[SLUG] SuSE CDs?

2004-02-13 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hi, I'm not up on SuSE's license terms. Can someone make CDs for me to use to try it out? (The latest version, please). I'd be happy to provide blanks in exchange, or pay a small fee. Thanks, Bret -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] OT Voice of IP via ADSL

2004-02-13 Thread ksaenz
What I have heard (from some guy at Flow Communication) is VoIP is still in it's infancy. Apparently it doesn't work that well. But test it out if you have the bandwidth to burn. Huh? Tell that to Cisco Systems - they run IP phones almost exclusively in Australia, and they work pretty

Re: [SLUG] SuSE CDs?

2004-02-13 Thread Chris Deigan
It is said that Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: I'm not up on SuSE's license terms. Can someone make CDs for me to use to try it out? (The latest version, please). I'd be happy to provide blanks in exchange, or pay a small fee. Basically, the free way to install SuSE is to do a FTP Install or over

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy

2004-02-13 Thread ksaenz
Thank you all for your helpful links, for some reason when I searched for reverse proxy I found howtos using apache mod_proxy I guess it's testing time :). I have been searching high and low, I was wondering if squid is capable of doing reverse proxy? Yup, it sure is. The following

[SLUG] Speech recognition

2004-02-13 Thread John Gibbons
Hi, Does anyone know of a Linux-friendly speech recognition programme? I've been using Dragon Naturally Speaking in Windows and miss it. John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] SuSE CDs?

2004-02-13 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:29, Chris Deigan wrote: Basically, the free way to install SuSE is to do a FTP Install or over NFS. You can donwload a set of floppies / a cdrom that starts the install, and the rest is downloaded off the internet as the installer needs it. I tried that, burned the

Re: [SLUG] SuSE CDs?

2004-02-13 Thread ksaenz
I know it's a download but have you tried linuxiso.org? they gave a heap of iso files for various distros. They have suse-live eval 9.0 Basically, the free way to install SuSE is to do a FTP Install or over NFS. You can donwload a set of floppies / a cdrom that starts the install, and

[SLUG] key management for pgp keys

2004-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
At work we have a client that wants to keep data encrypted during transfers end to end. They would like to use pgp to encrypt their data (changing to ssh would take a crowbar and lot's of time). If we have their public key installed on our three separate computer systems on three sites then

Re: [SLUG] asking about online payment transactions

2004-02-13 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:07, Grant Parnell wrote: Just talk to StGeorge for the merchant account and NetRegistry for the payment gateway - they have a perl module for talking via https to their system. The hard bit is coping with all the different bank's responses. Basically the only one you

Re: [SLUG] Free SGI Indy

2004-02-13 Thread z3098553
Chris MacKenzie wrote: I have a complete SGI Indy machine that I don't need anymore and thought that some slugger might want to use it for a firewall or print server or something. It's got 96mb of ram and a 4.6Gb scsi drive installed. comes complete with original kb/mouse, camera and monitor.

Re: [SLUG] key management for pgp keys

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:15, Ken Foskey wrote: If we have their public key installed You meant private here, right? Any other thoughts on how to protect the keys? Keychain sized USB flash drive which the secret keychain is carried on? Also - if you used symmetric encryption throughout (PGP

[SLUG] Committee meeting minutes, February 2004

2004-02-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
Here are the February 2004 committee meeting minutes. if you want to discuss them, direct your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if it is confidential). I never posted the December 2003 minutes to the SLUG lists, but they are available from http://www.slug.org.au/minutes/ Mary

[SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys

2004-02-13 Thread doug
I was wondering if this answer is correct?? regards Doug -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Hi Guys Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:44 am From: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhyotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard nothing about this patent, but I highly

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Males
I have heard of this, and it seems MS filed for this patent prior to the date Mozilla started punching out XML/XUL code. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.general/108/ Personally this has sort of winded me, as an aspiring XUL programmer. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL

Re: [SLUG] Computerbank Hardware Sorting Days and Perpetual Monitor Sale -- THIS Weekend!!

2004-02-13 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hi, I'm going to be at Computerbank Sunday to help out. If anyone has SuSE CDs, or the SuSE live eval CD that I can try out, could you bring it please? Thanks in advance, Bret On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:49, Dan Treacy wrote: Greetings All. Apologies about the short notice. Due to recent

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys

2004-02-13 Thread ksaenz
I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in cheating the public. :) I have heard of this, and it seems MS filed for this patent prior to the date Mozilla started punching out XML/XUL code.

Re: [SLUG] Linux Home Entertainment Centre

2004-02-13 Thread Slug
My saga so far.. I'm most of the way there but lacking time to finish. I've got to a big ABC HDTV logo swamping my TV so that's something I guess. mini-itx 1N board (includes CPU). 256Mb ddr 120Gb Hdd Nova-t card for digital-tv Little case (alum) DVD/CDRW WiFi USB thingo - cnet-611 - hand to

[SLUG] stgeorge ibank busted?

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Males
I haven't being able to log onto stgeorge ibank today at all. I was able to last night. I use j2re1.4.2_03, I could dump the java console error if so requested. I haven't tried on Windows, my install is broken... note: don't use windowupdater for a new install to apply all patches at once (of

Re: [SLUG] stgeorge ibank busted?

2004-02-13 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Simon Males I haven't being able to log onto stgeorge ibank today at all. I was able to last night. I use j2re1.4.2_03, I could dump the java console error if so requested. Jaime mentioned something about it being offline for maintenance this weekend, although it's silly that they