Re: [SLUG] Laptops and Linux

I'm having loads of troubles with my ibook g4 (can't even get drivers for the internal Airport Ext. card)... the only distro that really worked is gentoo - there is not too much of a choice on the ppc. The upside to the ibook is that i can get 5 1/2 hours of battery life and cost me under

[SLUG] hp pda question

I know this is a really silly question, though i've been offered one of those HP pocket pcs for really cheap, the only problem being that it's running windoze 2003 mobile- and i've run a M$ free household for the past 6 months and don't intend to change that. (see

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15

The irony is that i wasn't even intending to run it on an Xbox (not that i even own one)... Also sorry for the double posting before... stupid proxies made me do it (they are satanic i swear) On 06/04/2004, at 7:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bunch of something else starting with 'F', if you

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15

I've just gone and downloaded it myself- if anybody needs a copy, its on my lappie. On 06/04/2004, at 9:18 PM, Michael Fox wrote: I reckon the people who decide if they mirror stuff saw the xbox type logo on the website for the distro and thought no we are not going to mirror it. I've just

[SLUG] Bigpond and M$

I tried to get Bigpond to mirror Dynebolic (live mulitmedia distro) on their server (so it don't clock up the megs on cable) and was astonished to have it rejected- moreso was utterly bewildered for their response: (and this is a direct quote) - Out of respect for Microsoft's wishes, we are

[SLUG] Bigpond and M$

I tried to get Bigpond to mirror Dynebolic (live mulitmedia distro) on their server (so it don't clock up the megs on cable) and was astonished to have it rejected- moreso was utterly bewildered for their response: (and this is a direct quote) - Out of respect for Microsoft's wishes, we are

[SLUG] New Membership Benefit

Is this for real??? I'm thinking that it's too close to april fools day to take such absurd statements seriously. If not then i'll second Mary's motion. On 01/04/2004, at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a former committee member, I'd like to distance myself from this sell-out. I attended

[SLUG] PPC live distros 4 ibookG4

Hi all, I recently picked up one of the new g4 ibooks and am in a bit of a bind. I can't get rid of Mac Os (for reasons beyond my control-- work) though i'm going stir crazy about not having a linux machine at the moment. I was hoping that there was a live distro that worked with the raedeon

Re: [SLUG] PPC live distros 4 ibookG4

Yeah, i'm not actually allowed to repartition the internal hard disk, but i do have a firewire hard disk which i might be able to use linux boot. Incidentally, speaking of ppc distros... some people have ported linux to the game cube: http://www.gc-linux.org/ On 12/02/2004, at 4:04 PM, Jeff

[SLUG] Linux.org llisting

Hi All, I've noticed that slug isn't listed as an australian LUG on linux.org: http://www.linux.org/groups/australia.html I'm not sure what the protocol is here, but i think it might be a good idea to get us put on that page. Just a thought. Jasper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

H, I must say that i didn't have any troubles getting XP to see my samba share points. Though i must say that on my network i don't have any authentication- i.e anybody can read/write to the samba share point. I'm on my laptop at the moment so i can't tell you what the version of samba it

[SLUG] SGI Octane- Linux?

I was wasting time on ebay today (as you do) and stumbled across this australian crowd selling some nice SGI octane boxes at around AU$2000(for the 400Mhz) and felt the urge to spend. I'm curious to see just how effective these enormously expensive beasts are- after all, the one i am looking

Re: [SLUG] cable and optusnet

Hi John, Welcome to the wonderful world of linux. I use mandrake but don't use optus cable- so i can't tell you exactly what to put in there. Mandrake 9.1 has a 'Control Centre' which by default can be found in the 'start' menu of KDE or Gnome or by typing 'DrakConf' in a terminal. Once

[SLUG] good cd burning software?

hi all any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( any suggestions appreciated cheers Jasper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?

Thanks all for the responses, I was using it to burn some iso images- had a couple of crashes. Basically i am slowly migrating everyone in my vicinity to linux machines and want to be able to have idiots operate the cd burning. I.e. when someone says 'burn' and there isn't a blank cd in there-

[SLUG] Re:more smoothwall questions.

Hi Shaun, If you get Optus broadband, its very easy to setup a router machine with two network cards (if you have an ethernet modem) or if you have a usb modem- skip the second network card. for verification you simply need to name your router as your Optus account name- i believe that they

[SLUG] Vietnam embracing open-source products

And yet another affirmation of OSS victories: Vietnam is under pressure to reduce software piracy, and their response is to eliminate Microsoft. Logically, this will actually reduce the piracy levels! I wonder how that will affect U.S. and Microsoft ambitions to crack down on pirated

[SLUG] Mandrake 9.2

Hi all, Im just wondering if anyone has had a chance to look at madrake 9.2, just looking for feedback really. Im on 9.1 and am wondering if I could really be bothered to upgrade as everything seems to be working peachy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

RE: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.2

Hmmm, chances would have it- I do have an LG cdrom. Oh well :( -J.L.E Streit- Just make sure you don't have a LG cdrom drive. on the errata page of Mandrake they are having issues with LG cdrom drives being killed. I have been playing with the Cooker 9.2 it doesn't seem that bad you have

RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

I would take this article with a really BIG grain of salt, considering the fact that it is written by an apple employee. Talk about biased journalism! I see no reason why the os wouldn't be subject to a unix type virus. -J.L.E Streit- The Australian yesterday had a column from David Frith on

RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

As far as crashing goes, well OS X has been **fairly stable, though not bullet proof. OS 9 on the other hand was a joke in terms of stability... Trying to interface to MS windows networks from OS X does sometimes hang the system (maybe just aqua, but there doesn't seem to be alt+F6 type of

RE: [SLUG] running unstable/testing

I haven't used apt-get for some time now but off the top of my head you simply run it from a terminal with the file name as an additional argument. Try: # apt-get install ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla/mozilla-browser_1. 4-1_i386.deb -J.L.E Streit- -Original

RE: [SLUG] linux gateway

Hi Shaun, If you can spare an old computer with an ethernet card (or two).. I recommend using smoothwall, ( http://www.smoothwall.org/ ) which is a free linux based firewall that has the option of being a DHCP server (makes it real easy to get the other computers on the net). Although I use this

RE: [SLUG] Problem

It sounds like a power issue to me. I have a couple of firewire cases, one of which is a Seagate 80gig 7200rpm inside of an icecube firewire enclosure- which refuses to work from the power on the firewire port, and thus means that I have to cart a power supply around with me when I use this drive.