Re: [SLUG] apt gpg key for planetmirror

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:29, Michael Guy wrote: > try this if you havent got it already set up > > wget http://amd64.debian.net/archive.key > apt-key add archive.key > > then > > apt-get install > > hopefully that should work out for you. Which is what I have now done and which did the trick. Many

[SLUG] CMS

I've been asked by a charity to look after a CMS for them. They have had Mambo recommeneded to them. I notice from the SLUG mailing list archives that mambo has been discussed before and appears to be on a par with Drupal. As Drupal seamed to come out in front in he last CMS discussion held recent

[SLUG] MRTG Demo data source

Dear list, I need to do a demo of signal graphing, so I though I would use MRTG. As I am away from my office, so I thought I would use two laptops. One of the server and the other as a client. The point is to show that we can do remote monitoring of 'real time' data. Yes, I admit the demo i

[SLUG] Cheap wireless card for Ubuntu

Dear list, Is there wireless card that works automagically with Ubuntu? Cheap would be nice but if not which cards work well using the ndiswrapper? Any recommendations / thoughts would be good. -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing PO Box 12 Gordon Australia 2072 Tel: +(61-2) 9412 4367 Fax: +(61-2)

Re: [SLUG] Cheap wireless card for Ubuntu

hi Is there wireless card that works automagically with Ubuntu? Cheap would be nice but if not which cards work well using the ndiswrapper? Any recommendations / thoughts would be good. my experience with kubuntu (based on hoary 5.04 AFAIR), which is the same as ubuntu, but instead of gnome

Re: [SLUG] Cheap wireless card for Ubuntu

Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, Is there wireless card that works automagically with Ubuntu? Cheap would be nice but if not which cards work well using the ndiswrapper? Any recommendations / thoughts would be good. Automagically is the key word here. :-) You didn't specify PCI or PCMCIA

Re: [SLUG] MRTG Demo data source

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:22:06PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: > I need to do a demo of signal graphing, so I though I would use MRTG. ... > What non-SNMP / MIB2 data sources are available? It's very easy to plug an arbitrary non SNMP data source into MRTG. The output just needs to be in the for

Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 13:15 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > James Gray wrote: > > > Digital Star (http://www.digitalstar.com.au) also have OS-less laptops on > > offer. From their main page, follow the link to "BTO Notebooks" or simply > > go here: > > http://www.digitalstar.com.au/_PowerNot

[SLUG] OT: Interesting Article about 64bit computing

This is a bit of an advocacy post so I'll try not to offend too many. Linux has some definite benefits over the closed source 64bit world. Read on :) There's an interesting article over at ExtremeTech about 64bit computing on Windows platforms. Seems our WinXP-64 encumbered brethren are facin

Re: [SLUG] OT: Interesting Article about 64bit computing

James Gray wrote: "Peripherals you currently own or plan to purchase in the near future (cameras, printers, MP3 players, handheld devices) will most likely NOT work on a system purchased with Windows XP Professional x64, and some software applications may not work on the x64 operating system."

Re: [SLUG] OT: Interesting Article about 64bit computing

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:57, QuantumG wrote: > James Gray wrote: > >"Peripherals you currently own or plan to purchase in the near future > >(cameras, printers, MP3 players, handheld devices) will most likely NOT > > work on a system purchased with Windows XP Professional x64, and some > > software a

[SLUG] PPP Multilink

Hello All   I have an installation where I have 2 Fedora 3 boxes in a rural environment about 2Km apart. At present I have a PPP link between them running very nicely at 115K. What I would like to do increase the bandwidth of the link between the 2 boxes, possibly by using multilink PPP. I

Re: [SLUG] VPN to Cisco

Mike MacCana wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:31 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi Having no experience with VPN'ing toa Cisco router endpoint, I'm interested in peoples thoughts on creating a VPN to a Cisco 1712 endpoint. The Cisco client requires a special kernel module and isn't Open Sour

Re: [SLUG] MRTG Demo data source

Ian Wienand wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:22:06PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: I need to do a demo of signal graphing, so I though I would use MRTG. ... What non-SNMP / MIB2 data sources are available? It's very easy to plug an arbitrary non SNMP data source into MRTG. The output jus

[SLUG] Getty setup for remote login

Sluggers, Ok so fresh from my success at getting my data logger working with unWired DHCP I'm trying to get it to respond to a remote dial up. The logger has a GSM modem in it and kermit and getty, but not mgetty or agetty. Getty is in fact a symbolic link to /bin/tinylogin If I fire up ker

Re: [SLUG] Getty setup for remote login

Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, Ok so fresh from my success at getting my data logger working with unWired DHCP I'm trying to get it to respond to a remote dial up. The logger has a GSM modem in it and kermit and getty, but not mgetty or agetty. Getty is in fact a symbolic link to /bin/tinyl