Re: [SLUG] Capturing high school graduates for Linux?

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Lxxxxx
irst batch ( their batch ) of laptops than it is with the later ones. Mike ( mikeplus64 on #slug ). PS I'm a complete noob to mailing lists so I'm probably sending this wrong, sorry. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jon Jermey wrote: > Last night I went to an information evening at my

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Andy
Best bet is to wait until the new RHEL comes out and CentOS copies that (don't hold your breath) In the meantime checkout Arch Linux, not quite as hard core as Linux >From Scratch, not as hand fed as Ubuntu/SuSUE, not as time consuming to install as Gentoo. All you really have to do is follow the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Using a DNS with Dynamic IP

2010-08-29 Thread Mike Andy
Hey everyone thanks for the replies, I'm not sure I explained peoperley before though. I've got my own server and I like physically maintaining it so I'm not going to host it. I do have DNS servers they've given me, but it's just their default ones: ns1.crazydomains.com.au ns2.crazydomains.com.au

[SLUG] Re: Using a DNS with Dynamic IP

2010-08-28 Thread Mike Andy
sword protected parts for me (mythweb and rutorrent) but i'll probably expand on it eventually. On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mike Andy wrote: > Hi > > I've used dyndns for hosting my home server for a while now, but I've > finally bitting the bullet and gotten my o

[SLUG] Using a DNS with Dynamic IP

2010-08-28 Thread Mike Andy
Hi I've used dyndns for hosting my home server for a while now, but I've finally bitting the bullet and gotten my own real domain with crazy domains now (was dirt cheap) the problem is that I'm not sure I know how to get it to work with my home connection and the dynamic IP i'm using at the moment

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] WiFi AP, is WRT54G the way to go ?

2010-07-13 Thread Mike
I've had a good experience with an Asus and openwrt. It was only wireless g cos was a while back but I'm sure there's n solutions the same. I just went to wikipedia looked up openwrt and looked up asus routers and got a compatible one, most info was literally on wikipedia. Other options are garg

Re: [SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Lampard
that delivers about two > web pages a week. > > Kind of wait for seconds and then download slowly. Annoying problem. I'd suggest the WP-Cache or WP-Super-Cache plugins, which precompile the php to html so the server doesn't have to recompile the pages on each access. The GZI

Re: [SLUG] XF86Calculator

2010-06-03 Thread Mike Andy
Yeah XFCE is great but don't expect GUI network share file browsing (at least last time I used it) I use it on MythBuntu and it's great cos it's just so light but lacking in some features. - Show quoted text - On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Steven McDonald wrote: > Have you tried Xfce? I've been

Re: [SLUG] A little script i have wrote

2010-05-30 Thread Mike Andy
cool! I wrote a little script the other day too, this one scans a given range of open ports on any given IP/host - it's a little slow and something like nmap can get more info but I'm pretty happy with it. for those who don't know how to get something like that going simply download the file to yo

Re: [SLUG] Old tech. books

2010-05-30 Thread Mike Andy
Whilst cleaning up the office the other day I threw out my managers DOS4 manual complete with original 3.5 floppies - He was less than impressed when he found out, at the time I laughed and showed people! (I did keep his 8 inch floppies though cos i thought they were really collectors items) On Mo

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Andy
Thanks for the info Jake. I'm a member of the official myth-users mailing list too and have seen lots of people go though successful upgrades on there. I'll remember that about flash-plugin but I also think I might be doing a full backend distro change over to CentOS once they're up to RHEL6, but m

RE: [SLUG] video security systems

2010-03-01 Thread Mike Lake
on a M24 last week. They are about $2000 in Aust and then add the lens of your choosing for $165. Non IP camera are 100's of dollars and not 1000's. Mike UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential informatio

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread Mike
Haha sorr I didn't know I'd like to see osx run comftorably on 512mb ram! Nice well good luck with the hdd changeover On 22/02/2010, at 8:36, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:24:21 +1100 Mike wrote: Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Mike
I'd have no idea either why it's not in the ubuntu repos, I dunno if u could add something in sources.lst ... Tho that may be changed since I used ubuntu too. Anyway I'm posting cos I stumbled on this before, http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ I think it's ubuntu based, includes joomla, mysql, and

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread Mike
Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a good data transfer program called "super duper" for mac, it's free and I know it works when transfering from a 250g to 500g for eg. Will transfer ur mbr etc... could suit ur needs On 22/02/2010, at 8:08, Alan L Tyree wrote

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG February Monthly Meeting - Python Game Programming *Tutorial*

2010-02-18 Thread Mike
Hi, Just to warn people this isn't a command line program, if you're purely in the command line then it's not going to work (found this after trial and error). I'm not very clued up on Python, another error i got what after successfully vim-ing and executing the python test.py script i get this

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-18 Thread Mike
I've read in the past that the alternate ubuntu live cd has lvm support built in. Maybe check that out, also maybe something like knoppix could do the trick On 19/02/2010, at 0:00, david wrote: Can it be done? All the instructions I've found on the net require installation of lvm2 - n

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread Mike
If baffles me as to why it's so difficult to stop a service on boot in ubuntu but read this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1341947 I also don't see why it's been made hard to pull samba out, maybe someone more ubuntu friendly can explain how to remove the program it's self

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Andy
I've done a skype call over one of those USB modems before, i think the company was 3. I've got to say it was pretty good, the skype call didn't drop out at all at any time, very impressive for such a small device. I've also heard that you can go and get your own wireless USB modem and just use one

Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD

2010-01-19 Thread Mike Andy
ioned space within that 120Gb then things can be moved around there but not outside the original disk boundaries. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > Mike Andy wrote: >> >> from my experience when you use dd you cannot resize after that >> because it's

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-19 Thread Mike Andy
for all those interested in taking action, watch this space: http://blockthefilter.org/ http://blockthefilter.wikidot.com/ there should be more up in a few days time. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: >> If we want to take a really pessimistic >> view, of where censorship of

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-16 Thread Mike
The no clean feed group have a template for a letter on their site I think, I'll try to dig it up later. I think this is very relevant to us as linux/open source/free software users, if we follow the philosophy "free as in freedom, not fee as in beer" then that should go not only for the os

[SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-14 Thread Mike
I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't. Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be censored next year. http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription in

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Andy
#x27;s not as if Facebook changed the settings without telling the users. I wouldn't normally side with Facebook but this isolated incident was totally pebkac On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Mike wrote: > >> Maybe I'm a little hard nosed when

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

2009-12-13 Thread Mike
Maybe I'm a little hard nosed when it comes to stuff like that but users should read the default security settings and set them as need be, much like the iPhone virus, if people read that they should change their passwords then they would have avoided the headache. Install on Arch linux thr

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-12-12 Thread Mike Andy
but i guess things have changed in 9.10 On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > On 12/12/2009, at 3:50 PM, Mike Andy wrote: > >> ok i'll try ssh, but i'm not sure if an SSH server will be set up on a >> live cd boot > > Oh sorry, didn&#

Fwd: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-12-11 Thread Mike Andy
enough to work! On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > On 12/12/2009, at 3:29 PM, Mike Andy wrote: > >> ok so I've just got the time to try your ideas out and here's where >> i'm at with booting into mythbuntu/ubuntu 9.10 >> >

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-12-11 Thread Mike Andy
r an Nvidia 6200 but i will be stuck again if that doesn't solve the issue On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Mike Andy wrote: > Thanks guys, sorry I've let people hanging - your ideas have not gone > unnoticed. I'll give it a try when i get the time (currently cram studying &g

[SLUG] Re: Event producer

2009-12-08 Thread Mike Andy
le message to the public in this opportunity. Hi Mike and Sridhar and group Lets do both and there are also other opportunities to do stalls at local markets as a way to first of get the name out there...I'm planning on doing a market stall and I've called Everything Linux and wait

[SLUG] Take Me: HP Laserjet4 PCL5e

2009-12-06 Thread Mike Andy
Hi SLUG, Once again my office has more free equipment up for grabs. This time it's a HP Laserjet4 PCL5e printer. It seems to be in decent condition. It's definitely compatible with Linux machines. Please email directly back to me if you're interested. The office is located in Ultimo and we're ope

Re: [SLUG] Reaching out to other communities

2009-11-29 Thread Mike Andy
Unfortunately I don't know much about setting a stand up at a convention but I would be willing to help out and I would like to know what getting a stand set up involves doing. I lived in Japan for 2 years so needless to say I'm up to date with the anime that's out there. I can speak laymen English

Re: [SLUG] Re: Free DNS Services

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Andy
This one is a pretty famous free address you could try: 4.2.2.2 it's a university or something. > > Original Message > > Hi Slug, > > whom can you recommend pls as reputable, reliable (as it gets for free) > free full-control dns services along the lines of what dnsmadeeasy d

[SLUG] CRT Monitors up for grabs

2009-11-22 Thread Mike Andy
Anyone in need of some CRTs I've got about 6 up for grabs. Could be useful for a net cafe/building a house/fort etc... They're around Broadway. email me direct if you're interested. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org

Re: [SLUG] MythTV hardware advice sought

2009-11-16 Thread Mike Andy
Sorry to John and everyone else before, I did my old mistake again by not replying to all on the list from the beginning. Part of my conversation with John has been attached below By the way what did you decide for with your IR Receiver John? Cool if you can get the latest PCI-E card working

Fwd: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-16 Thread Mike Andy
ught that by default everything started in "vesa" mode when booting from a LiveCD. Anyway I'm prepared to try anything to get this one licked. The more suggestions the better, i'll just list them all up and knock them down all in the once session. Cheers! On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:

[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
in the same article that I read in APC Mag...I'll be starting my try outs > later in the week. > > No I've yet to do research on the hardware and if it'll work with Linux, my > approach was to put the distro's on flash drives and try it out and see what > happens. >

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
When I boot the LiveCD I get that flashing command line screen and I can't enter in anything so I'm unable to enter or read anything. I can't get to log files. Even if i try to go directly to an install it'll do the same thing. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, wrote: > &g

Re: [SLUG] The Beast

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
This is something we're all going to be facing sooner or later. I'm a little shocked to find that the old menu.lst (grub.cfg) is not to be manually edited, though i'm also happy to find that the option has been replaced by adding custom entries (/etc/grub.d/40_custom) if i'm understanding everythin

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
bly AGP settings there to fiddle with i guess. I could pick up an old AGP Nvidia card off ebay if all else fails - I don't know maybe i could try an alternate install too? On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Grant Parnell wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > > Ok I don't get this, I

[SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-13 Thread Mike
Ok I don't get this, I've got the same mobo on two machines and it'll work one but not the other. I've tried diff ram and hdds and still same result I try to boot into the live cd select English, then it will Load the glowing icon and dump me at a prompt that flashes, and it's got some in

Re: [SLUG] Features of Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-07 Thread Mike Andy
+1 for release notes Also one thing that may be overlooked is Grub2, but that's not going to look very cool in a trailer. Also new Gnome update. I'm sure it's all documented somewhere On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 2009/11/7 Tclarkie : > > does any-one know some grea

Re: [SLUG] OT: moving from Access to ...?

2008-11-07 Thread Mike Lake
developers, a good mailing list/newsgroup and lots of contributed code. And very easy to install and use on Linux! http://www.djangoproject.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/ http://www.djangosnippets.org/ Mike Michael Lake 9514 2238 (w) -- UTS CR

Re: [SLUG] Convert Document with ascii Text to Html

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Lake
is already marked up with some formatting comands might be able to be converted automatically to HTML but it depends on what the formatting is in the document. Post here a few paragraphs only, note just a few, of your ASCII or text document so we can see what it looks like and advise you. Mi

[SLUG] Document Freedom Day

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Perrow
rting from 6pm. Our confirmed speakers are Senator Kate Lundy, and Pia Waugh. You can get more details from: http://documentfreedomdaysydney.googlepages.com/ If you'd like to attend or have any questions about the event, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Us

[SLUG] python-uno & open office depends problem

2007-12-08 Thread Mike Lake
Hi all I have this problem which is stopping me from installing anything new. System is Debian stable on a Dell. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dep

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style

2007-10-09 Thread Mike Lake
Hi > The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify > any of the available packages to reproduce it. Are you using the Book class or the Article class in the begindocument? One can define your own command for this \newcommand{\mychap}[1]{% Chapter \thechapter \vspace{-2mm}

Re: [SLUG] Microtouch USB touch screen followup

2007-05-03 Thread Mike Lohmann
://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz2 tar xjf linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz2 cd linux-2.6.15.7 cp /boot/config- ./.config (or make oldconfig :)) make cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS/ rpmbuild -ba TWdrv.spec I hope it helps someone. Mike On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Glen Turner wrote

Re: [SLUG] Firefox could learn from IE

2007-05-02 Thread Mike Perrow
of-the-box for me on ubuntu... Mike On 5/2/07, Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think firefox is a great browser but I think that firefox can learn one thing from IE I think that Firefox and IE try successfully to make their browsers user friendly so that the lowest common

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread Mike Lake
ail is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond. This email should appear to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Mike Lake
ats on programs like this? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Installing a compiled subversion and removing the packaged one - how to fix dependencies.

2006-05-20 Thread Mike Lake
mitted So I could not create a new device on the virtual server. I ended up just doing the symlink and I had the old random saved as random.bak anyhow. /dev# ln -s urandom random /dev# ls -l random lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 16 17:32 random -> urandom # # svnadmin create /var/lib/test Thu

Re: [SLUG] Inatlling a compiled subversion and removing the packaged one - how to fix dependencies.

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Lake
ritable by all and the other not ? If I do as root 'ln -s /dev/random /dev/urandom' what might it screw up? How can I go back again and create the character device? It would certainly be easier then as the normal subversion package would probably work. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linu

Re: [SLUG] Inatlling a compiled subversion and removing the packaged one - how to fix dependencies.

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Lake
| dpkg --set-selections? Thats what I originally tried. I got the source down but the compile terminated as the debian src package wanted libapr0 version 9.something.5 to 9.something.9 but I have 9.something.13. So it would not compile. Hence I tried the tigris source which was also more recent. M

Re: [SLUG] Question on ownerships and permissions of subversion respositories

2006-04-29 Thread Mike Lake
ed it also readable by www-data. What does one do there if one wants users to be able to have file:// access locally and apache to have read access? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update and pgp keys

2006-04-15 Thread Mike Lake
package Thanks Ian, I had installed the debian-keyring package whereas what I needed was the debian-archive-keyring package. I think the problem is now fixed. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] bash question - how to tell if apache has stopped?

2006-01-12 Thread Mike Lake
o copy apache-perl into different directories > and use, > > pidof /dir1/apache-perl > pidof /dir2/apache-perl > etc. > by using the method in the script above. -- -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Keeping passwords safe

2005-10-02 Thread Mike MacCana
openssl can do this easily. Mike On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 11:29 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody have any recomendations for a program that can be used > to store passwords, bank account details etc in an encrypted file? >

CHange the Subject when you change the subject (was Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps)

2005-10-02 Thread Mike MacCana
Thanks. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-27 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:17 +1000, David wrote: > mutt for speed > squirrelmail for pictures, html, pdf, other gui crap, etc. You might be interested in roundcube. OSS webmail like Squirrelmail, except it doesn't look like arse. http://www.roundcube.net/ Mike -- SLUG - Sydney L

[SLUG] Accidental mouse gestures in Firefox driving me insane.

2005-09-20 Thread Mike MacCana
t seem to be working. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] Sydney Morning Herald and RealPlayer

2005-09-15 Thread Mike MacCana
I'd suggest they use Flash video. - Native Linux, Mac and Windows clients - Everyone hates Real / Helixplayer, for good reason - Sorenson isn't an open format, but neither is Real SMH aren't gonna do Ogg video, due to poor player uptake - Better quality than real Mike On Thu, 2

Re: [SLUG] VPN to Cisco

2005-08-30 Thread Mike MacCana
't Open Source. It's very annoying to use. I, and many staff at Red Hat, use an Open Source Cisco-compatible client called vpnc to connect to our office VPN, a Cisco VPN concentrator. Can't remember the model number. Packages for FC and RHEL are available at dag.wieers.com. Mi

[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2006 - Call For Miniconfs

2005-08-14 Thread Mike Beattie
* Announcement of Chosen Miniconfs: Friday August 26, 2005 * Conference begins: Monday January 23, 2006 Please feel free to forward this announcement to your local LUG, or any other person or group that would be interested! [1]: http://www.otago.ac.nz/ [2]: http://www.opensource.org/osd

[SLUG] Reminder: linux.conf.au 2006 - Call For Papers

2005-08-04 Thread Mike Beattie
ase feel free to forward this announcement to your local LUG, or any other person or group that would be interested! [1]: http://www.otago.ac.nz/ [2]: http://www.opensource.org/osd.html Regards, Mike Beattie, linux.conf.au 2006 Organisers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] Problems with SCSI tape drive

2005-07-14 Thread Mike
It's the only device on the SCSI bus. Thanks for the help. If you have any more, feel free. :) Mike On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 20:36 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > is it the only device on the SCSI bus? > simplify the problem and remove everything else and try again. > Ben -- SLUG

[SLUG] PPPoE stopped working after yum upgrade

2005-07-13 Thread Mike
on happily provided upon request. Thanks Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] A beginner's server???

2005-07-09 Thread Mike Lake
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html I presume you have Linux up and running. If so its likely that a web server is already running on you machine. If so going to http://localhost/ in your browser should show you a HTML page. Whats show? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux

[SLUG] How do I get nullmailer to start sending from its queue?

2005-07-09 Thread Mike Lake
it never sends. I would like it to send as soon as a message gets into the queue when Im online. Mike -- -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription inf

Re: [SLUG] How to add /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/ to the perl @INC array in Debian

2005-07-03 Thread Mike Lake
perl. Eventually then remove the symlink. 2. Install the packages again but install download the newest from CPAN and install them to usr/local/lib/site_perl so they are never missed again when perl goes to 5.9 or 6.0 My question is where do folks store your CPAN moduless on machines so that they

Re: [SLUG] help help Fedora Core 4 installation trouble

2005-06-21 Thread Mike MacCana
eath nothing > happen. Is there > anyone with this issue?. There's a problem with your video card and its drivers. start the install with 'linux text' After installed, to reconfigure X, use 'system-config-display --reconfigure' Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#x

Re: [SLUG] Distributions and Package Managers

2005-06-17 Thread Mike MacCana
he system), 'apt-get remove' (am I getting or removing). * No good way to browse for *interesting* packages on Linux I've seen apart from 'Click and Run', which runs on Lindows, which is obviously out of the question. Anyone seen anything else? Actually, for both RPM and DP

Re: [SLUG] is a floppy inserted ?

2005-06-16 Thread Mike MacCana
Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:04:13 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: You all suck. Hah! Probably. Trouble with 'file' is that it 'succeeds' either way. Aye, but you can print different messages looking for stuff in the output. Using mtools

Re: [SLUG] is a floppy inserted ?

2005-06-15 Thread Mike MacCana
ritable, no read permission Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Dual Boot (Windows/FC)

2005-05-31 Thread Mike MacCana
as opposed to any previous version of Windows) wants the partitions written to in a different format. I believe the issue is fixed now. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] several domains to one web in Apache 1.3x, single docroot ?

2005-05-29 Thread Mike MacCana
st keeping DocRoot same, is that an OK way ? Just leave the default wildcard in place. Otherwise, you can specify multiple domains in a site rule IIRC. You do indeed RC. If you feel like doing that you'd use the ServerAlias option. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] setting system binaries to 0700 ?

2005-05-25 Thread Mike MacCana
modules. RH have a lot of customers who add their own module packages - the security fix was backported to the ver shipped in RH 8. I'm sure RH and FC users on SLUG could provide copious other examples. I contract at Red Hat. This is obviously a personal opinion. Mike -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] setting system binaries to 0700 ?

2005-05-23 Thread Mike MacCana
icy should stop the web server from accessing anything other than files with the web content context. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Compilation of driver

2005-05-19 Thread Mike MacCana
'm in Sydney) ? If so, I'd be very grateful. What driver is it? There's kernel modules for a lot of web cams (ov511, quickcam usb) packaged and ready to go at Dag Wieers site... http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

[SLUG] Single button mice on Linux (was Clipboards under X)

2005-05-18 Thread Mike MacCana
comes your paste button. I keep meaning to use it on my crappy Dell laptop with only two buttons. A proper paste key is nicer than having to hit two laptop mouse buttons simultaneously. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] Clipboards under X

2005-05-17 Thread Mike MacCana
David Gillies wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike MacCana wrote: David Gillies wrote: since some applications can't ctrl+v to paste and others I have can't middle mouse click to paste. What apps don't support Unix pasting? WINE app

Re: [SLUG] Clipboards under X

2005-05-17 Thread Mike MacCana
mething windows style, and paste Windows style, you'll see what you expect too. since some applications can't ctrl+v to paste and others I have can't middle mouse click to paste. What apps don't support Unix pasting? Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu release names

2005-05-12 Thread Mike MacCana
ook a whole lot like a horse-sized goat, with long, corkscrewy horns. Pretty interesting/edgy. (I have one above my fireplace) Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] linux start up problem

2005-05-08 Thread Mike MacCana
vice and skip netfs. Not everything is about distros. /me returns to chewing on orphans while running Fedora. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Compatibility Issues with Windows64

2005-05-05 Thread Mike MacCana
Jan Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:03 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: Edwin Humphries wrote: Just got some more details. There are apparently 2 concerns: One is that the Windows64 file system is yet another variant of NTFS (well, why not?) and may not be compatible with Linux. I

Re: [SLUG] Compatibility Issues with Windows64

2005-05-05 Thread Mike MacCana
larly with MS Fonts or the Agfa equivalents from RHEL installed. That'll give them a good idea of compatibility. 2. OOo 2, (say from FC4 test) implements nested tables, very large spreadsheets, and other useful things 1.1 didn't do for MS Office compatibility. Cheers, Mike -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Compatibility Issues with Windows64

2005-05-04 Thread Mike MacCana
with that too. Mike I don't see how this is relevant, and I suspect it's a crock (another threatened Windows quasi-guru), but before I go in to bat, has anyone heard of this? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQ

Re: [SLUG] ext2 ifs driver

2005-04-26 Thread Mike MacCana
linux either. Well, it can be done! http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm Thanks for your useful post. Addenda: there's also read/write Ext2 / 3 drivers for Mac OSX, and read/write NTFS drivers for Linux (check out captive NTFS). Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

Re: [SLUG] Failed Boot

2005-04-21 Thread Mike MacCana
much time (so just hit it lots). It'll work. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] OT -Reasons not to use Windoze or Net Cafes

2005-04-19 Thread Mike MacCana
afe to not be aware of, and cater for, that situation. Mike On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 07:55 +1000, Luke Skywalker wrote: > Well thanks guys. > Thats handy to know there is at least some. Even if they are more rare. > I'd feel much safer with my gentoo laptop...Unless they went

Re: [SLUG] Failed Boot

2005-04-18 Thread Mike MacCana
disable netfs starting in future, run 'chkconfig netfs off'. But better yet, you should simply fix netfs. You can do this by looking at /etc/fstab, where a Windows share is being mounted by your Linux machine. Maybe the Windows machien isn't connected anymore or has changed in s

Re: [SLUG] pata ide raid cards

2005-04-12 Thread Mike K
G'day Dean, >From my limited experience with the IDE RAID cards, the same is true - might as well save the money, and boot from software raid. -Mike On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 00:12 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > anyone have a story to tell regarding hardware pata raid cards? > > my

Re: [SLUG] Date of installation of Fedora update

2005-04-07 Thread Mike MacCana
on, latest to oldest. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] RHEL 3 ? hardware req ?

2005-04-06 Thread Mike MacCana
has other Mike, thanks, nope, it's just for AMP .. or it PAM? MPA ? web and mail server thing That's Apache. MySQL, Postfix? In that case, I'd go with RHEL 4, for no other reason than it'll be supported for at least as far into the future as RHEL 3 was (RHEL always has supp

Re: [SLUG] RHEL 3 ? hardware req ?

2005-04-05 Thread Mike MacCana
stem - if the video card takes 8 of that, you'll get a warning. PS - This advice is on behalf of me, not my employer, etc. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Memory Usage

2005-03-09 Thread Mike MacCana
rather than inventing a different set of options for every *nix, they've made this big ugly script that works everywhere, on all *nix'es. Rather than distributing a broken, unpackaged archive, and a shitty shell script, getfirefox.com should host the existing packages for the maj

Re: [SLUG] Puppy Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Mike MacCana
S code in the kernel, yes, writing is experimental. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Puppy Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Mike MacCana
boot off the live cd, and the it will be able to use the Windows XP partition to store your data. I'm not sure what filesystem is installed with Windows these days, but you will need it partitined as FAT32, not NTFS. NTFS. You can read/write NTFS reliably under Linux with 'captive NT

Re: [SLUG] Re: Your message to slug awaits moderator approval

2005-03-07 Thread Mike MacCana
tem' is a dirty phrase. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Sharing partition 'tween Linux and Winders (for video editing)

2005-03-02 Thread Mike MacCana
Reposted to list... Rod Butcher wrote: I'd personally go NTFS, using Captive NTFS in Linux for read/write support. Ahah ! seems promising, buts its reliance on LUFs looks a bit dodgy. Have you used it ? thanks Rod Yes. It's rizzeliable. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] Sharing partition 'tween Linux and Winders (for video editing)

2005-03-02 Thread Mike MacCana
n just FAT32. If you had a FAT16 FS with long filenames, that'd qualify as VFAT too, IIRC. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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