[SLUG] what are networking messages

2002-08-10 Thread Ken Foskey
What would this be??? IT is appearing a lot on my gateway logs. Aug 11 06:48:21 gateway kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:03:6c:00:bc:a8:08:00 SRC=10.30.192.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=8152 PROTO=2 Ta Kenf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] what are networking messages

2002-08-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:32, David Kempe wrote: I believe that is multicast traffic From: Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: slug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: [SLUG] what are networking messages What would this be??? IT is appearing a lot on my

Re: [SLUG] 1337 file systems

2002-08-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 12:29, James Gregory wrote: So I've finally been introduced to the fun of portable computing and also to the bliss that is file synchronisation. I was thinking of using cvs to do this for me. After all it will merge and track teh changes as well. Some things probably

Re: [SLUG] Linux - Windows connect prob resolved

2002-08-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 15:13, root wrote: Hi All, Several weeks ago I posted a question re unable to establish a connection between my Linux box and a windows box. I had the manual but it just wasn't happening. The problem was I wasn't using a twisted pair cable. As soon as I put in the

Re: [SLUG] Automated Login Using Perl

2002-08-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:12, Louis Selvon wrote: Hi: I am looking for resources on how to get a script to automatically login into a member area web site using username and password sent to the web site . Does anyone know where I can get any info on this ? Dont know about perl but I did

Re: [SLUG] strange behaviour

2002-08-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:09, Howard Lowndes wrote: On 1 Aug 2002, Ken Foskey wrote: I have a server very nearly ready to roll but it just stuffed up the tty login. I type root at the login prompt it waits and rolls back to the original prompt, no password request. I type student

Re: [SLUG] How does Konqueror do it?

2002-08-01 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 11:43, Andrew Bennetts wrote: You can also specify it in your HTML, rather than getting the browser to guess that it might be at /favicon.ico: link rel=shortcut icon href=http://anywhere/you/like.com; This way it'll always appear in any supported browser -- some

[SLUG] strange behaviour

2002-08-01 Thread Ken Foskey
I have a server very nearly ready to roll but it just stuffed up the tty login. I type root at the login prompt it waits and rolls back to the original prompt, no password request. I type student (other default signon) same thing. It does fire up straight into student using GDM however. I am

Re: [LINK] Re: [SLUG] NSW DET to be urged to use OSS

2002-07-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:15, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Watch this space. If it works well (and we believe it will), it will be some of the best Linux/OSS advocacy imaginable. Which is funny, because I just sent an email to the cbnsw-ctte asking about testimonials and case

Re: [SLUG] Dumb question time about X

2002-07-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:29, Jeff Waugh wrote: Which version are you using? I'm running Galeon and XMMS on my desktop, displaying on my iBook right now... :-) I never realised there are two packages, ssh and ssh2. OK install ssh2 it is more secure. FATAL: Connecting to gateway failed:

Re: [LINK] Re: [SLUG] NSW DET to be urged to use OSS

2002-07-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 22:01, Paul Copeland wrote: I am the Head Teacher of Industrial Arts at Cabramatta High School. I am ... snippage... Jeff if I can help SLUG in anyway I would be happy to. Paul, You have it wrong, is there anything slug can do to make it happen in your school. I

Re: [SLUG] Dumb question time about X

2002-07-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 22:37, Andrew Shipton wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:32:22PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: From memory... ssh -X user@machine xterm on the server side you must enable forwarding in the ssh config files. I have yet to get this to work on debian

Re: [SLUG] CD Roast

2002-07-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 22:10, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Does anyone know why my CD Roast program will not burn proper ISO 9660 images? It does. Seems to be the config, but I don't know where I'm going wrong. Would not have a clue. Perhaps giving your config might help. You might look up jolliet

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 08:59, Alan L Tyree wrote: ssh -v -v bigdog: shows that the system hangs for most of the 45 seconds on the line ssh_connect: getuid 500 getuid 0 anon 1 SSH is trying to resolve the computer name from the IP on the incoming side. It is hitting DNS and not

[SLUG] UK dictionary in open office

2002-07-23 Thread Ken Foskey
I have had a query regarding installing the proper english into Open Office. Here is the link to go to to find out how to do this: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html Happy documenting, KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] rdesktop

2002-07-22 Thread Ken Foskey
Has anyone tried www.rdesktop.org, any comments. This is an NT terminal server client. KEnF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] [Fwd: [dev] Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.0.1]

2002-07-17 Thread Ken Foskey
Hot off the presses... -Forwarded Message- I am glad to announce the availability of Openoffice.org 1.0.1, the first bugfix release for OpenOffice.org 1.0 New in this release are: * upgrade of the mozilla integration from 0.9.5 to 1.0 * inclusion of a .pdf

Re: [SLUG] Linux course locally

2002-07-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 09:03, Brian Graham wrote: Do you have the course codes for these courses ? Do you know if they are offered at other colleges? The course codes vary depending upon the college budgets :-) There are some available at other colleges. Geoff teaches at North Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Weird apache behaviour

2002-07-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 20:42, Simon Bryan wrote: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: / This looks like you are using a proxy server and your proxy server

RE: [SLUG] path to sme server

2002-07-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 23:40, Chris Barnes wrote: for best performance you should setup the hosts on your network to receive dhcp information from the sme server. this way your sme will send them the default route, dns, and other info which should in theory allow them to access the net without

[SLUG] [Fwd: Re: [discuss] OO terminates after startup]

2002-07-04 Thread Ken Foskey
For those that have mystery dead start up programs. I have noticed this happen to Galeon on occasion if I am hammering my system. Nice to know a reason. -Forwarded Message- From: Caolán McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [discuss] OO terminates after

Re: /etc/modules (was Re: [SLUG] Linux Sound :-))

2002-07-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 16:54, Conrad Parker wrote: how is this handled on suse? on redhat? on linuxfromscratch? Blatant advert Conrad, If you were doing the LPIC course on Monday or Wednesday night at Granville TAFE you would have a better idea on the answer to that. For more information

[SLUG] P 75 with X

2002-07-02 Thread Ken Foskey
I just built a complete linux on a P 75 32 Meg of ram with X included. It worked surprisingly well considering the age of the equipment. I would hate to use it day to day but for someone that want to learn Unix on a zero budget this was a great. Once they are comfortable it will become a

Re: [SLUG] DHCP from the command line!

2002-07-01 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys and Girls, just a quick one! I was wondering how you would change from a static IP address *i.e * eth0 192.16.1.30 but you want to change to using DHCP from the command line. I dont want to use linuxconf or netconfig etc

Re: [SLUG] how to take out login

2002-06-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:34, henry wrote: Dear List: Neglect security , I try to take out login :,PassWord : , But I cant get any matched data by grep -nwr login /etc/rc.d. Look at gdm gdmconfig. I have set up the computers for school to fire up and automatically log on to

[SLUG] Forward from Open Office list - general comment on Open Source

2002-06-27 Thread Ken Foskey
I think that the sentiments expressed here are universal to Open Source. Please read on... -Forwarded Message- From: Scott Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OO - Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED], OO - Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [discuss] Re: [users] 1468 bugs Date: 26

Re: [SLUG] RHCE Study Group

2002-06-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 21:31, Stephan Borg wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of any RHCE study groups in Sydney or even possibly online? Geoff does run a LPIC study group at Granville TAFE on Monday and Wednesday. This is definitely worth going to I have never learned so much. The two

Re: [SLUG] ppp.o not compiling in kernel 2.4.18

2002-06-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 22:50, DaZZa wrote: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig The kernel option by default for kernel source for debian are very strange. It appears that the kernel source package builder grabs hist own kernel setup and packages it. Very confusing for newbies to a build,

[SLUG] switching resolution

2002-06-23 Thread Ken Foskey
I am missing something from my XF86config-4 to allow switching resolutions with plus key. Does anyone have a sample of the screen part that I can rip off. I need to switch modes to test monitor capability for Computer Bank. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Simple Zipslack/StarOffice Install

2002-06-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 21:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: justinewbie Star Office comes in three flavours: StarOffice 5.2 ('current' release) StarOffice 6.0 (Beta release) OpenOffice.org (An copy of Commercial Star Office) OpenOffice is missing some chinese fonts

Re: [SLUG] ask a silly question(what is *.la ,*.lo)

2002-06-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:54, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=henry Could you tell me what they(*.la , *.lo) are ? .la: libtool archive files, they store metadata about libraries (library dependency info and stuff like that) so libtool can work a bit faster and smarter. [1] Libtool is about

[SLUG] kernel capers - how to install in boot

2002-06-12 Thread Ken Foskey
I am rolling my own and when I make install it installs it into the / directory. How do I get it to install in the boot directory? KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: ssh forwarding x

2002-06-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 09:11, Angus Lees wrote: do an ssh -v ... and check that redirection is actually attempted (one of the last messages before starting your shell). in what way doesn't it work? ssh -v -X root@gateway firestarter ...snippage... debug1: ssh_session2_setup: id 0 debug1:

Re: [SLUG] linux questions DUMPS

2002-06-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 16:51, godwin wrote: hello , I am working as a system admin in linux.I am planning to take a certification in linux , can any one please help me getting linux question paper DUMPS.If you have one ,do post me . There is a raft of questions in the back of the

[SLUG] ssh forwarding x

2002-06-10 Thread Ken Foskey
debian woody... I have tried to set up my gateway for forwarding x so that I can use one of the firewall builder products. I have editted the ssh_config and sshd_config to include X11forwarding options to yes. How do I get this to work properly? Thanks KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] E-smiths and Education

2002-06-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 18:37, Jeff Waugh wrote: (For others, SME is Mitel's perky little distro that handles most tasks that a small business would require. If you've heard of e-smith, you'll recognise SME... Mitel bought e-smith and continued development.) I have been talking to the school.

[SLUG] stuck in a setup loop.

2002-06-08 Thread Ken Foskey
I have no DNS, the hostname command does not respond to --fqdn but it does reply to hostname with its name. I need a mail agent to install something the requires lograte, and the list goes on... I have used foskey.org (must buy this one day, it is available...) and tried to dummy this up with

Re: [SLUG] sound not working

2002-05-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:57, Steve Kowalik wrote: At 2:44 pm, Saturday, May 25 2002, Ken Foskey mumbled: I dont really want to muddy my system with an alien rpm package does anyone have any suggestions. if you really want to use ALSA, you need to install the modules for your kernel

[SLUG] sound not working

2002-05-24 Thread Ken Foskey
I installed mandrake and sound worked fine. I pulled my debian woody system across to the harddisk, I installed sndconfig and it proclaims that things don't work no messages. The following error occurred playing the sample: Nothing follows... I

[SLUG] missing libraries, debian woody.

2002-05-20 Thread Ken Foskey
I cannot run the Sun JDK for OpenOffice. ken@gandalf:/opt/jdk/bin$ ./javac /opt/jdk/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Looking through my system I can see:

[SLUG] OpenOffice.org-1.0.0

2002-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:46, Simon Wong wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 09:35, Ken Foskey wrote: Hi... We now have Openoffice.org packages for debian on i386 and and powerpc. I was going to give these a go (Debian) but noticed they need gcc3 and libstdc++3. Install gcc-3.0, it exists

Re: [SLUG] Fw: Linux and Star Products

2002-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
below is a copy of my request to linuxcampus.net. I did visit your last meeting in April and found it very interesting but definately not directly helpfull to me: myself, being too old and having too little time remaining to hang out under the Linux bonnet. Were I fifty years younger yes I

Re: [SLUG] Large hard drive support

2002-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 22:56, Ben Buxton wrote: Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: Might have to twiddle with the LBA settings in the bios. And also look at what 'dmesg' says. Maybe it sees something wrong and printed a message there. Thanks all, I tried to install

Re: [SLUG] Control Panel

2002-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:30, Michael wrote: Hello There, I am just wondering if anyone knows of any control panels that can be installed to allow users to administer thier own domain name. Mainly looking for somthing that will allow users to edit the email config for their own domain

[SLUG] Apology for LC

2002-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:59, Jon claiming to be Jill Biddell wrote: I would humbly suggest that the committee send a carefully worded, although not too obsequous (sp), appology, expressing the collective regret of the majority for the events that took place and any embarassment or offense

RE: [SLUG] Samba Ethernet problem [Beginner]

2002-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:17, Mark A. Bell wrote: This morning I tried re-installing my network card (Xircom Creditcard Ethernet Adapter IIps) from scratch and reinstalling the drivers from the disk. I also ran the diagnostic test program on the Xircom disk and it showed no errors. No

Re: [SLUG] Modem activity

2002-05-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 09:49, Terry Collins wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: How can I find out what is causing it? tcpdump -ippp0 dns, time, weather, moon, etc. ethereal is a nice gui wrapper to tcpdump. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] FW: disk error Debian

2002-05-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:21, Simon Bryan wrote: Can some Debian person answer this for me? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shaun Nykvist Sent: Friday, 10 May 2002 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: QL: disk error For the

[SLUG] Large hard drive support

2002-05-11 Thread Ken Foskey
OK I splshed on large harddisk and I want to configure it. I have the old Debian system booted but it says: fdisk /dev/hdc hdc: driver not present unable to open /dev/hdc a) This has had mandrake 8.2 installed so I knwo the harddrive is recognised. I can boot mandrake easily. (What else

[SLUG] hardware clock is standard time and linux expects utc

2002-05-10 Thread Ken Foskey
When I set up my dual boot laptop I said the clock was UTC and it is not (or vice versa). Unfortunately someone booted it on the lan and the hardware clock has been reset. How do I swap the settings from UTC hardware clock to standard clock? KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] motherboard swap

2002-05-10 Thread Ken Foskey
The price difference with an AMD athalon 1.6GHz and a P4 1.6GHz the athalon is dearer by $50. Is there a real reason for this? Should I spend the extra on AMD? I was hoping to rescue the RAM and just upgrade the CPU and motherboard. My current video is PCI. What is DDR and what will it do

Re: [SLUG] HELP With MYSQL

2002-05-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 20:09, Nicholas O'Donnell wrote: I would Like to learn how to write A MySQL Database but can't find any example scripts can some one please help? There is a nice web front end to my sql. You simply fill in the blanks. I cannot remember the name of it but it is

[SLUG] harddrive setup

2002-05-04 Thread Ken Foskey
I am about to embark on HD recovery (the disk is in the mail literally). I want to restructure my HD to multiple partitions, so I wanted to throw out how you would set up a harddisk. Current: / /boot /data (my scrap area) I was thinking of going / /var /usr /home /data Would you include

RE: [SLUG] Highly Technical Talk Offers / Requests?

2002-05-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:30, Tony Green wrote: Quite the contry. I think showing how well (or badly) they do is vital for people to be able to swap over. I know its a major consideration in all of the corporate desktop migrations I have done. I have windows on my laptop so I can knock up

Re: [SLUG] Open Office / Office Compatibility [Was: HighlyTechnical Talk Offers / Requests?]

2002-05-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 18:46, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Karun-pop Which version of StarOffice are you using? None, in fact, I've only used it once. I use Gnumeric and AbiWord now and then, and Open Office occasionally. I have to say that the spreadsheet in Open Office is less than

[SLUG] [Fwd: [discuss] [Announce] OpenOffice.org-1.0.0]

2002-05-03 Thread Ken Foskey
---BeginMessage--- Hi... We now have Openoffice.org packages for debian on i386 and and powerpc. These are currently the only supported linux architectures. I saw, that someone is working on ports on sparc, alpha and IRIX, but it will take some time. Openoffice.org 1.0 was announced

RE: [SLUG] Highly Technical Talk Offers / Requests?

2002-05-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:34, Pia smith wrote: Could also get a StarOffice/OpenOffice comparison. Current release of Star office 5.2 is fairly long in the tooth. Star Office 6.0 and Open Office 1.0 is pretty much exactly the same. There are some minor differences to do with asian fonts that

Re: [SLUG] make depend

2002-04-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 17:08, henry wrote: All I want is that make depend can auto-generate the dependency like : yy.c : yy.h , aa.h (In fact, my project files are too many ) write it into my Makefile,then I can do some modification. gcc has an

Re: [SLUG] make depend

2002-04-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:09, henry wrote: Dear List: I am a beginner fjor Linux-C. I wrote a Makefile as follows : #!/bin/sh -x depend : tab make depend This looks like what you want is a Makefile command that does 'make depend' which is a make file option. What you got was a

Re: [SLUG] Debian Security

2002-04-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:10, Lester Cheung wrote: Just want to know how secure/insecure is a minimal debian install. coz the more I read, the more paranoid I am. I have read the debian security howto serveral times. Are the suggestions in there enough for a normal home machine/regular office

[SLUG] Web page needs another section.

2002-04-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 10:17, Craige McWhirter wrote: When: Saturday, May 4th (from 11:00) Where: Lyne Park, Rose Bay Misc: BYO everything (no shops nearby, apparently) Facilities: Tables / play area (no known BBQ's) Sailing: $25 for the first hour, $15/hr after the first hour. Sitting on

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [Lias] Latest Microsoft Stupidity]

2002-04-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 18:45, Jon Biddell wrote: The legal position is; If I buy a PC with Windows pre-installed (with licence, cd, etc), I can give that PC away to whomever I choose WITHOUT WINDOWS included. I cannot use THAT Windows licence on any other hardware. So if you give a PC

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [Lias] Latest Microsoft Stupidity]

2002-04-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 19:59, Robert Reid wrote: Software Product Transfer. You may permanently transfer all of your rights under this EULA only as part of a permanent sale or transfer of the HARDWARE, provided you retain no copies, you transfer all of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT (including all

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [Lias] Latest Microsoft Stupidity]

2002-04-21 Thread Doug Foskey
According to the computing unit at UNSW: All Microsoft Operating System licences, including upgrade licences, are tied to the machine on which they are first installed and clients may not transfer the operating system licences from the original machine to a different machine. The Microsoft

Re: [SLUG] ask a common question

2002-04-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 08:04, Tony Green wrote: make 21 tmp.log not sure on bash but this does not work in KSH. What you are saying is: redirect 2 (stderr) to stdout (what 1 represents now) redirect 1 (stdout) to a file, but not the stderr which is going to stdout. make tmp.log

[SLUG] Talks I would like to see

2002-04-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On a more serious note... Can someone do a tutorial on GIMP. I remember we have had a talk on how wonderful it is but I cannot get my head around the menus, I want to see if I want to play before I put a lot of time in. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] (FWD) The Microsoft penalty that isn't - Tech News - CNET.com

2002-04-17 Thread Doug Foskey
I agree (sometimes with KF. BUT, we could set up a check for 'M$' in the code, so generate another 'BSofD' for M$. (They would be so silly they probably would never check for the foreign code enclosed - otherwise why dont they fix some of the existing bugs?? ) DF -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cron Weird Problem from a newby]]]

2002-04-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 23:49, Louis Selvon wrote: But why can admin user as well see crontab, but normal users cannot ?? This combine with your perl question suggests a corrupt harddisk, might be fsck time. Dont ask me have not done this properly in Geoffs LPIC class yet :-) KenF -- SLUG -

Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Newbie list [Was: LinuxChix chapter in Sydney]

2002-04-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 22:11, Craige McWhirter wrote: I'm taking a wild punt but I believe that Faq-o-matic or something similar may be what you're thinking. FAQ: What is the best distribution to use. Answer: Dont ever ask this question! There is no answer to this. A nice summary is in

Re: [SLUG] Newbie

2002-04-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 02:48, Brock H. wrote: Well I'm a newbie to the slug list. And I'm not entirely new to linux but I still have my issues with it. My main issue is that of wine. Wine seems like a good idea but it never seems to work. I've seen screen shots of other people getting it to

Re: [SLUG] Cannot See Perl CPAN Modules for Linux

2002-04-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:30, Louis Selvon wrote: However for my other user accounts, when I go to the directory, I cannot see the new modules I installed. The permissions to all files and directories are set to 755 . Being able to 'see' the files is the permissions on the directories.

Re: [SLUG] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-11 Thread Ken Foskey
Mary, I read up on this stuff, this sounds really great, not only for women. I really think we need a newbies list in Slug with similar policies to the linuxchics list. I wish you all the best, if you want me to listen in on a list and answer techie questions to the best of my ability let

Re: [SLUG] re Blat Flatteries in Thinkpad.

2002-04-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:48, Lester Cheung wrote: Oh my god! I wasn't writing English. Guess I shouldn't type while I'm sleeping. Thanks Doug for the info. It would be more handly if you include the address/contact of the shop thou' White pages gave me: PREMIER BATTERIES PTY LTD

Re: [SLUG] right click on an iBook

2002-04-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:16, Peter Hardy wrote: It's explained a little more fully at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html Once you work out you have to install the USB drivers :-} The page does not clearly state that. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] re Blat Flatteries in Thinkpad.

2002-04-10 Thread Doug Foskey
May I ask if anybody know I can get replacement battery for my thinkpad 600e? Its P/N is: 02K7018. Thanks, Lester Try Premier batteries (Tell Alf that Biomed Lismore Base Hosp referred you) Be aware tho, that I have had troubles with an aftermarket Li-on battery for a Compaq, and had to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ideas for future SLUG meetings....

2002-03-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 10:56, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Angus Lees in fact, 5 minute cooking show intros after the QA (and again after the break?) might be an interesting way of doing it. I like that. Might be an easy thing to start before going for the streamy meetings. Suggestions

[SLUG] [Fwd: Re: [discuss] Mandrake users angry due to StarOffice policychange]

2002-03-25 Thread Ken Foskey
Thought this was interesting, especially for the **shoppies** -Forwarded Message- From: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [discuss] Mandrake users angry due to StarOffice policy change Date: 24 Mar 2002

Re: [SLUG] Ximian Connector now available.

2002-03-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:17, Richard Hayes wrote: There is only one reason that I use Star Office rather than Open Office is that you can write .doc files. This is very old news. SO beta 6 is OO 641C with some additions (any chinese people here). The .doc word import/export has had a LOT

Re: [SLUG] Ideas for future SLUG meetings....

2002-03-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 15:09, Anthony Rumble wrote: Seeing as we now have a new year of SLUG with the election of new officials--I thought it might be time for me to air some ideas I had about our monthly meetings.. and see what comes out of it.. Anthony, IMHO you are right on the money.

Re: [SLUG] File Access on cdrom

2002-03-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 23:40, Dennis Curnow` wrote: G'Day Gang, I have files I want to access on a cdrom but don't seem to be able to list the contents with ls although cat gave me three and a half truck loads of gobbledegook so I figure the cdrom is mounted ok. I still don't have X

[SLUG] broken cvs on woody

2002-03-23 Thread Ken Foskey
I updated on Debian woody and CVS is broken: ? nas/unxlngi3.pro cvs: lock.c:177: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__ (__builtin_constant_p ( strlen (CVSroot_directory)) more of the assertion is snipped. How do I report these errors? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.

2002-03-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:28, Bill Bennett wrote: I'd like to install elvis, which is a vi/ex clone, but it occurred to me to ask if anyone has any experience with others. Has anyone any strong feelings they'd like to air? gvim rocks It seems to have the most updates happening to it.

Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 09:41, Michael Lake wrote: Bill Taylor wrote: I was installing. last thing before this it set VGA16 as default. when it does manage to start x it locks the system up, the only way out is to cut the power. cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong.

Re: [SLUG] Optus Dial-Up Internet

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:14, David Fitch wrote: So I'm stuck with 56k dialup and a satisfiying feeling when everyone elses broadband connection plays up ;-) yep me too! only other option is DoV ISDN or a satellite add-on to the 50k modem. (there's rumours of Internode doing wireless

Re: [SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting

2002-03-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 20:43, jason andrade wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Daniel Stone wrote: * Updates were often sparodic at best - irregular and often partial. Packages and the packages themselves were often out of sync until the next update. in any particular area ? e.g dist,

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:34, Ben Buxton wrote: Plus (for example) my cable modem requires DHCP for the head-end to allow you thru, and its tied to a mac address - I'd rather change mac address in software than deal with the horror of having the cable company change their end when I upgrade.

Re: [SLUG] FW: Did 'Klez.e' corrupt my kernel ?

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:56, Adam Bogacki wrote: I was getting used to my Ximian-Gnome Potato system when I thought I'd check my mail last Wednesday. I had three workspaces open under Sawfish - one running bash, one Mozilla-Mail, the last Evolution. I hit send/receive in Evolution and -

Re: [SLUG] ownership of samba shares

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:19, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jessica Mayo not knowing what kernel version == a 'Legacy' redhat system. :) When was this functionality finally properly integrated into mount? *whirr*... Haven't the foggiest. Google will know. [ I love being inundated with

Re: [SLUG] Open Office build On Debian Woody.

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:31, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Richard Hayes Is anyone building Debian .debs for OpenOffice? I can not find it on any distros. Yeah, but it's a hge job doing them the Debian Way. They won't be in woody, but should turn up in sid some time. I think

Re: [SLUG] pinging a port number.

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:15, The Pimply Faced Youth wrote: Is it possible to either ping or traceroute over a specific port number? If so, how can I determine the break in connection? I commonly try telnet IP port to check whether things work. It sometimes gives me the info I need,

Re: [SLUG] Laptop + Debian + no way to install it (help?).

2002-03-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 00:59, Ryan Verner wrote: Gidday... I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:). Basically, I want to

Re: [SLUG] Toshiba laptop

2002-03-12 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 01:27, Henry T Wijaya wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:36, Colin Humphreys wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:49:52AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I still have not figured out the little thumb mouse pointer on the You mean if it's set up

[SLUG] Re- Bios upgrades

2002-03-11 Thread Doug Foskey
Try http://www.motherboards.org/index.html BUT that bd is old/old, so dont be hopeful. Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

2002-03-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 20:54, Peter Rundle wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions as to what has gone wrong? This was all working fine but obviously something has been trashed involving the XAuthority, or xauth but unfortunately I don't understand enough about this aspect of X to know where

[SLUG] usb optical mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Ken Foskey
I have splurged on a new optical mouse and it is USB. I read the appropriate page and I can insmod hid and usbmouse, mousedev . but the little red light does not come on. The light comes on on bootup but it goes out quickly. THere is a bios screen that gives me the IRQs and it switches off

Re: [SLUG] linux help

2002-03-07 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 09:59, Vladimir VRA09 Rakic wrote: hi, is this the correct e-mail address for linux help, and if not, i'd appreciate the correct one . linux help is a company that provides for fee service on linux. http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/support If you simply want

Re: [SLUG] Wine: success at last! (not so good)

2002-03-02 Thread Doug Foskey
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:34, you wrote: --- Doug Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I finally got wine to (seemingly) run Quicken Which version of Quicken are you running? I plan to try QuickBooks Pro 8.1 in near weeks. Serge I was a bit early with the message (Altho it is better

[SLUG] Wine: success at last!

2002-03-01 Thread Doug Foskey
Well, I finally got wine to (seemingly) run Quicken under Wine I used the stripped version from here: http://wwwlinux-easycom/daily/ The fixes now incorporated are that DDE now seems to work, the file saves now don't lock (Keep in mind I have only used it tonite, but it

Re: [SLUG] Solaris 8 vs Linux

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 22:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently we use RH 7.2 for some tasks within our network, but those within the company with decision making ability are investigating the possibility of replacing it with Solaris 8. The general consensus is that with Open Source

Re: [SLUG] Toshiba laptop

2002-02-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:36, Colin Humphreys wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:49:52AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: My kernel now boots. I did not have ext3 compiled into the kernel I had it as a module. slap forehead (Jeff from archives) I can load the network module insmod xircom_cb

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