Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-10 Thread Chris Barnes
Now i'm starting to wander if this is a really crap release of Debian. I am getting "E: Sorry, broken packages" errors all other the place, no matter what I try to do! I did what Crossfire suggested: apt-get install binutils gcc cpp make libc6-dev but now i get this: Sorry, but the following pack

Re: [SLUG] Problem with network printer

2003-08-10 Thread Shaun Oliver
have you configured samba for printer sharing? also, u need to make an entry in your smbpasswd file wherever it resides. do it like this. smbpasswd -a userid if you want no password, just specify a null string by pressing enter. hth -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they may

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-10 Thread mlh
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:36:36 Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > should I de-install ? and re-install something ? (and, what?) If you're going to re-install, I'd be tempted to jump from rh73 to rh9. But re-installing glibc-devel is worth a shot. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] fs benchmarked for 2.6

2003-08-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> 1) ext2 beats all the journal filesystems by a wide margin. You always have to toss up the time-to-fsck against the performance penalty of journalled filesystems. You can get some interesting speedups using full data journalling (with ext3) and a fast external journal, btw. > 2) Plenty of mem

Re: [SLUG] gdm 2.4.13-2 startup issues

2003-08-10 Thread Kevin Saenz
Matt, I had that problem I noticed gdm would start two instances of itself, possibly causing some conflict. Possibly it's a bug in gdm or the /etc/init.d/gdm file. just clutching at straws. I have not been successful in resolving the problem. :( I though I read some where on a debian site saying o

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-10 Thread Alexander Samad
I am a swiftel user, haven't had a problem as of yet, apart from the mtu problem but thats life. Cheap and reliable my 2c On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:08:20PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > -=> I'm shortly to move house, and I'll be able to gain > -=> access to ADSL (once > -=> I get Telstra to l

RE: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- NOT SOLVED (grrrr)

2003-08-10 Thread Tiwari, Rajnish
It may be another wild goose chase - as I am sorry to say that I haven't followed your thread - if you disable say your primary IDE controller and swap disks over to the secondary and then observe the systems behaviour. I am thinking of IDE controller problems. Just a thought. Regards, Raj ::>

[SLUG] SLUG Committee Meeting, 9th July 2003: minutes

2003-08-10 Thread Mary
Please see http://www.slug.org.au/minutes/ for previous committee minutes. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (whichever you feel is appropriate) to discuss anything mentioned in the minutes. Present: Mary Gardiner (minutes), Tony Green, Peter Hardy, Jaime Hemmett, Jan Schmidt, Pia Smi

Re: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy

2003-08-10 Thread Shaun Oliver
*SNIP* All it takes is some javascript-monkey to include some OS/Browser detection and you're (she is) heading for murky waters. hm. can you not change the user agent information with mozilla as with lynx as in the cat/text only browser sorry for my referring to lynx as the cat but, given that

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:06:58PM -0700, Bill wrote: > I won't be going with BigPond, but will select an ISP with more reasonable > download limits. Internode works well to me. http://adsl.internode.on.net/. > Any recemmendations/experiences with ADSL modems will be appreciated. I use a D-lin

Re: [SLUG] basename & files and paths with embedded spaces

2003-08-10 Thread mlh
This behaviour has long been considered a bug in the shell by many. But unfortunately it's too late to change it for the standard shell. Apparently in plan9 (unix's "successor") the standard shell 'rc' does the right thing. You can get a rc workalike called 'es' for Unix/linux. http://people.

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-10 Thread Dave Airlie
can you change you AGP speed, try clocking back to 2x or 4X in the BIOS and see if that helps... Dave. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Gonzalo, > > I used to have that problem. My computer would freeze in Windows > when ever playing a 3d game. I found it would freeze spasmodically > us

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-10 Thread John McQuillen
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:38, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On 7/08/2003 10:29 AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: > > > Gonzalo Servat wrote: > > Did you say new CPU & mobo? > > But you didn't list your mobo. > > It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 > Your motherboard uses the NForce2 chipset, support for which, I

Re: Kill the Bloatware {:-) Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits ofsource distro (Gentoo) somewhat elusive :-)

2003-08-10 Thread Andrew Fries
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:41, Terry Collins wrote: > Ken Foskey wrote: > > > ...snip.. > > > > I am doubly interested when he discusses the use of these techniques to > > eek more performance out of very old computers for computer bank. > > Is there a distro for 486, etc? Here are two: Damn

RE: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- SOLVED (so far so good)

2003-08-10 Thread Jon Biddell
-=>400W and a 320W... and you know where I can stick the 320W? Not a wise thing to ask on this list, my friend !!!...:-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] processing a .prg file - anyone know how?

2003-08-10 Thread dazza
Folks. I've been handed a .prn file to try and read. Running "file" on it gives me the following result $ file Output.prn Output.prn: HP Printer Job Language data Anyone know how I can read/print this {don't ask me why it was sent to a file - it's way to complicated}. Any help appreciated. Th

[SLUG] Splicing .wav files

2003-08-10 Thread David Fisher
Hello everyone, I am trying to splice several .wav files before converting to mp3 using lame but I cant seem to find a way to do it. I would have thought sox would do it but looking throught the man page I can't see anything (which might only mean I haven't had enough coffee yet) Any tips

Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro (Gentoo) somewhat elusive :-)

2003-08-10 Thread Malcolm V
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:18, Jeff Waugh wrote: > If you would like a lengthy description of why Gentoo and friends (LFS, etc) > are not viewed favourably by bigots like me (FOSS software contributors), > and why I'm more than willing to encourage people to use other systems, > you're welcome to ask

Re: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-10 Thread Mark A. Bell
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that > contains a list of open source software for windows > such as Mozilla? Hi Adam, How about this list from OpenCD? http://www.theopencd.org/programs/MorePrograms.html cheers mark = mark a. bell http://www.users.bigpond.com/m487396

[SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or two. I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as follows: Athlon 1800+ CPU 256MB DDR Matrox G400 Dualhead 2 x HDD 2 x SCSI CDROM 1 x FDD First I thought it was maybe overheating so I installed lm-