Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Terry Collins Note: Larger companies that can fulfill the difficult requirements may contract (or employ) experts in the field to do the actual work. Not to mention the market-building effects of a move like this. Note may. Usually they build up

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Terry Collins IBM, Sun, Novell, HP, ??? Note that only one of these companies can provide everything listed in the tender. :-) - Jeff -- GNOME Boston Summit October 9-11, 2004 When you're running, you want to run as far as you can, and you

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Modem drivers

2004-10-08 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:37 +1000, O Plameras wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: Aye, it is indeed. /dev/rfcomm0 is your serial port, your phone is your modem. And all for a mere $3.38 per MB. Thanks Optus! It is provided as WAP service by telecom companies. Er, yes. Hence 'thanks Optus' above.

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Terry Collins IBM, Sun, Novell, HP, ??? Note that only one of these companies can provide everything listed in the tender. :-) Really? Would you care to say which one you think can do it? Hint, they are all *nix competent companies and they have all done

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Terry Collins IBM, Sun, Novell, HP, ??? Note that only one of these companies can provide everything listed in the tender. :-) Really? Would you care to say which one you think can do it? Hint, they are all *nix competent companies and they have all done major tenders in

RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding:)

2004-10-08 Thread Elliott-Brennan
That I will do. Great??? I think the quote at the bottom more accurately reflects MY thinking of the possibilities : Before I go and trash X again: how, from a crash, does one record/locate the logs of a crash for posting? What I'll also post will be another possible config that I've

Re: [SLUG] Wacom Tablet

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, john gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin, I have a Wacom Intuos 12 x 12 that has rarely been used. Was going to become a graphics whiz but never got around to it. Happy to consider an offer. I currently have a 7 x 9 that works well in all but linux. But

Re: [SLUG] proxy

2004-10-08 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:34:48 +1000 James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the OP, transparent authentication and transparent proxy are two very different and conflicting terms; they are mutually exclusive. Not exactly. In the context of just using Squid I could understand that, but when it

Re: [SLUG] Wacom Tablet

2004-10-08 Thread john gibbons
Yes, David, it is usb and I just tried it on GIMP in Fedora 1. It worked. In any case, I understand there are Linux drivers for Wacom that can be downloaded. John. David wrote: have you had any offers yet? does it work on linux? what sort of connection... usb? David. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, john

[SLUG] Passwords

2004-10-08 Thread Trevor Tregoweth
Hi All Hopeing someone can help me, i want to be able able to use the password off a windows 2000 server, within linux. eg, programs that run under linux (redhat) that require passwords, i need to be able to use the passwords from a windowss 2000 server. I don't mind hopw its done, weather its

[SLUG] Update on SLUG Goonellabah roadtrip

2004-10-08 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all, The next Slug roadtrip up to Lismore was scheduled to occur on the 30th and 31st of this month. We'd managed to get a good group of people together for the roadtrip, and all seemed to be set. However, over the last month i've had some health problems that have lead me to being

Re: [SLUG] Passwords

2004-10-08 Thread Dave Airlie
if you have win2k setup in compatibility mode you can use pam_smb (shameless self plug...) or the samba winbind software also will do it although it is a bit more complex.. Dave. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All Hopeing someone can help me, i want to be able able to use

[SLUG] Help... xfree86 is doing my head in :)

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Fox
Well I've never been a good xfree86 configure person, probably good since I always had headless machines. I took the plunge tonight and did a netinstall of debian sarge and I must say I am very very impressed with the changes. Being a debian fan for a long time now, I liked what I saw. The

FW: [SLUG] Help... xfree86 is doing my head in :)

2004-10-08 Thread Phill
I had a similar problem with mandrake. It was a while ago so I'll see if I remember it right. I have 3 monitors and monitors 1 2 were OK but 3 always came out at 640 x 480 regardless of what I did. After months (literally) I found the following solution The way I fixed it was to insert the

[SLUG] Just the big guys? [Was - NSW Tender meeting]

2004-10-08 Thread Pia Smith
I started a big thread, and then couldn't get back to it for 2 days, apologies. I guess the point of this tender is to find a panel of 10 as a primary contact for Linux and Open Source solutions. It certainly doesn't mean that no one else can play, and 10 is quite a few when you think about it so

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Pia Smith
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:39, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:03 +1000, Pia Smith wrote: put together a panel of who would be appropriate. It might be a good time to get together, look at all the requirements and put together a matrix of skills in NSW. We already have a

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Modem drivers

2004-10-08 Thread O Plameras
Mike MacCana wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:37 +1000, O Plameras wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: Aye, it is indeed. /dev/rfcomm0 is your serial port, your phone is your modem. And all for a mere $3.38 per MB. Thanks Optus! It is provided as WAP service by telecom companies. Er,

Re: FW: [SLUG] Help... xfree86 is doing my head in :)

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Fox
Thanks Phill It would appear what you said is totally correct. I had a feeling it was probably the case, which is why I burnt the knoppix cd I downloaded overnight. I booted with knoppix then copied the config it created. Plonked this on debian and bang she works.. and its the freq stuff per res

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Bruce Badger
From: Pia Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:39, Craige McWhirter wrote: put together a panel of who would be appropriate. It might be a good time to get together, look at all the requirements and

[SLUG] Cannot install linux.

2004-10-08 Thread Derrell Picton
Dear Members. I have just upgraded my computerwith ASUS P4p800Se MB,3 gig intel CPU, 2x256 dual channel DDR memory andFX5600 256 video card.My problem is I cannot install linux. I've tried at least 4 version without success. Fedora Core 2 Pressing enter at the prompt results in a reboot to