Thats a good point and I like the idea of keeping it local. Michael's site
isn't searchable except that it has been crawled by google.
Whats the chance of getting htdig up on that archive Michael? :)
Bjorn
Looks harmless enough so...
The problem is that bots go and collect email
?
Bjorn
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:31:17AM +1200, Bjorn Nilsen wrote:
Thats a good point and I like the idea of keeping it
local. Michael's site
isn't searchable except that it has been crawled by google.
Whats the chance of getting htdig up on that archive Michael? :)
Can be done. just
The list owner us Zane and can be contacted at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I maintain the web site which you can find at http://canterbury.lug.net.nz
Bjorn
-Original Message-
From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 15 October 2001 1:01 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. PPPoA (RFC2364)
2. There are a couple of options:
3com Homeconnect ADSL Modem - The first Linux friendly ADSL modem. I have
set this up at a number of places and it works well. It acts as a PPPoE to
PPPoA convertor and the linux software Roaring Penguin PPPoE is simple to
setup. You end up
Looks like CodeRed to me, this is a trojan/virus so I doubt it is being done
intentionally. CodeRed infects computers by exploiting a hole in IIS. There
is bugger all you can do about this except if your running IIS then make
sure it is patched. You could see if that IP has a mail server running
Just a telnet to port 25 will tell you if a mail server is running. I don't
advocate running a scan or doing anything unnecessary. Notifying them that
their computer is infected would be a nice thing to do.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Carey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday,
WOW! the whole Internet on one CD, I have to have a copy of that.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 11 February 2002 8:54 a.m.
To: Nick Rout; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: CLUG Meeting 28th February-Topic and speaker-update
I got a copy of the internet on a
The command you really want is netstat --inet -lp, you want to look for a
line that reads like
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 29667/apache
altho is sounds like there is a web server running and it may just be a name
resolution problem, in your /etc/hosts file you should have a line that
I can supply a 16 port 10/100 hub and some patch cables, also I have some
bandwidth to burn here at work, so I could download a few iso's and burn
them to CD (any requests?). What I lack is hard drive space but I plan to
remedy that soon with a new 40 gig hard disk. So depending on when we do
I doubt that would work, I would say that apache would fail to start with a
config like that. You can give the ExecCGI option to any directory so
something like this would work:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /stuff/web/cgi-bin/
Directory /stuff/web/cgi-bin/
Options ExecCGI
/Directory
]
To: Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: CLUG Meeting Report 28th February 2002
Chris,
The CLUG webmaster is Bjorn Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
( http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ ) I see personolly
I get a similar thing with my Geforce2 card using the Nvidia drivers.
When I
switch to a virtual console from X and then try and switch back to X my
screen locks up. With just the X SVGA driver it works fine but then I
don't
Interesting. At home i have no problems.
Which version of the
I am trying to print directly to a HP Laserjet 2100N using lpr/lpd but it is
not working. The frustrating thing is that it works fine from a Win2K box
using lpr. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
This is my /etc/printcap
lp|HPLJ2100:\
:rm=192.168.69.39:\
:rp=raw:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
Even more bizarre, it seems to be ignoring the fact that it should print to
a remote printer and is actually printing to /dev/lp0. I found if I loaded
the lp.o module it no longer complains about being offline and is now
actually printing to the local printer. Where does it get that idea from
It seems to be a syntax error
This prints to /dev/lp0 ???
# cat /etc/printcap
lp|HPLJ2100:\
:rm=192.168.69.39:\
:rp=raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:
This prints to network printer (notice no colons on end of lines)
# cat /etc/printcap
lp|HPLJ2100\
:rm=192.168.69.39\
:rp=raw\
Could a lack of tab(s) be the cause of your problem?
Yes when I add tabs it also works in the original syntax
ie:
lp|HPLJ2100:\
:rm=192.168.69.39:\
:rp=raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:
You could create boot images from your disks by using the command dd
if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.img then just the reverse to write it back to a
disk.
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 16:01, Nick Elder CLUG wrote:
Chris,
If you can't boot off of the HDD that is corrupted then I guess you will
have to use
Tux Racer is great fun, my little sisters (5 and 7) love it. I think it
needs a 3D card tho, but they are really cheap now, under $100 new.
- Original Message -
From: Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Linux games
Sounds like there is no chance the Linux Terminal Server will work over a
WAN or VPN over the Internet. Are their other options to provide a more
thin thin client setup? eg: Citrix, MSTS
10Mbs vs 100 Mbs debate for client can't be settled unless you know
what kind of apps you want to run
I will be there with my computer. I can demo DVD playing and DVD to DIVX
encoding. Trivial stuff but may interest someone. My graphics card also has
TV-Out so it could be used for bigger demos if necessary. My system is
Debian-Woody/Ximian based (no windoze in sight) altho my destop environment
May be the list should be cut down to the following as do we really want to
install any thing else for new people to Linux? Debian is my distro of
choice but I would never set it up for a newbie, unless I was prepared to
hand hold them for the next few months.
Redhat
Mandrake
Suse
this should work as well:
CYRUSUSER=` /bin/echo $CYRUSUSER | /usr/bin/tr A-Z a-z`
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:17, Nick Rout wrote:
I am forwarding Andre's message as acknowledgement of his help (he has
some problem posting to the list) and also advising for posterity that
the answer was like
Actually I knew about that option but I was more interested in respect to
on boot. I realize now I could have hard coded -y into the init file, and
Debian actually has a place to set this in /etc/default/rcS, also other
handy options in there too.
cheers
- Original Message -
From:
I may be able to help, have installed Debian on two Macs (PowerPC 7200s)
that I use as servers. One is still running as a web server (It did have an
uptime of nearly 1 year until I boloxed up a ipchains rule and had to reboot
it), the other one was decommisioned last week, it was a mail and
Silly me
I'm stuck in Auckland this week so I didn't think I could download those
Mandrake/PPC isos. After sending the msg I realised I can ssh into my
computer at home and start the download now. So I should have them for
Saturday.
- Original Message -
From: Bjorn Nilsen [EMAIL
Sounds like on the modem/router needs a route back to the 192.168.x.0/24
network. Configure a route in your modem/router for the 192.168.x.0/24
network and set 10.0.0.1 as the gateway for this network.
Just as an aside it looks like you have a Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro ADSL
router. If you want to
tar supports bzip2 as well, it is usually -I or -j (depends on which version
of tar).
eg: tar jxvf archive.tar.bz2 or tar jcvf archive.tar.bz2 /some/dir/
- Original Message -
From: David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peter Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday,
I didn't think the ST Home could be used as a router, perhaps this is also a
problem? Or is this routing just so that you can connect to the ST Home web
interface to configure it via your firewall?
- Original Message -
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Speedtouch home actually. And
Actually one of the main purposes of this mailing list is to help people
resolve problems they are having with Linux. So please feel free to post
any problems you have here. You might not always get the full answer
here but we can always point you in a good direction.
I have found I have learnt
I agree, you don't have to read every message, and this mailing list is
not high volume. With intelligent use of filters/mail rules or separate
email accounts it is easy to manage.
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 21:12, Andrew J Sands wrote:
Here's a slightly more bizarre brief thought..
The
I want to set up a Intranet web site here at work. I have looked at PHPnuke
and phpwiki, and neither are really suitable. PHPNuke is more of a news
portal eg: Slashdot and phpwiki is just weird.
The main features I need is:
- Document publishing
- Knowledge Base
- File download area
Any
What sort of binding is that? At 330 leaves (is that the correct term?)
thick which is nearly a ream (500), my experience with that plastic binding
at that thickness is not very good.
- Original Message -
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I made enquiries with the Digital Print Centre
Tuxracer depends on a the 3D capabilties of a systems video card. My
last video card was a G200 and I tried everything to make 3D games work
well on it with no success. Basically the G200 is an excellent 2D card
but a crap 3D card. I upgraded to a cheap NVidia Geforce2 video card,
which you can
Mine is slightly different, perhaps you need those extra two lines in the
directory setting?
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
Directory /var/www/cgi-bin
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/Directory
- Original Message -
From: Chris
I have the exact same card and it works fine with my 2.4.17 kernel. It
uses the Creative SBLive! EMU10K1 module which comes with the standard
kernel. I upgraded recently from a ISA Creative Vibra 16 and the
difference in sound quality was amazing. I don't know about support with
the 2.2 kernel as
probably the BSDs as well as they do not use the GPL
- Original Message -
From: C Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) Solaris
2) AIX
3) SCO
4) UnixWare
5) Netware
6) MacOS (?)
Looks like I need two hands to count all the OSs covered by that...
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:59, Guy
I have a BTC and it works fine, it took a hammering at the Installfest by
Mahesh, and still works fine.
- Original Message -
From: Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to get a new internal CD-Writer.
I'm looking at Liteon, Aopen and BTC. From memory Liteon and Aopen work
fine with
Send the slides to me and I can put them up on the CLUG site.
- Original Message -
From: Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The slides from the talk are only on the machine that was at the meeting
last night. I haven't set it up with a modem yet. When I do, I'll ask
who wants to host
Very tricky to anti alias a gif image, go to http://www.levenez.com/unix/
and download the PDF (or PS) and try printing that. It should look much
better.
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know a reliable antialiased method of printing the Unix
We are currently looking at getting Jasons questionaire up on the CLUG
home page these questions could be added to it as well (I think number 2
is already on it).
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 23:20, Stephen Nicholas wrote:
Instead of making random and wild comments about how many computers
people
We use sarg to do exactly what Theuns is saying here at work. Altho no one
around here seems to really care.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: Network censorship (was: Re: Network
type sarg into google and click I'm feeling lucky :-)
- Original Message -
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: Network censorship (was: Re: Network integration: was SAMBA i
nstallation query)
We use sarg to
damn I thought that was really cool, and it still works for me, anyway the
URL is http://web.onda.com.br/orso/
- Original Message -
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
type sarg into google and click I'm feeling lucky :-)
sorry i get some band page (already tried that a few hours ago
IMHO that just sounds/looks silly, and a few more characters would be
unnoticable to download time.
- Original Message -
From: Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Softwearz therefore acceptable for use in place of
Software/Distributions? What sayeth the majority?
This is now up on the CLUG web site
-Original Message-
From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:carlc;maxnet.co.nz]
Hi,
I've finally found the floppy disk with the only copy of the
introduction to linux/unix concepts talk I gave at the August
29 meeting.
It's a 45K pdf, that should go
With ADSL routers it either works or it doesn't, but what you could do
is port forward all ports to your windows box then it may work. From a
security point of view this is a very stupid idea so best that you
ignore it.
I do have another solution which will also bring this back on topic. The
Have you tried looking for new firmware, better support for H.323 may be
in a newer release.
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 10:57, Huan Yee Chew wrote:
I've done everything on that guide. No joy. I'm still open to ideas and
suggestions.
Huan
At 08:04 15.11.2002, you wrote:
Is the advice
Just thought I would let you all know about this poll.
As would be expected Debian is leading.
-Forwarded Message-
From: Peter Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [opensource] Favorite Linux Distribution
Date: 01 Dec 2002 22:07:52 +1300
What is you favorite Linux
No activex controls will not work afaik, they are a very M$ thing. I use
rdesktop from Linux to connect to MS terminal servers, works well.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Linux account [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:29 a.m.
To: CLUG
Subject: Active x
We have some Beige G3's at work here going for $600 each. I think we
also have the odd 7200 or 7300 as well.
-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I was wondering if anyone new a friend who is trying to get
rid of an old or new Apple Macintosh for a
Will do as soon as it propagates to the archive.
Wow I bugger off to Auckland for a few days and CLUG gets a organised!
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll second Carl's comment. I will add that now people have wanted to
organise meetings a little better, there are
There seems to be a lot of people testing mail setups lately so here is
a wee trick I use to test mail servers, clients whatever...
Send an email to an address you are sure does not exist and not on the
ISP you are connected to the Internet with. This will test pretty much
everything required for
Hi Ray,
To be able to post to the CLUG mailing list you need to first subscribe.
To subscribe to the mailing list send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe linux-users in
the body of the message.
Your Internet connection problem could be DNS related. Open a xterm and
try to ping a web
Check out man dd, it may be able to do this.
-Original Message-
From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2003 3:54 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: truncate file with shell
Is there a shell command which can truncate a file to the
given number
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ftpsync/
Amazing what you find when you actually search for it
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 9:41 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ftp sync tool
Nick Rout wrote:
of
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ftpsync/
Hi,
I am developing a php application and I need to sync the
source files on my local server with a test server. How
should I do this?
Cheers
Paul
I like the look of that mp3 player, any chance of a CLUG discount? :)
-Original Message-
From: Jason Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 2:07 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SD - USB card reader ?
Hi,
Not entirely true. A lot of them do
, like the ogg vorbis
player. We
will make some special bundles available too, maybe with CF cards
included for a special price. We will decide once the things
are online.
Don't worry, we'll make it worth your while.
Cheers
J
Bjorn Nilsen wrote:
I like the look of that mp3 player
There is a tool called emerge that can export all mail boxes from an
Exchange server to a PST. I used it about a year ago to migrate mail
boxes from one Exchange server to another.
I have a love hate relationship with Exchange, as a POP3/IMAP/SMTP
server it is the pox! For collaboration it is the
I have enough interest now to order 25 but I will wait until this
evening before I place the order in case more interest.
-Original Message-
From: Bjorn Nilsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:22 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tux Case Badges
Hi
Hi all,
I want to order some Tux Case Badges from the web site below I can order
25 for $25.99 USD and free delivery. This works out to be be around $2
NZD per badge. I don't want all 25 so if anyone is interested please let
me know off list, who knows I may need to order 50.
Those have a starting bid of $3.50 and are either tux on purple or tux
on white with linux inside logo, I want just tux on white, maybe I am
too fussy :)
-Original Message-
From: Chris Downie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:47 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Those have a starting bid of $3.50 and are either tux on
purple or tux
on white with linux inside logo, I want just tux on
white, maybe I am
too fussy :)
or too cheap more like...
True, I also have an unhealthy fascination with buying things online
Also Tux on a purple background
I got a Tux soft toy from thinkgeek.com, I am sure they still have them.
I try to avoid that web site as there is so much cool stuff there.
I will add your name to the list
-Original Message-
From: Jaco Swart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 2:55 p.m.
To:
I have now ordered 50 units of Linux Case Badges - Tux White. I have
had enough interest to feel comfortable doing this. I will have some
spare so if there is any more interest let me know off list.
Here is the list of orders so far:
Steve Brorens 5
Lance Blackler 1
Nick Rout 5
Since when did freshmeat.net start advertising microsoft products?
http://aegir.valhalla.net.nz/~bjorn/fm.jpg
Very depressing
Aug 2003, Bjorn Nilsen wrote:
Since when did freshmeat.net start advertising microsoft products?
http://aegir.valhalla.net.nz/~bjorn/fm.jpg
Very depressing
Not really, fresh meat probably just sources ads from an ad
broker. ie.
Web sites like freshmeat concentrate on producing
When you run halt does you computer shutdown the turn off? If so then
this is easy just use at to schedule the halt command.
-Original Message-
From: antonovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 8:08 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: auto poweroff
is
- Original Message -
From: Jaco Swart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:24 AM
Subject: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning
Prologue 2: And so, after a few months, I went forth and installed Linux
free
of charge on my new
Yes this is last year, I will remove them and put up to be scheduled until
someone sends me some new dates.
cheers,
Bjorn
- Original Message -
From: anton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: from the clug webpage...
snip
Upcoming
Hi Margaret,
Looks good, we are currently not running regular meetings, I think it
would be best to change the Times/Meetings to Meeting times are posted
on the mailing list.
Other members may have further input, so I have CC'd this to the mailing
list.
cheers,
Bjorn
Hi,
Are you able to
I have not tried it, but this may help
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
Nick Rout wrote:
At a recent meeting someone (was it Ben?) told me that they had a script
to query imdb based on a file name or other movie info.
Can whoever that was let me have some details please?
FYI imdb.com is the
There is problems, http://networkstatus.telstraclear.co.nz/ has details
Nick Rout wrote:
On my paradise adsl link, cannot access the paradise home page, ihug
home page or xtra home page. I can access, slashdot, demon.net (UK) and
most overseas sites.
my neighbours (on the same floor, xtra
This is what you need
http://www.cdlnz.com/cdl.html?VS=pG=C-RJ45LT2P=NC802ID=1959711
I am guessing it is to give some confidence to the customer trying to
work out what to buy. A digital phone (one that talks digitally to a
pabx) has the same pinouts as analog.
It should be noted that splitting a cat5 cable and running 2 devices
over it will degrade performance due to
I can recommend the Linksys WAG54G, I have installed quite a few of these.
Linksys also is involved with Open Source, their WRT54G runs Linux and
there are some great custom firmwares out there for this unit.
Carl Cerecke wrote:
I'm looking at buying one of these modem/switch/wireless
That firmware is for the WRT54G not the WAG54G
Paul Swafford wrote:
Linksys are all good I have two myself and friends who have quite a
number .. especially with the satori firmware .. you can easily mesh
them into a wireless distributed network.
Think neighbourhood wireless LAN.
Regards
IMO a firewall/gateway should never be used as a data server, storing
your valuable data on your first line of defense is crazy.
All you need is low spec second hand PC for a file server. Don't forget
backups, or at least software RAID.
Cool.
I've also realised that, when I get a second
very cool!
Try the -scale option to make the font a more realistic size eg:
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor -program /bin/bash
Michael JasonSmith wrote:
For some reason this gave me the giggles last night. Reading the manual
for the Phosphor screen-saver I discovered that it is a full
Hi people,
Ajith is doing a survey of Linux users see details below.
Not sure why he thinks I am the President but if I am and no one told me
then I hereby resign, the pressure was just too much! :-)
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