Re: [SLUG] Lusers grabbing IP addresses - stopping them

2004-10-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:29 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: If you are running a DHCP server on a network and have a block of IP addresses which you make available, how can you stop a (reasonably) knowledgeable luser from explicitly grabbing an address from that block by explicitly configuring

Re: [SLUG] Any POS software out there?

2004-10-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 12:31 +1000, Kirti Pankhania wrote: Could anyone recommend open-source point-of-sale software which sits on top of a database such as PGsql or MySql? It should have good search and barcode scanning facilities. This was asked recently on this very list. Perhaps you can

[SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

2004-10-04 Thread Ken Foskey
I am looking at a laptop. My priorities are: Wireless + 100 base network Battery life Screen performance I was thinking of this: N601 (Notebook) * G-MAX 15.4'' 16:10 Wide Screen Powerful Multimedia Notebook * MicrosoftWindowsXP * 15.4 16:10 WXGA, 1280x800 resolution

[SLUG] FOSS car accident...

2004-09-30 Thread Ken Foskey
There apparently has been a car accident with some FOSS developers. Hans Bakker was killed, others injured. I cannot guarantee the source... http://www.wiggy.net/tmp/accident/ -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Fax software

2004-09-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 08:27, Greg Cockburn wrote: We use hylafax (but I hate it). It does the job though. More information please. Why do you hate it. I hate our proprietary tools and I have been pushing hylafax. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] .pub files on linux

2004-09-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:52, Howard Lowndes wrote: It's a classic case of vendor lockin, and most of their own other product won't handle it either. There has not been sufficient demand for it. I have seen only a handful of enquiries about .pub format @ OOo. Can you save in Word format from

Re: [SLUG] .pub files on linux

2004-09-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:29, Dean Hamstead wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- it would be nice for oo to have a desktop publishing application Obligatory answer, OpenOffice.org is great. What about scribus? -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Link a Windows and Linux box to DSL line via same DSL modem / router

2004-09-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 07:34, Vlad wrote: Hi all, I hope i haven't overcomplicated this in the subject line. I plan to set up a mini home network. I will get Linksys WAG54G ADSL modem / router and connect 1 Windows box and 1 Linux laptop, to share same internet connection. Does anyone

[SLUG] perl pod and links

2004-09-22 Thread Ken Foskey
I have the following pod snippet: =head2 Program parameters See LParameters|params.html for information of the parameters. And I have tried some things, no links in html: pod2html \ --css style.css \ --podpath=doc \ -t Gonemail parameters /home/foskey/public_html/gonemail.html /usr/bin

[SLUG] memory trap for glibc - crashing existing programs

2004-09-22 Thread Ken Foskey
From Dan Williams (RH) blog, there is a new debugging in glibc for memory errors. Just a warning for those unsuspecting people. remember valgrind is your friend. quote --- Ok, so I guess I'm not sight-seeing today. Turns out that the reason the OOo 1.1.2-5 builds were failing was a change

Re: [SLUG] Revisioning system options

2004-09-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:50, Michael S. E. Kraus wrote: What are the suggested methods of revisioning in a case like this? I have a number of uncontrolled programs (scripts) at work. I simply created a directory for them in cvs and checked them out. Every so often I commit the changes that

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux Advocate for Parliament

2004-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:17, O Plameras wrote: Linux and other Open Source is in the best position vis-a-vis other OS even just in this area of Security. Funny slashdot.org has a thread about that http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/17/1438208tid=172tid=8 Read all the article that is

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux Advocate for Parliament

2004-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 23:56, O Plameras wrote: Common sense will tell us that Open Source is rigorously audited by its nature. And it is a simple process to catch security breaches even by using simple tools like diff, etc. What are you auditing for? - Breach of copyright - potential

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux Advocate for Parliament

2004-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 10:36, O Plameras wrote: It must be noted that manual inspection and analysis is only one process. The auditors have automated tools that they use to audit in addition to queries and answers as well as other tools like field testing, etc. Automated checking is NOT the

[SLUG] Amazing what you can do with shell script, a neat blogger.

2004-09-17 Thread Ken Foskey
nanoblogger This run under bash in AIX so it is really cool for me at work... Sample page: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ooffice/ Where do you get it: http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ for publishing automatically to my optus webpage I am using a ftp and a .netrc: BLOG_PUBLISH_CMD=ftp

Re: [SLUG] mythtv

2004-09-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:16, Michael Fox wrote: We'll it looks like I will be taking a nice big dive into the configuration of mythtv. I was hoping to have already done it. /. has a mythtv writeup right now and there is an article from an American Vendor how they did it.

[SLUG] ssh and remote X forwarding

2004-09-03 Thread Ken Foskey
The cygwin X FAQ has great information on X forwarding over SSH and a list of problems that might occur and how to fix them. I never knew about the -Y option for example: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] IRC gone away

2004-08-31 Thread Ken Foskey
irc.freenode.net appears to be going in a loop from Optus. $ ping irc.freenode.net PING irc.freenode.net (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms Any suggestions, I am having IRC withdrawl. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] IRC gone away

2004-08-31 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 22:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: irc.freenode.net appears to be going in a loop from Optus. $ ping irc.freenode.net PING irc.freenode.net (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms Any suggestions, I am

Re: [SLUG] Null passwords

2004-08-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:15, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: On a Debian Woody box: is there someway to permit null passwords? (I know - security, but). The other thing you might be interested in is the gdm autologin feature. I used

Re: [SLUG] testing for file existanace, and an 'and' in a script

2004-08-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 09:51, Glen Turner wrote: 3) [ -s $A ] [ -s $B ] action This is possibly the most portable between shells for what it is worth. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] KDE icon help

2004-08-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Does anyone know a way to put an icon on the toolbar for every KDE (2) user. I have written a simple tcl script (thanks to slug) that provides a point and click way of printing a file on very big printers :-) I need to add this to every tool bar. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer --

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 22:05, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? ping and traceroute only work when commercial setups allow them to work. These are not reliable.

Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice won't let me paginate an HTML document

2004-08-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 22:10, Jan Newmarch wrote: Hi I have an HTML document. It needs to be formatted with page margin settings, etc. Using a stylesheet failed (browsers such as konqueror seem to ignore them when printing to Postscript). Using html2ps didn't get it right either. So I

[SLUG] tcl script - help needed

2004-07-28 Thread Ken Foskey
I need to write a tcl script to provide a GUI over a shell script. Like every other work project this is a yesterday project and I cannot find a site easily on how to write tcl. I have a sample script but it is fairly rough, so I have the 'script structure' it is the gui elements that I need

Re: [SLUG] looking at vi file in wordpad

2004-07-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear slugers, I have created a file using vi. When I look at the same file on a windows box with notepad it is loaded as one line and where I expect to have carriage returns i have box looking characters. Can someone tell me how I can

Re: [SLUG] simple runfor loop, how ?

2004-07-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 08:47, Ben de Luca wrote: well the file names appear to be well structured, and I have never seen the basename cmd before :). I use types of unix how common is the command? it looks like it have been around for a while. if i was worried about extra . I might use.

[SLUG] perl POD style sheets

2004-07-22 Thread Ken Foskey
Is there an easy way to assign a style sheet to the html that is generated. I have hunted but google turns up zero. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] perl POD style sheets

2004-07-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 22:06, Gavin Carr wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:41:03PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: Is there an easy way to assign a style sheet to the html that is generated. I have hunted but google turns up zero. Generated how? pod2html should accept a --css arg, IIRC

Re: [SLUG] kvm required

2004-07-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 23:10, Simon Males wrote: I just need a rant for a KVM. When i im at home i wish to use standard keyboard/mouse and screen which will be shared by my desktop and laptop. The kvm will require USB ports as my laptop cannot take PS2. I've had a quick browse, and kvm's

Re: [SLUG] Slides for my Beyond C, C++, Perl and Python talk

2004-07-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 01:55, André Pang wrote: Hi all, I've put up slides for my Beyond C, C++, Perl and Python talk at: http://www.algorithm.com.au/mt/archives/talks/ beyond_c_c_perl_and_python.html I thought that the last meeting was one of the best ever. The meet the people was

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 00:05, Terry Collins wrote: Okay, the hanging is caused by asking it to import two different things (say mail and settingss )at the same time. So I guess that it is a bug (allowing you to select two things). I can reliably hang Evolution by deleting two mails quickly

Re: About LPI exams (was Re: [SLUG] Semester 2 Linux Courses)

2004-06-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 16:40, Dave Airlie wrote: yeah I've always hated this aspect of those types of exams, (I've also never officially done any..), Sun exams seem to be similiar asking questions about an arcane switch on ls for example... where my thinking was being a good admin is knowing

Re: [SLUG] Semester 2 Linux Courses

2004-06-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 14:04, Michael Still wrote: Worth much more than the $150 cost. I believe the normal rate is about $200 per exam. LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 are two exams each. The learning is $150, the actual exam is extra on top of that. This is a hint to Geoff / Pia to post stuff on the

Re: [SLUG] Semester 2 Linux Courses

2004-06-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:14, Luke Yelavich wrote: Do you, or anybody else know what is covered in these courses, and what requirements you need to take them? I did both of the LPI ones. Firstly thoroughly recommend them, if not to get certified but just for learning more about the OS that we

Re: [SLUG] rebooting after power removal.

2004-06-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 14:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When power is unceremoniously removed from my RedHat 9.0/Linux 2.4 computer, during reboot, it runs a check of the hard disc drive. Its messages indicate that it has corrected all encountered errors, however upon completion it always

Re: [SLUG] running IDE's through remote desktops

2004-06-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 21:07, c c wrote: From what I can gather each of the IDE's require about 500M RAM to run. So assuming that the server will only ever have 7 IDE's running at any one time, this will equal 3.5G. Then the other 500M can be used to run the VNC sessions the OS and

Re: [SLUG] ftp servers with packages

2004-06-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 19:27, Richard Neal wrote: Hai I was just wondering of the bat is there any were, where all the rpm/.deb src package servers are all listed for newbiesnot just rpmfind and the normal sourceforge stuff but a list of all the small private ones made public. For deb

Re: [SLUG] difference between VNV and tightVNC?

2004-06-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 15:43, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I suppose that I'll now have to give tightVNC a go since it seems to be an improved version of VNC. general info... Less bugs and a lossy compression option that I have used across a modem. Both the client and server have to be tightvnc

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

2004-06-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:35, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: Hi, Is there any s/w out there that does this? simple approach tightvnc.org Install a server on the Windows machine and access from Linux. Another approach is rdesktop which is a true remote desktop, two separate environments

Re: Exchanging copyright for money (Re: [SLUG] Which open source license is best)

2004-06-07 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:12, Jeff Waugh wrote: It takes *significantly* more effort to climb up the meritocracy rungs when your contributions do not include code. See also: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/pearls/2003/04/msg0.html Well worth a read and exactly matches my experience.

Re: [SLUG] GNU/Linux User's Group of Sydney

2004-06-07 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:59, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Yes, the GLUG has arrived - well, at least as a thought :) Your right... That would be the Goonalabar (Not sure of spelling) Linux group that Doug Foskey is a leading light at :-) -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Which open source license is best

2004-06-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 15:01, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote: When you assigned copyright to Star Office OOo does this mean that some meanie might be able to get control of this successful product, close the source and change the copyright, freezing you out of the picture altogether and

Re: [SLUG] Which open source license is best

2004-06-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 09:40, Mary Gardiner wrote: I don't think it makes sense to assign ... copyright under dual licensing. You as author can assign copyright for use to multiple parties. I have assigned copyright to Star Office and also OpenOffice.org when I signed a long time ago. David,

[SLUG] ISDN + T(unmentionable)

2004-06-04 Thread Doug Foskey
Hi, well I have finally gone dunnit! I have signed up for ISDN, because in the boonies, we cannot get ADSL. The deal is/was $55 installation, then ~$45/month + $16.50/month unlimited digital connection (using my existing ISP with the 01983 connection number.) Details for interested

[SLUG] Which open source license is best

2004-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
BSD is the only true Open Source license. This is an interesting quote from an idiot. But I would really like to here other opinions on this. I know there are thousands of licenses I would like to classify them: a) BSD like - use how you want includes Public Domain. b) LGPL like - for

Re: [SLUG] Developing FOSS while employed developing proprietary software

2004-06-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:43, Paul Forrester wrote: on the other hand if while you are at work and you learn a technique that allows you to write faster, leaner, more maintainable and more efficient code and you take this technique home and write a routine incorporating this technique, because

Re: [SLUG] Developing FOSS while employed developing proprietary software

2004-06-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 23:53, Michael Knight wrote: A workmate and I have talked with him about it before but he seems to think that if we're programming in our spare time we'll be too tired or we'll be thinking about our other projects during work time. Outside work it is your time and you

[SLUG] [Fwd: [dev] Perl/OpenOffice]

2004-05-28 Thread Ken Foskey
FYI: -Forwarded Message- From: Jean-Marie Gouarné [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [dev] Perl/OpenOffice Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:59:52 +0200 The 1.106 release of OpenOffice::OODoc, a Perl extension allowing direct OOo file processing (without OOo installation)

Re: [SLUG] Multi-function thingummies

2004-05-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:58, Matthew Davidson wrote: Are these things to avoid, or can anybody recommend a model that actually works with CUPS/SANE? One thing to consider is that CPU processing. A lot of the non-supported MF systems are not supported because a lot of the functionality of the

[SLUG] Re: SLUG's at GLUG weekend

2004-05-23 Thread Doug Foskey
First, thanks to Tony for delivering Grant to Coolangatta. I was disappointed that I had to attend a Family function on Saturday evening, so missed all but Grants' first session. If other Sluggers, such as Pia Geoff or others want to visit Lismore as part of a holiday, I would be happy to

[SLUG] debugging wireless network cards pcmcia

2004-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
Can i get a clue stick on debugging whether a pcmcia card is being noted or not. There is nothing in the logs and dmesg to help me out. My xircom (wired adaptor) appears to come up before pcmcia comes up. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] mail processing in perl

2004-05-15 Thread Ken Foskey
Is there a module that will process a mail file used in Evolution (single flat file containing mail and attachments). I need to pass this file regularly with a perl script extract any new attachments from the last pass and do some testing on the attachments and then replay to the sender with a

Re: [SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 22:39, David Kempe wrote: With the plethora of spyware around on the average PC, hijacking port 80 connections is a great way to monitor and block them. You can configure legitimate programs to use a proxy (apt for example or even ftp for apt), and illegitimate ones

Re: [SLUG] Desktops

2004-05-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 19:15, Mary Gardiner wrote: People who use computers that way aren't asking for something with a pretty picture to click on before they think it's easy to use. They're asking for something that lines up with their highly application specific (and probably quite detailed)

[SLUG] NFS problem

2004-05-05 Thread Ken Foskey
I have three machines connected: M1 == M2 == M3 M2 has two NIC's and will not act as a router so the network around M3 is secure. I have an NFS mount from M1 = M2 with no-root-squash,ro as /data on M2. When I try and mount M2 /data (NFS mount) to M3 as /data I cannot mount it because it is

Re: [SLUG] NFS problem

2004-05-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:02, Steve Kowalik wrote: And what does portmap have to say about this on both machines? Nine times of ten, with a permission denied message, portmap is the service responsible. Check hosts.allow on both machines, as well as rpcinfo, and always remember the firing

Re: [SLUG] Making life easy browsing //lists.slug.org.au/archives

2004-05-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:28, The Salisbury's wrote: I could before browse the slug archives with ease, BUT now find myself repeatly clicking the same link twice, by mistake. The web designer can override the colours for clicked link and unclicked link to be the same value. I hope that this

[SLUG] iptables - filtering not working.

2004-05-03 Thread Ken Foskey
Here are the rules, I want to stop port 80 being accepted from any network except squid on this machine. This is not working. I think I have a drop all INPUT for port 80 and it is not dropping. Help... gateway:~# iptables -L INPUT Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source

[SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:08, Ken Foskey wrote: And How do I block port 80 on eth1 using ipmasq (ipchains) under debian. All I need to do now is figure out how to ensure the proxy is used. Turns out that I am using iptables (K 2.4.26) I think this command should do the drop that I

[SLUG] squidguard not working.

2004-05-01 Thread Ken Foskey
Stating the obvious I am actually using the squid proxy :-) In squid.conf I have the following: redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squid/squidGuard.conf I have the adult setup: dbhome /var/lib/chastity dest adult { domainlist adult/domains urllist

Re: [SLUG] squidguard not working.

2004-05-01 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 09:20, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 09:03, Ken Foskey wrote: In squid.conf I have the following: redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squid/squidGuard.conf I have the adult setup: The obvious one up front, did you reload

Re: [SLUG] A very insightful article

2004-04-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 13:42, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote: Bret Comstock Waldow said: Despite his typos, I think this fellow recognizes some important issues: http://www.advogato.org/article/765.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html Welcome to link hell. Please

[SLUG] X through a firewall

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Foskey
I would like to use my desktop remotely and it is behind a firewall. How would I do this: laptop ssh - Internet - ssh firewall (Debian stable) | V Debian desktop I would like the X screen to come up on the

Re: [SLUG] OO, Word And Macs

2004-04-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 10:38, Jeff Allison wrote: Hi all has anyone had any problems with word formated OO files opened on macs. I've just had my third complaint from agencies using macs that cannot read it. 1.1. has just been released, this may help. If you could raise an issue on

RE: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org Mailing list

2004-03-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently had to unsubscribe from the OOo mailing list. The reason: I received so many copys of an email that was autogenerated by exim that it filled my mailbox and caused it to refuse further posts. Is this a fault within exim or

[SLUG] cups and deskjet 3820

2004-03-24 Thread Ken Foskey
I have a new HP 3820 printer, my old one died. (debian cups) I looked up linux printing and installed hpijs foomatic, no difference. I also downloaded a PPD file and installed it according to the cups manual and restarted, installed new driver. When I print a sample page the light blinks

Re: [SLUG] PowerPoint Analogue.

2004-03-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:04, Mike MacCana wrote: For bonus cool points, use Openoffice 1.1 and distribute your presentation in Flash. 1.1.1 rc3 has just been released. A few more bug fixes. Just been updated in Debian unstable. If you must use a non-free platform then I would recommend PDF

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Way off topic cry for help - recovering a word doc

2004-03-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:52, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, First I am sorry to be so off topic but a new mother uni student needs help. A friend of mine is a new mother and is trying to study as well. She has an assignment in Word that is corrupted and needs to recover it. It is fairly

[SLUG] ripping apart a link

2004-03-15 Thread Ken Foskey
I have a configure problem for OOo. /usr/bin/ant is a link to /usr/share/ant/bin/ant. I need to find the ultimate source for that link so that the ANT_HOME directory is set correctly. Is there an easy cross platform way to do that? -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] ripping apart a link

2004-03-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 23:02, Felix Sheldon wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I have a configure problem for OOo. /usr/bin/ant is a link to /usr/share/ant/bin/ant. I need to find the ultimate source for that link so that the ANT_HOME directory is set correctly. Is there an easy cross platform way

Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

2004-03-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 19:44, Sean Cohen wrote: Conversely, Linux gives you the choice of a thousand different customised cars, tough as a tank, with a full set of manuals, free access to spare parts for the rest of your life, The number of choices of Linux is a good thing? Personally I

Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

2004-03-12 Thread Doug Foskey
One mistake: its a wank (el) not a wenk. On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:24 am, Bill Bennett wrote: It's a peculiar request, so please bear with me. I had been asked why Linux was immune to the wave of viruses that have been pillaging Microsoft-oriented machines. To be honest, I didn't have a

Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

2004-03-12 Thread Doug Foskey
On another list I made the analogy of using W$ being like driving a Ferrari, and parking it in Harlem with the keys left in it... Doug On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:35 am, Grant Parnell wrote: How about this one... It's like entering a house through the door: Windows OS has key locks, most virii

Re: [SLUG] Small Business File/Job Management Solution?

2004-03-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 22:00, Gerard Blacklock wrote: I am not sure whether this may be the correct list to post to, however i am sure there is a large number of IT professionals on this list who may be able to provide some insight on a problem. The is called document management and work

Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

2004-02-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:41, Alexander Samad wrote: Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode. If you want a separate firewall from your computer (a very good idea)... power consumption. Having a small

[SLUG] scripting tests for students

2004-02-27 Thread Ken Foskey
I am writing up a course on scripting and perl and I would like to produce a series of quick tests to validate the students knowledge. These tests will end up in the TAFE LPIC notes. I want some ideas to test knowledge with a 10 minutes quiz for beginners. One example I thought of was take a

Re: [SLUG] Ximian Evolution

2004-02-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:33, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Howard Lowndes Evolution ( at least V 1.2.2) appears to have a problem with pkcs7 singed emails. Is this a know problem and has it been fixed anywhere? Worth checking bugzilla.ximian.com; they'd know. :-) There was a bug if

RE: [SLUG] XDMCP, CYGWIN and Debian Linux

2004-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:38, Louis wrote: [Louis] is my replies ... [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Foskey I have debian and the gdm is set up for access. To prove what the problem is you might try and `telnet ipaddress 177. [Louis] Sorry. I presume u mean telnet from

Re: [SLUG] XDMCP, CYGWIN and Debian Linux

2004-02-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 19:53, Louis wrote: X -query ip_address This is right... Assuming you can ping the ip address :-) I have debian and the gdm is set up for access. To prove what the problem is you might try and `telnet ipaddress 177. check /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [xdcmp] Enable=true From

[SLUG] Interesting utility - tiny C compiler

2004-02-22 Thread Ken Foskey
Tiny C compiler, in debian. From the documentation: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc X86 only. Provides the ability to have C script with #!/bin/tcc -run Provides bounds checking code with -b option Small and fast. Sounds interesting... -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Re: DSPAM vs SpamAssassin FYI

2004-02-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 15:08, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: While doing a Google search today, I noticed some drivel about DSPAM vs. SpamAssassin back in October, and how obvious it is that the information posted was done so by SpamAssassin bigots as evidenced by the utter lack of any real

Re: [SLUG] For those who haven't seen it! Open source group fires off at SCO

2004-02-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 17:51, David Uzzell wrote: http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=10Art_ID=18409 Open source group fires off at SCO Industry cluster Open Source Victoria (OSV) has filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) against the

Re: [SLUG] WordPerfect for Linux - which distros and versions?

2004-02-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:25, Terry Collins wrote: Can people please tell me which distros and version THEY HAVE Wordperfect for Linux running on please? (NOT Wine versions thanks) From memory... WordPerfect relies of SCO emulation and most distribution kernels compile that out (more so

Re: [SLUG] WordPerfect for Linux - which distros and versions?

2004-02-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:40, Terry Collins wrote: Anyway, does Open Office read Word Perfect files? If so, which ones? i.e. all dos, windows and linux versions? http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/1.1press_releaseb.html Quote: WordPerfect LaTeX Conversion Tools A WordPerfect filter

Re: [SLUG] FOSS in libraries

2004-02-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 12:35, Phil Scarratt wrote: I have been spending the last six months working to get the first open source or free software CDs available in libraries as lending CDs. I have now succeeded; 415 public libraries out of a possible 507 have accepted them in Scotland. It

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys

2004-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:01, ksaenz wrote: I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in cheating the public. :) It is actually expensive to register a patent. It is no longer to support the

[SLUG] key management for pgp keys

2004-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
At work we have a client that wants to keep data encrypted during transfers end to end. They would like to use pgp to encrypt their data (changing to ssh would take a crowbar and lot's of time). If we have their public key installed on our three separate computer systems on three sites then

Re: [SLUG] Replace Organizer

2004-02-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 09:35, ksaenz wrote: on Evolution1.4.4 is anyone experiencing issues like lockups on the app? After a while I have to open a term and killall evolution evolution-wombat My particular problem is with deleting mail on a loaded system. If I am doing a major compile and I

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have RH73 on P3 with 256MB and 512MB swapper, single IDE 20GB If i was to increase the RAM, to, say 512MB or 1GB: can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them moves

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup. Ken, so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] OO programming book mentioned last Fri night

2004-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:02, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. The opening sentence We want to make our programs easy to write, correct, maintainable and acceptably efficient. from the main architect of C++. The irony is astounding.

Re: [slug] KPPP and ISP problems

2004-01-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 01:16, Neast Pty Ltd wrote: Is it possible that kppp is broken, it worked fine for about 18 months and now it has stopped, I must remark that it is coincident on my trying to set up a home network with a network 8 way switch amoung other things, I don't know what I've

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

2004-01-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:09, Kevin Saenz wrote: [Support person] So you are using Windows XP? Try not fighting it so much... meDo You support Linux? [Support] Huh??? meHang on going to another computer, yes XP. When you get the point of windows only simply start answering yes and try and get

[SLUG] CAB extract logic

2004-01-23 Thread Ken Foskey
This may be of interest to people extracting MS files... Subject: Re: Possible use of cabextract in OpenOffice.org under an LGPL license? Date: Friday 23 January 2004 12:59 From: Stuart Caie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kevin B. Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, you may want to check out

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts - nvidia TwinView setup

2004-01-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:46, Mary Gardiner wrote: There are other a dist-upgrade fixed it! comments on this issue around the net. I'm running up-to-date unstable (according to the .au mirrors anyway) and I still have it :( ftp.au.debian.org is not updating or updating so rarely to be not

[SLUG] g++ linking problem

2004-01-19 Thread Ken Foskey
This one is dumb I cannot link this program... $ make gcc -g -I../src -o iniexample iniexample.c -I../src -L.. -liniparser And it runs... g++ -g -L../iniparser -liniparser afp2text.o codeconvert.o -o afp2text afp2text.o(.text+0x291): In function `main':

Re: [SLUG] Create a directory in all users home

2004-01-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 21:47, Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi all Just wondering what people come up with as far as the easiest way to create a sub-directory under all users home directory with appropriate permissions. In the order of 400 users, with approx 50 in one primary group and the rest in

Re: Criticism without Rationale (was Re: [SLUG] Re: fedora WAS:(a kernel pickle: qt xlibs dependencies))

2004-01-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:15, Mike MacCana wrote: I wouldn't use Red Hat because (reason). This is becoming very slug-chat. Why are we taking pot shots at Jeff lately? Seems unjustified. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] openoffice file recovery

2004-01-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 22:03, Myles Byrne wrote: I was just wondering if anyone knew of a possible way (temp files or something??) to recover some of the data in the document. There is none to my knowledge. The document is stored in memory. There is no reason that OOo will take down other

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