Re: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

2002-01-14 Thread Jim Clark
I am setting up a Linux firewall for our small network (10 Hosts). We currently have a Telstra ADSL connection, (1.5Mbps 500MB allow usage @ $130 pm). However I want a static IP address and they seem pretty anal about handing them out. There are alternatives to telstra. I went with

RE: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

2002-01-14 Thread Stephan Borg
Ok, ok, ok - I'll admit it - I'm with Telstra . . . But, in my defense, let me say this: (1) I shopped around before I joined, and I tried Optus, AAPT and PacNet - and no one unfortunately, could give me better than 512k/64k, 3Gb/mnth for $105. (2) Sss - I use dynamic DNS to get around the

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 08:56, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: subscribe linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] That won't work. It will still test the address and reject it. Buy an email address from someone like spamcop.net and subscribe from there. Has the added bonus of filtering the crap out as

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla Spell Check

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:46, Paul Copeland wrote: Hi All, The other night I downloaded Mozilla 0.9.7. I went for the typical install with just Navigator, Mail and News. I have found, however, that there does not seem to be a spell checker for out going e-mails. Is this the case for the

RE: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

2002-01-14 Thread George Vieira
I'm on the same for $84 because my line is with telstra.. so... -Original Message- From: Stephan Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 14 January 2002 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS Ok, ok, ok - I'll admit it - I'm with Telstra .

Re: Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...)

2002-01-14 Thread Francis Smit
Peter Hardy wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:25, George Vieira wrote: I'm thinking of making my own windows version for Linux.. called Windows Xtinct... Using Gnome and patch up the icons to look like windows enough to fool the Boss. You could do that, but the screenshots at http://qvwm.org

Re: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Biddell
At 13:20 14/01/02 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Australia and this is my first post to SLUG. I am setting up a Linux firewall for our small network (10 Hosts). We currently have a Telstra ADSL connection, (1.5Mbps 500MB allow

Re: [SLUG] DSL vs Cable security

2002-01-14 Thread Grant Parnell
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dennis M. Gray wrote: A friend in the USA has been told that DSL is more secure than cable modem. Are there anything to back up this claim? All opinions solicited. Probably for Windows users. ADSL gives you a dedicated line to the exchange. Cable is shared with your

Re: [SLUG] Linux and the Next Generation

2002-01-14 Thread Grant Parnell
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Broun, Bevan wrote: on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:17:17PM +1100, Paul Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well there are now Linux stickers around my classroom and one machine will be a dual OS machine with Windows 98 and SuSE 7.3. The test will I think it might be

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

2002-01-14 Thread Grant Parnell
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: It could be that it is bacause I am booting from 2.2r2 - the 2.2.19 kernel which does not support UDMA100 or Ultra100 TX2 controllers, unlike the 2.4.14 kernel on the machine, which is malfunctioning. Lastly, this may not be a purely Debian

[SLUG] Re: Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 25th January, 2002

2002-01-14 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 25th January, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 9pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml The Usual Suspects - 6:30pm * QA - What has Linux done

[SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-14 Thread lukekendall
One of the many things I have on my list of `Things To Have A Go At One Day', is to read carefully through the X manuals and see if there's a way to provide keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-X, Alt-C, Alt-V) as keyboard shortcuts for Cut, Copy, Paste. Is that an impossible dream? luke -- SLUG -

RE: [SLUG] RAID1 system boot problem after new kernel compile

2002-01-14 Thread George Vieira
yeah I've done this and it still fails.. tested at 5PM today.. People say the RAID must be in the kernel and not a module but mkinitrd complains it need RAID1 which I assume it needs them as modules because it doesn't complain when I do... but also doesn't boot up.. from the LILO prompt is there

[SLUG] Execute problem with Wordperfect Office 2000

2002-01-14 Thread Heracles
Hi All, After installing WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux with only one small glitch in that the font server did not recognise glibc-2.2 and was looking for 2.1 I cannot get it to start any of its parts. Corel Photopaint (which also uses wine for some of its operations) starts fine, so I

Re: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 22:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the many things I have on my list of `Things To Have A Go At One Day', is to read carefully through the X manuals and see if there's a way to provide keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-X, Alt-C, Alt-V) as keyboard shortcuts for Cut, Copy,

[SLUG] VNC like it does in Windows

2002-01-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This Linux Journal article describes running VNC as the primary interface for you machines, allowing you to see the same, persistent desktop from any machine. The downside is that even at the console you don't get the advantages of accelleration and the like, making it sucky for games and video

Re: [SLUG] VNC like it does in Windows

2002-01-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Tue 15 Jan, Robert Reid made the following spurious claims: Try having a look at x0rfbserver. I haven't used it myself, but I think it is an alternative VNC server using the existing framebuffer rather than a new virtual one, which I think is what you're after.

RE: [SLUG] VNC like it does in Windows

2002-01-14 Thread Chris Barnes
While were on the topic of VNC, I found that on my Red Hat 7.0 system I am able to use VNC fine with KDE, or Gnome, or any other window manager, but when I tried to use VNC on my Red Hat 7.1 system (with the new XFree86 (version 4 I think), and the new KDE (version 2 I think)), I found that I

RE: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-14 Thread Chris Barnes
Your right they do implement cut and paste, but it still bugs me that if I was to cut or copy something from Licq, I cant paste it into Mozilla That goes with a lot of apps I use in gnome or kde...the clipboard isn't properly shared among all apps. -- -Original Message- From: Ken

RE: [SLUG] RAID1 system boot problem after new kernel compile

2002-01-14 Thread George Vieira
WhhoooO! That was the problem, I don't need to add the line for initrd in lilo.conf argh, for so long I've been trying to figure out what was going on.. thanks peeps. George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original

Re: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
copy and paste are catered for nicely by your middle mouse button which imo is much more eligant than select-ctrlc-click-ctrlp i can only begin to express my frustration when i try the same in windows ;) Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the many things I have on my list of `Things To

Re: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
as i mentioned select the text then middle click into your target text widget never leave home without it Dean Chris Barnes wrote: Your right they do implement cut and paste, but it still bugs me that if I was to cut or copy something from Licq, I cant paste it into Mozilla That goes

Re: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

2002-01-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jon Biddell wrote: I am new to Australia and this is my first post to SLUG. I am setting up a Linux firewall for our small network (10 Hosts). We currently have a Telstra ADSL connection, (1.5Mbps 500MB allow usage @ $130 pm). However I want a static

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem

2002-01-14 Thread Jeff Ai
I gave up on RH last night, turned to Mandrake 8.1 all worked fine with just one boot diskette. I am wondering could it bea problem with the RH pcmciadd.img? anyway, thanks for your help. Jeff My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own!

[SLUG] Rsync /dev

2002-01-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
Can anyone advise me whether rsync can sync devices as opposed to filesystems. I have a set of disk partitions that contain a foreign file system not listed in fdisk and I would like to sync them so I need to do something like: rsync /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 where both hda1 and hdc1 will be

[SLUG] Bash Scripting Stops

2002-01-14 Thread Stephan Borg
Howdy all, This one if for you dedicated bash scripters. I have a script, which I am happy to send to you off-list, which basically waits for flag-files (using touch) and do actions and exec programs. Anyway, this all works perfectly for up to 7 days, when eventually it just stops. I run the

[SLUG] Enlightenment Themes

2002-01-14 Thread Daniel Harper
Anyone out there had any experience writing Enlightenment themes?? Know of any docs or resources? Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Marketing and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, New South Wales, 2022. Australia Phone: 02

[SLUG] Telstra Megalink

2002-01-14 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
Hello Slugers, We have to setup a connection to the megalink service for a customer from a linux box. Telstra does not have a lot of information about what you gonna have when you take the service, so maybe someone of you knows more than them about it. Here is what i understand from this

[SLUG] The Lastest in Licencing from Borland

2002-01-14 Thread Rick Welykochy
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/369 12. AUDIT. During the term of this License and for one (1) year thereafter, upon reasonable notice and during normal business hours, Borland or its outside auditors will have the right to enter your premises and access your

Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment Themes

2002-01-14 Thread Dane
http://e.themes.org is generally a good place to start. You should find both docs and resources there. -Dane On 0, Daniel Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there had any experience writing Enlightenment themes?? Know of any docs or resources? Regards, Daniel Harper UMR

RE: [SLUG] Enlightenment Themes

2002-01-14 Thread Daniel Harper
I have found that site to be very confusing, and lacking in any worthwhile content, except a couple of themes -Original Message- From: Dane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 1:23 PM To: Daniel Harper Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment Themes

Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment Themes

2002-01-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
themes.org seems to have merged into one archive and in the process dropped all its old content Dean Daniel Harper wrote: I have found that site to be very confusing, and lacking in any worthwhile content, except a couple of themes -Original Message- From: Dane [mailto:[EMAIL

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

2002-01-14 Thread Andrew Shipton
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:49:26PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: --- 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 --- which implies that '/sbin/getty 38400 tty1' is causing the error. OK, there's a start. If

[SLUG] PPPD and C source

2002-01-14 Thread George Vieira
HI, I'm now doing mission impossible and trying to work out the source code to PPTPD server. I was hoping that I could find where it forks off a PPPD process and as hoping I can get the PPP device it used and add something to the /var/rub/ppp0.pid file YEAH RIGHT!!! Anybody familiar with

[SLUG] MOSIX Clustering

2002-01-14 Thread Stephan Borg
Have any SLUGGERs had any experiences with MOSIX clustering. http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/ I have been asked to give it a try and would like to see what I'm getting myself into . . . :) Regards, Stephan http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] MOSIX Clustering

2002-01-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Stephan Borg Have any SLUGGERs had any experiences with MOSIX clustering. Yeah, I was going to do a talk on this at SLUG a while ago, but everyone wanted something else... kernel? I think that was it. MOSIX is wy cool, and lots of fun to play with. Migrate processes across

[SLUG] winzip password recovery?

2002-01-14 Thread marc lipovsky
how can i crack password protected zip file with out having to use a program that searches all the different words? marc

RE: [SLUG] MOSIX Clustering

2002-01-14 Thread George Vieira
Does it works with Apache and MySQL transparently? I heard some apps needed to be cluster aware and so on... thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [SLUG] PPPD and C source

2002-01-14 Thread Tony
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:32:23 +1100 George Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I'm now doing mission impossible and trying to work out the source code to PPTPD server. I was hoping that I could find where it forks off a PPPD process and as hoping I can get the PPP device it used and add

Re: [SLUG] winzip password recovery?

2002-01-14 Thread Zhasper
Find a way to reverse the algorithm used to encrypt the password - for instance, if the passwords are encrypted ROT13, all you need do is a second ROT13 and you'll have the password If they're ecnrypted with a simple XOR, its harder... if they're hashed with MD5 it's (hopefully)

Re: [SLUG] Bash Scripting Stops

2002-01-14 Thread Pete Ryland
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:23:53AM +1100, Stephan Borg wrote: Howdy all, This one if for you dedicated bash scripters. I have a script, which I am happy to send to you off-list, which basically waits for flag-files (using touch) and do actions and exec programs. Anyway, this all works

Re: [SLUG] winzip password recovery?

2002-01-14 Thread root
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:12:19PM +1100, Zhasper wrote: /me racks brains... From memory, the PKZIP program used a fairly simple LFSR-based encrpyption, which is fairly easy to crack, but I don't know details off hand.. That might have been the case for the version one revisions, but when

[SLUG] RPM

2002-01-14 Thread Chris Rennie
Hi I have a query about RedHat's Errata site. For each erratum there are typically several architectures listed and several files within each architecture. I am running an i686 machine (as reported by uname -a), so to update glibc I downloaded glibc-2.2.4-19.3.i686.rpm which was the only

RE: [SLUG] MOSIX Clustering

2002-01-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, George Vieira wrote: Does it works with Apache and MySQL transparently? I heard some apps needed to be cluster aware and so on... Not 'cluster aware' in the same sense as a PVM application needs to be. MOSIX migrates processes across machines. Therefore, if your

Re: [SLUG] PPPD and C source

2002-01-14 Thread Paul Cameron
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:09:03PM +0900, Tony wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:32:23 +1100 George Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I'm now doing mission impossible and trying to work out the source code to PPTPD server. I was hoping that I could find where it forks off a PPPD