin

Re: [SLUG] OT Linux & Small Business

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Does anyone use Corel WP these days? I know that the commercial suite I work on has put a fair bit of effort into support Corel WP -- it is quite big overseas (for instance Canada I believe). Cheers, Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --

[SLUG] test - please ignore

2002-01-07 Thread Simone Magri
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Re: [SLUG] Re: netscape on sparc (debian)

2002-01-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 11:56, getadog wrote: > Theres lots of other good stuff (which might be in other browsers, too) > like smart bookmarks, I have a smart bookmark for google and the slug > archive, you just type your search string in the toolbar and get your > results. "My Portal" is very ni

Resolved [Was: Re: [SLUG] o/~ Where have all the modules gone? o/~]

2002-01-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 14:32, Craige McWhirter wrote: > Sorry, burst into a little song there. I'm building my umpteenth (count'em) > 2.4.10 +xfs patch kernel on Debian (Potato) DELL GX-Pro machines and all of my > kernel packages appear to be lacking modules, well modules that are picked up by >

Re: [SLUG] Troubles with Tar and backups

2002-01-07 Thread David Fitch
just some ideas for you... On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:50PM +1100, Les Stott wrote: > The variable TAPEDEV is /dev/tape. The variable ERRFILE is > /var/log/backup/backup-err.log.3. so aren't you attempting to backup a changing file? (ie. your error log at least and possibly others under /var/l

Re: [SLUG] Linux & Small Business

2002-01-07 Thread Terry Collins
Christopher Booth wrote: > > I was under the impression that most law firms were Word Perfect Stalwarts. They were, but about 5 years ago, they started faltering and changing. > > Chris > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:02:55 +1100 (EST) > "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's inter

Re: [SLUG] Re {SLUG]Not so Magic TVView and Misc Mouse query and Linux for Lawyers/Lawyers for Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Terry Collins
Raena Lea-Shannon wrote: > > 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: video

[SLUG] INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast .....

2002-01-07 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
HI, I recently installed kernel 2.4.14 on hdb, fixed up a minor LILO problem - and for a while it worked. I was impressed with the boot speed and the wwider number of drivers it had. Yesterday, however, when I tried to boot up it worked until gdm and I received the following messa

Re: [SLUG] INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast .....

2002-01-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:11, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: > "Starting Gnome Display Manager: gdm. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "1" respawning

[SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Paul Copeland
Hello All, I am new to the world of Linux. Prior to Christmas I installed SuSE 7.3 Personal onto my Compaq Pentium III. And since then I have bumbled my way around KDE and the file structure learning my way around. Just after installation I found out my current modem was a winmodem, so I r

Re: [SLUG] INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast .....

2002-01-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
fixing my typo's here: On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:13, Craige McWhirter wrote: > This is usually due to an X configuration issue. Your machine will have > actually booted OK, you just need to wait until it stops trying to > launch GDM (takes a few minutes). You will then have a minutes or two's > t

Re: [SLUG] GnuPG and Evolution

2002-01-07 Thread Malcolm V
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 02:57, Eugene Teo wrote: > 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. Yes,

Re: [SLUG] Re {SLUG]Not so Magic TVView and Misc Mouse query and Linux for Lawyers/Lawyers for Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Raena Lea-Shannon
Terry Collins wrote: > Please post the tuner and bttv settings, as well as the distro and version. Linux Distro - SuSE 7.3 This distro has all the drivers included that are needed for many TV cards. TV Card: Askey/Dynalink TV with FM Tuner Card CPHO51 Settings for YAST2 GUI In Hardware

[SLUG] Freenet 0.4: anyone got it working?

2002-01-07 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Has anyone managed to get Freenet 0.4 working? None of the seed nodes seem to respond. Ever! -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! - Michael Faraday 1791-1867: to Gladstone, when asked about the usefu

Re: [SLUG] GnuPG and Evolution

2002-01-07 Thread Pete Ryland
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:22:39PM +1100, Malcolm V wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 02:57, Eugene Teo wrote: > > You mean this? > > > > gpg: Good signature from "Malcolm Valentine (Spin) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! > > gpg:

Re: [SLUG] GnuPG and Evolution

2002-01-07 Thread Pete Ryland
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:13:52PM +, Pete Ryland wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:22:39PM +1100, Malcolm V wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 02:57, Eugene Teo wrote: > > > You mean this? > > > > > > gpg: Good signature from "Malcolm Valentine (Spin) > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > > gpg: WA

Re: [SLUG] GnuPG and Evolution

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Actually, I decided the other day to prettify my mutt/gpg integration and > came up with the attached file. > > Hope this is useful to someone. That's infinitely better than the default; mind if I add this to my mutt configs on perkypants.org (with credit!)? - Jeff -- "Basically my ph

Re: [SLUG] GnuPG and Evolution

2002-01-07 Thread Malcolm V
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 05:13, Pete Ryland wrote: > I think there was a change recently in mutt's default gpg config (under > debian at least). That could be part of the problem. Pete, I seem to have trouble with your signatures, I think I've tried about five of your posts and only two have return

Re: [SLUG] Troubles with Tar and backups

2002-01-07 Thread Les Stott
- Original Message - From: David Fitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Les Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Troubles with Tar and backups > just some ideas for you... > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:50PM +1100, Les S

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:16, Paul Copeland wrote: > Hello All, > > I am new to the world of Linux. Prior to Christmas I installed SuSE 7.3 > Personal onto my Compaq Pentium III. And since then I have bumbled my > way around KDE and the file structure learning my way around. Just > after ins

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Andre Pang
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:16:04PM +1100, Paul Copeland wrote: > I came back 3 hours later to connect and... nothing. No matter how many > times I fired KInternet no connection. So I changed the 2nd Init String > no difference. I probed the hardware and when probed the modem supplied > a di

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:46:10AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they > work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the people at > http://www.linmodems.org/ Please don't go around promoting OS-dependent hardware :). They may

Re: [SLUG] Linux & Small Business

2002-01-07 Thread Richard Hayes
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:12, you wrote: > Does anyone use Corel WP these days? > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Christopher Booth wrote: > > I was under the impression that most law firms were Word Perfect Yes, I do. I just went back to it in the last few days. I have been with StarOffice / KOffice but th

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 09:50, Andre Pang wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:46:10AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > > > You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they > > work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the people at > > http://www.linmodems.org/ > > Please

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:31:21AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > > > You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they > > > work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the people at > > > http://www.linmodems.org/ > > > > Please don't go around promoting OS-dependent ha

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Paul Copeland
Hello Again All, I can see the modem when this occurs. The data light flashes when I click on the KInternet icon. In YAST2 there is space for three Modem Initialisation Strings. The first two were filled automatically when the modem was detected during set-up. The strings are as follows,

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Crossfire
Simon Wong was once rumoured to have said: > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 09:50, Andre Pang wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:46:10AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > > > > > You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they > > > work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:02:02AM +1100, Paul Copeland wrote: > I can see the modem when this occurs. The data light flashes when I > click on the KInternet icon. In YAST2 there is space for three Modem > Initialisation Strings. The first two were filled automatically when > the modem was

[SLUG] Debian 2.3 Config Documentation

2002-01-07 Thread Richard Luckhurst
Hi list Recently I have been contracted to replace a Win NT server with a new server running Debian 2.2 (the clients choice). This is my first experience with Debian although I have installed plenty of Redhat and SUSE based servers. I have found the lack of documentation about how Debian configu

Re: [SLUG] Newbie and Modem - I need help.

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Massey
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:13:45AM +1100, Crossfire wrote: > Well, ltmodem is purely for the lucent based winmodems. Conexant are > another big manufacturer of winmodems, and their offerings have no > linux support. This isn't entirely true - there are drivers available for Conexant HSF modems

[SLUG] Modem working

2002-01-07 Thread Paul Copeland
Thanks to all responders, especially Andre Pang. Those simple strings seemed to work, and this message has been sent using KMail. Thanks again for the help. Regards Paul Copeland -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo

Re: [SLUG] Debian 2.3 Config Documentation

2002-01-07 Thread chesty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:01:54PM +1100, Richard Luckhurst wrote: > Recently I have been contracted to replace a Win NT server with a > new server running Debian 2.2 (the clients choice). The client is always right. 2.2 or 2.3, both good choices :) > This is my first > experience with Debian a

Re: [SLUG] GnuPG and Evolution

2002-01-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Malcolm V wrote: >On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 05:13, Pete Ryland wrote: >> I think there was a change recently in mutt's default gpg config (under >> debian at least). That could be part of the problem. > >Pete, I seem to have trouble with your signatures, I think I've trie

[SLUG] Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke McKee
Hey Slugsters, I'm trying to get large file support into TAR and my ftpd for backup purposes. I hate it how tar and ftp and every bloody other linux process doesn't support 2 GB files on 32 bit systems. Being ignorant of this, at one stage greatly affected my job security :_) I've been a nice re

Re: [SLUG] Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread chesty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:20:20PM +1100, Luke McKee wrote: > Has anyone had any success with this or do I have to reconfigure a new > c-library form source? What patches should I get to (like gcc3 and so on) if > I need to do this. woody should have LFS already built in, perhaps you need kernel

Re: [SLUG] Debian 2.3 Config Documentation

2002-01-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Richard Luckhurst wrote: > Recently I have been contracted to replace a Win NT server with a > new server running Debian 2.2 (the clients choice). This is my first > experience with Debian although I have installed plenty of Redhat > and SUSE based servers. I have found the l

RE: [SLUG] Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke McKee
Steve, Dd is raw device io as apposed to file IO. Recent ext2&3 drivers have LFS support equal to ReiserFS. I'm appealing to local debian / Linux users to let me know if debian woody (November images planetmirror.com) supports LFS without recompiling libc. If not I have to recompile glibc, what

Re: [SLUG] Modem working

2002-01-07 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:28, Paul Copeland wrote: > Thanks to all responders, especially Andre Pang. Those simple strings seemed > to work, and this message has been sent using KMail. Thanks again for the > help. Good news :-) I've been through plenty of trials this year learning Linux after

[SLUG] RE: Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke McKee
Hey again, Maybe I shouldn't comfuzzle people. I did chesty's test (thanks man) and the FS supports larger than 2 gig files. The problem is many applications, such as wu-ftpd that comes with Debian Woody couldn't access past 2 gigs of large file I made with dd. The _LFS_STDIO macro mentioned in

Re: [SLUG] Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Crossfire
Luke McKee was once rumoured to have said: > Dd is raw device io as apposed to file IO. Get off the crack - if dd is sourcing from a file, or writing to a file, that is going through the FS layer and is not "raw device io" at all. C. -- --==-- Cross

RE: [SLUG] Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke McKee
Oh Crossie your so lovely. Fond memories of last time you flamed me on the list come rushing back. I estimated before that Steven Evans was talking about writing to a blovk device special file.. WHICH IS NOT FILE IO. Dd tends to be used for that a lot doesn't it? If you read my most recent post

RE: [SLUG] Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke McKee
Oopsies I made a mistake this time :_) Congratulates :-) Thanks for keeping me on my tippie toes when it comes to making posts from now on. Cheers, Luke -Original Message- From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 3:05 PM To: Luke McKee Subject: Re: [

[SLUG] analysing ftp logs

2002-01-07 Thread S
Hi m/c: RH 7.2, log file: /var/log/xferlog., running ftp server. Qs: 1. How do you know somebody's download has finished? -- Does the 'c or i' at the endof each entry indicate this? 2. How much time the client took to download this file? 3. How many paralel connections had he opened? 4. wha

Re: [SLUG] analysing ftp logs

2002-01-07 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:42:00PM -0500, S wrote: > 1. How do you know somebody's download has finished? > -- Does the 'c or i' at the endof each entry indicate this? Yes: c - complete, i - incomplete > 2. How much time the client took to download this file? The figure after the date is the

Re: [SLUG] analysing ftp logs

2002-01-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, S wrote: >X-Questoin: 'Is there a limit to the number of headers' No. >1. How do you know somebody's download has finished? > -- Does the 'c or i' at the endof each entry indicate this? > 2. How much time the client took to download this file? > > 3. How many paralel

[SLUG] linux vacancies in indonesia

2002-01-07 Thread Wishnu Brata
for linux opps in indonesia pls find at www.trabas.com __ For P.Y. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Large File support made simple?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke McKee
Hey Slugsters & Wu-ftpd list members, I solved my problem writing to large files with the minimum of fuss. Instead of hacking my libc6 to make stdio functions 64 bit by default, I made a small script to patch the latest wu-ftpd source to use 64 bit functions instead of the normal ones. Hey maybe