[SLUG] Proxy setting for yum in Fedora 7

2007-09-20 Thread leei
Hi All,

Sorry to bother you all again.

I hope you guys can help me.

In Fedora 7 where would you set the ip address of the proxy for using yum?

Please can you let me know the name of the file and I am forwarding my
squid.conf to another proxy server would I put in that proxy servers ip
address or use local host and what port number would I use.

Thanks,
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Re: [SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

2007-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/09/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:04:04AM +1000, bill wrote:
  I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop.
 
  Connected phone-line -- modem/router -- gigabit ethernet switch --
 PCs (
  via CAT5 cable)


I've just noticed that you mention that you ue CAT-5 cables. Maybe they are
not good enough for Gigabit and you should switch to Cat-6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable

(even if this cable works with other configurations, maybe it's a
border-line case which crosses the border in this particular configuration).

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[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
applied a solution without knowing what the problem was.  Any clues as
to how to identify the problem?

From: Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Most likely cause is that you are not in the 'audio' group.

Erik
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Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root

2007-09-20 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Kevin Shackleton wrote:

 Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
 adding myself to the audio group made no difference.

If you type 'groups' in an xterm, are you in the audio group?

Whats the output of ls -l /dev/dsp?

Is xmms set up to use /dev/dsp for output or is it ALSA?

Is you machine using read OSS /dev/dsp or the ALSA emulation? If
its the emulation, are the snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss modules
loaded?

Is it possible some other application has a lock on the audio output
preventing xmms from playing?

Have you tried playing audio with any other applications?

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 9/20/07, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
 adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
 applied a solution without knowing what the problem was.  Any clues as
 to how to identify the problem?


What are the permissions on /dev/dsp?

Do other sound apps work for non-root users?

Haven't used xmms for a long time, do you have the same output plugin
selected for root and non-root?

What has changed on your system since it worked last?

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[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Erik,

Yes, I tested with 'groups', /dev/dsp shows the group is 'audio'.

This pc uses ALSA.  I've had trouble with eg audacity in the past where
there was competition between possible audio streams

Now, this is weird - when I ran 'strace xmms' (to see if I could pick an
error) it all worked!  Except - xmms could not work the playlist: the
bolded track was not the one that was playing.  I wonder if I have a
problem with whatever the graphic toolkit is?  I might also note that
strace was not on FC7 - we've apparently outgrown that as a debugging
tool.

Maybe it's time to mess about with drives and go to Etch . .

Kevin.

 Forwarded Message 
From: Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kevin Shackleton wrote:

 Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
 adding myself to the audio group made no difference.

If you type 'groups' in an xterm, are you in the audio group?

Whats the output of ls -l /dev/dsp?

Is xmms set up to use /dev/dsp for output or is it ALSA?

Is you machine using read OSS /dev/dsp or the ALSA emulation? If
its the emulation, are the snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss modules
loaded?

Is it possible some other application has a lock on the audio output
preventing xmms from playing?

Have you tried playing audio with any other applications?

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Re: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how?

2007-09-20 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:42:13AM +1000, John Clarke wrote:

 Unfortunately HP only provide updates as a package with a Windows (not
 DOS) program called WinFlash.

Thanks to all who replied with suggestions on how to do the upgrade
without reinstalling Windows.  I did finally manage to do the upgrade,
but it took a few attempts before I got it to work:

- replacing my hard disc with another containing Windows didn't
work. The only disc I could get hold of was from a Dell laptop,
and that wouldn't boot (apparently because Dell do something
weird in their boot loader).

- building the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows on a Windows PC at work
failed build because the machine I was using had a different
version of Cygwin (cygwin1.dll) installed to that used by the
tools in  the UBCD4Win package, which meant that the UBCD4Win
tools wouldn't run, and neither would any Cygwin programs on the
PC until I rebooted it.

- building the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows on a new (Dell) latop
with Vista and no Cygwin worked, but the BIOS upgrade program
wouldn't run because it's hard-coded to use C:, and only B: (RAM
disc) and X: (CD) were available.  Mounting a network drive onto
C: was my first thought for a workaround but that wasn't
possible because I couldn't get networking to start.

- unpacking the BIOS program under Wine and copying to a USB flash
drive didn't work either because it didn't accept the hotplugged
flash drive.

- rebooting from the Windows CD with the flash drive plugged in
worked, and finally something went right: the flash drive
appeared as C:.  I ran the program, upgraded the BIOS, and it
worked.  It even fixed the corrupted model and serial numbers
:-)


Cheers,

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
 adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
 applied a solution without knowing what the problem was.  Any clues as
 to how to identify the problem?


strace xmms... and look for failed system calls, probably involving files
under /dev.

read strace(1), there are many ways to make its output more readable and
useful.

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Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:29 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:

 Our coders now use Cygwin to make shell scripts run on Windows and noticed
 that the API is GPL'ed (they just port shell scripts but for output
 redirection they had to write a small C program using the API).

There are exceptions to scripting that allows you to use the product to
write scripting without affecting copyright.  The important idea is
'use' not linking.

Another the key factor is distribution.  If software never goes outside
your doors then you are safe.

Finally, Open Source does not stop profit.  We have a non-saleable
product that would generate support dollars if we released it open
source.

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Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-20 Thread James Polley
If you're looking for quick sending of files and don't care about
encryption, netcat and some tar might do the trick for you -
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/tarpipe.html

On 20/09/2007, Scott Ragen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 20/09/2007 02:00:21 PM:

  Are you sure this is a standard option?  I've tried this in the past and

  never been able to make it work, and on my current system it just gives:
 
  $ ssh -c none localhost
  No valid ciphers for protocol version 2 given, using defaults.
 
  $ ssh -V
  OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006
 
  Maybe the null cipher is available if you use SSH protocol version 1,
  but I don't have any servers that support ssh v1 anymore.

 I should've done more investigations; openssh doesn't allow the cipher
 none (anymore), the proprietary ssh has the option.
 There are patches to enable cipher none in openssh if its really needed.

 Regards,

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[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
I've dodged it all and installed Etch.

strace wasn't in my FC7 but it is in Etch.  strace'ing on xmms
in FC7
resulted in a steady stream of data - 2 or 3 lines a second - it
would
have to be carefully grepped to see anything useful.

Etch doesn't install xmms by default but Rythymbox works (it
didn't in
FC)

Cheers,

Kevin.
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 From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Slug slug@slug.org.au
 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]
 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:00:46 +
 
 On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
  adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
  applied a solution without knowing what the problem was.  Any clues as
  to how to identify the problem?
 
 
 strace xmms... and look for failed system calls, probably involving files
 under /dev.
 
 read strace(1), there are many ways to make its output more readable and
 useful.
 
 --Amos
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Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread James Dumay
It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal.

So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain
amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company -
and this reporter is just passing this fact off as news.

~James


On 9/20/07, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The final death throes begin...


 http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAW12419092007-1.htm

 DaZZa
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[SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread gav
Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 

Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav

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Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Dean Hamstead

*pedantic*

technically ogg is just an envelope, its vorgis you are after

*endpedantic*

dont go past lexmarks from aldi, they are laser and way cheap.
they work quite well in linux (look for a penguin on the side)

i wouldnt (i dont infact) go past ipods for personal audio, however
i use the AAC format rather than mp3. it is smaller for the same
apparent quality and supposedly uses less power to play.

Dean

gav wrote:

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav



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Re: [SLUG] Proxy setting for yum in Fedora 7

2007-09-20 Thread Tony Sceats
Hi Lee,

Not sure about version 7, but it's usually found in /etc/yum.conf
You can add the line like

proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128

Which proxy you should use I guess depends upon what other systems would be
using yum and which proxies they use... eg, if there's no other systems
going through the proxy on localhost then you'll only end up wasting a bit
of extra disk space.. but it probably doesn't matter too much anyway,
whatever you think is easier to maintain, eg have a standard yum config for
all fedora machines is usually a good idea

On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All,

 Sorry to bother you all again.

 I hope you guys can help me.

 In Fedora 7 where would you set the ip address of the proxy for using yum?

 Please can you let me know the name of the file and I am forwarding my
 squid.conf to another proxy server would I put in that proxy servers ip
 address or use local host and what port number would I use.

 Thanks,
 Lee


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[SLUG] Change of Email Address

2007-09-20 Thread sonia

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Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Heracles
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Not sure about what you mean by cheap. Small Lasers are quite cheap
these days. I have an old Lexmark Optra E312L that works perfectly for
me. A quick on the Linux Printing website would be of assistance.
Try:
www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters

Heracles

gav wrote:
 Hello all,
 
 Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
 to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 
 
 Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
 ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?
 
 Thanks,
 Gav
 
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Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, gav wrote:

 Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
 to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 

You can have a cheap printer or cheap ink, rarely both.  I'd go for the 
cheap ink, expensive printer if I were you!

I've had great success buying used HP laser printers with JetDirect 
cards from eBay.  This means you just plug them into the network and 
they Just Worktm.  Being lasers, they're incredibly cheap to run, 
unlike inkjets with their $60 for 3ml ink cartridges.  The one I've got 
right now has a duplexer and cost me $50!

Otherwise, try:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters

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Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:21 +1000, Scott Ragen wrote:

 There are patches to enable cipher none in openssh if its really needed.

This and the extended window patch are popular with people who
want to do authenticated fast file transfers of data they don't
regard as private.


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Re: [SLUG] Seeking AU suppliers of laptops with GNU/Linux preinstalled

2007-09-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If anyone is providing these to the market could they point me to their
 web site or marketing details please.

Try this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/UbuntuFriendlyNotebooks



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Re: [SLUG] Change of Email Address

2007-09-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
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Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread Del

James Dumay wrote:

It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal.

So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain
amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company -
and this reporter is just passing this fact off as news.


So there's still time to rush out and buy me a whole stack of SCO shares!
Yay!

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Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:36 +1000, Del wrote:
 James Dumay wrote:
  It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal.
  
  So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain
  amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company -
  and this reporter is just passing this fact off as news.
 
 So there's still time to rush out and buy me a whole stack of SCO shares!
 Yay!

I was thinking about putting a pool together to buy UNIX from them.

I'm in for $20.

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]]

2007-09-20 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Crikey, that's a dramatic solution!
strace is certainly available for FC7: yum install strace

Did you mention it was on Fedora before?  If I'd noticed
I would have suggested you check the selinux log.

selinux failures also put up a warning on the gui (you
might need particular rpms installed)

Matt


On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:12:44AM +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
 I've dodged it all and installed Etch.
 
 strace wasn't in my FC7 but it is in Etch.  strace'ing on xmms
 in FC7
 resulted in a steady stream of data - 2 or 3 lines a second - it
 would
 have to be carefully grepped to see anything useful.
 
 Etch doesn't install xmms by default but Rythymbox works (it
 didn't in
 FC)
 
 Cheers,
 
 Kevin.
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  From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: Slug slug@slug.org.au
  Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]
  Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:00:46 +
  
  On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
   adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
   applied a solution without knowing what the problem was.  Any clues as
   to how to identify the problem?
  
  
  strace xmms... and look for failed system calls, probably involving files
  under /dev.
  
  read strace(1), there are many ways to make its output more readable and
  useful.
  
  --Amos
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Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:43 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
  So there's still time to rush out and buy me a whole stack of SCO shares!
  Yay!
 
 I was thinking about putting a pool together to buy UNIX from them.
 
 I'm in for $20.

Then you've got a problem, because the heart of SCO's current
legal and business issues is that Novell was found by the court
to be the owner of UNIX.

If you buy a SCO share now, then it's for the share certificate to
frame for posterity. Otherwise you are simply making a donation to
SCO's creditors -- some of whom are responsible for the SCO
ugliness in the first place.

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Re: [SLUG] Seeking AU suppliers of laptops with GNU/Linux preinstalled

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/UbuntuFriendlyNotebooks

Also HP and Lenovo have announced pre-installed Linux retail sales
in Australia. Not sure if the reality has caught up with the
announcement.

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Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:58 +1000, gav wrote:
 Hello all,
 
 Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
 to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 

There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW
models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy.  You are
looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use
one a year in a household with three people printing uni and
school assignments. Beware that some printers come with a
half-full toner and no USB cable.

Linux compatibility is best solved by taking your laptop in and
testing. If it works out of the box with your distro then good.
If it doesn't then avoid a world of pain and select another
printer.


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Rodger Dean

Hi Gav,

The brother HL-2040 is quite cheap. Actually cheaper than the 
consumables. Is great for b/w printing. Is a basic laser printer.Some 
places are selling it for $99. A new drum costs $129

Drivers available: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

Regards

Rodger

gav wrote:

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav

  


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Jeremy Portzer

Glen Turner wrote:


There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW
models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy.  You are
looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use
one a year in a household with three people printing uni and
school assignments. Beware that some printers come with a
half-full toner and no USB cable.


You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really 
silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they 
claimed it was because there were different types of parallel 
interfaces, even well after DB25 parallel connectors became fully 
standardized.  I can't believe they're still pulling this ruse when 
EVERY computer in the last 4-5 (6-8?) years has USB.


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Ogg Players Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Marghanita da Cruz

gav wrote:
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Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

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There are a few audio formats - I am not an audiophile but, I think there are 
FLACphiles.


More about Ogg
http://wiki.xiph.org/Ogg

List of Ogg/Vorbis players
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisHardware

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