Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 07:48, Anthony Wood wrote: AOL* - something about Lisa. Actually its AOL! acording to dict ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dict AOL 3 definitions found From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]: AOL! n. [Usenet] Common synonym for Me, too! alluding to the legendary

RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down...

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 02:39, Jared Pritchard wrote: the httpd error log reports similar - and all the same on todays date - [Wed Sep 24 10:59:59 2003] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 x31 ... so that seems to be the error..! canoot bind to port

[SLUG] battery monitor

2003-09-09 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have been trying to get the orinoco drivers compiled so that I can use airsnort, however in my 57th recompile of the kernel I have suddenly lost my battery monitor...well its there but it is showing a red ! and that is empty...I dont remember doing anything special to get it working in

[SLUG] radius script

2003-09-08 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have a file which has lines in it like the following: username1,password1,7200,10800 username2,password2,7200,10800 username3,password3,10800,10800 etc...and I need to turn the file into this: username1 Password = password1 Idle-Timeout = 7200, Session-Timeout =

Re: [SLUG] radius script

2003-09-08 Thread Adam Hewitt
heh...Theres always got to be one cook who spoils the Pi ;o) Adam On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:08, Stuart Cooper wrote: divide the circumference by 6.283 Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] more ibook issues

2003-09-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
went to grab the codecs I realized that they are binary x86 codecs only. How can I go about getting codecs for ppc? Cheers, Adam. -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010

[SLUG] airsnort

2003-09-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has managed to get airsnort working with their apple airport card? There is a link from the airsnort homepage, however it seems to be broken. Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] finance under linux

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Hewitt
well I just installed Gnucash and cranked her up and it bombed out with this error... Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library The font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale C (Missing character set

[SLUG] ibook keyboard

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Hewitt
be nice, or some info on setting them each up manually?? Cheers, Adam. -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010 Telephone: +61 8 9383 1800Facsimile: +61 8 9383

[SLUG] Accelerated X on ibook

2003-09-03 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have compiled the drm-trunk modules from Daenzer and installed them which all seemed to go ok. I have selected radeon for my video driver in XF86Config-4 and X is working, but I dont have any X acceleration. I have gone through every f*cking howto and hints page I could find to get

[SLUG] *debian* on ibook

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have managed to get the base install of debian working on my ibook (I fixed the console-common problem by rebooting *shrugs*) however I am having a very hard time getting X working. I have followed the instructions on http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/step_step/index.html which has told

[SLUG] finance under linux

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, After cracking the shits that my mother-in-law is forever telling her friends that I work with computers and ending up coming home every night to fix someone elses computer problems, I have decided to get myself and ABN and start charging for the privilege (and as I found out 4 weeks ago

[SLUG] ppclinux.org's benh kernel

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Hewitt
Of course in my madness I forgot to mention that this is the ibook kernel I am talking about... Hi All, After a frustrating afternoon I realised that although the latest benh kernel is 2.4.20 the source code for it is 2.4.21 which has a little note under it saying that the source code for

Re: [SLUG] ppclinux.org's benh kernel

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi Jamie, I have searched the archives and can't find anything on a patch, could you forward me the link by any chance?? Adam. On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 19:46, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Adam Hewitt wrote: After a frustrating afternoon I realised that although the latest

[SLUG] ibook keymapping

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Hewitt
in X (so if I go to a console from X I can't get back). Does anyone have an english qwerty kepmapping working in both X and console and if so which ones are you using? Adam. -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1

[SLUG] linux on ibook: Chapter 2

2003-09-01 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Well I ended up doing what I imagine you were all expecting...I installed Yellow Dog linux. I have to say that the install was awesome, the interface was awesome (never having seen RH unified theme before) and everything just worked. If I was using my laptop as word processor then I

[SLUG] just a thought

2003-08-29 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, After reading this slashdot article: http://www.circleid.com/article/215_0_1_0_C/ which discusses the background 'noise' that has been increasing on the internet, I began thinking about the possibility of a sub-net for lack of a better term. Bascially the idea would follow that of

[SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug

Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea...

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Hewitt
A word of advise...People are less likely to want to help when you appear to be demanding it of them... Dont get me wrong, I understand that you are frustrated, possibly been searching mailing lists, google, IRC, etc with no luck (or maybe you haven't ;) and this is your last ditch effort. Thats

[SLUG] radius monitoring

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Hewitt
. -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010 Telephone: +61 8 9383 1800Facsimile: +61 8 9383 2818 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.globaldial.com

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Emails Double-up.

2003-08-27 Thread Adam Hewitt
! ~~~ _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010 Telephone: +61 8 9383 1800

[SLUG]

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, While playing around with spamassassin I managed to have all uncoming mail redirected to a file in mbox format. I now need to attempt to seperate the emails and place them in the appropriate Maildir directories. I know it is faily trivial to convert the file to Maildir format, but does

[SLUG] oops...sorry forgot the subject - Mbox/Maildir problem

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Hewitt
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Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Hewitt
seems to be working #ping 202.12.88.42 PING 202.12.88.42 (202.12.88.42) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 202.12.88.42 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1999ms [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping 202.12.88.106 PING 202.12.88.106 (202.12.88.106) 56(84) bytes of data.

[SLUG] amavis and exim

2003-08-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
/amavis WOuld someone mind telling me what this means or how to fix it. Googling has come up with 1 page that looks like russian of some decription. Adam. -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway

Re: [SLUG] Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii fuckiiiiittttttttt I need help

2003-08-21 Thread Adam Hewitt
- http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug --- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010 Telephon

Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-21 Thread Adam Hewitt
: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug --- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010 Telephone: +61 8 9383 1800

Re: [SLUG] Screen Capture

2003-08-19 Thread Adam Hewitt
dude...you might want to set your date...unless of course your an avid hippy!! On Fri, 1970-01-02 at 12:22, Lyle Chapman wrote: -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010

Re: [SLUG] radius python script

2003-08-19 Thread Adam Hewitt
wooops..here it is!!! radius.py Description: application/text On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 17:23 Australia/Perth, Ben de Luca wrote: Where is the code? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Hewitt Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2003 4:58

[SLUG] wireless bandwidth

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Unless I am mistaken, I am of the belief that a wireless network with, for example, an access point and four laptops will give each laptop the full 11Mbps connection (depending on signal strength and quality), and *not* divide the 11Mb between all remote connections due to the fact that

RE: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Del Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 9:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please. --snip-- Very Linux friendly guys, yes their tech support people aren't brilliant

[SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have just had to resign myself to install windows on my work PC for various reasons and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that contains a list of open source software for windows such as Mozilla? If I have to support MS then I would like to make it a minimal effort. Adam.

[SLUG] RAID problem

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have a server with RAID 1 that sh*t itself on reboot a few days ago. Basically I rebooted and got a Kernel Panic with Attempting to kill init. I can boot with a rescue disk and load up /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3 (which are the raid partitions), but I can't seem to find any information as

RE: [SLUG] Experience with emulators. (open source software)

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Well after about a week of going back to Windows and trying all the open source software for windows that oyu kind people told me about, I have come to one conclusion...Windows is shit, and open source software built on shit unfortunately becomes shit by inheritance. My

RE: [SLUG] wireless bandwidth

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Damn... :o( -Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 11 August 2003 4:30 PM To: Adam Hewitt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] wireless bandwidth On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 18:16, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, Unless I am

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Just cross your fingers that you dont ever have a problem, because the TPG Network Engineers are morons. Adam. On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 05:51, David Kempe wrote: If anyone wants to use a Netgear DM602 with TPG in bridged mode, the latest firmware off the website doesn't work real well. I

[SLUG] cistron-radius webmin module

2003-08-03 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has used the Cistron-Radius Webmin Module? I have installed and configured it and I am having two problems. Firstly I can't seem to find any section that allows you to specify session/timeout limits and concidering the amount of other configuration you can change

[SLUG] frontpage extensions

2003-08-03 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Does anyone know how to recreate all of the frontpage extensions on a single website? I have frontpage installed and working, however I have a couple of sites that seems to have lost the frontpage directories and files and I am getting errors when trying to use frontpage to connect to the

[SLUG] sql2tinydns

2003-07-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I am trying to setup sql2tinydns and I am having some drama's. I have installed the username and database ok into my SQL server, and I have imported the schema ok also (i think, at least I didn't get any errors). However when I try and bring up the webpage I am getting the following

[SLUG] Re: [plug] sql2tinydns

2003-07-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
at 16:40, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I am trying to setup sql2tinydns and I am having some drama's. I have installed the username and database ok into my SQL server, and I have imported the schema ok also (i think, at least I didn't get any errors). However when I try and bring up

Re: [SLUG] apt-get died on Monday....help!

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Hewitt
User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug --- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010

Re: [SLUG] Apache: auto generate public_html folder for users

2003-07-21 Thread Adam Hewitt
/listinfo/slug --- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer Global Dial 1300 130 710 --- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

[SLUG] apt-rpm

2003-07-21 Thread Adam Hewitt
love the SLUG crowd, so I hope you dont mind if I keep posting here...;) --- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010

[SLUG] debian kernel 2.4.21 with freeswan 2.00 and herberts patch

2003-07-17 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I am trying to get freeswan working with the 2.4.21 debian kernel (which Herbert backported the 2.5 IPsec stack for), and I am having some problems. As far as I understand it I need to get the freeswan-2.00.patch.gz file from http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/debian/freeswan/ I

Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildirstructure

2003-07-08 Thread Adam Hewitt
I dont know about the Maildirs but I think you will find that it is actually the client that knows whether the mail has been read or not. I remember formatting my PC and reinstalling before and when I checked my mail they were all unread. Adam. On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:28, Gonzalo Servat wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to CyrusMaildir structure

2003-07-08 Thread Adam Hewitt
. brett Adam Hewitt wrote: I dont know about the Maildirs but I think you will find that it is actually the client that knows whether the mail has been read or not. I remember formatting my PC and reinstalling before and when I checked my mail they were all unread. Adam. On Wed, 2003

[SLUG] external dvd-rom/cd-rw

2003-06-28 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Does anyone know if one of these even exist, I have been searching for a while and haven't found one?? (and when I say external I actually mean a 'real' external, ie small...not a combo drive in an external housing) Cheers Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] oroborosx or Apples X11

2003-06-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I am about to purchase an Apple iBook and I have been having a quick look around at the posibility of using Aqua with X11 and be able to run linux programs. I know that there is the fink project which looks awesome, and I believe that you have to install fink, XDarwin and either OroborosX

[SLUG] mail redirecting

2003-06-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I read an email recently from someone who has port 25 blocked by their ISP and they pasted a URL of a company that will host your domain and redirect mail to a port other than 25. I have searched through the archives and cannot find the mail. Does anyone know a site that offers this

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Mike, I believe the original request was looking at about 100 ips, and a scalable solution. I dont think 100 tcpdumps is either simple or scalable. Adam. On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day... Have you considered doing a: # tcpdump -i interface | grep 1.2.3.4

Re: [SLUG] xpdf crashes when trying toview fontinstallationguide.pdf

2003-06-22 Thread Adam Hewitt
That is on Debian ;) Unstable of course..hehe Adam. On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 20:31, Michael Lake wrote: Adam Hewitt wrote: I just opened it without problems with xpdf version 2.02pl1-1 ah my version here is xpdf 1.00-3 perhaps that is the problem - Debian is just so far behind. On Sat

Re: [SLUG] xpdf crashes when trying to viewfontinstallationguide.pdf

2003-06-21 Thread Adam Hewitt
Michael, I just opened it without problems with xpdf version 2.02pl1-1 Adam. On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:59, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, Has anyone used xpdf to view the LaTeX font installation guide at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf ? My xpdf

[SLUG] lost menus

2003-06-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I just upgraded my Sid desktop and have lost everything under the menus in Gnome. Is something broken in the archives or have I done something stupid?? Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Ximian Desktop 2

2003-06-09 Thread Adam Hewitt
Jeff and others, Although Debian is not in the supported distro list, does anyone know if Ximian Desktop will install on it, and if so how does it go about dealing with dpkg in removing the current gnome/evolution/galeon packages?? It looks really cool and concidering I use all the software

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Swiftel

2003-06-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Alex, I dont have anything to tell you about swiftel, however iiNet are 'linux aware'...which means they have redhat tutorials on their website to help you get connected, and they also host debian and redhat mirrors. They also dont freak when you tell them that you have your ADSL connected to a

[SLUG] DNS issues

2003-06-03 Thread Adam Hewitt
. Please dont ask why I am using tinydns...just assume that it is not negotiable. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] apt

2003-04-03 Thread Adam Hewitt
I have tried cutting the source list down to one line, and it still does the same thing. Besides that my desktop machine has more sources than you could poke a stick at and it never segfaults..!! Any other ideas?? On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:24, Peter Chubb wrote: Adam == Adam Hewitt [EMAIL

[SLUG] apt

2003-04-02 Thread Adam Hewitt
stable/updates main contrib non-free (Yes I am using apt-proxy, however it is working fine for my other machine with exactly the same sources.list) I have tried deleting the pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin and starting again with the same result...I am at a loss Any thoughts?? Adam. -- Adam

Re: [SLUG] Debian x2

2003-03-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
Mick, I think you need to sit back for a minute and try and figure out what exactly you are doing when someone tells you to do it, not just do it. I am going to go back and explain a few commands that you have run recently so that you know what you have been doing. 1. dpkg -P diald (This

Re: [SLUG] Mounting a second hard drive

2003-03-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
Yes you can mount your new drive into /home. Any data already in that directoty will not be accessable until you unmount the new drive. If you move the entire /home directory to say /hometemp and then mount your new drive to /home, you can then copy all the data from /hometemp to the new drive

Re: [SLUG] i386, i586,i686 for AMD XP

2003-03-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi Mick, The Athlon processors come under the k7 architecture... kernel-image-2.4.16-k7 Good luck Adam. On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:56, Mick Boda wrote: Hi All, I'd like to thank Adam Hewitt for his time and effort in preparing his email to me. I have read the document several times

Re: [SLUG] Debian Sound not working

2003-03-30 Thread Adam Hewitt
you might want to try: apt-get install alsa-base alsa-modules-2.4.20-686 (or whichever modules package reflects the kernel you are using...) Thanks to StevenK's new debconf config script ALSA install is a breeze After this has been installed you will find that a) the volume is muted,

Re: [SLUG] Debian Sound and other problems

2003-03-30 Thread Adam Hewitt
1. apt-get install smbclient...samba is the server so it doesn't need to mount 2. uname -r 3. as I said before you need to install the alsa-modules for your kernel try 'apt-get install alsa-modules-`uname -r`' -- note that those are backticks not single quotes around the uname -r Adam. PS. I

Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

2003-03-24 Thread Adam Hewitt
The backported packages are NOT officially supported in Debian, you use them at your own risk. Also I have two words for you line wrapping... Adam. On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or have some Debian

Re: [SLUG] linux mp3 player/jukebox for large collections

2003-03-24 Thread Adam Hewitt
Good Luck, I have also been looking for an mp3 player that meets my requirements, and so far have been unsuccessful. I have also mentioned this to other linux users who have also mentioned their frustrations with linux mp3 players. I have been thinking about writing an mp3 player for linux for a

[SLUG] mplayer

2003-03-19 Thread Adam Hewitt
installed mplayer by compiling a deb, the plugin I downloaded the rpm and used alient to covert it to a deb, obviously I am running debian, with mozilla 1.2.1 Cheers, Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] installing java for Mozilla

2003-03-18 Thread Adam Hewitt
As you will find here: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java there are instructions for installing Java... Cheers, Adam. On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 12:49, Perry, David J wrote: I need to install java support for Mozilla 1.0.1 on Redhat 8.0. I can't access many of the features on the

Re: [SLUG] Debian Manuals

2003-03-17 Thread Adam Hewitt
IMHO I would definitely *not* recommend people using IRC (except maybe the #slug channel, which I only just found out about). It probably took me an extra 3 years to learn to use linux because of the attitudes of linux users on IRC. I can give you a list of 5 names right now off the top of my head

RE: [SLUG] Debian Manuals

2003-03-17 Thread Adam Hewitt
#debian-newbies .. what server is that on? Oz.org servers? Shanna -Original Message- From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2003 10:10 AM To: Chris D Cc: mick; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian Manuals my own irc channel at #debian-newbies

Re: [SLUG] iinet DSL + Debian

2003-03-16 Thread Adam Hewitt
I have connected my debian server to iiNet without any dramas. I used pppoeconf and used the username of username@iinet.net.au. Afterwards just check your chap-secrets file to make sure that the username and password looks ok (I have found that if you already have an entry in there, ie modem, then

Re: [SLUG] ssh trouble

2003-03-16 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi Alan, I may be wrong but it looks like the ssh server is configured for key authentication only, if your keys are not listed in the authorized_keys file then you will get the big boot. If this was a firewall issue then you would not be able to connect at all. Cheers, Adam. On Mon,

Re: [SLUG] Canon driver

2003-03-16 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi Kevin, As you can see here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S200 Your printer is a paperweight...they good news is that this site will help you to choose a new printer Cheers, Adam. On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 12:38, Kevin Waterson wrote: Does anyone know of a driver

[SLUG] usb and scsi

2003-03-12 Thread Adam Hewitt
such as appending details in lilo to only make the burner scsi but nothing seemed to work. Could someone please give me some hints on how I can get around this one too?? Cheers, Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

RE: [SLUG] Win2k - Linux VPN

2003-03-12 Thread Adam Hewitt
invented to keep the honest people out. Cheers, Adam. However, you still want a firewall or the like protecting the VPN box, if the VPN box is compromised, then the whole VPN is compromised too. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Win2k - Linux VPN

2003-03-12 Thread Adam Hewitt
oversight somewhere but I can't find it? Is there a better way? (apart from not using M$ OS at all that is). Thanks for any tips or info. Fil -- Phil Scarratt -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

[SLUG] Gnome2.2/gtk metacity themes

2003-03-09 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have recently installed aqua themes for GTK2 and Metacity on my home machine and everything is working and looking very nice. However I just tried installing the same themes on my work system and I am getting the Metacity borders ok, and I seem to be getting 'part' of the gtk theme

[SLUG] Gnome2.2/gtk metacity themes

2003-03-09 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Thanks, I have it working...Turns out I hadn't run switch enough times (???) and it is now working... Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Nautilus themes

2003-03-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I found a way before that you could change the 'theme' of nautilus, however I seem to have lost it. Could someone please refresh my memory on how to do this?? Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

[SLUG] Nautilus themes

2003-03-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I found a way before that you could change the 'theme' of nautilus, however I seem to have lost it. Could someone please refresh my memory on how to do this?? Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

[SLUG] Nautilus themes

2003-03-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Before you ask, I am running gnome 2.2...I have been told to do it under the Gnome theme manager, goto custom, and then go to the nautilus section, however I dont seem to have a nautilus section??? -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] ADSL

2003-02-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
. (I think it is supposed to just be configured as a regular ethernet interface...but??) Cheers, Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ADSL

2003-02-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
, and woila - you're away... All the best... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/02/2003 02:49 PM

Re: [SLUG] ADSL

2003-02-25 Thread Adam Hewitt
Did you have to *do* something to change the modem to use brideg mode?? On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:59, Anthony Wood wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:49, Adam Hewitt wrote: I have a friend who is tryign to configure ADSL under debian. The a friend, eh? problem is that he is connecting

Re: [SLUG] UT

2003-02-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Well I found the problem...for some reason I had 3D audio selected, and once it was turned off I was actually getting better performance than in windows (as I would have expected) Cheers, Adam. On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 20:54, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote: From: Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SLUG] UT

2003-02-22 Thread Adam Hewitt
for it?? If you need any more info please ask... My Machine Specs: Athlon 2000+ Nvidia Geforce 440MX 256Mb DDR RAM Cheers Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] MS Game Voice

2003-02-16 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has information on how to get the gamevoice working, or rather the best way to get it working. I have found a software package called teamspeak which looks like it will do the trick, however it is only compatible with itself, so everyone wanting to chat can only

[SLUG] apt failure

2003-02-13 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have tried over the last few weeks to install various packages from unstable and although some packages download, most of them give me the following errors: Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libc6-dev 2.3.1-11 404 Not Found Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main locales

Re: [SLUG] report: PDA Palm Zire

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi Graeme, All When I get to the stage of adding a user to the palm, the install-user command is run, it connects and then says Please hit the HotSync button...however the HotSync button was already pressed in order to get it to connect to the interface??? Also I assume that the install-user

[SLUG] Palm Zire vs Psion Revo

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Hewitt
Does anyone have any recommendations, good and bad points, linux compatibility (obviously the Zire is compatible from Graemes' recent post)... I was going to buy a Zire today, but my dealer has offered me the Revo for the same price... Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Palm Zire vs Psion Revo

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Hewitt
The Revo is definitely on their website, and is still being sold throughout australia. They have, however, brought out the Revo Plus which is the advanced model... On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 10:54, Andrewd wrote: I don't think they actually make the Revo anymore, go to there website and check - I

Re: [SLUG] report: PDA Palm Zire

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Hewitt
Graeme, Well I just went a bought my first Palm, and thanks to Graeme I can now hook it up to linux...cheers for the howto... Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Gaim-Gnome

2003-02-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have just installed gaim-gnome, and I am getting the following error when I try and run it... ** WARNING **: Cannot activate a panel object ** WARNING **: Cannot start CORBA I then get a segfault... any ideas? Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Gaim-Gnome

2003-02-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
did you install it? What Distro? What version of GNOME? (Im guessing latest GAIM) Chris On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 08:31, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have just installed gaim-gnome, and I am getting the following error when I try and run it... ** WARNING **: Cannot activate

Re: [SLUG] RH8 installation probs

2003-02-03 Thread Adam Hewitt
Not that there is any problem in asking the list, as there are plenty of people on here who could help you, but isn't the point of purchasing a copy of RH so that you get the RH support?? If so maybe you should contact them and find out if they maybe released a bad batch of CD's or something.

Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Well the quickest solution was to reinstall. I had only recently install linux again so there wasn't too much to backup, but it is all working now. I would just like to ask: 1. What are people preferences in regards to windows managers for gnome (gnome2)?? Do most people stick with the

[SLUG] OpenOffice.org

2003-01-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I don't want to upgrade my (debian/woody) system to unstable to install openoffice.org, and keeping my system at stable but installing the unstable packages requires me to remove half of the packages I have installed before. So I have decided to install using the tarball from

Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org

2003-01-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
version 2.1.3 or higher... Adam. On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 10:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gambit:/tmp/install# ./install -prefix=/opt Installation starting, please be patient ... ./install: ./setup: No such file or directory Any ideas

Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org

2003-01-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
Thanks Matthew that was exactly what I needed... On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:43, Matthew Davidson wrote:Failed to fetch On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 08:37, Adam Hewitt wrote: I don't want to upgrade my (debian/woody) system to unstable to install openoffice.org, and keeping my system at stable

Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org

2003-01-31 Thread Adam Hewitt
-02-01 at 08:37, Adam Hewitt wrote: I don't want to upgrade my (debian/woody) system to unstable to install openoffice.org, and keeping my system at stable but installing the unstable packages requires me to remove half of the packages I have installed before. So I have decided to install

[SLUG] a few things...

2003-01-30 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have a couple of problems that I hope you can help me with: 1. a) I am trying to get Return to Castle Wolfenstein working with the native linux binaries. The single player mode works without a hitch *IF* I run it as root. If I run is as a normal user, it loads, I select 'play' and

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