[SLUG] SFD Coffs Harbour Call for Participation.

Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Albury, and Melbourne once or twice each, so I'm even available for a face to face chat in those places. Matthew Davidson. -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http

Re: [SLUG] Trojan Horse Loaded Version Of Ubuntu 7.04 Spreading Over Torrent Sites

This is generally sage advice of course, but I'm inclined to take this particular report with a pinch of salt. This report doesn't cite sources, there's no mention of the phenomenon on ubuntu.com, and a cursory Googling turns up no other reports of this happening. Matthew. Amos Shapira

[SLUG] Belated Breezy Badger Bash Coffs Harbour

Hi all, For those living in and around Coffs Harbour, the Coffs Ex-Services Computer Club is holding a Belated Breezy Badger Bash for our next meeting: 7pm Friday November 4th Bowling Club Section Coffs Ex-Services Club I am checking my mailbox daily in the hope that shipit.ubuntu.com is

[SLUG] Software Freedom Day Coffs Harbour

Hi all, In the grip of a manic episode, I have abused my position as Vice President of the Coffs Ex-Services Computer Club to commit us to a Software Freedom Day event: http://cescc.almatech.net.au/wiki/wiki/index.php?page=SoftwareFreedomDay As the only member of said club to have any real

[SLUG] OT: Bigpond blocking port 25

Hi, It appears Bigpond is blocking all outgoing traffic on port 25, except via their own mail servers. I've just spent half a day with a client trying to work out why he could no longer send email (his mail server is with an overseas ISP) The announcement that they were doing this

[SLUG] PHP Tidy

Hi, I want to manipulate some HTML code with PHP, and it appears the tidy extension is the way to do it. I have installed everything by the book: # apt-get install libtidy0 libtidy-dev # pear -v install tidy and added 'extension=tidy.so' to php.ini. phpinfo() reports that the extension is

Re: [SLUG] PHP Tidy

is, though. I've tried using the original stand-alone tidy program with no problems. I've tried installing slighty older versions of the tidy libs, and it makes no difference. Matthew. On 5/25/05, Matthew Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to manipulate some HTML code with PHP

Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: Anyone tried Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server ? http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/screenshots.html For that matter has anyone been brave enough to try Hula yet? (http://www.hula-project.org/) I have a prospective client who wants a hassle-free

Re: [SLUG] Cyrus

O Plameras wrote: Matthew Davidson wrote: localhost.localdomain cm user.name But curiously, I can't then delete the mailbox: Before you attempt to delete a mailbox, be sure to use the setaclmailbox command to give yourself explicit /d/ (delete) rights before deleting a mailbox

Re: [SLUG] Re: Cyrus

Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:14:14PM +1100, Matthew Davidson wrote: I have set up /etc/imapd.conf for virtual domains with a global admin user as per the docs. However, when I try to set up a mailbox associated with a particular domain thus: # saslpasswd2 -c [EMAIL

[SLUG] Cyrus

Hi All, Since it's been adopted as the standard IMAP server for UserLinux, I thought I'd check out Cyrus (on Debian Sarge). I am finding the documentation more unfriendly than is usual for free software (which is saying something), and third-party documentation rather thin on the ground. I

[SLUG] (Slightly OT) Neuros

Hi, Does anybody know if it's possible to get the Neuros digital audio computer (http://neurosaudio.com/) in Australia? It's miles ahead of anything else in terms of free-software-friendliness (http://open.neurosaudio.com/), but not only can't I find an Australian retailer, I can't even find

[SLUG] Elementary symlink question

Hi, I'm missing something very fundamental about symlinks. Say I want to test some trivial little program I've written, but want to make it easy to switch between revisions. I thought the following should work: lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/

Re: [SLUG] Elementary symlink question

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 16:40, Ian Wienand wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/ -rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004

[SLUG] Virtual hosts and PHP4 safe_mode

Hi, Just wondering if anybody on the list uses PHP's safe_mode directive. It seems to be the only viable solution to keeping people's noses out of each other's business in a virtual host environment, but it seems like it might break a lot of commonly-used scripts. Any good or bad experiences?

[SLUG] Symlinks and PHP4

Here's a really elementary question about symlinks that's taxing my limited mental capacity: I want to write some php apps to be made available to a number of virtual hosts on a web server. It seems to me that you should be able to put the apps themselves somewhere outside the web root, for

Re: [SLUG] Symlinks and PHP4

Del wrote: ... PHP opens files relative to the currently running script's location. If you are running /usr/share/phpapp/myfile.php then require_once('a.php') will require /usr/share/phpapp/a.php, regardless of symlinks. Hmm. I _almost_ get it. You seem to be saying that internally PHP has

[SLUG] GNOME slow startup

Hi all, I have a Debian unstable box at home. My main desktop is XFCE, but my wife uses GNOME. She's been complaining of slow startup times for ages, and I've only just got around to checking it out. (I never buy her flowers, either.) I try starting GNOME from gdm. The splash screen sits on

[SLUG] madwifi for Debian

Hi, I'm trying to build driver modules for a NETGEAR WG311 WiFi card, according to the instructions at http://www.marlow.dk/tech/madwifi.php. Having been spoilt for many years by binary kernel packages, I have only a vague idea of what Im doing. I get to the point where I actually compile the

Re: [SLUG] madwifi for Debian

Tony Green wrote: On 09/07/2004, at 7:32 PM, Matthew Davidson wrote: make -C /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal modules make: *** /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/build: No such file or directory. and indeed the file does not exist. Symlink your kernel source tree

[SLUG] LDAP address book?

I'm looking for the Right Way to go about maintaining a shared contacts database/address book. The little scraps of paper I'm currently using work fine for me, but they're not easy for others to access, and are a bit embarrasing for smeone who's supposed to be a tech guru. Recalling a SLUG talk

Re: [SLUG] Mangled console - One of life's mysteries

The 'reset' command should work. Matthew. David wrote: I have a Debian woody box run in console mode only. While I was logged into another woody box, I did: #cat mystery.file The mystery file turned out to be a word .doc Subsequently, my prompt and anything going to the screen has turned into

Re: [SLUG] GNOME panel segfaulting

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Matthew Davidson 'Application gnome-panel (process ) has crashed due to a fatal error (segmentation fault)' It should provide a button to report a bug - that will give you a really simple UI to get a gdb backtrace and report it. If you want, I can take a quick

[SLUG] GNOME panel segfaulting

Hi, A user (not all users) is getting the following error on starting GNOME (2.4 on Debian unstable - not updated for a month or so): 'Application gnome-panel (process ) has crashed due to a fatal error (segmentation fault)' The top panel is blank except for the window menu. The bottom

Re: [SLUG] Upcoming battle for the web?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another quote: The web is used to provide a variety of services and communities. Part of the Longhorn strategy is to extract from the web all of the services with any profit model at all: web magazines, auction sites, news, online retailers, and so on. When Microsoft

Re: [SLUG] Regional Users' Group

Thanks very much for all the suggestions. Special thanks to Glen, David, and Horst, who will be hearing from me again soon. [Cue theme from Jaws] Matthew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Regional Users' Group

to be gained by operating as a SIG of that group. Any advice/assistance/personal abuse gratefully accepted. Matthew Davidson. Coffs Habour Area Free Software Users' Groups (CHAFSUG - yuck!) Coffs Harbour Area Free Software And Linux Users' Group (CHAFSALUG - hmm.) Free, Libre, and Open Source

[SLUG] Multi-function thingummies

Hi, Just setting up a home office, and was looking at these newfangled all-in -one printer/scanner/copier things. Tried googling and linuxprinting.org for advice on a couple of model numbers I'd collected, but found no mention. Are these things to avoid, or can anybody recommend a model that

[SLUG] CUPS problem

Hi, I've installed CUPS on a Debian (sid) system. Printed a test page fine from the local system, and from a windows client via samba. I have also installed cupsys-bsd. Then I tried my first bit of proper printing, from SciTE, a text editor I'm quite fond of. First it complained that it

Re: [SLUG] Dosemu/Freedos and parallel port dongle

of how serial ports work. Anybody have any clue what may be going wrong, or how to isolate the problem? Thanks, Matthew. Matthew Davidson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a DOS app that requires a parallel port dongle to work with Debian unstable, and am hoping someone on the list has some experience

[SLUG] Dosemu/Freedos and parralel port dongle

Hi, I'm trying to get a DOS app that requires a parallel port dongle to work with Debian unstable, and am hoping someone on the list has some experience with this. It's an in-house app that has very little documentation to speak of, so I'm in the dark somewhat on that side of things. The app

Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

Mike MacCana wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Richard Neal wrote: GPLG GPLGPLGP GPLGPLGPLGP GPLGP GPL MICROSOFT GPLGP GPLGPLGPLGP GPLGPLGPL GPLGPL No offence, but your sig is retarded ;^). I don't know about that, but it's certainly a bit inscrutable. I can only interpret

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:36:51PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Here's a question I've been asking a lot of people recently. Which do you care *more* about: a) An alternative to Windows If Windows was free software, I'd probably recommend it to people for use in fairly limited circumstances.

Re: [SLUG] Internet training software

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:46:14AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: Does anyone have any leads on open source, interactive, internet training software, with security and results database? I've been meaning to check out moodle (http://moodle.org) for some time, but haven't got around to it yet, so I

Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:35:21PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it doesn't understand is that if the file is *.iso, it should do whole image not treat it as a normal file. Right-click on the .iso, and you should have a burn option in the menu. Damn Nautilus. My CLI skills are

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:56:19PM +1100, Benno wrote: I was wondering what peoples current experiences with online banking is. I'm currently successfully using commonwealth netbank, and ingdirect however for various reasons I am currently looking at other alternatives. So what other banks

[SLUG] Cups/Ghostscript problem

Hi, I'm setting up a Debian (testing) box, with a Lexmark printer. I know Lexmark has a bad reputation where supporting the free software community is concerned, but I know this printer has worked, as it's been taken from somebody else's Red Hat machine. I've installed CUPS, and set up the

Re: [SLUG] anti-propietry info

A couple of obvious ones: What are web standards and why should I use them? http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/ We Can Put an End to Word Attachments http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Matthew. (And never underestimate the power of a nag .signature:) -- Please avoid

[SLUG] Gnome menus

Hi, I'm trying to customise Gnome menus for all users on a system. If I've read the documentation correctly, it should just be a matter of opening applications-all-users:/// in Nautilus (as root), and dropping .desktop files wherever I want them. Then when a user logs in, the changes should

[SLUG] apt-proxy and tcpd

Hi, I'm trying to set up apt-proxy, and am getting interminable 'connection refused' errors. Normally this would be because of incorrectly configured tcp wrappers. My hosts allow looks pretty much like this: ALL: .my.network.name # And for good measure: apt-proxy: 192.168.0. And my

[SLUG] LTSP NFS problem

Hi, I'm setting up a little LTSP network at the moment, and have run into an infuriating problem. At the moment, I have only the server and one useable client. The server is brand new, and the client is a 486 with a 3c509 NIC that has been successfully used as an LTSP client in the past.

Re: [Debian-au] Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

, very cheap. If anyone is interested in doing a (educational) pub crawl around Sydney to find a suitable location, let me know. Ah, those educational pub crawls. I'm a martyr to my thirst for knowledge. Matthew Davidson. Chief Nerd of soon-to-be-defunct Parramatta Computer Access Network. http

Re: [SLUG] Free content

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:49, Jamie Lovick wrote: As part of building communtiy wireless networks, we want to ensure that the network has legal content. Since a network is nothing without content, I am looking for suggestions on what everything thinks should be readilly accessible on the

[SLUG] 256-color-friendly gnome2?

Hi, I'm soon to attempt a small X-terminal installation (1 application server, 4 to 5 workstations), using old 486s as clients. I've become quite a fan of GNOME2, and would like to use it here, but most 486s I come across have are limited to 800x600x256, which causes some truly hideous color

Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 08:37, Adam Hewitt wrote: I don't want to upgrade my (debian/woody) system to unstable to install openoffice.org, and keeping my system at stable but installing the unstable packages requires me to remove half of the packages I have installed before. So I have decided to

[SLUG] File Manager Holy Grail

Hi, I've scoured the net looking for this, and have yet to find anything acceptable. I need a file manager for non-geeks that fits the following criteria: - Looks and feels somewhat like Windows explorer - Does not have a ridiculous number of dependencies (which rules out anything built for

[SLUG] kde dcopserver problem

Hi, Trying to get KDE running on woody. Can't get beyond an error message saying: Could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPserver_hostname_0 Please check the 'dcopserver' program is running.' Seen a lot of usenet postings and the like complaining of this problem, but no solutions.

[SLUG] VNC font problem

Hello, This is probably a trivially simple problem. I've installed vnc on a couple of Debian (Woody) boxes, and it works like a dream, except for displaying fonts in certain apps. I think it's limited to gtk apps, actually. I've tried to work around this by explicitly adding a font path to

Re: [SLUG] Slug Meeting Notes 28 June 2002

Hello, Bit of confusion in the notes regarding the lineage of the Parramatta Computer Access Network. Although CAT has been helping us out, PCAN is a separate body, auspiced by Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), a Parramatta-based community group. The shop (currently under the

[SLUG] Parramatta Computer Access Network

Hello, Been a while since I've spammed anybody, so for those who are interested, the Parramatta Computer Access Network (PCAN - http://www.cat.org.au/pcan) is having one of it's increasingly regular junkfest/meetings this Saturday: 11am-4pm Saturday 6th October, Dundas Area Neighbourhood

Re: [SLUG] Religious Flamewar Required - authentication

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:24:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: Incidentally, how many PCAN tech bods have you got? Not many. I've been using Debian almost exclusively on my home LAN for a couple of years now, but I've got little real world experience. We've got the odd person with some

Re: [SLUG] Fw: Side issue about Sydney Linux User Group

RMS gave an entertaining speech last month: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#NYU2001 He was responding to the Mundie comments and so forth, giving the usual history of the GNU project, etc. I found his arguments for calling the system GNU/Linux quite compelling. On the other

Re: [SLUG] Linux-G: Making Linux Hip Again

From the Keep Linux APolitical (KLAP) group (Don't flame me, I'm just the messenger): It has come to our attention that a good many people have been using Linux in a way that departs from it's charming and photogenic creator's original intention to make a kick-ass terminal emulator. We are

[SLUG] Religious Flamewar Required - authentication

Hello, As PCAN (http://www.cat.org.au/pcan) is finally leaving the vapourware stage, I'm starting to have to think about the practicalities of setting up a digital access centre, and about doing things the Right Way(TM). I'm reading up about NIS and LDAP, but does anybody have any practical

[SLUG] Next PCAN Meeting

Hello, PCAN is holding it's next meeting tomorrow. Exciting project, sharing skills, putting GNU/Linux to use, reusing old hardware, yada, yada, yada. This is the last (admittedly slightly OT) posting about PCAN I'll make to this list, just to catch anybody who might have missed the last one,

Re: [SLUG] IT Action in Western Sydney

rally type thing. =) Regards, Jon Austin - Original Message - From: Matthew Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ben Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] IT Action in Western Sydney On Mon, May 28

Re: [SLUG] IT Action in Western Sydney

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:01:57PM +1000, ben Young wrote: So where abouts is the meeting and when? 2pm, 9th July, Parramatta City Library I wouldn't worry about inexperience. For every person we have that knows something, we need at least one who wants to learn what the other knows. My god.

[SLUG] IT Action in Western Sydney

Hello, I hope nobody considers this spam. This is a really exciting project just getting off the ground in western Sydney: - Forwarded message from ICE [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Dear All, please come along to this important meeting of P-CAN (Parramatta Computer Access Network). 2pm June

Re: [SLUG] Mac OS, basiliskii

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:17:19AM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: Has any of the sluggers who retain an interest in the mac os managed to get basiliskii working, to emulate 68k macs up to 8.1 (iirc)? I got BasiliskII running using the 7.5.3 OS downloaded from apple's website. I have a perverse

[SLUG] Zope

Hello, I'm looking at various platforms for developing web apps, primarily a slashdot/K5 style community site, with associated services. I've a perverse desire to hand-roll all this in perl, but given time constraints, and a niggling concern for people who may have to maintain it after me (you

[SLUG] GNU Co-operative in Sydney?

[From long-time lurker, infrequent poster:] A posting on kuro5hin has triggered various fevered imaginings in my unstable mind: http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystorysid=2001/2/21/19441/2905 It's a followup story on Spindl3top, the GNU co-operative in Cambridge, Mass. A comment I posted

[SLUG] Scanjet 5p

Hello, Has anybody had any happy experiences with the HP Scanjet 5p? I'm ashamed to admit I've been lazy, and had mine set up to run from a legacy OS on a dual-boot machine. Unfortunately, the drive I was running this OS from died in a distressingly noisy manner (probably because 99.9% of the