[SLUG] screen on SunOS

2007-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Slightly OT, but I'll give it a shot... I use screen for flicking between multiple terminals, but when I connect to a Sun box and run something like vi, I get this message: uname -a SunOS fubar 5.8 Generic_108528-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 vi foo screen: Unknown terminal type I don't know

RE: [SLUG] screen on SunOS

2007-10-08 Thread Visser, Martin
Try export TERM=vt100 (assuming you are using some sort of variant of /bin/sh) This is a generic terminal that should work Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile:

[SLUG] Ubuntu Gutsy release party

2007-10-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hello everyone, To celebrate the unveiling of Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' on Thursday 18 October, release parties are being held around the world. The Sydney release party is to be held in the Garden Bar at the Slip Inn, corner Sussex King St, Sydney. Details are on the SLUG calendar:

Re: [SLUG] screen on SunOS

2007-10-08 Thread David Lloyd
Sonia, uname -a SunOS fubar 5.8 Generic_108528-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 vi foo screen: Unknown terminal type I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'screen'. [Using open mode] I think that the problem is that a TERM of type 'screen' isn't listed in /etc/termcap

Re: [SLUG] Comsec behaving badly, how to talk to a big business

2007-10-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeremy Portzer wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: On 07/10/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:09:50AM +, Amos Shapira wrote: DATA: malformed address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n may not follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : failing address in To:

[SLUG] Newlines - was Re: Comsec behaving badly

2007-10-08 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Jeremy Portzer wrote: Common confusion/misconception is that \n refers to LF only. This is not always the case-usually it refers to the portable newline that gets expanded to the proper characters depending on platform or context. Over the wire, it is just newline,

Re: [SLUG] screen on SunOS

2007-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:29:13 +0930, David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think that the problem is that a TERM of type 'screen' isn't listed in /etc/termcap on the Sun box, but how do I solve it? Copy the terminfo from a Linux box up to the Sun box? Set TERM to something else when on the

[SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Antonio Candito
Hey guys, I'm a pretty much dead broke dole-bludger at the moment as I've been dealing with post-surgery pains for the last half a year but I'm keen to get back in to the force, away from windows. I was doing some snooping around on the net looking for Linux certification in the Sydney area and

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:06:51 +1000, Antonio Candito [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hey guys, I'm a pretty much dead broke dole-bludger at the moment as I've been dealing with post-surgery pains for the last half a year but I'm keen to get back in to the force, away from windows. I was doing some

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Antonio Candito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow, that was immensely helpful :) (really, I'm pretty sure that was the most awesome email I've ever had in RE: to anything I've asked) Well, you've 100% convinced me I was about to try and save up for a dead cause, I'm annoyed at the guy on the

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I would have to second this, I have seen a lot more Redhat than I have of SuSe. I followed the same track with rche, just sit the exam Alex On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:37:25AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:06:51 +1000, Antonio Candito [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hey

[SLUG] Knoppix vs Linspire - Ubuntu for Laptop

2007-10-08 Thread Erik Vandamme
Hi, How can I obtain a DVD/CD with current (both from cd) versions of both so I can compare which OS uses my laptop best.. Till recently I was a Microosft Windows - Visual Studio(+ASP MSSql etc..) kind of guy. Now that I am semi-retired I am developping in WAMP and loving it (mainly Joomla)

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Antonio Candito Am I going to need to get Red-hat server? (stupid question I know) because I'm very happy with Ubuntu and Slackware for my server Use CentOS, as suggested. It's a rebuild of RHEL. and if I have to start adjusting to that anti-foss gnuless corp I'm going to be very

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Antonio Candito
Jeff: Its funny, I was actually going to trail on my last reply that it sat equally unwell with me @ SuSE :) If there were Slackware (my second wife) certification I'd be all over it last year, but since were talking standards its not an option. On 10/9/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
No worries :) I'm not a kernel hacker but know a lot about training - good to help on list when I can. WRT to sales guys - they're wonderful people and I've got many friends who work in sales and I wish I had their selling skills. But I never believe anything they say :) Books - check out the

RE: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi, I've had in my hands an 80% off voucher for RHCE course and exam. I got it at a trade show. It ran out as I didn't have the time. Anyway you could always go to the Red Hat stand at Cebit for instance and ask for one. I will be next time. Thanks, Ben Donohue IT Manager Communications

Re: [SLUG] Knoppix vs Linspire - Ubuntu for Laptop

2007-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Download them both from the internet, burn them to dvd. Many magazines (both Linux Windows) include both on their cover cds. There's also websites that'll post the burned DVDs to you for a small price - see http://google.com :) S. On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:03:02 +1000, Erik Vandamme [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Antonio Candito
Hmm I can do Broadway. I'm a little confused about this following page though( https://www.redhat.com/apps/training/assess/ ), it assesses which course would be suitable (at least it seems so) but does not include the course which you linked me to (

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:37:27 +1000, Antonio Candito [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm a little confused about this following page though( https://www.redhat.com/apps/training/assess/ ), it assesses which Assessment means make suckers insecure so they'll buy lots of courses. Also gives HR people a bit

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread jam
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 09:04:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, that was immensely helpful :) (really, I'm pretty sure that was the most awesome email I've ever had in RE: to anything I've asked) Well, you've 100% convinced me I was about to try and save up for a dead cause, I'm annoyed at

RE: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Minh Van Le
Hello :) In my experience, nothing prepares you better than knowing the exam questions. Failing an exam is often a rude shock for people because despite all the official training and study guides they've covered and their naive beliefs in thoroughness they discover the reality that many of the

Re: [SLUG] Newlines - was Re: Comsec behaving badly

2007-10-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Common confusion/misconception is that \n refers to LF only. [ .. ] On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:12:35PM +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote: As I stated, \n (or newline) and LF (ASCII 10) are NOT precisely the same thing. [ .. ] You appear to be in violent agreement. --

Re: [SLUG] CLP? Novell course 3072

2007-10-08 Thread Antonio Candito
Ok, I just finished downloading the following chm RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302), Fifth Edition byMichael Jang McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2007 (896 pages) ISBN:9780072264548 Its the same book Sonia told me to buy, things are looking forward :) On 10/9/07, Minh Van Le

[SLUG] CentOS

2007-10-08 Thread Antonio Candito
Ok, following up with everything this morning I guess its time to get my hands dirty and install CentOS an my old (currently Gentto'd) 2.4 Celeron. I'm looking all over the place for a CentOS 5 DVD ISO (not a torrent, optus (or my fiances father) throttles the connections because they/he thinks