Re: [SLUG] Death to trackerd

2007-12-03 Thread bill
Only yesterday I installed LinuxMint 4.0 (Gnome) on one of my PCs which has 5 HDD's ( which Mint automounts), 4 of them full of data ( almost) and wondered why the drives were coninually bashng away. Finally remembered about indexing ( had same problem with Beagle on Kubuntu some time ago).

Re: [SLUG] Death to trackerd

2007-12-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=bill Why distros don't give one the option of install/don't install such programs I cannot understand Because if you take that choice into account, there are 100 more that people will whinge about. The best approach is to do the right thing by default and let users with specific

[SLUG] Java and Fedora Core 8

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Newmarch
Hi After lurking on this list for many years, it's time I contributed. Sun's Java under FC 8 is broken, and no Java apps that use X11 will run. Error is xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion 'c-xlib.lock' failed Other distros may have the same problem. Sun claim it is a bug with

Re: [SLUG] Domain Name Servers

2007-12-03 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Rick Phillips wrote: I have always thought that DNS servers for a domain may reside totally outside the domain. i.e. server.main.domain has no dns server running but has DNS servers other.server.com and another.server.com act authoritatively for server.main.domain. That is correct. We have

[SLUG] Domain Name Servers

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Phillips
I have always thought that DNS servers for a domain may reside totally outside the domain. i.e. server.main.domain has no dns server running but has DNS servers other.server.com and another.server.com act authoritatively for server.main.domain. We have a server with very sensitive information

Re: [SLUG] Domain Name Servers

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Phillips
Jeremy, This seems to contradict your previous statement. If you don't wish this server in question with the sensitive information, to run DNS services, why not set up the configuration that you already established as probable, with the DNS hosted entirely by different servers? I don't

Re: [SLUG] Domain Name Servers

2007-12-03 Thread mvanle2
I have always thought that DNS servers for a domain may reside totally outside the domain. i.e. server.main.domain has no dns server running but has DNS servers other.server.com and another.server.com act authoritatively for server.main.domain. We have a server with very sensitive

Re: [SLUG] D-Link 604T as an access point?

2007-12-03 Thread Martin Visser
On Dec 3, 2007 3:38 PM, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also - am I correct to assume that the 604T can run WRT? Not sure which WRT you are referring to, but neither http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices nor http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware would instill much

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation and wine on ubuntu gutsey for adobe photoshop flash premier etc

2007-12-03 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:03 +1100, David Peterson wrote: I also run vmware Win XP on linux and do the scp trick. I am wondering whether there is an easier way to move files between my host FS and the vmware instance, as it's a bit of a hassle using scp all the time. If you're running VMware

[SLUG] Calender Syncing...yet again

2007-12-03 Thread Trent Murray
Hi all, The issue of finding a piece of opensource software that runs on a linux box and allows outlook users to share calendars continues to evade me. I have many customers that need this functionality (as they all use windowz clients and most use Outlook that syncs with thier PDA's or phones)