Re: [SLUG] Using dpkg-buildpackage

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 2:25 pm, Tuesday, February 11 2003, Michael Lake mumbled: How do I make a deb package from an already configured and linked binary? I dont need signed packages and I dont want a cleaned out tree afterwards so I used dpkg-buildpackage -uc from the man page) I made it from within the vim

[SLUG] DebSIG 12th Feb / IPv6

2003-02-11 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi all, Just a quick reminder that DebSIG is on again for young and old this Wednesday 12th Feb (tomorrow!). Unfortunately the tentative speaker I had arranged is busy so I'll be speaking instead. What with the timely announcement of a $10,000 prize for writing IPv6 related application [1], I'll

[SLUG] Re: [Debian-au] DebSIG 12th Feb / IPv6

2003-02-11 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:44:06PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: Hi all, Just a quick reminder that DebSIG is on again for young and old this Wednesday 12th Feb (tomorrow!). Unfortunately the tentative speaker I had arranged is busy so I'll be speaking instead. What with the timely

Re: [SLUG] Using dpkg-buildpackage

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Lake
Steve Kowalik wrote: At 2:25 pm, Tuesday, February 11 2003, Michael Lake mumbled: How do I make a deb package from an already configured and linked binary? I dont need signed packages and I dont want a cleaned out tree afterwards so I used dpkg-buildpackage -uc from the man page) I

Re: [SLUG] what can you do on 8mb that isn't a firewall

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Lake
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gregory My question is: what stuff (clicky stuff) can I install and have run reasonably in 8mb. Ideally I'd like to have a simple word processor, spreadsheet etc. And what window manager do you run on 8mb? I'm currently thinking window maker. Is

Re: [SLUG] what can you do on 8mb that isn't a firewall

2003-02-11 Thread Ben Leslie
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Michael Lake wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gregory My question is: what stuff (clicky stuff) can I install and have run reasonably in 8mb. Ideally I'd like to have a simple word processor, spreadsheet etc. And what window manager do you run on

[SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Badger
I'm running RH8.0 on an IBM Thinkpad T21. I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works, and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click. Simply exiting X and restarting it makes

Re: [SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:30:08 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works, and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click. Simply exiting X and

Re: [SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Badger
Peter, many thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 23:00, Peter Hardy wrote: Couple of things you can try: When you resume, run xset r to try turning autorepeat back on. The xset manpage will probably also tell you how to change the doubleclick timeout. I can't get this to work

[SLUG] 256-color-friendly gnome2?

2003-02-11 Thread Matthew Davidson
Hi, I'm soon to attempt a small X-terminal installation (1 application server, 4 to 5 workstations), using old 486s as clients. I've become quite a fan of GNOME2, and would like to use it here, but most 486s I come across have are limited to 800x600x256, which causes some truly hideous color

Re: [SLUG] 256-color-friendly gnome2?

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Matthew Davidson Does anyone know of a simple solution to this? Perhaps (wishful thinking) a colorsafe theme exists somewhere? Is there any reason in principle that would prevent me from adjusting all the pixmaps to use the same color palette (apart from the obvious one that it

[SLUG] Linux legal battle ???

2003-02-11 Thread Jon Biddell
May I direct your attention to the following URL; http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?taxid=1284011332id=431700105eid=-50 Has SCO gone over to The Dark Side ? - Tony Blair phones George Bush, and asks What proof do you have that Iraq has weapons of

Re: [SLUG] Linux legal battle ???

2003-02-11 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 12:26 pm, Jon Biddell wrote: May I direct your attention to the following URL; http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?taxid=1284011332id=431700105eid=-50 Has SCO gone over to The Dark Side ? I think it all depends on what they do.

[SLUG] four-port serial board help, please?

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I've an old four-port serial board, labelled T4R-100. I'm trying to use it as a console server for some of the crash'n'burn machines around here. Only problem is, I can't work out how to enable interrupts on the board, or if it has a special AST four-port style register that can be

Re: [SLUG] Linux legal battle ???

2003-02-11 Thread Jon Biddell
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?taxid=1284011332id=431700105eid=-50 Has SCO gone over to The Dark Side ? I think it all depends on what they do. At the moment everyone is panicing over who they've hired, there don't seem to be any details of what patents they think they

Re: [SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Myles Byrne
I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works, and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click. I have exactly the same problem with a thinkpad 600E -- Myles Byrne [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Badger
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:56, Myles Byrne wrote: I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works, and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click. I have exactly the same

Re: [SLUG] Linux legal battle ???

2003-02-11 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 12:54 pm, Jon Biddell wrote: That would be very interesting if, for example, the author is in Russia - lack of jurisdiction hasn't stopped them in the past, though (the Lawyers, I mean - look at the ARIA).. As well as the

Re: [SLUG] report: PDA Palm Zire

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi Graeme, All When I get to the stage of adding a user to the palm, the install-user command is run, it connects and then says Please hit the HotSync button...however the HotSync button was already pressed in order to get it to connect to the interface??? Also I assume that the install-user

Re: [SLUG] report: PDA Palm Zire

2003-02-11 Thread Graeme Robinson
On 12 Feb 2003, Adam Hewitt wrote: Adam, I believe all your questions are answered by the resources at www.jpilot.org and the mail list archives for jpilot: http://www.jpilot.org/lists.html which are searchable via google. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet

Re: [SLUG] Linux legal battle ???

2003-02-11 Thread Jon Biddell
That would be very interesting if, for example, the author is in Russia - lack of jurisdiction hasn't stopped them in the past, though (the Lawyers, I mean - look at the ARIA).. As well as the Sklyarov/Elcomsoft affair. Ah yes, but he made the mistake of ENTERING US territory - true, no

[SLUG] SLUG chat?

2003-02-11 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi there, Just wanna have a short question, I noticed 2 times you guys mentioned about having a subject list to chat. What is that mean? is there any SLUG chat based? kind of IRC thingy? where? Thanks. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] SLUG chat?

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Phillipus Gunawan Just wanna have a short question, I noticed 2 times you guys mentioned about having a subject list to chat. What is that mean? is there any SLUG chat based? kind of IRC thingy? where? It's the 'other' SLUG mailing list for everything that's off-topic on this

Re: [SLUG] SLUG chat?

2003-02-11 Thread Mary
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Hi there, Just wanna have a short question, I noticed 2 times you guys mentioned about having a subject list to chat. What is that mean? is there any SLUG chat based? kind of IRC thingy? where? Jeff mentioned slug-chat, which is a mailing