Re: [SLUG] Re: run levels in debian/ubuntu

2005-04-08 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:26 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: No, if you're installing it but don't want it to run modify the rcN.d symlinks to say Stop not Start. hmmm, I hadn't thought of doing that :-( Thanks for the tip! -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Re: run levels in debian/ubuntu

2005-04-08 Thread telford
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:24:03PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:30:21PM +1000, James wrote: when I install something that I may not want to use all the time eg.. Don't do that. Leave the symlinks in place, but rename from Snn to Knn. I've also heard that if you

[SLUG] Re: Re: run levels in debian/ubuntu

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:53:57PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:24:03PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:30:21PM +1000, James wrote: when I install something that I may not want to use all the time eg.. Don't do that. Leave the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: run levels in debian/ubuntu

2005-04-08 Thread Geoff Reidy
Matthew Palmer wrote: For what it's worth... the program ntsysv provides an interactive text mode interface which might be a bit easier to work with than renaming links. It's standard on RedHat... I'd be stunned if it wasn't widely available on just about every other distribution too. Nothing

[SLUG] wrt54g

2005-04-08 Thread Ashley Maher
G'day, Does anybody know of a simple howto for dummies to setup the wrt54g? I have setup the wrt54g to the point that I can: get an ip from the dhcp ping all computers on the inside of the network. nothing outside. the wrt54g has an ip number of 192.168.1.240 the laptop with a wireless card has

Re: [SLUG] wrt54g

2005-04-08 Thread Michael Fox
On Apr 8, 2005 8:23 PM, Ashley Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day, Does anybody know of a simple howto for dummies to setup the wrt54g? I've got a wrt54g (and should have a 2nd unit shortly), what you trying to achieve.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] wrt54g

2005-04-08 Thread Michael Fox
Logon to the wrt then click the security section in the top menus.. You should see something like so; Firewall Protection: Enabled/Disable Block Anonymous Internet Requests Is the Block Anonymous Internet Requests ticked currently? If so untick and save the settings. Now ping. Hopefully it

[SLUG] [ot] Rant on tech salesman who has not heard of Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, Sorry to be so long winded but I think this is important. Yesterday I went into a Harvey Norman Technology store in Martin Place. I have just broken my connectors on my external usb hard drive and wanted to look at the prices of USB pen drives. The prices were twice that of other

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Rant on tech salesman who has not heard of Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Howard Lowndes
Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, Sorry to be so long winded but I think this is important. Yesterday I went into a Harvey Norman Technology store in Martin Place. I have just broken my connectors on my external usb hard drive and wanted to look at the prices of USB pen drives. The prices were

[SLUG] Reordering groups on Thunderbird

2005-04-08 Thread Terry Collins
Hello Folks Does anyone know of any qucik way to re-order the list of groups under a news server in Thunderbird? Apart from the unsubscribe all, then re-subscribe in the order you want them. TIA -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Rant on tech salesman who has not heard of Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:35:15AM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: Yesterday I went into a Harvey Norman Technology store in Martin Place. [snip] The prices were twice that of other stores as normal Heh. Yeah, I noticed their high prices too, when I went looking for a wireless router. I'd

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Rant on tech salesman who has not heard of Linux

2005-04-08 Thread QuantumG
Richard Hayes wrote: Hardly Normal is the largest retailer of computer equipment is Australia by a long way. If their salespeople have not heard of Linux then I fear Australia is further behind that I thought. I got a lecture yesterday from the uber-nerd at EB when I asked him when they were

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Rant on tech salesman who has not heard of Linux

2005-04-08 Thread r . polanskis
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, QuantumG wrote: The relationship to Linux? He was treating me like someone who knew nothing about computers even though I clearly had a Linux T-shirt on. There is so much buzz around Linux at the moment that wearing a Linux T-Shirt can be viewed merely as a fashion

[SLUG] problem with my ubuntu

2005-04-08 Thread ray
hey there all i have a major problem with my Ubuntu platform it won't start up anymore and tells me the X sever has inexplicable errors and that i need to reset it to get the GDM working properly .Any how its all too complicated for my meager abilities and I can't start the thing to get on line

Re: [SLUG] problem with my ubuntu

2005-04-08 Thread QuantumG
ray wrote: hey there all i have a major problem with my Ubuntu platform it won't start up anymore and tells me the X sever has inexplicable errors and that i need to reset it to get the GDM working properly .Any how its all too complicated for my meager abilities and I can't start the thing to