Re: [SLUG] Re: OT Voice of IP via ADSL
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Ben Buxton wrote: Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: Dear list, Now that xDSL connections are as low $40 /mth, is it possible to run VoIP? You can run VoIP on any ip connection, and most are now fast enough to have it run fairly well. Have a play with gnomemeeting (which talks to netmeeting clients - yes it's in xp, go start-run-conf). What are the problems and can you call a 'normal' phone? The problem is that very few ADSL providers have true QoS over the ADSL networks. My company has been playing with offering true QoS over consumer ADSL (using separate ATM VCs) and so far it's very promising. Of course, you can only guarantee quality if you control the entire path of the data - once it leaves your network there can be no more guarantee (without all parties in the path having SLAs). As for calling normal phones, VoIP is just a way to get voice from one IP address to another. You still need to gateway it to the PSTN. We use asterisk here as our PBX, and VoIP from here to a number of places. 256/64 ADSL is enough to have one phone call (two if you're doing nothing else) going out VoIP using GSM Full Rate (like mobiles). To plug it into the PSTN we have two AVM Fritz!Card PCI which each plug into an OnRamp2 (EURO ISDN BRI) from Telstra. This gives our company 4 lines. We have a separate line for Fax/ADSL. The main problem with Asterisk in Australia for hobbyists is the lack of (any would do): 1) Cheap, good A-ticked hardware that is Asterisk Compatible 2) VoIP providers who offer incoming 3) Easy/Cheap way of getting hardware A-ticked It costs $10,000 - $20,000 for an importer/manufacturer to get a card A-ticked so they can be plugged into the phone system without a letter of permission from the Telco. This is passed on to the consumer - this hardware is pretty low-volume. If you are keen: A-ticked Fritz!Card ~$350 Convert Analogue Line to ISDN2 ~$125 Extra Line rental $30/mo cheers, Woody -- 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] VOIP like skype (apologies if this is a re-send)
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:06:27AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a Linux VoIP client compatible with Skype etc, please? Skype is proprietry/closed AFAIK, so someone woul dhave to reverse engineer the protocol. As far as other VoIP protocols: H323 - OpenH323.org has quite a few aps IAX - (Inter Asterisk eXchange) see asterisk.org, clients include gnophone SIP - (there should be some...) Asterisk is a nice VoIP and hardphone PBX, they've just released 0.7.0, many people have been using it in production environments. cheers -- Woody -- 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] LaTex and the use of \symbol.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:34:07PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
In a nutshell:---
1. I'm using the palatino package, ie., \usepackage{palatino}
2. I want to use the letter u with the tichy little hole above it
(apologies in advance to the Czechs, but it's not an umlaut and I
don't know what it's called). I looked up the Cork layout for the
symbol and was going to use that, ie., \symbol{xx}
3. It doesn't work. Changing the value to see if it will print
any of the symbols in the Cork layout doesn't work either. It's
as though the program doesn't recognise the command \symbol.
It is possible that the font in LaTeX doesn't implement the symbol, give it a bash
with the default font,
to see it the \symbol{xx} notation is correct, as a first suggestion, then maybe try
\arial.
Any help will be acted upon immediately, with grateful thanks,
Sorry I haven't got much else, all my LaTeX font stuff was done by someone else.
cheers,
Woody
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Re: [SLUG] Weekly celebration of a Unix utility
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:22:04PM +1100, DE LUCA Ben wrote: I was wondering if people would like to talk about some of the things that you might be able to do with some simple utilities that are included with most Linux distros. I spent a few days over the holidays learning more about screen and I can say it was truly worth it. I was wondering if a few people might like to join me in discussing some of the cool things about a particular utility each week? There was some talk of screen earlier this week and I wondered if we might like to talk about some of the cool functions or even bad ones for the rest of the week! Screen is very worthy, but pipe is da bomb! (Pipe-Bomb?) cat Zechariah\ Vulgate.txt | perl -lane'print lynx -source http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lang=la\\embed=2\\lookup=$F[$_] | grep \\G\\ | perl -pe \s\/\\.*?\\\/;\/g; print qq[$F[0].$_;$F[$_];];\ foreach 1..$#F' | sh | cut '-d;' -f1,2,8,13 | perl -nle'my ($vw,$mw,$dw,$dd) = split(/\;/); $dd =~ s/^Entry in $//;$dd = \$dd\;print qq[$vw $mw : $dw$dd]' This little beauty took the Latin words from the Vulgate version of the book of Zechariah (Old Testament), plugged them into a webpage which gave the alternate meanings, ripped out the meanings and re-formatted them into one Latin word and alternate meaning per line, so my friend (PHD at Sydney Uni) could remove the wrong meanings and have a word for word translation. Pipe lets you build up programs on the command line, tie together simple tools (grep/cut/sed/awk/lynx/wget/sh/perl/convert) and see how you are going. I particularly like getting perl to print out commands which I pipe to sh. If you want to get started, try: a one-liner which sets todays dilbert comic as your background image in x. splitting a logfile into daily or hourly logfiles using grep, bc, head, tail cheers, Woody -- 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] Speeding up gs printing
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Edwin == Edwin Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Edwin We're printing a postscript file to a shared windows printer; Edwin it takes ghostscript a very long time (around 3 minutes) to Edwin prepare the file for printing (533Mhz Via Eden system). During Are you running out of memory? Also, the vias aren't very good on a Bang for Mhz thing. I think a 533 Via is probably equiv to a P][266. Similarly, a Centrino 1.6 beats a P4-M 2.4 and a P3-1.5 beats a P4-1.5, I think. But I'd go with Peter's memory theory. Also the newer ghostscripts are much better than the old ones (e.g. the Debian Potato version) cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Open Source Document Template Filling Options
We do quite complex document template filling (50 page documents, conditional text etc.) already, using perl and latex. This is quite good, looks very nice etc, but the set up of a new template (especially a large one) is quite complex and requires a knowledge of LaTeX and perl. Until now it has been reports of our own services which were output in PDF (using pdflatex) which was fine, but now we would like to output in a format which is GUI editable whilst still holding document structure (e.g. change a heading and the table of contents is updated) Has anyone used other solutions for something similar? I was thinking my options were: XML + XSLT - rtf OpenOffice scripting - rtf, pdf, doc OpenOffice for layout - latex - rtf/pdf latex2rtf doesn't seem to hold document structure well, even skips the table of contents alltogether openoffice latex output plugin looked like it was doing things the right way. any pointers, tips, experiences cheers -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Digitrex camera
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:22:20PM +1100, David Perry wrote: I am not able to successfully connect a Digitrex DSC2100 camera to my Redhat 8.0 system using the USB cable. I'd rather not be forced to use the kids' Win 98 box to extract my photos! I can't get much info from Google and certainly none from the Digitrex site. usbview successfully displays the camera name with a ton of other details but it is displayed in red which I believe indicates problems. When I try and mount the device with #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera I get the error message #mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device From Memory, for my Nikon 995, you mount /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1, which is different to real hard disks, but the same as floppies. Give that a bash. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Email hacking
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:45:05AM +1100, Benno wrote: On Tue Nov 04, 2003 at 08:36:09 +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: With my limited knowledge of such things, it seems like a lot of spam could be prevented by blocking all mail that does not contain a simple keyword. This keyword could be included in the footer of all mail going to the list as a reminder. It could even change from time to time. Have I overlooked something? Ease of use. I'm sure my usual posting to slug will involve: send e-mail get bounce *swear about stupid magic keyword* look for an old email about the current magic keyword append to e-mail resend e-mail. Actually on second thoughts it will probably be more like: send e-mail get bounce *swear about stupid magic keyword* give up trying to reply to someones question If the s3kr1t keyword is '[SLUG]' and it has to appear in the subject, then I think we'd block at least 95% of spam. (to start with) plus you don't need to worry about replying, because your mailer will include '[SLUG]' in the header automatically. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Mailing List Changes: the definitive answers
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:43:20AM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: b) Moving to a moderated list. Non-subscriber posts will be moderated. Subscriber posts will be allowed through. Jan has noted that this option requires three willing moderators. Incidently, we have one willing moderator, and on this interpretation, I am willing to be the second. (I wouldn't want to moderate a FULLY moderated list, but am willing to moderate non-subscriber posts.) I three moderators is sufficient, but more would be better, the number of moderators should not be limited to three, I can't see a problem with more, but I haven't thought about it for long. As long as moderators don't get the Someone else will deal with it mentality. cheers, -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Stock market software and WinXX
I trade using CommSec, viewed via Mozilla Firebird, and it works just fine. P.S. Buy Amalgamated Spats!!! And I have used ComSec with Galeon - no problems. I hope that you have your ASIC Financial Services Provider licence since you are offering market advice!! No Alan, he's not giving financial advice, he's talking about car parts. See http://www.wood.id.au/valiant/spats/ cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video Servers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:27:28PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. www.videolan.org opensource, linux/windows/others, multicasting works. cheers, Woody There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Yuk
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:43:41AM +1000, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: I received two or three just yesterday via SLUG list AOL* - something about Lisa. cheers, Woody [*] Geek speek for Me, too Brad Kevin Saenz wrote: Which ones, I haven't seen any. Please, someone tell us that there is something happening about these distasteful spam posts. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:36, Del wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday, the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed the worst was over, so to speak. However, between Tuesday and Wed this week, I received in excess of 1,000 emails in say 12 hours, and, when I looked at it in the afternoon, I was getting one new mssg every minute. I had the same problem. It was all coming from one machine at cornell.edu so I put in a .procmail rule to redirect all mail with a header Received: (from that machine) line in it back to the complaints address I found on their web site (which otherwise wasn't responding when I sent them mail asking them to fix it). After that the flood lasted another 2-3 hours then stopped, all by magick. Newbie question here. Is this definitive? I've read that this virus spoofs the return address, which I understand to mean the text, but what about the IP chain? I've read in separate articles about untraceable spam. Is this happening here? If there's a definitive way to be sure of the origin of an email, I'd like to know that's so, and how to determine it. When a mail comes into a server, they usually put in a received line which nowadays usually reports the IP address of the connecting server and what it says it's hostname is. You can send a mail message with a few recieved messages of your own like I've done with this one. momandpop.com is what the server said it was, cia.whitehouse.gov is the reverse lookup of the actual ip address sent from (4.3.2.1) cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:59:30AM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:36, Del wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday, the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed the worst was over, so to speak. However, between Tuesday and Wed this week, I received in excess of 1,000 emails in say 12 hours, and, when I looked at it in the afternoon, I was getting one new mssg every minute. I had the same problem. It was all coming from one machine at cornell.edu so I put in a .procmail rule to redirect all mail with a header Received: (from that machine) line in it back to the complaints address I found on their web site (which otherwise wasn't responding when I sent them mail asking them to fix it). After that the flood lasted another 2-3 hours then stopped, all by magick. Newbie question here. Is this definitive? I've read that this virus spoofs the return address, which I understand to mean the text, but what about the IP chain? I've read in separate articles about untraceable spam. Is this happening here? If there's a definitive way to be sure of the origin of an email, I'd like to know that's so, and how to determine it. When a mail comes into a server, they usually put in a received line which nowadays usually reports the IP address of the connecting server and what it says it's hostname is. You can send a mail message with a few recieved messages of your own like I've done with this one. Sorry, looks like postfix and/or mutt strips it out. What a responsible program. This is what I had: Received: from momandpop.com (cia.whitehouse.gov [4.3.2.1]) by beast.switchonline.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08CC53B for +[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:57:54 +1000 (EST) momandpop.com is what the server said it was, cia.whitehouse.gov is the reverse lookup of the actual ip address sent from (4.3.2.1) cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:17:18PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:05, Anthony Wood wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:59:30AM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:36, Del wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday, the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed the worst was over, so to speak. However, between Tuesday and Wed this week, I received in excess of 1,000 emails in say 12 hours, and, when I looked at it in the afternoon, I was getting one new mssg every minute. I had the same problem. It was all coming from one machine at cornell.edu so I put in a .procmail rule to redirect all mail with a header Received: (from that machine) line in it back to the complaints address I found on their web site (which otherwise wasn't responding when I sent them mail asking them to fix it). After that the flood lasted another 2-3 hours then stopped, all by magick. Newbie question here. Is this definitive? I've read that this virus spoofs the return address, which I understand to mean the text, but what about the IP chain? I've read in separate articles about untraceable spam. Is this happening here? If there's a definitive way to be sure of the origin of an email, I'd like to know that's so, and how to determine it. When a mail comes into a server, they usually put in a received line which nowadays usually reports the IP address of the connecting server and what it says it's hostname is. You can send a mail message with a few recieved messages of your own like I've done with this one. Sorry, looks like postfix and/or mutt strips it out. What a responsible program. This is what I had: Received: from momandpop.com (cia.whitehouse.gov [4.3.2.1]) by beast.switchonline.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08CC53B for +[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:57:54 +1000 (EST) momandpop.com is what the server said it was, cia.whitehouse.gov is the reverse lookup of the actual ip address sent from (4.3.2.1) Here's one of mine: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from LUCKYLZ ([211.154.93.35]) by siaag1af.compuserve.com (8.12.9/8.12.7/SUN-2.7) with ESMTP id h7SCxV7X003565 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:59:39 -0400 (EDT) So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is spoofed, but the originating IP is correct? Or I guess that IP could be spoofed too. I'm a bit hazy on the black (hat) arts. Spam.pl a common complaints script uses whois to check the abuse email address for the ip addresses and sends a complaint to them. Make sure you list mailservers of any lists you are on (e.g. slug) as friends. just the reporting server siaag1af.compuserve.com? Does compuserve take any steps to verify the included sender IP? Dunno. Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX question, Linux command.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:10:16AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:41:14 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Bill Bennett wrote: I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document, on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big. I don't have my cp of Goosens here to look up the graphics rule but it looks like you are wanting to use latex and generate postscript. An eps is not necessarily too big. Both convert and jpg2eps (which might even already be on your system as it comes with many teTeX distributions) just encapsulates the binary jpg and it wont be much bigger at all than the jpg. Then you wont need the graphics rule at all. . also if you're aiming for postscript output, the jpg will have to be converted to postscript at some point in the process. (iirc, PDF can embed a jpg directly so thats a different story) pdflatex does this. pdflatex can't do the jpegs straight out of my camera for some reason. jpeg2ps (debian woody/non-free) DESCRIPTION jpeg2ps converts JPEG files to PostScript Level 2 or 3 EPS. In fact, jpeg2ps is not really a converter but a wrapper: it reads the image parameters (width, height, number of color components) in a JPEG file, writes the according EPS header and then copies the compressed JPEG data to the output file. Decompression is done by the PostScript interpreter (only PostScript Level 2 and 3 interpreters support JPEG compression and decompression). -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea...
Have a go at setting a From: header in the /tmp/mailout.$$ or changing your sending line to: (echo From: Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED];cat /tmp/mailout.$$) | mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will work if you mail daemon (e.g. postfix) allows setting the from address, which you'll have to get working anyway. Otherwise have a go at running the script as the user you want the mail to come from. cheers, Woody On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:20:35PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote: A word of advise...People are less likely to want to help when you appear to be demanding it of them... Dont get me wrong, I understand that you are frustrated, possibly been searching mailing lists, google, IRC, etc with no luck (or maybe you haven't ;) and this is your last ditch effort. Thats fine, but dont beg. LUGs seem to be more forgiving that IRC and other places, but it still puts people off. Good luck, Adam. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:16, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:24:00PM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:54:26PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:02, Anthony Wood wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:29:46PM +1000, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of convincing the boss that I need a laptop for work purposes. Looks like Im doing well, so Ill probably be looking at which one to get over the next few weeks. I've bought a Dell 8500 in the last month ($4000 - 1Gb RAM 60 Gb Disk 2.4 Gh P4). Dell doesn't support linux on their laptops, but all the bits available with the 8500 work under linux, with a bit of effort. Except the Truemobile 1300/1400 minipci wireless card. I can second that, I'm using one now, and I'm very happy with it. The screen is great, the video card looks wonderful, and the gigabit NIC works well too. Get the NVIDIA graphics card rather than the ATI one if you want good 3D performance, and don't bother buying the Dell wireless card. Anthony: did you manage to get Dell to swap over the truemobile? I knew the 1300 wouldn't work for me, so I didn't order it. I've tried to order an 1150 through dell australia, but they don't get back to my supplier. I don't have any other wireless gear, so I'm not in a huge hurry... I made a new enquiry on the weekend and have got a response/quote. Quote said to ask tech support if the thing would work in the 8500. Tech support said yes. KL-C840 - 5M751 (Truemobile (TM) 1150 MiniPCI Card $63 Freight $14 GST $7.70 Total $84.70 Not too ugly. Now I have to save up my pocket money. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:08:09AM +1000, John Clarke wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:46:11AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? convert, part of ImagMagick. convert with perl or shell scripting e.g. mkdir thumbnails for i in *.jpg;do echo $i;convert -filter cubic -geometry 160x160 $i thumbnails/$i;done convert does just about everything gimp does. The man page is 1716 lines long (debian potato). cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:54:26PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:02, Anthony Wood wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:29:46PM +1000, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of convincing the boss that I need a laptop for work purposes. Looks like Im doing well, so Ill probably be looking at which one to get over the next few weeks. I've bought a Dell 8500 in the last month ($4000 - 1Gb RAM 60 Gb Disk 2.4 Gh P4). Dell doesn't support linux on their laptops, but all the bits available with the 8500 work under linux, with a bit of effort. Except the Truemobile 1300/1400 minipci wireless card. I can second that, I'm using one now, and I'm very happy with it. The screen is great, the video card looks wonderful, and the gigabit NIC works well too. Get the NVIDIA graphics card rather than the ATI one if you want good 3D performance, and don't bother buying the Dell wireless card. Anthony: did you manage to get Dell to swap over the truemobile? I knew the 1300 wouldn't work for me, so I didn't order it. I've tried to order an 1150 through dell australia, but they don't get back to my supplier. I don't have any other wireless gear, so I'm not in a huge hurry... cheers, Woody Mike -- __ Mike MacCanaConsultantRHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:29:46PM +1000, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of convincing the boss that I need a laptop for work purposes. Looks like Im doing well, so Ill probably be looking at which one to get over the next few weeks. Ive installed on a few laptops before (old and new) so Im familiar with the kind of issues that I could face and how to get around some of them, but Im wondering if any of the manufactures tend to be more or less Linux friendly than the others. I've bought a Dell 8500 in the last month ($4000 - 1Gb RAM 60 Gb Disk 2.4 Gh P4). Dell doesn't support linux on their laptops, but all the bits available with the 8500 work under linux, with a bit of effort. Except the Truemobile 1300/1400 minipci wireless card. But you can apparently get the Truemobile 1150 miniPCI separately for US$49 which is an orinoco and well supported. Nice bits include 1920x1200 screen and Geforce4 4200 graphics. Surprises so far: Dell takes at least a week to deliver the thing You have to order the bluetooth module with the laptop, it's on the motherboard. No PS/2 port for your mouse keyboard, but you can get a USB - 2* PS/2 dongle thing from Jaycar for $20 which makes your PS2 keyboard and mouse look like USB ones to the laptop. Dell specials change a lot during the month, I got mine with a free double memory special, hence the 1Gb. Also do a good survey of the dell prices they are a bit wonky, I got the 2.4 because it was cheaper than the 2.2, and about the same as the 2.0. Nice thing about Dell is you have heaps of options with bits, and the prices are shown in real time. Im sure most of their support teams will fob me off, the instant I mention Linux (or any other OS), but there may be some that are willing to give me the information I need in my efforts to resolve something. God forbid there may even be one that provides Linux drivers Then again maybe not! I haven't had to ask the manufacturer, I did a quick survey of linuxlaptops.com to make sure the model worked under linux to the extent that I needed. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dual head question
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:39:41PM +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote: quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Jan Schmidt There were some patches on the dri-devel mailing list recently to have 3D work across both desktops on dual-output cards like this. Last time I saw them, they worked, with wrinkles. It may appear in the DRI trunk sometime soon, or not. On G400-and-similar chipsets? That would basically mean software 3d on the second head (ughily slow), as they can't do hardware accelerated 2d or 3d at all. Some other dual head cards are basically two separate video chipsets and outputs on the one card, so they should be fine. No idea, I just remember seeing a discussion of using a single large framebuffer for both viewports and then setting up the card to send a portion out each interface, so you would get the same hardware acceleration on both screens. It only worked for cards with 2 outputs, i.e. not multiple cards, and I can't remember which cards they were talking about. This is the way that nvidia is set up. They can overlap partially or completely. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dual head question
Quite a few cards support dual (matrox does a triple) head on card, I have a GeForce4 MX 440 which has tv out which I have configured as a second monitor. You can get say a LeadTek GeForce4 4200 MyVivo for about $230 which has t monitor outputs (DVI and VGA) and TV in and out. With the nvidia binary drivers you can specify just about any configuration you could think of (clone, zoom, adjacent) You can even run 2 X servers on the one card which would let two people use the computer independantly if you had enough keyboards and mice I guess. It can treats the two screens as one X display, so you don't need Xinerama. It's very nice to use when you have two monitors. Even good TVs start to look blurry at about 800x600. cheers, Woody On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:58:37AM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: Try having a look at the Xinerama FAQ at TLDP - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ Jon -= -Original Message- -= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -= [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete de Zwart -= Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:39 AM -= To: Kevin Saenz -= Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -= Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dual head question -= -= -= What video cards were you considering on using? -= -= Matrox has some nice dual headed cards. -= -= NVidia only likes doing dual head set up with other NVidia -= cards, if you can prove me wrong, please let me know how you did it. -= http://www.tldp.org/ has some good documents about it. Pete de Zwart. Around about 1104h 13/08/2003, Kevin Saenz emitted the following wisdom: I would like to configure my machine so that can have 2 monitors hanging off one machine. Am I correct in assuming that I would need to buy another video card which will send signals to the second monitor? Would I experience some issue with running pci and agp graphic together? Ideally I would need to have identical graphic cards. Or are there cards that have 2 monitor outputs? Matrox, or ATI would be the way to go for dual head on one card. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Unfortunately we have run out of bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the next supply will be coming next week. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] looking for Ye olde tape drive
Imation DS2120 on google brings up a page which says QIC-80. Which I assume is different from DDS. Below is what I wrote before I looked at google IIRC you can put it in. DDS uses pins and crap in the tape drive to determine what sort of tape it is. If you compare the tape very closely to a new one, it will be slightly different in some detail. I'm a bit hazy on this: I think there will be 4 closely,evenly spaced holes on the bottom of the tape, different ones will be closed off on tapes of different standards. Cleaning tapes will also be different. hope this helps. cheers, Woody On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:13:14AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: Just had an odd request - someone has asked me to extract the data off what looks to be an old DDS-style tape cartridge. It's an Imation/3M branded tape, with the following useful information: DC2120 307.5ft (93.7m) 120MB It's got the metal base and accoutrements of the DDS-[3,4,or whatever it is] tapes I use at work. So, can I drop this into a modern DDS tape drive and read it? (That'd be cool). If not, does anyone have a tape drive I could borrow for a few minutes to get the data off? $BEVERAGE_OF_CHOICE can be supplied to helpful parties, if desired. -- --- #include disclaimer.h Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap
ldap_ssh.h should be part of the netscape client libraries. Find the file on your system (should be /usr/local/lib or similar) and make sure your Makefiule includes that directory in the library path. But more importantly you need to install some sort of ldap server, e.g. OpenLDAP. This will give webmin something to manage, and M$ Outlook something to connect to. cheers, Woody On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:40:29PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: This looks like the critical line in the error listing: API.c:53:23: ldap_ssl.h: No such file or directory What's supposed to provide that file? Perhaps there's something you're supposed to have installed first? Andrew On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16:57:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Phillipus Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap G'day, I'm trying to get my hand with LDAP. Does anyone know how to set-up ldap for the m$ outlook address book database? What fields should be in? Googling only directing me to set up the outlook connection to the LDAP server, nothing more... :( I read that webmin has a 3rd party modeule for LDAP. For that purpose, I need to install Nestcape LDAP SDK (done) and perldap (from www.mozilla.og/directory) In the how_to_install_perldap, after extracting the gz file, I need to do perl Makefile.PL if there is no error, do make The problem is that I'm having no error with perl Makefile.PL but I cant do the make. The terminal show me 1 error which I couldn't figure it out what happen. I attached a txt file copy_paste from the terminal. Could someone please guide me whats wrong with it? Best Regards, Phillipus. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. May contain traces of Nuts. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. --- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:50:49AM +1000, Del wrote: Phillipus Gunawan wrote: G'day, I'm trying to get my hand with LDAP. Does anyone know how to set-up ldap for the m$ outlook address book database? Can't be done. MS outlook doesn't use LDAP for its address book database. You may be thinking of MS exchange. Outlook has basically two types of address books: 1) Contacts and 2) Address Books Outlook presents its contacts as an address book for certain operations, but it can't do the reverse. Outlook can also present LDAP data as and address book. Outlook can't present LDAP data as contacts (AFAIK) for that you need MSExchange or perhaps SUSE openExchange can do it too. Here is what I have used outlook 98 (in 1998) for with Netscape Directory (LDAP) server: 1) Type a name in the To: box which matches an LDAP entry and have it look up the name automatically and get the correct address 2) Click on the To: Button in an email message and bring up the address book interface One of the sources in there is my LDAP server, and I can see everyone on that server's name, and click on them. For you: 1) maybe newer versions of Outlook have the functionality you are looking for 2) maybe outlook express (completely different program to outlook) is what you are using and will do what you want 3) maybe Outlook Shared folders will do what you want. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Just thinking.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:23:29PM +1000, Bill Bennett wrote: Many thanks to the people who replied to my posting. It was prompted by my getting cdparanoia and cdrecord to produce a disc. (Never mind the sarcasm, it was a major miracle. My next project is to raise the dead.) cdparanoia's propaganda says that it will fix small problems on a disk. All well and good. But having ripped an audio track, fixed or not, it has to be burned, ie., what with translation to .wav, software to send this file to the burner and the burning process itself, there is room for error(s). We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. Hence my enquiry. In my case, ripper and burner are not the same instrument, although even if they were, the argument remains unchanged. There are also these thoughts: even if errors *are* shown to exist, they may not amount to much, human hearing being what it is and if they *do* amount, I may not be able to do much about them. Here's a strategy: I think the CD standard is meant to be fault tolerant - a story I've heard is you should be able to drill a 5mm hole in a CD and not notice the difference in quality. So if CDparanoia can't read a small part of your CD for some reason, it will make up something in the gap (e.g. blank space). Clean your CDs before you rip them. If you do find differences or the copied CD is noticably worse or are just curious: get CD paranoia to rip 5,10, or 100 copies (depending on how much you care and how much time you have) and see if they are all the same. something like this: for i in (*.wav); do for j in (*.wav); do cmp $i $j; done; done; will output any differences. My script does every comparison twice, but it is very simple. Do this to the original and the source. Try multiple CD-ROM drives if you can. If you get say 10 copies, 6 are the same as each other and the other 4 are all different to each other, the burn one of the 6 good copies. (and delete the other 9 copies) cheers, Woody I will, however, post what results I get. I will be interested in this too! cheers, -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Just thinking.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:26:41AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Bill Bennett I use cdparanoia to rip an audio track. I store it as AudioA.wav. I use cdrecord to burn the track. I rip the burned track and store it as AudioB.wav. I'd like to compare the files to see what sort of job I've made. a) Is there a Linux programme to do this? Sure, run md5sum on the two files, like this: $ md5sum jdub* 43418bbfc74efc6b94397e427cd3fa32 jdub-face.base64 5c926bcaeeb89add1c4edabffbaca22b jdub.png If the md5sums match, then they have exactly the same content. To a very high degree of probability, but there is a chance they could be different. Other simple checks: ls -l # check the length (size) diff # will tell you if they differ diff -a | less # will show you where they differ (in binary) b) Would anyone care to speculate on what I'd find? I doubt they'd come out exactly the same, but that's just a guess. If you end up doing it, please share the results! :-) I'd expect no difference, or small differences. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:45:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Dinesh Birlasekaran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2003 2:29 PM To: James Gray Subject: FW: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail Hi james, What anti virus are u using? Dinesh. We wrap NAI's vscan into inflex. Inflex handles the UUencode/decode, virus scanning and magic number calculation as well. We actually look at attached files to determine their content rather than rely on file names alone. For instance, if someone tries to send a Win32 .exe file by renaming it to bogus.txt or something, we calculate bugus.txt magic number and it will be detected as a potentially dangerous attachment and deleted. Quite quick and very effective when coupled with the virus scanner :-) We ditch hazardous attachments before running the virus scanner - which means we end up scanning a LOT of .zip files. Does your scanner unzip them and scan the included packages? Does your scanner run zipcracker (PVM enabled :-) to open passworded zip files? cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Strange email attempt
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:24:40AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, logwatch reports the information below for email I understand most of them because they are misspelling of usernames however the second one is ocurring daily (always on my username) and it has me intrigued. Does anyone know if this is something I should be concerned about. Unknown users: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 72 Times(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 Times(s) This is probably a msgid harvested from a webpage or a bug in a script. If you're curious, and the address is the same every day, just set it up as an alias and you can see what it is -- might give you some more clues. cheers, Woody [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 Times(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 Times(s) Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Is this something of Interest ?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:58:22PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:57:32AM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:18:29AM +1000, Oscar Plameras wrote: You may register it is free. Yes it costs you no money, but it costs you time, privacy etc. You have the choice. So, don't worry too much ! Just to point out the obvious, but haven't you wasted more time complaining about it ? I didn't mean to complain, and I'm happy to spend some time (e.g. long helpful emails) to save others time and to repay the list for the time and enjoyment it has given me. And for a warm fuzzy feeling. Perhaps I was trying to stop a flame war before it started. Perhaps it is an investment to help prevent future grief. I was just pointing out that money isn't everything and/or time = money if you are working. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Is this something of Interest ?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:18:29AM +1000, Oscar Plameras wrote: You may register it is free. Yes it costs you no money, but it costs you time, privacy etc. You have the choice. So, don't worry too much ! But not an informed choice. For all we know it could be something obscure. Links without comment will have one of four effects on people: 1) Click on the link, register, XYZ is good. (+1 oscar rules) 2) Why is this Oscar guy posting links without commenrts ? (delete, +2 ignore oscar posts) 3) Click on the link, register, don't care about XYZ (+ 10 ignore oscar posts and/or flame) 4) See that the link is nytimes, don't bother but find out later that it would have been nice to know earlier (+1 oscar sux) It is generally polite to post some sort of summary of the link. interesting is too vague/subjective a term funny is borderline, but generally OT (off topic) for this list. e.g. for your article: Linus leaves Transmeta to work on Kernel Full-Time. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-linux.html For things like NYtimes it is polite to add (free registration required yada yada). Also maybe some/all of the article depending on your understanding/respect of copyright laws. cheers, Woody On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Oscar Plameras wrote: There's no point in posting things from the NYTimes, because it requires registration to get in. If it's really important, at least post some sort of prece so we can decide whether to waste time registering or not. -- --- #include disclaimer.h Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] openoffice tickboxes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:48:55PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: Hey, Anyone know how to put in a column of tick boxes into Open Office? Andrew H here (power excel user - openoffice beta 1.1/windows) says he couldn't work out how to do it - it didn't seem to do any sort of form controls like that. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Is this something of Interest ?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:56:29PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Mike suspected. :-) From: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder Oscar, have you actually read their Subscriber Agreement ? Its at the very bottom of the page in smaller font where you click submit. Come on Oscar fess up, you didnt read it did you :-) Oscar Plameras wrote: I have read the agreement actually. I trust NYTimes. They are a known quantity. +1 to Oscar -1 to Mike as I was sure Oscar hadn't read it :-) So much for assumptions. Oh no, I've started a SLUG scoring system! I didn't mean to. Please, no-one implement this :-) +1 to Oscar for spending effort in posting the link in the first place +1 to people who've read this thread so far +5 to people who post links with summaries instead of bare in future +1 to Oscar,Mike,Me, etc if it's because of this thread. +1 to all who don't continue this thread except on SLUG-chat. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ADSL Swiftel
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:32:40AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
So far, so good, but I've only been on just under the week so far.
They were a tad annoyed with my comments {:-), but I think they were
valid as Netscape 4.77 has been standard on Debian Woody and RH8.
Apparently they test under Netscape 5 (which was the AOL version?),
Mozilla (works, but Moz is so slow on my systems) and Galeon.
although it may work you can't call NS4.77 a modern web browser by any
standard.. RH dropped it for 8.0.. I think 7.3 still had it somewhere..
galeon shouldn't be so slow though.. I doubt anyone tests with NS4.77
these days..
I always found that NS4.75 was much more stable.
cheers
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Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:11:15PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file names, directory names and tags or should I write one? Plan B: use mod_speling with apache which I think does what you want, plus some more. Note that the spelling of mod_speling is mod_speling, not mod_spelling. Geek Humour! Gufaw!Snort! -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:21:09AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock is ok. I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. When I type date it is correct. Check what /etc/localtime points to, if it is a symlink; if not copy over /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney on top of it to make sure (though I don't know if Red Hat's /etc/sysconfig/clock will do that for you). date --set /mm/dd hh:mm:ss will set the system clock to the local time, then a hwclock --systohc will save it to the hardware clock (which I suppose is opposite to what you want). Note that the hwclock will be saved in UTC... Then, about 5 minutes later, I type date again and it is suddenly 10 hours ahead! ah yes. Because your hardware clock is correct, your system will add 10 hours to that. There is an option in most distributions to run the hardware clock at the local time, this allows other OSes which are on your system to share the clock. If you are not dual(or quad!)-booting, it is better to have the hardware on UTC, as this does not change for daylight saving, so if your computer is off for the changeover period there is no problem. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Browser email retrieval
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:32:57PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: snip Also worth sticking a copy of the Putty executable on your web server. You'd be surprised how many Internet Cafes will let you run arbitrary executables... I was surprised to find ssh possible from most of the internet cafes in Vietnam, yet SSL web sites were blocked. Also win95/98/ME drivers for your digital camera is a good idea too. -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] midi/soundcard cable
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:06:18PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: I'm wanting to use my machine to do a few musicky things with my ancient synthesizer, and have installed Planet CCRMA on Red Hat 9 for that end. Is there anywhere better than a Dick Smith for a MIDI to soundcard DB cable? Putting two and two together, are you going to Dick Smith to buy a joystick plug and a DIN plug and some wires? That won't work -- it's not just a cable, it has some electronics (small enough to fit in the plug) in it. So don't just buy the ends and wire them together. You can build your own with the right bits though, I'm sure a google will find you some plans. cheers, -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] OT - Australian distro?
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:38:51AM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Really off topic sadly the yanks are still proud of holden as then own GM and holden is a subsidiary of GM. ergo GMH. So really we don't have an Australian car, probably we can be proud they are assembled here. :) Many of the Big 3 Australian cars were designed here, not just built here IIRC: Fully: Commodore 1988- Falcon 1988- Holden 1948-1980 Leyland P76 Partially: Valiant 1963-1980, Falcon 1967- Commodore 1977- Hardly at all: Valiant 1962-63 Falcon 1960-66 There are fully Australian cars, you just have to look harder: e.g. Lightburn Zeta of late 50s had a 2 stroke, you turned the key in the opposite direction to start the engine in reverse so you could drive backwards with all 4 gears. (Hardware hacking if I ever saw it) also Bolwell, Robnell, Bullet are Australian owned and made cars. -- Woody PS: I would have taken this to slug chat if I was a subscriber. As an expat a long way from home, I find myself using (apart from straight Debian) mainly Canadian distros (Libranet/Vector/Peanut). To the best of my knowledge, no Australian distros are currently extant. My question is, are any in the works? There are a few I think. KangaLinux, FourTwentyLinux, HoldenLinux and a new one based on GoboLinux (http://gobolinux.org/) and just for aussies called YobboLinux :-) Any others ? -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney 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. -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb Your one stop shop for I.T solutions. Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] apt
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:07:20PM +1000, Adam Hewitt wrote: I have tried cutting the source list down to one line, and it still does the same thing. Besides that my desktop machine has more sources than you could poke a stick at and it never segfaults..!! Any other ideas?? strace apt-get update and see what the last few things are output. Speculating - maybe your cached deb database was corrupted (say by a neutrino hitting one of your memory bits) and saved to disk in a state which causes apt-get to try and access memory outside that allocated to it (i.e. segfault) This would be fixed by rebuilding your deb database, with apt-something or dpkg-something. cheers, Woody On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:24, Peter Chubb wrote: Adam == Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Hi All, I am having some serious problems with apt on one of my Adam servers...here is the output: I find that apt-get segfaults if you have too many sources in /etc/apt/sources.list --- try cutting them down. Peter c -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Does rndc dumpdb list everything in the named cache?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:57:23PM +1000, t wrote: I have just installed and got working named. I am using it in cache mode. If I browse some sites, ie www.smh.com.au, then look in the output of rncd dumpdb--(1) they are not listed in the output of, where as other sites, ie www.google.com , zonelabs.com(from zonealarm doing a dns query) are listed in the output of (1). Does this seem odd? Are you using a non-transparent proxy with your browser? Your browser is probably sending the requests directly to the proxy, and that proxy to its parents without a dnslookup. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Silly shell challenge
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:25:57AM +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Steve Kowalik wrote:
At 10:52 am, Wednesday, March 19 2003, Jeff Waugh mumbled:
Because whoever has the most bogomips at the end, wins.
Okay, I'll bite.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/bogomips/ { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
7982.27
What do I win? A good kick in the pants?
fwiw, that script (and i guess none of the others) work on my Linux (2.5.59):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/bogomips/ { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
However,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/BogoMIPS/ { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
3189.74
I'm not sure if there is a case insensitive search in awk.
(And while I don't win the BogoMIPS, how about:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 16583232 kB
Looks like it's time to patch the kernel code for /proc/meminfo
to output something more readable, like 15 Gb.
And break everything which parses it :-)
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Re: [SLUG] Silly shell challenge
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:25:57AM +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Steve Kowalik wrote:
At 10:52 am, Wednesday, March 19 2003, Jeff Waugh mumbled:
Because whoever has the most bogomips at the end, wins.
Okay, I'll bite.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/bogomips/ { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
7982.27
What do I win? A good kick in the pants?
fwiw, that script (and i guess none of the others) work on my Linux (2.5.59):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/bogomips/ { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
However,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/BogoMIPS/ { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
3189.74
I'm not sure if there is a case insensitive search in awk.
awk '/BogoMips/i { SUM+=$3 } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
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Re: [SLUG] Canon driver
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:04:11PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. 10 line sig?? you right, the message of peace needs to equal the cry for war. I will make it larger Here ya Go: font size=5000Peace/font Kevin -- __ (_ \ _) ) | / / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \) \_||_| \) \) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Squid, smb_auth and transparent proxying.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:23:08PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: I'm trialling using smb_auth for access to our squid proxy. I guess that is good for a small network what happens when the network grows to a larger size and fixing acls for each user in squid becomes a pain in the proverbial. But I can see an up side given that Authentication through smb would be completely transparent unlike ldap authentication with squid. I'm using transparent proxying with squid, however I've found that this won't allow access to permitted users, and I have to point the browser at the proxy manually. Didn't someone previously post how much of a bad idea transparent proxying is in the real world? (By redirecting port 80 to squid's ports) Transparent Proxying OK Proxy Authentication OK (403? Proxy Authorisation Required) Transparent Proxy Authentication I read was bad, depends whether the smb_auth thing sends Proxy Auth REquired to the browser, or if it sends denied, based on other hacky things in the background. Maybe it's OK with certain browsers. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] BIG IMAGES
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:44:49PM +1100, James Gregory wrote: Hi all, I have some images, they are gifs, and they're approximately 14000 pixels square. I'd really like to view them, and ideally perform transformations such as scaling to a less insane size. What can do this? I suspect part of the problem is that the gif needs to be decompressed. If someone can suggest something that will convert a gif to something else for big files, that would be a great start. Programs that crash so far: gimp gqview convert eog have you tried giftopnm | pnmscale 0.1 | pnmtopng ? They don't seem to use a lot of memory (~1M), I use them to manipulate scans and faxes which are moderately big. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ident the distro
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:07:39PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:51:31PM +1100, Stewart wrote:
yup, that did it.
# cat /etc/*{version,release}
cat: /etc/*version: No such file or directory
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
i've not seen that syntax before. i shall now have to go and 'man cat'
to find out what it is I just did. :-)
You need to man bash instead, and read under Brace Expansion. :-)
I'm sure we're all sick of distro-bashing, but I don't think that man
bashing is the way to go.
cheers,
Woody
PS: on a serious note, your shell might not be bash, man `perl -le'print $ENV{SHELL}
=~ /(\w*)$/'`, instead.
PPS: then perldoc perl :-)
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Re: [SLUG] Tux goes trucking
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:37:02PM +1100, Richard Neal wrote: hai people There I was sitting at the bus stop and I noticed a copy of the Auto section from the Telegraph (March 8 Sat 2003) so I picked it up, and on the back cover is an article on a a Mercedes truck called the Failsafe Truck that literally steers itself. There is this 2/3 page picture of a man sitting in front of a laptop on top of the trucks steering wheel and another terminal in the passenger seat. My favourite story of AI driving is of a giant truck full of computers navigating around a park - it drove slowly up to a rubbish bin, stopped and thought for about 5 minutes, and then drove over the top of it. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Audio out on two machines simultaneously
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:47:50PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: So how can I get artsd (or similar) to send the audio to both machines' sound cards at once? Media streaming. Hunt around for some MP3 jukebox software, most are quite capable of doing it. Just point both machines at the same stream. Multicast preferred. AFAIK (happy to be corrected), this only plays the music at approximately the same time (give or take a few seconds, due to buffering etc). Which is probably not what you want, if you could hear both computers at the same time. We tried this at a lan, it was ugly. A hardware fix would be wiring your audio through the two unused pairs of your network cable. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: error message Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing toJetdirect linked printers
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:45:40AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:21:29 +1100 Terry Collins wrote: AIUI - apt-get remove package uninstalls and deletes package from system. No. remove will uninstall the package, but configuration files stay installed, as well as debconf config, and the package file will stay in apt's cache (/var/cache/apt/archives/) Is there a command to clean out/remove the configuration files as well. I suspect one of them is corrupted and want to start afresh (rather than laboriously comb configuration files). apt-get remove package will not remove the config files apt-get --purge remove package will remove the config files. It also puts an asterix next to the packages when it lists them for removing, which you can see when you use other tools, e.g. dselect. cheers, Woody PS: I nearly top-posted this Peter, how do I configure mutt to launch xemacs with my cursor at the bottom? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:00, Terry Collins wrote: Is there a Debian package to install for printing to jetdirect/network print server printers? Terry, as far as I can work out, jetdirect cards run an lpd on a standard port, so you just set up printing as if it was another linux box running lpd/lprng/cups on the standard port. cheers, Woody -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Evolution Can't Start: (Cannot accessBonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.)
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 boxes, all debian woody (how apt;punny) 1. (cyclops) P3 600 i810 256Mb RAM 2. (wolverine) Celeron 300A 192 Mb RAM 3. (storm) P166 128Mb RAM All have same packages installed, give or take autoconf, netscape, vnc. All have been installed in the last month. (1) and (3) run evolution (2) ran debian woody evolution 1.0.5 and now runs everything else, galeon, openoffice etc, but evolution (1.2.2) now dies with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evolution Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (Killing old version of Wombat...) (Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.) IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0 evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) Killed You have mail in /home/woody/.inbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ and an X window pops up with: (-) Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not found. [OK] I have searched and tried everything: A) killev;oaf-slay;rm -r /tmp/orbit-woody ~/.gconf ~/.gconfd B) purged all packages down to oafd B2) and removed all the directories which weren't removed by apt because they weren't empty C) both the debian evolution packages (evolution 1.0.5) and the ximian evolution packages (1.2.2 apt-got from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/ ximian/debian/) D) checking /etc/ld.so.conf and re-running ldconfig E) running evolution on cyclops (always works) as the same user Any ideas? I didn't get any myself, so I reformatted and started again, and It works. Possibly vmware modules conflicted somehow, but we'll never know. cheers, Woody -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X forwarding over ssh
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:31, David Fitch wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 14:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:18:15PM +1030, David Fitch wrote: h maybe something funny is happening with xauth?? snip Running out of ideas ... This might be an idea Recent debians disable remote X connections by default, you have to remove the nolisten flag in the X startup scripts (Xdm startx) howto: see http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xtcp -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] TTF Fonts in X.
I installed msttcorefonts last week I think that is what you want. cheers, Woody On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:15, Chris Deigan wrote: G'day All, I was just wondering how I install some TrueType fonts into X. Im running Debian 3.0 with XF86 4.something, Gnome 2.0, OpenOffice.org, etc. I mainly need to get these Microsoft fonts in for peoples websites and word documents. Unfortunatly the deb package had to be taken down b'cause M$ removed the fonts from their website so Im just trying to install it from a SMB share or cdr. Thanks, Chris -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Where Can I get Red Hat Linux 8.0 ?
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 17:59, Jon Biddell wrote: = The main Dymocks shop on George St. in Sydney does sell Debian snip So much for equality amongst distros Maybe the group should be renamed to SDLUG ?? Surely you mean SDG/LUG? :-P Woody -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Emacs mail
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:22, Peter Chubb wrote: Ben == Ben Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben On Mon, 03 Mar 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote: What do emacs users use for mail other than Rmail. I find that I am spending more and more time in emacs. VM? MH? any other? Ben Mutt. I use VM. It works very well for small mailboxes; but it slows down a lot when your mailbox gets above a few megabytes. So I use procmail to split mailing lists into separate mailboxes before I see them; and a cron job to save mailboxes and bzip them once a month. I use Mutt. It is very fast, can launch graphical viewers for attachments etc. Evolution is OK, especially Vfolders, but I'm using it with IMAP, which is very slow because I have 1500 messages in my inbox. Gus uses Wanderlust under emacs, which he found was the only thing which did Disconnected IMAP well. cheers, Woody Peter C -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dial-in Server
Dan, If you are trying to browse webpages on the internet which your debian box is connected to, then you'll have to set up some sort of networking to allow your windows box to do that, either ip masqerading, or proxying. If you just want to send email via your debian box, or view webpages on it, and you can't do that, then you have another problem, and we'll need more info. Is your setup like this: (correct it add IP addresses) _ / \ ( INTERNET ) \_/ | | a.b.c.d Debian Box modem | | Telephone System | | modem Windows Box cheers, Woody On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 09:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, AFAIK, you do need to specify your DNS server, whilst this is automatically done under MS Windows. This is done by having the line: nameserver ip address of DNS server in your /etc/resolv.conf HTH... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/02/2003 09:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[SLUG] Dial-in Server Hi, I have setup a Linux box as a dial-in server. When I dial-in and connect from my windows machine I cannot view web pages or send/receive email. I can however connect to the machine using a SSH session so I know the connect is there and working. This must be something to do with the DNS settings. On the TCP/IP properties of the dial-in connection in Windows I have both the Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically. My question is do I have to set these values? Should I enter the same DNS IP addresses in the Windows settings as those in the resolv.conf file on the Linux box? Also should I be entering in an IP address in the Use the following IP address - which is what it masquerades as on the network, right? Can anyone help. Dan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dial-in Server
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 10:30, dan wrote: Hi, Yes that is the exact setup. I already have the dial-in server setup on the Linux box of which I can already dial in too. So the problem is how requests for web-pages are handled from the Windows box via the Linux box. I do not have a firewall setup on the actual Linux box but I know the ISP I am using does have a firewall. So would I have to set up the IP You probably should have a firewall :-) masquerading to make it look like requests coming from the Windows box are actually coming from the Linux box? If this is correct then I am still unsure where this is going wrong - could it be that I have not set the options in the /ppp/options.ttys0 file? It sounds like you just need to set up ip masquerading. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ for debian, I think you just apt-get install ipmasq and hook it into your startup, or put an empty file ppp in /etc/ipmasq/ to make it start when you connect. (from apt-cache show ipmasq) IP Masquerade requires the kernel to be compiled with CONFIG_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, and CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE. If you like, you can read some of the Linux Network Administrators Guide too, which gives you a good grounding in most common networking. http://www.tldp.org/guides.html cheers, Woody Dan - Original Message - From: Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dial-in Server Dan, If you are trying to browse webpages on the internet which your debian box is connected to, then you'll have to set up some sort of networking to allow your windows box to do that, either ip masqerading, or proxying. If you just want to send email via your debian box, or view webpages on it, and you can't do that, then you have another problem, and we'll need more info. Is your setup like this: (correct it add IP addresses) _ / \ ( INTERNET ) \_/ | | a.b.c.d Debian Box modem | | Telephone System | | modem Windows Box cheers, Woody On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 09:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, AFAIK, you do need to specify your DNS server, whilst this is automatically done under MS Windows. This is done by having the line: nameserver ip address of DNS server in your /etc/resolv.conf HTH... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/02/2003 09:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[SLUG] Dial-in Server Hi, I have setup a Linux box as a dial-in server. When I dial-in and connect from my windows machine I cannot view web pages or send/receive email. I can however connect to the machine using a SSH session so I know the connect is there and working. This must be something to do with the DNS settings. On the TCP/IP properties of the dial-in connection in Windows I have both the Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically. My question is do I have to set these values? Should I enter the same DNS IP addresses in the Windows settings as those in the resolv.conf file on the Linux box? Also should I be entering in an IP address in the Use the following IP address - which is what it masquerades as on the network, right? Can anyone help. Dan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Case sensitivity
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:04, Striker Stormbringer wrote: quote who=Ewing Jeff How do I configure Apache to not be sensitive to case of urls/filenames? Or is that a bad idea? LoadModule speling_module ? s/speling/spelling/ You'd think so, wouldn't you, I think it's just 1337 humour to mis-spell a spelling module: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_speling.html cheers -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ADSL
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:49, Adam Hewitt wrote: I have a friend who is tryign to configure ADSL under debian. The a friend, eh? problem is that he is connecting to RSL.com who are using bridged ADSL with a static IP address. We just switched from Pacific to TPG, I assumed that they were using the Telstra ADSL setup like Pacific were (we were on the Telstra Trial). I was having all sorts of trouble and was about to set up a Win98 box. I asked them where I could download the drivers from, they said just set up my NIC with the given specs, so I realised there was no pppoe. The info we got: Configuration Option: Static IP: Modem in bridged mode Customer IP: a.b.c.x Gateway IP: a.b.c.y Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.252 relevant section of /etc/network/interfaces file: iface eth1 inet static network a.b.c.min(x,y)-1 gateway a.b.c.y.177 address a.b.c.x broadcast a.b.c.max(x,y)+1 netmask 255.255.255.252 if he is changing from pppoe and doing ipmasq, you should remove the ppp file in /etc/ipmasq/ and change his startup scripts to run ipmasq. The ppp file in /etc/ipmasq/ tells ipmasq to run when a ppp connection is created. How that works I don't know. cheers, Woody -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ADSL
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:59, Anthony Wood wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:49, Adam Hewitt wrote: I have a friend who is tryign to configure ADSL under debian. The snip gateway a.b.c.y.177 oops gateway a.b.c.y snip -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ADSL
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:12, Adam Hewitt wrote: Did you have to *do* something to change the modem to use brideg mode?? No, apparently our ADSL modem only does bridged mode. (When we applied, I ticked routed on the form, but the TPG tech rang us and said that the Alcatel Speedtouch Home modems used on the ADSL trial only did bridged mode) When we plug the ADSL modem into the phone and switch it on: 1) the power light comes on immediately 2) the the sync light flashes for a while 3) the sync light stops flashing This is our setup: Phone Jack | | ADSL Modem | | | eth1 - a.b.c.x Debian Box eth0 192.168.1.0/24 | | hub | other boxes for debugging: tcpdump -i eth1 ping a.b.c.y ping 138.25.7.4 You also have to set your default route: route add default eth1 I'm not sure how to do that the debian way (anybody???) cheers, Woody On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:59, Anthony Wood wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:49, Adam Hewitt wrote: I have a friend who is tryign to configure ADSL under debian. The a friend, eh? problem is that he is connecting to RSL.com who are using bridged ADSL with a static IP address. We just switched from Pacific to TPG, I assumed that they were using the Telstra ADSL setup like Pacific were (we were on the Telstra Trial). I was having all sorts of trouble and was about to set up a Win98 box. I asked them where I could download the drivers from, they said just set up my NIC with the given specs, so I realised there was no pppoe. The info we got: Configuration Option: Static IP: Modem in bridged mode Customer IP: a.b.c.x Gateway IP: a.b.c.y Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.252 relevant section of /etc/network/interfaces file: iface eth1 inet static network a.b.c.min(x,y)-1 gateway a.b.c.y.177 address a.b.c.x broadcast a.b.c.max(x,y)+1 netmask 255.255.255.252 if he is changing from pppoe and doing ipmasq, you should remove the ppp file in /etc/ipmasq/ and change his startup scripts to run ipmasq. The ppp file in /etc/ipmasq/ tells ipmasq to run when a ppp connection is created. How that works I don't know. cheers, Woody -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anthony Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] PDF Merging (Was: difficult recruiters.)
Does anyone know how to merge a form with signatures (unsigned) with
another pdf. We are build a system for the client to sign off on
results and we want to attach the sign-off form to the top of the image
we create.
OK, if by form, you mean acrobat form, then you have to use either Acrobat
proper, or the perl module PDF::API2:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use PDF::API2; # 0.3a26 or higher
my $cover = PDF::API2-open('coverletter.pdf');
my $body = PDF::API2-open('body.pdf');
my $merged = PDF::API2-new(-file = 'merged.pdf');
foreach my $pdf ($cover,$body) {
foreach my $pageno (1..($pdf-pages)) { # 1 (not 0) is 1st page !
$merged-importpage($pdf,$pageno); # insert it at the end
}
}
$merged-save;
If you just mean a PDF when printed out becomes a paper form, then you can
use other tools, like pdflatex.
merge.tex:
\documentclass[a4paper]{minimal}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{top=0cm,bottom=0cm,left=0cm,right=0cm,nohead,nofoot}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages={-}]{cover.pdf}
\includepdf[pages={-}]{body.pdf}
\end{document}
# pdflatex merge.tex
Many apps (notably word with PDFwriter) produce broken pdfs which
can't be used by many tools, but pdflatex is very tolerant, I use
it to clean/redistill pdfs before I use perl tools on them,
using the above TeX with only one pdf.
cheers
Woody
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Re: [SLUG] Problems running X in Red Hat 7.3 - Help?
I've found that most boxes newer than 486 handle no graphics card. A handy thing with boxes that have no monitor is to set up a terminal on one of the serial ports, especially with a firewall where you are likely to cut off your hands, it is nice to be able to get in still. You want to put a line in /etc/inittab (my distro has them already there, but commented out) #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 what you're looking for is ttyS0 or ttyS1 which means serial port 1 (TeleTYpe Serial 0?) then kill -HUP 1 (init is the first process). It's also handy to put ttyS0/1 in /etc/securetty which means that you can log in directly as root, rather than as a user then SUing. The reason they aren't in there by default is that modem logins are usually over serial ports. Cheers, Woody On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:35:00PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: Rod, As Terry pointed out, you don't need to run X to run a firewall; for that you just need a firewall script, the iptables package, and a kernel that supports iptables. (unless you use ipchains or even ipfwadm; a bit old though) Then link to it so it starts at boot, or perhaps whenever the connection comes up. The first thing you will want to do though is to stop X starting up (you did say, no graphics card ?). You'll need to boot to single user mode or similar (type linux single at the boot prompt; a redhat 7.3 person might be more helpful here) and login as root, remove the links that are starting gdm or kdm from /etc/rc/rc3.d (?) or better yet, just uninstall gdm and/or kdm (rpm --uninstall gdm (?)). If you do want to run X, try installing a nice thin window manager like WindowMaker (wmaker) (my favourite ;-). It will run with very little RAM. patrick (I forgot to cc the list first time I sent this...) On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Rod Elliott - Hush Solutions wrote: Hey Guys, Just hoping to get a bit of a helping hand with a server set up of Red Hat Linux 7.3. Ive set it up on an older Pentium I machine in the hope of bringing it back from the grave, and the installation appears to go fine, however upon booting, KDE or GNOME fails to run, citing memory problems (not enough) as being the cause. The machine also doesnt have a graphics card...and this may be the obvious cause of the problems. Can someone point me in the right direction on this. Does RH 7.3 require more RAM in order to run, a graphics card perhaps? I have the shell running fine, but it's X that appears to be struggling with the current hardware. What other options are available for aged and lesser quality hardware? All i really need is a box that will act a firewall between my win2k network and the internet. thanks in advance Rod. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
With faxing through a fax-modem, you have two choices: Class 1: computer does a lot of work, very timing critical Class 2 or 2.0: modem does a lot of the work, many modems are buggy Your Mileage will vary. Class 1 needs a dedicated or idle box. Class 2 needs a good modem. Other things: search around for fax2pdf, we have plugged it into hylafax, it is much cooler getting a PDF than a postscript file, and it's smaller in size, and looks better on screen, especially if you use acrobat 5 or ghostview with graphic smoothing, ideal for forwarding to others. fax2ps |ps2pdf will give you a much larger, uglier looking file. Beware the Tiff. tiff is a very multi-faceted file format, many tools which handle tiff only handle certain flavours. Tiffsplit is handy for splitting your fax into pages. cheers, Woody On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:17:16PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following command line faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx I was just wondering what was out there before I began tinkering with hylafax. It's a bit baroque, but nice once it's going. Bit of a pain to integrate with other systems though (but it can be done). Ok I can get hylafax to send using sendfax. but at the moment it is not answering calls. weird... Have you run through faxsetup, etc? The documentation is okay. - Jeff -- I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style... and she didn't speak to me for a week. -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Data acqusition (infrared) and linux
Hi, Many motherboards have IR pins built in, all you need is something to plug into them, I bought an ActiSys IR210 one from www.widget.com.au (now $87), but you have to check whether your motherboard's IR chip is supported by linux. Easier is an IR dongle which plugs into your serial port, I think ActiSys IR220+ ($99) has its own kernel module in the source. cheers, Woody On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:03:35PM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: All, I need a card which can do infrared and is ok for Linux (meaning you can get hold of the port numbers etc). Anybody got any pointers? jobst -- Computing power increases as the square of the cost. If you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times as fast. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Data acqusition (infrared) and linux
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:36:13PM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:26:24PM +1100, Anthony Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Many motherboards have IR pins built in, all you need is something to plug into them, I bought an ActiSys IR210 one from www.widget.com.au (now $87), but you have to check whether your motherboard's IR chip is supported by linux. Easier is an IR dongle which plugs into your serial port, I think ActiSys IR220+ ($99) has its own kernel module in the source. They only READ, dont they? No, it syncs with my palm pilot and/or phone as well. Basically it's a serial cable without the cable. I need to output IR data as well (and btw a data acquistion boad has some other nice features as well - digital I/O). Well these don't have any features apart from a nice black cable, black case, black window like every other IR thingo since 1980, 4 little rubber feet and some self-adhesive velcro so you can stick it where you like. cheers, Woody _ /_\ \Oo_+_oO/ - 1962 'S' Valiant = U U -- The journey of a thousand steps begins with few hundred forgotten necessities. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Perl Passing variable to text file?
You can also use eval: my $eval = ; open TEMPLATE, template.html; $eval .= $_ foreach TEMPLATE; close TEMPLATE; my $variable = some word; my $result; $eval = \$eval\; print eval($eval); Or use HTML::Embperl on an HTML file like this htmlbody my variable is [+ $variable +]/body/html Woody On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:15:14AM +1100, Hartono, Susanto wrote: Have a look at CPAN's Text::Template. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 10 January 2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Perl Passing variable to text file? Hi All, I am creating a script that will read set fields from a document, and output them in html format from a template. The perl script reads the data in, and assigns variables to the necessary fields, but I am having problems outputting it. What I would like to do is: example perl script (myscript.pl): my $variable = some word; sample template html file to read in(template.html): htmlbody my variable is $variable/body/html end result: htmlbodymy variable is some word/body/html is there any way to accomplish this? The only way I know how to do this is to print the html template at the end of the perl file, but this is undesirable. I'm sorry this is hard to read, but its hard to explain. Regards, Scott -- Scott Ragen Support Manager/IT Administrator Roadtech Systems www.roadtechsystems.com.au PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [Re: [SLUG] Need Help With LWP and newlines]
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 01:44:25PM +1100, Louis Selvon wrote: snip I get this back: \x0D\x0A\x3CP\x3Etest\x3C\x2FP\x3E\x0D\x0A\x3CP\x3Etest\x3C\x2FP\x3E I do not know what \x3CP, \x2FP means. I know the other codes from the ASCII table. \x3CP = \x3C . P = P \x2FP = \x2F . P = /P The whole string is 'Ptest/P Ptest/P=' -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux (or other) Dial-up Router
Ciaran, You can acheive all three aims using a few marketing tricks: 1. On old PC in a new black box is indistinguishable from a black box. 2. A new black box _IS_ custom hardware therefore: 3. Your low spec PC in a black box _Is_ a black box, more specifically, it's Custom hardware based on PC technology. 4. Everyone is happy. Woody --__--__-- Message: 14 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:40:47 +1100 (EST) From: Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ciaran Finnegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux (or other) Dial-up Router Are you going to be dialling in or are they going to be dialling out, or both. Anyway you look at it, I would have to say that a Linux box _WITH_WELL_DESIGNED_FIREWALLING_ has to be the way to go. At least you know what it is doing; with many black boxes you don't have a clue what does, or does not go on. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Ciaran Finnegan wrote: Im looking for a dial-up router to put on customer networks for support purposes. Im in two minds as to whether Id prefer a low spec. PC or some sort of black box for a number of reasons. 1/ Black Box, is liable to be more reliable than a PC. 2/ Network Managers seem to get less excited when you put a hardware device on their networks than they do if you suggest using an old 486. 3/ Low Spec. PC would be cheaper and probably more versatile. Has anyone come across anything like this, Im particularly interested in linux distros that would be suitable for running on low spec. PCs. Oh, and it has to be cheap as well. Thanks. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'. --__--__-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List Digest - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug End of slug Digest -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD
Hi, www.aprs.net.au APRS is a packet-radio and internet position reporting protocol. These people will probably be useful to you as they need the same things you do. Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re [SLUG] Faxing yourself in Linux.
Stuart, You can fax your self like this: Set up both faxes/faxmodems on the same telstra line. Call that line with another line, but hangup immediately after the number of rings which the fax waits for before picking up (ours is 2). If you are fast enough (i.e. hangup before the fax picks up), then you won't be charged for that call. Now the answering fax(modem) will be trying to start a fax connection. On the sending fax, send a fax to 0 which will be enough to shut up the dial tone, and then they'll handshake and fax as normal. If you can trigger jfax to pick up without a ring (a la hylafax faxanswer), then you don't need to risk the 22c, just send the fax to 0 and then trigger jfax to pick up. Woody Wot you said... --- Message: 4 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:09:16 +1100 From: Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: slug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Faxing yourself in Linux. Anyone know a way of faxing your linux system from a normal fax machine without giving Telstra 22c per shot. Got a client who wants to scan multiple page documents into emails for a digital backup of the hard copy.. Currently they fax them to their jfax account which emails them the scanned tif files to their server. They'd rather link their fax machine directly to their fax modem (or something else?) but I don't see how this is possible without going out and back to the telephone exchange. Fax machines expect the 'off-hook' dial tone before commencing dialing. If it can be done, it's a nice way to get a cheap sheet-feeding scanner (admittedly low res). Stuart -- Anthony Wood - Partner Services - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch Online Pty Limited| Licensed Dealer in Securities ABN 43 090 816 354 | (Licence Number 194 935) PHONE: +61 2 9299-1133 FAX: +61 2 9299-1134 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] The Books Signatures
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:50:03PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --__--__-- Message: 13 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:45:13 +1000 From: Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Wombat Outdoor Adventures To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Mehmet Ozdemir [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] The Books Signatures snip - Anand rant + Terry "Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean" It also doesn't hurt for people to realise that committee people "disappear". This will sometime happen, for various reasons to any organisation. Dummy spits, radical life changes/opportunities, work requirement, etc are all valid reasons for this happening. And that bus! What about the bus? You know the one that keeps hitting people. I think the company is "Proverbial". Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
