Re: [SLUG] Debian + Bluetooth + Sony Ericsson S700i Pairing

2006-07-23 Thread Nick Croft
* Tom Massey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it that way as well, still doesn't work. Now find that kbluetoothd is popping up a window: Make sure that the pin-helper is executable. I think the debian scripts turn up as 644. You need 755 or 754. The

[SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?

2006-07-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm in the process of setting up a new LAMP server with Centos; on a 80GB IDE (c1024, h256, s63) as I intened to install/set it up on 'some hardware', and, later on, replace the current hard drive with this 80GB hardrive on a remote to me server: am I likely to strike any issue in BIOS IDE

Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?

2006-07-23 Thread Dion
I can't recall if there were problems with largish hard drives going into P3 class machines. You might get some clues by going to the download site for new bios' for your machines motherboard and look at the comments / changes made in recent bios revisions. Do you know what sort of ATA

Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?

2006-07-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Mon, July 24, 2006 9:45 am, Dion wrote: I can't recall if there were problems with largish hard drives going into P3 class machines. You might get some clues by going to the download site for new bios' for your machines motherboard and look at the comments changes made in recent bios

Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?

2006-07-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:01:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports' what limitations does that pose ? I think that it should be ok; there's some old kernels can't handle bigger than 33.something Gb. The next problem occurs at 137Gb for some

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake - Problems with installing RPMs

2006-07-23 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 10:23 +1000, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: I installed Gnucash onto my machine initially but can't seem to get it to run, sure you can click it and it has the appearance of starting for a second but then it disappears into hyperspace. I then thought to re-install it but ran

Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?

2006-07-23 Thread Dion
Voytek Eymont wrote: Dion, as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports' what limitations does that pose ? UDMA66 is only good for 66 MB/s transfer rates. If your hard disk is brand new, it most likely supports ATA133 (133MB/s) so it's capable of higher transfer rates than your

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Howdy all

2006-07-23 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:55 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Linux, open sores, and questions of a technical nature are all on topic for the main list. You can't write that kind of comedy, nice one Jaq -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Changes urged after research into work visa

2006-07-23 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
This seems to be an old report. The copyright notice on the report, to which there is a link from the url below, is 2002. Bob Kinnaird's report on IT migration Thursday, 12 January 2006 I posted yesterday on the attention Bob Kinnaird's report on IT migration has been getting in the media.

[SLUG] RE: [chat] Howdy all

2006-07-23 Thread Christopher Martin
Linux, open sores, and questions of a technical nature are all on topic for the main list. Great! I don't know if you can present a Linux block device back out a SCSI controller... the closest thing I know of that you can do this with is i-scsi, i.e. present the block device over the

Re: [SLUG] RE: [chat] Howdy all

2006-07-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:25:38PM +1000, Christopher Martin wrote: I don't know if you can present a Linux block device back out a SCSI controller... the closest thing I know of that you can do this with is i-scsi, i.e. present the block device over the network. I haven't actually done

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Howdy all

2006-07-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:25:38PM +1000, Christopher Martin wrote: Thanks, iSCSI may be a solution. While we're suggesting myriad ways to present block devices over the network, take a quick squiz at ATA over Ethernet -- I was pleasantly amazed at how trivial it was to get working with the aoe