Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-18 Thread Byron Hillis
When it comes to unwired, I have nothing but negative things to say. I would strongly discourage it's use unless you don't mind the following features: - Even though I'm in a good coverage area (Summer Hill), and occasionally get the supposed full signal strength (green light), I get drop out

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu opera repository

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Croft
* Steve Kowalik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:00:57 +1100, Nick Croft uttered > > Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found > > on any of the sites that everyone recommends. > > > > deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial mai

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney??

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Hardy
Ben wrote: On 12/13/06, Nathan Eckenrode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife and I are quite possibly moving to Sydney - maybe to Manly - in a couple of months. I go to school online and need a high speed connection, preferrably one with a static IP address, any recommendations for which ISP is

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, john gibbons wrote: > I have been using Unwired in Sydney for most of the year. Provided you > check out reception quality in your area, which you can do via their > website, it is a good service and about 99.5% reliable. I think this is the key thing about Unwired,

[SLUG] Access Card on Background Briefing

2006-12-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
I listened to this edition of ABC RN's Background Briefing last night. It's about the government's proposed "Access Card" which is basically the Australia Card Mark II. Quite scary the privacy and security implications of this. You've got to worry when a government minister sells it by sayin

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-18 Thread john gibbons
I have been using Unwired in Sydney for most of the year. Provided you check out reception quality in your area, which you can do via their website, it is a good service and about 99.5% reliable. John. hav wrote: Nathan: I wouldn't want to be you, being the only yank - oh the what that you s

Re: [SLUG] Something oddball with iptables

2006-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:17:54PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I have a number of iptables rules on my border ppp0 connection that are > designed to collect traffic stats. > > One of the rules looks for inbound IPIP (protocol 4) traffic. > > The counters for this rule should not be changing a

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu opera repository

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:00:57 +1100, Nick Croft uttered > Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found > on any of the sites that everyone recommends. > > deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main > In this repository, opera is only built for i386

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney??

2006-12-18 Thread Ben
On 12/13/06, Nathan Eckenrode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife and I are quite possibly moving to Sydney - maybe to Manly - in a couple of months. I go to school online and need a high speed connection, preferrably one with a static IP address, any recommendations for which ISP is 'best'? DIS

[SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-18 Thread hav
Nathan: I wouldn't want to be you, being the only yank - oh the what that you shall cop! ;-0 However, If you're asking around you'll probably be told to ignore UnWired. However, if you only operate within Syd or Melb, then its actually a lot more reliable than most Sydneysiders know. I think th

[SLUG] Ubuntu opera repository

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Croft
Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found on any of the sites that everyone recommends. deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main or deb http://deb.opera.com/opera etch non-free I keep getting the 404 not found. I've got mostly dapper on thi

Re: [SLUG] JMicron woes....

2006-12-18 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:16:04 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: > I've got a GA-965P-S3 motherboard with on-board JMicrcon controller. I've Any motherboard with a 965 chipset is a bit of a bugger to get going ... I've installed Ubuntu Edgy on a couple of different Intel 965 motherboards but I need

Re: [SLUG] Dovecot & ACK problems

2006-12-18 Thread Glen Turner
Howard Lowndes wrote: > Any ideas where I should be looking. Try a straight-forward HTTP GET of a huge file and see if you have the same issues. Then you'll know if you are looking at network or application behaviour. Personally, I'd be thinking ethernet autonegotiation and a failure causing a

Re: [SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:26:52AM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > on several ocassions I had malware downloaded and executed from /tmp > (through CMS vulnerability); > > there was a suggestion here to mount /tmp as non executable; > > - do I need to partition the HD and make a separate partition f

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

2006-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:10:44AM +1100, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > > >Haven't seen the previous emails but what about > > > >sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3' > > > >or even > > > >awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print "Question number "$1"\n"$2"\n"$3}'

Re: [SLUG] Linux for Seniors

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Fischer
Hello, Sorry for the late reply. I live up in glenorie at the moment, and I have to travel past Castle hill (I go Right past the retirement village) almost every day, and I'd consider donating my time and expertise. I'm not a guru or anything, but I'm familiar with many of the standard linux app

[SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
on several ocassions I had malware downloaded and executed from /tmp (through CMS vulnerability); there was a suggestion here to mount /tmp as non executable; - do I need to partition the HD and make a separate partition for /tmp? - good/bad/excellent idea ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

[SLUG] convert image to text?

2006-12-18 Thread Martin Ivanov
Hello! I am running Slackware Linux 11.0. I have a pdf file from which I want to select text and paste in openoffice as text, not as image (picture). With other pdf files I have no problem using the text select tool, but with that particular pdf file only images can be selected, not text. I b

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

2006-12-18 Thread Ben
On 12/16/06, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What would be the easiest programming language to learn? Important variables: (1) my technical knowledge of Linux is limited though I love the philosophy of openness and (2) I am 80 years old, so at my age 'simple' also implies 'soon'. Not bein

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

2006-12-18 Thread Jacinta Richardson
Jacinta Richardson wrote: sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3\n/' awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print "Question number "$1"\n"$2"\n"$3"\n"}' Compared with the equivalent Perl one-liner: perl -F: -anle 'print "Question number ",join "\n",@F,"";' Apparently this is still too re

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

2006-12-18 Thread Jacinta Richardson
Alexander Samad wrote: Haven't seen the previous emails but what about sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3' or even awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print "Question number "$1"\n"$2"\n"$3}' Very cool. Although probably not going to help the OP learn how to program. Your sed p

[SLUG] JMicron woes....

2006-12-18 Thread Grant Parnell
I've got a GA-965P-S3 motherboard with on-board JMicrcon controller. I've been battling for about 3 days now and am just about to shelve it. Looks like there's a lot of Core2 Duo motherboards with this controller and IDE/SATA problems. Times like this I wish customers would consult me before bu