Re: [SLUG] VPN - help me please

2003-12-31 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 22:15, Kevin Saenz wrote: With windows what VPN technology are you playing with PPTP? ipsec? Someone could correct me if I am wrong I think that default vpn technology is the dodgy PPTP. Freeswan talks on ipsec I doubt it can talk PPTP. If freeswan can talk PPTP you

[SLUG] coding: Small is better

2003-12-29 Thread Ken Foskey
I have always been taught to code smaller and smaller modules in my coding. Now it appears that I have been wrong. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s01.html The sweet spot for module size is about 200 lines. I guess this is because you get into a maze of twisty subroutines all

Re: [SLUG] Debian au mirror

2003-12-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 11:46, Alexander Samad wrote: I have apt-proxy setup at home, I use ftp.au.debian.org and it seems to be a rather old sync.

Re: [SLUG] Programming Book, for Open Source.

2003-12-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 00:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which lang' is used most in open source Linux application projects, is it C or C++? And can anyone suggest a book? I'm hoping there might be one that is aimed at working with OS projects, rather than just a book on how to cut code.

Re: [SLUG] (slug) Networking problems

2003-12-18 Thread Ken Foskey
Make sure you have subnets 1 2. for example: 192.168.0.X is the laptop side 192.168.1.X is the Dual boot side. netmask would be 255.255.255.0 Make the a) machine .1 on both those networks and make the gateway address the .1 address for that network. If you want to cross across you need to

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-15 Thread Ken Foskey
Groklaw rules again. It has a great article on the GPL. I must admit I did not understand it properly. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851 -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:35, Benno wrote: Umm, I have to disagree here. The BSD folk want a commons for *anyone* to leverage. The GPL folk want a commands for anyone except proprietary product developers to leverage.[1] OK let me flip this with a little story. I am a corporation, I am

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 17:58, Robert Collins wrote: Another common one attempted : Foo - GPL. patch-for-foo - proprietary client builds their own. As I understand it this is perfectly legal. THe GPL guarantees that people you distribute your code to have source, not that you give it to

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-12 Thread Ken Foskey
INAL On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 14:37, Ben Donohue wrote: GPL software that you modify as the base for something else also becomes GPL. OK. SCO claims that derivitave works are theirs in their licence. They claim it was introduced without their knowledge. I personally accept this and Linux will

Re: [SLUG] Educational tools and contacts

2003-12-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 15:48, Mary Gardiner wrote: Hey everyone, I got a mail from the online coordinator for Macquarie University Postragraduate Professional Development Programs who wants to find out two things from SLUG: There is a separate Linux k-12 list out there. They deal with this

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 16:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: b2) Ability to freely read, modify and distribute source (+ binaries) This would be my hit I guess. c) The ideal of continuing software freedom And this Mine is a moral high ground. My kids and everyone in the neighbourhood can afford

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 23:46, Benno wrote: The part that particularly annoys me at the moment is the definition of derivative work. So if anyone feels like clarifying just jump right in. Its not a derivative work if you fork/exec something to interface with it, but if you dynamically link

[SLUG] validating the rcX.d scripts are consistent

2003-12-09 Thread Ken Foskey
At work we have a caldera system, it is very RedHat like for those not in the know. The issue I have is the scripts are not setup correctly in the rcX.d (no K40nfs in the rc2.d or rc1.d for instance). I have a vague recollection of a utility that will point out setup problems with rc scripts

Re: [SLUG] Internet training software

2003-12-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 11:46, Terry Collins wrote: Does anyone have any leads on open source, interactive, internet training software, with security and results database? Just thought I'd ask before trying various google searches. {:-). sourceforge.net has a category for this education / cai

[SLUG] kernel tips...

2003-12-07 Thread Ken Foskey
Just reading /. and picked this up. Sure I have seen it before but thought it was worthwhile repeating: By the way, it's more than just rebooting you can do this way. During a lockup, you can sync your disks (alt+print screen+s), unmount them (alt+print screen+u), and kill everything on the

Re: [SLUG] 30 days for SCO to put up or shut up

2003-12-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 19:42, Kevin Waterson wrote: Seems SCO have 30 days to produce the goods http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031205143009441 Thanks for the update Kevin. This is like a sickening train crash. You compelled to watch horrified at what is happening... There seems

[SLUG] ispell trick

2003-12-02 Thread Ken Foskey
I am working on some doco on programming languages in tex. There is a lot of words specific for that particular language and I don't want it polluting my personal list and I ouwld like the checks consistent for others to keep it easy. The answer a Makefile rule like this: spell:

[SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-29 Thread Ken Foskey
HOw do you go about getting keys for digital signatures? I just noticed when I printed Mary's note that I cannot verify the signature so that is not a lot of use. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 20:44, Michael Knight wrote: Try http://www.keyserver.net Chuck in the relevent email address and you should hopefully be able to get their key (if they've uploaded it, which I believe Mary has). Closer: gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) gpg:

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 21:50, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey HOw do you go about getting keys for digital signatures? I just noticed when I printed Mary's note that I cannot verify the signature so that is not a lot of use. Using gpg you'd do: gpg --keyserver

Re: [SLUG] SLUG End of Year Picnic

2003-11-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:09, Mary Gardiner wrote: Bicentennial Park is part of Sydney Olympic Park, and so is accessible by car, train and bus. This is the one with the good kids bike track isn't it? -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba

2003-11-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 10:16, David wrote: Hmmm... so we should all use Windows? Dodgey logic here. ;-) Apache runs fine on Windows, I can assure you. Who defined it had to run on Linux? I would like to point out that slug does support Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on any platform.

Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba

2003-11-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 18:53, Mary Gardiner wrote: I think this is fair enough actually. The popularity of MS Windows *is* a reason to use it (it's familiar, there are a lot of admins who know it...). The popularity of Apache is also a reason to use Apache. This is a very reasonable approach.

Re: [SLUG] enable command....

2003-11-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have debian Woody installed, and noticed something a little odd There is two enable commands, one appears to be a bash builtin, and the other for enabling printers in cups. lotus-server:~# enable kyocera bash: enable:

Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba

2003-11-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 23:55, Eddie F wrote: I'd like to *sell* apache to the boss. Something like this on IIS and Apache would be great. Anyone got any such links handy? Wheeler's page on open source software. http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html (updated, must read it again) Basically

[SLUG] compiler warnings

2003-11-25 Thread Ken Foskey
I am getting this error: process.c:1018: warning: passing arg 1 of `putenv' discards qualifiers from pointer target type It turns out that I am sending a const string to putenv which is defined: ./stdlib.h:extern int putenv (char *__string) __THROW; This discards the constness of the string.

[SLUG] bug bounties on gnome

2003-11-22 Thread Ken Foskey
Want some extra cash, there are bug bounties been announced. See slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/22/1942212mode=threadtid=131tid=189 -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] [Fwd: [dev] localizing of Klingon]

2003-11-21 Thread Ken Foskey
Now I have heard everything... -Forwarded Message- From: Christian Einfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sam Hiser [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [dev] localizing of Klingon Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:31:09 -0800 Hi, I'm just

[SLUG] direct copy of computer

2003-11-13 Thread Ken Foskey
I want to clone my whole existing computer from one machine to another. Could someone help me with very simple syntax to rsync the whole thing. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Linux Certification

2003-11-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:02, Terry Collins wrote: Get the message folks - Unless you are a real employer, your messages do not count in my books. Nor should they count with anyone else, but that is your money and I really don't care. I really DO recommend people to be employed. I really DO

Re: [SLUG] Linux Certification

2003-11-11 Thread Ken Foskey
Terry, The LPI is a hard test and it is a good benchmark. The fact that you must have real experience is important for getting a job but the LPI will guarantee that you have a broad knowledge not a narrow one that you gained from experience. Personally I learnt a lot from do the two semesters

Re: [SLUG] Dell Gateway Celeron 400

2003-11-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 02:43, Rob Weir wrote: Or let your computer figure it out for itself: $ apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid $ dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common $ apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common The defaults should match your installed

Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Quick Survey

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:50, Alan L Tyree wrote: This makes Debian appealing to me. After all, it is one of the reasons that I switched to Linux in the first place. Although the fact that the other OS locked up on me twice a day also had something to do with it. Also, as somebody else

Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Qui ck Survey

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shared libraries is what really impedes smooth package installation. God knows, disc and memory is cheap these days. (Though memory bandwidth certainly isn't, but if it's data space that dominates rather than text space, shared

Re: [SLUG] Cron Not Running Scripts

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I remove the /dev/null 21 cron finally executes what I want the script to do. What output did it give you? Normally this will not affect the outcome like this. [Louis] The script is suppose to update some files and also

[SLUG] Mailing list rule changes

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Foskey
The following are my opinions, if your opinions differ then let us know :-) On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:43, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote: a) Leaving it alone. No moderation, users that are not subscribed can post. We have a spam filter but it only works most of

[SLUG] slow gnome-terminal

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Foskey
When I upgraded to Gnome 2.4 the gnome-terminal slowed down. The draw of the screen is now so slow it is not funny. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] slow gnome-terminal

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:29, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey When I upgraded to Gnome 2.4 the gnome-terminal slowed down. The draw of the screen is now so slow it is not funny. Has anyone else noticed this? What did you upgrade from? Since 2.2 we've been using libvte, which

Re: [SLUG] slow gnome-terminal

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:43, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey Under debian unstable which I constantly upgrade. The gnome-terminal redraw (not function, just drawing) slowed to a crawl. It happened at the time the gnome 2.4 logo appeared about 1 week ago. Okay, that would have

[SLUG] Kernel 2.6 console

2003-10-27 Thread Ken Foskey
My console in 2.6 is not readable. The sync rate from the console is too high. It does not do it all the time. X works perfectly, fortunately. Anyone know how to lock the sync rate on the new graphical console? -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.2

2003-10-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:53, Jasper Streit wrote: Hi all, Im just wondering if anyone has had a chance to look at madrake 9.2, just looking for feedback really. Im on 9.1 and am wondering if I could really be bothered to upgrade as everything seems to be working peachy. Only know enough

Re: [SLUG] OT: [C/C++/CPP] Is it possible to do ...

2003-10-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:39, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: Hi All, I am stuck trying to decide on 2 courses of action - one of which involves changes to loads of files (I wish to avoid doing this if possible). Currently, I have this C-function: int DEBUG(char*

[SLUG] OSS investment

2003-10-22 Thread Ken Foskey
I was thinking about investing money and thinking about what market I know more about than average. Open Source springs to mind, so this is obviously where I would be smartest to put my money, besides it is another way for me to encourage OSS investment. So I was wondering what Australian

Re: [SLUG] K 2.6 help.

2003-10-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:43, Martin Johansson wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:07:40PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: If anyone is on a very fresh version of K2.6 with extra patches can you please run this code and see if it crashes. It fails on all K2.6 up to Test6 release. I would

Re: [SLUG] How do group permissions work?

2003-10-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 18:21, Simon Bryan wrote: All my staff are in two groups, popusers is their primary group and staff is the secondary group. They are accessing the directory through a system called AUC which is a 'curriculum content management system, with email and discussion boards'

Re: [SLUG] Quick question time

2003-10-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 18:18, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have just received an email from PC Authority that contains the top ten vulnerabilities within windows and *nix. The list ranked IIS number one problem for security and for number 3 Apache web server. Besides SSL issues what security issues

Re: [SLUG] FW: Phoenix to develop DRM-equipped BIOS

2003-10-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 13:15, Malcolm V wrote: Well, I never bought a Pentium III with a processor ID, why would I buy a machine with a DRM BIOS??? The issue is not about you or me but about the 60 people per year that I hand out knoppix for trying out, if they have one of these new machines

[SLUG] Satellite down under

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Foskey
Some of our out of towners would be interested in this slashdot article about portable satellite. It unfortunately lacks real detail about how it was done, looks like a stay tuned sort of thing. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/056219mode=threadtid=126tid=137tid=193tid=95 -- Thanks

[SLUG] subscribe messages

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 07:29, James Gray wrote: Call me a cynic, but does anyone else think it strange that a few people took exception to spam getting on this list (like THAT was never going to happen!) and now we've had 3 subscription activation messages in the last two days?? I initially

Re: [SLUG] Satellite down under

2003-09-30 Thread doug foskey
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:05 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: Some of our out of towners would be interested in this slashdot article about portable satellite. It unfortunately lacks real detail about how it was done, looks like a stay tuned sort of thing. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03

[SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread Ken Foskey
Has anyone tried the -mm patches mentioned on /. a while ago. Are they safe and worth the effort? http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/1723236mode=threadtid=106tid=185 Can someone give me a web like that can give me a complete download of K 2.6 test6 source? Debian has

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-27 Thread doug foskey
On Saturday 27 September 2003 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have touched a raw nerve with my previous comments.:-) The only thing I would hate to happen is that people who are not financial members of SLUG, may at some time be refused membership of this list. Being resident

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-27 Thread doug foskey
On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:15 pm, you wrote: doug foskey wrote: ...snip I do belong to our local group, GLUG however. Hasn't your wife twigged yet that it is really a drinking club {:-) Yep: Brewed coffee! ( occasional OD on Pizza!) Visitors welcome! Particularly if they can

[SLUG] Notice of motion at the next meeting.

2003-09-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:16, Tony Green wrote: I'd be stunned if that ever happened. Though I do think if there is to be a change to the list setup, it should be decided by a vote of the financial members. Let's cut the BS and really put it to the vote... As a financial member I would like

Re: [SLUG] Notice of motion at the next meeting.

2003-09-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:43, Tony Green wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:41, Ken Foskey wrote: Let's cut the BS and really put it to the vote... I can't speak for the ctte any more, but I emailed them today about it. Hopefully we can get an announce about the plans for the next meeting

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-27 Thread Ken Foskey
Jon, (CC SLUG) OK will you turn up and present your case for change of list policy. If you cannot turn up in in person then please present your comments here and it will be read at the meeting. Until you actively do something please drop this thread! You have sought to clarify, SLUG has acted

Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-26 Thread doug foskey
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:33 am, Jon Biddell wrote: Richard, I have been suggesting a member only posting list for at least a year, and was always shot down in flames by Jeff, saying that the members didn't want it. What I propose is that we have an anyone can read, only members can

Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-26 Thread doug foskey
On Friday 26 September 2003 03:12 pm, Jon Biddell wrote: -= All of you, stop whinging about the tiny bit of spam that tiny, I guess that's so... Anyway, who made you the bloody mailing list police ? Some of us whiny gits, as you so eloquently put it, have to PAY for the data we download

Re: [SLUG] kill procesname, how ?

2003-09-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:42, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm trying to kill a process by it's name, not by pid, but, can not figure out how to specify the process name to kill; I can kill the proces OK by pid , I just do not seem to get it by its' name, what am i missing: man kill try: man -k

Re: [SLUG] Resignation of SLUG President and Vice President

2003-09-20 Thread doug foskey
of any group, and hope this action shakes the lethargy from the rest!. Best Wishes, Doug Foskey. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Resignation of SLUG President and Vice President

2003-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
This is a sad day for SLUG, IMHO. On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:07, Tony Green wrote: Without an active, contributing community, SLUG will be driven solely by the committee, succeeding only if they succeed. Though we have envisioned SLUG as a Free Software project, built upon everyone's

Re: [SLUG] SLUG refocus

2003-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 00:34, Del wrote: Perhaps SLUG needs to have more SIGs and more meetings with just the special interest groups involved in each one. e.g we now have a Debian sig, maybe we need a techo/hobbyist/programmer SIG and a business community/urban desktop SIG, etc. If nothing

[SLUG] stupid ext2 to ext3 conversion error

2003-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
I did the tune2fs -j to create the journal but I did not change fstab from ext2 to ext3. I don't remember this popping up in the group so I thought I would post my error so that advice can be more complete. It did come up in dmesg as a warning by the way. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org

Re: [SLUG] Sun Sparcstation5: useful for what ?

2003-09-19 Thread doug foskey
what it is usefull for: You could use it to compile a list of all of the questions you've asked and answers you've gotten from SLUG. A bit of perl and a webserver and you'll have the most complete linux documentation repository in the history of the world. Or do you have some

Re: [SLUG] vim scripting

2003-09-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:29, Andrew Bennetts wrote: And to answer the question as actually asked, I think expand('%') will get the current file name, but I know very little about scripting vim... your answer gave me the necessary clue stick... I tried c-r=expand(%)cr and the % had to be in

[SLUG] vim scripting

2003-09-17 Thread Ken Foskey
I have a problem trying to make my commenting script easier. I have worked out how to add the date automatically to the auto header I created. but I need the current filename. imap ,vvi .filename.cpp..c-r=strftime(%d/%m/%y)cr I want to put the filename of the current buffer into the starting

[SLUG] Re: upgrade to kernel 2.6 - setup warning

2003-09-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:20, Ken Foskey wrote: Don't have vga=normal in your lilo.conf (or equivalent) and compile in fb support. You are using graphical consoles then setting the card to text mode. You end up with a blank console screen. Add to that 2.6.0-test4 kernel requires a PS/2 mouse

Re: [SLUG] Mail redirecting -

2003-09-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 05:12, Jared Pritchard wrote: hey ppl - our server redirects any email sent to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to my boss, but he wants it to come to me from now on, because the only thing that would ever come from root are basically any errors returned by cron etc. and I am the one

[SLUG] upgrade to kernel 2.6 - setup warning

2003-09-04 Thread Ken Foskey
Don't have vga=normal in your lilo.conf (or equivalent) and compile in fb support. You are using graphical consoles then setting the card to text mode. You end up with a blank console screen. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] OT: who sells old software

2003-09-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:47, Holroyd Engineering Services wrote: I'm looking for a dozen project 98 program. does anyone know of a clearing house for old software? Look up mr project. A free replacement for project. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] finance under linux

2003-09-02 Thread doug foskey
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:53 am, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, After cracking the shits that my mother-in-law is forever telling her friends that I work with computers and ending up coming home every night to fix someone elses computer problems, I have decided to get myself and ABN and

Re: [SLUG] compiling 2.6

2003-08-31 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 12:07, Jeff Waugh wrote: Anyway, it won't link because you're probably using a different compiler to the one that built libqt, and because it's all C++, you have to wrangle with weird ABI/compiler issues. (Hopefully this won't be a problem in future with gcc.) The c++

Re: [SLUG] /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

2003-08-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:03, Andrew McNaughton wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what did i stuff up..? # ./backmysql.sh bash: ./backmysql.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied dos2unix backmysql.sh

Re: [SLUG] GDM configuration on debian woody stable

2003-08-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:38, Brendan Dacre wrote: Gentlepeople, Although I have found a work around to this problem, I would still like to know why it doesn't work properly, and why my work around works when it prints a message on my terminal saying authentication failed! X security relies

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:54, Del wrote: (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use mod_proxy in apache?). If you are running a small home network and want a webserver on your external IP then why run squid and apache. Run 1 thing and get both. Would not run it in a real production

[SLUG] multi function printer

2003-08-25 Thread Ken Foskey
I was thinking of getting a laser / fax combo. The boss lady wants a simple fax and I can use this to get my laser printer. On the lower price point. It must run under cups and toner must be in the reasonable range. Any suggestions. If anyone wants to sell me one contact off list :-) --

Re: [SLUG] Samba moving files

2003-08-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:43, Scott Ragen wrote: Hi All, I would google search on this problem if I could, but I don't where I would start... so any pointers, or the answer would be appreciated. My problem is: A client ftp's files to our customer for processing, the connection goes as such:

Re: [SLUG] Mathematical ammo in the OS war

2003-08-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:03, Rick Welykochy wrote: http://plus.maths.org/issue25/news/programs/index.html Open wide... The open source community may now have more than ideology on their side, with researchers showing mathematically that their release early, release often

Re: [SLUG] Re: Strange postfix problem

2003-08-16 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:24, David wrote: are you sure that they really relayed from your server? I thought I had the same problem a little while ago but it turned out not to be the case. This was my scenario: Not even domains. I got bounces on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got hundreds of bounces

Re: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:57, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have just had to resign myself to install windows on my work PC for various reasons and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that contains a list of open source software for windows such as Mozilla? If I have to support MS

Re: [SLUG] What *nix related courses have you enjoyed

2003-08-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:34, Terry Collins wrote: In preparation for budget preparation time, I thought I would look on the bright side of life into that indulgent perk of the training course. So I'm proposing a thread on What *nix related course(s)/subject(s) have you found worthwhile and

Re: [SLUG] Statement of Attainment in Linux

2003-08-01 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:40, Geoffrey Robertson wrote: Subjects: o Occupational Health and Safety 18 hours Is this necessary? Doable by project work or RPL How do duck objects thrown by irate users when it does not work. Talk about loose cabling and trip hazards. open computers and

Re: [SLUG] mixED CAse to lower.case ?

2003-07-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:35, Tony Green wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:25, Oscar Plameras wrote: $cat /appl/bin/mv.sh #!/bin/bash # rename files with uppercase names to lowercase #V changed this bit to allow filenames as args for i in $* do mv

Re: Re: [SLUG] Terminal emulators

2003-07-21 Thread foskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Peter Fenelon wrote: hi, if using puTTY or teraterm to access a linux server from windows based workstations allow the user to use the linux GUI, or just the command line? I am wanting to install a linux server on a

Re: RE: [SLUG] Remote desktop

2003-07-21 Thread foskey
Rowling, Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gather that you have to run xdm before you run X11 on the X terminal, and let it start X with a chooser. That aspect isn't clear from the documentation. I will experiment a little at home some more. The xterm can be started with: X -broadcast X

Re: [SLUG] request tracker -- worth it?

2003-07-07 Thread Ken Foskey
out it is a dog :-( What is wrong with issuezilla? -- Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] nfs performance

2003-07-03 Thread Ken Foskey
I have and NFS connection working with: /data2/office/ aix(rw,insecure) but it's performance is bad, any suggestions on the options I should use? -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] expunging and deleting from evolution

2003-06-28 Thread Ken Foskey
Can anyone explain the difference between expunging and emptying trash in evolution? Since I hide messages I think that this option may not be very useful to me. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Samba and NFS problem

2003-06-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 20:57, pesoy misak wrote: dear all I have a debian server that serving samba and NFS server. samba is working quite well and a problem with NFS. my question is where to put the net use command in win me on boot ? and second how to share CDROM using NFS. i have put

Re: [SLUG] Opening .sxw text in Word XP

2003-06-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:30, Glen Turner wrote: Go into OpenOffice and save the document as xxx.doc. When OO saves documents with a .doc extension it saves them in a OLE-based binary format used by Word. cp merely copies data, it does not understand the data it is copying. So cp

Re: [SLUG] autoconf gtk test

2003-06-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 13:16, Conrad Parker wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:39:17PM +1000, Nick Wilcox wrote: Autoconf is extended through M4 macros. On my system they're located in /usr/local/aclocal, do a locate for *.m4. The GTK macro is called by AM_PATH_GTK(MINUMUM_VERSION,

[SLUG] autoconf gtk test

2003-06-21 Thread Ken Foskey
OpenOffice.org has a new requirement for gtk for their crash reporter and I am trying to implement a warning for the absence of gtk-2.0. I had a hunt on google and came up with: if test $test_gtk = yes; then pkg_modules=gtk+-2.0 = 1.3.13 PKG_CHECK_MODULES( GTK, [$pkg_modules] ) fi

Re: [SLUG] Document conversion

2003-06-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:47, Geoffrey Robertson wrote: Hi all, I maintain a LAMP website for a club and I'm facing the perennial battle with propriety formatted documents. For the word document, simply open it in OpenOffice.org Beta2 and export as PDF or HTML at your leisure. Ther is also

[SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Ken Foskey
I was trying to get an NFS system going for computer Bank New England on the weekend and the whole process eluded me. The situation is: a) Primary server containing the home directories. b) Multiple desktops mounting that server for their home directory. The exports file was:

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 21:45, Michael Still wrote: On 9 Jun 2003, Ken Foskey wrote: The mount was being tried and I got a message that the mount was failing but not authorised. The last part I got an RPC message from the client, I think the firewall settings stopped the connection

Re: [SLUG] Ximian Desktop 2

2003-06-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:34, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Adam Hewitt It looks really cool and concidering I use all the software included in the package, it makes sense to have it all intergrated. There are a few people considering building Debian packages that include the Ximian patches.

[SLUG] restarting knopix download

2003-06-01 Thread Ken Foskey
My download of knoppix stopped at 602 Meg of 700Meg, is there a method that I can use to restart the download? My brother is coming down this month and he uses all my bandwidth :-( -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] [Fwd: Help with final choice on new machine]

2003-05-29 Thread Ken Foskey
Anyone care to comment, an open source developer in Canada is getting a new PC... I work on the very low end so someone might have some useful comments. I wish it was my budget :-) What is support like for 64 bit stuff? Ta Ken First I wanted to thank you all for taking the time to

[SLUG] Video of talks at Slug.

2003-03-31 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:46, Jeff Waugh wrote: Not thus far. We're looking at the best way of distributing them so that there's a reasonable balance between quality and quantity. We could make VCD discs, but they would probably only contain one or two videos! I would like to take a blank CD

Re: [SLUG] Using CVS to download

2003-03-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:26, Mick Boda wrote: Hi All, I wanted ot download the CVS repositories from cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lcdp I apt-get'ted and installed CVS and configured it. (If call crossing your fingers and selcting defaults configuring). How do I log into

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