[SLUG] Computerbank working bees

2005-06-21 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, just to let everyone know, I went along to the computerbank working bee last weekend (as in a week ago) and helped out for a few hours. There is loads to do, and some actually ok machines that could be being put to good use. I suggest if you can think of someone, particularly a community

[SLUG] WAG54G, was: GPL ADSL modems was: BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-21 Thread Voytek
quote who=Michael Fox On 6/20/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't got my WAG54Gv2 unit yet, maybe my work ordered it yesterday, soon see if it turns up today or tomorrow. this one says: Firmware Version: 1.00.39 Wireless-G ADSL Gateway WAG54G V.2 hmm, I can not telnet to it...?

Re: [SLUG] help help Fedora Core 4 installation trouble

2005-06-21 Thread Mike MacCana
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:36 -0700, pesoy misak wrote: Hi slugger I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora Core 2 into Fedora Core 4. During the installation, When it's trying to access the X server for installation it only giving me a White Screen of Death nothing happen. Is there anyone with

[SLUG] Ubuntu problems with Postgres install

2005-06-21 Thread Kirti Pankhania
I have new install of Ubuntu Hoary (newbie) As I could not get apt-get to find postgres, I downloaded a deb package(stable) as below. The version of python currently installed is 2.4.1. (BTW, why is python required anyway?) I tried to install a program called locale which however cites

[SLUG] Ubuntu problems with Postgres install

2005-06-21 Thread Kirti Pankhania
Folks,how do I get out of this jam? I have new install of Ubuntu Hoary (newbie) As I could not get apt-get to find postgres, I downloaded a deb package(stable) as below. The version of python currently installed is 2.4.1. (BTW, why is python required anyway?) I tried to install a program called

Re: [SLUG] dial-up drama

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Nisenbaum
Hello, This note is to advise of the end of the problem I had which was with my dial-up connection when my system was allocated the remote address of 210.8.1.13 in AAPT's network. My machine is now able to connect to that router. AAPT have had a technical upgrade of their service, the details

Re: [SLUG] IDE devices not working with FC3

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Nisenbaum
Murray Waldron wrote: G'day Slug, When I had RH9 on my system, all my ide devices worked perfectly. My CD-ROM and CD-RW were recognised, worked and ejected properly and my ZIP disk worked and also ejected properly. When I did a fresh install to Fedora Core 3, I lost the ability to play

RE: [SLUG] Ubuntu problems with Postgres install

2005-06-21 Thread Carlo Sogono
Title: RE: [SLUG] Ubuntu problems with Postgres install My suggestion is use an Ubuntu package instead of that from Sarge. apt-cache search postgres Carlo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kirti Pankhania Sent: Tue 6/21/2005 6:19 PM To: slug@slug.org.au

[SLUG] W*b h*sting?

2005-06-21 Thread Martin Ellison
Can anyone recommend a good cheap w*b h*sting service? I just need to run Bloxcom (a CGI Perl script) so nothing fancy. There seem to be a few $5-10/month services out there; anyone with good experiences? [I originally sent this to slug-chat but it never appeared. Also, it seems that W-b h-sting'

[SLUG] Sizing for Postgres timestamp

2005-06-21 Thread prundle
Sluggers, Do any of the postgres savy among you know of a link or page to information about the storage size of the Postgres timestamp field (i.e how many bytes it takes up on disk). I realise that this may not be a simple question based on how Postgres stores/compresses rows onto disk but for

Re: [SLUG] W*b h*sting?

2005-06-21 Thread the.phule
On 6/21/05, Martin Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good cheap w*b h*sting service? I just need to run Bloxcom (a CGI Perl script) so nothing fancy. There seem to be a few $5-10/month services out there; anyone with good experiences? You could try Catalyst, its nearly

Re: GPL ADSL modems was Re: [SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:15, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't got my WAG54Gv2 unit yet, maybe my work ordered it yesterday, soon see if it turns up today or tomorrow. Decided to get the all in one unit, as if I dont need the wireless on it, I can remove antenna and disable it on

[SLUG] DirecPC under Linux (Telstra Sattelite)

2005-06-21 Thread Ryan Verner
Hi there, Anybody had any experiences setting up 1-way DirecPC (Telstra Bigpond) satellite with an uplink through an NT1+II USB ISDN modem on Linux? The DirecPC USB modem is a Hughes Network Systems (HNS) Sattelite Device, model ISU-R1. I seem to remember some commercial software a few years

Re: GPL ADSL modems was Re: [SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-21 Thread Voytek
quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:15, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been considering getting one of those, but I want to be able to load a Linux distro (one more functional than the standard one) on it. There are plenty for the WRT54GS v2[1], which I am also

RE: [SLUG] W*b h*sting?

2005-06-21 Thread Carlo Sogono
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Re: [SLUG] Motherboard for software raid

2005-06-21 Thread telford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:41:27PM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote: My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. Is there a good reason for that? I would be thinking to make a small boot partition

Re: [SLUG] WAG54G, was: GPL ADSL modems was: BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Fox
On 6/21/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Michael Fox On 6/20/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't got my WAG54Gv2 unit yet, maybe my work ordered it yesterday, soon see if it turns up today or tomorrow. this one says: Firmware Version: 1.00.39 Wireless-G ADSL

Re: GPL ADSL modems was Re: [SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Fox
On 6/22/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:15, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been considering getting one of those, but I want to be able to load a Linux distro (one more functional than the standard one) on it. There

[SLUG] BarMixing gcc versions

2005-06-21 Thread slug
Hi there! I'm looking at using gcc 3.4.4 to compile KDE on a system that started life as a gcc 3.3.5 compilation. This is a new experience for me so I was wondering if this is: a) a really silly idea. Should compile everything with 3.3.5. b) easy as new compiled stuff will just work with all

Re: [SLUG] DirecPC under Linux (Telstra Sattelite)

2005-06-21 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:16:25 +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: Anybody had any experiences setting up 1-way DirecPC (Telstra Bigpond) satellite with an uplink through an NT1+II USB ISDN modem on Linux? I can't help you with the satellite part, but the NT1+ is just a USB modem using

Re: [SLUG] Motherboard for software raid

2005-06-21 Thread jhonan
Jamie My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. Is there a good reason for that? I would be thinking to make a small boot partition (100M or less) and use the initrd to establish the drivers and get the RAID running. Then

[SLUG] Re: Motherboard for software raid

2005-06-21 Thread jam
Hi My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. Is there a good reason for that? I would be thinking to make a small boot partition (100M or less) and use the initrd to establish the drivers and get the RAID running.

Re: [SLUG] DirecPC under Linux (Telstra Sattelite)

2005-06-21 Thread Matt Moor
A quick google uncovered this, but there doesn't seem to be too much doco available.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/direcpc and http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:m088cZRuls8J:www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/direcpc But not much else. DirecPC is immensely popular in the parts of the