Re: [SLUG] Re: Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alex, I use a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 (thanks to a swap with Lindsay, our esteemed leader :)) I have exactly the same camera (after getting high recommendations for it) and it connects perfectly to my Debian (Sarge and now Etch).

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what package provides fglrx_dri.so? apt-file search fglrx_dri.so should get you the answer (I'm on Debian so can't give a direct answer). Be aware that apt-file doesn't know how to read the multiple files under

Re: apt-file (was Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper))

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Steve Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only for

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When Pendo first mentioned apt-file I thought it was actually able to find files in packages which weren't installed. Unfortunately this is not the case. From the apt-files package description: Unlike apt-cache, you can search in

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I *really* think that you got the wrong end of the stick here. I have been using Debian for over 5 years but had never come across the apt-file command before and was genuinely greatful for Pendos response. No worries. Maybe

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as a home user be interested in any way in VOIP. 1. It's just plain MUCH cheaper even for local calls in Australia (I use iiNet, which isn't the cheapest but that's

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. My first suspicion in such cases is the hardware - is the computer

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: Been there. rm link No trailing slash. No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link. Thanks anyway. Got a bit to excited. rm -ri `ls -l link | awk

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems to be the widespread consensus, and it does just switch off. The amount of time between being switched on and switching itself off ranges from minutes to hours. It's a P3, and isn't supposed to need a fan. The main fan is

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How weary should I be of the extra keys and the extra functionality, it would be nice to link the mail button to mutt etc how easy is it to do. Just asking to get people opinion and maybe some advise on the pitfalls to avoid. I can't give

Re: [SLUG] Ramping Spam Rampant - again

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 31/12/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: statistical sample) using GeoIP, and the results are below; which goes to demonstrate that the world's most technologically advanced country is also the world's biggest PITA, let along being the world's biggest terrorist :( I'm no SPAM

FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 31/12/06, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the VoIP ports included, and the ability to run 3-DES VPN tunnels to work. Speaking of VoIP - does anyone know whether there is ANY possibility to connect a simple FAX machine to an IP network and send/receive faxes with other non-IP

Re: FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fax does not go well on VOIP, to do with VOIP sending discrete packets and suppressing silences, where a fax is one great big block of data, not designed to be broken up. Yes I know that. But there is something called T.38

Re: [SLUG] Is there a solution ...

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blush after reading this 10 times I still am not sure what this means ... Just get your router to point to Tigger I think he means configure the router to forward all incoming TCP connections on port 80 to the internal private network

Re: FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Asterisk system has a Digium TDM400P card and I use one of the ports on that to connect my (very old - 1996) fax machine as well as my internal cordless phone (also very old) and my PSTN lines. And does the other side of that card

Re: FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

2007-01-01 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's some reports of it working well using NodePhone, through an Internode connection, but I haven't tried it myself: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=646039 So basically, what the first reply says is that if I get something

Re: [SLUG] is Perl really needed ?

2006-12-28 Thread Penedo
On 28/12/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel this is like moving ssh to a non-stand port, a small measure to reduce exposure. I actually did this mostly to keep the system logs much cleaner (especially with Apache). In any case it still requires a password to use ssh. lastly,

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Penedo
On 29/12/06, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm looking for - if it exists - is a GUI for LSOF that updates in real-time. Under Winblows ( some time ago now) I had such a tool - one that showed connected IP, port and program name. Don't remember what it was called. I usually associate

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Penedo
On 29/12/06, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under linux, sockets are files, so lsof does show sockets as well. I know lsof can monitor also network connections but that's not because sockets are files. UNIX-domain sockets, which are usually uninteresting, indeed occupy i-nodes on

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Penedo
On 29/12/06, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the lsof man page: An open file may be a regular file, a directory, a block special file, a character special file, an executing text reference, a library, a stream or a network file (Internet socket, NFS file or UNIX domain socket.)

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Penedo
On 29/12/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:24:23AM +1100, bill wrote: What I'm looking for - if it exists - is a GUI for LSOF that updates in real-time. Under Winblows ( some time ago now) I had such a tool - one that showed connected IP, port and

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Penedo
On 29/12/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something based on inotify or similar must be around somewhere That was exactly what I though when I read Bill's original question (after all, Bill mentioned lsof) but it looks like Bill is interested in network traffic and inotify only

Re: [SLUG] is Perl really needed ?

2006-12-27 Thread Penedo
On 28/12/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what do I need Perl on my server, apart from stuff I've added, like, amavisd or popb4smtp ?? If you had a Debian system then you could tell exactly which package declares dependency on perl. Debian's perl-base package is declared as

Re: [SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-27 Thread Penedo
On 28/12/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: if I decide to do a source install for some of the applications, am I likely to cause myself grief later on? It's possible that the source installs will need later version libraries than those that are part of the

Re: [SLUG] editing iptables on Centos

2006-12-27 Thread Penedo
On 28/12/06, Alexander Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: what's the range of acceptable non-standard port #s for webmin and ssh, can I use any 5 digit number ? G'day again, To be honest I'm not 100% sure. From memory anything about 10,000 is considered fine, but I've

Re: [SLUG] is Perl really needed ?

2006-12-27 Thread Penedo
On 28/12/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, December 28, 2006 10:37 am, Penedo wrote: On 28/12/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect you are looking at this in the wrong way - try to contain the CMS systems (e.g. maybe run them under a limited user

Re: [SLUG] denyhosts feedback sought

2006-12-26 Thread Penedo
On 27/12/06, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't bother with it. Just firewall off SSH to only your IPs or use portknocking. Makes the problem denyhosts tried to address go away. How practical is it to relay on portknocking when you have to access from machines on which you can't

Re: [SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-26 Thread Penedo
On 19/12/06, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:26:52AM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: on several ocassions I had malware downloaded and executed from /tmp (through CMS vulnerability); there was a suggestion here to mount /tmp as non executable; - do I need to

Re: [SLUG] denyhosts feedback sought

2006-12-26 Thread Penedo
On 27/12/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I carry a self booting USBdrive with systemrescuecd http://www.systemrescuecd.org/ on it and where possible ask whether they mind me rebooting their PC with it, pointing out that by doing so I will not be touching their hard drive. In many

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Penedo
On 15/12/06, Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I.T. much as they have other things to do and so it tends to be Exchange will do - that's what everybody else in education uses isn't it. Much as I'd hate to admit this, I can understand them - Sticking to something that supposed to be a

Re: [SLUG] 686 || !686

2006-12-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/12/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since dapper, the Ubuntu kernels have automagically handled SMP/UP where appropriate, too. :-) And still - is there a good way to find out the exact cpu information in a useful way for a script? Something a-la the script used by gcc's source

Re: [SLUG] 686 || !686

2006-12-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/12/06, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Penedo wrote: And still - is there a good way to find out the exact cpu information in a useful way for a script? Something a-la the script used by gcc's source code to automatically decide which architecture it should build

Re: [SLUG] 686 || !686

2006-12-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/12/06, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By implication, I don't know what Ubuntu considers 686 when building a kernel image. I'm guessing that it uses gcc definitions, but that is no help, since I don't know gcc's mapping, either. I've just found that config.guess exists in many

Re: [SLUG] ADSL without paying for a phone line?

2006-12-11 Thread Penedo
On 12/12/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at the possibility of using VoIP on your ADSL connection to mitigate your mobile call charges, thus justifying the cost of you line rental. How is that? Once you have an IP hart beat you don't need the POTS line. I'm

Re: [SLUG] bind: allowing controlled recursive to named.conf

2006-12-09 Thread Penedo
On 09/12/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked the link for info http://dnsreport.com/info/opendns.htm and, inserted this into my named.conf: recursion no; allow-recursion { 203.42.34.53; 203.42.34.54; }; so, now I have like: options { directory

Re: Elementary DNS theory (Was: Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer))

2006-12-06 Thread Penedo
On 07/12/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: O Plameras wrote: The authority to associate NAME to ip address has to be propagated up to the ROOT servers. You mean to say that AARNET can do this without the express approval from the owners of 203.7.132.1 ? NO,

Re: Elementary DNS theory (Was: Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer))

2006-12-06 Thread Penedo
On 07/12/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DaZZa wrote: On 12/7/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=O Plameras So, I know what I'm talking about if that's what you're asking. Sorry Oscar, we're not asking you, we're telling you: You don't know what you're talking

Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer)

2006-12-05 Thread Penedo
On 06/12/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you use STATIC ip addresses for your local Servers at all that provide services like WWW, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Address Directory, local DNS, Auth servers, and other local services ? What I do is to assign an IP address to my Debian machine

Re: [SLUG] what is the status on base-config

2006-12-03 Thread Penedo
On 04/12/06, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am seeing references to base-config here and there in installation instructions, but find that the package no longer exists. What kind of installation instructions? As far as I understand it (after numerous installations of all

Re: [SLUG] what is the status on base-config

2006-12-03 Thread Penedo
On 04/12/06, Penedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what base-config does, or how to manually accomplish what it does? Or perhaps I should just manually install it from a tarball, use it and then throw it away. If you are new to debian and want to just install it then don't bother

Re: [SLUG] Extracting images from PDF file?

2006-12-02 Thread Penedo
On 02/12/06, charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While on this topic of PDFs would anyone know of a PDF viewer that is capable of filling in forms etc for Linux? Adobe reader is only able to view not fill in forms sadly. As far as I understood this, it's more of a matter of the PDF file itself

Re: [SLUG] Extracting images from PDF file?

2006-12-01 Thread Penedo
On 26/11/06, Penedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/11/06, Robert Thorsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try pdf2ps which might give you a printable output. Try pdfimages. Try pdftk (PDF Toolkit) Will let you know how it went when I try it next week. OK, I've finally got around to test

Re: [SLUG] Problems backing up a server to SMBFS

2006-11-28 Thread Penedo
On 29/11/06, Raphael Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, Distro/kernel: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.8-3-k7-smp I'm writing backups to a directory mounted using smb, with tar - tar clpsvzf myfilename.tar.gz --atime-preserve --same-owner / It seems to be stopping after 2GB, and it isn't

Re: [SLUG] introducing myself

2006-11-27 Thread Penedo
On 27/11/06, Carlo Sogono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would you want it to be pre-installed? Kinda narrows down your flavour of Linux. Just buy a cheap PC from a store like MSY and install your distro of choice. And get an excellent learning experience in the process. --P -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Extracting images from PDF file?

2006-11-25 Thread Penedo
On 25/11/06, Robert Thorsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006.11.24 09:23 Penedo wrote: Speaking of PDF processing - I have twice reserved rental cars through GINZ (ginz.com) and both times they sent me a scanned page of the reservation voucher inside a PDF file which won't print

Re: [SLUG] Extracting images from PDF file?

2006-11-25 Thread Penedo
On 25/11/06, Tony Lissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you only have a small number to do try the Gimp open the pdf on the page number of the image and select it with the dotted box thingy, crop and save as *.ps or whatever. Thanks. I prefer the programmatic option but will try this trick if

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-24 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess grep is detecting whether it's talking to a terminal, and doesn't buffer if it is (or probably line buffers). There is no need to guess here - it's standard stdio behaviour (from stdio(3)): When opened, the standard error stream

[SLUG] Extracting images from PDF file?

2006-11-24 Thread Penedo
Hi, Speaking of PDF processing - I have twice reserved rental cars through GINZ (ginz.com) and both times they sent me a scanned page of the reservation voucher inside a PDF file which won't print. I tried to print on multiple printers, both from Linux and Windows and always all I get are some

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-24 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:10:14PM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't get the output in as timely a fashion; it comes with spurts as the buffer is filled up then written out. What

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to tail -f the syslog file but I only want to see what I want to see and I don't want to see what I don't what to see. The idea is to tail follow through a filter. Is that possible. What's wrong with tail -f syslog | grep ...? --P

[SLUG] Printing Autobook?

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to print the latest autobook from CVS (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/) on Debian Etch, but as much as this thing is about documentation I can't find any instructions on converting it to PDF. I checked out CVS (maybe this is the root of the problem) and

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:23:37AM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to tail -f the syslog file but I only want to see what I want to see and I don't want to see what I don't what to see

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tail -f /var/log/syslog |grep something |grep -v but-not-this |less Make it | less -F +/re-to-highlight so you can always ^C to scroll back through the output then type F again to get back to the bottom and tail from there. A wry

Re: [SLUG] November SLUG Monthly Meeting

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
Hi, The meeting shows as happening at 7:30 AM in the published iCal (webcal://slug.org.au/event/ical) Thanks for organizing it. Oops, I'll miss it (and Jeff's NM presentation) again...:-( --P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] November SLUG Monthly Meeting

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Drupal event module does some wacky stuff with date munging, to the point where most readers get the date completely wrong. I just took a quick look through it - OUCH! There's a candidate for thedailywtf.com - he tries to keep track of

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Penedo
On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't get the output in as timely a fashion; it comes with spurts as the buffer is filled up then written out. What buffer? tail's manual doesn't mention anything about buffers but my experience is that you get individual lines even

Re: [SLUG] Re:SLUG] Edgy Upgrade

2006-11-19 Thread Penedo
On 19/11/06, Richard Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just backup your /home directory and start afresh, it will be quicker and you will retain more hair on your scalp. Or take the opportunity to switch to Debian. I happened to have a chance to upgrade between any two consecutive version of

Re: [SLUG] System boot hanging at Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)

2006-11-18 Thread Penedo
On 18/11/06, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, As the subject says my system hangs at this point. /etc/rc.local only has exit 0 in it. I can ssh into the machine, thankfully, but what can I do to stop it hanging at this point, please? If you can ssh into the machine then it means that

Re: [SLUG] can ruby run perl/python libraries?

2006-11-16 Thread Penedo
On 17/11/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of learning Ruby - is there an easy way of running Perl and Python code/libraries from Ruby? I've googled and browsed manuals in Dymocks Library ^H^H^H Bookshop, can't seem to find an answer. Reason I ask is that I want to learn

Re: [SLUG] map index mashup

2006-11-15 Thread Penedo
On 16/11/06, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to get the names of the various map sheets from the web, while looking at a map? E.g. a Google Maps mashup which shows the 1:1M, 1:250K, 1:100K and 1:50K map sheet names (and boundaries) under the cursor? Can't

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/11/06, Phil Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience in using postgrey and fairUCE together ? Would this combination be better than a challenge/response system like http://www.totalblock.net/ ? From reading the first few lines describing what postgrey does

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and you trust Google not to sell the email addresses of those with whom you correspond?... *clink* (That was the sound of yet another dollar going into Google's pockets for having your address in their spam pool. Thanks for your

Re: [SLUG] Trying to get FuzzyOcr going...

2006-11-12 Thread Penedo
On 12/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have put some debugging into the Perl script and I have isolated the problem down to this piece of code (including my debug code): flock( PIPE_IN, LOCK_EX ); my $lannet_err = $?; print PIPE_IN $input; my $lannet_err =

Relevance of dump (was: Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.)

2006-11-12 Thread Penedo
On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump. Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity. I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current world of multiple file system types, a quick Google came up

Re: [SLUG] Linux UI decision

2006-11-11 Thread Penedo
On 11/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I have begun development using Qt, as my X/Motif/Tk book is about a decade old - there are so many IDE's, does anyone think this environment has a future in the workplace? Qt is what KDE is based on. I suppose it has some future, to

Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package

2006-11-06 Thread Penedo
On 07/11/06, Jeremy Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can modify the version number in ./DEBIAN/control, but can't seem to build any further from there afterwards. To quote the dpkg-repack manual: The package can be built from this temporary directory by running dpkg --build, passing it the

Re: [SLUG] Some Thoughts Regarding Spam

2006-11-05 Thread Penedo
On 06/11/06, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure the spam has increased, just it's currently able to get through the filters more. It's an arms race and, at this point in time, the spammers are winning. Actually, from having access to the records of a major ISP (though

Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package

2006-11-04 Thread Penedo
On 04/11/06, Jeremy Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My goal is to start putting the customisations I have made to the Ubuntu Desktop CD into packages, rather than just manually editing all the I've never tried this but recently I found dpsyco in my Edge repository - here is a pointer to the

Re: [SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem

2006-11-03 Thread Penedo
On 03/11/06, Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need root access to create a passwordless login (providing the admin's haven't explicitly changed the default). I know, but imagine asking a server admin in a company where there are lots of policies, bla bla, if I can have a

Re: [SLUG] Flash9 Beta for Linux - only for those who want it :)

2006-11-01 Thread Penedo
On 01/11/06, Luke Kilborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have flash 9 and ff2 working just fine together on a few machine. Thanks to everyone for reporting success. At least now I know that the problem must be on my side (Debian Etch on Dual Pentium 4 and an AMD Barton). Cheers, --P -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Flash9 Beta for Linux - only for those who want it :)

2006-10-31 Thread Penedo
On 01/11/06, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies for the typing (baby in one hand - penguin in the other) I've just tried out Flash9 beta - install is s easy :) Yes but did you try this with Firefox 2? When I tried it back when it was released (about a week

Re: [SLUG] Pants off, SLUGsters

2006-10-26 Thread Penedo
On 26/10/06, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Adam Kennedy I gather this is the why don't we just block EVERY post with an image approach... failing... but good idea :) Yeah, we figured that, instead of setting up an OCR anti-spam thingy,

Re: [SLUG] How to correctly remove a Debian package whose status is 'deinstall'.

2006-10-26 Thread Penedo
On 27/10/06, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how do I remove the files listed by dpkg and have the package manager know that it is now not installed? I know there is --force but I'm not sure if that's the right thing for here. The package isn't broken. re-install then purge the

Re: [SLUG] How to correctly remove a Debian package whose status is 'deinstall'.

2006-10-26 Thread Penedo
On 27/10/06, Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience if the package is a bit crufty then dpkg is the better bet. As far as I can tell - dpkg lies underneath all the rest (apt-get, aptitude, synaptec, whatever). They are all interfaces to do the file finding and other operations

Re: [SLUG] seeking tips on where to park for tonight's meeting

2006-10-26 Thread Penedo
On 27/10/06, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's some multi-story carparks provided by the City of Willoughby off Willoughby Road; I think this will be free at that time. That's about There is one on Pole Ln. between Hume St. and Oxley St.: *http://tinyurl.com/yk2r86* (have to

Re: [SLUG] Sound problem of Compaq Presario B3800

2006-10-25 Thread Penedo
On 25/10/06, Faint Da [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Compaq Presario B3800 laptop. Recently I switchUnless you find an answer here, I'd recommend you to go through the ALSA web site[1]'s FAQ's and HOWTO's to find out how to figure which sound hardware you have and how much support it has in

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

2006-10-24 Thread Penedo
On 24/10/06, Dave Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: easier. A decent setup with postfix/amavis/postgrey gets most peoplemost of the way with filtering. Maia is strictly for the hardcore :)Does this setup also addresses image spam?(I'm asking because I see this subject raised on a parallel Linux

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

2006-10-24 Thread Penedo
On 25/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Penedo, see FuzzyOcrPlugin for spamassassin http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin. I've written up a quick install at http://www.snowfrog.net/?q=node/417PS as a quick fix in procmail - rate images higher:Thanks very much. I've

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

2006-10-24 Thread Penedo
On 25/10/06, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anything spamassassin supports, amavis and or Maia support. You can load inThanks. That answers it.Cheers,--P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Penedo
On 19/10/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... egrep .$TMPThis is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough.Someone else could have a file of the same name as $TMP What I tend to do is make a directory and put files inthere.You're guaranteed that mkdir will return errorif it

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Penedo
On 19/10/06, James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Now step through the mail store one file (message) at a timefor MSG in `find $MAILROOT -print -type f`do # Each message we find - rip out the e-mail address # The sed command isn't mine - I got it from here: #

Re: [SLUG] image spam counter measures ?

2006-10-16 Thread Penedo
On 16/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't I then have to wait around to the exact moment SA opens thefile for fuser to work? Or is there some way to make fuser wait in thebackground?I don't see a way to tell fuser to stoke a file and see who opens it. Does SA run a separate

Re: [SLUG] Re: Has anyone tried Asterisk?

2006-10-15 Thread Penedo
On 16/10/06, Jon Teh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious as to why using desktops as telephones is bad?I understand it is unnecesary complication for a lot of non-technical users.But I find I prefer using a desktop with a headset especially for longer phone calls, it is more comfortable than

Re: [SLUG] image spam counter measures ?

2006-10-15 Thread Penedo
On 16/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When setting up the log files for FuzzyOcr, what ownership/permissionsshould I use for the log and hashdb files? I used 666 just to get itgoing, but would like to tighten it up.I presume the account that SpamAssassin runs under - how do I work

Re: [SLUG] image spam counter measures ?

2006-10-08 Thread Penedo
On 09/10/06, Martin Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for debian derivs try searching for perl module packages like so...# apt-cache search dns | grep perllibnet-dns-perl - Perform DNS queries from a Perl scriptcourier-filter-perl - purely Perl-based mail filter framework for the Courier MTA

Re: [SLUG] Vodafone 3G/GPRS cards and Linux

2006-10-05 Thread Penedo
On 06/10/06, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also, if its just gprs you need, then you don't need the vodafone card, justa gprs/gsm modem will be fine - one of the ones from Intercel with a standardsim would work fine.And just as I was reading this - GMail's advertisement was for the

Re: [SLUG] mplayer plugin

2006-10-04 Thread Penedo
On 04/10/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Penedo Could someone give a more specific pointer? The only installix (and variations) I can find in Google are mis-typed installing.The one I think Simon is referring to is Automatix, but the one you really want is EasyUbuntu. :-)Thanks

Re: [SLUG] sfdisk - missing in action!

2006-10-04 Thread Penedo
On 04/10/06, Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over at http://packages.ubuntu.com and http://packages.debian.orgyou can search through the contents of packages. And easier way to search such stuff is using apt-file:$ apt-file search sfdiskmanpages-ja:

Re: [SLUG] mplayer plugin

2006-10-04 Thread Penedo
On 04/10/06, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Penedo wrote:The one I think Simon is referring to is Automatix, but the one youreallywant is EasyUbuntu. :-)Sorry you're right.Automatix is the one I meant.Was at work and made a quick answer.No worries. Thanks

Re: [SLUG] mplayer plugin

2006-10-04 Thread Penedo
On 04/10/06, Paul Dwerryhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marillat's archive of multimedia Debian packages is probably what youwant:deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid mainI already have it in my sources.lists(.d), this (together with debian.pkgs.cpan.org) is the only external source I kept

Re: [SLUG] Cdrom driver issue with installing Ubuntu 6.06 on Sun Ultra Enterprise 2

2006-10-03 Thread Penedo
On 04/10/06, Brian Sydney Jathanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 on Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 server and it tries toload the cdrom driver but doesn't find it. Has anyone had any luck installing Ubuntu on Sun enterprise server? Can anyone give any hints on

Re: [SLUG] mplayer plugin

2006-10-03 Thread Penedo
On 04/10/06, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out Installix (not sure URL) which installs a bunch of restrictedCould someone give a more specific pointer? The only installix (and variations) I can find in Google are mis-typed installing. Thanks,--P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] dumb user check tool ?

2006-09-29 Thread Penedo
On 29/09/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, they only have ftp access, anywayBut they can practically put any executable, or at least, any PHP code, on the server and invoke it, right?So what would prevent them from putting some SSH server and executing it, for instance? thanks for all

Re: [SLUG] Debian mirrors disappearing and reporting spam on list archive?

2006-09-27 Thread Penedo
On 28/09/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More likely: A server that has (for whatever reason) managed to delete theirdebian mirror will impact downstream mirrors if/when they rsync --delete.Which is apparently what happened - the main server off of which everyone in Australia are mirroring

[SLUG] Debian mirrors disappearing and reporting spam on list archive?

2006-09-26 Thread Penedo
Hello, I have two unrelated questions: 1. Apparently the Debian mirrors are disappearing - first on Optus and last night apparently also on iiNet. Does anyone know what's going on? (I'd ask this on debian-au but according to its archive this list seems to be dead since March). 2. Is there a

Re: [SLUG] dumb user check tool ?

2006-09-26 Thread Penedo
On 27/09/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a LAMP server with several vhosts, some of the users now install/run their own CMSs, what sort of tools/checks are there I can use to attempt to protect the server ? (rather than, as I currently do, relay on sheer luck) Jail them - use

Re: [SLUG] Too good to be true from Bigpond?

2005-11-01 Thread Penedo
On 11/2/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Saenz wrote: The plan I am on is 40g/40g on 1200/256 DSL connection when my exchange gets DSL2 I will be capable of doing 8000/1024 @ 40g/40g. I pay $80 per month. Care to name The ISP? Sounds similar to iinet (though iinet

Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-27 Thread Penedo
On 10/28/05, QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Creelman wrote: I've setup a community next to my account on LiveJournal, it's at http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sydneylisp. Sorry for the unimaginative name... Call it 'thydney'. I even have an old T-shirt with the

[SLUG] Recommanded webcam in Australia?

2005-10-13 Thread Penedo
Hello, I'm looking for a good usb 2 webcam supported by Linux. I found the page at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=9 but so far couldn't find any USB 2 webcam in the stores except for something on eBay which looks similar to the Apple webcams and which doesn't provide any details

Re: [SLUG] Recommanded webcam in Australia?

2005-10-13 Thread Penedo
On 10/13/05, Ben Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the Logitech Quickcam. Pretty common, and most models are supported. I'd find a supplier, then google the model you are thinking of getting to confirm Linux support. I recently bought a Quickcam Communicate, and it seems to work well,

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