Re: rt setup apache vconf; was [SLUG] app to manage hardware/support: irm ? rt ?

2009-03-09 Thread Crossfire
Voytek Eymont wrote: On Mon, March 9, 2009 10:24 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: Um, RT. Great system, and the only tool I have dealt with that handles multiple external customers nicely. It isn't the most trivial thing to get working though, Daniel, thanks I tried 'make testdeps' and 'make fixde

Re: [SLUG] working wvdial.conf file for Vodafone Huawei E220?

2008-04-15 Thread Crossfire
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've just bought a 3G Mobile Broadband plan from Vodafone. Anyone got a working wvdial.conf file? Argh. not more HSDPA. (I've just spent last week hacking on stuff for Maxon BP-3 modems). The key points for configuring a standard HSDPA that accepts AT commands (the Huaw

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
Dave Kempe wrote: Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment should be mostly read-oriented, so I can live with

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
Mick Pollard wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:52:55 +1100 Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree o

[SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without STOMITH[1]. The scenario is I have two identical systems with local (s

Re: [SLUG] Question on pixels.

2008-01-08 Thread Crossfire
Adrian Chadd wrote: Next - refresh rate. Its a fun one. refresh rate affects CRTs by just overtaxing what the electronics and the tube itself can do. Refresh rates can limit LCD resolutions by trying to push too much data over DVI. DVI has a fixed upper speed and doesn't fail gracefully like V

Re: [SLUG] VPN server for Mac clients

2006-06-07 Thread Crossfire
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > I'm just starting to look into providing a VPN server for some Mac OS X > 10.3 clients. > > Can anyone give any pointers on what is good to use on the server side > (Ubuntu dapper) for minimal client setup and ease of use for Mac > type

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Crossfire
James Purser was once rumoured to have said: > Just out of curiosity, have they considered running Windows under either > VMWare's free server offering or QEMU? That way they can keep all their > linuxy goodness and run the Windows based stuffs they need. The main reason why VMWare, etc, are unsui

Re: [SLUG] Where's Sydney's Akihabara?

2006-05-04 Thread Crossfire
Mark Sargent was once rumoured to have said: > Hi All, > > just wondering where most SLUGers shop for PC parts etc. I miss my Akihabara > ;-(. I ventured to a few of the small PC shops in Sydney CBD, but was > bitterly, in a fun kinda way, disappointed(did I mention that I miss my > Akihabara?-lol

Re: [SLUG] Guide me please ...

2006-04-06 Thread Crossfire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: > Hi > (wow this weeks hot topic) > I need to install a debian woody system to compile some bits for an > embedded box. We actually do this all the time at work. We mostly work from debian stable or testing, but we need to build our binaries again

Re: [SLUG] decodeing base64 ?

2006-04-06 Thread Crossfire
Voytek Eymont was once rumoured to have said: > is there a way to decode base64 with uudecode ? No. UUEncoding is a very specific form of binary to ascii translation which has no direct relationship with base64. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscript

Re: Does Bridging require ISP co-operation? Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

2006-03-20 Thread Crossfire
Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: > > > However, most ethernet based ADSL modems will work with linux in Full > > bridge (terminated by PC) or routed (terminated by modem) modes. > > > > Once you have terminated the connection

Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

2006-03-20 Thread Crossfire
Bolero was once rumoured to have said: [massive snip] For a start, get yourself a mail client that does sensible things, like generate multipart/alternative w/ text/plain at the very least if you're going to insist on posting HTML mails. [Some of us are using text-only mail clients (such as mutt)

Re: [SLUG] Joomla/mambo cms install

2006-03-07 Thread Crossfire
Ben Donohue was once rumoured to have said: > I'm just starting with joomla and am getting the following error when > starting the configuration.php-dist file. > > ./configuration.php-dist: line 1: ?php: no such file or directory > (and lots more errors as well) Just hazarding a guess here, but

Re: [SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

2006-02-22 Thread Crossfire
Ken Foskey was once rumoured to have said: > cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording. SAO is "Session at Once" mode. A fairly uncommonly used multi-session recording mode where all the tracks for the session are written without interrupting the write-laser until the end of the session. TA

Re: [SLUG] linux to linux shares

2006-02-19 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: > >O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > >[snip] > > > > > >>Try AFS (www.openafs.org). > >> > >>Why use AFS? Benefits: ACLs, Quota and easy management with rock-solid &

Re: [SLUG] linux to linux shares

2006-02-19 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: [snip] > Try AFS (www.openafs.org). > > Why use AFS? Benefits: ACLs, Quota and easy management with rock-solid > security. Has de-facto global FS thru VPN if you so require. Security is suspect due to the use of a modified krb4 as its primary authentica

Re: [SLUG] Nvidia twinview, xorg and tv-out...

2006-01-21 Thread Crossfire
Anthony O'Hara was once rumoured to have said: > In XP, I'm given an extension of the desktop to the TV, and a handy overlay > to display video files on. The login screen displays in the middle of the > CRT, and my start bar doesn't continue beyond the border of my CRT. Apps all > run on the CRT, a

Re: [SLUG] My mythtv saga...

2006-01-12 Thread Crossfire
Michael Fox was once rumoured to have said: > I thought I would send a quick post about my progress with mythtv in > the recent weeks. > > As people would of last saw I bought a DVICO fusion plus card and soon > after ditched it. I then purchased a Twinhan based card for $90.20 and > this card wor

Re: [SLUG] perl DBI special chars handling

2006-01-12 Thread Crossfire
Julio Cesar Ody was once rumoured to have said: > Hi list. I tried emailing the perl monger list, but it seems no one got it. > > There's a certain function in a program I wrote which inserts data > into a MySQL database using DBI. Here's a snippet: > > my $MYSQL_insert = "INSERT INTO $MYSQL_tabl

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-25 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > Robert Collins wrote: >> Holy shit! You are s off base here its not funny. 'More than one >> thing per clock cycle' -> What do clock cycles have to do with >> parallelism? Nothing. > > Clock cycles has everything to do in the analysis of CPUs. It i

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-24 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > James Gregory wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:40 +1100, O Plameras wrote: > > > > > >>#define spin_lock_init(lock)do { (void)(lock); } while(0) > >>#define _raw_spin_lock(lock)do { (void)(lock); } while(0) > >> > >>I am reading this cited

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-19 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > Architecture wise, some changes from i386 to i586: > 1. Native floating point in i586 (present in i486 but disabled, option > to install co-processor in i386) Actually, the FPU in the i486 is enabled on the 486DX series, but not on the 486SX series.

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-19 Thread Crossfire
Jan Schmidt was once rumoured to have said: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 13:54 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > > > Architecture wise, some changes from i386 to i586: > > > > But crucially, few of these things are interesting at the kernel > > level. Apps can take advantage of CPU features like the

Re: [SLUG] Further to Azureus/Bittorrent req - checking ports?

2005-11-29 Thread Crossfire
Bill was once rumoured to have said: > > Thanks to all those who posted replies to my earlier question re > Azureus/Bittorrent. > > I have Azureus running at reasonable speed now, having port forwarded port > 6881 to 49152 both as TCP and UDP, changing Azureus download/upload limits, > setting

Re: [SLUG] 64 and 32 bit libraries in parallel (Fedora)

2005-11-27 Thread Crossfire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: > For things which are open source but are about as rare as a migratory > coconut: > > I've also been fascinated by this new fad of putting 64 bit libraries in > /lib64 and /usr/lib64. Some ./configure and make scripts I've come across > have to be

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

2005-11-27 Thread Crossfire
Beav Petrie was once rumoured to have said: > I run these codes I copied from a tutorial book. > The print out is 24, correct factorial of 4 (4*3*2*1). > > But y is 0 (y < 1) finally and return value of 1 so how is it > 24 instead of 1 is printed ? > > Please help me understand. Many thanks. Thi

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-24 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > > This is a different code. > > I'd do it differently. But for another time. So would I. If I was trying to implement the original arrangement properly, I'd probably do it something like this... ---BEGIN--- #include #include #include #include #i

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Crossfire
Steve Kowalik was once rumoured to have said: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:12:07PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: > > IIRC, ANSI C[1] makes no guaranty as to the lifetime of literal > ^^^ > > Not that I'm trying to get involved in this Gospel according to Oscar >

Re: [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-22 Thread Crossfire
Ken Foskey was once rumoured to have said: [snip] > If we work on numbers. My code generally runs on a 2% error rate (all > right I am making 2% up but the number is not important...). I rewrote > an application of 2,300 lines of C code (not a comment in sight) into > 230 lines of perl code (with

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Crossfire
Daniel Bush was once rumoured to have said: > Wow, I remember when this thread had just 3 messages. > Anyway, just trying to clarify from the above code: "string2" is a pointer > to an automatic variable - a character array? Very bad to pass this address > back to main(). > But if you had said > ch

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > Programming is about coding to produce the stated results. > > Your code is silly as far as the objective of the program is concerned. What? the objective I set for my program was quite straight forward. Obviously you failed to observe what it was, an

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > > This is a different code. Of course its different code. This is not about how you'd do it, this is about why you DON'T do it. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Crossfire
[snip] > >>>U ... > >>> > >>>Coding 3. > >>>#include > >>>#include > >>>#include > >>>char * > >>>somefunction() > >>>{ > >>> char *string2 = "some words"; > >>> return string2; > >>>} > >>>int main (void) > >>>{ > >>> char *string; > >>> string = somefunction(); > >>>

Re: [SLUG] Sound Card Configuration

2005-11-10 Thread Crossfire
Domingo Llavero was once rumoured to have said: > SLUG, [snip] > I have installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my desktop, and everything is properly > configured except for the sound card. > > I have disabled the motherboard inbuilt card in BIOS, and thought that > Ubuntu would have detected my Creative SoundB

Re: [SLUG] drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Crossfire
Visser, Martin was once rumoured to have said: > Googling finds that, this author of this article seems to have already > blazed a trail - http://tzilla.is-a-geek.com/articles/egalax/ > > The author also refers to "touchkitusb", I found this - > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.0

Re: [SLUG] Alpha SRM Question

2005-08-02 Thread Crossfire
Rajnish was once rumoured to have said: > All, > > I've come in possession of an Alphastation 500/400 which has > OpenVMS. I would like to install Debian on it > however after hours of googling, I've discovered that I need to > know much more about this beast (read: *fun*) than I know about my > A

Re: [SLUG] smb.conf help please.

2005-07-25 Thread Crossfire
Phil Scarratt was once rumoured to have said: > James Purser wrote: > >On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 19:11 +1000, Bill wrote: > > > >>I have ClarkConnect set up as a file/print server. > >> > >>I can access the /share directory and have managed to set up a 2nd hard > >>drive for mu user as /data and I can

Re: [SLUG] missing scsi tape drive

2005-07-18 Thread Crossfire
David Gillies was once rumoured to have said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > ashley maher wrote: > > I have an IBM xServer 226, with ServerRaid. dmesg does not detect the > > scsi tape drive. More /proc/scsi/scsi finds the existance (ie model > > number no details like it kn

Re: [SLUG] escaping variables in bash

2004-09-13 Thread Crossfire
Alexander Samad was once rumoured to have said: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:20:37PM +1000, James Gray wrote: > > The enclosing a variable between curly braces, eg, ${foo} will force the > > shell to expand the variable's content regardless of whether it is inside > > single or double quotes. II

Re: [SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

2004-09-13 Thread Crossfire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: > > >Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and > > > >recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been > >its lack of dump/restore -- somethin

Re: [SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

2004-09-12 Thread Crossfire
James Gregory was once rumoured to have said: > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 13:02 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: > > Can anybody tell me about or point me to writing on differences between > > & comparative strengths & weaknesses of EXT3 & NTFS ? I used NTFS for > > years and found it bulletproof, in fact t

Re: [SLUG] Cloning LINUX ghost 7.5 & linux ....will ver. 7.5 support Redhat9 with lilo boot loader

2004-06-03 Thread Crossfire
need to reinstall your bootloader onto the new drive and you're set and ready to go. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- 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] perl gurus

2004-06-03 Thread Crossfire
gt; for $i ( 0 .. $#current_array ) { >for $j ( 0 .. $#{$current_array[$i]} ) { >print "element $i $j is $current_array[$i][$j]\n"; and here, its $current_array->[$i]->[$j] ... C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email wa

Re: [SLUG] Remote X Question

2004-03-06 Thread Crossfire
ch your runlevel back to 3 and start gdm/kdm/xdm as a daemon from an init.d script, rather than as a getty from init. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==

Re: [SLUG] making sun vi act like gnu vi

2004-03-01 Thread Crossfire
in unix vi. I have no problems against vim, I have problems with people who try to brand vim as being vi. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recy

Re: [SLUG] OSX & Linux

2004-02-12 Thread Crossfire
though. You can also get the source code for netinfo (the Darwin/OSX directory service) from the Darwin project, and it has been ported to linux at least once in the past... C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to

Re: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuring ADSL

2004-01-26 Thread Crossfire
Oscar Plameras was once rumoured to have said: > From: "Crossfire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Oscar Plameras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 11:50 PM > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuri

Re: [SLUG] Who has spoken to Commonwealth bank Tech support?

2004-01-26 Thread Crossfire
Rick Welykochy was once rumoured to have said: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Crossfire wrote: > > > > Compared to Perl, Java is an insecure platform that does *not* reach > > > its goal of write once run anywhere. Perl can do this admirably. And > > > securely. >

Re: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuring ADSL

2004-01-26 Thread Crossfire
links. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscr

Re: [SLUG] Who has spoken to Commonwealth bank Tech support?

2004-01-26 Thread Crossfire
Rick Welykochy was once rumoured to have said: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Crossfire wrote: > > As for those who are speaking out against Java, if you seriously think that C > > is a better alternative for writing reliable/robust applications, I suggest > > you toddle off and ha

Re: [SLUG] Who has spoken to Commonwealth bank Tech support?

2004-01-25 Thread Crossfire
ined. Part of Java's charm is that it is harder to write code with trivial bugs that can result in larger problems. If you want a language that is closer to metal in the same category, then look at Ada95. Although, if you hate Java, you'll probably hate Ada95 just as much. C. -- --=

Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-18 Thread Crossfire
tty much every socket7 and earlier motherboard in existance doesn't however. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA modem cards for linux

2003-08-18 Thread Crossfire
e a old Hayes 28.8 PCMCIA modem with dongle-style line terminator which I got VERY cheaply second hand. I haven't really had a need for anything faster than 28.8k on the move when ethernet hasn't been available. :) C. -- --==-- Crossfire

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-14 Thread Crossfire
'll want. If you really want a gcc-3.x compiler, you might want to consider running testing instead of stable. testing has gcc-3.2 and 3.3 IIRC. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was broug

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-05 Thread Crossfire
Chris Barnes was once rumoured to have said: > Now i'm starting to wander if this is a really crap release of Debian. > I am getting "E: Sorry, broken packages" errors all other the place, no > matter what I try to do! > > I did what Crossfire suggested: > apt-

Re: [SLUG] oroborosx or Apples X11

2003-06-25 Thread Crossfire
h a about 320MBs of RAM and its performacne seems no different from the rest of OS X. :) YMMV. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --

[SLUG] Anybody know what the story is with Radeon R9500/9600 support?

2003-06-25 Thread Crossfire
Is or this a bit out of date?) Has anybody got these cards and what success have they had with them under linux using XFree86 and GL? C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Elec

Re: Axis Print Servers Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers

2003-03-05 Thread Crossfire
Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: > > As for the Axis communication print servers, my only comment is... RUN AWAY. > > I respectably suggest that your sys admin was totally bloody hopeless. > Nicest print servers I've ever used (but I sto

Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers

2003-03-05 Thread Crossfire
n a homogenous environment is always much easier. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Creating hard Links to directories]

2003-02-26 Thread Crossfire
. Use Symlinks. Symlinks are nice and safe. If you must hardlink, you can use emacs hexel-mode, or other hex editor - that way you only have yourself to blame when you break things severely. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you

Re: [SLUG] Creating hard Links to directories

2003-02-26 Thread Crossfire
ardlink and trying to do something simple like a 'rm -rf' against it. Symlinks will suffice. Consult your friendly ln manpage for further (correct) information. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [E

Re: [SLUG] MS Game Voice

2003-02-19 Thread Crossfire
ine thats efficent enough to cope whilst the game is running. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#

Re: [SLUG] Trouble getting SCSI to work

2003-01-16 Thread Crossfire
eal operating system) will not use BIOS functions if they can avoid it once the system is up. > - Original Message - > From: "Crossfire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The reason the bootloader can read the initrd is because it uses bios > hooks > > to do its disk a

Re: [SLUG] Trouble getting SCSI to work

2003-01-15 Thread Crossfire
hing which linux itself can not do. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] reading ancient floppies ...

2003-01-15 Thread Crossfire
e unified 3 1/2" formats - H/D has been depricated for 3 1/2" drives for quite some time now. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==

Re: [SLUG] Linux on Indy ?

2002-12-22 Thread Crossfire
lid Irix 6.5 license I can help you rebuild your indy with Irix 6.5 - contact me off list. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- --

Re: [SLUG] sendmail banning no reverse dns

2002-12-03 Thread Crossfire
Kevin Waterson was once rumoured to have said: > This one time, at band camp, > Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is not always a good idea - not every legimate mail server has a > > valid reverse lookup address. (Certainly, the ones in evilhouse >

Re: [SLUG] sendmail banning no reverse dns

2002-12-03 Thread Crossfire
#x27;t). C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] iptables problems

2002-11-12 Thread Crossfire
that information isn't being shown. The "operation not permitted" error will occur if the sendto will be denied by a DROP rule in your OUTPUT chain. Remember, iptables is not ipchains, and the OUTPUT chain has no effect on forwarded traffic. C. -- --==

Re: [SLUG] Is my IRIX box i386 ? Can I put Linux on it ?

2002-10-23 Thread Crossfire
wants an O2 to add to his collection of SGI boxes :)] -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

Re: [SLUG] Cheap network cards?

2002-09-17 Thread Crossfire
nels support it though, as I use > was using BSD at the time. >From my quick spot of research, the DFE-530TX is a VIA Rhine card, the DFE-530TX+ is an rtl8139. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Cheap network cards?

2002-09-17 Thread Crossfire
ure rate, the only card I've ever had fail on me was an RTL8129, which blew an SMT component on the card leaving a nasty black scorch mark and a rather useless ethernet card. All my other failures were caused by lack of usable drivers. Yuck. C. -- --===

Re: [SLUG] Cheap network cards?

2002-09-17 Thread Crossfire
e based on the LiteOn PNIC chipset which is one of the many Tulip clones. Expected price is around the $40 mark. Both my home gaming boxes (PIII/733s) use FA-310TXes and I've had no problems getting them to work under Lin2.4 - I do recall some difficulties mid-2.2 however. I'm pretty s

Re: [SLUG] 1394 firewire

2002-08-26 Thread Crossfire
not much better. I get the impression that the Lynx driver is better though. The support is definately not ready to be called stable for quite some time yet. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was

Re: [SLUG] No subject

2002-07-22 Thread Crossfire
at you need to do is get somebody else's working XF86Config (or generate one), install the nVidia drivers manually, and change the config to suit your system, and to use the nVidia supplied driver, rather than the default XFree86 nvidia driver. C. -- --

Re: [SLUG] NIS == frustration

2002-07-03 Thread Crossfire
r to make it compatible with non-BSD systems - if people are interested, I can post details on this process too. Hmm... maybe I should give a tech-talk on how to NISify a network sometime? C. -- --==-- Crossfire

Re: [SLUG] Brand name boxen

2002-07-01 Thread Crossfire
kplace when I left it. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Linux Sound :-)

2002-06-30 Thread Crossfire
ally be able to skip the ISAPnP step with 2.4 since it has some internal isapnp support. Does anybody who still uses ISAPnP SB16s like to comment? -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] DDS2 Tape drive and compression

2002-06-16 Thread Crossfire
ur data and guage its compressability. If its already compressed, then its highly unlikely that you can get any gain from a hardware compression system. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Rec

Re: [SLUG] mouse pointer offsets to right

2002-06-12 Thread Crossfire
ng - when in doubt, read the readme files - it is mentioned in there. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

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

2002-05-30 Thread Crossfire
nted, I only worked in Tech Supt, so I might not have seen everything the customers get. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- --

Re: [SLUG] laptop keyboard

2002-05-28 Thread Crossfire
o the default keymap or the US keymap, you should be fine again. [One of the joys of being in Australia: we use British English, the US keyboard Layout, UK style date, US style currency... etc] C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This ema

Re: [SLUG] Distributed file system...

2002-05-18 Thread Crossfire
ain in the ass. alpha-linux client has bugs in klog. WinNT client works, but occasionally does weird stuff. WinNT server is broken. Haven't tried it on ppc-linux. AFS does, however, have an administrative overhead because of the way its designed. Sadly, the NT Cli

Re: [SLUG] ask c-programming(#if 0)

2002-05-14 Thread Crossfire
o they can be easily reinstated if somebody changes their mind. #if 0 / #endif is used instead of C comments because C comments don't nest. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Ele

Re: [SLUG] Highly Technical Talk Offers / Requests?

2002-04-30 Thread Crossfire
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Re: [SLUG] how to do graphic-programming through telnet ?

2002-04-24 Thread Crossfire
nload. XLib is verbosely documented in the X manuals - but you'll want to find a nice X11 programming primer first. Unfortunately, I can't think of one to recommend. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought

[SLUG] Looking for 2 1/2" IDE Harddrives

2002-04-22 Thread Crossfire
. Thanks. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning & Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Crossfire
when you're reading, slow when you're writing, and fast to recover. Maximal space utilization through the intelligent use of btrees. Downside? Poor recovery utilities. you're probably best off using a mix of filesystems, using that which best fits the mount-point. C. -- --===

Re: [SLUG] Debian box not accepting print jobs from a remote SGI box

2002-04-18 Thread Crossfire
thinking that the Deb box is just denying the > print job. Is there some other file that I need to setup. The lpd > man says things about a lpd.perms file but I never did have one of > those before. lpd.perms is specifically an lprng thing. C. -- --==

Re: Rule #1 [Was Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems]

2002-04-18 Thread Crossfire
Rick Welykochy was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: > > > And because of this, I will now cite RULE #1: > > > > NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, RUN RANDOM COMMANDS GIVEN TO YOU BY > > SOMEBODY ELSE. ESPECIALLY AS ROOT. > > > > You sho

Rule #1 [Was Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems]

2002-04-18 Thread Crossfire
dvertised effects, maybe they don't do that at all. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] Printing: Software or Hardware problem?

2002-04-17 Thread Crossfire
Crossfire was once rumoured to have said: > ben_donohue was once rumoured to have said: > > Ah, well, hope i don't get flamed for this on a Linux list but... > > > > Back in my DOS days i'd do a... > > dir>lpt1: > > which would do a directory lis

Re: [SLUG] Printing: Software or Hardware problem?

2002-04-17 Thread Crossfire
: ls | mpage -2 -ba4 -Plp to do a 2up print on a sheet of a4. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Sync of filesystem on multiple SCSI hosts

2002-04-17 Thread Crossfire
iport storage. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] right click on an iBook

2002-04-11 Thread Crossfire
ir internal one-button trackpads unless they like lugging a mouse around with their laptops. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread Crossfire
ition types to explicitly state that the partition was being mapped via LBA. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - S

Re: [SLUG] Graphics card

2002-04-06 Thread Crossfire
on't solve your problems because such cards can only drive external displays, and not the internal LCD. I somehow doubt this would achieve your goals. C. -- --======-- Crossfire | This email was brough

Re: [SLUG] config for DoV ISDN?

2002-04-06 Thread Crossfire
#x27;ll get a kernel message saying the call type is voice. If you want to keep the link up 24/7, I wrote ijolt, which is a very simple link keepalive daemon. You will need to compile it too. it can be downloaded from http://kitsumi.xware.cx/ijolt-0.1.tgz The README file details its configuration

Re: [SLUG] iptables DNAT help required

2002-03-23 Thread Crossfire
pens.. > > # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 0/0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to > 192.168.1.99 > iptables: Invalid argument > > Cluesticks? s/POSTROUTING/PREROUTING/ DNAT has to be applied before a routing decision is made so the packets can be routed correctly. C. -- --==

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