[SLUG] Financial Member E-Mail Addresses

2003-11-23 Thread Chris Deigan
Hi everyone, Along with many of the other benefits of being a financial member of SLUG, you can now get your own @slug.org.au email address, so you can be "A real SLUG dude"[1]! Not only that, but as long as you stay a financial member of SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost permission denied 403 208

2003-11-23 Thread Voytek
** Reply to note from James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:07:35 +1100 > permissions to the PARENT of the vhost root directory. James, THANKS ! yes, I had the parent dir wrongly set. it must've been the only item I haven't checked..., thanks again. Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydn

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost permission denied 403 208

2003-11-23 Thread James Gray
Voytek wrote: I'm having trouble setting a vhost on Apache, and,, I just don't seem to be able to find what's causing Apache to return " 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.phtml on this server.' looking at the log for the vhost, it says: "GET /index .phtml HTTP/1.0" 403 209

[SLUG] Apache vhost permission denied 403 208

2003-11-23 Thread Voytek
I'm having trouble setting a vhost on Apache, and,, I just don't seem to be able to find what's causing Apache to return " 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.phtml on this server.' looking at the log for the vhost, it says: "GET /index .phtml HTTP/1.0" 403 209 "-" "... the

Re: [SLUG] Print (Cups Prob Now!)

2003-11-23 Thread James Gray
Lyle Chapman wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:38:38 +1100, James Gray wrote: Lyle Chapman wrote: I posted a message the other day asking for help on a script to print files from a queue, thanks to everyone that replied, but I have one more problem with my grand printing plan. Cups works fine fo

Re: [SLUG] Print (Cups Prob Now!)

2003-11-23 Thread James Gray
Lyle Chapman wrote: I posted a message the other day asking for help on a script to print files from a queue, thanks to everyone that replied, but I have one more problem with my grand printing plan. Cups works fine for a while then the queue and printing stops, although when I restart cups e

Re: [SLUG] does cron runs as root ? cron's home dir ?

2003-11-23 Thread James Gray
Voytek Eymont wrote: when my daily chores run from crond, I get a report that includes in part: ... /etc/cron.daily/tide_daily: . This obnoxious message will go away permanently if you click "Don't show this again" in the disclaimer window of the X windows client (xtide), or if yo

Re: [SLUG] Software Package Search

2003-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:52, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I am looking for a replacement for MS Visio? I want to be able to do some > > box drawings and basic maps and designs similar to what visio can do! > > > Dia is a little bit rudimentary compared to Visio, but it does the job! > Another package

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Document Template Filling Options

2003-11-23 Thread Michael Lake
Anthony Wood wrote: > We do quite complex document template filling (50 page documents, conditional text > etc.) already, using perl and latex. > > This is quite good, looks very nice etc, but the set up of a new template > (especially a large one) is quite complex > and requires a knowledge of

[SLUG] Print (Cups Prob Now!)

2003-11-23 Thread Lyle Chapman
I posted a message the other day asking for help on a script to print files from a queue, thanks to everyone that replied, but I have one more problem with my grand printing plan. Cups works fine for a while then the queue and printing stops, although when I restart cups everything starts worki

Re: [SLUG] easy debian networking?

2003-11-23 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:41:36AM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote: > After installation is there a way of access the network setup tool or > another similar tool? I'm not sure about a pointy-clicky thing, but it's very easy to just edit the networking config file /etc/network/interfaces. man 5 inter

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread Stewart Smith
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 02:18, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Ah, well, one of the other things I'm doing at the moment is gathering info > from various academic institutions about interest in GNOME for research > purposes, which mostly relates to usability and accessibility right now. Ben There has been some

Re: [SLUG] Software Package Search

2003-11-23 Thread Richard Hayes
At 10:28 PM 11/23/2003 +1100, David Uzzell wrote: I am looking for a replacement for MS Visio? I want to be able to do some box drawings and basic maps and designs similar to what visio can do! With my move for a linux desktop rather than what I was used to in the past for just servers, I am ha

[SLUG] easy debian networking?

2003-11-23 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, When installing Woody it is very easy to setup your network cards etc. After installation is there a way of access the network setup tool or another similar tool? Thanks Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - Australia & UK 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Ph +(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax +

Re: [SLUG] Disk recovery software

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:14:31AM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: > What products are out there that are an idiot-proof (i.e. safe from me) way > of backing up a whole drive and restoring to a new one in case of disk > failure? Tar and lilo. Tar the whole thing up, stick it somewhere, when you want to

[SLUG] Disk recovery software

2003-11-23 Thread Peter Vogel
I am having problems with Ghost doing strange things when trying to clone a disk for backup/recovery purposes. What products are out there that are an idiot-proof (i.e. safe from me) way of backing up a whole drive and restoring to a new one in case of disk failure? I'd even use something that ru

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > We're hoping to do some combo talks for some things, like python/gnome > > for James's talk and stuff like that. If we can pull it off. Might be > > worth trying this year and figuring out the problems so we can do it > > better next year. > > You lot, EducationaLinux is in there too. Surely

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread David Lloyd
Heh, > We're hoping to do some combo talks for some things, like python/gnome > for James's talk and stuff like that. If we can pull it off. Might be > worth trying this year and figuring out the problems so we can do it > better next year. You lot, EducationaLinux is in there too. Surely GNOME

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > One of the important things that should be on every Aussie GNOME lover's > > radar is one of this year's linux.conf.au mini-confs: GNOME.conf.au. > > Already we have: > > GaahhhH too much cool stuff! Torn between debian miniconf and gnome > miniconf and all these great sessions We're ho

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread Stewart Smith
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 22:51, Jeff Waugh wrote: > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-au-list > > One of the important things that should be on every Aussie GNOME lover's > radar is one of this year's linux.conf.au mini-confs: GNOME.conf.au. Already > we have: GaahhhH too much cool

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread David Lloyd
Jeff, > See the web page for what they'll be talking about and to keep up to > date with the crazy GNOME.conf.au action! Please forward this on to your > LUG list if you feel it's appropriate. If it's not, tell me, and I can > write it in Swahili or something. I want a Nigerian translation. I th

Re: [SLUG] PALM

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Allison
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 00:35, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > Is there someone out there (a store) selling a PDA Sharp Zaurus Personal > > > Mobile Tool : SL-5600 ? I've tried to googling but it seems that only > > > SL-5500 selling in Sydney. > > > > > > Anyhow, I'm intersting in Sharp is because it

Re: [SLUG] PALM

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > Is there someone out there (a store) selling a PDA Sharp Zaurus Personal > > Mobile Tool : SL-5600 ? I've tried to googling but it seems that only > > SL-5500 selling in Sydney. > > > > Anyhow, I'm intersting in Sharp is because its Linux and Java tech. I > > wonder if a PDA such as O2 XDA c

Re: [SLUG] PALM

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Allison
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:17, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > G'day, > > Is there someone out there (a store) selling a PDA Sharp Zaurus Personal > Mobile Tool : SL-5600 ? I've tried to googling but it seems that only > SL-5500 selling in Sydney. > > Anyhow, I'm intersting in Sharp is because its Linux

[SLUG] PALM

2003-11-23 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, Is there someone out there (a store) selling a PDA Sharp Zaurus Personal Mobile Tool : SL-5600 ? I've tried to googling but it seems that only SL-5500 selling in Sydney. Anyhow, I'm intersting in Sharp is because its Linux and Java tech. I wonder if a PDA such as O2 XDA can install java or

Re: [SLUG] Software Package Search

2003-11-23 Thread mlh
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:18PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I am looking for a replacement for MS Visio? I want to be able to do some > > box drawings and basic maps and designs similar to what visio can do! > > > > With my move for a linux desktop rather than what I was used to in the >

Re: [SLUG] Software Package Search

2003-11-23 Thread Piers Wren
Dia works well for windows people as it's pretty simple and runs under both 'nix and windows. There's also xfig which is more powerful, but more difficult to master. I haven't found anything that is as good as Visio, but between those two and occasionally gimp, you should be able to draw just abo

Re: [SLUG] Software Package Search

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I am looking for a replacement for MS Visio? I want to be able to do some > box drawings and basic maps and designs similar to what visio can do! > > With my move for a linux desktop rather than what I was used to in the > past for just servers, I am having to see if I can source some > altern

[SLUG] GNOME Australia!

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hey all, No, not a crazy-official GNOME Australia organisation or anything... it's a new mailing list for GNOMEtastic people in Australia, for advocacy, chitchat and event planning. Stuff like that. :-) Join up! http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-au-list One of the important things t

[SLUG] Software Package Search

2003-11-23 Thread David Uzzell
I am looking for a replacement for MS Visio? I want to be able to do some box drawings and basic maps and designs similar to what visio can do! With my move for a linux desktop rather than what I was used to in the past for just servers, I am having to see if I can source some alternatives for