[SLUG] Nomination: Billy Kwong

2005-03-23 Thread Chris Deigan
Greetings, I'd like to nominate Billy Kwong as an ordinary committee member. Billy has been an active member throughout SLUG installfests, codefests and DebSIG and would, in my opinion, make a good member. -Chris (who still sucks at writing reasons) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Billy Kwong

2005-03-23 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 19:28 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: Greetings, I'd like to nominate Billy Kwong as an ordinary committee member. Billy has been an active member throughout SLUG installfests, codefests and DebSIG and would, in my opinion, make a good member. -Chris (who still sucks

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-23 Thread Ashley Maher
Michael Fox wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:39:32 +1100 (EST), Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like this could be a power issue. If the external device has a plug-pack option, try this with the laptop. That was my thoughts too. The poster never got back to us and said its a

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-23 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:38 pm, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: |Hi list, | |the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing |to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video |conference software, we do need a reliable low-latency and high |bandwidth connection.

[SLUG] Re: external usb formatting

2005-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:32:02PM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: quote If the drive installed is 60gig or less then one connector of teh usb cable is sufficient for power. If more than 60gig, (it is a 60 gig drive) then you use both the usb connectors on the cable to provide enough power.

FW: [SLUG] email server

2005-03-23 Thread Phill
So that means that if I type in (for example) https://10.1.1.30/webmail and i get a web page successfully then I don't need to do anything else Regards, Phill -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2005 4:44 PM To: Michael Fox Cc:

[SLUG] transcoding question

2005-03-23 Thread Kevin Saenz
Hi all, when I run transcode with the following command transcode -i /storage/unnamed/vob/test.vob -M 2 -w 1500,520,100 -l 3 -a 0 -b 128,0,0 -f 25 -R 2 -x vob -o /storage/video/test.avi -y divx5 the movie is mirror reflection of the way it should be could anyone tell me what I have done wrong?

[SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Committee Member

2005-03-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'd like to nominate Robert Collins for the role of ordinary committee member. -- Medicare will be retained in its entirety. --John Howard (February 1996) The Truth: The Howard Government abolished the dental plan and bulk billing rates have declined by more than 12 percentage points since

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-23 Thread Christopher Booth
Sylpheed ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/sylpheed-claws/ Mahogany ? http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ There are probably more Regards Chris - Original Message - From: Edwin Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sydney Linux User Group slug@slug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:05 AM

[SLUG] Busybox: logread buffering output

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Hardy
First, a little bit of context: I have a Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT as my home gateway. Among other things, my init scripts are launching syslogd, using the neat busybox trick of logging to a circular buffer, giving you local logs without writing to your flash all the time. There's a small

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Billy Kwong

2005-03-23 Thread Billy Kwong
Yes, I accept the nominated position. :) Regards, Bill On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 19:28 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: Greetings, I'd like to nominate Billy Kwong as an ordinary committee member. Billy has been an active member throughout SLUG installfests, codefests and DebSIG and would, in my

[SLUG] Postfix HELO host

2005-03-23 Thread Dennis M. Gray
Does anyone know how Postfix determines the host to use when sending a HELO to a remote SMTP server? Is there any way I can control that? Regards -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Postfix Virtual Domains and Timezones

2005-03-23 Thread Dennis M. Gray
I have set up a Postfix MTA with several virtual mail domains. So far in the doucmentation I have not found a way to have mail sent by Postfix to show a time that is different than that of the server, which is in Arizona, USA. I would like virtual domain users to have their mail sent with the

[SLUG] Nomination - Vice President

2005-03-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'd like to nominate Sara Kaan for the position of Vice President. Sara is heavily involved in working with Linux in the education sector and would bring excellent organisation skills and a broader Linux community experience to the SLUG committee. In short, I think she'd make a great VP and hope

Re: [SLUG] Postfix HELO host

2005-03-23 Thread kevsaenz
postfix relies on DNS and looks up MX records. or do you want to make a mail gateway? Does anyone know how Postfix determines the host to use when sending a HELO to a remote SMTP server? Is there any way I can control that? Regards - This

[SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Committee Member

2005-03-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'm at severe risk of being a serial nominator but I have one last one, I promise (well, I do have two others in mind.). I'd like to nominate Mohammad Kaan for the position of Ordinary Committee member. I think Mohammad has the vision and energy to make a significant contribution to the SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Postfix HELO host

2005-03-23 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:27:17 -0700 (MST), Dennis M. Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how Postfix determines the host to use when sending a HELO to a remote SMTP server? Is there any way I can control that? I believe it uses whatever is set in $myhostname (which, unless set

[SLUG] Brisbane Group.

2005-03-23 Thread Greg Cain
Hi, I live in Brisbane and was wondering if there are any Linux groups like yours in Brisbane? Cheers, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: [glug] Post wifi - SLUGs @ GLUGs

2005-03-23 Thread David Guest
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:49 +1100, Nick Schaefer wrote: Just a quick thank you to David, lindsay and all who organised the wifi weekend. N Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Rightio, I finally got off my arse and posted all the slides that are worth looking at up on my site. You'll be able to find

Re: [SLUG] Brisbane Group.

2005-03-23 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:34:21 +1000 Greg Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I live in Brisbane and was wondering if there are any Linux groups like yours in Brisbane? Try Humbug: http://www.humbug.org.au/ Erik -- +---+ Erik de

Re: [SLUG] Busybox: logread buffering output

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Chubb
Peter == Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter #!/bin/sh Peter logread -f | \ awk '$0 ~ /DROPPED/ { system(echo 0x01 /proc/sys/diag); system(echo 0x00 /proc/sys/diag); }' That's evil. There's no need *ever* to do a system(echo..) from an awk script.

[SLUG] Bridged ADSL yoyoing

2005-03-23 Thread Howard Lowndes
Has anyone had the experience of a bridged ADSL connection continually going up and down? This is a typical extract from the messages log: Mar 24 11:09:11 gw pppoe[12030]: PPP session is 3568 Mar 24 11:50:10 gw pppoe[12030]: Inactivity timeout... something wicked happened on session 3568 Mar 24

Re: [SLUG] Nomination - Vice President

2005-03-23 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Craige McWhirter); I'd like to nominate Sara Kaan for the position of Vice President. Sara is heavily involved in working with Linux in the education sector and would bring excellent organisation skills and a broader Linux community experience to the SLUG committee. In short, I think she'd

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Committee Member

2005-03-23 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Craige McWhirter); I'm at severe risk of being a serial nominator but I have one last one, I promise (well, I do have two others in mind.). The more the merrier, seriously.. I'd like to nominate Mohammad Kaan for the position of Ordinary Committee member. I think Mohammad has the

Re: [SLUG] Bridged ADSL yoyoing

2005-03-23 Thread Jon Austin
Try adjusting the LCP_INTERVAL to a lower value, like 10. On RedHat its stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 Regards, Jon On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:32:12 +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had the experience of a bridged ADSL connection continually going up

Re: [SLUG] Bridged ADSL yoyoing

2005-03-23 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:49, Jon Austin wrote: Try adjusting the LCP_INTERVAL to a lower value, like 10. On RedHat its stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 Thank you, that seems to have cracked it. I wonder why it was set at 80 by default. Regards, Jon On Thu, 24 Mar