Re: [SLUG] Martians

2003-11-03 Thread Ben Buxton
John Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi all, > > Since upgrading from dialup to adsl last week, I've been seeing this: > > dropbear kernel: martian source 150.101.124.189 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth1 > dropbear kernel: ll header: 00:00:e2:14:a6:b6:00:90:1a:40:6c:d9:08

[SLUG] Re: digital camera mounting

2004-01-17 Thread Ben Buxton
Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:02, Conrad Parker wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:40:26AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > I have a digital camera with usb mass storage that works under RH8 by > > > mounting it on with the following fst

[SLUG] Re: OT Voice of IP via ADSL

2004-02-12 Thread Ben Buxton
Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > Dear list, > > Now that xDSL connections are as low $40 /mth, is it possible to run VoIP? You can run VoIP on any ip connection, and most are now fast enough to have it run fairly well. Have a play with gnomemeeting (which talks

[SLUG] Re: Mplayer lacking sound

2004-03-17 Thread Ben Buxton
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi, I've noticed that my mozilla mplayer plugin > shows video but lacks audio. I've downloaded and installed > all available codecs in /home/adam/.mplayer/codecs > with no change. I've easily played MP3's via XMMS, > so it's not har

[SLUG] Re: building pvr

2004-04-17 Thread Ben Buxton
Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi all, > > I am planning on building a PVR, and wondering what type of tv capture > card people would recommend? At the moment I am using Mandrake, I am > willing to use Debian or any other distro. > Currently I am looking at the haup

[SLUG] Re: port trunking

2004-07-08 Thread Ben Buxton
Trunking, Etherchannel, link aggregation, etc. They are all generally the same thing under a different name. Linux should do it quite well without a problem. But the traffic from the Cisco switch will not be balanced if you have a low end switch. Cisco will only do per-mac-address balancing, so w

[SLUG] Re: Networking advice please.

2004-07-14 Thread Ben Buxton
bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > one of these outlets has a PC (in another room) attached. > > Either all of the LAN cabling in the house is defective (unlikely as the > other cables for Cable-TV and TV Aerial work), or I am doing something > wrong re connecting the remote

[SLUG] Re: ADSL Network Monitoring & Graphing

2004-07-28 Thread Ben Buxton
DSL modem still has an IP address to work with (at least my pppoe client talks to the modem). Any modem worth its salt will have an SNMP server built in through which you should be able to determine the line state. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

[SLUG] Re: SA FuzzzyOCR rejection Q

2006-11-08 Thread Ben Buxton
Voytek Eymont wrote: > I have a user complain valid sender got rejected, mail log says: > > Nov 3 14:19:17 koala amavis[26922]: (26922-03-3) SPAM, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yes, > score=6.941 tag=0.5 tag2=6.31 kill=6.31 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, > EXTRA_MPART_TYPE=1.091, FUZZY_O

[SLUG] Re: cloning/replacing hardrive

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Buxton
Voytek Eymont wrote: > I have a RH system that is running out of disk space faster than I can > figure out what can I delete to gain space, > > in the short term, I just need to give it more hardrive space, what are my > best options to clone the old 20GB IDE drive to a new 80GB IDE drive ? > > c

[SLUG] Re: cloning/replacing hardrive

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Buxton
Voytek Eymont wrote: > On Wed, December 6, 2006 10:00 pm, Ben Buxton wrote: >> Voytek Eymont wrote: > >>> can I clone a running system ? >> Yes, you can. > > Ben, thanks for detailed info > > what I really meant to ask, was 'can I copy/clone a runni

[SLUG] Re: Brain Freeze - ADSL

2006-12-12 Thread Ben Buxton
Zhasper wrote: > On 12/12/06, Oliver Hookins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Not quite right, you still have layer 2 frames which are disassembled >> and reassembled. However your device is operating as a simple ethernet >> (or ATM if your ISP supports it) bridge rather than also encapsulating

[SLUG] Re: changing to Fedora

2006-12-19 Thread Ben Buxton
> > No reason it won't work with Ubuntu. No idea about Mandriva. > If it doesnt work with Ubuntu, progress should be possible. One of the nice things in their philosophy is that if hardware doesn't work, it's considered a bug, not "unsupported hardware". Also check: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4l

[SLUG] Re: is Perl really needed ?

2006-12-27 Thread Ben Buxton
Voytek Eymont wrote: > what do I need Perl on my server, apart from stuff I've added, like, > amavisd or popb4smtp ?? > > as far as I can tell, many/most/some of the infiltrations done through say > CMS vulnerabilities execute like 'perl sometext' > > if I was to rename perl to 'something_totally

[SLUG] Re: DIY networking kit at Aldi.

2007-01-05 Thread Ben Buxton
> It's in the interpretation of the word "installation". Usually, if it's > a "permanent" fixture, with wall places, etc., then it is often > interpreted as an installation. > When was the last time a home user got a fine for hooking up some cat5 for their (isolated from PSTN) home network? Woul

[SLUG] Re: Linux laptop

2007-03-02 Thread Ben Buxton
Yep, have to agree. I have an HP NC6400, and right now, just about everything works out of the box. I even put up a wiki on it, and have had lots of contributions: http://hpwiki.cactii.net/ BB elliott-brennan wrote: Can I just add HP here? I have a Hewlett-Packard lappie with a lovely shin

[SLUG] Re: cage bolts

2007-03-09 Thread Ben Buxton
Del wrote: I'm after some cage nuts and cage bolts for rackmounting. I need them on Monday, so mail ordering them from Perth isn't really an option. Does anyone know of any shops around Sydney that might have them in stock where they can be bought over the counter? Jaycar sell them nowadays

Re: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

2001-12-07 Thread Ben Buxton
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:33:02PM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Doug Stalker wrote: > > > How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there > > are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to > > disable it for all apps (ot

Re: [SLUG] Log files

2002-02-20 Thread Ben Buxton
ttle extra protection when the latest vulnerability for your sshd/etc appears, and a kiddie scanning port 22 misses your box. After all, passwords and crypto keys are all just obscurity. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-12 Thread Ben Buxton
able modem requires DHCP for the head-end to allow you thru, and its tied to a mac address - I'd rather change mac address in software than deal with the horror of having the cable company change their end when I upgrade. :) -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Buxton
Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:34, Ben Buxton wrote: > > > > Plus (for example) my cable modem requires DHCP for the head-end > > to allow you thru, and its tied to a mac address - I'd rather > > ch

Re: [SLUG] pinging a port number.

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Buxton
aceroute to a port: http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/ -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] newbie Q's -- The mini Sequel

2002-03-26 Thread Ben Buxton
> > removing it or do I simply physically the card? > > i am not sure about this, but issuing a 'restart' to pcmcia services would > get it to notice the change in cards... cardctl eject cardctl insert Some cards require "preparation", such as unmounting flash disks first, other cards (serial, ethernet) you can generally just unplug at will. My newbie help for the day :) -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] random thoughts

2002-04-01 Thread Ben Buxton
see what it > tells you the port status is. I'll go against the grain and state that there are linux utilities to let you do this. Go here: http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html BB -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: TV EXCEL PV-BT878P+

2002-04-10 Thread Ben Buxton
;tuner' setting in the module options. For the bttv module, look at the "tuner=" option, and for the tuner module its the "type=" option. I had problems with the autodetect and after trying all tuner options I eventually got the colour working. Also the "card="

Re: [SLUG] Re: Pacific Internet ADSL

2002-05-15 Thread Ben Buxton
d -p 2000 or somesuch... Unless your work firewall blocks these ports...but then it's called a *challenge*, not a hassle. :) -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Large hard drive support

2002-05-15 Thread Ben Buxton
7;s only trying to access hdc - Second IDE interface. The system > should have no trouble finding that. Might have to twiddle with the LBA settings in the bios. And also look at what 'dmesg' says. Maybe it sees something wrong and printed a message there. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Distributed email idea - opinions?

2002-05-15 Thread Ben Buxton
tent system across all hosts. What would be the limitations/weaknesses/etc that would make this a bad idea? I can see a new Free Software project about to spawn :) -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Distributed email idea - opinions?

2002-05-15 Thread Ben Buxton
Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Ben Buxton wrote: > > It sounds a great idea, especially having all my mail documentation > resources at work for immediate research. > > > > What would be the limitations/weaknesses/etc that

[SLUG] Tsk tsk Cisco...gpl breach..

2002-05-30 Thread Ben Buxton
ir (source-less) binary is here: http://www.cactii.net/~bb/cisco-nam-strings.txt It contains insteresting stuff.. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] streaming audio servers

2002-06-10 Thread Ben Buxton
too. xmms includes the ogg decoder in the latest versions, as does the latest winamp. For mac, I dont know... -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-08-20 Thread Ben Buxton
ng Associates - Your Linux people > Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com > "Flatter government, not fatter government." - me > Get rid of the Australian states. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slu

[SLUG] Re: Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Ben Buxton
Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > > telnet IP PORT? > > Absolutely. Unfortunately we have smart firewalls at work now and you > have to follow the protocol correctly or the firewall will reject you > connection, how do you know? > > It continues to surprise me how

[SLUG] Re: mythtv

2004-09-05 Thread Ben Buxton
Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:16, Michael Fox wrote: > > We'll it looks like I will be taking a nice big dive into the > > configuration of mythtv. I was hoping to have already done it. > > /. has a mythtv writeup right now and there is an a

[SLUG] Re: MythTV vs Freevo

2004-09-18 Thread Ben Buxton
I've played with both, I started with freevo, then tried out mythtv. I havent turned back since. Mythtv seems to be a proper PVR app, whereas freevo is a bit more geared to being a regular media box. And yes, the web tv guide rocks - a lot better than trying to sort thru the TV guide of any rando

Re: [SLUG] Re: MythTV vs Freevo

2004-09-19 Thread Ben Buxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:19:49 +0200 > Ben Buxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Go with DVB or a PVR-250 card - the quality is far superior. > > Ben, > Do you have any specific brand recommendations? I us

[SLUG] Re: MythTV vs Freevo

2004-09-20 Thread Ben Buxton
Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Ok so which capture cards do people recommend ? > > I've got MythTV running but my old TV tuner cards seems to have died > somewhere along the way. > > I was interested in getting a DVB card, what works well with linux and > what so

[SLUG] Re: DVB Card Advice

2004-09-24 Thread Ben Buxton
Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi all, > > I want to buy a DVB card for my MythTV box, but I can't work out what > the heck is actually supported based on the information on the > manufactures website and reading over the CARDS info for the DVB > driver. > > Apar

Re: [SLUG] Re: DVB Card Advice

2004-09-24 Thread Ben Buxton
Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > This one time, at band camp, Ben Buxton wrote: > > > Check www.linuxtv.org - it's the primary linux dvb web site. > > > > You will probably find that the Nova-T card is the cheapest one >

[SLUG] Re: MythTv channel config

2004-10-05 Thread Ben Buxton
DWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:513:610:1328 SBS:57150:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:161:81:784 -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] Re: Digital TV card

2004-10-21 Thread Ben Buxton
James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hey all, > > I just purchased a FusionHDTV card, which I'll be installing this > evening. I envisage three use cases for it: > > 1. Watching TV where I'm sitting in front of the computer. > 2. Recording streams off the thing to watc

[SLUG] Re: Forensics and Linux

2004-12-02 Thread Ben Buxton
Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > The funny thing about the RH thing is that you have to use the dd > version that 7.1 dhipped with (4.0.36), and otherwise it could be any > components, in any configuration. Weird... The reason for that particular version of dd is bec

[SLUG] Re: temperature monitoring

2005-01-05 Thread Ben Buxton
Anth Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > Excellent. I'm more than happy to roll my own solution for this but by > all means I look forward to seeing your daemon when it's available and > putting it to use. http://www.cactii.net/~bb/temp My script for reading the device.

[SLUG] Network-reachable rescue CDs?

2005-03-04 Thread Ben Buxton
I've got myself a remote server located faaar away from me (other side of the world), and need to build a rescue CD for it in case things go wrong. Unfortunately most bootable linux CDs dont enable things like ssh servers, and generally cant be built with static IP addresses into the CD image. D

[SLUG] Re: Network-reachable rescue CDs?

2005-03-07 Thread Ben Buxton
Ben Buxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > Does anyone know of a bootable distro with these features: > > - *easily* buildable iso with pre-configured ip address Thanks for all the responses. I've used knoppix, and rebuilt according to the remasterin

[SLUG] Re: mencode question

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Buxton
Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I would like to shrink some movie files down to something more manageable. > do I use mencode or transcode? This will read almost any video format for input: transcode -y divx5 -w -b -i \ -o It's a good idea to tweak t

[SLUG] Re: Speaking of wireless...

2005-04-06 Thread Ben Buxton
Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Interesting article; > > http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111-page1.php > > Extract; > > Millions of wireless access points are spread across the US and the > world. About 70% percent of these access points are unprotect

[SLUG] Re: Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers

2005-06-02 Thread Ben Buxton
Dan Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Morning Sluggers, > > Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. > > Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic > allowance would be good. > > The Co-lo would need to be located in sydn

[SLUG] Re: BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-08 Thread Ben Buxton
Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I've just set up a DLink G604, I was pleasantly surprised to find the box > had a GPL licence inluded inside. > > anyhow, telnetting to the device, it anwsered with: > 'BusyBox v0.61.pre (2005.02.25-04:09+) Built-in shell (ash)'

[SLUG] USB device mappings

2005-07-27 Thread Ben Buxton
How can one go about ensuring that certain USB mass-storage devices always get linked to the right /dev node, irregardless of the order that they're plugged into? I'd like to have things where by for example, my camera always appears ad /dev/sda, my USB key as /dev/sdb, etc. It seems that they ar

Re: [SLUG] 2SER and Linux?

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Buxton
> > And yes, the ABC is really annoying with their use of Realplayer, but > at least we can listen to it. Their email is a black hole, I send an > email every few months complaining about it and never get a response. > > The biggest problem with the ABC site is that they stream at 20k which > s

Re: [SLUG] continuous power up query

2002-10-10 Thread Ben Buxton
ntinously, having been turned off for a total of about 6 hours the entire time. Of course it was the power supply fan that failed eventually - a replacement brought it back into service. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Mouse Scroll Up disappared in X11

2002-11-30 Thread Ben Buxton
"Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "3" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux, so I dont know if/how dif

Re: [SLUG] DivX under linux

2002-12-04 Thread Ben Buxton
; I ran ldconfig again to make sure, and the X11 path was in ld.so.config > > Any clues? > > Cheers > > Erich > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

2003-01-22 Thread Ben Buxton
stop you from disconnecting it before the VFS write cache is flushed". Sync and unmount properly and your data will be as ok as bugs will allow. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Temperature measurement

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Buxton
so where I could get it? > > Thanks for your help. > Best regards, > Matthias > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] disk catastrophe

2003-02-04 Thread Ben Buxton
ABN 98 078 657 324 > 652 Smith St., > Clifton Hill, Victoria, 3068 > AUSTRALIA > http://www.traverse.com.au > Tel (+613) 9486 7775 > Fax (+613) 9482 7754 > Mobile 0419 398 234 > -- > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] How big is an http request?

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Buxton
ough...but if you only are taking GET requests, you can be pretty sure of dazzas advice. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] USB CF card readers on Linux

2003-02-18 Thread Ben Buxton
avelflash 5 in one and it just works. The kernel USB options only show ones that are "weird"..most just use the usb-storage API which is pretty generic. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] OT trayless CDROM Drive

2003-06-13 Thread Ben Buxton
ly four around the tray) hold the CD in. As another poster mentioned though - Pioneer make the slot loading drives..I've got one that i've had for years and it still runs flawlessly. Sexier than a tray :) A swap is probably not practical though - my location is somewhat out of the

Re: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not

2003-06-19 Thread Ben Buxton
00k users (though this is facilitated by a hardware load-balancer). -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Transcode avi to divx

2003-07-16 Thread Ben Buxton
s > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Buxton
Grant Parnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > For starters what apps do you tend to use the most? > Here's my top 10 list in order of use:- > > gnome-terminal I stick with Eterm - smaller footprint. > firefox (squirrelmail,google) Naturally > nautilus Don't use any "file ma

[SLUG] Re: squirrellmail/roundcube

2005-09-29 Thread Ben Buxton
Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > We just spent some time looking at PHP webmail clients. Here are our > "contenders" list. We were looking at making extensions to them > so the comments are mostly aimed at looking inside the code to > see how well written it was. I don't

[SLUG] Re: Tv cards that can recieve satellite TV

2005-10-04 Thread Ben Buxton
Yep, there are quite a few. I use a Skystar2 and it works without missing a beat. For scrambled channels, you'll need a card with a slot for a CAM, linuxtv.org should have a list. The hardest choice really is software, but mythtv and vdr both support dvb-s. Though I think mythtv has to come a lo

[SLUG] Re: Tv cards that can recieve satellite TV

2005-10-05 Thread Ben Buxton
Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > no, its illegal. > > im not talking about pay tv though > > paytv channels are scrambled. the free ones arent > you point your dish at the sat, and then start > scanning and find channels you like. or look > up tables etc for the s

[SLUG] Re: Linux friendly flash mp3 players

2005-10-30 Thread Ben Buxton
Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:23:06AM +1000, David Gillies wrote: > > Does anyone out there have any recommendations for Linux friendly flash > > mp3 players? > > Strangely, I've had more trouble using my MP3 player with Windows. I

[SLUG] Re: Ethereal filter form

2005-12-02 Thread Ben Buxton
Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > Can someone tell me the correct form for capture and display filters for > ethereal for a host = 192.168.0.1 > > ip.addr == 192.168.0.1 was what I thought the capture one was, but now > it squarks. Capture uses tcpdump syntax.

[SLUG] Re: DNS - Xen - Virtual server hosting

2006-02-16 Thread Ben Buxton
Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I know about BIND views, in fact I use them, but I don't think they will > work here. > > What I need is for lannet.com.au, thisdomain.tld and thatdomain.tld to > all resolve to the same public w.x.y.z externally, but be DNAT'd to

[SLUG] Re: 1ADSL, 1firewall, 2webservers

2006-04-04 Thread Ben Buxton
Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On 4/3/06, Ben Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Slugs, > > > > Port forward 80 to one of the boxes internally on say 3128, then > install squid on that machine listening to 3128. Now configure > httpd_accel mode. Configure the

[SLUG] Re: Wine and IE Problems

2006-05-30 Thread Ben Buxton
Michael Kedzierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I have IE 6, 5.5 and 5.01 all installed in my homedir their own > isolated Wine-roots. I used the ies4linux script which set them all up > automatically without me having to do much at all. > > You can get the script at http://w

[SLUG] Re: Wifi hotspots

2006-05-31 Thread Ben Buxton
Mary Cudmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > 1. Have 802.11b/g wireless networking set up and working on your laptop > 2. Go to a wifi hotspot > 3. Check out available networks > 4. Select the hotspot (no encryption, this is supposed to be real easy > ..), you'll be connected

[SLUG] Re: Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-13 Thread Ben Buxton
Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > >> > >Its probably because you are running 64bit. I could be completely wrong > >here, but I am guessing that google has done exactly the same with GE as > >they did with Picasa, in that rather than making a Linux port, they are > >u

[SLUG] Re: Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

2006-06-17 Thread Ben Buxton
Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > When I boot up, I see part of the record of bootup events. Then the > screen cuts out, with the message "Out of range", and doesn't re-appear. > > I don't know how to change resolution from the command line in Fedora, > nor do I k

[SLUG] Re: Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Buxton
Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > This may well induce groans all round, but my old eyes have difficulty > reading text on a monitor at the maximum resolution the monitor > manufacturer claims I can get with my new monitor (1280x1024). So, once > I was able to get

[SLUG] Re: Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

2006-06-20 Thread Ben Buxton
Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I switched the monitor's resolution to the native one and then ran > xdpyinfo. It showed that the native resolution equated to 342x271 mm, > with a dpi of 95x96. I then added a DisplaySize entry of 342x271 to my > xorg.conf file and

[SLUG] Re: Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

2006-06-21 Thread Ben Buxton
Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I see now my error about the Font Rendering Details box. It does change > the size of the font in the Gnome things (if I can put it that way), but > not in applications. For instance, I bumped the value up to 125 and that > increased

[SLUG] Re: Digital TV Tuner cards

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Buxton
Dan Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hey Sluggers, > > Just after any sluggers war stories with Digital TV tuner cards on > Linux, especially Ubuntu. Simple is good and cheap is great as it's for > a pilot project that doesn't have a great deal of money and if all goes > w

[SLUG] Re: Playing DVD isos from HD

2006-07-01 Thread Ben Buxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: > Bill, > xine does menus, streaming, and iso's. I not done what you want, but it's > probably easy. > James Xine can do it. There should be a utility called 'cdda_server' that makes a cd/dvd drive available over the network to xine running on a diff

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 6.06 wireless networking

2006-07-06 Thread Ben Buxton
Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I must be missing something. Work has one key and different essid, at > home I have different ones. So I setup two locations, one called home > and one called work. > > If I hibernate at work and start-up the OS when I get home, it never

[SLUG] Re: Dynamic routing - RIP or BGP or what?

2006-07-07 Thread Ben Buxton
Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I want to do some dynamic routing in a network and I don't know whether > I should be using RIP or BGP. [...] BGP is for external routing - not suitable. RIP is old, and it's convergence time is pityful. If Quagga allows it, OS

[SLUG] Re: A comparison for fun ...

2006-07-08 Thread Ben Buxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: > > Suse Ubuntu > > - > > Easy for complex server Hard for complex server >

[SLUG] Re: Dapper Drake

2006-07-08 Thread Ben Buxton
Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > I used to really enjoy tweaking my desktop, and dot files like > .bashrc, and etc. But had a change of heart for a number of reasons. > > I'd jump on to another system and be lost without all my tweaks, and > when i needed to

[SLUG] Re: Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Buxton
Phil Scarratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi > > 1. OpenWRT on a Linksys device > 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. > > The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have > to run multiple internet (WAN) conne

[SLUG] Re: Re: Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Buxton
Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:02 +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: > > I've just installed an Asus device running OpenWRT to replace my home > > gateway box, and I'm very impressed. > > Which device did you u

[SLUG] Re: Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Buxton
Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > The DMZ might be a problem for the WRT54GL since they only > have three routable interfaces (wireless, "Internet" and > "LAN"). I don't think that the four 100Base-TX ports are > independently routable. > They certainly are. Depen

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-11 Thread Ben Buxton
Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > > > I have an Asus WL-500gP. 8Mb Flash and 32Mb DRAM (more than most other > > openwrt devices). It also has 2 USB ports. > where did you buy this from ? I bought it in Europe...not sure if it's available in Aus, though I'd imag

[SLUG] Re: How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?

2006-08-07 Thread Ben Buxton
John Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi all, > > I have a new (HP) laptop with Ubuntu 6.06. Most things just work :-) > > I also have a PCMCIA compact flash adapter which works, except that I > have to mount the drive manually after inserting it. I'd like to have > it

[SLUG] Re: Best Linux soft-phone?

2006-08-25 Thread Ben Buxton
Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > So if VoIP running G.711 ??-law has a perceptual advantage then > you'll need to look further than the codecs involved. It's the analogue line itself. 1 metre of analogue between sound card and headset always wins against 2+km of co

[SLUG] Re: QOS - VOIP

2006-08-28 Thread Ben Buxton
Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > > Much better to use an ISP with explicit support and QoS for VoIP > That helps for half of it, but you're still on your own when it comes to upstream qos, which imho is the bigger factor. Personally I use the 'tc' based tools, pr

[SLUG] Re: Re: QOS - VOIP

2006-08-28 Thread Ben Buxton
Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > The complication here is that they are not necessarily consistent about > which port RTP uses. tcpdump, then adjust scripts accordingly. Most (all?) RTP implementations can either have their RTP ports manually set, or use a smal

[SLUG] Re: Local proxy.pac file

2006-09-04 Thread Ben Buxton
Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > function FindProxyForURL(url, host) > { I was hacking a pac file sometime back and discovered that under Linux you're gonna have pot luck as to whether it works. It seems that it's pretty arbitrary as to which inter

[SLUG] Re: probs with ipw3945

2006-09-08 Thread Ben Buxton
Hi Robert, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: > now i've got some problems with my wireless card (intel pro wireless 3945). > when i try to start the driver all seems to work fine, but if i open > 'iwconfig' linux is not able to show me my device. and when i'm trying to > start kisme

[SLUG] Re: Mounting a disk image

2006-09-19 Thread Ben Buxton
Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I have a disk image of a CompactFlash disk as a file on a PC. The image > was created by using dd. > > I know that the image has a partition table, a Linux (83) partition and > a Linux Swap (82) partition. The Linux partition is

[SLUG] Re: Programattically send a "BREAK" to serial device?

2006-09-24 Thread Ben Buxton
James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hi All, > > I have a serial-based weather station (LaCrosse 2300) and > occasionally it spits the dummy. Probably more to do with the USB- > >RS232 adapter than the weather station, but I've found if I unplug > the serial cable fr

[SLUG] Re: Has anyone tried Asterisk?

2006-10-13 Thread Ben Buxton
Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I am looking at using Asterisk for home. > > I have a VOIP wireless DSL router. Do I have to have any other > specific piece of hardware? > > I would like to have a linux box running Asterisk that will manage > all the incoming an