[SLUG] Qmail Gets Hung by Viruses on Client Computers (I think)

2007-02-07 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There, I have a qmail server which processes a number of messages and then stops at a set of ones that look like this: qmail-remote yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The effect is a DOS. Does anyone know of any possible "solution" to this? DSL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

[SLUG] Off Topic - Treo 650 / '3' mobile

2007-02-07 Thread Neast
Hello sluggers, If anyone has a 650 - can you use the 3 network? TIA, Nick Tomlin. begin:vcard fn:Nicholas Tomlin n:Tomlin;Nicholas org:Alarmist;Engineering Services adr:;;219 The Round Drive;Avoca Beach;NSW;2251;Australia email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Director tel;work:+610418811953 t

[SLUG] Panel Discussion NSW ICT for 2007 State Election

2007-02-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The Australian Computer Society is hosting a panel discussion on NSW ICT for 2007 State Election. This can be a way to hear the positions of the main parties involved, as well as to make the FLOSS position heard. The event will be held on Wednesday 21 February 2007, between 17:30 and 19:30. Adm

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
avoid ooo, try abiword - it may do the job Dean Zhasper wrote: On 06/02/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have 192Mb, which is the maximum it supports. Minimum? :) I happened to stumble on http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-memory.html a few days ago

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread jam
On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LTSP is easy, but you need to do it right. I can get LTSP up-n-running in > > 30 > > min. The apt-get solution is experimental and mostly does not work. > > What "apt-get solution"? The LTSP package? > > Do not go for ltsp-5 (experime

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Is SLUG down?

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought that attack was over. The report from my error log indicated Maybe what happens is that some large attack on the root servers, or other resources on the way to your link, actually causes your site to be less accessible to other

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread Zhasper
On 06/02/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have 192Mb, which is the maximum it supports. Minimum? :) I happened to stumble on http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-memory.html a few days ago, which seems to tackle your original question regarding xubuntu v

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LTSP is easy, but you need to do it right. I can get LTSP up-n-running in 30 min. The apt-get solution is experimental and mostly does not work. What "apt-get solution"? The LTSP package? Do not go for ltsp-5 (experimental, read about

Re: [SLUG] Linux Questions

2007-02-07 Thread rahman fazlur
Peter, Thanks a lot. mii-tool works fine. I have changed the setting to 100 and full-duplex now. I really appreciate the time you have taked to increase my knowledge. Hopefully I will join the monthy meeting. Thanks again. Regards, Fazlur. - Original Message From: Peter Chubb <[EMA

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-07 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:51:51 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/02/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I tried Freespire as part of the plan to get my friend set up. It > > seemed like a good idea since he is into the music/video stuff. > > > Are you aware tha

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/02/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried Freespire as part of the plan to get my friend set up. It seemed like a good idea since he is into the music/video stuff. Are you aware that there are quite a few distributions geared exactly towards that niche? (can't remember any

Re: [SLUG] dpkg-buildpackage

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/02/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dpkg-buildpackage What is required? The man page seems to assume you know where/how to use it and what files or directories are required. For a start, maybe you should install apt-src and follow its documentation - it's a convenient front-end to

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread jam
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > What do you mean by that? All these live CD's are mostly a an easy way to > get the right Debian packages configured easily for newbies or when the > situation fits the prescription (LTSP). Debian has a super-set of all these >

[SLUG] dpkg-buildpackage

2007-02-07 Thread david
dpkg-buildpackage What is required? The man page seems to assume you know where/how to use it and what files or directories are required. The maintainer of a package has asked me to do dpkg-buildpackage to help with some de-bugging but he assumed I knew how to do it :( I've googled ... but every

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-07 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:35:16 +1100 Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John wrote: > > > Well you'll certainly get good support from SLUG for Ubuntu. > > > > I found SUSE the best for install and go for wireless etc. Ubuntu > > (my mileage) still needed a lot of fiddling. > > > > The ne