This one time, at band camp, Secret Squirrel said:
Hello,
Shh! Secret Squirrel!
I am looking for a bandwidth monitor for my
optus@home packet pushing gateway, I would
like it to log the data to a file so that I
can write programs to analyse it.
Search google for MTRG.
You mentioned e-smith,
This one time, at band camp, Geoffrey Robertson said:
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-4_all.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/idl/name-service.idl', which is also in package
libgnorba27
dpkg --force-overwrite -i
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe said:
The public servers are useful and precise, the CSIRO runs a bunch of them
for australia, you just pick one in your timezone.
Timezone won't matter, they all give out UTC. That's what zoneinfo is
for :)
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Always two there are; a Bastard,
This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter said:
Afternoon. Thanks Jdub for writing all that was wrong in the world.
URL!
Can someone pass me a 1-2-3 clue stick?
"righting"
HTH, HAND.
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Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY.
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This one time, at band camp, Robi Karp said:
If you're interested then we'd love to hear from you.
Unless you've got a question or answer regarding Linux specifically,
then we don't want to year from you.
A quick search of this lists archives will tell you that job offers are
strictly OFF TOPIC
This one time, at band camp, D.V.Rogers said:
I have two SuSE 7.0 boxes running and cannot figure out why I cannot
see each other when I use Kruiser-the alternative file manager
define 'see' and perhaps a little more clear about what you want Kruiser
to do.
i can ping and telnet between both
This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake said:
But in my init.d directory the file is called "networks" and it does
nothing like the above. It sets up anti spoofing, ip_chains, ipfw etc
and the route command or even ifconfig is not in this directory.
rgrep ifconfig /etc/rc.d/
As for your
[apologies to Matthew Dalton who will get this twice due to a PEBCAK
error]
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Dalton said:
The /etc/init.d/network file is from Slink (Debian 2.1). Potato doesn't
have this file anymore.
/etc/init.d/networking sets up ip spoofing protection, and calls ifup.
This one time, at band camp, Jill Rowling said:
There's also the bot-trap where the ignorant bot wanders at its peril into a
series of server-side scripts with no way back.
It was discussed in Sys Admin magazine a couple of months back.
... look on google.
It was mainly to stop spambots from
This one time, at band camp, Herbert Xu said:
Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've used cfengine for exactly that purpose for quite a while, and
have been intending to give a talk on it for ~8months now.
Personally I prefer a layered "meta" package approach. Now if only every
Debian
This one time, at band camp, Simon Bryan said:
Hi,
Can anyone point me at some resources that describe how to move an MySql
database from one server to another?
mysqladmin -h server2 create dbname
mysqldump -h server1 dbname | mysql -h server2 dbname
you might want to make sure the dump gets
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
latest Debian (woody I believe is stable) Release?
Potato is stable, so to my knowledge, woody is not. Although it must be
close.
Yup.
potato == stable; woody == testing/unstable; sid == unstable
--
jamesw
Always two there are; a
This one time, at band camp, Robert Smith said:
I know this is of subject.
ok So this one came to me from a freind and I just had to pass it on to
every one .
Wasn't slug-chat built for this?
I'm too tired to flame you properly, so just pretend that I have.
Mainly because I've already got this
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said:
I realised once it started that I had done a bad thing and am now minus some
useful directories namely "/usr/bin" and "/usr/X11R6" :-((
Without seeing the actual damage, I'd say you're hosed. /usr/bin is
quite necessary, and if you don't have that
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said:
What sort of size would you suggest for essentially a single user (me)
system?
As big as you want.
I tend to parttition like so:
10M /boot (first on the disk)
128M swap
everything else in /
This is for my personal machines that do more
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy said:
QUESTION: how complete do SLUGGERS feel Nessus' attacks are?
Can such a tool give one a false sense of security?
Yes. Anything it finds means you are insecure, if nessus returns a
clean report, you have holes that nessus doesn't know about
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I follow this same line... stable with security line... and tend to keep on
top of it about once a week if I can, by checking for new updates.
$ cat /etc/cron.d/aptgetupgrade
2 0 * * * rootapt-get -qy upgrade
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
quote who="Ralph Lett"
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
Best to use http, as it's faster. :)
I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs
are files, hence the use of File-tp, not
This one time, at band camp, James Wilkinson said:
#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
Except for this one, cos they don't provide ftp, and the http requests
*always* timeout.
What I meant was: As Debian don't provide FTP access to the security
repository, I'm
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe said:
I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs
are files, hence the use of File-tp, not HyperText-tp.
If this was the case you would never send Complex (no code!!!) emails for
fear of breakin Simple Mail Transport
This one time, at band camp, Martin said:
I had an important point made to me last time i mentioned the apt vs rpm
debate:
rpm is equivalent to dpkg
RH has no equivalent for apt
ie. you are comparing apples with oranges.
the real issue is dpkg vs rpm...
Without having read the article, my
This one time, at band camp, enterfornone said:
I think some of you zealots need to get out of this dreamworld. Linux is
not yet a significant player on the desktop. Most people do need Work skills
to be employable.
Besides, countering every anti-linux arguement with "troll" is very
This one time, at band camp, Paul Cameron said:
As well, I've had nothing but trouble with PDF's using acroread
on Linux as well as ghostview (which often pukes up PDF's)
Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
was written for it! honestly i dont
This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
Erm, frei? freisoftware?
Don't know too much German...
'Zimmer frei' literally translates as 'free room' -- I think some
hackers will take offence at their software being labelled as 'empty' :)
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This one time, at band camp, Peter Rundle said:
"Freedom (of choice) Software"
DEVO Software.
"Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice!"
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More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Now, if I could get the MAILER without all the browser-
crap overhead, I'd be interested
Damn, and all I want is BROWSER without all the mailer/newsreader/irc
crap overhead ;)
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This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
When will the Debian package be updated?
Don't know, but this method worked for me (a bit messy, but it worked):
point old browser at
http://archives.progeny.com
follow the links to the mozilla debs
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/web/ iirc
get
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Reilly said:
Galeon and Konquerer seem to be shaping up to be that. Haven't
used Konq myself, but do keep an eye on Galeon.
I've been using galeon, I like it, but the dependency on (at least in
debian) having mozilla installed is a pain (in my fantasy utopia,
This one time, at band camp, Jon Biddell said:
start of crappy basic program
for x = 1 to some.big.number
do something sensible here I assume flag is set in here)
if flag = 1
exit
else
endif
next x
crappy basic program continues, with flag = 1
flag = 0
This one time, at band camp, Dave Fitch said:
no, what happens for me is: the one from slug goes to my slug
mailbox, ones sent directly to me go to my inbox. There's no
duplicates and no lost email. The only hassle is you get some
slug email in your inbox - but only ones sent directly to you
This one time, at band camp, DaZZa said:
Edit /etc/profile and place your variables in there.
They'll then apply for every interaqction with the machine.
Given that you log out and back in again, if you need them immediately
;)
--
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy said:
For the browserless and the lazy, Allchin [M$ O/S chief] said:
"We can build a better product than Linux."
I was going to say something about this, but User Friendly did it
better.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010216mode=classic
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy said:
(*) I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government
encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of
policy makers to understand the threat.
Damn those Open Source Communists, they're a
This one time, at band camp, David Fisher said:
Sorry 'bout the previous empty message, I'm not used to mailx.
Due to a recent death in the family (ie my rusty trusty Matrox Mill G200)
I have had to install a borrowed S3 ViRGE DX. I have rerun xf68config and now
when I try startx as user david
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
quote who="Herbert Xu"
Bloat! Try
date -d '1970/01/01 utc + 10 sec'
I was hoping to receive a few more contributions! :)
#include time.h
#include stdio.h
void main() {
time_t time = 10;
puts(ctime(time));
}
This one time, at band camp, Jan Schmidt said:
Has anyone else installed the debian mozilla packages (M18-3) recently?
I'm trying to follow the instructions for setting up PSM, but the url
for the 1.3 PSM download given in the mozilla package FAQ is no longer
valid, and I couldn't locate a
This one time, at band camp, MacFarlane, Jarrod said:
Does anyone have a script/method/program that'll convert a unix timestamp in
to something I can read?
See Jeff's post, subject Unix Giga-party, and Ken's reply; there are
some clues hidden there. The manpage for date will help too.
--
This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter said:
I think you all have your priorities wrong. You should be looking up
excuses (like you need one) to party tonight, tomorrow, day after
tomorrow etc etc ad infinitum (spelling correctors will be persecuted)
not in 9mths, X years etc..
Ok, party
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
CP/M didn't have decent 3D accelerator support!
We didn't need 3D to play games then - we knew how to PLAY. {:-)
"space invaders, and that other boring game." :)
--
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This one time, at band camp, Bill Bennett said:
[I have a problem with logic here. It seems to me that I cannot
order an operating system to destroy/remove itself, because what
carries out this operation, ie., what's left after completion, is
part of the operating system. Am I right?]
Aha, you
This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Craige McWhirter wrote:
There's going to be some long answers to this one. I'll focus mine on
the RealPlayer:
Nothing.
Don't download the RPM, down load the Tarball which has an installer in
it and you are off and running
This one time, at band camp, Heracles said:
Terry Collins wrote:
The best people to help newbies/beginners are other newbies/beginners
The "visually impaired" leading the blind
Maybe an unfair comment, but as I do not fully understand Linux, I
could be considered one of the "severley
This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey said:
My hat goes in with Terry.
I think that there is great scope for a newbies list. This list should
have predefined answers to 'which is the best distro' with input from
each camp. We KNOW that archives will not really work with newbies.
Hrm, I
This one time, at band camp, David Fisher said:
In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
apt-get install libncurses-dev
--
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using
(o_ ' Windows NT for mission-critical applications."
This one time, at band camp, Herbert Xu said:
Harry Ohlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess "ZZ" was intended to mean "the end", as in the end of the
alphabet. I remember when I was at uni 20 years ago it was a lot of fun to
walk up to someone's terminal and type "vi" to see if they could
This one time, at band camp, Rodos said:
How much data can you fit on a CD? I have an .iso created with mkisofs
which is 695M but cdrecord says it takes up 798M and won't fit onto the
disk.
I filled a cd yesterday with 656M according to cdrecord... overwrote the
disk and the last files burnt
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
See? Look what happens when you share source code!
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/976310729/index_html
oh GOD NO!
(What an outrageously nutty piece of work... We need a term for "insane
hack because we could", kinda like 'politically
This one time, at band camp, CaT said:
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:23:53PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also lead to believe that my mutt configuration is allowing me to
type out very lengthy lines. Rather annyoing for the recipients. Is
there a setting I should be using or just stop
This one time, at band camp, John Ryland said:
I've occassionally used kwrite and noticed to exit you can just hit ESC,
that's one keystroke.
Not so good for the ex-vi user (or the vi user in ex mode), who'll hit
ESC to delete a few lines and delete more than they wanted.
--
* dpkg
This one time, at band camp, Rodos said:
Oh what a bugger that would be. I seam to be in the habbit of hitting ESC
everytime I pause to think, bit like the typing version of saying um
whilst talking.
I think mine is 'ls'. ;)
--
* dpkg ponders: 'C++' should have been called 'D'
(o_ '
This one time, at band camp, Rodos said:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, John Ryland wrote:
However vi is the only one true editor :)
Ahmen brother! And Pearl is the language of the Gods. Linux is the OS of
the GNU generation ...
the innernet will have you believe otherwise...
I need to upgrade the old auth mechanism at work, because it's
hella-broken (syncing passwd files across machines), and it's come back
to bite me today, so I really want to do soemthing like NIS, only not
NIS.
I'm thinking authentication using either LDAP or Kerberos, so I'd like
comments and
This one time, at band camp, Jason Rennie said:
2. Now zope gets an excpetion as it starts up and exits. I don't use zope,
but does debian in some way ? I would simply chuck it, unless it was
needed.
Chuck zope. It's a web publishing backend, and unless you know about it
already then you don't
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said:
Its just a matter of how much you can be bothered to update.
you will need to update what was ipchains and glibc 2.2 would be
worth going to.
You'll also need to update the modutils package to the one in woody, as
the kernel modules have changed
Who here knows the package for hardware graphics acceleration for XFree
4.0? I've got xlibmesa3 installed, which seems to provide libgl1, but
I'm not seeing any speedup over software rendering.
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(o_ '
//\
v_/_
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This one time, at band camp, Joe Haribonigo said:
PS: how can i be a 37337 hacker=BF
warez.slashdot.org has everything you'll need.
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(o_ '
//\
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More
This one time, at band camp, Ken Yap said:
Try egroups.com if you don't mind your submissions being archived on the
web (mail addresses suitably spam mangled, don't worry). You have to put
up with banner and signature ads though. A couple of free software
projects I know use egroups.
I'm
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i am thinking aroung a PIII 500-800 or so hopefully.. or would an AMD be
better. I am not looking for bleading edge so the latest stats from
tomshardware dont really help so generally i am looking for real life
experiences etc.
AMD athlons
This one time, at band camp, Alex Salmon said:
just on a personal note where do ppl like buying hardware
HT, north rocks or joe blows computer world down the street or straight
from the maker
joe blow down the street, and a different joe blow every time. 'cept
cetustech, i've shopped there
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said:
I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well
i havd found gigabyte to generally be good in linux.
Have to disagree, my mobo is VIA based and it's smooth as. I've also
heard bad stories involving gigabyte mobos ;)
Mmm, love that
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
It's been released (check out Abit's website, which is something silly like
abit-usa.com), but I haven't seen any around these parts. Yet.
www.abit.com.tw is the master site, iirc (being a taiwanese company and all)
--
"This is not an attack!
*excited*
As mentioned elsewhere, I had XFree 4.0.1 under debian running under
2.2.17 but without the DRI component. I've just about made it all work
now.
Firstly, 2.2.17 doesn't support DRI, but 2.2.18 is going to have a big
backport of USB and DRI from the 2.4 series, atm it's only at pre22
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
James Wilkinson wrote:
Picking one at random, I chose 'bttv'. The first n messages returned
all had the same subject. Is it possible to collaspe the threads on a
faq-search result?
As was stated, it is just the same as a SLUG archive search
This one time, at band camp, Jason Rennie said:
Grab the 2.4.* series kernels, with the DRI stuff out of sourceforges
CVS. Apparently it rocks. Unfortunrtly my new radeon card is still in
devel, and a dev unstable branch at that.
But as Jeff said in a different thread ([rant] UT in linux, or
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
So I finally got my hands on a Multia to play with. I've been wanting to fix
my Intel/PC-skewed picture of the world for a long time. :)
Jeff, you might want to subscribe to the UNSW multia-users mailing list
([EMAIL PROTECTED], with "subscribe
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
'tag,
'morgen
Here's a quick one... What is /dev/zero used for, and what are a few good
examples?
Making loopback devices for boot floppy images, etc
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foofile bs=1k count=1440
$ mkfs -t ext2 foofile
$ mount -o loop foofile
This one time, at band camp, Steven downing said:
Depmod wasn't searching those directories for some reason.
I read that you need to upgrade your modutils for 2.4, as they've gone
and changed the layout of /lib/modules again.
Sorry, I don't got any urls to this.
--
"This is not an
This one time, at band camp, Steven downing said:
Unfortunately I figure this would mean trolling through the debian archive =
directories to find all the dependencies needed for a package (source or =
binary) with a Windows ftp client and then finding the required number of =
floppies to
Who here knows about user quotas and NFS? Say I export home directories
from one machine, and I want to limit usage on the home dirs that are
exported. Do I need quotas enabled in all the clients or just the
server?
--
"This is not an attack! It is a pre-emptive retaliation."
(o_ '
//\
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
http://www.woa.com.au/lists/slug/slugfaq.html
Picking one at random, I chose 'bttv'. The first n messages returned
all had the same subject. Is it possible to collaspe the threads on a
faq-search result?
--
"This is not an attack! It is
This one time, at band camp, Alister Waller said:
I need to convert lowercase filenames to uppercase.
its actually on a SCO box so something kinda generic would be nice.
for i in *; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'`"; done
bourne shell and derivatives.
--
"This is not an attack! It
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said:
Another option is to
use full-duplex drivers like ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org).
Does anyone know what the deal is with the sound drivers in the kernel?
The so-called Open Sound System is far from open, and ALSA seems to
do much better than
This one time, at band camp, Arunava Sen said:
Anyway, I got UT working in linux yesterday. Xfree
4.0.1, Nvidia Geforce, nvidia drivers. I am pleased to say that UT
totally SCREAMS on my Geforce in Linux, now. 1600x1200 everything to max
(but 16bit color) I get 47-60 fps while running around
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
Same card here, etc. (We've been through this before!)
:)
I'm pretty sure that CVS XF4.0.1 supports DRM 2... You can always try. Me,
I haven't played games for ages, so I can wait for pretty Armagetron and
Tuxracer eyecandy. :)
Ok, q3a can wait.
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[snip]
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions
[snip]
this and the next problem were caused i think after i did a chown -R
salmona /ghoti/*
/ghoti is not my home dir and it *shouldnt* have anything but programs
etc..
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
They're cool! Sure, there's a lot of features missing in them, like the
above mentioned ones, Java, etc., but as simple browsers they're groovy!
Speaking of simple browsers.. I'm using the Gnome Help Browser to read
advogato whilst I wait for my
This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter said:
Okay, so the subjects a bit of lark. I'm all inspired to retire my
last "Linux Super Workstation" (a 486) and bring my hardware into
the 21st century and I'm going to build a new machine from scratch
again (yes, the LJ article got me off my
This one time, at band camp, Herbert Xu said:
Well those who've been following the wrong advice certainly got bitten :)
The correct way to make sure your local packages don't get upgraded is to
put them on hold.
Hold didn't work. I tried that from dselect and dselect decided to
override my
Ok, this one's for the Debianites.
I've apt-get'd (apt-gotten?) kernel-source-2.2.17, alsa-source-0.4 and
kernel-patch-2.2.17-reiserfs. These together put a bunch of tarballs
and weird directories in /usr/src.
I used to just extract the kernel source and do the make-kpkg like the
docs say,
This one time, at band camp, I said:
So then I read the manpage for make-kpkg and it explained the usage of
the --added_modules and --added_patches options.
I've given up on kernel-package. Despite rtfming, the patches are not
being applied, the addon alsa modules are a pain to compile, and
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
all primes end in either 1 3 7 or 9 except 2 and 5
How about 39? That's not prime :) You need a better heuristic ;)
so it is pointless to test it if it dosent ie ends in a 5, so how can i
test to see if the last number is 1 3 7 9 before
This one time, at band camp, Alex Salmon said:
what do u mean by that exactly 3 to sqrt(x) by 2... what is x
if (num % 2 == 1) {
for (i = 3; i = sqrt(num); i+=2) {
test;
}
}
He means, check for oddness, then go from 3 to the square root of the
number you're
This one time, at band camp, I said:
I've given up on kernel-package. Despite rtfming, the patches are not
being applied, the addon alsa modules are a pain to compile, and worse,
whenever I do an apt update, my new kernel image gets dusted by the
version in the distro.
I started to grok it as
This one time, at band camp, Angus Lees said:
\begin{James Wilkinson}
whenever I do an apt update, my new kernel image gets dusted by the
version in the distro.
add an epoch. ie: make-kpkg --revision 1:willow.1
or make your version start with a letter, so its always greater than
the official
This one time, at band camp, Damien Gardner Jnr said:
what I haven't been able to figure out
though, is how to disable the screensaver/blanking thing on the
console, so that I can see the last messages on the console when the
machine locks up.. - Anyone happen to know how to disable the
This one time, at band camp, Rachel Polanskis said:
Now we are moving to all numeric logins (not my idea, comments?)
Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha
character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C
variable names.
where it bombs, except
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
James Wilkinson wrote:
Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha
character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C
variable names.
Keep trying.
Numbers make it really handy to track people up
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Anand Kumria generated:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
What I'm using at the moment:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Doug Stalker generated:
Matthew Dalton wrote:
Doug Stalker wrote:
Is it normal for packages to be missing like this in unstable?
I think it's more a problem with the aarnet mirror than with debian
unstable. Try a different mirror.
It looks like you were right - I
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, George Vieira generated:
I have a script which runs in a CGI and outputs a CVS type file. The content
type is for an Exel spreadsheet and it seems to load up on the clietn
browser but Exel loads up the CVS data as 1 cell for line instead of
splitting the cells into columns.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
Thanks Colin for the suggestion. But, rsh will be a handy option if I am puttin
g
the configuration on one remote machine. But, i have a scenarion where the
remote machines may increase or decrease. I am picking up the Ip address and th
e
machine
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Terry Collins generated:
The mouse is an MS 2 button emulating three on a serial port (swapping
this is an option)
Has anyone come across this problem before?
Does anyone have any ideas?
Yes, but not with a serial mouse. Mine was a BIOS problem with the PS/2
mouse port.
Jim Hague wrote:
Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire
source for, say, W2k and O2k. What do you do with it?
Chesty wrote:
Fix some bugs and send patch back to MS? maybe not :)
I wrote:
Actually, I'd prolly browse some of it when really really
bored, looking for programming
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Conrad Parker generated:
ps. James, your Mail-Followup-To header is fubar
I noticed that... it's happened since i upgraded mutt to 1.2 from 1.0
Anyone got any advice on which .muttrc line to add to get rid of this?
(lousy new feature defaults breaking things)
Meanwhile,
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
Alternatively, try Conectiva's xf86cfg. (How many permutations of X, Free,
86 and Config can we turn into a filename?)
There's a command to do just that.
# apt-get install an
$ an xfree86config
fixer cog fen
exec grin off
exec ring off
exec frog
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael Lake generated:
Why can't I get Linux to do what I want Monday morning?
Mondayitis?
If I "chown root:dosusers dos" or "chgrp dosusers dos" I
get:
chgrp: dos/: Operation not permitted
DOS filesystems and ownerships are like oil and water. No, bad analogy,
water
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
So if you have either the "Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer" or the
"Microsoft Intellimouse Web" and can confirm side-button
finctionality it will be much appreciated. (the explorer is the
fully expensive optical one)
When I was setting mine up,
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Terry Collins generated:
P.S. Does anyone of know of any Linux mp3's
I find my mp3s play well on most platforms, not just Linux ;)
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
Do you mean that the side buttons are just useless clones of the left
and right buttons? This is exactly what I was scared of. Thanks for
responding to my post.
Not afaik. It depends on your xserver. 3.3.6 only supports a maximum
of 5 buttons, this
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Clarke generated:
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Read the man page :-)
ouch :) bitten by my own advice :)
anyway, hopefully fixed now
cheers.
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