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

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
should be an interesting project. good luck with it. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dean. Yep, it does seem that it's possible. It also seems to allow a custom script for checking which servers are up, which is probably going to be more reliable than round-robin DNS. That diagram is

Re: Fw: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment

2005-12-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
e16 has been stable for years e17 is slowly getting there, its usable right now. but not that stable. if thats what you mean? Dean Kevin Saenz wrote: Thanks for that. Now I have to figure out why enlightenment is not getting updated in Gentoo :( This may have been dumped by SLUG's

Re: Fw: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment

2005-12-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
i agree whole heartedly Dean Kevin Saenz wrote: All I use is e17, it's very stable, and very quick especially on my HP ze4103s with only 1.3Ghz celeron. The work the enlightenment team has done is phenominal. To me there is no other WM. e16 has been stable for years e17 is slowly

[SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
im not sure if this is a chat topic or not but anyway, is anyone here using ipv6? im thinking of using it here at home for curiosities sake. im running debian and freebsd so they are ready. macosx and xp (for the parents and kids etc) are also ipv6 ready. i can just about guarentee that the

Re: [SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
what have you done in terms of ip addressing? Dean Peter Chubb wrote: Dean == Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dean im not sure if this is a chat topic or not but anyway, is anyone Dean here using ipv6? im thinking of using it here at home for Dean curiosities sake. im running debian

Re: [SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
how do applications seem to react? most programs seem very 'ipv4' hardcoded. especially in windows, but in general to programs seem to accept ip6 addresses? Dean Alexander Samad wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:03:29PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: im not sure if this is a chat topic

Re: [SLUG] Debian on 64 Bit

2005-12-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
check out the documentation on the debian website for nvidia driver instructions also check out the debian-amd64 mailing list. it will answer your questions quickly. Dean Gerald wrote: Hello to one and all, I have been trying Debian on a AMD 64fx53 based machine with sata drives and a Nvidia

Re: [SLUG] PC-BSD vs Desktop-BSD

2005-12-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
looking at pc-bsd its just a nicely wrapped freebsd being a very very very big fan of freebsd, its linux emulation is excellent and i highly recommend it. i prefer a lot of things about bsd (most are very much personal preference things. ie i prefer the bsd boot method) and there are a few

Re: [SLUG] Azureus/bittorrent experts advice requested.

2005-11-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
you should get a green smiley and yes it will make a big difference (ie. 2-3k/s to maxing out your adsl). you wont have problems sending as with or without port forwarding you will still be able to connect to others to send. im also using a billion (not sure which model) - they are horrible -

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit installation

2005-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
you can just install a 32bit install which will solve your problem. however it would seem that your cpu has the emt64 extensions (something like that) ideally you should run a 64bit linux install. the perfomance will be much better. youll need to set up a 32bit chroot or install 32bit compat

Re: [SLUG] Linux hosting in Australia?

2005-11-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
just out of curiosity, what software do they use to run the virtual servers? Dean Peter Chubb wrote: Simon == Simon Rumble Rev writes: Simon Since we're now not talkng about Australian hosting, I have to Simon say you can't beat www.linode.com. They do User Mode Linux Simon hosting, so you

Re: [SLUG] Server PCI network adaptors vs PC PC network adaptors

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
i think you are talking about low profile pci slots not all cards will fit into the (ie sound cards) but most network cards are short enough that you just need to change the mounting plate(? face plate) and then it will be fine. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a 'didnt you know

Re: [SLUG] Network Tool to aid Virus Detection

2005-10-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
ethereal? Dean Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, Does anyone know if there's a way/tool to use Linux to snoop the network and detect which box is the source of infection? I just built a WinXp box and put it on our local Lan and before I could even install some virus software it got the

Re: [SLUG] server-status denied by config (but which one?)

2005-10-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
when playing silly games with apache. i like to peel everything back and then work from there ie. allow from all, deny from none make sure that works then flip stuff around etc Dean Voytek wrote: I'm trying to re-enable /server-status on my Apache 1.3x, but I obviously have something I don't

Re: [SLUG] Linux or BSD for Webhosting?

2005-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
i would prefer on load balancing and high availability for my web server without much downtime probably not high performance :) previously i was thinking about having openmosix as well for the web hosting to make the availability high you cant really load balance on one server. easy

Re: [SLUG] Recommanded webcam in Australia?

2005-10-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
dick smiths has a huge range, their brand ('dse' badged) has a range from ultra cheap, to slightly less cheap. i cant vouch for linux support but i would guarentee they havent developed it themselves so its based on some asian brands chips. might be a place to start. Dean Simon Males wrote: If

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2005-10-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
you should have selected a desktop installation at install however, you are not at all lost. infact i dont like the install templates just run (as root) apt-get update apt-get install x-window-system and then youll need to install something like apt-get install enlightenment or something

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

2005-10-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
free to air satellite is heaps of fun. i dont see any reason why people would pay for satellite tv!! please drop a message to the list with how you go, i keep putting of picking up a 90-120cm dish and getting it going myself. Dean Richard Hayes wrote: Dear List, Is there are Linux supported

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

2005-10-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
100's. just point your dish at a satellite and start decoding. there are free channels on the same sat's that run the pay tv stuff, just that the pay tv stuff is encrypted. there is digital radio and all sorts on there also have a mate or two who are quite into it. Dean Kevin Saenz wrote:

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

2005-10-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
no, its illegal. im not talking about pay tv though paytv channels are scrambled. the free ones arent you point your dish at the sat, and then start scanning and find channels you like. or look up tables etc for the satelitte you can get cards for your satelite box that allow you to use it for

Re: [SLUG] squirrellmail/roundcube

2005-09-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
it does link to ilohamail which looks promising Dean Dave Kempe wrote: James Polley wrote: Roundcube does look kinda purty.. but it's in alpha, and it uses everyone's favorite toy database for some inexplicable reason. Why does a webmail client need to use a database? If it really must, why

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2005-09-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
youll need to install x and then gdm or xdm apt-get install gdm Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Hi all, Well I have finally got debian up and running, well in a text mode at least. How do I got it to boot into graphics mode. thanks in advance.Paul -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN:

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2005-09-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
that wouldnt really solve the problem Dean Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On 27/9/2005, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: youll need to install x and then gdm or xdm apt-get install gdm Or better yet, install Ubuntu instead of Debian. It will be a lot easier. -- WWW: http

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
just for everyones info if you want BSD style linux (and lets face it... who doesnt) there is crux! www.crux.nu Dean Julio Cesar Ody wrote: I'm a FreeBSD user/sysadmin/tweak-for-fun-guy. I used slackware until recently when I started to use Gentoo as my GNU/Linux system. Gentoo has a

Re: [SLUG] Code Management Database

2005-09-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
there is the M$ visual source safe. Dean Edwin Humphries wrote: We have several Linux software products, and have recently had enquiries about customised versions for specific customers. We're happy to do it, but I'm looking for a way to manage the codebase so that when we do an upgrade, we

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

2005-09-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
just buy an ibook. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com Dean Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Kevin Saenz wrote: 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. I don't really care so much about that, what I like

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

2005-09-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
oh well just thought i would reply on my ibook running only debian linux connected via aiport card. *shrug* Dean Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: just buy an ibook. Sorry, IMO that is not good advice. I have had an iBook for three years and until recently it worked very

Re: [SLUG] internet

2005-08-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
dial up or broadband? Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Hi, Once again I need your help. I can't for some reason do a connection to my ISP without having to go through a lot of key strokes. Is there an easier way and how do I do it. As you can see I am a very early beginner at Linux but compared to the

Re: [SLUG] internet

2005-08-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
fc4 should have a nice interface to make it simple Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Sorry dial-up On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:47 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: dial up or broadband? Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Hi, Once again I need your help. I can't for some reason do a connection to my ISP without

Re: [SLUG] NT4 as a BDC to a Samba3 PDC

2005-08-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
i dont know why it wouldnt work? can you just migrate from samba3 to a 2k3 ad pdc? Dean Simon wrote: Have been looking for this for a while now and believe the answer is NO, however I can't find anything that specifically says this. Does anybody know the definitive answer? Yes I have looked

Re: [SLUG] NT4 as a BDC to a Samba3 PDC

2005-08-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
to hang -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 12. August 2005 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] NT4 as a BDC to a Samba3 PDC i dont know why it wouldnt work? can you just migrate from samba3 to a 2k3 ad pdc

Re: [SLUG] Network Attached Storage (NAS)

2005-08-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
i could be wrong but they are out there. so no one can say im a dell freak. although i am, and in general linux people should be happy that dell was one of the first to make an effort in the linux direction! Dean DaZZa wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Dean Hamstead wrote: ohh just to be more

Re: [SLUG] Network Attached Storage (NAS)

2005-08-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive had a lot of experience with dell NAS servers they run various version of windows 2000 and 2003 appliance edition they build on windows built in file sharing, netware, appletalk and services for unix. it will support print sharing also. on top of that they add a range of happy dell tools

Re: [SLUG] Network Attached Storage (NAS)

2005-08-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Jill has covered a lot of good points for NAS servers and file servers in general. But ill add a few points. Rowling, Jill wrote: We installed a NAS a couple of years ago, and for the most part it has been relatively trouble-free. Some problems which came up: - Nonstandard Windows 2000 system

Re: [SLUG] Network Attached Storage (NAS)

2005-08-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
ohh just to be more brand neutral www.emc.com they are linux based. a good friend of mine works there. i believe some companies rebadge them *shrug* Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: ive had a lot of experience with dell NAS servers they run various version of windows 2000 and 2003 appliance

Re: [SLUG] Apache virtual server configuration

2005-07-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
put 's around the path add ServerName www.ironstone.com.au if your running only one site, you dont need virtual hosts. Dean Edwin Humphries wrote: We're just converting over from our web server being a single site server (root in /var/www/html/) to also hosting an Intranet/Extranet site.

Re: [SLUG] MS Exchange Alternative

2005-07-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
id be very inclined to stay with exchange if its already in place and the people are happy using it. especially if calendaring is involved personally i hate calendaring and think its the devil. i also have nfi why there isnt an alternative. i have read about rfc calendar protocols (like http,

Re: [SLUG] usb keyboard

2005-07-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
kernel support is all Dean Ken Foskey wrote: It appears that my motherboards keyboard plug has been blown by a voltage spike. I have tried a working keyboard and it does not work on this computer however the USB mouse works perfectly. I was wondering whether there were any tricks to USB

Re: [SLUG] Lightspeed decommissioned

2005-06-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
you might get alpha support from gentoo? but debian rocks anyway. or you could try openbsd or something Dean Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: Testimony to Digital Electronics Corporation's engineering (AKA DEC, taken over by Compaq then taken over by Hewlett Packard). The server known as

Re: [SLUG] Ftp get a directory

2005-06-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
with ftp just go ftp host.name user ftp pass [EMAIL PROTECTED] prompt recurse binary cd /pub/ mget [directory] exit Dean Visser, Martin wrote: Plain vanilla ftp won't do this. (you could script it though) The preferred method (assuming you don't have rsync on the server) is to use wget.

Re: [SLUG] Ftp get a directory

2005-06-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
youll want the 'prompt' option with 'recurse' or youll need a new 'y' key you can also use wildcards recurse and prompt are good in MS's ftp.exe dont overlook 'binary' or you might kick yourself and also 'passive' Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: with ftp just go ftp host.name user ftp pass

Re: [SLUG] subdirs in /tmp ?

2005-06-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
in my experience debian always cleans /tmp on boot you can search through init and disable it, there may even be a nice elegant option somewhere. but thats no fun. clearing /tmp is a good idea though* Dean *imo Rowling, Jill wrote: Are you sure /tmp is cleared on reboot? I thought that was

Re: [SLUG] Debian 3.1 released

2005-06-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
Version numbers are a very 'windows' concept. linux rolls forth! as does debian. i dont concern myself with global version numbers. Dean Carlo Sogono wrote: I reckon Ubuntu's popularity scared them to making sarge stable. I remember reading this

Re: [SLUG] clamd dead but subsys locked

2005-05-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
check permissions in the parent directories? Dean Voytek Eymont wrote: I've just tried to update my clamd but it fails to start now: # service clamd start Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon:[ OK ] # service clamd status clamd dead but subsys locked messages has: May 20

[SLUG] gig fibre cabling

2005-05-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
hi all im looking to pick up some gigabit fibre data cabling with the SX/SC ends (both ends). this is for the lanparty you may have seen posted on slug, we have gig fibre ports on the back of the cabletron switch stacks, and we just acquired some gig fibre cards - so hopefully someone has some

Re: [SLUG] MySQL server to server data transfer

2005-05-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
you could use replication temporarily just set it up, then run LOAD DATA FROM MASTER boom, off it goes. Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: Voytek wrote: I need to transfer several databases from one MySQL server to another, data szie about 350MB HD space; is it practical to do like 'mysqldump mysql.sql |

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

2005-05-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
the nice people at pacific do also (mirror.pacific.net.au) if your isp is peered with them then it will count as free data (if your isp does that, which they do seem to) Dean Rob Sharp wrote: I didn't realise that optus ran a debian mirror. Any ideas if Optus mirror use counts toward your monthly

Re: [SLUG] Buying a Printer

2005-04-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
my 2pc, lexmark laser printers cost about $300 and you can even get them from aldi they are usb and parralel (in some cases, cant speak for the whole range). they do postscript and claim linux support. ive printed to one from linux and macosx through a windows machine. so im recommending them

[SLUG] gigabite fibre nics

2005-04-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
can anyone recommend a good gigabit fibre nic im not really certain of anything in that realm of networking. different bases etc. basically just eyeing these old gigabit fibre ports on some of these switches and thinking about putting servers on them (media converters seem to cost more than the

[SLUG] Colored RJ45 Boots

2005-04-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
im looking for someone who sells colored rj45 boots. and by colored i mean not just ultramarine blue. its *really* hard to find someone local 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] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
ahh script kiddies might want to put ssh on a non standard port. Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: Joshua Bassett wrote: Hi Sluggers, I was going through my auth.log file the other day and noticed that someone (possibly several machines) are trying to login to my box using a variety of canned usernames.

Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
or use key based auth as well as login Dean David Kempe wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: ahh script kiddies might want to put ssh on a non standard port. If you dig through the archives, you might find a suggestion i made about tcpwrappers only allowing australian subnets. this will cut this crap

[SLUG] pata ide raid cards

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
anyone have a story to tell regarding hardware pata raid cards? my use of sata raid cards has proved to show that they are infact just a bios that can see software raid and then boot and tell the OS about is (see doco on sis driver) is this so with pata? i would like to know if the $50 cards you

Re: [SLUG] Groupware

2005-04-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
www.egroupware.org Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm looking for a web based multi-user calendar function that is web based, PHP and preferably Postgresql (but will accept MySQL). What are your recommendations? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Caldera

2005-03-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
there is no reason not too use an up to date distribution infact it would be recommended as the older versions have these things called bugs and security holes. you just have to be careful that you dont let the distribution get out of control with gnome or kde etc... especially on 32mb ram get

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
clamav Phill wrote: I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective and simple to setup? Regards, Phill -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
im running exim + clamav + spammassassin + mailman + mysql on openbsd go team opensource. but yeah. no dramas. i also dont allow malicious file formats such as .exe .scr etc if you cant zip them then theres a problem. i also explicitly ban chinese, russian and a few other character sets. but this

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
spamassasin turns away ALOT of spam but spam still gets through - thats life hence the hard rules based on character encoding and attachments Dean Gottfried Szing wrote: hi we turn away more mail than we recieve. and plenty of spam still gets through. but no virii. i am really curious, but is

Re: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
could be to do with password encryption (ie you need to turn it on in samba) Dean Phill wrote: I hsve setup a samba server on a fedora 3 platform but am having trouble connecting from windows xp. xp seems to recognise the share but the password is not accepted (the password is right). the samba

Re: [SLUG] email server

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
if your running your webserver and your mail server on the same machine then you just need https, connections from squirelmail to imap wont go through the internet and so dont need to be encrypted Dean Michael Fox wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:42:26 +1100, Phill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

Re: [SLUG] RIP LinMagAU

2005-03-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
be sure to post a link some place Dean Simon Males wrote: We all know that LinMagAU stop publishing some time ago, and now the domain has been hijacked. Does anyone have the editions in one big tar ? I would really like to seem the articles appear online in one shape or form again, rather then

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
im note sure if 'tryong to get them back' is really a requirement of the GPL. i dont think your trying to say they violate the GPL, im sure your just saying that they arent being as community oriented as they might otherwise be. but my understanding of the GPL is that changes become GPL and should

Re: [SLUG] uploading directory tree recursively

2005-02-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
can you get samba going the options 'recurse' and 'prompt' are the too little friends you want to enable so like cd /mnt/windows smbclient //myothercomputerwhichrocks/sharedspace prompt recurse mput * bam recurse and prompt may work with ftp also. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a

Re: [SLUG] problem solved, dilemma using samba please give comments

2005-02-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
another dilemma. is any slugger thinks that samba for roaming profiles needs a very high end computers. currently I am using Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz with 512 Mb RAM + 120 Gig Hard Drive, and the samba is serving 3 clients only with ok big profiles. do you thinks it is very bad using this configuration

Re: [SLUG] Unable to login

2005-02-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
use init as /bin/bash remount root, change the root login youll need to pass init details to lilo (or other boot loader. lilo being the old school favourite. go lilo) Dean david wrote: Hi, I do not know what triggered it but one machine now refuses to allow logins. It's running and allowing

Re: [SLUG] mixed case web tree

2005-02-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
turn on mod_speling Dean On Tue, February 8, 2005 10:35 pm, Voytek Eymont said: I have a web user who seems to insist on using mIxEd caSE files/tree... he asked me to symlink '/path/lowercase' to real '/path/LOWERCASE' will that work properly, what do you fellow think ?

Re: [SLUG] mixed case web tree

2005-02-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
no joking here Dean Paul Robinson wrote: Yep - upon googling it yes it would.. I thought the other guy was joking when he suggested it :) Definitely the easiest option of the lot. Mike MacCana wrote: Paul Robinson wrote: Since linux treats lowercase and LOWERCASE as seperate items there's no

Re: [SLUG] forensics work without history file

2005-02-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
That wont handle the case of a remote login, either rsh or ssh ... or via the serial console. Is placing a keylogger even legal, with or without the employee's knowledge ? Just mention it in the MOTD which is displayed at login (but rarely read) Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Linux rox...

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
hmm proprietry extensions always cause to raise an eyebrow. but i imagine that perhaps they enable some hardware feature in the card that wouldnt otherwise be used. Dean James Gray wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:03 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 19:52 +1100, James Gray wrote: Gotta admit

Re: [SLUG] Debian netinst iso's

2005-02-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
mirror.pacific.net.au? Dean Michael Fox wrote: What happened to all the mirrors holding netinst images. I can't find them. I am looking for the following one; http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20050115/sarge-i386-netinst.iso The link don't work, anyone know a mirror that

Re: [SLUG] Hostile LANs

2005-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have been asked to set up multiple LANs with Internet access in what I consider to be a hostile environment - a private uni student dorm complex. That's about as hostile as you get! A lot of intelligent (generally!) people with too much time on their hands. I'm told that most of them are

[SLUG] Matrox Millennium 32MB G450 DualHead AGP Video card

2005-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
has anyone has any experience with the video card in the subject line in linux. the x.org site claims good support. i understand it has lots of nice inbuilt hardware features. can someone just briefly run through status. dual output? opensource 3d drivers? etc? Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Matrox Millennium 32MB G450 DualHead AGP Video card

2005-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I used to run one of these... Ahh, great card. Significantly better in 2d display quality than the Radeon and finally Nvidia that replaced it. So crisp! Matrox is *the* card for display snobs. ;-) Back then, dual output was supported (3d on one head only), 3d was okay but that was never

Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
On 18/01/2005, at 2:27 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: I _NEED_ to sell my sgi visual workstation to pay some debts and also get OS for a wedding. I mainly had this machine for novelty value along with my swarms of macs running linux. Details This is a fairly loaded Silicon Graphics Visual

Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
is the term i believe. or haggling. eh something like that. anyway, make an offer if your interested. Dean Ben de Luca wrote: On 21/01/2005, at 7:46 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: this is second hand sales, i ask a price - you make an offer that just assumed in my mind. $2500 is what most second hand places

[SLUG] Exim and Authenticated SMTP

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
anyone using exim, with authenticated smtp ie plaintext and cram md5's. im looking for someone who can send some 'configure' snippets to allow users to relay based on them providing per user login credentials Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Stop Please Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
ok this whole thread has gone out of control i posted looking for anyone interested, its worth noting i posted to chat first - gave some time, and then to slug. obviously i didnt intend to spawn such a flame war. perhaps the word negotiable would have stopped this anyway regardless. i have had

[SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540

2005-01-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
I _NEED_ to sell my sgi visual workstation to pay some debts and also get OS for a wedding. I mainly had this machine for novelty value along with my swarms of macs running linux. Details This is a fairly loaded Silicon Graphics Visual Workstation 540. It is currently running Windows 2000,

Re: [SLUG] POP IMAP

2005-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've googled the wee-smalls. I've asked SuSE support who said Go Hops, this is not a free installation question, just like google said they would. So in desperation ... I have SuSE 9.2 pro installed (9.1 was the same) SquirrelMail, Evolution POPing wont work. Reason is

Re: [SLUG] Webcams - which to buy?

2005-01-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
you might save yourself a lot of pain by using a video capture card and an inexpensive video camera (security camera from jaycar or dse or something) firewire camera would also be a great option - firewire cards are cheap... you might be able to get an old video camera with some firewire action.

Re: [SLUG] Dell GX1 Optiplex Wont boot

2004-12-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
definately sounds like something has come loose in transit i would concur with stripping out all unneeded peripherals and cleaning the insides. but i wouldnt go past physical violence. not towards staff or friends but towards the machine itself. you would be suprised what a few well placed blows

Re: [SLUG] Using htdig to index internal servers

2004-12-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
mount everything and index it? Dean Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, htdid easily indexes *nix internal servers but how do you index an SMB network? -- 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] Production Ready software on Linux

2004-12-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
oracle i suppose thats a backend netscape. commercial software... whats commercial software. i find that i get on a windows machine and cant do what i want because it doesnt have any applications! Dean James Gray wrote: Hi All, The sales guys have asked me a question. What commercially

Re: [SLUG] Trkiye'nin en iyi bilgi yarmalar.

2004-12-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
as much as i hate replying to spam can we please just block obscure character sets? Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.birmilyon.com Eer bu mesaj dzgn gremiyor veya seenekleri iaretliyemiyorsanz buraya tklayn http://www.birmilyon.com/t.asp?guid=E1E80A70-E982-4F71-A5F2-584373345297 veya

Re: [SLUG] Adobe/Microsoft/Apple

2004-12-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
David wrote: I've been trying to persuade someone I know that his idea of security isn't very secure, when he sent me this: things I'd probably dump MS altogether and invest some time/effort/cash in Linux and related but too many clients (pretty much like me, really :-) have too much data in MS

Re: [SLUG] Wireless LAN

2004-12-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
go down to dick smiths and buy a few different brands. return the ones that dont work Dean james wrote: G'day Can anybody point me at a wireless PCI card that: a) Works with a recent 2.6 kernel b) Is available in OZ. I need to equip 30 systems. I have bought Cisco 350 cards that work perfectly,

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

2004-12-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I spent 10 years learning photoshop, and it took me an annoying one month to get the hang of GIMP. I kept expecting it to work EXACTLY the same as photoshop. the most frustrating design flaw of photoshop is that you cant really right click on things. everything is a right click away in gimp

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

2004-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
i would have to agree, i find gimp to be vastly superior. im sure there are some features photoshop has over gimp but like all applications 90% of users only use 10% of features. generally i have found adobe products to just work 'differently' most applications seem to follow a certain logic, but

Re: [SLUG] Small Linux distro

2004-11-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
blackbox was a very nice lite window manager i think its evolved into something else now... but yeah, stay away from kde and gnome. also perhaps checkout www.crux.nu its a bsd-like linux distro. havent used it, but would like to (being a bsd4servers linux4desktops kinda guy) Dean Michael Lake

Re: [SLUG] dialup Win client/Woody

2004-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
check the settings in your windows me box, its probably trying to use ms-chap or something bizarre good rule of thumb is to turn everything off ;) depending on your macos version, likely its just the same ppp software as on your linux machine. Dean On Tue, October 26, 2004 10:56 am, David

[SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
any comments on the Matrox Parhelia traditionally matrox cards have always been top stuff, especially in the open source community. granted nvidia and ati offer adequate (flame free) binary drivers now i understand. i ghave a few friends who now use linux as their gaming platform of choice and

Re: [SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
and doom3 doesn't work on either open or closed drivers (we are putting a bit of work into getting the open drivers supporting doom3 better at the moment but how long it takes is anybodys guess...) ive heard to the contrary with nvidia drivers. so thats very odd Matrox are also from what I heard

Re: [SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
sorry I meant to say on ATI cards... NVIDIA drivers do play it ... cool It really is a two horse race, with the on-board chipsets coming in a long way off (like the i915 and VIA unichrome...), there is also DRI support for savage cards coming along at the moment, but I don't think anything

Re: [SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Dave Airlie wrote: so nvidia is now the way to go. well thats an interesting shift from previously when nvidia was the one to boycott and everyone loved the ati radeon No we still love the ATI radeon r200 chips, the newer ones we disklike :-), r200 radeons are the best open source supported,

Re: [SLUG] proxy

2004-10-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
its pretty straight forward, just follow the doco you can either have full on transparent authentification against windows or you can prompt through the browser for username and password (coming from windows) which ever suits your needs. Dean Robert Tillsley wrote: I'm thinking of setting up a

[SLUG] reloading proxy.pac

2004-09-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
is there a javascript function to force the browser to go and get the proxy.pac file again without just closing and reopening the app? Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: dean at bong.com.au or djzort at bong.com.au ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] .pub files on linux

2004-09-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it would be nice for oo to have a desktop publishing application i dont know of any opensource app that would be comparable to publisher or the adobe offerings. flame away id be happy to see one one could run publisher in wine? Dean Ken Foskey wrote: |

Re: [SLUG] networking dilema

2004-09-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
make sure they both plugged into the hub/switch properly or crossover cable is connecting properly (heaven forbid, check your coaxial cable is working right) your problem from there is most likely that you havent set your network settings correctly you might pick something like windows IP

Re: [SLUG] New website rocks!

2004-09-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
yep, something killed it good whos hosting it, and what is it running on? (der linux, but hardware) Dean Stuart Cooper wrote: I just tried to go there again (http://www.linux.org.au) and it's reverting to http://old.linux.org.au// Maybe the new server is down-- it couldn't handle the SLUGdot

Re: [SLUG] New website rocks!

2004-09-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
297 ms indigo-gw.per.dft.net.au [202.61.225. 862 ms79 ms 109 ms digital.linux.org.au [202.0.185.5] thats pretty close Dean John Clarke wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:06:26 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: yep, something killed it good I've just tried from three places: work, via

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