Re: [SLUG] flowchart drawing on linux

2005-07-02 Thread Pete de Zwart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of a flowchart diagram drawing program, any ideas? dia? -- Pete de Zwart BCompSc (SDS) de Zwart Networks, http://dezwart.net.au/~pete/ Ph: +61 4 1164 8655 Fax: +61 2 9698 9843 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- SLUG - Sydney

RE: [SLUG] Unwired for Broadband ?

2004-12-13 Thread Pete de Zwart
and they refuse to purge stale leases from their database. Anyhoo, you may experience a much better service but I'm happy with it's bang for buck, however, any sort of real time gaming is out of the question, I got better latency with my 2400baud modem. Pete de Zwart. -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] Unwired for Broadband ?

2004-12-13 Thread Pete de Zwart
I managed to navigate through all the layers of tech support troll pits by implicating that they didn't have opposable thumbs to locate their posterior given desktop GIS. Yes, it is true that the majority of suppliers, except for Telstra Internet Direct I've found, will not support anything apart

Re: [SLUG] [pjtraynor@eircom.net: Anyone care to read this!]

2004-04-20 Thread Pete de Zwart
humor I disagree, if the software doesn't come in on punched cards or ticker tape, then what's the point? /humor I have to agree with you James, especially in a produciton environment, if you want to have that five 9s uptime (99.999%) then you have to splash the money around. Then hope that one

Re: [SLUG] Arkeia Performance

2004-03-03 Thread Pete de Zwart
Can you give us some info on your setup? CPU, memory, file system layout, SCSI card, tape drive, etc... How many machine being backed up, total size of all data, stuff like that. Regards, Pete de Zwart. Around about 1047h 01/03/2004, Terry Collins emitted the following

Re: [SLUG] Stupid Console Screensaver.

2004-01-12 Thread Pete de Zwart
That is the right syntax, you might want to check the console-tools settings if you are using Debian, I've noticed that they have sometimes screwed with my console settings. Pete. Around about 1718h 12/01/2004, Eddie F emitted the following wisdom: Doesn't seem to be working for me, on

Re: [SLUG] Stupid Console Screensaver.

2004-01-12 Thread Pete de Zwart
Apart from your choice of distrobution, I don't think that you are doing anything wrong. ;) Around about 2021h 12/01/2004, Eddie F emitted the following wisdom: RedHat 9 ! -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: It's union rules. There's nothing we can do about it.

Re: [SLUG] Stupid Console Screensaver.

2004-01-11 Thread Pete de Zwart
Which user and which terminal are you attempting to disable it from? Generally, doing so as root on one of the virtual consoles will work. YMMV when doing it from an init script. Regards, Pete de Zwart. Around about 1112h 12/01/2004, Eddie F emitted the following

Re: [SLUG] Debian au mirror

2003-12-25 Thread Pete de Zwart
The mirror's rsync has been futzed up for quite some time now, if you want to use a primary debian mirror in .au use ftp.wa.au.debian.org http/ftp as you need. Around about 1146h 25/12/2003, Alexander Samad emitted the following wisdom:

Re: [SLUG] Fortran Compiler - Unknown fortran files!

2003-12-05 Thread Pete de Zwart
Hope to $DIETY that it's Fortran77 or later if you want to have a sane chance of converting it to another language without major hair loss. At least that version of Fortran has the Dijkstrafications so that loops and other control structures no longer have to be done with GOTOs and labels.

Re: [SLUG] What's up with the Debian Mirrors?

2003-11-21 Thread Pete de Zwart
I wonder if any of the packages on security.debian.org have been compromised and if so what affect that could have on current stable boxes. I tried to see if there was any more news about it at Debian's web site but it isn't listed in the news section yet. Pete de Zwart. Around about

Re: [SLUG] What's up with the Debian Mirrors?

2003-11-21 Thread Pete de Zwart
has lost it's edge and has become a haven for advocates of various technological paradigms to bash each other over recent events. Pete de Zwart. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: operation failed because: there is no message for this error (#1014) -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Securing Your Web Server - (OP12181637)

2003-10-01 Thread Pete de Zwart
Bloody Verisign and their distateful antics. Sounds like it's time they got placed in a nice BGP black hole. Around about 0630h 01/10/2003, VeriSign Internet Sales emitted the following bogons: Your FREE Internet Security Guide and 14-Day FREE SSL Security Trial! -- The real cause of your

Re: [SLUG] Sun Sparcstation5: useful for what ?

2003-09-17 Thread Pete de Zwart
I've got an SS4 as a logs box, the screen is sufficently large enough to fill this role. It's only got 32MB of RAM and has about the same crunch power as my Pentium 100MHz firewall but looks much cooler. Love those pizza boxen. Around about 1647h 17/09/2003, Colin Humphreys emitted the following

Re: [SLUG] Sun Sparcstation5: useful for what ?

2003-09-17 Thread Pete de Zwart
of the domain name of the machines logging to the logs box. I've attached my Debian Woody /etc/init.d/sysklogd for people perusal Good luck, Pete de Zwart. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Root nameservers are out of sync #! /bin/sh # /etc/init.d/sysklogd

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Pete de Zwart
kind as to post the perternant sections of your conf file to the list? Pete de Zwart. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: it has Intel Inside -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Pete de Zwart
What video cards were you considering on using? Matrox has some nice dual headed cards. NVidia only likes doing dual head set up with other NVidia cards, if you can prove me wrong, please let me know how you did it. http://www.tldp.org/ has some good documents about it. Pete de Zwart

Re: [SLUG] looking for Ye olde tape drive

2003-07-27 Thread Pete de Zwart
I believe that I have a drive that can read that beasty. That 486 that I was talking about has an old Wangtek QIC tape drive that I've just got working, tested it and all is hunky dory. If you want to bring in the tape to the IEEE lab I'll dump the data on to a CD for you. Pete. --

Re: [SLUG] looking for Ye olde tape drive

2003-07-11 Thread Pete de Zwart
Matt, If you don't get anyone to read it before Uni comes back, I'll give it a go. Should be able to ferret around for the gear needed to read it. Pete de Zwart. Around about 0913h 11/07/2003, Matthew Palmer emitted the following wisdom: Just had an odd request - someone has

Re: [SLUG] Which Process to Kill?

2003-03-04 Thread Pete de Zwart
If you need to find out what processes are using /dev/dsp, fuser will be of help as it will show you the pids of all the processes which has it open. eg: fuser /dev/dsp Regards, Pete de Zwart. Around about 1833h 04/03/2003, Mick Boda emitted the following wisdom: Here

[SLUG] Blackdown Java SDK for Debian

2002-10-24 Thread Pete de Zwart
Hi All, A few months ago, unofficial debs were available for the Blackdown port of the Java SDK over at planetmirror.com Now they have moved but I can't find where. Could someone enlighten me on this matter? Regards, Pete de

Re: [SLUG] Blackdown Java SDK for Debian

2002-10-24 Thread Pete de Zwart
Excellent, Thank you Mary. Pete de Zwart. Around about 0658h 25/10/2002, Mary emitted the following wisdom: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian testing main non-free -- And remember... May the Source be with you... Always... msg27260/pgp0.pgp

Re: [SLUG] Optus Cable

2002-10-15 Thread Pete de Zwart
if the hostname is no longer required to obtain a DHCP lease? Unless they can snarf some sort of data from the DOCSIS modem... Pete de Zwart. -- And remember... May the Source be with you... Always... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server

2002-08-14 Thread Pete de Zwart
It looks like your Layer 1's SNR is too low. In short, your telephone connection is very bad, you may want to get your provider to do a line noise check on it. Try borrowing a nullmodem to test the ppp connection first. Pete de Zwart. Around about 2320h 13/08/2002, ramon buckland

Re: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server

2002-08-12 Thread Pete de Zwart
it to dump a log of the session will tell you EXACTLY where the LCP connection died. the log is usually in $WINDOWS\ppp.log Pete de Zwart. Around about 0005h 13/08/2002, ramon buckland emitted the following wisdom: Debian box is Default install NOTHING out of the ordinary IP of debian box

Re: [SLUG] Fighting spam for me dear old Dad.

2002-06-13 Thread Pete de Zwart
Can you check that all the messages have the spamassassin custom e-mail headers attached to them? Pete -- And remember, may the source be with you, always... msg24254/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] PPP - PAP - PAM - Radius

2002-04-27 Thread Pete de Zwart
PAM complains about a missing symbol: pam_sm_acct_mgmt I'm guessing that the radius module for PAM is for auth only. The strange thing is that, even if I disable all other PAM modules for PPP PAM_unix is still consulted. Pete. Around about 1055h 26/04/2002, Steve Kowalik emitted the

[SLUG] PPP - PAP - PAM - Radius

2002-04-25 Thread Pete de Zwart
to what the firewall is actually called. Apart from that problemo, the CD firewall works as it was planned to. Pete de Zwart. -- And remember, may the source be with you, always... #%PAM-1.0 # $Id: ppp,v 1.4 2002/04/25 13:37:19 dezwart Exp $ # Information for the PPPD

[SLUG] PDF to PS manipulations

2002-03-08 Thread Pete de Zwart
Okies, Here's one that I've been attempting to do with varying success. Convert a PDF file to PS and change it to display 6 pages per A4 page. Help!?!?!? Pete. -- $Id: .signature,v 1.2 2001/12/22 02:46:10 dezwart Exp $ Behold, as a wild ass in the

Re: [SLUG] gkrellm

2001-11-18 Thread Pete de Zwart
Why not use SNMP with custom scripts for gathering the data? Pete de Zwart Around about 1524h 05/11/2001, George Vieira emitted the following wisdom: What I'd like to do is know how my firewall,mail server,etc are working along after a weekend or a day so it needs to be logged

[SLUG] via82cxxx_audio driver problem in 2.4.x

2001-11-03 Thread Pete de Zwart
, Pete de Zwart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] via82cxxx_audio driver problem in 2.4.x

2001-11-03 Thread Pete de Zwart
Thanx for the info Greg. AFAIK, the 48KHz is a hardware limitation and the rest was done in software. The sad thing is that there is very little about it on Google and I think the issue has been resolved as far as the kernel goes. Hmmm. Ponders the thought of going to alsa... I think this will