Re: [SLUG] disabling ipv6 on centos? telnet localhost fails

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Deigan
On 20/06/2012, at 2:36 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: BUT, I can not telnet to policyd on 10031, getting same 'telnet gets tied up, can't quit till process killed': # telnet localhost 10031 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to

Re: [SLUG] disabling ipv6 on centos? telnet localhost fails

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Deigan
On 20/06/2012, at 1:47 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I'm setting up postfix on centos 6, struck some weird (to me) issues; at first, I was able to telnet localhost 25/ehlo etc but, now I can telnet anymore, telnet session gets hunged till I kill postfix, and, I get ipv6 :::1 line after

Re: [SLUG] webhost needed with ssh access

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Deigan
On 10/06/2011, at 7:28 AM, Jim Donovan wrote: Can someone recommend a host that allows ssh access (and perl and email), please? It's for a small website. I've been using Smartyhost but their ssh server is being retired and not replaced. Anchor* http://anchor.com.au/ -Chris. *conflict of

Re: [SLUG] MySQL Mono

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Deigan
On 25/08/2010, at 8:13 PM, Chris Allen wrote: Can any one recommend good books / courses (in Sydney) for learning both of these? How do you place yourself as a programmer already? If you're fairly familiar with object oriented programming and C-style syntax, then C# should be pretty easy for

Re: [SLUG] Reply-to address on SLUG posts

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Deigan
On 27/07/2010, at 2:08 PM, Jon Jermey wrote: I've been caught by that a few times, mainly because this is the only mailing list I currently subscribe to (out of a dozen or so) that doesn't automatically set the reply-to address to the list. I have a vague memory of this issue being raised

Re: [SLUG] Beating the filter

2010-04-07 Thread Chris Deigan
On 06/04/2010, at 7:25 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: Maybe everyone in SLUG already knows how to do this, but I don't. Maybe some kind slugger would write a very short tutorial and we could email it to everyone that we know. There's a dozen different ways, none too difficult to figure out (I have

Re: [SLUG] Testing glue records

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Deigan
On 26/02/2010, at 11:16 AM, Ashley Glenday wrote: I ended up purchasing DNS hosting as my registrar didn't seem to be able to set the glue records up properly. That's pretty poor form, perhaps it's time to find a new registrar who know what they're doing ;) (FWIW, AusRegistry has a fairly

Re: [SLUG] nzb program

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Deigan
On 10/02/2010, at 12:14 AM, Lee Isaacson wrote: I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and I am looking for a program to download nzb files similar to grab it for windows. I have tried to install hellanzb but the file stays at 0. Do I need to look at another distro or is there another application that works

Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD

2010-01-17 Thread Chris Deigan
On 18/01/2010, at 11:34 PM, Heracles wrote: Do I need to use dd or is there a simple gui way. I need to copy ALL the files across. cp (or rsync, depending on your circumstances) would work between filesystems. Just check the manpage for switches to preserve the file attributes. -Chris.-- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 30 November

2007-11-27 Thread Chris Deigan
There's $9 flat-rate parking after 5pm at Market City in Haymarket. On Nov 26, 2007 11:23 PM, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 4:58 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where: Atlassian[1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street)

Re: [SLUG] Squid and File Serving

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Deigan
On 7/30/07, Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been hitting the Linux documentation hard and after much learning I think I have decided on a course of action. I would like to get another computer and set up a Proxy Server for my network security and peace of mind. I have no idea

Re: [SLUG] Home Linux Server

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Deigan
On 8/3/07, Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a home Linux server to act as a I've done all of this and more with a 200mhz machine with 96mb of memory :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] ADSL ISP hosts

2007-06-04 Thread Chris Deigan
On 6/4/07, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, iiNet runs Apache on its webservers - I strongly suspect they're mostly Linux boxes, since making Apache behave well on a 'Doze machine is problematical at best - but does it really matter? Last I heard (which is from a few years ago), iiNet use

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Chris Deigan
Must be referring to the use of Exchange perhaps? -Chris. On 12/14/06, Sam Lawrance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 6:54 PM, Alexander W Stanley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: Dear

Re: [SLUG] Proposed ComputerBank's AGM

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Deigan
On 12/8/06, Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The close of LCA would really be the most opportune time. You could also use the timing to promote the activities of CBNSW amongst attendees. It might be possible to hold the AGM at/during LCA during BOF sessions or something? -Chris. --

[SLUG] Fwd: XEN Virtualization

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Deigan
-- Forwarded message -- From: SNUG Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 12, 2006 1:46 PM Subject: XEN Virtualization Hi Slug, just want everyone to know that there is a SNUG meeting on XEN - virtualization at Novell on the 17th of Oct in Sydney, 5.30PM sharp. goto

[SLUG] Linux Workshop THIS Sunday

2006-07-04 Thread Chris Deigan
G'day everyone, Sorry for the short notice on this one - in compensation I'm expecting you all to invite along any friends who may be interested. ;) SLUG's workshop will be a be a fusion of traditional SLUG events - consisting of a codefest, videofest, installfest and for the first time at

[SLUG] Re: Linux Workshop THIS Sunday

2006-07-04 Thread Chris Deigan
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: What's a deckfest? Basically it's the concept of preparing people, or decking them out, to go home and install linux instead of bringing their machines in. This is basically since linux is so easy to install these days - however we're keeping the traditional

[SLUG] Google Groups

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Deigan
Hey gang, New toys for everyone, slug, slug-chat and the new coders list are being syndicated to a group on Google Groups. This gives a web interface to posting/reading the SLUG list, with a few added toys such as RSS feeds and the ability to subscribe for emails from specific threads only. I

Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Google Groups

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Deigan
Howard Lowndes.quote; I don't use Google Groups so I ask the question: Will this mean my email address has a broader audience for better spam address harvesting, because if so - I'm outa here... No. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Google Groups

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Deigan
Howard Lowndes.quote; I don't use Google Groups so I ask the question: Will this mean my email address has a broader audience for better spam address harvesting, because if so - I'm outa here... No. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Google Groups

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Deigan
Benno.quote; (Not that I don't think it is a nad thing, but a bit more communication from the ctte to to rest of the community would be nice here.) Just to clarify, the committee had no part in this and it is my doing entirely as an experiment. It may stay, it might not. If it works out, then we

Re: [SLUG] 1st SLUG Attendance

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Deigan
G'day Mark, Mark Sargent.quote; my name is Mark Sargent and I'll be in attendace tonight for the first time. I've been a Linux user for about 1.5yrs now(although I'm coming to you from an XP box(ouch!)) Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoyed tonight, and that we'll see you at our future events. :)

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting TONIGHT

2006-04-27 Thread Chris Deigan
Hi everyone, Just an update from the announcement on Tuesday, the Special Interest talk tonight will be from James Dumay regarding mono. Dinner is expected to be held again at Ippon Sushin (in Chinatown), cost should be $20 a head. Apologies for the late announcement this month, all the updated

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: Friday, 28th April

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Deigan
Hi everyone, this is a small announcement for our monthly meeting on this coming Friday. Expect a full announcement later today [Tuesday] as some small organisational points are fixed. Apologies for the late announce! When: Friday, April 28th, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway

Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Deigan
Terry Collins.quote; How do people listen to Podcasts from the ABC? Using my ears. Sadly, as is usual for IT in the ABC, their help pages don't help (just another example of why RTFM is not a solution). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Podcatchers Pick a podcatcher and give it the URL to

Re: [SLUG] Burning .IMG files?

2006-03-25 Thread Chris Deigan
Charles Myers.quote; Hey guys, just wondering if there is an app or something 'easy' for a noob like me to burn .img files? I have read about burning/mounting .iso files but I'm unsure if these are the same format as .IMG files. .img files are usually ISO9660 images (or files) with funny

[SLUG] Committee Nomination

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Deigan
Hey guys (and gals), I'd like to nominate Scott Sinclair (also known to some as praetorian) for the position of secretary. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Deigan
James Purser.quote; I would like to nominate Michael Knight as SLUG's official Anthem Writer/Performer. Seconded. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] BUGS meeting: Thursday, 30th March

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Deigan
Dear SLUG members (and anyone else who is interested :), You are most welcome to join us for the meeting outlined below. This is a fairly infrequent opportunity. We'd love to see you there! BSD Users Group Sydney Meeting == What: Drinks and dinner. Meet some

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Deigan
James Purser.quote; Jeff has already come out swinging on this issue and I will join him. RTFM is a sign that the poster could not be bothered explaining themselves to any degree, and to a large extent, it displays a lack of respect for the person you are posting too. Or that they themselves

Re: [SLUG] Post Install Fest Thanks

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Michael Fox); The vmware idea is good, especially since vmware server beta is free and should remain free after beta cycle finishes. Or for the people not running linux (which would be the point of the image), vmware player is free and sane! -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] well I'm defeated!

2006-02-27 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(ashley maher); I'm basing the setup on a config file I've used for apache 1.3 from an old server that has run for years. BAD BAD BAD Ubuntu being debian based uses a file for each virtual host. Yeah, and being Debian, the main concept of configuration is magic! Everything you need to

Re: [SLUG] Yet Another Nomination

2006-02-27 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Michael Kedzierski); I'd like to nominate Jeremy Apthorp aka nornagon for the position of ordinary committee member. I have a feeling that he will make a good committee member with his enthusiasm and ideas. I second this nomination. -Chris. -- DDR for SLUG *is* cool. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Re: Comment from iinet

2006-02-27 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Michael Fox); Not from any ISP I have ever seen. Just look at the Internode Business plans compared to Home/Soho ones. Although AAPT's business stuff is interesting:

Re: [SLUG] Telstra broadband and Redhat 8.0

2006-02-27 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Chiz-mail); I am using Redhat 8.0 and would like to have a broadband account with Telstra. I contacted them and they have no idea if I can use their modem with Redhat 8.0. Telstra have no idea about much at all. I would appreciate if anyone has actually achieved this or has any

Re: [SLUG] Linuxworld stand for LA!

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Pia Waugh); b) stand at a stall for 3/2/1/0.5 days to hand out information about FOSS to people and explain about the community c) help decorate the stand and pull it down afterwards me! me! pick me! We could even show some demos of non-commercial FOSS that just inspires the imagination.

Re: [SLUG] Committee nomination: Lindsay Holmwood

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Pia Waugh); I'd like to nominate Lindsay Holmwood for President of SLUG. I think Lindsay has proven himself to be reliable, trustworthy, and an all round great guy :) Totally! Seconded! -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

[SLUG] The nominations so far

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Deigan
are the nominations thus far.. PRESIDENT: * Grant Parnell - Nominated by Grant Parnell, Seconded by Tony Green (accepted) * Lindsay Holmwood - Nominated by Pia Waugh, Seconded by Chris Deigan (not accepted) VICE PRESIDENT: * Grant Parnell - Nominated by Grant Parnell

Re: [SLUG] Mass nominations

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Pia Waugh); I nominate Mohammad Kaan for Secretary of SLUG. He is a great person, FLOSS advocate, and I think he'd make a fantastic secretary and addition to the SLUG committee. Seconded! I nominate Silvia Pfieffer for Vice-President of SLUG - she rocks, what else do we need to say :)

[SLUG] More nomination madness

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Deigan
Nominating is so fun, most of you have no idea what you're missing out on.. ;) I'd like to nominate Telford Tendys for ordinary committee member - Telford has been a great help this year on the CTTE, and I'd welcome him to continue on his efforts. And, Lindsay Holmwood for Vice President. For

Re: [SLUG] Committee nomination: Chris Deigan

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Lindsay Holmwood); I'd like to nominate Chris Deigan for a position as an ordinary committee member. *ACCEPTED* -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] VNC question

2006-02-22 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Ben Donohue); If you have a terminal then you could type startx or startkde (i don't know what gnome startup is). How I setup vnc for me is as follows (for kde setup and root access)... *cough* So, you run a VNC server as root, listening on the interweb? VNC being the unsecure protocol

[SLUG] Committee Nominations!

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Deigan
Because nothing is more exciting than people getting nominated, here's some to start us off, featuring the rogues from the outgoing committee.. Lindsay Holmwood for Secretary! Lindsay has shown a keen interest in getting things happening in his term with the outgoing committee (as

Re: [SLUG] DNS lookup for filtering spam

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Peter Rundle); Does anyone know whether there exists a plugin for qmail that allows incoming e-mail to be tagged for spam based on a DNS lookup for either the IN MX or IN TXT DNS records for a domain? spamassassin? I know for sure SA can check SPF records, not sure about A-lookups,

Re: [SLUG] upgrading Python on RH73

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Deigan
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:20 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: I currently have RH73 with Python 1.5x [...] what are my best option to install the new Python ? Upgrade to a distribution released in the last 3 years? -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Sound Recordings from Previous ShefLUG Meetings

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Deigan
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 19:55 +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: These are provided by ManLUG - www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk - and the Manchester Computing Centre. If you want to thank anyone for these recordings you should send your thanks to them. To use the archived files above you need to remove

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

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Deigan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 12:44 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: What my problem is: how do I set up DNS so that externally thisdomain.tld and thatdomain.tld both point to the same external IP address, but internally they point to different internal IP addresses. Check out BIND views. You can setup

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

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Deigan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:44 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: 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] Recent SLUG Downtime

2006-02-12 Thread Chris Deigan
Hi Everyone, For anyone who hasn't noticed, SLUG has had significant downtime over the past couple of weeks. WHY? SLUG's now-retired server, known to most as maddog which has run the site and lists for many years, had a significant failure in January which prevented it from starting up. The

Re: [SLUG] ocassional network failure: network unreachable

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Voytek Eymont); but, now that I powered up the ocassional machine, I can't get past the router... what am I missing...? I can ping the router, but, when I try to go outside, I get 'network unreachable' (traceroute, ping, ssh)(after 'service ipchains stop') Probably the default gateway,

Re: [SLUG] ocassional network failure: network unreachable

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Voytek Eymont); kernel ip routing table dest gw mask flag metric ref use iface 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo In that case you'll have to set a default gateway, you can do this on a one-time basis with route: route add default gw

Re: [SLUG] Sound devices

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Alan L Tyree); How do I find all of my sound devices? /proc/asound/cards (under ALSA) will show you all sound cards registered. /proc/asound/devices will show you every device registered to ALSA. Cheers, -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: Friday, January 27th

2006-01-24 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, January 27, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Room 2.4.06 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 6), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS available at

Re: [SLUG] Training.

2006-01-23 Thread Chris Deigan
On 1/24/06, Matt Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings fellow slugers, does anyone know of a phone number I can ring or who I would talk to about getting in contact with a slug administrator? I've got some questions to ask etc. Thanks As in the committee? Best to send your questions to

Re: [SLUG] Camcorder?

2006-01-20 Thread Chris Deigan
Don't know about USB, but if you can connect it using firewire it's just a matter of loading the ieee1394 + raw1394 modules (with correct permissions on /dev/raw1394 for your user) and using kino or dvgrab (both should be in most distributions). -C. On 1/20/06, Martin Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Deigan
On 1/16/06, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - How do you run a play station through a computer? Using a TV capture card, ofcourse. ;) Should have an AV plug (my analogue card has one) or you can tune it using an RF adapter (an analogue signal thing). -- Cheers, Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Deigan
On 1/16/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:54 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: In addition, the windows machine also manages to publish its name to the windows dns server while the Linux machine doesn't. Does anyone know what I need to do to get the Linux

Re: [SLUG] Linux distro for pentium 166 Mhz

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Deigan
You could use any linux distro, really. If it's dedicated purpose is to firewall/gateway, I'd suggest IPCop (http://www.ipcop.org/) for it's simple configuration. -C. On 1/10/06, Kasim, Yosep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there I have a very old pc that I want to serve into linux gateway.

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Deigan
ntpdate -s au.pool.ntp.org On 12/31/05, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, December 31, 2005 12:18 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 09:04 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: ntp is network time protocol. It keeps UTC in sync not daylight savings which is offset from UTC.

Re: [SLUG] Zeus

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Deigan
Try bur.st (http://bur.st/). The only other option in Australia would perhaps be iiNet who have a shell service, but it was ridiculously restricted beyond usefulness last time I used it. On 12/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've grown very fond of the good old

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: November, 2005

2005-11-21 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, November 25, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Room 2.4.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS available at

[SLUG] Call for moderators!

2005-11-19 Thread Chris Deigan
Ahoy eager SLUG'ers! A large part of looking after SLUG's large array of mailing lists and dealing with spam and other nasties is moderating. Traditionally this has been a job for committee members, however, following the success of appointing an extra moderator for our jobs list, we've decided

[SLUG] fwd: O'Reilly UG Program MAKE Magazine Holiday Offer

2005-11-05 Thread Chris Deigan
***Give the Gift of MAKE Magazine*** Give the geek on your list a truly unique gift this holiday season-- their very own subscription to MAKE magazine. MAKE is the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration. Each rich issue brings the do-it-yourself mindset to

Re: [SLUG] Pitch for linux.conf.au, 2007

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Jeff Waugh); Hi all, A few of you are not subscribed to linux-aus, so I thought this might be of interest here. You'll recognise most, if not all, of the names on the Sydney 2007 team list. :-) Rock on Sydney 2007! WOAH... WHAT AN AWESOME IDEA! Wins my vote! -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday, October 21st.

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Deigan
. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals. Special Interest Talk Chris Deigan will be speaking on /home away from home Increasingly these days, people are required to use computers from all sorts of places, and from all

Re: [SLUG] Kubuntu Hoary query

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Michael Fox); Can anyone recommend a good mirror to populate into my kubuntu apt sources.lst file. As I noticed some stuff is missing and even when I uncomment the existing lines for universe, I still cant find some items. deb http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/ubuntu breezy main restricted

[SLUG] Re: Monthly Meeting: Friday, September 30th

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Deigan
7:00pm (approx): General Talk Matthew Palmer - Your own personal Mainframe: Virtual Machines for fun and profit 8:00pm (approx): Break Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge. 8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for: * Special Interest Talk: Newbie Orientation

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: Friday, September 30th

2005-09-26 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, September 30, 7:00pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Room 2.4.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS availible here).

Re: [SLUG] CMS

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(ashley maher); I've been asked by a charity to look after a CMS for them. They have had Mambo recommeneded to them. I'd suggest Drupal above mambo. Nothing against mambo, just, well.. *bloat* Cheers, -Chris. -- linux.conf.au 2006 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Dunedin, NZ -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Lappies with preinstalled Linux (was Partitioning software)

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Jeff Waugh); The only thing I like with Linspire is that it comes with legal codecs like the ability to play DVDs legally. Unlike the other distros. Ah, but you can't share it with your friends. Unlike the other distros. :-) o/~ but they can not help their neighbours... o/~ -chris. --

Re: [SLUG] Debian and starting VNC as Service

2005-09-01 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Bill); Any help with either starting services in Debian or starting x11vnc via Webmins command line option will be appreciated. Check out the most excellent post by our very own Jeff Waugh at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/August/msg00730.html -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Manageable Linux Bittorrent Client?

2005-09-01 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Terry Collins); Is there a Linux bittorrent client that provides a) download queueing? b) download capping? c) upload capping? Like others have said, Azureus. Just beware of it's resource footprint. :) -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] Software Freedom Day in Sydney

2005-08-31 Thread Chris Deigan
- Forwarded message from Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:32:46 +1000 From: Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [chat] Software Freedom Day in Sydney To: Slug Chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Virus-Status: No X-Virus-Checker-Version:

[SLUG] Software Freedom Day 2005 - September 10th

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Deigan
Linux Australia and SLUG is proud to announce Software Freedom Day on September 10! Software Freedom Day is a global initiative to celebrate and give back to the community by taking Free and Open Source software to the streets. SLUG will be celebrating Software Freedom Day by distributing CDs in

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: August 26th, 2005

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, August 26, 6:00pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUG-Chat. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge. Please note the room changes: This month's meeting will be held in room CB02.04.11 (Building 2,

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: August 26th, 2005

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, August 26, 6:00pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUG-Chat. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge. Please note the room changes: This month's meeting will be held in room CB02.04.11 (Building 2,

Re: [SLUG] Software Freedom Day

2005-08-18 Thread Chris Deigan
On 18/08/2005, at 1:10 PM, QuantumG wrote: So is anyone planning activities for Software Freedom Day? Need any help? Yeap, and it's looking pretty awesome. Check out http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/ Sydney and if you're available, like the page says, let Pia

[SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday, July 29, 2005.

2005-07-26 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, July 29, 6:00pm - 11:59pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUG-Chat. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Main room: CB01.04.06 (Building 1, Level 4, Room 6) SLUG-Chat room: CB02.05.30 (Building 2, Level 5, Room

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth on Linux ?

2005-07-22 Thread Chris Deigan
quote([EMAIL PROTECTED]); is it possible to run Google Earth on Linux ? Well, a lot of the data can be got through google maps in sattelite view. :-) -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Deban SIG Meeting: Wednesday July 20th, 2005

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Wednesday, July 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Where: James Squire Brewery Free Media lets people build on forms of expression -- to make music, movies, pictures and knitting patterns by sharing source material. It's natural that Free Software should support the production of Free

Re: [SLUG] Installing X on Debian stable.

2005-07-10 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Terry Collins); 1) what d I need to install to get X + gnome going? $ apt-get install x-window-system-core gnome-core debconf will help configure all. 2) Or how do you fix /dev/input/mice not working? (which is just one of the possible causes). hotplug should load the appropriate modules

Re: [SLUG] Merging two physical directories using possibly using ln-s and simple moving question

2005-07-08 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Joel Heenan); First, I have two directories with music files. I want to have them appear as one directory to the filesystem, but actually be in two physical locations (its too large for one disk). so I have /home/media/music/ and /misc/media/music/ and I want all the directories in

Re: [SLUG] wlan-ng with prism2_usb

2005-07-05 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Howard Lowndes); Does anyone have a wlan rc script they are prepared to share other than the one that is in the wlan-ng package, or can offer some other solution, or suggest where I should be looking in hotplug. System is FC4 with 2.6.12 kernel I use a similar product (Netgear MA111)

[SLUG] SLUG June Monthly Meeting - Friday, June 24

2005-06-22 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, June 24, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUG-Chat. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Main room: Building 2, Level 4, Room 410 SLUG-Chat room: TBA - probably also building 2 (UTS busy due to

[SLUG] Debian SIG Meeting Tonight!

2005-06-14 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Wednesday, June 15, 7:00pm (That's tonight!!) Where: James Squire Brewery This month, an ad-hoc review of the latest Debian stable release, sarge along with the usual free-form discussions / debates that will precede and follow this talk, food, drink and internet access are

Re: [SLUG] stealthed ports

2005-06-05 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Kazik Malenczak); open grc says 113 is open and sygate says all ports are stealthed. Could someone tell me what is the best place to get a reliable scan done and why i get such widely varying results. Run nmap from a remote box. No idea about those sites though. -Chris. -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Robert Collins' Notebook

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Carl Woodward); I know this isn't the right forum for this question but I was wondering if anyone could tell me what notebook Robert Collins is using? I saw it tonight at SLUG and can't seem to find it on the web. I seem to remember X1 or something, but it was indeed a Dell. As someone

Re: [SLUG] Re: Robert Collins' Notebook

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Matthew Palmer); No idea what the old brick was -- just that it had a squillion USB ports. grin and an integrated hairdryer. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Stas Bekman - Author of mod_perl V2 Talk at Sydney Uni

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Deigan
Ahoy SLUG'ers, SLUG has been offered 2 places for attending a talk being held at Sydney University on next Thursday (2nd of June) by Stas Bekman, author of mod_perl V2. For those interested in attending, please email SLUG committee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a short(!) paragraph of why you should

[SLUG] Re: Stas Bekman - Author of mod_perl V2 Talk at Sydney Uni

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Deigan
Oh, and of course entries close Monday 30th (at 00:00). -Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] SLUGlets Keysigning

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Deigan
Heya, So, as some people will have read on the meeting announcement, we're going to have a small GPG keysigning. So, to get an idea of who'll be signing, it'd be nice if people could let me know by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your name and perhaps a fingerprint of your key (gpg --fingerprint

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu - changing global keyboard type

2005-05-24 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Terry Collins); Can anyone tell me how to change the global default keyboard for Ubuntu (Warty?) install-keymap and edit your XFree86 config. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: Friday, May 27 2005

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, May 27, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Please note the change in rooms: This month's meeting will be held in Building 2, Level 4, Room 11 at UTS

Re: [SLUG] Sources for Debian Sid (stable)

2005-05-19 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Rob Sharp); I didn't realise that optus ran a debian mirror. Any ideas if Optus mirror use counts toward your monthly 'allowance'? Optus has no free traffic, that includes the mirror. It'd be nice if they could add in an ubuntu mirror in there! I seem to remember an optus mirror admin

Re: [SLUG] DebSIG

2005-05-18 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Chris Deigan); (Yeah, DebSIG is still on...) ...or not. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] DebSIG

2005-05-17 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(ashley maher); Does DebSIG have a topic tonight? Yes, it's surprise topic night. Come for a surprise topic. :) (Yeah, DebSIG is still on...) -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] web site analysis/statistics

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(David); What's the latest and greatest software for web site stats? Just the basics... who hits and how many, where from, number pages per visit, referrer Both webalizer and awstats are fairly good, my pick went with awstats in a recent look at the two for use on a server. Overall,

Re: [SLUG] Edexpo helpers

2005-05-12 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Ken Wilson); Will get out when I can with some Unbuntu discs but working Friday and Sunday night with sleep in between somewhere If these are the warty cds you were talking about from the SLUG postbox, don't bother - they're old and obsolete anyway. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Suse 9.3 Net Install?

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Visser, Martin); http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/suse/suse ). Googling doesn't offer an answer. iiNet's mirror has always been a funny one, I'd use something local like planetmirror or mirror.pacific.net.au. -Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

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