Re: [SLUG] restoring emails after a re-install

2007-06-25 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:30:53 +1000 Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to upgrade from UBUNTU 6.6 directly to 7.4 I understand this must be done as a new install rather than an update. I do not want to lose my emails on Evolution 2.6.1. What is the best way to back up /

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:30:45 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ward) wrote: Hi all, The company I have been working at now (for a bit over 6 mths now) is a largish (~$150Mil/year) national IT company deal in everything from Hardware, Software and services. But...very Windows centric much to

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Russell Davie
/ On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Russell Davie A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run Linux. Which is a good choice? I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint

Re: [SLUG] Academic research software

2007-02-26 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:09:00 +1100 Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free software world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking bibliographic info, citations, quotes etc., and then collating them into a written

Re: [SLUG] Academic research software

2007-02-26 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:06:41 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:09:00 +1100 Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-02-01 Thread Russell Davie
what's out there to your needs. Hope this helps! Lindsay [0] http://www.creativecomputing.com.au/ [1] http://www.muli.com.au/ [2] http://www.phppointofsale.com/ On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:24:10AM +1100, Russell Davie wrote: Hi All I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS

[SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS (point of sale) solutions available for retail. Has anybody seen this work in a live retail environment? GNU would be great, however this may be unrealistic. Links and contacts sought for who can do this sort of work here in Australia - NSW,

Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD

2006-06-04 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:36:20 +1000 T Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away) -- Regards, Trent Murray (diazepam) I reinstalled

Re: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-03 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:06:26 +1000 Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome for media keys. Most of mine work but the volume and mute don't - they control the wrong thing. I've found - well actually Google did - quite a

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu verses Debian (pure)

2006-06-02 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:39:34 +1000 T Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know a lot of you use Ubuntu, I currently use Debian (etch) but am a little hesitant to move across to Ubuntu as I dont fully understand what the difference is (apart from multimedia appearing to be easier to set up).

Re: [SLUG] Wine and IE Problems

2006-05-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 30 May 2006 20:03:23 +1000 Charles Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/5/06 7:39 PM, Mark Sargent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, as much as hate doing it, I need IE under Wine. I get the following when I try to run ie6setup.exe, ~]$ wine

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wine and IE Problems

2006-05-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 30 May 2006 20:58:03 +1000 Michael Kedzierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/06, Ben Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also look at winetools, a great little gui for semi-oneclick installation of lots of different software under wine (including ie6). I was also going to mention

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wine and IE Problems

2006-05-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 30 May 2006 22:13:20 +1000 Charles Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/5/06 10:01 PM, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2006 20:58:03 +1000 Michael Kedzierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/06, Ben Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also look

Re: [SLUG] Re: A Sys Admin's worst nightmare

2006-04-21 Thread Russell Davie
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:36:21 +1000 Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:31:14PM +1000, Simon Bowden wrote: cleartext). Unless someone is regularly keying in the root password and they're capturing that somehow, then they'll need to break they crypt to get

Re: [SLUG] Re: laptop boot stalling at finding network

2006-03-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:17:04 +1000 bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had similar p[roblem with my BenQ at one stage. Mine has 2 ethernet ports and one wireless. On home network using switch and modem/router, my laptop uses lan0 as the network connection, not eth0 or eth1. I merely turned

Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

2006-03-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:15:23 +1100 Roger Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do people listen to Podcasts from the ABC? Sadly, as is usual for IT in the ABC, their help pages don't help (just another example of why RTFM is not a solution). I found this help link by accident (for

Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

2006-03-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:08:09 +1000 Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Barnes wrote: I found this help link by accident (for radio national), it seems to be much better than the one I assume you are referring to as inadequate. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/help.htm That

Re: [SLUG] Re: Missing mouse cursor

2006-03-20 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:22:59 + (UTC) Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-03-20, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If its a USB mouse unplug it and replug it. I find it works for the usb mouse on this laptop I did; it did not work. Suspending and unsuspending

Re: [SLUG] Re: Missing mouse cursor

2006-03-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:23:14 + (UTC) Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-03-20, Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if you try reapplying the cursor theme from the mouse preference? It does not reappear, although it's not entirely clear what constitutes reapplying it.

Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads

2006-03-17 Thread Russell Davie
I used to use T'bird, till it became overwhelmed in spam. It's training couldn't keep up with the different varieties of spam, so I changed over to sylpheed-claws as it had a plugin for SpamaAssassin. Well, this I couldn't not get SA plugin working well, so I went back to first principles

Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads

2006-03-16 Thread Russell Davie
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:05:02 +1100 john gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different

Re: [SLUG] linux distribution which one????

2005-12-04 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:38:56 +1100 Kasim, Yosep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am trying to use linux for the first time. I would like to have a distro like debian with 14 Cds so I don't need to go to the internet to get the software. Debian would be suitable but has very old

Re: [SLUG] linux distribution which one?

2005-12-04 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:32:02 +1100 Kasim, Yosep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both server and workstation Basically I would like something like debian with 14 cds that shipped with a full load of software (not old though) so I could build all the server or workstation without going to the

Re: [SLUG] Azureus/bittorrent experts advice requested.

2005-11-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:13:30 +1100 Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed Azureus on Kanotix/Debian. I have a home network connected to Net through ethernet switch and modem/router ( Billion 7100s) with a Static IP from my ISP. Port-forwarded port 41952, both TCP and UDP. Set

Re: [SLUG] re Dufus

2005-11-15 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:41 +1100 Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, Today I had a friend send me the following link:- http://www.dofus.com/en/ I only get 1/4 of the pages as well. Kubuntu / Firefox/Flash -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing PO Box 12 Gordon

Re: [SLUG] re Dufus

2005-11-15 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:33:22 +1100 Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:41 +1100 Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, Today I had a friend send me the following link:- http://www.dofus.com/en/ I only get 1/4 of the pages as well

Re: [SLUG] RealAUDIO and mplayer...

2005-11-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:36:52 +1100 Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to recode the Boyer Lectures from the ABC, and like a fool, only partly read the mplayer man page. So I did mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile boyer.wav \ rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/broadcast/rn.rm

Re: [SLUG] SQL ledger - postgresql - TCL/IP

2005-10-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:05:18 +1100 James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:01 +1100, Russell Davie wrote: Hi I am having difficulty in getting postgreasql past the ssl required for tcp/ip this is what I'm getting when I manually start postgresql: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:30:24 +1100 Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:15, Russell Davie wrote: Ok, So your have convinced me not to be concerned. In any case I set up an rsync to another drive. So far I have communicated with Acer and Micorsoft. Acer have

[SLUG] SQL ledger - postgresql - TCL/IP

2005-10-29 Thread Russell Davie
Hi I am having difficulty in getting postgreasql past the ssl required for tcp/ip this is what I'm getting when I manually start postgresql: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d # ./postgresql-7.4 start * Starting PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: main The

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-29 Thread Russell Davie
- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:42:07PM +1000, Russell Davie wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:44:49 +1000 Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Purser wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:28 +, l cheung wrote: Get a life, get a power book. :) Yes but can you

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-29 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:32:27 +1100 Del [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Ok, So your have convinced me not to be concerned. In any case I set up an rsync to another drive. So far I have communicated with Acer and Micorsoft. Acer have knocked me back cited the age old

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-25 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:44:49 +1000 Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Purser wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:28 +, l cheung wrote: Get a life, get a power book. :) Yes but can you return OSX? It's a good idea to keep OSX on it as a small partition that can be booted by

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-21 Thread Russell Davie
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:43:06 +0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LA is good suggestion, though I couldn't search the archives of Linux-aus unless I downloaded the entire 19MB archive

[SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-19 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All Has anybody done this? How would you suggest I go about this? This laptop (Acer Aspire 3002) runs fine on Ubuntu Hoary and I don't really need to use the Windows software that came with it. Everything runs fine, straight after install. Amazing. Except for special windows keys for

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-19 Thread Russell Davie
has done this since 1998 On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:36:47 +1000 Mark Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a documented case of something similar to what you want here: http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html It's a little old now, but gives some great advice. Russell Davie

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-19 Thread Russell Davie
in these archives if it happened. Good luck, --Amos On 10/20/05, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks I found this too and was wondering if anybody has had more recent experience, well more recent than 1998. This is where I got the clues on not letting the machine boot

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-19 Thread Russell Davie
with getting a refund. TIA Russell On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:25:48 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie wrote: LA is good suggestion, though I couldn't search the archives of Linux-aus unless I downloaded the entire 19MB archive http://lists.linux.org.au

[SLUG] java security in Linux

2005-06-05 Thread Russell Davie
Hi Please give your advice on security of Java in Linux. scenario: I have just received a email from ANZ bank (which I don't bank with, so its likely to be phishing) that is linked to a bunch of Java scripts. This is shown in Mozilla-Thunderbird when I move the cursor over the link. As a

Re: [SLUG] java security in Linux

2005-06-05 Thread Russell Davie
Marek Wawrzyczny wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:30, Russell Davie wrote: Hi Please give your advice on security of Java in Linux. scenario: I have just received a email from ANZ bank (which I don't bank with, so its likely to be phishing) that is linked to a bunch of Java scripts

Re: [SLUG] java security in Linux

2005-06-05 Thread Russell Davie
Marek Wawrzyczny wrote: Hmmm, let's put it this way, should be enough. But is anyone going to guarantee that at some point, some version of Sun's or someone else's JVM won't have a security flaw? Even then, on Linux, the exploit would have to run with su privileges to gain access to any

Re: [SLUG] /etc/module question

2004-11-30 Thread Russell Davie
From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your best bet is to use hotplug, which automatically instantiates drivers for the attached devices at startup. It doesn't change /etc/modules, it just re-detects at every startup. (Ubuntu uses hotplug and udev by default, btw.) Ok, I have loaded hotplug and and

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 20, Issue 78

2004-11-28 Thread Russell Davie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt said: Sounds like your change management procedures could do with a tune up. yes, (said sheepishly crawling into a corner) Possibly you previously had a kernel with everything compiled-in, so the kernel did all it's automated hardware detection on startup.

Re: [SLUG] /etc/module question

2004-11-26 Thread Russell Davie
Subject: Re: [SLUG] /etc/module question From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:40:12 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote who=Russell Davie neither of these added 8139too to the the /etc/modules file and the date didn't change so maybe the file wasn't

[SLUG] /etc/module question

2004-11-25 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All How is /etc/modules made? scenario: I replaced a dying NIC (ancient DEC454) with a new RealTek 8139. The module for supporting a RealTek NIC didn't load at boot time (8139too) and so eth0 and networking failed. However lspci finds the NIC and the module is compiled and present in

Re: [SLUG] commonwealth bank netbanking stopped support linux?

2004-10-25 Thread Russell Davie
Netbank works fine, all you need is javascript support basically. So far it seems to work in any browser I have tried. I usually use it in konqueror (khtml) and it's fine. The address I always use to connect to is http://www.netbank.commbank.com.au/ NOTE: No https here it will redirect to a

[SLUG] moving partition hda9 - hda1

2004-05-08 Thread Russell Davie
Hi I want to move the Linux partition in hda9 to hda1. Yes, after too much procrastination, Linux is been promoted from ext. partiton to replace the other OS! how can this be done with out trashing the system? I plan to copy on to another hdisk as well, though not yet installed. regards Russell

Re: [SLUG] browser not running cgi

2004-04-13 Thread Russell Davie
it is, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/azureus$ sudo ls -la /usr/lib/cgi-bin/htsearch -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 229608 Dec 7 20:11 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/htsearch Simon Males wrote: give the cgi script execute permissions -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] browser not running cgi

2004-04-12 Thread Russell Davie
Hi problems with cgi and lots of questions for a newbie I've installed ht://dig to make it quick to search html on this box. When a word is searched with default search page the browser returns 'the file /cgi-bin/htsearch/ cannot be found. Please check location and try again' htdig built the

[SLUG] download speed reduces when cpu active

2004-04-02 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All The download speed drops as cpu increase activity. I see this from gkrellm. eg compiling kernel, opening OO, playing xine. What is happening here? is this normal? I don't think so. How can this be rectified? This is a debian box, with AMD 1.2thunderbird with Via chip set, and uses

Re: [SLUG] Who has spoken to Commonwealth bank Tech support?

2004-01-27 Thread Russell Davie
hmm... gtop reports on this box, the java_vm needed 745272k to access CBA netbank account and with java off, CBA netbank still worked! Cool! now to adjust my laptop... thanks This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: One final note: THAT BANK is about the only bank that seems to

Re: [SLUG] a kernel pickle: qt xlibs dependencies

2003-12-30 Thread Russell Davie
make menuconfig didn't work either, and coughed up screen fulls of errors from checklist.c maybe a reinstall of all kernel dependencies? Weird. As long as you have libncurses5-dev, you ought to be okay. - Jeff Heck, its missing! now finding lots of other dependencies missing.

Re: [SLUG] a kernel pickle: qt xlibs dependencies

2003-12-29 Thread Russell Davie
You can install the current unstable versions of your X packages again by doing: apt-get install xterm/unstable thanks, I'll stay with /testing, just not game to live on the wide side or is there a better way of compiling this kernel? Use make menuconfig instead. :-) make menuconfig

[SLUG] a kernel pickle: qt xlibs dependencies

2003-12-28 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All when compiling kernel 2.6.0, have become stuck at unmet dependencies with QT 'make xconfig' returns * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR * environment variable is set to the correct location. an

[SLUG] Re: OT BT878 BT848

2003-12-27 Thread Russell Davie
Terry try: http://www.aver.com/support/downloads.shtml I have one of these cards and the MS side of things worked last time I used it (before Linux ;-) Okay, while we are talking Ms stuff on this list {:-) Can somone recommend some software to drive a BT878 BT 848 capture card un MS 98?

[SLUG] debian install

2003-12-23 Thread Russell Davie
Hi I want to update the packages on my laptop and wish to do this locally from the desktop machine. what's the best way to do this? where would be a good place to go to find out? apt-get from laptop? Knoppix 3.2 went on in late Oct03 and I've frequently used apt-get to update the system from

[SLUG] scanner problems

2003-12-13 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All 1) scanner (cannonscan N650U) locks up when quiteinsane does large image and process won't listen to kill -9. The scanner is not available to other programs and is effectively out of action. How can this be fixed with out doing MS solution of rebooting? ( which I'll have to do,

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-11 Thread Russell Davie
I was thinking that GPL is more like Yokult(??) the good bacteria that you take daily than a virus. It is your choice whether you open the bottle and take the medicine. If you failed to read the label then you deserve the side effects. We really need to explain the GPL better. I like the

[SLUG] unable to spellcheck in 00 adn Mozilla

2003-11-30 Thread Russell Davie
Hi all I'm having probs getting the spell checking to work in Open Office 1.1.0-2 and in Mozilla mail 1.5-2. aparently these two packages use the same spellchecker this box is running debian thanks in advance Russell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Re: Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-18 Thread Russell Davie
thanks for that, you have understood exactly my point, surely software cooling is a better engineering solution to reducing heat by getting at the source of the heat, rather than adding more blowers, and other air-conditioning. why resort to expensive hardware cooling when software cooling can

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 6, Issue 57

2003-09-17 Thread Russell Davie
thanks for that, you have understood exactly my point, surely software cooling is a better engineering solution to reducing heat by getting at the source of the heat, rather than adding more blowers, and other air-conditioning. why resort to expensive hardware cooling when software cooling can

[SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Russell Davie
Hi all Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C , while in w'doz with CPUCool is a much cooler 32C. Without CPUCool, w'doz runs at ~same temp as linux: 46.4C. This is with kernel compiled for athlon from 2.4.19-16mdk, and with no load. I thought linux put the processor into

[SLUG] no bandwidth after connecting to ISP

2003-09-14 Thread Russell Davie
Hi After connecting to ISP using KPPP, my box is not able to connect to any WWW sites or get email. this is happening on recently recompiled kernel, and on the original kernel kernel-2.4.19-16mdk. I have removed proxy, reduced firewall security, and not sure what to check next. any help

[SLUG] music composition

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Davie
Hi all I'm looking for music composition software that runs in linux any thoughts on this much apreaciated so far found UltiMusE-LX on freshmeat regards Russell --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Free Antivirus @ http://www.grisoft.com/ Checked by AVG anti-virus system

Re: [SLUG] Linux Australian Case Studies and Testimonials

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Davie
Hi I couldn't find the thread in Slug archive for Ernie Ball, v cool dude. If not, I find Ernie Ball's case (discussed here very recently) quite illuminating for customers - he's not a slobbering anti-MS nut, just a bloke who got hit by the SPA juggernaut and decided to make the change, and found

[SLUG] Re: Linux Australian Case Studies and Testimonials

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Davie
Hi thanks for that, I was wondering what to replace the WinXX stuff sent by the ATO :-) One problem area has been general accounting software. I've switched from MYOB to SQL-Ledger. You would get lots of stories from the SQL-ledger mailing list. I know there are quite a few aussies using it. The

Re: [SLUG] quiet case fans

2002-11-08 Thread Russell Davie
Thanks, I used what was at hand and cut a cardboard 'flange' to separate the fan from the case. This made a huge difference and no doubt rubber would be even better. Russell At 08:37 PM 31/10/02 +1000, you wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:32:26 +1100 Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

[SLUG] quiet case fans

2002-10-31 Thread Russell Davie
Hi there.. As things get hotter, I installed some case fans and now the box its sounding like a hive of angry bees... Any clues on where to get quiet fans?, or just get some ear plugs? TIA Russell --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Free Antivirus http://www.grisoft.com/ Checked by AVG

[SLUG] upgrading Mandrake

2002-10-14 Thread russell davie
thanks for the clues on urpmi, went smoothly its nearly done, and xfs starts and stops properly xserver now only is stopped by a failing dcopserver the error message is a red or blue screen (yep, KDE has its own BSOD!) with a dialog box: could not read connection list

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-28 Thread Russell Davie
Actually, run /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status xfs status returned: usage: xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] [-droppriv] [-daemon] [-nodaemon] [-user user_name] xfs dead but subsys locked so xfs seems to exist, though status is not an option? but running same command in directory

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-27 Thread Russell Davie
At 12:18 AM 22/08/02 +1000, you wrote: However, I'm more interested in what happens when you run startx instead of startkde. startx returned this: VGA: Using 32 bpp, Depth 24, Color weight: 888 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 350.000 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode 1024x768: mode clock = 85.000 (**)

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-27 Thread Russell Davie
Hi Russell, was going to mail you this morning to see how it was all going... thanks Try putting something like: FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled snip-8--- still same error msg returned when startx head /var/lib/urpmi/list.* ==

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Davie
The latest urpmi depends on a perl module which depends on perl 5.8mdk. perl 5.8mdk may or may not depend on gcc 3.1 stuff - I upgraded to gcc 3.1 before upgrading urpmi. I read this too late... and have now downloaded urpmi-3.9-8mdk.noarch.rpm and will do gcc 3.1 later, could only find

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-17 Thread Russell Davie
thanks for these tips... both were eventually successful though urpmi is not geting files off server even though urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update have been successful urpmi selects out of date rpm to load to satisfy dependencies. **Out of date rpm is now fixed with urpmi.removemedia how to

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-03 Thread Russell Davie
I figured oout to use it for local disks and updated several rpms. however haven't much luck in getting files from ftp server (planetmirror.com) 1) how do I point it to a ftp site to download rpms? (command line example, please) 2) where does it put the downloaded files? how can this location

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-01 Thread Russell Davie
At 11:08 PM 31/07/02 +1000, you wrote: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 cannot open this went in after doing urpmi.addmedia ... and then urpmi egcs-c++ now x-server starts ok, replace securetty with securetty.rpmnew. You'll be able to log in then. and now can log

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-07-31 Thread Russell Davie
At 02:19 AM 31/07/02 +1000, you wrote: ok. Recommend you try URPMI, but I've ranted enough about it in the last week. I had a go, it needed dependencies, so just went rpm -Uvh will attempt again alrighty, take a look at these files. It means that RPM was unable to configure certain

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-07-31 Thread Russell Davie
At 11:08 PM 31/07/02 +1000, you wrote: it's definitely an easier path. You fix the dependencies for one program and it fixes them for everything else. cool nope. Well, that may work, I'm not sure. If there's stuff not working, see if there is config file with a rpmnew extension. A lot of the

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-07-30 Thread Russell Davie
Ok, just so I can get a better idea of what's going on, how did you do the upgrade? CDs? URPMI? downloading RPMS and manually installing? I downloaded RPMS after doing rpm -Uvh ***.rpm and noting missing dependencies, and kept going till no more dependencies and did you do an install over an

[SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-07-29 Thread Russell Davie
Hi I had a go at updating my box from mdk 7.2 to 8.2 over the WE, but things have gone horribly wobbly. the X server is not starting up after shutting down last night, and before I quit I've noticed a new user on the system called 'nobody' I can't log in as root, and can only log in as su

Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-25 Thread Russell Davie
Wow thanks you all have given me a lot too think about and well, i feel like kid in a lolly shop, so many juicy options to choose, I'll check out over the coming WE. thanks for being so generous with your help regards Russell At 02:42 AM 25/07/02 +1000, you wrote: Wait a moment! there's no

Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread Russell Davie
problems. Matt On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Russell Davie wrote: I downloaded the rpm for wv, and ImageMagick and zlib. problem: ImageMagick requires glibc uprade which in turn needs upgrade of rpm and the later are mutually co-dependent! (I've downloaded what kpackage said was missing for glibc and rpm

Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread Russell Davie
. it seems to be much smoother, though on first go, v much more overwhelming for this linux newbie you wrote On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 19:50, Russell Davie wrote: or just go the the full upgrade to mandrake 8.2? This is by far the easiest solution. Take a look

[SLUG] ppp and iptable hassels

2002-06-26 Thread Russell Davie
Hi thanks for the tips on ppp, and iptables ppp now up and running, though only as root, which is how this is being sent to you now! which is a v insecure. (though not as much as the other OS!) as root: kppp dials and connects, but nothing happens and will only when service iptables stop,

Re: [SLUG] iptables: newbie question

2002-06-24 Thread Russell Davie
had bugging turned on by default. I know you are using 1.2.6, however I would download the latest version and compile it too see if this fixes it. Is the source you are talking about from the install cd-rom or a newer download. If not from cd-rom, back to the monitor throwing.:) Russell Davie

[SLUG] ppp.o not compiling in kernel 2.4.18

2002-06-24 Thread Russell Davie
please help once more.. Having problems getting ppp.o to compile in 2.4.18, and its not present in any of the /lib/modules/2.4.18/ directories. As a result can't dial modem and thus have to use other OS to do this. where is the option in kernel config to get this to compile?, I've tried

[SLUG] iptables: newbie question

2002-06-21 Thread Russell Davie
Hi, I'm having few challenges getting iptables up and running. please help! The kernel can't seem to see iptables when its called service iptables start and replies with iptables: unrecognized service The kernel is 2.4.18, iptables is 1.2.6a, iptables has been compiled from source, and kernel

[SLUG] email list

2000-11-26 Thread Russell Davie
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