You haven't set up your keyboard with a European mapping by any chance? If
so, this might solve the problem for you:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
Also, you might want to try launching from the command line and for a
specific locale and see if it fixes anything:
LANG=en_AU.utf8
Is "deterioration" a kinder way of saying "neglect"? ;)
Well, we *can *moan and criticise, but can anyone step up and give ye olde
web page a shot in the arm? I'll bow up now as I am NOT a UI person. Hell,
anything much beyond to command line is far to fancy for my taste! Just
interested what the
I wouldn't describe Confluence as a true wiki any more. They ripped out the
Wiki syntax for editing while ago. The wiki syntax is still supported for
creating documents via API. Confluence is probably best described as an
"Documentation Collaboration" product now. Don't get me wrong; it's still
On 8 Jun 2015, at 5:13 pm, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote:
What browser?
Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and
others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing
the plugins to work.
Broke countless business-related Web
On 8 Jun 2015, at 2:10 pm, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote:
I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller.
Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from
local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like
javascript or
On 23 May 2015, at 12:53 pm, Voytek li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
I was asked to help with 'no space on startup disk' issue, only to discover
it's a Mac, I have no experience with Mac,
df showed 100% utilization on built in 500gb hard drive,
I've transferred some user data to external drive,
On 11 Mar 2015, at 4:53 pm, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.com wrote:
The command was
latex root.tex
The error message was
! Font TS1/cmr/m/n/12=tcrm1200 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
not found.
Presumably, I'm missing a font.
Can anyone suggest a remedy,
On 1 Dec 2014, at 4:41 pm, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote:
I foolishly bought an expensive ($150) Corsair headset, only to find that
there is fine print under the box that says it only works on windows. The
shop has agreed to change it, but insist that I make sure that what they get
in
On 10/06/2011, at 7:28 AM, Jim Donovan wrote:
Can someone recommend a host that allows ssh access (and perl and email),
please? It's for a small website. I've been using Smartyhost but their ssh
server is being retired and not replaced.
Hi Jim,
Not an Aussie hosting provider, but Bluehost
On 07/06/2011, at 5:31 PM, Rick Phillips wrote:
I removed the /sys folder from the script that I wrote and everything
went fine. I have not tried your script rewrite fully yet as we had a
number of other disasters today and time was against me but I will try
it as soon as I can.
Cool - glad
On 06/06/2011, at 6:25 PM, Rick Phillips wrote:
Please excuse my use of HTML formatting - it's the only way I could fit
the script as written.
Same problem, so I attached it instead.
I, probably like most, have only ever used tar for uncompressing files
but have never actually used it with
On 05/06/2011, at 10:08 AM, Jim Donovan wrote:
The matter of pay rates came up a week or so ago. How about $25-30/hour for
an experienced PHP developer - see http://www.seek.com.au/job/19910204
I hope that's not indicative of where the market's headed.
ouch
You'd get paid more washing
On Sunday 05 June 2011 19:16:28 you wrote:
On 05/06/2011, at 10:08 AM, Jim Donovan wrote:
The matter of pay rates came up a week or so ago. How about $25-30/hour
for an experienced PHP developer - see
http://www.seek.com.au/job/19910204
I hope that's not indicative of where the
On 02/06/2011, at 2:48 PM, Troy Rollo wrote:
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Every new Mac comes with a fully licensed copy of OSX. If you can get it
to boot on a Commodore 64, you're still complying with the license :)
Very unlikely. You would
On 01/06/2011, at 11:15 AM, Jam wrote:
G'day
It's a *long* story, I'm considering getting one of the new imacs to run
linux (some of the howtos say dual boot OSX in case you need to update the
firmware)
True
So
Has anybody done it, what experiences?
Not personally, but here's what
On 30/05/2011, at 1:51 PM, david wrote:
I've been putting it off, but now the 9.04 repo has vanished, along with the
upgrade-to-new-distribution button in synaptic.
Are there any gotchas if I just change my sources list and do a
dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a
On 27/05/2011, at 11:08 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I have a virtual Ubuntu machine running MAP+Postfix in service few weeks;
as of few days ago the system started self-rebooting once a day or so
how to diagnose the reason ?
~# uname -a
Linux 2.6.32-30-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar
On 27/05/2011, at 11:19 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2011 12:13 pm, James Gray wrote:
On 27/05/2011, at 11:08 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I had a similar problem with a virtual linux server a while back. Turned
out that presenting it with multiple VCPUs was the culprit
Hi All,
Just wondering if anyone has a pre-built NTOP 4.0.3 for 32bit Lenny (Debian).
I can build the source, but thought if I can save myself the hassle
For the curious, I'm having some netflow v9 problems from a bunch of Cisco 3800
routers running IOS 12.4. I get the flow data and can
On 24/12/2010, at 1:54 PM, Jam wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
PS - once jester is doing basic snmp/cacti/squid/etc and the QNAP doing
the heavy-lifting, I intend under-clocking the little dear from
2.66GHz to about 1.6GHz :) Save the planet and
Hi All,
I have a home server, it's name is jester. Jester is a behemoth compared to
what I actually need. It's a quad-core, 4GB, 2x500GB RAID on LVM with GB
ethernet, to serve a few files + CUPS, run a squid proxy, some small MySQL DBs,
do some basic DHCP/DNS and poll a weather station and
On 23/12/2010, at 6:32 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
On 23/12/10 18:11, James Gray wrote:
5. This leaves DNS, SNMP/Cacti, and Squid on Jester.
Now migrating my remaining setup (#5) to a single 8GB SSD is where I'm a
little stuck.
The QNAP supports both iSCSI and NFS, so I was thinking I
On 26/11/2010, at 11:37 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I have a QNAP NAS with 4 disks as a single Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1
2 3 4 EXT4
couple of days ago, power failed, according to QNAP log, system was
shutdown by UPS notification
when I powered it up, I tried to do 'checkdisk' using web
On 28/11/2010, at 9:37 AM, James Gray wrote:
If it's of the ext2/3/4 family then QNAP may ship the user space tools in
/sbin to do a logical check of the file system (ie, /sbin/mkfs.ext2 etc).
BEWARE OF THE TYPO!! The commands you need to investigate are /sbin/fsck.ext2
etc, not the mkfs
On 03/11/2010, at 11:43 AM, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
Yeah. I have raised the external provider idea with the customer but got
shot down
So I'm back to looking into Hylafax
Ouch - I guess the old saying is true:
You can lead a user to a clue, but you can't make them think ;)
Good luck with
On 03/11/2010, at 10:52 AM, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi Kev,
Another option would be to just subscribe to a fax to email (and email to
fax) service. Save on the PSTN line rental, calls, and another box to
administer.
There are many of these services.
Thanks,
Ben Donohue
On 29/05/2010, at 8:15 AM, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
Does anyone know of a programme in Linux
analogous to DVDShrink in msdos?
I've a couple of DVDs that are Region 2,
ie., Europe and I'd like to be able to
look at them without having to fiddle the player.
Any help greatly
On 29/03/2010, at 8:58 PM, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
The hard drive of the PC is partitioned.
When I boot up, eventually I receive:---
Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20 - 17 generic
Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20 - 17 generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20 - 16 generic
Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20
On 28/03/2010, at 11:23 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
Ashley Maher ashley.ma...@didymodesigns.com.au writes:
I am used to putting in the IP of a dns server into resolv.conf and all
good. It was very frustrating to find that most of the listed tesltra
dns servers failed.
host allowed me to
On 15/03/2010, at 9:01 AM, meryl wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to locate a web-article for uni that I came across maybe 2+
years ago. The article debunks the perpetrated myth that Linux users
are a bunch of illegal crackers who operate on the fringes of society.
iirc, it may have been from an
On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote:
Alan Tyree wrote:
I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is
showing some damage - it
is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with
something solid state, but
don't really know where to start.
Cheers,
Alan
Hi Alan,
I didn't see
- Original Message -
From: meryl
Sent: Friday, 19 February, 2010 8:11:53 AM
I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is
finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10.
in Synaptic search: samba
shows that the following items are
On 13/02/2010, at 11:42 AM, Ken Foskey wrote:
I use a simpler approach and to some extent more flexible.
I create a script in a known directory, for
example /usr/sbin/run_copy.sh. I then only authorise the admin group to
run only that specific script. This keeps complicated command lines
On 12/02/2010, at 4:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 12 February 2010 15:37, Ken Foskey kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:24 +1100, James Gray wrote:
need to sync a number of files between these servers and some require
elevated (root) privileges at *both* ends. Here lies
On 12/02/2010, at 3:37 PM, Ken Foskey wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:24 +1100, James Gray wrote:
Hi All,
I've googled this one for a while and can't find any examples of people
doing *system* file sync with rsync. So I thought I'd throw it out to the
collective wisdom of SLUG. Here's
On 12/02/2010, at 4:18 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
James Gray ja...@gray.net.au writes:
I've googled this one for a while and can't find any examples of people
doing *system* file sync with rsync. So I thought I'd throw it out to the
collective wisdom of SLUG. Here's the full story.
We
On 12/02/2010, at 5:35 PM, james wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 13:23:18 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:24 +1100, James Gray wrote:
need to sync a number of files between these servers and some require
elevated (root) privileges at both ends. Here lies
On 12/02/2010, at 7:38 PM, Tony Sceats wrote:
I may have missed something, or maybe someone else has suggested this
already, but why not pull instead of push?
ie, from the machine that is the backup, connect to the master server and
rsync that way
- this will mean that anything that's
On 12/02/2010, at 8:31 PM, Tony Sceats wrote:
lol, yes, that's the bit I missed :)
I guess ultimately you either have to relax the permissions on the files
(eg, add a new backup group, chrgrp and chmod the files), or relax the
system access restrictions (eg, using sudo, as already
On 12/02/2010, at 8:37 PM, Tony Sceats wrote:
O of course running some sort of backup client/server application that
installs as root is also an option, as it will presumably have some sort of
secured access mechanisms as part of the app (I hope anyway ;)
although I don't actually know one
Hi All,
I've googled this one for a while and can't find any examples of people doing
*system* file sync with rsync. So I thought I'd throw it out to the collective
wisdom of SLUG. Here's the full story.
We have a SuSE-based production application/DB server pair and a corresponding
pair in
On 01/08/2009, at 1:25 PM, Jonathan wrote:
Maybe I'm just typing the wrong thing into Google, but this seems a
hard
topic to get info on. Here's what I want to do:
Connect my existing land line phones into some piece of hardware so
I can then
use my cable internet connection to make
On 17/05/2009, at 5:46 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
--8-- snipped --8--
The
On 17/05/2009, at 5:46 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
--8-- snipped --8--
The
On 12/04/2009, at 1:57 PM, david wrote:
I'm trying to debug a networkmanager problem. I've found this xml
file:
~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/1/ipv4/%gconf.xml
SNIP
routes mtime=1236774478 type=list ltype=int
/entry
entry name=addresses mtime=1236774478 type=list
On 12/06/2008, at 5:00 PM, Glen Turner wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Does anyone have anything else to suggest?
mount ext3 with options:
journal=data,barrier=1,noatime,user_xattr
Create the fs with a bigger journal than usual, this will
improve performance with journal=data.
Do you
On 06/06/2008, at 1:47 PM, Mick Pollard wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:33:19 +1000
James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a non-networking project that requires category 5/5e STP (not
UTP!! - I *need* the shielded variety). No big deal, except I
can't
find anywhere that will sell
Hi All,
I have a non-networking project that requires category 5/5e STP (not
UTP!! - I *need* the shielded variety). No big deal, except I can't
find anywhere that will sell it to me in arbitrary lengths. They all
want to provide either a patch cable (that isn't long enough) or a
bulk
On 18/12/2007, at 4:42 PM, Scott Ragen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/12/2007 04:09:15 PM:
Hi all,
Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this
task?
:-)
sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m
Not the most graceful, but the following seems to
On 26/11/2007, at 10:21 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
I highly recommend to use
* sendmail
* milter-greylist http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz/#milter-greylist
* clamav
* mimedefang (this runs spamassassin as well)
this runs in the envelope AND data part.
this is better as most of the time the
On 26/11/2007, at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=O Plameras
Quick and dirty mail server ? Postfix and others.
Scalable and professional mail server ? Sendmail.
Ha ha ha ha.
Please explain.
O Plameras
Btw; for anybody thinking I was trying to provoke a
On 26/11/2007, at 2:44 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=James Gray
Here, here.
itym hear, hear... Or are you referring to the previous poster as
a dog?
;-)
Yeh, s/here/hear/ blush (bloody lack of caffeine I tells ya!)
--
James
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
On 31/01/2007, at 5:39 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
I'm thinking about buying a (mostly) Linux desktop machine. It
doesn't
have to be really remarkable except that I would like dual DVI
outputs.
I don't mind installing it myself or doing some research on exactly
what
is supported or good
On 18/01/2007, at 10:18 AM, Phil Scarratt wrote:
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Scott Ragen wrote:
IMHO its better for a sender to get Your Mail has been rejected
due to suspected spam, then the email getting lost in the spam
box never to be seen.
Except that they
On 10/01/2007, at 2:51 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing
something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to
see what the extent of the use of SPF is:
pass29517
neutral 30354
softfail31082
none4783
On 18/10/2006, at 10:05 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote:
James,
Yes, I had thought of that, but my scripting is woefully non
existant, I have
the misfortune of being a [ugh] desk top user hemmed in by the
ongoing use
and convenience of a GUI, I can talk the talk, but as for walking, I'm
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On 19/10/2006, at 12:09 PM, Penedo wrote:
On 19/10/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
egrep .$TMP
This is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough.
Someone else could have a file of the same name as $TMP
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On 19/10/2006, at 8:47 AM, James Gray wrote:
On 18/10/2006, at 10:05 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote:
James,
Yes, I had thought of that, but my scripting is woefully non
existant, I have
the misfortune of being a [ugh] desk top user hemmed
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On 17/10/2006, at 6:52 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote:
No, it isn't for spamming...
I've changed my email address again and wish to send emails out to
anyone who
has sent one to me, short of individually collecting them and
putting them
into my
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Hi All,
As per the subject - I have a Lexmark E232 laser printer that only
needs a new toner cartridge (between $100-$250 depending on where you
get it). It's in basically new condition except for the 1000
copies it's done. Has a parallel
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On 17/10/2006, at 8:21 AM, James Gray wrote:
Hi All,
As per the subject - I have a Lexmark E232 laser printer that only
needs a new toner cartridge (between $100-$250 depending on where
you get it). It's in basically new condition except
On 07/10/2006, at 10:57 AM, Jamshid Karimi wrote:
Could someone please suggest an isp which supports
linux for wireless internet?
Where abouts are you? I'm down in Wollongong and can highly
recommend Fish Internet. Not the cheapest provider in town (nor the
most expensive either), but
On 05/10/2006, at 2:19 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Voytek Eymont wrote:
I've just got this spam email, looking at the mail header:
does that imply there some sort of open relay ? compromised
system ? at
dodo ?
...could be forged Received: headers
Golden rule of e-mail headers:
If your MTA
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On 02/10/2006, at 2:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can anyone improve this to just a bad idea grin
Following opinion in these pages, also because I wanted a wireless
AP I got me
a wireless/router/modem in the form of a DLINK 604T.
That seemed a
On 28/09/2006, at 12:27 PM, John wrote:
Hi list,
My e-mail isn't getting through to the mail box.
Syslog keeps showing bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing
timeout.
After Googling I've found a comment that suggests a manual Bayes
expire run but doesn't go on to describe how to
Hi All,
I have a serial-based weather station (LaCrosse 2300) and
occasionally it spits the dummy. Probably more to do with the USB-
RS232 adapter than the weather station, but I've found if I unplug
the serial cable from the weather station and plug it back in,
everything magically
On 25/09/2006, at 9:55 AM, Michael Chesterton wrote:
James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So I'm trying to see if sending a break to the serial port will reset
the line like my manual cable pulling exercise (after all, unplugging
a serial cable by definition is a BREAK right?). So how about
Hi All,
I'm running a Courier IMAP server with Postfix MTA for my own
personal network (with a handful of POP3 users). The problem is that
I often use different mail clients. Some support automatic archiving
(deleting), others don't. So it got me thinking about server-side
solutions.
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ashley maher wrote:
I've come to the conclusion the way I manage bind really isn't the way
to go.
So I've done some googling this morning and found some interesting
results.
But I've learned the hard way what looks good can often lead to I
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Christopher Martin wrote:
Has anyone got an opinion about DCC and Pyzor in conjunction with Spam
Assassin?
I understand that each will have pros and cons, I was hoping someone could
boil them down so I could make at least a semi-informed
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Howard Lowndes wrote:
From Windows:
fdisk /mbr
DaZZa wrote:
Greetings and salutations.
I've a box which currently dual boots. The space used by the Linux
partition I now urgently need for other purposes, so I want to delete
it and expand
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Voytek Eymont wrote:
how can I verify my secondary dns is just that ?
my co-location runs my secondary, well, is supposed to run my secondary.
is this the correct way to check it:
dig @secondarydns.com.au domain.tld ?
Yes
and, I should
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
is anybody able to though more light:
To rebuild my kernel (its a long story ...) I do:
apt-get source linux-image-2.6.15-25-686
apt-get build-dep linux-image-2.6.15-25-686
unpack
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
my ongoing frustrations:
1) How to setup a firewall in ubuntu? It seems suitable iptables settings do
work but that's awefully primitive. This article did not help
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259
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Phil wrote:
I must be missing something. Work has one key and different essid, at
home I have different ones. So I setup two locations, one called home
and one called work.
If I hibernate at work and start-up the OS when I get home, it never
On 30/6/06 11:53 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I'm looking at implementing greylisting on a Postfix MTA.
Looking at the postfix web site there are a number of solutions offered:
gld
SQLgrey
gps
Postgrey
policyd
tumgreyspf
Would anyone like to share their views on any of these solutions,
On 3/7/06 9:18 AM, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I went with Postgrey over the weekend. That starts with a default 5
minute delay time which has seen a sensational drop in crap, probably
about 99% of the crap is now dropped, which says that most was coming
off botnets.
Wow - that's
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:42 pm, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
If it's filesystem problems, you shuold start with a fsck (after taking a
dump of the whole partition).
It's been a long week...for some reason my brain parsed that sentence along
the lines:
If it's a filesystem problem, you should start by
In my quest (maybe futile) to do some reverse-engineering work on the FVS338
firmware images I've hit a bit of a stumbling block. I've figured out
Netgear are using standard cramfs (Compressed ROM FS) format for the images,
but add 200 bytes of crud to the beginning of the files. No big deal,
Hi All,
Seems the Netgear FVS338 firewall
(http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/fvs338.asp) is actually Linux under the
hood (specifically a customised 2.4.18 kernel):
ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/fvs338_v1_6_29_src_tar.bz2 (22.4MB)
Having recently purchased one of these little
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:11 am, James Gray wrote:
Hi All,
Seems the Netgear FVS338 firewall
(http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/fvs338.asp) is actually Linux under
the hood (specifically a customised 2.4.18 kernel):
ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/fvs338_v1_6_29_src_tar.bz2 (22.4MB
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:29 am, Howard Lowndes wrote:
If I have a bridged DSL connection such that there is an ethernet
interface to the DSL modem and then a PPP interface is established on
connection, should I be applying egress traffic shaping on the ethernet
interface or on the ppp interface?
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time I log in and
everything I do on the box is done as root, and only I do it. I ssh into
my own account, then su -
sudo -H -s
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time I log
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:44 am, david wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote:
Yeh, I've had mixed success with that switch. Seems every sudo I use
supports -H -s but only the Linux variants support -i...which sux
when you divide your time between Solaris, the BSD's
On Sat, 27 May 2006 12:31 pm, Peter Chubb wrote:
Or use ed:
for i in *
do
ed - $i \EOF
1,$s/str/repl/g
w
q
EOF
done
Sweet - old school ed and here document. Very nice:)
James
--
Most people eat as though they were fattening themselves for market.
On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:03, Pia Waugh wrote:
Heya Ashley,
quote who=ashley maher
The final installment of Scott Mcoy's presention on Blender, the Open
Source 3D Animation package and how it used at WIN Television.
Are you able to record it? Perhaps SLUG could loan you their video
On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:30 pm, John Gibbons wrote:
I am having problems with KDE Wallet in Suse 10. It will not let me
configure my printers, claiming I am putting in the wrong password. It
is a new install. I was particularly careful when putting in my original
password and use the same one
On Tue, 9 May 2006 03:03 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I have a Domino server which is now running on FC5 having previously been
running on RH7.1
I can establish an SMTP connection to it (3 part TCP handshake) but it
won't announce itself to the calling host, except I did manage to get it
to
On Tue, 9 May 2006 01:49 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
My X300 got up and running fairly easily, although I had issues using
the native X.Org driver, and had to switch to fglrx.
Do you have the restricted kernel modules package for your kernel?
Should be
I have a Prosignia 200 at work that now refuses to boot from CDROM. It threw
a hard drive over the weekend so the secondary DNS server went bye-byes.
So after much battling, BIOS flashing and general mucking around, I decided to
just get the new drive, throw it in a spare PC (some nameless,
Hi All,
Seems my shiny new RHEL4 (update 3)[1] wont allow any of my configured
sudoers to actually use sudo. What I have is everyone in the wheel group
configured to complete access to sudo with their user password. However,
when any of us actually run sudo, the following sequence allways
On Tue, 2 May 2006 10:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
this is a trawl for info please:
Has anybody got an AMD84 running smoothly and reliably?
I've got an x2/3800 on an ASUS A8V MB. I've tried with SuSE10, SuSE10.1
(RCs), FC5, Ubuntu. All have some problems, sometime
eg
on board AC97
On Tue, 2 May 2006 12:28 pm, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, James Gray wrote:
Seems my shiny new RHEL4 (update 3)[1] wont allow any of my configured
Are you using SELinux?
Yep - but only in warn mode.
James
--
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't
On Tue, 2 May 2006 09:18 am, James Gray wrote:
Hi All,
Seems my shiny new RHEL4 (update 3)[1] wont allow any of my configured
sudoers to actually use sudo. What I have is everyone in the wheel
group configured to complete access to sudo with their user password.
However, when any of us
On Tue, 2 May 2006 08:49 am, CaT wrote:
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
I have a Prosignia 200 at work that now refuses to boot from CDROM. It
threw a hard drive over the weekend so the secondary DNS server went
bye-byes.
...
It reset my network
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:52 pm, Charles Myers wrote:
Ok yet another possible silly question, I have googled but everything
that isnt related comes up (as you will see my problem maybe very
specific?)
I have Ubuntu running dual screen, but when I play a game the game
centres in between the two
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:02 am, Simon Wong wrote:
I am wanting to do a command with sudo via ssh that requires a password
but the problem is that when I enter the password it is echoed to the
screen.
ie
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
password: PASSWORD-HERE
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:17 am, Simon Wong wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 10:46 +1000, James Gray wrote:
Add user to the sudo group on host and you wont be prompted for the
user's password anymore (at least that's how it works on Ubuntu and
RHEL).
yeah, I was scared of doing
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:38 am, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
Just wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour. As per the Title,
installed VMWare on Linux (FC4). Software starts Ok and gets to the
point where I can power on the virtual machine. At this point the host
machine is rebooted. I.E
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