Re: [SLUG] Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

2007-07-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
people love flash based video, youtube is like crack Dean Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: http://australianscreen.com.au/help/ some may be happy to note that in the FAQ w3c standards compliance is mentioned, ie, safari and ff are listed as should work perfectly. lynx even

Re: [SLUG] please unsubscribe all wildtecnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from SLUG lists

2007-07-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
This is all getting a tad childish. observe the footer Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
amsn is pretty horrible try gaim Dean Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Simon, I'll check the cooling fans. She uses amsn and it seems to do everything she wants. The only problem is that the file browser is not configurable so she does not get thumbnails.

Re: [SLUG] Quicktime Frustrations

2007-07-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
try different -vo settings (set in ~/.gmplayer ?? or just using the gmplayer preferences menu) xv is a good fallback, but i usually use gl2 Dean Trent Murray wrote: Firstly, many thanks to Marghanita da Cruz, Dean Hamstead, David Gillies for their replies. Have managed to get mplayer up

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop repairs?

2007-07-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
both times i have used apple repair centre they havent ruined my linux installs but they dont 'guarantee' that the fix will work. but on both cases, if you replace a keyboard and a power supply... *shrug* Dean Martin Barry wrote: $quoted_author = Erik de Castro Lopo ; Anyone have any

Re: [SLUG] Quicktime Frustrations

2007-07-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
use mplayer on the command line, and see what the .mov files encoders are mplayer filename.mov it will spit out what its trying to use to load it, then try and load it. there is most likely a command switch to just provide various data about the file and then exit man mplayer *shrug* i am

[SLUG] Etax 2007

2007-07-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
ran perfectly in wine (whatever is current). install perfect ran perfect submit perfect i couldnt see any visual glitches and nothing major on the console im also running in 32bit chroot, although this has no impact on anything. Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Etax 2007

2007-07-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
my point was merely that it works without any fuss, not a statement as to if non-windows ports should exist. Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: ran perfectly in wine (whatever is current). That should not be used as an excuse for the ATO not to provide a Linux port

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domaincontroller?

2007-06-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
You can always load windows 2003 into a virtual machine on a linux host. Its kind of scary but possible. Dean On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:56:02 +1000, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/06/07, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to get your terminology straight first. I suspected

Re: [SLUG] Remotely executing scheduled tasks using samba

2007-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
like say? ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /path/somescript.sh Dean Simon Males wrote: Hello all, Earlier today I found out that Windows Scheduled Tasks can be executed remotely from another Windows system using schtasks.exe with the following syntax: schtasks /Run /TN Backups /S remote_system_name

Re: [SLUG] portable MP3 player recomendations? (iIpod, iriver, ...)

2007-04-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
dont be so quick to hate on ipods and itunes. this magic 'lock in' that i hear about, seems to actually bite more the other way. ipods have by far the most accessories and support, which other players get locked out of. you may argue that ipods have a limited number of formats, which may be

Re: [SLUG] Firefox sux

2007-03-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
I'm using Iceweasel 2.0.0.2 on Debian testing (32 bit). No problems at all, at all. I have the flash plugin. on debian run iceweasel, not the rot that the mozilla foundation tries to pedal. but honestly, firefox isnt as great as it used to me. Dean -- WWW: http://deanpatrick.tk LAN:

Re: [SLUG] IBM calculate that 4Gb RAM is optimal for Vista

2007-02-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
slug-chat is the best place for this thread Dean Scott Ragen wrote: And what does this have to do with Linux? I really hate people attempting to bash Microsoft their products on OSS lists. IMHO It really makes everyone look like zealots. Cheers, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on

Re: [SLUG] Bulk Mail Etiquette

2007-02-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
exim will wait for the next queue runner, rather than delivering straight away (its prefered method) with envelopes over 10 messages so regardless of how you throttle it, you may find your host just sitting on its hands for a while. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if mailman has the

Re: [SLUG] Bulk Mail Etiquette

2007-02-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
this is of course configurable, but the default is 10 as rev. rumble just pointed out, in this case exim will then sort the emails and try to optimise sending. so from your end, its helpful to sort the emails by domain before sending. Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: exim will wait for the next

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
avoid ooo, try abiword - it may do the job Dean Zhasper wrote: On 06/02/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 192Mb, which is the maximum it supports. Minimum? :) I happened to stumble on http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-memory.html a few days ago,

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
you could try ebuntu (enlightenment w/ ubuntu), enlightenment is much less bloated than gnome and friends Dean Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, Ubuntu 6.06 live CD boots up fine on our Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT but is very heavy on the machine. Is Xubuntu really lighter than Ubuntu's GNOME? The

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
i cant say i have used it, i run debian with enlightenment. i just know it exists. Dean Amos Shapira wrote: On 06/02/07, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could try ebuntu (enlightenment w/ ubuntu), enlightenment is much less bloated than gnome and friends How does it compare

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
there are several pos implementations listed on freshmeat.net some of them seem very mature. Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS (point of sale) solutions available

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

2007-01-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Here are some thoughts from my own email server, we use exim to make these rules, spamassassin comes last. firstly look for banned 'helo' hosts. ie, 'localhost' '127.0.0.1' 'my.hostname' (as in the hostname of the box) this rule doesn't stop spam, but it has a measurable impact and doesnt

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

2007-01-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: in the case of imap email retrieval its even easier, just make 'Junk' folders for everyone, the routinely scan and clear them. No need to clear them, sa-learn ignores messages it has seen before so just send the whole Junk folder through each time. Then it's up

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
I recently blocked .jpg and .gif attachments on our server here at bong.com.au (which also serves fragfest.com.au) fortunately we dont have many users so its not a huge drama. But its great that so much spam is image spam, because adding such a rule has dropped our spam *enormously* I also have

Re: [SLUG] wifi extra range needed

2007-01-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
directionaly antennas at both ends will easily give you 50m, i have personally done about 30km with 25db antennas. the silly pole antennas with ap's and cards might be 3db if youre lucky. a directional should give 15db or more. you might also be able to increase the output from the AP and from

Re: [SLUG] frozen throne under wine

2006-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
did you compile or did you get wine from a binary? possibly opengl support has been excluded, either by autoconfig (or its friend) not finding opengl headers when compiling or because wine has been split into small pieces (ie wine-base, wine-opengl, wine-this, wine-that, wine-theother) in

Re: [SLUG] frozen throne under wine

2006-12-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
although you may have installed glx, it would seem that wine is unconvinced does glxgears run? Dean On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:27:17 +1100, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have glx installed (now...) and I cannot run frozen throne under wine correctly. Have I missed something? Warning:

Re: [SLUG] SPAM is ramping up

2006-12-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
add something in IP tables to ignore the host then you will save some data as well. Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: Just further on this particular IP address, it is currently accounting for about 40% of my email rejections and, surprise, surprise, it's a Winders box that is wide open: PORT

Re: [SLUG] ADSL without paying for a phone line?

2006-12-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
Like I said, wait until AFTER the election. It might change. But I wouldn't hold my breath. If Labor are smart, they'll make rural broadband an election issue. the drought will dominate everything but thats slug-chat material Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer)

2006-12-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
I would like to add my support to Jeffs comments. There may be a few minor downsides to dhcp, but the advantages of plug and play home networks overwhelmingly outweigh the alternative. Some ip routers (only dlink that i have seen) will also allow for static leases which can negate many of

Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer)

2006-12-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
What about Linux boxes configured as routers because one does not wish to pay anymore for a black-box modem/router apart from just ADSL modem ? One still has to configure DHCP. i would suggest that an adsl router versus adsl modem do not differ significantly. infact the dlink 'adsl modem'

Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer

2006-12-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Stephen in many regards wanting an inexpensive computer and wanting to do video editing are mutually exclusive. nevertheless basic machines will have power enough to do some video editing even if its not able to throw around huge files and edit them in real time. an 8 year old machine

Re: [SLUG] IPV6

2006-11-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
local dns problems will manifest themselves as failed look ups, long look up times then normal transfer rates. if domain names are resolving properly they will be resolving to ipv4 addresses and the stack will use the right protocol. check your network cable, switch/hub port and look at

Re: [SLUG] IPV6

2006-11-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
didnt like unix clients. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dean, Actually what I am getting is very long lookup times but the transfer rate, on downloads, is just fine. Ashley -- Original Message -- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:46:43 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [SLUG] IPV6 From: Dean Hamstead [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Where do I get some distros?

2006-11-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
you can just download most of them for free. As a side note you only really need one. your isp has a great mirror at http://mirror.pacific.net.au Dean On Fri, November 10, 2006 12:33 pm, Stephen Black wrote: I am have just built my computer and I would like to get as many distros as possible

Re: [SLUG] Wireless ISP Recommendation

2006-10-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
i have internode unwired. its just ethernet and you use pppoe no dramas from my debian-imac and also from my ipcop firewall. its just pppoe... *shrug* Dean Jamshid Karimi wrote: Hi Could someone please suggest an isp which supports linux for wireless internet? Regards Jamshid

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
port forwarding. on the nat router, look under the games/applications menu (assuming its an appliance type router) Dean Alan L Tyree wrote: The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer in the USA to get his X system going again. It was not a problem since

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
those would be 'geek' points. ;) Dean Configuring port-fowarding on the the router is clearly the best if you can do it. If you want nerd points, you (he) could compile netcat with GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE and use it to allow external people to use a connection initiated from the inside. You'd

Re: [SLUG] Any chance of the list admin getting spamassassin running?

2006-08-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
Its rather easy to say 'there is heaps of spam getting through' without actually being able to compare with how much *isnt* getting through. I believe having subscriber only access has been discussed and rejected before. My 2c says go subscriber only, and have the team of moderators occasionaly

Re: [SLUG] linux assignment

2006-08-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
Please do my assignment? Doesn't your course have a text or something? Dean David Herd wrote: Hi I'm a computing student who is having troubles with part of my assignment. Can I have any help out there in Linux land. Question 1. (16 marks) Write UNIX commands to a) show the lines of

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

2006-08-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
example, would an FPGA actually be any cheaper than an ASIC? Also there's the development cost, which for Zensonic would probably be a big factor as evidence suggests that they're not a big company. zensonic are a small adelaide based company. buy aussie and also support oss ;) Dean --

Re: [SLUG] Cron and shutdown command

2006-08-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
cron.daily is run from crontab, either will be ok Dean bill wrote: I have mythdora ( Redhat FC4 based) running more or less - at least t the degree that I can record TV programs. I want to auto-shutdown the PC after recording has finished. Googling gives plenty of links/info, which often

Re: [SLUG] Cron and shutdown command

2006-08-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Dean Hamstead wrote: cron.daily is run from crontab, either will be ok Dean bill wrote: I have mythdora ( Redhat FC4 based) running more or less - at least t the degree that I can record TV programs. I want to auto-shutdown the PC after recording has finished. Googling

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

2006-08-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
I bought one because the brochure was glossy and it has words like ogg and reviews like works great. its the only dvd player profile, dvd and network media player. so meh. i would say that its very 'mother and father' compatible, being very robust, quick booting and having a nice easy

Re: [SLUG] Census Online (Was e-tax in wine)

2006-08-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
Its not too hard to make a site that works well in all browsers, especially if you allow for minor cosmetic differences! In regards to pressuring the ATO for a linux version, remember that they have dropped the macosx version this year. So likely they arent looking to add another version. I

Re: [SLUG] Census Online (Was e-tax in wine)

2006-08-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
So, the census folk can do a damn good job, do likewise. I'n not prepared to arm-n-leg wangle with wine to use IE to help them out. We'll wait to see what percentage of the pop. uses eCensus, but it's easy and nice to use. do they use ie or just ie functions? wine has a lot of ie support now

[SLUG] e-tax in wine

2006-07-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
i ran etax all the way through in wine (well... cedega anyway) worked 100% except i couldnt submit for some reason anyone else had any success? Dean -- 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] e-tax in wine

2006-07-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
i just submitted using vanilla wine winehq have done a fair amount of work recently on merging mozilla stuff in to replace ie. Dean On Tue, August 1, 2006 10:50 am, Michael Knight wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: i ran etax all the way through in wine (well... cedega anyway) worked 100% except i

Re: [SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
the absence of a number may encourage the person attacking to be more general in their approach. which increase server load etc. so if there is a version number, they may not bother. but as has been pointed out, the reliability of the dist info is questionable as it can be faked. also, most

Re: [SLUG] VMWare Server free as in free beer

2006-07-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
in regards to option (2), you cant have vmware preallocate space or to allocate on the fly. this means that free space is free on the host as well as the guest. im not sure if you can convert between, but i can see the advantages when cloning if you were to start without preallocation then after

Re: [SLUG] VMWare Server free as in free beer

2006-07-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
there is nothing stopping you from running server machines on vmware workstations, its just that you will have to leave the server logged in and to get at the 'physical' console of the virtual machines you will need to get onto the desktop of the host machine as jeff points out, vmware server

Re: [SLUG] VMWare Server free as in free beer

2006-07-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
with virtual smp (real handy for converting legacy nt4 machines to virtual machines) Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dean Hamstead and no, you cant migrate from one to the other. Do you mean VMotion style guest migration, or migration from Virtual PC to VMWare? ... Opens VMware

Re: [SLUG] VMWare Server free as in free beer

2006-07-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
have your nice clean original install which you can bring back in again time and time again, or infact, as many times as you need to simultaneously. Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dean Hamstead I was under the impression that you couldnt just grab a virtual host file and move it from one

Re: [SLUG] Debian Linux for SPARC

2006-07-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
debian has its own arch specific lists, i whole heartedly recommend them should be debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Dean Phil Grimshaw wrote: Hello, I would like to get in touch with folk who are interested in Debian Linux for SPARC. Is there such a group of interested folk. I have some

[SLUG] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Verbose technical information is fine ;) Dean -- 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] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
ahh yes custom patches. which could be a big reason for embedded apps with funky proprietary hardwares. good thinking. i thought that perhaps some memory algorithm hadn't been ported (or worse) Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dean Hamstead Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux Workshop THIS Sunday

2006-07-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
im sure 'decking' is when you force their body to the deck (ie of a ship). usually in reference to a physical altercation im feeling eloquent today. although im concerned that 'deckfest' sounds like some sort of luxury boating get together. Dean Chris Deigan wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Mega confused

2006-06-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
like web hosting for example? it would definitely be legal. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...i am new to all things linux/gnu/gpl etc etc Can anyone tell me if someone was to use a group of gnu/gpl programs to provide a service for a feeis this legal under the licensing terms?

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
it is a 'beta', so expect beta type glitches. good on google for getting ryan gordon to port it. he may rapidly be becoming a one man replacement for lokisoft! Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Methinks that it's graphics card related: I'm using SuSE10.1 AMD64 6600GT nvidia.

Re: [SLUG] Suse10.0

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
Thanks James, I did that at the start and expected to be able to mount the shares on the W/S, but the W/S cannot mount the server shares. I should mention these are both 64 bit systems. I am beginning to wonder if 64 bit is a shambles and i should try 32bit?? Gerald the bits arent

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
does cedega give you better results than wine? Dean On Thu, June 1, 2006 9:44 pm, O Plameras wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up.

Re: [SLUG] decrypting password stored in MySQL ?

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
most likely its inserted simply with a sql line like... insert into table (password) values (md5('password')) where... or insert into table (password) values (encrypt('password')) where... your best bet, is to find the password insert code and see if it uses a mysql built in, a php/perl/lang

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
'expect' might help you script it if you cant get at source and need to bolt some cgi ontop of the curses Dean On Fri, June 2, 2006 12:58 pm, Michael Lake wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics requirements) Why wont they do as

Re: [SLUG] Re: GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
a bit of googling turned up... http://www.macewan.org/2005/12/31/google-earth-on-linux-2/ and a gentoo howto... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_GoogleEarth_with_wine if im bored i might try and run googleearth in cedega tonight although when i use it i fell dirty and violated, but it does

Re: [SLUG] Spam and other crap?

2006-05-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
an option would be to change the list to only subscribers can post. that would dramatically cut back spam, at the cost of accessability Dean Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: I have to say that I don't see much spam from SLUG, probably because spamassassin on my own system

Re: [SLUG] CMS recommendations

2006-05-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
gallery2 is snappy, even on our 256/256 throttled dual p3 800 256mb, colo are you sure you havent configured it poorly? coppermine is also an excellent gallery. various sites hosted on the aforementioned box run coppermine, gallery1 and gallery2. (homogenous is good) Dean On Mon, May 29, 2006

Re: [SLUG] installing ipcop with two same network card

2006-05-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
install pretending to use a modem then edit the the firewalls config files manually. its a pain, but oh well. i have the same fiddle with a usb ethernet adapter and a pcmcia adapter (yes a laptop firewall. its convenient and has a battery) the installed would not put pcmcia as local ethernet

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection speed.

2006-05-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
if email speed is a problem, you can always just download subjects (could be an imap only thing) or if your isp provides a shell account (not common anymore) read your email using pine/elm/whatever alas the internet has moved forward and modems are painful to use now. Dean Malcolm V wrote: On

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection speed.

2006-05-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
up. that is all. Dean Malcolm V wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:51, Dean Hamstead allegedly wrote: snipped alas the internet has moved forward and modems are painful to use now. I simply don't agree with this statement. Dialup has the disadvantages of tying up your phone line (the cost

Re: [SLUG] Collaborative Groupware

2006-05-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
what sort of features are you after? what lang/db/os would you like it to run on? Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm interested to know ppls views on web based collaborative groupware that will run on Linux. I have looked at eGroupware and, though it looks slick, I find that when you try to use

Re: [SLUG] Collaborative Groupware

2006-05-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
by lang i meant php or perl or java etc but multi-lingual support my be essential also. Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 13:26, Dean Hamstead wrote: what sort of features are you after? email (IMAP) calendar wiki timesheets what lang/db/os would you like it to run

Re: [SLUG] Linux in Sydney

2006-04-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
If you visit DSE NZ they have a much larger range of cheapy DSE branded products. DSE australia is more focused on branded products, and occasionally they will be ordered in by dse au. Essentially the two stores are related by name only, they have different buying groups etc. There is also a

Re: [SLUG] A Sys Admin's worst nightmare

2006-04-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
isn't this more slug-chat? anyway, i would like to see this, as well as ubuntu vs openbsd Dean Simon Wong wrote: I have setup an Internet Cafe for a mate of mine in a far away land. In what seems like a nightmare I haven't woken up from yet, he is proposing a crazy marketing stunt to pull in

Re: [SLUG] Filtering out robots

2006-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
are you meaning in your logs or actually stopping/reducing the webbots? Dean Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, I'm looking at my website logs (using the webalizer package) and most of the hits seem to be some sort of robot (Google tops the bill at 24% of the hits, 9.7Gbytes downloaded this month

Re: [SLUG] Filtering out robots

2006-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
out the agent. Dean Peter Chubb wrote: Dean == Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dean are you meaning in your logs or actually stopping/reducing the Dean webbots? Dean I mean filtering the logs so I can see who's using the website. I'm not particularly concerned with stopping

Re: [SLUG] local website for listing computers/parts for sale, purchase, trade?

2006-03-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://forums.overclockers.com.au Dean Leslie Katz wrote: Does one of a non-profit nature exist? -- 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] Interesting view

2006-03-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
definitely computer owners have an appliance mentality. fortunately people are getting over it, most people realize a computer will be horrendously out of date long before any other appliance will be. although thats mainly due to mans obsession with making the gui more and more like a Macdonald's

Re: [SLUG] Interesting view

2006-03-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
. Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: definitely computer owners have an appliance mentality. fortunately people are getting over it, most people realize a computer will be horrendously out of date long before any other appliance will be. although thats mainly due to mans obsession

Re: [SLUG] Re: Interesting view

2006-03-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
i thought ubuntu was 'linux home' perhaps it should be marketed as 'Ubuntu - Home' and then pick a random item from a house to be a logo. perhaps a door nob, or a power point (they are country specific, so the old - might not appeal to us people who thing = when they hear power point). maybe a

Re: [SLUG] Resolution hell

2006-03-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
quick fix? edit the hosts files. Dean Simon wrote: Hi all, Here is a scenario I need some help with. I work as a volunteer in an organisation lets call it myorg for now. Small network 30 machines SAMBA server running as domain master for XP workstations on an e-smith server IMP email

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
check out http://www.netspace.net.au free downloads off their peers (ie mirror.pacific.net.au) ppc, amd64 (probably i386) debian updates all free data! Dean Rajnish wrote: All, Finally, I am jumping onto the broad-band-wagon. I am currently with TPG dialup and am generally satisfied with

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

2006-02-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
hosts file? Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: It's possible that I might be overlooking something very basic here, so bear with me pse. I've been playing with Xen and can see it's potential for hosting virtual servers, each having a defined internal IP address and a defined internal MAC address

Re: [SLUG] search engine rankings

2006-02-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
in terms of free. think about how people would find your site, then make sure that its in the site title. secondly, make sure that your site has some content to index. for example. do a search on 'lanparty sydney' or 'sydney lanparty' and the only one youll get will be bong (huray me), and the

Re: [SLUG] SQL Query...

2006-02-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
and once again, according to the mysql doco, you need version 4.1.x or better to use subqueries Dean Del wrote: *delete** from members_temp where email like '(select distinct email from news)' * Answer 2: remove the quotes. delete from members_temp where email like (select distinct

Re: [SLUG] SQL Query...

2006-02-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
alas subqueries arent supported in 4.0, yo uwill need to update to 4.1 or beyond subquery syntax is documented here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/subqueries.html but should look like. delete from members_temp where email = (select distinct email from news) Dean Terry Denovan wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

2006-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
that said, they pay a lot of people to develop a lot of software and or fix a lot of bugs. dont forget that the redhat distribution brought polish previously unseen in linux. alas redhat would seem to be past their prime, but they have contributed enormously to linux. that all said, the debian

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

2006-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
judgind from the 'available operating systems' on the dell site. i would say yes it does (dell ships EM64T cpu's not AMD64's. but they both use the x86_64 port) if you havent used amd64 before, try it on a desk machine first. i run it at home (debian) on my amd64 4000+ and there has been some

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

2006-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
there is always the whole 'if it aint broke, dont fix it' remember that linux is just a kernel with a pile of various programs running on top of it. sometimes someone compiles them and puts them in RPMS, another person compiles them and puts them in tgz' another person maintains scripts that

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

2006-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
More robust: I would ask what EXACTLY do they mean with that. It's a proper services configuration that will make a big difference. Then if you call it mission critical, there's grsecurity (www.grsecurity.org) and the likes. And don't rely on PCs. Go for a rackmount. Saying that distro A is

Re: [SLUG] mod_gzip

2006-01-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
yes, works well not much to configure and does reduce traffic. (although not much for images) Dean Phill wrote: Has anyone used this mod_gzip with Apache? phill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] mod_perl question

2006-01-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
in using Crypt::RandPasswd (::word() specifically), it doesnt seem at all mod_perl safe. there definately seems to be something that loops of and consumes all the web servers cpu. can anyone confirm this? or some way to beat it into submission. the first time i 'run' the page/script (aka go to

Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
get a mac laptop. they work excellently and the airport extreme is now working. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All a mate has asked me to choose him a laptop that just works. He got a Sony Viao that was much heartache (much much heartache) Any suggestions: (considerations) more than 2 usb

Re: [SLUG] Linux distro for pentium 166 Mhz

2006-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
ipcop.org Dean Kasim, Yosep wrote: Hi there I have a very old pc that I want to serve into linux gateway. Is there any good distro for this old machine. Many thanks in advance DISCLAIMER Email Confidentiality Footer This

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Cat 3 compliance

2006-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
yes i would recommend replacing the omnidirectional underpowered internal antennas with a panel antenna but i believe wifi is not an acceptable solution? it does have that whole, insecurity about it. and with mac filtering slash encryption slash passwords etc is does add an uncomfortable

[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Cat 3 compliance

2006-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive run 100mbps over cat3 before. if it will do it will vary greatly as a result of distance, interferance, copper quality etc. 10mbps may also have the advantage of cheap second hand hardware. a nice highly managed (what is fully managed?? really?) 10mbps switch costs nothing, and the internet

[SLUG] ModLogAn + modlogsql

2006-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
hi is anyone using modlogan and modlogsql? it seems like it will be good but suffers terribly from a lack of doco and poor error messages so yeah im having problems getting it up and running, so anyone using it please drop me a line. cheers Dean -- WWW: http://deanpatrick.tk LAN:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Osirix software port required MacOS-X to Linux

2005-12-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
you may wish to talk to Ryan Gordon http://www.icculus.org/~icculus/ his list of ports is quite impressive. he is ex-loki and seems to mainly focus on games (money is money). he would seem to be the closest person to a porting expert i have every come across. Dean Grant Parnell -

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
is there any way you could have the installer detect the number of cpus? perhaps do the install with an SMP kernel. then if there is more than one cpu install the smp, if not install the uniprocessor kernel *shrug* but im actually a fan of seperate kernel packages. nor do i use ubuntu. i think

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
its a mailing list... its only slightly better than a web forum. the main improvement is that no one has anime-p0rn avatars. Dean Benno wrote: On Wed Dec 21, 2005 at 16:47:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=O Plameras #define spin_lock_init(lock)do { (void)(lock); } while(0)

Re: [SLUG] Any experiences with LVS for load balancing a webfarm?

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
i believe 2003 has its own clustering solution? Dean Felix Sheldon wrote: Hi Sluggers, I'm just wondering if LVS is worth trying out as something to manage requests for a cluster of identical Windows-based web servers. http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/index.html Thanks, Felix --

Re: [SLUG] Any experiences with LVS for load balancing a webfarm?

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
depends what you want to achieve then round robin dns can be very effective in many circumstances. Dean Felix Sheldon wrote: Well, yes, but unless you pay through the nose for the 'Advanced' or 'Data-center' editions I think it's fairly limited. I'd prefer something OSS that can be tweaked

Re: [SLUG] Any experiences with LVS for load balancing a webfarm?

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
looking through the lvs website it seems the project is more oriented around the load balancer. which would mean the server OS and software would be irrelevant. this sort of arrangement can be acommplished with lots of various hardware slash applicance type devices. however the price difference

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