Re: [SLUG] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?

2004-10-25 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:44:05 +1000 Jon Austin wrote: > Yes, it is the point, but MS managed to fracture that with their own > JVM implementation which is not 100% compatible with code written for > Sun JVM and vice versa. > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:40:16 +1000, Russell Davies > <[EMAIL PROTECT

[SLUG] Re: Debian sarge on vmware

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 10:17, Robert Tillsley wrote: > > The other thing was in regard to installing the vmware tools. The menu > which is meant to do it, doesn't work (I think its because its not > designed to work with debian). Its asks if you want to and then doesn't > provide any feedback as to

Re: [SLUG] Silent PSU

2004-07-26 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Phil Scarratt wrote: > I'm sure there's people out there that have silent power supply kits > fitted to their machines. How silent is silent? For eg, the FSP Silent > System Kit from elx > (http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/item/elsFSP-KIT350P4). Is it silent > enough to h

Re: [SLUG] kvm required

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 Lester Cheung wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:11:42AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 23:10, Simon Males wrote: > > > I just need a rant for a KVM. When i im at home i wish to use standard > > > keyboard/mouse and screen which will be shared by my desktop

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 13, Issue 8

2004-04-02 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 Dave Kempe wrote: > > - can SM be used to retrive email from hotmail account ? > > > > don't think so You can use hotwayd (http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/) to access your hotmail account as though it is a POP3 account (for downloading messages only). I have set up hotwayd

Re: [SLUG] Linus Newbie

2004-01-23 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
I had two similar problems on my Dell 340 Workstation: hdb and hdd: lost interupt at boot time - intermittent failure, sometimes I booted with all drives present and correct, sometimes only one drive would be identified! This was prior to any OS loading, so it was not a Linux specific proble

Re: [SLUG] Delay between booting and going to gdm login screen

2003-12-20 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Grant Parnell wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: > Hi, > > I recently did a clean install of RedHat 9 onto my system (and run the > updates), and initially had it booting to runlevel 3. I later changed that > in inittab to go to runlevel 5.

Re: [SLUG] Delay between booting and going to gdm login screen

2003-12-17 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Grant Parnell wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: > Hi, > > I recently did a clean install of RedHat 9 onto my system (and run the > updates), and initially had it booting to runlevel 3. I later changed that > in inittab to go to runlevel 5.

[SLUG] Delay between booting and going to gdm login screen

2003-12-16 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Hi, I recently did a clean install of RedHat 9 onto my system (and run the updates), and initially had it booting to runlevel 3. I later changed that in inittab to go to runlevel 5. Now when I boot, it stops at the terminal login screen until I press enter a few times, then it starts X and goes

[SLUG] CDRecord + LiteOn DVD Writer

2003-11-28 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Hi everyone, Just stole my girlfriends LiteOn DVD Writer to test whether it would work under Linux. I can read / write CD-RWs no problem, but trying DVD- RW gives me the following message: # cdrecord dev=0,0 -blank=all /tmp/tmp.iso Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyrigh

[SLUG] Re: sig lines (was Linux only ADSL service now available)

2003-10-29 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On 2003.10.30 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:54:56, Grant Parnell wrote: Do people actually read these things? Do you mean that we are supposed to read the bit before the signature as well? :-D Thanks for the laugh. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://s

Re: [SLUG] scanning, 'copyshop' app ?

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:30:05 From: Voytek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> how much hardware do you need to run VMW & Windoze acceptably ? Hi Voytek I was running it happily on a PIII 450 MhZ with 256 Mb Ram. I couldn't run anything else at the same time though, and I could not play video in the VMWare se

Re: [SLUG] scanning, 'copyshop' app ?

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:22:53 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sorry, that I don't know. xsane does have buttons for fax and copy >modes, but I have never tried to set them up. yes, though it seems to handle a 'page-at-a-time' only do you use OCR, what with ? No, I only use it for scanning photos.

Re: [SLUG] scanning, 'copyshop' app ?

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:43:37 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to set up an HP scanner on RH7.3 *if* I run xsane as root, xsane warns me of dire consequences of doing so, and, if I accept these risks, it just runs *if* I try to run xsane as a user, I get 'no device present' I've symlink

Re: [SLUG] Cannot connect to certain web locations

2003-08-22 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On 2003.08.23 00:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:26:41 +1000 Andrew Monkhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2003.08.22 14:17 Tony Green wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:14, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Very

Re: [SLUG] Back trace on an email (St. George Hoax)

2003-08-22 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Thanks to all the people who explained how I should read the trace. I am now a bit more enlightened. Regards, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Back trace on an email (St. George Hoax)

2003-08-21 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On 2003.08.22 14:27 Kevin Saenz wrote: If you have a look at the url post the actual site address is written in the code. It's the same as the Westpac email I got last week http://olb.westpac.com.au:UserSession=2f4d0zzz899amaiioiiabv5589955&userrstste=SecurityUpdate&[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is where

Re: [SLUG] Cannot connect to certain web locations

2003-08-21 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On 2003.08.22 14:17 Tony Green wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:14, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Very strange situation. On my home network, my girlfriend is using > Windows 2000, and I am using RedHat 9. We both go through the same ADSL > router, and both use the same

[SLUG] Cannot connect to certain web locations

2003-08-21 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Hi everyone, Very strange situation. On my home network, my girlfriend is using Windows 2000, and I am using RedHat 9. We both go through the same ADSL router, and both use the same DNS. Every so often, she wants me to read an article, so she will send the link to me. (One example was http://

[SLUG] Back trace on an email (St. George Hoax)

2003-08-21 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Hi everyone, I just received one of those email's suposedly from St. George, telling me to log in to their website and update my records. Since I am not a St. George customer, I was a little suspicious :-D Looking through the email, the scam worked by having a HREF tag containing the real St.

RE: [SLUG] mv ---.dat foo.dat

2003-07-31 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
To: Michael Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" % mv ./---.dat foo.dat Worth a try, i guess. The readline() call stops interpreting command line options after it sees a "--" on it's own. So you can do

[SLUG] Quiet keyboards

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Not quite Linux I know, but SWMBO is complaining about the noise I am making while typing. I do have a noisy keyboard, and I type fast, which makes for a lot of fast loud clicks, which gets her heart racing. So I am looking for a very quiet keyboard. Must be compatible with Linux (cannot

RE: [SLUG] apt-rpm

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 2:40 PM Hi All, If you have a RH 6.2 machine, can you use apt-rpm to upgrade it to RH 9.0? or can you only update it to the latest 6.2 packages? If you can upgrade it to 9.0, is there anything you need to watch out for that ma

Re: [SLUG] Writing GUI apps for "Linux" (FOSS platforms)

2003-07-15 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:00:09 -0500 "Hal Ashburner" wrote: From: "Hal Ashburner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [SLUG] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Started writing C for gnumeric instead, much easier for a b

Re: [SLUG] Problem installing using rpm (RedHat 9)

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On 2003.07.13 15:21 Mike MacCana wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: > rpm hung. Known bug. rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__* The rebuild, works around the problem. There's also a fix in the current rawhide for the problem, but Red Hat are testing the new RPM release that cont

[SLUG] Problem installing using rpm (RedHat 9)

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Hi, Last weekend I upgraded my system to RedHat 9 (from 7.1 which was a clean install). Shortly after that I installed a few more packages without problems. Then about Wednesday I tried to install some package, and rpm hung. After waiting about half an hour, I killed the process, which resulte

Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks.

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:17:18 +1000 Laurie Savage wrote: Subject: Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks. To: Neast Pty Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Neast Pty Ltd wrote: > Seems to

Re: [SLUG] help please (module load issue - wireless networking)

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Hi Jamie, Your teammate is correct - modules are only loaded as required, so if you do not specify that the hostap_cs module is required, then it won't be loaded. My knowledge of wireless networking is non existant, and my knowledge of module loading is sketchy at best - hopefully with a bit mo

Re: [SLUG] rpm to deal with dependencies !!

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
lem, however it can confuse someone (and on rare occasions other programs) when an expected file is in the "wrong" directory. Regards, Andrew - Original Message - From: "LS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Andrew Monkhouse'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [SLUG] rpm to deal with dependencies !!

2003-03-16 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:24:08 +1100 > From: Louis Selvon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [SLUG] rpm to deal with dependencies !! > > Hi Sluggers: > > Does anyone how do I invoke rpm to install packages and deal with > dependencies. > > The patch I am installing for my s

Re: [SLUG] Rpm package

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Monkhouse
Kevin, If you have been given a src.rpm package, and you want to create an installable version, then as the two previous posters mentioned, you can either use: rpm -i .src.rpm rpm -ba .spec Where the spec file is in the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory (for RedHat, not sure about Ma