Re: [SLUG] installing amsn error

[Jan Schmidt]

> Ian Wienand wrote:
> >Does it do something that gaim doesn't?
> >
> I tryed #apt-get update but it didn't seem to do much but I did some 
> more reading and I'm gonna try #apt-get -u upgrade to upgrade all my 
> packages.
> I haven't tryed gaim, but I'll try it. I thought gaim was only for AOL 
> messanger not msn

'apt-get update' just fetches an updated list of available packages, so that
when you run any of the other apt commands, it's working off the latest
listings. To actually fetch update packages and install them you'd use
either apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade. The difference is in the
logic the 2 commands use to pick the set of things to upgrade. dist-upgrade
is allowed to install new packages to bring things up to date, 'upgrade' on
its own will only install new versions of already installed packages.

Gaim's biggest virtue is that it supports simultaneously connecting to
multiple protocols and accounts. It can talk icq/aim, msn, jabber, yahoo,
irc and others.

J.
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Re: [SLUG] installing amsn error

[Gareth Smith]

Ian Wienand wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:11:12PM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote:
 

#apt-get install amsn
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
   kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
   

Often with big meta packages like kde things get broken in unstable,
and the best strategy is usually to wait a few days as the developers
are usually aware of it.  But that said it seems to work for me; try
running apt-get update to make sure you've got the latest packages
files?
Does it do something that gaim doesn't?
I tryed #apt-get update but it didn't seem to do much but I did some 
more reading and I'm gonna try #apt-get -u upgrade to upgrade all my 
packages.
I haven't tryed gaim, but I'll try it. I thought gaim was only for AOL 
messanger not msn

-i
 



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Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

[Craige McWhirter]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:13 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote:

> How easy is it to program logic into CMSs? (Currently I'm looking at
> Drupal and Mambo, but am very open to other suggestions as well. I've
> noticed them mentioned here a bit lately.)

I'm more familiar with Drupal so my response is more accurate for that.
Drupal is PHP based and it's login scripts make calls to the user
information stored in Drupal's Postgres / Mysql database. As it's PHP,
I'd start off by looking at the authentication script and hacking up
some PHP that looked instead at an LDAP server, or whatever other
authentication regime you may be using.

Both Mambo and Drupal use a database as the back end for it's content
management and as I mentioned above, for their user authentication and
have reasonably configurable access lists. 

When you've done this, remember to contribute back to the community, I'd
like to use it too ;)

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[SLUG] (no subject)

[Michael Kraus]

G'day all...

A quick couple of questions:

How easy is it to program logic into CMSs? (Currently I'm looking at
Drupal and Mambo, but am very open to other suggestions as well. I've
noticed them mentioned here a bit lately.)

When I say program logic, I mean implement validation on both the
frontend (javascript served with the pages) as well as the backend.

I've been manually writing Perl validation scripts for online forms, and
would like to increase database interactivity. Currently the pages are
static, and the front-end and back-end scripting is done manually. Is it
possible to use a CMS to do this more dynamically?

All suggestions greatly appreciated.

 
Regards,


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Re: [SLUG] telnet [host] http

[Darren Williams]

Hi Luke

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to download an html page to a local file.
> 
> I can do:
> 
> telnet [host] http
> GET foobar.html HTTP/1.0
> 
> and get the page,
> but I want the page in a file that I can then parse.
wget
will do what you want
> I've tried putting the above commands in a script but that don't work.
> Any suggestions?
> 
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Re: [SLUG] telnet [host] http

[Kevin Saenz]

How about wget?

> I want to download an html page to a local file.
> 
> I can do:
> 
> telnet [host] http
> GET foobar.html HTTP/1.0
> 
> and get the page,
> but I want the page in a file that I can then parse.
> I've tried putting the above commands in a script but that don't work.
> Any suggestions?
> 
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> Luke
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[SLUG] telnet [host] http

[Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit]

Hi,

I want to download an html page to a local file.

I can do:

telnet [host] http
GET foobar.html HTTP/1.0

and get the page,
but I want the page in a file that I can then parse.
I've tried putting the above commands in a script but that don't work.
Any suggestions?

TIA,
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Re: [SLUG] installing amsn error

[Ian Wienand]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:11:12PM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote:
> #apt-get install amsn
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
> kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable

Often with big meta packages like kde things get broken in unstable,
and the best strategy is usually to wait a few days as the developers
are usually aware of it.  But that said it seems to work for me; try
running apt-get update to make sure you've got the latest packages
files?

Does it do something that gaim doesn't?

-i


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[SLUG] Re: Resizing XFS paritions?

[Jon Austin]

FYI, 

I ended up deleting hdc1 and hdc2, recreating hdc1 as the full disk
size. Then running lilo for good measure, and rebooting.

The parition remounted fine, and running xfs_growfs / grew the
filesystem as necessary and df reports the correct parition sizes.


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:45:43 +1000, Jon Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'd like to resize /dev/hdc1 to take up the entire disk. I've read
> about xfs_growfs, but I'm worried about committing any changes without
> some confirmation from the list about the steps involved. Last thing I
> need to do is drive out to our datacenter right now. :)
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[SLUG] installing amsn error

[Gareth Smith]

I'm trying to install amsn through the apt-get in Debian and I get the 
error below. Can anyone help me resolve this error?
kdebase-audiolibs is installed but I can't find a source with 
kdebase3-audiolibs.

#apt-get install amsn
Reading package List...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation of if you are using the unstable
distrobution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a singel operation it is extreamly likely that 
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages


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[SLUG] Sydney PostgreSQL Users Group Meeting

[Gavin Sherry]

The second Sydney PostgreSQL Users Group Meeting will take place on Tuesday 5th of 
October at the James Squire Brew House.



We will kick off at around 6:30pm. Gavin Sherry will be giving a tutorial on 
tablespaces, Neil Conway will be giving a technical talk and Philip Rhoades will be 
giving a case study of PostgreSQL as his company.

Looking forward to seeing you there.



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Re: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

[Ben Donohue]

forgot to say...
sometimes there's a button on the back of the tablet that you stick a 
pen into and it reset's the tablet. otherwise read the manual.
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Re: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

[Ben Donohue]

Hi Elliott,
The reason the mouse moves across the entire screen when you move it 2" 
is because it's set that way on purpose. (however this is resettable) 
Imagine a graphics tablet 4 feet high x 6 feet wide. (you can get them). 
If you had an absolute setting you would have to move the cursor/pointer 
6 feet just to get the from one side of the monitor screen to the other 
side.

Thats why you can set a small square the same size as the screen on a 
large tablet so that you don't have to move your pointer 6 feet every 
time. you move the pointer to that small square when you want to do 
something on the screen or move it away when tracing a map (for 
instance). you can even make that small square 2" x 2" to corrospond to 
the screen if you like and the pointer will cross the screen in two 
inches (if held within that square).

Perhaps you could reset the tablet to factory settings and it may remove 
the 2" area (relative mode) and (if the tablet is an A4 or A3 tablet) 
you will end up in absolute mode with having to transverse the entire 
tablet to get across the screen but on a small tablet this should not be 
much of a problem.

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Re: [SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

[Simon Wong]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 22:50, David Helstroom wrote:
> sniffing) is still in the works though. Setting the drivers up
> requires building a kernel module, and grabbing some firmware for the
> hotplug system to load, so don't expect it to "just work".

If you're using Debian Testing/Unstable there's a great tool called
"module-assistant" that greatly assists with building out-of-tree kernel
modules.

e.g. to build this you simply use

# module-assistant install ipw2100

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Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

[David Gillies]

David Gillies wrote:
linley wrote:
I on a Dell gx 1 with cs4236 on board card
Worked fine in fc1 after running sndconfig
on FC2 sound does not work

or alternatively, upgrade to FC2.
Sorry, just realised you've just upgraded to FC2 :-D
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Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

[David Gillies]

linley wrote:
I on a Dell gx 1 with cs4236 on board card
Worked fine in fc1 after running sndconfig
on FC2 sound does not work
sndconfig initially failed to run complaining that soundcore.o was missing.
a search of the /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/sound/ revealed a lot of 
files renamed from ~.o to ko.
Loadable kernel modules now have the .ko extension. You'd better renamed 
those files back

renaming soundcore.ko to soundcore.o got sndconfig working but it then 
complains that
? The module used for your card, ?
? cs4232.o, is not currently in ?
? your module search path. Please ?
? verify that your kernel modules ?
? are correctly installed.
The 2.6 kernel now has a different sound subsystem. Previously the 2.4.x 
kernels used OSS, now the 2.6.x series of kernels use ALSA.

sndconfig was written configure your card for use with OSS. Since FC1's 
sound tools were written for use with the 2.4.x kernels, now that you've 
installed the 2.6.x kernel, you'll need to configure the sound card 
manually.

I'd suggest you check out the ALSA website:
http://www.alsa-project.org
or alternatively, upgrade to FC2.
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Re: [SLUG] weather data

[John Clarke]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:29:12 +0930, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote:

> I want to include weather data on a site that I am developing
> (non-commercial) and I'd like to find a free source of frequently
> updated weather data to use,
> any suggestions?

http://www.bom.gov.au/
http://www.wunderground.com/
http://www.weather.com/
http://weather.noaa.gov/
ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/


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Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

[O Plameras]

linley wrote:
Did all that but got some c
did all that but got an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]# make install
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
 CHK include/linux/compile.h
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready
sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/arch/i386/boot/install.sh
2.6.5-1.358custom arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map ""
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 328:  6689 Terminated  depmod -ae
-F /boot/System.map-$version $version
No dep file found for kernel 2.6.5-1.358custom
mkinitrd failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Did you upgrade from Fedora Core 1 ?
Let us do this once more by modifying your 'Makefile' as follows:
1. Change directory to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#
2. Then,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  vi Makefile
and change the fourth line, that says,
EXTRAVERSION=-1.358custom
to
EXTRAVERSION=-1.358-lcaetan
The idea here is to make a new name for your kernel so as
to avoid overwriting your old one.
3. Then do the following line by line instead of all commands
in one line.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  make oldconfig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  make clean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  make
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  make modules
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  make modules_install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]#  make install
If successfull you should be able to use your new kernel.



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Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

[linley]

O Plameras wrote:
linley wrote:
I on a Dell gx 1 with cs4236 on board card
Worked fine in fc1 after running sndconfig
on FC2 sound does not work

You upgraded from 2.4.x ?
If you did, suggest you re-compile your kernel.
Use your current kernel config by copying it
from /boot/config-2.6.5-1.358 into /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/.config
Then change directory to:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/
make oldconfig
make clean && make && make modules && make modules_install  \
make install
Then reboot the new kernel.

Thanks Oscar
Did all that but got some c
did all that but got an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]# make install
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
 CHK include/linux/compile.h
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready
sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/arch/i386/boot/install.sh
2.6.5-1.358custom arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map ""
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 328:  6689 Terminated  depmod -ae
-F /boot/System.map-$version $version
No dep file found for kernel 2.6.5-1.358custom
mkinitrd failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2

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Re: [SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

[David Helstroom]

Hi Ken,

With regards to the IPW2200 drivers, I am using them right now to
transmit this email ;-)

Development is proceeding pretty fast at present, with AdHoc wireless
networking just being added. I have no troubles with connecting to
networks using WEP and Managed (Infrastucture) mode. Monitor mode (for
sniffing) is still in the works though. Setting the drivers up
requires building a kernel module, and grabbing some firmware for the
hotplug system to load, so don't expect it to "just work".

Still, the IPW2200 is definately usable. Hope that helps,


Dave.


On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:03:27 +1000, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I am looking at a laptop.  My priorities are:
> 
> Wireless + 100 base network
> Battery life
> Screen
> performance
> 
> I was thinking of this:
> 
>N601 (Notebook)
>   * G-MAXâ 15.4'' 16:10 Wide Screen Powerful Multimedia Notebook
>   * MicrosoftÂWindowsÂXP
>   * 15.4" 16:10 WXGA, 1280x800 resolution
>   * IntelÂPentium M Processor/Dothan Processor
>   * IntelÂ855PM/ICH4-M
>   * ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 with 64MB memory
>   * DDR266/333 SO-DIMM*2 (2GB)
>   * IntelÂPRO/Wireless 2200BG (IEEE 802.11b/g)
> 
> Now the wireless I can see IPW2200 @ sourceforge.net.  Any comments on
> this?
> 
> I am reasonably sure this is a no however Is there a reasonably
> priced 64bit laptop?  It might be interesting to play at the high end.
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

[James Gregory]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 22:13 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:

> Mandrake 10.0 official, Kernel 2.6 (no changes - I wouldn't know how)
> reads this as a USB device (which it is) and I can do everything I can
> in the 'other O/S' except... the tablet area needs to be read as the
> same size as the monitor screen (called 'absolute' in somethings I've
> read), rather than reading it like a mouse. As I said, everything else
> works, which is great, but if I move the mouse 2", it moves across the
> entire viewable area of the screen!

I don't have a tablet, but if it's operating like a mouse, it might be
worth looking into the 'xset' program; it will allow you to control
mouse speed.

Re: that webpage. It appears to be referring to a kernel/X driver pair.
Is that the driver you've used to get the thing to work? If so, you
might just need to use that manager program thing to make it work.

HTH,

James.

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[SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

[elliott-brennan]

Hi,
I've been trying to configure a graphic tablet in Linux (as those who've seen my 
previous posts will know).
I'm 95% there but need some help understanding some material I've found. At:
http://aiptektablet.sourceforge.net/
I've found some information, but "I don't quite understand what they're suggesting to 
do" :(
Mandrake 10.0 official, Kernel 2.6 (no changes - I wouldn't know how) reads this as a USB 
device (which it is) and I can do everything I can in the 'other O/S' except... the tablet 
area needs to be read as the same size as the monitor screen (called 'absolute' in 
somethings I've read), rather than reading it like a mouse. As I said, everything else 
works, which is great, but if I move the mouse 2", it moves across the entire viewable 
area of the screen!
Any help/suggestions/referrals most appreciated.
Patrick
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[SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

[Ken Foskey]

I am looking at a laptop.  My priorities are:

Wireless + 100 base network
Battery life
Screen
performance

I was thinking of this:

   N601 (Notebook) 
  * G-MAX™ 15.4'' 16:10 Wide Screen Powerful Multimedia Notebook
  * Microsoft®Windows®XP
  * 15.4" 16:10 WXGA, 1280x800 resolution
  * Intel®Pentium M Processor/Dothan Processor
  * Intel®855PM/ICH4-M
  * ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 with 64MB memory
  * DDR266/333 SO-DIMM*2 (2GB)
  * Intel®PRO/Wireless 2200BG (IEEE 802.11b/g) 


Now the wireless I can see IPW2200 @ sourceforge.net.  Any comments on
this?

I am reasonably sure this is a no however Is there a reasonably
priced 64bit laptop?  It might be interesting to play at the high end.

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