Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.

2008-09-25 Thread Henare Degan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:18, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks. Distro is OpenSUSE 11, X64 I'm trying to get a box to allow inbound tftp connections. As far as I can tell, the config is right for xinet.d. Config file is as follows service tftp { socket_type = dgram

Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.

2008-09-25 Thread Henare Degan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 16:15, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't even know what that error means - I can only assume it's telling me that the in.tftpd process is running as user nobody despite me telling it to run as jffnms - but I'm not even 100% sure of that. DaZZa Odd. Apparently

Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.

2008-09-25 Thread Glen Turner
DaZZa wrote: Sep 24 09:18:03 fred in.tftpd[29931]: cannot set groups for user nobody Perhaps you need to pass the user and group in parameters to in.tftpd rather than as parameters to xinetd. See the -u parameter and the manual page in.tftpd(8), which says: -u username Specify the

Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?

2008-09-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well) When you say front end, what are you thinking of? I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would expect: running the MYOB installer through Wine

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-09-25 Thread Blindraven
I did take a peek at the LPI site the other day and found no indication of how it works, where I can sit the exam and what material I'd need to be studying in order to prepare myself. The site is very vague on this. Do you know of any yourself? On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Sridhar

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-09-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 25/09/2008, at 6:03 PM, Blindraven wrote: I did take a peek at the LPI site the other day and found no indication of how it works, where I can sit the exam and what material I'd need to be studying in order to prepare myself. The site is very vague on this. Do you know of any yourself?

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-09-25 Thread Blindraven
Gonzo looked promising but seems dead, and has not been updated in over a year. the other link points towards the same site. The only place I've found so far is http://www.simt.nsw.edu.au/lpi1.php - but they want 2grand. All I want to do is sit the exam which is only supposed to be around $70.

[SLUG] Re: Just Works flatbed scanner for Hardy (standalone or multifunction)

2008-09-25 Thread Ben
I went and bought a HP 2280 all-in-one, because it was cheap ($69, before $20 cash back) and HP usually work ok with Linux. It doesn't work out of the box, as Hardy is running HPLIP 2.8.2-0 and the 2280 requires 2.8.6 for scanning. So I can get it working, which is good, but what happens when

[SLUG] apt-get install problem

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I have had a problem installing new packages in an etch/lenny system for a week or two. Have repository gpg scripts been changed ? Is there a wider problem ? I've attached todays 'apt-get upgrade' output below. Synaptic tells me The repository may no longer be available or could not be

[SLUG] Re. apt-get install problem

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Bogacki
Synaptic also tells me W: GPG error: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: GPG error: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au etch Release: The following signatures

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-09-25 Thread Martin Visser
In order to sit for the LPIC 101 and 102 exams basically used the LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell book from O'Reilly - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005283/ as well as the exam prep material from https://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1 Regards, Martin -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?

2008-09-25 Thread Kyle
Daniel Pittman wrote: Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well) When you say front end, what are you thinking of? I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would expect: running the MYOB

[SLUG] September SLUG Monthly Meeting — this Friday

2008-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
== September SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://www.slug.org.au/node/106 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 26 September, 2008 We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and

Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?

2008-09-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well) When you say front end, what are you thinking of? I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would

Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?

2008-09-25 Thread Glen Turner
What I find useful is winetricks, which makes downloading prerequisite software from various web sites very simple. Having said that, I still haven't got Outlook to work. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-25 Thread R.G.Salisbury
Hi All I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. Any one know of any such modems for ADSL2 that play well with linux. Any links to good sites, documentation etc I have tried Netcomms NB5 which I could not get to work. ( i hope it wasn't a fault with the modem) The NB5

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
R.G.Salisbury wrote: I have tried Netcomms NB5 which I could not get to work. ( i hope it wasn't a fault with the modem) That modem works fine for me with Linux. My father uses the same modem, also with Linux. Funny enough, the modem itself runs linux :-). Using Roaring Penquin software

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-25 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, R.G.Salisbury wrote: I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. All the ones with an ethernet port just work with Linux. It's really the best approach as it'll never be obsolete or unsupported with your OS, no matter what happens in the future.

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-25 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008, R.G.Salisbury wrote: I have tried Netcomms NB5 which I could not get to work. ( i hope it wasn't a fault with the modem) The NB5 supposedly works with adsl1 adsl2 supposedly works with MacOS linux ... but no support documentation that I can find. I use the Netcomm

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-25 Thread Kyle
R.G.Salisbury wrote: Hi All I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. It sounds like your trying to bridge the modem to have the host behind be the www interface. I used to do that with ADSL 1 as well, but since moving to 2, I just let the modem(/router **) do the

[SLUG] General Protection Fault

2008-09-25 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Anyone know what this message means: Sep 26 11:58:34 Heracles kernel: [ 6732.917592] general protection fault: [1] SMP I have searched with google but although it gets lots of mentions no one seems to have a reply. Is this a hardware or a

Re: [SLUG] General Protection Fault

2008-09-25 Thread Peter Chubb
heracles == heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: heracles Hi, Anyone know what this message means: heracles Sep 26 11:58:34 Heracles kernel: [ 6732.917592] general heracles protection fault: [1] SMP It means that your processor has tried to do something that it is not allowed to --- for

Re: [SLUG] General Protection Fault

2008-09-25 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Peter, Unfortunately the next message is: syslogd 1.5.0#1ubuntu1: restart. The previous message is just the DHCP renewal: Sep 26 11:54:31 Heracles NetworkManager: info DHCP daemon state is now 3 (renew) for interface eth0 Sep 26 11:54:31