Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Hoary and Kubuntu [Was: Knoppix 3.8 looks good]

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Good news about Kubuntu. Is it available for AMD64/x86_64 yet or do I > need to install 64bit Hoary then install KDE separately?? report.html indicates they're a bit broken at the moment, but I can see that's being seen to as I write this mail. :-) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily/c

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Hoary and Kubuntu [Was: Knoppix 3.8 looks good]

2005-03-16 Thread James Gray
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:31 pm, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I noticed there are KDE (AMD64) packages for Ubuntu now so I'm getting > > ready to rebuild my SuSE 9.1 box with Warty (I don't like RPM distro's > > - even if work gave me one for free...as in beer). > > > > Is Hoary now the current Ubuntu v

Re: [SLUG] Knoppix 3.8 looks good

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Fox
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:26:56 +1100, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:38 pm, Michael Fox wrote: > I noticed there are KDE (AMD64) packages for Ubuntu now so I'm getting ready > to rebuild my SuSE 9.1 box with Warty (I don't like RPM distro's - even if > work gave me one

[SLUG] Ubuntu Hoary and Kubuntu [Was: Knoppix 3.8 looks good]

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I noticed there are KDE (AMD64) packages for Ubuntu now so I'm getting > ready to rebuild my SuSE 9.1 box with Warty (I don't like RPM distro's - > even if work gave me one for free...as in beer). > > Is Hoary now the current Ubuntu version? I thought it was still > beta/preview/pre-release/d

Re: [SLUG] Knoppix 3.8 looks good

2005-03-16 Thread James Gray
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:38 pm, Michael Fox wrote: > Anyone managed to get knoppix 3.8 yet? If not you should, certainly is > improving with each and every release. > > I've managed to get a friend to give me a copy, as he already > downloaded it. So I figure might as well say some ADSL usage for > a

[SLUG] Knoppix 3.8 looks good

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Fox
Anyone managed to get knoppix 3.8 yet? If not you should, certainly is improving with each and every release. I've managed to get a friend to give me a copy, as he already downloaded it. So I figure might as well say some ADSL usage for another night. I have ubuntu hoary at home which I hope to i

[SLUG] scsi tape errors

2005-03-16 Thread scott
Hey All, We recently got a new DDS4 backup drive, as I had thought our old one had died. Anyway, when I got the tape drive, and put it in the external housing, it was suffering the same symptoms as the previous one. After much testing, I had discovered the problem was not the drive, but the pow

Re: [SLUG] rdiff?

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Sharp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ...and obviously theres vimdiff for those who prefer vi/m over emacs :-) http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/diff.html Rob. Angus Lees wrote: > At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:44:26 +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote: > >>Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something sim

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 32

2005-03-16 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Hi Voytek, Thanks for the update. Yes, co-opted by the machinations of Capital! :)) Another hero lured back into the fold by promises of an easier life, personal gratification and loss of hope for a better world. LOL I read his suit online and liked the bit about his Kinko costs. Made me laugh.

Re: [SLUG] 2 questions - mail smarthost network changes

2005-03-16 Thread Denis Crowdy
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:38:05PM +1100, Denis Crowdy wrote: > > Two problems/questions I have at the moment: > > 1. I use a laptop between home and work. Static IP at home and a dhcp > connection to an ipcop firewall at home. I'd like to be able to type > something like "ifup eth0-home" or "i

Re: [SLUG] rdiff?

2005-03-16 Thread Angus Lees
At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:44:26 +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote: > Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any > suggestions are appreciated 'ediff' (in emacs) does side-by-side (or otherwise), coloured diffs - with interactive merging, etc. Does 3-way, from a patch, etc, etc. Its worth

Re: [SLUG] I wish to lowercase a character in a sed script

2005-03-16 Thread Angus Lees
At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:57:08 +1100, Michael Lake wrote: > Suggested a perl script: > cat titles.html | perl -ne 'm/\.html">([^,]{1,}),/; $name=lc($1); $_ > =~ s/\.html">/\.html#$name">/; print "$_";' equivalent to: perl -pe 's/\.html">([^,]+),/.html#\L$1\E">/' < titles.html (sorry, should have p

Re: [SLUG] 2 questions - mail smarthost network changes

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Chesterton
Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. When I do change networks, I need to change my smarthost, otherwise > the uni mail server rejects stuff from my ISP. I can change the config > files in /etc/exim4 and run the update-exim4.conf script, but is there > an easier way? What I do is have t