Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

2004-02-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Andypoo There was a recent Slashdot article about these routers with custom firmware which made them a lot more configurable and useful (however may risk your warranty). Yeah, there are a few around. The wifi-box and sveasoft.com ones are the most talked about. I installed the

Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

2004-02-29 Thread Alexander Samad
Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode. A On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:13:34PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andypoo There was a recent Slashdot article about these routers with custom

Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

2004-02-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:41, Alexander Samad wrote: Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode. If you want a separate firewall from your computer (a very good idea)... power consumption. Having a small

Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

2004-02-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alexander Samad Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode. That's like, ultra-boring, zero-hackery potential, dude. :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway

[SLUG] Committee nominations to date

2004-02-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
Nominate -- you know you want to! :) See http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html for details of the SLUG committee, the election, and the statements by the nominees. -Mary Nominees: President None Vice President Robert Collins (nominated by Robert Collins, seconded by Jeff Waugh,

[SLUG] Nomination: President

2004-02-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
Jan Schmidt You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt. -- Cheers, Craige. GPG Key fingerprint = C206 904F 5231 2F2E 8DAA F094 5879 71B5 0960 CF37 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-02-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
Peter Hardy The vice has never been so good. -- Cheers, Craige. GPG Key fingerprint = C206 904F 5231 2F2E 8DAA F094 5879 71B5 0960 CF37 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

2004-02-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
Myself The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee again. Check out http://debian.slug.org.au/ -- Cheers, Craige. GPG Key fingerprint = C206 904F 5231 2F2E 8DAA F094 5879 71B5 0960 CF37

[SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

2004-02-29 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
HI all, I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives. Anyone have any recommendations? TIA, Erik --

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

2004-02-29 Thread Benno
On Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 08:50:29 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: Jan Schmidt You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt. Seconded. Benno -- 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] Nomination: Vice President

2004-02-29 Thread Benno
On Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 08:51:43 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: Peter Hardy The vice has never been so good. Seconded. Benno -- 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] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

2004-02-29 Thread Benno
On Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 08:54:39 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: Myself The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee again. Check out http://debian.slug.org.au/ I think Craige has done more work than

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

2004-02-29 Thread Darren Williams
Dlink 504/604 firewall, 4 port hub, NAT, DHCP + more Depending on wireless or not. Just plug the cables in and off you go. Has web/telnet/serial connections for setup if needed and config. I have been using mine for about 8mths with no problems. If I have one complaint it has a noisy

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

2004-02-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote: Jan Schmidt You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt. Added Jan to http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html Jan, if you want to make a spiel, reply to this. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-02-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote: Peter Hardy The vice has never been so good. Added Pete to http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html Pete, if you want to make a spiel, reply to this. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

2004-02-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote: Myself Added you to http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee again. Check out

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 08:54, Craige McWhirter wrote: Myself The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee again. Seconded. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt.

[SLUG] talk proposal request for help with lftp

2004-02-29 Thread M.da Cruz
Hi All, I have recently switched to Linux and now have it running on my Targa Traveller laptop including the winmodem :-) I bought the Openskills/SLUG Debian CD, also tried Fedora on loan, but ended up installing knoppix. If this stuff is of interest I could share my experiences in a talk. My

Re: [SLUG] talk proposal request for help with lftp

2004-02-29 Thread Brett Fenton
Try escaping out the spaces. So for example 'pass word here' would become pass\ word\ here M.da Cruz wrote: Hi All, I have recently switched to Linux and now have it running on my Targa Traveller laptop including the winmodem :-) I bought the Openskills/SLUG Debian CD, also tried Fedora on

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

2004-02-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Craige McWhirter Jan Schmidt You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt. Thanks, Craige. Acccepted. I'm keen to remain on SLUG committee and ensure that SLUG retains the friendly atmosphere it has grown up with, and that it continues to foster and support the Open Source

[SLUG] Arkeia Performance

2004-02-29 Thread Terry Collins
Hello sluggers Does anyone have any tips on getting maximum performance from Arkeia? (http://www.arkeia.com). Yes, I know there is a few that says don't use it, but for a SOHO, the light (free) version is quite useful (Novell, NT, etc suck). Whilst it would be ideal if it could spit out tapes

[SLUG] USA government abolishes the capital punishment

2004-02-29 Thread jobst
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[SLUG] BitDefender found an infected object

2004-02-29 Thread bitdefender
BitDefender found an infected object in a message addressed to you From: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ [SLUG] USA government abolishes the capital punishment] Object: cabaeebadba.zip Virus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The BitDefender Lab www.bitdefender.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] sendmail (rule) question

2004-02-29 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
all, i am trying to get my head aroound a rule. I want to make sure that users can only send to a certain email address when the email address is specified in the BCC field, if put anywhere else the sending of the email fails. This is to make sure that users dont send emails to their friends AND

[SLUG] Why do we have to come up with something new?

2004-02-29 Thread David Uzzell
Oh well looks like there is change in the air! http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12Art_ID=18530 Microsoft pushes anti-spam scheme using authentication By Aaron Ricadela, InformationWeek Monday, March 01, 2004 advertisement Microsoft is suggesting a new tactic in the fight against

[SLUG] BitDefender found an infected object

2004-02-29 Thread bitdefender
BitDefender found an infected object in a message addressed to you From: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ [SLUG] You really love me? he he] Object: ecc.zip Virus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The BitDefender Lab www.bitdefender.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] Spamassassin Article

2004-02-29 Thread Graham Smith
This article appears to be quite a good introduction to Spamassassin http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200402/200402.htm There are a number of other articles which may prove useful. The index can be found here:- http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/archive.htm -- Regards, Graham Smith

[SLUG] clamav-milter whitelist?

2004-02-29 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BitDefender found an infected object in a message addressed to you Gah. Added a sender filter for bitdefender. I really wish there were some sort of standard for the You've got a virus mails these scanners send. (My preference is for DON'T

Re: [SLUG] Why do we have to come up with something new?

2004-02-29 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:16, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Uzzell Oh well looks like there is change in the air! Microsoft is suggesting a new tactic in the fight against spam. Execs have proposed a broad industry plan to publish technical details about big companies' email

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Erik de Castro Lopo); I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives. Anyone have any recommendations? I

RE: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

2004-02-29 Thread Michael F.
I have a D-Link DSL-300+ which works fairly well (besides bad internal security which is easily fixed with iptables) I've also heard good things about Billion (which are on the cheaper side) I have a Billion and I must say it works great, as compared to the last 2 modems I had in the

[SLUG] making a bootable RH9 disk

2004-02-29 Thread Perry, David
Hi, I'm trying to burn a set of Redhat 9 disks. I have downloaded the three shrike iso files onto the hard disk of a RH8 PC. I have checked the MD5 checksums and they are all good. Problem 1: I am using CDRoast and selected shrike-i386-disc1.iso and added it as the master source. In the

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

2004-02-29 Thread David Uzzell
Chris Deigan wrote: quote(Erik de Castro Lopo); I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives. Anyone have any

Re: [SLUG] making a bootable RH9 disk

2004-02-29 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:22, Perry, David wrote: Hi, I'm trying to burn a set of Redhat 9 disks. I have downloaded the three shrike iso files onto the hard disk of a RH8 PC. I have checked the MD5 checksums and they are all good. Problem 1: I am using CDRoast and selected

Re: [SLUG] making a bootable RH9 disk

2004-02-29 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:01, James Gregory wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:22, Perry, David wrote: Hi, I'm trying to burn a set of Redhat 9 disks. I have downloaded the three shrike iso files onto the hard disk of a RH8 PC. I have checked the MD5 checksums and they are all good.

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

2004-02-29 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:56:23 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI all, I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems with the NB1300 so