[SLUG] Linux Conferences

2005-03-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm the editor for the dmoz.org category "Linux Conferences' [1] - I'd be interested if anyone knows of any other conferences that I could add to the category. Yes, I know about LinuxConf in Canberra in a few weeks :-) Email me the links, or you can submit them directly at [1]. [1] http://dmoz.

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: [LINK] unix time = 11111111111 about mid-day today.

2005-03-20 Thread mlh
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:56:33 +1100 Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while [ 0 ]; do clear; date; date +%s; sleep 1; done Here's another variation: while true; do printf "%s\r" $(date +%s); usleep 10; done The \r keeps the output on the same line. Adjust the usleep arg up or down accor

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: [LINK] unix time = 11111111111 about mid-day today.

2005-03-20 Thread Rick Welykochy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. sorta surprised that while [0] ... works but there you go while [ 1 ] works the same. very counterintuitive, i know. an actual 'false' inside the brackets is a null or empty string, e.g. while [ "" ] does nothing -rick -- _ Rick Welyk

Re: [SLUG] RIP LinMagAU

2005-03-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
be sure to post a link some place Dean Simon Males wrote: We all know that LinMagAU stop publishing some time ago, and now the domain has been hijacked. Does anyone have the editions in one big tar ? I would really like to seem the articles appear online in one shape or form again, rather then

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-20 Thread David Fisher
I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. Having said that I would be delighted for both of us if someone could prove me wrong. David x22707

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-20 Thread Tony Green
On 21/03/2005, at 11:10 AM, David Fisher wrote: I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. Having said that I would be delighted for both of us

[SLUG] Handling Berkeley databases

2005-03-20 Thread Howard Lowndes
What sort of utilities are there for handling Berkeley databases other than the db_* range. db_dump -p gives me printable output but I still get the \0d\0a coming out as such rather than as a new line, and I can't seem to get a pipe into sed to fix it. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; You

[SLUG] Nomination acceptance

2005-03-20 Thread Grant Parnell
It occurred to me that I should actually formally accept the nomination for the SLUG Secretary in the upcomming election. I do accept. FWIW I don't think I did as good a job as Mary did (2003-2004) but at least I've eventually gotten things sorted out. There's lots of things I wanted to get don

[SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Ashley Maher
G'day, I have a nice shiney new external usb drive for my laptop. I intended to format the drive. Insertingthe external drive into the Gateway Solo laptop running Ubuntu gives the following ouput in /var/log/messages: Mar 21 14:44:20 solo scsi.agent[3962]: disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:07.

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread David Kempe
Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Ashley Maher
David Kempe wrote: Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Michael Fox
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:46:43 +1100, Ashley Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Kempe wrote: > >> Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after > >> error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 > >> Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > >> Mar 21 14:46

Re: [SLUG] Nomination acceptance

2005-03-20 Thread QuantumG
Grant Parnell wrote: * I want to get more youth involved because a) they have more time to do stuff and b) I like teaching stuff. Can I just mention another good reason to encourage kids who are interested in programming to start hacking on open source projects: kids have a better understa

Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning Dell Dimension 8300

2005-03-20 Thread Simon Wong
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:42 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: > I've just inherited a Dell Dimension 8300. It has a single 120Gb SATA > drive, and I'd like to repartition with a view to dual-booting. It's > got > an OEM partition on the first 31 Mb of the drive. > > When I try to boot with the System

[SLUG] Re: external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:46:43PM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: > David Kempe wrote: > >Ashley Maher wrote: > >>Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after > >>error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 > >>Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > >>Mar 21

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Ashley Maher
Michael Fox wrote: As pointed out, looks like dead disk. Try on another machine. Thanks. Tried Slackware 10 running 2.4 kernel, on a desktop. Found the device fdisk particioned it fine formatted ext3 fine. Plug back into Ubuntu on the laptop and: tail /var/log/messages: Mar 21 15:15:16 solo kerne

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread David Kempe
Ashley Maher wrote: The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. the 2.6 kernel has some removable drive stuff broken if you ask me. have you tried mucking around with different drivers for your usb chipset? usb-s

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Michael Fox
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:50:53 +1100, Ashley Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm this is getting interesting! > > The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is > loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. > I don't believe you've stated what type of usb

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-20 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Michael" == Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:50:53 +1100, Ashley Maher Michael> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hmm this is getting interesting! >> >> The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop >> is loely (it proves it works) b