[SLUG] 4. Re: Linux Australian Case Studies and Testimonials

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Males
e.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site%3Alinux.bryanconsulting.com+australia&btnG=Google+Search Thats just a google string looking for everything 'australia' on that site. I read in APC that the NT education department is 50/50 Lin/Win, its also mentioned there.

[SLUG] ATI + Nvidia open/closed

2003-09-06 Thread Simon Males
Army work flawlessly). A debian list post wanted me to learn a bit more about ATI, also most laptops have ATI chips (Ill get one, one day). http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-laptop-200302/msg00098.html Basically, how /good/ are the open ATI (DRI) drivers ? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTEC

[SLUG] enable public_html access for user

2003-09-13 Thread Simon Males
to another IP. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] enable public_html access for user

2003-09-13 Thread Simon Males
y a ~user it will point to something like 192.168.0.3 All my /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts files as commented out commonhttpd.conf has: UserDir public_html $ more httpd.conf | grep -in userdir 38:LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so 82:AddModule mod_userdir.c I dont know what else

Re: [SLUG] enable public_html access for user

2003-09-15 Thread Simon Males
Did you uncomment AllowOverride All Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all Was defaulted in commonhttpd.conf -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Simon Males
=/dev/hdc1 (40gig) (120gig) Okay problems that I think I might encounter: if the FS is NTFS, I think there no real stable NTFS writing tools. Also will `dd' create a single 40gig partition on the new drive? Thanks, never used dd before. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Simon Males
bs=x means read/write at that speed. I guess its dependent on the buffer of the harddrive your reading from and writing to. I think my case they will differ so i will have to specify the ibs/obs tags. Whats dma ? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org

[SLUG] OpenOffice.org 1.1

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Males
rowse/~checkout~/framework/offmgr/res/Attic/openintro_sun.bmp?rev=1.1.2.1&content-type=image/bmp What next? Apart from 1.1.x's, OOo next major release is 2.0 (hopefully where Ximian's art comes in). -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- S

Re: [SLUG] linux mandrake

2003-10-02 Thread Simon Males
type: startx There an option when installing ' start KDE/GUI upon boot up ' I think if you also tick the option 'log into user x automatically upon boot up' might also take care of that for you. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.a

Re: [SLUG] Australia's first Linux mag

2003-10-16 Thread Simon Males
Issue 1 contents: What month is issue 1. Also has the mag got a URL? (Google was no help) -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] theage: Sun scores with NSW government

2003-10-28 Thread Simon Males
mozilla and 'a linux operating system'" http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/28/1067233147909.html -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] linmagau

2003-11-17 Thread Simon Males
ll else is readable. FB 0.7, Moz 1.6a -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] dd speed (copying whole disks)

2003-12-14 Thread Simon Males
p once, the dd or cat process cpu time has not changed. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] dd speed (copying whole disks)

2003-12-14 Thread Simon Males
Dont know anything about *DMA stuff... /dev/hda DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 /dev/hdc DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 I guess "udma2" is bad?! -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [SLUG] dd speed (copying whole disks)

2003-12-16 Thread Simon Males
list' switched on?! -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] off topic: transferring W2K to a new system

2003-12-16 Thread Simon Males
ence W2k cannot handle being away from its orginial system. Ie moving a hard drive into a completly new system. Similar hardware seems logical, I think mobo is the big one. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Papaer Size under The Gimp

2003-12-28 Thread Simon Males
ated versions of GTK+ and fontconfig if you thinking of installing 1.3.x and your system isnt bleeding edge. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info a

Re: [SLUG] Weird NFS issue

2004-01-15 Thread Simon Males
Unrelated. Is there a NFS broadcast command where i can see all available NFS exports on a network. Mandrake does it via a GUI. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscr

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Banks, Telcos and ISPs.

2004-01-16 Thread Simon Males
? Who do you use? Why? Thanks for all the help! Looking forward to arriving in Sydney. It seems that if you want a superior telecommunications experince dont come to .au -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mai

Re: [SLUG] moving net to ppp0 from ethX

2004-01-21 Thread Simon Males
> /etc/sysconfig/networking? Well I did tickle /etc/sysconfig/network and added GATEWAYDEV=ppp0, which didnt really help. I had being eyeing resolve.conf but I had never touched it before... i commented out old telstra entries... online now. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No Mor

Re: [SLUG] Email causes thunderbird to dump

2004-01-21 Thread Simon Males
file on its own (we first tried just pulling it off the network). -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org Phil Scarratt wrote: Peter Tyler wrote: Nuh- No crash on 20031205 but I'm on my old NT box. What are those winmail.dat attachments anyway?

[SLUG] OpenOffice.org + Windows fonts

2004-01-22 Thread Simon Males
Im using the window font Wide Latin in OpenOffice.org. The spacing is totally screwed... I dont know what else to say/do. Except that WideLatin works fine in Windows. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group M

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

2004-01-22 Thread Simon Males
va is more secure, but boy does it love chewing you CPU and memory in the process... just to find out that your bank has invented another bank fee. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - ht

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

2004-01-23 Thread Simon Males
ntioned argument has different angels... mainly the security of the client/server or the communication between them (but https is standard in the cases of CGI or Java). It seems that I just sat the same lecture as James Gray, I wouldnt volunteer to code in Java. I cant push this thread much furt

[SLUG] soundcard and tv card conflict

2004-01-23 Thread Simon Males
lsa0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off aumix -q returns an error There no /dev/dsp -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info a

Re: [SLUG] soundcard and tv card conflict

2004-01-23 Thread Simon Males
Simon Males wrote: I just replaced my TV card on the first boot of the new card, configured it and it work. Along side my soundcard. I have just powered up and kmix is blank, xmms telling me to check whether something else is using the card. based on mandrake trouble shooting documention (with

[SLUG] xawtv over network

2004-01-25 Thread Simon Males
Running xawtv over a network will xawtv use the local or remote TV card. Because locally I have a busted card, and a working remote one. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

[SLUG] [OT] laptop LCD lines

2004-01-26 Thread Simon Males
they can do anything, though if anyone has suggestion that would be great. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] multiple sshd ports and shorewall

2004-02-01 Thread Simon Males
- It works, a stamp of approval wouldn't be bad tho :) -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] RAID

2004-02-11 Thread Simon Males
ing reason to use this vs software RAID? Is the RAID on-disk format standardised between controllers? (ie if I do use hardware RAID, will I have issues moving these drives to another computer?) Many thanks, James. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.antic

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Males
I have heard of this, and it seems MS filed for this patent prior to the date Mozilla started punching out XML/XUL code. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.general/108/ Personally this has sort of winded me, as an aspiring XUL programmer. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> N

[SLUG] stgeorge ibank busted?

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Males
hes at once (of course post sp4 and blaster patching). -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Don't rely on WEP for security

2004-02-18 Thread Simon Males
honestly i would turn it on anyway, and supposedly orinoco cards have weak key protection. I wasn't able to catch one interesting packet in a ~14hr period. Now thats a long hack. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Workaround for stgeorge problems

2004-02-20 Thread Simon Males
ng this rubbish everthing worked fine. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] ATO goes OSS

2004-02-24 Thread Simon Males
nts if we could get accountants to sign as well. Possibly more generic specifying a UNIX based client. [1] http://www.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=22 [2] http://www.muli.com.au/ato/atoindex.html Kudos to all involved. -- James -- Simon Males

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Light email replacement for Outlook Express

2004-02-25 Thread Simon Males
of Windows 95 (running MS patches helps). I would recommened Mozilla's standalone mail client Mozilla Thunderbird (v0.5). http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Ma

[SLUG] making sun vi act like gnu vi

2004-03-01 Thread Simon Males
On the uni solaris machine, vi is just plain yucky. Is there some hidden file that I can copy across so I can use solaris vi like linux vi ?? Text editing can be so painful sometimes -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] powering down hdx

2004-03-05 Thread Simon Males
I have a faulty (noisy) 20g drive which I wish to use for backup on my desktop. Basically if I umount it, does it stop the drive spinning? I remeber scaning some writings that on debian woody when powering down, woody stops the hard drives from spinning. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[SLUG] new mobo now freezes

2004-03-08 Thread Simon Males
and knows all the LED cables), but he wouldn't know the 101 in troubleshooting a linux system (but was impressed with drake's gui startup :). -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] Possible FAQ: Bank websites and Linux browsers

2004-03-09 Thread Simon Males
://www.linuxhelp.com.au/electronic-banking/ -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] dma_intr error

2004-03-20 Thread Simon Males
7.3/index.html#41 I didn't even check for bad blocks when creating the partitions. Doh. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] mono 101

2004-04-01 Thread Simon Males
I have a group project on MS's .NET/C# stuff. I have just apt-get install mono, is there some IDE that aptable and mono workable. Yet to touch any C# code, although the main development will be on Windows, it would be cool to show the code compiling under linux. :) -- Simon Males &l

[SLUG] shortcut to clock

2004-04-07 Thread Simon Males
:) In gnome can you assign a shortcut to a particular panel to appear? Further does gnome 2.6 have panels that can completely hide? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscr

[SLUG] vim :fixdel

2004-04-07 Thread Simon Males
On a solaris machine using :fixdel, i still cannot get backspace to... backspace. ^H is only bearable for single line command line, not text editing. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] libxft-dev apt conflict

2004-04-15 Thread Simon Males
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Simon Males &l

Re: [SLUG] Small network Windows replacements

2004-04-20 Thread Simon Males
uggestions or thoughts are welcome. May the force to with you. PS, this is in the Hornsby area of Sydney if anyone wants to help What organisation is this? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] tcp tuning

2004-05-02 Thread Simon Males
network and tell me what speed to you tranfering files between two computers. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] clean room disk recovery in Australia?

2004-05-04 Thread Simon Males
http://www.forensicdata.com.au/ Pretty quick to reply to queries on the listed email address -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug

Re: [SLUG] XF86Config in Fedora Core 2

2004-05-24 Thread Simon Males
hangs the machine with a blank screen that I cannot get out of (hard boot" when I try to start x. Any ideas? Thanks Wasn't XFree86 replaced by X.org -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

[SLUG] virus bombing from the same host

2004-05-25 Thread Simon Males
open relay (nmap see's smtp), but using online relay testers say other. Trying namp -O (os detect), but its taking ages, as I am thinking of trying a windows net send (just need to work out how to do it via linux). Anyone else have ideas? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More A

Re: [SLUG] XUL

2004-05-26 Thread Simon Males
/releases/xulmaker040/index.html -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org David Kempe wrote: Anyone writing any apps in XUL? got any docs they found useful? anyone using PHP or perl to generate XUL interfaces? comments? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&

Re: [SLUG] Spoofed email address

2004-05-30 Thread Simon Males
der so you can check it out there as well. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] optusnet SF.net + debian/redhat mirror

2004-06-03 Thread Simon Males
Feast your eyes on this: http://mirror.optusnet.com.au/ No FTP AFAIK, 3 hops closer then AARnet http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/smoothwall/smoothwall-2.0-manuals.iso?download NB: OptusNet - Sydney, Australia Could be just me, but I think its cool. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No Mo

[SLUG] iSight for linux

2004-06-05 Thread Simon Males
Mac: http://www.sightspeed.com/page.php?page=cameras -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Digital cameras and motion video

2004-06-07 Thread Simon Males
My brother has a DV, we [net/gnome]meet, he uses the video-in from his TV card (Windows), not sure how does it on his laptop, firewire possible, do laptops have video-in? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey, So, digitcal c

[SLUG] [Fwd: Open Source Developers' Conference - Melbourne December 1, 2 and 3 2004]

2004-06-10 Thread Simon Males
/call_for_papers.html We would love to see some Gimp-related material at the conference. Proposals due June 28, 2004 Regards, Simon Taylor -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] [Fwd: Open Source Developers' Conference - Melbourne December 1, 2 and 3 2004]

2004-06-10 Thread Simon Males
/call_for_papers.html We would love to see some Gimp-related material at the conference. Proposals due June 28, 2004 Regards, Simon Taylor -- Unisolve Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&

Re: [SLUG] helix trouble

2004-06-17 Thread Simon Males
Maybe try hxplay-0.4.0.187-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin ? Released June 15th. I haven't had much luck with the intstaller myself, have just used the tar'd files. They pump out so many releases I rather just run them in user space (i think thats the right term). -- Simon Mal

[SLUG] linux laptop shopping

2004-06-19 Thread Simon Males
t anything bigger than 15". If someone could rant on warranty and who has received there MS tax refund :) -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FA

Re: [SLUG] linux laptop shopping

2004-06-20 Thread Simon Males
I like IBM as it seems there is a possibility of customising the laptop you order (online). Acer, Dell, etc also offer this. Hrm Acer, already tried. www.acer.com.au > BuildYourOwn > Requires IE ? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- S

[SLUG] skype for linux

2004-06-30 Thread Simon Males
not one for reading these things. Yet to read the GPL and MPL that I quote often. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] mini-itx, >1 PCI slot ?

2004-07-01 Thread Simon Males
Are there any Mini-ITX's around that have 2 PCI slots ? Or is my only option an expander card: http://www.warcom.com.au/shop/flypage/accessories/285 I thinking using that expander card would require custom casing. I was planing to have an additional network NIC and an wireless PCI card. --

[SLUG] learning dhcpd

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Males
netmask 255.255.255.0 # more /etc/dhcpd.conf option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; subnet 192.168.6.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.6.10 192.168.6.20; } -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] learning dhcpd

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Males
Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: I am trying to serve dhcp out of eth2, eth0 is my optus internet connection. Can i specify in dhcp which interface to use? syslog: Jul 7 18:18:01 erupt dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth0 (211.30.175.xxx

Re: [SLUG] learning dhcpd

2004-07-08 Thread Simon Males
Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:14:23AM +1000, Simon Males wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: I am trying to serve dhcp out of eth2, eth0 is my optus internet connection. Can i specify in dhcp which interface to use

[SLUG] kvm required

2004-07-14 Thread Simon Males
fused with kvm's, currently i have a PS2 keyboard and mouse that i pretty happy with, but im dont mind getting another USB keyboard and mouse. How many port kvm do i require, 2 input's and 4 outputs ? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org --

[SLUG] disruptive technology wrt54g

2004-07-14 Thread Simon Males
Which I understand is just a little bit quicker for 802.11g devices. If this device is linux device, that means that there IS 802.11g support for linux ? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

[SLUG] pcmcia-cs KIA

2004-07-19 Thread Simon Males
`apt-get remove pcmcia-cs ; apt-get install pcmcia-cs`, and also compiling an unmodified pcmcia-cs source. Currently I am unable to wonder around the house connected :( -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mai

[SLUG] oracle on debian (personal use)

2004-07-29 Thread Simon Males
-2.1, UnitedLinux-1.0 or redhat-3 Failed <<<< Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at /tmp/OraInstall2004-07-29_07-27-28PM/installActions2004-07-29_07-27-28PM.log -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More

Re: [SLUG] Can anyone recommend a gigabit NIC?

2004-08-01 Thread Simon Males
a gigabit network: # dmesg | grep -i intel | grep -i network Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.52-k4 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Mandrake

2004-08-03 Thread Simon Males
king it was a prism2 card, wanting to take advantage of the hostap drivers- which also have better WPA support). http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html Knoppix has the patched driver if you would like to give that a thrash. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.an

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Mandrake

2004-08-04 Thread Simon Males
> I am using 2.6 kernel. but the drivers I am using is the ndiswrapper. Don't think any of the windows drivers support monitor mode. NDIS drivers are not really the best for sniffing. I also know zero about the TI chipset. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL

Re: [SLUG] HELP!!!

2004-08-13 Thread Simon Males
Lappy should be blank, with output on screen. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] external players in Firefox 2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Simon Males
Perhaps a FF extension may do the trick ? http://membres.lycos.fr/sethnakht (Looks like a spam URL, but theres the mozilla.org page) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/ -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zhasper wrote: Possibly a man who replies to himself is more worthy of co

Re: [SLUG] asterisk & sms?

2006-11-26 Thread Simon Males
I've pondered similar thoughts, but got stuck on the following question to which the search engine oracle wasn't able to assist in: Does asterisk support/integrate with PCI SIM card interfaces? -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

Re: [SLUG] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

2006-12-04 Thread Simon Males
k-gnutella was on Linux. In these cases I couldn't support them if they had Linux, because I made the choice for them. IMO it would be different if they wanted to learn about alternatives. * Easy to source a distribution in Germany, they have 10+ Linux magazines. -- Simon Males <[EM

Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer

2006-12-05 Thread Simon Males
broadband connectivity on 8 year old x86 architecture? (even if it's not Linux Compatable) See your local computer store for an inexpensive computer. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription inf

Re: [SLUG] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?

2006-12-23 Thread Simon Males
I hate flash, the following extension minimizes the pain. It will only start a flash script if you click on it. So essentially it's an ad blocker, but doing away with crappy flash navigation menu's. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sonia Hamil

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
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Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: >> Been there. >> >> rm link >> >> No trailing slash. > > No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link. > > Thanks anyway. Got a bit to excited. rm -ri "`ls -

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
lse) that it's quite handy to use a soft phone when playing with Asterisk, purely for testing. Once it's working configure the IP Phone/ATA. Now I just use MyNetFone: http://www.myfone.com.au/ -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing Lis

Re: [SLUG] Gnash or Flash

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Males
n. I tried setting it as an external player but no > luck. > I have spent a great deal of time googling for an answer, but no useable > result. > Any clues would be appreciated. > > Heracles > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >

Re: [SLUG] PHP include path Q

2007-06-03 Thread Simon Males
ing, is there really any benefit in having php includes outside of the web root...? One reason I have heard is to have DB passwords outside the web root, just in case permissions go all weird and are being openly displayed on the interweb. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread Simon Males
7;s in /stats, but I can access it directly via /stats/index.html so I didn't really need to investigate it further. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Remotely executing scheduled tasks using samba

2007-06-07 Thread Simon Males
from a Linux system. Has anyone used schtasks from a Linux system? Or know about MS-RPC (which I guess is doing the ground work). -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] KHTML version of Safari 3 ?

2007-06-12 Thread Simon Males
web development. Because the closest I got to testing Safari in a Windows development environment was running a VMWare instance of Linux with Konqueror. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FA

Re: [SLUG] Remotely executing scheduled tasks using samba

2007-06-12 Thread Simon Males
Basically yeah. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dean Hamstead wrote: like say? ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /path/somescript.sh Dean Simon Males wrote: Hello all, Earlier today I found out that Windows Scheduled Tasks can be executed remotely from another Windows system

Re: [SLUG] Sound in Ubuntu

2007-07-05 Thread Simon Males
Do it from outside the Operating System. Disable it in BIOS. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-13 Thread Simon Males
better 2D performance when it is installed. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Mac Mini (hardware) alternative

2007-08-16 Thread Simon Males
similar specs, but the mini-itx and shuttle systems float around $1000. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Mac Mini (hardware) alternative

2007-08-17 Thread Simon Males
ld on benefit Mac Mini users. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Linux Car PC / MP3 Player

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Males
there car? PS Something that just popped into mind was the new iPod Touch has WiFi, as does a Mac Mini. -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] [Fwd: Give One Get One starts today!]

2007-11-12 Thread Simon Males
ucated, enlightened future for the world's most essential resource - it's children. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] phpBB and spam

2007-12-30 Thread Simon Males
My colleagues has determined that one of the easiest ways of defending against spam on web applications is just to step away from the default. For example by installing a non standard module/plugin. There is no way a spammer will be able to compensate for all plugins. -- Simon Males <

Re: [SLUG] Firefox trunk builds with ActionMonkey: JavaScript with JIT

2008-03-13 Thread Simon Males
t release of Action Monkey? -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-30 Thread Simon Males
e tzdata Same happened to me this morning on my Debian Lenny desktop. On boot I sync with time.optusnet.com.au, which brought me back an hour. Then I used GNOME's gui magic time zone selecter to actually set Australia/Sydney. -- Simon Males email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 3.0 Download Day

2008-06-16 Thread Simon Males
it up at your work place). It makes web developers jobs easier and able to offer a richer Internet experience. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] website or browser bug?

2008-07-22 Thread Simon Males
> -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] LinuxJournal in Penshurst

2002-04-24 Thread Simon Males
You can get the Linux Journal at the 'The Strand Newsagency' Penshurst. Opposite the station. Pie shop side. Out of the station you turn left. Its a good read...first time I have ever read it. -- { Simon Males } [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] - [ http://sime.cjb.net/ ] ( "Let them hate,

Re: [SLUG] Quick Gimp Q.

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Males
x27;, done. The shortcut is updated. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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