[SLUG] Cycling Geeks live feed of le tour

For Linux Cycling tragics Thanks to googles Cache I was able to rescue this useful link. Xine seems to do the best job. mms://a1729.l2168647534.c21686.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1729/21686/v0001/reflector:31716 Warning: wmv and wma zone. Easyubuntu does a nice job if you get stuck.

[SLUG] Edgy /etc file permissions

accidentally stuffed the permissions on all of /etc. Did not realise I was in this directory and did a sudo chmod -R 777 ./ Is there a way of getting these back to a useful state? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] .dmrc problem at login

I get a message saying that $HOME/.dmrc will be ignored. That the file $HOME/.dmrc should be owned by the user and have permissions set to 644 and that the $HOME directory should only be read a writable by the user. Not much of a pain except that I cannot re set the default login to gnome after

[SLUG] Ubuntu vs Novell Desktop- a real life corporate experience

Whilst enjoying the expo I came across some corporate types at the Novell stand. Very Friendly and handed me an evaluation version of their Suse Desktop. I've recently taken on a sales role and our team use Exchange to interact. Email, calendars, tasks. I've been itching to go to an open source

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu vs Novell Desktop- a real life corporate experience

Jeff Waugh wrote: Which version did you try? SuSE 10.1, NLD or SLED? As far as I could tell, they only had SuSE 10 (maybe 10.1) and NLD at the stand last week. But you had a closer look than I. ;-) Thanks, - Jeff Definitely NLD -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] RTFM etc

i heave sigh as I write this on the and wonder why email discussion lists can descend so easily into shouting matches.My wife siobhan works as a Montessori teacher with 6-9 year old children. They are able to calmy listen to each others opinions and treat each other with respect.I bridge the

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

Title: Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5 Oscar Why do your emails come through with tomorrows date? Linley Caetan JAGAR Level 1, 60 Carrington Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: (02) 8221-0745 Fax: (02) 8221-0750 Mob: (04) 2442-4262 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- No virus found in this outgoing

[SLUG] surround sound on CMI8738

This card works fine in windows but Ubuntu Alsa sound will not give me proper 5.1 surround sound. Is there a better way of configuring and running this very common card. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] surround sound on CMI8738

Jeff Waugh wrote: What kind of output socket/cable are you using? Multiple analogue cables, or a single SPDIF, or...? - Jeff multiple analogue green black orange. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help

snip Ditch Red Hat. Too many things about the distro are specialised to be Red Hat only - the knowledge doesn't transfer. Back patching kernels is especially a lock-in to Red Hat. When you are more of a Linux mechanic, you can try again if you like. But you won't get there without a

Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

For ADSL I would strongly recommend that you install a dhcp router - get a wireless one so you can connect wireless devices later.Let the router manage the connection to the internet and then you will have an easier life.I recommend Dlink( keep away from netgear!)for under $100.00 you will get

[SLUG] digital video and iee1394(firewire) between computers

Just got kino digital video going and was wondering about using iee1394 (firewire) to connect 2 computers and share large files between them. http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.php Says it is possible. Is it worth while or am I better off getting a large external hard drive. Now all I need is the

Re: [SLUG] smh media streaming now windows only- link

Dean Hamstead wrote: doesnt windows 2003 have a media server out of the box? More from smh: Hi Linley, There were so few people using real player that we removed it to speed up th eloading of the site. I have heard however that you can get an Mplayer plugin for Firefox, which can be combined

[SLUG] smh media streaming now windows only

Hey I wonder: 1. Why has it happened? 2. Is there a workaround to stream windows media in linux? -- Linley Caetan www.lovelsretreat.com Phone: 95211226 Mobile: 0409 831 404 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] smh media streaming now windows only- link

Here is the link http://media.smh.com.au/?category=newsrid=17289rate=340sy=smhsource=smh.com.au%2Fsiteguide%2Ft=77JP81ac=helpplayer=wm6ie=0flash=0 1. Why has it happened? 2. Is there a workaround to stream windows media in linux? -- Linley Caetan www.lovelsretreat.com Phone: 95211226 Mobile

[SLUG] ubuntu shared folders not working

trying to get file sharing going on Ubuntu Hoary Samba The gui file sharing manager keeps crashing. have tried remove reinstall samba with no luck. Any ideas? -- Linley Caetan www.lovelsretreat.com Phone: 95211226 Mobile: 0409 831 404 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] wireless problems on vaio ubuntu intel 2200BG

Are there some better tools for managing wireless connections. I am running Ubuntu Hoary on a Sony vaio with intel 2200BG wireless interface. More specfically is there a tool that is as good as the wireless networking tool available in windows XP? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] dual boot recommendations Ext2-NTFS

? -- Linley Caetan www.lovelsretreat.com Phone: 95211226 Mobile: 0409 831 404 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] dual boot recommendations Ext2-NTFS

? -- Linley Caetan www.lovelsretreat.com Phone: 95211226 Mobile: 0409 831 404 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] XP access to ext3 linux partition

I have just installed ubuntu as dual boot on my sony vaio. Is there a straighforward way of accessing the linux patition from windows ? -- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] linux start up problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am a newbe, veery bad at Linux, and I have a problem. My Linux server does not start up anymore. I have Red Hat 9 installed and when I start it goes to the 4th line setting hostname, it OK's it on the right, jumps to the next line and then stops for ever and

[SLUG] Ubuntu launches into command line only

running Ubuntu warty in i386 after some recent updates using apt (for alsa related items) Ubuntu reboots in CLI mode , no graphic login screen. Launching X from CLI gives a grey screen with X cursor and nothing else. There is no way to proceed except restarting the machine. -- Linley Caetan

[SLUG] wireless pci card netgear wg311

has anyone had some luck with this one? Running FC3 . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

Martin wrote: It works for me but very strangely. It is failing to consistently enable fields (like amount) and buttons (like 'pay now'). FF1.0/RH9/J1.5 Regards, Martin Mary Gardiner wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005, Ben Stanley wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

H. Loeung wrote: Adding ?bhjs=0 to the redirect URL always works for me. E.g: https://ibank.stgeorge.com.au/html/redirect.asp?bhjs=0 Haw. Well done! I've bookmarked it already. How did you discover this neat work around? It seems so simple. Why can't the people at St George get the thing

[SLUG] yum repositories for libdvdcss2 needed

has anyone got a yum repository for this library. installing from rpm (libdvdcss2-1.2.1-1plf.i586.rpm) has not helped [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# yum install ogle Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core Server:

[SLUG] cmpci 8738 sound card -

Installed a sound card and it works but only on 4 speakers. Can't seem to get out put on the third channel which carries the signal for sub woofer and centre speaker. Running FC2 on Dell PII Alsa OSS lsmod as root gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linley]# lsmod Module Size Used

[SLUG] Dude- what happened to my yum!

running yum update: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linley]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository retrygrab() failed for: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc2/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info Executing failover

[SLUG] xcdroast DVD burner pioneer 108

Start xcdroast with the -n option to override (not recommended!) Any ideas -- Linley Caetan 98108854 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lovelsretreat.com Your home in the blue mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] xine will no longer play video on FC2

running FC2 on x86 hardware. xine ran with no problems on FC1 but FC2 upgrade has sound but no video, just a green screen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

O Plameras wrote: Can you tell us the ff: 1. Did you upgrade from FC 1? 2. Are you running text mode or X mode when compiling ? 3. How much memory do you have ? 4. What hardware platform (x86?, others) ? Xmode running x86 hardware 256mb -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

and yes upgrade from fc1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

O Plameras wrote: depmod -V If version is less than ff lines: depmod Version 2.4.26 module-init-tools 3.0-pre10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]# depmod -V depmod version 2.4.26 module-init-tools 3.0-pre10 looks OK Upgrade your module-init-tools. Additional check to do: 1. check your file

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

O Plameras wrote: snip Did you upgrade from Fedora Core 1 ? Let us do this once more by modifying your 'Makefile' as follows: 1. Change directory to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]# 2. Then, [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]# vi Makefile and change the fourth line, that says,

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

O Plameras wrote: linley wrote: I on a Dell gx 1 with cs4236 on board card Worked fine in fc1 after running sndconfig on FC2 sound does not work snip You upgraded from 2.4.x ? If you did, suggest you re-compile your kernel. Use your current kernel config by copying it from /boot/config-2.6.5-1.358

[SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

. renaming soundcore.ko to soundcore.o got sndconfig working but it then complains that ? The module used for your card, ? ? cs4232.o, is not currently in ? ? your module search path. Please ? ? verify that your kernel modules ? ? are correctly installed. -- äny ideas Linley Caetan 98108854 [EMAIL

[SLUG] print on netgeart ps101 print server

any one have luck setting up a netgear ps101 using cups. I'm running fedora 1 The server runs under windows but no luck setting up under linux. Manual has instructions for IBM AIX that do not help at all. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] Linux newbie questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John wrote: wife uses Mac OS X which is a kind of Unix - she does a lot of banking online with StGeorge without problems... Since Apple's Safari is based on (and contributed back to) KDE's Konqueror, Sorry, Fire fox and Just about

Re: [SLUG] re:passwd file corrupted

O Plameras wrote: So, it is not your iptables. Before re-installing and with your 'root' password blanked in '/etc/shadow', you may try checking your, /etc/sysconfig/authconfig. Shoutld look like this, USEDB=no USEHESIOD=no USELDAP=no USENIS=no USEKERBEROS=no USELDAPAUTH=no USEMD5=yes

[SLUG] re:passwd file corrupted

thanks Tried booting with restore linux and set blank password for root. on reboot in run level 5 still get authentication error Scratching head and thinking what next. reinstall Fedora? Linley Caetan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] passwd file corrupted

running Fedora 1 made some changes to firewall settings and then system refused to authenticate password. have CDs and can boot into linux rescue and mount file system. What next? Linley Caetan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] realplayer crashing

since upgrading to fedora 1 realplayer keeps crashing on streaming audio. No error message on the console on the crash. I am trying to get Helix to load but keep getting Library path errors. Has anyone with fedora core solved this or have an alternative real audio streaming solution? -- SLUG

[SLUG] helix trouble

with installation? [y/n]: all these library paths are installed how do I do the update suggested/ Thanks -- Linley Caetan 98108854 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lovelsretreat.com Your home in the blue mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] decss xine

trying to get decss with xine running fed core 1 xine latest via yum libdvdread libdvdcss all installed But captain css d5d Xine plugin has errors on install and xine will still not play comercial dvds -- Linley Caetan 98108854 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lovelsretreat.com Your home in the blue

Re: [SLUG] ACT/CRM Alernative?

Matt M wrote: Check out Compiere [http://www.compiere.org]. It's supposed to be good. Open Source, written in Java. Performance wise, the word is it's supposed to run rings around the likes of PeopleSoft. But I don't have the time to play around in the ERP/CRM space anymore, so I haven't

[SLUG] computers to give away

first in gets them 1 x powermac 6200 1 x powermac 7200/20 1 x powertower pro 200 all working please call me -linley on 0409 831 404 localtion: Mascot -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] st george bank broken

) Client VM User home directory = /home/linley Proxy Configuration: Manual Configuration Proxy: Proxy Overrides: c: clear console window f: finalize objects on finalization queue g: garbage collect h: display this help message l

[SLUG] Can't watch le tour de France! because of M$ media player

it at compilation!) *** Try to upgrade /home/linley/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf *** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html! Can't find codec for audio format 0x161! == fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0

Re: [SLUG] oroborosx or Apples X11

Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I am about to purchase an Apple iBook and I have been having a quick look around at the posibility of using Aqua with X11 and be able to run linux programs. I know that there is the fink project which looks awesome, and I believe that you have to install fink, XDarwin

[SLUG] (no subject)

I run redhat 7.1 (E-smith server) I have an application that saves files to a directory. Can the directory be set up to re set the permissions and ownership automatically of all files placed into it? Linley Caetan [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Point Building 100 Miller Street North Sydney 2060 tel