[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] linux assignment]

2006-08-22 Thread Phil Grimshaw
Folk, I watched with interest when the 'student' posted his request for help on his assignment. I agreed with a lot of the comment made by folk, but I opted to reply to David and keep it private, one-on-one. However, now that I see David again making the same approach I have decided to let the

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Software Freedom Day posters - need help

2006-08-22 Thread Andreas Fischer
There on the page provided in pia's email. :) Here's a more direct link:http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/oceania/au/sydney#line-70 On 8/21/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 05:12, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, attached are two pdfs (one bw and

[SLUG] 5.25 Floppy Drive (External or Internal)

2006-08-22 Thread O Plameras
/Hi, I'm looking for a 5.25 floppy drive (External or Internal) to recover some program codes I have. If you have and wish to dispose it for some cash please email me offline. Or I could lease it for a month or two if you still use it. Thanks. O Plameras / -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Sargent
Hi All,I've been told that one of the best ramen places in Sydney is in Crows Nest. I could get the location if it interests enough people. Cheers.Mark Sargent. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread Beach_Wins
Hi, I am planning to go for the 1st time. So glad to read this message as I was planning to go to Central station. I'm from Central Coast , Can you tell me if I should go to ST.Leonards railway station and do I need to catch a bus . ...Ben - Original Message - From: Lindsay

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 8/22/06, Beach_Wins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to go for the 1st time. So glad to read this message as I was planning to go to Central station. I'm from Central Coast , Can you tell me if I should go to ST.Leonards railway station and do I need to catch a bus . Hi, You'll

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:12:29 +1000, Beach_Wins wrote: I'm from Central Coast , Can you tell me if I should go to ST.Leonards railway station and do I need to catch a bus . Get off the train at St Leonards, walk through the ticket barriers and walk straight ahead until you reach the

[SLUG] Pushy Windows

2006-08-22 Thread john gibbons
Any help here would be appreciated. I had XP and Dapper working together on a partitioned drive. XP decided it would not boot any more because of a missing file. So I reinstalled it on its own previous drive partition leaving Ubuntu's untouched. Now on boot up I am offered only this

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread david
How would the parking be there at this time of day [if any exists at all close by] ? On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:12:29 +1000, Beach_Wins wrote: I'm from Central Coast , Can you tell me if I should go to ST.Leonards railway station and do I need to catch a bus . Get off the train at St

[SLUG] Re: 5.25 Floppy Drive

2006-08-22 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Oscar, I have one. I can't say with certainty that it works - I rescued it from a working machine but haven't tested it yet. In the spirit of Software Freedom Day it's now yours for free :) Regards, Patrick O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:25:28 +1000 /Hi, I'm

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:56:28 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would the parking be there at this time of day [if any exists at all close by] ? Lots of meter parking, most of which becomes free at 6:00pm (or maybe 6:30pm). Most areas have a two hour limit, and I think it's about $2/hr.

[SLUG] Re: 5.25 Floppy Drive

2006-08-22 Thread O Plameras
elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Oscar, I have one. I can't say with certainty that it works - I rescued it from a working machine but haven't tested it yet. In the spirit of Software Freedom Day it's now yours for free :) Thanks a lot. Can I pick it up or get a courier to pick it up ? I don't

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread david
Awesome. Thanks for that John. On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:56:28 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would the parking be there at this time of day [if any exists at all close by] ? Lots of meter parking, most of which becomes free at 6:00pm (or maybe 6:30pm). Most areas have a two

[SLUG] Re: SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:38:40AM +1000, Michael Kedzierski wrote: On 8/22/06, Beach_Wins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to go for the 1st time. So glad to read this message as I was planning to go to Central station. I'm from Central Coast , Can you tell me if I should go to

[SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer in the USA to get his X system going again. It was not a problem since he has a real ip address. What if he was behind a NAT router? Is there anyway that I could connect to his machine to fix him up? (I'm not much

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
port forwarding. on the nat router, look under the games/applications menu (assuming its an appliance type router) Dean Alan L Tyree wrote: The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer in the USA to get his X system going again. It was not a problem since

Re: [SLUG] Pushy Windows

2006-08-22 Thread SkoZombie
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 09:53 +1000, john gibbons wrote: Any help here would be appreciated. I had XP and Dapper working together on a partitioned drive. XP decided it would not boot any more because of a missing file. So I reinstalled it on its own previous drive partition leaving Ubuntu's

Re: [SLUG] Pushy Windows

2006-08-22 Thread Craig Dibble
john gibbons wrote: I had XP and Dapper working together on a partitioned drive. XP decided it would not boot any more because of a missing file. So I reinstalled it on its own previous drive partition leaving Ubuntu's untouched. Now on boot up I am offered only this unattractive choice: I

[SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule - when lo comes down, delete that same iptables rule Other rules,

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG August Monthly Meeting (with new venue)

2006-08-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 8/23/06, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:38:40AM +1000, Michael Kedzierski wrote: On 8/22/06, Beach_Wins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to go for the 1st time. So glad to read this message as I was planning to go to Central station. I'm

Re: [SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote: Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule - when lo comes

Re: [SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:51:23 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: deleted with -D, but only if you know the rule number which, as far as I can tell, you work out by running 'iptables -L' and counting the rules from the top of the chain. With '--line-numbers' you don't have to count :-) So are

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 7, Issue 42

2006-08-22 Thread jam
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 09:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any help here would be appreciated. I had XP and Dapper working together on a partitioned drive. XP decided it would not boot any more because of a missing file. So I reinstalled it on its own previous drive partition leaving

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:34:38AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: port forwarding. on the nat router, look under the games/applications menu (assuming its an appliance type router) Dean Alan L Tyree wrote: The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
those would be 'geek' points. ;) Dean Configuring port-fowarding on the the router is clearly the best if you can do it. If you want nerd points, you (he) could compile netcat with GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE and use it to allow external people to use a connection initiated from the inside. You'd

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread jam
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 09:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer in the USA to get his X system going again. It was not a problem since he has a real ip address. What if he was behind a NAT router? Is there anyway

[SLUG] Re: 5.25 Floppy Drive

2006-08-22 Thread elliott-brennan
No probs. I'll e-mail you off-post with contact details. Regards, Patrick O Plameras wrote: elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Oscar, I have one. I can't say with certainty that it works - I rescued it from a working machine but haven't tested it yet. In the spirit of Software Freedom Day it's

Re: [SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:51 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule - when

Re: [SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:51:23AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:05:57 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 09:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer in the USA to get his X system going again. It was not a problem since he has a real ip

Re: [SLUG] Request For Venue: SLUG monthly meeting

2006-08-22 Thread Carlo Sogono
Anand Kumria posted this UTS venue issue in the UTS programming society mailing list (of which I am also subscribed). It was suggested that if the venue was to be registered by the programming society, then it would be free. Of course you would have to officially declare the meetings as a

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:05:57AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The magic of ssh applies: The remote person sshs to you from somewhere either to your static or (quick phone call: victory = 10c/min to USA!) your dynamic address them: ssh -R 1200:localhost:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] me: ssh

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread david
As Dean said, but direct port 22 from the Router/Gateway to the local IP of his system. Can be tough if in a corporate environment and you dont have that sort of permissions. What stuff up was this ?? I had a Adept update last night for xorg, should I of not done it? Havent restarted X yet