[SLUG] Message Stopped ---- Virus Detected ----
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Re: [SLUG] Re: MythTV vs Freevo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:19:49 +0200 Ben Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go with DVB or a PVR-250 card - the quality is far superior. Ben, Do you have any specific brand recommendations? I use a Nova-T for DVB terrestrial and a Skystar2 for satellite. On the analogue side, the Hauppauge PVR 250 does hardware MPEG2 encoding of a normal TV signal. But with a DVB terrestiral receiver you dont need an analogue card. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Thank your contributor
Hi all, With the Linux Australia website update, the Australian Contributors page is now much easier to find. We had a request to add Neil Brown to it recently, which is done. All future requests should go via [EMAIL PROTECTED] please :) http://www.linux.org.au/australia/auscontrib.php This is a good opportunity to either: a) put forward recommendations for Australian Contributors that should go be recognised for their sterling efforts, or b) update the information of contributors that are currently on the page and way out of date. Thank your hacker, your favourite maintainer, a Linux advocate, a rocking Australian software project, your mum. It is a good way to recognise and in a way thank these awesome Aussies for their efforts and contributions both to Linux and the Australian Linux community. Rock on Australia! and keep in mind the page is outdated, by perhaps 2 years. Please don't hold any information on it against us :) Pia -- Pia Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Australia -- 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] Re: MythTV vs Freevo
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:19:49 +0200 Ben Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go with DVB or a PVR-250 card - the quality is far superior. Ben, Do you have any specific brand recommendations? Regards, Matt -- 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] Multiple hits in Apache access.log under mod_perl
Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I am getting double hits in my Apache access.log on a server. This may be a real problem for me as there is a Perl/MySQL application that may get multiple updates. 192.168.1.2 - mike [18/Sep/2004:16:41:34 +1000] POST /kid/users/search/simple HTTP/1.1 200 7097 http://tazieff/kid/users/search/simple; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 192.168.1.2 - mike [18/Sep/2004:16:41:35 +1000] GET /kid/users/search/simple HTTP/1.1 200 5083 http://tazieff/kid/users/search/simple; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 [ rest of message deleted, though it's relevant info ] It sounds like it might be a problem with your application - do you get this when you try your application? Can you try to keep around the HTTP response (including the HTML content) of the first response? As for the double operation causing double changes - you should design your application to sustain such an event (I think the term is omnipotent, that a repeated operation is not effective). --Amos -- 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] MythTV vs Freevo
What I have is mythtv running on Mandrake. Reason for this was to get something off the ground and running quickly. The features I like with Mythtv is that you have the option to watch TV, store your cds and dvds to disk to watch/listen at your leisure. Mythtv is also pretty simple to use, so it makes it kids and wife friendly. The plugins are pretty funky. The only thing that I had trouble with was configuring the channels to download the program guide (Thanks to ben) I was up and running in no time. What I would like to do is get a digital satalite capture card so that I can get digital foxtel. So if anyone knows where I can get a digsat card, I would appreciate the help. Kevin So what have people tried and what was there experience with these things ? Any recommendations ? Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] New website rocks!
At 04:52 AM 17/09/04 +1000, you wrote: So LA have a new website. Finally! :) http://www.linux.org.au. Any breakages reported would be much appreciated! Rock on Australia, Pia Dear SLUGs The idea of having a new website for LA is great, but this new website does not ROCK at all. It has serious design and usability errors, a few of which are outlined below. But these are easily fixed. SLUGGers should not be deluded - good web sites only come from hard work, good content and attention to detail (just like programming) and not from having graphics designers using the latest fashion in typefaces and colour schemes. A good website is not made by deluding oneself that your own site is the best, and that critism is inappropriate or the critic must be a nasty person. Designing website is now a technology taught at TAFE (there are heaps of books on usability) and has not been a guru craft or a black art since 1998. Wages for people who build build sites have fallen from $130 per hour to $30 per hour. Brian === Linux Australia problems, the first 11... 1. The logo on the main page can be clicked, and when it is, it displays the SAME page again. Whilst it is normal for the logo when clicked to return to the home page or all subsidiary pages, this is a big no-no on the main page. All textbooks on usability recommend against having anything which simply displays the same page, as users find it very confusing. 2. None of the images are sized with width= and height= tags. This causes the page to jump around while it's loading, and this is even more annoying on dial up lines and on the first visit. The worst example is the main logo, because it's above the fold on the first page. 3. The Linux Australia title includes a trailing space. 4. The menu choice at the top left includes links to things on the site and off the site. This is bad practice (a) it confuses the users and (b) Do your really want to provide links for your users to leave your site at the top of your main page. (you are a dill if you do). 5. The font at the very bottom of the page is far too small. It's only minor info to be sure, but the font is still too small. If it's not to be read, then simply take it off. Also, this bit has weird added spaces which are just confusing and do not add to the enjoyment. 6. Under the heading Sept 10th, RSS, there is a symbol, which is perhaps trying to look like a diamond replacing a dot point. It's made out of the gt and lt characters. In fact it looks weird, like a coding error to anyone who has seen faulty web pages (all of us). Why not just use a bolded asterisk??? 7. At the top, the link to linux.conf.au does not work. Was there any testing at all??? The destination underneath is not the same as the displayed text neither. The www (and the trailing slash for directories) should be on all href= links. 8. The main page link Membership goes to the Membership Database which is not the same thing, and confusing to users. Closer reading of the Membership Database page does tell how to join. Surely if the aim is to get new members, this means there should be a How to Join link right on the front page. 9. The new member sign-up page is a bit wacky - it displays the log-in boxes for existing members to log-on (and stuff about forgot your password) at the SAME time as displaying the form where new members can join. This is nutty from a user's point of view. 10. In some browsers, the mouse rollover text includes a display of leading spaces, which looks weird to the user. The values in the alt= tags need to be reviewed on all pages. 11. On the Membership Database page, clicking Home shows the same page again, and does not go to the home page of Linux Australia. Very confusing to users, and goes against the accepted meaning of Home. === -- 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] Packages kept back
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Whenever I apt-get update/upgrade a bunch of packages are listed as 'kept back'. What's the reason for this? How would I force upgrading the packages kept back? Try using apt-get dist-upgrade. This lets you upgrade packages that might cause other changes to other packages installed on your system, such as replacing or needing to remove something. I tend to use dist-upgrade all the time when running unstable. Does this apply for testing (which I'm running) as well? Yes. How could I find out why a particular package is kept back? At the moment neiter samba nor cups packages are upgraded. You'd have to investigate the dependencies and see why things have changed. If you do apt-get upgrade -u and apt-get dist-upgrade -u, it will show you all the packages it's going to modify, so you can compare to see what the extra (or removed) packages are. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australiahttp://linux.conf.au/ Mangoes are nature's edible orgasm. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Kernel 2.6.8 booting problem, initrd problem
Dear Slug, I am running sarge, and I have compiled a new kernel (2.6.8). make xconfig make bzImage make modules make modules_install then copied System.map, bzImage to /boot, When I tried to make the initrd.img I got some errors: server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.8 2.6.8 cpio: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory cpio: /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory And when I try to boot this kernel with this initrd I get a kernel panic: RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1168 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk..done. VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed initrd-tools:0.1.71 pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! From /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 savedefault boot I have tried booting without the initrd line in menu.lst (above), which I thought should work since I have ext3 support into the kernel ( server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# less .config |grep -i ext3 CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set ) rather than as a module, but I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device hda1 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) but I don't see whats wrong with root=/dev/hda1. See mount output below. server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) Any help appreciated. Kind Regards, Joshua Burvill 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/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Data Cabling Specification Document
I have to put together a spec doc for a cabling job so that installers can quote on the job and so that I can have some KPIs against which to assess the work. Has anyone got such a beast that I could use to develop my spec, so that I don't miss some important aspect. If so could you either email to me or provide a link. TIA, -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people http://www.lannetlinux.com -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- 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] electronic circuit simulation software for linux
For non-free software, have a look at Modelsim (VHDL and HDL): http://www.model.com Most of the non-free circuit simulation software is for Windows or Unix, and is particularly memory/CPU hungry. You may also want to google for Eagle CAD which has some simpler layout software but I don't think it includes simulations. I use Mentor Interconnectix (ICX) for waveform analysis on Solaris. It seems to be only available for Unix and Windows (http://www.mentor.com/highspeed/products/icx/ ) Cheers, Jill. -Original Message- From: Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 September 2004 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] electronic circuit simulation software for linux Hi, Does anyone know of any electronic circuit simulation software for linux? thanks, Luke -- Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit Mobile: 0421 276 282 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Bloody Fedora Installation! (again)
I've done several installs of Fedora C1, and had a variety of experiences: some went very smoothly, and some had great problems. Now I've tried a C2 installation (on a dual-boot laptop on which Lycoris installed very smoothly), and all went badly - the dreaded couldn't read from media error. I tried GUI and text installs, and installs with mem=64M, nodma and noprobe settings, all with the same result. Does anyone have any additional clues? When is redhat going to fix anaconda so this doesn't happen? Regards, Edwin Humphries, Managing Director Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http://www.ironstone.com.au -- 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] Bloody Fedora Installation! (again)
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:49 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: I've done several installs of Fedora C1, and had a variety of experiences: some went very smoothly, and some had great problems. Now I've tried a C2 installation (on a dual-boot laptop on which Lycoris installed very smoothly), and all went badly - the dreaded couldn't read from media error. Did you use the 'check media' option before you did the installation? Is it possible that your lycoris CDs were stamped by professionals and that you burnt the fedora CDs? I tried GUI and text installs, and installs with mem=64M, nodma and noprobe settings, all with the same result. Does anyone have any additional clues? When is redhat going to fix anaconda so this doesn't happen? I've found anaconda to be far and away the best linux installer out there. I would be more suspicious of either the drive or your CDs if anaconda isn't working. HTH, James. -- James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Bloody Fedora Installation! (again)
You're right about the sources of the CDs, but I know in every previous case with Fedora that the system has installed OK form the suspect CDs using the suspect drive. It's just that the install command line seems to require tweaking to make it happen. On 20 Sep 2004 at 10:56, James Gregory wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:49 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: I've done several installs of Fedora C1, and had a variety of experiences: some went very smoothly, and some had great problems. Now I've tried a C2 installation (on a dual-boot laptop on which Lycoris installed very smoothly), and all went badly - the dreaded couldn't read from media error. Did you use the 'check media' option before you did the installation? Is it possible that your lycoris CDs were stamped by professionals and that you burnt the fedora CDs? I tried GUI and text installs, and installs with mem=64M, nodma and noprobe settings, all with the same result. Does anyone have any additional clues? When is redhat going to fix anaconda so this doesn't happen? I've found anaconda to be far and away the best linux installer out there. I would be more suspicious of either the drive or your CDs if anaconda isn't working. HTH, James. -- James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Edwin Humphries, Managing Director Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http://www.ironstone.com.au -- 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] Kernel 2.6.8 booting problem, initrd problem
Hey hey. On 09/18/04 13:24, Joshua Burvill wrote: I am running sarge, and I have compiled a new kernel (2.6.8). First of all, it may be worthwhile looking in to the kernel-package package. It's a neat way to automate the kernel compilation, giving you a debian package containing your new kernel and taking away a lot of the pain of creating initrds and configuring boot loaders. When I tried to make the initrd.img I got some errors: server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.8 2.6.8 cpio: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory cpio: /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory I would have thought they were just minor errors that mkinitrd will work around. (based on the fact that my sid machine doesn't have them. :-) Compare the size of the initrd image you created compared to one from a working kernel to give a rough idea of if it was properly created. You should also be able to mount it using the loopback device to have a poke around at what it contains like: # mount -o loop initrd.img-2.6.8 2.6.8 /mnt I have tried booting without the initrd line in menu.lst (above), which I thought should work since I have ext3 support into the kernel ( *snip* VFS: Cannot open root device hda1 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) You also need to have the IDE driver compiled in instead of a module. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] RE: [Announce] Re: [Linux-aus] New website rocks!
Title: [Announce] Re: [Linux-aus] New website rocks! That's a kewl idea. I'll migrate it from the old site. I had completely overlooked that so thanks! :) Pia From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter GossnerSent: Fri 17/09/2004 5:07 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: linux-aus; Announce LA; LUG; SLUG; committee-LASubject: [Announce] Re: [Linux-aus] New website rocks! On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:52:09 +1000 Pia wrote:So LA have our new website. Finally! :)http://www.linux.org.au. Any breakages reported would be muchappreciated!It all works 5X5 here (Woodside SAu :)useragentMozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614Firefox/0.8/useragent[Debian testing]Nice work... Very Nice.Clean navigation , content is easily understood and IMHO wellfocused. The Graphics are great, the off-site links relevant.My one small tiny observation:on http://www.linux.org.au/linux/ (the about page)Is there meant to be a link to an au or wav file with Linus pronouncingLinux or have I misread :quoteWhile this is effectively the definitive pronunciation, Linus isreported to have said: "Call it what you like, just use it."/quoteHmmm (wonders what could be done with SABLE / festival here :) )Pete Gossner--Message Composed: Fri Sep 17 07:02:03 UTC 2004Calendar events:Sep 17 Battle of Antietam, 1862Sep 18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi http://www.gnu.org/software/tetum/ http://bigbutton.com.au/~gossner [EMAIL PROTECTED] snipped with care___announce mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/announce This e-mail, including all attachments, may be confidential or privileged. Confidentiality or privilege is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you in error. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure or copying of this email is prohibited. If you have received it in error please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of this email and any attachments. All liability for direct and indirect loss arising from this email and any attachments is hereby disclaimed to the extent permitted by law. -- 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] Bloody Fedora Installation! (again)
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:02 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: You're right about the sources of the CDs, but I know in every previous case with Fedora that the system has installed OK form the suspect CDs using the suspect drive. It's just that the install command line seems to require tweaking to make it happen. So the installer is failing part way through? Is it always the same place? Do your CDs pass the media check? Was it the same suspect CDs and suspect drive that it worked OK on with some boot-cmd tweaking? James. -- James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Bloody Fedora Installation! (again)
James, Yes, it's failing part-way through the install - always on the first CD, but never in the same place. With respect to the CD and drive; this is the first FC2 install I've done, so it's not the same disks as previously, and this is a new laptop, so it's not the same drive. I'm going on my previous experience of FC1, where it really didn't matter what media and which of several drives I used: sometimes the installation went very smoothly, and sometimes not at all. But we were always able to eventually get it to work with some combination of anaconda parameters. On 20 Sep 2004 at 11:19, James Gregory wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:02 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: You're right about the sources of the CDs, but I know in every previous case with Fedora that the system has installed OK form the suspect CDs using the suspect drive. It's just that the install command line seems to require tweaking to make it happen. So the installer is failing part way through? Is it always the same place? Do your CDs pass the media check? Was it the same suspect CDs and suspect drive that it worked OK on with some boot-cmd tweaking? James. -- James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Edwin Humphries, Managing Director Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http://www.ironstone.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] 2.6.8 and usb mass storage
Hi, I upgraded to 2.6.8 (from 2.6.5) a couple of weeks back and everything was relatively smooth with the exception that my sata disks changed from being recognized as ide devices (hd*) to scsi disks (sd*). I went to use an occasionally used lacie external usb hard drive on the weekend only to find this no longer functioned (and it's been fine since i first got it and was using a 2.4.20 kernel). i figured i may have forgotten to configure the kernel accordingly and wanted to change to 2.6.8.1 in any event. it turns out the kernel options were compiled in (scsi disk support and usb mass storage support and usb generic support) the device still no longer functions in fact it's not even detected when i plug it in. a usb flash drive i has is still fine, detects as a scsi device (/dev/sdc) it alos appears in /proc/scsi/usb-storage. any hints here? or anyone else finding similar problems? i've googled on this for a few hours and have found some similar problems recorded but no suggestions as to fixes etc. brett -- 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] Kernel 2.6.8 booting problem, initrd problem
Joshua Burvill wrote: From /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro This line, to: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1=/ ro or kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=03:01=/ ro What is your 'module-init-tools' version. You may have to upgrade your 'module-init-tools'. What is your current Kernel version ? If it is 2.4.x you may need to do some engineering of your files. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How to clear sendmail unsent items
We have sendmail turned off at present, but we have an application which has been creating mail to be sent via sendmail. Could someone please tell me how to look at and manage (read DELETE) the unsent items ? Regards Ron Daniel Information Systems Manager Sims Group Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Bloody Fedora Installation! (again)
There are installation issues with FC2 in dual boot. Check this one, http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ Edwin Humphries wrote: I've done several installs of Fedora C1, and had a variety of experiences: some went very smoothly, and some had great problems. Now I've tried a C2 installation (on a dual-boot laptop on which Lycoris installed very smoothly), and all went badly - the dreaded couldn't read from media error. I tried GUI and text installs, and installs with mem=64M, nodma and noprobe settings, all with the same result. Does anyone have any additional clues? When is redhat going to fix anaconda so this doesn't happen? Regards, Edwin Humphries, Managing Director Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http://www.ironstone.com.au -- 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] How to clear sendmail unsent items
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:47 am, Ron Daniel wrote: We have sendmail turned off at present, but we have an application which has been creating mail to be sent via sendmail. Could someone please tell me how to look at and manage (read DELETE) the unsent items ? Regards Ron Daniel Hmmm, why not something like this: mailq # take note of interesting message ID's cd /var/spool/mqueue less [dq]mess_id rm [dq]mess_id rinse and repeat. It's ugly, but it works. I'm sure there's something out there that would do what your after in a nice ncurses interface or something. Cheers, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] good news for Germany visitors
Dear Madams and Sirs, 16% vat-tax paid in Germany during a business trip can be reclaimed now from German tax-authorities through us: we offer a new unique global webservice at http://www.qualty.net which is of definite attraction to everyone travelling to Germany on business ! With kind regards, jens kehrhahn / CEO ___ Trustpharma (M) Sdn.Bhd. ...global service ~ global quality assurance Repraesentanz Hamburg - Schwartauer Strasse 10 - 22453 Hamburg - Germany emails:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** enjoy best view of our website with Internet Explorer at a resolution of 1024x768 to 1152x864 ** kindly note also, a new website compatible for all browsers is under construction and will be published shortly -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Apache and SSI
Hi all,
We are trying to use SSI to read the IP address of requests to our
webserver so we can deny some ip addresses access to certain pages.
I have followed the instructions at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#configuringyourservertopermitssi
We are using:
head
titleIP/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
script type=text/javascript
var IP = '!--#echo var=REMOTE_ADDR --';
document.write(IP: + IP);
document.write(BR);
//ip = 10.192.0.111;
if (IP.match(/10.192.0.\d{1,3}/)) {
document.write(matches);
} else {
document.write(doesn't match);
}
/script
/head
We are viewing it using Firefox and IE, when we connect to some remote
servers using this system it displays fine. Just in our case the variable
is always empty.
Any ideas?
--
Simon Bryan
IT Manager
OLMC Parramatta
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[SLUG] ISP problems
Can you tell me why AOL refuse to help with Linux? and do you know a way around the problem?...Thanks..Pete -- 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] ISP problems
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me why AOL refuse to help with Linux? Because the AOL helpdesk is staffed by vrain dead morons who follow a script, and Linux isn't in the script. and do you know a way around the problem?...Thanks..Pete Use another ISP. DaZZa -- 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] ISP problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me why AOL refuse to help with Linux? and do you know a way around the problem?...Thanks..Pete Because AOL tools are specifically tailored to work on MS. These tools that they supply to customers will not work on Desktops other than MS. -- 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] Multiple hits in Apache access.log under mod_perl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Lake wrote: I am getting double hits in my Apache access.log on a server. This may be a real problem for me as there is a Perl/MySQL application that may get multiple updates. 192.168.1.2 - mike [18/Sep/2004:16:41:34 +1000] POST /kid/users/search/simple HTTP/1.1 200 7097 http://tazieff/kid/users/search/simple; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 192.168.1.2 - mike [18/Sep/2004:16:41:35 +1000] GET /kid/users/search/simple HTTP/1.1 200 5083 http://tazieff/kid/users/search/simple; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 [ rest of message deleted, though it's relevant info ] It sounds like it might be a problem with your application - do you get this when you try your application? Can you try to keep around the HTTP response (including the HTML content) of the first response? One of the applications is that URL above. simple is the name of the simple cave search script. The updating script is yet to be written but its being written by someone else for me. RSN :-) Im not sure what you mean by keep around the HTTP response. The response would be the document delivered to the client web browser unless you mean something else? As for the double operation causing double changes - you should design your application to sustain such an event (I think the term is omnipotent, that a repeated operation is not effective). True. Im not sure what the programmer will do there. he will get back to me on that Im sure. -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Using dpkg-package to make deb modules
Dear list. I am using Woody with 2.4.18-Bf2.4 and would like to install a wireless card that uses the Prism2_cs module from the Wlan-ng package. I understand that I have two options: 1. Recompile a new kernel 2. Use dpkg-package to create a module with can be amended into the standard kernel. How do you dou this? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Phone:+(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax:+(61-2) 9418 4348 Mob:+(61) 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- 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] Re: Linux Advocate for Parliament
The current state of affairs everywhere is 'Security' and 'Trust'. Can Linux community, starting here in Australia, makes Security the centerpiece for now in its activities to advocate Linux ? Linux and other Open Source is in the best position vis-a-vis other OS even just in this area of Security. One requirement of Security is that OS must be 'auditable' and with Linux Source Codes being Open there is no question it is auditable. We know it is a piece of cake to inject 'trojans' and similar piece of codes in millions of lines of codes generated by an army of coders and developers. Many sectors of the State Governments and Commonwealth Government especially the military establishments are the relevant beneficiaries. If lobbying is LA's business then now you have relevant and good cause for action. I think but correct me if I'm wrong, in the US it is illegal for some establishments to use OS or Software without being audited and re-compiled under the supervision of auditors before deployment. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nicholas, Nicholas Tomlin writes: Hell SLUGers, Interesting freudian ;) If elected to Parliament I will be pushing many barrows, one of them will be to convert the Australian computing landscape over to Open Source Software, But we already have the Democrats, Greens and even labor and liberal pushing open standards, and in some cases preference for open source. What else can you offer the community in terms of policy? Hell we are already involved helping form these policies :) I think most of the open source industry isn't in it to 'get M$', but rather to ensure an equal playing ground so the best software wins on its own merits, and we do have the best software ;) PS - A major contributing factor to the present economic collapse, is the anti-human, bestial policies represented by the rock-drug-sex counterculture which took off in the 1960s. The me first, me only policies championed by the counterculture, are precisely those also championed by the economic policies of globalisation, privatisation, etc.; indeed, the former has helped prepare the way for the latter. The CEC is committed, as is Mr. LaRouche, to urgently re-establishing a new Golden Renaissance, based upon the Classical tradition in art and philosophy, where the creative powers of each individual are fostered, to the benefit of both the individual, and of the entire society. ^what does this actually mean? How does CEC plan to re-establishing a new Golden Renaissance and based on what Classical traditions. Does CEC truly believe that humankind will breakdown from a little anarchy, are we that fragile? I think anarchy is good, it stops small amounts of people getting too much power :) It promotes individual thought, it ensures that we don't fall into a trap of habitual behaviour based around traditions that may be completely irrelevant in todays society. It keeps us living fully. Cheers, Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Report writer for MySQL + C-ISAM?
Hi all, We we're replacing our 16-bit window report writer with Crystal, but that's starting to look way too expensive. Any one know what FOSS applications, we could run on our Linux boxes instead? Doesn't need to be any where near as fancy as Crystal, basic report writing is fine. Currently we're runing C-ISAM databases, but will be changing that to MySQL. Edd. -- 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] Report writer for MySQL + C-ISAM?
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:58 +1000, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, We we're replacing our 16-bit window report writer with Crystal, but that's starting to look way too expensive. Any one know what FOSS applications, we could run on our Linux boxes instead? Doesn't need to be any where near as fancy as Crystal, basic report writing is fine. It may help to give some description of what Crystal does. I for one don't know but I'm guessing from this that it's some kind of thing that draws graphs and so forth from the output of database queries? If so, check out tora (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/), or you might be able to assemble something with OpenOffice.org, which I believe can talk to a MySQL database. HTH, James. -- James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Report writer for MySQL + C-ISAM?
Eddie F wrote: Hi all, We we're replacing our 16-bit window report writer with Crystal, but that's starting to look way too expensive. Any one know what FOSS applications, we could run on our Linux boxes instead? Doesn't need to be any where near as fancy as Crystal, basic report writing is fine. Currently we're runing C-ISAM databases, but will be changing that to MySQL. I like this one: http://www.rekallrevealed.org/ -- Del -- 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] Report writer for MySQL + C-ISAM?
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:58 am, Eddie F wrote: We we're replacing our 16-bit window report writer with Crystal, but that's starting to look way too expensive. Any one know what FOSS applications, we could run on our Linux boxes instead? Doesn't need to be any where near as fancy as Crystal, basic report writing is fine. Currently we're runing C-ISAM databases, but will be changing that to MySQL. Kugar http://koffice.org/kugar/ -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Phone:+(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax:+(61-2) 9418 4348 Mob:+(61) 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- 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] Report writer for MySQL + C-ISAM?
Eddie F [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, We we're replacing our 16-bit window report writer with Crystal, but that's starting to look way too expensive. Any one know what FOSS applications, we could run on our Linux boxes instead? Doesn't need to be any where near as fancy as Crystal, basic report writing is fine. jasperreports with a gui front end, I think iReports was the one I've used in the past. http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/gui.tools.html It's java, though, which to me usually means it's a pain to get running on linux. For some strange reason I managed to get jasperreports and ireports going. I've seen crystal very briefly, and ireports had a similar interface. -- 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] MythTV vs Freevo
I've dropped the idea of mythtv etc. A friend introduced me to his topfield personal video recorder (PVR), and have decided to purchase one of these later in the year. It has dual SD tuners and 120gb drive. So I can record 2 channels at once and still play something back It has a USB connection so if you want to hook up that Apple or Wintel box to copy the files off for demux/writing you can. I think this unit will suit good and the wife appears to be interested even though the price is pretty high. I explained some aspects of the unit and she sees big advantages. I might actual not tape over programs mid week by mistake now by using an incorrect tape. Planned purchase is towards the end of the year, so in the meantime I just have to stick with the vhs tapes :(I On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:38:19 +1000, Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I have is mythtv running on Mandrake. Reason for this was to get something off the ground and running quickly. The features I like with Mythtv is that you have the option to watch TV, store your cds and dvds to disk to watch/listen at your leisure. Mythtv is also pretty simple to use, so it makes it kids and wife friendly. The plugins are pretty funky. The only thing that I had trouble with was configuring the channels to download the program guide (Thanks to ben) I was up and running in no time. What I would like to do is get a digital satalite capture card so that I can get digital foxtel. So if anyone knows where I can get a digsat card, I would appreciate the help. Kevin So what have people tried and what was there experience with these things ? Any recommendations ? Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
