[SLUG] Linux/GPL violations -- how to let the right people know?

2004-11-15 Thread Matt M
Hi All, I've been playing around with some pretty cool enterprise hardware. and it's become very obvious that it's running embedded linux. Now after some investigation using google and the manufacturer's website, there doesn't appear any source available for download. My question is, where's

Re: [SLUG] ACT/CRM Alernative?

2004-04-18 Thread Matt M
Check out Compiere [http://www.compiere.org]. It's supposed to be good. Open Source, written in Java. Performance wise, the word is it's supposed to run rings around the likes of PeopleSoft. But I don't have the time to play around in the ERP/CRM space anymore, so I haven't loaded it. I had

Re: [SLUG] linux hardware raid controllers

2003-10-22 Thread Matt M
At 07:46 22/10/2003, you wrote: SCSI's great. IMO, it'll always be faster, no matter what the IDE drive specs state. I run both my workstations on SCSI, and love it. It is pricey, however. The good news is that almost all mainstream SCSI RAID controllers have Linux support (IIRC). I run a Dell

Re: [SLUG] linux hardware raid controllers

2003-10-22 Thread Matt M
At 07:44 23/10/2003, David Kempe wrote: Well Debian didn't support that chipset natively when I installed it on the box in question Matt :-( just took a different woody boot disk and an extra driver. Also needed a decent new kernel package with the mptbase and mptscsi drivers. according to the IBM

Re: [SLUG] linux hardware raid controllers

2003-10-21 Thread Matt M
You can hotswap IDE RAID, with either Promise's HotSwap Kit (specifically designed for RAID1), or using something like External Serial-ATA from HighPoint (they may make an internal version of this; I've thought about reverse engineering their hotswap containers; I suspect they just wire

Re: [SLUG] Oracle over NFS

2003-09-08 Thread Matt M
At 11:13 8/09/2003, Tony Green wrote: I'm looking at setting up a new oracle install which, ideally, would access it's data over a SAN. That's not a problem, apart from the expense. Does anyone have experience in running oracle over NFS? I'm thinking of a dedicated gigabit link betwixt client

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Challange on PPPd

2003-09-06 Thread Matt M
Moving to the general list.. At 23:22 6/09/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having trouble setting up pppd on mandrake 9.1. Getting LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests and the pppd connection just drops out :( Sounds like you're on a DSL connection? This error message usually means the other end

Re: [SLUG] LTSP server

2003-08-14 Thread Matt M
or preferrably 2. Have Mozilla launch when any user logs in and go to the pre-determined web page This may well be the worst solution available, but you could define a mozilla session (i.e. mozilla www.myurl.net.au) in their .xsession file (in the users home directory, or there's a system

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- NOT SOLVED (grrrr)

2003-08-14 Thread Matt M
It's worth noting that not all power supplies supply the wattage they are rated for. There has been a fair amount of debate about this in hardware/overclocking circles lately. The consensus is that basically only the Antec TruePower series is really good at supplying the right wattage, cleanly

[SLUG] gdm 2.4.13-2 startup issues

2003-08-06 Thread Matt M
Hi All, I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade on a sarge box I have here, and it's thrown me some problems with gdm. Whenever gdm is started, it cranks up X (as far as I can tell, just fine), waits for ~5 seconds, and then cranks up another X instance, informing me that there already appears to

Re: [SLUG] postifx, sendmail, php config files

2003-08-04 Thread Matt M
Oops, in my reticence I forgot to copy the list. Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:50:55 +1000 To: Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Matt M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] postifx, sendmail, php config files Have a look around your system. Postfix should provide a replacement sendmail

Re: [SLUG] Canon i850 Printer

2003-07-30 Thread Matt M
I've got one, and it's a lovely printer. From windows (I haven't tested it under linux yet -- different configuration). linuxprinting.org does not speak well of it, however, nor of canon in general. It works, but it prints at much lower res than it does in windows. See their database for more

Re: [SLUG] courier

2003-06-16 Thread Matt M
GCC is only a C Compiler. What you need to compile C++ is g++, the GNU C++ compiler. Most distributions package this separately to GCC. You can see whether or not you have a C++ compiler installed by entering (I think ... It's been a while) `c++ --version' at the command line. HTH, Matt At

Re: [SLUG] iinet DSL + Debian

2003-03-23 Thread Matt M
I'm not too sure about RP-PPPOE, but I have my connection working just using the packaged pppoe (Cut down rp, anyway). All you need to do is run pppoeconf, and then use `pon dsl-provider` to initiate the connection. Also, make sure you have all the ppp modules compiled for your kernel (might

[SLUG] Re: [chat] kde

2003-02-19 Thread Matt M
Hi Crat, First off, this message is off topic for slug-chat; That is to say, it's on topic for the main list. Where you'll get more help, anyway. :) Second, no, that's not strictly normal. Please give us some more information. What is your video card? Is Linux seeing all your memory? Paste

Re: [SLUG] Debian on Brand-Name servers?

2003-02-18 Thread Matt M
We're about to drop Debian onto some IBM hardware (x335 1RU Dual Xeon machines) at a few places I'm involved with, and I haven't heard anything about it not working. All the hardware is supported, and it doesn't seem like it'll be any major hassle. A little bit of sneakiness in the hardware

RE: [SLUG] Hard Drives

2003-02-13 Thread Matt M
At 16:54 13/02/2003, David wrote: yes.. but what about reliability? is there a difference? I need two new drives, but I much prefer reliability to size (I'm told that size isn't everything ;-) David I've got two of those Seagate drives (60GB). They're a little slower than, say, the newest

Re: [SLUG] Firewall MD5 signatures on processes

2003-01-29 Thread Matt M
And totally unimplementable on a machine where the same binaries can have different MD5 sums across different installations, e.g. the one you all are (most likely) reading this mail on now. Unless the MD5 sums table is build when you install the machine/software or configure the feature.

Re: [SLUG] Firewall MD5 signatures on processes

2003-01-28 Thread Matt M
I think the problem is that Minh is a little confused about what exactly a firewall is (No thanks to windows personal firewall vendors, I'm sure). In my, perhaps a little conservative view, it's just a packet filter, whether you're referring to a black box or an application on a host. The talk

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-19 Thread Matt M
I've just been involved in a network project that's considered backups around the 300GB mark. In the end we decided it was too expensive to setup and run, and led us to review exactly what data we need to back up. This is the smartest thing to do in any backup situation, given the ratio of

Re: [SLUG] scsi and LVD disks

2003-01-16 Thread Matt M
Yeah, this is fine, but please note that they'll only run in single-ended mode [not LVD]. All LVD disks support this, though. Your disk will be limited to 40MB/s, rather than what it's spec'd to run on (Ultra2 (80MB/s), Ultra160, or Ultra320). I have a Maxtor Atlas 10k III running off of a

Fwd: Re: [SLUG] scsi and LVD disks

2003-01-16 Thread Matt M
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:38:59 +1100 To: David Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Matt M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] scsi and LVD disks Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, this is fine, but please note that they'll only run in single-ended mode [not LVD]. All LVD disks support this, though. Your

Re: [SLUG] iptables problems

2002-11-10 Thread Matt M
At 17:31 11/11/2002, you wrote: I'm having a hard time deciphering iptables rules. Would any of these rules cause a sendto: operation not permitted error? Short answer: Probably not. Long answer: Yes, but only if your IP is in the range 10.0.0.0/24, and if it was, well, you wouldn't be able

Re: [SLUG] Web copying tool

2002-11-04 Thread Matt M
Assuming you want to move it directly between the servers, assuming both servers have FXP enabled and you have access, you can use an FXP utility on a client machine. A quick google search turned up this, however, which may be even easier: http://fxp.harrym.nu/phpfxp/index.php It's a PHP

Re: [SLUG] [OT] water cooling kits

2002-11-01 Thread Matt M
Try poking around overclockers.com.au. There's a few places that sell extreme cooling kits over the web in AU. Cheers, Matt At 15:08 02/11/2002, JM Alonzo wrote: Hi! this is pretty off-topic. sorry. do you know where to buy water-cooling kits in sydney like the ones from innovatek? thanks a

Re: [SLUG] A security question

2002-10-27 Thread Matt M
Is this just one of the scare tactics that seem to be prevalent? In a word: Yes. You're right, your computer's IP address is always[1] visible to anything on the internet[2]. Cheers, Matt [1] Unless you're going through a gateway or proxy which may replace your IP address in the packet

Re: [SLUG] Anybody heard of Connexus Internet?

2002-09-29 Thread Matt M
We use their SHDSL product at work. It's good. Their service is great. Cheers, Matt At 10:27 30/09/2002, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: All, anybody heard of Connexus Internet Services? How good are they? How reliable are they? jobst -- Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

Re: [SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

2002-05-27 Thread Matt M
Try testing the memory in the system -- use memtest86. Run through all the tests (takes about 24 hours on your average system), and see what it shows up. Memory's always the first thing I test when I start seeing `random' instability in a system. Cheers, Matt P.S. If memtest turns up a

Re: [SLUG] Distributed file system...

2002-05-18 Thread Matt M
At 15:59 17/05/2002, Rob B wrote: At 15:36 17/05/2002, Gareth Walters sent this up the stick: G'day all, I happen to have a small cluster of a few machines that are used for testing, they boot from a floppy and mount root via NFS. I am now allowed to use their hard disks, I was wondering if