[SLUG] Any experience with Datamax Label Printers

2004-04-19 Thread Sebastian Welsh
Hi all, I have a client who wants to use a particular label printer: a datamax-m-4206. Now, linuxprinting.org makes no mention of the manufacturer, let alone the model. I'd love to hear from anyone who has tried and succeeded (or failed) with one of these printers. Looking at the product docu

Re: [SLUG] Small network Windows replacements

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:57:53PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > OS Lindows Debian unstable will give you more flexibility. Whether that's a positive or a negative is your call. Debian does have the Very Funky FAI, which can do automated installations. There's a program callec una

Re: [SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Forrester
For the archive.. I couldn't make vacation on fedora.. I couldn't find holiday on google, freshmeat or sourceforge.. I settled on autoreply (http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply) by Giles Lean. Good documentation resulted in pretty simple setup.. I went for the modification of the user's .fo

Re: [SLUG] Recording sound currently being played

2004-04-19 Thread Shaun Oliver
indeed. Depending on the card, and if you're using the alsa drivers or not, you can have your wave out device captured and you can catch any wave file you play. e.g. I have here an SB_Live! and using alsamixer because amixer is buggy, I set my wave device to capture and I wither set line in or c

Re: [SLUG] Small network Windows replacements

2004-04-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Bryan wrote: | Hi all, | I am helping a disability organisation I am associated with to setup a | small network of 10 Linux, three Windows and a Linux server. We can't | afford the needed hardware or the licences to go to XP and MS Office etc, |

Re: [SLUG] Small network Windows replacements

2004-04-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: > OS Lindows > Office APpsOpen Office and ABIWord > Email Yahoo Mail using Web Browser > Photo Manipulation GIMP > ACDSEE (IMage viewing and slideshows) ? > Publisher (They like the templates)

Re: [SLUG] Small network Windows replacements

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Wlazlo
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02:57 pm, Simon Bryan wrote: > Hi all, > I am helping a disability organisation I am associated with to setup a > small network of 10 Linux, three Windows and a Linux server. We can't > afford the needed hardware or the licences to go to XP and MS Office etc, > so we are lo

[SLUG] Small network Windows replacements

2004-04-19 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I am helping a disability organisation I am associated with to setup a small network of 10 Linux, three Windows and a Linux server. We can't afford the needed hardware or the licences to go to XP and MS Office etc, so we are looking at Linux alternatives. However it needs to maintain a fami

Re: [SLUG] squid authentication questions

2004-04-19 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:04:02PM +1000, Broun, Bevan wrote: > Well, squid is running on linux! > > Currently we run squid-2.4 latest stable, but upgrading to 2.5 lastest > stable is an option and from my reading so far this is probably needed. > > The current squid was compiled with --enable-au

[SLUG] Recording sound currently being played

2004-04-19 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've got an application that plays sounds that I'd like to capture into a .wav or similar file. Problem is the application doesn't have a file output option, it's just sending the data to /dev/dsp. Does anyone know of a way that I can "capture" the sound being played to the audio outp

Re: [SLUG] Bogofilter -- need some s p a m

2004-04-19 Thread James Gray
Nick Croft wrote: Evening. There used to be a source of spam that you could download to feed into bogofilter. (About 3 big folders, iirc) . Can't find it now. Currently I have (via bogoutil -w ~/.bogofilter .MSG_COUNT') 5500 spam versus 52000 good emails. A bit off balance -- bogutil -r giv

[SLUG] squid authentication questions

2004-04-19 Thread Broun, Bevan
Well, squid is running on linux! Currently we run squid-2.4 latest stable, but upgrading to 2.5 lastest stable is an option and from my reading so far this is probably needed. The current squid was compiled with --enable-auth-modules="SMB" and we have a file on NT domain controller to limit Inter

Re: [SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Kempe
Mike MacCana wrote: run a shell. 'Holiday' is a replacement that works fine all the time. GIYF. got a link for that mike? freshmeat and google turn up nothing dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.

Re: [SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server

2004-04-19 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004, Paul Forrester wrote: > > Does anyone know how to create one of these for Linux/PostFix setup, > > or is there something else I should be tinkering with? > > If you mean an "out of office autoreply" for an individual email > address

[SLUG] CUPS problem

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Davidson
Hi, I've installed CUPS on a Debian (sid) system. Printed a test page fine from the local system, and from a windows client via samba. I have also installed cupsys-bsd. Then I tried my first bit of proper printing, from SciTE, a text editor I'm quite fond of. First it complained that it was

Re: [SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server

2004-04-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004, Paul Forrester wrote: > Does anyone know how to create one of these for Linux/PostFix setup, > or is there something else I should be tinkering with? If you mean an "out of office autoreply" for an individual email address, I use the vacation program and procmail for my work

Re: [SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Forrester
It's an omen.. But this one looks like it was generated by a Microsoft server.. Does anyone know how to create one of these for Linux/PostFix setup, or is there something else I should be tinkering with? Paul On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 08:18, Lambrecht, Wim (NL - Amsterdam) wrote: > Currently I am o

[SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server

2004-04-19 Thread Lambrecht, Wim (NL - Amsterdam)
Title: Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server Currently I am out of the office and occasionally be able to read and answer my e-mails. I will be back again on Tuesday April 20th 2004. For urgent matters please call Esther Stalman at +31 20 5825421 best regards WIM

[SLUG] Bogofilter -- need some s p a m

2004-04-19 Thread Nick Croft
Evening. There used to be a source of spam that you could download to feed into bogofilter. (About 3 big folders, iirc) . Can't find it now. Currently I have (via bogoutil -w ~/.bogofilter .MSG_COUNT') 5500 spam versus 52000 good emails. A bit off balance -- bogutil -r gives me 0.358099 .

Re: [SLUG] 2.6 kernel pasting with scrol wheel

2004-04-19 Thread Heracles
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 19:04, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:10:26 +1000 > Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > HI all, > > > > I've just compiled a 2.6.4 kernel and found that everything works > > except the mouse. > > Is anyone using a scroll wheel PS/2 mou

Re: [SLUG] ACT/CRM Alernative?

2004-04-19 Thread Linley Caetan
Matt M wrote: Check out Compiere [http://www.compiere.org]. It's supposed to be good. Open Source, written in Java. Performance wise, the word is it's supposed to run rings around the likes of PeopleSoft. But I don't have the time to play around in the ERP/CRM space anymore, so I haven't loade

Re: [SLUG] 2.6 kernel pasting with scrol wheel

2004-04-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:51:13 +1000 Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:04:46 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered > > Is anyone using a scroll wheel PS/2 mouse with a 2.6 kernel? Does > > clicking using the scroll wheel work for you? > > > Yes, it does. Have you loadin

Re: [SLUG] 2.6 kernel pasting with scrol wheel

2004-04-19 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:04:46 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered > Is anyone using a scroll wheel PS/2 mouse with a 2.6 kernel? Does > clicking using the scroll wheel work for you? > Yes, it does. Have you loading/built into the kernel psmouse and mousedev? Cheers, --

Re: [SLUG] 2.6 kernel pasting with scrol wheel

2004-04-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:10:26 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI all, > > I've just compiled a 2.6.4 kernel and found that everything works > except the mouse. Is anyone using a scroll wheel PS/2 mouse with a 2.6 kernel? Does clicking using the scroll wheel work for you?