On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:09:35AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
How did everyone go away from their desktops and favourite OS? Did everyone
get frustrated by the in-law's windows box?
Had a good time installing Adaware, Spybot and ClamWin on various family
PCs, and destroying lots of malware. Got
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:13:22AM +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
so mail is going to root. How/where do I set up emails to go to some
external email address? Presumably more than changing MAILTO= is
required - an smtp server needs to be specified somewhere?
Or alternatively, can I access the
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:17:36PM +1300, Adrian.Mageanu wrote:
How can I copy a file that has a colon in its name from one directory to
another?
e.g. fwbuilder-2.1.5-b:98.fdr5.i386.rpm from /dir1 to /dir2
Quote the : to keep it away from the shell.
One simple way is to just use
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:50:26PM +1300, Adrian.Mageanu wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 02:34 +, Jim Cheetham wrote:
$ cp /dir1/fwbuilder-2.1.5-b\:98.fdr5.i386.rpm /dir2
$ cp '/dir1/fwbuilder-2.1.5-b:98.fdr5.i386.rpm' /dir2
Tried both forms, the error message is the same:
cp: cannot
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:37:55PM +1300, Adrian.Mageanu wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 16:20 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
If by billyware you mean windows, I don't use it. Actually I would
know how to get around the colon in file names there...
You don't have to be using Microsoft software
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:44:26AM +1300, Don Gould wrote:
if [$Mac -ne 00:00:00:00:00:00]; then * LINE 22*
# [$Mac != 00:00:00:00:00:00] then
As already stated, add a space between [ and on line 22, and so the
same on the next line where $Mac is tested, as well as add quotes to
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:47:14PM +1300, Christopher D Maher wrote:
I was wanting to know everyone's thoughts regarding the value of
formal education in today's world. Specifically of course refering to
IT.
...
Who will get the job and why?
I've been hiring for a large company in
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:07:30AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
# dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum
dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum
In this case, that means changing my scripts to do this:
* Find out if the system is Debian;
* Use dpkg -S to discover which md5sum program was supplied
*
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:13:59AM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Ah, so you're testing md5sum against itself? Pretty pointless. Silly me
thought you were testing against a delivered md5sum.
No, Volker has already explained the problem case, it sounds like he is
providing something like a verify
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:22:14PM +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
FWIW, I never knew the term 'troll' until I read about it here. Over
time, I took it to mean 'an M$ user who acts on-list to rubbish
gnu/Linux, so has double reason not to be here'. Think about it.
You're ascribing the actions of a
Can she do that with Mac-OS9?
If not, can this age of machine run a USB-Wireless thingie under
Mac-OS X?
Just have the wireless machine present an ethernet interface, rather
than USB, and you should be fine. they can do USB afaik, but it's
probably going to be painful.
Alternatively
On Nov 25, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
My view on posts to clug is simple.
Am I happy for a potential employer, or my wife, or my current
employer to
open up one of my emails and read it? It will be read out of context,
so
it has to be acceptable, without knowing the provocation
http://xkcd.com/c178.html
You missed http://xkcd.com/c149.html ? :-)
-jim
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 09:56:33AM +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:29:40 +1300, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:14:16 +1300 Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
information bvack from the router using `snmpwalk -Os 192.168.1.1 public
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:51:21AM +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
An rsync based system that uses hard links definitely seems to be the
way to go.
rdiff-backup
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
Combined rsync with lard-links to maintain history.
-jim
for restoring files from lard
links?
What's the shelf life of a lard-linked file? Does it need refrigerating
after you open the file?
-Original Message-
From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 November 2006 1:54 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:06:57PM +1300, Don Gould wrote:
for arg in [list]
do
command(s)...
done
What I don't understand is how to iterate true the lines/records in a file.
Items in a list are separated by $IFS, which includes spaces. So, for
most usages you can't step line-by-line
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 11:49:41AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
How does one go about monitoring HTTP transfers in progress from an
apache2 server?
Enable server-status, but only internally!
That'll tell you roughly what the server is doing, which is nice.
netstat or lsof -i TCP will
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:47:37AM +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
Volker promotes bottom posting while I contend that the benefit of TOP
postings is that for everyone who has read it at least once before, we
Top posting is great, I love it.
Bottom posting is only good when the content has
x2vnc
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/x2vnc.html
This program will let you use two screens on two different computers as
if they were connected to the same computer. Even if one of the
computers runs Windows 95/98/NT and the other one runs X-windows. If
they are both running Windows, you probably want
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:17:23PM +1300, Barry wrote:
Whats up with the web site at present, I get the following
Server OS reboot; and as this is a new machine the hack in bootmisc.sh
to create the required non-standard directory had been forgotten :-( I
guess I must have created it by
I've just had Telstra install a cablemodem at my house, which works.
I'm now trying to understand what it actually does, in terms of IP, so
that I can put a secure network around it.
It looks like it DHCP's addresses in 192.168.100.0/24; but as far as I
can tell the only thing I can do with them
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:40:18PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I
cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find server), email
won't send (cannot find server) or can't be fetched, and my hourly weather
graphs have
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:49:00PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
RTFM the web site... http://www.clug.net.nz/ isn't the right answer at
present.
How about leaving off the totally redundant and stupid waste of 4
characters www. and let the resource specifier http do the work for
you? :-) Not that
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:52:14PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
Don't know if it's OT or not, but there is an Open Source Software Seminar
being presented by Ian Laurenson as part of the WEA Adult Education
programme.
Ian did a presentation to CLUG a while ago on the subject of Open Office
On Sep 16, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Alan wrote:
Can anyone suggest a programming tool that is reasonably easy to
understand and preferably cheap...like free
There are hundreds of free and wonderfully functional programming
languages available for Linux. However with a migration from Clipper it
On Sep 13, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Chris Hellyar wrote:
I thought phpwiki 1.3 supported php5? Their sorceforge site is a bit
broke at the moment, but even the release notes for 1.2 mention php5.
Well, it specifically won't work on PHP 5.1.2+, because of function
name conflicts.
And it's suspicious
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:01:46PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I've located a suitable server replacement for the CLUG wiki
The wiki seems to be running fine in the new location[1], but unfortunately
php4 is no longer a preferred solution.
If anyone has experience of running phpwiki on php5
Here's a great bit of software I discovered recently that helps to make
Windows behave a little more Linuxy ...
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
TXMouse brings a proper focus-follows-mouse facility to Windows, along
with an automatic copy/paste buffer and (not by default)
There's the 'autossh' package hanging around somewhere that will help
you set up persistent ssh tunnels; obviously this requires some level
of co-operation from the far end, perhaps setting up a user for the
job. Depending on the security level you want, this user can have
restricted keys.
On Aug 31, 2006, at 9:53 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
http://clug.org.nz and http://clug.net.nz may be up and down as the
machine is being changed over tonight, there will be DNS propogation
delays, etc.
Please just leave the site alone until Jim gives the OK.
I believe that the site is now mostly
I've located a suitable server replacement for the CLUG wiki, and will
be moving the site over the next day or so. Please keep an eye on the
service and report any problems to the mailing list, preferably under
this thread.
Hosting of the CLUG wiki continues under the same terms as before ;-)
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:04:19AM +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
All I have said about it is that Gnome is more difficult for Windows to make
the transition than KDE and that it does not have the multimedia
capabilities out of the box which Mepis has.
Careful with the wording there; whether or
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:07:45PM +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote:
Also to be avoided are versions of this approach that get dated! My
home machines were all based on Harry Potter - a few years later and
it's rather embarrassing! (though I still have some sympathy for a
firewall called norbert and
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:29:48AM +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote:
any religion at all; over 200 and still going string. And that's without
How long is a piece of string? Perhaps the gods of insufficuent
proofreading were nearby.
strong
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:53:03PM +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Back again ? I?ve ditched Ubuntu as gave me catch 22 ? I needed to download ?
build-essentials? to be able to compile my modem driver, and I needed a
working
modem to do the download? so gave up on that.
Not that it helps you,
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 07:16:50PM +1200, Reg wrote:
Ok so does this mean that even if I managed to put on this BSD as soon as I
start putting a desktop like KDE or Gnome on it then the computer will run
like a dog ? and thus defeat the whole point of having something that will
run on an older
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 07:41:46PM +1200, Reg wrote:
Ok so it seems I should definitely forget about suse for the 333 as apart
from the fact it won't darn install on it, even if it did it would be as
slow as a dead dog as it is either KDE or gnome desktop, correct?
Not quite; just because the
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:28:15PM +1200, Rik Tindall wrote:
Can anyone recommend a beer-free firewall for WinME? ZoneAlarm looks
like it expires after two weeks. It's a client's rebuild, up safe two
weeks now behind Anti-vir, Firefox Thunderbird. Spybot seems good too.
Install Linux, a
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:11:58AM +1200, Barry wrote:
I have just replied to an email using Netscape composer and this
involved deleting part of the original msg.
You probably highlighted the deletion text with the mouse first; this
puts it in the X cut/paste buffer, independantly to the
On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
Obligatory Linux content- I will put up details of my lounge MP3 player
(built and working and runs Linux) and my LCD picture frame (a
collection
of parts that will run Linux) for you all to see what I did.
CLUG wiki?
As long as you're
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:17:11PM +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
** Is there any way to monitor a file and log which processes or scripts
access and / or modify it?
Under Solaris 10 or some BSDs you could run dtrace ... but under Linux
I'm not aware of anything that would operate like that. You
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:09:54PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:01:26 +0100
Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:17:11PM +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
** Is there any way to monitor a file and log which processes or scripts
access
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:54:40PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Lastly I think someone mentioned that there might be some link between
zoomin and either linux in general, or this list in particular.
zoomin is written in Ruby on Rails, and deployed on Linux - Debian IIRC.
smaps is the version used by
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:19:49PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I get some programming guff at the bottom of the page vis:-
lib/WikiPlugin.php (In template 'browse') (In template 'body') (In
template 'html'):126: Notice[1024]: argument 'style' not declared by
plugin (...repeated 2
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:08:32PM +1200, yuri wrote:
AFAICT most timezone picklists I've seen lately follow the format:
continent-or-ocean/city, eg pacific/auckland.
Sorry, I don't know why.
Because they all come from the same database :-)
The 'tz' database (aka the Olsen time zones) can
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:58:31PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
Have you been following the discussion on NZNog about sunlight and WiFi?
Yeah; the upshot is that it's probably a data cap issue in the specific
case, as RSSI isn't changing; but that brand of equipment is very
susceptable to temperature
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:51:56PM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
I thought it always rained in Britain :-)
Well, yes, seeing as Scotland is part of Britain :-)
-jim
Today's reading is from the ACM ...
http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=156
Are you an Open Source Bigot?
Imagine a bunch of people wandering around the plaza holding signs
saying, Got Linux? and Micro$oft must die! mixed in with the
born-again Christians' signs, Got
Just noticed a story on OSnews regarding Mephis. The content is one
thing, but the editorial comment at the end is another ...
Note: Starting today, Mepis stories will be posted in the Ubuntu
category.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15353
-jim
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:38:41PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
So copying my ogg files onto an ipod just works when playing them?
Absolutely :-)
Regardless of the fact that your Linux box is currently playing the OGG
file in question, you'll be able to simultaneously copy the file onto
the
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/07/oscon_how_open_source_projects.html
A nice report on one of the recent OSCON talks; How Open Source
Projects Survive Poisonous People
Recommended reading for CLUG; we are currently experiencing a severe
increase in bile levels in multiple
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:42:17PM +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 2:41 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Is that why Ubuntu shoves gnome down my throat?
My thoughts exactly.
Actually, taking this further off-topic, how do you construe the choice
of a default as shoving
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:02:44PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, July 27, 2006 7:24 pm, Jim Cheetham wrote:
-jim, using Ubuntu with the Ion3 window manager.
i am a regular user of kde and a regular user of gnome. I sometimes use
xfce4. I regularly change my desktop until i get sick
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:41:10PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
I would have also got her running on Linux but needed that to be dual
boot until I have her confidence.
Don't even bother with dual boot; increase RAM in the machine and
install VMWare Player (free-as-in-beer-only) and pop a Linux in
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:19:16PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Nothing like stirring things a bit... ;)
Let's have another drink at the virtual bar, relax, and continue:
I'm relaxed :-) I know that *you* don't need re-education; you're
already a lost cause!
I have this ubuntu disk here.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:47:54AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
Haven't made it to /. yet this morning; but that's one of the funniest
hacks I've seen for ages, and *completely* vindicates my earlier
comments about not bothering to encrypt
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:26:44AM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
Man! This one could run and run. All I said was I had downloaded Mepis
and for me it worked better out of the box than Ubuntu and Kubuntu...
All I said ... was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah'
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:16:44AM +1200, John Carter wrote:
Relax folks, this guy is doing Good, he is having fun, he is
increasing the fun to be had around him.
Good on you for taking the time to form your own opinion, instead of
following the herd :-)
-jim
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:23:25AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
I'd suggest temporarily removing all security from your ap, and getting
everything working, then upping to WEP, and so on.
I've not been following this thread, and I'm not fixing the DHCP issue,
but I wanted to talk about wireless
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:02:26PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
I have the latest Kubuntu CD (v6.06 from the last CLUG meeting, thanks
Chris). It boots and all, but I can't get the network working.
There seems to be a kernel issue with the distributed Ubuntu that
renders at least the tulip
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +1200, Ben Devine wrote:
To bring this back on topic.
What is happening with the site Jim?
Nothing is changing at the moment; a number of helpful offers have been
made, but remember that my deadline was during September; I have at
least six weeks to look into
I've recently run the wiki web logs through awstats; please see:-
http://clug.net.nz/stats/awstats.clug.2006.html
http://clug.net.nz/stats/awstats.clug.2005.html
http://clug.net.nz/stats/awstats.clug.2004.html
Basically, current traffic usage is 60MB/month for people, and about
500Mb/month for
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:56:02PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
It's often interesting looking over stats...
Not really, unless you have an actual need to do so. Either you need to
monitor bandwidth (in which case you should be measuring from the
network, not from the app), or you are actively
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:30:02PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
I was saying that people need to stop worrying about what google is up
to and just put in a bigger pipe. As the discussion is about hosting
then it's right no.
It's not primarily a Linux-related issue, but people running servers at
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:58:49PM +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
On Saturday 15 July 2006 15:46, Jim Cheetham wrote:
What's the requirements? Just some basic web hosting with PHP/MySql. Do we
need to handle mail or anything else?
CLUG only needs a small webserver with PHP, suitable
Some changes are having to come to the hosting of the CLUG wiki,
although not of my choosing. The company currently hosting the server
is rationalising it's operations ... basically we're being kicked out!
This won't happen for a month or so, but I don't have any current plans
for a replacement
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 04:12:09PM +1200, Johnno wrote:
What are you after ie.. what you want the web sever to do...
For CLUG, just to host a wiki (as Nick says, PHPwiki).
For my myriad other non-CLUG non-commercial stuff, it's easier to say
just power and an IP address or two, to connect my
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 04:01:34PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
If it's low volume, I can host it here. However, it is a 128k ADSL line atm.
It'll cost $20/month to up that to 512, and am willing to split the cost with
CLUG if interested?
ADSL solutions are generally single-IP, and therefore
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 04:17:03PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
Check out www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz
Pings are in the order of 220 ms
It was hop-count that I was concerned about more than ping time. Your
server is 17 hops away (my UK server is 19 at the moment), but
admittedly ~90ms closer. Thanks for
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:49:18PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
Over the last week or so I've been having a bit of a look at mail
programs to see if I can find one that is easy to set up tags on the
addresses in the address book to tell the program what to do when
sending the message.
mutt, and
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:30:30PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Ironically the site is down (not sure why Jim where are you???)
Actually, I've been off sick for a few days, and one of the other (non
CLUG) admins broke apache for me :-| Site's up again now.
Still off sick, but now I have my work laptop
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:30:30PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
I suggest that we pay for the next year from CLUG finds which I believe stand
at around $600-800 (sorry the records are on the web site).
CLUG to pay for both; I don't think there's any point risking losing any
google indexing to
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:56:22PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
CLUG to pay for both; I don't think there's any point risking losing any
google indexing to clug.net.nz if we dropped it. 16600 links for
site:clug.net.nz from google, 35 for clug.org.nz
How did you find out the number of links?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:07:43AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Not to be outdone, a google earth link (and the zoom in as it loads is
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:45:46 +1200 Roy Britten wrote:
Yet another web map...
http://quikmaps.geotripping.com/show/6105
How about zoomin? A company based here in
On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Don Gould wrote:
Ok, following advise I installed VMWare Player...
I want to install and run ubuntu5.1
Could someone give me some pointers where to start in 30 words or less?
No. 45 words.
Create a vdmx disk image file with qemu-img
Create a vmx config file with
On Jul 5, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Don Gould wrote:
Bear in mind that it's VMWare Player not VMWare.
Yes, I see that... I'm still no 100% clear on what that means.
VMWare has a long reputation of being very good, and costing $$$.
Recently they released the free-as-in-beer VMWare Player, which would
I put these thoughts (a little expanded) on the wiki
http://clug.net.nz/index.php/VMWare
If anyone has expansions/corrections/new ideas, please add them!
-jim
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:48:46PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Don Gould wrote:
Ok, following advise I
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:08:29PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
It seems that getting vmware up and running is more complex than qemu,
but if it runs faster then there's a benefit.
Well, it's the same procedural steps for both, but you get different
levels of support in working out what the
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:39:42PM +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 14:33, Nick Rout wrote:
installer. HOWEVER ?it cannot be used to upgrade an existing install.
If the debs are on the CD (I don't see why they wouldn't be, but I haven't
checked) you should be able to
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:28:33PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
How do I get my clug wiki password back or reset?
Is there a password? I think not. Just type your name.
A password can be optionally configured, it's not much security but it
is a little bit better than nothing. Certainly not
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:55:22AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
I kind of thought it was like subscribing to the yellow pages, said Lewen.
We kept getting copies of the phone book, so I thought AOL was doing that. I
also wanted the virus protection, because it was flu season.
I see heaps of artifacts on my copy too -- houses, cars, boats, planes
... :-)
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:19:46AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
I tried it last night. Still quite buggy display (lots of artifacts).
On 29/06/06, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Google Earth for Linux
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:23:49AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Jun 28 06:02:18 server sm-mta[7813]: k5RI2I6g007813:
23-52-175-62.user.auna.net [62.175.52.23] (may be forged) did not issue
MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
I added the following line to
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:06:33PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:00:42 +0100 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:23:49AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Jun 28 06:02:18 server sm-mta[7813]: k5RI2I6g007813:
23-52-175-62.user.auna.net
On Jun 22, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Johnno wrote:
I was looking at Ubuntu and it seems to be a good choice...
Ubuntu is an excellent desktop distro at the moment, but looks like
it's building on lessons learned in the last few years, and should keep
that position for many years. But who knows? ;-)
On Jun 22, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Given the tools that you run are all client facing and prime targets,
I'd build everything from scratch, as bleeding edge as I dare.
Really? Why would you want to do that?
IMHO, the *most* important aspect of client-facing software is
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:31:00PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
No, but I find the openvpn extension very useful, even if it won't connect
networks.
Can't you? Must admit that I've never tried, but assumed that Ethernet
bridging would go some way to addressing this, if ip_forward on a
central
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:02:18PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:54:01 +0100 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:31:00PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
No, but I find the openvpn extension very useful, even if it won't
connect networks
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:02:03PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:56:33 +1200 Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know they supply a modem, what do I need to plug that in to?
You normally plug it into a switch ( or firewall then switch ).
And don't forget the power
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:21:49PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
I would like linux on this laptop with xp.
Ubu5.1 didn't seem to have a disk repat tool in the install.
Ubuntu 6.06 has gparted on the live installer, and it works fine.
Oddly you don't get gparted in the default install itself :-)
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:06:35PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your not allowed to uninstall it and it phones home and tells uncle Bill (or
should i say uncle Steve) all about you system and of course MS insists that
it can share the data to whom ever it wishes without your consent.
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:21:42 -0700 Scott McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
img src=images/css.gif width=88 height=31 alt=Valid CSS!
and I just checked css.gif is inside /var/www/images
There is no automatic link between images/ and /var/www/images --
it all depends on what the DocumentRoot
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
A friend uses xtra as his ISP. His mother has an aol.com account in the
UK. About 50% of the time he is getting his emails to her bounced by
xtra's smtp server claiming not to have delivered them after 4 days.
The
rest of the time they appear to go
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:29:35PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
iptables -F INPUT
iptables -A INPUT -s ipaddress -j DROP ( x 10 )
Using this method, it also stops access to localhost. WHich *really* screws
everything up.
What am I missing???
Obviously, the fact that you are spamming
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:41:29AM +1200, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
Nate Walker wrote:
What distro would be good, considering that I might well put it into a
I would be tempted to say debian if its going to be a server or
ubuntu/kubuntu if it is going to be a client computer.
Well, I'd say that
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:21:23PM +1200, Rik Tindall wrote:
Jim Cheetham wrote:
Nate Walker wrote:
What distro would be good, considering that I might well put it into a
But, if you're actually trying to operate the machine as a trusted
interface to the Internet, rather than to play
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:47:37PM +1200, Steve wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 14:27 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
On Monday 24 April 2006 14:16, Steve wrote:
use the gimp to convert it to a gif, I end up with an image of appalling
quality.
Did you convert to 8-bit and choose the web palette
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:20:04PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
Have to look impressive at the interview... manual in breif case always
looks good.
Of course, seeing as the advert was posted to the list, don't you think
that they are aware of your comments? :-)
Always just be yourself in
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:02:02PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
Might just like to know how I delete those comments from the archives
now just in case Carls managers don't have the same sense of humour? ;)
Asteroid impact might do it.
A decent magnetic field in the immediate vicinity of the
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