[SLUG] State Library

I second that suggestion. There's the State Reference Library (the newer bit). Though the desks with powerpoints on the floor on which you enter it are often busy, I've found that the next level down isn't usually busy. Also, you can go to the Mitchell Library ( the older bit), which also is

[SLUG] Asus Eee PC 900

Thank you very much to all those who replied to my query. Because I was so keen not to disturb Windows unless sure I could run Linux satisfactorily, here's what I decided to do. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a 4GB USB flash drive, creating a 3GB file on the drive in which to store things. (I got

[SLUG] Linux-powered things

I took the linked-to photo today. The thing gave me a giggle. Maybe it was already familiar to others. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/3594383552/ -- To see papers written by me on, among other things, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, start here: http://ssrn.com

[SLUG] New Install Advice

I'd recommend trying Zenwalk, which works with 128MB very satisfactorily. Leslie -- To see papers I've written on, among other things, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, start here: http://ssrn.com/author=1164057 To see photos I've taken of, among other things, Sydney, then

[SLUG] xp/linux dual boot with xp bootmanager?

I followed the instructions at the link below and all worked perfectly for years with my then-computer: http://www.linux.com/feature/113945 Leslie -- To see papers I've written on, among other things, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, start here: http://ssrn.com/author=11

[SLUG] Lightweight Distro for Aging Laptop?

I'm using Zenwalk v 5.2 with (I believe) that version of the NetGear card. The card runs with ndiswrapper. I find Zenwalk very satisfactory for the old laptop I have it on (Pentium III, 128MB RAM). The web site's here: http://www.zenwalk.org/ -- To see papers I've written on, among other thing

[SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

I'm conscious that I haven't acknowledged quite a few suggestions that people have made in response to my question. I apologise for that. I won't have a chance to get back to this problem till Saturday and that's what's made me tardy. Thank you to everyone for their suggestions. I'll try to a

Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

Leslie Jake Anderson wrote: Leslie Katz wrote: Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using Logical Volume Management. Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something to do with the f

[SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using Logical Volume Management. Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the fan over the CPU doesn't run. I got comp

[SLUG] Need help to recover from catastrophic error - SOLVED

I posted a question a short time ago, mentioning that I'd already posted it to the Fedora forum. Someone there gave me the pointer I needed and I'm back in business. I apologise for troubling people unnecessarily. Leslie Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyer's tu

[SLUG] Need help to recover from catastrophic error.

NB: I've already sent the following to a Fedora forum, but hope you'll forgive my posting it here as well in the circumstances. I've done something very stupid. My machine is dual booting, FC7 and FC3. I keep FC3 going because I can run on it an old version of Gnucash that has a "bug" I want th

[SLUG] Booting-up problems

I installed Ubuntu version 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1501laptop with the latest available BIOS (2.6.3) via the Wubi-installer. During the bootup process, I always see two bug messages, whether or not the process completes satisfactorily. If it does complete satisfactorily, I find in the dmesg ou

[SLUG] Getting printer to print in black only

Thanks very much for your reply, Ken. (I'd've copied this to you directly, if only I knew how.) I'll see what I can do in the CUPS printer settings, by way of setting up the printer to print in black only. Thanks again, Leslie Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawye

[SLUG] How to capture image?

On my blog, I've done a couple of posts with "then and now photos": http://stumblng.tumblr.com/post/27897855 (about The Astor on Macquarie Street); http://stumblng.tumblr.com/post/27796124 (about looking East on Bridge Street from near Pitt Street). For those two posts, I got the "then" easily.

[SLUG] Getting printer to print in black only

The printer's a Canon Pixma MP160. It has a black cartridge and a colour cartridge. Both must be present for the printer to work. The person for whom I've set the printer up (using Canon-supplied software) wants to use the printer as a black printer only. The Canon-supplied software includes a

[SLUG] A Javascript problem

Rick, I copied and pasted your suggested changes into my material, but unfortunately "inurl:post" was still added to the search query when the Web search button was chosen, as well as when the button for my blog was chosen. Just to confirm, here's what I had in the relevant section after mak

[SLUG] A Javascript problem

rickw, Thanks very much for taking the trouble to reply. I'll now read and try to understand the material to which you gave me the link, so that I'll be able to understand the code you kindly provided too. Thanks again, Leslie -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyer's tumb

[SLUG] A Javascript problem

My problem isn't strictly speaking a Linux one, but I've tried to get a solution to it in more Javascript-targeted places without success and so am trying this list. I added a search box to my blog. A person chooses whether to search just my blog or the Web. I tested it and it worked, subject

[SLUG] Can't move past grub

From oldest to newest date of installation, I have on my computer Windows XP, Fedora 3 and Fedora 7. I use a Windows program called Bootpart and when I boot up, it offers me the opportunity to boot up in any of the 3, with Fedora 7 being the default. If I make no choice, grub runs and then th

[SLUG] Optus dial-up with Linux

Thanks to Dean, Martin and David. The first thing I should do then is dig out the wvdial documentation to try to understand more about CHAP authentication. Thanks again, Leslie -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyer's tumblelog about things (some legal, most not) that you

[SLUG] Optus dial-up with Linux?

I set up a Linux system for a friend. She uses a dial-up modem. I configured wvdial for her use and that's worked satisfactorily for her with a couple of ISPs, a uni and then a commercial one. However, she's left the uni and the commercial one's just folded. She uses Optus for her mobile phone

[SLUG] "Build Instructions" for rt61 driver

Thank you to both Tuxta and James for your replies to my queries about the above subject. I took from the latter that I didn't need to worry about the reference in the build instructions to "check if it is a binary file before loading". I took from the former that I had been wrong to say that m

[SLUG] "Build Instructions" for rt61 driver

I bought a D-Link Wireless G Desktop Adapter, DWL-G510. My understanding is that it works with the above driver. I downloaded the relevant tarball from the Ralink site and am trying to follow the build instructions in the unpacked README. Here are the last 2 steps for a 2.6 kernel as set out

[SLUG] A file transfer problem

Thank you to all those who replied to my post and my apologies for not saying so sooner. My problem was that, when I followed instructions that I'd been given to create a connection between two computers using pppd, no connection was created. To me this sounds like a "black magic" kind of so

[SLUG] A file transfer problem

I'm trying to transfer a large file from computer A to computer B using a null modem cable. The file is a compressed file which, when transferred, will allow me to install on computer B the distribution called Delilinux. I have no other way of getting the file onto computer B than via the cable

[SLUG] Blogging system recommendations

I'm using the tumblr software. Look at my blog (address below). It's very simple to use and would certainly meet at least some of your requirements, if not all. -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyers' tumblelog about things (some legal, most not) you might otherwise have mis

[SLUG] Two CUPS questions

Thanks for replying, Lindsay. On an earlier occasion, I tried to install something else on the DSL computer using RPMs and alien. The computer concerned has very little RAM and I quickly got to the stage at which DSL complained that the installation couldn't proceed any further. The two RPMS I

[SLUG] Two CUPS questions

I hope to get a Canon PIXMA MP160 all-in-one printing with a computer running Damn Small Linux (“DSL”) and CUPS. Right now, I have access to neither the computer nor the printer, but hope to get guidance in advance about the matter. Last weekend, in the absence of the computer running DSL and

Re: [SLUG] Apparent lack of "un-cached DMA memory"

David P wrote: I was thinking that maybe you could set the ndiswrapper module to load automatically on startup, especially before that "high usage of RAM" occurs. Maybe add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules? Thank you very much for your suggestion, David. When I chopped the process up into small chunk

Re: [SLUG] Apparent lack of "un-cached DMA memory"

David P wrote: On 3/27/07, Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to get this card going on an old laptop and am using Damn Small Linux. If you're using the Live version of DSL, ndiswrapper's memory allocation problem may come from DSL's "ramdisk&q

[SLUG] Apparent lack of "un-cached DMA memory"

Peter Chubb wrote: You only need to do this once. After that, the driver bits are installed by the ndiswrapper command into a standard place. I'm trying to get this card going on an old laptop and am using Damn Small Linux. I didn't do what was necessary to ensure persistence of that instal

[SLUG] Apparent lack of "un-cached DMA memory"

Peter Chubb wrote: Hmmm. The device driver is trying to get 256k of memory in a single chunk. If your machine has been up for any lenght of time, that's going to be very difficult. Try rebooting, and then modprobing ndiswrapper immediately after boot --- you're more likely to have free memory t

[SLUG] Apparent lack of "un-cached DMA memory"

I'm trying to get a PCMCIA wireless card going. I know it requires the use of ndiswrapper. I'm trying to follow the installation instructions that come from the ndiswrapper website. All is fine until I do modprobe ndiswrapper. When I run that, I get the prompt back with no output having appea

[SLUG] Reducing space taken by distribution

Thank you to Howard, Michael and Ershad for taking the trouble to reply to my questions. I would like, even if it's unnecessary, to explain why I don't feel I can accept just yet the suggestion by both Michael and Ershad that I erase FC3. When I decided to switch to Linux, I was gradually ab

[SLUG] Reducing space taken by distribution

My current distribution is Fedora Core 3. Being timid, I've avoided trying to update it, but have now reached the stage where I accept that I must. I've got three hard drives on my system; the original internal one, that came with Windows on it (hda); another internal one I added, with FC3 on

[SLUG] Query to Firefox

Thanks very much to all those who replied to my query. I tried Peter Hardy's suggestion of adding to the end of the command in my Web Browser tab in my Preferred Applications window " %s". That did the trick. Thanks again, Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] Query re Firefox

Matthew Hannigan wrote: Didn't you say you're using firefox 2.0.0.2? That's not standard on any released fedora that I know of. If you installed it yourself from source, or from an alternative rpm repo, then I suspect that could be the origin of your problem. I am using that version, whic

[SLUG] Query re Firefox

Thank you very much for your replies, Sonia. I'm using Fedora, rather than Ubuntu. Following Applications>Preferences>More Preferences, I get to Preferred Applications. When I click on it, I get a window with a number of tabs, one of which is called Web Browser. On that tab, I'm able to sele

[SLUG] Query re Firefox

When I click on a link in my email client (Thunderbird v 1.5.0.9), my browser (Firefox v 2.0.0.2) opens, but with a blank page, rather than with the page I want to open. That's a recent and annoying change from past practice. I now have to copy the link location in Thunderbird, open Firefox and

[SLUG] Problem with Gnome log out box

I suppose I did something to cause this problem, which has just arisen for the first time, but I can't imagine what. Whether, after opening the Gnome log out box using Fedora, I choose log out, restart or shutdown, nothing happens, except that the box disappears and then the system hangs. I

[SLUG] Toshiba I/O Adaptor, Model PA2728U

Someone gave me one of the above. I took it, though I had no need for it, on the basis that someone on the list might have a need for it. If you do, please feel free to contact me. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.

[SLUG] Calling the X Printer Panel from within Firefox

It seems as though I've found an answer to the specific question I posted on the above subject. At http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205050, someone posted information on how to make Firefox and Thunderbird print to kprinter automatically in KDE/Kubuntu. Well, I'm using Gnome, Fedora

[SLUG] Calling the X Printer Panel from within Firefox

I bought a new printer, a Lexmark E120n. I'm using CUPS with it. It's set in CUPS to be the default printer. The PPD file I'm using is one that was produced by Lexmark itself. The file was produced to be used with the Mac OS, but someone modified it to work with Linux and (with a tiny further

[SLUG] PDA: nice, cheap, not windows; Calendar software

I'm using a Palm Z22. I got it for $175 at Dick Smith's. It came with a clear plastic protective case. I use it with JPilot, which does in Linux what the Windows software that comes with the Palm does. I find the arrangement satisfactory. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:

Re: [SLUG] VMware-server virtual disk deletion

When I "deleted" the VMware-server virtual hard disks, they were actually moved to either root's or my .Trash directory, as appropriate. Until they were deleted from whichever of those two directories they were in, they continued to take up the same space as before their "deletion". Now that I'

Re: [SLUG] VMware-server virtual disk deletion

Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote: The virtual hard disks are created as files. You should be able to delete the files from windows explorer. search for *.vmdk and delete all the junk in that directory. Thanks for replying, Ershad. Windows Explorer isn't available for the purpose. I was using a Lin

Re: [SLUG] VMware-server virtual disk deletion

donohueb wrote: never had this happen before. usually you have to remove the VM from the list of servers in the "inventory" first. then blow away the files. possibly something is still holding them open. you could always reboot the host server and then try deleting the files. Ben Thanks for r

[SLUG] VMware-server virtual disk deletion

I installed the VMware-server application and created a virtual machine, including a virtual hard disk to which 8GB was allocated. I then installed a Linux distribution on the virtual machine. I was having problems with the virtual machine and decided that the best thing to do was to delete it

[SLUG] Error in executing mount command

I installed on a 128MB USB flash drive a version of Linux and made the drive bootable. When I used it in a computer set up to boot from such a drive, all worked as expected. I later did the same thing with a 256MB USB flash drive as I had done with the 128MB flash drive, but, when I tried to b

[SLUG] Backing up to dvd

Luke, my apologies for not having acknowledged your post earlier and my thanks for it. I'm still trying to get on top of MondoRescue. When I have, I'll begin trying to do the same with your shell scripts. Thanks again, Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Re: Backing up to dvd

but I used growisofs to burn the file(s) dumped with dar (although the burn always exited part-way through...). If you like GUI apps, you could always use Kdar as a front end to dar, and burn the pieces with K3B, or something. - Andreas On 11/6/06, *Leslie Katz * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] &

[SLUG] U+00C7, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA

I hope I'm not just wasting your time with something too obvious to say, but the "U+00C7" should be what you get when you use the character map accessory and click on a latin capital c cedilla. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: htt

[SLUG] Re: Backing up to dvd

Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible!

[SLUG] Backing up to dvd

Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:32:28PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible! suggested

[SLUG] Backing up to dvd

Luke Kilborn wrote: Mondo resuce is very good for a disaster recovery backup, and i would suggest you use it for that situation. For a day to day backup, try using tar or cpio. Cheers Luke Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, Luke, and apologies for the delay in acknowledging the repl

[SLUG] Backing up to dvd

A friend needed copies for his wife of a dvd of a performance by her dance group. He didn't know how to go about producing the copies. To help him out, I bought a dvd writer and made the copies for him. That left me with a dvd writer for which I'd never before felt any need. I thought that a p

[SLUG] Removing unwanted "thumbnail" files

Thanks very much for your latest reply Michael. I believe that all is now clear to me. Whereas your thumbnails take up 30MB, mine take up even less than that (12MB (out of 120GB)). However, I'm going through this exercise for the purpose of helping someone to whom I gave an old computer with l

[SLUG] Removing unwanted "thumbnail" files

Michael Chesterton wrote: see what the difference is between find ~/.thumbnails -type f -ctime +7 -ls and find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -ls Thanks very much for replying Michael. I tried your first command first. It created too immense a list for me to examine, so I changed it by

[SLUG] Removing unwanted "thumbnail" files

I'm using Fedora Core 3 with Gnome 2.8. In my home directory, there's a subdirectory called ".thumbnails". Beneath it are two further subdirectories, "fail" and "normal". Beneath "fail" is a further subdirectory called "gnome-thumbnail-factory". The subdirectories "normal" and "gnome-thumbnail

[SLUG] USB hardware query

My computer (bought in 2002) came with four USB ports, two in front, two in back. However, they were all for USB version 1.1. Later, I installed a PCI card with two external USB version 2 ports. At the time, having two version 2 ports was enough. Recently, I decided to increase the number of

[SLUG] Python problem

Thanks very much for the reply, Erik. I'll now try to contact the developers. Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Python problem

I compiled the application called gdesklets. There were complaints during the configuration process of my missing certain files, which I believed I'd overcome, since ultimately I was able to run the necessary installation commands with no further complaints. However, when I afterwards tried to

[SLUG] Memory Module Query

Thanks for replying Jeff. I ran memtest after putting the new module into slot 2 and moving the original module from slot 1 to slot 3. Memtest showed the new total of RAM and found no errors after one pass. Maybe I should run it for more than one pass. Thanks again, Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Memory module query

Thanks again to James and thanks to Oscar for your replies. The problem is resolved. A torch and a magnifying glass ultimately got me the brand and model of the motherboard. At the manufacturer's website, I got the manual. It told me I could put in anything I wanted (or nothing) in any order I

Re: [SLUG] .pc file problem

Jeff Waugh wrote: Removing GConf-devel will have no impact on your ability to run Gnucash. It will, however, impact your ability to compile Gnucash or other GNOME 1.x software. Of which I hope you use none. ;-) I think the time has come for me to admit defeat. Never give up! Never s

Re: [SLUG] .pc file problem

I'm attempting to reply in this to the posts of both Jeff and Mick. As to Jeff's post, in light of it, I checked what RPM packages I have installed already. I have both the GConf and GConf-devel RPMs installed. I also have both the GConf2 and GConf2-devel RPMs installed. Also, when I look in /

Re: [SLUG] .pc file problem

O Plameras wrote: The following is a long shot. Have you installed: 1. pyrex from http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ 2. boost from http://www.boost.org/ I don't have the software you wish to install, but looking into the documentation the above two are needed. http://nil

[SLUG] .pc file problem

I'm trying to install an application called democracyplayer. There's no RPM for my system (FC3), so I've been trying to install the application from the tarball. I've run the installation script a number of times now. Each time it's stopped before completion, complaining that I'm missing somethin

[SLUG] Linux for an older notebook

Have you considered Damn Small Linux (DSL)? It works well on a laptop I have that's so old it has 64MB of RAM. A competitor which other people like, but I haven't tried, is Puppy Linux. I mention those two in particular because they're active distributions. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group M

[SLUG] Gnucash v 2.0.0

Gonzalo Servat wrote: Try installing the openssl-devel RPM and try to install Crypt::SSLeay again. It worked as advertised! Thanks so much, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Gnucash v 2.0.0

I apologise in advance for my phraseology, since I understand practically nothing of what I'm doing here. I installed the subject application, having formerly used v 1.8.12. With the old version, I was able to download share prices using a Perl module called Finance Quote (Finance::Quote?).

[SLUG] Financial Review crashes Firefox

"Firefox 1.08" Perhaps using the current version (1.5.0.4) would solve the problem? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

I see now my error about the Font Rendering Details box. It does change the size of the font in the Gnome things (if I can put it that way), but not in applications. For instance, I bumped the value up to 125 and that increased the size of text and icons on my panels, but not in Thunderbird, wh

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

Hal Ashburner wrote: Leslie Katz wrote: Thanks very much for your reply, Ben. When you say that I could "set the monitor to its maximum resolution, then set the fonts to be larger", were you referring to some global font size setting that I could change, at least in Fedora Cor

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

Hi Glen. Thank you for your reply. It assumes a level of understanding in these matters which I, unfortunately, don't have. However, since I created a working xorg.conf file so recently, it seems to me that if I butcher your instructions, I can still scramble back to the situation I'd achieved

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

Thanks very much for your reply, Ben. When you say that I could "set the monitor to its maximum resolution, then set the fonts to be larger", were you referring to some global font size setting that I could change, at least in Fedora Core 3? I ask because I was under the impression that I'd ha

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

Thanks very much, James, for your replies on the above subject. This may well induce groans all round, but my old eyes have difficulty reading text on a monitor at the maximum resolution the monitor manufacturer claims I can get with my new monitor (1280x1024). So, once I was able to get the m

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

Hal, Thanks very much for so quick a reply. I didn't want to acknowledge it until I'd seen whether I could report any progress at all. I think I can. Inspired by your suggestions, I now have copies of Fedora's and Knoppix's xorg.conf files on a drive accessible by both those distros and by W

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

I just bought a new monitor. It works with a live CD (Knoppix). According to Knoppix, the resolution is 1152x864, with a refresh rate of 75 Hz. It works in Windows. Given what Knoppix told me, I set the resolution in Windows to 1152x864. However, I can't get it to work with my regular distribu

[SLUG] Thunderbird automatic update not working

Thanks to both Dion and Richard for their replies to my original post. I'll keep a record of your suggestions and try them when there's an update to v 1.5.0.4, assuming that my problem with v 1.5.0.2 is repeated. Thanks again, Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://s

[SLUG] Thunderbird automatic update not working

Phil Scarrat wrote: Details from my updated 1.5.0.4: app.update.url: https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/1/%PRODUCT%/%VERSION%/%BUILD_ID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/ %LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/update.xml app.update.details: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/ app.update.manual: http://www.mozilla

[SLUG] Thunderbird automatic update not working

My Thunderbird version is 1.5.02. There's a new version out, 1.5.04. I had my preferences set to be notified of updates, but wasn't notified. I then used "Check for updates", but it denied there was any update available. That made me wonder whether there was something wrong with the site addres

[SLUG] Internet connection speed

http://www.zdnet.com.au/broadband/speedtest.htm The speed test at the above link says it tests broadband, but would presumably test dial-up as well. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] /dev/ttyUSB0 vs USB1

Peter, I'm the furthest thing possible from an expert in these matters, but have the suspicion that your problem may be resolved by the writing of appropriate udev rules. I was forced to engage in that exercise when getting my Palm organiser to sync. The link below is to a useful article abou

[SLUG] The "boy" who cried wolf?

I've just got home and turned on my computer, to find it booting up perfectly normally. While I'm very relieved, I'm also at a loss to explain what's happened. I don't see how the problem could have been a hardware or an ISP one, since, as I mentioned before, I was using the same hardware and I

[SLUG] Lost Net connection--where to start?

I'm an ignorant home user with a dual-booting machine connected to the Internet via an ADSL modem. For all practical purposes, I use Linux exclusively. Last night I shut down with everything seeming normal. This morning, when I booted up, I had no Internet connection. I rebooted a couple of t

[SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

Steve Kowalik wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:18:45 +1000, Leslie Katz uttered [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - No su

[SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote: The printer manual lists, under "Features", "Interfaces that switch automatically". It then continues, "A parallel and USB interface, which is automatically switched according

[SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

I have an Okipage 8z printer, which has both parallel and USB interfaces. With CUPS and a .ppd file that I got from www.linuxprinting.org, the printer prints satisfactorily from my desktop computer, being connected to it via a parallel cable. (The computer's using Fedora Core 3.) The printer

Re: [SLUG] local website for listing computers/parts for sale, purchase, trade?

Dean Hamstead wrote: http://forums.overclockers.com.au Dean Leslie Katz wrote: Does one of a non-profit nature exist? Thanks, Dean. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] local website for listing computers/parts for sale, purchase, trade?

Does one of a non-profit nature exist? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Maintained 2.4 kernel

Would you consider DSL? Version 2.2b uses kernel version 2.4.26, -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] How to discover which modules unnecessary

Thanks to both James and Ian for your encouragement! Seriously though, it's better that I should be told that, whether or not I can do what I want, there won't be any practical benefit to it. James was right to assume I was having fun learning, but I have so much else to learn, I might as well

[SLUG] How to discover which modules unnecessary

Thanks to both Oscar and Matt for replying. As to Oscar's suggestion, I know it's just beyond me. I know my method's crude, but it does work. As to Matt's questions: when I ran lsmod before making any changes, 17 modules showed up as loaded, including ieee1394, and that even though the compu

[SLUG] How to discover which modules unnecessary

I'm trying to make an ancient laptop run with a mini-distribution, DSL. As the laptop has only 64MB of RAM, I'm trying to make sure DSL doesn't include any unnecessary services or modules when it boots up. For instance, the laptop has two PCMCIA slots, so on bootup, DSL starts cardmgr. Howeve

[SLUG] Possible legal action

I can't believe it! Finally a question about something I know a bit about. Kevin, I'll just add a little bit to what you've already been told. These days, most courts have a procedure called "preliminary discovery". Among the types of preliminary discovery is one that helps you overcome the pr

[SLUG] Fear of upgrading distribution

Thanks very much to those who answered my query about the above, basically telling me to get on with it. People reading this may also have read the letters to the editor in the Sydney Morning Herald recently about procrastination. Well, one answerer qualified his answer by suggesting that, whi

[SLUG] Gnome Stock Ticker and Supplementary Question

Thank you to those who pointed out my ^ mistake when attempting to add individual stocks to the Gnome Stock Ticker. Thanks also to those who referred to other applications. One of those Gnome Stock Ticker-like applications, Invest, has requirements that my system doesn't satisfy. For those in

[SLUG] Gnome Stock Ticker

I want to use the above applet. I've been able to get it to work showing only the All-Ords. However, when I add any new symbol, that new symbol doesn't work--all I get scrolling by is the All-Ords, working properly, followed by the new symbol, say ^AGL.AX, showing a price of 00.00 and saying "n

[SLUG] Reading system mail in Thunderbird

Re my post of a few minutes ago: apologies for bothering people. I decided to try making the mail subdirectory of the spool directory mode 01777 too, even though that wasn't mentioned in the Thunderbird error message. It worked and my LogWatch mail's now in my leslie@(none) inbox. Apologies ag

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