[SLUG] SLR75 Tapeware
We are about to purchase a SLR75 tapedrive and Tapeware. Tapeware will be running on our Linux fileserver, and I am hoping to use it to backup all the machines on the network (a couple of Linux server, 10-15 win2k workstations). Was just wondering if anyone out there has had any experience with Tapeware, or there is anything I should know before purchasing it. Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Pty Ltd Polling and Issues Management Consultants Level One, Suite 105 332-342 Oxford Street Bondi Junction, NSW 2022, Australia Tel:+61 2 9386 1622 Fax:+61 2 9386 1633 Website: http://www.umr.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Shared calendar apps
You have probably seen this http://www.opengroupware.org Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Chubb Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Shared calendar apps Hi, Are there any decent shared calendar applications that'll run over a WAN, allow each user to have a local calendar (possibly synced with a PDA), and allow selected events to be synched with a shared (web accessible) calendar? It's also got to be reasonably easy to interface with Windows apps that'd otherwise be talking to Exchange, and to other apps that use the Ical format. I've looked at phpIcalendar (which allows an admin user to sync with a Palm); wcal (8000 lines of Perl!), and Ximian Connector. Each sucks in a different way, that makes it less than suitable for use. The big killer is the need for two-way synching with a variety of desktop apps. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all slightly different. -- 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
[SLUG] OT: TR-3 EXTRA Tape
I have a one unopened TR-3 EXtra Minicartridge (2.2Gb Capacity Uncompressed, 4.4 Gb Compresses) Tape, free to a good home, that is if someone can be bothered picking it up. Email me off list. Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Marketing and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, New South Wales, 2022. Australia Phone: 02 9386 1622 Fax: 02 9386 1633 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] The burning of audio CDs.
I burn all my CD's using cdparanoia and cdrecord at the command line. I usually start with cdparanoia -Q to query the CD and see if I need a 80 or 74 minute CD. Then just use cdparanoia -B to start ripping the whole CD When that's finished just burn the wavs to cd (the following options will vary depending on your system) cdrecord -v -dao -eject -dev=0,0,0 -speed=4 -audio *.wav -dao is important if you don't want a 2 second gap between each track, note some Cd-burners don't support this option although I'll be surprise if the new ones don't. You should then delete the wavs to free up a bit of space. ASIDE: When I had the time I was planning to edit this perl script to give you the option of burning a copy of the CD as well as creating MP3's, you have invested the time ripping the CD why not do all you can with the wav files! http://www.geocities.com/ukcave/ripit.html Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rev Simon Rumble Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2003 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] The burning of audio CDs. On Thu 19 Jun, Bill Bennett bloviated thus: I'd like to try burning audio (and data) CDs under Linux, but I'm a bit chary about the applications. There are several. The few people who've volunteered opinions suggest cdparanoia, although it looks a bit involved. Sounds like you're after a drag-and-drool application. I would recommend k3b from KDE. It puts a very easy-to-use interface on all the CD burning tools. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990. -- 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
[SLUG] modules, af_packet unix
What are the modules af_packet and unix that are in /etc/modules, this is on a Debian Woody install. Daniel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Sed and ^M
Anyone know how to rip ^M (dos line return) using sed? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] make menuconfig ncurses
I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, however I am having problems with make menuconfig. Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and the selection displays (The thing in the *) aren't being displayed properly. Any ideas? A ncurses problem or perhaps some colour or display settings??? Any help would be appreciated as redhat technical support won't help as it is not classified as a 'installation support' problem. Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] make menuconfig ncurses
Running it from a console (no X installed) Turns out that if I ssh using putty it works sort of fine. Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Wienand Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 11:09 AM To: Daniel Harper Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] make menuconfig ncurses On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:18:38AM +1100, Daniel Harper wrote: I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, however I am having problems with make menuconfig. Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and the selection displays (The thing in the *) aren't being displayed properly. Any ideas? A ncurses problem or perhaps some colour or display settings??? are you running this from a console or on a x terminal window? if it's a terminal window, do you have some wacky font selected that isn't fixed width or has some other strange properties? try running it from just a plain xterm (i.e. type xterm at your prompt and run in that) or run it on a console (ctrl-alt-f1 usually to switch). -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au -- 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
[SLUG] make menuconfig ncurses
I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, however I am having problems with make menuconfig. Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and the selection displays (The thing in the *) aren't being displayed properly. Any ideas? A ncurses problem or perhaps some colour or display settings??? Any help would be appreciated as redhat technical support won't help as it is not classified as a 'installation support' problem. Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Why Gentoo?
I was using Red Hat, and then made the switch to Gentoo, what I liked about it was that I got a minimal install, as apposed to hundreds of packages I never wanted, (and of course the optimisations, although the benefits of this debated) Admitially building say Mozilla takes a long time, also I had a lot of problems getting xft to work with gnome. Gentoo is very easy to use, and I have enjoyed building my system from the ground up, learning as I go. Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben de Luca Sent: Sunday, 15 December 2002 6:27 AM To: James Gregory Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Why Gentoo? Well given that this isnt built into the base distrubtion, Its really not mandrake its self. Some one who does not know this isnt going to sit down and mandrake and be able to aquire the software. In my mind there appears to be 2 type of distros, those that release in a point fashion and those that are continuous. I can see the point if you are trying to comericalise a distrubtion. But its a major pain not have access to upgrade packages inside the standard installation method of your distro (redhat and mandrake do provide bug fix releases but not feature upgrades to any great extent). On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:30, James Gregory wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 22:21, Ben de Luca wrote: doing this: urpmi mplayer urpmi xine urpmi Can you ? I will admit I havnt played with mandrake for a about 9 months but at that point, the amoiunt of software available was not up today or any where near as extenive as what is/was available in gentoo. And I know redhats much smaller and more out of date that mandrakes (though I dig what rh has done on the gui side). are the packages that urpmi from mandrake? Ok, it operates very much like debian in that it has a sources list, which is just a list of places it can pull packages from. For me I have the standard mandrake cooker packages, the cooker contributed packages, packages from plf (http://plf.zarb.org - 1337 linux w4r3z) and some packages from a dude called texstar (quite random. He seems to just build random software and drop it onto this really deeply buried directory on ibiblio. Has stuff like the Macromedia Flash plugin amongst other things). Which covers *most* of the stuff I need. Not quite all. I tend to make packages for software I get from source and try to get them to other people. Something I unfortunately(?) have little time for these days. And Mandrake did this 9 months ago. I didn't trust it so much back then, but it would have worked for your stated example of installing a few video players. See my presentation about mandrake and packaging love: http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~jgre4014/slug/ There's also a couple of screenshots there of the gui frontend to urpmi. on my mandrake box? Indeed I can also get stuff like the win32 dlls for avifile if I need to decode something exotic with a similar command. And how is it different to using up2date on redhat? ... I'm missing something. How is emerge better than urpmi/apt-rpm/up2date? ive spent more time in redhat land of late and there is no way that u2date if going to go and get me the latest version of xine, or mplayer (infact if it gets them at all havnt they had mp3 removed?) surely that's a function of where you tell it to get packages from? re: mp3, I'm listening to one right now. Don't know what redhat does. James. -- 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
[SLUG] awk, vim input
OK I am a bit stumped, and awk is certainly not my forte I have an awk script the uses the system(vim variablehere) function to call vim, the point being to edit a file manually and then get back to the awk script. Now when this runs I get a Warning: Input is not from the terminal from vim, and then it jumps straight back to the awk script. I am guessing that a filehandle is open or some sort or redirection is causing this but I am not to sure. Does any-one have any ideas? Is there anyway I can get some debugging information from awk and vim to find out what is going on. Dan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] awk, vim input
Unfortunately we don't run X . A point I should of made is that this script works fine on a sco unix box running nawk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:slug-admin;slug.org.au]On Behalf Of Angus Lees Sent: Friday, 18 October 2002 8:48 AM To: Daniel Harper Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] awk, vim input At 18 Oct 2002 07:20:22 +1000, James Gregory wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 16:51, Daniel Harper wrote: I have an awk script the uses the system(vim variablehere) function to call vim, the point being to edit a file manually and then get back to the awk script. Now when this runs I get a Warning: Input is not from the terminal from vim, and then it jumps straight back to the awk script. I am guessing that a filehandle is open or some sort or redirection is causing this but I am not to sure. I don't know much about awk, but my reading of that error message is that vim is expecting to be started on a pty and awk's system call is not providing it with one. yep, from a quick test here it seems to work if you run the awk script itself from a terminal, but not if you redirect the awk stdin/stdout to non-pty things. if you had to do that, you could always cheat and system(xterm -e vim) instead (or gvim or something), assuming X. -- - Gus -- 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
[SLUG] RESET TERMINAL
I am using the tcsh and have a script written in the csh that I use regularly. Every time I run the script the terminal is reset. How can I stop this? Thanks Dan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Perls of wisdom???
Why is mount -t smbfs considered better than smbmount? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Waugh Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2002 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Perls of wisdom??? quote who=Stuart smbmount of a PC's remote HDD to /mnt/remotedisk (These days, the recommended method is mount -t smbfs, btw.) How do I tell in perl-speak (ie without rewriting the whole thing in Java) that the mount point succeeded. I'm happy to put a file on the remote HDD and search for it's existence or some such. If the mount fails, the root filesystem on the server fills as the backup proceeds to /mnt/remotedisk. Aarrrgh. How about grepping the output of 'mount' for the mountpoint? That's how I'd do it in bash. :-) - Jeff -- To do: Start up a a magazine dedicated to picky grammar. Call it 'Whom Weekly'. - WzDD -- 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
[SLUG] BASH: Redirecting Appending stdout stderr
I am trying to redirect and append stdout and stderr to a file. I gave a try put that doesn't work. HELP! Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Polling and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street Bondi Junction New South Wales, 2022 Australia Phone: 02 9386 1622 Fax: 02 9386 1633 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] OT: CALENDAR SWARE
This is slightly off topic but hopefully there is a partial Linux solution out there. I am looking for some calendar/scheduling software that: You can use a Windows client to access within the LAN, and that you can also access and change via the internet. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Polling and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street Bondi Junction New South Wales, 2022 Australia Phone: 02 9386 1622 Fax: 02 9386 1633 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] PERL Page Breaks
I have some Page Breaks in a document that I want to get rid of in Perl. Any ideas? Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Creative NOMAD
My boss just gave me a Creative Nomad, really stoked, (64mb MP3 Player) Problem is he has lost the CD with all the software (Win anyway), and Creative only have updates on their web site. Now I have RH 7.2 at home. I have done a bit of surfing but haven't found much, has anyone used a Nomad with Linux? its connected to my PC via the parallel port. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Daniel Harper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Potato Win XP compatibility
I have win2k on one drive, and linux on the other, I installed Linux first and use lilo as my boot loader. Use the lilo map command, not to sure exactly what it does but it works. I can send you my lilo.conf file if you want, (am at work at the mo so I don't have access to it now) Daniel. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Marchant Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2002 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Potato Win XP compatibility Hello I've successfully had XP, Win2000, WinNT4, as well as the Win9x and DOS multiply booting. There is a HOWTO by Bernd Reichert. His strategy was this: first, make your partitions, then install WinNT in the primary one, then install Linux in another (if you format this partition with extfs2 before you load Windows, then Windows will leave it alone, and won't put a swap file or something in it). When you install Linux, you put LILO in the first partition of the Linux partition, not the primary partition. Then you use dd to make a copy of it, and make this copy as a file (with any name you like) in the top level of the primary (Windows) partition. Then you edit Window's boot.ini so that it comes up on the menu. This HOWTO is at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html. You can also use LILO to load both - but for me, who still has a long way to go before being adept with Linux, this involved a bit more thinking. I have seen instructions for this, but haven't doen it myself. However, my current setup uses the excellent (and free - GPL) boot loader GAG, by a Spanish chap who seems not to have put his name on his web pages, but is something from which Raster Software Vigo can be derived. The program can be obtained from http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm. Not that it would be of any interest to anyone here, but this boot loader can let you put multiple versions of Win9x on the same machine, a thing that uncle Bill disn't want. I have no problem now with XP and Linux (RH 7.1), although XP (unlike previous Win2000 and WinNT4) does seem to interfere with Win98 on another partition. yrs, Adam Marchant Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/02 03:42pm Hi, I was wondering if anyone has experienced boot compatibility issues with Potato and XP in a multi-drive, multi-boot system. I have XP on a 20G drive and am about to install Potato on another 40G drive but Debian Unleashed (1999, p.989) states: Using Windows NT and Linux -- If you want to use Linux and NT on the same system, be prepared for a bit of trouble; NT does not like to coexist with other operating systems. Read the Linux+NT Mini-HOWTO (available from the LDP at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/), and follow the directions ... Using NT and Linux on the same system is not recommended, if you can reasonably avoid it, but should work if you are careful. I've searched by 'Linux+XP' and 'Linux+Windows XP' with no hits. Adam Bogacki P.O. Box 38, Earlwood, NSW 2206, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [current ISP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] PERL COURSES
I am keen to do a perl course. Preferable a night course a couple of nights a week. Does anyone know of any? Regards, Daniel Harper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] ESC key in bash
One thing I really like about . wait for it, MS-Dos is that I press the escape key and it clears the command line. Can anyone point me in the right direction about how I could set this up in bash. Regards, Daniel Harper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Enlightenment Themes
Anyone out there had any experience writing Enlightenment themes?? Know of any docs or resources? Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Marketing and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, New South Wales, 2022. Australia Phone: 02 9386 1622 Fax: 02 9386 1633 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Enlightenment Themes
I have found that site to be very confusing, and lacking in any worthwhile content, except a couple of themes -Original Message- From: Dane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 1:23 PM To: Daniel Harper Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment Themes http://e.themes.org is generally a good place to start. You should find both docs and resources there. -Dane On 0, Daniel Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there had any experience writing Enlightenment themes?? Know of any docs or resources? Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Marketing and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, New South Wales, 2022. Australia Phone: 02 9386 1622 Fax: 02 9386 1633 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS
Hello SLUG, I am new to Australia and this is my first post to SLUG. I am setting up a Linux firewall for our small network (10 Hosts). We currently have a Telstra ADSL connection, (1.5Mbps 500MB allow usage @ $130 pm). However I want a static IP address and they seem pretty anal about handing them out. I was wondering how reliable AAPT's Optus's ADSL networks are? Also what ISP's are Linux friendly and knowledgeable? I would like to be able to set up Squid to use the ISP's cache farm (Apparently Telstras is only available to 'Direct' customers). Regards, Daniel Harper UMR Research Australia Marketing and Issues Management Consultants Level 1, Suite 105, 332-342 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, New South Wales, 2022. Australia Phone: 02 9386 1622 Fax: 02 9386 1633 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
