[SLUG] Proxy setting for yum in Fedora 7

2007-09-20 Thread leei
Hi All, Sorry to bother you all again. I hope you guys can help me. In Fedora 7 where would you set the ip address of the proxy for using yum? Please can you let me know the name of the file and I am forwarding my squid.conf to another proxy server would I put in that proxy servers ip address

Re: [SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

2007-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/09/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:04:04AM +1000, bill wrote: I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop. Connected phone-line -- modem/router -- gigabit ethernet switch -- PCs ( via CAT5 cable) I've just noticed that you mention that you ue

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as to how to identify the problem? From: Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most

Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root

2007-09-20 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Kevin Shackleton wrote: Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and adding myself to the audio group made no difference. If you type 'groups' in an xterm, are you in the audio group? Whats the output of ls -l /dev/dsp? Is xmms set up to use /dev/dsp for output or is it

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 9/20/07, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as to how to identify the

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Erik, Yes, I tested with 'groups', /dev/dsp shows the group is 'audio'. This pc uses ALSA. I've had trouble with eg audacity in the past where there was competition between possible audio streams Now, this is weird - when I ran 'strace xmms' (to see if I could pick an error) it all worked!

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how?

2007-09-20 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:42:13AM +1000, John Clarke wrote: Unfortunately HP only provide updates as a package with a Windows (not DOS) program called WinFlash. Thanks to all who replied with suggestions on how to do the upgrade without reinstalling Windows. I did finally manage to do the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as to how to identify the

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:29 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Our coders now use Cygwin to make shell scripts run on Windows and noticed that the API is GPL'ed (they just port shell scripts but for output redirection they had to write a small C program using the API). There are exceptions to

Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-20 Thread James Polley
If you're looking for quick sending of files and don't care about encryption, netcat and some tar might do the trick for you - http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/tarpipe.html On 20/09/2007, Scott Ragen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 20/09/2007 02:00:21 PM: Are

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
I've dodged it all and installed Etch. strace wasn't in my FC7 but it is in Etch. strace'ing on xmms in FC7 resulted in a steady stream of data - 2 or 3 lines a second - it would have to be carefully grepped to see anything useful.

Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread James Dumay
It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal. So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company - and this reporter is just passing this fact off as news. ~James On 9/20/07,

[SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread gav
Hello all, Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ? Thanks, Gav -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
*pedantic* technically ogg is just an envelope, its vorgis you are after *endpedantic* dont go past lexmarks from aldi, they are laser and way cheap. they work quite well in linux (look for a penguin on the side) i wouldnt (i dont infact) go past ipods for personal audio, however i use the

Re: [SLUG] Proxy setting for yum in Fedora 7

2007-09-20 Thread Tony Sceats
Hi Lee, Not sure about version 7, but it's usually found in /etc/yum.conf You can add the line like proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128 Which proxy you should use I guess depends upon what other systems would be using yum and which proxies they use... eg, if there's no other systems going

[SLUG] Change of Email Address

2007-09-20 Thread sonia
** This is an automatically generated email - my apologies ** if you receive it in error or more than once. snowfrog.net is soon to be no more! My new email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and my website is now at http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com. Please update your address book. -- Thanks,

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not sure about what you mean by cheap. Small Lasers are quite cheap these days. I have an old Lexmark Optra E312L that works perfectly for me. A quick on the Linux Printing website would be of assistance. Try:

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, gav wrote: Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. You can have a cheap printer or cheap ink, rarely both. I'd go for the cheap ink, expensive printer if I were you! I've had great success buying used

Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:21 +1000, Scott Ragen wrote: There are patches to enable cipher none in openssh if its really needed. This and the extended window patch are popular with people who want to do authenticated fast file transfers of data they don't regard as private. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Seeking AU suppliers of laptops with GNU/Linux preinstalled

2007-09-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone is providing these to the market could they point me to their web site or marketing details please. Try this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/UbuntuFriendlyNotebooks -- Don't try to be like Jackie. There

Re: [SLUG] Change of Email Address

2007-09-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:17:17AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** This is an automatically generated email - my apologies ** if you receive it in error or more than once. Sorry everyone, by bad. Teach me not to multitask... -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as

Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread Del
James Dumay wrote: It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal. So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company - and this reporter is just passing this fact off as news.

Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:36 +1000, Del wrote: James Dumay wrote: It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal. So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company -

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]]

2007-09-20 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Crikey, that's a dramatic solution! strace is certainly available for FC7: yum install strace Did you mention it was on Fedora before? If I'd noticed I would have suggested you check the selinux log. selinux failures also put up a warning on the gui (you might need particular rpms installed)

Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:43 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: So there's still time to rush out and buy me a whole stack of SCO shares! Yay! I was thinking about putting a pool together to buy UNIX from them. I'm in for $20. Then you've got a problem, because the heart of SCO's current legal

Re: [SLUG] Seeking AU suppliers of laptops with GNU/Linux preinstalled

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/UbuntuFriendlyNotebooks Also HP and Lenovo have announced pre-installed Linux retail sales in Australia. Not sure if the reality has caught up with the announcement. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:58 +1000, gav wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy. You are looking at

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Rodger Dean
Hi Gav, The brother HL-2040 is quite cheap. Actually cheaper than the consumables. Is great for b/w printing. Is a basic laser printer.Some places are selling it for $99. A new drum costs $129 Drivers available: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html Regards Rodger gav wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Glen Turner wrote: There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy. You are looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use one a year in a household with three people printing uni and school assignments. Beware that

Ogg Players Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
gav wrote: snip Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ? snip There are a few audio formats - I am not an audiophile but, I think there are FLACphiles. More about Ogg http://wiki.xiph.org/Ogg List of Ogg/Vorbis players