Re: [SLUG] Networking advice please.

2004-07-14 Thread Russell Ashdown
My experience over hundreds of such installations indicates this: If your Cat5 cabling was installed by your friendly local electrician, you may find she/he has made the connection incorrectly. You will find that the NICs and the 100BASET switch will indicate that the physical connection is

Re: [SLUG] remote desktop on linux accessing windows xp

2004-06-11 Thread Russell Ashdown
See: http://www.tightvnc.com/ On 12 Jun 2004 at 10:05, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: Hi, Is there any s/w out there that does this? thanks, Luke -- = Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit Mobile: 0421 276 282 = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] MYOB on SAMBA share

2003-11-25 Thread Russell Ashdown
A caution here. If as you say you have multiple users and those users are simultaneously accessing the MYOB DB, be very careful about disabling oplocks. Corruption may well follow. If you want to test, you should backup the affected folder FIRST before disabling oplocks. Then test with the

[SLUG] Red Hat discontinues maintenance and errata support

2003-11-04 Thread Russell Ashdown
Red Hat has announced it will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will also discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product in

[SLUG] Red Hat discontinues maintenance and errata support

2003-11-03 Thread Russell Ashdown
Red Hat has announced it will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will also discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product

Re: [SLUG] WindowsUpdate.com is running a Linux server? O.o

2003-08-16 Thread Russell Ashdown
See: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10 801,84074,00.html ... Microsoft is already a customer of Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc., which operates a distributed worldwide network that can diffuse DDOS attacks..., ...according to Sean Sundwall, a

Re: [SLUG] IMAP client on Windows

2003-06-01 Thread Russell Ashdown
On Sunday 01 June 2003 07:52 am, Nik Belajcic wrote about: [SLUG] IMAP client on Windows I know this is not a Linux question in the strict sense, but snip I am trying to find something that would be more or less a Windows clone of KMail simple but functional - to use as IMAP Windows client.

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

2002-12-16 Thread russell . ashdown
On 16 Dec 2002 at 16:47, Ron Daniel wrote: 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? Known variously as rogue or

[SLUG] Question on recursive subdirectory in RH7.2 and RH7.3

2002-10-17 Thread Russell Ashdown
I found this recursive link on my RH7.2 and RH7.3 machines: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Oct 14 18:53 /usr/bin/mh - . Can anyone shed any light on it? It is creating havoc with a backup I am trying to make: /bin/tar cv /usr -zhf /backup/usr outputs: usr/bin/mh usr/bin/mh/mh

[SLUG] Config tools in RedHat 7.3

2002-05-26 Thread Russell Ashdown
Does anyone have any experience configuring RH 7.3? Linuxconf has been removed from the 7.3 release and I am wondering if anyone can point me to the replacement for linuxconf (I don't have X installed, so need a terminal based program). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Config tools in RedHat 7.3

2002-05-26 Thread Russell Ashdown
to locate a replacement system config utility. On 26 May 2002 at 18:34, Ken Foskey wrote about: Re: [SLUG] Config tools in RedHat 7.3 On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 18:05, Russell Ashdown wrote: Does anyone have any experience configuring RH 7.3? Linuxconf has been removed from the 7.3 release and I am

Re: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-02 Thread Russell Ashdown
Netware incorporates proprietary system calls that can be utilised by developers for file locking. date retrieval and many other functions. If you are using mars-nwe the Netware server emulator, it may be that not all these system calls are supported. The calls themselves have changed since

[SLUG] Re: ISP requests IP block back

2001-04-18 Thread Russell Ashdown
addressing in your organisation. You can allocate as many or as few addresses as you wish, making your scheme as complicated or as simple as you need and sub-addressing whatever you want for whichever branch offices that you have, etc. Russell Ashdown On 18 Apr 01, at 18:40, Alan Lee wrote about

Re: [SLUG] Recommend ISP?

2000-10-09 Thread Russell Ashdown
Give AccSoft a try. Unlimited connection time (3 hr disconnect with immediate redial) and unlimited dl. 56k rate. They also have pops all around Australia and can offer very cheap telephone rates to overseas You can contact them on: 02 9281 8163 On 9 Oct 00, at 13:05, Bill wrote about: