On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:36, Del wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms
> > 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday,
> > the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed
>
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:05, Anthony Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:59:30AM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:36, Del wrote:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 23:00, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> 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 la
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 23:18, Tony Green wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying to do some work on some Oracle instances and the GUI tools
> would be really nice. I've downloaded the installer for 8i from Oracle
> and it 'sort of' works, but not really.
>
> Has anyone got it working (specifically on Debia
Yes, I'm cross-posting. But it's kind of a cross-question.
I'm working with a copy of Real World Linux Security, 2ed. by Bob
Toxen. Right now, I'm working on getting his iptables firewall up.
He gives instructions for installing it onto RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake,
Slackware. I am using Debian Wood
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:31, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Lastly, will Windows CE and Redhat sync if the palm remains on the
> > windows OS and how does one install a "cradle" under Evolution (the
> > piolt settings" didn't seem to work).
>
> Well, fortunately you're not using a "Palm", it's a Windows C
more than Red Hat?
Thanks,
Bret
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 00:35, Felix Sheldon wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:50, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>
> > The other problem is much weirder. The desktop machine kills the cable
> > modem connection when it's powered up. Even when t
Apologies for cross-posting.
I'm trying to get my Dad's machines set up so I can leave the US and
return Down Under, and I'm tearing my hair out with some problems I'm
running into. I bought both the machines involved, and have run Linux
on them successfully for a while, and so has he.
We want g
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 05:57, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> hi all, I have here a reco mp70-40a 4x ide cd-writer.
> I'm attempting to run it on debian woody.
> how does one set up scsi emulation for this device?
> any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.
> btw. how should I enter in the in
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:49, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:54:34PM -0800, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > > In Sydney? Bwahahaha! Anywhere even vaguely cheap is going to either be
> > > "scum central" or halfway to Adelaide. Even here in
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 21:52, Alper Ciftci wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a Maths/Physics teacher at Sule College and I want to install
> Linux on my laptop.
> My purpose is to run mathematical & scientific software free. Of
> course office programs as well, but teaching software is my
> preference.
SAL
I have a D-Link router, and a US power supply. Does anyone know of a
supplier of power supplies for Australia? It must plug into the wall
(240v) and put out 5v at 2.5A (according to the label on the existing
power supply.
Alternatively a step down transformer for less than the $100 Dick Smith
wa
What are you trying to do? "Back up" is too vague, there are lots of
approaches, with differing physical requirements.
My backup is a second disk of the same size. I boot on Tom's RootBoot
diskette (so no partitions are mounted) and run:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=16384k
and then I go
partition to utilise
> the bigger disk? (these are two different issues, I will be happy just
> to have a backup in the first instance).
>
> On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:44:02 +1100
> Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What are you trying to do? "Ba
You mention "Postgraduate Professional" but don't say otherwise what
subject, grade level, etc., so I'll suggest:
http://sal.kachinatech.com/sal-info.shtml
This page has an overview and a link to a site local to Australia. In
addition to the heavy-duty scientific stuff, they catalog office
softw
My situation is a bit different - I'm copying between identical drives.
I wonder if geometry translation might be a factor?
Also, are both drives IDE and on the same channel (both Primary or both
Secondary)? Given you're reporting hda and hdc I suspect no. The other
device on the channel (like
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 22:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:12:24 +1100
> Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My 20G disk copies in 2 hours and 40 minutes. I've experimented with
>
> Mine took 15 minutes for 6.4Gb. (athlo
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:30, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> My advice to people considering Debian is to have someone who's done a
> Debian install help you out, or fill you in in advance. I would not
> recommend it to someone looking to dip their toe in the water unless
> they get someone else to install
Hi,
I'm not up on SuSE's license terms. Can someone make CDs for me to use
to try it out? (The latest version, please).
I'd be happy to provide blanks in exchange, or pay a small fee.
Thanks,
Bret
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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:29, Chris Deigan wrote:
> Basically, the free way to install SuSE is to do a FTP Install or
> over NFS.
>
> You can donwload a set of floppies / a cdrom that starts the install,
> and the rest is downloaded off the internet as the installer needs it.
I tried that, burned
Hi,
I'm going to be at Computerbank Sunday to help out. If anyone has SuSE
CDs, or the SuSE live eval CD that I can try out, could you bring it
please?
Thanks in advance,
Bret
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:49, Dan Treacy wrote:
> Greetings All.
>
> Apologies about the short notice.
>
> Due to rec
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 20:42, Michael Lake wrote:
> he states ..."Linux (in spite of its Scandinavian origins) is a
> profoundly American idea. "
> America does not have a monopoly on the concepts of freedom.
>
> It's disapointing to see such drivel written by the senior editor of
> LinuxWorld
I would suggest America is not the problem, but rather Corporations and
human greed everywhere are the problem. The manifestation is
particularly sharp in the US, due to embracing "commerce" as a societal
value (over what are arguably higher principles).
In my experience, New Zealand has lost sig
Hello all,
Computerbank has a boatload of IBM 300GL systems, including integrated
LAN using the Crystal Lan 8920 chipset.
Theoretically the cs89x0.o module will utilize this, but it didn't last
weekend.
Does anyone have experience with this? If you've got it working, could
you tell me with whic
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 00:56, Hal Ashburner wrote:
> Has someone done it and "blah-whatever" is some hardware they used that worked well?
> I've seen Netgear wireless stuff (router & card) for sale at a bookstore(!) for c.
> $200
Does this mean you're unwilling to buy a gateway/router? That's t
Ah, paranoia...
For a while I've been pointing out to people that the shit will hit the
fan when we begin deploying autonomous devices. When cars drive
themselves, for instance...
We can't write 100% reliable software for anything complex enough to
want to bother to automate it. When the device
I've got these. They won't speak to each other.
The PCMCIA card loads just fine in Debian Woody, and connected with the
Linksys router used at the Debian Bug Squish at Sydney Uni last saturday
just fine. It's working ok.
The Dl-624 is in daily use as a wired router, and connects with another
80
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:38, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> I guess there are a few of out there that will be needing some legal
> opinions on this one and some re-defined acceptable practice
> conditions. It looks like a minefield.
>
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1077250.htm
>
> The N
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:51, Benno wrote:
> On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 14:41:15 +1000, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:38, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >>
> >> I guess there are a few of out there that will be needing some legal
> >> opin
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:34, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I guess it comes down to ethics when I was working for a
> > top 10 fortune 500 organisation I was asked to snoop. I
> > turned it down stating it's not ethical unless they have a
> > val
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:25, Jasper streit wrote:
> Is this for real???
Yeah, it's for real. The committee can go to hell. It's still a free
country.
Regards,
Bret
> I'm thinking that it's too close to april fools day to take such absurd
> statements seriously.
> If not then i'll second Mary
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 20:22, Pia Smith wrote:
> Your name was provided to us as a high calibre Linux professional that
By who?
> * Must bring local contacts with them
Ah...
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I'm advising some people who are establishing a business. I know
GNU/Linux can do their computer stuff, and they are interested.
How do I go about finding people to do the work? Likely there's a
website to set up, and perhaps e-commerce, and likely a database backing
it all up.
I know I can put
I have an install of Debian using Evolution 1.4.5 which fetches mail
from my pop mail account without difficulty. (I posted this query on
the Evolution mailing list and someone asked if the pop account actually
resolved, so please note - it works just fine.)
I also have an install of SuSE 9 (via
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:52, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Best advice I can give is to stick with Debian, you've just come across
> one good reason to stay there :) I'd be very interested in hearing why
> you'd be switching from Debian(Sid) to SuSE(Novell), if you've the time.
I'll admit I've been q
Despite his typos, I think this fellow recognizes some important issues:
http://www.advogato.org/article/765.html
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On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering whether you have any advice on ho
Oh, thank goodness we finally received one of these. I was worried
eveyone else was going to get rich and we were going to miss out...
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> sir,
>
> I need your help, i am Benedict moful, the son of a
>
> Late minister during the reign
Hi,
You say "it stops" but really you need to say what it does - you're
assuming it stops. For instance, it might switch to a video mode that
doesn't show you the prompt you expect and blithely waits for you to
login as you always have.
What do you see up until "it stops", what do you see when "
Hey folks,
Can anyone tell this (near newbie) what this message is/was?
My Evolution shows it has an attachment, but I haven't figured out what
the attachment is. The IP appears to be publically unrouteable,
localhost in fact usually.
Hmmm?
Cheers,
Bret
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 21:23, 127.0.0.1
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 07:32, Bill Bennett wrote:
> I have been given a scanner.
>
> An Agfa 1212 Snapscan. Parallel port.
> Has anybody else had experience with this model. Or, if it comes
> to that, with Agfa?
No, but I got curious, as I've been working out some other scanners
recently, and
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 00:11, Ron Daniel wrote:
> I am running Mandrake 9.0 (dual boot) on a Compaq EVO 800N. I have a
> display problem the cause and recurrence of which I cannot fathom or
> reproduce on demand. I am running KDE windows manager
>
> The symptoms of the problem are that upon termin
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 08:16, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 07:32, Bill Bennett wrote:
> > I have been given a scanner.
> >
> > An Agfa 1212 Snapscan. Parallel port.
> One possibility that's mentioned generally is to install the programs
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:36, Laurie Savage wrote:
>
> But I should have mentioned that
> even if you keep user names the same, different distros presumably
> allocate different UIDs to the users and so the ownership of home
> directories becomes confused.
Redhat always made me uid=500, and De
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 06:38, Ron Daniel wrote:
> Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I
> just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent
> (downgrade) on the other side.
The first three times I tried to install Debian (Redhat and SuSE before)
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 06:57, Brett Fenton wrote:
> of course after 4 hours of frustration, five minutes after posting, it
> all works.
You're welcome. We live to serve.
Cheers,
Bret
> recompile 2.5.75 with hyperthreading support and all systems
> are go ..
>
> brett
>
> On Sat, 2003-07-19 a
You need to worry about the mbr (Master Boot Record) as well as the disk
partitions.
Keep in mind no malware (virus, etc.) does anything on it's own - your
CPU must be tricked into running it. Just 'cause there's a sequence of
bytes some where on the disk doesn't mean your system's at risk - it
m
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:53, Benjamin de Waal wrote:
> To try to simplify matters before I asked for help, my wireless network is
> ad-hoc with WEP completely off. I'd like to turn WEP back on once I'm set
> up obviously, but just for initial setup, I thought it'd be prudent to leave
> it off.
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 22:25, Chris wrote:
> I recently update my kernel to 2.4.20-18 and now binfmt_coff.o is missing.
> It normally resides in /lib/modules/2.4.20*/kernel/fs/.
>
> Where I can I get this file?
>
> I am not that familiar with kernel modification, how do I make a copy of
> this fil
> -Mary
> ... still genuinely interested in the filesystem debate, in which people
> make surprisingly few good arguments.
Ok, I'll throw my diaper into the ring...
PartitionMagic works with ext3, I'm slowly shrinking my Window$
partitions, thus...
Also, something I know quite a bit less about
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:45, Brett Fenton wrote:
>
> http://www.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/courses/akti12/journal/02ws/article_02ws_Menedetter.pdf
>
> I read this a while back it's about as clear as it's going to get,
> though has dated very slightly.
It's also not there.
Cheers,
Bret
>
> Brett
>
Hi folks,
I've got a chance to get one of these somewhat cheaply. Not cheaply
enough not to think about it though.
It's a Cendyne and it says it does:
DVD+R
DVD+RW
CD-RW
and a list of various CD whatever formats that looks like what my CDRW
drive can already do.
I've got a Thinkpad and an exter
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 10:29, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> hmmm, is that correct to have 127.0.0.1 in this, rather than the proper IP
> address ?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require n
Hi,
I come from a background of Windows, where things like I'm asking about
weren't really part of the design. In Windows, I used NetMeeting to
support my Dad when I was Down Under and he was still back in the
States.
Now we're using GNU/Linux, which apparently (like Unix) inherently
networks.
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:17, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Hi sluggers,
> I have recently installed Debian 3.0r1.
> I also tried to compile OpenSSH-3.6.1p1 but it tells me my compiler cant
> make executables or its broken.
>
> So my question is, what are the packages i need to install to be able to
> co
27;s IP each time - even that's not static.
Thanks for info,
Bret
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:44, Peter Hardy wrote:
> Morning!
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:02:13PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > I mean how do I do these things:
>
> There really should be a HOWTO for
Is anyone using a mobile phone for internet access? Is there a provider that
is Linux-friendly? (or OS agnostic, anyway)
I'm moving to Oz soon, and considering this approach. I'd be interested in
any experiences, resources, etc.
Cheers,
Bret
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:35, Phill O'Flynn wrote:
> Hylafax seems to work if I do this:
> but this does not persist across reboots.
> How do I do this?
Tell your system to do it every time it starts up.
Tell us your distro (name & version) and we can tell you how to do that if you
don't know.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 07:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > dear slug
> > > I am a convinced linux user (on principle, not because I know anything
> > > about computers) I am retired and really appreciate not to get all the
> > > bugs around
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:47, Bohdan S wrote:
> I dont like how all these Linux users bag Windows S much.
Microsoft is convicted in US Federal Court of using unlawful pressure
(economic extortion) to control the market. It's a crime, and they knew it
was before they did it. If they were h
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:54, O Plameras wrote:
> This is cynical attitude to take towards IT depts.
>
> The major reason why we "standardise" is due to cost. It is not due to
> the whims and caprices of IT dept.
This may be true (I'm not disputing it). I can, however, point out another
reason I
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:20, Bolero wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I resend this email in text mode since somebody complaint about the
> first HTML version, which apparently could only be read in text mode
> incl. all formatting characters etc., additionally apparently loading
> your server unnecessar
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If anybody can point me in the right direction, much appreciated.
Google automatix. This is a family of scripts that are provided to do all the
extra setup for K/Ubuntu. I have seen messages in the ubuntu forum about
amd64 versions.
I hav
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:19, john gibbons wrote:
> Do you install Easyububtu as a complete OS or is it grafted onto already
> installed Ubuntu?
Install Ubuntu first
Install EasyUbuntu
run EasyUbuntu
EasyUbuntu does the rest
Regards,
Bret
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:33, James Purser wrote:
> It is also a great indicator of the ability of the posters ability to deal
> with people who a) Might not have the same level of experience, b) may
> have a different opinion or c) may not be able to communicate as clearly.
> The sooner RTFM is trot
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:44, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
> On 3/22/06, O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You should just leave the policy making to the Slug Committee. Your time
> > is over.
>
> Speaking on behalf of the committee, we side with Jeff's assessment of
> proper etiquette on the Slug
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:10, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Much of the friendliness part of it comes from phrasing and
> manner. "RTFM" is not friendly or helpful.
>
> Directing someone towards relevant documentation is a really good way of
> helping. Telling them to read the fucking manual [1] is insulting.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:01, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Nothing I read in his messages gave me reason to know that this was
> > anything more official than a strongly held personal opinion, used as an
> > attack.
> >
> > As for the committee's opinion, what about the membership's? Was this
> > voted
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:19, tuxta2 wrote:
> Rather than try and decide who is right and who is wrong on this issue,
> why don't we just understand that opinions vary, and why don't we find a
> term that essentially means the same thing, but does not have the
> insulting effect?
Implicit in this is
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:28, tuxta2 wrote:
> I find your comments interesting and thought provoking, however I
> believe what you read was not what I wrote.
My apologies for that. I was indeed writing to the "Royal" you - and not you
personally. I was writing to the people who are thinking they
I will use the "Royal you" in writing this. It's not referring just to
Visser, Martin, but to all the readers.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:40, Visser, Martin wrote:
> Huh? When did this thread become a debate on the definition of Free or
> Open Source Software?
When this group decided to advertise
Again, I write in the "Royal you".
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:21, tuxta2 wrote:
> If being a Free Software group means no rules at all, cause rules are
> not in the right spirit, does that make it okay for me to start sending
> links to porn sites I like?
The society we choose to create and live in
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:25, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> This isn't censorship.
I'm surprised you don't think telling people what they can and can't say is
censorship.
Telling people what they can and can't say is censorship. It isn't censorship
because you do or don't have a "good" motivation, it's ce
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:43, James Purser wrote:
>
"useless" and "drivel", eh? Thanks for that opinion.
When I last lived in Sydney, I shared a house with several other fellows. We
got on well for several months, although this one who arrived after me had
rather poor manners - he was the cent
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:48, Peter Hardy wrote:
> I need something able to run Windows XP Pro (that's the only current
> Windows licence I have). I only plan on installing a single application,
I read through the XP license that came with my Thinkpad recently. It says if
I choose I can instead in
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:18, Matt Palmer wrote:
> I suspect your interpretation may be at odds with that of Microsoft --
> otherwise you could run a dozen qemu- or vmware-encased images
> simultaneously on the same (very, very chunky) computer legally, which I
> doubt is their intention.
No. A cop
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