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

2005-10-02 Thread Mike MacCana
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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? Thank, Erik --

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 Linux User's

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

2005-09-21 Thread Mike MacCana
Hi all, Firefox keeps randomly going back. It seems to be some kind of mouse gesture triggered by my trackpad. I'd like to disable gestures in FF completely. I can't find the option in the GUI or about:config. I've tried with an extension, All In One Gestures, but it doesn't seem to be

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, 2005-09-15 at

Re: [SLUG] VPN to Cisco

2005-08-30 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:31 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi Having no experience with VPN'ing toa Cisco router endpoint, I'm interested in peoples thoughts on creating a VPN to a Cisco 1712 endpoint. The Cisco client requires a special kernel module and isn't Open Source. It's very

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

2005-06-21 Thread Mike MacCana
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:36 -0700, pesoy misak wrote: Hi slugger I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora Core 2 into Fedora Core 4. During the installation, When it's trying to access the X server for installation it only giving me a White Screen of Death nothing happen. Is there anyone with

Re: [SLUG] Distributions and Package Managers

2005-06-17 Thread Mike MacCana
You've asked a lot of good questions. Here are answers to a few of them: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One excellent example is the X11 system when comparing debian to RedHat. On RedHat you install all the x11 packages but that won't give you a working X11 system... Yes it will. Install the

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 is a good idea

Re: [SLUG] is a floppy inserted ?

2005-06-15 Thread Mike MacCana
You all suck. files -s /dev/fd0 does this. With a floppy in: file -s /dev/fd0 x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID TracerST, root entries 224, sectors 2880 (volumes =32 MB) , sectors/FAT 9, dos 4.0 BootSector (0x0) With a floppy out: file -s /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: writable, no read

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

2005-05-31 Thread Mike MacCana
Edwin Humphries wrote: I remember reading an excellent document some months ago on how to install FC2 onto a Windows box without trashing the boot sector so that Windows wouldn't boot. It talked about interrogating the boot sector to get some configuration infomration, then feeding that into

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

2005-05-29 Thread Mike MacCana
Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 08:38 +1000, Voytek wrote: I need to set one web space, with 4 domains pointing to same web space, as in: mysite.tld, minesite.tld, my_site.tld mine_site.tld. what's the best way to set that ? I'm thinking of duplicating virtual host stuff,

Re: [SLUG] setting system binaries to 0700 ?

2005-05-25 Thread Mike MacCana
Rick Welykochy wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:02:24PM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: If you did 'yum update ' regularly (every day, at the very least)) you most likely would not have been hit by this exploit. That is the best way/ path of

Re: [SLUG] setting system binaries to 0700 ?

2005-05-23 Thread Mike MacCana
Voytek wrote: following the awstats exploits, I'm setting wget/curl/lwp* to 0700 is there any reason I shouldn't set system binaries some/all to 0700 ? like chmod/chown ? I have no idea what awstats is asides from being some web app. But are you running SELinux? The httpd policy should

Re: [SLUG] Compilation of driver

2005-05-19 Thread Mike MacCana
Leslie Katz wrote: I am using Fedora Core 3. I must compile a driver for a webcam. I have the driver's developer's brief written instructions as to how to proceed. However, English is not his first language and, in any event, I've never done such a thing before. I've tried to interpret the

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

2005-05-18 Thread Mike MacCana
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They will have all on single button mice soon. Single button mouse works quite well here. There's a thing you set up in sysctl.conf: # Enables mac multibuttoning dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1 Right Alt key becomes your right click. Right Control key becomes

Re: [SLUG] Clipboards under X

2005-05-17 Thread Mike MacCana
David Gillies wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently using Ubuntu Hoary (top distro btw), but I have one minor annoyance. Up until I moved to Ubuntu, I'd been using Redhat/Fedora. The clipboard, regardless of whether I selected the text or ctrl+c the text, it ended up

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 applications don't

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu release names

2005-05-13 Thread Mike MacCana
Jeff Waugh wrote: I suggested Perky Penguin very early on. It was on the game plan for a while, but we decided perky wasn't edgy/interesting enough. :-) Looking forward to trying breezy... What about a Kudu? They're an African animal (ties in with the Ubuntu theme), and look a whole lot like a

Re: [SLUG] linux start up problem

2005-05-08 Thread Mike MacCana
Linley Caetan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am a newbe, veery bad at Linux, and I have a problem. My Linux server does not start up anymore. I have Red Hat 9 installed and when I start it goes to the 4th line setting hostname, it OK's it on the right, jumps to the next line and

Re: [SLUG] Compatibility Issues with Windows64

2005-05-05 Thread Mike MacCana
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 think the concern here is in file transfer between systems, and I think they are

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

2005-05-04 Thread Mike MacCana
Edwin Humphries wrote: We're quoting on a Linux thin-client network in a government-funded establishment. One of the comments (third-party so I haven't been able to check background) is that Federal Government bodies are concerned that there are Linux compatibility issues with upcoming 64-bit

Re: [SLUG] ext2 ifs driver

2005-04-26 Thread Mike MacCana
QuantumG wrote: At the Ubuntu conf yesterday a number of people brought up the issue of transfering files from linux to windows on a dual boot machine. Apparently the vast majority of people still use a FAT32 partition to do this (or a FAT32 formated removable drive like a USB stick). I just

Re: [SLUG] Failed Boot

2005-04-21 Thread Mike MacCana
dimitri wrote: I tried this as well, having boot troubles. Can't interact with Now that's 'i' for interfactive, you're pressing, not L (which kinda looks like an I sometimes). Try again - you need to hit it at exactly the right time, and you don't get much time (so just hit it lots). It'll

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

2005-04-19 Thread Mike MacCana
I don't bother asking if I can plug my laptop in, I ask where I should plug my laptop in. If a net cafe doesn't let you plug your laptop in, then ask them where another net cafe is. People who travel need to VPN back into their office all the time. Its totally unreasonable for a net cafe to not

Re: [SLUG] Failed Boot

2005-04-18 Thread Mike MacCana
Michael Fox wrote: On 4/18/05, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a RH system V9 which is hanging during boot at 'Mounting SMB Filesystems' we have left it for over 48 hours and it still does not progress. However it still responds to CTRL_ALT_DEL to re-boot, so is their another

Re: [SLUG] Date of installation of Fedora update

2005-04-07 Thread Mike MacCana
Leslie Katz wrote: Is there a way I can see in chronological order all the updates I've downloaded and installed, so that I can get a better idea of which update may have caused my problem? 'course there is. rpm -qa --last Shows all packages installed and the date they were installed on, latest

Re: [SLUG] RHEL 3 ? hardware req ?

2005-04-05 Thread Mike MacCana
Voytek wrote: I have a full copy of 'RHEL ES Basic 3' with 12 month RHN I see the current version is '4' is the '3' still OK to use ? RHEL 3 support will be available till 2010. RHEL 3 also currently has more applications certified for it then RHEL 4 does, but that depends on what apps you use

Re: [SLUG] Memory Usage

2005-03-09 Thread Mike MacCana
James Gray wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:52 pm, Rajnish wrote: All, Slight tangent to the current thread. James Gray wrote: Linux and most other real operating systems will take advantage of unused RAM and allocate it for disk buffers and disk cache. This is a good thing! The kernel will

Re: [SLUG] Puppy Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Mike MacCana
Benno wrote: On Tue Mar 08, 2005 at 21:48:00 +1100, john gibbons wrote: I think I just successfully downloaded the iso for Puppy and I also think I have successfully burnt a copy. No guarantees on either score, I am still in the early stages of understanding much about Linux. Can anyone tell

Re: [SLUG] Puppy Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Mike MacCana
Kevin Saenz wrote: NTFS. You can read/write NTFS reliably under Linux with 'captive NTFS'. GIYF. Isn't writing to NTFS still experimental? Using captive NTFS (which uses Microsoft's own driver to do the reading/writing), no, read and writing work fine. Using the OSS code in the kernel,

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

2005-03-07 Thread Mike MacCana
Terry Collins wrote: Ashley wrote: Anyone have any idea why this is happening? You used a naughty word/phrase according to the spam checker. Hehehe. *looks over mailing list folders, checks Slashdot, watches the flames burn* The Spam Checker is right. 'Operating System' is a dirty

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

2005-03-02 Thread Mike MacCana
Lindsay Holmwood wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:37:05 +1100 Elliott-Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gather that formatting the shared partition as VFAT is an option, but that it may be too slow for my intentions. Has anyone any experience around this, or with ideas about the best way to

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 Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-23 Thread Mike MacCana
Ben de Luca wrote: On 23/02/2005, at 5:12 PM, Mike MacCana wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:08:30 +1100, Mike MacCana That said, even if you don't have the second item, try anyway - if it says that, say, netstat has a bad MD5, then you know its bad - if it doesn't

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-23 Thread Mike MacCana
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:12:31 +1100, Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:12:02 +1100, Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:08:30 +1100, Mike MacCana

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-22 Thread Mike MacCana
Ben de Luca wrote: Is the second shell you run a login shell? there is an app called chkroot kit, I have never seen it return a positive, machines its been obvious on the machines that were rooted that I have seen that they were. If you run the rpms verify functions there is no guarentee that

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-22 Thread Mike MacCana
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:08:30 +1100, Mike MacCana That said, even if you don't have the second item, try anyway - if it says that, say, netstat has a bad MD5, then you know its bad - if it doesn't, then be aware there still could be a chance that the file has been

[SLUG] I need helop creating a chart in OpenOffice

2005-02-16 Thread Mike MacCana
There is clearly something I'm missing here. I have a simple spreadsheet in OpenOffice. It looks like this. 01:25:285.15 01:25:304.5 01:25:320 01:25:340 The time's on the left, a value is on the right. Just like the above. Except a lot longer. I'd like to chart

Re: [SLUG] I need help creating a chart in OpenOffice

2005-02-16 Thread Mike MacCana
'Help' too. Surprised the list let me from my non-subscribed addy. TIA Mike Mike MacCana wrote: There is clearly something I'm missing here. I have a simple spreadsheet in OpenOffice. It looks like this. 01:25:28 5.15 01:25:30 4.5 01:25:32 0 01:25:34 0 The time's on the left

Re: [SLUG] I need helop creating a chart in OpenOffice

2005-02-16 Thread Mike MacCana
Darren Williams wrote: Hi Mike On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Mike MacCana wrote: There is clearly something I'm missing here. I have a simple spreadsheet in OpenOffice. It looks like this. 01:25:285.15 01:25:304.5 01:25:320 01:25:340 The time's on the left, a value

Re: [SLUG] how to open an eps file

2005-02-14 Thread Mike MacCana
Andrewd wrote: As the title says, I have an eps file (for a logo). Any ideas on what I need to open it with. Open Office states it was created with adobe but no image. Karbon14 seems to lock up, and GIMP opens it but does not display it properly - any ideas? also I am using Mandrake 10. Thanx

Re: [SLUG] wiki choice

2005-02-14 Thread Mike MacCana
Prolly doesn't help the poster (who seemed to be looking for something small footprinted) but I met a fellow last week from a very large telco (who may well be on this list) where a good chunk of IT services were using MediaWiki in production and loving it. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] safe(ish) single-login from website

2005-02-14 Thread Mike MacCana
Taryn East wrote: they aparrently used to do this by having a url with the username/password in it (ie using basic http authentication with the login details as parameters). Firstly this is unsafe and secndly - microsoft (in a rare moment where their interests align with ours) has turned this

Re: [SLUG] mixed case web tree

2005-02-08 Thread Mike MacCana
Paul Robinson wrote: Since linux treats lowercase and LOWERCASE as seperate items there's no reason why this wouldn't work. An easier thing (ie less work for you) would be to use an apache mod_rewrite rule on the url. Won't mod_speling do this? IIRC one of its roles is to make web sites case

Re: [SLUG] forensics work without history file

2005-02-07 Thread Mike MacCana
Glen Turner wrote: Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: Is placing a keylogger even legal, with or without the employee's knowledge ? Some states have specific laws on workplace surveillance. NSW does, but I'm not sure of the details because I live in SA. OT, but if you need a good Linux keyblogger, I've

Re: [SLUG] X11 modeline calculator?

2005-01-26 Thread Mike MacCana
The solutions in the thread so far seem a little labor intensive: are y'all aware it should be possible to get exact modelines from your Windows monitor.inf file? I think there's even tools to put them into the format you'd use in xorg.conf (or XF86ConFiGrANdoMCAPS.CONFOMGWTFBBQ for those so

Re: [SLUG] winmodems fedora 3

2005-01-20 Thread Mike MacCana
Steven O'Reilly wrote: Phill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-20 22:37]: Has anyone managed to get a lucent winmodem to operate correctly under fedora 3? I am trying to use it to set a fax server under hylafax Packaged drivers for all the winmodems for FC3 are at dag.wieers.com. Put it in your

Re: [SLUG] Poor Qantas Web Site

2005-01-18 Thread Mike MacCana
Bill wrote: Anybody tried booking an online fare with Qantas (Qaint-ass?). The Qantas website is terrible. I travel at least a week of every month and will never book flights through the site. I can't be bothered sending an email. Fuck them if they don't want my business. Pardon the French

Re: [SLUG] Poor Qantas Web Site

2005-01-18 Thread Mike MacCana
Conrad Parker wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:59:52PM +1100, Mike MacCana wrote: Bill wrote: Anybody tried booking an online fare with Qantas (Qaint-ass?). The Qantas website is terrible. I travel at least a week of every month and will never book flights through the site. I

Re: [SLUG] Wanting a single file from an rpm.

2005-01-18 Thread Mike MacCana
Bill Bennett wrote: I want to install elvis (a vi clone) and have the rpm. There's a failed dependency: it needs libtinfo.so.5 Did a search: it's contained in ncurses-5.2-34.i686.rpm Obtained this. Can't install/upgrade (have tried). What happens when you try? I know how to do what you want,

Re: [SLUG] Swap speed

2004-12-15 Thread Mike MacCana
Lyle Chapman wrote: Has anyone got any ideas on how to speed up a swap space/drive, Buy more RAM, it's cheap. Failing that, use the fastest part of the disk for the swap partition - that's the outer edge, or the first few sectors. I have a 3ghz, 2gb ram, 2gb swap on ata machine running FC3. I

Re: [SLUG] Windows on Linux

2004-12-13 Thread Mike MacCana
Peter Rundle wrote: Terry, Just checking applications for folks making the transistion. Looking for apps/? that provide/emulate ms windows on Linux. There is also Bochs which could loosely be described as a freeware version of VMWare. You want QEMU - its Open Source, will happily run Windows

Re: [SLUG] jfs on rh73 ?

2004-12-11 Thread Mike MacCana
Voytek wrote: quote who=O Plameras As root, check that you have the module device driver configured: 1) # ls /lib/modules/2.4.???/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.o # ls /lib/modules/2.4.???/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.o Actually, better yet: modinfo jfs Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] fedora

2004-12-10 Thread Mike MacCana
Ken Caldwell wrote: quote who=Rajnish I have a few questions on Ubuntu and fedora - I want to change to a less memory intensive window manager. I've heard of a few .. but how do I swap to them ? You could do in the root terminal aptitude install icewm icewm-themes menu update-menus

Re: [SLUG] Goals

2004-12-05 Thread Mike MacCana
Rick Welykochy wrote: john gibbons wrote: I would like to raise the goal post for Linux software interface developers from 'intuitional' to 'bloody obvious'. I am getting some frustration off my chest after trying to download some Linux software for the first time and get it up and running.

Re: [SLUG] BIND DNS settings

2004-12-05 Thread Mike MacCana
Edwin Humphries wrote: Just changing our DNS settings after churning to a new provider. I remember there is a setting for BIND that tells it to refer DNS requests for addresses it does not have cached to a specific name-server, rather than doing a top-down DNS resolution. Now I can't find it.

[SLUG] Re: [linux-elitists] heidelberg

2004-11-08 Thread Mike MacCana
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Mike MacCana Jeff, I'm a little dissappointed: I was hoping to chat with a cool guy who does interesting stuff you about the similar major attributes of the distributions blah blah passive aggressive blah blah Actually I was being serious. And trying

Re: [SLUG] Re: Preventing attacks

2004-11-08 Thread Mike MacCana
Ken Foskey wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 23:27 +1100, James Gregory wrote: faster (and just as secure) block cipher algorithms like DES or Blowfish Foes anyone know the ciphers that kerberos uses? I was going to ask the person that did cryptography in Uni recently :-) Triple DES,

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Mike MacCana
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=O Plameras He once said, if you have a point, Hammer on that point; Oscar, you claimed that building kernels is required for securing servers. You have not backed that up. You have not provided any substantial evidence to suggest - particularly to the

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Mike MacCana
O Plameras wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: The other thing that's worh mentioning (and more to do with security than the point above) is that if there's a few hundred thousand people using the exact same kernel build as you, you have the advantage on being able to pool resources with them via your

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Mike MacCana
O Plameras wrote: When required it is applied to glibc. Again, priorites. With Solaries they warrant that their product will do what they claim it will do. This is not the case with Linux. ! (ending the thread with a bang rather than a wimper) Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Why can I remove a file owned by root:root ?

2004-10-27 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:42 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all Im a bit confused. Prob something simple. -rw-r--r--1 root root 1968 Oct 27 15:25 report As mikel I can remove the file report. rm: remove write-protected regular file `report'? y done ! as its

Re: [SLUG] Swap file performance tuning ?

2004-10-26 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:15 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: Alternatively, a partition in the center of the disk, so the head never needs to move more than 0.5 of a disk. But this is more than compensated for by the faster velocity of the outside edge of the disk, according to every performance

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu (pivot_root: No such file or directory)

2004-10-21 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:01 +1000, John Hedge wrote: Hi, I've just spent the weekend loading Ubuntu on my Thinkpad 570E. I get this error: pivot_root: No such file or directory One beer says you deleted /initrd, the empty directory which pivot_root uses. People always do this. Distro's

[SLUG] Case insensitive tab completetion not working

2004-10-15 Thread Mike MacCana
Haya folks, I'd like tab completion to be case insensitive. I've added set completion-ignore-case on to my .inputrc. And restarted a shell. I've made a directory 'TEst dir', and tried to change into it by typing: cd tetab But no luck. Any ideas? Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Modem drivers

2004-10-08 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:37 +1000, O Plameras wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: Aye, it is indeed. /dev/rfcomm0 is your serial port, your phone is your modem. And all for a mere $3.38 per MB. Thanks Optus! It is provided as WAP service by telecom companies. Er, yes. Hence 'thanks Optus' above

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Modem drivers

2004-10-05 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 01:44 +1000, O Plameras wrote: Steven Chang-Lin Yu wrote: Wireless modem? when did modem become wireless? or you mean the adsl modem/router Bluetooth dongle works as a modem using BlueZ rfcomm protocol stack. You can dial to another Bluetooth enabled device and

Re: [SLUG] Amazing what you can do with shell script, a neat blogger.

2004-09-23 Thread Mike MacCana
*.* cd archives lcd archives mput * Some people with far too much time and a shell manual :-) -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

2004-09-13 Thread Mike MacCana
sparse files. Are you sure? IIRC Virtual Server 2005 (MSs VMware competitor) has to do all kinds of clunky stuff cause NTFS doesn't support sparse files... Mike -- Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

2004-09-13 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:18 +1000, Crossfire wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: Crossfire wrote: Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been its lack of dump/restore

Re: [SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

2004-09-13 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 12:18 +1000, James Gregory wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:23 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: Someone said NTFS supports sparse files. Are you sure? IIRC Virtual Server 2005 (MSs VMware competitor) has to do all kinds of clunky stuff cause NTFS doesn't support sparse

Re: [SLUG] Problems mounting Windows2000 shares (cifs/smbfs)

2004-08-04 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Simon Wong wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:05, Mike MacCana wrote: Either upgrade your Samba to support signing (as the latest Samba does by default) or modify your 2003 server to disable signing (see the MS knowledgebase of getting NT 4 for talk to 2K3 domain

Re: [SLUG] The Sound of Silence

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Bruce Badger Use fuser or lsof to find out what has the device open. Sure you haven't got a stray esd process going? :-) Why, I *do* have an esd process running! How did that get there? I see nothing in /etc/init.d. It's not a

Re: [SLUG] re:passwd file corrupted

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, O Plameras wrote: thanks Tried booting with restore linux and set blank password for root. on reboot in run level 5 still get authentication error Scratching head and thinking what next. Hi, I'm going to be rude to everyone else and tell you I'll solve your problem

Re: [SLUG] re:passwd file corrupted

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, O Plameras wrote: I'll answer all your questions, because I'd been in this situation many times over: Does logging in locally work ? NO Does logging in remotely work ? NO Does logging in to terminal ? NO Does logging in graphically ? NO THANKS FOR THE CAPS. What

Re: [SLUG] re:passwd file corrupted

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, O Plameras wrote: I'll answer all your questions, because I'd been in this situation many times over: Um, that makes no sense. You're not Linley, you're not on his machine, different problems have different symptoms. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] The Sound of Silence

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Mike MacCana You run GNOME? gnome-session runs it if you elect to start a sound server (on the Sound preferences dialogue). Out of interest, will that change in future? The ability to choose, or the choice of sound server? Neither

Re: [SLUG] Problems mounting Windows2000 shares (cifs/smbfs)

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Simon Wong wrote: Afternoon all! I am hoping someone on this enlightened list can help me as I've run out of ideas to try. After a recent domain upgrade from an NT to Windows 2003 domain at my work I can no longer mount shares on a Windows 2000 server. After extensive

Re: [SLUG] The Sound of Silence

2004-08-03 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: Well, if remote sound and software mixing is not important to you, Or, more likely, if you prefer another solution... you can turn it off. But it's not going to happen upstream, until we have another cross-platform solution. esound is simple, and it

Re: [SLUG] Bloat [Was: Which flavour of Linux]

2004-08-02 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dean Hamstead personally i would never consider mandrake ever. its major bloatware (so flame me *shrug*) debian is really really good. I havent used fedora but redhat was seriously becoming bloatware and i just left it. mandrake took

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Font Server [Was: X11 Font?]

2004-07-13 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Rob Weir Fedora still uses a font server by default? Why? So that workstations don't have to cache large amounts of fonts locally? Why wouldn't you want to use a font server? Am I missing something? Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] forcing anaconda to change graphics/video driver from Sis 530 to Sis 620

2004-07-13 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, The Salisburys wrote: Hi all A challenge for the tech heads. On my redhat 7.3 machine the video SIS 620 device is detected as a SIS 530 device. (I don't want to upgrade ) (Yes debian detects it OK) The SIS530 does work but not very well. Causes distortion in some

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Font Server [Was: X11 Font?]

2004-07-13 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Mike MacCana On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Rob Weir Fedora still uses a font server by default? Why? So that workstations don't have to cache large amounts of fonts locally? Why wouldn't you want to use

Re: [SLUG] Redhat ES

2004-07-10 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 13:38, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi Okay silly question but how/where do you tell redhat-config-packages to not look for a CD ? /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources I think... having only done kickstart over http installs of

Re: [SLUG] learning dhcpd

2004-07-07 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: I am trying to serve dhcp out of eth2, eth0 is my optus internet connection. Can i specify in dhcp which interface to use? syslog: Jul 7 18:18:01 erupt dhcpd: No subnet

Re: [SLUG] Dell notebook. Any experiences

2004-06-29 Thread Mike MacCana
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Theo Julienne wrote: Ben Donohue wrote: Any experiences, Good, Bad or Ugly with Dell and Linux? I've been successfully running Linux on my Dell Inspiron 8600. I was originally running RedHat, but am now running LFS. Both work perfectly with everything. Including the

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have any experience with Kiosks?

2004-06-28 Thread Mike MacCana
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Robinson wrote: Hi Sluggers, Trying to lock down a RH9 box so that it automatically logs in as a kiosk user and then starts up a FireFox browser window only (no window manager). I've achieved this to an extent - The only thing that doesn't work is the keyboard. I

Re: [SLUG] Dell notebook. Any experiences

2004-06-28 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, James Gray wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:28 am, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, I'm just about to purchase a Dell Inspiron notebook. (Taxtime) It comes with XP but Linux will definitely be loaded on as well. I have a Dell Inspiron 8500, and run FC2. You might be buying

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have any experience with Kiosks?

2004-06-28 Thread Mike MacCana
Don't know, check bugzilla. Mike -- __ Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCX, MCSE, MCP+I 0419 394 504 On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Robinson wrote: Is the bug purely on RH9? If not, which

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 2 Blues Sound/Mouse

2004-06-17 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 from Redhat 9, as I needed to upgrade to the latest GTK2. The result was that the sound card would not work, Fedora now uses ALSA system.config-sound will help you set up your card Make sure the

[SLUG] Re: Linux (preferably open-source) alternatives to Exchange server ?

2004-06-17 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:09, Matthew Wallis wrote: On 16/06/2004, at 10:51 AM, Peter Skipworth wrote: The office needs the following - server-based email (so probably IMAP) - webmail - shared address book/contacts - calendering (meetings, appointments, etc, for both

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux (preferably open-source) alternatives to Exchange server ?

2004-06-17 Thread Mike MacCana
Oops, wrong list. Mike On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 21:00, Mike MacCana wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:09, Matthew Wallis wrote: On 16/06/2004, at 10:51 AM, Peter Skipworth wrote: The office needs the following - server-based email (so probably IMAP) - webmail

Re: [SLUG] ftp servers with packages

2004-06-15 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 20:11, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 19:27, Richard Neal wrote: Hai I was just wondering of the bat is there any were, where all the rpm/.deb src package servers are all listed for newbiesnot just rpmfind and the normal sourceforge stuff but a list

Re: [SLUG] DOWNGRADING Redhat9 and RedhatEL3 from httpd 2 to Apache 1.3 to install freeside

2004-06-12 Thread Mike MacCana
What's freeside? Isn't there an Apache HTTPD 2 port? Mike -- __ Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCX, MCSE, MCP+I 0419 394 504 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, The Salisburys wrote

Re: [SLUG] Which open source license is best

2004-06-05 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 13:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey For the record. I believe that LGPL is the only true Open Source license. Don't go down this road. Open Source and Free Software have definitions. Aye. The Open Source Definition is at www.opensource.org. You will note

Re: [SLUG] Developing FOSS while employed developing proprietary software

2004-06-02 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 11:31, Dave Airlie wrote: Trolltech? MySQL? There's a pretty big list of profitable software companies that release their golden geese under FOSS licenses. (FOSS == Free and Open Source Software, you don't have to say FOSS/OSS.) You do have to note that these are

Re: [SLUG] Developing FOSS while employed developing proprietary software

2004-06-02 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:04, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004, Mike MacCana wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 11:31, Dave Airlie wrote: You do have to note that these are companies that started with complete copyright on their works, I think you're confusing copyright

[SLUG] Useful sources file for Fedora Core 2, including local mirrors and multimedia stuff

2004-06-01 Thread Mike MacCana
The following file specifies a bunch of compatible sources for Fedora Core 2. Australian mirrors are used wherever possible. 2184 unique packages are available. Save the file below to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. up2date --showall shows all packages. You might wanna pipe that through grep to

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