[SLUG] How to clear sendmail unsent items

2004-09-19 Thread Ron Daniel
We have sendmail turned off at present, but we have an application which has been creating mail to be sent via sendmail. Could someone please tell me how to look at and manage (read DELETE) the unsent items ? Regards Ron Daniel Information Systems Manager Sims Group Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SLUG] Help - Samba Printing problems

2004-08-01 Thread Ron Daniel
-Original Message- From: Ron Daniel Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 11:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Samba Printing problems I sent the following on Friday : I have 3 samba printers. They are configured in smb.conf identically except for name of course. Two printers

RE: [SLUG] who wrote the most code?

2004-02-23 Thread Ron Daniel
Where's the structure, indentation, and documentation, aka comments in the code ? Or do we open a a new OSSP for this project to get it cleaned up. But then how would we measure who wrote the most code of the code measuring code? :-) Ho hum. -Original Message- From: Jamie Wilkinson [m

RE: [SLUG] accessing MS desktops from Linux

2004-02-23 Thread Ron Daniel
We have dipped our toes in this water and can report the following : Application : Remote access to windows dependant applications for 12 users across IP Wan. Previous solution : Windows XP workstation per user in the computer room with separate machine designated to each remote user. Problems :

[SLUG] Synchronizing Pocket PC's (non palm-os) with Evolution.

2003-10-07 Thread Ron Daniel
I am considering an attempt on sync'ing my Ipaq 3800 with Evolution on my Mandrake 9.1 linux laptop. Has anyone achieved same ? Is it possible ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:00 PM T

[SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-17 Thread Ron Daniel
Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent (downgrade) on the other side. How in the world is this FOSS stuff going to make critical mass in the desktop arena if, when at release 9.1 in 2003 I find mys

[SLUG] Display problems with laptop

2003-07-15 Thread Ron Daniel
segment below. All of this flashes at a rate which, I suspect, would induce epilepsy in any poor sufferer who happens to be within the field of view of my machine. Ron Daniel Information Systems Manager Sims|Group Limited -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Samba / Linux User administration and Authenticationand desktops.

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Daniel
We have a Samba server sharing drives and printers to my PC users in a network. The difficulty we currently face is the (soon to be) burgeoning number of users that move from PC to PC and need to have their own "desktop's" with their own network drives and printer shares, at each of the PC's to wh

[SLUG] Question about text computer game from late seventies/eighties

2002-12-15 Thread Ron Daniel
Does anybody remember the name of the game which people used to play on their mainframes at university in the late seventies where you explored a labyrinth of caves and tunnels interactively on a teletype machine, usually resulting in demise by some foul or painful process often involving a creatur

FW: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.0 Newbie Ron installs in under 1.5 hours !! - Successful internal modem driver install and configure.

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Daniel
extremelylongfilenameforkernelversion.rpm drakconnect Told it my modem was at /dev/modem in the config panel Worked first go. Now browsing and emailing. I love the status window and graph of the connection window. -Original Message- From: Ron Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday

[SLUG] Mandrake 9.0 Newbie Ron installs in under 1.5 hours !!

2002-10-02 Thread Ron Daniel
Got my CD’s. Tuesday lunchtime Got my Win2k Laptop last Friday Chucked the CD #1 in the drive, 1945hrs Tuesday night Followed the bouncing ball Resized my partitions on the fly Worked beautifully !!! Up and running 2105 hrs Now running dual boot, with KDE or GNOME or any other window