On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:05:54PM +1100, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
RFC numbers would be even more alienating than vi commands!
No one I know around here even knows what an RFC is (apart from 1 or 2)
How about a pico quick reference? :)
Graeme
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Quoting Anthony Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I found a supplier in the US, but Merchandise (like Caps, T-Shirts) are
a
protected industry, and it's 37% duty!!! Which is why we make most of
our
merchandise..
You could try Scribal up in Gosford. They do all sorts of zany branding and
produce
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:50:15PM +1100, CaT wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:46:53PM +1100, Richard Blackburn wrote:
Every now and then when I turn on the box, RH6.x does fsck and says
something to the effect maximum count reached even though the shutdown
was proper and there hadn't
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:38:34AM +1100, Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have an SQL server (of any kind)
running on Linux (RH or Mandrake) that can interface with MS Access on an
NT/W2K machine? If so what? I have looked at PostgreSQL and have it
running -
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:36:38PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:28:48PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Try the media. They usually like a good Internet security beatup story.
Suggestions anyone?
How about the woman who wrote the daming article on a
people have bad security.
Every now and then this pisses me off, but I'm more pissed off than normal
about it today so I thought I'd share it.
I don't know if anyone has checked out the Eisa website (the ISP that would
be king) but this is a damn fine case in point of Linux and unix in general
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:59:03AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Why does this bother me? If I was an Eisa customer or even an ex-Eisa
customer with my details sitting on that server waiting for someone to come
along, I'd be getting on that phone pretty darn quick. I also hope that
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:59:16AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Morning,
Especially to those poor few of us who have to deal with PHP on a day to day
basis...
Throw ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 at the end of one of your
PHP4 website URLs.
That's really the last straw.
Good
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:28:48PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Try the media. They usually like a good Internet security beatup story.
Suggestions anyone?
Cheers,
Graeme
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:12:06AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Not wanting to start a perl/PHP jihad... ;)
Pro PHP / Con Perl:
* PHP often seems easier than Perl in its syntax for many
common web/datbase queries.
True. Well I think so anyway but I'm biased. For people who use Perl a lot,
the
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:16PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
netscape always runs slow. it will run even slower. text browsers in
an xterm work fine. links (not lynx) supports mouse, etc if that
improves it any.
Maybe check out some of those alternative browsers? Galeon/Opera and some
Tcl/Tk
Well baste my steaming puddings!
After cursing at apsfilter and printtool, I wandered off and installed CUPS
along with the correct drivers and the whole thing ran smooth as silk.
A quick deb install, a flash at the docs and my printer is happily printing
away like - well a printer really.
CUPS
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:43:01AM +1100, Erich Schulz wrote:
Just a quick question, were you running the old BSD lpr package, or the
the newer lprng ?
The BSD package that comes with suse is almost completely useless. It is
not worth installing if you do anything other than local printing,
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:12:02PM +1100, tom burkart wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote:
fine. Printing via lpr gives an error of "No spool file found" which is
dutifully printed out.
Does the spool directory exist?
Oh yeah spose I should have
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:22:29PM +1100, Graeme Merrall wrote:
Does the spool directory exist?
Oh yeah spose I should have mentiomed that :)
There is a /var/spool/lpd/lp directory with various files in it
drwxr-xr-x2 lp lp 4096 Oct 19 14:16 .
drwxrwsr-x4 lp
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:56:41PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
some of the files in your spool directory aren't writable by lp.lp
i'd feel better if they were, try:
chown -R lp.lp /var/spool/lpd/lp
(make sure you get the .seq file too - i don't know what that one's
for.. a job number?)]
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:32:00PM +1000, Steven Kerr wrote:
Good Afternoon.
In some spare time I have coming up, I wish to explore the possibility
of setting up a https server.
Where would one actually start ? I don't wish to purchase commercial
certificates etc, but just want to *play*
Does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG editor for X? I've got some boring boring
HTML stuff I need to do and I know of know useful package. Worse still
Dreamweaveri won't run in Win4Lin so I need to go to darn Win98. I think
Staroffice has one but I'm not gonna download that for just this thing :)
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 06:59:20PM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
Has anyone used the qt4 player under wine/win4lin?
CVan't say I have but I've used Media PLayer OK in Win4Lin except there is
no sound. Not sure of the 2.0 beta status at all. I expect QT will work just
as fine under Win4Lin.
If anyone is using the Win4Lin 1.0.4-eval version be aware that you're going
to probably get a nasty mysterious error related to things flicking over to
October.
Apparently there was a bug in the eval time limit which meant rather than
lasting for 15 days the program crapped out on Sept 30th.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:10:20PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
HTML doesn't offer the description of information that XML does, nor does it
offer the flexibility with regards to such things as entities. In fact, the
next few iterations of the GNOME documentation system will show how powerful
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:26:11PM +1100, Bill Hiley wrote:
For those of us poor souls who (occasionally of course) have to run a
Windows program - does anyone have any experience with 'Win4Lin' and can
offer any comparison with other products eg. Vmware, Wine etc
I'm a hoppy user of Win4Lin.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:27:51PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only problem with it is some wierd video problems but I can live with it.
you would not be referring to lack of display refresh in XFree86 V4.0 ?
I had this problem until a friend suggested setting the BackingStore
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:25:08AM +1100, Nick Croft wrote:
I've apt-got a few other files the compiler found missing but am stumped
on this one. I would have though "X" was fundamental.
Help would be much appreciated please.
You probably need the xlibs packages. I'm not sure which file
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:43:44AM +1100, Graeme Merrall wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:25:08AM +1100, Nick Croft wrote:
I've apt-got a few other files the compiler found missing but am stumped
on this one. I would have though "X" was fundamental.
Help would be much a
For people who want more from XFree 4.0x, check this:
http://linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/001945.html
Small amounts of file editing in X4.0.01 code (2 lines) for a reported 20%
increase in various operations.
Cheers,
Graeme
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:50:05PM +1000, Doug Stalker wrote:
I've just noticed that + seems to be a valid char in email addresses which
is news to me :)
... but will it work with all mail programs? I seem to recall + being used to
route messages between hosts: something like
[EMAIL
Just to let everyone know that a new version of Evolution has been released
(0.5) which shoul dkeep us downloaders happy :)
Also for NVidia users there is a new version of the NVidia X drivers out
(0.95). These aren't as super new as Evolution but new enough.
Changeog below.
* Improve XFree86
I've just noticed that + seems to be a valid char in email addresses which
is news to me :)
Can someone point me to the right RFC or some official type doco on this?
Cheers,
Graeme
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Hey hey.
I was wondering what was making my cable modem lights blink this morning
when nothing was running except for bpalogin on our home network. I checked
the archives and grabbed ntop which is pretty funky and started watching on
the external ethernet card.
I've been seeing some traffici to
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:06:59PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
This means something is sending traffic to a multicast address.
multicast is similar to broadcast except hosts have to join a multicast group
to pick up the traffic. What is the source address on the packets this should give
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:01:59PM +0100, Thom May wrote:
it definitely seems worthwhile. however, there are still
somewierdnesses.
the major one is that my vt's are totally shot - the brightness
of the things drops to about 1% of the previous, but thats it.
definitely worth it, i think..
OK well I've got a little further along with this. The blisteringly
insightful 'read the man poge' was like an epiphany to me, but enough on
that.
My problem is not configuring xawtv but ensuring my bttv etc modules are all
OK. I'll sketch some details here but if someone has one of these beasts
I'm trying to setup the nvidia x-server add ons.
I need xfree 4.0
I tried the redhat rpm's from the rawhide directories but they require
rpm version 4, which i dont have.
So any ideas about getting xfree 4.0 up and running ?
I've got it up and runnign fine thanks to the HOWTO John
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:22:52PM +1000, Arunava Sen wrote:
I have one of these penguinpowered.com dynamic dns thingies so i can
access my ip with: whatever.penguinpowered.com
anyone know of any other cool linux-sounding dynamic dns things (which
are not as long as "penguinpowered")?
One
I'm sure we've seen that Slashdot article about Nautilis going to preview 1.
I've heard a rumour of one slugger giving it a go?
Anyone got it up and running?
Cheers,
Graeme
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I've been having this wierd thing happen with Samba today. I've got samba on
a machine running away happily which I mount on my other linux box -
basically cos I haven't been bothered to set up NFS yet and it's only real
silly minor file editing I need it for.
Anyhoo, today my editor (nedit)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:19:48PM +1000, marty wrote:
what client are you guys using ??
GnomeICU although I've tried licq. I'm able to get files out but not in.
never had much luck with file transfers and GnomeICU.
Cheers,
Graeme
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:14:19PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
I'm not sure if it exists or what but is there ASP support for Apache 1.3?
Someone from out clients site has decided to run ASP and wants to remove the
Linux box there and I'd like to keep it there is possible...
*shudder* There
No problem really. For those who are interested, I surprised myself by being
able to download the Corel deb and install it under woody without a single
problem. I was under the imporession that corel deb fiels wouldn't work.
Cheers,
Graeme
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On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:02:20PM +1000, Dan Treacy wrote:
Just a couple of questions:
Firstly does anyone know of any good resources for info on Win2k/linux
multibooting. I have a few but most aren't that great. Just wondering if
there were some that I missed.
There's a WinNT/Linux
If you tell LInus this, he will hate you forever.
As far as he is concerned *any* distribution which make kernel source
available under /usr/src/linux is broken (read the release note for 2.4).
I'm not familiar with previous versions of Debian but 2.2 (out in a day
or so I hope) puts
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:01:23PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question: can I get any of the data on /dev/hda2 back by
reconstructing the superblock? I suspect that manual examination
of the segments on a 2G partition would be quite boring.
Dunno if anyone knows it but there's a saucy
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:36:47PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
What is this?!?
http://linux.com/news/articles.phtml?sid=93aid=10266
I think their cluelessness was in publishing it rather then anything else. The flames
in the comments underneath should attend to that. They prob ran it because
/me hides face in shame ;)
I was tinkering - yes bad idea- with portsentry to keep an eye on my gateway linux
box. Matt ICQ'd me and of course portsentry freaked out and added a dey to the routing
table for him, which I can't see, to now remove.
The command portsentry ran is "/sbin/route add
Hey guess what? I pressed send, lookd at the web page I opened before sending the
message and damn it, there it was. Curse Google. :)
Sorry bout that.
Graeme
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John Wiltshire wrote:
The guys down in Melbourne have written a nice HOWTO on this subject:
Check out http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html.
Wel I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know that I had a positive
Quake/Linux experience with Woody/XF-4.0.1 and my TNT2. Now to wait
Now a new question: During Friday's discussion on PHP's, ah, strengths
and just prior to the "so, the benefit of PHP is that you can use some
other language" comment, somebody suggested that it was possible to have
a PHP script invoke methods on Java objects. Is that person on the list?
David wrote:
A netscape window locked up, and when I tried to kill netscape off, the
whole of my windowmaker/Xsession locked up. I killed windowmaker, but when
I tried to reconnect to X again (startx) I get the messages below. I'm
tempted to do a windows style re-boot.. but... does anyone
My question is thus - is it possible for a client to SQL query a web
server running on the Linux box {Apache}, then have that Linux box pass
the SQL query to the second web server, whereby that web server queries
the SQL database server?
There's good reasons for not having the Linux box
Dave Kempe wrote:
I can't seem to reach said url.
Any mirrors?
Sorry about that - my gateway did something odd and I thought it was the
cable as we've been having problems lately with roadworks around our
area. Turned out it was a NIC thing. Anyway, all there again now.
Cheers,
Graeme
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Graeme Merrall wrote:
Dunno if anyone has seen it yet so here tis.
http://inetix.bpc-users.org/ibm_linux-02.avi
I'm at the end of a cable modem which is bandwidth capped at
50kbytes/sec - surse Bigpond :)
oh and by the way - to the person from Optus dialup who scanned my
machine? I consider
Dunno if anyone has seen it yet so here tis.
http://inetix.bpc-users.org/ibm_linux-02.avi
I'm at the end of a cable modem which is bandwidth capped at
50kbytes/sec - surse Bigpond :)
Cheers,
Graeme
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There was a recent post to /. concerning T-shirts and the "Unix is sexy"
came top of the list. That was the front of the T shirt. The back had all
the examples from /bin/sh that you can think of (although the Yanks omitted
references to "root" as in USA it means "promoting" as in a football
but let's not make them "windoze sux" shirts, let's have some
witty Linux slogans, yeah?
linux != BSOD
G
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I have this errmm 'friend', who to avoid hassles about switching to
Debian, we'll call Jeff.
Anyway, my ermmm 'friend' is wondering if there is a printer setp tool
similar to the control-panel applet in RedHat or does my ermmm 'friend'
have to muck about with printcap?
Cheers,
Graeme
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Padmini Naidu wrote:
I hope Danny's site is hosted on some decent hardware or its gonna get
slashdotted!
I wonder if Danny can tell us after the slashdot effect is finished, how
much his traffic increased and how the hardware coped?
Cheers,
Graeme
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Oh, and X-Message-Flags like my current one aren't really all that helpful!
Since we're all into annoying Windows users - and who isn't. ON Windows
95 (not 98 mind) you could remove the start button while leaving
everything else intact. There's no way to get it back unless you
deliberately close
Sitting at home with my RH Linux box masquerading for my newly acquired
Mandrake
box (with etherlink III card now happily working :-) I can't of course
ftp
from the Mandrake box to the world. Well I can make a connection but I
can't do
"ls" or "put" or "get" cause of the masquerade.
So, I'm looking for local PHP experts who may be willing to (a) kibbutz
and/or (b) roll up their sleevs and have a look.
/me also puts his hand up.
have a look at the apache error log as well. Segfaults will show up in
there. There's been some slippage in the PHP 4 and more segfaults are
George Vieira wrote:
Has anybody done a patch for kernel 2.2.14 (RH 6.2) for the
bigphysarea.2.2.14.patch ?
How do you apply it, I did this years ago and I haven't played with the
kernel for so long now...
I remember it to be something like
patch patchfile1 file2
You don't mean
George Vieira wrote:
Hi all,
I am now working on pppd rather than using "ifup" to dial to our customers
mainly to get diald working properly.
What I have noticed and this also happens on "ifup" is that when the chat
script runs and tries to do a ATZ, the modem doesn't respond and the
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi Debian Weenies,
Wanna play with Evolution? Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.helixcode.com/helix/evolution/distributions/Debian ./
I'm currently sucking it down, so I can't give a review... Thought you'd
like to know anyway.
I've had a look.
Herbert Xu wrote:
Graeme Merrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tried out the self-installer. The problem was that I'm behind an
IPChains box and the FTP transfer failed I can only guess due to the
fact the transfer wasn't passive. Since newer apps are downloading
You can either use
how well does stuff built into the web server (like php) cope with
virtual hosting? (ie: can one php script read files from another
virtually hosted php user)
Well I can't offer an opinion for the CGI binary but just as you can't
access HTML files across virtual hosts, the same goes for PHP
Peter Faulks wrote:
The client's ISP has a company policy against the use of PHP.
Why? Are the ASP/IIS fans? :)
Are there known security issues with PHP?
Nope. You can even lock it down more by specifying safe mode and doing
various bits and bobs in the compilation and cojnfiguration such as
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