[SLUG] nick.cr...@gmail.com has been waiting for 6 days. Accept?

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Re: [SLUG] eee pc 900 (20080709)

* Luke Vanderfluit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. Im looking at buying one of these. Theres one at shoppingsquare.com.au: http://www.shoppingsquare.com.au/p_4464_ASUS_EEEPC_900_89_LCD_Notebook__BLACK Im a bit scared to outright purchase from a company Ive never heard of before especially

Fwd: [SLUG] spell check

* Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently upgraded. ... English UK and English US are ok. I have Oo on my laptop with Debian, and in the desktop with Ubuntu. The Debian version works with no probs, including Australian

Re: [SLUG] spell check

* Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: All replies to list please. I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently upgraded. ... English UK and English US are ok. I have Oo on my laptop with Debian, and in the desktop with Ubuntu. The Debian version works with no

Re: [SLUG] how to build a custom keyboard map in Gnome?

* Sonia Hamilton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd like to build a custom keymap for Gnome that is a combination of the 'US English' layout and some of the 'Spain' layout - anyone know how I'd do that? Have a look at a previous slug discussion:

Re: [SLUG] tool for displaying time in different timezones?

* Sonia Hamilton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone know of a tool for displaying the tool in different timezones? gworldclock -- 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] HFS+ support

* James William Dumay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have a third fat32 partition that's large enough to drop a few files in between reboots Or even another HFS+ partition, as long as it's not the partition with the OS on, your system won't be corrupted when you read that partition from your

Re: [SLUG] null-modem cable

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You can get parallel and/or serial null modem cables from Parramatta Jaycar. It was amusing window shopping for me a couple of weeks ago -- my God they still make, package and sell this kind of stuff. Thank God they still do. You never

[SLUG] null-modem cable

Hi I need to use a serial-crossover 9-pin null-modem cable. Just for 5 minutes. I'd be happy to bring my two devices to be connected if you don't want to see it leave the building. Or any pointers to a sydney retailer would be equally appreciated. Thanks, Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] null-modem cable

* James Gregory ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I know of two: http://www.elx.com.au/item/NM9SS2 and https://www.lindy.com.au/ Thanks for that. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style

* Alan L Tyree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: SNIP the Memoir class seems to provide facilities to make this kind of design easy: see page 86 of the Memoir manual. Cheers, Alan Thanks for that Alan. I am looking at memman.pdf right now, and am printing it out the relevant pages. Nick --

[SLUG] Latex question: chapter style

Hi I'm using latex to (re-)produce a technical manual which is typeset in a compact format, and I wish to keep close to the original formatting. The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify any of the available packages to reproduce it. So far I've resorted to

Re: [SLUG] Linux Car PC / MP3 Player

* Simon Males ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello I really want to listen to podcasts in my car. The ideal situation would be to have the audio system be able to download the podcasts feeds via WiFi. Avoiding the need for sneakernetting a portable device of some sort. So has anyone built

Re: [SLUG] AMD Sempron

* Malcolm Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On trying to install an already set-up version of Slackware 11 (it is running in an Athlon XP (761) box), from a bootable CD-ROM I got the message Kernel Panic and the the machine hung. Does anyone have any idea of why this might be happening. I

Re: [SLUG] Ruby-on-Rails talk - interest?

* Taryn East ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Would there be any interest in me running an Introduction to Ruby on Rails talk at SLUG? If so - do you have any questions you'd like me to research ahead of time? Yes Taryn, Specifically, adding rails to apache2 sites-enabled without messing up

Re: [SLUG] dist-upgrade failed for xorg, many dpkg errors

* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all (a subject is better, delete previous message) Upgrading the wifes PC from an old Debian to etch using dist-upgrade has really busted it. xserver-xorg won't install as it depends on x11-common but that won't install as I get a dpkg error

[SLUG] Ubuntu opera repository

Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found on any of the sites that everyone recommends. deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main or deb http://deb.opera.com/opera etch non-free I keep getting the 404 not found. I've got mostly dapper on

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu opera repository

* Steve Kowalik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:00:57 +1100, Nick Croft uttered Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found on any of the sites that everyone recommends. deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

Re: [SLUG] How to increase swap partition on an already installed system?

* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all When installing Debian a few months ago I made a mistake in creating the swap. I intended to create a 2GB swap but I seem to have zilch. I need to increase sda3 at the expense of sda4. I can backup to another machine Hi Mike --

Re: [SLUG] Debian mirrors disappearing and reporting spam on list archive?

* Penedo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 1. Apparently the Debian mirrors are disappearing - first on Optus and last night apparently also on iiNet. Does anyone know what's going on? (I'd ask this on debian-au but according to its archive this list seems to be dead since March). Dunno what's

Re: [SLUG] Debian + Bluetooth + Sony Ericsson S700i Pairing

* Tom Massey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it that way as well, still doesn't work. Now find that kbluetoothd is popping up a window: Make sure that the pin-helper is executable. I think the debian scripts turn up as 644. You need 755 or 754. The

Re: [SLUG] Voice to text

* john hedge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of a Linux based project/product for converting voice to text? Festival: Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech

Re: [SLUG] Voice to text

* john hedge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of a Linux based project/product for converting voice to text? Get festival. This command will read out a file: festival festival (voice_rab_diphone) (tts filename nil) Switch off with Control-C. If you wish to, you can join the

[SLUG] compiling xgnokii

I've just tried compiling gnokii from CVS. The gnokii part works, but I'm having trouble with xgnokii, which configures and compiles at the same time. When I run it I get: Gtk-WARNING **: horizontal scrolling not implemented Not sure what there, as other gtk seems to work OK for me. And

Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Dell Latitude X1

* James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 12/10/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: Pity about the linux Colour Scheme in the terminals though. Has anyone got a good colourmap for a black background terminal. .. you can hardly read the dark blue (directories)

[SLUG] htaccess and mod_rewrite, url redirection

Good morning. I wonder if you can help. I have two domain names, one for personal pages, and the other for work -- both pointing to the same machine. I'd like to set it up so that using one url will go to one directory and the same for the other url, i.e http://eastafricans.org --

[SLUG] no en_AU while installing Ubuntu

I'm just installing Ubuntu on my powerbook. The language-pack-en(-base) has influenced the generation of locales to include en_ZA, and surprisingly en_NZ and even en_HK. I can understand the African locales being included automatically. But considering the input from Australia, it seems odd

Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

* Rob Sharp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Funny you should menion it but: grep Invalid /var/log/auth.log yields Apr 10 07:05:36 islay sshd[3403]: Invalid user t from :::211.30.136.xxx Apr 10 13:00:41 islay sshd[3823]: Invalid user test from :::61.144.122.39 Apr 12 00:05:59 islay

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi -- theta

* Angus Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you add \useencoding[T1] to your preamble, you'll end up using some different font files that may bypass the problem. Thanks Gus, the encoding maybe influenced by me installing the ucs package, although it's hard to see how if I don't call it

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi -- theta

* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat Mar 12, Nick Croft wrote: Ok then it's the fact that you don't have that glyph on your work setup. Mmm. Odd though. I'm back to thinking I need to install potato first, then upgrade to the latest, putting a couple of programs on hold. The fix

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi -- theta

* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri Mar 11, Nick Croft wrote: Having a little trouble here with latex. I am not sure when you mentioned mailing them to work whether you mail the test.tex file or the test.dvi file. Mike, thanks for your thoughts. It's the .tex file I send

[SLUG] Latex question: fi -- theta

Morning, Having a little trouble here with latex. I write things up at home, check in xdvi, then mail the tex files to work for printing. Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word like Office become OfØce. I'm not sure what to switch off or what kind of package I'm

[SLUG] Re: CTAN font packages debian TeX

necessary in recent versions of Tex/latex. What came between my first attempt and my Successful Test were a) three weeks b) good luck. Otherwise, thanks for the guidance, for which I am very thankful. All the best, Nick Croft -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] CTAN font packages debian TeX

Hello TeXperts I've been attempting to add (CTAN) fonts packages to my TeX installation, meticulously following the advice given in http://www.ctan.org/installationadvice I actually downloaded and unpacked the brushscript font which I don't want, just so I

Re: [SLUG] Skype report

* Alan L Tyree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RE: earlier problems with sound and Skype. I never did get Skype working on Debian Sarge, Worked out of the box here. Where are you having trouble? The microphone? Speakers? Or the gui just won't appear? Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Firewalls???

* Lyle Chapman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: my problem is a noisy (fan + drive ... I am not sure which way to proceed, ... thanks to any advice - What about a nice new 13db fan from PC Case Gear, or i-tech, or secret.net ? ACS 2L Arctic-Cooling Copper Silent 2L ($29). N -- SLUG -

[SLUG] As good as it gets: end of the Golden Age: overdevelopment

I did a long-overdue dist-upgrade recently. Most packages were upgraded without much evident fuss, change, or improvemnt. I did, however, notice some serious deterioration with some of the most used packeage. E.g galeon. There was this neat trick where you could right-click a single

Re: SMH Crossword WAS Re: [SLUG] installing java on ubintu / debian

* David Gillies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can input in the crossword from keyboard with[out] any issues. I'm using Blackdown Java 1.4.2 from here: http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/debian St George online banking is fine using this as well. OK, thanks David. It works here now,

Re: [SLUG] installing java on ubintu / debian

* Simon Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 07:36, Ken Foskey wrote: This is a simple set of instructions to install Java sdk properly on debian (including ubuntu) Java 1.5 Download the Java SDK (Debian Package 59MB)

[SLUG] Compile kernel on another machine?

Hi I've got this dying mobo-cpu problem on my router. The machine seems to work for about 20 minutes, then freezes. Storm damage I think. Anyhow, I'm putting the disks into a new box, which happens to be AMD where the current cpu is a pentium. I can't compile a suitable kernel on the machine

[SLUG] Compile kernel an other machine

Hi I've got this dying mobo-cpu problem on my router. The machine seems to work for about 20 minutes, then freezes. Storm damage I think. Anyhow, I'm putting the disks into a new box, which happens to be AMD where the current cpu is a pentium. I can't compile a suitable kernel on the machine

Re: [SLUG] OCR

* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have not found anything that is anywhere near the ability of the commercial ocr packages that come with scanner software on Windows :-( This is the only reason why I run an emulator -- for TextBridge. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] dependible apt sources for debian ppc

Evening, Following a recent discussion on laptops, I got myself an Apple powerbook. Neat I'm a little confused by the /etc/apt/sources.list . It seems that the mirrors don't stay stable for very long ... The best I've had so far is deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian unstable

Re: [SLUG] dependible apt sources for debian ppc

* Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://ftp.au.debian.org/ is the .au official one, but PlanetMirror (the guys running it, thanks for that) have had some troubles with hardware and stuff, so I sometimes use http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/ instead. In fact, beautiful. It's actually

Re: [SLUG] X11 Font?

* Malik Jayawardena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyway I keep getting this error: Font not found: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-480-*-*-*-*-*-*No font found for GL Mal, Did you type this or paste it? There appear to be 14 fields in this XLFD (X Logical Font Descriptor), where there

Re: [SLUG] mutt and foreign characters

* Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H 0.00 Anyone got any pointers on how to make foreign characters display in mutt? I suggest using a UTF-8 character set (en_AU.UTF-8) and a terminal such as gnome-terminal that supports UTF-8 really well. - Jeff or use the latest (for at

Re: [SLUG] CUPS and escputil

* Simon Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H 0.00 On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:43, Nick Croft wrote: Strangely, the -d option gives an answer: @BDC ST ST:04; which I hope refers to STylus. Yeah, I guess that parallel ports don't support the kind of info yu can get from

Re: [SLUG] CUPS and escputil

* Simon Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: However, I want to check the ink level, and for this I need to use a command line tool, escputil. The output for $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp0 is 'Cannot parse output from printer'. Try the -d option that identifies the printer to confirm

[SLUG] Bogofilter -- need some s p a m

Evening. There used to be a source of spam that you could download to feed into bogofilter. (About 3 big folders, iirc) . Can't find it now. Currently I have (via bogoutil -w ~/.bogofilter .MSG_COUNT') 5500 spam versus 52000 good emails. A bit off balance -- bogutil -r gives me 0.358099 .

Re: [SLUG] CUPS assumptions

* Glen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: CUPS has its own access controls, much like those in Apache. They are in the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and by default they limit access to the administrative interface to the local machine. See the Location /admin clauses in cupsd.conf. Thanks

Re: [SLUG] Generating accented characters

/ucs-fonts.html is absolutely great. The included ucs2any script will generate iso-8559-2 etc subsets as needed. Nick Croft -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Don't like your HELO/EHLO. Hostname must contain a dot.

Sluggers! My humble home desktop machine goes by the name 'artarmon' (I like the place). I just had a posting rejected from a list at sourceforge, with the explanation that they want to see a dot in my hostname. I've since renamed the machine artarmon.net, and the message now seems to have

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX legal style?

* Peter Chubb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, This is a bit off-topic for this list, but does anyone know of a LaTeX style to allow formatting of legal documents -- There's jurabib aat http://www.ctan.org . Search their repositories. Maybe more styles there. N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] 7000+ /var/log/samba messages in 6 weeks (?!)

Evening list, I've been extra preoccupied for the last couple of months. Today I took the time to look around and noticed a huge number of /var/log/samba messages, all of the form: [2003/12/15 21:51:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(766) make_connections: refusing

Re: [SLUG] 7000+ /var/log/samba messages in 6 weeks (?!)

* Grant Parnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just backing up what David said... Also, block ports 137,138,139,445 udp tcp with the firewall. EG iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp --dport 137:139 -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp --dport 445 -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp

[SLUG] Prospero Data Access on 1525 1526

* Torquemada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Howdy, everything to do with windows, just feels better blocking 135:139 and 445 Thanks for all these tips. I pointed nmap at the machine and found a weird one 1526/tcp open pdap-np which is listed as Prospero Data Access. I wonder what

Re: [SLUG] Prospero Data Access on 1525 1526

* David Kempe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: google search for port 1526 tcp seems to be associated with informix and/or other sql stuff. did you have an sql server on that desktop? Yes Dave, I think it must be to do with the perl DBI module, which prides itself on being able to do all sorts

[SLUG] ADSL modem

Morning! My D-Link DSL-500 has blown up. The phone line registers, but the ethernet side of it has gone AWOL. I'm looking to find a second hand ADSL modem today. Any ideas, or offers? Thanks, Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Re: Font problem solved !

* Adam Bogacki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Instead ... ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path ... which means nothing to me. ice-9/boot-9.scm exists in /home and /usr but the problem seems to be with the load path. Hi Adam,

Re: [SLUG] Font problem

* Adam Bogacki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* I'd also like to load ISO8859-1 font to give me Polish accents ... Hey Adam, 1) Get more fonts.

Re: [SLUG] Weird spam problem

* Erik de Castro Lopo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: They contain no advertising, just a random string of words. I could understand them trying to use this stuff to avoid having their advertising classified as spam, but there was no advertising. Could they be trying to poison my

[SLUG] cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding

Morning, I've used the very useful 'vsound' app to grab some news-clips in a foreign language I'm learning. The output is in .wavs, apparently Microsoft PCM, as in -- sox -V news_sep3-2.wav -r 44100 -s -w tmp.wav sox: Detected file format

[SLUG] SCO vs Hurd?

Good afternoon, In the current climate of conflict, I start to think about long term strategies in case of a worst case scenario. Specifically, I'm wondering what's happening with Hurd. Any success stories? Is it actually viable? Worth the trouble of installing? Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m

RzneXcpebsgRzneXnpn pb nhRzneX Some of it appears interspersed with html tags. Such as Clsbt7ans3c3pe16ick Hsljh6jj20iawtwere For Ms0bpffx2oowjaore i.e 'C l i c k Here for More' -- all that within an a href= tag. Just wondering, Nick Croft -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] shutdown log

Morning all! Where would I find the log of the previous shutdown process? Or how can I ask for such a log to be written? I caught sight of a mention of a process's state being saved, and I need to know where to. Thanks, Nick /* _\|/_ (o o)

[SLUG] making /dev/usbscanner permanent

Any ideas on what is needed to make /dev/usbscanner permanent? After a reboot, it seems I need to do sudo mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48 sudo chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner each time. Would it be a matter of a startup script, or is there another way. And in a similar area, when I

Re: [SLUG] making /dev/usbscanner permanent

* Peter Hardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:54:44 +1100 Nick Croft wrote: Any ideas on what is needed to make /dev/usbscanner permanent? After a reboot, it seems I need to do [etc] Sounds like you're running with devfs. Does a ps ax show a devfsd process running

[SLUG] error in control file: `Title' value not specified (was: Bloody bleeding)

I've tried. Same problem. Actually it's happpening with the machine at work as well. It's got different packages and sources.list, but still has unstable. It's strange that I seem to be the only person in the universe experiencing this. Not a whisper on the debian-user list which I rejoined

Re: [SLUG] error in control file: `Title' value not specified (was: Bloody bleeding)

Solved! It's a bug to do with UTF-8 locales. http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2002/debian-dpkg-200210/msg00037.html N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Bloody bleeding edge unstable error 2 many times

Evening all, specially DebSiggers, Talk about living on the bleeding edge! In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest, I use unstable packages. For months everything has been running nicely. Feeling at one with the world, I did a nice big dist-upgrade on 1st Nov. Went like a charm.

Re: [SLUG] Bloody bleeding edge unstable error 2 many times

* Peter Chubb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nick == Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nick Now I've got a cache pregnant with packages that won't Nick install. All being held up by 14 packages which don't want to Nick work. Each comes with an error I suggest apt-get remove

Re: [SLUG] Bloody bleeding edge unstable error 2 many times

* Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: clean out the cache and start again would be my option make sure you apt-get update - to update sources.list the apt-get clean or apt-get autoclean to clean out your cache and then start over Thanks. Trouble is the packages are the very latest. Lime 550M

Re: [SLUG] Bloody bleeding edge unstable error 2 many times

* Peter Chubb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The trick to fetch the ones you *really* need from testing not unstable. And maybe by the time you want to upgrade again the problem will have gone away. Thanks. Good idea. N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft backlash boosts Linux.

* Tony Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: belive that advocacy issues belong on -chat... positive or not. The committee don't all buy into that, and that is cool. I wonder how many people receive slug and slug-chat mail in the one directory? I do. N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found

* Visser, Martin (Sydney) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What does :help do. If that doesn't bring up the help text either, I suspect you have a path/ environment issue. BTW Most vim experts probably never see such errors, I certainly haven't and have been using vi / vim for over 10 years.

[SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found

Goodday all! I'm a bit bamboozled by the behaviour of Vim (6.1 Debian) on my machine at home. The F1 key doesn't produce the vim help-files. I can read the help files in vim by specifically opening any of the files in /usr/share/vim/vim61/doc. But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-]

Re: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found

But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-] I get an error message (E344 iirc - it's at home) about 'no tag file found' -- and yet the tag file is there in the doc directory. And if i just invoke the help-files from the F1 key, I get: E433: No tags file

[SLUG] Fighting spam for me dear old Dad.

Evening! My father (aged 84) has recently started using my brother's computer for email. Unfortunately he get lots of spam, which upsets him somewhat, but he still wants to press ahead with this newfangled idea. (Brother is away). So I've got him an alias with the ISP, and have started the

Re: [SLUG] SpamAssassin

* Howard Lowndes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed the SpamAssassin RPM yesterday and started up the spamd daemon, but nothing appears to be happening, so I guess I missed a config somewhere. Needless to say the doco doesn't refer to the RPM distro. What am I likely to have missed -

[SLUG] Hidden icq cost?

Sluggers, I'm wanting to account for the massive telstra bill for bpa. There's 2 teenagers on the lan, and right now my question is: If they leave their ICQ programs running non-stop, and they each have at least 100 contacts, in what order of magnitude would the total number of bytes of

Re: [SLUG] promote tutorial or book for color-Emacs

* henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear List: There (internet) is package to make Emacs a colorful editor. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColorTheme Under `help' go to options, then -- Global font Lock (highlights syntx). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] ARIN (64.12.24.44)

Morning, Using `etherape' on the lan, I notice a large number of probes from 64.12.0.0/16 which would appear to be the American Registry of Internet Numbers. Is this usual, or spoofing perhaps? Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] ARIN (64.12.24.44)

* Zhasper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't know what whois tool/server you're seeing, but it's only telling half teh story.. Silly me, not using whois on it. I looked up a security book list of addresses. (Ziegler). Plain vanilla whois, without -h, gave the same result, but with an

Re: [SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

Mike and Martin, Thanks for your help. Those services kept rising from the ashes. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

Morning, I notice in gtop's memory view, that about 20% of my precious 128M is going to sschdled and ssserverd - processes owned by root, or perhaps more accurately Sun StarDivision, as neither I nor root can stop them. I only use StarOffice 3 or 4 times a year. It's a waste of memory the way

Re: [SLUG] Vim: copy into cmd line?

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just put the command text you want to execute into a named buffer, then execute the named buffer. In your case: :s/pattern/substitute/ then for example (deleting the text into buffer s), say: sdd @s Thanks Luke, That's

Re: [SLUG] Vim: copy into cmd line?

* Ken Foskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you use the Xwindows version gvim you can certainly cut it and paste it. OK, thanks. I'll go out and apt-get vim-gtk. It would be nice to be able to do it in a terminal. N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] Vim: copy into cmd line?

Afternoon, Can anyone help me with a vim technique for pasting a pattern into the command line. Specifically I'd like to yank a pattern and copy it in to a substitute command, e.g. :s/pattern/substitute/ I've searched the vim-tips db, and looked through the user manual in

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

* Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How many slug_members are there? I told the member for Taiwan 700. Around 550 on the mailing list, but Patrick will know how many financial members we currently have. You can come along tonight and sign up too. :) Already signed and paid - no

Re: [SLUG] ask 2 questions

* henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear Nuck: I am the root , the file is as attached. Henry, 1) What is your set-up. I don't understand why you write from Outlook. 2) Don't use `root'; create a user account, i.e. adduser henry You'll be asked to provide a password. Then logout

[SLUG] (no subject)

How many slug_members are there? I told the member for Taiwan 700. Nick /* _\|/_ (o o) +oOO-{_}-OOo--+ |Piano Technician - Theme Variations, Sydney| +*/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Zsh: M-. should bring back last arg of prev cmd

* Andre Pang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: make _sure_ you run the 'compinstall' script. On my system (Debian unstable), it's in the /usr/share/zsh/4.0.4/functions/Completion directory. Debian unstable here likewise. compinstall lists as -rw-r--r-- . Do I need lines in .zshrc to the

Re: [SLUG] lynx's homepage?

It wants the site of your choice. Like http://www.google.com frinstance. N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ask 2 questions

though I cant gunzip it,it maybe caused by error-downloading Are you downloading with Windows? I know NOTHING about windows, but there's a chance it's unzipping it for you, without it renaming the file. Mozilla will do that even on Linux. All the time. Netscape on MacIntosh will also do it

Re: [SLUG] Zsh: M-. should bring back last arg of prev cmd

On 1-2-02 * Andre Pang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote in a messages with the * Subject: more zsh crack (or why you should use zsh) * and I quote: You're firing me up to do a zsh talk again :). If people are keen, I'll do a zsh top ten most useful features list or something. Please, Thanks. --

[SLUG] fc -l -m 'some pattern'

I'm new at using zsh. Working through a tutorial. I read that Using the -m flag in conjunction with -l, you can specify a pattern. (don't forget to quote the pattern!). Then, only commands matching the pattern will be displayed. So for example, if fc -l -300 -285 shows that I

[SLUG] Zsh: M-. should bring back last arg of prev cmd

Is there a Zsh sig within driving distance? I learnt in an article by Dominic Mitchell A Case for the Z Shell, that M-. can be used as a shortcut for the last argument of the previous command. % cat /etc/networks % ls -l /etc/hosts % vi M-. % vi /etc/hosts M-.M-. % vi /etc/hosts

Re: [SLUG] Zsh: M-. should bring back last arg of prev cmd

I wrote too soon. Had to bindkey -m to establish a Meta key. Am I the only zsh addict round here? Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] To kludge or not to kludge

Slug, Problem: Lost X in main user account, (nicko). root and other users OK. Possible Cause:Fscking around with locale Actions taken: 1. Googled XFree86.org + crash + locale 2. Contacted slug in an earlier posting (X crashes for nicko,

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] To kludge or not to kludge

* Craige McWhirter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 22:46, Nick Croft wrote: Problem: Lost X in main user account, (nicko). root and other users OK. What method are you using to access X? If it's GDM, what sessions are you selecting? I

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