Re: [SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem

2006-11-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 03/11/2006, at 4:15 PM, Gonzalo Servat wrote: ... Since Expect needs to either spawn a program or access a FH, Net::SSH::Perl no longer suited my needs. I started to look into spawning SSH from Net::Telnet, then using Expect on the Net::Telnet object. After looking at the man page for Net::

Re: [SLUG] SQL join to most recent log table entry?

2006-11-07 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 07/11/2006, at 10:03 PM, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: I've got a couple of tables itmmaster and suppstock. itmmaster contains products, suppstock contains log-like entries of product codes and stock availability and a datetime stamp. I want to do a join to select a bunch of pr

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-23 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 23/11/2006, at 7:19 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Michael Chesterton wrote: I guess grep is detecting whether it's talking to a terminal, and doesn't buffer if it is (or probably line buffers). If you are using whatever | grep one | grep two the first grep will detect that i

Re: [SLUG] Google for trends

2006-11-25 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 26/11/2006, at 10:16 AM, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: More telling though Ubuntu vs Mac: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+mac&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all Is that a big mac or an apple mac? Or maybe a MAC address? Ubuntu vs Apple: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+apple&ctab=0

Re: [SLUG] Shell script

2006-12-13 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 13/12/2006, at 8:22 PM, 5h4rk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a script that compare 2 or more characters, to find out the largest or the lowest one, for example, I enter each letter one by one, like a, b, c, d, e, so the lowest one is a and the largest one is e. How can I do that? W

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-13 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: Dear Carmel, I was quite saddened & extremely disappointed to see the student portal relying on proprietary software, when open-source equivalents would have been far more secure, maintainable cost-effective & educational. What "experts" a

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 14/12/2006, at 6:54 PM, Alexander W Stanley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: Dear Carmel, I was quite saddened & extremely disappointed to see the student portal relying on proprietary soft

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for music download sites

2006-12-21 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 22/12/2006, at 12:00 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, Okay, I admit it, I had NEVER downloaded music... there... I'm glad I got that off my chest. I have a Creative Muvo on which we've copied MP3s from CD we've bought. Easy as pie. Now, my five-year-old daughter has started to lis

Re: [SLUG] how to import weird gpg keys in mutt?

2007-01-23 Thread Sam Lawrance
. ... I think that is not a key, but a message. Ascii armoured keys look like: pub 1024D/32708C59 2003-08-14 Key fingerprint = 1056 2A02 5247 64D4 538D 6975 8851 7134 3270 8C59 uid Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-27 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to connect. There are two different machines that I am trying to connect to, one Ubuntu and one is an Apple iBook running Xubuntu. 1 I have no problem with either machine NOT using ssh

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-27 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 28/01/2007, at 5:27 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:54:52 +1100 Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to connect. There are two different machines tha

Re: [SLUG] Some animals are more equal ...

2007-02-05 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 05/02/2007, at 6:20 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote: FWIW I think Novell-Microsoft is a good thing. It lets ME watch, listen and play as I want. MS are commercial, I don't need to be a cynic to watch for their overtures. But *freedom* lets ME do as I want. Why is it good that Novell have affi

Re: [SLUG] Should I host my own domain?

2007-02-16 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 17/02/2007, at 1:27 AM, Alexander Stanley wrote: G'day guys, I'm actually doing a similar thing but I' m actually on a Dynamic IP (iiNet). What you'll find is that there are nasty hacky ways to deal with that (like DynDNS)... but if your IP cycles fast it goes out to the corner and sulk

Re: [SLUG] An annoying bug, but whose is it?

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 28/02/2007, at 5:54 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a laptop with Fedora Core 6 and it is set up such that when I close the lid it goes into suspend mode. When I wake it up by opening the lid all is fine until I start VMware, as soon as I go to start a guest OS under VMware the X ser

Re: [SLUG] OT domain name and company name

2007-03-07 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote: It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard different responses. Yes, almost you need to 'prove' that you are entitled to register the name. To quote the

Re: [SLUG] OT domain name and company name

2007-03-07 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 08/03/2007, at 11:37 AM, david wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:37 +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote: It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard diff

Re: Misspelling worse than profanity [Was: [SLUG] Asterix experts?]

2007-03-08 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 09/03/2007, at 5:08 PM, James Purser wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 16:35 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: "You know, the crunchy, folk-singer part of me wants to believe that a performance is a dialogue, but I can't hear a BEEPing thing you're saying." - Ani

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft's tool to assess Linux Persona

2007-03-20 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 20/03/2007, at 9:03 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: http://www.linuxpersonas.com/ Shiny! But they don't tell their partners what do with people that have tried both and would only use windows if it was significantly better (which it isn't). They do, it's the "Linux

Re: [SLUG] I'd like to know...

2007-05-13 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 10/05/2007, at 4:05 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The recommendation of swap == 2x RAM is oldfashoned and may even be bad. Googling will give you more than you ever wanted to know ... IMHO you'd hardly ever want more than 512M of swap

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-15 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 14/05/2007, at 2:59 PM, David Lloyd wrote: Phil, sudden drop out. I guess another good idea is to protect with a UPS of some sort - they are relatively cheap (compared to losing all the data) and only need offer a minute or 2 up time to be able to unmount the partition correctly and

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Bootcamp, this Saturday!

2007-05-17 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 18/05/2007, at 4:01 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote: flyers [sic] This is the correct spelling of the plural of 'flyer'. You need not suggest you avoided a transcription error by quoting it with '[sic]'. sed -E 's/fl[iy]er(.*|s)/leaflet\1/' By order of the Ministry of Truth! ;-) -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Frustration Rant

2007-05-23 Thread Sam Lawrance
Right, but the top posting bastards who quote you back in full might not use that flag. On 23/05/2007, at 9:41 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote: I doubt it because I use X-No-Archive: yes James Dumay wrote: We find comfort in the fact that this rant will remain archived on the net for years and y

Re: [SLUG] Frustration Rant

2007-05-23 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 22/05/2007, at 6:01 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just wasted half the afternoon trying to work out why a tftp server wasn't delivering a config file to a VoIP phone, and I finally discover that it's mode of operation has been changed during an "upgrade" of the tftp server, presumably

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

2007-07-09 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 09/07/2007, at 3:18 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: On 09/07/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zhasper> find . -name "" -print0 | xargs -0 rm >> >> Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this version >> runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm fo

Re: [SLUG] please unsubscribe all wildtecnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from SLUG lists

2007-07-18 Thread Sam Lawrance
Haha! You suck balls. On 17/07/2007, at 3:25 PM, Timothy Bolot wrote: Please remove all wildtechnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from your lists. Both of these domains are going to my personal hotmail account now and a previous staff member subscribed to your lists. If this is not

Re: [SLUG] Does Berkeley "error" still exist?

2007-09-17 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 16/09/2007, at 10:33 PM, Luke Kendall wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Any relation to perror() ? http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/3/perror.html?manpath=/ man/man3/perror.3.inc No, none whatsoever. :-) perror() is a system call for use

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-10-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 25/09/2007, at 11:07 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early 90s - is it the right way to go or is there now a better shinier tool/language that I should be learning? There is a pe

Re: [SLUG] Cannot get Quad port NIC interfaces to ping eachother

2007-10-06 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 06/10/2007, at 5:42 PM, Minh Van Le wrote: Hello :) I have a quad port NIC in a Linux PC and my problem is I cannot get all ports to work simultaneously. For example, if eth1: 192.168.1.81 eth2: 192.168.1.82 eth3: 192.168.1.83 eth4: 192.168.1.84 then pinging their own interfac

Re: [SLUG] Cannot get Quad port NIC interfaces to ping eachother

2007-10-06 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 06/10/2007, at 7:39 PM, Minh Van Le wrote: What's the physical configuration of the network? What path do you It sort of looks like this, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Internet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ | | ++ | 4 port ADSL Router | ++ | |

Re: [SLUG] Eee

2007-12-08 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 06/12/2007, at 10:38 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:25:39 + Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote: Also, for one that doesn't have the miniPCI thingy blocked. :-( All this talk about opening the little yellow ta

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] If you could ask Microsoft a question, what would it be?

2008-01-14 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 14/01/2008, at 3:52 PM, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:59 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good will is not coming to a LUG meeting and pushing microsoft's agenda. Good will is doing something that costs

Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi

2008-01-30 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 30/01/2008, at 6:27 PM, Bruce Bruen wrote: Now, how shall I start, history or interest, disinterest or hosiery, confounding interest or hijacking ... Historical details : Bjorn - sometime in the last century on a small planet called RANRL located temporarily near (actually on) Rushcutter

Re: [SLUG] HA Active/Passive Firewall - with TCP and NAT tracking

2008-01-30 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 30/01/2008, at 11:49 AM, Greg Cockburn wrote: Hi all, I want to know if it is possible to share/track TCP/VPN(IPSEC)/NAT connections between 2 Linux hosts. At home I have a great Firewall. It runs LEAF Bering uClibc 3.X / OPENSWAN / OPENVPN. It is great. At work I have 2 Cisco PIX ru

Re: [SLUG] Linux client for Citrix Access Gateway?

2008-06-01 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 01/06/2008, at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We're trying to deploy a Linux server into an all-Windows company. Our client is actually quite happy with this solution, but we were informed a couple of days ago that they have a Citrix Access

Re: [SLUG] basicfraud

2008-08-02 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 02/08/2008, at 11:43 PM, Basic Fraud wrote: Hi Everyone, I am not sure who is responsible or instrumental in developing this website, BUT they should be hailed as National Heroes! Maybe Daryl can tell us! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscrip

Re: [SLUG] Moving multiple files....

2006-04-16 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 17/04/2006, at 9:08 AM, Charles Myers wrote: Guys, I have searched google etc but failed to find an answer to this (im pretty sure though I have seen somewhere that it can be done...) I have a heap of photos (sorted by iPhoto) and it does it in multiple directories of year, month,date etc.

Re: [SLUG] Xorg word selection

2006-04-17 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 18/04/2006, at 1:45 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I have been trying to google for this, but to no success, I have FC5 on a machine and running Xorg X server, now when I double click on a word in a xterm or rxvt term the word selection is different to what I am used to. for example if I

Re: [SLUG] Moving multiple files....

2006-04-18 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 18/04/2006, at 5:00 PM, Ben Stringer wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:20 +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: find /photos -name '*.jpg' -exec mv '{}' /newphotos \; Beware with this method, if any photos have the same filename, the first ones moved will be clobbered by the

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 16/05/2006, at 10:21 PM, Steve Lindsay wrote: On 5/16/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: looking at config.log I see this: - configure:42977: checking for JPEG support configure:42979: result: configure:42993: checking jconfig.h usability configure:43005: gcc -c -g -O2 -Wa

Re: [SLUG] Encouraging new membership

2006-05-22 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 22/05/2006, at 7:51 PM, Charles Myers wrote: Mary Cudmore wrote: Hi SLUG and Linux Chix people, In response to Sridhar's questions: * getting people to attend a meeting in the first place * encouraging people to continue to participate afterwards I've wanted to attend a SLUG meeting

Re: [SLUG] awk sed (grep?)

2006-05-26 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 26/05/2006, at 6:50 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2006.05.26 18:37 john hedge wrote: I've been hitting my head all day over awk and sed (grep?)! My challenge is to search a directory of text files for a string which I want to replace wherever it occurs with a new string and save the file wit

Re: [SLUG] awk sed (grep?)

2006-05-26 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 26/05/2006, at 10:14 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2006.05.26 21:47 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 26/05/2006, at 6:50 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote: cd /path/to/directory/ for FILE in do if grep -q "text to be replaced" "$FILE" then sed -i &#

Re: [SLUG] awk sed (grep?)

2006-05-26 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 26/05/2006, at 10:43 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2006.05.26 22:34 Sam Lawrance wrote: The argument for "-i" is optional; if supplied sed provides a backup; if not supplied sed amends the input file. See "man sed" That is ridiculous. Unless you know in advance what

Re: [SLUG] SyncML on Linux

2006-05-27 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 27/05/2006, at 10:38 PM, Luke wrote: Has anyone had any luck using syncml to synchronise calendar information on Linux? I have my mobile syncing its calendar/phonebook etc with a free syncml server (mobical.net) over GPRS - and what I need now is a way to sync some calander-app on Linux w

Re: [SLUG] Time to re-visit a curly one

2006-05-29 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 29/05/2006, at 2:43 PM, Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, Whilst I know that this subject has been vocally debated in the past I think it is time to re-visit the issue of how the slug mailing list works. Well, how _does_ it work? :-) Does SLUG have a postmaster? What sort of spam contro

Re: [SLUG] Time to re-visit a curly one

2006-05-29 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 29/05/2006, at 4:18 PM, O Plameras wrote: Scott Sinclair wrote: On Mon 29 May, 2006 at 15:41:01 +1000, O Plameras wrote: A simple solution: Just add one activity for the poster to do, i.e., to every posting SLUG-list server will elicit a confirmation from the poster whereby this con

Re: [SLUG] Atheros wifi (chipset AR5212) & Dapper :-(

2006-06-08 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 07/06/2006, at 6:04 PM, john hedge wrote: Hi List, I'm afraid my wifi (lan is running fine) experience with Dapper is the same as this fellows. http://www.technologyevangelist.com/ 2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html Has anyone had better luck? I've got a 5212 based card. It works a

Re: [SLUG] Atheros wifi (chipset AR5212) & Dapper :-(

2006-06-08 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 08/06/2006, at 10:20 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 07/06/2006, at 6:04 PM, john hedge wrote: Hi List, I'm afraid my wifi (lan is running fine) experience with Dapper is the same as this fellows. http://www.technologyevangelist.com/ 2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html Has anyon

Re: [SLUG] Recruiter blacklist: Sapphire Technologies

2006-10-11 Thread Sam Lawrance
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: I applied for a job advertised by these recruit-scum. Turns out they're flogging training, not jobs. I didn't hear from them, and saw the same ads getting posted day after day so I assumed there was something odd about them. Just now I had a call from them trying to

Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?

2009-03-20 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 20/03/2009, at 11:47 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Ben Donohue writes: Doesn't anyone know that VMware ESX3.5i is now free? Sure, as in beer. That fails the "FOSS highly desired" bullet point on the original posters list of features. Point one, in fact. Is the requirement driven by t