Chaos is the End Game Re: Embrace the chaos [Was: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org]

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=SLUG feeding spam to the world Google groups can obviously do it. If gmane.org and others can not, then we should stop their access. Gmane does the right thing, as stated elsewhere in the thread. Well, obviously they need new glasses much more than I do. NNTP

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

Mary Gardiner wrote: Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on gmane.org for both posting and reading. Just what I really want. Another source of email addresses for spammers to pillage. Who was responsible for this bright idea? If you are goingto start passing

Re: [SLUG] `new' effort at spam fighting?

Peter Chubb wrote: I've finally got through... there are two bits. For outlook users (none of us, probably) there's a single `button' you can download after you register (you register to get a key, by thelook of it), that deletes the spam, and forwards it with headers. Am I the only one who

Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Google Groups

Michael Knight wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#E-mail_masking To prevent scammers or spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses from a group, Google replaces the last three letters of a username in an e-mail address with periods. To view the full e-mail address, one has to

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club history

Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Hi all, Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? I don't know if anyone responded to this, but names around in 95-96 were Jamie Honan, Grahame Kelly, Del Ken Yap, Charlie

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club history

Matthew Hannigan wrote: Besides myself :-), and a few you already have above, I remember Nick Andrew (of zeta.org.au) and Jeremy Fitzhardinge (goop.org) were there at the very first SLUG meeting, held at Softway offices. Can't remember the date! (Given enough time I could trawl

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club history

John Clarke wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:15:35 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: When did RH4.0 RH4.1 come out?[1] According to http://www.owlriver.com/redhat_versions.html, 3rd October 1996 and 3rd February 1997 respectively. Thanks. So my paper work is correct and my memory is faulty

[SLUG] ThinLinX Hot-e - is it value?

to ramp up prog skills for C, etc than other alternatives. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection speed.

the inevitable re-install. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin

[SLUG] Latex, tabular screwed

|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline mass (M g) 10.0 10.5 11.0 11.5 12.0 12.5 \\ \hline Extension ( e mm) 16 18 22 25 26 30 \\ \hline \end{tabular} gets the error ! LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. TIA [1] Debian sarge in case it matters -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] Latex, tabular screwed

Terry Collins wrote: I'm having trouble with tabular environemt in latex atm[1]. Basically, it just finding errors that don't give a clue. \begin{tabular}{|p|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline thanks, the p{35mm} fixed it. I didn't actually try this option, but had previously tried giving a dimension

[SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

Can anyone tell me what is the correct form of find smtpd* -atime 7 -exec ` rm -f {} ` \; on a RH5.2 system? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would

Re: [SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote: Can anyone tell me what is the correct form of find smtpd* -atime 7 -exec ` rm -f {} ` \; on a RH5.2 system? You can only specify one directory to look in, so smtpd* isn't going to work. err, nope find smtpd

[SLUG] Gnumeric; printing in landscape

I have Gnumeric running on Debian Sarge and I want it to orientate the printout to A4 landscape. Has anyone managed to do this. Using lprng Have tried the various landscape, rot 90deg, etc options but I just get A5 chunks at best in portrait mode. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc

Re: [SLUG] Re: DEC Storage Works

it will save running a room heater occassionally {:-) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve

Re: [SLUG] data centers

Jeff Waugh wrote: I can think of a few broader topics which would make *vastly* more sense (and be less risky) than 'data centre'. Like Linux On Old/Ancient Hardware {:-) Says someone with 3 sparc, 3 Dec 1 Axil boxen underfoot -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www

DEC Storage Works Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads

{:-) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin

Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

The method for listening appears to be the same as for podcasts from anywhere else, but specifically, I've been using a cron job to run bashpodder, a neat little script for downloading podcasts. Good info, I'll try it. An Automated solution is what I wanted. -- Terry Collins

[SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

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). TIA. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

[SLUG] Debian Timezone patch?

How do I patch a debian box with the new timezone data for the commonwealth games? Might require a non-reboot option. Any ideas? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any

Re: [SLUG] HW exp with Dec Alpha Servers?

and sparks, so I disconnected internal cables and external. Oh, Oh, I haven't been game to plug the 2100 in yet. Cheers, James -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors

Re: [SLUG] HW exp with Dec Alpha Servers?

parts and how much these cost. Frankly, if it involves money, SATA is a better bet {:-). Thankfully at least one of the storage arrays will work off my linux boxen, so the alpah boxen might just get scrapped real fast. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

the system on a raid device. Most of the links were no longer relevant for Debian Sarge. In the end I had to go to Debianhelp.org for that magic step. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors

Throttling??? Re: [SLUG] bittorrent clients

be throttled and NOT require java? The last time I ran a bittorrent client, it clagged my computer and adsl link. It is nothing to run one, if it behaves like emule, grouper, etc, etc, etc. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

Does Bridging require ISP co-operation? Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

, there is probably a roaring debate over routed modems vs using full bridge. Nope, Q as per amended subject. Can you just swap from PPPoe/PPPoA mode to full bridge without your ISP doing anything? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

[SLUG] HW exp with Dec Alpha Servers?

provided the technical site, but someone who can tell me what to expect when you plug it in would be helpful. 1) nothing, 2 sparkens, 3) still to be tested. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SCLUG] Re: Interesting view

they could create a situation that justified the IT depts existance. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SCLUG] Re: Interesting view

and the particular instances that come to mind, it was novell that it worked under. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty

TEXT, Text, text please. Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

strips images.) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin

[SLUG] Latex, layout of maths answer

Okay, how do you layout an answer for something as simple as sqrt(175)-17**2 in latex? Looking for a/the method of doing the multiple lines showing your working with equal signs all lined up. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Latex, layout of maths answer

Terry Collins wrote: Okay, how do you layout an answer for something as simple as sqrt(175)-17**2 in latex? Looking for a/the method of doing the multiple lines showing your working with equal signs all lined up. TIA Thanks folks. The use of the = isn't given anywhere (Lamport

[SLUG] Replacement for Gimp - Labelling folders

attributes (woops, white on white doesn't show). Oh, and how do you lock a layer now. Bing, perhaps I should just do it in latex, since I do labels in it occassionally. But, I'd really like a linux application that is at least as fast as CorelDraw to do this simple task. -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] Replacement for Gimp - Labelling folders

if you fiddle {:-0). HTH, Very much so. I love simple text based solution to problems. Thanks for other suggestions, I will look at them also, time permitting. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles

Re: [SLUG] Resolution hell

25 80 to the repective servers and dumps anything else. There is an internal dns server but it does no external dns. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society

Re: [SLUG] Linux in the Film Industry

screen. Tag for redeployment {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose

Re: [SLUG] Ritmo PN3000 3-port print server tftp

might try telnet and HTTP as well. Axis had a config file that was text which you ftp/get, edited, ftp/put, reboot. 3) Try connecting with a Novell Netware server. 4) buy a Axis 3 way print server to replace it (or whatever one you like) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Re: internet access via mobile phone

and chuck-foods for bigpong customers. If these are in your area, might be more economical that mobile phone. Chuckled that you needed another web mail provider though. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles

Re: [SLUG] graduate programmers

the letter of offer outlining starting salary and and three month review. Again the higher manager wrote a very useful reference when I did leave after 12 months. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles

Re: [SLUG] graduate programmers

that take a higher paying job at a dying concern (been there, done that). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little

Re: [SLUG] Spam

with something that rejects all mail with incorrectly spelt words would certainly cut spam incredibly {:-) /tic -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up

Re: [SLUG] graduate programmers

ashley maher wrote: G'day, Anybody know the ball park for grad programmers these days in Sydney? There is a finance company on the northside that will start you at $15-20K {:-), but that is definitely the worst I've seen listed. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] search engine rankings

a dig.. no harm meant. None taken. My usual answer to that question has been given; 1) pay for advertising, or 2) put up a porn flick and spam usenet. Sadly, it is just one of those stages that management go through in web development. Sadly, it can also be a part of a cycle. -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] search engine rankings

words {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin

[SLUG] Thunderbird News Group - aus.bicycle

to work out source of problem. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird

here atm. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin

[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Cat 3 compliance

Howard Lowndes wrote: Any other ideas? 1) Has he tried the Wifi Aerial in different positions around the complex?. Perhaps they might need multiple aerials. 2) Don't know if tele-wire is cat 3. Might cause another lot of interference problems. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email

Re: [SLUG] OT - disposing of CRT tubes.

Tess Snider wrote: (Assuming they aren't shipping it off to a horrific dystopian scrap-town in China, as some so-called recyclers have been known to do.) That is my understanding as to what is really happening anyway. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http

Re: [SLUG] xscreensaver

tuxta2 wrote: A request that I got though was for a Christmas themed screen saver, Hmm xsetroot of christmas-bush/christmas-bell.image whould be an Australian theme, but the eye candy of a screen saver, -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] OT - disposing of CRT tubes.

consider the amount of metal I dispose of annually, it is a shame that council doesn't open their recycling bins to a wider range of metals. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors

Re: [SLUG] OT - disposing of CRT tubes.

of tubing from frames that have been cut up. Hmm, going to be a busy post-christmas building time (bicycle trailers atm). So, you see that is why I do't collect other peoples old monitors to fix or recycle. It hard enough not collecting the computers {:-) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc

[SLUG] what distro/*nix do you run latex on?

If you use tetex/latex/etc, which Linux distro do you run it on? and does it follow the tetex file structure or does it butcher it? Debian isn't delivering anymore and if I have to rebuild it all, I might as well use the Summer slow period to look at other option. thanks. -- Terry Collins

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

matters (mine just finished 55 security updates). Although ELX might still offer the single latest update CD/dvd. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would

[SLUG] Ethereal filter form

Can someone tell me the correct form for capture and display filters for ethereal for a host = 192.168.0.1 ip.addr == 192.168.0.1 was what I thought the capture one was, but now it squarks. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird

of them (some seem to have disappeared though) but my 2c is as other peeps have suggested, that you already have a headless Thunderbird running. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors

Re: [SLUG] Partition

can read, Don't worry, I'm yet to destroy a hard disk using fdisk. Come back to the list with any further questions and clarifications -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing

Re: [SLUG] Too good to be true from Bigpond?

and then when he finally rang back I rather tersely stated I wanted the full details, not a fscking glossy brochure. Telstra always has gotchas in my experience. P.S. Never sign anything to get information. AAPT use this trick to forge your signature onto churn stuff. -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] Linux friendly flash mp3 players

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I think Aldi allow refunds, so I am seriously tempted to purchase one of these and test it out. Aldi does allow refunds. I've returned stuff that didn't match the advertised specs (camera binoculars), -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] USB Audio Input Devices

, perhaps) Jaycar, Dickless Smith, Tandy, etc all sell mono or stereo mini mixers of varying sizes. Known, reliable technology. And if you don't like the cable monster from multple mics/inputs, look at FM back to a TV/FM capture card. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www

Re: [SLUG] Live Show

we were going to say. Of course this was only for a number of 10 minutes segments in a 20 minute show, so timing was a bit tighter. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing

Re: [SLUG] Debian server issues with WinXP

to the directory where the files are stored? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose

Re: [SLUG] Maxi-multi boot layout?

!! Again, THE issue isn't how bad or difficult MS windows variations are, but how well Linux does the job. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, Outdoors, Publishing Any society that would give

Re: [SLUG] Re: LVM and software RAID

Matt Palmer wrote: Off the top of my head: Create a partition on the first HDD of about 100MB in size, select /boot as the mount point. Make a partition on the first HDD of the same size, leave it unused. Err, that second first HDD should be second HDD no? If you are using lilo, does

Re: [SLUG] Presentation Mind Control - 21st September 2005

Jacinta Richardson wrote: In this case you're a perfect example of where better communication would help. You're asking a question about the need for this talk, but you'd normally hit my not worth responding to filter. Pot, kettle black. Your post actually failed the page down test here.

Re: [SLUG] Presentation Mind Control - 21st September 2005

Jeff Waugh wrote: This is an invitation to have beers and steak at the JSBH, and see a free talk by a community member about how to give rad presentations (certainly not an irrelevant topic in this community). Not vastly different from the recent GNOME release party, held at JSBH, announced

Re: [SLUG] Debian 3.1

John Gibbons wrote: I have just installed Debian 3.1 but instead of it opening in the GUI I have to type in a command. Would some kind person tell me what it is? Err, could you describe exact;ly what you did for installation? It may be that you have just installed the base system and now you

Re: [SLUG] Modem Dialing software

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send something else or hangup. Look for BBS

Re: [SLUG] Debian/Ubuntu question

Sonia Hamilton wrote: A Debian/Ubuntu question: On Redhat boxes, network drivers are aliased using /etc/modprobe.conf eg there will be lines like: alias eth0 tulip Where's the equivalent on Debian/Ubuntu? It's not in /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.d/* On Debian, it is

[SLUG] Manageable Linux Bittorrent Client?

. So I really need something that provides the above features. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG

[SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

the usual linux documentation, i.e nothing useful. The is no way Linux is ever going to conquer the desktop with crud like this. /rant -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing

Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

Howard Lowndes wrote: Anything would be better than GNOME rdw Yes, well, why do you think I was giving KDE another go? Bloatware doesn't do it for me either. Now all I need to do is remember the pager proggy for twm and I'm set. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www

Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

James Polley wrote: For the ultime in lack of bloat, try ratpoison: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ WOW, it even has a .deb {:-). It is going to be very useful for a lappie datalogger/processor project I have in mind. Thanks. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:22:41AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Don't say google[1], because it is fast becoming useless. Remember AltaVista? Same reason. I agree that google ain't quite what it used to be, but searching for change kde bouncing cursor pulled got

Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

the wonderful lighting effects that the wind and clouds are now producing outside. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water

Re: [SLUG] How do you start a LUG?

The major MUST have thing is a social aspect, e.g. a cuppa. and don't be too organised, just barely and allow people to help by taking over something {:-). Remember, a meeting is just two people chin wagging. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Is it a good idea to give *full* sudo access to the initial user by default? This sounds like a security problem to me. Yes, if you want your distro to be useful to the average Tom, Dick Mary on the street. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc

Re: [SLUG] NTPD behind a masquerade

. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Adaptec 2940 SCSI Query

is not recognised. Cluebies wanted. TIA P.S. TIA mean Thanks in Anticipation. not that TIA has hijaacked Terry's computer {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing

Re: [SLUG] dual authentification

I won the find password challenge. {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec 2940 SCSI Query

Peter Chubb wrote: Terry == Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Terry Okay, this isn't linux, but tis for linux boxen. Looking for a Terry bit of insight here on dual Adaptec 2940** SCSI cards setup Terry into yum-cha pc boxen. Nothing fancy, just simple single ended Terry hard disk

Re: [SLUG] [OT]: Database Design Question

Adam W wrote: Hi, Can anyone put a name to the following type of design... Normalization? And something to do with Corn, not cobbs, nor the band from South Park, but the man? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

Re: [SLUG] Re: P120 install - reboot oddity

with system install? Before you load the Linux images? If you are having this much trouble, the boot floppy seems the way to go. BTW - what Band/model is the motherboard? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles

[SLUG] Use of Linux Trade Mark in Australia

, and an attempt to inform or remind you of the rights and obligations associated with the use of the trade mark Linux. For further information please refer to the attached PDF letter. Yours faithfully, Jeremy Malcolm -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au

[SLUG] Increasing the number of Inodes?

: 11 Inode size: 128 damselfly:/spam-hold/spam-hold# TIA __ Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without

Re: [SLUG] Ideas for linux internet server hardware.

Rowling, Jill wrote: Well our home Athlon Debian system seems to know all about fan management (noisy bugger in summer!). And don't forget to examine the sound path and sound deadening opportunites along the way like curtains, canite, etc. sometimes more productive. -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] E Commerce

are selling). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] /dev/dsp in use by another program?

that there is a program. So, how do I find out what program it thinks is using the device? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean

[SLUG] Installing X on Debian stable.

to install to get X + gnome going? Or 2) Or how do you fix /dev/input/mice not working? (which is just one of the possible causes). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing

Re: [SLUG] Linux Printing

the 300,000 page service on my HP5si (we no longer need A3 duplex print). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water

[SLUG] Kernel Panic - missing file system from kernel?

incase it matters, the hard disk is 775MB from a lappy (1575/16/63). TIA. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] is a floppy inserted ?

C) someone must have done this before {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] URL for network install of base systems

are/will be in upgrading the main systems. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Debian Woody Dynamic MMap ran out of room.

Hello folks Are there any fiddles (other than extra RAMM[1]) to solve this error message Dynamic MMAP ran out of room when using apt-get? Have 128Mb of Ramm and 256Mb of swap. [1] naah, it would just be flamebait to stay anything. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Scheduling a X GUI Application to start

will try your suggestions and let you know. cron at -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

/spurces.list says stable, not woody. I am trying the Pacific.net.au mirror. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water

[SLUG] Create boot to Linux floppy

I can not write to the partition table with any thing at my disposal. Either the lappie hard disk has finally died, or there is a trick or two thatI've forgotten over the years. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

[SLUG] Debian /etc/apt/sources.list

the default security setting. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] Upgrading Firefox on Debian Woody

of a way around this? This all started when I went looking for a plug-in to display gifs (mutter mutter, tax stuff using whereis for distances) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing

[SLUG] Ubuntu - changing global keyboard type

Can anyone tell me how to change the global default keyboard for Ubuntu (Warty?) I think this one was installed with the UK keyboard and it is missing the | (pipe) key, so it is making it rather hard to find what to fiddle to fix it. TIA -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sources for Debian Sid (stable)

Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:52:49PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: What entry do people have in their /etc/apt/sources.list for debian stable(sid)? I am trying to upgrade/? from woody to sid and changing stable to unstable produced a pile of error messages about package lists

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